ra p?ii •¦SIXs;¦-?Cl<r I ^^Jf*'^^ooWww*% Wrr''*;Vll 11•:It 111.1* - IITHE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINE¦¦N O V E M E R 19 4 2mHAT will be you, Johnny, just a fewyears from now !Even today, Johnny, your dad, and millionslike him, are doing jobs that call for thestrength of a thousand strong men. But jobswhich are easy with the powerful machines ofAmerican industry.The power of these machines has madepossible the comforts, even many of the necessities, which you enjoy. It's being used, all-out,to help win the war.But tomorrow — there's where you come in!For tomorrow there will be jobs rebuilding awar-torn world, making it safer and finerthan anything we have known. Jobs that willcall for even more power and ingenuity andskill.And you, Johnny — you'll do them! You'llhave greater power and better tools to helpyou. You'll have new materials like plastics,new sciences like electronics. Scientists andengineers in General Electric arc working onthem now.And that, Johnny, is why you're going to bethe strongest man in the world. GeneralElectric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.•k -k -ftThe volume of General Electric war productionis so high and the degree of secrecy required is sogreat that we camwt tell you about it now. Whenit can be told we believe that the story of industry's developments during the war years willmake one of the most fascinating chapters in thehistory of industrial progress.CU&LAS3O E M E R A I* ELECTRIC862-8880JQ ¦+- c JT<-> o at^¦£ «> ~Id-0) Q) -n c^ E^ E*~ a> S 3£4: a<•- -r, 3 1-z °^lis*-o32P aOJ «- J" v>to 5 £ 5a. > <0 ?« « Ig Oa | go<D t, > c-n o <0 •—ka- t*OJ c"*" 8 * •£* o * 2<o a-TJ -fc•- c-^ S1•2 = 3* E.. - * <0zj? /I,A ® «OJD^ d fl jjUl S > >t 2-5 o-«f o —zl^fe2 215-0t 8 12 *< «>¦£ Sv> J> ° '1-ijLJ ^ _0> Oo * S=» OJ <D2?o?<o 2^I -u «I <D OJD> 3 o0 rjiItoTHE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINEPUBLISHED BY THE ALU M N I AS SO C I AT I ONCHARLTON T. BECKEditor HOWARD W. MORT, BEATRICE J. WULFAssociate EditorsDON MORRIS, CODY PFANSTIEHL Contributing Editors IRA GLICKAssistant EditorTHE COVER: A view from thesunken lawns of Hutchinson Courtshows the spray-covered fountain andMitchell Tower outlined against thesky. The photograph was taken(with a stiff neck as a result) by theassistant editor, filling in as photographer before his assignment to AirForces duty, as were some of thefrontispiece shots. Others in the latter are by courtesy of Pulse, campuspublication.PRESIDENT HUTCHINS' facilepen has produced the latest report on the war-time status of theUniversity. It was published in September for all friends of Chicago, butits length prevented printing the fullcontext in this issue. A report thatmust be read before the state of theUniversity can be comprehended, thisis a concise and human evaluation ofthe present situation.THAT the traditions of Garibaldiand Mazzini have not died underthe weight of fascism has been recently pointed out by Attorney General Biddle, who announced that the600,000 Italian aliens in the UnitedStates will no longer be consideredenemy aliens. The Magazine takesthis opportunity to present a story ofwhat one of these Italians is doingtowards the achievement of a freeItaly. Written by George T. Peck,A.B. Yale '37, A.M. Chicago, '40, whois now completing his doctorate in thedepartment of history, the article on THIS MONTHTABLE OF CONTENTSNOVEMBER, 1942PageThe State of the University,Robert M. Hutchins : . 3Count Sforza and Free Italy,George T. Peck 6Picture — Action ! Personalities in theAlumni Foundation 8Fifteen Years in the Library,M. Llewellyn Raney 10The Dean's Easy Chair. 13News of the Quadrangles,Don Morris 15One Man's Army,Cody Pfanstiehl 17News of the Classes 24Count Sforza, one-time foreign minister of Italy, is of timely interest.MEET the Alumni Foundation onan inner page — they're gatheredaround a mile-long director's table inthe Board of Trustees' room, workingout policy, protocol, and probableplans. - Time was taken out of a recent busy session to snap the Boardof Directors in action,THE need to be as fair to bookusers as to laboratory workers byproviding them with the necessaryplaces to assemble and bringing tothose places the stuff to work with ispointed out in the article by M.Llewellyn Raney, recently retired director of the University Libraries. Mr.Raney says, "Chicago grew so fast shegot confused," and tells of his diagnosis and treatment.OFF to a fast start in the lastMagazine, Alumni Dean Laing'scolumn is racing along in full cry. In this issue Dean Laing contributes amodest discussion on the upbringingand education of an alumni dean.The obstacle courses of his earlierdeanships, he tells us, were but pre -induction training for his ' job asalumni dean.AMONG his news notes of theQuadrangles Don Morris, '36,points out that President Hutchins'mention in his report of the studentproblem and the Enlisted ReserveCorps brought a reaction from ourgreat but confused capital. WhatMorris didn't mention in his last itemon the campus salvage campaign isthe star of the scrap pile — a '29 Forddonated by Beta Theta Pi.GOOD news from Cody Pfanstiehl.As he tells us, at this date he'sa marked man, — marked on bothsleeves with the double chevron of acorporal, and now a happy memberof the non-com officers family. Codyhas found a berth, and is stationedwith an Air Force squadron for regular duty. He's pretty happy rightnow working in the IntelligenceOffice of the Greenville Army AirBase. But somehow he can't seem toremember that he has risen from theprivate's world. A recent dispatchinformed us that Corporal Pfanstiehlwas summoned before an officers candidate board. Pfanstiehl entered,saluted smartly, and said, "PrivatePfanstiehl reporting, Sirs !"Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago monthly, from October to June. Office of Publication, 5733 University Avenue,Chicago. Annual subscription price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the Post Office at Chicago,Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The Graduate Group, Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, is the official advertising agency of theUniversity of Chicago Magazine.VOLUME XXXV THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO MAGAZINE NUMBER 2NOVEMBER, 1942THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY® By ROBERT M. HUTCHINSAlthough prophecy isreckless, optimismis warrantedDURING the last war the University had threecontracts with the federal government: one forthe training of technicians, one for instructionin navigation, and one for the operation of an ordnanceschool, which was shortly removed to Camp Hancock.Today the University has 103 contracts with the federalgovernment, covering research, training, and the housingof members of the armed forces, and involving thousandsof men and millions of dollars.These figures reflect the contrast in the attitude of thegovernment toward the universities in the last war andthis. The scientific resources, the teaching abilities, andthe facilities of these institutions are being exploited tothe limit. The strength and the location of the University of Chicago have made it a natural place for ademonstration of the contribution of a university to totalwar.The University's researches cover a wide range ofmilitary secrets. The number of specialists trained in theInstitute of Meteorology has almost doubled every quarter, and there is now talk of quadrupling the number inorder to meet the increasing demands of the Army andNavy. The University gives instruction in high frequency for the Army Signal Corps. It trains nurses forthe United States Public Health Service. It trains radiomen for the Navy. In 1941-42 it trained more than 2,750students in the courses sponsored by the United StatesOffice of Education in physics and radio, productionsupervision, statistics, mapping and surveying, and chemistry. Its Board of Examinations prepares all the examinations for the Navy technical schools, the SignalCorps, and those covering the educational program of theArmy. This is the largest effort of the kind ever undertaken. Bartlett Gymnasium, Sunny Gymnasium, and themen's residence halls have been turned over to the Navyfor the accommodation of the radiomen and signalmen now in training at the University. The Navy uses, inaddition to these buildings, the Field House, part of IdaNoyes Hall, and countless classrooms scattered over thecampus.The mere listing of these activities suggests the magnitude of the University's war effort. The Universityhas been transformed, overnight, into an instrumentalityof total war. Some mechanical changes have facilitatedthe transformation, such as the shift from a four- to athree-day cycle for classes, which has almost doubledour available space. The business manager, Mr.- Harrell,and his assistant, Mr. Matthews, have exhibited imagination and adroitness in getting the maximum use out ofthe space thus made available. But the work of the University is always the work of the faculty, and the University's war work is no exception. The members of thestaff have assumed large new responsibilities in teachingand research; they have carried them with less assistancethan they have had in the past. They have often had todrop the instruction and investigation in which they havespent their lives and move into fields remote from theirpersonal interests. Though depleted by the loss ofseventy-eight men to military or other government service, the faculty has accepted the new burdens thrownupon it with a cheerfulness and ability which cannot betoo highly praised.Uncertain Status of StudentsAlthough the government has demonstrated an enlightened capacity to use the resources of the universities inthe conduct of the war, it has yet to show similar intelligence in dealing with students of the country. The treatment accorded this group — if neglect, confusion, anddelay can be called treatment — must be reckoned as oneof the great failures of the war. Here is a large pool ofmanpower from which must come soldiers, scientists,and industrial workers. At this moment, just a few daysbefore the colleges and universities begin their regularautumn terms, it is impossible to say with certainty whatthe plans of the government are in regard to this greatnumber of men and women. A plan has been announcedfor them, a very unsound one, known as the Enlisted Re-34 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEserve Corps plan. In general this permits college students, just because they are college students, to avoid thedraft until graduation. The egregious placard, "Join theNavy and Stay in College," states the case against thisprogram as fully as it needs to be set forth here. The Enlisted Reserve Corps plan now appears to be undergoingsome modification, but the nature of the changes remainsobscure. We do know that freshmen cannot be told thatthey will be permitted to join the Army Enlisted Reserve.The quotas will not be determined until after the autumnquarter has begun.Recent rumors from Washington suggest that we maybe on the verge of returning to the student Army Training Corps of the last war. That scheme maintained thecolleges, for students were paid to attend and the collegeswere paid to teach; but it had little else to recommendit. It put the Army in a position to determine and administer the course of study in institutions of higherlearning. This the Army is notoriously incompetent todo. Even if we were to grant, as I do not, that the Armyknows better than civilian educators what the educationof soldiers should be, our veneration for the armed forcesneed not carry us so far as to conclude that they knowbetter than civilian educators what the education of citizens should be. The American soidier is a citizen-soldier,and after the war he will be a citizen. A high officialof the War Department remarked at a meeting I attendedthat he thought liberal education was a fine thing, but hedidn't know whether the Army could allow it. But thequestion is whether the country can allow a generationof citizens to grow up without it. The provision of liberal education for this generation depends partly on thegovernment and partly on the colleges.The draft age will inevitably be lowered to eighteen.Unless some plan for the discovery and training of thosewho should go to college is developed, all able-bodiedcollege men will be subject to the draft or will volunteerin anticipation of it. Those who should go to college are,in the present emergency, those who can serve their country best by going there. They must be selected on thebasis of ability, and this means that they must be subsidized. The state of his parents' bank account cannotdetermine whether a man is to go to college or to activeduty. The government has authorized loans to studentsin technical branches; the War Manpower Commissionhas hinted that further financial assistance will be forthcoming for students in these branches. This is good asfar as it goes, but it obviously does not go far enough,for the student must have the means of prosecuting hisstudies until he arrives at the technical branches, which,in the case of the higher studies of this sort, he does notdo until at least the beginning of his junior year. Governmental aid to students destined for these studies mustbegin, at the latest, with his freshman year. Some freshmen and sophomores — those who have shown in highschool the promise that justifies further education — mustbe paid to go to college and deferred from the draft sothat they can go there. The Bachelor's DegreeThe role of the colleges is, through the elimination ofwaste and the reconsideration of their objectives, to makecertain that they are giving a kind of education which astudent may properly be deferred and paid to receive.They might even go so far as to inquire whether, if theeducational system were reorganized from top to bottom,all students might not master the essential elements of aliberal education by the time they reached the age ofeighteen.Almost all the colleges and universities of the countryhave adopted, as the first step in adjusting themselves tothe war, a policy known as "acceleration." Under thisscheme vacations are reduced or eliminated, and the student is given a chance to go to college throughout thecalendar year. The University of Chicago was unableto take this step, because it had taken it fifty years ago.The University, since its foundation, has operated throughthe four quarters of the year. After some minor changesdesigned to make all the academic quarters of identicallength and to reduce the number of holidays, the University's possibilities of acceleration were exhausted.But for fifty years the University had been discussingthe reorganization of the educational system. It hadtaken a leading part in the junior-college movement,which had resulted in the establishment of more than sixhundred junior colleges in the country. It was itself organized from the outset in conformity with this plan;President Harper called the freshman and sophomoreyears the junior college. Since the University conductedan elementary school and a high school, it had a chanceto develop on its own campus the educational schemewhich it regarded as ideal for the country as a whole.That scheme took the shape of a six-year elementaryschool, a four-year high school, and a four-year college,from which the student graduated at about the age oftwenty. For the last ten years the University had beenproceeding under this plan. The faculty of the College,which is a four-year unit admitting students at the beginning of the conventional junior year in high school, haddeveloped a four-year curriculum in liberal educationwhich gave promise of preparing the student to be a citizen of a free community and preparing him for advancedstudy as well.From time to time since the foundation of the University the faculty has discussed the formal recognition ofthis organization and this curriculum by their inclusionin the American system of degrees. That system is somewhat confusing. The bachelor's degree signifies fouryears in some kind of college ; the master's one year more.Yet the social standing of the bachelor's degree is suchthat students, and their parents and employers, are likelyto think that they have not been educated unless theyhave it; and the vocational significance of the master'sdegree is such that prospective high-school teachers are illat east without it. It seems natural and simple to saythat the bachelor's degree should stand for a liberal edu-THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 3cation and the master's for a real program of study in abroad field of specialization. In view of the emergencyit is imperative that an institution which is prepared tonave the student enter upon liberal education at the beginning of the junior year in high school should do so.Since education in America follows degrees, the bachelor'sdegree must be relocated if the reorganization which thetimes demand is to be achieved.On January 22 the University Senate, by a vote of 63to 48, decided to authorize the College, which controlsthe four years from the beginning of the conventionaljunior year in high school to the end of the conventionalsophomore year in college, to award the bachelor's degree "in recognition of general education as redefined bythe College faculty." It was understood that this meantthat the bachelor's degree would no longer be awardedat the end of the conventional senior -year and that theparticular bachelor's degree to be conferred in recognition of general education as redefined would come beforethe Senate as an action of the College faculty.The College faculty restudied its curriculum and decided to offer a four-year program looking solely to liberaleducation for the B.A. and a program of the same lengthcontaining some elements of preprofessional preparationleading to the Ph.B. It arranged the work to be offeredin such a way that qualified graduates of conventionalhigh schools could expect to receive the degree in twoyears. From this point on the discussion centered aroundthe B.A. degree, and particularly the award of it to students who had spent only two years at the University.At one meeting the Senate referred this part of the planback to the College faculty for further study. The College faculty reaffirmed its decision. At the next meetinga motion to rescind the authority of the College to awardthe B.A. was lost by a vote of 58 to 58. The action ofthe College faculty was then declared to be in effect.At the request of the