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September 1965
Cornell Alumni News
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Ison Seijey '40It's not easy to make leather so In a different area, one of our
Whose leather soft and flexible you hardly know
you're wearing shoes.
silicone compounds is being used
in a shaving lather as a lubricant
tanning agent But one of our tanning agents,
glutaraldehyde, helps do just that.
to eliminate razor pull.
To keep bringing you these and.
makes shoes And it keeps leather soft through
mud, snow and rain.
At Union Carbide, we're pro-
many other new and different
products, we'll be investing half a
billion dollars on new plant con-
feel like this? ducing lots of the things to make
life easier and more comfortable.
struction during the next two
years.
The same Union Carbide that Radioisotopes, when used medi-
makes radioisotope"road maps" cally, reveal the circulation path
for doctors. of blood as it travels through
veins and arteries, simplifying di-
agnosis of disease. Other radio-
isotopes are used to kill bacteria
that spoil food.
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CARBIDECornell Alumni News
Volume 68, Number 2 + September 1965
Pas Encore by Jason Seley '40,
the sculptor whose material is
automobile bumpers. For more of Seley's
work see page 10.taxes. Some 17 have averages of less than $80 per bed
Plight of the Fraternities —these are the ones generally in need of major renova-
tion or a new building—while seven houses are over
$180, and some are as high as $250.
"The latter are the new houses, primarily in GHP,
B In this day of rising construction costs it's an expen- and are highly-assessed.
sive proposition replacing or rehabilitating old frater- "These tax costs are what's driving some fraternities
nity and sorority houses, though their physical condi- into financial distress, because many students won't
tion frequently dictates such an action. The financial live in and pay such amounts in addition to the normal
problems were paramount in evolvement of the Group room, board, and social charges assessed by their fra-
Housing Plan. ternities on resident members and non-residents alike.
In Group Housing the university either renovates "The costs are indirectly paid by the students, wheth-
the existing house or builds a new one, and in either er in GHP or in a non-GHP fraternity.
case takes ownership. The fraternity thus looses a meas- "The possibility that Cornell will come back again
ure of independence. The university then has the right with a plea for GHP tax exemption—presumably with
to require a resident advisor,, put non-member students more and better emphasis on education content to bol-
in the house when there are vacancies, and control ster the case—looms in the future, though how desir-
maintenance and upkeep. There are currently eight able it would be for independent minded fraternities
houses in the Housing Group. to join this might be more of a question than it is now
The university has contended that GHP should be because of the added implicit university control.
tax-exempt; the City of Ithaca has demurred and twice "A more serious and related question may be:
won in court on the matter. "What about the 'independently minded' fraterni-
"We think that when small groups of students are ties badly in need of a new building which might have
housed together for educational purposes in buildings no choice on a financial basis—when comparing their
owned and operated by the university., the housing present $70 to $100 local tax per bed with the projected
should be tax-exempt/' University Counsel Neal R. $180-plus tax per bed after construction—but to go
Stamp '40 said. The State Supreme Court's Appellate into GHP."
Division ruled that the GHP was not used exclusively The city and university are expected jointly to ex-
for educational purposes. plore this subject in the next couple of years.
Some fraternities wτith old buildings that can't af-
ford to rehabilitate or rebuild on their own are attract- From the Stanford Review comes an anecdote about
ed to GHP, but the financial plight isn't eased unless David Starr Jordan '72, LLD '86, when he was presi-
there is tax-exemption of sorts. dent of Stanford. Dr. Jordan was having his usual
The Ithaca Journal summed up: friendly chat with a very young new faculty member
"The fraternity and sorority houses, totalling 66 in and listening patiently to his glowing plans for work
all, pay an average of a little over $100 per bed in local so important that he could teach only very advanced
students.
"Fine, fine," President Jordan assented. "You do
Jason Seley '40 removes welder's mask for
that. And maybe, after about ten years, you'll be quali-
photographer in his bumper-filled studio. ed for undergraduate teaching, too."
Four pages of Seley's work start on page 10.
The majority of the letters this month are about
last spring's student demonstrations. Several of them
take the NEWS to task for advocating a new regulation
Cornell Alumni News Founded 1899 putting everybody on notice that no matter how right-
eous the indignation or how lofty the cause, disrupting
18 East Ave., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 the business of the university wouldn't be tolerated.
H. A. Stevenson '19, editor emeritus Apparently some of the writers misunderstood what
the NEWS said—and what it didn't say. The NEWS
did not speak against student political activity or
Owned and published by the Cornell Alumni Association against demonstrations. It didn't call for a crack-down
under direction of its Publications Committee: Thomas B.
Haire '34, chairman; Birge W. Kinne '16, Clifford S. Bailey on the Barton Hall demonstrators.
'18, Howard A. Stevenson '19, and John E. Slater, Jr. '43. The university was facing the possibility of furthur
Officers of the Cornell Alumni Association: Charles M. Stotz interference at Gommencement exercises and at next
'21, Pittsburgh, Pa., president; Hunt Bradley '26, Ithaca,
N.Y., secretary-treasurer. Printed by the Cayuga Press, Ithaca, fall's football games. The NEWS suggested a clear
N.Y. guideline in a gray area—an area so murky that attor-
Walter K. Nield '27, editor; Charles S. Williams '44, man- neys for the demonstrators were arguing, and not with-
aging editor; Mrs. Tommie Bryant, assistant editor. out reason, that their clients had broken no university
Member, American Alumni Council and Ivy League Alumni regulation.
Magazines, 22 Washington Square, North, New York City
11; GRamercy 5-2039. The NEWS suggestion was not directed against pro-
Issued monthly exeept August. Subscriptions, $5 a year in test—but only against an extreme form of protest that
US and possessions; foreign, $5.75. Subscriptions are renewed had lost its legitimacy by infringing on the rights of
annually unless cancelled. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, others and by seriously interfering with the operation
N.Y. Fifty cents a copy. All publication rights reserved.
