THE UNIVERSITYOFCHICAGO MAGAZINEMAY 19 4 5LETTERSEDUCATIONAL THINKINGI have never joined the AlumniAssociation of the University of Chicago for one very definite reason andthat is the attacks Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, President of the University, makes upon the type of workI am in, namely, vocational education. Very shortly after I had received my bachelor's degree at theUniversity, I read some of the comments made by Dr. Hutchins. Theseattacks seemed to increase and Collier's magazine of December 30, 1944,carried another one of those attacks.The University of Chicago should bea school sufficiently large and established to such a degree that the President should not deem it necessary toattack some other type of education.I enjoyed the work that I got atthe University of Chicago. I metsome very great instructors. Some ofthe professors were men of the University. Others were visiting professors who were there for the summer, for I secured my degree by attending summers. I just wish that Icould regard the President of theUniversity and his writings as greatas some of the professors whom I hadthe pleasure of having while attending there.I have a son who is in the Navyand whom I would like to see go tothe University of Chicago, but againI question whether I would ever encourage him to go to a school ofwhich the President attacks the typeof work the father of that son maybe using to earn a living.I haven't any quarrel with thethinking of Dr. Hutchins, but mycomplaint is his desire to come outin the print with that thinking.G. J. Ehart, '25Director, Vocational andAdult Education Schooljanesville, WisconsinThe Magazine has followed methrough quite a bit of miles and Ihave enjoyed reading it. Particularlyhave I been interested in PresidentHutchins' thinking about postwareducation. It would seem to be offirst importance that all educationaleffort "from the cradle to grave" bedevoted to teaching the art and science of living together in peace. Perhaps we need to burn our books in America, too, and burn a great dealof our educational thinking. Thispresent war came out of the mosthighly "educated" generation of modern times, I believe. After eighteenmonths of foreign duty I am anxiously waiting some orders to returnto the States. We are a nostalgicpeople, I suppose, we Americans.Lt. Leon R. Gross, '29, JD '30MarianasFROM THE ETOA Chicago note. — Two of Dr. H.Gideon Wells' old pathology studentsmet some days ago under unusualcircumstances at the notorious concentration camp at Buchenwald incentral Germany. Lt. Col. ConnieHospers, PhD '32, MD '32, of the10 th Medical Laboratory (Army)was in from his headquarters runningdown a typhoid fever epidemic andI was studying tuberculosis there. Idon't know what Connie found whenhe got his specimens back, but theamount of tuberculosis I saw was appalling. The conditions under whichpatients were "hospitalized" in thatterrible place are beyond description.Col. Esmond Long,'11, PhD '19, MD '26Headquarters ETO US AThis is to serve official notice as tomy change of address. Send all freepublications to this address. You maycontinue to use my old address forany bills, appeals, etc.! Actually mychange means that Cole and Hudsonare once more eating lunch together.I am officially transferred from the297th and will work here on the history of the ETO. Naturally it is anassignment that appeals to me.Hugh was promoted to lieutenantcolonel and has a responsible positionin this project. He had extensivefield service with the Third Armyand will now work here. The firstday he took me around through theoffices I found another friend fromthe University, Lt. Bob Merriam, '35,whom I haven't seen for a long time.I think you remember my friendFitzpatrick of the Windermere.Visited him the other day. Am alsotrying to run down Stu Bradley, '29,JD '30, who is near by but he alwaysseems to be traveling.Now in the nature of a very personal request. My friend the colonelis anxious to obtain a copy of a reliable book on the mixing of drinks.Some "friends" in Germany left him in the possession of some interestingbottled goods and he feels that someworth while experimentation mightbe forthcoming. So if you can find alittle book of that nature without toomuch trouble and put it in the mail,we'd be very appreciative.Capt. Howard P. Hudson, '35ParisI have rounded out two years overseas, trekking from North Africa toSicily to Italy to France and now toBelgium and Holland, where I amserving as American Red Cross liaison with the British, Belgian, andNetherlands Red Cross. Attached toCivil Affair branch of the Army, weoperate as intermediary between themilitary and civilian agency, especially on problems of welfare andpublic health. Displaced persons andrefugees are our big job in the field.As an HQ liaison my chief job hasbeen organizing our sister Red Crosssocieties into useful channels of helpfulness to the military on the DPprogram. ARC supplies of clothingand medical supplies began coming inFebruary. At the moment it is chieflydoing a circuit of the distributioncenters, handshaking, receipt collecting, and in general seeing that thestuff gets to the neediest persons. It'sa grand free lance job (no one hasever aptly defined "liaison") and Ilove it. Am hoping for a quick flyhome before summer on a short tripand will try a look-see at the campusat that time.Marjorie J. Bomberger, AM '36BelgiumGOOD NEIGHBORI am holding the position of visiting professor in geology at the University of Costa Rica, and I am alsoconsultant to the Costa Rican government. As yet I have not learnedthe full signficance of this latter responsibility. The position is one ofthose sponsored by the State Department in Washington in its GoodNeighbor program.This is truly the land of manana.On arrival I immediately plungedinto preparation of lectures in general geology, got in touch with theuniversity authorities, and was readyto begin lectures when classes openedon March 15. From the time required to prepare the first few lectures I was aware that I would bemore than a little occupied. Well,I've been occupied at the same task(Concluded on inside back cover)REUNION PLANSTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOMAGAZINEVolume 37 May, 1945 Number 8PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONHOWARD W. MORT CHARLTON T. BECK BEATRICE J. WULFAssociate Editor Editor Associate EditorIN THIS ISSUE pageV-E Day, Robert M. Hutchins 3Voyage to the Indies, Milton Mayer 5 '*Witches' Broth with Animal Crackers, Frederick S. Breed - - 9The Renaissance Society, Cecil Smith 10News of the Quadrangles, Chet Opal 13Two Fiftieth Anniversaries 16One Man's Opinion, William V. Morgenstern 18News of the Classes -19THE COVER: Looking across the mainQuadrangles from a Cobb Hall cupola.Published by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago monthly, from Octoberto June. Office of Publication, 5733 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Annual subscription price $2.00. Single copies 25 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, atthe Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879. The American AlumniCouncil, B. A. Ross, advertising director, 22 Washington Square, New York, N. Y., is theofficial advertising agency of the Magazine.Wednesday, June 6A NATIONWIDE broadcast ofthe Human Adventure over theMutual Network, with Chicago alumni as WGN studio guests. Admissionby ticket. 8:50 P.M.Thursday, June 7ALUMNI-VARSITY BaseballGame. Greenwood Field, 3:30P.M.Annual Dinner, Order of the C.Bartlett Gymnasium, 7:00 P.M.A half hour of music by the University High School Orchestra, followed with an address by MarshallField, publisher and editor of the Chicago Sun, author of Freedom Is Morethan a Word, and trustee of the University. Mandel Hall, 8:30 P.M.Friday, June 8THE San Francisco Conferencewill be the subject of a roundtable discussion by members of thefaculty just back from the west coastand alumni commentators well versedin its accomplishments. Discussion tobe followed by a question and answersession. Mandel Hall, 8:30 P.M.Saturday, June" 9ALUMNAE of the University willgather in the parlors of IdaNoyes Hall at 12:15 P.M. for theannual June Breakfast, followed by ashort program. Smorgasbord, $1.00.Reservations should be made throughthe Alumni Office before June 7.Twentieth reunion and luncheon ofthe Class of 1925. Quadrangle Club,1:00 P.M.Informal get-together of alumni ofall years. Bartlett Gymnasium, 2 : 00 —4:00 P.M.Annual Alumni Assembly, with theaward of Citations, presentation ofthe Alumni Gift, and a report on theUniversity by President Hutchins.Mandel Hall, 4:00 P.M.Thirty-fifth University Sing. Hutchinson Court, 8:30 P.M.Sunday, June 10THE Alumni Association of International House invites the alumniof the University to attend a tea inthe Home Room of InternationalHouse. Refreshments will be served* followed by a symposium, "Discoveriesof the Latin American Student in theU.S.A.— 1945." 4:30-6:30 P.M.Wednesday, June 13SCIENTIFIC program in the University Clinics, sponsored by theAlumni Association of the School ofMedicine, 2:00-5:00 P.M.Annual dinner to the graduatingclass of the School of Medicine, sponsored by the faculty and alumni. Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Windermere, 6 : 30P.M.Annual dinner of the AlumnaeAssociation . of Nursing Education.Piccadilly Restaurant, 6:30 P.M.Thursday, June 14FORTY-SIXTH annual meeting. of the Beta of Illinois chapter ofPhi Beta Kappa. Tea and initiation.Ida Noyes Hall, 4:00 P.M.International House — Symbol of International CooperationV-E DAY• By ROBERT M. HUTCHINSForwardtoward thegreat communityTHIS is a day of thanksgiving and prayer. We givethanks that we have been delivered from the bloodiest war in history, thanks to those brave men,living and dead, who have been the means of our deliverance; and we pray that we may show humility, humanity,intelligence, and charity in using the victory they havewon for us.It is unnecessary to say that it is our duty to remainfirm to the end. And this means something more, andsomething more difficult, than merely persisting till thedefeat of Japan. All those regulations which have beennecessary to maintain the economy, to supply the troops,and to prevent impoverishment will now be doublyirksome. They will be doubly necessary. We can onlyimagine the devastation that has been wrought in Europe.For the first time in modern history whole cities, evenwhole provinces, have ceased to exist.We come now to the real test of our professed ideals,for the sake of which we claimed to enter the war. Wedid so, we said, not to save our own skins, but to makepossible a peaceful, just, human society, which shouldembrace all the peoples of the earth. If that is what wewant, we must now sacrifice, not our lives, but our goodsto save millions of our fellow-men from starvation andfrom the moral and political disintegration which starvation will carry with it. There are already some indicationsthat we shall be less willing to sacrifice our goods than wehave been our lives, or at least the lives of our soldiersand sailors.Educated people now come to the test of their education. Every educated person knows enough about humannature to know that war is brutalizing and that propaganda should be received with skepticism. In Napoleon'stime it was generally agreed, but fortunately not by thosein power, that the French were a guilty race who oughtto be exterminated. The slogan "Hang the Kaiser" seemsridiculous to us now. I venture to predict that the presentexcitement about war criminals will seem ridiculous afew years hence. At this juncture we can afford to remember what Edmund Burke said of us: "I do not know themethod of drawing up an indictment against a wholepeople."We cannot support the thesis that because Germanleaders acted illegally, therefore they should be treatedillegally. Two wrongs do not make a right. It is easy tounderstand why Mussolini was lynched; it is more difficult to see why Americans should gloat over it. We should remember that one of the points which Job urged in hisown favor when seeking relief from his own misfortuneswas that he did not rejoice when his enemy fell.We are now on the verge of forgetting history, to saynothing of Edmund Burke and Job, and forgetting common sense as well, for common sense tells us that if wedo not intend to kill off all the Germans and Japanese inthe world, and if we do not intend to rule them as slavesby military force till the end of time, we must treat themwith justice, and, if possible, with mercy. Otherwise welay here and now the foundations of the next war. Tofeed German citizens one-third of what the Americansoldier gets, to reduce Germany, in short, to a subsistencelevel; to make Germany a pastoral country; to split Germany into little states, so as to base the next war on itsinevitable desire to unite — all this is unhistorical andsenseless enough. When we think of the dreadful povertywhich Germany must undergo, even with the best of treatment, in the years ahead, and when we reflect on thepolitical consequences to us of that poverty, we shouldsee that it is in our own interest to do everything we canto mitigate its effects.The most distressing aspect of present discussions ofthe future of Germany and Japan is the glee with whichthe most inhuman proposals are brought forward andthe evident pleasure with which they are received by ourfellow-citizens. The general maxim of the educated personshould be, "Judge not that ye be not judged."The peace of the world depends upon the restorationof the German and Japanese people. The wildest atrocitystories cannot alter the simple truths that all men arehuman, that no men are beasts, that all men are thechildren of God, that no men are irrevocably damnedby God, and that all men are by nature members of thehuman community. These truths must dictate our attitude toward and decisions about the German and Japanese people. The misbehavior of an individual man, resulting from miseducation, misdirection, or stress of circumstances does not permit us to forget that he is a manor to treat him as a brute or to act like brutes ourselves.If we are going to have one good world, the Germansand the Japanese must somehow be incorporated into it.The basis of such incorporation must be justice andmercy.The educated person is under a duty not to forget hisTwo thousand students and faculty members of the University met in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on May 8 tosolemnize the announcement of victory in Europe. Participants in the ceremony of thanksgiving and prayer wereEdward Wood, student and returned war veteran, DeanGilkey, and President Hutchins, whose address we print.The Magazine welcomes comment.34 THE UNIVERSITY ' OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEeducation in facing the issue of world organization. Theeducated person knows that it is impossible to have worldorganization without paying for it. He will decide thequestion, not by harboring the hallucination that he canhave it without paying for it, but by asking whether thekind of organization he is likely to get is worth the pricehe will have to pay. If the organization is likely to promote war, he will rightly decide that it is worthless, andthat he will stay out of it if he can. If the organizationis likely to promote peace, he should be willing to giveup something in order to get the organization going.Once more, if he will not give up anything and yet insists that he wants peace through world organizationhe is a fool. The law of contradiction tells us that youcannot at one and the same time join a world organization and stay out of it. You cannot have all of theadvantages of membership in a world organization andnone of the disadvantages. You cannot have all theattributes of sovereignty and give up some of them.You cannot have a world organization and declineto have the world organized. In particular, you cannothave the world organized and insist that your countrywill remain unorganized. You can't, for example, havean effective world court, if you are going to insist thatthe court can't judge your country without its consent.You can't have an effective world organization if theorganization can act only when it is unanimous. This reduces world organization to a delusion and a snare:it looks like world organization; it misleads people intothinking that they can rely on the world organization,when actually the world is as disorganized as ever.Equally pernicious is the doctrine that all right lieswith the big powers and that their security and spheresof influence are the primary concern of the world. Thisis the surest foundation for the next war. If justice andlaw are the cement of society, they are the cement ofany world society. We cannot pretend to have a worldsociety unless all the members of it are equally subjectto law and unless the society is founded on justice, notto our allies alone, but also to our defeated enemies.An unjust peace and an unjust world organizationmake the next war inevitable and make it likely that thenext war will be unjust. The sense of injustice is thebest excuse for fighting, and an unjust world organization commits the members in advance to fight unjustwars.In the name, then, of those who have fought and diedfor us, let us pray and let us work that those powerswhich make men human may prevail over those whichrelate them to the beasts. In the hour of victory let usremember that vengeance is the Lord's. With full recognition of the dangers and the difficulties, but with confidence and resolution, let us struggle forward towardthe ultimate creation of the great community.V-E Day in Rockefeller Memorial ChapelVOYAGE TO THE INDIES© By MILTON MAYER, '29I HAVE just completed an extended study of the WestIndies — ten minutes each at the airports of Cama-guey, Cuba; Port au Prince, Haiti; and GiudadTrujillo, Dominican Republic; and a good three-quartersof an hour in Puerto Rico. Editor Beck has persuaded me — without much difficulty — that the alumniof the University of Chicago should be the first to receivethe "report" of my extended study of the Antilles andtheir people. 