Division of the Physical Sciencesthe action of the Senate depriving the division of theprivilege of awarding the bachelor of science degree hasbeen held in abeyance because of the vocational or professional significance of the B.S. in connection with scientific or technological positions in various fields relatedto the war.From one point of view these changes in the ages atwhich students may add certain combinations of lettersto their names may seem unimportant and even trivial.The University may appear to have caused a great dealof excitement about a very small matter. But the excitement, which in educational circles has been universaland intense, is not wholly irrational. What holds theeducational system together is the bachelor's degree. Thestudent proceeds through an eight-year elementary school,a four-year high school, and a four-year college becausehe cannot get the bachelor's degree unless he does so.Since the system is built around the degree, a change inthe degree must mean a change in the system. By thesame token, those who believe that the system must bechanged have long realized that unless the degree were changed the system would remain, with all its imperfections on its head, impenetrable to all efforts to reformit or to adapt it either to the long-term needs of the country or to its demands in an emergency. Any reorganization which does not involve a relocation of the bachelor'sdegree will be found to offer nothing, in the words ofBurke, but "the languishing chimeras of fraudulent reformation."Under the present plan of the University of Chicagoa student who goes to school and college only in theautumn, winter, and spring, and who proceeds at anordinary pace, will receive his bachelor's degree at approximately the age of twenty, the conscription age as thelaw now stands. One who takes advantage of the numerous opportunities of acceleration scattered along his pathmay take the degree at nineteen, or even eighteen. Ithink there is a strong probability that President Gannonof Fordham is right in saying that eighteen is the idealage for the completion of liberal education in its institutional form. He favors a six-year elementary school, athree-year high school, and a three-year college, with thebachelor's degree at the end of it. This would mean astill further reconsideration of the ends and means ofliberal education and a still further effort to squeeze thewater out of the system, beginning with the earliestgrades. But if all other countries have been able toachieve Father Gannon's goal, there is no good reasonwhy America should not reach it, too. An advantagein reaching it soon would be that every citizen could obtain a liberal education, as every citizen should, beforebeing called into the armed forces under the pendingchanges in the Selective Service Act.War's Effect on EnrolmentIn the absence of any governmental plan for the utilization of the students of the country, drastic reductions inthe enrolments of all institutions may be expected in1942-43. In the year just closed the University of Chicago lost 909 students, or 7.6 per cent. Their places weretaken by more than 5,000 men and women sent here byvarious branches of the government. This summer theenrolment has been practically the same as last, exclusiveof soldiers, sailors, and students in Office of Educationcourses and in the Institute of Military Studies, who donot appear on our regular student rolls. The reason forthe large attendance this summer is that whereas the University has usually offered few summer courses for freshmen and sophomores, it has this year made a full program available to them. The enrolment of freshmen andsophomores in the summer quarter has more than tripled.But the University has just begun to feel the effectsof conscription and of the demands of war industry.When the draft age is lowered to eighteen, nearly allmale students in the University will be subject to it. Ifthe women's auxiliary corps of the Army and Navy areexpanded, they will doubtless look to the colleges for re-(Continued on page 19)COUNT SFORZA AND FREE ITALY• By GEORGE T. PECK, A.M. '40The tradition of Garibaldihas not died under theweight of fascismCOUNT CARLO SFORZA, the distinguishedItalian diplomat, has frequently spoken here atthe University on the fate of his country, thatItaly which has so often been neglected or misunderstoodby the American political consciousness. He leads theFree Italy movement, which is just taking shape andwhich may yet play a decisive role in the conduct of thewar.Americans have been too much inclined in the recentpast to sum up their thoughts on Italy by following theinanities of the "Mussolini's-a-meanie" school of propaganda. It is a dangerous error. Mussolini is considerably more than a "meanie," although by comparison tohis overlord from the north to whom he gave so manyideas, he is a smaller figure, leading a tired people whohate him. But this fact should not be used to encouragecontempt of the Italian and thereby to alienate a largenumber of people in the Americas, who may in the timeof crisis strike back at us for our stupidity.Italians do not like to hear their relatives who formthe backbone of General Rommel's forces in Libyadescribed as ineffective cowards — or worse, neglected completely. Yet they will by and large agree that those relatives are misled and must be given a chance to show theirhatred of the Germans. Italians do not like to be keptfrom having jobs in America, not because of their faithor their opinions, but because of their nationality. Thereis too little difference between American and Nazi contempt of a person of another nationality. Many of themknow fascism from first-hand experience, not the mereword or abstract idea. They do not like to hear a NewYork politician propose that Italy be considered an occupied country and that the forces for its liberation shouldbe centered around Mussolini. Mussolini has not changedyet and probably won't. They want a chance to workand fight against him.Count Sforza is out to give them that chance. He flewto Montevideo in August to help organize the ItalianNational Committee, the beginnings of a government-in-exile which may be able to command the allegiance oftwelve million Italians in the Americas. The choice ofa place of meeting was a happy one. Garibaldi landedthere to fight for the freedom of Uruguay, and his nameand simple democratic faith have been kept alive wherever there was a battle to be fought against oppression. The tradition of Garibaldi and Mazzini has not diedunder the weight of fascism. As Count Sforza said inMontevideo: "Let us remember that our own immortalMazzini was the first to proclaim, T love my countrybecause I love all countries.' This is our patriotism; thisis the most traditional Italian concept, from Dante toMazzini, from Santarosa, who died for the liberty ofGreece, to our brothers who fought and died morerecently for the liberty of Italy and for the liberty ofrepublican Spain."The Free Italian movement began to be organized atthis Congress of Montevideo; its program was made upby representatives from the United States, Argentina,Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Costa Rica. Thesemen see Italy as an occupied country and wish they couldjoin that unknown figure who crept through theoppressive night in Turin and scratched on the statueof Garibaldi the brief prayer, Come down, Garibaldi, theGermans are here again. They wish to be accepted asone of the United Nations so that they may encouragethe many who work in Italy to destroy the invader andthe quislings who made that invasion possible.What can they offer the men who are risking theirlives daily in the Italian underground? They can getthe assurance from the democratic countries that thelatter will support an Italian democracy and that allthe toil which has been expended to rid the country ofits tyrants will not result merely in the reestablishmentof the pandering King and the conservative forces whohave condoned fascism. The Free Italians promise aconstituent assembly to be elected by those democraticmethods which were so successful in pre-fascist Italy. Theconstituent assembly can then decide what form of government Italy is to have. Indeed, the Free Italians speakagainst the King, not with any vigor because VictorEmmanuel is too old and inept for any attention otherthan a derisive aside.They want to give direct military aid to the UnitedNations. Colonel Randolfo Pacciardi has been namedchief and organizer of a military unit, which, it is hoped,may be permitted to fight beside the Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, French, and Dutch for the rebuilding of Europe.Count Sforza believes that if an invasion of southern Italywere carried out by the United Nations with a large FreeItalian contingent, it would begin a new war of liberation,in which the United Nations would (for a change) gainby having the fifth columnists on their own side. He —and nearly everyone else- — knows that an Allied invasionalone would be fought bitterly and would bolster thefascist regime, just as the sanctions during the war withAbyssinia united Italians against foreigners.At the Congress of Montevideo, Count Sforza was6THE UNIVERSITY OFnamed the head of the Italian National Committee, anorganization which has not yet received recognition fromany of the democratic states. The diplomat is undoubtedly the most prominent of the Italian emigres, and hiscareer has displayed the qualities which would be mostnecessary in a leader. Those who have heard him at theUniversity have seen his dignified bearing, as heexpounded his ideas with imperturbable calm andscholarly insight. Unlike most politicians, he has madefew errors.He followed the Serbian government, when its armieswere driven into the sea by the Austrians and the Germans in the last war; and as minister to Serbia, he continued to believe in the possibility of a southern Slavkingdom even in the worst days of 1917, when Allieddefeats were frequent and the Italian Foreign Officeforgot that there might be a Jugoslavia. Then he wassent to Constantinople as Italian high commissioner andfought fiercely against those misguided men of Versailleswho thought that Turkey could be carved up into littleprotectorates regardless of the desires of the Turks. Hewas right again. In 1920, he was made Italian ForeignMinister, and his policies might well have given him aplace in the history of post-war Europe comparable tothat of Briand, if the fascist movement had not interrupted them. The position of Italy in Europe was madesecure by far-sighted and careful negotiations: the problem of who was to rule Albania and the problem of theboundary between Italy and Jugoslavia — both leftunsolved by the peace settlement — were solved by Sforzanot only to the satisfaction of all non-fascist Italians butalso to the satisfaction of the Jugoslavs and the Albanians.In 1921, the Foreign Minister had already understoodthat it would be impossible for the Germans to pay thelarge reparations bill. In addition, he told the Frenchthat to march into the Ruhr would only sow the seedsof future bitterness and would not get them any permanent advantages. They did not like it, but as it turnedout, he was right.The fundamental tenets of Sforza's liberal creed haveremained unchanged through the years. In 1917 hebacked the Czech National Committee of his friendsMasaryk and Benes because he believed in Czech freedom.The propaganda which came from that committee waslargely instrumental in the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian empire ; Sforza hopes that the Italian NationalCommittee may be accepted by Roosevelt as the Czechwas by Wilson. During the war and after, he gave hissupport to a group of publicists, the most prominent ofwhom was Professor G. A. Borgese, now at the University, who wanted to establish a union of democraticnations in central Europe. As Foreign Minister, he laidthe groundwork for such a union of free peoples whichcould stand against any threat of revived imperialism inGermany or Austria. Economic agreements and diplomatic accords were made between Italy, Czechoslovakia,and Jugoslavia. Rome bid fair to become the capitalof central Europe, and the union of democratic nations CHICAGO MAGAZINE 7might have stood the stresses of depression and Germanexpansion, if Mussolini had not torn down the wholestructure. Strangely enough, Sforza was so capable atthe Foreign Office that Mussolini had to depend forseveral years on men trained by him and on policies builtup by him. The great Duce does not like to have itremembered that he was once a neophyte, and little isheard about the semi-anonymous diplomats who formedhis early policies.No more convincing proof of the strength of Sforza'sliberal beliefs can be found than his actions upon theaccession of Mussolini. Many others of his class believedthat it would be possible to make adjustments to the newregime. The fascists might well be tamed, and businesscould continue as usual. Sforza was appointed Ambassador to France in 1921; he was at the top of the Italiandiplomatic ladder and had every advantage to gain fromsticking by the new government. However, when Mussolini marched on Rome in the next year, Sforza quitoutright. Many of his colleagues thought him too hasty.They considered themselves diplomatic tools and not menworking in the public interest. Sforza tried to live quietlyin Italy, but was eventually driven abroad, after beingattacked in the streets and after having had his houseJ^urnt down.In the years of Sforza's voluntary exile, he has traveledfrom place to place spreading the unfortunate facts abouthis country. Recently he has put into print his ideas onthe future of Italy in Europe in the little book, TheTotalitarian War and After, published by the Universityof Chicago Press in 1941. His judgments on the eventsof 1940 are as clear as his judgments on those of 1920.What can he offer the United Nations? He can offerus the allegiance of many of those twelve million Italiansand Italo-Americans. These people form an importantsegment of the population of the Americas. They can(Continued on page 23)CVEN though not ready to subscribe to all its state-^ merits and judgments, I like this essay and thepersonality and policy of my admired friend, Sforza.Its author, G. T. Peck, I hold in high esteem as oneof the Americans — not numerous so far — who givestime and thought to serious research in the field ofItalian fascism. There, in Italy, lay the origins of thesocial and political phenomenon that, embodied laterin Germany and Asia, grew to be the present threatto America and the world. The study of a diseaseat its early stage should shed some light on thenature of its further developments. It also shouldprovide us with some warning on the remedies.— G. A. BorgesePICTURE- ACTION !This story is about this picturePersonalities in the Alumni FoundationNOW if I may have your attention for just threeseconds . . ." Everyone looked up and towardthe camera except Bill Morgenstern who condemns cameras with machine guns : the results from bothlead but to the morgue.The Alumni Foundation Board of Directors is oneof the hardest working units of the Alumni Associationand the members take their responsibility very seriously(see picture!). Being in a position to know somethingabout the financial uncertainties of their University theyare determined to keep faith with their 49,000 fellow are placed the proposed plans for the coming year. Drawnoff only are those plans which will mould into effectiveunits within the limits of the budget. Later these unitswill be judiciously combined in gathering the new gift.From this point forward the details of the programare put into operation on a schedule set up in November.By April 1 this program has gained momentum to thepoint where the board must meet every week, watchingeach detail of the campaign and assigning individualmembers as emergency squads to any phases of the program that show evidence of lagging.alumni and do something about it. Their job is notdone in June when the annual Alumni Gift is presentedto the University nor is their hard work confined tothe two short months in the spring during the active campaign.Around the CalendarIn July they gather to hear from their executive secretary the detailed results of the campaign just ended andto consider what phases of the appeal were most effective.In August and again in September they return to theboard room with plans and suggestions for improving thenew program. Every continuing plan must be justified;every new suggestion must be supported with convincingevidence of probable success.By October the new program is ready to be fitted tothe limited budget. Into the crucible of severe criticism This hard working spirit of unselfish service had adefinite influence on the success of this year's gift. Morethan eight hundred alumni in the forty-eight states sharedin this service by acting as local chairmen and committeemembers. Many definitely indicated their appreciation ofthe board's determined efforts and expressed a willingnessto share in the responsibility; for example, from a westcoast city came this personal note, "If that championVallee Appel can work it in, so can I."Over two hundred and fifty alumni served as chairmenin as many cities and ninety-five of these chairmen in thelarger centers had committees to help in the solicitation.More than half of these chairmen and two thirds of theircommittee members were playing return engagementsafter having served untiringly in the two-year Anniversary campaign. As a result, this year's gift from 5,449alumni totaled $94,240.92 — the income from an endowment fund of more than two and a quarter million dollars.8THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 9Who Are These Board Members?See picture on opposite page. Reading around thetable from the left: William V. Morgenstern, '20, J.D.5 2 2, director of University Press Relations, who so successfully directed the final year of the Anniversary gift campaign while on leave from his office; Dorothy Fay Barclay, '18, who has been more than generous with her timedevoted to serving the University through the years;Frank L. Sulzberger, '07, president of the EnterprisePaint Manufacturing Company, and newly elected member of the Board of Trustees of the University; Carl Beck,'04, alumni secretary and ex-officio member of the Boardof Directors; David B. Stern, '02, president of A. G.Becker and Company (investments) .Harold /. Gordon, '17, sales manager of Halsey Stuartand Company (investment bonds), presides at the headof the table. Mr. Gordon, vice chairman of last year'sboard, was elected chairman in July. As chairman of theChicago district (14,500 alumni) during the Anniversarycampaign, he was an inspiration to the 900 workers underhis supervision. His ability and Chicago spirit qualifyhim for this new position of responsibility.Continuing around the table: Howard W. Mort, '29,executive secretary; Herbert P. Zimmermann, '01, vicepresident of R. R. Donnelley and Sons and member ofthe Board of Trustees. In 1925-26 Mr. Zimmermannwas national chairman of the two-million-dollar Development Fund campaign; he served untiringly on the effective steering committee of the Anniversary campaign ; andwas the Foundation's first chairman of the permanentBoard of Directors last year. Much credit is due him forthe success of all three campaigns. Arthur A. Baer, '18, owner of H. Baer and Sons drygoods store in Beverly Hills; John F. Dille, '09, presidentof the National Newspaper Service (syndicate) , newlyappointed member of the board to replace Mrs. NenaWilson Badenoch, '11, who resigned July 1 because ofother pressing duties; Vallee O. Appel, '11, J.D. '14,president of the Fulton Market Cold Storage Company,vice chairman of the Board of Directors, and president ofthe Alumni Association.Other members not present at this meeting are:William D. Watson, '35, account executive of Ruthrauff& Ryan (advertising), who was out of the city on business; and the three non-resident members: Nell C. Henry,'12, S.M. '15, member of the faculty of Glenville HighSchool, Cleveland; /. Parker Hall, Jr., '27, Clark Dodgeand Company (investment banking), New York City;and James Sheldon Riley, '05, investment banker (retired), Los Angeles. It is worthy of note that these nonresident members take an active part in every meeting.They receive the minutes of each meeting, of course.Shortly before any session of the board detailed outlinesof the proposed order of business are sent to them.Letters of comments on the minutes and opinions covering the points to be discussed at the next meeting canthus be received in time to be considered at the regularsessions. There is an added effectiveness to having theserepresentatives reporting from the "field."Last year's board was composed of thirteen members.For reasons of better coverage and representation (andfor no superstitious cause) the number was changedrecently to fifteen. The two new members are: RuthAllen Dickinson, '15, Hinsdale, Illinois; and MargaretDonnan Ingalls, '02, Chicago.From Our Mail BagSORRY to be so long in answering the first notice, but I spent the spring at FortCuster, the summer at Fort Knox, and the fall at Camp Hood, (following myhusband, of course).DON'T know if this is an example of English muddling or English humor, so I'll letyou decide for yourself. There's an information office in Trafalgar Square witha sign on the door saying in large letters, "Not Open Sundays." Just below, in smallprint, is another line, "Closed on Weekdays."FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE LIBRARY# By M. LLEWELLYN RANEYA compromise was made betweenthe grand-centralists anddepartmentalistsIN THE past fifteen years the University of Chicagolibraries have grown from 768,559 bound volumesto 1,403,143 as of June 30, 1942, by an actual countof the shelves, though 33,937 were not through cataloging. That would indicate 1,500,000 by 1945 and possibly 3,000,000 by 1960, unless the war is prolonged orsomething is done to the library's pituitary.Ours is the fourth largest university collection in thecountry. Harvard, Yale, and Columbia are ahead, Illinois close behind, and several besides these four aregrowing faster at present, especially the great state institutions at Berkeley, Minneapolis, and Ann Arbor.A vigorous library picks up momentum as it goes andit would keep on growing for a long time even if freshordering were suspended. Only about a quarter of current receipts represents current orders. The rest areeither old orders, about 25 per cent, or gifts, 50 per cent.The library is set up in 37 units, of which the largestis the long underground stack beneath Harper, Wieboldt,and Classics, with overflow under Blake Hall. This unit,mostly of social science character, numbers 402,713 volumes. The four stack levels of Wieboldt Hall that areabove ground are carrying 173,273 volumes in the modernlanguages. Next in size is the Law School with 111,297volumes. The other larger units of the system are thebiomedical group in Culver Hall, Billings and Lying-inHospitals, having 105,538 volumes; the new Far EasternLibrary (nearly all Chinese), 91,853; Divinity School,83,929; Graduate Education, 74,986; Classics and Linguistics, 59,084; Geology and Geography in RosenwaldHall, 33,812; Eckhart Hall for mathematics, physics, andastronomy, 32,466; and the College, 24,191 volumes.In addition, we have 128,323 maps and aerial photographs, and in the Epstein Art Reference Library 212,-120 mounted reproductions, together with .6,925 photographs and lantern slides in Classics, and in the ModernPoetry Library 113 phonograph recordings.The library is scattered but not far. Two-thirds ofthe units are on the Quadrangles — an area of four cityblocks thrown together — and, save University Collegeand Yerkes Observatory, all the rest are on the perimeterof that area. Half the units, including five of the sixprofessional schools, are around Harper court and halfthe total number of volumes are in the Harper, Wieboldt,and Classics buildings. Even so the scattering offends the typical professionallibrarian, who is by nature a grand-centralist. If he isa scholar, too, he gets bravely over the idea. If he isnot, he's a nuisance in a university. Thoroughgoingcentralization misses the whole point of the adventure.The business manager knows better. He has a servicebuilding over behind the Press. In it are separate shopsfor electrician, machinist, carpenter, painter, tinner,steamfitter, and in their midst a store of supplies.A university faculty is at building, too, and it alsobreaks up into specialties, which need their separate shopsand close at hand their store. It is no accident that thetwo American institutions that were born universities instead of growing so out of colleges, namely Johns Hopkins and Chicago, developed total departmental librariesfrom the jump and held to them tenaciously.But Chicago grew so fast she got confused and thosewho planned Harper Memorial Library let the architectsbypass them. It is a grand skyline and has a monumentalreading room, but putting the books in basement storageand their would-be users three to six floors away or inanother building is a bizarre procedure that has neverfound defender or imitator. Furthermore, the miscalculation on shelving was as serious as the misconception offunction. The stack was supposed to be good for a halfcentury but it overflowed in five years.Accordingly, a strong committee was named to studythe situation. But it could not agree. One party favoreda grand central at the Circle — a tower 380 feet high.The other wanted a continuous string of departmentallibraries on the Midway from Ellis to University, upthose streets to 58th, and back via Swift and Rosenwaldto Harper, with reading rooms continuous on the thirdfloor and stacks underground, like Harper. The twogroups met head-on and were stopped in their tracks.The difficulty was resolved more or less by chance. Icame from Johns Hopkins, which had been freshly setup on a new site, to Chicago at a time when this University had a lot of money to spend on buildings, including among others one for social science research andanother for the mathematical sciences; that is, mathematics, physics, and mathematical astronomy. The planners were about through, but they were decidedly unhappy about their decisions. So unhappy, in fact, thatit took only a final spark from Baltimore to blow bothplans out the window and give the chance to start allover. Some tall thinking was done by both groups then.The result for the north-enders was Eckhart Hall andfor the south-enders a building without a library but withpromise of one next door. The accompanying pictureof Eckhart shows what the mathematical group achieved,10THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 11while the floor plans also here presented tell in part whatis promised the social scientists.The Eckhart picture reveals only the western half ofthe room, but the eastern half is its replica. Here in thisone spacious, well-lighted room (and it is good to lookat besides) we have put all that the University owns inthe three subjects worked there, a seat for every divisionalstudent, cubicles for privacy, free access to everything,whether books or current journals, a trained mathematician in charge, supervision perfect and economical.Faculty and students alike swear by Eckhart.The social scientists have promise of something theycame to approve quite as heartily, but it took more timeto do so. They and some humanists were the ones whostood for a grand central. The reason was that they areapt to be rovers all over the fields of learning and wouldnaturally like to save footsteps by gathering everythingunder one roof. But they came to see the fairness andefficiency of limiting concentration in their behalf to thematerials they would predominantly employ and theneither borrowing or duplicating the rest, thus breaking upnone of their neighbors' shops.The plans of Harper Annex reflect this compromise.The arrangement cannot be as simple as in Eckhart because there are so many more social scientists and socialscience books, but the principle is exactly the same. Tochange the metaphor, Eckhart is one apartment — studentsin the middle, books to either side, and faculty beyond.The social scientists require four such apartments, or rather eight in pairs, but in each case all the books arealongside students and faculty, with trained librarians outfront. The pairing at each floor level results from thefact that two different groups are found to use about thesame books, which are accordingly stacked between them.So, for example, business and economics, or sociology andsocial service administration, while political science onthe first floor could be tied to law by tunnel and stack.This workshop annex would take the curse off Harper,for it would then become the noble front of a great activity center, itself providing on the first floor an adequate home for the Library School, enlarged administrative quarters on the second, and on the third a greatreading room for reference work, flanked by special collections in W.31 and E.31, and freed of circulation bustlesince this would centre in the link to the Annex. Similarworkshops are favored for the biomedical group on, say,the Bookstore corner and for the College in the Collegebuilding wherever erected.What in all this planning we have come to realize isthat, while it was the imminence of shelving exhaustionthat sent us to desperate consultations, what in reality weneeded was place for students and faculty to sit downwith their steadily necessary materials around them.When you come to be as fair to book users as to laboratory workers by providing them the necessary places toassemble and bringing to those places the stuff to workin, there will be left in the Harper, Wieboldt, and Classicscellars enough storage space for lesser used materials to!12 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINElast an age. It is shop accommodations rather thanwarehousing we need.But depression and then war fell over the scene almostat once and the pretty plans were put in camphor. Sincebooks continued to pour in we have during these yearsturned to makeshifts, and they have been many. Evenin advance of improvisation there was something to bedone before we had the right to claim attention to planswhether short or long. This was to clean house. We,therefore, subjected administration and collections tothoroughgoing scrutiny.It was seen at once that there was wide disparity between expenditures on books and on compensation. Thesalary total was topheavy, yet the individuals were underpaid. We set out then to get the book funds increasedand the staff lifted to something like Library of Congresslevels without increasing the latter total.The immediate result was the liquidation of sixteenpositions the first year and division of the savings betweenbooks and the remaining staff. This kept up for fouryears, so that by June 30, 1932, before the depressionhit us, all salaries had steadily advanced annually butthe grand total had dropped 5 per cent below 1927-28,while in ratio of book to salary outlay Chicago had risenfrom bottom to top of the ten universities spending most on their libraries, and in fact for three years our expenditures on books averaged higher than any but Harvard's.The cost of cataloging had been reduced from $1.30to 50 cents a volume, without changing a single printedrule. Binding rates fell 30 per cent as a result of adopting the modern machinery and specifications we recommended, and we founded a national card pool under competitive bidding and Government Printing Office specifications whereby the price has been cut about in half forthe 127 libraries now participant and buying 8,000,000cards a year.Our economy had been so thorough that the trusteespassed over the library three times before cutting itsbudget. But at length not only did grants from specialfunds for books have to stop but the staff took a 10 percent salary cut and we have ever since had to depend ondepartmental loan of personnel to keep the departmentallibraries open in the evenings and on Saturday afternoons, except Harper reading room.Nevertheless in the fourteen years that have elapsedsince 1927-28, fully 60 per cent of the library positionshave been brought back to or beyond the old figures; theregular book appropriation, without taking special grantsinto account, is the highest in our history; and we havecreated twenty-four new departments; yet today's salarytotal is 20 per cent under 1927-28.The twenty-four new departments consist of four general services — accounts, documents, fugitive material file,microphotography — and twenty branch libraries, as follows : Art, Billings, Business Statistics, College, Far Eastern, Graduate Library School, Lincoln, Lying-in Hospital,Manly, Men's Residence Halls, Maps, Modern Poetry,Music, Nursery School, Ophthalmology, Philosophy, RareBooks and Manuscripts, Schultz Collection, Social Sciences, and Social Service Administration. All of theseare useful and some of them have attained nationalrepute.The Social Science and Social Service Administrationreading rooms on the first floor of Harper are poor makeshifts with their something over 200 seats and 14,000volumes on open shelves, yet they are vast improvementon the total lack of an S.S.A. library home before andthe former loan of four tables in one end of the LawLibrary for the social scientists.The College Library, though set up in noisy Cobb Halland provided with far too few seats, is nevertheless itsown and books are provided in sufficient number, evenup to 200 copies when needed. There is no waiting lineand the students do read as never before. We owe theinitial collection to the Carnegie Corporation, as also thatof the Men's Residence Halls and the InternationalHouse.Mr. and Mrs. Max Epstein scored a triumph in rebuilding the interior of Goodspeed Hall as a home forthe Art Department, thereby enabling us to move the(Continued on page 22)THE DEAN'S EASY CHAIRTo the Alumni Dean: Who wrote the following,"What you are speaks so loud I can't hear whatyou say?"A. A.It is one of Emerson's remarks that you have inmind, but what he said was, "What you are thunders so loud I can't hear what you say." It occursin his Letters and Social Aims.*****To Alumnus Anonymus, '11: Thanks for yoursuggestion about tracking down the authorship ofthe line, "And foul suspicion rears its ugly head."I believe I am now on the right trail. Sorry I can'taccept your bet of a scholarship.