of the university.CORNELL'S KAHIN
•in last May's ''National Teach-In" on Vietnam
he impressed many observers
as the most telling, if least pugnacious,
of the administration's antagonists
BY C. MICHAEL CURTIS 556
B A Cornell political scientist, writing lar opinion. The latter course is hazard- get the past," Kahin says, "yet the
in The Nation several years ago, at- ous, but occasionally unavoidable. events of the past, particularly the post-
tempted to explain why so few of his One Cornell political scientist who war period, have conditioned the
departmental colleagues were willing to has been drawn, out of moral convic- people with whom we must deal, af-
sign the sternly moralistic political pro- tion, to the barricades is George McT. fected their outlook, and limited what
nouncements published periodically in Kahin, the West's principal authority they believe to be their options for a
major newspapers, and designed, ap- on Indonesian politics, and director of responsible and viable political system-"
parently, to encapsulate the full force Cornell's Southeast Asia program. The The "Teach-in," for Kahin, was "a
of academic opinion in support of any issue has been America's presence in means to get across to an involved and
of a number of policy goals. Professors Vietnam, and the evident drift of U.S. interested public information necessary
of government, the Gornellian wrote, State Department thinking about the to an informed opinion in an area not
were conditioned to be leary of over- conditions necessary for a cease-fire and of traditional concern." Moreover, says
simplified political remedies, and often meaningful negotiations. Kahin, public opposition to the Amer-
preferred to distinguish themselves Though Kahin has been an active ican policy in Vietnam was frequently
from colleagues they regarded as polit- participant in the behind-the-scenes "negative, obstructionist, and ignorant
ically unsophisticated. struggle for influence over U.S. policy of the limits of realistic negotiation."
in Vietnam, his views reached a nation- To the extent possible, Kahin hoped to
Hazardous course al audience for the first time during the outline a set of policy alternatives both
widely-televised "National Teach-In" realistic and plausible, while implicitly
The alternatives are apparent: one
in Washington last May. As principal critical of the drift of U.S. policy in
lapses into dignified (but impotent)
speaker for the group that opposed (to Vietnam.
silence; or offers a sophisticated alter-
varying degrees and for a variety of
native to the repugnant oversimplifica- Prestigeful corner
reasons) the administration's stand on
tion. Among political scientists (as
the war in Vietnam, Kahin impressed Kahin is disturbed, though philo-
among geneticists, mechanical engi-
many observers as the most telling, if sophical, about the failure of America's
neers, or Renaissance scholars, et al.) the least pugnacious, of the administration's handful of politically-oriented Southeast
former is a popular choice—it offers the
antagonists. Asia experts to take part in the con-
security of untested omniscience, and
Kahin's primary concern, as he re- tinuing debate over Vietnam. Many of
protection from the dangers of unpopu-
calls the event months later, was to them, he says, are dependent on Gov-
clarify a number of basic issues which ernment funds for their research opera-
The author, formerly a member of the had tended, in the press and in public tions, and are understandably reluctant
NEWS staff, is an associate editor of the debate, to be ignored or misunderstood. to bite the hand that feeds them. More-
Atlantic Monthly. "One is constantly admonished to for- over, many of these experts have acted
September 1965—photos by Fred Mohn.
"One is constantly admonished to forget the past.
Yet the events of the past, particularly the post-war period,
have conditioned the people with whom we must deal,
affected their outlook, and limited what they believe to be
their options for a responsible and viable political system."
as consultants to the government in federal support for research. The bulk political officers and one of the econom-
the shaping of the very policy now of the Southeast Asia Program's operat- ic affairs officers in our embassy at
under fire. Though they may not agree, ing budget comes either from Cornell or Djakarta.
finally, with the use to which the private sources, and the federal support And in mid-June, America's new
government puts their expertise, they received by the SEA program is prima- ambassador to Indonesia, State Depart-
occupy what they regard as a prestigeful rily for language study and library ment veteran Marshall Green, asked
corner of the establishment, and the support and is not for research. for conferences with three of Kahin's
"psychological nourishment" to be de- Despite this apparent standoffishness, brightest graduate scholars, all of whom
rived from this shaky alliance tends to Kahin and his fluctuating body of have spent three or more of the past five
deaden the critical impulse. Southeast Asia experts play an impor- years in Indonesia, and know that
Under Kahin's directorship, Cor- tant part in training and informing the country's political situation as well as
nell's Southeast Asia program, and its men who represent the United States in anyone in the United States.
Ford Foundation-supported Modern Indonesian affairs. The U.S. State Just when George Kahin became
Indonesia Project (which Kahin also Department's Indonesian Desk Officer deeply involved in Asian nationalism
heads) has consciously steered clear of is Cornell-trained, as are two of the is not clear, but it was evident as early
Cornell Alumni Newsas his junior year at Harvard that The "Teach-In" for Kahin, was
Kahin was likely to aim for a career in
international relations. A history major "a means to get across to an involved and
at Harvard, Kahin broke away from the
prestigious Harvard Union on grounds interested public information necessary
that it was dominated by opinionated to an informed opinion in an area
and dogmatic left-wingers. With the
help of other students from the eco- not of traditional concern."
nomics, history, and government de-
partments, Kahin founded the Harvard
Foreign Relations Club, and became its
president. He also served as foreign
affairs editor of the Harvard Guardian,
a student magazine published from
within those same departments, and
was assigned to the Medical Corps then tials to get himself back to Jogjakarta.
contributed an article commenting on
invited to join counter-intelligence. He Once there he contacted the revolution-
Soviet-Nazi relations which proved so
accepted the invitation and while wait- ary underground and was given copies
anti-Soviet (and mildly anti-British) in
ing for security clearance repeated the of statements issued by Hatta and
tone that Kahin was offered, on the
eight-week basic training cycle four Soekarno just before their capture.
spot, a writing job by the editor of a
consecutive times. The effort was Once again, Kahin was arrested by the
conservative Boston-based political pam-
wasted, it became clear, as Army in- Dutch, who failed to find the hidden
phlet, the Sargeant Bulletin.
telligence was swayed by the hostility of documents, and he released them, even-
the Seattle merchants Kahin had so tually, to the United Nations and to
Fateful assignment determinedly challenged. Kahin then supporters of the temporarily deposed
Kahin received his Harvard degree volunteered for a special mission which Republican Government of Indonesia.
in 1940 and was one of a select group of was to involve parachuting troops into Returning to the United States, in
10 young college graduates chosen for the Dutch East Indies. After several 1949, Kahin made his misgivings about
the Eleanor Roosevelt-sponsored "Inter- months spent mastering the Dutch lan- U.S. policy in Indonesia known to a few
American Field Service" travel grants guage, and parachuting techniques, sympathetic Senators, and eventually
for research in Latin America. Kahin, Kahin and his fellow volunteers were prepared a classified memorandum out-
who planned to study the Aprista told the parachute operation had been lining his criticisms for Senator Arthur
movement in Peru, was ordered by his cancelled, and all were shipped to Vandenberg.
