A.C.R.Hby Lester S. Skaggs Veblen and The Higher Learning. . . by David RiesmarLast year alumni jammed Mandel Hall for ihe all-student Open House show.c4Lumni annua iMID -WINTER OPEN HOUSEplan to spend the afternoon and evening ofSaturday- February 27thback on the quadrangles3:30 p.m. Backstage toursto the campus centers of research6:00 p.m. Dinnerat the famous Quadrangle Club 7:00 p.m. Student exhibitsin the lounges of the Reynolds Club8:00 p.m. Big all -student showin Mandel HallWatch for the January issue of TOWER TOPICS with the completeprogram of events and ticket order blank for tours, dinner and programThe date again:Saturday, February 27, 1954Prize: all back paymentsI'm writing from a cold G.I. barracksto explain why I didn't renew my membership. I've been drafted . . .Because I expect to be too much onthe move . . . I've decided to postponerenewal. I must say that after receivingthe last edition it was all I could do tokeep from sending a check. I was reallyproud to read an alumni magazine thatwas worth reading.My first assigned combat weapon wasa mop and G.I. soap. It is paradoxicalthat, after spending three years in theBurton-Judson cafeteria, 1 was immediately given seven days of successive K.P.There was one compensation to working 16 hours serving food to soldiers. Imet a face I had served in old B-J, EdBrown, who graduated in 1952. [He] isinstructing trainees.I read in the alumni magazine that analumnus is a major at Kamp Kilmer. Ican't wait to get there.You might be interested in one of mymore successful exploits this summer.I wrote an essay for a contest sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Association of Weekly Newspapers in honorof newspaper week. I wrote on "HowMy Weekly Newspaper Serves Me." TheOakland News, my neighborhood paper,awarded me first prize in their personalcontest. The Association awarded mesecond prize.I was all set to buy a yacht or something when the newspaper discovered 1hadn't paid for my subscription in fiveyears. So my prize money went as backpayment.I'm still cheerful in spirit and moreeager than ever to return to the University to continue study.Yours for a successful year in Chicago.Herbert Caplan, '52Aberdeen Proving Ground, MarylandReturn of Hutch ClubIn the late thirties a group of currentgraduates who had moved to New Yorkto acquire fortunes and professions organized an informal, miniature alumniclub called "The Hutch Club," afterHutchins. At frequent intervals theygot together for Dutch treat dinners, bullsessions, and maybe a concert or play.Uncle Sam disrupted this program fora war. Our recent Club dinner in NewYork brought many of this group together. The new Club officers electedat that time included some of the old"Hutch" members. Already they havebegun plans to revive those informalget-togethers. The officers:President: Alden Loosli, '37, AssistantGeneral Manager, Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Corporation.Vice President: Mrs. Fred Williams (Marguerite McNall, '31), who entertained the Club a year ago last summerat her summer home on Long Island.Treasurer: Ralph Nicholson, '36, VicePresident, Fuller, Smith, and Ross Advertising Agency.Secretary: Mary Ella Hopkins, '46,Editorial Assistant, Time, Inc.Programs: Laura Bergquist, '39, Associate Editor, Pageant Magazine.Washington Club electionsPresident: Frederick J. Sass, Jr., '30,JD '32, Bureau of Aeronautics.First V.P.: Hart Perry, AM '40, Bureau of the Budget.Second V.P.: Janice Simpson, AM '32,PhD '35, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.Third V.P.: John A. Johnson, JD '40,General Counsel, U. S. Air Force.Secretary: Alfred H. Norling, '42, Capital Airlines.Asst. Sect.: Gladys L. Baker, PhD '39,Department of Agriculture.Treasurer: Kathryn Knowlton, SM '23,PhD '39, National Institutes of Health.Asst. Treas.: Dr. Robert W. Bates,PhD '31, National Institutes of Health.PhiladelphiaPresident: Dr. Edwin Aubrey, AM '21,DB '22, PhD '26.Vice President: Dr. Earl F. Zeigler,AM '26.Secretary: Mrs. Violet P. Giant, '27.Treasurer: Barry Hirschwald, '49.SeattlePresident: Dr. John R. Hogness, '43,MD '46.Vice President: Joseph A. Whitlow,'39.Sec.-Treas.: John R. Stair, '48, JD '51.Education and foodA generous unrestricted gift to theDEAN ROBERT STROZIER AS TRAVELER University was received recently fromLoyd R. McCulley, '35, Secretary-Treasurer of Investment Operating Corporation, Pasadena, California. He wrote:". . . There still lingers in my memorythe magnitude of the kindness and courtesy which was extended to me back in1934 and 1935 by Mr. Cotton in theBursar's office . . . In those days his loansto me from the University funds madethe difference, not only between education and lack of it, but also between foodand shelter and lack of them . . ."Loyd R. McCulley [A.B. '35]La Canada, CaliforniaMaking the circleOur Field Secretary, D. T. Jenks, submitted the following report about hisjaunts:"Profiting from the West Coast junketwith its frustrating taxi-rides-to-make-connections experience, I scheduled aflight for myself out of Chicago a dayearly for our alumni dinner in Toledo —and well that I did. The first snow ofthe season not only delayed the flightseveral hours but finally succeeded incancelling it altogether. No "fly-boy,"the Dean of the College, F. ChampionWard (who was to be guest speaker),wisely took the train, arriving comfortably that evening — on schedule."The following day, Dean Ward delivered a talk to 19 key officials of theToledo school system, and again thatevening to 21 receptive alumni. TheDean's keen sense of humor and knackfor presenting a somewhat difficult subject lucidly, won many new friends tothe University."Much of the marked success of theToledo meeting was due to the hard pre-arrangement work of three alumni: Mrs.Donald Hawkins, '43, general chairman;Mrs. C. E. Campbell, MBA '37, ticketchairman; and Mrs. James Smith, '47,telephone chairman. Dr. Richard D.Simon, MD '44, set the ball rolling astoastmaster."Our visit to Indianapolis was one ofthe highlights of our four-city tour. Following the dinner, the enthusiastic groupbombarded the Dean with penetratingquestions for more than two hours. Ourhats are tipped to general chairmanFrank C. Springer, Jr., '34, Mrs. Elsa B.Eades, MBA '41, reservation chairman;Mrs. J. W. Hofmann, '17, hostess; andAlbert Stump, JD '17, able presiding officer. Forty alumni were in attendance.The noon school luncheon attended by23 Indianapolis principals and counselorskept the Dean hopping question- wise too."Thoroughly pleased with our fine reception, we grabbed a cab and headedfor the railroad station, arriving just intime to board the "St. Louisian" for Dayton, where we arrived at 2:00 a.m."A talk that morning with GeorgeMurray, LLB '14, and his son, Myron T.,'47, JD '51, relieved any existing worryconcerning the success of the alumnidinner that evening. Myron and friendDonald Blossom, '48, worked as a teamthree nights straight telephoning alumni—it turned out to be the best meetingJANUARY, 1954 1U. OF C. SECRETARY GEORGE WATKINSpercentage-wise of any dinner held; 40of the city's 130 alumni were present."Dean Ward's address to the 18 Dayton school officials that afternoon evokedthe comment: 'That was one of theclearest and finest talks I have everheard.'"Back in Chicago for a few days then,trading Dean Ward for Robert M. Strozier (Dean of Students), we proceededto Pittsburgh — he by train and learn-the-hard-way Jenks by plane, only tospend most of the flight time circling thefog-bound Pittsburgh airport."This time the talk was given to morethan 60 principals and counselors — oneof the largest school luncheons held invisits to over 20 cities. Without exception, the entire group was most enthusiastic, not only about what Dean Strozierhad to say, but how he said it. The genuine interest — the well-thought-out questions in addition to the warm atmosphere, convinced us the Chicago storyhad been a hit.". . . And from Atkins"The University's invasion of thesouthwest began the first week in November with meetings in Tulsa andOklahoma City. George Watkins, Secretary of the University, and Jim Atkinsof the Alumni Foundation first met withthe superintendent of schools, and highschool principals and advisers in Tulsaafter which they were entertained inthe homes of Mimi Thomas O'Bannon,'40, and Gerald Westby, '20. Active inthe success of the alumni dinner, atwhich Mr. Westby served as co-chairman and toastmaster, were Louise SnowRandolph, '40, co-chairman; and DonaldHolway, '37, reservation chairman."After a pleasant motor trip on thenew Oklahoma turnpike, Watkins andAtkins set up headquarters at the Bilt-more in Oklahoma City, where onceagain the school officials were broughtup to date on the University. The alumnidinner in the evening was in charge ofRalph Newcomb, Ph.D. '28, who wasassisted by Grace Fernandes, '34, reservation chairman; Miss Florene C. Kelly,'36, Ph.D. '43 as telephone chairman, andMr. Robert Laves, '49 and his wife Randi, '50, as reception co-chairmen. The FirstChristian Church in Oklahoma Cityboasts of an all-University staff, and oneof these, Fred Miller, served as toast-master at the dinner in the Biltmore."Dean of Students Robert Strozier, andAtkins, joined forces in Dallas to begintheir Texas tour. In the four largestTexas cities, approximately 50 representatives of the school systems, includingthe superintendents in each city, weretold of the new College program. TheUniversity duo were entertained in trueTexas fashion, beginning with a tour ofDallas by Everett George, '36, and afamily dinner at the comfortable homeof Ira Corn, '47, MBA '48, and his charming wife. The alumni meeting was heldlater in the evening in the Corn home,with nearly 50 alumni hearing the storyof present activities at the University."The frustrations of a bus breakdownbetween Dallas and Fort Worth wereovercome quickly by the graciousness ofMr. Clarence Burke, '12, and his wifeBarbara, '17, who showed the glories ofFort Worth to the visitors. The dinnermeeting at the Hotel Texas was chair-maned by the Burkes, with Alfred T.DeGroot, Ph.D. '39, pinchhitting as toast-master for MacGruder E. Sadler, '22,President of T.C.U., who was unable toattend because of illness. The enjoyment of ^ the Fort Worth dinner wasmade possible by the efforts of theBurkes, of Mrs. J. Elmer Thomas, '15,who served as reception chairman, andCHANCELLOR KIMPTON — A BUSY MAN of Mrs. Herbert R. Mundhenke, '24, thereservation chairman."Armistice day was spent in route toSan Antonio, where there was time toenjoy the historically important spots inthe city and to break the routine of turkey and chicken with the exceedinglydifferent Mexican cuisine. With morespare moments than at any time duringthe trip, Dean Strozier and Jim wereentertained by John Kriet, '39, in hisranch home on the outskirts of San Antonio. John also had full charge of thealumni dinner at the St. Anthony Hotel,attended by twenty alumni."As the over-night train pulled intoHouston, Dean Strozier, having comeoriginally from Georgia, was by nowspeaking like the most Texan of Texansand it was almost necessary for Jim andhim to revert to sign language to understand each other. Following the luncheonmeeting at the Lamar Hotel, the largestof the Texas alumni dinners was heldat the Houston Club, with Pliny delValle, '28, serving as toastmaster. Themeeting had been organized by JohnHarmon '46. They were assisted by Dr.Herbert Brown, '48, Ph.D. '52, his wifeElla, '46, and Dr. Eleanor Blish, '21, M.D.(Rush) '38 of the reception committee."After a pleasant night of rest at thenew Shamrock Hotel, Dean Strozier andAtkins started the 1,500 mile jaunt backto Chicago, knowing they would remember long the unusual interest displayedby members of all of the school systems,and the deep and enthusiastic loyaltyexpressed by all alumni they had met."4 days; 4 citiesThe final swing of the Chancellor, theDean of Students, and myself beganNovember 30th. We were to tell thestory of the new College program toschool principals and alumni in fourMidwest cities in as many days.Monday, in St. Louis we alighted froman early train to join Judge Ivan LeeHolt, Jr., '35, JD '37, and family for asouthern ham breakfast in their home.We lunched with the school principalsat the Park Plaza Hotel and had dinnerwith the alumni at the Jefferson. Thenew St. Louis Club officers:Pres. Richard M. Stout, '43, JD '44V.P. Dr. Harry W. Fischer, '43, MD '45Sec. Helen G. Penn, '19Tr. Ray H. Garrison, JD '49Executive Committee: Judge Ivan LeeHolt, Jr., '35, JD '37; Harold F. Hecker,JD '09; Raymond H. Wittcoff, '42; LansingR. Felker, '20.Tuesday we had lunch and dinner atthe Netherland Plaza in Cincinnati. Wehave had no recent Club in this city butwe built a standing committee aroundthe group who pitched in and made thisevening so successful. The Committee:Mrs. Joseph C. Green, '38, chairman;Mary Jane Showers, '43; Alfred L. McCartney, '21; Patricia Marie King, '50;Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Bellstrom, '35;'31, AM '33; Mrs. James W. Sack, AM'48.Claude V. Courier, AM '25, Superin-2 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMAGAZINEVolume 46 January, 1954 Number 4IN THIS ISSUEA.C.R.H., by Lester S. Skaggs 5News on the Midway 11Veblen and the Higher Learning, by David Riesman 14Memo PadBooks DEPARTMENTS1 Reader's Guide 21. . . 19 Class News 22COVER: Twelve-hundred-gallon glass-lined tanks, in the sub-basementof the new Argonne Cancer Hospital. For more details, see page 5.Cover and photos on inside front cover and on pages 1, 2 (bottom), 4, 8, 9(top), and 10 (top) by Stephen Lewellyn. Photos on pages 6 (middle andbottom), 7, and 10 (middle and bottom) courtesy of Argonne NationalLaboratory, on page 9 (bottom), by the Chicago Sun-Times, on page 13courtesy of Holabird & Root & Burgee (by Hedrich-Blessing), page 14 byRobert McCullough, on page 15 courtesy of the Chicago Public Library,,and on page 19 by Gerald McClusky.PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONExecutive Editor Editor Associate EditorHOWARD W. MORT HAROLD E. DONOHUE AUDREY PROBSTExecutive SecretaryAlumni FoundationJIM ATKINS Staff PhotographerSTEPHEN LEWELLYN Field RepresentativeDEAN TYLER JENKSPublished monthly, October through June, by The University of Chicago Alumni Association, 5733 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Annual subscription price, $4.00.Single copies, 35 cents. Entered as second class matter December 1, 1934, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising agent: TheAmerican Alumni Council, B. A. Ross, director, 22 Washington Square, New York N. Y.tendent of Schools, was toastmaster atthe dinner.Wednesday in Detroit we lunched withthe school people at the Statler and dinedwith the alumni in the evening. Mr.Elis S. Hoglund, '21, head of the overseasdivision of General Motors was masterof ceremonies. The new officers:Pres. Paul F. Lorenz, MBA '41V.P. Robert J. Zolad, MBA '41S-T. George J. Fulkerson, '49Thursday in Cleveland the lunch anddinner were at the Hollenden Hotel. Itwas one of the finest turnouts for theCleveland Club, famous for all mannerof activities from skating parties totheatre evenings. John S. Millis, '24,SM '27, PhD '31, President of WesternReserve University, cut short a footballdinner engagement to preside. TrusteeCyrus Eaton was present and GeorgeWatkins, Secretary of the University, andEarle Ludgin, Chairman of the AlumniFoundation Board, flew in from Chicagoto join the party. Thus ended on schedule the program for 25 major cities begunSeptember 30th. We were back in winterquarters before Christmas. ChancellorKimpton had visited personally 14 ofthese 25 cities.Children's booksPlease continue to print in your December issue (if received before Thanksgiving as the 1953 issue was) or in theNovember issue Miss Mary K. Eakin'sselection of children's books of Christmas buying.Palmer Czamanske,Associate Professor of EnglishTeacher of Children's LiteratureValparaiso University, IndianaJudgment of a judgeIt was interesting to read of the continuance of your grand circle tour ofthe country with Chancellor Kimpton.The meeting at the University Club herewas a standout and I enjoyed meetingMr. and Mrs. Ryerson and hearing himand the Chancellor and Dean Strozier.Permit me to congratulate you uponthe continued excellence of the Magazine.The article on Persepolis was a wonderful one. It has great informative andeducational merit.Harold P. Huls ['17][Judge, Superior Court]Los AngelesDudley talksFollowing the death in 1945 of GertrudeDudley, long Director of Physical Education for Women, a group of alumniformed a committee to establish a memorial in her honor. As a result, theGertrude Dudley Lectureship Committeewas organized. Contributions to the grouphave supported lectures on campus byoutstanding women.The first speaker was Helen GahagenDouglas, in 1947. Most recently the Committee brought India's Madame VijayaLakshmi Pandit to the campus.Speaker for Alumni Week, on June 2, 1954, will be Madame Bhmed Hussein,wife of the Egyptian Ambassador to theUnited States. Contributions to this memorial fund are still welcome, and maybe sent to the group's treasurer: MissMary Courtenay, 7020 S. Jeffrey, Chicago49.Frustrating kidnappersMost people have heard of the Green-lease kidnap case . . .When Margaret Truman was in thefirst grade in Bryant School, Independence, Missouri, a man called at the doorof her room. He told the principal thatMargaret's mother had sent him to bringher home.The principal replied, "I'll go and callMrs. Truman." My sister, Amy Moore, overheard theconversation and stepped to the door ofMargaret's room and stood there untilthe principal returned.The man took his departure . . .Mary Olive Moore ('24)Marlinton, W. Va.None of our businessStivers Office Service, Chicago, publishes a house organ. Here are tworecent quotes:"If you can keep your head whilethose around you are losing theirs —maybe you don't understand the situation.""Don't tell me what I mean — let mefigure it out for myself."