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to believe that aesthetically, Americans wore a dunce's cap or beat]accolades from veteran diplomats. Said Llewellyn Thompson, U. S.best jobs in our cultural program. Thank you so very much; you'll r
throughout the 16-country tour, the Philharmonia helped to destroywho came to the concerts, but the readers of every major newspapebe gleaned from these excerpts from the reviews: "What may be WI
Hanson. "It was the Russian people's way of saying 'we like you, weForever" was the glittering jewel in the diadem of American cultuJthe United States State Department assigned the orchestra the missic
rhe Stars and Stripes Forever"-for the 87 members of the Eastmanhilharmonia and their conductors, Dr. Howard Hanson and Dr. Fredrick Fennell, this rousing march by John Philip Sousa was the keynote
f their three-month-Iong tour de force of Europe and the Middle East..lthough the critics in the 34 cities where they played were lavish inraising the orchestra and their playing of the standard symphonic rep-
rtoire as well as works of contemporary American composers, it was1e playing of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" as an encore that broughtudiences to their feet in standing ovations. At some concerts, notably
l Russia, the march had to be repeated several times before the aud~nce would let the musicians leave the stage. "I feel that part of the'emendous applause was for the United States of America," said Dr.
e your young people, we like your country. ,,, "The Stars and Stripes~ut on display by these young musicians. In their pre-tour briefing,f projecting a positive image in countries where some were too ready
beret. As cultural ambassadors, the entourage from Rochester drewbassador to the U.S.S.R., "Your young people have done one of the~r know how much you have done for us." Not only in Russia, but
myth that the United States is a cultural wasteland.. Not only thosenew that this orchestra from America was something special-as can~n or said will give only a pale image of the brilliancy, the integrity,
Bob Sattler points to a posterheralding the Philharmonia
concert in Moscow. Photo byHam Allen, Times-Union.
PhilharIllonia Story
and emotional communicability which thrilled and movedthe audience"-Lisbon; "equal to professional orchestras"Madrid; " ... virtually a sensation"-West Berlin; " ... themembers of the orchestra play with abandon, high musicalability, thoroughness, and vigor"-MOSCOW; "dazzled with itsrhythmic accuracy and true inner temperament"-Kiev.
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" echoed, too, in the frequent conversations with students, musicians, and townspeople in the cities they visited. Everywhere there was interest in America, in the young people and their education.Communication was not limited to the universal languageof music spoken by the full orchestr~ in concert, or by thestring quartet, the brass ensemble or the jazz group thatplayed at practically every informal get-together. Friendships sprang up in the bi-national clubs in Spain and Portugal, at the many universities which played host to theentourage, at embassy parties, and of course, in the streetsand in the shops. The friends they made were many, butromance was strictly intramural-two couples announcedtheir engagements en route.
The impact the Philharmonia made in Russia is describedby Ham Allen, theater editor of the Rochester Times-Union,
who spent two weeks withthe group behind the IronCurtain: "It is the story ofan old man of Lvov, cryingsilently in a corner of theconcert hall and throughhis tears muttering duhsvee-dah-nee-yah (so long,until the next time) as theyoung players left the hall;others so smitten with theyoung musicians fromAmerica that they wantedonly to touch them as theywent by; of opened homesin a shuttered land; ofstruck-up friendships thatignited on dark streets between music hall and hoteland sparkled into bright,wonderful moments of aspontaneous people-to-peopIe thing that no government bureau could' haveplanned, nor stopped; of
unmeasurable good will spread across Europe and throughthe Iron Curtain into the vast forbidding darkness ofRussian hinterlands where no American orchestra had everbeen before."
"The Stars and Stripes Forever"-the encore that drewencores overseas-was the welcome back for the membersof the Philharmonia as they stepped from their charteredplane at the Niagara Falls Air Force Base on February 25(it was the only airport in upstate New York with runwayslong enough for the jet plane). For a change, the Philharmonia listened while the irrepressible march was played bythe Eastman Wind Ensemble. Also on hand to greet the
"Ach, du lieber Doktor Hanson . . ."-the autographseekers line up after the West Berlin concert.
returning musicians were bus-loads of fellow students, together with a large contingent of University officials, alumni,and parents. It was a hero's welcome!
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" was far from being placedin limbo; on February 28, the famous Sousa march wasplayed frequently by all local radio and TV stations as asalute to "Philharmonia Day"-a day to be observed in Rochester forevermore by proclamation of the mayor.
That evening, homage was paid to the orchestra, Dr.Hanson, Dr. Fennell and other members of the entourageat a banquet tendered by the University. It was an eveningfull of glory and emotion and standing ovations. A handbrushed, illuminated scroll of the Philharmonia Day Proclamation was presented by Mayor Henry E. Gillette. Ahandsome commemorative plaque was presented by CharlesL. Rumrill, '22, president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Herman D. Kenin, president of the American Federation of Musicians, presented gold membership cards to Dr.Hanson and Dr. Fennell. A scrapbook of newspaper clippings of the tour was presented by Ham Allen for the Gannett newspapers. These were the material gestures of appreciation; as lasting were the words of salute on the success oftheir mission. Said Anatole Heller, State Department concert-master, "You were the best possible servants for yourcountry." Speaking for the Department of State, DanielMontenegro, acting director of the Office of Public Services,said, "The Eastman Philharmonia who came as odditiescultured young Americans-were seen as accomplished musicians of professional caliber by any standard-and conquered the applause and the hearts of all who heard andsaw and met them." A message from the White House readat the dinner echoed the feelings of all: "To all who haveparticipated so effectively in this great enterprise for building greater mutual understanding go our congratulationsand deep appreciation."
With the accolades still ringing in their ears, it was backto the classrooms for the members of the Philharmonia. ForDr. Hanson: more kudos-he was awarded the Gold Medalof Honor by the National Arts Club and made appearanceson national TV and radio shows. For Dr. Fennell: a busyschedule of conducting and speaking engagements. ForRobert Sattler, tour manager: still more logistics in getting
back the harps stranded in Leningrad as well as accountingfor all the money spent. For those who held the fort onGibbs Street, it was the hearing of impressions, observationsand anecdotes of the trip. These are but a few-taken inorder of the itinerary:
PORTUGAL-The minor hitches, which all along the waywere met with ingenuity and aplomb, began with the tour'sfirst concert in Lisbon. Five minutes before the performancewas due to begin, an agitated Mrs. Hanson approached Dr.Fennell. The conductor had left his suspenders at the hotel.Racing to the basement of the theater, Dr. Fennell searchedthe Everest of luggage for his trunk. Successful, he extractedhis own suspenders and shot backstage. The concert began.American dignity was upheld.
SPAI - True to Eliza Doolittle's diction lesson, it rainedin Spain. Seville was flooded, the airport was closed, thetheater scheduled for the performance was under water.For a time it appeared that the concert would be canceled.Finally, air travel was resumed and the mayor requisitioneda movie house. The concert went on-for the benefit of floodrelief.
SWITZERLAND-The gregariousness of the Americanstudent was illustrated in the university town of Freibourg,where horn player Herbert Spencer was made a member of aFreibourg fraternity and was presented with all of theappurtenances of membership, including the fraternity'shat-a Swiss version of a Civil War cap. Said Civil War buffFennell, "Dig that crazy forage cap!"
FRANCE-The ties binding Rochester to its sister city ofRennes were drawn closer by the Philharmonia's visit. Theconcert, as everywhere, was a rousing success, and the delighted city honored the orchestra with a civic banquet. Inan outburst of sisterly affection, they piped the visitors intodinner with, of all things, a skid of bagpipes.
Souvenir-happy musicians made full use of a free day inParis. Any self-respecting swarm of locusts could havelearned a few tricks from watching the instrumentalistsstrip the music stores in their path. This continued throughout the trip. Typical was the enterprising young cellist whoordered the entire stock of cello music from a Moscow shop.
Nine tons ofluggage going;ten tons on thereturn-mostof the additionalweight in scoresbought en route.
DANUTO RAGe-SLACK STAR
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LUXEMBOURG-The Luxembourg engagement waseasily the maddest of the tour. Grounded by fog, the orchestra arrived at the concert hall a scant quarter-hour beforethey were scheduled to play, wilted and famished from anall-day bus ride. In the true cliffhanger tradition, the instruments were rushed into the __ theater moments beforecurtain time. With thefr formal concert garb still strandedon the road in a broken-down baggage truck, the Philharmonia scrambled onstage in their traveling clothes, treatingthe Luxembourg audience to a kaleidoscopic view ofAmerican sportswear. Only Dr. Hanson, at first glance,appeared to be formally attired. A second glance revealedthat the elegance of his dark coat and striped trousers wasconsiderably modified by his footwear. The distinguishedconductor was wearing moccasins.
BELGIUM-Music making did not end with the encoresand ovations following the formal concerts. A jazz group ofsix Philharmonians entertained the Americans and theirhosts in after-hours sessions in student clubs, hotels andnight clubs across Europe and through the Middle East.Occasionally, as in the posh Blue Note in Brussels, thecombo's playing evoked job offers for next summer, whichwere regretfully turned down by the travel-weary musicians.