*****Alumnus Charles Collins, '03, Linemaster of ALine o'Type or Two, Chicago Tribune, has as hislast paragraph, October 20, 1942: "Suggestion toNorthwestern's Wildcats: You'd better fire theLinemaster as a rooter. He carries that old Maroonjinx." Jinx? What does the Linemaster mean?By way of information perhaps I ought to addthat "Wildcats" is the name of the football teamat Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.The Education of an Alumni DeanIN FULFILLMENT of my undertaking in the October number of the Magazine I now proceed to mysketch of the education of an alumni dean.To begin with, I am obliged to express my belief thatthe office of alumni dean is the very acme of any decanalcareer. For an alumni dean is charged with the responsibility of the "continuing" education of tens of thousandsof mature intellects, and I ask you who would be sucha dunderhead, who so blind to realities, so lacking inappreciation of academic relativity, so wild in his estimate of true educational values that he would cite incomparison either a college dean who has only a fewthousand students under his care, or a graduate or divisional dean who has only a few hundred, or a deanemeritus who has none?I hope that none of my readers will think that theforegoing description of an alumni dean constitutesmerely so much braggadocio. There is so much braggingin the world now — bragging of dictators, bragging ofpolitical partisans, bragging of newspapers — that the barepossibility of anyone thinking of me as another contributor to the nauseating chorus fills me with dismay.I am temped to strike out the whole paragraph, forboastfulness is abhorrent to me. And yet I cannot doso. I have undertaken to write an account of the education of an alumni dean, and so it is necessary to giveyou at the outset some idea of the importance of theoffice. This I have endeavored to do with as muchrestraint, as much delicacy, as little obtrusion of self asthe subject permits. If I remember correctly, Livy in ALUMNIDEANGORDON J. LAINGGargantuanhis hardships,Brobdingnagianhis problemsthe Preface of his History of Rome and Thucydides atthe beginning of his work on the Peloponnesian War useda good many superlatives, but none of their commentators has ever criticized them for this. On the contrary,the tendency of their learned editors is to burst into somebrilliant, stimulating, original comment such as, "Noticewith what adequacy the author indicates the magnitudeof his theme." I mention this only in the hope thatyou, my alumni readers, may be willing to recall thesegreat classical writers and their editors before you passjudgment on me.Furthermore, you must have observed that I spoke ofany alumni dean. The statement was general; I didnot mention myself. Moreover, if I did not point outthe greatness and significance of the position, who would?Who would be competent to do so? No one else has everheld it. I am the only alumni dean — decanus alumnorumunus solus.Nor is there any desire on my part to disparage thoseother deans whom I have mentioned: the college dean,the graduate dean, and the dean emeritus. I would bethe last to do so, for at one time or another I have beenall those different sorts of dean. Nor is their anythingunusual in this; many have had a similar experience.Once a man becomes a dean he passes, through somemysterious influence, without outside pressure or innerstruggle, from deanship to deanship, and no one cansay what his end will be. Facilis est cursus decanorum.I remember well how enormous seemed the difficultiesof my college deanship, how Gargantuan the hardships ofmy graduate deanship, how Brobdingnagian the problemsof my divisional deanship, when I first took office at thesejunior levels, but as I recall them now I realize thatthey were nothing of the sort; they only seemed so tome who was viewing them through the magnifying glassof inexperience. Interesting, to be sure, but for themost part the merest bagatelles. More and more it has1314 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEbeen borne in on me until now it has become a deep-seated conviction that their chief value lies in the conditioning exercises, the preliminary practice, and thepre-induction training which they afford for the catholicdevelopment of an alumni dean.That they all do contribute to the education of analumni dean is something which I wish to emphasize.As a matter of fact, if it had not been for that I wouldnever have mentioned them. On the whole, I believethat I got most out of my college deanship. Perhaps thereason lay in the youth of my constituents, their abounding vitality, the variety of their adolescent manifestations¦ — with some apparently completely care-free and happy,others more serious than they would ever be in later life,but all of them with their divergent hopes and ambitions, talents or stupidities, aggressiveness or inertia, persistence or too ready discouragement, sound or unsoundmorals, good luck or bad, making their individual contribution to that shifting combination that forms thephantasmagoria of a college campus. Or perhaps itwas because I myself was younger then, had not beena dean very long, and still could learn.One or two incidents of my college deanship lingerin my memory. One morning when I reached my officeabout ten o'cock, I found an irate citizen waiting forme. I did not know him, but I saw at once that hisglowering visage meant trouble."I understand," he said, "that you are the dean ofthis college." For a moment I was tempted to deny it,but that sound integrity that is characteristic of alldeans, that inner voice that guides their decisions, thatconscientia recti, as the Romans so neatly phrased it,prevailed, and I admitted that he was right."Well," he continued with a most unattractive brusque-ness, "I have something to say to you. I have two boyshere, and they are on the football squad and are tryingto make the team. Yesterday evening I came up to seethe practice. I was standing on the side lines whenone of my boys fumbled the ball and your coach ranup to him and said, cYou white-livered little . . . , youblundering . . ., get off the field!' Such profanity,such foul obscenity I never heard, and to my boy! Nowwhat I came to tell you is that either that coach is discharged or my boys leave this college."I realized that the situation was serious, but alsosaw that in his present state of heat my visitor wasincapable of admitting any possibility of error on hispart or any palliating circumstances. I assured himthat my sympathy was entirely with him; that a manwho used such language was not a proper coach; andthat a most careful inquiry would be made into everyaspect of the case."However," I said, "there is one point on which youare probably in error. That man couldn't have beenour coach, for the latter, though temperamental like allother members of his craft, shrinks from profanity andabhors the obscene. Are you sure that it was the coach? You say it was at dusk. Was there light enough for youto see him? You must know him; everyone in townknows him. Besides, he wouldn't be training that squadto which your boys belong. He would be with the team,which has its big game next Saturday. It just couldn'thave been the coach. It must have been one of theoutside assistants that they bring in to help in the coaching.""Do you mean," he said aghast, "that this man wasa returned alumnus?""No, no," I replied, "not an alumnus. The internalevidence against such an assumption is too strong. Youheard the man's language, didn't you? Did you ever hearan alumnus talk like that?" That was the only question that he did not answer.Finally, he went away. He wasn't wholly appeased,but he didn't take the boys away.A day or two later the boy himself . . . But I am informed by the editor that my space is exhausted, so therest must be deferred till the next issue.In this column the Magazine is offering a new serviceto you who are alumni or former students of the University.The service is two-fold. First of all, you are invitedto send in any questions about the University: its history, its curriculum, past and present, its educational policies and ideals, its degrees and what they stand for; orquestions on education or educational institutions in general; or questions that arise in your own business orprofessional life or in matters that lie outside your business or professional routine in which the University mightbe able to help you. A teacher, for example, might needa word of advice or guidance on the best literature ona subject he was called upon to teach; or any businessor professional man might find himself in some form ofcivic activity involving a knowledge of things with whichup to that time he had had few contacts; or questionsabout the most effective kind of "continuing" educationfor yourself, whether you graduated five years ago orfifty years ago; or problems about the education of yourchilden: the best school for this or that purpose, the sortof books they should read, the proper degree of extracurricular activity, and so on.The second purpose of the column is to give you anopportunity to express your own opinion on matters connected with the University. Some of you, for instance,have been out of the University for many years. Youhave had time to come to some conclusion in regard tothe training you had there. It would be not only of thegreatest interest but of the greatest service if you wouldsend us your impressions of what you got from yourcourse that has been of real value to you in your busi-4 ess, professional or civic life, or what you failed to get.All communications should be addressed to the AlumniDean, the University of Chicago Magazine, and shouldbe signed with your own name. In some cases the replywill be sent directly to you; in others your letter willbe published in the column, with your name or initialsor some pseudonym, as you wish. Please be definite onthis point of the signature. The communications should beas brief as is consistent with a clear statement of the case.NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By DON MORRIS, '36Students and the ERCThe student problem, to which President Hutchins referred in his annual report on the state of the University,which appears elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine,began to crystallize almost immediately after the reportwas issued. This was not because the gentlemen in theWar Department, the Selective Service System headquarters, and in other places where hats are fabricatedof brass, had read the report and were thereby moved toact. It was because the "neglect, confusion, and delay"— and particularly the delay — in the handling of the student problem to which President Hutchins referred, hadbecome so acute that someone had to do something.Apparently the delay, number one on the agenda, wasto be solved by lowering the draft-age limit to eighteen.President Hutchins commented after this move had beenannounced that he strongly favored it, that it was atonce a fair and an effective step toward winning the war.The move itself, however, would be only half made, hesaid, unless the treatment of young men before, as wellas after, the age of eighteen were adequately handled.The confusion, in the eyes of the armed forces, layin the fact that some young men were being draftedwhile others were volunteering, that recruiting campaignsby this branch and then that branch were leaving someearnest college students dazed, were giving other studentsa wonderful opportunity to pick the softest berth withthe quickest commission and the highest pay withoutregard to the needs of the nation. This was bona fideconfusion. Actually it was surface confusion, repairableonly by fundamental changes, but it still remained confusion. To meet it, the services got together for cooperative rather than competitive recruiting. The procurement board which was sent to the Midway in thesecond week of the quarter included representatives ofthe Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Army and Navyaviation. Chairman of the board, incidentally, was Lieutenant Jay Berwanger, '36, who hacL led his group tostudent meetings on fifteen campuses in three weeks andby now has undoubtedly covered many more. Nine hundred University undergraduates, including hundreds already signed up, heard the respective Enlisted Reserveplans for the five services, at the gathering in MandelHall. Simultaneously three hundred women studentswere listening to talks by representatives of the Women'sArmy Auxiliary Corps, the Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service, and by Nellie X. Hawkinson,professor of nursing education, who represented the Nursing Council for War Service. Before the meeting,campus quotas for both the junior and senior classes inthe Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps were filled. Results of the meeting still are being tabulated by ProfessorNapier Wilt, in charge of recruiting on the Quadrangles.Though cooperative recruiting undoubtedly representsan advance over competitive methods, the whole ERCplan, President Hutchins believes, misses the point andshould be abandoned. The basic confusion which underlies the ERC plan is that students are permitted todefer themselves at will, just because they are students,with regard neither for their own abilities nor the needsof the nation at war. In a sense, it is the elective systemover again. Here is the confusion which has not yetbeen touched, and here also lies the neglect.President Hutchins' program is, at least in part, already in force on the Midway. Beginning with the winterquarter, when February high school graduates will beadmitted, the College will be on a full year-aroundschedule. The University already is engaged in securing dormitory space for the younger students, as wellas preparing to provide the additional supervision theywill require. This, together with elimination of curriculum "waste, water, and frivolity," is the way to givegeneral education before eighteen, rather than "engineering from the age of six." The Institute of Meteorologyexemplifies the training of qualified men as specialists,sent in uniform by the armed forces to qualified institutions after general education.Campus PopulationEnrolment of regular students at the end of thesecond week of registration showed a 10.7 per centdecline from the number at the corresponding time lastyear — 4,841 as compared with 5,424. Not included inthese figures, however, are 675 men and women beingtrained in government-sponsored war courses, more than2,000 seamen in the Navy's signal and radio school and50 Navy combat pilots, also receiving civilian instruction,and 1,100 men in the University's basic military training course.Enrolment in the College was increased by nine students over last year, counteracting in a small way thegeneral decline. This means, of course, that the bigincrease in the size of the freshman class was almostoffset by losses among students in the final year of theCollege. The number of admission certificates issued toentering freshmen mounted from 577 to 746, a rise of29.2 per cent. These freshmen, as this department remarked last month, constitute the first regular class toenter under the program for the bachelor's degree uponcompletion of general education.The only increase besides the College and its constituent body of freshmen was shown by the Division of1516 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEPhysical Sciences, where because of the stimulus the warhas given to this field, the rise was 11.2 per cent. Aswas expected, the largest decreases occurred among olderstudents in graduate and professional studies. The totalof these students fell by 20.6 per cent, from 2,233 to 1,772.Again fulfilling expectation, the greater share of theenrolment decreases, caused primarily by withdrawalsinto military or other war service, were among men.Male enrolment fell by 16.1 per cent, contrasted withthat of women students, off only 2.3 per cent.As far as the "war campus" of students taking thegovernment's Engineering Science and Management WarTraining courses is concerned, it is booming. The largestunit is in high frequency radio, in which 245 civiliansare in training for the Army Signal Corps. In the business courses, the University again stepped up the proportion of women to lead the national trend by a goodmeasure. Of the 200 enrolled, the number of womenwas increased from 100 to 125, while the number ofmen was dropped from 100 to 75. The University'sratio through all the ESMWT courses is now 39.2 percent women, compared with the national average of 25per cent. Three months ago, when the national percentage was 7, the ratio on the Midway was 17 percent. Other courses in the program on the Quadranglesare topographic map drafting, aerial photograph reading, statistical methods, and optical shop work.Faculty ServiceIn the month since President Hutchins' annual reportwas issued, the number of faculty members in militaryor other government war service has increased by 15per cent — from seventy-eight to ninety-one.Two lieutenant commanders, Leon P. Smith and T.Nelson Metcalf, head the list who have joined the Navy.Lieut. Comdr. Smith was formerly assistant professorof French and dean of students in the College andhad served in the Army in the first World War. Lieut.Comdr. Metcalf was director of athletics at the University and now is stationed as an athletic administrativeofficer at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.The entrance of Paul H. Douglas into the MarineCorps as a private is well known. Professor Douglas,nationally known as an economist, also was a Chicagoalderman. He was defeated in the senatorial primarieslast spring. Elected the outstanding man in his platoon,Pvt. Douglas is now stationed as an instructor at theParris Island Marine base.In non-military war service are thirty-five men nowengaged in government administration or research projects in Washington, one in London, and another twelvein war research in laboratories elsewhere in the UnitedStates. These forty-eight men represent a wide varietyof academic fields, from astronomy to statistics and fromOriental languages to political science.Among the agencies in which they are active are: theWar Department, Navy Department, OPA, Administra tive Office of the President, Selective Service System,War Manpower Commission, U. S. Public Health Service, FCC, Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-AmericanAffairs, Department of Justice, State Department, andthe War Shipping Administration.Outstanding among the men now serving as government experts are: Harold F. Gosnell, associate professor of political science, now working in the Bureauof the Budget; Calvin W. McEwan, field director ofthe Oriental Institute's Marriner Memorial Syrian Expedition and the last American archaeologist to returnfrom the Near East; Edward B. Espenshade, Jr., instructor in geography and formerly instructor in the mappingcourses of the University's Institute of Military Studies,now civilian director of the new Army map service ; T.O. Yntema, professor of statistics and director of research of the Cowles Commission for Economic Researchat the University, who now is a member of the MaritimeCommission's War Shipping Administration; Ernest B.Price, lecturer in political science and formerly directorof International House on the Midway.Also included are: John A. Wilson, professor ofEgyptology and director of the Oriental Institute, nowin the Office of War Information; Gunnar Randers, brilliant Norwegian astronomer, instructor in astronomy atthe University's Yerkes Observatory; and Herrlee G.Creel, associate professor of early Chinese literature andinstitutions, who before leaving the University had instituted a unique course in newspaper Chinese. Thecourse now is being taught by his associates.In addition to these men who have left the campusmany others are taking an active part while remainingon the Midway. A dozen members of the Universityand Laboratory Schools staff are serving in the Navy'sradio school, including three women — Ann Brewington,assistant professor of business education; Nellie Merrick,of the University high school; and Gertrude Carpenter,of the University high school clerical staff. The schoolis headed by Paul B. Jacobson, assistant professor ofeducation and principal of the University high school.Other members of the faculty are participating in theinstruction of high frequency experts for the ArmySignal Corps, Navy combat pilots in the campus CAAprogram, and research projects.Elma Hixson BentonMrs. Charles W. Benton, wife of a former Universityof Minnesota professor, mother of the vice-president ofthe University, and a well-known educator in her ownright, died at her son's home at Southport, Connecticut,on October 6 after an illness of eight weeks.Mrs. Benton was born at Burlington, Iowa, in 1874.She graduated from the University of Minnesota, whereshe also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1910, andwas awarded the master's degree at Columbia University