1The word "report" is put in quotation marks advisedly,as my research staff has not even begun to work on myseventeen packing-cases of notes, which were held up bythe U. S. Customs in Miami when some of the notestrickled out of one of the cases. This, then, is a "firstimpression," rather than a "scholarly report," and shouldbe read "accordingly."It has long been a thesis of Schleiermacher's and minethat some of the people in the U. S. of A. who are in a greatlather over the deplorable physical condition of the peopleof India or the deplorable moral condition of the peopleof Germany might profit by examining their own moralcondition and then inspecting the physical condition ofthe people on Indiana Avenue or Cabrini Street in Chicago. When they have purified their own souls and theliving quarters of their immediate neighbors, they mightthen turn, en route to India and Germany, to the Caribbean, where, for four centuries, the only good neighborhas been a half-dead neighbor.The Caribbean countries, like most of their LatinAmerican sister-countries, have never known anything butfascism since the incursion of European civilization andthe supervention of Norteamericano civilization. Thisfascism has, in different places and at different times,been colonial or native. In either event, it failed to holdthe attention of western civilization except as a techniqueof exploitation. The ten million West Indians have beenoppressed so long and so hard that they would not knowthe meaning of the four freedoms even if they could readthem.All the patterns of slavery, imperialism, injustice, andfinance capitalism may be found thus close to home bywhoever has that rare brand of astigmatism which enlarges objects near at hand rather than those far, faraway. There is even to be found — in Ciudad Trujillo,named for the dictator by the dictator — the marvels of*My study will probably be published under this title, with,°i course, the words "their" and "people" capitalized.2Cf. The Blizzard of 1888 and the Birth Rate of 1889, doctoral dissertation in sociology, Vassar College, 1891.3There was, and is, no manufacture to speak of. Tiny PuertoRico is our fifth best customer in the world for manufacturedgoods. Cf. Indian flax being spun in Manchester and sent backto India for sale. How is that for a footnote? Mussolini's Italy, including cleanliness, the absence ofbeggars from the streets, the reliability of transport schedules, and a high degree of journalistic development outside the field of politics — which does not exist.Puerto Rico — where I made my most extended study,as indicated above — is or ought to be of especial interestto us champions of the four freedoms, as Puerto Ricobelongs, lock, stock, and barrel of rum, to us. We haveowned it — not merely governed it, but owned it — forgoing on half a century now. Our proudest boast is thatits population has doubled. Likewise, India's under theBritish. Likewise Chicago's Negro population since thelast war. Far from being a consequence of happiness, excessive propagation may be just the opposite.2Don't let me be self-righteous about all this. Until Imade my extended study, I, too, thought the West Indieswere just a navigational mistake of Columbus' and thesource of Jai Alai, bad cigarettes, and dark beauties.Puerto Rico has to be seen to be appreciated; though Ishould like to add, lest the social scientists take heart fromthis assertion, that seeing it does not mean appreciating it.Some of the Gringos who have seen it stayed to bleed it,and others returned to New York to incorporate it.The United States stole Puerto Rico from the Spaniards, who had stolen it from the Puerto Ricans. Justprior to the hijacking of 1898, Spain had granted PuertoRico status comparable to that of one of our states, withrepresentation in the Cortes. That is the nearest thatPuerto Rico ever came to independence. It was "liberated"by an American general who was jealous of the triumphsof Dewey — Admiral, not Tom or John — and the enlightened Puerto Ricans, whose name is not legion, haveever since referred to the Yankee exploiters as "theliberators." People everywhere appear to be sarcastic inproportion as they are helpless.Puerto Rico was never given colonial status, much lessstatehood or independence. And nobody cared, including,I am sorry to say, most of the Puerto Ricans. But thosePuerto Ricans who cared about anything above and beyond a bellyful of fodder cared about independence. Theinteresting thing about people — in addition to their sarcasm — is that when they get their bellies full they areliable to start thinking about other things, and one ofthose things is liberty. Not many Puerto Ricans had theirbellies full.During the Spanish tyranny there was some diversification of agriculture in the island,3 because the SpaniardsMilton Mayer has written many an article for many amagazine. His work has appeared in Survey Graphic, theNew Republic, the Progressive, Commonweal, the Atlantic,Reader's Digest, Harpers, and the Saturday Evening Post,to say nothing of the University of Chicago Magazine.56 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEwere remote and inefficient tyrants. The jibaros4 cultivated a little of this and a little of that — under the sameprimitive, wasteful, and unsanitary conditions under whichthey now cultivate a little of that.5 If they owned theirland and raised their coffee, they at least had coffee todrink. The liberators, with what they claim was theassistance of God,6 converted the island to the curse of thesingle crop, and extended tenant farming.7 Somethinglike three per cent8 of the jibaros now own their ownland, and the Centrale9 has replaced the church in PuertoRican life.10Typical of Norteamericano indifference — if the Germans did it, we would call it bestiality, and in the caseof the Japs, duplicity — was the failure to enforce theOrganic Law of the island, which provided that no individual or corporation should own more than 500 acres11 ofland. The sugar monopoly12 could never have happened.Nor could its lobbyists. And now — as Robert Serviceput it so sarcastically in The Shooting of Dan McGrew —comes the funny part. The literate Puerto Ricans, andthose who love all Puerto Ricans because they are allchildren of the same Father — have been fighting forfour centuries for Puerto Rican independence. Who, allof a sudden, appears in the citadel13 of the Yankee Colossus as the champion of immediate independence for thePuerto Ricans? The proverbially none other than Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland, that stalwart champion of the Common Man, Inc. It seems that the beet-sugar boys here at home, not to mention our Little BrownCane-Sugar Brothers in the Philippines, would just as liefthat that Puerto Rico sugar be thrown over the tariffwall. The whiskey boys, who have felt the subversive influence of Government House Rum from the Virgin Islands, are in favor of Free Competition14 with PuertoRico rum. There is even alleged — if I say so, asshouldn't — to exist a conviction in certain exclusive circlesthat the only way to stop Tugwell is to cut off PuertoRico quick, with the consequent and immediate collapseof its economy, with the further consequence of "disorders," with the further consequence of our sending afleet down to restore order and, in passing, install straight,militaristic, imperialistic control of the island, the way the4Peasants. (Sp.)BSugar cane.6The hurricane of 1916.7Serfdom. (Sp. or any other language.)8Remember, I don't have my packing-cases.eSugar mill. Maybe this should be Central (Sp.). I speakSpanish like a native — of Kenwood Avenue.10Before the atheists in the crowd say, "Goody," they shouldconsult the jibaros.ul acre r= 2,471 hectares, or v. v. (Dostoevski, Notes fromthe Underground.) That's about enough footnotes.32 (Just one more footnote). Sh-h. No proper names, please."Washington, D. C.14 (Sp.). Freely translated as "a hell of a tariff.""Think of that. Germans once governed West Africa and the French oncegoverned Indo-China, without any sentimental chargewhatever upon the mother country. The Tydings Bill3now pending in the Senate, provides not merely immediate independence, but also a perpetual military base.And now comes the funniest part. You may rememberMr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, the notorious member ofthe Roosevelt Brain Trust before Mr. Roosevelt transferred his interest from Brains to General Patton. WhenTugwell was sent to Puerto Rico, the Tugwell-haterschuckled. "Elba," they said, forgetting that Elba is notwhere Napoleon died. Mr. Tugwell, as governor ofPuerto Rico and a devout believer in the brotherhood ofman, went to work on Puerto Rico while his countrymenwere working on Hitler far away.In a word, he began to enforce the laws of God andman in that man-forsaken island of two million people.The people, nearly all of whom had forgotten politics centuries before, were galvanized by the "good neighbor" talkand, more particularly, by the behavior of that sturdyspokesman of American Business, Mr. Henry Wallace.Something was doing in the world. It was not the waragainst Hitler and Hirohito; it was something more fundamental. The jibaros began to come to life. Out of theghastly slums of Puerto Rico — and the ghastlier ruralslums of Viega Alta — the people began to crawl.And — as bad luck would have it — a George Washington appeared, in the sophisticated form of Luis MufiozMarin, reared in Washington, the son of a Puerto Ricopatriot. Nobody like Mufioz has been seen, and I haveseen him. He looks, acts, and talks, like a combinationof St. Francis and a traveling secretary for Rotary. Hisparty — Los Popular es — was born in 1941 and now controls every seat in the Puerto Rican senate but one. Heis the president of the senate. The governor — Tug well-can veto the senate. The senate can override by theusual two-thirds. And the President of the United States— which, in practice, means that historic subversive andalumnus, Mr. Harold L. Ickes — can override the veto.I had heard about Mufioz. The peasants adore himand will do anything he says. Here is a man who wouldrather spend the night — and has spent it with me —arguing about the educational principles of R. M. Hutchins, or the existence of God, which amounts to the samething, than spend it handing out Christmas baskets to hisstarving constituents. And his constituents, as I say, adorehim. Nobody ever before talked straight to them. Hebuilt his party — the sugar mob wasn't even worriedabout his chances in the beginning — by pointing out thatfor forty years they had been promised betterment, and — -look what they had. "I will tell you what the issue is,"he said. "You can have two dollars on election day, oryou can have justice. You cannot have both."They went for justice, and Mufioz swept, and continuesto sweep, the island. He is a consecrated Ed Kelly.15 According to the eminent journalist and teacher, Mr.Richard P'attee of the University of Puerto Rico, theTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEsingle fact of the success of Mufioz consists of his refusalto talk down to the Puerto Ricans. It is not a questionof conceding the dignity of the human person; it is aquestion of believing it.Nobody with the power of Mufioz thought of that before in Puerto Rico. Before I went there, I heard how,when he was going from one end of the island to theother, he said to the jibaros, "When the kitchen is cold,the cat will come in." I gathered that he was talking thelanguage of the jibaros, but what the devil did it mean?When I got there, I found out from the master himself.What he meant — think of the strictures of the Hebrewprophets and the parables of Christ, which won so manysimple converts when the scribes and the pharisees couldnot understand — was that the cat sat in the oven, afterthe oven had been warmed for breakfast, because it knewthat there would be no more cooking in the oven thatday. There was no more food in the house.The jibaros knew what he meant.And then, in 1942, came the third, and much thejunior, member of the subversive trio in Puerto Rico. Hisname is Jaime Benitez. If I hadn't foresworn footnotesfour footnotes back, I would tell you that "Jaime" ispronounced "Hymie."Chancellor Benitez of the University of Puerto Rico —the only institution of higher learning in the island — wasan instructor there for eleven years. He is now thirty-sixyears old, married, and the father of Clotildita and Jai- mito. A few years back, with a law degree from Georgetown University, he came to Chicago and took his A. M.in our Alma Mater. In 1942 — with Tugwell and Munoztaking over on all the other fronts — Benitez becamechancellor of the University.The easiest way — the Gringo way — to characterizeBenitez is: he is no dummy. Like men of parts everywhere in the world, he had observed the breakdown ofeducation as the result of premature and exclusive specialization induced by the amazing technological progressof the past century-and-a-half . He is often praised — oraccused — of adopting the new program of the Universityof Chicago, and his program and ours do indeed resembleeach other.But the new program at Chicago goes 'way back. Menlike Whitehead saw the disintegration 6i liberal educationlong ago, and they saw what we have all seen — the perfectly competent and highly honored specialist or scholarwho has been allowed to reach manhood without knowingwhat life is either about or for — including his own. Thishorror, incidentally, was foreseen by W. R. Harper, amongothers, and was specified by Dean Ernest Hatch Wilkinsof the University of Chicago, back in the benighted '20's,when, with the introduction of the survey courses entitledThe Nature of the World and Man and Man and Society,he said, "These courses represent a courageous attemptto achieve a modern educational system — to repossess thetremendously enlarged province of all knowledge. I ven-Chancellor Benitez (extreme right) of the University of Puerto Rico and Mrs. Benitez greeta group of Puerto Ricans students at International House during a visit to Chicago in May.8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEture to prophecy that a still greater courage . . . willeventually base an entire freshman and sophomore curriculum upon the principle of orientation."Chancellor Benitez, who had never heard of PresidentHutchins,10 had already been hopped up about the collapse of education — simultaneous with its expansion,though not at all related — by Ortega, Morente, andScheler. And both these eminent educators might havelearned from either Aristotle or Plato, that politics is thearchitectonic science and that as the men are, so will thestate be.So, after an inaugural address that set the island by itsears, Mr. Benitez has refashioned the 42 -year-old University of Puerto Rico. Although the island and its people17 are Hispanic; — and therefore humanistic, thoughbackward — in their culture, La Universidad had beendominated by the silly principle of technological progress.The total result was the disappearance of the concernwith human values and truly human problems and thecontinuation of indifference to the immediate technological problems of the island and its people. Technology wasworshipped, but no single study of any worth had everbeen made of the people, the island, or the condition ofeither.Since Chancellor Benitez was, and is, the president ofa government university, and the only higher institution inthe island, he has had to shape his program, much morespecifically than that of an institution's like Chicago, tothe immediate needs of the immediate people. The compulsory general program, which is two years at Chicago,is one at Puerto Rico, though the content is the same.Research is necessarily — terribly necessarily — researchinto the conditions of the island. Nobody has ever studiedthem scientifically. Graduate work is necessarily morevocational than it is at Chicago because La Universidad,all by itself, has to produce whatever teachers, lawyers,doctors, and agronomists are going to be produced in the16And vice versa. (Lat.).17Maybe this is the best title for my study.lsThis is not to say that we Anglo-Saxons are not the MasterRace.19 And Prof. M. J. Adler, admired there as here.20Sarcasm. Gf. supra (Lat.).21Shoes."These, according to the Angelic Doctor, and that other notedChristian, Aristotle, are the moral virtues, "which make theman good and his. work good too." island. (It has never — up to now, and Benitez is pressing for it — had a medical school, for instance.)But the great reform is on at the University of PuertoRico, and its name and fame are spreading throughLatin America. Chancellor Benitez is scurrying aboutpicking up visiting professors from the Latin Americanschools, sending Puerto Rican men thither, and importing such men of glory and eminence as Fernando de losRios. And, as the result of the accident of Benitez' comingto Chicago for graduate work, such heroes of teachingand of life as Robert Morss Lovett, Percy Holmes Boynton, Ferdinand Schevill, Giuseppe Borgese, and MaxRheinstein have spent either a semester or a year at PuertoRico. Lydia Roberts, our own home economics lady, hasdeveloped a research project into the Puerto Rican home,and Earl S. Johnson, our own sociologist, has been thereto project a Social Science Research Institute, along withLewis Dexter (now consultant to the chancellor), the boywho tore through our own new program in six — or wasit five? — quarters.The University of Puerto Rico — the seat, incidentally,of the University of Chicago's Institute of Tropical Meteorology, under our own great herring- choker, Rossby —is becoming an important institution, all the more important because it is, very politely, fighting off the Gringodomination and working toward the discovery of the bestin a synthesis of the miserably split humanistic and scientific worlds. Its influence — and never forget that theWest Indies, Central America, and South America areHispanic and not Anglo-Saxon18 — is and will be enormous over a whole great continent.Hats off to them, then, to Columbus and to Ferdinandand Isabella, to Roosevelt (Franklin of Tugwell, notTeddy of San Juan Hill), to Ortega y Gassetand Wilkins, to Tugwell and Mufioz and Benitz, to Aristotle, Plato, and Hutchins,19 to Robert Lovett (above all),and to all other persons mentioned in this report. Hatson to Senator Tydings and the Liberators.20 And zapatas21on the Puerto Ricans (45 minutes) and the HaitiansCubans, and Santo Dominicans (10 minutes each), notto mention the Chinese, the Indians, and the bestial Germans or the duplicit Japanese, or the ebony, tawny, ormauve residents of Indiana Avenue, or the pure, unmitigated white but starving Chicagoans on CabriniStreet. And courage, temperance, prudence, and justice22on you and me.To the eager youngsters of our great University family, andthe oldsters who still build castles in the air, with apologiesto that fine old-timer in forest and field, Orlin D. Frank.Would you like to go on a hike with me,And scout through the woods for the sassafrak tree,And brew from its roots some witches' tea,And see what animules we can see?We'll look for the Gal-li-vant-i-an GrumpetThat rolls himself up in a big black lumpet,And drops from a tree with an awful thump. ItIs hard to explain, so we'll simply jump it.We'll slip round the edge of the dismal swamp,And search for the trail of the AllegarompThat lurks in the muck and growls, i(Ga-gomp,"And swallers himself at your slightest stomp.Then an animule queer is the Wacky W opossumThat peddles her pups in a pouch very soft; an'She hangs from a limb by her tail very often,Without ever spilling a single W opossum.And, say, do you know of the Sneak SnakerooThat crawls around sniffin' for people like you,And gobbles them whole without stoppin' to chew?And all that he says when you're down is, "Whew!"But that's not the last of the story, or you;"What's down must come up," groans the strangeSnakeroo,And out he bazooks with a swish and a swoo,And you rub your big eyes and, by Jonah, it's you!Why he does all this is a bafflin' question;Perhaps it's a case of a-cute indigestion,But nobody knows, so just make a suggestion:We'll hold a discussion and settle the question!Oh, I almost forgot, there's the Grim Gallinipper,A mammoth mosquiter, a curious critter;He dives from the skies with his eyes all a-glitter,And a beak that's as long as the bill of a bittern.Bird or beast? You decide, but I fear he will stump us — 'It's tlie Ante-di-lu-vi-an Or-ni-tho-rum-pus, 'A cross 'twixt a bird and a treach-er-ous wumpus,With a bill like a duck and a coat like a skunkus.When the night grows dark and the owl goes, "Hoo,"We'll make a soft mattress of mosses and yew,And sip a hot cup of