— H. W. M.JANUARY, 1954 3A. C. R. H."... it offers the Atomic Energy Commis -sion the chance to demonstrate that theatom can be applied to the service as wellas to the destruction of mankind .... 55by Lester S. Skaggs, PhD '39,Associate Professor of Medical PhysicsDirector Health Physics ServiceDepartment of RadiologyA,.FTER ALMOST THREE and one-half years of building, the ArgonneCancer Research Hospital stands asanother addition to the University'smedical and biological research center.This new hospital was built by theAtomic Energy Commission, on landleased from the University, to providesuperior facilities for treatment andstudy of neoplastic diseases with radiation — including both radiationsproduced artificially by man-mademachines, and those produced byradioactive materials. The hospital isto be regarded as a research hospitalin every sense of the word, and is notto be used for the treatment of common diseases or even for the treatment of cancer by methods alreadyestablished.The hospital is operated by the University under a contract similar to butnot part of the contract for the operation of the Argonne National Laboratory. Nevertheless, there will be closeco-operation with the Argonne Laboratory, and the participating institutions of the Argonne Laboratory willhave the privilege of sending qualifiedphysicians and scientists to the hospital to engage inv selected researchproblems. However, the responsibilityfor individual patients will rest withthe faculty of the School of Medicine. Responsibility for the scientific program and the efficient operation of thehospital rests with the dean of theDivision of the Biological Sciences,Lowell T. Coggeshall. The responsibility for the day-by-day administration of the hospital has been delegated to the director, Leon Jacobson,professor of medicine.Dr. Jacobson is specifically responsible for the selection and planning ofthe research program, appointmentsto the professional staff, assignmentof space and facilities, and development of the budget. He is also responsible for the development andenforcement of the regulations forcontrol of radiological and other hazards to patients and staff, and fordirect control of classified documents.The director is assisted in his dutiesby the associate director, Robert J.Hasterlik, assistant professor of medi-WITTRUP (LEFT), JACOBSON, & SKAGGS Dr. Skaggs has failed to mention that he is in charge of thethree machines mentioned inthe article — the Van de Graaffgenerator, the cobalt-60 machine, and the linear accelerator. He is also responsible forthe use of the synchrocyclotronin human therapy,This article is reprinted fromthe Medical Alumni Bulletin,Winter, 1953. cine. In addition, Dr. Hasterlik hasresponsibility for research programsconducted jointly with the ArgonneNational Laboratory, and for the relations with participating institutions ofthe Argonne Laboratory. Responsibility for furnishing such administrative, nursing, housekeeping and dietary, engineering, and other alliedservices as are required for operationof the Argonne Hospital rests withthe superintendent of the UniversityClinics, Ray Brown, and with the administrative assistant to the director,Richard Wittrup.The new hospital is located on EllisAvenue and adjoins Goldblatt Hospital on the south. It was designedby the firm of Schmidt, Garden andErikson, well-known hospital architects, with the assistance of J. LeeJones, consulting architect for theUniversity. The exterior is of Indianalimestone, and the Gothic style of TheClinics has been maintained in thearchitectural design. There are sevenfloors above ground, including themechanical equipment attic, and twofloors underground. Total floor areais approximately 100,000 square feet.The building was built at a cost of$2,720,000. The equipment will addapproximately $1,100,000 to this figure.Probably at this time a floor-by-floor description of the facilities willgive the best understanding of whatmay be expected from this addition tothe University Clinics. The seventh-JANUARY, 1954 5pare special molds for use in radiationtherapy. Nearby is a radiation physicslaboratory which will be used both asa facility for research in radiationphysics and as a teaching laboratory.Residents in radiology will have anopportunity to brush up on theirphysics in this laboratory. They willalso have the chance to learn thelatest techniques in measuring high-energy radiation, and in evaluatingthe quantity of radioactive materials.Other research programs located onthe fifth floor are devoted to studiesusing radiocarbon (carbon-14), radio-hydrogen (hydrogen-3, or tritium),and radon. Most of the studies willTHE NEW VAN DE GRAAFF GENERATORfloor attic is filled from end to endwith blowers, ducts, filters, and otherequipment required for the manyhoods used throughout the building.The sixth floor is the only completely air-conditioned floor in thebuilding. On this floor, Eric Simmons,assistant professor in the Institute ofRadiobiology, will operate the animalfarm, maintaining a stock of mice,rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs. He willsupply animals to research people asneeded and will maintain the animalsfor observation after injection withradioactive materials, treatment byX-ray, or other research operations.Largest use will be made of mice,and approximately a thousand LAF,hybrid mice will be produced eachweek. These mice are used verywidely in radiation experiments because the uniform hereditary factorsmake their response much less variable than that of ordinary mice. Thisfloor also contains such special facilities as two 250-kilovolt X-ray therapymachines built by General Electricand supplied with special flcor-to-ceiling mounts, making possible alarge uniform field of radiation. Diagnostic X-ray machines will also be installed for animal experimentation. Ananimal operating room is located onthis floor, and special facilities areprovided for the injection and maintenance of animals receiving radioactive materials. Latest and most up-to-date facilities are provided formaintaining and washing cages andhandling a large supply of animals.A number of activities are centeredon the fifth floor. James W. J. Car-pender, associate professor of radiology, will have his mold-preparationlaboratory here, where he will pre- be concerned with the metabolism ofpatients and animals with cancer. Theradioisotopes will be used to labeland trace chemical substances that areconcerned with either the growth orthe destruction of tumor tissue. Aportion of the fifth-floor space is usedfor laboratories for organic synthesisof carbon-14 and tritium-labeled compounds for use in the program. Specialized equipment for advanced biochemical and biophysical research islocated on this floor and will be usedjointly by the research groups. Fourgroups are working there at the present time. Professor Weldon Brown ofthe chemistry department is responsible for a group concerned with thesynthesis program; George V. LeRoy,associate professor of medicine andassociate dean of the division, withGeorge Okita, research associate inpharmacology, and Harold Werbin,research associate in medicine, willconduct the metabolic studies; EugeneGoldwasser, research associate in biochemistry, and his group are concerned with biochemical problems;and Dr. Hasterlik's group will studypatients with radium poisoning andwith other sorts of radiation injury.The laboratories handling radioactivematerials on this floor, as well as inother parts of the hospital, are specially equipped. All laboratorybenches, cupboards, cabinets, etc., areof stainless steel. Special hoods designed and developed by ArgonneNational Laboratory are installed forhandling radioactive materials wherethere is danger of air contamination.The floors are covered with a vinylAS SEEN INSIDE ITS ROOM (ABOVE) & OUTSIDE THROUGH SPECIAL WINDOWS6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEsheet which is easily decontaminated.All laboratories in this area are air-conditioned.Outside this area are the HealthPhysics laboratories, Dr. Hasterlik'soffice, the medical physics office, andspecial counting laboratories. They areequipped with all the latest devicesfor detecting and measuring radioactive materials. The Health Physicslaboratories serve as a base of operation of the group charged with protecting University personnel as wellas the general public from dangers ofexcessive radiation. This group establishes procedures for handling radioactive materials, surveys the laboratories for contamination, supervisesdecontamination where necessary, andassists in the disposal of radioactivewastes. It also checks on the weeklyexposure to radiation of Universitypersonnel, generally by means of filmbadges, but sometimes by special ionization chambers.The third and fourth floors are hospital floors and together have fifty-sixbeds, thirty on the third floor andtwenty-six on the fourth. These twofloors are practically the same exceptthat on the fourth floor there is asmall operating room and a dietarykitchen, and on the third floor a special shielded room for surveying patients with tracer doses of radioactivematerials. Most of the rooms aresemiprivate, each with its own bathand lavatory. Each room is providedwith a small closet for the patient'spersonal clothing. The rooms aredecorated in pastel shades, each withtwo different contrasting colors. It issaid that 285 separate shades of colorswere used to decorate the entire hospital. Curtains are different in eachroom, and they, with the bedcovers,are chosen to harmonize with thewalls. The beds on these floors willall be electrically operated.DecontaminationThe floors are covered with vinylsheeting to aid in decontamination;and the rooms are shielded from eachother by 8 inches of concrete, theshielding being desirable to preventthe buildup of radiation from a number of patients. Under the presentplans, the third floor will be used forthose patients who receive radioactivematerials; the fourth floor, for thosewho are being treated with the machines in the sub-basement.Special procedures are necessaryin the handling of patients receivingradioactive materials. These patientsare cared for by a special nursingstaff under the direct supervision of Miss Rosemary Haughey, who has hadexperience at Memorial Hospital inNew York and at Oak Ridge withpatients receiving radioactive materials. Patients selected by the medical staff for admission are handledroutinely. Actual administration ofradioactive isotopes is, of course, bythe physician handling the case or hisstaff. Twenty-four hours' notice ofintent to administer radioactive materials is required in order to give thenursing staff and Health Physics opportunity to make proper prepara- where it is checked for possible contamination before going into the regular laundry. Wherever practical, instruments are washed and then setaside until the radioactivity has decayed. Food is brought up to the floorfrom the main dietary kitchen in largeelectrically heated carts and servedthere. Dishwashing facilities are provided on the floor in order to preventspread of contamination to the centralfacilities. All radioactive wastes arecollected separately and disposed ofby Health Physics. The floor is moni-COGGESHALL (LEFT), DAVISON, JACOBSON AT VAN DE GRAAFF'S CONTROL BOARDtions. Eaths and as much care as possible are given the patient just beforethe administration of radioactive material so that nursing care during thecritical period after administrationmay be reduced to a minimum.Elaborate precautions are taken toprevent the spread of contaminationthrough the building. Great care istaken to protect the health of themedical and nursing staff. For instance, the length of time the samepersonnel may treat patients withgamma-ray emitters has been carefully determined, so that the staff willnot be exposed to an accumulateddosage beyond the point of tolerance.Film badges are, of course, used tocheck the amount of radiation received by each person, and, in somecases, ionization chambers are alsoprovided. Control of contamination isimportant both from the standpoint ofhealth and from the standpoint of theresearch activities which are carriedon in other parts of the building.Where the spread of contaminationis likely, all persons entering the roomare required to wear gowns and rubber gloves. In special cases, plasticovershoes are also required.All linen used in isotope patients iscollected separately, placed in paperbags, and labeled with the name of thepatient and the isotope used. Thislinen is then taken to the basement tored daily by health physics, andevery spot of contamination is removed immediately.So far, it has been possible to keepthe corridors clear of contamination,thus making it possible for the staff tomove about freely. Visitors are normally not allowed during the firstforty-eight hours after administrationof a radioactive isotope. This regulation is not so much for the protectionof the visitor, since he will not receiverepeated exposure over a long periodof time. Rather we are concernedabout the possible spread of contamination through the hospital.So far, radiogold (gold-198), radio-iodine (iodine-131), radiochromium(chromium-51), and radiophosphorus(phosphorus-32) have been used onpatients on this floor. Radiochromiumhas been used in tracer doses and hasnot presented any problems. Radio-phosphorus and radioiodine are givenin larger therapeutic doses and haveresulted, in some minor cases, in contamination. Radiogold has been usedin massive therapeutic doses. Materialis received from Abbott Laboratoriespacked as individual doses in serumbottles and properly shielded for shipment. Injection is through a plastictube and needle inserted into a serumbottle, the gold solution being displaced by normal saline. So far, thismethod has given very good results,JANUARY, 1954SKAGGS AND LANZL WITH BASE AND HALF-SCALE MODEL OF COBALT MACHINEonly a minor amount of contaminationresulting from the normal procedure.One accident was experienced inwhich the plastic tube burst and contaminated the bed clothing. We are,of course, far from having any conclusive clinical results, but we aregaining experience in handling patients on a large scale who are receiving this type of treatment.On the second floor are the officesand laboratories of Dr. Jacobson andDwight Clark, professor of surgery.Dr. Jacobson's staff is concerned withhematologic investigation, both clinical and research, and problems pertaining to radiation injury and protection. Tracer studies with radioiron(iron-59) and radiophosphorus are inprogress. Dr. Clark's group is studying thyroid chemistry and physiologywith radioiodine and by chromotog-raphy.Some of the administrative officesare located on the first floor. A largeconference room is provided whichcan be divided into three smallerrooms by folding partitions. The electronics shop and the machine shop arealso located on this floor. These shopsare provided to develop and build special instruments and devices requiredin research