in 1918. She began teaching in 1890 and was a(Continued on page 23)ONE MAN'S ARMY _____• By CODY PFANSTIEHLThey were adults andtraveling almost ontheir ownGreenville Army Air BaseSeptember 11, 1942.SUCH a nice police station!The town, too, of course. And the air base. Especially the air base, and I'm glad of that, because thisis home for a while, I think. Five of us have come toroost in our Army lives at last, and we are assigned hereas members of this squadron, it seems, not just "attached"as we have been at Sheppard and Scott Fields. This isour permanent home, kind of, in a way, maybe. That'sabout all you can say in the Army.There were five of us bound for Greenville. We hadfive meal tickets, each one good for seventy-five cents'worth of food apiece in restaurants, and a dollar's worthof food for each of us if same was purchased on the train.They were, in reality, blank checks drawn on the government, and the signature of only one of us was neededto make them valid. Thus our good Uncle fed us.The three-car Southern Railroad train stopped forus at the southeast gate of Scott Field at 9:30 in themorning. Perhaps two dozen of us tossed our barracksbags into the baggage car and climbed aboard a nearlyempty coach. The two dozen immediately scatteredthrough the car in luxurious enjoyment. With few exceptions each man claimed a whole double seat, for the lasttime we had traveled on a train it was in a troop car,which means that if Pullman, three men sat in a section.But now we were adults, and traveling almost on ourown. There was no non-com in charge of the car, andwe felt fine.All day the train rolled this way and that across thepeaceful midwest. It unerringly nosed out every littlevillage and "farmlet," whipping up to the stationer watertower, jerking to a stop, and immediately starting upagain to repeat the process ten minutes later. Lunch wasa matter of stopping by a crossroads. We climbed downto the roadbed and lined up before a small truck fromwhich motherly farm women lifted box lunches. At thesteps of the car were other women with baskets of cigarettes, old magazines, and free candy bars. They weremembers of the county service organization, and blessthem for a good piece of chocolate cake with chocolatefrosting included with the cold hamburger sandwich, hamsandwich, luscious tomato, and potato salad. The trainhurried away as soon as we were aboard, and we hadour box social on the coach seats. Farther south we had an hour's layover. We ate poorsteaks in the station and then, walking abreast andwhistling the Air Corps song, four of us set out to seethe town.The coach was crowded when we returned. We settledin the seats at one end of the car. A red-faced largesoldier sitting near us motioned to my guitar case. "Thatyours?" he asked. I nodded. "Tuned like a uke?" heasked. I got it out and handed it to him. He settledback on his spine and hit a chord. A happy grin crinkledhis face. "C'mon," he said, nodding toward my violincase. So we came, and he was good.The coaches were jammed, hot, humid, and close withclothes hung over the windows, women's and men's headshanging into the aisle while their owners slept somehow.And the inevitable baby squealing. Suitcases and traveling bags filled every rack and corner. We stood at theends of the car. Though we had Pullman tickets theporter had put us on the coach because the Pullmanswere full, he said. We tackled the conductor when hepushed his way through the sleepy mass of passengers.He, too, said he was sure nothing was open, but we taggedhim through the train and he found a whole drawingroom on the last car. It was luxurious and we fiveprivates grinned at our style. We even had our ownminiature bathroom. ...Early the next afternoon we stepped off the train atGreenville and looked about for the waiting band, orofficer, or G. I. truck, or sergeant, or corporal, or private,or anything. Finally we came across a heavyset sergeantwho turned out to be an MP without his arm band. Hesaid he would help us after he tended to some businesswith the station police. While he talked with the stationpolice we wandered about, keeping out of the drizzle,peering into the rain for some sight of the main part oftown, or a mountain, or an airplane.. But all we couldsee was a warehouse and a tree-lined street running up agentle hill. The MP finally ended his conversation. Hetook our names and called the provost marshal's office atthe Greenville Air Base, explaining that maybe we wereto be sent to the airport, but that the base might knowabout it. Meanwhile, he said, he'd take us up to thetown's police station where he had to go. The basewould call back there.But the base knew nothing about us. Neither didthe airport. I called the base and talked with a privatewho was on the switchboard, who talked with the officerof the day, who said he'd send a truck for us and putus up for the night at least. Shortly before eight, in abeautiful sunset, we rolled out of the pleasant town andalong Augusta Avenue, lined with beautiful homes, andout to the rolling, red-sand section where the Greenville1718 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEArmy Air Base lies. In fifteen minutes we passed throughan opening in a barbed wire fence and pulled up to a graybuilding sitting on short stilts. Our driver hopped insidefor some more orders, and soon we continued on downa winding road. Occasionally we saw barracks nestled ingroves of pine trees. And everywhere was the red sandysoil, scraped bare and rutted in many places by trucksand construction equipment. Next morning from thesquadron orderly room, we trekked across to group headquarters, and from there to base headquarters, where atlast we found a lieutenant who dug up our orders. He,too, was puzzled when we pointed out that we were notassigned to any particular squadron, but he looked overhis squadron quota sheets, and by mutual consent twoof us five were sent to the base squadron. They wentdown the hall to another office after grinning good-byeto us. Then there were three. We three were sent backto the bombardment group headquarters. There asergeant major said that two would go to the CODYPFANSTIEHLbombardment squadron. Then there was one. He saidI would go to the bombardment squadron, and(hen there was none.October 5, 1942.It was fun while it lasted, but now my arms are heavy.I am a marked man. In the last few days my friendshave been pointing at me — and smiling. Some talkedabout me when I was not there to hear it. "Did you readabout him in that special order?" they asked each other.I keep looking down, to my right and to my left, at mynew corporal's stripes. Inside, I feel I am the same. Butpeople, even officers, can notice the difference.A few days after I started to work here in the Intelligence Office, Lieutenant Sansing said, "Hey, Pfanstiehl,how come you've been in the Army seven months andhaven't got a rating?" "Never been assigned any placeuntil a week ago," I said. "I was always attached to aschool squadron, or in training."The next day he called me aside. "What do youwant," he grinned, "private first class on the first andcorporal on the fifteenth, or corporal right away?""Shucks," I said, blushing modestly, "might as well makeit corporal right away." "O.K.," he answered.He left for his wedding in Little Rock two days beforethe first, the day when the special order containing thefortnightly promotion lists was issued. But I went intothe sergeant major's office and talked to quiet GeorgeScott, a Bostonian and the sergeant who makes out thespecial orders. He grinned under his glasses. "It's there,hey?" I asked. "It's here," he replied. We discussedhow early I could get the promotion lists in the future,so I could write releases to home town papers. I feltgood. It set me wondering how it would feel to havethose two stripes on my arm.It is said that a corporal is the hardest thing to be.You are so recently risen from the private's world that youcan't roar at them. You aren't yet a member of thefamily of sergeants — buck, staff, technical, or master, inascending order — so you can't toss an arm about their People, evenofficers, cannotice the difference.shoulders. You are admittedly a starter at this businessof being a non-com. But I don't mind. I'm not at thevery bottom any more.On the way to chow that night I stopped at the supplyroom. The staff sergeant went to a cardboard box andpicked out two pairs of chevrons at my request. Hetossed them onto the rough wooden counter and immediately moved to another soldier — a no-striper — whowanted his second issue of woolen pants.I held the chevrons in my hand. It seemed to me thatmore than at any other time in my Army experience, 1held my future life, or the symbol of it, in my hand.Even a major's gold maple leaf could not have beenmore awesome, or full of meaning, than those four bitsof cloth I held in my hand as I stood on the sandy soilof South Carolina in the late afternoon.The next morning we fell out at 6:30 for calesthenics,trotted the three quarters of a mile to the mess hall forchow, came back to the barracks to doff fatigues for ashower and O. D.'s, and reported to the runway nearheadquarters for the 8:00 o'clock daily inspection. Thescore of enlisted men who work in group headquartersstood at attention while the captain passed, looking usover. Then the non-coms were excused, leaving eightof us privates for the twenty minutes of drill. I don'tneed this, I thought. I once had charge of eighty men.Tomorrow it would be different. Heck, I knew this stuff."Pfanstiehl," said the voice of the morning's drill master, a friendly corporal who worked in the operationsoffice, "Pfanstiehl, that was right flank. . ."Late in the afternoon the special orders were distributed. These orders were mimeographed sheets whichappear every day or so, making movements of personneland assignments official. Thus, in company with somehundred other men of the group also promoted in SpecialOrder 36, dated October 1, 1942, mine read:Pursuant to authority contained in AR 615-5, as amended, thefollowing men, organizations indicated, are promoted as indicated: HQ Bomb Group, to be corporal (temp), Pvt.Cody Pfanstiehl, 36319227.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 19STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY(Continued from page 5)emits. I should guess that unless the government develops some rational program of sending some youngAmericans to college, the enrolment in the University ofChicago might decline in 1942-43 by as much as 60 percent.Divinity students are (most unwisely) exempted fromthe draft. Medical and scientific students are deferred.But scientific students are now called into" governmentwork with comparatively little training, so that the number of advanced students in the sciences will fall. TheDivisions of the Social Sciences and the Humanities willsuffer seriously. Along with the Schools of Law, Business, Social Service Administration, and the GraduateLibrary School, they may find that apart from womenand men not physically qualified for military service theyhave no students at all.This is not particularly alarming as far as the financialstability of the University is concerned. It derives onlyabout 20 per cent of its total income from tuition fees.The University will be supported for and by its researchesand its ability to provide the types of training needed inthe prosecution of the war. The necessity of a plan produced by the joint effort of the government and education for sending some students to college is felt by thoseinstitutions which are without the endowment, the research facilities, or the scientific staff of the Universityof Chicago. These institutions must disappear unless theyhave students. They cannot have students unless thegovernment appreciates what they are doing, or can do,for the country even in time of war.Technology Is Not EnoughEven at the University of Chicago the loss of studentsin such fields as the humanities and the social scienceswill have serious effects. Professors in these divisions arelikely to feel that they are not doing anything very important; many of them have already gone into the government service. The University is rapidly becoming atechnological institute. Such a change, for the durationof a long war, will have unfortunate consequences for thecountry. The disorders of our civilization result in partfrom our conviction that the advance of technology willsolve all our problems for us. But technology will noteven win the war for us, certainly not if it is a long one.And if the entire intellectual power of the country isdrawn off for any considerable time into engineering,research in the natural sciences, and the execution ofmilitary operations, the contribution of the United Statesto the organization of the world after the war will be lesssignificant than our part in the war would lead us to expect. We must have technology ; but we must have something more. We must have the moral and politicalunderstanding which it is the object of the social sciencesand the humanities to foster. Spectacular as the wareffort of the natural sciences is, we cannot rely on it for victory — not, at least, for a victory of any adequate orenduring kind. It is indispensable that we maintainstrong centers of moral and political thought from whichmay radiate some light which may assist us to see theaims of the war and the nature of the peace. Membersof the faculty who are qualified to participate in suchendeavors should at all costs be held together in the University whether they have students or not. One of theparadoxical aspects of the Enlisted Reserve Corps plan isthat while the students may be deferred, the professorsare being drafted. It is fair to ask whether it is not inthe public interest to modify the policy of the SelectiveService to enable the University to retain men who areable to serve their country best by applying their intelligence to the moral and political problems which must besolved if the war is to be won and a just peace established.Two new committees organized in the social sciencesand the humanities illustrate the type of work these divisions can do. They are merely formalized and publicmanifestations of the kind of activity in which all theprofessors in these fields are individually engaged; theyare in addition to the numerous informal groups thathave been discussing the conduct of the war and the organization of the world throughout the year. The Committee on Communications, under the chairmanship ofDean Redfield of the Social Science Division, trains menand women for service with federal and other agenciesnow undertaking to unite public opinion in support ofthe war, to develop an intelligent national morale, andto prepare the nation for a rational approach to post-warproblems. The committee aims to conduct fundamentalresearch in the functions, processes, techniques, content,values, effects, and other elements of public communications in their social setting and to utilize the University'sresources of men and research materials toward the clarification of current problems in the field. The membersof the committee are drawn not merely from the SocialScience Division, but also from the central administration, the Graduate Library School, the School of Business,and the Humanities Division.The Committee on Social Thought, of which John U.Nef, professor of economic history, is executive officer,assembles from all parts of the University men concernedwith the issues which lie at the basis of social and politicalorganization. The committee will provide a focus forthe interest of these men and for that of their students.The committee will not offer new courses; it will bringtogether from the social sciences, the humanities, the LawSchool, and the Oriental Institute those which havehitherto been scattered about the campus, accessible underordinary circumstances only to students in these units,and will open them to all those interested in the historyand direction of social thought. It is not impossible thatas time goes on the committee may become a force forthe projection upon the immediate questions of war andpeace of such intelligence as the University can command.20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHi^AGO MAGAZINENew University ActivitiesThe University has increased its activities on behalf ofthe community in a number of different ways. At thesuggestion of Neil H. Jacoby, professor of finance, whoon January 1 succeeded James M. Stifler as secretary ofthe University, a Business Problems Bureau has been organized as an office through which University professorsand departments can turn their specialized knowledge toaccount in helping businessmen to meet the new difficulties produced by the emergency and to prepare for thegreater difficulties that are to come. So many inquirieshave been received in reply to the first announcement ofthe creation of this agency that it now looks as thoughGeorge H. Brown, associate professor of marketing anddirector of the Bureau, would be required to devote hisfull time to its affairs.Since its foundation in 1926 the Graduate LibrarySchool has limited its student body to those who, in addition to graduating from college, have had one year ormore of study in a library school. Although this arrangement gave the school a highly select group of students,it restricted the service it could render to Chicago andthe middle west. The city of Chicago has no libraryschool offering the year of work which the Library Schoolrequired for entrance. The school has decided to presenta three-year course of study beginning with the conventional junior year in college and leading to the degree ofBachelor of Library Science. This program will drawheavily on the social sciences and the humanities andwill be designed to offer a broad general training to thoseplanning to enter library work.The Institute of Military Studies was organized in theautumn of 1940 as a center of research in military matters and of pre-induction military training. By the endof 1941-42 more than three thousand men had taken thecourses of the Institute and over four thousand had attended the "public courses" offered without charge forthe general instruction of the public on those militaryquestions which most directly concern it, such as civiliandefense. From the beginning the Institute has openedits doors to men in the community who were not studentsat the University. The response from this group hasbeen phenomenal. Approximately two-thirds of the registrants in the basic courses have had no other