CYPRUS-Christmas found the itinerant musicians inCyprus, where they allayed homesickness by combiningtraditional American Yuletide customs with al fresco summer activities-picnicking, cycling, and swimming in theMediterranean. Financed with funds collected by finingthemselves for minor infractions, the group distributed giftsat the two island orphanages. At the Greek orphan home,they were joined by President Makarios, also on a ,giftgiving mission. Friendly Bob Sattler, Eastman School concert manager, slipped him a Tootsie Roll, which the President munched with obvious enjoyment.
SYRIA-In Aleppo, the first symphony orchestra concertin this ancient city's 5,OOO-year history was marked by theexplosion, fortunately harmless, of a plastic bomb in thecorridor outside the concert hall. Inside the hall, whereDr. Hanson was conducting his orchestral transcription ofSyria's new national athem (written since the country'srecent separation from the United Arab Republic), the bandplayed on, oblivious of the disturbance. Undeterred by disgruntled adherents of the old order, the country's radiostations plan to use the orchestra's recording of the anthemin opening and closing their broadcasts.
EGYPT-Rehearsals, also, were not without their incidental excitement. Dr. Fennell recalls a rehearsal he conductedin the ballroom of a Cairo hotel in preparation for theorchestra's first Egyptian performance. He had just swunginto the Egyptian national anthem when Edouard Ebner,the tour's resourceful and efficient properties manager,erupted in,to the room. "Stop," he instructed. "That one wedo not play. It is the wrong anthem." Ebner had been tippedoff by the amused reaction of the hotel kitchen help, whohad come storming up the stairs hallooing, "The King isback!" Hastily, Fennell abandoned the anachronistic anthemthat he had been handed back in the States. For the remainder of the trip, the orchestra prudently omitted nationalanthems.
Everywhere, opportunities for sightseeing were eagerlyseized. In Egypt, the touring musicians rode out to thedesert for an awed inspection of the pyramids and a chanceto tryout equestrian abilities aboard horses, donkeys andcamels. Mounting a camel, Boyde Hood, a trumpet playerfrom Texas, quickly made use of his Texas training to"figure out how the darn thing worked," and led his colleagues in a wild chase across the desert, followed by atroupe of screaming camel drivers.
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baggage to be checked . . . letters to be written . . . and read6
"Mare practicalthan pretty,"says Dr. Hansonof the Arabburnoose.
LEBANON-The Philharmonia marched into Beirut onthe heels of an abortive revolution. Although the cityseemed calm, the musicians found themselves casting nervous glances at the barbed wire barricades and gloweringtanks that they passed on the way to the concert hall. Theirbest source of information on what was going on, theyfound, was a reassuring shoeshine boy who accuratelypredicted that there would be no further skirmishes andthat the orchestra's visit would be serene.
TURKEY-"They always cancel Izmir." Residents of thisvenerable Turkish city (nee Smyrna) had been repeatingthis sad little remark for years. Faced with the relativeinaccessibility of the town, touring artists with tight schedules habitually decide that Izmir can be lopped from theitinerary. Determined to break the pattern, Dr. Hanson andother officials arranging the tour strove valiantly againstthe entanglements of red tape and the limitations of theIzmir airport. Aboard a borrowed Army plane equipped tocope with the airfield runways, the orchestra swooped intothe town-and into the hearts of its residents as the groupthat did not cancel Izmir.
GERMANY-Enthusiastic acclaim from critics was therule in every country. But if an exception is needed to prove
it, we cannot produce one; certainly not from West Berlinreviewers, who were uniform in their praise. Some samples:
Der Murier: "The concert has considerably increased ourrespect for the musical education in U. S. conservatories.Howard Hanson has trained his students excellently . . . "Telegraf: "Under the compulsive conducting of HowardHanson, the orchestra played with an electrifying rhythmicvitality. After this concert, a comparison with the standardsof our schools of music is depressing." Der Abend: "Theycan do very much, those young Americans. In team workand solo playing, their solid training bears excellent fruit.Their cleanness of intonation, rhythmic exactness, andwidth of dynamic expression can compete with many renowned orchestras." Die Welt: "This is an elite orchestra inthe true sense of the word, of which each individual instrument is perfectly placed."
In West Berlin, the Philharmonia came face-to-face forthe first time with tangible evidence of the struggle betweenEast and West: the Wall. "It's the ugliest thing I've everseen," said Donald Gilbert, percussionist. On the advice ofthe State Department, the orchestra was content to remainin the American Sector, but they spent many moments insober reflection at the barrier.
POLAND-If the tour had ended before the weeks inPoland and Russia, it would still have been an enormouslysucessful venture. The finale behind the Iron Curtain madeit the sensational triumph it was. Here, even more thanduring the first two months of the trip, the Philharmoniaproved the value of people-to-people diplomacy in. helpingto quench the Soviet world's thirst for knowledge aboutAmerica and its people.
One way in which this was accomplished was throughthe jazz group, which played for and with Polish studentsin Poznan, Krakow and Warsaw. In Warsaw, the Eastman
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jazzmen were presented in the student club with two Polishgroups. According to Boyde Hood, "Both Polish groupsplayed well, especially considering the fact that the onlyjazz they have the opportunity to hear is either from theVoice of America or what few records they are able toreceive from friends outside the country. The first group,comprised of two altos and rhythm section, was right outof the '30's. The second group, of tenor, trumpet and rhythmsection had more of a modern feel of the late '40's or early'50's." "It was a great pleasure," he added, "to listen andspeak, sometimes through interpreters, with these musiciansand have the opportunity to play for them."
The entente cordiale with the Polish students was so firmlyestablished that the orchestra developed a following thattrailed them from city to city, and as the Americans wereboarding the plane that would take them to Moscow, students from the Warsaw Academy of Music trooped into theairport bearing parting gifts: a volume on "The Renaissanceof Polish Music" and some orchestral arrangements by oneof their countrymen.
DANUTO RAGO-BLACK STAR
RUSSIA-"This is a great, powerful, disturbing, puzzlingcountry," said Dr. Hanson, echoing Sir Winston Churchill'scharacterization of Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mysteryinside an enigma." One thing was quite clear, however, theRussians liked the Philharmoriia's music and they liked theyoung Americans who played it.
Ovations were thunderous. The Philharmonians foundthemselves playing encores to the encores. Several timesthe lights had to be turned out to persuade audiences toleave the auditoriums. After one concert which he hadconducted, Dr. Fennell reported, "They tore the placeapart. And when I left the theater, they tore me apart."He nearly lost his coat buttons to the adoring mob, provingthat Elvis Presley-type fans do not exist only in America.
After the initial Moscow concert, when the musicianshad been kept onstage for 40 minutes after the end of the
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scheduled program, an elderly Russian woman cast a grandmotherly eye on the triumphant-and slightly wiltedmusic-makers and remarked, "I was so worried for them.They are just children."
While the Russian people were friendly-concert goersrushed to the stage following performances to talk withmusicians, eager questioners surrounded them on thestreets, and many Russians opened their homes to thevisitors-the secret police treated the Americans with acertain official wariness. Several students reported thatthey had discovered hidden microphones in their hotelrooms, which set off a search by the others who did notwant to feel that they had been overlooked. On the streets,their movements were followed by a parade of secret policewho questioned anyone seen talking with the Americans.
With an accurate eye for the appropriate action, Dr.Fennell, who already had a small scar on his chin as testimony of his visit to the Barber of Seville, took a suddennotion to play Ippolitov-Ivanov's "Great Gate of Kiev" inits namesake city. Not one to be deterred by such smallobstacles as the fact that no copies of the score could befound in the city, Fennell wrote out the parts from his wellstocked memory and "The Gate" was performed in Kiev.
Along with classical music and jazz, the orchestra carried another aspect of American culture to the Soviet Union:the twist. The high-spirited Americans demonstrated thedance to little knots of fascinated Russians on street cornersas well as in student clubs and hotels. And here they metone East-West barrier that they were unable to surmount.Even by employing the most determined wheedling ofwhich the American college student is capable, orchestramembers were unable to persuade their Russian girl guidesto twist with them.
At one point, open warfare broke out in the snowy Sovietstreets between the Philharmonia and its Intourist guidesa hilarious snowball fight. In the thick of the battle was Dr.Fennell, demonstrating that the hand that wields- the batoncan also hurl a sizzling snowball.
The orchestra's Moscow visit started off with a bang.Midway through a reception for the Philharmonia at theresidence of Ambassador Thompson, an American-builtgrand piano collapsed with a thundering roar. In the stunnedsilence that followed the crash, Mrs. Thompson washeard to suggest helpfully that perhaps it had broken downbecause "it was overwhelmed by seeing so many musiciansfrom back home."