draft board to remain in this country, Europe where Kahin served through For a time, it appeared that Kahin's
and in the fall of 1941 he enrolled as a the war as a dispatch driver in France candor would prove a serious obstacle
graduate student in Tufts' Fletcher and Germany. to his plans for further research in
School of Diplomacy. Released from the service in 1945, Indonesian politics. The principal
Pearl Harbor brought an end to this Kahin returned to his graduate studies, American official who had served in
phase of Kahin's graduate study, and first at Stanford, which awarded him an Indonesia while Kahin was there (sub-
in early December he sought to enlist in MA in political science in 1946, and sequently America's first ambassador to
the U.S. Navy. Rejected for poor eye- then at Johns Hopkins, where he earned that country) had become Kahin's bit-
sight, Kahin returned to his home in his PhD and taught for two years. ter antagonist. He successfully blocked
Seattle, Washington, and agreed to In 1948, Kahin won a travelling Kahin's efforts to return to Indonesia
work for the American Friends Service fellowship for study in Indonesia and for four years—until a reform of State
Committee while his military status was arrived there during the heat of Dutch Department procedures made it possi-
made clear. His assignment proved a military attempts to resume control of ble for Kahin to directly confront his
fateful one. He was asked to help West the country they had left to its own enemy and once again secure a passport
Coast Nisei, in the midst of relocation devices during the Japanese invasion of valid for travel to Indonesia.
to detention camps, collect debts owed 1942. Convinced that American policy
them by Puget Sound area merchants during this period was mistaken—inso- Kahin to Cornell
and other businessmen. As most Nisei far as we supported Dutch efforts to In 1951, Kahin was appointed as-
in the area were truck farmers, a sub- wrest unreasonable concessions from sistant professor of government at Cor-
stantial portion of their assets were in the Republican government—Kahin nell, and three years later won a tenure
accounts receivable, and many local was friendly with, and known to be appointment as associate professor. In
businessmen were ready to take full sympathetic towards, the Republican 1959 he became a full professor-
advantage of the sudden upheaval. political leaders. In December, 1948, Hired to cover all of Asian politics
Kahin was evidently forthright in his the Dutch parachuted troops into Jog- for the government department, Kahin
insistence that the Nisei debts be paid, jakarta, the temporary capitol of the regularly taught two undergraduate
and the testimony of these businessmen, Republican government, and some 350 courses—417, "The United States and
that Kahin had demonstrated an un- miles from Djakarta, in south-central Asia,",- and 344, "Government and
patriotic sympathy for the disadvan- Java. Mohammed Hatta, and Soekarno, Politics of Asia"—as well as two grad-
taged Nisei, proved to be a stumbling the principal figures of the Republican uate seminars each year. With the
block in Kahin's eventual military regime, were captured, and Kahin was arrival of China expert John Lewis, in
career. arrested and sent to Djakarta, where he 1961, Kahin was permitted to concen-
Finally drafted in early 1942, Kahin made the most of dubious press creden- trate on the politics of Southeast Asia,
September 1965though he continues to teach his foreign
policy course, "The United States and
Asia."
Almost from the start, Kahin's course
in U.S. foreign policy was popular with
undergraduates, and enrollment quickly
shot up to well over 200. The attraction
was probably Kahin's commitment to
his subject rather than showmanship.
He rarely departs from the style of his
presentation at the televised Teach-in
last May. His lectures are well-organ-
ised, largely factual, and delivered with
an air of controlled conviction which
his students generally find compelling.
Processions of dignitaries
Though Kahin is little given to
theatricality, his attachment to the stu- iiiί
dents who come to study under him is ίίίLώ;
reciprocated, and the headquarters of
the Modern Indonesia Project (102
West Avenue), where Kahin's graduate
students are at work seven days a week
and very nearly 24 hours a day, resem-
bles an amiably disorderly club-house,
strewn with Indonesian newspapers,
empty coffee-cups, and an occasional
volume of symbolist poetry. Though
the atmosphere at 102 West Avenue is
informal, and frequently convivial, the
battered old building (once a Cornell
fraternity) serves as headquarters for a
regular procession of foreign and State
Department dignitaries. The former
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia spent
seven days at the headquarters of the
Modern Indonesia Project shortly be-
fore his transfer, and State Department
officials with responsibilities in South-
east Asian politics make a practice of
frequent visits. The building also serves
as a base for informal seminars
arranged by Kahin's students for their
own benefit.
The esprit of 102 West Avenue has
its counterpart in the teaching profes-
sion. Because Kahin is widely con-
sidered the leading expert in his field,
and because Cornell's Wason Collection Kahin at the headquarters of the Modern Indonesia Project.
is the foremost collection of Indonesial
literature in the West, Kahin attracts
an unusual caliber of graduate student.
Most of these students eventually leave
Cornell deeply influenced by his teach-
ing and commitment. As a consequence, students are initiating Southeast Asia Thai government; and others.
Kahin, and his students, are responsible programs of their own. Among them: Another Kahin student, Ruth Mc-
for the bulk of contemporary writing in Daniel Lev, at Berkeley, an expert in Vey, whose post-graduate research has
the field, and it is not surprising that Indonesian law and politics; Roger been financed by the Modern Indonesia
the only books in English used at the Smith, at the University of Washington, Project, will shortly publish a history of
University of Indonesia are products of in Seattle, whose special interests are the early development of Indonesian
the Modern Indonesia Project. Cambodia and Laos; Josef Silverstein, Communism, the first comprehensive
The Kahin influence extends to a at Rutgers, a Burma expert; David study of its kind ever written by a
number of campuses, where his former Wilson, at UCLA, author of a study of Western authority. Miss McVey, who is
Cornell Alumni Newscurrently a Research Associate at the ments of Asia," was published by Cor- a book examining the political thought
NIP, will teach Kahin's courses during nell Press in 1958 and contains a chap- of Indonesia's volatile President Soe-
his sabbatical year, 1966-67. Among the ter by Kahin as well as the work of his karno.