connectionwith the University.Recognizing that the overwhelming majority ofAmerican colleges and universities have no program ofmilitary training and that they all feel under the necessityof doing what they can to help their students prepare formilitary service, the Institute held a conference in February to discuss the type of program that should beworked out. At that time it appeared that though theWar Department was favorable to the efforts of educational insitutions to give their students this kind of assistance, it would not sponsor such efforts or grant them official recognition. The grounds of this attitude were thatsponsorship implied responsibility — responsibility to sup ply equipment and to inspect the work. Since almost allthe equipment of the Institute has been improvised, andsince standardization of the work can be handled by theinstitutions themselves with little help from the Army, thelosses incurred by failing to have hundreds of thousandsof students trained while they are in college seem greaterthan any burdens which some slight responsibility mightimpose upon the War Department. The objections tovarious Enlisted Reserve Corps are so serious, moreover,that the Army should take the opportunity of mitigatingthem by seeing to it that the members of these corps,while in college, are engaged in some activity which immediately and obviously prepares them for militaryservice.Even with a very limited blessing from the War Department the Institute is thriving, and its program is being adopted by other institutions. The desirability of thework is so clear, it has had such a beneficial effect uponthe military careers of its students, many of whom havereceived commissions and been made instructors becauseof their training in the Institute, that men continue toflock into it by the hundreds and continue by the hundreds to write back, after they have gone into the service, expressing their gratitude for it.Expansion of Work-Study PlanThe work-study plan begun last summer in cooperation with Marshall Field and Company has been extendedfor 1942-43 to Sears, Roebuck and Company. Underthe arrangement with Marshall Field and Company thestudent is required to work a minimum of fifteen hoursper week in order to be considered an employee of thecompany. He is not permitted to work more than thirtyhours a week. In all cases his program of studies isreduced in proportion to the time spent in employment.The agreement with Sears, Roebuck is similar, exceptthat the company guarantees the student a minimumyearly sum of money. Under the work-study plan anystudent intellectually qualified to attend the Universityof Chicago may do so; his financial condition need notkeep him away.At the instance of Mr. Jacoby, the University is experimenting with tuition certificates, or the prepayment ofstudent fees. By purchasing tuition certificates nowparents may assure the education in the future of children who are not now old enough to go to college orwhose services are required in war industry or in thearmed forces. The University invests all proceeds fromthe sale of tuition certificates in war bonds. In view ofthe violent economic changes which are certain to takeplace, it would seem the part of wisdom for parents todo what they can to make certain that their childrenwill be able to go to college when they are ready. Sinceeducational expenses are anti-inflationary — inflationappears when there is a shortage of goods, and therecannot be a shortage of education — it is a service to thecountry to spend money now on education instead of onTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 21tangible goods of which shortages are already felt or willsoon arise. Our experiment has just begun; it remainsto be seen whether those who are able to purchase tuitioncertificates will have the foresight to do so. . . .The Strength of the UniversityA gentleman of my acquaintance used to say that ifthere were only two men left in the world he was goingto be both of them. I should hesitate to advance sucha claim on behalf of the University of Chicago. But Iwill say that we have now seen enough of the effectsof the war upon the University to predict that if anyendowed institutions exist at the end of it the Universityof Chicago will be one of them. Though the temeritythat is required to hazard a financial prophecy amountsalmost to recklessness, the results of the year just closedwarrant a certain mild optimism. We entered the yearwith an estimated disparity between recurring incomeand recurring expense of $1,227,107. We ended it withan actual disparity of $378,690; and this includes BudgetBalances Reappropriated (money carried forward to bespent later) in the sum of $131,276. Especially gratifyingwere the results in the Medical School and Clinics, whichsince they opened in 1927 have constituted one of theUniversity's most perplexing financial problems. If therecord of the year just closed is any indication of thefuture — and I know that it may be no indication at all —we are entitled to say that the Medical School and Clinicsare now established on a sound basis.I admit that from this point on endowment income andtuition fees will be reduced. Though the Universityreceived $2,271,425 in gifts during 1941-42, I concedethat gifts will be more and more difficult to obtain. Myconfidence in the future is based on the conviction thatthe University has what the country needs. The countryneeds what the University has just as much in war as itdoes in peace. If this conviction were mine alone, IForty-six Politicians and One Quiz KidA certain amount of family tradition is evidenced by the names on the rosterof this year's entering freshman group. Fifteen members are either faculty childrenor descendants of men whose names are famous in University history.Politics has a heavy representation with thirty-three high school class presidentson hand, while in case of unavoidable absence, there are thirteen vice-presidents totake their place. And professors may well shake in their boots, for we also have aformer Quiz Kid. should not think it of much importance. But, as therecord of the year has shown, it is also the conviction ofthose who are mobilizing the resources of the countryfor victory. They are supporting the University ingreater and greater volume every day because they believethat by so doing they are quickening the pace of themarch to victory.The character of the University's work may be temporarily altered. The source of its funds may temporarily,or even permanently, change. If either of these changeswere permanent, we should have cause for the deepestconcern; for no one can doubt that in the long view thehighest role of a university is the pursuit of truth for itsown sake; no one can doubt that governmental supportmust eventually mean governmental control; and no onecan think that this country, in any foreseeable conditionof its politics, could profit by the loss of every independentcenter of learning. That the accomplishments and idealsof the University of Chicago have elevated and protectedthe practice of education at tax-supported institutions isbeyond question. The achievements and the standardsof the University of Chicago, and the benefits they haveconferred upon higher education, would have beenimpossible without the great benefactions of Mr. Rockefeller and his family and the innumerable gifts from otherprivate sources which the University has received. . . .The University, like the country, faces hard yearsahead. But the professions of esteem that poured in fromevery quarter during the Fiftieth Anniversary, the continuing interest of the citizens of Chicago, thedemonstrated value of the University's educational andscholarly resources in the conduct of the war, the certainty that they will be vitally needed in the inevitablereorganization that must accompany the peace — thesethings justify the expectation that the University ofChicago will go from strength to strength in the serviceof the nation and the world.22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINETHE LIBRARY(Continued from page 12)art books from Classics into new quarters and receive therich addition of over 200,000 mounted reproductions.The Far Eastern Library, as distinct from the NearEast collection already installed in the Oriental Institute,has, thanks to Rockefeller Foundation support, mushroomed into a unit of over 90,000 volumes, nearly allbeing Chinese. This is especially timely in view ofChina's rising significance as a result of heroic resistanceto invasion.The Modern Poetry Library, based on Harriet Monroe's bequest of her collection and correspondence withpoets for a quarter of a century, is a unique institutionprized at home and abroad. An interesting programcenters there through meetings of a group and renditionof phonograph recordings through an address systemeither in public or by private earphones.The Lincoln Library, with the William E. Barton collection as nucleus, is one of the half dozen outstandingLincolniana establishments in the country. It is a beautiful room and much sought out by visitors from over theworld. It owes much of its attractiveness to the state,since at Governor Horner's instance it presented a dealof equipment from the Illinois Host House, where during the second year of the Century of Progress Exposition we had supplied the Lincoln Room display. Thelibrary is distinguished by the possession of two oil paintings of Lincoln made from life by George FrederickWright. One of these was a favorite of Lincoln's. Infact he bought it and presented it to the friend, WilliamButler, in whose house he lived before his marriage.Space suffices for noticing only two more of these newservices — Documents and Microphotography, both ofwhich are due to Rockefeller Foundation grants.Microphotography has burgeoned out in the last sixyears into a major library development, though we havebusiness to thank for the incentive. Our laboratory isone of the very best in the country and it has played aninternational role, since our staff was called upon todemonstrate the American mechanization of the newtechnique during the Paris Exposition of 1937, where aGrand Prix was awarded. It is a fully self-supportingunit, doing a business of some $17,000 last year, thoughoperating without profit. The two main academic usesof microfilming and prospectively of microprint (onpaper) are the rescue of bulky and perishable' materials,like newspapers, and the securing at low cost of sourcematerials otherwise unobtainable. We shall make largeuse of it for both purposes and incidentally save storagespace enormously.I have mentioned two self -examinations we instituted.The second was a scrutiny of the collections. This waseffected with the aid of some 200 members of the facultyand the results were published in 1933 as one of thetwelve survey volumes of that year.It bore fruit promptly, for the Rockefeller Foundation made a grant of $100,000 toward a regional documentprogram at the University. The term was allowed to include also maps and newspapers. On this fund wegathered 76,397 documents proper; maps, atlases, andaerial mosaics to the number of 26,705; and 3,148 volumes of newspapers.This proved the rise of a great Map Library here. Itis now, with one exception, the largest outside Washington, including, as it does, over 128,000 sheets, and theWar Department has been finding it exceedingly useful inforeign coverage, and Lt. Col. Lawrence H. Whiting hasundertaken to raise funds for the erection of a combination Map Library and Geography building next toWalker Museum.The library has enjoyed the support not only of theorganization already reported in the Magazine, i.e.Friends of the Library,, but a host of others who in addition to the Foundations have made rich gifts during thisperiod. These include no less than twelve completelibraries, besides the Stephen A. Douglas, William H.English, Wyndam Robertson, Elijah Grant, WilliamBeaumont, Julius Rosenwald, and Salmon O. Levinsonpapers, and the establishment of ten new funds.This is only improvisation, but it has helped, and weare ready with plans, when a wracked world gets topeace.HAPPEN MEMORIAL LlbBARYWITH PROPOSED ADDITIONTHE. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23FREE ITALY(Continued from page 7)be allowed to drift into the fascist camp, in spite of theefforts which various governmental agencies are makingto stop the work of the Gestapo and its Italian counterpart, the Ovra. Or they can be won by supporting theirown democratic organization. Already the Americangovernment has given up to some extent its mistrust ofthe Italian as Italian and is beginning to differentiatebetween those people who love fascism and those peoplewho have, even more than we, an incentive to combat it.Italians and Italo- Americans are being used more andmore on the broadcasts of our information bureau toItaly; and the Mazzini Society, founded among antifascist Italians by such notable leaders as Professor Borgese of the University of Chicago and Professor GaetanoSalvemini of Harvard, is being able to contribute the talents of its members to our war effort. To cite anotherinstance of the increasing recognition of anti-fascist Italians by the American government — Mr. Renzo Sereno ofthe University of Chicago was the first so-called "enemyalien" to be given his citizenship since Pearl Harbor, andhe is now working in Washington to combat fascist activities. And now Attorney General Biddle has, in addition,NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES(Continued from page 16)county superintendent of schools in Minnesota in 1898.After the death of her husband in 1913, she was amember of the staff of the Columbia Teachers Collegefrom 1917 to 1919, and then for more than fifteen yearswas principal of Hosmer Hall, a girls' preparatory schoolat St. Louis.New TrusteeElection of Frank L. Sulzberger, '07, to the Board ofTrustees of the University last month brings to fourteenthe number of alumni on the board.Mr. Sulzberger is president of the Enterprise PaintManufacturing Company, vice-president of the FederalVarnish Company, and director of the Mercantile National Bank. He has been active in philanthropic work,and currently is vice-chairman of the Illinois Public AidCommission; director of the Council of Social Agenciesof Chicago; director and member of the executive committee, Community Fund of Chicago, and director of theJewish Charities of Chicago.Memorial IssueIn honor of Shailer Mathews, beloved former dean ofthe Divinity School, who died October 23, 1941, theJournal of Religion for October was a memorial issue.In addition to an appreciation of Dr. Mathews' influence on religious movements by his colleague, Pro- announced that Italians shall no longer be considered"enemy aliens."The policy must be carried much further. Any attemptsto turn the sympathies of the American people and government toward the honest and vigorous opponents offascism will help the Italian National Committee to makea great contribution toward winning the war. Theseattempts must continually be made by American citizens.We, like the Italians of the pre-fascist period, are thegovernment.It is, frankly, an uphill fight. The pro-fascist elementsamong the Italian people in the Americas are not small.Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu of Argentina went so faras to justify his Naziphile policy on the grounds that hehad to satisfy the large Italian population of that country.No doubt Guinazu's justification is largely an excuse, butthere should be no doubt as to the allegiance of Italiansin the Americas.In our own country it is not enough to leave it to theF. B. I. to stop fascist activities among Italians. Theyare potential friends who can be won by the ItalianNational Committee to the cause of the United Nations.The unknown man who scribbled on the statue of Garibaldi is not an "enemy alien." Black is black and whiteis white.fessor Edwin E. Aubrey, the issue contains articles onaspects of religion and religious work with which Dr.Mathews was most concerned, including the social gospel,ethics and eschatology in the teaching of Jesus, theologyand social experience, theology and truth, the future tasksin theological education, and the outlook for churchunity.Salvage DriveLest anyone think the University is not participating inevery phase of the war effort, it should be noted thatthrough the cooperation of department heads and theDepartment of Buildings and Grounds salvage of scrappaper, metal, and rubber, is being stepped up to themaximum possible on the Quadrangles. In a way, thiswas a rather difficult feat, since the University has neverbeen exactly prodigal with its waste materials. Sincetime immemorial, paper has been leaving the Midwayfor reclamation at the rate of three-quarters of a tonto a ton a day. Since 1933, when the University acquiredthe first tin can baler in the Chicago area, tin canshave been shipped out at the rate of three tons a month.The present campaign, under the direction of MartinDonahue, salvage warden, has netted ten tons of scrapmetal in its first two months and is being carried on atan accelerated rate. Scrap metal from an institutionwith as many activities as the University might be expected to contain a good bit of variety, and it does.One week's heap included copper, brass, steel, aluminum,and cast iron, in forms ranging from intricate radio partsto a cast-off kiddy car.24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINENEWS OF THE CLASSES* IN THE SERVICE *Promotion of Simon L. Wolters,MD '35, to a captaincy at the FortBrady, Michigan, hospital has beenannounced. Lieut. William M. Lees,'35, MD '39, who was ward surgeonat the same' hospital has been transferred to another post.Lieut. Charles E. Hoy, '38, hasbeen assigned to the supply battalionof the 11th Armored division at CampPolk, Louisiana.Lieut. Allan K. Shackleton, '40,has been appointed aide to Brig. Gen.William K. Harrison, Jr., assistantcommander of the 78th "Lightning"division at Camp Butner, North Carolina.Donald L. Simon, AM '28, PhD'35, is a major with the Army AirForces, Denver, Colorado.Alumni listed at the KankakeeOrdnance Works are: Kenneth H.Fink, '40, supervising chemist of thegovernment laboratories; B. F. Gurney, '35, SM '38, assistant to Fink;and Clarence Arenberg, '42, rawmaterials chemist.Lieut. Franklin K. Gowdy, '26,MD '36, is in the Medical Corps ofthe Navy at San Diego, California.Stephen G. Proksa, '32, JD '34,is a private in the Combat Intelligence Infantry.On leave from the Henry PhippsInstitute in