being conducted in thisbuilding. The electronics shop is underthe direction of Donald Charleston;the machine shop under John Stupka.These men are familiar enough withthe construction and function ofequipment in their particular fields toassist physicians and biological scientists in the design of apparatus fortheir particular projects. The electronics shop provides space for up tosix electronics technicians, and themachine shop up to eight machinists.8 Adjacent to the machine shop is theradiology shop, under the direction ofPaul C. Hodges, professor of radiology. It is used for the developmentof new equipment for research indiagnostic and therapeutic X-ray.The basement contains laboratoriesfor the chemical processing of largequantities of radioactive materials. It is expected that eventually a cave willbe installed on this floor providing forthe handling of 10-100 curies of radioactive materials by means of remotemanipulators. Directly adjacent to thespace reserved for the cave is thetube-storage facility for radioactiveisotopes. Here forty stainless steeltubes 8 inches in diameter extend 8feet below the floor in a solid blockcf concrete. Radioactive materials tobe stored here will be placed in leadcontainers approximately 2 feet long,with a diameter to fit the tubes. Thelead containers will be sufficientlythick to shield the individual lot ofradioactive material. The concreteshield surrounding the tubes will prevent the radiation from many containers from building up to dangerouslevels.A large laboratory on this floor willbe provided to receive radioactivematerials and handle their distribution. This laboratory will be in thecharge of a registered pharmacistunder The Clinics pharmacy. All materials for clinical use will be dispensed by this laboratory in the exactamount required. Certain materialsin common use will be stocked andwill also be available for researchpurposes. Several other laboratoriesare available on this floor as well asAS THE MACHINE GROWS: LANZL, SKAGGS, (POINTING TO SHIELD), & DAVISONa counting laboratory. Locker roomsare provided for personnel requiringa change of clothing, and stockroomsare located here. A linen-sortingroom is also located on this floor.Here linen from the hospital floorsand from the laboratories will be inspected by geiger counters for evidence of contamination. Where contamination is found, proper measureswill be taken to remove the contamination and the article will be runthrough an automatic washing machine and drier before it is sent tothe central laundry. Where contamination cannot be removed, the articlewill be stored until its active materialdecays or until it has to be destroyed.Nineteen feet BelowThe subbasement of the ArgonneHospital is located 19 feet below thestreet. This is 12 feet below the permanent water table, and special methods of construction were necessary tokeep this area dry. Much of themechanical equipment for heating thebuilding, providing hot water, compressed air, etc., is located on thisfloor. There are twelve 1,200-gallonglass-lined retention tanks on thisfloor. (See cover) These are provided for each of the floors whereradioactive isotopes are used. Thesetanks may either be emptied into the normal sewer or pumped into a tanktruck for transportation to the Argonne National Laboratory in theevent that the contents of the tanksare so radioactive that they cannot bedischarged into the city sewers. Atthe Argonne Laboratory the materialwill be concentrated by evaporation,and the resulting solid radioactivematerial will then be buried. On thisfloor, two constant irradiation roomsare provided for the constant irradiation of animals and the study ofchronic effects of radiation. Also located on this floor are the largemachines for the treatment of patients with radiations.First to be installed of these machines is the Van de Graaff generator.This is a 2-million-volt electrostaticgenerator of X-rays. It will be usedto study the effects of supervoltageX-ray on cancer and also to study theadvantages of rotational therapy. Rotational therapy is a type of therapyusing an external source of radiationwhich, by ' rotation about an axisthrough the tumor, builds up radiation destruction throughout the region of the tumor to a maximumwhile regions outside, due to theirintermittent irradiation, receive asmaller amount. Also, it will be possible to bring the electron beam to beused in biological experiments out ofthe Van de Graaff. These electronsTHE COBALT-60 MACHINE FINISHED. DR. CARPENTER, DAVISON, MODEL, & LANZL r&ANGER I .1TSIGN OF A SAFE, NEW KIND OF HOSPITALmay turn out to be directly useful inthe treatment of cutaneous cancers,since the penetration of tissue is approximately one centimeter.Second to be installed is a cobalt-60 rotational therapy machine. Thismachine will use an 1,800-curiesource of cobalt-60 and will rotate thesource about a horizontal axis. Areclining patient can then be placedwith his tumor on this axis and receive rotational therapy. The advantage of this machine over the Van deGraaff generator is that the patientcan be irradiated in a reclining position, making it easier to locate thecenter of the tumor. Also, accuracyof location will be improved by placing the patient in a half-cast andtaking X-ray radiographs of the tumor region before irradiation starts.Then, from a study of these radiographs, it will be possible to locatethe patient accurately in the cobalt-60 machine.Besides rotational therapy of a reclining patient, two other features ofthis machine are unique. First, it isthe only machine to use uranium as ashield. This reduces the weight of thsshield from approximately 4,000pounds to 950 pounds. It also reduces the over-all size of the machineand gives a larger output of radiationto the tumor from the same sizesource. The other unique feature isthe size of the cobalt source. Thiswill be three-quarters of a centimeter in diameter and 3 centimeterslong, and this small size will be madepossible by the fact that the sourcewill be activated in one of the newestAtomic Energy Commission reactorsat Arco, Idaho. The use of this veryJANUARY, 1954 9CHIEF NURSE, ROSEMARY HAUGHEY (WITH MODEL) IN COMFORTABLE BEDROOM of cancer. They are advantageousbecause they give a more favorabledistribution of ionization and therefore of destructiveness with depth. Nounusual biological effects are expected with electrons, since the actualagent of tissue destruction in the caseof X-rays are the electrons which areexpelled from the atoms of tissue bythe photons as they pass through thattissue.Medical work on another machineis also being supported by the Argonne Hospital. This is the 450-million-volt proton synchrocyclotronlocated in the Accelerator Building,at Ellis and 56th. Work on this machine is being supported by the Argonne Hospital because it, togetherwith resources to be provided in thehospital, will give practically a complete coverage of all types of radiation which are now known andthought to be useful in cancer therapy. Protons will be used directlyand are expected to be advantageousbecause of the very favorable distribution of dose. However, their biological effects are as yet only incompletely known, and considerable studywill be necessary before they can beapplied to the treatment of cancerin humans.The Argonne Cancer Research Hospital offers the University of ChicagoClinics yet another chance to pioneerin a new field of medicine. It offersthe student of the University of Chicago School of Medicine yet anotheropportunity not only to see the various new methods of treatment butalso to understand the value of research. And it offers the AtomicEnergy Commission the chance todemonstrate that the atom can be applied to the service as well as to thedestruction of mankind.DR. MATTHEW BLOCK (LEFT) WITH TECHNICIAN BLAND, PREPARE X-RAY TEST, WHILE (BELOW) IS THE FRONT OF NEW WINGsmall source is advantageous becauseit reduces the region of penumbra toa minimum. With this source, thepenumbra, that is, the distance fromessentially full irradiation of the tumor to essentially no irradiation ofthe surrounding tissue, will be approximately 1 centimeter. This machine was designed by LawrenceLanzl and Don Davison and built inour shops and those of the ArgonneNational Laboratory.The third machine to be installed inthe subbasement is a linear accelerator. This machine will accelerateelectrons to an energy of 50 millionvolts, at which energy they will havesufficient penetration to pass entirelythrough the body. These particleswill be used directly in the treatment10ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL GOING UP TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. FOR THE RESULT, SEE PAGE 12News on the Midwayof Buildings and MenTwo new directorshave been appointed in recentmonths to help administer the University's multifarious programs.H. Edward Wrapp, Associate Professor (School of Business), has beennamed head of the University's uniqueExecutive Program, and Harold Dun-kel, Professor (Education), is thenewly -appointed Director of Pre-Collegiate Education.Wrapp succeeds John Jeuck, who isnow Dean of the School of Business,and will direct the eleven-year oldProgram designed for business menwho want a better understanding ofthe broad social and economic problems that face businessmen today.Mr. Dunkel's many-sided new jobwill give him approximately thepowers of a dean of a professionalschool or division. He will work witha Board to "re-examine Laboratory School-University connections, and toencourage the active support of manyparts of the University for the LabSchool, as an outstanding educationalinstitution and as a center for appropriate research."This is the first time in its historythat the Laboratory School will be theresponsibility of a University -wideadministration, and it is hoped thatthe relationship will foster closer organizational and educational ties withthe rest of the University.The University Presshas announced that it will print anddistribute Poetry, a Magazine ofVerse, thus making it the twenty -fifth magazine publication of the Press.With this arrangement, a wide distribution of the magazine will be possible. Editorial control of the 41-yearold journal continues under Karl Shapiro, editor of Poetry, and theModern Poetry Association, of whichMrs. Ellen Borden Stevenson ispresident.The Harriet Monroe Library ofModern Poetry — one of the University Libraries' special collections — hasrecently received the correspondencefiles of Poetry for the years 1936-1952. Sixteen file drawers of manuscripts and letters from British andAmerican poets who have made theirreputations during the past two decades are included. They have beenadded to Poetry's files from 1912-1936,which were previously given to theLibrary in 1938 under the terms ofthe will of the late Harriet Monroe,founder and for many years editorof Poetry. The modern poetry librarywas opened in 1938 as a memorial toMiss Monroe. In addition to its valuable letters and manuscripts, it contains over five thousand books, ofJANUARY, 1954 11which 2,350 are from Miss Monroe'spersonal collection.Two art exhibitson campus highlighted holiday activities.The Rockefeller Memorial Chapel,which celebrated its twenty-fifthbirthday this fall, was the setting fora five-day exhibition of religious artby more than one hundred Chicagoartists.The first exhibit of its kind at theChapel, the exhibition of paintingsand sculpture was presented to "reaffirm the active interest of religionin the creative work of man," explained Pierre Delattre, exhibit man-'ager and program assistant to DeanJohn Thompson of the Chapel."Another important purpose," headds, "is to help bring churches andsynagogues into a more lively communication with the artists of ourtime and to apprise local artists of theinterest of religious institutions andindividuals in their work." This desire to bring the work ofcontemporary artists before an appreciative audience also motivated thefourth annual exhibit in the Good-speed Hall Gallery of "ContemporaryArt for Young Collectors."Over five hundred pieces — includingmany media in painting and sculpture.— were assembled, representing both"unknown" artists and internationallyfamous ones. But all the entries hadone thing in common — a modest pricetag. The five-to-fifty dollar range wasdesigned to appeal to collectors whohave a yen for originals but not thewherewithal to go with it.Of special interestto Chicago alumni are several outstanding presentations on the lecturedocket.Richard McKeon delivers the fourthin the series of Distinguished ServiceLectures sponsored by the CitizensBoard and the University College.His speech, "Knowledge and Ideology"will be given on January 22 at 32 W. Randolph, at 8:30. (Single admissions,$1.50.)Others in the series have includedEnrico Fermi, Harold C. Urey andS. Chandrasekhar, with John A. Wilson scheduled in February and FrankKnight to wind up the series March19.Of special interest, too, is the University College series on modernpoetry, presented by the poets themselves. Already heard have been RoyCampbell, Robert Lowell, JohnWoods, and Elder Olson — who is Associate Professor of English at theUniversity. Slated for the 28th of lastmonth were Richard Eberhart andOscar Williams. On January 15th willbe Charles G. Bell, Assistant Professor of Humanities in the College, andSelwyn Swartz. Reuel Denney, Associate Professor of Social Sciences,and Henry Rago, Associate Professorof Humanities in the College, willread and discuss their work on February 19th. Buddhadeva Boshe andIsabella Gardiner will be heard March19th, while Randall Jarrell and KarlROCKEFELLER CHAPEL TODAY IN THE SNOW — A GALLERY FOR ART TO "REAFFIRM THE ACTIVE INTEREST OF RELIGION"12 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEARCHITECT'S MODEL OF AMERICAN BAR CENTER TO BE BUILT ACROSS THE MIDWAY AT WOODLAWN AND SIXTIETH STREETShapiro will do their bit April 16th.Single Admission: $1.50. Place: 19South La Salle.Front the horse's mouthcomes a pronouncement that commercials on television are too muchof a good thing, and just plain "toohard to digest."Our Earle Ludgin, who runs hisown advertising agency and alsochairs the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies,rapped his colleagues' knuckles andcomplained out loud in a New Yorkspeech that commercials were gettingout of hand. Said he,"When I tune in a little early for ashow I especially want to see I catchthe closing commercial on the showjust ending; a special hitchhike fora different product for the same sponsor; a 20-second local commercial; aneight-second commercial on the station identification; another eight-second quickie out of left field, and then the opening commercial on the showI really tuned in to see."If he's as successful in rolling backthe commercials as he is in rolling inthe money for the Alumni Foundation, there's a happy day for televisionviewers ahead.Notes on icecome from T. N. Metcalf of the Department of Physical Education, thatthe privilege of using the north standice rink is extended to all membersof the Alumni Association on payment of the fifty cents guest fee. YourAssociation membership card willserve as identification. You maybring adult guests at the same fee.Incidentally, children under fourteenare not permitted on the rink exceptSaturday mornings from 10:30 to 12.Two million dollarswill be spent by the American BarAssociation to build its American Bar Center at 60th and Woodlawn (seephoto). The ground was donated tothe A.B.A. by the University on theoccasion of the 75th anniversary ofthe society of lawyers. On November2nd the cornerstone was laid, afterdedication ceremonies at Internationa]House Assembly Hall. Guest Speakerwas Robert H. Jackson, AssociateJustice of the United States SupremeCourt.Justice Jackson ended his addresswith a story which, he said, "seemsespecially apt today. A visitor at acathedral under construction questioned three workmen as to what theythought they were doing. The firstmuttered, 'I am making a living.' Thesecond gave the uninspired reply, 'Iam laying this stone.' The third onelooked up toward the sky and hisface was lighted up by his faith as hesaid, 'I am building a cathedral.'"What are we doing today?" JusticeJackson concluded. "We are buildinga cathedral to testify to our faith inthe rule of law." — ^ pJANUARY, 1954Veblen and The HigherThorstein Veblen taught atthe University jrom 1892 until1906; and, besides being theoriginator of "conspicuous consumption," "vested interest,""idle curiosity," and "the instinctfor workmanship," wrote twelve. books. The following is an abstract of Chapter IV of Mr.Riesman's study, Thorstein Veblen: A Critical Interpretation(Scribner 's; 1953; 214 pages;$3.00).Professor Riesman is the author of Civil Liberties in a Period of Transition; The LonelyCrowd; and Faces in the Crowd. ii. . his irony is as superior tothe naturalist's grimness as CharlieChaplin is superior to soap opera. ?'14 VrHILE Thorstein Veblen gainedhis knowledge of business and of factory life at second hand, through thereports of the muckrakers and ofvarious investigating commissions, hehad grandstand seats for some of themost characteristic academic games ofhis time. He was an undergraduate atCarleton in the heyday of the church-dominated school, pretty closely tiedto an ethnic group. He could see theinauguration of the process by whichmost such schools have sought toreach a wider market, without losingtheir original monopoly on ministersfor a particular sect and on moneyfrom a particular flock. He was at Hopkins as a graduate student shortlyafter President Gilman sought to domesticate the best German university models. He went on to Yale atthe time when the faculty was justfighting free of theological guidance—Veblen himself studied Kant there.He had another spell of graduate workat Cornell, a land-grant college, inone of its high points. But his bookThe Higher Learning In America tookshape during his University of Chicago days, when William RaineyHarper, that "Great Pioneer," was, asVeblen puts it, "reshaping Americanacademic policy." . . .While in Veblen's day it seemed tosome overly cynical observers that theUniversity of Chicago was simply onemore of Mr. Rockefeller's false fronts,it probably seemed to Mr. Rockefellerthat he was victimized by Harper'sability as salesman — an ability ac-RIESMAN— "WE NEED THIS FREEDOM"THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINELearningby David RiesmanProfessor of Social Sciencesin the College to do what the others did — just ascommercial advertising (so Veblenargued, in Absentee Ownership)benefited no one, but could not bedropped by any one company. Hence,Veblen thought that even a good andhonest scholar, once in the president'sseat, would shortly be as corrupt asalesman of "ponderous vendible intangibles" as any small-town banker,delegated by the board of trustees togive the institution an "efficient, businesslike management." In fact, a certain note of pity creeps into Veblen'sdiscourse here, marking his recognition of the unfortunate role of thescholar-president, caught on the margin between God and Mammon, between science as a collective heritageand the business culture as a growingnastiness.But this admitted lack of a "solution" or "constructive measures" issurely not the true impracticability ofThe Higher Learning. Rather, it is Veblen's insistent assumption that anautonomous faculty, free of anybureaucracy, would return to a primalstate of disinterested, generous, andcollective pursuit of idle curiosity.Veblen writes as if the vested interests in scholarship are primarilypecuniary ones: he glorifies thecolleague group as in other writingshe glorifies the engineers. Yet evenin this flight of gratifying fancy, hecovers himself — at times.He refers in a footnote to a particular faculty as "in the main anaggregation of slack-twisted schoolmasters and men about town" (p.167); and he notes his suspicion thatacademic people mind somewhat lessthan they say they do the processionsand other frippery ceremonials whichdrag them from their research andlink them with their wives in a yokeof perfunctory and emulative dissipation. Nevertheless, he concludes thatthis form of amiable sabotage ofquired by many non-businessmen ina business culture. . . .At times in The Higher LearningVeblen talks as if the presidents ofuniversities, by sheer energy andeffrontery, had subverted a companyof scholars who were once devotedacolytes of science and quiet gatherers of incunabula — as if he himself had witnessed the passing of anacademic golden age, in which Harper's fearful example had becomestandard university practice. . . .And of course Veblen is gloriouslyimpractical in all this. The Universityof Chicago has had to live on high-pressure promotion because, in competing with the great endowed universities of the Eastern Seaboard, itcould not count on loyal generationsof alumni who part with their sonsand draw their testamentary trusts onthe basis of unshakeable tradition.(In private, A. Lawrence Lowell ofHarvard could be a very effectivesalesman of tradition.) Rather, Chicago and other come-lately institutions have had to appeal to "newmoney" like the elder Rockefeller's —and to do so must advertise, namebuildings, and do all the other thingsto attract favorable notice. Veblenhimself half-realized this, and concluded his essay with the pessimisticthought that, barring a revolutionagainst the Vested Interests, no significant reform of the academic worldwas conceivable; monopolistic competition and its egregious publicity devices made it necessary for anyoneTHORSTEIN VEBLEN THE PROFESSORJANUARY, 1954 15science would not come to much without executive leadership, though withsuch leadership "current academiclife is calculated to raise the questionwhether make-believe does not, afterall, occupy a larger and more urgentplace in the life of these thoughtfuladult male citizens than in the lifeof their children" (p. 169). Veblenhas sufficient faith in the instinct ofworkmanship and the spirit of idlecuriosity to believe that, but for thedistortion worked by business pressures and motives, the academic personnel would not be seduced from thesingle-minded pursuit of research.Double gameThus, it is apparent that Veblensees the Captain of Erudition only inone of his roles: his salesmanship ofthe university's intangible assets inthe marketplace and, conversely, hisefforts as face-lifter within the academic walls in order that there besomething to sell. He is, therefore,the principal channel by which business values enter the university.Mainly, what Veblen fails to appreciate here is the possibility of thepresident's playing a double game:fostering scholarly research as an in-tra-academic leader, and protectingrather than jeopardizing such researchby his public relations work vis-a-visthe trustees, the alumni, and the community at large. That a president orother administrative officer might employ his parental bent in fosteringscholarship rather than in sabotage ofit seemed as unlikely to Veblen asthat a businessman might foster ratherthan sabotage the industrial arts.And, just as Veblen would not grapplewith his own realization that creditinflation might actually lead, througha boom mentality, to an increase inproduction and real income, so hecould not, in The Higher Learning,grant that non-scholarly morale factors in the control of an academicadministrator might lead to an increase in genuine research: for Veblen, good could never issue fromevil.In other words, Veblen did not admit the need for leaders as essentialrenewers of the vitality of institutions;in fact, he did not want institutionsto be vital, but to die. Accordingly,he thought the universities could runthemselves, once outside interferencewere removed, precisely as he thoughtthe economy could run itself, as atechnical engineering problem, oncethe vested interests were liquidated.Here again, he fell back on a kind ofRousseauistic "state of nature" thinking which regarded scholars as un- contaminated "scientific men" whowould naturally pursue the truth thatlies at the margin of the alreadyknown, if only the conventional academic restraints could be removed. Itwas pleasant to imagine that scholarswere only hampered by institutionalsupports and were single-mindedlydevoted to research. As the popularsong says, "it's nice work if you canget it!"Where, one might ask, do studentsfit into such an idyll? Veblen did notseem to mind if the young weretaught, but he refused to accept thisteaching as among the functions ofthe university; students should bepermitted there only after adolescenceand in the role of apprentices, andinstruction should be carried on justso far as it aided the work of research. It followed, moreover, thatstudents could be endured on thepremises only if they were motivatedby the same curiosities as the faculty.To train students for business or legalsuccess seemed to Veblen a desecration of scholarship. Perhaps the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton comes closest to Veblen's ideal.In this domain, by all accounts,Veblen practiced what he preached.In every conceivable way, he soughtto spend as little of himself as possible in class, although he could begenerous to students privately, andoften enjoyed at Chicago walking andtalking with them. He seems to havebeen more willing to carry the research-advancing drudgery of editingThe Journal of Political Economy (apost he held while at Chicago) thanthe slightest drudgery connected withthe curriculum. He would read andwork between eight and two in theevening; perhaps he was one of thosemen for whom academic hours areintolerable. . . .Avoiding all dramaThat Veblen was a big and powerful man physically did not preventhim from shrinking in the presenceof the hale and hearty. By the sametoken, unlike more intrepid colleagues,he never fought back openly, nevercrossed students or authorities directly, never spoke in faculty meetingor joined in moves of protest. Atbest he could conduct himself as anacademic Wobbly, a slyly effectivesaboteur of Registrars, Deans of Students, and other officials. His savagebook on The Higher Learning may beseen as a stand-in for savage conduct:like many men who are withdrawn inpersonal intercourse, his emotionscould flow more readily in absentia.Seeking to avoid all drama by mousy William Rainey Harper as a young16 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEbehavior, he ended by becoming anacademic legend.This legend, based both on his career and on his books, has had a notinconsiderable impact on the American academic culture. Every profession, as Professor Everett C. Hugheshas often pointed out, has ambivalentfeelings towards its clients — needs andhates them at the same time, feels andfears the constraint of their demands.Veblen vocalized and rationalized theteacher's uneasiness vis-a-vis students, his desire for an "ideal" studentwho would be all help and no troubleto anyone."dirty work''But he did more, in his insistenceon a one-function university. Forevery institution is vulnerable to acall that it should return to the outlook of its founders, vulnerable to aninsistence that it should serve a singlefunction only, and not a multiplicity —that churches should prepare for salvation and do nothing else; that businesses should make money and sellgoods, and nothing else; that doctorsshould practice medicine and nothingelse. Academic people, too, readilysuccumb to the notion that they shouldonly do research, not counsel theyoung or reform our cities or engagein academic politics and publicity.Life is simplified if one's "calling" hasonly a single voice. The fact is, however, that every viable institution(again, a point repeatedly made byProfessor Hughes) serves a congeriesof functions, some of which may be"accidentally" linked by history, without any logical connection; thus, mostuniversities which have survived havecatered both to would-be scholars andprofessionals and to gilded youthseeking appropriate rites de passage.But it is also true that in anygamut of functions thus brought together in an institution, some operations will have a higher prestige valuethan others; some will be "dirtywork." Though it appeared to Veblenthat academic bluffing and busyworkbrought prestige, he himself helpedtweak an academic conscience thathas increasingly given the higheststatus to research, the lowest (as inthe national scene more generally)to "bureaucracy" and "politics."His belief that a university bureaucracy is not really necessary stillhangs on. The result is to create alot of obstacles to the doing of routinetasks needful in any large enterprise,and to build up fierce suspicions atthe least signs of a parental bent onthe part of university administrators.It is my observation that those uni versity deans to whom Veblen hashelped give a bad conscience, simplyon the ground that they are no longerscholars, are likely to envy those oftheir colleagues who are still scholarsand therefore to hamstring them unconsciously — whereas if they felt thattheir share of the total multiplicity ofuniversity functions was not inferior,they could afford to be more generousand helpful.All in all, it is my impression thatthe Veblen legend and the Veblenbook have helped give us manyguardedly inefficient academic Bohemians, proud of their inability topreside at a meeting, or to turn ingrade lists on time, or to rememberappointments and the names of students, or to write memoranda nottainted by irrelevance. To be sure,such a cult of incompetence is in parta reaction against the earlier type ofPhilistine businessman who had nouse for anyone who had not "met apayroll" — a reaction against the strident joviality of many vulgar, still-adolescent men who were adepts ofacademic intrigue. To this extent,Veblen's book served to encourage auseful counter-style. But the ironyis that, while Veblen thought the universities were succumbing to businessmen, the reverse was beginningto happen even during his own lifetime.Academic snobberiesUniversity careers were becomingincreasingly attractive for purposes ofsocial and career mobility as an alternative to business; their growing competitiveness and loss of gentility wasdue less to their conquest by trusteeschosen from the ranks of the fattervested interests than to the fact thatyoung men were beginning to find acareer in natural or social sciencerather than in banking or wholesaling.In fact, it is the greater prestige ofuniversities which has lured theyoung seeking prestige — and at thesame time has allowed them to poseas gentlemen amiably superior tobusinesslike conduct both within andwithout the ivied walls.Thus, in spite of his own hatred forsnobbery, Veblen has ended by supporting, at least to some extent, certain current academic snobberies: theoffensively superior attitude to thebusiness world; the extra meed ofhonor given those who don't teach atall, or who teach graduate studentmales as against those who teach insecondary schools, or teach women, orteach extension classes. To be sure,these snobberies exist in many places,in England for instance, where Veb-17len's book is unknown — indeed, TheHigher Learning, like most of Veblen's works, has had a small circulation. Nevertheless, it is my impressionthat themes and phrases from thisbook and from Veblen's other comments on education have helped inthe United States, along with manymore important influences, to nourishcertain academic complacencies.But a significant book, just as a university, has more than one function,and more than one audience. It is itsvery success in some academic quarters that has made me enter certaincaveats against The Higher Learningin America. It goes without sayingthat the book can still be read withprofit as a guide to the subtle infiltrations of salesmanship into Americanacademic life; as a critique of "pragmatism" and "vocationalism" ; as astudy in the ambiguity of the president's position; as a sardonic commentary on the pinched meanness ofthe academic proletariat, the white-collar Mr. Milquetoasts who mustunite in one harried existence theirown desire for scholarly achievement,their deans' desire for a fillip to notoriety, and their wives' desire tocompete with the wives of the Chamber of Commerce. And, apart fromsuch blessings, it is a wonderfullysarcastic and witty book. . . .Alien gustoVeblen to some extent shared thespirit of Zola and his American followers, and also the spirit of W. I.Thomas and other sociologists of the"Chicago School" who were plungingwith zest into the study of the lifeof the city, its immigrant swarms, itssexual deviations, its vagabond occupations. The turn of the century wasthe period of the great surveying expeditions by which literature and sociology took stock of the assortedpeoples whom industrialization andurbanization had thrown together —expeditions to see, in Jacob Riis' famous phrase, "How the Other HalfLives." Yet there are great differencesbetween Veblen and these contemporaries.In the first place, most of them,whatever