most brilliant of Kahin's graduate stu- students and collaborators. The second, In June of this year, Kahin returned
dents is Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, a "Governments and Politics of Southeast to Harvard for his first class reunion
diffident Irishman who writes, pseudo- Asia," was published by Cornell Press in (the 25th reunion "of the class of 1940)
nymously, for a number of political 1959. Kahin has contributed to several and was bemused to find how few of
journals and is working on what will other textbooks, and a number of politi- the outspoken radicals of his under-
undoubtedly be an important study of cal or scholarly journals. graduate generation were still as critical
Asian nationalism. of establishment policy. Their attitude,
Kahin's major publication is. his The mystique troubles him he says, was that government policy-
"Nationalism and Revolution in Indo- Kahin's major project of the moment making is complex, and based on the
nesia," published by the Cornell Univer- is a book under contract by Harvard best available information. Hence criti-
sity Press in 1952. A revision of his PhD University Press, to be titled "The cism of that policy is probably gratui-
thesis, this book continues to be a stand- United States and Indonesia." The tous and almost certainly uninformed.
ard work in Indonesian politics. In 1956, book is intended as an addition to the It is this mystique, of the sacrosanctity
Cornell Press also published Kahin's re- prestigious "Foreign Policy Library," of government decision-making, that
port from the Asian-African Conference which includes the more or less defini- troubles Kahin, perhaps more than the
at Bandung, titled, simply, "The Asian- tive studies of Japanese and Chinese decisions themselves. Whether or not his
African Conference." Kahin has edited relations with the United States by influence will alter those policies re-
two important textbooks, both widely Edλvin O. Reischauer (now U.S. Am- mains a moot question. But few men
used in English-speaking colleges and bassador to Japan) and John K. Fair- are likely to work harder at educating
universities. The first, "Major Govern- bank. Further off in the future will be the public than George Kahin,
KAHΐN'S
WASHINGTON Govt Defeats Own Purposes,
STATEMENT Kahin Says at UJ. TeaeMn
He achievement of with Me€eo?ge Bandy, special
¥ieloιy in Viet Nam ami the assistant to President Johnson
establishment of a popular mύ for nat&nal security affairs.
viable Inίlepenίtent nation of EuiKly was prevented &om
• Since the end of the war American South Viet If am are both ϋnpes* taking part In tfce* debate to j£om*
powerful force. This is a major reason at the teaching Washington, munlsm,** he said.
why Burma, Cambodia, and Indonesia B.C, He was to have *lebate4 Λ
have become so distrustful of the U.S.
and why they have either broken, or Kahin speech reported by the Cornell Daily Sun.
come close to breaking, relations with
us.
Moreover, the obsession of American
policy-makers with what they still see
as monolithic communism has blinded the basis of inappropriate criteria^ formed public might bring to bear.
them to the fact that communism in wrong analyses, and disregard of the Moreover, in recent months the tend-
Asia has adapted itself to nationalism. relevant facts. At the same time, essen- ency has increased to dismiss even
And they have confused the broad, but tial information has been withheld from thoughtful criticism of government pol-
nationally differentiated, force and po- the American public, and crucial policy icy as irresponsible meddling.
tential of communism with the threat of decisions on Southeast Asia have been In Vietnam, American policy has
specifically Chinese power. made before the public has even been been wrong from the outset. In the
Despite the immense information- aware that a problem exists. Once decade following World War II, be-
gathering facilities of the government, taken, these decisions have set in motion cause of our illusory hope that we could
serious policy mistakes have been made events which severely circumscribe any induce France to become the keystone
because decisions have been taken on moderating influence which an in- of an American-designed European
September 1965military organization,, we temporized grace, during which Ho Chi Minh's pensate for the continuing erosion of
with our commitment to national self- followers left it pretty much alone. Saigon's political and military base by
determination and backed France in Essentially this was due to the fact introducing more American troops and
her efforts to reestablish control over that the Geneva Agreements had prom- more American air power. And it has
Vietnam. ised nation-wide elections for 1956. It justified this in terms of our pledge to
By supporting her attempt to estab- was primarily because of this provision, support South Vietnam, a commitment
lish a Vietnamese regime which lacked and because the Agreements also stip- which the Administration regards as a
nationalist support., we helped to ensure ulated that France would be responsible test case.
that Vietnamese patriots would have no for carrying out the Accords in the Here we should recall the caveat of
real alternative but to rally to the ban- South and would remain there until the Secretary Acheson in 1950 when he said
ner of Ho Chi Minh. France's humili- elections were held, that the Vietminh that America could not by itself create
ating defeat at Dienbienphu in 1954 withdrew its armies from the South and politically stable states in Asia.
was a military defeat, but it was made for a considerable period suspended "The United States," he stated, "can-
inevitable by the political failure that revolutionary activity there. not furnish the determination, it cannot
preceded it. But, with American encouragement, furnish will-power, and it cannot fur-
Then came the Geneva Agreements. Diem refused to permit the elections in nish the loyalty of a people to its
Clearly specifying that Vietnam was 1956; and France washed her hands of government."
one country, they stipulated that the the responsibilities she had assumed at Where such factors were absent, he
17th parallel was a temporary demarca- Geneva. Regardless of what sophistry said, American efforts would be totally
tion line, "not in any way to be inter- has been employed to demonstrate wasted. President Kennedy also recog-
preted as constituting a political or otherwise, by encouraging Diem to defy nized these limitations when, in Sep-
territorial boundary.'5 The U.S. in its this central provision of the Geneva tember 1963, he said of the South
own unilateral declaration at Geneva Agreements, the U.S. reneged on the Vietnamese:
spoke only of Vietnam, not of a South position it had taken there in its own "In the final analysis, it's their war.
and a North Vietnam. And with respect unilateral declaration. They're the ones who have to win it or
to the conference's provision for nation- Civil war in Vietnam became inevi- lose it. We can help them, give them
al elections, the U.S. also stated that it table. equipment, we can send our men out
would "continue to seek to achieve For, when a military struggle for there as advisers, but they have to win
unity through free elections supervised power ends on the agreed condition it."
by the United Nations." that the competition will be transferred In the context of these cautions, does
Nevertheless, soon after, the U.S. set to the political level, can the side which an unconditional American military
out to build up a separate state in the violates the agreed conditions legiti- pledge to a weak and factious regime
South. And again we made the mistake mately expect that the military struggle which lacks popular backing make
of thinking we could establish a viable will not be resumed? common sense?
government on an inadequate nation- Despite the initial period of insula- Is our pledge of support completely
alist base. tion from Vietminh militancy, and unqualified?
The U.S. supported Ngo Dinh Diem, despite unstinting American economic Does it not demand a minimum de-
giving him massive amounts of econom- and political backing, Diem failed to gree of performance and cooperation
ic assistance. But American aid was no develop a real base of popular support. from Saigon, political as well as mili-
substitute for nationalist support— Programs urged by the U.S. for social tary?
something Diem's regime never really and economic reform and for winning Is our pledge automatically to any
acquired—despite what our officials the allegiance of the non-Vietnamese military or civilian group that happens
told Congress and the American public. hill-dwelling peoples were never effec- to control Saigon?