The Philharmonians are convinced that last summer'scrop of carrots and peas in the Soviet Union must havebeen stupendous. Their first dinner in the country featuredpeas and carrots. So did the second, and the third, and allsucceeding dinners during the weeks that followed. Theyalso had peas or carrots for lunch. Every day. With admirable ingenuity, the Russians served the vegetables in everyimaginable fashion.· Then they added some that wereunimaginable: who, for instance, would ever think ofpea tarts?
After the final concert in Leningrad, a note was smuggledonstage: "We congratulate you on your man Glenn." Itwas signed, "From your friends." It was at the same concertthat the little ladies of Leningrad carrying mimosa pressedtheir bouquets on the beaming conductors. "God bless theU. S. A.," said one. "'Your young people are wonderful."
For a ten-yearold, applying
nail polish is atreat; for Jamee,
it is a triumph. Nottoolong ago she could not have managed to
hold the applicator brush.Jamee Schmoll has
suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for
half her lifetime. Asa result, her life hasbeen different from
that of most ten-yearolds. She has endured
more pain and spent moretime in hospitals than
have most adults in a lifetime. She doesn't want to
talk about it very much; shewould rather not look at this
Many
Her battle is also
his battle
Dr. Kenneth Herd is Jamee's physician. Jameethinks he looks like President Kennedy and to heryoung eyes, he is evenmore important. He sawher when she first came tothe hospital and has beenher first line of defense allthrough her battle. Dr.Herd is a young man tornby two "loves"-on the onehand, he is dedicated toplanning the most effectivecare for his young patientswho have arthritis; on theother hand, he. would liketo spend as much time aspossible in the laboratory searching for some clue to explain the nature of the mysterious rheumatoid-type ofinflammation. His laboratory research is supported byfunds available from the Arthritis and RheumatismFoundation for the study of problems of the changes thatoccur in connective tissues-the area in which inflammation creates its greatest effect in rheumatoid a"rthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis often behaves like an acute, infectious disease; this is particularly true of youngpatients. Often they have high fever with acutely swollenjoints and other evidences of severe inflammation. Thefirst task of the physician is to weigh carefully thepatient's history and the observations he makes in the
..~ ....--- physical examination and to correlate these with the information furnished by a myriad of laboratory tests.
JameePHOTOGRAPHS BY LEE D. ALDERMAN
picture taken two yearsago when her reaction tocertain drugs ballooned herweight to 118 pounds. Shewas so embarrassed by herappearance that she woreoutsize slacks to cover herswollen knees and legs. Thewonder is that she can nowlook back on her experiences with equanimity. Except for a limping gait andsome deformity in herhands, this bright-eyed girlis well. No longer does shesuffer the excruciating pain; no longer does she wantto hide.
This story takes Jamee back in memory to the sevenmonths spent in the hospital. In June, 1960, she was broughtto the children's ward at Strong Memorial Hospital. Thiswas her first experience at the University's Medical Center.Here began the long battle to restore this crippled girl tonormal activity.
Jamee's story is an account of a small girl's courage.It is an insight into the unrelenting efforts of many peopleto help her. It is a small chapter in the constant exploration in search of the cause and ultimately the prevention ofcrippling arthritis.
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ninds ... many hands . .. many skills . ..
The Medical Center is dedicated to the treatment of each patient asa whole person, a philosophy that demands the specialized skills ofmany people. In group conferences and private consultation, Jamee'scase was discussed. Thus it was that Jamee had the benefit of adviceand help from Dr. Robert Duthie and Dr. David States, whose orthopedic skills were able to keep her joints from becoming hopelesslydeformed. In the periods of emotional distress that grew out of herresentment at being immobilized and in pain week after week, Dr.Sanford Meyerowitz came to the rescue with his practical knowledgeof psychological problems and their solutions. Dr. Edward Atwater,assistant director of the Arthritis Clinical Study Center, Dr. EdwardMongan, an internist, Dr. Gerald Gleich, a microbiologist-all madecontributions to the treatment prescribed for Jamee.
Jamee needed help from other sources, too. Her program of physiotherapy had to be carefully planned. Her active mind had to be keptoccupied, and her hands kept busy-this was the responsibility of thepeople in occupational therapy. Her school work could not beneglected, and the Board of Education furnished a tutor who visitedher in the hospital. As Jamee's stay in the hospital dragged from weeksinto months, her family was able to turn to the local chapter of theNational Foundation for assistance made possible by the yearly Marchof Dimes campaign.
Conference brings together members ofthe Arthritis Clinical Study Center staff:Miss Lucille McMahon, Dr.]. Kenneth
Herd, Dr. Edward Mongan, Miss MarthaMorrow, Dr. Ralph Jacox, Dr. RobertDuthie, Dr. Sanford Meyerowitz, Dr.
David States, Dr. Edward Atwater, andDr. Gerald Gleich.
"The problems of a chronic disease
such as rheumatoid arthritis are often
overwhelming. To provide exemplary
care for such individuals, one must
utilize many professional resources. We
believe that one physician must be the
family doctor but he must have the con
sultation and advice of many other dis
ciplines in medicine."
DR. RALPH JACOX
Medical Director of the
Arthritis Clinical Study Center
at the Medical Center
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Girls have so much to talk about . ..Lucille M cMahon has a heart-to -heartchat with Jamee.
Busy hands have therapeuticvalue ... busy hands while
away the hours ... JudyPerine, pediatric occupationaltherapist at Strong, watches
as Jamee colors a clown mask.
When a girl needs a friend
One step at a time, Don Young helpsJamee on the path to recovery.
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Jamee made many friends in the hospital who are not called "doctor." One ofthese good friends is Lucille McMahon.
Miss McMahon is a social workerwhose duty in the Arthritis ClinicalStudy Center is to find ways and meansto make life easier for patients such asJamee. She is many things. She is a comforter when a feminine touch is needed.She thinks of the little things that physicians are either too busy to consider orthink are of small importance. She plansand arranges for help at home and atschool. She is friend, big sister, mother,confidante, all rolled into one cheerfulpackage. Her primary task with Jameewas to establish a schedule of activity.There had to be a time for study, atime for hobbies, a time for watchingtelevision. This discipline was not always easy to maintain, she says now,"but Jamee was such a good patient."
Another friend is Don Young. Jameethinks of him as "the strong one," for heis the physical therapist who has helpedto strengthen her muscles, atrophied byher disease. It is he who taught her howto walk again. It is he who gently butinsistently made her move her painfuljoints so that she would not freeze intoa disabling deformity.
At first it was jembarrassing ... finally, Jamee beganbe fun. The bedside visits became a bnbe Dr. William Bradford and his bi:smile, and Dr. Herd, too. And, therwould be five or six very serious medicastudents, and a friendly nurse or two awell.
Many young men and women havseen Jamee during the time she waspatient in Strong Memorial Hospital, anin the Arthritis Clinic. These are thmedical students who will become tcmorrow's physicians and medical sciertists. It is these young people who learabout Jamee's disease and how to treat iIt is one of these students who may bcaught up in the vexing problems crheumatoid arthritis-who may spenhis life looking for the cause and cure
Dr. John Vaughan explains how theultra-centrifuge is used in sepa
rating the mysterious rheumatoidarthritis factor from blood serum.
The level of potassium in the Latex fixation experimenthuman body is measured by the Jamee doesn't quite understand
whole body counter-a what it is, but she hopespainless test, Jamee finds. that Dr. Mongan's research
will help in making her better.
Hope for Jamees yet to be bornInvestigation, research, experimentation, serendipity,
«playing a hunch"-call it what you will, these provide thehope that there will be a cure ... that there will be a preventative for rheumatoid arthritis. Jamee helped in hersmall way to build up man's knowledge of this cripplingdisease by her participation in the basic research andspecialized studies underway at the Medical Center. In this
7htening ... the second time it wasLmderstand that «teaching rounds" couldn her daily routine-«come to call" would
area, as in the area of treatment, there is the exchange ofinformation and ideas by many men with many skills. Thismerging of disciplines could take place only in the environment of a university medical center. Dr. Jacox points outthat it is possible for the University Medical Center to carryon the triple-pronged program of research, treatment andeducation in arthritis only with the support of the NationalFoundation. Now in its third year here, the Arthritis Clinical Study Center is one of a handful of such groups acrossthe country.
The fires of inflammation areburning low now Jamee is reasonably freefrom pain; she did not become crippled by her acute disease. She sees Dr. Herd less frequently. Although she stilldepends on her wheel chair, she can walk short distances.She goes to school every day; it is a special school forchildren with orthopedic afBictions. Otherwise, Jamee islike any ten-year-old girl: she likes to dress up in frilly partydresses, yes, even put on nail polish; she likes milk, icecream, boys and dogs-not necessarily in that order. Whenshe grows up, she would like to be a veterinarian. Thereis every hope that she will continue to improve . . . thatshe will grow into womanhood with only small scars toshow for her long and courageous battle. For all who havehad a part in her treatment, Jamee is a source of pride ...and inspiration in the unending battle to cure and, perhaps,even to prevent rheumatoid arthritis.