the witches' brew,And dream right on till dreams come true.Frederick S. Breed.9THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY• By CECIL SMITH, '27No socialstratification,no empty eleganceIN THESE days of high-voltage publicity, the value ofcultural institutions often seems to be judged by theamount of noise that is made about them. By thismeasurement the Renaissance Society at the Universityof Chicago is insignificant indeed. Occasionally the Chicago newspapers allot it a few lines — buried away withthe rest of the art news in the midst of women's features.Its gallery is not listed among the city's "points of interest" in the guides handed out by hotels and air lines.Very few leaders of society attend its openings, and theonly candid photographers' flash bulbs which ever illuminated an exhibition were those of college students gathering what they thought to be extremely recondite materials for their yearbook.Yet the members of the Renaissance Society are convinced that the activities of their organization would lookwell and seem important even if they were given publicityequal in volume and assertiveness to the publicity of theMuseum of Modern Art or the Association of AmericanArtists. For the significance of the Renaissance Society toAmerican art extends far beyond the limits of the University campus; artists and connoisseurs, whose judgmentsare not swayed by the pressure of press agents, grant itan honorable and established place in the. artistic life ofthe country.Take a look at the variety and scope of the past year'sexhibits. For the first time anywhere, the Society broughttogether a complete showing of the etchings of JohnSloan, who at seventy is one of the most universallyadmired American artists of our day. The water colorsof Lyonel Feininger, a painter of strong and individualgenius recently returned from a period of expatriation inEurope, constituted another Renaissance Society "first."An exhibition of contemporary Negro painting and sculpture, chosen with exceptional taste and freedom frompurely sociological bias, gave an opportunity to know thevitality and force of the best work of our Negro artists.Such notable Chicago artists as Aaron Bohrod and Gertrude Abercrombie were represented in a six-man showof Chicago painting and sculpture, in which lesser knownartists profited from the larger audience which came tosee works by those whose names were already familiar.The campaign for adequate postwar housing in Chicagoreceived impetus from an exhibit of modern Dutch housing and city planning, presented in cooperation with theNetherlands Information Bureau. The progress of American publishers toward the sponsorship of more imaginative book illustrations and jacket designs was demonstrated in an exhibition arranged in conjunction with the Friendsof the Library.Looking upon the whole world of the visual arts as itsprovince — with occasional modest side glances into thefields of music, literature, and dancing — the RenaissanceSociety has successfully undertaken, for more than fortyyears, to provide the University community and the cityof Chicago with a wide -and diversified array of works,ancient and modern, primitive and sophisticated, seriousand humorous, American and foreign. A collection ofcartoons was not too earthy a subject for the Society,since they were good cartoons, nor was a display of weaving and textile crafts too practical, since the objects displayed possessed remarkable originality of design andtexture.In choosing materials for its exhibitions, the Society isguided by one cardinal principle: the only justificationfor the appearance of anything in an art gallery is itsartistic value. Some of the works exhibited may havesociological or political meaning, but they are almostnever chosen primarily because of such associations. Per- ,haps the only recent exception to this rule was made earlyin the war, when it was somehow impossible to resist presenting an exhibit of practical arts in their applicationto the war effort. In general the Society has remainedartistic in its motivation, and without deliberately avoiding subject matter related to the war, it has managed successfully to keep from letting topical wartime considerations influence its policies.Painting, sculpture, and prints in various media(etching, engraving, and lithography) naturally occupythe spotlight a good deal of the time, for these are thekinds of art in which, for centuries, the best artists havecustomarily found the freest field for their talents. Ordinarily the Society has turned its gallery into an historicalmuseum part of the time, in the belief that the art ofthe past and the art of the present are inextricably interrelated, and that neither is understandable without knowledge of the other. In the year just past so many contemporary interests cried aloud for notice that the season'sschedule, possibly for the first time in the history of theSociety, limited its obeisance to the past to a single exhibitof copper and brass utensils and objets d'art, the gift tothe University of Julia and Sidney Teller. The boardfeels a little guilty about its unbalanced perspective, however, and plans to make handsome amends to the pastduring the course of the 1945-46 season.Perhaps the most useful function of an art gallery,however, is its service to the creative talents of our ownAs president of the Renaissance Society, Cecil Smith Iswell qualified to write about this cultural campus activity.As chaiman of the Department of Music, Mr. Smith gavethe successful alumni course on "Musical Criticism" last fad.10After the Bath, by Fred Hollingsworthgeneration. Not every gifted painter or sculptor can hopefor a showing at the Art Institute, and most artists canconsider themselves lucky if one or two of their worksare accepted for inclusion in one of the omnibus regionalor local exhibits. A smaller gallery, like that of the Renaissance Society, therefore enjoys the privilege of callingupon these artists for more comprehensive and variedmaterials. Any truthful artist will confess that a one-man show in a reputable and hospitable gallery is hissweetest dream. Since 1941 nine such artists have seenthis dream come true at the Renaissance Society. Whenyou consider that so established an artist as John Sloanhad never been asked by anyone to gather together theresults of more than forty years as an etcher, you canreadily imagine how stimulating and encouraging a one-man show can be to an artist who is still working hishard way upward in his profession.Even though the Renaissance Society is perenniallypoverty-stricken, it makes no charge to the artists whoseworks it exhibits. Indeed, the exchequer is raided to payfor insurance, for transportation and handling, and forincidental costs in setting up and dismantling exhibitions.Further, the Society maintains a secretary, who will takeorders for any works patrons or guests of the Society maywish to buy; and, contrary to the usual practice, no commission is charged upon such sales.I have talked about the Renaissance Society as if itwere an inanimate machine, as if the program planneditself and the pictures sprang to their appointed placeson the walls. Of course it is no such thing. Like anyother institution, the Society consists of people — thepeople who plan and administer its activities, the peoplewho like these activities well enough to attend, the peoplewho create the works of art, the people (like DanielCatton Rich, Ulrich Middeldorf, Katherine Kuh, Fay-Cooper Cole, Frances Foy, and a host of others) whogive lectures and demonstrations and gallery talks to increase the understanding and pleasure of the members. If you dig down deep enough, you will find one particular person who is the chief source of energy andinspiration for the Society. Her name is Frances StrainBiesel, and her real qualities are cloaked in the obscurityof the formal title of program chairman. An admirablepainter herself, Mrs. Biesel gives the lie to the claim thatall artists are maniacal egocentrics, unwilling to place theslightest value upon any point of view which divergesfrom their own. If you could hide behind an arras at oneof the meetings of the program committee, you wouldhear Mrs. Biesel defending again and again the meritsof almost every deserving artist except herself. Againstthis unorthodox generosity toward her fellow artists Mrs.Biesel balances a shrewd judgment which refuses to lether be taken in by anything shoddy or pretentious orsentimental or merely stylish. I have never known herto fail to defend a good artist or work of art againsthasty criticism, but I have never known her to call a badthing good.One other quality in Mrs. Biesel, has, of necessity, beenvalued more highly than it should have been. She canaccomplish more for less money than the most astute ofbusinessmen. Unhappily the Renaissance Society operates upon a laughably small budget; this observation, Ihasten to say, is no reflection upon the University, for theSociety is an independent organization upon which theUniversity generously bestows gallery space and light andheat, and to which the Department of Art gives valuableaid and encouragement which could not be bought atany price.Working hand in hand with Mrs. Biesel in the endeavorto keep the visual arts alive and vital on the Universitycampus are the officers and board of the Society, who areresponsible for the policies of the group. Within its par-. ticular sphere the Renaissance Society provides a modelof the sort of relationship the University likes to establish between its members and the non-University public.On the board sit side by side faculty members, facultywives, creative artists like Beatrice Levy and Martyl andLaura van Pappelendam, and members of the communitywho are deeply interested in the arts. No line of demarcation separates the different groups and interests, for thecommon enterprise breeds mutual sympathy and respect.A comparable democratic spirit characterizes the membership as a whole. At openings and lectures, artists andlaymen, faculty, students, and members of the communitymeet and exchange views in the gallery and around thetea table. No social stratification and no impulse towardempty elegance of behavior mar the simplicity and naturalness of these occasions. The tea table provides onlytea or coffee and the most economical of cookies; nohostesses with gowns carefully chosen to match a floralcenterpiece are allowed to intrude their artifices, for thereare no floral centerpieces. Perhaps it is true, as someonesaid, that you can get people to go anywhere for a cupof tea, but at least the Renaissance Society offers asunglamorous a cup of tea as can be found on the NorthAmerican, continent. What it offers that is worth coming1112 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEfor is a good exhibit, a good gallery explanation, and goodfellowship among congenial friends with an absorbingmutual interest.The John Sloan exhibit was an instance of the Renaissance Society functioning at its best. On the eveningbefore the opening Mr. Sloan lectured in Mandel Hall,under the auspices of the William Vaughan Moody foundation, delivering his free and idealistic artistic credo inflashes of wit which seemed to have their origin in a fewpencilled notations on the back of an envelope. It wouldhave been carrying coals to Newcastle to have Mr. Sloan,or anyone else, speak again at the opening in the Good-speed Hall gallery the following night. When membersand their guests arrived, however, they found Mr. andMrs. Sloan there ahead of them, ready to make friendswith all comers. One by one, or in groups of three orfour, the spectators made their way to the artist; theyasked the particular questions they wanted most to ask,and in many cases they received homely yet trenchantanswers which they will long remember. Seldom have anartist, his work, and his audience reached mutual understanding with so little fuss and affectation.Yet this is not an unusual outcome of a RenaissanceSociety opening. Three of the artists represented in theNegro show came to that opening in the fall, and a similar rapport was created. When the Teller collection ofbrasses was presented, Mr. Teller was present, as theunknown artists' advocate, every day during the entirethree weeks' exhibit, and dozens of people learned muchof the lore of these works from him. The display of Dutchhousing and city planning was enriched by a brief symposium in which a noted city planner and a representative of the Netherlands Information Bureau participated.Ralph A. Beals, director of the University Libraries, wason hand to shed light upon the exhibit of book illustrations arranged with the help of the Friends of the Library.This last occasion was uniquely a family affair, since Mrs.Beals, who doubles as secretary and social chairman of the Society, was responsible for the smooth operation ofthe social aspects of the evening.The real reason for the continuing success of the Renais*sance Society is that everyone in it believes in it andwants it to continue to succeed. Take the case of Mrs,Henry G. Gale. Mrs. Gale has been an inexhaustiblesource of energy and ideas (and even of the raising offunds) for so many years that it is proper to speak ofher membership in terms of decades rather than years.Yet right now Mrs. Gale is more energetic than ever,urging that the constitution be amended to permit a stillbroader scope of activity, that the membership be enlarged until even the most bashful art lovers have beensurrounded with hospitality, and that people who canafford it be persuaded to increase their annual contributions enough to end the Society's annual flirtation withthe bankruptcy courts. And Mrs. Gale has close competition from Frederic Woodward, Ulrich Middeldorf, Mrs.John U. Nef, Mrs. Paul Russell, Mrs. Edwin O. Jordan,and a host of others who have formed the habit of neverletting other engagements take precedence over theircommitment to the Society.It is hardly the purpose of this article merely to tellyou about a private group at the University which isproud of its achievements. We want you to join, whetheryou live in Chicago or not. For those of you who live nearenough to the campus, the opportunities provided by theRenaissance Society may open the door to a great dealof new pleasure and stimulus. To those of you who liveaway from Chicago, the satisfaction of supporting thegrowth of enthusiasm for the arts will be augmented, ifwe get enough members, by your share in making possiblethe resumption of the publication of bulletins and monographs upon artistic subjects, which will bring the galleryto those who cannot come to it. A note to the secretaryof the Renaissance Society, the University of Chicago,will bring information. We hope to see you at the firstopening in the autumn.Memory, by John Sloanst--T*-NEWS OF THE QUADRANGLES• By CHET OPALVictory!"No man is an Island ..."IT WAS a good morning, the morning of May 8, 1945,the morning of victory proclaimed. It was a goodmorning in Chicago, and on the campus, and itmight have been a good morning all over the world.Maybe there had been too much climax and anticlimax; maybe victory had been announced too often, toomany celebrations launched and suspended, too manysermons read, too many elegies spoken. And perhapsthere had been too much quiet, too much solemnity inthe way President Truman appointed a day of prayer.Everywhere the shops were closing, but there was noconfetti in the streets. People stood about on cornersunder shadows of buildings, but they were not shoutingjubilantly or singing, only talking, or just standing andlooking at their feet.But all that was good. The weather was good, too. Theair moved with a stealthy briskness, like something ona secret mission, cool as a general's command and warmwithal with the officious fervor of a drill sergeant. Thewind went probing, turning over the leaves.Then, at 10:30 A. M., the campus sprang to life. Student and teacher and worker milled chapelwards on themany campus streets. From the lofty greys tone tower ofRockefeller Memorial there came the sound of manybells, not a tolling, but not a singing either. The earthshook under the iron clangor of the mammoth Bourdonbells. The full round peeling of smaller metal tonguesrolled out over the green and sank and became a strongsearching pulsation underfoot. It set your tempo whenyou walked; it rocked you when you stood. And it wasmore majestic than a thousand muffled drums.In chapel you found the students crowded in the pews,seated, knees hugged to chin, before the altar, clinging tocoigns of vantage in the balconies. The sunlight pouredinto the vast chamber from the multi-colored Gothic windows. Two thousand persons were there to solemnize theoccasion in anthem, prayer, and listening silence.They sang the Star Spangled Banner; they listenedwhile the choir sang a hymn. Then young Edward Wood,of LaGrange, Illinois, a student in the College and aveteran of this war, introduced President Hutchins, whomounted the pulpit and spoke. It was a moving addressand afterwards, after Dean Gilkey's prayer and adjournment, scores of students gathered about Mr. Hutchinsand told him what they thought, and followed him as heleft and kept telling him and thanking him. The greatorgan tones went out into* the streets with them whenthe two thousand left.In Mandel Hall that afternoon the Service units oncampus met to hear the proclamation of the War De partment and to see a training film. Capt. Arthur D.Clausen, commanding officer of the University's ASTP,and Col. B. E. Clarke, associate director of the CATS,addressed the hundreds of military men.Shortly before eight o'clock that evening Frederick L.Marriott, whose hands had communicated the impulseswhich set the big bells ringing that morning, did so again.And at eight o'clock sharp there was opened as impressivea community worship service as ever took place in thecity. It was a responsive reading service in the chapel,with the University, Kenwood, Woodlawn, and HydePark Protestant and Jewish communities participating.The occasion was one of worship, with liturgies of thanksgiving, confession and re-dedication to the task of creating a better world. There was no principal speaker; onlyprayers and responsive readings led by Dean Gilkey, Dr.I. E. Lunger, of University Disciples Church, the Rev.Leslie T. Pennington, First Unitarian Church, Dr. HaroldL. Bowman, First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. J. R-Drees, Hyde Park Methodist Church, Dr. R. W.Schloerb, Hyde Park Baptist Church, Rabbi Louis- L.Mann, Sinai Congregation, Rabbi Ralph R. Simon, Rod-fei Zedek, the Rev. G. M. Gibson, United Church ofHyde Park, and Alfred W. Painter, assistant to DeanGilkey.And so, except for little gatherings here and thereon campus, the day ended. The University had remembered its many dead and the dead of the rest of theworld; and it had decided that what was past was done,and now there were other days coming, each demandingits own dedication of labor. It knew that while one war hadbeen won, no peace had begun yet. And there remainedstill a dangerous balance, with brutal self-interest tossedinto the scales against tentative structures of dreams.There had been something hopeful in President Hutchins'words, but the heavy pedalpoint running under themwas already regretful, as though men were not readyyet to achieve more than they might lose, as though toomuch goodness were expected from a harvest of