Diem himself had said in 1953 that tively carried out. The Saigon govern- What happens if our current policy
Ho Chi Minh "gained in popularity as ment remained all too isolated from the of brinksmanship induces Hanoi to send
a leader of the resistance, not as a com- peasantry. As a result it was unable to its 300,000-man army into South Viet-
munist," and that "the vast majority of compete with the Vietcong guerrillas nam? For this it may very well do if the
his followers" were "nationalist and in when, from 1958 on, they adopted in- damage inflicted by the U.S. becomes
no way pro-communist." What the U.S. creasingly militant policies. And in the so great that the North has little to lose
failed to recognize was that in these nineteen months since the assassination by undertaking a retaliatory attack and
conditions Ho Chi Minh, who for at of Diem the situation has continued to little to save through compromise and
least nine years had been the acknowl- deteriorate, and the shifting combina- negotiation. The well-known military
edged head of the Vietnamese national- tions of army officers and bureaucrats analyst Hanson Baldwin has estimated
ist movement, could not be replaced as controlling the government have re- that to cope effectively with such a
the leader of the Vietnamese people by mained just as isolated from the villages force the U.S. might have to use as
a man supported from the outside—a of Vietnam. many as a million men. The U.S. does
man little known and who had spent Faced with this decline in political not have these forces immediately avail-
the critical years of the independence cohesion and the evident inability of able, and even to send in a small pro-
struggle abroad. the South Vietnamese military to stave portion would take our entire strategic
America's failure to build up an off the Vietcong, the present Adminis- reserve.
effective government under Diem is tration has enlarged the war in Viet- A full scale confrontation between
now well known. But this was not im- nam by bombing the North and American troops and the North Viet-
mediately apparent. For, after Geneva, increasing American military activity in namese army, even if no Chinese forces
his regime enjoyed several years of the South. It has endeavored to com- were also involved, would probably
Cornell Alumni Newsexact a toll of American lives at least as of Southeast Asia will not automatical- cannot expect it to exert this so long as
great as that suffered in Korea. ly collapse if the communists should we continue our bombing of the North.
How responsible a policy would this come to control all of Vietnam. The morale of the North Vietnamese is
be? Would it be compatible with our So long as Southeast Asian govern- no more likely to be broken by bombs
global interests and our longstanding ments are in harmony with their coun- than was that of the British or the
commitments to other countries try's nationalism, and so long as they Russians in World "War II. Indeed their
throughout the world? are wise enough to meet the most press- will is likely to be stiffened. President
What of our commitments in Europe? ing economic and social demands of Johnson said after our embassy in Sai-
Arid what of our increasing commit- their people, they are not likely to suc- gon had been bombed that, "Outrages
ments in this hemisphere? cumb to communism. Nationalism and like this will only reinforce the deter-
Surely, too, we must consider the the demand for social and economic mination of the American people and
implications for our long-term policies progress are the dominant forces in Government." What is true for Amer-
towards Russia and China. Southeast Asia today. If we can work icans is true for the Vietnamese.
The same trend towards a rap- with these forces we will make a major Halting our bombardment of the
proachement with Russia started by contribution to maintaining the terri- North would be our first genuine indi-
President Eisenhower and continued by torial integrity of the states of Southeast cation of an interest in negotiations.
President Kennedy has already been Asia and provide them with a better Our cavalier dismissal of the U.N.
seriously affected by our policy in Viet- opportunity to develop along non-com- Secretary General's efforts hardly con-
nam and will be further undermined if munist lines. The first step in this stituted an earnest of serious American
we continue on our present course. direction must be to negotiate a settle- interest in negotiations. We should give
Among communist parties throughout ment in Vietnam. him an unequivocal mandate to pursue
Asia, as well as among the non-aligned What has been our position thus far? negotiations, and we should make clear
states, China's scornful derision of Rus- The Administration tells us that it is that we want not just discussions but
sia's policy of peaceful coexistence has prepared to negotiate unconditionally. serious negotiations. Concurrently we
been gaining ever-wider approval. The BUT in effect on condition that the should give much more encouragement
possibility of cooperation between the Vietcong cease all operations immedi- than we have to those non-aligned
U.S. and Russia to contain China's ately, and on condition that the state of Asian and African states which wish to
power and influence in Southeast Asia South Vietnam continue its separate help promote a peaceful settlement in
is becoming ever more remote. Our existence, in permanent violation of the Vietnam.
major aim in Asia is to contain China Geneva Agreements. Furthermore, we Finally, for those many Americans
and thus to provide the opportunity for have made clear that the Vietcong, and who still regard full public discussion of
the states of South and Southeast Asia its political arm, the National Libera- vitally important national issues as es-
to develop free of Peking's dominating tion Front, cannot be party to negotia- sential to our brand of democracy, there
influence. And it is this consideration tions. Not only is this one more is a particularly disquieting domestic
which should govern American policy condition, but it flies squarely in the aspect of this situation. Realizing as
towards Vietnam. face of political reality- For, it is widely they do that an informed public discus-
No matter how much military power acknowledged that at least half of the sion requires access to all the relevant
we send into Vietnam, the present South is under the control of the Viet- facts, they can only be deeply disturbed
American policy of trying to sustain a cong. when a spokesman for the newspaper
separate state in the South may very Is it not Utopian to assume that editors of this country feels compelled
well fail. For, the local political factors Hanoi is in a position to insist upon the to state, as he did last month, that the
necessary to insure success are simply Vietcong's yielding up the position it American "press in Vietnam faces
not there. If we are to salvage anything has won there? In 1954 the Vietminh stronger restrictions than it ever has in
in Vietnam, we will achieve more could induce its numerous supporters in wartime" and that we are getting
through a cease-fire and a negotiated the South to accept Vietnam's partition "contradictions, double talk and half
political settlement than through the and to abandon their gains south of the truths" from the government concern-
futile infusion of more and more Amer- 17th parallel because partition was ing the situation in Vietnam.