manifestoes of "naturalism"might constitute their charter of work,were reform-minded. This is as trueof Jack London, who combined aDarwinian premise with a vaguelysocialistic conclusion, as of most ofthe sociologists and the later muck-rakers. In comparison, Veblen's re-form-mindedness was far more sublimated. In the second place, Veblenwas too withdrawn, too "scholarly" inthe classical sense, to enjoy first-hand contact with his objects of study:nothing could be more alien to himthan the gusto of a Chicago novelistdoing field-work in a shabby bar. Theonly time Veblen wanted to do field-work was when he applied for a grant,during his Stanford days, to make anexpedition to the Aegean to studyCretan antiquities. And whereas W. I.Thomas late in life learned Yiddishso that he could read the advice columns in the Jewish Daily Forward —columns which he found rich in implication as to the shifts in attitudeundergone by East- side immigrants —Veblen preferred to continue learningthe dead languages, including Sanskrit, and to translate Scandinaviansagas.It appears, then, that Veblen's term,"idle curiosity," goes far to describehis own focus of attention. It is "idle"in the sense of refusal to be committed to those "great issues" that hiscontemporaries took most seriously,in the sense of having nothing of theeager beaver about it, and in thesense of not giving an account of itself to any vested interest whetheracademic or popular. It is the curiosity of a bystander, who casts a coldeye, rather than of a rescue party orcastigating moralist. It is playful,lively, inquisitive, unimpressed. Thatin Veblen's case it turned out to directhis attention to waste, trusts, socialism, imperialism, and many other unremittingly exigent issues, only indicates that he was human and thativory towers are built by humanhands for inescapably human purposes. Likewise, that Veblen's passionate moral sense sharpened his idlycurious eye is also not to be wondered at; even our play and dreaming,as the Freudians have shown, expr°ssas well as relieve our workadayanxieties and inhibitions. And yetthere is a real if impalpable freedomin play, which transcends the veryhuman condition that shapes it —much as Veblen's concept of idle curiosity transcends his otherwise bio-logistically and economistically determined system.In the play of his irony, Veblenfound a form for the manifold tensions in him — between his morality ofreform and his morality of science,between his detachment and his fearand hatred of bullying and injustice,between his detestation of waste andhis passive acceptance of Darwinianpessimism. In my judgment, his ironyis as superior to the naturalists' grim-ness as Charlie Chaplin is superior tosoap opera.But having used this word "superior," I bring myself up with astartled realization that Veblen would have rejected any such rank or distinction — other than one premised onhis morality of waste. Plainly, I donot go along with him there but feelthat some things are more worthwhile,more beautiful, more desirable thanothers. However, as a charter for research, the assertion that soap operamay be as significant as Chaplin cannot be gainsaid, and when anyonestudies soap opera and other devaluedproducts of popular culture he is making use of a freedom Veblen helpedwin: to proceed without reference tothe boundaries between departmentsor between "important" subjects and"trivial" ones. -We need this freedom,for even today, more than half a century after The Theory of the LeisureClass, there are plenty of Americanswho think it somehow frivolous tostudy leisure, unless one has an eyeto "improving" it, that is I suppose,making it more like work.DisinterestednessIn fact, it is just Veblen's irreverence which we stand in need of in aday when total commitment is beingasked of everyone. His effort toachieve disinterestedness appears allthe more admirable in the face ofSartre's question "For Whom DoesOne Write?" or Robert Lynd's"Knowledge for What?" I would bewilling to welcome a great deal ofBohemian irresponsibility among professors if that were the price of genuine detachment and unengagement.Increasingly, the conscience of academic people is hooked on to somesocial concern, some good cause orother, as against Veblen's desire tohitch it exclusively to Science. Whatever the theoretical shortcomings ofhis concept of idle curiosity, or ofScience, and whatever the practicalshortcomings of the model-T professor, I am not sure we have found abetter concept or a better model.Though the details of the Veblenlegend may be in error, he is surely,for these contributions, entitled to hisplace in the history of intellectualfreedom.PRE-PUB OFFERCOLUMBIA-VIKING DESKENCYCLOPEDIAOVER 1100 PAGESRegular Edition $7.95; Before Nov. I $6 95Thumb- Indexed $8.95; Before Nov. I $7.95ORDER NOW FROMTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBOOKSTORE5802 Ellis Ave., Chicago18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE(Bookiby Faculty and AlumniTHE ADVENTURES OF AUGIEMARCH. Saul Bellow, Viking. $4.50.Four students at the University ofChicago during the middle thirtiespossessed more than a casual interestin writing. They were — in no particular order — Oscar Tarcov, IsaacRosenfeld, H. J. Kaplan, and SaulBellow. Varyingly degreed, and unde-greed they left and went their separate ways; Tarkov to the Anti-Defamation League, Rosenfeld to a livingcentering around the teaching ofwriting (most recently at the University of Minnesota), Kaplan to a government agency whose successes havebeen in an inverse ratio to the numberof times it has been investigated, andBellow to a career that stretched fromindexing for the Syntopicon throughteaching, fellowships, and a berth onthe best-seller lists.These four were initially membersof the jobless, academically becalmedgeneration of the mid-thirties, thegeneration that is still, almost twodecades later, always a little surprised (and not necessarily pleasantlyso) to find itself working for a living.They began writing at a time whenunemployed young writers describedthe problems of the working classbecause they were not members of it.Starting when the skyrocket of proletarian literature had reached thetop of its arc and the stick was preparing to come down, these youngwriters were fundamentally committed to Dosteyevsky, Proust, Kafkaand — diminuendo — Henry James.Write SmolletAll four have since published fiction. Their novels and criticism havebeen marked by a sincerity of approach, a solidity of achievement.The results have been less successfulat the box office than they will eventually prove to be in, at least, thefoothills of literary history.Augie March is Bellow's third published novel, the first to win widepublic as well as critical acceptance.Its sale is a compliment to those whobuy books. Properly gulped andswished about the mouth, Augie mayeven remove the taste of The CaineMutiny. Dangling Man nine years agowas his first published novel (the firstaccepted never reached print after the war capsized a West Coast publisher). Tinged with self pity, itdocumented the plight of the eventhen rapidly aging members of thegeneration of the thirties who shifteduneasily from one foot to anotherwhile waiting for their draft boardsto make up their minds. The Victim(1947) was a study in the psychologyof persecution for its own sake. Bothwere well and better than well written, both left something to be desiredin their point of view.These earlier novels, however, provided the humus that nurtured Augie,who is a literary hero cut from anentirely different piece of cloth. (Forearlier samples, write Smollet & Co.)Augie's proper triumph is that hedoes much, senses much, observesmuch, is concerned with much, andreally doesn't care. In spite of thisdetachment of the hero — Robert PennWarren aptly describes him as "un-ALUMNUS, WRITER, BELLOW committed" — the novel rushes alongwith an irresistible vitality. In aworld in which the other-directedmotivations of the suburbs have allthe dignity of the waves of hysteriawhich sweep girls' preparatoryschools, who could take seriously theproblems confronted by the hero ofMr. Marquand's Point of No Return?Augie accepts life as it comes, andimproves on it for his own benefit. Inan art form where serious competitors disappear down the rabbit holeof complications without cogency,sighings without substance, Bellowneither whines nor apologizes.Chicago's near slumsAugie is born to Chicago's nearslums, full of all the virtues, exceptrespect for the temporary groundrules that society attempts to imposeon conduct. Augie is physicallyhandsome and engaging, qualitieswhich permit him to ricochet throughlife at a bewildering variety of occupations. He sells V.L.&A.-type luxuries to the North Shore set, stealsbooks on a rational and not too riskybasis, and works as an assistant unionorganizer during the thirties whenthe C.I.O. exploded on the industrialscene. This in intervals of operatinga coal yard, taming eagles to huntsnakes in Mexico, and being torpedoed in the Merchant Marine duringWorld War II with a bio -chemiststraight out of science fiction. For aperiod he inhabits one of the drabbestconceivable rooming houses in HydePark (on these, Bellow is hands down,the admitted literary authority). Inbetween, with 18th century abruptness he falls in and out of the armsof a number of attractive youngwomen: a Greek waitress, an heiress,and finally an actress of not insurmountable virtue. At the novel's end,he winds up, still sans tache, as ashady business operator in post-warEurope.As Augie moves along from episodeto episode, the novel bubbles, drives,and hurtles along with him. Thechapters on the Einhorns, already preprinted twice, could outlast Hemingway's The Killers in the anthologies.Reading about the activities of theseincredibly intense individuals is alittle like personally escorting thefamily wash through a laundromat.Nowhere in fiction has life in all itsaspects impinged with such vigor ona single set of characters or been impinged upon so largely in return.A few critics have lifted a painedeyebrow at the novel's apparent lackof form. (This ignores the reasonablequestion as to whether literary formJANUARY, 1954 19is anything more than a professionallyuseful fiction that exists solely in theminds of literary critics.) There is nodullness as Augie moves along throughlife. Some critics have suggestedjudicious editing; I wanted to readmore.Beyond the vitality of the characters, with the consequent achievement of first honors for viability(perhaps a trifle less for ideas, evenwith production credits to the Harvard Classics and the Syntopicon),this novel has one additional and perhaps even more important virtue.Bellow has a unique and serious concern with the still largely unexploredpossibilities of literary language. Nimble and evocative, he raids specializedvocabularies to paint from a completepalette, offending the eye but rarely.He explores all the frequencies. Reading him is like listening to a currenthigh fidelity recording of the 1812Overture. In comparison, his contemporaries offer only a preorthophonicversion of a piano solo.To sum up, in the dry years, this isa major achievement. If the past isany indication of the future, for thesecond time this century, the University of Chicago has played some partin the education of a major and permanent American novelist.Georg Mann, '34THE POLITICAL SYSTEM: AnInquiry into the State of PoliticalScience. By David Easton, Associate- ROBERT HUTCHINS' -The Universityof UtopiaA provocative document, reminiscent of triumph and failure, inwhich one of the most influentialeducators in America looks critically at the alarming hazards toeducation represented by industrialization, specialization, philosophical diversity, and politicalconformity. The countermeasureshe suggests are the natural products of the wealth of wit, experience, and native wisdom whichthreaten to make hima legend $2,50J^m''^, At your bookstore, or fromPl£&\ the university ofi lxj i chicago pressVJWW/ 5750 Ellis Avenue\&£y Chicago 37, III. Professor (Political Science). NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Pp.x-320.A remarkably well sustained critique of the state of contemporarypolitical science research, this book'sdissatisfaction arises from the fundamental fact of too little attention todayto the theoretical component of politics. The dissatisfaction is wellfounded. It is easy to moralize inignorance of means, and it is fatallyeasy to collect data without regardto what the data mean. That theoryand practice must somehow flow together needs little argument. But theway they can go together needs sustained investigation, and that investigation is here vouchsafed at a highlevel of competence.EquilibriumThe theory of politics rests uponeither a moral or a causal interpretation of the relation between the ideological and the empirical aspects ofthe political enterprise. It ought torest upon both. The task is to findhow the moral and the causal docooperate in politics.The causal explanation is todayincomplete, primarily for lack ofquantitative data. This state is likelyto prevail for a long while, if indeedit be not indigenous to the premises.This lack renders practically unavailable one great theory of politics, thetheory that politics is an equilibrium,even a moving equilibrium, of personal and group forces in conflict.There are too many variants as touching equilibrium to permit politics tobe regarded as an authentic science;for what is plainly true of the equilibrium hypothesis is equally true,upon analysis, of any other prevailingexplanation of politics as causation.The trouble with politics as causes isthat they turn into "reasons" beforethey become operative.Locke's dictumTake Locke's dictum, as the authordoes, that in a just government "thelegislative must be separated fromthe executive power." Scrupulousacceptance of this notion would require what neither Locke nor Madison nor contemporary devotees of theidea of equilibrium provide: namely,proof that as a matter of fact, separation of powers necessarily impliesjustice. That proof certainly does notflow from an indulgence in "scien-tism." The data, however heavy, remain both ambiguous and ambivalent.Perhaps the dictum rests, then, uponmoral rather than upon causal foundation. This is what the author thinks, and shows. That fact is nothing tothe detriment of theory, if the ethicsof it can be made out.It is, however, a large "if," for theethics limps as badly as the logic.The case against the moral argumentis not here, I think, made as strongas it can be made. To put the moraldeficiency at its simplest, we maymerely point to the fact that the relation between desire and the object ofdesire will not stay put for sustainedanalysis. The nearer men get to whatthey want (think "right"), the lesswhat they wanted remains what theywant. Beelzebub demonstrates thisfor Heaven; we men know it for afact on earth. The ethics of ends outgrows the logic between ends andmeans. Thus, or otherwise, the utilization of theory for the explanationof practice remains undependable. Ifneither the causal nor the moral justification of theory can be made firm —and this would appear the sad conclusion which is indicated — then whatis the case, which the author wishesto establish, for theory in politicalscience?Theory exists for . . .Here again the conclusion — now thegrand conclusion — lacks limpidity.With full deference toward and admiration of what the author suggests,I would venture a conclusion moremodest — and perhaps for that veryreason more adequate. What he seemsto suggest as the final justification fortheory is its fecundity for practice."Of course," (says he — and note theof course) "to the extent that wecould never reduce a theory to termsof research it would thereby haveproved itself inadequate" (p. 315).What I would suggest is— ignoringthe grand hope — that the justificationfor theory is neither logical nor ethical, nor with the author both, but iswhat for want of a better term I maycall aesthetic. Theory, in short, existsfor the sake of personal wholeness.To see a man going in two differentdirections at once is, depending uponthe mood, comic or tragic, but at anyrate is inappropriate and, in a certain sense, is ugly.Theory exists to safeguard direction, to establish unity in effort. Let,then, the theory be general enoughto harbor all alternatives, justifyingamong all alternatives the alternativeof practice preferred by the theorist.The reconciliation of the alternativeswill then be