Philadelphia, Esmond R.Long, '11, PhD '19, MD '26, is alieutenant colonel in the MedicalCorps of the Army, in charge of a section on tuberrulosis, organized in theoffice of the Surgeon General. Long-says that it "would take more timethan there is to do the job right, butsome good progress is being madein prevention in this field, thanks tothe lesson from the last war."Chaplain Roger D. Winger, AM'20, is stationed at the Field ArtilleryReplacement Training Center, FortBragg, N.C.Lieut. James W. Brown, AM '39,is at the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.Lieut. Robert J. Hasterlik, '34,MD '38, is attached to the U.S.S.Zeilin.Eric T. Hagberg, '39, is an ensignin the Naval Reserve at Seattle, Wash.It is reported that Sgt. Damon C.Fuller, '35, is at an air base campsomewhere in northwest India.E. R. Bowie, '10, is a radiologist,as he was in the first World War, atthe station hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia. He writes: "Since I firstknew the Army I have been devotedto it and have always been in theReserve, on active duty from time totime as opportunity chanced. Mystock explanation of my devotion tothe Army is that to me it is the onetangible evidence of my country andsince I wish to serve my country inany way it desires, my service in theArmy is an expression of my love ofmy country." Bowie is chief of thex-ray service at the hospital, and atthe time of going on active duty wasclinical professor of radiology andacting head of the department atLouisiana State University MedicalSchool, as well as in private practice.Corp. Thomas Donovan, '39, isstationed at Fort Monmouth, N. J.Ensign Evon Z. Vogt, '41, is atthe Naval training school at Dartmouth College.Lieut. Karl Friedman, MD '37,has reported for duty at SelfridgeField, Michigan, base hospital.Arthur R. Bethke, '42, is at Harvard University in a combined Quartermaster officers' training andgraduate school of business course,leading to a commission in the ArmyQuartermaster Corps.Major Harry E. Parker, AM '28,DB '30, has been in the chaplaincyservice of the Canadian Army forthe last two years, and is at presentoverseas.Lieut. Col. John Huling, Jr., '17,has recently taken charge of the construction of an ordnance plant inOhio. He was formerly commandingofficer of the ordnance plant at Mor-gantown, West Virginia.Robert T. Meyer, '42, is with theArmy at Fort Bliss, Texas.Capt. Adolph J. Radosta, Jr., '23,JD '25, has reported for officer training with the Army Air Forces atMiami Beach, Florida.Those reported at the Naval training school for newly commissioned officers at Treasure Island, San Fran cisco, are: Ensigns Henry C. Lavine,'39; Stanley R. Korshak, '31; Vernon L. Kerns, '40, and Lieut.Charles M. Rush, JD '36.Seymour D. Edwards, '38, JD '41,is a private in the Army, stationed atFort Warren, Wyoming.Raymond B. Sawyer, PhD '30, isa radio engineer with the SignalCorps of the Sixth Corps Area, Chicago.Nathan H. Morris, '35, is in theArmy at Chanute Field, Illinois.Brig. Gen. Ward H. Maris, '15, isin command of the Field Artillery ofthe 95th Division at Camp Swift,Texas. Serving in the first WorldWar, he remained in the Army andhas steadily advanced in rank. Othersrecently reported at Camp Swift arethe following: Lieut. Col. John H.A. Borleis, '32, divisional chaplain;Lieut. James Majarakis, '37, MD'40, regimental surgeon; Corp. Robert E. Merriam, '39, MA '40; HarryL. Smith, '41; Robert W. Janes, '38,AM '39; William H. Doty, '39; andAlbert G. Sharpe.Ralph W. Rogers, MA '33, is achaplain with the Army.Lieut. Philip R. Lawrence, '40,LLB '42, is in the Army, stationed atVallejo, California.Morris Parloff, AM '42, is withthe 52nd Training Batallion, CampRobinson, Arkansas. Jim Lawson,'41, is with the 71st Battalion at thesame camp.Bert Beck, AM '42, is with the AirCorps technical school at KeeslerField, Mississippi.Lieut. Col. R. H. Jeschke, '17, ison active duty with the Marine Corps.Lieut. C. H. Janson, '30, MD '35,of the Medical Corps is at the stationhospital at Fort Sheridan, practicinganesthesiology.Dean Krueger, AM '42, is training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Stephen Walsh, 41, reports thathe is at a Chicago television stationtraining for radio work. He adds thathe is "concentrating on slide rule andvectors and it is no military secret thatthe Japs are going to feel that attackof vectors very soon."Honors for making the highest general average aboard the U.S.S. PrairieState, New York midshipman school, have been awarded to Ensign Sam A.Myar, Jr., a recent graduate of the University of Chicago ['40, LL.B. '421.Ensign Myar also held the highest grade for seamanship in his graduatingclass and for this was granted a sword donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, withthe chief of staff of the third Naval district delivering a speech and the prize.As a result of these grades, the chief of staff of the New York Naval districtpresented his commission to Myar and his Naval regiment marched in hishonor during their last dress parade.— Memphis Commercial-Appeal.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25Robert Harrison, AM '42, is atthe recruit training center at GampCrowder, Missouri.Jack Davis, AM '42, is at the CoastGuard training station at Groton,Conn.John Gandy, AM '42, is with anengineers regiment at Camp Shelby,Mississippi.Col. Cecil E. Combs, '33, whowas graduated from West Point in1934, has taken part in air engagements in the Philippines, NetherlandsEast Indies, Burma, and India, andhas already received several decorations, including the DistinguishedFlying Cross. He specializes in theArmy's largest planes.Gustav E. Johnson, '33, PhD '40,is a captain in the Air Corps at Gulf-port, Mississippi.Col. Horace M. Francis, '04, MD'06, is Army medical officer at thePort of Embarkation, Portland, Oregon.Eugene H. Adelman, MA '37, is astudent weather observer receivingtraining for the Army Air Forces,stationed with the Fourth WeatherSquadron at Harding Field, BatonRouge, La.Bernard Apple, '38, is with theArmy's finance office at New Orleans,Louisiana.William Doty, '39, inducted intothe Army before Pearl Harbor, hasearned his silver bar at Fort Benningand is now an Infantry lieutenantwith the 95th Division at Camp Swift,Texas.THE CLASSES1873Elbert H. Sawyer, DB, Civil Warveteran, sends this bit of news abouthimself: "My daughter and I gave25 books for the library of the aviation school at Chickasha recently, andmy church gave a fine contributionto the chaplain of Fort Sill for thebenefit of our soldier boys in trainingfor field service at our old artillerystation. Only a few months ago Ivisited Fort Sill with a party of WorldWar veterans, and was made a guestof honor at dinner in the mess hallof the officers, and was called uponfor an after-dinner speech. The chiefof staff gave me the compliment ofreviewing the troops of the fort asthey marched out on the paradeground equipped for battle."Mr. Sawyer adds that his newbook, Life and Teachings of Sawyer,has just come off the press, and concludes: "You may think of me as thedean of the old alumni who has stillan interest in the activities of ourAlma Mater." EASTMAN COAL CO.Established 1902YARDS ALL OVER TOWNGENERAL OFFICES342 N. Oakley Blvd.Telephone Seeley 4488Tailored Uniforms Made to MeasureWomen Doctors and Nurses, Stock sizeInterne SuitsANEDA McSWEENY1910 So. Ogden AvenueSEEley 3734 Evenings by AppointmentECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKSGalvanized Iron and Copper CornicesSkylights. 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Quantrell is identifiedwith the standard products committee of the War Production Board inWashington. He reports that he findsmany other University of Chicagomen there doing important work,"and in ability they are certainly acredit to the U. or C."1906Frank G. Lewis, AM, PhD, '07,reports that he is writing a Salyer(Sellier)-Ege-Russell genealogy, ancestral lines of his wife. The originalwill go to the Institute of AmericanGenealogy.1907The Metropolitan Trust Companyof Chicago hasacquired theservices of PaulM . O'Donnell, JD '09,as trust officer.He is a formermember of theboard of theIllinois StateBar Associationand at presentis a m'ember of the character and fitness committee of the Chicago BarAssociation. O'Donnell is a memberof the Executive Committee of theCollege Division.1910John C. Pryor, JD, of Burlington,Iowa, has been elected president ofthe National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, anorganization engaged in the draftingof model statutes and promoting thepassage of these statutes by state legislatures.George Rossman, JD, a judge ofthe Supreme Court of Oregon, hasbeen elected chairman of the sectionon judicial administration of theAmerican Bar Association.1911Ralph H. Kuhns, MD, '13, hasbeen appointed psychiatrist-in-chicffor the Army examining board at LosAngeles, the territory covering halfof California and parts of Nevada andArizona.The engagement of Helen J. Wilkto Fred Preiss has been announced byher parents, Benjamin Wilk andMrs. Wilk of New York City.26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEW.B. 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Medical Hydrology andPhysical Therapy. Also Elect rologisis Associationof Illinois$1.75 per Treatment for HairTelephone FRA 4885Suite 1705, Stevens Bldg.17 No. State St.Perfect Loveliness Is Wealth in Beauty 1914Jeannette Thielens Phillipscompleted last summer three years ofservice as the only woman memberof the board of directors of the Chicago Association of Life Underwriters, and was elected chairman of thewomen's division. She is a volunteerstaff assistant in the speakers bureauof the Chicago chapter of the RedCross and is doing platform work andradio broadcasting to promote thesale of war savings bonds.1915Irma H. Gross writes that she isstill at Michigan State College as headof the department of home management and child development. She wasloaned to the U. S. Bureau of HomeEconomics for the spring term of1942, to do field work on a study offamily spending and saving in wartime.1916Donald L. Colwell is with theWar Production Board as chief of thenon-ferrous metal section of the conservation division.1917Mary E. Neblick, AM '30, writes:"No one can possibly make news outof me. I am merely beginning mytwenty-third year of teaching English in Springfield (Illinois) highschool. Moreover, I still like doing it.Of course, that wouldn't be news, or— would it, now? I leave it- to you."We say, yes, definitely.J. F. Pyle, AM '18, PhD '25, hasresigned after seventeen years as deanof the Robert A. Johnston College ofBusiness Administration of MarquetteUniversity to accept a similar positionin the College of Business and PublicAdministration of the University ofMaryland at College Park.1919Sumner G. Veazey has movedfrom Wisconsin to Pasadena, and sayshe is in California "to get close to thisJap situation." He hopes to be in theservice or defense work soon.1921Enola B. Hamilton, MA '36,writes as follows: "This is somewhatbelated news. My reason for notsending it in sooner is because thereare so many important people amongthe alumni of Chicago University thatI thought you would not have time togive attention to us lesser folk. . . .For a long time I have been interestedin needlework, but work during vacation prevented my doing what Iwanted to do — to make a wall hanging different from any that I had everseen. Two summers ago I put three WM. FECHT ELECTRIC CO.CONTRACTORS - ENGINEERSLIGHT & POWER CONSTRUCTIONTelephoneW. 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We want to addthat we think the wall hanging (aknitted reproduction of the St. LouisCathedral in New Orleans) was awork of art and that it won honorablemention by McCalls.1923Katherine Stidham, MA '29, is arating examiner for the U. S. CivilService Commission in Chicago.1924Laura L. Stephens is assistantprofessor of speech and drama at MillsCollege, California.1925Vanderbilt University has announced the appointment of PhilipG. Davidson, Jr., AM, PhD '29, asdean of the senior college and graduate school.It has been announced that J. Ken-field Morley, an executive of theOffice Equipment Company, wasawarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the Blackstone CollegeKenwood 1352WE DELIVER ANYWHEREKIDWELLALL PURPOSE FLORISTJAMES E. KIDWELL826 E. 47th St., Chicago, 111.MOFFETT STUDIOCAMERA PORTRAITS OF QUALITY30 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago . . State 8750OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERU. oi C. ALUMNIHIGHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESENGRAVERS SINCE 1906 • + WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES -i+ ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED H? ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE -» DALHEIM &CO.ZOSA W. LAKE ST., CHICAGO. of Law. Morley has recently gone intothe service.1927Ruth M. Kellogg, AM, tells usthat she is in Washington as counselorin charge of the employee relationssection, civilian personnel, in theQuartermaster Corps, where there areabout 3800 civilian employees. Sheadds: "It's a challenging job and allthe more interesting because of thesplendid officers with whom we areworking."Clarence H. Salter, AM, is assistant personnel examiner of theIllinois State Civil Service Commission, Springfield.J. Frederick Burgh, vice president and business manager of NorthPark College, Chicago, spent fiveweeks during the summer in one ofthe workshops and says he "enjoyedbeing on the campus of the University."1928Oscar K. Dizmang, MA, servedas visiting professor of marketing andeconomics at the University of Idahothe past summer. He is entering hiseighth year as professor of economicsand business administration at Whit-worth College, Spokane, Washington.1929It has been announced that Virginia Conn White, MA, is dietitianand house manager at Milwaukee-Downer College, Wisconsin.Peg Mygdal (nee Pringle) reports that she and her husband, Karl,'28, "are concluding^ the first ten yearsof their married life as residents ofForth Worth, Texas, where Karlserves The Pure Oil Company as district geologist for north and westTexas. Pursuing the tantalizing andelusive fortunes of oil, the Mygdalsrepatriated in 1938 after a five-yearhitch with Standard Oil in easternVenezuela, returning to domestic geology in Wichita Falls, Texas. Two yearsago they moved to Fort Worth andwith confidence unbecoming to a geologist bought a house and consideredthemselves citizens. Kathryn, eight,has braids, a bicycle, and a passionfor horses. Billy (the Kid) , 23 monthsold, is somewhat hampered by a strongresemblance to his father, alleviatedby a sunny nature that makes him theneighborhood pet. Peg is a nurse'saide and Karl meets at station 10with the auxiliary firemen."Mortimer P. Masure, AM '30, isemployed at the U. S. Western Regional Research Laboratory at Albany, California, on developing information on frozen foods for use bythe Army and Navy. 1930Theodore W. Mathews, AM, isassistant director of the downtowncollege of the University of Tulsa.Paul W. Lange, AM '33, PhD '40,is assistant principal of the Froebelschool, Gary, Indiana.1931Floyd W. Hendricks, AM, hasbeen made principal of the Juniorand Senior high school at Kirkwood,Missouri.William C. Hoppes, PhD, of Bowling Green State University, spent sixweeks in the summer as visiting professor at Northern Michigan Collegeof Education, Marquette.1932Isabel J. Peterson is teachingfourth grade in the public schools ofGlencoe, Illinois.Spencer D. Albright, AM, writes :"Many events have occur ed in ourlives since leaving Chicago sevenyears ago. Teaching includes two anda half years at the University ofArkansas, two years at the Universityof Texas (and the PhD from theUniversity of Texas), one at theTexas Technological College, and twoat Reed College in Portland. I haveJOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in all its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. Sup. 0900—0901Retail Deliveries Daily and SundaysQuality and Service Since 1882Sirifk00^€.m CreamTMf.TfSWMmTfm&fZMiEXTRA CAREMAKES THEEXTRA GOODNESSA Product ofSWIFT & CO.7409 S. State StreetPhone Radcliffe 740028 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINErecently become a member of the faculty of the University of Washingtonin Seattle." Albright's recent book,The American Ballot, published bythe American Council on Public Affairs, has received very complimentary reviews.1933Harold P. Claus, MA, is with thesafety department of the Green Riverordnance plant, Dixon, Illinois.As assistant professor of mathematics" Watson M. Davis, PhD, islocated at Cornell College, MountVernon, Iowa.Floyd E. Masten, is chief of theaccessions department of the ArmyMap Service Library, War Department, in Washington.1934Beatrice Achtenberg, AM '36, isan instructor at Washington University, St. Louis, in the George W.Brown school of social work.Harley P. Tripp, PhD, is professor of chemistry at Shurtleff College,Alton, Missouri.Sam Perlis, SM '36, PhD '38, iswith the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California.Russell Beam, PhD, is with theemployee relations office of the WarProduction Board, Washington.William C. Korfmacher, PhD,associate professor of classical languages and secretary of the department at St. Louis University, has beenelected president of the MissouriAcademy of Science.1936Carl L. Byerly, AM, is principalof the Wydown high school, Clayton,Missouri.Margaret L. Moser, MA, is teaching history at Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Eleanor Volberding,, MA, is research associate in the University'sstudy in human development, at Morris, Illinois.Mildred K. McCullough reportsthat she is an instructor of nurses atthe Los Angeles County General Hospital. She is teaching nursing arts,mental hygiene, and child psychology.1937After serving for three years ascounselor at the University TestingBureau at the University of Minnesota, Frances O. Triggs, AM, hastaken up her duties as clinical counselor in the personnel bureau and associate in psychology at the University of Illinois. Besides her work ascounselor she will be in charge of thework in remedial reading and how tostudy. At DePauw University, Greencastle,Indiana, Robert E. Elder, MA, is director of publicity.1938Adolph Weinstock, MD, is medical officer at the Veterans Administration at Fort Custer, Michigan.1939Winifred Winsor is a junior qualifications analyst for the Civil ServiceCommission in Washington.Ruth Cline, PhD, is teachingEnglish at Wright Junior College,Chicago.Yale