dragonseed. And he had spoken the way a man speaks whenhe wonders whether anybody is listening; or, if listening,giving heed.Freedom Is More Than a WordMr. Marshall Field, trustee of the University, publisherof the Chicago Sun, and financial backer of PM, haswritten a book. That the work, Freedom is More than aWord, appeared last April 16, a publication of the University of Chicago Press, is no longer news. But a studyof the reviews and incidental mentions of the book hasuncovered an interesting fact. The critics share a unanimity of amazement, but not with the content of the book.1314 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEThey are at loss to explain why a man of Mr. Field'sfinancial stature should have written a book at all, or,if he had to write one, why he did so without the imprimatur of Wall Street. In their haste to point outwhat a strange renegade Mr. Field is from his class thecritics have missed almost entirely the message of theman.Spies have communicated to this writer (documentation on private request) that "men of measured merriment," among them bankers, LaSalle street brokers, editors and publishers of more conservative tracts, havebeen porting Mr. Field's book into their offices and homeson the sly, and have been seen leaning over lunch tablesand whispering slyly: "But how can a man with somuch money and so little time write a book? Someonewrote it for him." Mr. Joseph Brandt, director of theUniversity Press, can answer that question in all its necessary details; for Mr. Field did write his own book. Noseasoned writer would dare touch as many bases as Mr.Field did, or write of old ideals with such embarrassinglyyouthful passion.A managing editor friend (and publicity people sometimes do have friends) has told this writer that the Pressshould publish a twenty-five cent paper-backed editionof the book and peddle it in every journalism school inthe country.Sounding his theme in the opening pages of his 200-page book, Field writes:"With all my heart I believe that the freedom wefought for in the last war was infinitely desirable, justas it is today; and I believe that democracy and humanbeings, given a real chance, can develop to heights asyet undreamed of. But in order to have this opportunity,and to realize its full possibilities, the most essential aspect of democracy — freedom of access to facts, to news —must be revitalized and extended. People must be fullyinformed. All shades of opinion, all significant versionsof the facts, should have representation and be givenfree access to the channels of communication."On the basis of this tenet, Field advances argumentsfor a "spearhead journalism" which takes up the cause"of racial or religious minorities, pro-labor groups, independent business men fighting the monopolists, consumers, or individuals deprived of civil liberties."On this ground also he urges the amendment of therules of the Associated Press, the world's largest news-gathering agency, to permit admission of such newcomers as the Chicago Sun; extension of the use of piublicopinion polls; establishment of safeguards against possiblecontrols of radio channels by "vested interests"; and extension of college education to "all who can take reasonable advantage of it.""Freedom of expression," Field writes, "has suffered,for all the lip tribute we pay to our democratic heritageand for all the copybook maxims about the value of freedom, free enterprise, and democracy that we reiterate.Our infernal gentlemanliness is part of the trouble. Oncemany Americans felt vehemently that controversial dis cussions had merit. Today we have more and more precise notions about the 'proper limits' to 'constructive discussion,' and we face a constant diminution of competition — a constant rise in local monopolies and in monopolistic national and international agreements — in all themajor media of discussion. Let us have more and better'crackpots.'"The United States is fundamentally an idealisticnation. It struggles to progress, from error to error, toward what many of its people take to be the right goals.Tomorrow America will be, if freedom of communication is strengthened and broadened, the world's greatestforce in the service of justice. It was only because,between 1920 and 1940, Americans were misinformedthat they fell into the errors that helped to bring on thesecond World War. Against the continuance of suchmisinformation, we must be eternally vigilant."A large portion of the book is devoted by Field to thehistory and purposes of PM and the Chicago Sun, bothof which were founded, he asserts, with the primaryobjective of fighting an enemy that "is always the same.We call him fascist or authoritarian. Today he wears aGerman or a Japanese uniform; tomorrow he may be anindustrialist or a labor leader or a newspaper publisher.In essence, he is a state of mind, an attitude which hates,scorns, and resists the efforts of the people to be mastersin their own house."The difficulties which beset the establishment of theChicago Sun in December, 1941, and their result in theanti-trust suit against the Associated Press, still under litigation, are given detailed treatment in the book. Sections are devoted to discussion of the advancement ofscientific research, minority problems, the liberalizing ofeducation, economic goals and planning, and to a discussion of the belief that "men can attain progress, notalong the lines of any fixed pattern, but by means of anendless series of group decisions, as indicated by groupneeds and arising out of common agreement on certaingeneral objectives."The University at San FranciscoThe University has not gone unrepresented at theUnited Nations Conference on World Organization inSan Francisco. Professor Quincy Wright, who mighthave gone as an adviser to the State Department, hasbeen attending the conference as an interpreter for thenewspapers, and stories with his by-line have been appearing in The Chicago Times. It should be noted thatProfessor Wright, present at the Golden Gate to assay thevein of ore in the mountain of language being erectedthere, has the better qualified himself for such a task inrecent years by writing A Study of War, a massive workon the history, causes, and prevention of war.Readers of President Hutchins' V-E Day message maywonder why he has not been summoned to the GoldenGate. (Mr. Hutchins might remark here that he is confident he will never stand at the Golden Gate, either theone on the west coast or the one alleged to be at theTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE ISentrance to the Happy Land. His enemies, he wouldinsist, are a bit too powerful and have been lobbying inthe holy land.) It can be reported that around midnightof a day just preceding the opening of the conferencea Chicago newspaper asked whether it was true that President Truman had asked Mr. Hutchins to catch a midnight plane and hie him to Frisco as a personal representative. This report, emanating from Washington,proved to be untrue. But at any rate, George Sokolsky,the widely-printed columnist, has been plugging to haveMr. Hutchins, with such others as Mr. Conant of Harvard, sit in on the international game at San Francisco,lest the boys there descend to playing strip -poker withthe heathen.The Radio Office of the University devoted three successive Round Table broadcasts to a discussion of the partRussia, Great Britain, and the United States, respectively,may play in the great drama of peace. Louis Gottschalk,professor of modern history, served as moderator and keyman on the broadcasts.Frank Lillie HonoredIn tribute to Frank R. Lillie, Andrew MacLeish distinguished service professor emeritus of embryology, recognized as the outstanding "scientific statesman" in theUnited States, the Frank R. Lillie room in Hull zoologicallaboratory was dedicated April 12, 1945. The dedicationceremony, with Carl R. Moore, chairman of the Department of Zoology, officiating, was held for seventy guests.Professor Lillie spoke briefly.A portrait of Professor Lillie, the gift of friends andpainted in 1935 by Charles Hopkinson, is the feature ofthe room which will be used for seminars and social gatherings. On the walls of the room also are six decorativepanels of scenes of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, whereMr. Lillie, through his combination of personal, scientific, and business ability developed the Marine BiologicalLaboratory to world eminence.Professor Lillie, the only man ever to hold simultaneously the position of president of the National Academy of Science and the chairmanship of the NationalResearch Council, was on the Midway as a fellow in1892, the year the new University of Chicago was established.With Professor C. O. Whitman, who established theUniversity's Department of Zoology at the request ofPresident William Rainey Harper, Professor Lillie wasamong the first of a long line of eminent zoologists atChicago. He succeeded Professor Whitman as chairmanof the department in 1911, and was made dean of thedivision of biological sciences in 1931.Enrolment Up AgainWith three professional schools at the University ofChicago showing an enrolment increase of more than 56per cent, registration on the Midway and the University'sdowntown college rose 12.02 per cent over last year'sspring quarter, Ernest C. Miller, registrar, announced. The School of Medicine, which increased its enrolmentmore than 75 per cent last quarter, has gone over the100 per cent increase mark. The Law School and theGraduate Library School had 57.43 and 56.87 per centgains respectively. The College of the University is up21.44 per cent in registration. Total enrolment in theCollege is 1,637.Total civilian registration at the University is 4,621, a12.02 per cent increase. With 510 registered in the service units — ASTP, Navy V-12, Civil Affairs TrainingSchool, and meteorology — total registration on theQuadrangles and the University college downtown is5,131. The four divisions of the University showed a13.32 per cent increase, with the social sciences increasing27.83 per cent and the biological sciences, 17.36 per cent.In the professional schools, in addition to the School ofMedicine and the Law School, the School of Businessincreased 12.12 per cent.Albert Ten Eyclc OlmsteadAlbert Ten Eyck Olmstead, professor of oriental historyat the University and one of the last of a great generationof scholars whose field was the whole of ancient history,died on Wednesday, April 11, at Billings Hospital of complications resulting from a fall in his home on January 30.Best known for his histories of Assyria, Palestine, andSyria and for his applications of oriental materials to thelife of Jesus, Professor Olmstead leaves a finished manuscript on the history of the Persia of the times of Dariusand Xerxes,"Like the Frenchman Gaston Maspero/ the GermanEduard Meyer, and the American James Henry Breasted,Professor Olmstead worked in all of pre-Greek history,"John A. Wilson, director of the Oriental Institute, said."His scholarly work penetrated every phase of the ancientworld."A professor at the Oriental Institute of the Universityfor the past sixteen years, Professor Olmstead receivedthree degrees from Cornell University. He won his A.B.in 1902, his master's degree in 1903, and his doctor ofphilosophy in 1906. In 1907 he studied at the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies in Athens.In 1908 he directed an expedition to Asia Minor andthe Assyro Babylonian Orient for Cornell University. Before coming to the University of Chicago in 1929, he wasan associate professor of ancient history at the Universityof Missouri from 1908 to 1917 and curator of the OrientalMuseum at the University of Illinois, 1917-1929.He is the author of six books in his field, among whichare History of Palestine and Syria, 1931, and Jesus in theLight of History, 1942. Professor Olmstead was creditedwith being the first orientalist to make full use of anOriental Institute chronology through which the exactdate of Christ's crucifixion was established as April 7,A. D. 30. He aroused much controversy over his assertionthat Christ was born many years prior to 4 B. C, generally accepted by historians as Christ's birth-year.TWO FIFTIETHCHICAGO LYING-IN HOSPITALA NATIONWIDE broadcast commemorating thefiftieth anniversary of the founding of Lying-inHospital and Dispensary of the University by Dr.Joseph B. DeLee was presented on the campus on May12, National Hospital Day, under the auspices of the Hospital, the American Medical Association, and the NationalBroadcasting Company. The program featured a tributeto Dr. DeLee, "the beloved pioneer," and concluded witha call by President Hutchins for a continued fight againstchildbirth diseases. Following the broadcast fifty-five employees of the Hospital with service records of more thanten years each were presented certificates by Mrs. CliftonUtley, president of the women's board.Knowledge, skill, and unrelaxing vigilance have madethe record of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital outstanding.Primarily, the work which it undertook and has carriedout was one of education. Dr. DeLee was a man with amission; he was a physician and a scientist, who also hadthe gift of teaching. Chicago Lying-in was his university,with a university's dual function of teaching and research.ThoseVhom he taught included patients, students, nurses,and the medical profession. The progress of obstetrics isin large measure due to the fact that the "old professor"taught so well, and that teaching has been carried on withdistinction by his successors.Fifty years ago obstetrics was a neglected and almostdespised branch of medicine and many mothers died inchildbirth and many babies were lost. Today the story is different, but there is still pressing need for medical research. "Two great curses — puerperal fever and toxemia— still attend on childbirth," President Hutchins said."Although puerperal fever has been much reduced by themodern methods of asepsis, which Chicago Lying-in Hospital had done much to establish, four or five out of everyone hundred mothers still develop it."Neither the cause nor the cure of toxemia is known,and each year more than 100,000 pregnant women havethe disease, 20,000 of whom have the particularly dreadful form, eclampsia, which produces convulsions. Research on puerperal fever must be directed to the development of new drugs which will kill bacteria imperviousto any drug we now have."The researches of Lying-in and the standards of medical care which it has set have resulted in a steadily falling rate of maternal and infant mortality. In the fiftyyears of its life, the Hospital has cooperated with the otherscientific departments of the University in applying thebest known methods of preventing and curing the diseasesin its field and seeking to discover new methods for anunceasing warfare against diseases that have been thoughtinescapable."In addition the staff has presided over the birth of135,000 babies, taught thousands of medical students,prepared more than 750 residents and interns for specialization in obstetrics, and trained 5,500 nurses," PresidentHutchins concluded.Employees of Lying-in Hospital, each with more than 20 year} of serviee. Left to right: Elizabeth Ash, MabelCarmon, who in the past 38 years has supervised the birth of over 78,000 babies, Dr. M. Edward Davis, Mrs.Utley, president of the women's board, William Ruffer and his son, Peter Ruffer, and Edward Ballard.16ANNIVERSARIESTHE QUADRANGLE CLUBON MAY 10, 1945, members of the QuadrangleClub assembled for dinner and a program celebrating the Club's fiftieth anniversary. Climaxing anevening of reminiscences, our own alumni dean emeritusGordon Laing concluded the program with stories of theold days told with his own matchless humor. We regretspace prevents printing more than the following extractsfrom his talk.I CAN'T tell you how much I appreciate the honoryou have done me in asking me to speak on the occasion of this anniversary, and to say a few wordsabout the early days of the Club. I feel that I have noclaim to this honor because there are a great many menwho are much older members of this Club than I, andwho have vast stores of information about its earlyhistory.I did, however, make some research and found thatduring the first few years of this University there was noclub. The University was enjoying great prosperity. Mr.Rockefeller was contributing his millions; the citizens ofChicago were bearing their gifts; the presidents of greatuniversities all over the country were resigning their presidencies and coming here as heads of departments orjust run-of-the-mine professors; and on gala occasionsstudents were marching around the unfinished buildings,singing "Old Varsity" with an enthusiasm that not eventhe sons of Yale or Harvard could begin to emulate.But is was clear that the University must have a club.Men who had come from older institutions saw that itwas essential, for otherwise there was no place whereprofessors could get together and discuss not only questions of scholarship but also the curious opinions of theheads of their respective departments on matters of administration. There was no place where heads of departments could gather and after grave discussion of administrative problems say what they thought about the deans;and there was no place where deans could assemble andafter outlining their idealistic plans for the improvementof the University, lapse into an untrammeled descriptionof the astigmatic mentality of professors at a faculty meeting. Many a time the deans would relate that it almostinvariably happened that when they had presented somemeasure which represented the best thought of their entire group — the perfected outcome of prolonged decanaldeliberation and the final result of that administrativeacumen which had made them deans in the first place —members of the faculty, one after another, would riseand initiate irrelevant amendments or incomprehensiblesubstitute motions, and wreck the whole- plan.In a word, without some place where there was an opportunity for such discussions, the University was whollydevoid of that cosy academic atmosphere which everyone knows is one of the chief attractions of the professorial life.* * * 'The Club had many activities in those early days. Tennis was popular. It was more popular then than now,for the faculty was a young one and a great many ofthe members played, or at least played at, the game. Weused to have elaborate tournaments, and when the announcement for the finals stated that Professor Michelson, head of the Department of Physics and Nobel-Prize-man-to-be (though we didn't know that yet) was to playProfessor Neff, head of the Department of Chemistry;and that Robert Millikan of the Department of Physics,also a Nobel-Prizeman-to-be, would play Glenn Hobbsof the same Department; and that at the end of theafternoon there would be a match between representativesof the Modern Language Departments and the ClassicalDepartments — jocularly called a "match between thequick and the dead" (in which, I may add, the "dead"always won) — when, I repeat, this announcement wasmade, the whole University community was there, crowding around the courts, together with large numbers ofuninvited guests from Hyde Park.