The big battle is over-]amee says good-byeto Dr. Herd and Miss McMahon as she leavesthe hospital with Mom and Dad. But herfight is not fully over . . .
]amee's father adjusts the Taylor Braceshe must wear all day long to support herspine, which was weakened by the disease.
Three times a week ]amee does exercisesdesigned to strengthen her muscles.
Mrs. Margaret Short, the physiotherapistat ]amee's school, helps her with them.
•The University has progressed $16.4 million toward the$49.9 million goal of its Program for a Greater University.The program, launched in September, 1959, is a comprehensive long-term undertaking to obtain new funds forcapital and operating purposes to meet needs projectedthrough 1965.
As of December 31, 1961, a total of $9.8 million wasreported in funds for capital improvements, and $6.6 mil-
. lion in funds for operating purposes. Total capital needsprojected by the Greater University Program through1965 amount to $28.7 million for capital improvementsand $21.2 million in new endowment (or $954,000 inassured additional income each year) for operating purposes.
Terming the progress of the program "most hearteningevidence of the wide-spread support for the Universityand its goals," Mercer Brugler, chairman of the GreaterUniversity Council, pointed out that the program "stillhas a considerable way to go." He noted that the fundeffort was designed as an "open-ended program whichcould embrace new needs as they emerge."
Further encouraging news on the progress of the program is reported by Donald McMaster, chairman forcorporate giving of the Greater University Council, whoannounces that annual corporate support of the Universityhas nearly doubled in the last two years. Corporatecontributions rose from approximately half a million dollars in 1959-60 to nearly one million dollars in the fiscalyear 1960-61.
Contributions came from 103 industrial and businessconcerns. Some gifts have been designated for scholarships, fellowships, facilities, or research; others have beengifts-in-kind.
Among recent notable examples of this type of supportis a grant of $100,000 made by the Esso Education Foundation. Like many of the corporate gifts, the Esso grantis unrestricted.
!!With a half-dozen major construction and remodelingprojects currently under way, and a seventh (see notesunder College of Arts and Science) to be begun shortly,the University's new construction engineer hasn't beenexactly idle since he took over the new position in theoffice of the University architect last month.
He is Robert R. Ramsdell, formerly resident engineerat the Atlas Missile Project at Plattsburg Air Force Base.Ramsdell has full-time supervision of all new heavy construction, and general remodeling and maintenance workunder the buildings and grounds department.
COLLEGE OF
ARTS & SCIENCE
!IThe department of political science will have a new chairman in September. He is Dr. William H. Riker, at presentprofessor of government at Lawrence College, Appleton,Wisconsin.
His appointment will free Dr. Glenn G. Wiltsey, department head since 1950, to devote his time to teaching,research and writing. Dr. Wiltsey, who will continue asprofessor of political science, came to the University in1945 as associate professor.
A specialist in the fields of American government andfederalism, Dr. Riker is the author of two books, Democracy in the United States and The Study of Local Politics.He spent the last year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences.
•In a neat process of cell division, the department offoreign languages will split into two separate departments next fall.
The new department of languages and linguistics willbe responsible for all foreign language courses in conversation and composition, and more advanced courses inlinguistics. The department of foreign and comparativeliterature will offer literature in the classics, Romancelanguages, German, Russian, and Arabic, eventuallybranching out into Indic and other Oriental languages.
Head of languages and linguistics will be Dr. D. Lincoln Canfield, since 1954 chairman of the foreign languages department. Althol,lgh a new chairman of theliterature department has not yet been named, one newappointment has been made. Dr. Kurt Weinberg, currently assistant professor of French and comparativeliterature at the University of British Columbia, will beprofessor of European literature. A native of Germany,he is a graduate of Trinity College and Yale University.
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A specialist in social change in complex societies, ArnoldL. Green, will join the department of anthropology andsociology next fall as assi~tant" professor. Green, whosefield studies took him to Ceylon last year, expects to complete the requirements for the Ph.D. degree from Harvardthis spring.
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!IHarkness Hall, long devoted to the military sciences, willassume a partially civilian air next fall following extensive remodeling and expansion of the two-story building.
Renovation of the hall will provide needed space foradditional classrooms and offices for the University's expanding programs in anthropology and sociology, economics, and political science, and will, for the first time,permit these related departments to be housed in thesame building. The Navy and Air Force ROTC units willcontinue to use the hall.
The $665,000 remodeling project will include the addition of a third story and renovation of a two-story areawithin the building formerly occupied by an outmodedgun no longer needed in the naval science program.
IfHeading toward "the far distant goal of understandingbehavior in terms of neural activity," Dr. Robert Doty,professor in the new Center for Brain Research, has embarked on a series of studies assisted by a grant of $138,165 from the U.S. Public Health Service.
The studies of learning, perception and neural integration will be conducted in three broad areas: investigationof learning and motivation through electrical stimulation of the brains of animals; electro-physiological andbehavioral analysis of pattern recognition; and studies ofcomplex motor coordination and its triggering, as in theact of swallowing.
A second grant to the Center, $75,000 from the National Science Foundation, will be used by its director,Dr. E. Roy John, for research on "brain stimulation anddifferentiated conditioned responses."
COLLEGE OF
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
!»!A request to "send this over to Gavett" may create a littleconfusion on the campus this fall. Does the designationrefer to the ivy-covered engineering building or the newassociate professor of business administration?
The cause of the confusion is understandable. Both thebuilding, Gavett Hall, and the professor, Dr. Joseph W.Gavett, III, are named for the same person: the lateJoseph W. Gavett, Jr., chairman of the former departmentof engineering until his death in 1942.
The younger Dr. Gavett, more easily recognizable as"Bill," a graduate of the University in 1944 and one-timedirector of Todd Union, will return to the campus in September after finishing out the current academic year asassistant professor in the department of industrial andengineering administration at Cornell University. He hasalso been visiting professor in Cornell's Graduate Schoolof Business and Public Administration, coordinator of itsindustrial engineering seminars, chairman of the sectionon small plant management, and has filled out his sparetime by acting as consultant to several business firms.
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COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION
~A master's thesis written for a king has just been submitted by a University of Rochester student.
The student: Asaph Lule of Buganda, Africa.The thesis: a proposal to revamp the educational sys
tem of Buganda.The king to whom the thesis will be submitted: the
ruler of Buganda-His Highness, the Kabaka.Lule was on leave from his post in Buganda's Ministry
of Education while he completed work for his master'sdegree. According to Lule's adviser, Dr. Byron Williams,professor of education, the thesis is "a scholarly work inevery respect"-in short, a master's thesis fit for kinglyconsideration.
~Sponsored by National Science Foundation grants totalling $120,000, four institutes for teachers will be conducted by the College this summer. Three of the programs-in organic chemistry and earth science, and aprogram offering opportunity to participate in researchare intended for high school teachers. The fourth, alsoin research participation, is aimed at college teachers. Anumber of departments in the Medical School, the ArtsCollege, and the College of Engineering will cooperatein the research participation programs.
!!Effective September 1, three assistant professors of education will be promoted to associate professor. They areDr. Glenn N. Hontz, who is also director of student teaching for the College; Dr. Clarence J. Karier; and Dr. JohnJ. Montean, who holds the additional appointment of coordinator of science education.
COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
!IAn impression that the administrative tasks involved inthe smooth operation of the Institute of Optics have increased enormously in the last few years is no mere optical illusion. In the last five years, to cite one example, theresearch budget has more than doubled to approximately$600,000 per year.
To permit the Institut~'s director, Dr. Robert E. Hopkins, to concentrate more of his efforts on faculty recruitment and general development of the Institute, two assistant directors have been named. They are Dr. M. ParkerGivens, professor of optics, and Dr. Kenneth J. Teegarden, associate professor. As assistant director in chargeof academic affairs, Dr. Givens has responsibility for curriculum, relations with students, and Institute publica-
tions. In his new role of assistant director in charge of research activities, Dr. Teegarden is concerned with theplanning for research associates, problems of researchspace, and the maintenance and management of shops,equipment and supplies for research.
!»!A graduate fellowship program in optics will be established next fall in the Institute, supported by a grant fromthe American Optical Company. Awards, to be known asAmerican Optical Company Fellowships, will be grantedto two or three graduate students each year.
~IRichard F. Eisenberg, '44, formerly associate professor ofmechanical engineering, has a new position as associateprofessor of metallurgy in the department of chemicalengineering. He joined the engineering faculty as an instructor following his graduation, and was advanced toassistant professor in 1948 and associate professor in 1954.
MEDICALCENTER
~A new associate medical director for the Strong MemorialHospital has been appointed. He is Dr. Isidore Levine,assistant professor of medicine and of preventive medicine and community health. Dr. Levine also has beennamed associate professor in the new department ofhealth services and has been promoted to associate professor of medicine and associate physician in the hospital.The new appointments were effective February 1.