left to what is presupposed in the Zeitgeist (which is afterall the best reliance of finitude). Or,if this be too generous to opponentsand too trustful of a radical divisionTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEof labor, then let the theorist acceptand defend one, any one, of the alternatives, trusting again, willy-nilly, tohistory to make bearably monisticthe pluralism which liberty requiresin the field of social theory, no lessthan in the domain of politicalpractice.Whether we accept in theory agenerality which, like the old "moth-er-hubbard," covers everything buttouches nothing or accept in theorya specificity which covers nothing buttouches something, we shall haveachieved unity of direction: a beautiful sight for the researcher who hasmade the great discovery that he isnot God. Theory is, then, aestheticallyjustified. It is to be measured not interms of final results, which is God'sbusiness, but in terms of a continuingprocess to which each investigatorcontributes unity of his own effortsand reaps therefrom the unbeatablemorale of confidence in the self-justifying efficacy of theoretical effort.T. V. Smith, PhD '22Maxwell Professor ofCitizenship and PhilosophySyracuse UniversityBRIEFLY NOTEDElizabeth Pollet Schwarz, '48, andJean Garrigue, '37, are contributorsto the fourth Mentor selection ofNEW WORLD WRITING, publishedin October by The New AmericanLibrary of World Literature. MissPollet's contribution is a story, "ACold-Water Flat," the first sectionof a novella, the second half of whichwas recently published in BottegheOscure. Jean Garrigue is one of fiveAmerican poets in the present volumeselected to represent contemporarypoetry.NEW WORLD WRITING began asPLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE CLUBFall, 1953 Sept. 29— Dec. 26Four Plays to Be Chosen Fromthe Following:Widowers Houses ShawThe Fields of Malfi. .Shepard*The Dybuk AnskyTwelfth Night. . . . ShakespeareThe Doctor in Spiteof Himself MoliereDoctor Knock RomainsPeer Gynt Ibsen?Premiere of a modern adaptation of Webster's tragedy.Membership information on request1560 North WHitehallLaSalle Street 3-2272JANUARY, 1954 a publishing experiment over a yearago when The New American Librarylaunched a "literary" type publicationin the mass market for inexpensivepaperbound books, offering a sampling of the best contemporary fiction,poetry and criticism.PILGRIMS IN PARAGUAY. ByJ. Winfield Fretz. Herald Press, Scott-dale, Pa. 1953. $2.J. Winfield Fretz, AM '38, PhD '41,tells the story of the Mennonite settlers, who during the past thirty years,have made new homes for themselvesin the Paraguayan wilderness. Men-J\eader£BIOGRAPHYWe asked Robert Streeter, Associate Professor of English, to do somesnooping into the lives of the "greatsand near- greats" and recommendsome good, recent biographies, memoirs, or autobiographies. Here is hislist, and we hope it will help you getbetter acquainted with some old — ornew — friends.HENRY JAMES: The UntriedYears, 1843-1870. By Leon Edel.Lippincott, 1953. $5.In this first section of a biographywhich will certainly be indispensableto readers of James, Professor Edeldeals sensitively and informativelywith the novelist's youth. Not theleast of the book's attractions is thatit conveys so successfully the charmand vivacity of the James family andtheir friends.CHARLES DICKENS: His Tragedyand Triumph. By Edgar Johnson.Two volumes. Simon and Schuster,1952. $10.As sheer story, this massive butswiftly-paced biography makes themost of the drama in Dickens' career.Critical discussions of the novels aredisappointing, but, like the Victorianthree-decker novel itself, the biography has God's plenty of everythingelse.BOSWELL ON THE GRANDTOUR: Germany and Switzerland,1764. Edited by Frederick A. Pottle.McGraw-Hill, 1953. $5.High points in this volume, thethird in the Yale series drawn fromthe private papers of James Boswell,are the accounts of Boswell's visits nonite settlers first began arriving inParaguay in 1920 from Canada, andlater thousands more came from Russia, Poland and Germany.Fretz' study and on-the-spot investigation of the groups' problems andadjustments to their new environmentwas made possible by a grant fromthe Social Science Research Counciland special arrangements with theMennonite Central Committee.Mr. Fretz is at present Professorof Sociology and Chairman of theDivision of Social Science at BethelCollege, North Newton, Kansas.aidewith Rousseau and Voltaire. As theeighteenth century's most diligentconnoisseur of literary celebrity — heintroduced himself to Rousseau bywriting, "Open your door, then, Sir,to a man who dares to tell you thathe deserves to enter it" — Boswellrecords these encounters, and theother events of his tour, with animation and candor.WILL A CATHER: A Critical Biography. By E. K. Brown. Completed by Leon Edel. Knopf, 1953. $4.This work by the late E. K. Brown,professor of English at the Universityof Chicago, affords not only a fullnarrative of the novelist's life butalso a balanced and perceptive estimate of her work. The book drawsupon much new material, particularly in the chapters dealing withthe years in which Miss Cather wasestablishing herself as a writer.AMERICA BEGINS. Edited byRadio Station W F M T... 78 flours a dayall of it devoted to . . .serious musicdramapoetryand discussion7 a.m. to 1 a.m.98.7 on your FM dial21Richard M. Dorson. Pantheon, 1953.$5.An unusual anthology, this collection of lively first-hand narratives byparticipants in the American Revolution ranges over a variety of interests: among others, the fortunes ofprisoners of war, the distresses ofLoyalists, the war in the West. Muchof it drawn from little -known sources,the material has freshness and immediacy; the book is a good successorto Professor Dorson's earlier anthology, America Begins (1950).PERIOD PIECE. By Gwen Raverat.Norton, 1953. $3.75.Here are reminiscences, by turnwitty and nostalgic, by Charles Darwin's grand- daughter, who grew upin Cambridge, England, fifty yearsago. The atmosphere of the time andplace is captured, the stories havepoint, and drawings by the authorreinforce the mood of the text.THE DIARY OF GEORGE TEM-PLETON STRONG. Edited by AllanNevins and Milton Halsey Thomas.Four volumes. Macmillan, 1952. $35.For readers with the time and themoney, the Strong diary offers anabsorbing view of life in Knickerbocker New York. The diarist, whoattended Columbia College in the1830's, subsequently became a busylawyer and civic leader; he heldstrong opinions and expressed themwith acerbity and occasionally withviolence.THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS ANDCLARK. Edited by Bernard DeVoto.Houghton Mifflin, 1953. $6.50.The chronicle of the most celebratedgeographical exploration ever undertaken on the North American continent is now available in a form nottoo intimidating to the general reader.Mr. DeVoto has removed the prolixities of the original report, but haswisely refrained from retouching theexplorers' syntax and spelling; as aresult, the narrative retains its circumstantiality and an inelegant, butvery real, force.RUMOR AND REFLECTION. ByBernard Berenson. Simon and Schuster, 1952. $6.The wartime diary (1941-44) of theart historian provides an astringentcommentary upon men, politics, andart. Since Berenson was living nearFlorence during the Allied advanceup the Italian peninsula, the occasionfor his reflections is frequently topical; however, his agile mind carrieshim beyond the immediate occasionto speculations that are sometimesirritating and always interesting. 1897A. R. E. Wyant styles himself as a"health millionaire" and claims he hasn'tmissed a day's work on account of illnesssince 1883. That's some record! He soldhis home in Beverly Hills last summerand has since taken a motor trip throughthe East before going to Florida.1898Trevor Arnett returned to his homein Grand Beach, Mich., for the summerafter wintering in Claremont, Calif.1899Ward A. Cutler suffered a heart attacklast May and has been forced to give upactive service with the Rath PackingCo., in Waterloo, Iowa, where he took awar-time job in 1943., Pearl Hunter Weber, AM '20, keepsbusv collecting for Crowell -Collier Reader Service in Tulsa, Okla., and her husband, the Reverend William Weber- AM'24, is teaching again — at the age of 75 —in the High School cf Grand River, Iowa.He has received a superintendent's lifecertificate from that state.1903Colleagues and classmates of Dr. OttilieZelezny Baumrucker, MD (Rush) recently gave the veteran Chicago gynecologist a banquet in honor of her 50years, of community service. Mrs. Baumrucker has been a member of the Womenand Children's Hospital's attending staffsince 1920. Although a native of Prague,Czechoslovakia, she has lived in Chicagoever since the age of 5. A son, Dr.George O. Baumrucker, '27, MD '32, an-How to retireThis is the way Florence Scott,'07, set about retiring:"After twenty-eight years at theUniversity of Southern California,I was retired a year ago. Manypeople told me I'd love having somuch leisure' and 'being able todo what you want,' (as if I hadn'talways done that!). By spring Iwas finding leisure -time activitiesmuch more boring than 'job' activities had ever been, so I went toEurope. I returned in Octoberfrom a six months' trip, includinga 4,000 mile motor trip of four-weeks in the British Isles. Incidentally, I got to Paris the weekafter the strike, so wasn't worrieda bit and didn't have to hurryback as some of my friends did."I returned to a position as Visiting Professor at Occidental College—full time — and I love it." Do you rememberthe "Convocation Ode" writtenby Howard Mumford Jones, AM'15, for the celebration of the University's Quarter- Centennial, inJune, 1915?Agnes Gordon Gale, '96, was recently looking over old documentsand memoranda of past days, andfound again the "Ode" and quotesSection Eight:"Where then is wisdom found,And where hath understandingplace:Not peering up time's vacantfaceIn sunless tunnels underground —Not so we crave!But deeper life, a fuller senseOf beauty and of reverence;The whole of being to employUnder new dawns the spiritknows;To sense a comrade in the roseAnd greet the sun and moonwith joy;Bravely to live as one inlove with lifeThat yet with courage hailsthe dark for friend;To live and to renounce,to gain and spendGreatly at noon what morningwon with strife —This is that life which knowledge must increase!O servants of our commonmother, seeThat all your wisdoms beAs living water and as pathsof peaceFor the fair ways and richerfood of life!"Mrs. Gale adds, "Perhaps I donot need to say that Howard Jonesis now at Harvard, and has hada distinguished and useful careerthere."other Rush medical alumnus, is head ofthe Hines Veterans Administration Hospital's neurology department.1907Grace Williamson (Mrs. R. RandolphChamberlain) writes from her home inPrescott, Ontario, that Phoebe FrancesBell Terry, '08, (now Mrs. Henry C.Cryder) was a house guest for a weekat the Chamberlain's "Happiness Farm."1908James McGee of Flint, Michigan, hasretired as Baptist Minister after nearly45 years of service.1911Earl Q. Gray, JD '13, of Ardmore,22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEOkla., and Herbert W. Hines, PhD '22, ofPolytechnic, Mont., are serving as District Governors of Rotary Internationalin their home towns. As Governors theywill visit each of the Rotary clubs intheir area and assist in coordinatingactivities.1912Ellen Mulroney Peterson, a San Diego,Calif., resident, reports that her husbandis retired from high school teaching, "sowe have time to devote to our grandchildren." She tells of the marriage ofone daughter, Maryanna, to Donald Stanford, an assistant professor of English atLouisiana State University. Her other daughter, Ruth, now has two children,Cynthia and David.1913"A feeling of having returned to U. ofC. days," is reported by Mrs. WinifredMiller Clark of Westport, Conn. Theoccasion was a picnic with friends atChina Lake in Maine. Present wereGeraldine Brown Gilkey 11; former Deanof the Chapel Charles W. Gilkey; theirdaughter Mary Jane Gilkey, AM '42;Nena Wilson '12 and Mrs. Clark's husband, John. The group were guests ofMary Hoxie Jones.1914A gift shop has been opened byEdward K. MacDonald, X '14, and wifein Hubbard Woods, 111. "It seems to belivelier than La Salle Street lately," hewrites."Retired, but interested in educationas always," writes Dorothea Tyler, whorecently moved from Buffalo to NewYork.1915George Morris, Washington, D. C. attorney, received a letter this fall from afriend who had this to say about fisher- . . . far outstanding workWilliam David Reeve, '10, hasreceived the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University ofMinnesota, "an honor reserved forformer students of the institutionwho have attained high eminenceand distinction."Mr. Reeve, Professor Emeritus ofMathematics at Teachers College,Columbia University, was for manyyears head of the department ofmathematics and principal of theUniversity of Minnesota HighSchool, until he went to TeachersCollege in 1923.He served as editor of TheMathematics Teacher from 1928 to1950 and has edited most of theNational Council Yearbooks onMathematics. He is associate editorof Scripta Mathematica.man Carl E. Robinson, JD: "Carl is now67 years old, but he fished the variouslakes with remarkable vigor from twoto four times a day. He hardly evermissed rising between 4:00 and 4:30 tofish before breakfast. He fished eachday after dinner until it was too dark tocontinue."CHICAGO WEDGWOODThe Chicago memorial dinner platesby Wedgwood have been delayed in production because of artist changes which the committee feels willgreatly improve their attractiveness.The towers of Mitchell, Harper, andthe Chapel, and Hull Gate will now dominate thecenter of the plates — with white space leading to theborder, which will be designed from the rosettes onRyerson Laboratory.These sets will not be ready for delivery until after Christmas, but you will approve ofthe delay when you see them.They will sell for $12.00 per set, delivered.If you wish to see pictures of the set,when they are ready, drop us a card and we will placeyou on our preferred list. Those who have sent cardsneed not repeat their tentative orders.The Alumni Association,5733 University Avenue,Chicago 37, IllinoisJANUARY, 19541916Robert G. Buzzard, SM '17, Presidentof Eastern Illinois State College inCharleston, has been appointed DistrictGovernor of Rotary International for theCharleston area.1917Donald E. Nichols, of Chicago, andMrs. Mildred Clark Tobin were recentlymarried. The couple took a two-weekwedding trip to Myrtle Beach, Va.Albert Pick Jr., president of PickHotels Corporation, Chicago, was electedpresident of the American Hotel Association at the group's annual convention inMontreal. Pick, with his father and twouncles, organized the hotel corporationin 1926.1918Margaret A. Hayes is principal of aChicago elementary school. But she'salso busy with crippled children, andcarries on considerable correspondenceas a member of the International Relations Committee of the InternationalCouncil for Exceptional Children.Donald M. Swett has been electedpresident and treasurer of the AmericanTag Co. of Chicago and William O. Swett,X '23, a brother, was re-elected vice-president.1919Norris C. Bakke prefaced his recentannouncement that he was returning tothe private practice of law with the comment, "And may there be no moaningof the bar when I put out to seekclients." He is now associated with thefirm of Camalier, McDonald & Bakke,in Washington, D. C. He had previouslybeen in charge of the legal division ofthe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., inWashington, D. C.1920Florence Edler de Roover, AM '23,PhD '30, writes from Wells College inAurora, N. Y., that she and her husband,Raymond de Roover, PhD '43, are backWebb-Linn Printing Co*Catalogs, PublicationsAdvertising Literature?Printers of the Universityof Chicago Magazine?A. L. Weber, J.D. '09 L. S. Berlin, B.A. '09A. J. Falick, M.B.A. '51MOnroe 6-2900 Allergy-free cosmeticsSince 1925 Julius B. Kahn, 18,has been coming to the aid of7,000,000 women in this countrywho have some sort of cosmeticallergies.From his initial experiments inhis home laboratory back in '25 tohis present annual million-dollarbusiness, Kahn has worked to discover why some beauty productsseem to cause coughing, sneezing,hives, rashes, and other skin disorders.Ope of his first discoveries wasthat organic starches in facepowder caused allergies in somewomen. His