# * *The chief center of the Club's activities then, as now,was the dining room at luncheon time. I am not referringto physical but to intellectual sustenance. Into that room,at noon swarmed the faculty, ranging from instructor tohead of department; and if you would like to know howthey looked, observe them now.There are various patterns of grouping. To one cornerof the room go some unhappy-looking men carrying booksand papers. They are about to sacrifice their luncheonto departmental business. Others, who have no departmental business on hand but belong to the same divisionor department, block together and study the problemson which they have been working all morning and willcontinue to work afternoon and evening.But there is still another pattern, and one sees it in itsgreatest glory at the Round Table. For to that tablecome members of all departments. There one finds physicists, chemists, mathematicians, astronomers, psychologists,biologists, obstetricians, x-ray specialists, surgeons, orientalists, and philologians. Actuated by the high purpose oflearning what is going on in departments other than theirown, they contribute unconsciously to that integration ofthe University of which one hears so much.I can attest the influence of the Round Table. I satthere for twenty years or more. And I am certain thatI never would have attained that complete understand-(Concluded on inside back cover)17.ONE MAN'S OPINION• By WILLIAM V. MORGENSTERN, '20, J.D. '22OF ALL the country's big industries, education alonedid not have to wait for V-E Day to begin evenpartial reconversion. For a year the Services havehad practically all the specialists they want trained incolleges and universities. Large reseach projects, concentrated in the natural sciences, still continue, but bythe time graduate students are able to return in anynumbers, the facilities probably will be sufficient. At theUniversity of Chicago relatively few training projects remain. Most of the medical students are in Army andNavy uniforms; the Navy is still using Sunny Gymnasiumand the Ida Noyes Refectory for its special projectsschool ; and a new class in Army area language is toarrive soon. Research undertakings still require muchof the space in the physical sciences laboratories, butotherwise the University has its plant back.The war hit the small colleges the hardest because theycould not do the research the universities were equippedto conduct, and though the training programs helped,many have had a precarious existence. Small colleges andbig ilniversities alike have been looking hopefully todemobilization and the flood of 625,000 or so veteranswho would take advantage of the G. I. Bill of Rights.Most of the state universities have presented ambitiousprograms for physical expansion to their legislatures sothat they could provide for what they expect to be swollenenrolments. The colleges generally are planning to maketheir present plants do, for the simple reason that theyhaven't the money to erect new buildings.The University of Chicago is making no large plansfor expansion; it would rather use the money it has, andin general persuade those who may give it new money,to support its present undertakings rather than to putup buildings for new purposes. Some buildings, however,are essential. First on the list is one to house the administrative offices now scattered from one end of theQuadrangles to the other, wherever space can be foundin structures designed for academic use. No organization of similar size, in or out of education, has such ajumble. The actual cost through inefficiency has becomeso great that use of funds from general endowment willbe justified if no other source can be found. Next mostimmediate need is student housing, particularly forwomen. Lack of residence halls is one of two barriersto growth of the College — teachers being the other —but there also must be more halls for Divisional students.Academic buildings which the sciences need simply mustwait until the money is forthcoming. The money for theCharles Gilman Smith Hospital for Infectious Diseaseshas been available since before the war.Enrolment in the University certainly will increase notably. In the highest point, it may run close to 10,000registrants, compared to registration in the pre-war decadeof about 5,800 a quarter. The highest total for any quarter in the University's history was 8,515 in the autumnof 1929. Postwar enrolment, here or anywhere else, isentirely a matter of estimate; there are many factorswhich will affect the decision of veterans. The two mostimportant are the length of the war with Japan and theeconomic conditions following demobilization.Percentage-wise this is a big increase, but in numbersthe University will be dwarfed by the size of the stateuniversities. Chicago lost its position as one of the largesteducational institutions of the country after the last war,and there is no desire to attempt to regain leadership innumbers, nor any gain in so doing. The role of theUniversity does not require it, and its purposes would bedefeated if it were to get too big.The University emerges from the war successful in itseffort to hold the faculty together. The faculty was maintained whether there were students or not, so there willbe no need to rebuild. That is not true with many otherinstitutions, which have jettisoned their faculties. By andlarge, the University is intact. The evolution in educational organization which has been going on since 1930will be another important asset. All that the Universityhas been trying to do is to get a logical organization anda rational program. It has put its emphasis on educational attainment rather than on academic formalities.It doesn't care "whether a student got his preparation forits work in or out of high school. It has the placementtests which enable it to determine where a student is ableto fit in the College. At the Divisional level this approachhas not been generally applied, but the idea is makingprogress. The recognition of what a student knows andhis ability to do work, no matter how he acquired theknowledge and the capacity, will be very useful to veterans who have been in uniform for considerable periods.They can use everything they have learned in school, inthe Services, and anywhere else; they will not be requiredto take courses simply because they do not have thecredits, even though they may have the achievement. TheCollege does not regard its curriculum as perfect, butit has certainly improved it steadily over the past fifteenyears, and it is ready to stand the strain of larger enrolment. Because the College provides a good general education, the Divisions have been relieved of the necessityof attempting to make up deficiencies in preparation atthe same time they are providing specialized education.The Divisions have been put in the position of being ableto work out programs which are definite in purpose.The University has not lost ground during the war;rather it has continued to make progress, and so it is wellprepared for this new period. It can face the competitionthat it will get from the intensification of such trends asvocationalism and dispersion that prosperity will bringto higher education in general.18THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGA2INE 19NEWS OF THE CLASSES* IN THE SERVICE *Capt. Leonard Loeb, '12, PhD '16,has reported to the Naval OrdnanceLaboratory in Washington as assistant to the officer-in- charge. Capt.Loeb was first called to active dutyin February, 1941, as a commanderand was assigned to the Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Virginia,where he was placed in charge ofthe building, staffing, and equippingof a research laboratory. On completion of this duty, Capt. Loeb wasrecalled to his civilian position asprofessor of physics at the Universityof California to meet a local emergency. In February, 1942, he organized a degassing personnel training school in collaboration with theESMWT program at the universityand the 12 th Naval District, recruiting some forty physicists for the service. He was then assigned to activeduty as degassing officer of the 12thNaval District at Mare Island. Twoyears later he was detached and ordered to the Bureau of Ordnance fora mission to the European theater,from which he returned in the winter.Major Robert H. Unseld, '22, hasbeen appointed assistant chief of thephotographic laboratory at WrightField. The laboratory, he writes, is thebirthplace of all aerial cameras andother equipment used by the ArmyAir Forces in aerial photographic reconnaissance and strike attack photography.Two U. of C. WAC's are still going strong at Stark general hospitalin Charleston — S/Sgt. Eva Snyder,AM '24, clinical psychologist, andCpl. Lillian Scher, '36, assistant editor of the post newspaper, "The PillPusher."Lt. Col. James Kneussl, '25, JD '27,has returned from duty overseas inIndia after twenty-seven monthsthere. He is legal officer at the Romulus Army air field, Michigan.Lt. Franklin Gowdy, '26, MD '36,is back at a Naval hospital in Georgia, "brushing tropical cobwebs" fromhis mind following eighteen monthswith the 1st Marine Division, whichwas a privilege but rough.Lt. (j.g.) Paul McConnell, '27,spent eight months on an Army transport based at Trinidad. Then hemade a trip to the Persian Gulf forRussia; then to England, Scotland,Wales, and Ireland. He has beeneleven times to France during the invasions, and his escorts sank three-subs on D-day in the English channel. After spending some time in Europeanwaters, he returned to New York,then went on to the Pacific where heis now operating. He is purser onone of the ships of the MerchantMarine.Capt. Myron Boylson, MD Rush,'27, is rounding out three years in theservice. He is at a general hospital inthe Pacific.Walter E. Puschel, '29, has beenpromoted to a full lieutenant in theNavy. He is at Montclair, New Jersey.Major Glen E. Moorhouse, '30,AM '36, is recipient of the Crox deGuerre in recognition of his outstanding services on the Fifth Armyfront in Italy. He previously wasawarded the Bronze Star. Moorhouse was cited for action in December, 1943, in the Franchetti Pan-tano sector when he was attached tothe staff of the 34th "Red Bull" Infantry Division, during operationswith the French Expeditionary Corps.He is known for his broad knowledgeof German tactics learned during thebitter mountain fighting in southernItaly. In civilian life he was an assistant professor of military scienceand tactics at the Kemper MilitarySchool in Boonville, Missouri. Hiswife (Lenore Crowley, '30) is livingin Chicago with their two children.Major Irving B. Shulak, MD '31,for the past twenty- six months hasbeen stationed at Bushnell generalhospital in Brigham City, Utah, wherehe is assistant chief of the neuropsy-chiatric service.Lt. Comdr. Raymond Morris, MDRush '31, was with the Marines as anassistant regimental surgeon in NewZealand and in the Tarawa landing.He also served in the Hawaiian Islands and in the Saipan campaign.Now he is attached to the trainingand distribution center at TreasureIsland, California, working in a surgical clinic. "Have recently been promoted tothe rank of lieutenant commander inthe Supply Corps of the Navy," reports Stoddard J. Small, '32. "Amnow supply officer of a ship repairunit in the Philippines, after a yearand a half in Australia. I didn't appreciate the States until I went toAustralia; I didn't appreciate Australia until I came to the Philippines;and now I probably won't appreciatethe Philippines until I go to Washington, D. C., where I am soon toreport for a tour of duty in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Amexpecting a Washington summer tomake me wish I were back in the'cool' tropics."Promotion of David A. Lane, Jr.,'32, to major has been announced byHeadquarters of the U.S. ArmyForces, Pacific Ocean Areas. A veteran of World War I, Major Lanewas dean of Louisville Municipal College for five years before he re-entered the Army as a captain in theSpecialist Corps in October 1942. Hehas been overseas a year in the central Pacific area, where he is a fieldservice officer with the Informationand Education Service of the CentralPacific Base Command.At an air base in India, Capt. Gordon R. Allen, '32, is on duty as civilian personnel officer.Cpl. Michael Lampos, !32, AM '33,following a year in Washington, D.C,reached Oahu recently. Between thepublic library of Hawaii, the postlibrary, and the library of the University of Hawaii, where he is teaching, his living quarters are beginningto resemble a cubicle in Harper stacks.Col. Nicoll F. Galbraith, '33, as aprisoner of war of the Japanese hasbeen moved from Formosa to Mukden, Manchukuo. Mrs. Galbraith(Leila Whitney, '29 ) reports that thecolonel has apparently remained ingood health and that being on themainland will probably make lifemore comfortable for him. "At leastI can relax as we continue to pourtons of bombs on Formosa," she adds.,w_^ BAN|< WHERE $AFETyIS TRADITIONALSince 1919 this Bank has- continuouslyserved the South Side.We invite your Banking Business.UNIVERSITY NATIONAL BANK1354 E. 55TH STREET, CHICAGOMember Federal Reserve System. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBEN SOHN & SONSManufacturers ofMATTRESSES ANDSTUDIO COUCHES1452 TelephoneW. Roosevelt Rd. Haymarket 3523BLACKSTONEHALLAnExclusive Women's Hotelin th.University of Chicago DistrictOffering; Graceful Living to University and Business Women atModerate TariffBLACKSTONE HALL5748 TelephoneBlackstone Ave. Plaza 3313Verna P. Werner, DirectorThe expiration of a 21 -day furlough found Sgt. Gavin Walker, '34,JD '34, at the Army Ground andService Forces redistribution stationat Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He hasbeen assigned there and is in theJudge Advocate branch as enlistedlegal assistant.S/Sgt. Robert E. Herzog, '34, isat the Army Air Field in PalmSprings, California.Lt. Edwin M. Duerbeck, '34, AM'35, served as senior civil affairs officer with the Marines on Iwo. His activities were nil, because, he writes,there were no civilians.Ensign William S. White, '35, JD'37, is still a 9th Naval District publicrelations officer under Comdr. R. Q.White, JD '29. The ensign handlespublic relations for Negro personnel.Lt. Dick Freriks, MD '35, spentsome time at a rest camp after beingon Iwo, "which really was hot andrugged."Lt. Gerald Ratner, '35, JD '37, isinstructing in military law at theTransportation Corps officer candidate school in New Orleans. Hisbrother, Lt. J. E. Ratner, '30, AM '32,is communications officer aboard aship in Admiral Halse^'s fleet. Herecently returned to the west coastafter spending six months in Philippine waters.After a couple of years of wandering up and down northwest Canadaand Alaska, Marvin Laser, '35, AM'37, has settled down in the Aleutians,and while he cannot honestly say thelatest move has resulted in any noticeable improvement in climate, he has Berty\ Berry, '43, Red Cross workerwith a clubmobile unit in Europe.at least experienced a decided changein scenery.Lt. Ray Ickes, '35, AM '36, JD '39,son of Secretary Ickes, '97, JD '07,has been wounded on Iwo. We quotea letter from his commanding officerwritten to Mrs. Ickes: "He led hisplatoon through bitter fighting fromthe start, pushing steadily forwardin the face of fierce resistance andheavy casualties. On March 7 hejoined in an attack against Hill 362,a point which dominated the northern portion of the island and whichwas holding up the advance of ourentire line. By late afternoon yourhusband's company had carried outits orders and had moved up on tothat hill in spite of the furious defense put up by the Japanese. It waswhile preparing his position for thenight that he was wounded in thechest by a sniper's bullet." Lt. Ickeswas acting CO. of the company bythis time, the CO. and second incommand having already been casualties. He was too seriously woundedto be evacuated for some time, but atlast report his three shattered ribsare mending nicely and he is en routeto the United States.William B. Ballis, PhD, '36, is onmilitary leave from Ohio State University where he has been a memberof the political science department.As a lieutenant commander in theNaval Reserve, Ballis is stationed inthe office of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington.Capt. John S. Giffin, MD Rush '36,a flight surgeon with the ATC, isbased in the Hawaiian Islands. It'snot very tough there, he reports, buthe is anxious to get through with thejob. He reminds us to "keep pushing along" and they "will deliver thegoods."Lt. William Gillerlain, '37, returnedto the States after duty with a car rier - based torpedo squadron asgunnery officer, and is now cameragunnery officer with a Liberatoroperation training unit. They traingunners through the use of camerasand "it's good stuff." He likes everything about it except the town he isin — Jacksonville, Florida.The air war in Burma for Lt. Ramsey Bancroft, '38, consists of largedoses of doing very little. There areno U. of C. alumni near him and suchother middle western students are ofso recent vintage that they rememberChicago only as "a school with nofootball team."Capt. Neil J. Van Steenberg, PhD'38, has been overseas for a year anda half. He is commanding officer ofan AMG unit attached to Gen. Pat-ton's 3rd Army.Major Arnold Phillips, '38, has beensweating out the final curtain in theETO and getting ready to move tothe Pacific theater. 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Carleton Menge, AM '40, isfunctioning as commanding officer ofthe reconditioning annex of the station hospital at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, "gaining experience invaluable" for his return to the University'seducation department.Telephone Haymarket 3120E. A. AARON & BROS. Inc.Fresh Fruits and VegetablesDistributors ofCEDERGREEN FROZEN FRESH FRUITS ANDVEGETABLES46-48 South Water MarketAshjian Bros., inc.ESTABLISHED IMIOriental and DomesticRUGSCLEANED and REPAIRED8066 South Chicago Phone Regent 6000A SundaeTreat forAny Day!SWIFT'S ICE CREAMSundaes and sodas are extra goodmade with Swift's Ice Cream. Sodelicious, so creamy -smooth, so##f£^-...A Product ofSWIFT & COMPANY7409 S. Sfof. StrtetPhono RADcliflo 7400 Melvin Tracht, '41, chaplain's assistant, has been stationed in Paris.S/Sgt. Lewis Sprietsma, '40, hopeshe is "also serving" as he "sits andwaits" at Warrenton, Virginia.Chapl. Howell G. Guin, BD '40,has been awarded the Bronze StarMedal for meritorious service in connection with military operations inFrance. The citation reads in part:"Consecrated, sincere, and conscientious, Lt. Col. Guin has performed hisservices as division chaplain in a remarkable spirit of self abnegation.He has consistently visited the frontlines for immediate and direct viewsof the problems of the fighting troopsand their chaplains, constantly making himself available wherever andfor whatever his services may be required. His performance of duty hasbeen immeasurably responsible forthe imbuing of a spirit of confidencein his chaplains by the combat soldier,marked by unusually high church attendance and the visiting of chaplainsfor assistance and spiritual advice bytroops in the command."Lt. William T. Dean, JD '40, hasgone back to Oahu after a couple ofmonths on Leyte, where he shared atent with Pfc. Joseph G. Kahl, '44,who is working on public relationsfor the division to which Dean wasattached. Jonathan, Dean's son whowas born in December, talked to hisdad recently by transpacific telephone,but "merely expressed his indignation over the late hour of the call."Capt. Ryland Jacobus, MD Rush'40, is back in Panama after a tourin the Galapagos Islands.Lt. (j.g.) Robert Kamins, '40, stilltours the Pacific — "headed in thewrong direction." By happy coincidence he is sharing a room with another U. of O'er, Lt. Don Voelker,AM '42. Both are daydreamingabout returning to the Quadrangles,when it will be a pleasure to worryabout such important trivia as termpapers again. POND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHoove. TypowrltliifMultigraphlngAddTMMgraiHi SwImHighest Quality ServiceAll PhonesHarrison 8118 MimeographingAddrMtlngMailingMinimum Pries418 So. 