As associate medical director under Dr. Leonard D.Fenninger, who was appointed medical director of thehospital in ovember, Dr. Levine has as his primary responsibilities the out-patient and emergency services andthe new ambulatory diagnostic center of the hospital. Hecontinues to teach and to plan educational programs inthe Medical School with particular emphasis on ambulatory patients.
~Although it doesn't have a bosomy beauty on the cover,nor a title with the general appeal of Lincoln's Doctor'sDog, a hefty four-pound volume produced by the University's pharmacology department has overcome thesehandicaps to become something of an international medical best-seller. Fan mail has arrived from Australia toAlaska and even from behind the Iron Curtain.
A highly technical 1,000-page encylopedia, ClinicalToxicology of Commercial Products is now in its thirdprinting, and a new, completely updated version is scheduled for publication later this year.
"CTCP," as it is familiarly called, is a comprehensivemedical directory of commonly used products whichmight be involved in accidental poisoning in the home oron the farm. It is recognized as the standard reference
work for poison control centers throughout the UnitedStates and is widely used in many other countries as well.A monthly bulletin supplementing the original volumeis sent to all state and territorial health departments andto authorized poison control centers.
Incidental intelligence: when the pharmacology department's best-seller came out in 1957, it cost precisely224 times as much as the usual drugstore paperboundnovel.
!O!Like the little drops of water and grains of sand in thecouplet, little bits of data soon mount up to overwhelmingproportions, particularly in a medical center devoted totraining, research, and patient care. Help in dealing withthese vast accumulations of data has been promised theUniversity through a grant of $89,181 awarded by theU.S. Public Health Service for the establishment of a dataprocessing center.
The specific aim of the award is to make available dataprocessing equipment to all departments in the MedicalCenter and to support research projects by collecting andanalyzing data. It will also make it possible to preparedata for computer analysis, to introduce medical personnel to high-speed computing equipment and its potentialin the solving of complex medical and biological problems, and to provide consulting service to the professionalstaff.
~i\~"",'I.eIn July, the infectious disease unit of the department ofmedicine will have a new head. He is Dr. James M. Colville, staff physician in the division of infectious diseasesat the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.
Dr. Colville, who has been appointed associate professor of medicine and assistant professor of microbiology,will collaborate with members of the department of microbiology in conducting programs of teaching, patientcare and research in the field of infectious deseases. Healso will continue and expand research on antibiotics inwhich he has been engaged for a number of years.
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What are the relative effectiveness and costs of the various types of health care for the aged?
The University of Rochester, along with two otherRochester institutions, the Council of Social Agencies andthe Patient Care Planning Council, hopes to come upwith an answer to this complex question through a fouryear research program aided by a Ford Foundation grantof $325,000.
Interest in the study, believed to be the nation's firstintensive community-wide project on this subject, stemsfrom the fact that medical care for the nation's over-65population has become one of the country's major healthproblems. Three factors-the rising need for medical andrelated services for the aged, the increased number andvariety of medical facilities available, and sharply mounting costs of medical and allied care-have stimulated interest in finding ways to improve health services for theelderly.
The results of the program are expected to have a farreaching effect in helping to determine the future pattern of medical care for the aged.
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!!A University of Rochester scientist believes he may havefound out why people in regions with hard water sufferless cardiovascular disease than those in places where thewater is soft. He is Dr. William H. Strain, research associate in radiology (biochemistry), who made his reportat a year-end symposium of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science in Denver.
According to Dr. Strain, at least part of the answerseems to be the vanadium that has been found in the hardwater of the Great Plains and the Southwest, where deathrates from cardiovascular disorders are low. The traceelement was, on the other hand, almost uniformly absentfrom the soft water of the coastal and Great Lakes stateswith comparatively high death rates from these disorders.
The report was based on statistical studies conductedduring the last year in this country and in England. Although the association between deficient vanadium andcardiovascular disease is still only statistical, Dr. Strainfeels that the connection is reasonable because vanadiumhas been shown to inhibit the manufacture of cholesteroland phospholipids, both of which have been implicatedin arteriosclerosis. Thus, the vanadium in hard watermight prevent or at least retard the build-up of thosesubstances in the arteries. This would protect against thedisorder, which is characterized by such congestion.
!I"To avoid a serious shortage of physicians in the 1970's,the number of medical students in the United States mustbe increased in the next eight or nine years by approximately 50 per cent," declared Dean Donald G. Andersonlast month in urging that the federal government providematching funds for expansion of facilities for medicaleducation.
As president of the Association of American MedicalColleges, Dr. Anderson testified before the House ofRepresentatives Committee on Interstate and ForeignCommerce in support of a bill designed to provide matching federal funds for construction of facilities and forscholarships and general operating expenses of the nation's medical schools.
The lack of physical space to accommodate more students is the most serious bottleneck in increasing the output of physicians, he said. "We mtlst in a decade or lessincrease by 50 per cent facilities that required nearly 200years of private and local effort to establish."
He added that "an expansion of this magnitude can beaccomplished in the time required only if federal fundson a matching basis are available for the construction ofnew schools and for the expansion and renovation ofthe educational and research facilities of existing schools.It is our sober judgment that while private and local taxmonies should participate significantly in the expansionthat is needed, funds from these sources will not be available in sufficient amounts to accomplish the task thatconfronts us."
Also needed, to attract the increased number of students required, are more adequate scholarship funds thancan be provided by local or private sources, he said.
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Eastman School0/Music
!ICivil War buffs and amateur musicologists alike will snapto attention when they hear the sounds of battle andbugling as these have been faithfully reproduced onMercury Records by Dr. Frederick Fennell and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Volume I of The Civil War, "FortSumter to Gettysburg," is now available in an albumcontaining two LP records and a 23-page booklet whichdocuments the five years of research and technical rehearsals that went into the recording of these impressivesounds. The long-term undertaking, inspired and directed by Dr. Fennell, was made possible by a SpecialProjects and Recording Fund, established by the EastmanSchool on the recommendation of Dr. Hanson.
Assisted by a reactivated Civil War unit-Battery B, the2nd New Jersey Light Artillery-the Ensemble thumpsand trills out tunes culled from music books that wereactually employed by Union and Confederate armybands. Seventeen over-the-shoulder horns (authenticallyrestored by student members of the Ensemble), threepiccolos, four clarinets, and two drums aid the Unioncause, while the Confederacy is represented by brasses,buglers and fifers, with Dr. Fennell drumming up support-literally.
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CLAS S NOTES+ 1902
60th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 190755th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 191250th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1914GRACE SMITH THOMAS was honored by
former students and members of the Webster (N. Y.) High School teaching staff ata tea last month. She is retiring after 43years as a teacher, 35 of them at WebsterHigh School.
+ 191745th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1918DR. PAUL F. SWARTHOUT, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Hamilton, N. Y., hasretired after more than 28 years of service.
DOROTHY CURTISS is librarian of the LaurelPublic Library in Wilmington, Del.
+ 1919GARSON MEYER has been elected a mem-
ber of the board of directors of the NationalCouncil on the Aging. He is presently chiefchemist for the Camera Works at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester.
DR. NEIL C. STONE has been appointedmedical director of the Arkansas Children'sColony at Conway, Ark.
LEO D. WELCH has become the fourth person in the history of the Rochester Chamberof Commerce to receive an honorary membership.
+ 1921PAUL A. McGHEE will participate in an
Afro-American Conference on UniversityAdult Education in Africa at the Universityof Ghana, Accra.
+ 192240th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
DONALD C. SILVER has retired after 35years with the Eastman Kodak Company.
+ 1923CLAYTON H. BROWN has been named di
rector of District No. 1 of the Saratoga
County (N. Y.) public schools.
+ 1925RAPHAEL J. McNULTY was recently ap
pointed superintendent of schools in Amsterdam, N. Y.
+ 1926RICHARD L. GREE E, professor of English
at Wesleyan University, is the recipient ofthe Samuel Eells Award of the Alpha DeltaPhi fraternity "for outstanding service toeducation and to his fraternity."
HAROLD L. SUTTLE is a newly appointeddirector of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc.
+ 192735th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
CATHERINE CARDEW, librarian at Briarcliff College, presided at a session of theAmerican Library Association's conventionin Cleveland.
+ 1928RUTH ARMSTRONG ('30G) is president of
the reference services division of the American Library Association.
MARTIN R. GAINSBRUGH is chief economist
li Honor Dr. and Mrs. de KiewietExpressions of mutual affection and respect were ex
changed by the University's alumni and its president emeritus last month. The occasion was an alumni dinner honoringDr. and Mrs. Comelis W. de Kiewiet.
Among the tangible expressions were a citation and a desk
set presented to Dr. de Kiewiet, and a photograph of herhusband's portrait given to Mrs. de Kiewiet. In reply, Dr.de Kiewiet gracefully turned aside personal praise and applauded the alumni body for its vigorous and effective support of the University.