ican military power. The U.S. must regarded as a temporary measure, to And surely Americans have grounds
recognize that the historic Vietnamese last only until elections. But, we cannot for concern when the New York Times
fear of and antagonism towards China assume that once again the insurgents can editorialize, as it did not long after-
continues despite the common adher- in the South will give up what they wards, that "high ranking representa-
ence to communist ideology. have won through a long and difficult tives of government in Washington and
Inasmuch as the character of Viet- campaign. Over the last five years the in Saigon" have so "obscured, confused
namese communism is inseparable from doctrine of uncompromising struggle or distorted news from Vietnam" or
Vietnamese nationalism, Vietnamese and a real expectation of victory have have made such "fatuously erroneous
power will not necessarily be exerted in been assiduously nurtured among the evaluations about the course of the war"
concert with Chinese power. That is Vietcong. that the credibility of the United States
likely to depend upon whether such While there undoubtedly is a consid- government has been sacrificed-
actions conform with Vietnamese na- erable congruence of interest between When the American public faces the
tional interests as the Vietnamese Hanoi and the Vietcong, under these prospect of war it has the right to full
people define that interest. circumstances we cannot assume that and honest answers and to that kind of
Those who are still impressed by the Hanoi can abruptly call off the South- enlightened public discussion which is
simplistic domino theory must realize erners' resistance. And whatever influ- so essential to the wisest conduct of
that the non-communist governments ence Hanoi has over the Vietcong, we foreign policy.
September 1965"Moose"
Jason Seley '40
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• From May 20 through June 30 the White Museum of
Art presented a retrospective exhibition of the work
of Jason Seley '40. As the sculptor whose material is cut
and welded automobile bumpers,, Seley has found a
unique place in American art. After graduation from
Cornell with a major in the history of art Seley turned to
the study of sculpture. At first influenced by his teacher,
v., . '.-•, : :•
Ossip Zadkine, then by Henry Moore (1, 2, 3, right),
the turning point in his career came with his discovery
of the sculptural possibilities of bumpers. One of his
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early works (Random Walk, 4, right) was shown at the
Museum of Modern Art in 1959 and Seley was on his way
as a pioneer in a new form. Seley's work has been shown
in five exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, at the
Whitney, the Guggenheim, in international shows in
Italy, England and Germany, and at the recent Festival
of Arts at the White House. Seley is an associate professor
at Hofstra University.
10 Cornell Alumni News"Chromatic Scale" (left)
"Le Roi SoleiΓ
"Overture"
'International Harvester'
September 1965
11"Magister Ludi" "I, Charles" "Baroque Portrait # 2" "Mile. Pogany" 12 Cornell Alumni News
"The Boys from Avignon" "High Button Shoes" 'Flight Forms" September 1965 13
LATIN November 19-December 14
Photographic Display, Latin American architecture, Sibley
AMERICAN Dome.
November 29-December 3
YEAR Conference, "The Potentials of the Hot-Humid Tropics in
Latin American Agricultural Development."
The University will express its academic commitment to December 16-18
Latin America with a year-long program beginning October Conference, "Race and Class in Latin America during the
8 and extending through Reunion in June 1966. A series National Period." (This conference will be held at Colum-
of conferences, exhibitions, concerts, and lectures will be held bia University in New York City.)
on campus, comprising the Cornell Latin American Year.
More than 300 North and Latin Americans are scheduled January 11-February 20
to take part, and the best of what is done will be offered to Exhibition, collection of Cuzco School paintings, White Art
wider audiences in the Americas through a series of publica- Museum.
tions and recordings.
The Year is aimed at emphasizing Cornell's growing pro- February 21-25
gram of Latin American studies, its involvement in research Student Seminar, "The University Student and National
and assistance projects in Latin America, and in focusing Development."
campus attention on the particular problems and talents of
the nations south of the Rio Grande. Leading artists, states- March 22-25
men, and scholars will come to the campus to take part in Conference, "The Development of Communities in Andean
the program. Latin America."
Opening-day events will include an opening ceremony on
the afternoon of Friday, October 8; a preview of the Cornell- April 14-17
Guggenheim Exhibition of Contemporary Latin American Play, in translation, "Medusa," by Mexican playwright
Paintings; and a concert by the Coro de Camara de Valpa- Emilio Carballido, Cornell Dramatic Club.
raiso, a student choral group.
April 19-23
Director of the Latin American Year is William H. Mac-
Leish, on leave from his post as senior editor of the news- Conference (working session), "The Next Decade of Latin
magazine Vision. He is assisted by Richard H. Comstock as American Development."
executive director. Policy for the year's activities is set by a
May 1-4
steering committee comprising Robert L. Sproull '40, Tom
Conference, "United States University Involvement in Latin
E. Davis, John Marc ham '50, John Mellor '50, Steven
American Institutional Development."
Muller PhD '58, Jack L. Squier, and J. Mayone Stycos.
May 9-13
October 8 Conference (public session), "The Next Decade of Latin
American Development."
Opening ceremonies; opening, Cornell-Guggenheim Art
Exhibition concert., Coro de Camara de Valparaiso. May 14-June 24
Exhibition, Pre-Columbian Art assembled by Andre Emme-
October 15
rich, White Art Museum.
Lecture, Honorable Rodomiro Tomic, Chilean Ambassador
to the United States, subject "The Christian-Democratic May 18
Movement in Chile and other Latin American Republics." Lecture, Professor George Kubler, Department of the His-
tory of Art, Yale University, subject, "Pre-Columbian Art."
November 8-30
Exhibition, "Bold Tradition/' collection of Mexican paint- Other May Events
ings and prints loaned by the Center of Arts and Sciences of Publication, "The Emergent Decade," based on the Cornell-
International Business Machines (IBM), Malott Hall. Guggenheim exhibition, Cornell University Press.
Concert, premier of cantata by Juan Orrego-Salas, Cornell
November 15-January 8 Glee Club, Bailey Hall.
Exhibition, collection of Chimu pottery from Peru,, White Opening, New York City, Cornell-Guggenheim Exhibition,
Art Museum. Guggenheim Museum.
November 16-19 June 16-18
Conference, "The Role of the City in the Modernization of Alumni Seminar, "The Alumnus arid Latin America," and
Latin America," Closing Ceremonies.
14 Cornell Alumni NewsSummer session students on a geology walk through Cascadilla Gorge. Summer registration for the full six-weeks session was approximately
1,200 this year with another 2,000 attending the shorter courses. —Fred Mohn
said Perkins. "We can now enter our
The University: second century with renewed confi-
dence."
National campaign chairman Jansen
ALUMNI GAVE $42,500,000 Noyes Jr. '39 of the New York broker-
age firm of Hornblower & Weeks -
Hemphill, Noyes said the success of the
TO CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN campaign "reflects an exciting new
spirit and a new determination by the
alumni that Cornell will be first."