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Markusich writes that she is delighted to bein Honolulu but does miss "the oldwindy city."Ensign Sheldon N. Dray, '41, is ona sub-chaser in the southwest Pacific. The motto of their fleet is;"Wooden Ships and Iron Men," butthey are not quite as fierce as itsounds, he says.S/Sgt. Thelma Eaton, '41, is stillwriting history for the Air Forces.She spent six months at ColoradoSprings and last winter was transferred to the ATC and then assigned to the North Atlantic divisionof the command. She is stationed atGrenier Field, Manchester, NewHampshire. ^Capt. Margaret L. Perry, '41, isprincipal chief nurse of a unit in a22 THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGO MAGAZINEDEWEY & WHALEN INC.Plain & OrnamentalPLASTERINGAuthorized All-Bond Contractors4035 PhoneLawrence Ave. Pensacola 8040HUGHES TEACHERS AGENCY25 E. JACKSON BLVD., Chicago, IllinoisTelephone Harrison 7793Member National Associationof Teachers AgenciesGenerally reeognlxed as one of the leading TeachersAgencies of the United States.ESTABLISHED «<?08ROOFING and INSULATINGEuropean hospital. She says theyderive great satisfaction in takingcare of "our boys."The work is hard, the heat is oppressive, and the hope to get backhome still lingers, is the way Capt.Woodford Heflin, PhD '41, feelsabout it all in India.Lt. Carroll Morrison, '42, who wasassigned last fall to a veteran 15thAir Force P-51 Mustang fightergroup, has been awarded the AirMedal for meritorious achievementin aerial flight.Sgt. Jim Burtle, '42, although asoldier, spends most of his time at seaon a floating repair ship. He has abeautiful beach at his location in thePhilippines which reminds him oftraining camp days in Florida, onlythe climate is cooler and there areno mosquitoes. He likes the Filipinosand never saw such friendly people.Sl/c Emily Norton, AM '42, completed the course at the Lakehurst,New Jersey, Naval Training Stationlast January and is now on duty withWeather Central in Washington,D. C.T/Sgt. David Rothrock, '42, is"working like a beaver during theday and like a beachcomber at night"somewhere in the Pacific.Lt. Craig Leman, '43, lasted onIwo Jima for two weeks until hishelmet lost an argument with a Japbullet, which gave him a scalpwound. Returning later to duty hesaw Capt. Russ Parsons, '40, and Lt.Lewis Miller, '42, both resting afterIwo. BIRCK-FELLINGER CORP.ExclusiveCleaners & Dyers200 E. Marquette RoadPhone: Went. 5380LEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: Hyde Park 9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVERMacCormac School ofCommerceBusiness Administration and Secretarial TrainingDAY AND EVENING CLASSESAccredited by the National Association ofAccredited Commercial Schools1170 E. 63rd St. H. P. 2130Looks like Lt. Frank Psota, '43, hasa job. now for the duration — as engineering officer and test pilot at theArmy air field at Las Vegas, Nevada.Capt. Joseph B. Kirsner, PhD '43,on leave from U. of C. as assistantprofessor of medicine, has been stationed at a general hospital in Belgium. His hospital was hit by a robotbomb last fall, twenty men beingkilled and nearly a hundred wounded.Werner Baum, '43, SM '44, aerog-rapher's mate 2/c, writes: "Instructing in meteorology at the Universitywhen, just a year ago, Selective Service deemed it advisable that I put myacquired talents at the Navy's disposal. Boot camp at Great Lakes;thence to the Atlantic Fleet WeatherCentral, Naval Air Station, at Norfolk, Virginia, and here I sit. Mywife (Shirley Bowman, '44) has herproblems teaching history — includingthe Civil War — in a local highschool."Pfc. Caroline V. Allen, '43, of theMarines, after completing her schooling was sent to San Diego, where shetaught aerial gunnery. Last December she volunteered for overseas duty,sailed in February, and is now stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, doingthe same sort of work. Marine sisterCharlotte, '43, attended school inAtlanta, Georgia, for Link trainer in- SPRAGUEIRONWORKS44 10 WEST ADDISON ST.TELEPHONEPALISADE - - 2210Platers, SilversmithsSpecialists . . .GOLD, SILVER, RHODANIZESILVERWARERepaired, Refinished, RelacqueredSWARTZ & COMPANY10 8. Wabash Ave. CENtral 6089-90 ChieageCIGARETTE BURNSMOTH HOLESCUTS— TEARSREWOVEN LIKE NEWIN CLOTHES, LINENS AND RUGSAmerican Weaving Co.5 N. Wabash Avenue Phone Dearborn 1693structors, and after graduating wentto Cherry Point, N. C, where she isteaching blind flying to other Marines. The girls' brother, after ayear in the South Pacific with theMarines, spent a 30-day furlough athome en route to Camp Lejeune,where he will have further radarschooling. At Christmas time Caroline spent a day or two in Arizonawith former roommate, BarbaraMonser Howe, '44, and her husband,John Howe, '27; Charlotte has seenDoris Wigger Nystrom, '43, and herhusband, Capt. Robert Nystrom, '42,a couple of times since she has beenin North Carolina.Lt. Bruce MacLeod Colton, '44,with the ATC in Scotland, has lostno time in looking into the ClanMacLeod. Shortly after Brucearrived he was admitted to life membership in the MacLeod Society,whose present chief is its twenty-eighth head — a woman who lives inDunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye.It has been his good fortune to receive an invitation to visit the castle.Twice he has flown fairly low overthe locality and hopes before, he . returns to the States to visit the chiefthere.After a full year in Italy, Lt. ByronS. Martin, '44, achieved his transferto the "garden spot of the Orient"Kandy, Ceylon, and is working forthe Office of Strategic Services. It isinteresting work and even better "ispractically a continuation" of his college work, which is excellent training for his expected return to"Heaven."THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 23THE CLASSES1896Howard S. Gait was officially retired last fall after forty-four yearsof missionary service in the field ofhigher education in North China. Heis now permanently settled in thecollege town of Claremont, California, and continuing research andwriting on the history of the old educational institutions of China.1897The U. of C. Press has recentlypublished Problems of New TestamentTranslation by Edgar Goodspeed, DB,PhD '98. The book is dedicated toVice-President Colwell, who succeeded Goodspeed as head of the NewTestament department in the DivinitySchool.William H. Maley, MD Rush, reports two sons in World War II. Bothhave been overseas for over 2% years.The doctor is living in Galesburg,Illinois.1901"Talking Books for the Blind" hasjust recorded John Mills' latest book,Electronics Today and Tomorrow.This is the second of his books to bemade available to the blind, for "AFugue in Cycles and Bels" was recorded several years ago. Mills has been with the Bell Telephone Laboratories for 34 years.1905Herbert Markham, loyal Cabinetmember of the Alumni Asociation,has been elected president of theParker Appliance Company. He isa partner in the Chicago firm of PaulH. Davis, but finds that his new position keeps him in Cleveland most ofthe time.1906Evangelist James H. Larson has recently finished a campaign in Minneapolis with the Wesley MethodistChurch.1907After 35 years of teaching highschool freshmen the rudiments ofscience, Meta C. Mannhardt has resigned from the Evanston Townshiphigh school and retired from teaching.Charles Axelson, former chairmanof the Alumni Council and long-timemember of the University's Board ofTrustees, has completed thirty-fiveyears of continuous service as anagent of the Northwestern MutualLife Insurance Company. He hasbeen showered with congratulationsby the insurance press, executives andagents of his own and other companies, policy holders, and personal friends. Axelson is a former president of both the Chicago and IllinoisAssociations of Life Underwritersarid has served on the executive committee of the national association. Hehas been active in many types ofcommunity service, and in 1943 washonored with the Alumni Citationfor Public Service.For over twenty-five years CalvinK. Staudt, PhD, and Mrs. Staudt(Ida Donges, '20) have labored inthe Middle East. Mr. Staudt taughtfor nearly five years in the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, and then founded the American School for Boys atBaghdad, the city of the "ArabianNights," of which he has been principal for the last twenty years. Notlong ago a Silver Jubilee was held inappreciation of the twenty-five yearsof service he has given as an educator in the Middle East. The celebration was arranged by the alumni association of the school and was underthe patronage of His Excellency thePrime Minister of Iraq. The audience was made up of Iraqi ministers,diplomatic representatives, membersof parliament, high government officials, and the graduates and friendsof the school. Over 600 people werepresent. Among those who madespeeches was the minister of educa-Designed Especially forCHICAGO ALUMNIASH TRAYS, clear glass, with University of Chicago Crest reproduced in four colors by the Kemptone permanent screenprocess.You will want several. 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Kuhns, MD Rush '13,continues as psychiatrist-in-chief atthe Armed Forces Induction Centerfor Southern California in Los Angeles.Since the first of the year ValleeAppel has been the Secretary of War'schief consultant on refrigeration andhas spent a lot of time travelingaround the country in connectionwith this voluntary job.1912M. Ellen Ledward is interviewer atthe Ocala Rapid Treatment CenterNo. 2 at Ocala, Florida.The Bills Realty and the Bills Mortgage Company have moved their offices to expanded quarters on theGEORGE ERHARDTand SONS, Inc.Painting — Decorating — Wood Finishing3123 PhoneLake Street Kedzie 3186ENGLEWOODELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.Distributors, Manufacturers and Jobbers ofELECTRICAL MATERIALS ANDFIXTURE SUPPLIES5801 EnglewoodS. Halsted Street 7500Phone: Saginaw 3202FRANK CURRANRoofing & InsulationLeaks RepairedFree EstimatesFRANK CURRAN ROOFING CO.8019 Bennett St.Phones Oakland 0690—0691—0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.INC.Awnings and Canopies for All Purposes4508 Cottage Grove Avenue second floor of 110 South Dearborn,Chicago. Members of the firm areBenjamin F. Bills, JD '14, and AdolphG. Pierrot, '07, one-time alumni secretary on the Quadrangles.1913Leon Unger, MD Rush '15, Chicago physician, is author of a recently published book, BronchialAsthma.Rev. E. A. Pollard Jones, ministerof the Freeport, New York, Methodist Church for twelve years andpresident of the Freeport Inter-FaithClergy Council, left Freeport the firstof May to become superintendent ofthe New York District of the NewYork East Conference of the Methodist Church.Glenn Mather is doing sales research and industry promotion forthe Container Company, a division ofthe Continental Can Company atVan Wert, Ohio. He is secretary ofthe Fiber Drums Industry AdvisoryCommittee.1914Erling H. Lunde's son, Lt. LeifLunde, has been given a medical discharge from the Army Air Forcesand has gone into business with hisfather, selling metal cutting tools andprecision parts.J. D. Coon, JD '15, of Coon andCoon, attorneys and counsellors ofSioux Falls, South Dakota, was theU. of C. delegate upon the occasionof the inauguration of Ernest E.Smith as fifteenth president of SiouxFalls College in April.1915Mrs. Ralph S. Dobbins (LydiaQuinlan) continues to operate an electrical wholesale business since thedeath of her husband in 1939, locatedin Springfield, Illinois. The firm —the U. S. Electric Company — hasmanaged to be of practical service insupplying electrical merchandise tothat defense area. Mrs. Dobbins hasalso been active in the A.A.U.W.,serving on its legislative committee,has found time to be president of thelocal League of Women Voters, andis doing a bit for the war effortthrough serving on a local OP Apanel. Her son, Richard, now 16,hasn't decided yet where he will goto college.Mrs. Nicholas I. Fox (Evelyn A.Hattis) keeps busy in educationalclub work and in cultural entertainment. Her son, Lt. (j.g.) B. W. Fox,a physician in the Navy, is in thePacific, and took part in the Okinawainvasion.Being director of Dolores County(Colorado) Department of Public OBERG'SFLOWER SHOPFlowers wired the world over1461 E. 57th StreetPhones: Fairfax 3670, 3671ECONOMY SHEET METAL WORKS•Galvanized Iron and Copper CornicesSkylights, Gutters, Down SpoutsTile, Slate and Asbestos Roofing1927 MELROSE STREETBuckingham 1893Since 7878HANNIBAL, INC.UpholstersFurniture Repairing1919 N. Sheffield AvenuePhone: Lincoln 7180TuckerDecorating Service5559 S. Cottage Grove Ave.Phone MIDway 4404Welfare, Clara Small writes, buttersher bread, pays the rent, and buysthe spuds. Running a small beanand wheat farm furnishes the jam forthe bread and buys the war bonds.Dolores County is one of Colorado'ssmallest in point of population andstill a pioneer country. Last year shedrove 150 miles, round trip, to visitone client!1917Dunlap C. Clark, has been relievedfrom active duty as colonel in theGeneral Staff Corps. Now on inactive status, he has returned to hisformer civilian occupation as president of the American National Bankof Kalamazoo, Michigan.1919Corinne Schenck Eddy makes herhome in Carthage, Mississippi, whereshe is county health officer and examining physician for Leake CountySelective Service.Ernest E. Leisey, AM, professor ofEnglish at Southern Methodist University, was invited by the Universityof Kansas, his Alma Mater, to deliveran address on "The American Historical Novel" in April. He has justcompleted, with Howard MumfordJones, an enlargement of their widelyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 25Timothy A. BarrettPLASTERERRepairing A Specialty5549 S. Cottage Grove Ave.Phone Hyde Park 0653RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING & DECORATING1331 TelephoneW. Jackson Blvd. Monroe 3192SUPER-GOLD CORPORATIONMANUFACTURERS OF COMMERCIALREFRIGERATION2221 South Michigan AvenueCHICAGO 16, ILLINOISAlbert K. Epstein, '12B. R. Harris, '21Epstein, Reynolds and HarrisConsulting Chemists and Engineers5 S. Wabash Ave. ChicagoTel. Cent. 4285-6used college textbook, Major American Writers (Harcourt).Lewis H. Tiffany, chairman of thebotany department at Northwestern,was appointed to the William Deer-ing professorship of botany last January. He has been made an honorary associate in botany at the Chicago Natural History Museum.Halford L. Hoskins is in Washington, D. C, as director of the ForeignService Educational Foundation.1920Robert E. Mathews, JD, for thepast year associate general counsel ofthe National War Labor Board, hasbeen appointed a public member andco-chairman of the Appeals Committee of that agency. He is living inArlington, Virginia.1921Heth Smith, AM '30, former juniorhigh school principal at Richmond,Indiana, is now managing his owndairy farm at Colfax, Wisconsin.1923Mildred Sharp took her AM in1939 from the University of Illinois.She is teaching high school at Calumet, Michigan.Maurice S. Brody, MBA '43, hasbeen elected treasurer of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society, a national tuberculosis sanatorium locatedat Denver. He is chairman of theDenver Area Sanatorium Council, agroup composed of representatives ofall twelve tuberculosis sanatoria inthat area. Brody is author of WageRates and Living Costs in a WarEconomy, published by the University of Chicago Press. It is said thatthis monograph helped to influencethe National War Labor Board tostand by the Little Steel formula.1924Russell Pierce has been working forthe J. Walter Thompson Companyfor some years. He is with the firmat San Francisco and lives in SanBruno.1925Samuel Broyde is teaching parttime at the Walton School of Commerce in Chicago.John M. Stalnaker, AM '28, general director of the Army-Navy College Testing Program, associate secretary of the College Entrance Examinations Board, and professor of psychology at Princeton, has been appointed dean of students at StanfordUniversity. He will take up his dutiesat the beginning of the autumn quarter. The position of dean of studentswas recently created at Stanford inorder to coordinate the present functions of the offices of registrar, deanof men, and dean of women. As general director of the Army-Navy CTP— the largest testing effort ever undertaken in the United States — Mr.Stalnaker supervises the development, distribution, administration,and scoring of the qualifying testswhich have been given ever sincePearl Harbor to more than half amillion candidates for the ASTP. Heis also director of the Navy Test Research Unit, which has given achievement tests to more than 88,000 menenrolled in the Navy V-12 Program.In addition, he is in charge of restricted research projects dealing withpersonnel selection for the armedforces, conducted under the auspicesof the Office of Scientific Researchand Development.A most interesting note arrived atAlumni House from Mrs. Henry A.Wright (Martha Gose) of Decatur,Georgia. We can't resist quoting it."Our eldest (Carol) is a junior inthe College. To her there could notbe another school as stimulating.Maybe she gets that way from thisincident. When she was two yearsold I visited the campus with her andstopped at Ida Noyes Hall to showher the carvings on the stairs. Whoshould come and pick her up but the new President (with his wife)saying, 'Here comes just what weneed to break the ice.' I didn'tunderstand the remark until we allentered the lounge and found sixJapanese girls here from their islandson a good will tour — as well as Japanese and American consular representatives. President Hutchins putCarol on the lap of one of the girls.Carol rose to the occasion, touchedone of the beautifully embroideredgarments and said, 'Pretty dress.'Sure enough, that broke the ice, andevery one began laughing and talking(in good and broken English). Teaserved just then helped to keep thingsjolly. In view of present relationsit's good to recall pleasanter Jap-American activities. Jack, the secondof our four children, hitch-hikedfrom Georgia to Chicago last weekand spent four days with Carol. Nowhe is sure he must attend Chicago."It takes an experienced and practical salesman like Joseph P. Wood-lock, AM, to figure out how to selland get a good price for a billion dollars worth of thousands of secondhand government "white elephants."As assistant director of the SurplusProperty Board of the RFC, Wood-The Best Place to Eat on the South SideCOLONIAL RESTAURANT6324 Woodlawn Ave.Phone Hyde Park 6324BIENENFELDGLASS CORP. OF ILLINOISChicago's Most Complete Stock ofGLASS1525 PhoneW. 