Reminiscences . . . gifts . . .congratulations . .. Dr. de Kiewietis greeted by an old friend duringthe reception. Mrs. de Kiewietadmires a color copy of a portraitby John M enihan, presented toher by Charles L. Rumrill, '22,toastmaster at the dinner.The president emeritus gets acongratulatory handclaspalong with a citation from Dr.Matthew E. Fairbank, '30, '35M.
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of the National Industrial Conference Board.ALICE BARK KNUBEL has been appointed
as a non-governmental observer at theUnited Nations for the division of publicrelations of the National Lutheran Council.
+ 1929RAYMOND N. GuPP has been appointed as
assistant to the city manager on budget affairs in Rochester.
+ 1930CHARLES C. PARISH has been appointed
student teacher adviser at Niagara University (N. Y.). He is also thesis director in theschool's graduate school.
LLOYD A. SMITH was named assistant manager of film emulsion and plate manufacturing at the Eastman Kodak Company.
+ 193230th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
PAUL A. STEWARD ('34G) has been selected as a participant in the advancedmanagement program at the Harvard Business School. He is manager of manufacturing at the Maytag Company.
ALBERT H. THOMAS joined the HutchinsAdvertising Company in Rochester as an account executive.
+ 1933WILLARD E. HARDIES has been made dis
trict tax supervisor in Rochester.
+ 1935ROBERT A. LANIGAN has been named as
sistant treasurer and auditor of the RochesterTransit Corporation.
LOWELL O. RANDALL (G) is director ofpharmacology for Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.
DR. WILLIAM C. WALZER, ('37G), associate general director of the Commission onMissionary Education of the National Council of Churches, has returned from a fivemonth journey to Europe, Africa, and India.
+ 1936LUCILE M. BOWEN (G) was recently hon
ored at a banquet by her past and presentstudents in recognition of her years as ateacher at Monroe High School in Rochester.She has retired after 33 years in education.
+ 193725th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1938DR. MYRTLE COLLINS DINEEN has been
been appointed assistant director of the Kent(Ohio) State University health center.
+ 1939MYRA DUBOIS STAPLETON was honored as
teacher of the week in Akron, N. Y.
+ 1940Promotional material by ADELE H. Nus
BAUM, public relations director for theUnited Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, wasrecently awarded a certificate by the Councilof Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
JOHN E. ZIMMERMAN is a registered representative of the firm of R. A. Manley Company, Inc. He lives in Medina, . Y.
+ 1941DR. RICHARD M. BIDWELL has been ap
pointed by the International Atomic EnergyAgency as technical assistance expert to advise the government of Brazil on nuclearmetallurgy. He will be stationed at the Instituto de Energia Atomica in Sao Paulo.
MAJ. CHARLES B. LEAVENWORTH has re-
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ceived a B.A. degree from Sacramento StateCollege. He plans to continue graduate workon the same part time basis.
BARBARA LEONARD (G), assistant dean incharge of women at St. John's College( Md. ), has been awarded a Fulbright grantto lecture in biology in India.
DR. HARRISON D. STALKER (G), professorof zoology at Washington University (Mo.),has received a grant of $67,100 from the National Science Foundation for research on"Evolutionary Studies in Drosophila."
+ 194220th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1943CHARLES R. CARMAN has been named sales
district manager of the Nash EngineeringCompany's New York office.
PETER P. MUIRHEAD (G) has been namedassistant commissioner for legislative andprogram development with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
RICHARD B. SECREST was elected to theboard of directors of Fasco Industries.
DR. HERBERT F. YORK (G) has beenelected to the Aerospace Corporation boardof trustees.
+ 1944DR. DONALD H. KELLY, whose pioneering
optical research led to a revolution in thecolor motion picture industry, has beennamed a senior optical physicist in the ItekLaboratories graphic information researchdivision.
+ 1945DR. MOSES PASSER, professor of chemistry
at the University of Minnesota and directorof the State of Minnesota peat research project at the University, was granted a specialleave last spring in order to study overseasresearch on his subject. Accompanied byMrs. Passer (Dorothy Rosenberg, '48), hespent the spring and summer visiting peatlaboratories in Israel and several Europeancountries.
+ 194715th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
VERNON GASKELL was appointed supervisor of manufacturing engineering at FultonControls Company, ew Stanton (Pa.) Division.
GERMAINE LE CLERC W ARMKE (G), curator of mollusks at the Institute of MarineBiology in Puerto Rico, is the co-author ofCaribbean Seashells.
+ 1948DONALD C. FISHER has been named man
ager of the Trane Company, Rochester.JAMES J. MCGRORY was named to head
the supply and distribution department ofHumble Oil & Refining Company.
+ 1949DR. DONALD R. SPINK ( G ) has been
named manager of the technical branch ofthe Carborundum Metals Company.
THEODORE R. YOUNG has been namedchief of the length section of the MetrologyDivision at the National Bureau of Standards.
+ 1950AGNES CHATTIN Low (G), a teacher at
School 42 in Rochester, is the author of anarticle on "Monoprint Finger Paintings andCreative Writing" in the February issue ofthe Instructor.
BERNARD G. MAciNTYRE (U) has beenappointed development director at the Community Hospital in Glen Cove, N. Y.
WILLIAM M. PIERSON, JR. has joined thedecorating staff of Mayfair Inc., in Albany,N. Y.
LAURA ROOT is an instructor in social workin the department of psychiatry and neurology of the Washington University School ofMedicine (Mo.).
RICHARD G. WILLIAMS is treasurer of theDynacolor Corporation in Rochester.
+ 1951RICHARD W. ApPEL has been appointed
marketing manager, staff services, by theKordite Company.
MICHAEL FUREY (G) has patented morethan 27 products for Standard Oil of NewJersey. He has been with the company for10 years.
+ 195210th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
ANNE MORGAN STADLER, executive director of Platform for Peace, received the B'naiB'rith Woman of the Year community serviceaward.
+ 1953NORBERT D. GREENE is assistant professor
and director of the Corrosion Research Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, N. Y.
MANNY KINER is the new chief engineerwith the Elgeet Optical Company ( Rochester) .
+ 1954RAYMOND W. HARROLD received an M.B.A.
degree last June from Northeastern University in Boston.
DR. JOHN J. HElL (U) has opened a newoffice in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
DONALD C. STEWARD is now a certifiedpublic accountant. He received his M.S. degree from Carnegie Tech and is now employed by Price Waterhouse & Co. in Pittsburgh.
DAVID J. TEMPLETON has been promotedto chief of the product information bureauwith Bausch & Lomb in Rochester.
+ 1955DR. ARTHUR M. BERNHANG is presently
orthopedic resident at the Hospital for JointDiseases in New York City.
HOMER S. BLASER, JR. has opened an officein Corning, N. Y., for the practice of law.
MICHAEL MARTIN-SMITH ( G ) is seniorlecturer in medicinal chemistry in the department of pharmacy of the Royal Collegeof Science and Technology, Glasgow, Scotland.
JORN E. STOLLER was appointed accountscoordinator with the Kilborn Studio in Rochester.
+ 1956DR. HARVEY J. ALTER ('60M) received his
commission as senior assistant surgeon inthe U.S. Public Health Service and was assigned to the ational Institutes of Health,Bethesda, Md.
RICHARD C. Fox is now associated withthe law firm McNees, Wallace & Nurick inHarrisburg, Pa. He is married to Susan GayFox, '59. .
ROBERT J. SPARLING has been appointedmanager of electro-optical equipment engineering at the General Electric Companyordinance department, Pittsfield, Mass.
+ 1952DR. JOHN L. GOBLE and his wife, Dr. Joan
Goble, practicing opthalmologists of SanMateo, Calif., have recently returned to theU.S. after serving aboard the hospital shipHope.
+ 1953DAVID S. SMITH (GM) has been appoint
ed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commissionas coordinator of the LaCrosse (Wis.) Boiling Water Reactor project.
+ 1954The Summit (N. J.) Medical Group an
nounces the association of DR. RUDOLPH C.DANGELMAJER in orthopedic surgery.
+ 1955DR. JOHN D. MCCARTHY was recently ap
pointed assistant medical director and anofficer of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company.
+ 1957DR. ALAN R. JOHNSON has been appointed
to the attending staff at the Arnold GregoryMemorial Hospital in Albion, N. Y.
+ 1958DR. AND MRS. RICHARD SCHULDENFREI an
nounce the birth of a son, Mark, on December 19, in New York City.
+ 1959DR. MICHAEL E. LAMM married Miss Ruth
A. Kumin on December 16, in Cleveland.
Rochester from the Congo, where he hasspent most of the past 10 years. Dr. Abell,who also has studied ,at Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, hopes to return to the Congosoon.
W. Carlson on November 4, in Rochester.BIRTHS
+ 1951A son, Ronald Paul, to SUSAN McMULLAN
SINGER and Robert E. Singer, '52.
+ 1956A daughter, Laurene Kay, to Mr. and Mrs.
JACK W. HOWITT.A son, William Dean, to ANNA MORLANG
KARRASH and William Karrash.
+ 1957A son, Christopher John, to MARILYN
KATUS BEUKERS and John Beukers.