Brozen has accepted a position as assistant professor of economicsat Illinois Institute of Technology,Chicago.As senior statistician John H.Smith, MBA, PhD '41, is workingwith the Bureau of Labor Statisticsin Washington.Richard P. Metcalf, PhD, is anassistant chemist with the Bureau ofShips, Navy Department, Washington.1940The appointment of Samuel M.Strong, PhD, as assistant protessorof sociology at Tulane University,New Orleans, has been announced.Riley H. Pittman, AM, writesthat he is entering his third year asdean of men at Texas Christian University. His wife (Janet Hayes, AM'41) is executive secretary of theAMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits itswork to the university and college field.It is affliated with the Fisk TeachersAgency of Chicago, whose work covers allthe educational fields. Both organizationsassist in the appointment of administratorsas well as of teachers.The Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Park 6324LEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: Hyde Park 9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVER young women's department of theY.W.C.A. of Fort Worth.Hudson Jost, PhD, is assistantprofessor and research associate atAntioch College, Yellow Springs,Ohio.Estelle Hukel Baker, AM, is anengineering draftswoman with theDepartment of Commerce in Washington.1941Celia Earle Odell, it is reportedby her father, G. Harold Earle, '11,owns her own plane and is registeredin the Civilian Air Patrol. She is living at Iowa City, where her husband,Lester D. Odell, '34, MD '38, is amember of the State College hospitalstaff. Celia is also employed at thehospital as laboratory technician.Richard L. Williams, AM, is professor of history and biology at SiouxFalls College, South Dakota.John L. Harr, PhD, is teachingAmerican and Latin- American historyat Rhode Island State College, Kingston.Gorden S. Watts, MA, has beenmade head of the remedial readingdepartment of the Manlius School,Manlius, N. Y.Stratton Buck, PhD, is associateprofessor of French and head of thedepartment at the University of theSouth, Sewanee, Tennessee.Evalyn Belle Bayle, PhD, has become assistant editor for the WebsterPublishing Company at St. Louis,Missouri.Florine Thielens Phillips hasbeen transferred by her company,American Airlines, to Dallas, Texas,where she continues in the trafficreservations department.Foster Evans, PhD, has returnedto the University of Colorado afterhaving been at the Radiation Laboratory of the University of Californiaengaged in war research.1942Donald C. Bergus is at the American Legation at Baghdad, Iraq.Josephine Smith Schoff, AM, isa teacher of mathematics at the Juniorand Senior high school, Potterville,Michigan.Minna Hansen, PhD, recentlydean of girls in the Denfield highschool of Duluth, has been appointeddirector of Monroe Hall, girls' dormitory at Western Illinois State Teachers College, Macomb. She will alsoassist in remedial reading work, counseling, and personnel work.Teaching philosophy and psychology William E. Felch, PhD, is atDuluth junior college, Minnesota.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESOCIAL SERVICEA. Wayne McMillen, PhD '31,professor of social service administration, was out of residence during thesummer quarter but has returned tothe University.Announcements have been receivedof the Nashville School of SocialWork of Vanderbilt University, Scar-ritt College, and Peabody College,which is opening this fall. Some ofthe faculty of the school are Lora LeePederson, AM '39, acting directorand professor of social work; VallieSmith Miller, AM '41, associateprofessor of social work and directorof field work instruction; RebaChoate, AM '42, associate professorof public welfare administration; JimJarrell Chiles, AM '39, associateprofessor of social case work and fieldwork supervisor; and Mark Hale,who has been on the faculty of S. S. A.for the past year, associate professorof statistics and social research.A Jane Mullenbagh Moore, AM/ '31, instructor in field work, who hasbeen on leave for the last nine monthsworking with the aid to dependentchildren program in Cook Countyand at the Council of Social Agencies,returned to the school at the beginning of the summer quarter and hasbeen supervising students in the children's field.Virginia Clary, AM '38, who hassupervised students at the school fora number of years, has accepted aposition with the Traveler's Aid Association, USO.Eleanor Kimble, PhD '31, hasaccepted a position at the school ofsocial work which is being establishedat our Lady of the Lake College inSan Antonio, Texas.Evelyn Smith, AM '32, has lefther position with the Wisconsin Children's Aid Society to become thedirector of the children's section ofthe Council of Social Agencies inChicago.Roger Cumming, AM '36, hasaccepted a position with the Officeof Price Administration in the districtoffice, St. Paul, Minnesota.Jules Berman, AM '37, is workingwith the Social Security Board,Washington, D. C.Thompson Fulton, AM '37, hasjoined the staff of the social protection division of the Office of Defense,Health, and Welfare, Washington,D. C.Ruth Gibson Higgins, AM '37,has accepted a position as case worker, St. Mary's Home for Children in Chicago.Olive Walker Swinney, AM '37,is now executive secretary of thecivilian mobilization division of theDefense Council of Washington, D. C.Earl Klein, PhD '38, has beenmade director of the school of socialwork at Louisiana State University.Lynne Fowler, AM '38, has beenmade a supervisor with the AmericanRed Cross, Chicago.Charles Leopold, AM '38, is fieldrepresentative for the Office of Defense, Health, and Welfare, in KansasCity, Missouri.Elma Phillipson, AM '38, has be come director of the social servicedepartment of the Children's Hospitalin Washington, D. C.Harry Chester, AM '39, has beenappointed personnel administrator,Department of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.Ruth Cooper, AM '39, has left theschool of social work at the University of California, Berkeley, to join thecrippled children's division of theU. S. Children's Bureau.Helen McCarter Jambor, AM'39, is a case worker with the FamilyService Society in San Francisco.Sarah Butts, AM '40, has accepted an overseas appointment with30 THE UN1Vthe American Red Cross. Otherswith the same organization as fielddirector or assistant field director are:Harold Jambor, AM '39, at FortMason, California; Harry Isenberg,AM '42, Oakland, California; EugenePrybylski, AM '42, at EllingtonField, Houston, Texas ; and ClarenceHille, AM '39, at Davis-MonthanField, Tucson, Arizona, who recentlyreturned from Hawaii.Sarah Hallock, AM '40, is research secretary of the TuberculosisAssociation in Washington, D. C.David Hunter, AM '40, is administrative assistant with the Office ofPrice Administration, Regional Office,Dallas, Texas.Farrand Livingston, AM '40, hasgone to South Dakota where he isworking with the state Department ofPublic Welfare and also teaching andsupervising field work students at theUniversity of South Dakota. .George Naylor, AM '40, has takena position at the state school for boysin Virginia.Everett Pettee, AM '40, has lefthis position as assistant professor ofnaval science at the University ofMinnesota to go to Smith College,where he is to help in the trainingprogram of the WAVES.Marian White, AM '40, is a medical social worker at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.Marjorie Case, AM '41, has joinedRICHARD H. WEST CO,COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331 TelephoneW. Jackson Blvd. Monroe 3192Ajax Waste Paper Co.2600-2634 W. Taylor St.Buyers of Any QuantityWaste PaperScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CallMr. B. Shedroff, Van Buren 0230STANDARDBOILER and TANK CO.524 WEST 42nd STREETTelephone BOUIevard 5886 ERSITY OF CHICAGOthe staff of the Social Security Boardin Washington, D. C.David Wead, AM '41, has taken aposition as case worker with theCleveland Associated Charities.Mabel Fend, AM '42, has accepteda position as social worker with theCradle Society in Evanston, Illinois.Among the students who receivedthe master's degree at the spring,1942, convocation, the following havetaken positions in private familyagencies, Caroline Babcock, UnitedCharities of Chicago; Yvonne Ferguson, Family Welfare Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Harold Frye,Child and Family Service, Peoria,Illinois; Susie Mathews, St. LouisProvident Association; Anne AdelePayne, American Red Cross, Chicago; Claire Stong, CommunityService Society, New York City;Anne Winslow, Army base hospital,American Red Cross, working fromSt. Louis, Missouri.Those who have taken positions inchild welfare are the following:Loren Belknap, Illinois Children'sHome and Aid Society, Chicago;Sylvia Fidelholtz, probation officer,Juvenile Court, Cleveland; PaulJacobs, director of social service,Lutheran Child Welfare Association,Addison, Illinois; Charles Litteria,St. Charles School for Boys, St.Charles, Illinois; Dena McMackin,supervisor, Children's Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty toChildren, Buffalo, New York; andLouise Volcker, County Department of Public Welfare, Tacoma,Washington.The following have gone into medical social work : Mary Jane Gilkey,Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee; Miriam Martius,American Red Cross, HofT GeneralHospital, Santa Barbara, California;Anna Mathews, Washington University Clinics, St. Louis, Missouri;Bernice Shield, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City; Bernice KernSimon, University of Chicago Clinics ;and Selma Weber, assistant directorof admitting department, MichaelReese- Hospital, Chicago.Others are Mortimer Goodman,research worker, Home for Aged Jews,Chicago; Julia Latane, Board ofPublic Welfare, Farmville, Virginia;Iwalani Smith, Department of Social Security, Honolulu; RobertStolhand, social investigator, Milwaukee, Department of Public Welfare; and Clara Willman, executivesecretary, Anne Arundel County Welfare Board, Annapolis, Maryland.Of the students who received the MAGAZINEd A. M. degree at the summer, 1942,convocation, the following have takena positions in private family agencies:e Marjorie Krauel, Family and Children's Agency, Peoria, Illinois; Lil-^ lian Mosee, St. Louis Providente Association; Elsa Reinhardt, districtsuperintendent, United Charities, Chicago; and Theresa Scheinhorn,family case worker, National Refugee>' Service, New York City.e Jy Those who have taken positions ind child welfare are the following:r- Elizabeth Baker, Children's Bureau,i- Richmond, Virginia; Sara Bodding-i, house, Institute for Juvenile Re-1 3 search, Chicago; Zelma Felten,ls Children's Aid Society, Norristown,E Pennsylvania; Jean Hood win and[~ Esther Levit sky, aid to dependentY children program, Cook County. Bu-' reau of Public Welfare, Chicago;l> Avis Kristenson, Child WelfareQ Association, Omaha, Nebraska; AnnaSundwall, chief of child welfaren services, Department of Public Wei-• fare, Salt Lake City, Utah; Eliza's beth B. Tyler, assistant child welfarej worker, Department of Social Wel-:> fare, Belmont, New York; and BessL R. Williams, child welfare services,-> U. S. Children's Bureau, Washington.^ The following have gone into medi-t, cal social work or psychiatric social\} work: Pearl Axelrod, social service,- department, Langley Porter Clinics,E. J. Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planoqraph — Offset — Printing73! Plymouth CourtWabath 8182MacCormac School ofCommerceBusiness Administration and SecretarialTrainingDAY AND EVENING CLASSESAccredited by the National Association of Accredited Commercial Schools.1170 E. 63rd St. H. P 2130T. A. REHNQUIST CO. CONCRETEV-// FLOORS\rvr SIDEWALKS ^\\ V MACHINE FOUNDATIONSw EMERGENCY WORKv ALL PHONESEST. 192» Wentworth 44226639 So. Vernon Ave.THE UN IVSan Francisco; Hester Dickerson,,child guidance clinic, Kansas City,Missouri; Elizabeth Kessler, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago;and Evelyn Wohlers, social servicedepartment, Washington UniversityClinics, St. Louis.Others are: Edgar Guilford,assistant head, Northeast Neighborhood House, Minneapolis, Minnesota;Agnes Smart, on faculty of Schoolof Social Work, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; and Alice A.Smith, teacher, public schools, St.Louis, Missouri.ENGAGEMENTSBarbara Mittelman, '42, toRobert M. Rees, an aviation cadet atTulare, California.Marjory Hibbard, '42, toCharles A. Paltzer, '41.Catherine L. Kellam, '42, ofEasr/^Crikago, Indiana, to Alan P.Graves, '42, of Dubuque, Iowa.Lucy P. Trumbull, '35, to Frederick M. Owens, Jr., MD '39. Shehas been with the Library of International Relations in Chicago for thepast two years and he is assistantresident in surgery at the University'sclinics.Esther Rosenberg, '42, andJoseph Savitt, 42, announced inAugust. No date has been set forthe wedding.MARRIAGESGeraldine L. Willens to Cadet Norman J. Crocker, 38, of the ArmyAir Corps.Kate S. Mason, '33, to Lieut.Thomas A. Cooper, at Henderson,Kentucky, on September 14.Mary Blanchard, '41, to H. K.Livingston, PhD '41, on July 11 inSouth Bend, Indiana. At home,Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.Patricia Daly, '42, to WilliamFielding Ogburn, Jr., '41, on September 26 at Hilton Chapel. At home,1511 Sayre Street, Midland, Michigan, where he is working in a defensefactory.Elizabeth T. Brownlee, '38, AM'40, to Lieut. Horace M. Gezon,MD '40, in Pittsburgh, Penna. Athome in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Heis stationed at the Naval MedicalCenter, Bethesda.Lucille M. Ott to Louis E. Shaef-fer, '38, in Hilton Chapel on September 12. He has been in the detachment medical department at Fort SamHouston, Texas, and expects to enterofficers candidate school in the fieldof general administration. ERSITY OF CHICAGOMurial K. Frodin, '42, to SpofTordG. English, research associate in theUniversity's metallurgical laboratory,on September 18 in Chicago. Athome, 5455 South Blackstone, Chicago.Charlotte V. Anderson to Lieut.H. Todd Stradford, '36, MD '38, onJuly 11. He is now at the Navy recruiting station in New York City.Annabeth Hamity, '42, to EnsignHilliard S. Graham of the naval training school at Northwestern University on September 4. At home, Sara-nac Hotel, Chicago.Helen L. Bickert, '41, to JohnL. Argall, '41, in January. He isstationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming, atPOND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHo oven TypewritingMultigraphingAddressograph Service MimeographingAddressingMailingHighest Quality Service Minimum PricesAll Phones 418 So. 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Gann to Andrew R.Anderson, MD '34, on June 31.At home, 1 Collier Road, N.W.,Atlanta, Georgia. He is a psychiatrist at the Lawson General Hospital.Ellen J. Teare, '25, to Mark F.McNown on June 20. They areliving in Augusta, Wisconsin, although she will be teaching thisschool year in Indiana.Catherine McDermott to WilliamW. McLaury, '38, on August 8 inChicago. At home on South Shoredrive, Chicago.Shirley J. Borman, '42, to RobertC. Thompson, on August 8. He isin the Army Air Corps.Jeanne R. Scharhau, '42, to JohnE. Bex, on June 27. At home, South-moor Hotel, Chicago.Louise Waterbury of Berkeley, California, to H. Quayle Petersmeyer,'39, on May 26. He is a pilot withthe Army Air Force training detachment at Visalia, California.Esther L. Weber, '34, to HughW. Handsfield, in the cathedral ofGarden City, Long Island, on April20. At home, 333 East 43rd Street,New York City. She has applied forofficers training in the WAAC.Paula Shaw of Gary, Indiana, toPaul A. Wagner, '38, in BondChapel, June 13. He is an ensignin the Navy and they are living inNewport, R. I.Ann M. Hewitt to John A. Larrabee, MD '42, in June. At homein Portland, Oregon.Frances I. Sells to Robert A.Ryan, Jr., MD '42, on March 20.At home, Mountain Grove, Missouri.Beatrice Hilton to James E. Moulton, PhD '41, on June 20 at Evanston. At home in Evanston.32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEFrances Wotring to Robert H.Thompson, '14, JD '16, on May 7.At home in Chicago.Joyce F. Sweeney to Arthur JohnFlory, '37, on August 7 at Wauwa-tosa, Wisconsin. At home, 942 N.Cass Street, Milwaukee.Marion R. Sibley to John M.Bracken, '37, on July 30 at BondChapel. At home at Leesville, Louisiana. He is stationed at Camp Polkas a lieutenant with a firing battery,serving as assistant executive.BIRTHSTo John R. Howell, '25, andMrs. Howell, a daughter on July1 in Cleveland, Ohio.To Alexander J. Morin, '41, andMrs. Morin (Emily Shield, '41) adaughter, Elizabeth Alexandra, onSeptember 10 in Washington, D. C.To Charles C. Haugh, '34, AM'36, and Mrs. Hauch (RuthadeleLa Tourrette, AM '39), their firstchild, Priscilla Mayleda, on July 25.The Hauchs are living in Bloomington, Indiana.To Forrest M. Swisher, MD '40,and Mrs. Swisher (Lois Hay, '40)of Hot Springs, New Mexico, a son,Charles Lee, II, on September 2.To Jack L. Hough, '32, PhD '40,and Mrs. Hough (Alice E. Carlson,'32), a son, Richard Anton, on September 4 in Houston, Texas. Richardis a grandson of Anton J. Carlson,emeritus professor of physiology, andof Luin W. Hough of the OrientalInstitute. DEATHSJennie N. Bubler, '35 on July 27.Paul L. K. Gross, '22, SM '25,PhD '26, in September.Wade McNutt, '11, SM '12, ofHighland Park, Illinois, on August 28.Edward G. Lunn, '23, formerlyassistant director of research and engraving development at the Bureauof Printing and Engraving, Washington, on September 18 at NiagaraFalls, N. Y.Harold Veblen, '09, on July 13.John G. Meachem, MD '65, oldest living graduate of Rush MedicalCollege, on September 10 at Racine,Wisconsin.Marion N. Thayer, MD '02, onMay 13 at Marion, Indiana.Bartlett Cormack, '22, playwright and newspaperman of BeverlyHills, on September 16 in Phoenix,Arizona.Worthy P. Sterns, PhD '00, retired economist of Washington, D. C,on May 17.Robert H. Ruff, '17, of CentralCollege, Fayette, Missouri, on May 5.Hubert E. Brown, AM '31, of Indianapolis, on March 10.Franklyn C. Sherman, '95, DB'98, on May 3 in Cleveland. Beforehis retirement in 1941, Rev. Mr.Sherman had served 14 years asrector of Grace Episcopal Church inCleveland, and later was made honorary canon of Trinity Cathedral. Hewas also nationally knows for hiswork in the establishment of theAmerican Guild of Health.Joseph H. Downing, MD '82, onMay 19 at Rising City, Nebraska.William D. Schermerhorn, AM'15, of Evanston on April 19.Ithimer M. Casebeer, MD '93, ofClinton, Indiana, on May 4.HOWARD F. 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