35th St. Lafayette 8400W.B. CONKEY COMPANYHAMMOND, INDIANA'¦¦IllHIIIIIIllllllttlllllllt IIIIII1I11II11UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIlIllillPRINTERS and BINDERS BOOKS and CATALOGSSALES OFFICES: CHICAGO AND NEW YORKEASTMAN COAL CO.Eitabliihed 1902YARDS ALL OVER TOWNGENERAL OFFICES342 N. Oakley Blvd.Telephone Seeley 448826 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINElock doesn't have much trouble getting rid of some things — such asDiesel engines, gliders, machine tools,and equipment for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration, but it isa different story when it comes to disposing of barrage balloons, animalbones, imitation gems, and dirigibleand seadrome lighting fixtures. Another of Woodlock's problems is totry to explain to the public that thereis no relation between what theseitems originally cost the governmentand what they sell for. Surplus property has been to war, is sometimesdamaged or deteriorated, and alwayssecond-hand. The board has, however, so far been able to realize 70cents on the dollar. Woodlock hadhad eighteen years' experience as abusiness executive before going toWashington in 1942 to serve first withthe Army Service Forces.William C. Krumbein, SM '30,PhD '32, on leave as assistant professor of geology at the University,has been presented the MeritoriousCivilian Service Award by the WarDepartment for his part in theachievement of the Office of Chiefof Engineers. The award reads: "Inrecognition of outstanding performance of duty in the Beach ErosionBoard of the Office of Chief of Engineers. His leadership, indefatigableenergy, and sound judgment .havebeen important factors in the successful accomplishment of the confidential strategic studies of foreigncoastlines which have proven important to the war effort." The workof the Beach Erosion Board has beenof great importance in the planningof amphibious operations in all theaters of operation. In the summer of1942 Professor Krumbein, then on aGuggenheim fellowship studying specialized problems in shoreline andbeach features on the Californiacoast, was called to government serv-SJtinsdvmj-Chicago's OutstandingDRUG STORESBOYDSTON BROS.All phone* OAK. 0*92operatingAuthorized Ambulance Servicefor Billings HospitalUniversity Clinics, etc.CADILLAC EQUIPMENT EXCLUSIVELY BEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICELICENSED - BONDEDINSUREDQUALIFIED WELDERSHAYmarket 79171404-08 S. Western Ave.. ChicagoAMERICANPHOTO ENGRAVING CO.Photo EngraversArtists — ElectrotypersMakers of Printing Plates429 TelephoneS. Ashland Blvd. Monroe 7515ice to apply his knowledge developedfrom a peace-time study of Americanand European beaches. Techniqueshave been developed by the BeachErosion Board by which it has beenpossible to predict with great accuracy the natural features of anyenemy-held beach without even apicture of the beach in their possession. Two alumnae are workingwith the Board — Eleanor Tatge, '31,and Mrs. Robert A. Edmunds (ClaraE. Sprague, '37).1926V. Frank Coe has been made director of the U. S.* Treasury's Divisionof Monetary Research.1927During the coming summer Marjorie F. Burrell, AM '37, will teachat the Bradley Polytechnical Institutein Peoria, Illinois.Ethel Mary Pate, AM, has left herposition as commissary clerk at theLeavenworth penitentiary to becomea custodial officer at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson,West Virginia.1929Samuel B. Braden was electedpresident of the Kansas Conventionof Christian Churches for 1945. Heis living in Wichita.George E. Leonard, JD, is acting aschief trial attorney for the regionalOffice of Price Administration atChicago.M. P. Masure, SM '30, writes thathis brother, Ralph H. Masure, '32,made a hurried trip of 9000 miles byplane to the States from Sao Paulodue to the illness of their mother,who passed away ten days after hisarrival on December 1. Ralph hasreturned to his post with the U. S.Consulate in Brazil.First counselor at the newly established legation of the Syrian Re- AMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits itswork to the university and college Held.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.TINY TOTSTERILIZEDDIAPER SERVICEr/slfs,. PLAza8464public in Washington is Costi K.Zurayk, AM, graduate of the American University at Beirut and recentmember of the Princeton faculty.The appointment has been announced of M. C. Coleman as salesmanager of metropolitan and provincial Chicago for the appliance division of the Northwestern Division ofWestinghouse Company. His officewill be in Chicago.1930Milton A. Kallis is working for theDepartment of Justice in Washingtonas a lawyer.Sam B. Williams is assistant manager of the Personal Finance Company in Hannibal, Missouri.Austin T. Gardner is secretaryand comptroller of the DelawarePower and Light Company, withoffices in Wilmington. He is livingat Deerhurst.1931Allen W. Sayler is radio representative for the UAW-CIO in Detroit.Mrs. William P. Graves (MargaretHelen Stoll) is teaching at the NewBuffalo, Michigan, high school.John Bertie Smith, AM, memberof the art department at the University of Wyoming, has been awarded the Arthur Wesley Dow Scholarship for gradual study next year atTeachers College, Columbia University.1933Ethelynne Dal retired last yearfrom her position at Englewood highschool in Chicago, after many yearsof teaching Spanish and other languages.Mrs. L. B. Stevens (Mary HelenMcCrea) is librarian for the SupremeCourt Library in Honolulu.As a civilian representative of theAmerican Airlines, Robert W. Erickson is abroad with the European division of the ATC.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 27CITATIONS OF ACHIEVEMENTWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE at Liberty, Missouri,recently celebrated its first Achievement Day program honoring sevenalumni. The speaker of the daywas Robert A. Millikan, formermember of the Chicago faculty,who was awarded an LL.D. Twoof the seven alumni honored arealso former Chicago students:Maple T. Harl, Colorado StateBank Commissioner, who tookwork in law on the Midway afterbeing graduated from WilliamJewell; and Ruth Weyand, whosefather was a member of the William Jewell faculty while she wasa student there.Ruth Weyand, '30, JD '32, hasbeen an attorney for the NationalLabor Relations Board since 1938.She was a student at WilliamJewell College in 1927 and 1928.Her work at Chicago merited election to the Order of Coif. Aftergraduation, Miss Weyand practiced law in Chicago, devoting alarge part of her time to suitsgrowing out of the collapse of theInsull utility investments. She alsoparticipated in a test case involving the constitutionality of theIllinois Fair Trade Act.During the first three years withthe NLRB, she presented oralarguments before various UnitedNext fall Ellen M. Shuart, AM,will become teacher and publicationsdirector of the Oak Park and RiverForest Township high school, Illinois.Frederick M. Noble is at Cal Techin Pasadena as a precision inspector.Richard M. Perdew is teaching inthe Bronxville, New York, School.Olive A. Junge, with the Red Cross,has been transferred from AshfordPlacfettone decorating&>erbicePhone Pullman 917010422 3M,ttot* Bbe., Chicago, 3U.PENDERCatch Basin and Sewer ServiceBack Water Valves, Sumps-Pumps6620 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE1545 E. 63RD STREETFAIRFAX 0330-0550-0880PENDER CATCH BASIN SERVICE1545 EAST 63RD STREET Ruth WeyandStates circuit courts of appeal inNew York, Chicago, Philadelphia,Washington, New Orleans, Richmond, Asheville, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, and San Francisco. Oneof these, the Bethlehem Steel case,involved more than 100,000 persons. She is supervisor in chargeof Supreme Court briefing for theBoard and has won every case todate. In December, 1941, MissWeyand was chosen as one of theten outstanding young women ofAmerica for the year by a committee of educators.general hospital in White SulphurSprings, to Deshon general hospitalin Butler, Pennsylvania.Floyd Masten is out of the Statesin government civilian service.1934Albert Lohrman is a teacher at thehigh school in Constantine, Michigan.Roland C. Matthies, JD, after having served Wittenberg College asE. J. Chalifoux '22PHOTOPRESS, INC.Planograph — Offset — Printing731 Plymouth CourtWabash 8182GEO. D. MILLIGANCOMPANYPAINTING CONTRACTORS2101-9 South Kedzie AvenuePhone: Rockwell 8060 MURPHY BUTTER and EGG GO.WHOLESALE2016 CALUMET AVE.CHURNERS OF FANCY CREAMERY BUTTERFINEST WISCONSIN EGGSPhone CALumet 5731Ajax Waste Paper Co.2600-2634 W. Taylor St.Buyers of Any QuantityWaste PaperScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CallMr. B. Shedroff, Van Buren 0230business manager for its Army training school, has been appointed veterans coordinator for the college.Reginald T. Harling will becomean assistant professor next Septemberat Albion College, Michigan.Mrs. Joseph Babin (Gladys Horn)is living at Clearwater, Florida, whereshe is engaged in the real estate business in Pinellas County.1935Agnes M. Brady has been workingwith the young people's division ofthe Y.W.C.A. at St. Paul, Minnesota.John F. Dietrich, AM '38, has beenappointed professor and head of theart department at New- Mexico StateTeachers College at Silver City. Hewill take up his duties June 1.Marie Cole Berger, JD '38, staffmember of UNRRA, was woundedin Athens, Greece, on December 15.Her leg was shattered by machinegun fire. She was in Army hospitalsoverseas until March and then wasflown to Washington on a hospitalplane. She is still confined to bedand fears that she will be disabledfor about a year. The Purple Hearthas been awarded to Miss Berger.1936Luella Nolen Dambaugh, SM, commutes from her home at Hastings-on-the-Hudson to her job of researchassistant at the American Geographical Society in New York.Ada V. Espenshade, who took herSM in geography at the U. in 1938,will take up duties as lecturer atWellesley next fall.1937Donal K. Holway is still an electrical engineer on construction of thePensacola Dam of the Grand RiverProject in Oklahoma. They are putting the fifth of six units into servicethis year, which will add 20,000horsepower to that critically shortpower area. Over 90 per cent of the28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEpower from their plant supplies warindustries.In December, 1944, John Vieg,PhD, resigned his position in the U. S.Bureau of the Budget in Washington to take charge, beginning January 1, of the program in governmentat Pomona College.Margaret Conger Clark is the girls'department secretary at the Poughkeepsie, New York, Y.W.C.A. Herhusband, Lt. Philip J. Clark, MD '40,-recently left the Marshall Islands forparts unknown with the 4th MarineAircraft Wing.1938Mary F. Dickey joined the American Red Cross in January and hasbeen at Harmon general hospital inLongview, Texas, doing social andrecreational work. Elizabeth DickeyFritz, '36, is with her husband, Lt.Leonard Fritz, and son Robert (3 J/2)at Camp MacArthur, California. •Martha Best, AM '41, has been agraduate assistant in French at theUniversity of Wisconsin since January.Helen Knight, AM, is teaching atthe high school in Vinita, Oklahoma.Mrs. Julius Abler (Elizabeth Engel-man) has a young son, Billy, 16 months old. Her husband was retired last summer from active duty asa captain of an anti-aircraft battery.They are living in Chicago.Two months ago Margaret S. Foll-stad, SM, was appointed acting assistant director of the nutrition department of the Red Cross in Chicago.1940Louise Stuckart is living at OakRidge, Tennessee, where she is teaching in the public schools.Riley Herman Pittman, AM, andMrs. Pittman (Janet Hayes, AM '41 )have moved from Huntington Park,California, to Whittier, where Mr.Pittman has taken the position ofminister of education at the FirstChristian Church.1941Jack Woolams and his wife (MaryM. Mayer) are at Niagara Falls,where he is chief test pilot of the BellAircraft Corporation. They have adaughter, Virginia, born in August,1943, and a son, Jack, Jr., bornMarch 25 this year.Leo J. Cieminski, AM, is scheduledto be included in Who's Who inAmerican Education for 1945-46. John C. Gerber, PhD, has beenmade an assistant professor in theEnglish department at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City.1942Joanne Kuper Zimmerman's husband is still stationed at Lake Charles,Louisiana, so she is still writing commercial copy for the local radio station. She says they feel very muchlike natives.Jacqueline Polly VanDeventer,AM, is a Navy wife following herhusband, Lt. (j.g.) Russell H. Savage,AM, around the country. At presentthey are at Wickford, Rhode Island.The lieutenant is a radar officer.Donald Smith, AM, is at the University of Vermont in Burlington asdirector of the libraries and assistantprofessor.Erich Rosenthal, AM, has beenteaching in the evening school ofIllinois Tech, in Chicago.Mary E. Runyan has become headresident of the George Williams College in Chicago.1943Manuel J. Vargas y Toledo, AM'44, is working for the War Food Administration as farm program supervisor. His duties carry him throughAyatn voted*America'sfavorite... this haconwith thesweet smoke taste*ln a new, nation-wide pollSwift's Premium Bacon wonoverwhelmingly, led the runner-up more than two to one/Your first duty to your country BUY WAR BONDSTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBOYDSTON BROS., INC.UNDERTAKERSSince 18924227-29-31 Cottage Grove Ave.All Phones OAKIand 0492seventeen states of the souths middlewest, and west to the Dakotas, downto Mexico and Florida. In generalhe sees to it that the farmers and imported laborers (from Mexico andCentral America) both receive thetreatment that contracts have stipulated.Nolabelle Sullivan Welch was appointed professor of commerce atMiddle Georgia College, Cochran,last fall.Frances Blackmon, MBA, is director of the Georgia League of WomenVoters in Atlanta.Esther Boehlje has been at IndianaUniversity in Bloomington for thelast year as instructor and criticteacher.1944Bob Dille is working in membership sales with the National SafetyCouncil in Chicago. He hopes to bemarried this summer.Edith Kelso, AM, is on campusworking in the mail order departmentof the Bookstore.At the Medill high school in Chicago Helen J. Hunt, SM, is teachinghome economics.Elizabeth Thomas, AM, has beenworking in the social service department of the psychopathic hospital inIowa City for the past year. She became engaged to John W. Busby, '40,SB '43, Alpha Delta, last New Year'sDay and they planned to be marriedMay 19 and make their home onLong Island.Georgia Tauber has been spendingpart-time as an instructor in the Chicago Commercial College. Margaret A. Emerson, AM, isteaching in the public schools atHazel Crest, Illinois.Helen M. Kelly, AM, is teachingat the Walsh school in Chicago.Patricia Kachiroubas, AM, isteaching at George Washington highschool in East Chicago during thespring- 1945Bert Hoselitz, who took his AM ineconomics this year, has been teaching in the College at the University.SOCIAL SERVICEWord has been received recentlyfrom Ruth Endicott Read, AM '33,who is with the American Red Crossin the European War Theater. Heraddress is Continental Headquarters,APO 887, c/o Postmaster, New York.Clinton Belknap, AM '37, is nowworking with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Nebraska.Margaret Leahy, AM '37, is onleave from the Social Security Boardto serve as administrative assistantof the eastern region of the AmericanRed Cross, located in Alexandria,Virginia.Clyde S. Pritchard, AM '39, hasleft the School of Social Work at theUniversity of Washington to becomedirector of the Children's Agency ofOakland, California. Kathleen Wilson, AM '43, is to be the case worksupervisor of this agency.Margaret Lumpkin, AM '40, wasemployed March 15 by the AmericanAssociation of Medical Social Work- MAGAZINE 29MOFFETT STUDIOCAMERA PORTRAITS OF QUALITY30 So. Michigan Blvd., Chicago State 87SCOFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHERU. of C. ALUMNIServing the Medical ProfessionSince 1895V. MUELLER & CO.SURGEONSTNSTRUMENTSHOSPITAL AND OFFICEFURNITUREORTHOPEDICAPPLIANCES•Phone Seeley 2180, all departmentsOgden Ave., Van Buren andHonore StreetsChicago 12ers as executive secretary. She wentto this position after four years inSt. Louis, the last two of which havebeen as medical social consultant -ina public venereal disease control project under the city health department in cooperation with the U. S.Public Health Service.Addison Brandon, AM '41, whohas been with the U. S. Children'sBureau in South America, has takena position with the United NationsRelief and Rehabilitation Administration.Emily Wolff Sereno, AM '43, hasbeen appointed deputy administratorin the emergency maternity and infant care program in the District ofColumbia Health Department.Dorothy Swisshelm, AM '43, hasbeen made the director of the divisionof child welfare services in the StateBoard of Control of Nebraska.Martha Carlton, AM '44, has accepted a position as psychiatric socialworker with the Neurological Institute in New York City.Sarabelle McCleery, AM '44, hasbecome case work supervisor with theBoys' and Girls' Aid Society of Oregon, located in Portland.Of the students who took the master's degree at the Winter Convocation Ann Allensworth is case workerwith the Family Consultation Servicein Cincinnati, Ohio; Isabel Gordo returned as a medical social worker tothe Department of Health in PuertoRico; Grace Harrison has been appointed medical social worker inHubbard Hospital, Nashville, Ten-Albert Teachers' Agency25 E. 