• On July 16 camefinalfigureson the reached as high as 500 per day during "It reveals a closing of ranks, a new
Centennial Campaign: a total of the final weeks. sense of responsibility and loyalty that
$75,580,000, topping the $73.2 million President James A. Perkins said the points healthily away from the growing
goal by nearly $2.4 million. funds raised will enable Cornell to impersonality of our times," Noyes said.
The largest single gift was $8.5 mil- "maintain its current standards of ex- The bulk of the money raised came
lion. There were 17 other gifts of $1 cellence in education while also fulfill- from individual alumni, who contributed
million or more. Some 27,000 persons ing many projects vital to the future $42.5 million, or 56 per cent of the total.
contributed. More than 7,200 volunteers growth and progress of the university." Another $11.5 million came from foun-
helped raise the money. Some $3.2 mil- "Cornell alumni have demonstrated dations, $2.6 million from corporations
lion was raised in the next to last week their deep sense of responsibility for the and approximately $4 million from
of the campaign. Gifts from alumni leadership position of the university," friends of the university. Some $15 mil-
September 1965 15lion came from government and other gineers, the "old-timers" and "newer gation, and a preliminary field study of
sources. men." The "old-timers" are engineers families in Mexico City.
Most of the 27,000 donors specified who began work 10 or more years ago. Professors Glenn H. Beyer, housing
where their money was to go. And their Today they are in positions of respon- & design, and Tom E. Davis, economics,
deepest concern was for sustaining the sibility within their companies, yet, be- will be the study's principal investiga-
excellence of education at Cornell. Con- cause they lack the background of tors. Other professors who will be work-
tributors gave $21 million for the endow- younger engineers, they are close to tech- ing on the study are Rose Goldsen,
ment of professorships at the university, nical incompetence. "The parts of the George Myers, and J. Mayone Stycos,
oversubscribing the campaign goal by a program designed for these men will sociology, and Bert L. Ellenbogen, rural
whopping $6 million. attempt to bring them back to a sufficient sociology.
Their next biggest concerns, in terms level of technical competence for them
of exceeding individual campaign goals,
Twelve hundred cars
were for undergraduate scholarships
To move out
and graduate fellowships. More than
$3.5 million was raised for undergradu- Two large peripheral parking areas
ate scholarships, which had a $2 million for faculty and staff, serviced by shuttle-
goal. Graduate fellowships brought in buses, are the key features of the new
$3 million — half again the $2 million university parking policy scheduled to
goal. go into effect this fall. The new plan is
Some $15 million of the $75.6 million designed to alleviate the parking and
is destined for construction of new traffic problem created by an increase in
buildings and renovation of existing personnel and an expansion of the uni-
buildings. Eight million dollars of the versity's physical plant. New buildings
$15 million will go for the new Clark will crowd out 300-400 parking spaces
Hall of Science, to house the university's on campus this year.
physical sciences center. Nearly another One of the 600-car lots will be on
$2 million will go for a new wing, to be Jessup Road at Pleasant Grove Road in
devoted to basic research in chemistry, the vicinity of the married students
for Baker Laboratory. Some $1.5 million area; the other, at the corner of Cald-
is headed for the new Agnes and Jansen Prof. Julian C. Smith '41 well Road and Rte. 366 near the Veter-
Noyes student center building. inary College campus. The capacity of
Campaign officials discovered that to carry out properly their supervisory both lots can be doubled.
large givers gave much more than had functions," says Smith. Users of the lots will be transported
been anticipated. The 71 donors in the The "newer men" are engineers who to the campus proper on free shuttle-
$100,000 to $1 million category gave a completed their education more recent- buses, running on a definite schedule
total of $20.5 million to the campaign. ly. Under the Cornell program, their continuously from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m.,
Those who gave $1 million or more con- technical abilities will be maintained, or at such other hours as will meet
tributed another $43 million. and it is hoped that the program will campus needs.
Geographically speaking, New York "create in them an incentive for con-
City constituted the largest group of tinuing self education." Rogosin
alumni givers. Metropolitan New York The first series of lectures under the Chair
contributors numbered one-fourth of the new program will be presented this fall
total 26,858 donors and they gave more to a group of engineering managers The chairmanship of the department
than $16.5 million. This was nearly 40 from IBM. The 65-lecture series will of biochemistry in the Medical College
per cent of the money contributed by teach concepts of modern advanced has been named for Israel Rogosin, re-
alumni. In addition, another $3 million mathematics, applied physics, mechan- tired chairman of Beaunit Mills, Inc.,
came in from the rest of New York State. ics, and materials science. of New York. During the past three
Other leading area contributors were: years, Rogosin has given a total of $3,-
Midwest — $12.5 million and Middle Latin American 500,000 to various parts of the New
Atlantic — $3.6 million. Study York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center,
including an endowment for the chair-
The Center for Housing & Environ- manship of the department of medicine
Continuing engineer's mental Studies has begun research on
Education and the establishment of the Rogosin
the economic, political, and social im- Laboratories for the study of molecular
Cornell now offers a coordinated pro- plications of urbanization and housing biology.
gram of continuing education for engi- programs in Latin America. The ob-
neers in industry. This new program jective of the study is to determine the
will be directed by Professor Julian C. effect that Piousing and urban environ- Regional offices
Smith '41, chemical engineering. Ac- ments exert on the civic behavior of low In New York and Chicago
cording to Smith, the engineering field and lower-middle income households in Cornell has opened an eastern re-
is evolving so rapidly that "the engineer's Latin America. The first phase of the gional office for university development
education cannot stop with his gradu- five-year study will include a survey of at 250 Park Ave., New York. The office
ation from college." relevant literature, preliminary ques- will be under the direction of Max F.