first attempts to sella starch-free face powder to amanufacturer were unsuccessful.He persisted in his spare time,however, to tackle the cosmetic-allergy bugaboo, and finally in1934 he was urged by a group ofphysicians to set up his own company. With a capital investment ofonly $1,000 he opened AR-EXCosmetics in 1935.Sales the first year totalled $5,000worth of a specially prepared coldcream, powder, lipstick and rouge.Now his company has a yearlysales volume of one million dollarsand a line of 135 products. Hiscompany also boasts of the largestlibrary on hypo-allergenic materials in the world.His researches have found thatthe villain in lipsticks is the indelible dye. He solved this problem by producing lipstick whichcontains only pigments and nodyes.Perfume most frequently causesallergies, he has found, not only tothe wearer, but to those who comein contact with it. In many casesthis difficulty is overcome by usingunscented perfume.In the case of allergies causedby nail polish, Kahn has discoveredthat, oddly enough, the hands arenever affected in such cases. Theeyelids are the spots on the bodymost frequently affected. His company solved this by eliminating acertain class of resins from itsnail polish.Prior to forming his own company, Kahn's chemical curiosityled him to buy an interest in ashoe polish company and to thedevelopment in 1922 of the firstwhite shoe polish (Riteway) thatdidn't rub off. He was with thePrincess Pat cosmetic firm for tenyears and resigned as generalmanager in charge of research andproduction in 1933 to start his ownallergy-free line of cosmetics. Bank," while Raymond travelled arounda lot giving lectures, working in libraries,and picking up honors. He was made aforeign member of the Royal FlemishAcademy for Letters, Sciences and FineArts, and in May was officially receivedinto the Academy in Brussels. He is amember of the Department of Economicsat Wells College.Arthur H. Steinhaus, SM '25, PhD '28,participated in the 3rd World Congresson Physical Education in Istanbul as aguest of the Turkish government lastAugust. En route he spent five days inIsrael on invitation of the Ministry ofEducation. Recently he was appointeddirector of the newly formed Division ofHealth and Physical Education at GeorgeWilliams College in Chicago where hehas served as Instructor and Professorof Physiology the past 33 years.1921Theodore E. Boyd, PhD '23, has beennamed assistant director of research forthe National Foundation for InfantileParalysis. He has been a member ofthe research department of the NationalFoundation since 1947 and formerlyserved as chairman of the research department of the Loyola University Schoolof Medicine. His appointment this fallcame as the National Foundation laidplans for massive nationwide testing ofa trial polio vaccine.1922Walter M. Campbell, former Directorof the Extension Division of the University of Colorado, recently retired.Mattie Dykes, AM, of the English Faculty of the Northwest Missouri StateCollege, Maryville, Mo., was cited by theMissouri Women's Press Club at theirconvention in September for "her continuous and inspiring work in the Missouri Women's Press Club, and especiallyfor her fine work as president of theNational Federation of Press Women(1951-'53), which brought honor andprestige to the Missouri Women's PressClub as well as to the National Federation of Press Women." She is now editor of the Press Woman, official magazine of the NFPW.THEODORE E. BOYD, '21, PhD '23in the States after two years in Europe.This past year Raymond was on a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research inthe history of finance. His studies havebeen published in book form, "L'Evolu-tion de la lettre de change, XIV-XVIIIsiecles," and is part of a series sponsoredby the Centre de Recherches Historiquesof the University of Paris. Florence wasbusy collecting material for the revisedand enlarged edition of "The Medici24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEHypertensionOscar M. Helmer, PhD '27, wasone of five Americans invited toattend last summer in England aninternational symposium on hypertension.Dr. Helmer, Eli Lilly and Co.biochemist, reported on studies ofthe causes of hypertension, themost lethal disease of adult life,which are being made at Indianapolis General Hospital LillyClinic.The symposium was sponsoredby the Ciba Foundation for thePromotion of International Cooperation in Medical and ChemicalResearch. Twenty-five men fromall over the world were invited.Before returning home, Dr. Helmer visited hospitals and medicalresearch laboratories in Oslo,Stockholm and Copenhagen.Seventy-year-young John J. Milford,AM, of Huntsville, Ala., is now teachingNew Testament and Homiletics to morethan 100 students who are taking extension work offered by Howard College ofBirmingham. Rev. Milford had been pastor of the First Baptist Church in Huntsville for 24 years.Julian F. Smith, PhD, has left government service (Library of Congress) todevote more time as a consultant inchemical literature. He is a resident ofTakoma Park, Md.1923Barbara Goldberger Leserman has leftChicago for residence in Los Angeles.She reports that her eldest son, Fred,recently married Jean Greenebaum,daughter of Eleanor C. Block, '22. Heryoungest son, Paul, graduated from Yalein June and is now working with hisbrother as co-partner of a glass business.James L. Palmer, AM, President ofMarshall Field & Co. and chairman ofthe Citizens Committee for the Judicial Amendment, received an award of meritfrom the Bar Association for his effortson behalf of judicial reform for Chicago.In accepting the award, Palmer remarked, "This is the first time I ever gotan award for getting licked." He referredto the unsuccessful effort to persuade theIllinois legislature to authorize a voteon an amendment to the state constitution reorganizing the judicial system.Edna Specht Beyer is living in Mansfield, Pa., where her husband is head ofthe science department of the StateTeacher's College there. Her sixteen-year-old son, George, will be ready forcollege in the spring.1924After more than six years as residentminister of the First Presbyterian Churchin Winters, Tex., Anson T. Dewey, AM,has been appointed pastor of the FirstChurch in Menard, Tex., where he isnow living.Rose J. Hogue, AM, retired in June asHead of the Department of Home Economics at Central Michigan College ofEducation.1925Adam D. Beittel, DB, PhD '29, hasbeen appointed Professor of Religion andDean of the Chapel at Beloit College.Beittel formerly taught at Talladega andGuilford Colleges.William D. Kerr is now chairman ofthe Central States group of the Investment Bankers Ass'n of America. He is apartner in the firm of Bacon, Whipple &Co. Mr. Kerr succeeds Lee H. Ostrander.X '23, of William Blair & Co.Harold Nissley, AM '35, can well bepleased with his only son. A recentgraduate of Cleveland Heights HighSchool, the 17-year-old boy was chosento sing with the school's 70-voice choirat the International Conference on MusicEducation held in Brussels under thejoint sponsorship of the InternationalMusic Council and UNESCO. Of sixinstitutions invited to attend, ClevelandHeights was the only American highschool present at the two-week conference.Esther C. Quaintance, AM, has beenappointed by Mayor Norris Poulson ofLos Angeles to serve on the city's SocialService Commission. Mrs. Quaintance,whose husband is a prominent physician and surgeon, will serve on the commission until July 1, 1958.Since his retirement from Lane Technical School of Chicago in 1951, HarmonS. Treese has built a home at 215 Day-tona Avenue, Holly Hill, Florida.1926John W. Coulter, PhD, Professor ofGeography at the University of Cincinnati, presented the letter of greeting fromthe University of Chicago at the inaugural ceremonies of John D. Millett aspresident of Miami University on October 23. Dr. Coulter has recently finisheda manuscript on the Pacific Islands fora new edition of the Encyclopedia Britan-nica.Elsie Gobel (Mrs. Frank T. Flynn, Jr.)has been named program director for theSheil School of Social Studies in Chicago.Missouri Valley College honored alumna Virginia O. Hudson, PhD, at its 65thanniversary for work she has done inthe field of education. She is Professorof English at Radford College (Women'sDivision of Virginia Polytechnic Institute), president of the Radford branchof AAUW, and editor of the CollegeMagazine, the "The Radford Review,"which she has edited since its foundingin April, 1947.JOSEPH H. 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Benettewrites that the flying and vacationweather was very pleasant. "We visitedPuerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, and ended up in Miami —beautiful spots all of them."Mr. Benette is Chicago advertising andsales representative for Harvey & HoweInc., publishers of "What's New in HomeEconomics." The firm also has a homeeconomics counseling service.John D. Finley is now general freightagent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, withheadquarters in Philadelphia. Johnstarted his railroad connections as aninformation clerk with the Chicago UnionStation Company while he was attendingLaw School at the University. He beganwork with the Pennsylvania in 1929 in aclerical capacity in Chicago and Cincinnati until his appointment as district freight agent in San Francisco in 1941.Retirement is a busy time for InezFaith Humphrey. Formerly a teacher ofEnglish at Morehead (Ky.) State College,she is now serving as librarian of theRowan County Public Library, in More-head, which cooperates with the Bookmobile unit serving the entire county."I am still an active member in two orthree educational groups, including DeltaKappa Gamma, and the American Association of University Women," she writes."Children can be permanently immunized at the age of 3 months againstGuest touristLillian Haas Alspaugh, '27, (Mrs.Ralph B.), former AAUW vice-president for the Northeast CentralRegion of the United States, hasreturned from an extensive tourof Germany where she visitedmany elementary and secondaryschools, kindergartens and universities, as guest of the German Ministry of Education.These official tours of Germany,which are financed by the BonnGovernment, are made possible bythe American Exchange Programof the Federal Republic of Germany. This year the German Government sponsored 12 groups.As a member of the general education section, Mrs. Alspaugh visited Munich, Kiel, Lubeck, Hamburg, Frankfort, Wiesbaden,Heidelberg, and West Berlin.Mrs. Alspaugh reports "genuineinterest in America manifestedwherever the group was received."Previous to her meeting withkey German government and education officials, she attended theNATO conference held in Copenhagen as an AAUW observer.Before making her return tripto America, Mrs. Alspaugh spenttwo days in the Hague where sheattended the Second EuropeanConference as guest of the Netherlands delegation to the earlierNATO meeting. SAMUEL BRODY, PhD '28diphtheria, tetanus and whooping coughdiseases by using a mixture of diphtheria-tetanus toxoids and whoopingcough vaccine," Dr. Winston H. Tucker,SM, PhD '30, MD '34, told physiciansattending the 81st annual meeting of theAmerican Public Health Ass'n held recently in New York. Dr. Tucker presented the fourth paper delivered to dateon the 15-year study he and Dr. Louis W.Sauer made on the results of the administration to babies living in the Evanstonarea of vaccines designed to immunizethe children from all three diseases. Dr.Tucker is Commissioner of Health forEvanston.1928The 1953 national Gamma Sigma Deltaaward for distinguished service to agriculture has been awarded to SamuelBrody, PhD, of the University of Missouri. Born on a farm in Garbatchi,Lithuania, Dr. Brody has spent most ofhis productive years with the UniversityHow Much Do You infant To Earn?Opportunities for an outstanding and successful career as a representative ofthe Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, one of the ten top-ranking lifeinsurance companies in North America, are now open to alert, ambitious menof personality and character, ages 25 to 40. 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In 1950he was given the Borden Award in dairyproduction and in 1930-31 was awardedthe Guggenheim Memorial Foundationscholarship for studies in Strasbourg,Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and Moscow.Kenneth Campbell, PhD '32, Professorof Chemistry at Notre Dame Universityfor many years, has resigned to acceptthe directorship of medicinal chemistryat the Mead Johnson Research Laboratories in Evansville, Ind. Dr. Campbellreceived citations for his work on highexplosives and on anti-malarials duringWorld War II, and since the war has beenin charge of research on cancer chemotherapy at Notre Dame. His wife, Barbara Knapp, '29, SM '31, who has beenassociated in research work with herhusband, will also join the Mead Johnsonstaff as special consultant.Oscar K. Dizmang, AM, of Spokane hasbeen appointed administrative assistant,property management branch, of theAtomic Energy Commission in Richland,Wash. His wife is the former MarieGarten, AM '27.On July 1, Lee Glover was appointedChairman of the Department of Economics and Business of the University ofHawaii.Philip W. Harsh, AM '30, PhD '33; isHead of the Classics department at Stanford University. A scholar in classicalliterature, he joined the Stanford facultyin 1937. He is a former president of theClassical Association of the Pacific States.29'ersPLAN TO ATTEND > THEREUNION IN JUNEBUT DON'T WAIT UNTILTHEN TO SEND IN NEWSABOUT YOURSELF(* Asterisk before names indicatesthose hoping to attend the reunion.)1929* Edith Adams is a school nurse inLaPorte, Ind. Last July she attended theQuadrennial Congress of InternationalCouncil of Nurses in Petropolis, Brazil,and spent the remainder of the summervisiting various countries in South America.* Armand R. Bollaert writes from PalosVerdes, Calif, that he'll make every effortto be back for the Reunion in June. Hehas two sons: Armand, Jr., who is aparatrooper; and Andre, 12.Winifred D. Broderick is back teaching at Ahrens Trade School after ayear's leave of absence on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Under the fellowshipMiss Broderick was permitted to visitother school systems and to do research,"a thing I've long wanted to do," in someof the government's departments inWashington. During her studies she raninto two other alumnae: Mattie SueWalker, SM '32, and Florence Gabriel,PhB '25.We were most happy to receive a letterfrom Bella Rubinson Brodsky, who hasbeen very seriously ill since last May,and we're glad to know she's regaining her power of speech and writing. Shewrites that her husband owns an advertising agency in Chicago and that theyhave a ten-year-old daughter. Mrs.Brodsky remembers with pleasure thewonderful trip she had to Europe a number of years ago and more recently, thetrips to beauty spots in the west.* George Chazanon is vice-president ofthe Stone Container Corp. in Chicago —manufacturers of corrugated boxes. Hehas two daughters: Barbara, a junior inthe School of Journalism at the University of Missouri; and Elaine, a senior atHyde Park High School.'George L. Cross, PhD, of Norman,Okla., is celebrating his 20th year as amember of the faculty, University ofOklahoma, and his 11th year as theUniversity's president.* Albert Floun is a resident of Wilmette,111., and a merchandise manager, women's apparel, for Spiegels, Inc. There aretwo daughters in the family: one is married, and the other a student at NewTrier High School.* John W. Freeman, Sr., is general agentin Madison, Wise, for Penn Mutual LifeInsurance Co. The Freemans have twochildren: a son, John, who is a freshmanat Beloit, and a daughter who is a high-school student.* Leonard Fuchs, JD '32, is a salesmanfor the Edw. J. Lewis Co., in Chicago.He has three children: Susan, 12, Betsy,9, and Judith, 4. A civic-minded person,he is i ' president of the Association ofCommunity Councils of Chicago, and apast president of the Albany Park Community Council.