+ 1958A son, Jon Michael, to FRANK and JANET
CEDERQUIST JARET.
+ 1959A daughter, Karen Ann, to DR. JUDI·~
WHEELER ONLEY and Dr. Kobert W. Onlt')~5M. .
+ 1960A daughter, Jacqueline Ann, to JOAN
BRIGGS CONNAL and Robert H. Connal.
+ 1961A son, Frederick William, to BARBARA
STEGE DEWEY and William E. Dewey, '60.
+ 1961SARA J. GERLACH was married to JOHN F.
SARNO, JR., on December 26.MARY HANNAN was married to JOHN A.
GREPPIN last month in Rochester.ENS. CLIFFORD N. HAYNER, II, married
Miss Elizabeth N. Kinzel in Rochester.STUART O. MILLER married Miss Mary L.
Poole on December 27 in Seneca Falls, N. Y.M. KIPP STURDY was married to Richard
Ohio.JULIET SANSON was married to Paul J.
Bongfeldt on December 26 in New Jersey.MICHAEL SHAPmo married Miss Elizabeth
Klein in December in Morristown, N. J.NANCY E. SOSIN was married to Alexander
J. Sobieski, '61EN, on December 30, inLittle Falls, N. Y.
-+ 1960KENNETH E. HAYDEN married Miss Gail
P. Anderson in Erie, Pa.CAROLE R. KLEIN was married to Alan N.
Eisen on October 8, in New York City.LORRYNE R. ORLEN was married to Jerold
H. Lane, '59, on August 20, in Brooklyn.GERTRUDE RODA was married to L.
Lawrence Forward, Jr., on December 23, inRochester.
·f.·School of Medicine & Dentistry
+ 1948DR. JAMES J. FOSTER is the newly elected
chief of the Coming (N. Y.) Hospital medical staff.
+ 1950DR. VICTOR J. TOFANY has been elected to
the board of directors of the MateriadyneCorporation. Dr. Tofany is chairman of thedepartment of anesthesia at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester.
+ 1951DR. NORMAN B. ABE~L has returned to
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+ 1934DR. G. KENNETH DE HART was recently
elected vice president of the acting staff ofMontclair Community Hospital.
+ 1943DR. FARNUM S. COFFIN is practicing pedi
atrics in Savannah, Ga. He recently addressed the Savannah State College NurserySchool PTA.
+ 1946DR. ROBERT GALAMBOS has been appointed
to the Yale University facultx as EugeneHiggins professor of psychology and physiology. He is the author of an Anchor Original paperback book, Nerves and Muscles,published in January by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
+ 1947DR. ROBERT L. TUTTLE, chairman of the
microbiology and immunology departmentof Bowman Gray School of Medicine, hasrecently been named assistant dean of themedical school. As assistant dean he will bechairman of Bowman Gray's admissions committee.
+ 19575th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
CARMEN A. CAMEJO has returned to theU.S. from Cuba and is presently working atthe Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.
+ 1959DR. GAIL R. WILLIAMS has begun a six
month postdoctoral fellowship in neuroanatomy at Duke University Medical Center.
+ 1960REV. WILLIAM COLLINS, JR. (G) was in
stalled as pastor of Antioch Baptist Churchin St. Louis, Mo.
WILLIAM E. DEWEY is a research engineerwith Western Electric Engineering ResearchCenter, Flemington, N. J.
ANN LINK MOORE is a trainee in theSouthern Tier Library System. She is takingadvanced work at State University Collegeat Albany.
DR. JOHN M. PERRY (G), chairman of themathematics department at Clarkson Collegeof Technology, has been awarded Clarkson's1962 Excellent Teaching Award.
+ 1961GLADYS HAWK BLADECK (G) will be an
instructor in Spanish in the Campus School,Geneseo (N. Y.) State Teachers College.
GEORGE LANDBERG is with Allis-Chalmersas an assistant engineer in the Norwood(Ohio) Works.
RUTH ANN WILLIAMSON is working on amaster's degree with the Middlebury Graduate School of German in Germany.
MARRIAGES:+ 1939
RUTH H. ASMAN was married to RobertK. Waggerschauser on January 28.
+ 1942FRANK A. OKEY married Miss Joan M.
McNulty this fall in Rochester.
+ 1948DENISE E. HmSHFIELD was married to
David Wayne Parkinson in Pelham Manorthis fall.
+ 1949RUTH GASTEL was married to David Polur
in Syracuse, N. Y.
+ 1953THOMAS STETZ married Miss Jessica E.
Fitzgerald this month in Yonkers, N. Y.
+ 1955ANTHONY F. BONADIO (U) married Miss
Marilyn A. Poole in Rochester this fall.
+ 1956DONALD E. HULTQUIST married Miss Nan
cy P. Stoutz in Rochester.SARAH E. MILES was married to Ronald
A. Watts during the Christmas season inRochester.
THEODORE J. SNYDER married Miss MarionT. Miller in December in Rochester.
+ 1957JOHN M. IVERSON married Miss Linda A.
Drumm in Rochester on December 23.
+ 1958JANE ALLYN was married to Dr. Curtis
Hardyck in Berkeley, Calif., on January 20.
+ 1959STUART M. RING married Miss Carolyn W.
Richards on December 23, in Cleveland,
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..Eastman School of Music
+ 192735th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
BEATRICE RYAN FRASER is director ofmusic at Lockport (N. Y.) First PresbyterianChurch. One of her duties is to direct theGirl's Handbell Choir which is making appearances at several churches in the Lockport area. In addition she is a composer andauthor of children's books.
+ 1930HOWARD KUBIK became music instructor
at the Teaneck campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University at the beginning of thespring semester.
+ 193230th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1936JANINA GORECKA ROBINSON ( GE ) has
continued her musical career in her hometown of Ridgewood, N. J. She is concertmaster of the Adelphi Orchestra, the Teaneck Symphony and the Valley Opera Orchestra.
+ 193725th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1939PAUL OBERG (GE, '44GE), chairman of
the music and music education departmentsat the University of Minnesota, has been reappointed dean of the A.F. of M. Congressof Strings to be held at Michigan State June17-August 11.
+ 1940ROSEMARY HOWELL MADISON, chairman
of the music department at Duchesne College, has been named the nation's top writerof women's interest news for weekly newspapers.
+ 1941Symphony No. 1 by GORDON BINKERD
( GE) has been recorded by the St. LouisSymphony Orchestra.
ROBERT WEISKOPF is currently director ofthe Suburban Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland.
+ 194220th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
WILLIAM HAAKER is beginning anotheryear as permanent conductor of the VirginiaSymphony. In addition, he is a noted pianistand occasional guest conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony.
ROBERT HOUSE (GE) was recently published in the Instrumentalist as author of"Teaching the 'Cello." House is head of themusic department, conductor of the university orchestra and director of graduatemusic education at the University of Minnesota.
... 1945GERHARD SAMUEL, director of the Oak
land (Calif.) Symphony, has been acclaimedfor creating a "spit-and-polish outfit, professional in every respect." The current season for the symphony was 90% sold out before the first concert.
PAUL TORGRIMSON (GE, '60GE ), associate
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professor of music at Northwestern StateCollege, Natchitoches, La., recently wrotean article, "Using the Piano for Pre-Bandand Orchestra Class," for Instrumentalist.
... 1946INGRID HULTGREN HARRISON and her hus
band, the Rev. James A. Harrison, havemoved to Melrose, N. Y., where Mr. Harrison will be associated with the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church.
+ 194715th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
ELWOOD KEISTER (GE), a member of thedepartment of music of the University ofGainesville (Fla.), is president of the American Choral Directors Association.
+ 1948LOUIS B. GORDON ('49GE) is the 16th
composer to be awarded a A.A.A. commission. His composition, Aria, Scherzo andFinale, is scheduled to be read by the Eastman Symphony Band next spring.
FRANK YORK conducted the Park Ridge( Ill.) Fine Arts Society in a concert lastmonth.
+ 1949GORDON EpPERSON (GE) has moved to a
new position at Ohio State University, as associate professor of violoncello and memberof the faculty string quartet. He is also first'cellist in the Columbus Symphony.
+ 1950ROBERT GLASGOW ('51GE), organist and
associate professor of music at MacMurrayCollege, has launched his 1962 series oforgan recitals.
KATHERINE E. CREWS (GE) received aDoctor of Education degree from FloridaState University. She has been advanced tothe rank of associate professor of music atMaryville (Tenn.) College.
+ 1951FRANK J. BELLINO (GE) directs the Den
ison University String Orchestra as well asholding a teaching position on the university's staff.
RICHARD WILLIS (GE) heard the worldpremiere of his compositions played by theMobile Symphony Orchestra.
+ 195210th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
ROBERT HLADKY (GE, '59GE), associateprofessor of 'cello at the University of Oregon, recently was soloist with the Oklahoma
733 ALUMNI. changed their address last
month. If you are planning tomove, please notify us alongwith your other favorite magazines.