In general, says Smith, the program tionnaire development, a seminar to de- Schmitt '24, former president of the
will cater to two different groups of en- velop appropriate techniques of investi- Wool Bureau, the Cornell Club of New
16 Cornell Alumni NewsYork, and the Cornell Club of West- degree from Davidson College, the MS of the more controversial figures in 19th
chester County. from the University of North Carolina, and Century science and to whom modern sci-
The university has also recently the PhD from Cornell. Appointed to the ence owes its concept of field theory and the
Cornell staff in 1939, Watkins did research electromagnetic theory of light. Correcting
opened a regional alumni affairs office in entomology and plant pathology, dealing the misconception that Faraday was an
in Chicago and has appointed Stuart particularly with insecticides, until 1952, empiricist to whom theory was anathema,
McCutcheon., a former Chicago execu- when he was transferred to full-time resi- Williams re-creates "each of Faraday's ma-
tive3 to direct the operation. The new dent teaching. In 1957 he received the jor experiments in step-by-step detail, care-
Professor of Merit Award from the Col- fully reconstructing the theoretical links
office, the first of a projected dozen, is lege's senior class in recognition of his ex- among discoveries.
intended to assist local alumni in stu- cellence in teaching. He had been director TIME Magazine in its review (July 23)
dent recruiting, fund raising, and public of resident instruction since 1960. had this to say: "In this definitive new bi-
relations. ography by Dr. L. Pearce Williams, who
Three new departmental chairmen have teaches the history of science at Cornell,
been appointed: Robert B. MacLeod, psy- Faraday is described with affection and his
chology; Norman A. Malcolm, philosophy; work with impressive lucidity. Anybody who
f and H. Darkes Albright, MA '31, PhD '36, knows enough about electricity to screw
speech and drama. in a light bulb can follow most of Faraday's
Albright will serve until various long- experiments as they are described in this
range plans for the department can be com- book, and the occasional puzzling paragraph
FACULTY & STAFF pleted. He served as chairman from 1949
until 1957 and has been acting chairman
can only intensify the suspense of a scientific
epic that is also a harrowing intellectual
since the April 6 death of Prof. George A. thriller."
McCalmon.
Robert B. MacLeod, Susan Linn Sage Dr. Connie Guion, AM '13, MD '17, pro-
Professor Virginia True, '37 MFA, chair- professor of psychology since 1950, has been
man, housing & design, College of Home fessor emeritus of the Medical College, is
appointed for a five-year term. He special- the subject of a biography, Look to This
_______________ Economics, has re- izes in experimental psychology in the areas
tired after more than Day!, by Nardi Reeder Campion, with
of perception, language, and thinking. Rosamond Wilfley Stanton, recently pub-
29 years at Cornell. Norman A. Malcolm, the Susan Linn
She received a BAE lished by Little, Brown.
Sage professor of philosophy, has been a
degree from the John member of the Cornell faculty since 1947
Herron Art Institute and a professor since 1955. His most recent Professor Donald L. Turcotte, MAeroE
and Butler Universi- book is Knowledge and Certainty, pub- '55, aeronautical engineering, is the author
ty and did advanced lished in 1963. of a paperback book Space Propulsion., re-
study at the Pennsyl- cently published by Blaisdell Publishing Co.
vania Academy of Professor Frederick C. Steward, Grad, Intended to serve as a text for an intro-
Fine Arts, Columbia, botany, has been named the first holder ductory course in astronautics, the book
and Colorado University. A painter, Miss of a recently endowed chair, the Charles A. emphasizes the connections between the
True has exhibited original paintings in Alexander professorship of biological sci- engineering problems of space flight and the
both jury and invited one-man shows ences. The chair was made possible through fundamental sciences.
throughout the country, has received a a $500,000 bequest from the estate of the
number of awards for her art work, and late Charles A. Alexander '97 of Rochester. Professor Frank W. Young, rural sociolo-
has taught various aspects of art. Steward is also the director of the labora- gist, is the author of the recently published
tory for cell physiology, growth, and devel- book Initiation Ceremonies: A Cross-Cul-
Professor Frank S. Freeman, psychology, opment, which was established for him in tural Study of Status Dramatization. Pub-
has been designated professor emeritus 1963. lished by the Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., the
upon his retirement. He came to Cornell in book explores initiation ceremonies in a
1925 after receiving the BS and doctorate Felix Reichmann has been appointed number of primitive cultures to determine
from Harvard, and was appointed professor professor of bibliography at the university. why some societies require sharper distinc-
of education in 1935 and professor of psy- He will continue in his present capacity as tions between age levels and sexes than
chology and education in 1940. Active on assistant director of libraries for develop- others.
several professional fronts, Prof. Freeman ment of collections, selecting books, and
has published eight books and many arti- coordinating the selection of books for all
cles, done consulting work, and was the first Cornell libraries, which include more than Frederick H. Stutz '35, AM '37, PhD '54,
chairman of the New York State Board of thirty different units on the campus. Dean of the School of Education, delivered
Examiners of Psychologists, the board the commencement address at Colgate Uni-
which inaugurated state certification of Six faculty members have been promoted versity's summer commencement.
psychologists. to the position of professor: Kermit C.
Parsons, MRP '53, Architecture; Eraldus The Rev. W. Jack Lewis has been named
Prof. Grace Steininger, food and nutri- Scala, Engineering; Lennart Krook, Veter- director of CURW, the university's inter-
tion, has retired after 22 years service. Miss inary College; Seymour Smidt and John M. faith organization. He succeeds Rev. L.
Steininger earned the BS and MS degrees Rathmell, Business & Public Administra- Paul Jaquith. An ordained Presbyterian
from Kansas State University and the PhD tion; and Anil Nerode, Arts & Sciences. minister, Rev. Lewis founded the Christian
degree at the University of Chicago. Before Four new full professors have joined the Faith and Life Community at Austin, Texas,
coming to Cornell, she taught in Oklahoma staff. They are: Allan P. Sindler, James J. in 1952. The community, an experimental,
A&M College and served as director of the John and Myron Rush, Arts & Sciences; and ecumenical lay training center, is related to
School of Home Economics at Ohio Univer- Joseph Carreiro, Home Economics. but independent of the University of Texas.
sity. While at Cornell, she has served on Given tenure with the rank of associate Under the program, students attend non-
many committees and has had a number of professor were: David M. Simons, Archi- credit, theological lectures and seminars
national appointments. She is co-author tecture; Leland E. Carmichael, Veterinary within their living units while carrying a
with the late Prof. Hazel Hauck of the College; Chung-Liang Tang, Engineering; full academic program in the university.
much-published "Food Value Chart," Ex- Martie W. Young, Arts & Sciences; and The new CURW director has similar aims
tension Bulletin 670, and has published in William N. McFarland, Arts & Sciences. for Cornell, although he plans to work with
various professional journals. established residential units on a voluntary
Michael Faraday: A Biography by Pro- and experimental basis. The residential
The director of resident instruction at the fessor L. Pearce Williams '48, PhD '52, plan, he says, is designed "to bridge the
College of Agriculture, Prof. Thomas C. history of science, has recently been pub- perennial gap between academia and the
Watkins, has retired. He received the BS lished by Basic Books, Inc. Faraday was one lived world."
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