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Vernon Ave.nessee; Hilda Kirker has taken a position as psychiatric social worker withthe Veterans Administration; Dorothy Large has been appointed supervisor at the Illinois NeuropsychiatricInstitute and is supervising studentsfor the School in psychiatric socialwork; Anne Mairesse has accepted aposition with the Children's Bureauof Los Angeles; Ruth McKendry hasjoined the faculty of the School ofSocial Work at the University ofCalifornia in San Francisco; FernPence is supervisor of field staff, public assistance division, Indiana Department of Public Welfare; EdnaPhillips is a case work supervisor inthe Children's Aid Society of Wisconsin located in Milwaukee; JoySimon has accepted a position withthe Jewish Children's Bureau in Chicago; Dorothy Sutton is case workerwith the Family and Children's Service of Charlotte, North Carolina;Erica Weinberg is a senior caseworker with the children's divisionof the Chicago Welfare Administration; Marjorie West is a case workerwith the Chicago Orphan Asylum;and Wilma Whitfield is a medicalsocial worker at St. Mary's Groupof Hospitals.BIRTHSJoseph Nathanael Barker was bornon July 21, 1944. His mother: RuthHess Barker, '23; his father: RolandF. Barker, '21; his brothers: Franklin,16, and Gordon, 14. The Barkerslive at Boulder Terrace Farm atSandwich, Illinois. Tom Kenneth arrived at the Evanston home of George W. A. Rutter,'22, AM '26, on March 7. Little Tomhas two brothers and one sister:George, 9j/2; Robert, 3yi; and Meredith Alice, 7]/2. His father is on thefaculty of the Evanston Townshiphigh school and is chairman of theAlumni Foundation for Evanstonthis year.Margaret Elizabeth, known asPeggy, was born on September 29,1944, to Ralph F. Stitt, '28, and Mrs.Stitt (Ella Marks, '24). Peggy's dadis with the Hartford Accident andIndemnity Company in Detroit.Richard Rudolph was born on September 16, 1944, to Pfc. RudolphBrady and Mrs. Brady (Jane S.Brady, '34, SM '36). Private Bradyis in the Medical detachment atCamp Wolters, Texas.A son, Eric, was born on August 5,1944, to Roland Workman, '34, SM'37, and Mrs. Workman (Elinor Sieg-mund, '33). The baby has a sister,Claudia, 2 years old. Workman washonorably discharged from the Armyafter serving two and a half years.Major George R. Koons, '38, andMrs. Koons (Jean Webber, '39) announce the birth of twins, Sheila Jeanand George Benton, on January 31at Freeport, Illinois. The major isserving overseas with the 15th Army.Sam Perlis, '34, SM '36, PhD '383announces the birth of his son,Donald Richard, on November 30,1944. The family is living in California.Chet Brian Opal, 2^4, has a babysister, Christine, born at Lying-in onApril 12. Proud parents are ChetOpal and Mrs. Opal (Zdenka C.Zidek, '39).To Mrs. L. M. Harris (Cora E.Turner, '40) and Mr. Harris, adaughter, Betty Jane, on April 10 atMiami, Florida.Shirley Naneen Vogt arrived at6:40 P. M. on March 6 at the Asburyhospital in Salina, Kansas. Her dad,L.t. Evon Z. Vogt, '41, is with theNavy in the Pacific, while her mother,Naneen Vogt, '45, is living in Kansas.Myron H. Davis, '41, and Mrs.Davis have a son, Glenn Arthur, bornon April 8 at Lying-in hospital inChicago. Myron has been back inChicago for some time, after overseas' assignments, and continues onLife staff, where for five years he enjoyed the reputation of being theiryoungest photographer.Lt. Charles A. Paltzer, '41, andMrs. Paltzer (Majorie Hibbard, '42)have a baby son, Charles AnthonyPaltzer, III, born on February 22 inSan Antonio, Texas. MARRIAGESEthel Van Ort of Orange City, .Iowa, was married on December 2,1944, in Bond Chapel to Ensign StowEldredge Symon, '36, AM '38, nowserving in the Pacific.Elizabeth Ellis, '37, became thebride of Fred G. Reed on February 2.When last heard from the couple washunting an apartment in Washington,D. C, where Reed is with the American Red Cross. He was for threeyears director of accounting in theCBI theater for the Red Cross butis now permanently back in theUnited States.Announcement has been made ofthe marriage of Evalyn Bayle, PhD'41, to James E. Kinkead on February27 in Bronxville, New York. Athome: 3752 80th Street, JacksonHeights, New York.Dorothy-Jane Wendrick, '42,daughter of Carl Wendrick, '18, wasmarried on April 10 to Lt. WilliamC. Schulenberg at Long Beach, California. The groom is a graduate ofthe University of Tennessee LawSchool and has been on active seaduty both in the Caribbean and Pacific areas since 1942. The newly wedsare enjoying a military honeymoonon the west coast while Lt. Schulen-TEACHERSREGISTRY&EXCHANGE32 W. Randolph Street, Chicago ISuite 1508-10 Randolph 0739Administrators — Teachers in all fieldsMember of N.A.T.A.A. T. STEWART LUMBER COMPANYEVERYTHING inLUMBER AND MILLWORK7855 Greenwood Ave. Vin 9000410 West I llth St. Pul 0034MEDICAL BOOKSof All PublishersThe Largest and Most Complete Stock andall New Books Received as soon as published. Come in and browse.SPEAKMAN'S(Chicago Medical Book Co.)Congress and Honore StreetsOne Block from Rush Medical CollegeA. J. F. Lowe & Son1217 East 55th StreetPlumbing — Refrigeration — RadioSales and ServiceDay Phones Mid. 0782-0783Night Phones Mid. 9295-Oakland 1131THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE 31Dorothy Duft, '44, Sigma, and her husband, Ensign Dana Johnson,'44, Beta Theta Pi, after their marriage at Bond Chapel on March 10.Ensign Johnson is stationed at the Naval Air Base in Dallas. Texas.berg is awaiting commissioning of hisnew ship.Sgt. Helen F. Griffith, AM '42,WAC, became the bride of T/Sgt.Byron E. Snider on March 6 in Brisbane, Australia. The bride was former librarian in the language libraryin Harper and was stationed at StarkGeneral hospital in Charleston before she went overseas.Marcia Merrifield, '42, was married last February to John E.Arthur MichaudelDesigner and Maker ofDistinctive Stained Glass Windows542 North Paulina Street, ChicagoTelephone Monroe 2423STANDARDBOILER and TANK CO.524 WEST 42nd STREETTelephone BOUIevard 5886Wasson-PocahontasCoal Co.6876 South Chicago Ave.Phones: Wentworth 8620-1-2-3-4Wesson's Coal Makes Good— or1 —Wesson DoesSECRETARIALCourse leads quickly to executive rank andhigh pay — in business or government service.Choice of Gregg, or "Stenotypy" — machineshorthand.Visit, write or phone for details.Biyant^O StratumC O \h)E G E18 S. Michigan Ave. Tel. Randolph 1575 Schenck, a member of the U. of C.Choir, where they met two years ago.Schenck is stationed at the Naval AirTechnical Training Center in Chicago.On March 8 Virginia Bayless, AM'43, became the bride of Dr. R. S.O'Connell. They are at Poston, Arizona, where she is a medical socialworker for the Relocation Authority.Carroll D. Russell, '43, daughter ofPaul S. Russell, '16, and Mrs. Russell(Carroll Mason, '19) was married toCapt. Albert W. Sherer, Jr., son ofAlbert W. Sherer, '05, on October 24,1944. The captain is in the ArmyAir Forces stationed at the Air Control Board in Orlando, Florida.They are living at 673 Osceola Avenue, Winter Park.Marion Tyson, '43, has becomeMrs. Walter Stern. The bride iscontinuing her studies on campus.Mrs. Ralph Milwicz announces themarriage of her daughter, Mimi, '44,to Ensign Walter A. Beaudry on January 13 at Historic Christ Church atFort Frederica, St. Simons Island,Georgia. The Beaudrys after livingfor some time in Norfolk, Virginia,are at the moment on the west coast.Jeanne Hyde, '44, and Ensign Russell B. Lisle, Jr., '45, were married atthe University Methodist Temple,University of Washington, in Seattle,on March 20. The bride was untilher marriage assistant to Mr. Ro-vetta, director of International Houseon campus. Ensign Lisle is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and completed the Naval aerology course at Chicago. He is attached to the Weather Central at theNaval Air Base in Seattle.Maxine E. Dieterich, AM '44, wasmarried to M/Sgt. Richard Leftwichon March 1 1 at her home in Winfield,Kansas. The bride and groom areliving in Washington, D. C. FINE BONE CHINAAynsley, Royal Crown Derby, Spodeand Other Famous Makes inDistinctive DinnerwareExcellent Hand Decorated ServicePlates from $3.00 each.Hand cut and Cold encrusted TableCrystal and Accessories.Unusual Gifts from Near and Far.Dingo, Inc.Distinctive Tableware70 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, 111.DEATHSRev. Louis M. Waterman, '89,passed away on December 27, 1944,at Baylor University hospital. Heserved as chaplain of Baylor fortwenty-five years and at the time ofhis death was chaplain emeritus.Elmer L. Kenyon, MD Rush '96, onFebruary 2. He was a former president of the American Society for theStudy of Disorders of Speech.Irving Hardesty, PhD '99, on November 7, 1944, at his home in NewOrleans. He went to Tulane University in 1909 as professor of anatomyand head of the department, where heremained until his retirement in 1934.In addition to his record as an inspiring teacher, Mr. Hardesty was recipient of several scientific and academic awards and was an author inthe fields of anatomy, neurologicaltechniques, and research studies ofthe nervous system. He also held editorial positions on several technicaljournals.Benjamin H. Breakstone, MD Rush'99, surgeon associated with severalChicago hospitals, on April 23 at hishome in Chicago. He was attendingsurgeon at Cook County hospital forsix years, served as professor of surgery at Bennett Medical College, andlater as head of the surgery department at Chicago College of Medicineand Surgery.Rev. Everette J. Parsons, '99, DB'02, on March 21 at the Ridgewoodhospital in Daytona Beach, Florida.Anthony L. Underhill, '00, PhD '06,on January 18. After serving as an32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEJOSEPH H. BIGGSFine Catering in all its branches50 East Huron StreetTel. Sup. 0900—0901Retail Deliveries Daily and SundaysQuality and Service Since 1882NEILER, RICH & CO.(NOT INC.)ENGINEERSMechanical and ElectricalConsulting and Designing431 So. Dearborn StreetChicago 5, III.Telephone Harrison 7691instructor in mathematics at Princeton University from 1905 to 1907 andat the University of Wisconsin from1907 to 1909, Mr. Underhill was appointed to the mathematics department at the University of Minnesota,where he remained until his death.He was a contributor to publicationsof the American Mathematical Society and served for some years assecretary of the Minnesota section ofthe Mathematical Association ofAmerica. Prof. Underbill's researcheswere mainly in the field of the calculus of variations.Claudius W. West, MD Rush '01,of Reno, Nevada, on January 10. Hewas a member of the staffs of theWashoe general and St. Mary's hospitals, and was a past president ofthe Nevada State Medical Association and the Washoe County MedicalSociety.Otis W. Hinshaw, MD Rush '01,formerly on the staff of the RandolphCounty hospital, Winchester, Indiana, died on December 12, 1944, atLong Beach, California.William O. Rickfort, MD Rush'02, one of the original members ofthe staff of the Evangelical hospitalof Chicago, died there December 13,1944.Wilfred C. Keirstead, PhD '03,professor of philosophy and educationat the University of New Brunswickin Frederieton, on November 5, 1944.Edwin M. Neher, '03, MD Rush'06, retired ophthalmologist of La-guna Beach, California, on July 8,1944.Harry Lee Howell, MD Rush '04,of Bloomington, Illinois, formercounty coroner, and member of thestaffs of the Brokaw and Mennonitehospitals died on December 16, 1944.William W. Henderson, '04, ofLogan, Utah, in February. He wasformerly professor and head of thezoology and entomology departmentat Utah Agricultural College. Schuyler B. Terry, '05, PhD '10,died suddenly of a heart attack onMarch 17 in New York City. Mr.Terry was a vice-president of theChase Securities Corporation and anexecutive of the Montmorency PaperCompany, New York. As an advocate of American-Canadian friendship, he contributed numerous articlesto newspapers and magazines. He issurvived by his wife, Phoebe BellTerry, '08, and a son, Sgt. Foss BellTerry, serving with the Army in thePacific.Mary M. Steagall, '06, SM '23,PhD '26, on March 28. She hadtaught biology for many years at theSouthern Illinois Teachers College inCarbondale.Clarence S. Burns, '06, DB '14,minister at Saginaw, Michigan, onDecember 5, 1944.Arthur C. Tuohy, '11, passed awayon January 2 at Lake Forest, Illinois.Henry A. Foster, AM '12, on August 7, 1944. Mr. Foster had retiredfrom teaching at the State TeachersCollege in Maryville, Missouri.George N. White, '12, on March13. Mr. White was connected withthe Missions Council of the Congregational Christian Churches in NewYork.CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency63rd YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Fee64 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoMinneapolis — Kansas City, Mo.Spokane — New YorkWILLIAMS, BARKER &SEVERN CO.AUCTIONEERSAuctioneers and AppraisersPublic auctions on owner's premises or at ouisalesroomsAccept on consignment the better quality offurniture, works of art, books, rugs, bnc-a-brac, etc.We sell on commission or buy outrightOur specialty liquidating estates, libraries, etc.229 S. Wabash Ave. Phone Harrison 3777HIGHEST RATED IN UNITED STATESENGRAVERS SINCE 1906 + WORK DONE BY ALL PROCESSES ++ ESTIMATES GLADLY FURNISHED ?.? ANY PUBLISHER OUR REFERENCE ?=RAYNER^• DALHEIM&CO.2054 W. LAKE ST., CHICAGO. TELEPHONE HAYMARKET 4566O'CAUAGHAN BROS., Inc.PLUMBING CONTRACTORS21 SOUTH GREEN ST.CLARKE-McELROYPUBLISHING CO.6 1 40 Cottage ©rove AvenueMidway 3935"Good Printing of All Descriptions"Walter H. O. Hoffmann, MD Rush'15, on February 11 at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, where hewas a member of the staff. He alsoserved on the staff of Children's Memorial hospital.Ira J. Jenks, SM '21, professor ofchemistry at Northern Illinois StateTeachers College at DeKalb fortwenty-three years, on February 24.Roscoe C. Young, PhD '25, passedaway suddenly on November 22,1944. He had a heart attack anddied in his office chair in Rogers Hallat the College of William and Maryat Williamsburg, Virginia.Ashley M. McCullough, AM '27,died on March 19 after a brief illness.He was director of public servicetraining for the State Board of Education at Hartford, Connecticut.Keo King, AM '29, assistant professor of education at Northern StateTeachers College, Aberdeen, SouthDakota, on November 7, 1944, atLong Beach, California.Albert E. Edgecombe, PhD '29, onMarch 30 at his home in Wilmette.Mr. Edgecombe had been a memberof the staff of the botany departmentat Northwestern University since1929 and was a specialist in mycology.Jessie H. Aitchison, PhD '31, ofCedar Falls, Iowa, on April 3. MissAitchison taught primary grades ata public school in Des Moines for"seventeen years.Milton B. Hansen, MD '36, prominent surgeon of Moline, Illinois, diedof a cerebral hemorrhage on April 15.A lifelong resident of Moline, Dr.Hansen was secretary of the RockIsland County Medical Society, amember of the staff of the MolinePublic hospital, and since 1940 hadbeen in charge of the medical department of the Farmall works.[Continued from inside front cover)ever since. I am to teach classes inthe School of Agriculture, School ofScience, and Engineering, but myschedule has been arranged only inthe former department. They lackspace for classes here; the ScienceSchool meets only in the afternoon,the Engineers only in the morning,and the Agricultural School all day,in sections. It requires considerablemaneuvering to work out a scheduleunder these difficulties, and it is atask that is not to be hurried in theseparts. Also this is Holy Week andliterally everything is closed exceptthe churches. No cars, no streetcars,no busses, no airplanes, no trains, nostores, no newspapers.It is a picturesque place and shouldbe very interesting. We manage tohold our own against the myriads ofbugs, or almost. With abundantmosquito netting (no malaria herebut they can bite) and copious Flit,I thought we had the matter undercontrol. This was optimism born oflimited experience. We all continuedto accumulate bites of some sort andSarah is practically a mass of rawspots. The mystery was solved byfinding fleas in the beds. This wassomething new in my experience butI learned that everyone, more or less,has, or has had, and probably willhave, fleas.I have been so occupied in gettingsettled that I have had no opportunity to see the country. The Pan-American highway is under construction and from a geological standpointthere should be much of interest inthe road cuts. From my front doorwTe can see the peaks of three volcanoes, all active, and I would givean arm to have a look into at leastone crater. I shall do so eventually,but up to now all inquiries as toarrangements for a trip to the volcanohave been in terms of prices far beyond my resources.Prices here are very high. This isalmost wholly an agricultural countryand most fabricated goods are importations with consequent highcosts. But more surprising, even foodis expensive — bread, 17 cents a loaf,smaller in size than those in the States.I expect that fruits and vegetablesmust be cheap out in the country,but by the time these products reachthe cities they are not quite so cheapas in the States. Perhaps I shouldqualify this — oranges peddled at thedoor sell for 10 cents a dozen, butthey are small and considerably lessin quality than those we bought for20 cents in Pittsburgh. It is the prices of clothing and other necessities that are incredible. I was joltedto pay $9.00 for a pair of work shoes,the cheapest I could find. And whatwith flies as numerous as they are,their destruction with 44-cent fly-swatters seems an odd sort of economic necessity. However, exceptduring the times that the fleas seemto be gaining the advantage, we takeit all with some humor and considerable interest. San Jose is on the highMeseta Central of the Central Plateau;the climate (with boiled water) ishealthy and comfortable. Elevationis about 3800 feet and its effect canbe noted.I hope to be able to spend weekends on trips through the countryand I want particularly to visit thegold mines to the northwest of hereand the manganese deposits on theNicoya Peninsula. If I could believeall that I hear, there is a fabulousgold or silver mine, once worked bythe Spaniards but since abandonedand lost, on nearly every square mile.Hobart E. Stocking, '40San Jose, Costa RicaC.O.'sI am sorry I am unable to contribute to our Alumni Foundation.But I was drafted from the campusto Civilian Public Service. It sohappens that our democratic government sees fit to intern its conscientious objectors in forced labor campsand not even provide maintenance,much less pay. As a result I havenot made a dollar in over two and ahalf years. I would appreciate receiving "Private Maroon." Theoretically I'm in the service. Our government doesn't like the word slavery.Fred Kunkel, '42Bluemont, VirginiaHave been in Civilian Public Service since June of 1943. For the lastyear I have been personnel directorat the reception center for theQuaker camps at Big Flats, NewYork. Spent two months of thisyear, February and March, in NewYork City on a life-raft rations experiment as a guinea pig. Sorry Ican't send money to the AlumniFoundation. If Congress would onlyappropriate some money to have conscientious objectors paid, or even tohave dependency provisions for theirfamilies, I might be in a better position to make a contribution.James Morgan Read, PhD '41Louisville, Kentucky RUMORI am enclosing a money order for$30.00 to cover the balance due onmy Life Membership. Sure was agood poker game the other night! Iam now in my thirty-sixth monthoverseas and, believe me, we've seenplenty of action. From here theUnited States is almost a rumor. I'veonly met a few alumni from the University over here. They include FredFowkes, '36, PhD '38, Alex Furt-wangler, '32, and Claude E. Hawley,'35, PhD '39. I was married on September 7, 1944 to Marion O'Connorof Lismore, NSW, Australia. Theday I'm looking forward to now isthat great day when the war ends.Capt. Raymond Hirsch, '39South PacificQUADRANGLE CLUB(Continued from page 17)ing of the quantum theory — whichhas been such a comfort to me in mydeclining years — if I had not hadthe privilege of hearing the lucid explanation which Gilbert Bliss gave atone of our lighter discussions at theRound Table a few years ago. Hedisposed of it as he did of the liverand bacon which was his luncheonchoice that day. Again, I had alwaysbeen puzzled about one or two pointsin the Einstein theory, and I hadpractically abandoned all hope of everunderstanding them unless I had theluck sometime to corner Einstein andwring the truth out of him, when tomy delight one day Dempster madethe whole thing crystal clear, and hedid it in a few words while he wasbuttering a roll. I am informed thatmany persons do not really understandThurston's "Factors of Mind." To anyalumnus of the Round Table they arethe merest bagatelle. He explainedthe whole theory to us one memorableday between spoonfuls of QuadrangleClub ice cream. He did one thingon that occasion that I didn't thinkany psychologist could' do. He brokedown his vocabulary, and the momenthe did that, the whole theory emergedin its simplicity, its completeness, andits beauty.These are only isolated cases. Theyare but specimens* from that intellectual exchange which is the RoundTable. There are many levels of education in the University, but theRound Table is the highest of all,for it is concerned with the educationof the faculty.A sailor wrote this in a letter to us aftercoming off a night watch at sea in thetropics. He was asking about his privileges as a veteran under the G.I. 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