City Symphony, directed by his father .Roy D. SWEET (GE), associate professor
of music at West Chester (Pa.) State College, was featured in the principal role inLa Perichole with the Wilmington OperaCompany.
... 1953REGINALD H. FINK is the principal trom
bonist with the Oklahoma City Symphonyand is on the faculty of the Oklahoma CityUniversity.
PAUL TOMASICK ('55GE) is winning acclaim with his Greece (N. Y.) Junior HighSchool Band. Their recent concert was before a packed audience in Toronto.
+ 1954CATHERINE McFADDEN DUNNING ('60GE)
is living in Zurich, Switzerland, affiliatedwith the International Opera Center. She isperforming extensively in opera and concert.
JAMES KEENE is the author of "MassedPractice" in the January issue of Instrumentalist. He teaches at Montana State College.
MARTIN MAILMAN ('55GE, '60GE), composer in residence at East Carolina College,will conduct his own composition Alleluiaat the Florida Music Education Associationconvention.
MARGARET W. PALMIERI (GE) was featured soloist at the Medina (Ohio) presentation of the Messiah.
+ 1955D. DONALD CERVONE conducted his own
choral composition, Allehluia and Lullabyfor the Christ Child, in a broadcast byWNYC (New York City).
LYLE KING recently heard the DenverSymphony Orchestra in the first public performance of his composition, Ricercar.
+ 1956DAVID BURGE ( GE ), pianist and com
poser, played his new concerto during theEvanston Symphony Orchestra concert ofJanuary 16.
PAUL FREEMAN ('58GE) is director of theDavid Hochstein Memorial Music School inRochester.
ROGER D. HANNAY (GE) heard his oneact comic opera, Two Tickets to Omaha, inits second production by the Concordia College drama department. His Requiem, a newsetting of Walt Whitman's "When LilacsLast in the Dooryard Bloom'd," was premiered by the college's Oratorio Choir andthe Fargo-Moorhead Symphony this month.
JEAN EICHELBERGER IVEY (GE) will givea lecture-demonstration on contemporaryAmerican music for the intermediate pianostudent at the Music Teachers National Association conference in New Orleans.
JOHN PERRY ('58GE) is a professor ofpiano at the University of Kansas.
ROBERT W. SHERMAN (GE) has been promoted from assistant to associate professor ofmusic at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Ind.
NOEL S. STEVENS ('58GE, '59GE) haswritten an original composition which wasplayed by University of Minnesota's 65-pieceband in February. He is presently associatedwith the Bemidji State College.
... 19575th Class R~union, June 8, 9, 10, -1962
CRAIG HANKENSON, assistant professor ofvoice and director of the opera workshop of
..Nursing Division
+ 1961DIANE E. CARLSON was married to James
R. Toole, on September 11, in Syracuse, N. Y.
+ 1960JUDITH BRISKIE PEO is now residing in
Apalachin, N. Y., where her husband hasaccepted a position with International Business Machines.
+ 1959RACHEL ANN SCHAUFFLER is now in Pak
istan as a member of the U.S. Peace Corps.Miss SchaufHer was photographed in theJanuary 5 issue of Life Magazine during afour week "homestay" with a Pakistani family.
MEMORIAM
HERMAN BARTHOLOMAY, '06, died September 10, 1961, in Evanston, Ill.
FLORENCE CARMAN, '12, former missionteacher and retired Bible teacher died inRochester on November 29, 1961.
JOSEPH R. HUDSON, '17, died on December 3, 1961, in Babylon, N. Y.
GERRIT H. HOSPERS, '18, died in Rochester on September 17, following a long illness.
DR. HERBERT WALLACE, '21, a practicingphysician in Utica, N. Y., died there in December.
HELEN WRIGHT PETSKY, '23, an Englishteacher at Beecher School, Elmira, N. Y.,died in Buffalo in December.
DAVID E. BENNETT, JR., '30, died January31, 1962, in Rochester. He was chief of thequality engineering branch of the QualityControl Division, Rochester Air Force Contract Management District.
KORLEEN CORSER METHERELL, '31N, diedin Canandaigua, N. Y., on September 3,1961.
BERNARD K. TRULL, '33, attorney at lawin Red Creek, N. Y., for the past 24 years,died in his home town on December 14,1961.
SARA ANDERSON KILLIBREW, '40GE, diedin Jacksonville, Fla., on January 27, 1962.
FREDERICK GEHLMANN, '42, died on February 3, 1962 in Western Springs, Ill. Mr.Gehlmann was active in alumni affairs in theChicago Regional Club and was a memberof the Board of Governors of the AlumniFederation in 1956-57. At the time of hisdeath he was serving as associate and psychologist for A. T. Kearney and Company,Chicago.
MARIAN PETT MESSER, ,49N, died September 20, 1961 in Sasiho, Japan.
FRANK B. MILLEN, JR., '56G, died inRochester on November 28, 1961. He wasa staff assistant at General Dynamics/Electronics and a former high school teacher inthe Rochester school system.
IN
New Mexico, Seattle
Alumni organize two
New regional" clubs
To its far-flung roster of regionalclubs, the Alumni Federation hasadded two more, bringing the coastto-coast total of federated regionalclubs to 30. The new chapters are inSeattle and New Mexico.
President of the New Mexico club isWilliam J. Bingham, '34. Other officersare Dr. Hamilton Mabie, '40, vicepresident, Virginia Tischer Muxworthy, '46N, secretary, and Dr. KurtFrederick, '51 and '57GE, treasurer.
Dr. Frederic C. Moll, '37, '40M ishead of the Seattle group. Workingwith him are Dr. Mary Firra Leahy,'47, '53M, executive vice president,and Dr. Robert A. BTuce, '40G, '43M,who is secretary-treasurer.
+ 193230th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 193725th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 194220th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 194715th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1949A sixth child, fourth daughter, Megan
Kelly, was born to ROSE MARY SHEVCHUKO'BRIEN, '48, '49N, and her husband Dr.William A. O'Brien.
+ 1950BARBARA PHILP was married in the fall to
Felix J. Dekleva in Las Vegas, Nev.
+ 195210th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1954RUTH A. FISHER, '53, '54N, became the
bride of Joseph W. Whitcomb on September18 in Palmyra, N. y.
+ 1955A daughter, Robin Joy, was born on May
24, 1961, to SANDRA VAN TUYL SPINDLERand Robert W. Spindler.
+ 19575th Class Reunion, June 8, 9, 10, 1962
+ 1958DIANE FORBES was married to Harold N.
Kaufman in West Hempstead, N. Y., thiswinter.
+ 1959ELSA KRASNER is continuing a family vo
cation in her position as new second violinistwith the Minneapolis Symphony Qrchestra.Her father was concertmaster for the orchestra.
BURTON WEAVER (GE) was organist atthe first performance of his new compositionfor chorus and brass choir, Reioice and BeMerry, the opening composition in the University of Dayton's Christmas concert.
the Auburn (Ala.) University music department, recently presented a concert in Auburnwith his wife, the former Joyce Hall, '58GE.
GUY LUMIA ('59GE) is concertmaster ofthe orchestra accompanying the touringKirov Ballet of L~ningrad.
+ 1958SAMUEL B. GLENN, JR. is free-lancing with
dance orchestras in Washington, D. C., following his discharge from the Army.
DAVID 1ULBURY is the recent winner ofthe biennial Young Organists Competition ofthe American Guild of Organists. He is noworganist and choir master at St. Michael'sEpiscopal Church in New York.
BEVERLY GRISE NICK and CHARLES NICKare at Indiana University, where he is agraduate instructor in theory and completingrequirements for a Ph.D. degree. They haveone child, Stephen Wade.
BERNARD RUBENSTEIN has been named assistant conductor and principal oboist of theRhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra.
+ 1960ROGER BOBO ('61GE), first tuba player of
the Rochester Philharmonic and Civic Orchestras, was engaged to fill the same postat the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
HENRY FUCHS, a member of the piano department of the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music, will direct the newlyformed youth orchestra sponsored by theColorado Federation of Music Clubs.
ROBERT L. TOWN is organist and choir director at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Syracuse, N. Y.
+ 1961JOHN PAUL (GE) is a new appointee on
the faculty of Park College in Kansas City,Mo.
MARRIAGES:+ 1942
FLORENCE PALATSKY was married to Jerome Green this fall in East Orange, N. J.
+ 1957MICHAEL HALVORSON (GE) married Miss
Vernita Cunningham in December in Forest Hills, N. Y.
+ 1959JAMES L. AUSTIN married Miss Sharon
McKinley in Houston, Tex., in December.JOHN G. PATON (GE) married Miss Mar
ion Anders on December 19, in South SiouxCity, Neb.
+ 1960PATRICIA A. MILLER (GE) was married to
Jack DerHovsepian in Evanston, Ill.
+ 1961MARY ELLEN COLLINS and BRUCE LEDER
HOUSE were married in November in Dallas,Tex.