* Helen Ruth Huber teaches art historyat Indiana Extension Centre and is alsoart critic for the Gary Post tribune."I do feature travel articles," she writes,"and still put in a full public school dayin Gary. In 1952 I conducted a tour toSouth America, and in 1953 drove toMexico to explore archaeological sites inVera Cruz State. I did a series of travelarticles for the paper and took hundredsof photographs that are used for illustrations. I still paint and am directorof the Gary Artists League."Joel Lawton is a grain broker, and amember of the Chicago Board of Trade.He and his wife, Janet De Costa, havetwo children: Janet, a junior at SouthShore High School, and William, 11.Eugene and Ruth Norman Macoy report from Old Greenwich, Conn., whereRuth teaches English in the high schooland Eugene commutes to New York Citywhere he is an electrical engineer withthe American Can Co. They have twochildren: Norman, 17, and Martha Jeane,13. Ruth has recently completed her finalexams for an AM in English at TeachersCollege, Columbia University. Ruth alsoadds that the Macoys had a recent visitwith William W. Watson, '20, PhD '24,and his wife, the former Betty Wells, '26,at their New Haven home. Dr. Watson ischairman of the Department of Phvsicsat Yale. The Watsons have two children.* Sophie Malenski Hill. writes fromGary, Ind., that her husband is a research chemist and that they have threechildren: Beatrice, 13, John, 11, andThomas, 8.* Ruth McNally O'Connell, AM '40, is ahigh school teacher in the Chicago public schools. She has two daughters.* Ruth K. McNeil is Associate Professorof Music, Mary Baldwin College inStaunton, Va. Since leaving the University she has earned a bachelor's andmaster's degree in music at the American Conservatory of Music and a doctor ofsacred music degree at Union TheologicalSeminary. She has made two trips toEurope, in 1939 and 1950. She is the Virginia State president of Delta KappaGamma, and in addition to her teachingis organist and choir director of anEpiscopal Church and a Synagogue.* Helen Walter Munsert was appointedby ex -Governor Stevenson as assistantcommissioner on the Illinois CommerceCommission, and reappointed by Governor Stratton. Her husband, KennethMunsert, '32, is a hearing officer forutility cases. Helen writes, "We have42 sheep, nine chickens, two cockerspaniels, one 13-acre farm. My onlytrips are to American Bar Associationconventions — in Boston in '53, and SanFrancisco in '52. This year it will be inChicago.""Still teaching biology," reports EthelL. Nelson of Chicago. Miss Nelson hasbeen teaching for more than a quarterof a century. At present she is on thestaff of Wendell Phillips High School.* Lester Plotkin, JD, is a Chicagoattorney.Frances Rosenthal Kallison, a home-maker in San Antonio sends news of herthree children: Mary Ann is a junior atVassar College, Perry is a freshman atTexas A&M taking animal husbandrycourses, and Frances is a high schoolsophomore at St. Mary's Hall in SanAntonio. Mr. Kallison is a merchant andrancher.Erna Schroeder Hallock is acting director, publications staff, Office of International Trade, U. S. Department of Commerce.Lois Jean Sinclair (Mrs. W. B. Doggett)is a sales analyst for the CommercialFilters Corp. in Melrose, Mass., and herhusband is an electrical sales engineerin the Boston branch of the ElectricMachinery Co. of Minneapolis. The Dog-getts have two children: Barbara, asophomore at Cottey Jr. College inNevada, Mo., and Sinclair, a high-schooljunior.* Olga Solberg is an instructor in socialsciences at the Augustana Hospital Schoolof Nursing in Chicago.Capt. James B. Steere is overseas withthe auditor's office of the U. S. Air Force.He was married to the former CharlotteAyers in St. Lukes Chapel, Tokyo, lastJuly 11.* Katherine Stoll Wood is a resident ofHarbert, Mich. She is a teacher in St.Joseph, Mich. Her husband is employedby the New York Central Railroad.* Joseph C. Swidler, JD '30, continuesas general counsel of the TVA. He hastwo children: Ann, 8, and Mark, 5.To those of you who are waveringabout attending the Reunion, take alesson from H. Gladys Swope, who writes,"I hadn't planned on coming to the Reunion, even with Garg's enticing invitation, but met a member of the Class of'29 who said she was coming, and thatwe'd meet others, so — I'll be there."Gladys is a senior chemist in the chemical engineering division of the ArgonneNational Laboratory.* Lillian Verkler (Mrs. John Webb) isdoing advertising and public relationswork in Chicago.* Richard B. Williams is an investmentbanker and broker in New York City.He is also manager of the research department of Kidder Peabody & Co. 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Jackson Blvd.Chicago 4, III.TREMONTAUTO SALES CORP.Direct Factory DealerforCHRYSLER and PLYMOUTHNEW CARS6040 Cottage GroveMUseum 4-4500AlsoGuaranteed Used Cars andComplete Automobile Repair,Body, Paint, Simonize, Washand Greasing Departments * Opal C. Zeiters Held sends news fromBerkley, Michigan, where her husbandis a statistician with the Bendix AviationCorp. Mrs. Held writes that she taughtschool for 35 years, the last 17 of whichshe was a counselor in the Riley HighSchool in South Bend, Indiana. She retired from teaching and was married inJune, 1946. Since then she has beeninterested particularly in the AmericanAssociation of University Women andthe United Church Women, and is serving as president of the Oakland branchesof both organizations.1930Catherine M. Dunn, AM, has been appointed Deputy Commissioner, State Department of Welfare, Hartford, Conn.Chester Eicher, AM, is an instructorat Woman's College, University of NorthCarolina.The Rev. Walter H. Ellwanger, AM,President of Alabama Lutheran Academyand College is active in Negro missionwork in the South.Hazel A. Hannemann, that courageousyoung woman who was forced to retirefrom teaching due to TB illness whichshe recently overcame, is now "makinghappy social readjustments in her position in the Art Department of BoulderUniversity Book Store," writes MarionNeckerman Deininger, '30, of Chicago.The American Red Cross has assignedRaymond ^C. Nelson to the 7th ArmyHeadquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, asfield director. This is his first overseasassignment although he has worked forthe Red Cross as a field director at GreatLakes Naval Training Station, CampGrant, and Fort Sheridan, and most recently, at Fort Bliss, Texas. His wife,Evelyn Olson, '24, and their 12 -year oldson, Jeffrey, planned to join Raymondas soon as he had solved the housingproblem for the family.Meyer Ryder has been appointed aresident member of the faculty of theUniversity of Michigan's School of Business Administration. He is also continuing his industrial relations arbitrationpractice.1931Sarah Gorrell was married on June 6to Henry Wellington Stewart, Jr. Theyare living in Troy, N. Y.Lucile Pfaender Hulbert, AM '38, writesthat she and her husband are settled inLenox, Mass., where Jim is working onseveral books, some new and some revisions. "I'm a social caseworker withthat famous old child placement agency,the New England Home for Little Wanderers," Lucile writes. "It is all extremely pleasant since we love the country and live several miles from thevillage, where at this time of yearpheasants feed on the lawn and thecolor patterns on the hills change eachmoment. Our daughter, Sally, is a juniorat Carleton College this year and Paulis at Eaglebrook School in Deeffield,Mass. Paul, who had to be tutored inspelling this summer and write four bookreports says it's lucky his stepfather isan English professor! And Sally haschanged her major from anthropology toEnglish. So blood is evidently thickerthan . . ."Mina Spiegel Rees, PhD, was appointedDean of Faculty at Hunter College, andassumed her new post in September. She had previously served as directorof the Mathematical Sciences Divisionof the Office of Naval Research in Washington since 1949. She had earned thePresident's Certificate of Merit for herwar-time services.1932Elgin State Hospital's clinical director,Alan A. Lieberman, MD '37, writes thaton December 1 he entered into full timepractice of psychiatry and neurology.For the past 15 years he has been onthe staff of Elgin State Hospital.A move to Kansas City this winter iscontemplated by Margaret W. Siemon ofDes Moines, Iowa, who continues asbranch manager for The Book House forChildren.1933Winton Hanson has been appointedassistant industrial agent with the Western Pacific Railroad Co., with headquarters in San Francisco.Lily Maddux Schmidt, who taught inthe commercial department of Belleville(111.) Township High School for 18 years,retired last June.1934Robert E. Herzog has been named fieldrepresentative for the Brandeis University at Waltham, Mass. He will work inthe University's office of developmentand resources. A native of Chicago, Mr.Herzog is married and has two children.C. June Rose of Blue Island, 111., reports that she has returned from a triparound South America and five weeks inEurope.Sixteen years as an employee of theState of Minnesota is being celebratedby Margaret Webster Thexton of Stillwater. She is working with the Divisionof Public Welfare as a medical socialworker at the Gillette State Hospital forCrippled Children.1935Fred Fortess of Summit, N. J., is nowrepresenting the Celanese Corp. in itsrecruitment of scientific personnel enrolled at the U. of C. "This will permitReport from AlaskaAnchorage, Alaska, residentEvangeline Rasmuson Atwood, AM'30, is busy doing public servicework throughout the region as amember of the Governor's Territorial Board of Public Welfare.The Governor, she writes, alsohas appointed her husband chairman of the Alaska Statehood Committee. Mr. Atwood is editor andpublisher of the Anchorage DailyTimes — Alaska's largest newspaper.Mrs. Atwood, who is presidentof the Anchorage League ofWomen Voters, has organized localchapters of the L.W.V. and of theAmerican Association for the U.N.True to her Alma Mater, Mrs.Atwood reports that her daughter,Marilyn, enrolled at the Universitythis fall as a second year student.28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEme to visit the campus three or fourtimes a year," he writes.David J. Harris, president of Sills,Fairman & Harris Inc., was named secretary-treasurer of the Central Statesgroup of the Investment Bankers Association of America.The Edwin Ramseys are busy out inNorth Hollywood, Calif. Ed's businesskeeps him on the go, and Sara GwinRamsey is active with the Spastic Children's League, Friendship House, theNorth Hollywood Republican Woman'sClub, and the Red Cross. She is chairman of the library committee of theWestwood Community Methodist Churchas well as a board member of the Woman's Society.M. Wesley Roper, PhD, Professor ofSociology and Economics at TusculumCollege, Greeneville, Tenn., has been appointed by the Governor of Tennesseea member of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Greene County Departmentof Public Welfare. Professor Roper hasbeen head of Tusculum's departmentsince 1946. Prior to joining the faculty,he served for 20 years as departmenthead at Kansas State Teachers Collegein Emporia.1936Robert F. Baldaste of Homewood, 111.,has been appointed Administrative Director of Standard Oil Company's (Indiana) Whiting Research Laboratories, effective January 1.James F. Doster, AM, PhD '48, is studying at Harvard University this year ona post-doctoral fellowship in businesshistory at the Graduate School of Business Administration.Ada Vivian Espenshade, SM '38, is nowchief of the U. S. Department of Commerce's Southeast Asia Section, Far EastDivision. Magazine readers may recallthat Miss Espenshade was the younglady reported lost in the sinking of the"Kina" off the coast of Samar Island,P. I., in December '47, and later rescuedfrom her lifeboat by Philippine natives.Her mother, Mary Jones Espenshade, '27,AM '40, is now teaching eight-week falland spring accelerated course in literature at the YMCA Day School in Chicago.1937Agnes Scott Donaldson is a socialworker for the Consolidated Utes Indians.She has a big territory to cover in Colorado and Utah.George Vincent Kidder, PhD, Dean ofthe College of Arts and Sciences at theUniversity of Vermont and State Agricultural College in Burlington, is one offour U. of C. alumni to be recentlychosen District Governor of Rotary International. As Governor, Dean Kidderwill direct and coordinate club activitiesin the Burlington area.1938Ralph F. Leach, treasurer of the Guarantee Trust Co., in New York, is also amember of the board of governors ofthe Federal Reserve System.Mary Anderson Ranney is serving asan editorial assistant for Pageant Pressin New York.1939Harold A. Jambor, AM, is Associate Professor in the School of Social Workat the University of Hawaii.1940John F. Callahan, Professor of Classicsand Philosophy at Georgetown University, has been awarded a Fulbright grantto study in Italy. He will do research inclassical manuscripts at the Universityof Rome.Rhys M. Jones, AM, is doing publicrelations and advertising work with theAbbott Laboratories in Libertyville, 111.1941Maj. Delma W. Caldwell, MD, (right)received the Bronze Star Medal formeritorious service as commander of the115th medical battalion in Korea. Hereceived a direct commission in the Armya year ago, and previously was medicaldirector for the Standard Oil Development Company.News of the appointment of Thomas A.Hart, PhD, as Chief of the Division ofEducation, U. S. Embassy at LaPaz,Bolivia, has been received. Dr. Hart'sgroup is responsible for the developmentof a co-operative education programsponsored jointly by the U. S. andBolivian governments. In 1945-'46 heand his wife made their first visit toBolivia when serving with the Instituteof Inter-American Affairs, and againduring the summer of 1950 when Dr.Hart was visiting lecturer in PublicHealth at San Simon Universitv.Ellsworth Holaday, MBA '51, writesthat he's back in Chicago after a yearand a half in New Hampshire, as chiefaccountant with E. H. Sargent & Co.James R. Lawson is the new carillonneurat Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. A student of Frederick Marriott's, who hasresigned as organist and carillonneur ofthe Chapel, James is known on bothsides of the Atlantic for his musicianship. He has a diploma from the CarillonSchool of Mechelen, Belgium.Natalie Perry, AM, is now Director ofTraining Programs at the Association forthe Help of Retarded Children, in Buffalo, N. Y.1942Jacqueline Cross has moved back toChicago after ten years in Washington,D. C. She's now in the food businesswith Stop and Shop. "It's good to runinto old friends again," she writes.Kenneth T. Hubbard, Rush MD, andthe former Mary K. Wagner of New YorkCity, were married June 28 at St.George's Protestant Episcopal Church inNew York. Dr. Hubbard is on the staffof Joslyn Clinic, Maywood, 111.Gwendolyn Louise Roddy, AM '44, isnow teaching at DuSable High Schoolin Chicago.1943Kenneth S. Axelson of Evanston, 111.,has been admitted as a partner in theChicago firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell& Co., certified public accountants.Walter Roy Hepner, Jr., MD '44, whowas recalled to active service by theNavy in November '52, is hoping to bereleased soon, and will return to histeaching and research position as Assistant Professor in the Department ofPediatrics, University of Texas, Medical MAJOR DELMA W. CALDWELL, MD '41Branch, Galveston. The fourth littleHepner — Richard Henry — was born lastJune in Chicago at Lying-in. Dr. Hepneris stationed at the dispensary at thePensacola Naval Air Station.From Lois Stromwall Howe comes thenews that the Howes miss the University but "consider ourselves lucky tohave settled in another University town— Purdue certainly provides more activity than we can keep up with. We nowhave two daughters, Deborah, 3, andBarbara Jean, 1. We love this small townlife and hope we can stay here a longtime."Betty Urquhart, SM, writes from Tokyothat after a year of language study inKyoto she has been assigned to teachEnglish at Joshi Gakuin in Tokyo as amissionary under the Presbyterian U.S.A.Board of Foreign Missions.Ralph E. Williamson, PhD in theoreticalastrophysics, has been appointed to thestaff of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California.Williamson, who had been a consultantto the laboratory, is working in the division office of the Theoretical PhysicsDivision. He formerly was on the facultyof the astronomy department at the University of Toronto. He holds memberships in the American AstronomicalSociety, the Royal Astronomical Societiesof Canada and England.1944The wedding of George W. Boutelleand Jane Marie Cronin of Medford,Mass., took place August 15, 1953. Georgeis with the Bulova Watch Co., New York.Gloria Decker was married August 2to Edward B. Keating. The couple isliving in Chicago.Louise Kachel is a teacher of socialstudies in the ninth and tenth grades atthe Lincoln School, Providence, R. I.1945Helmut Hirsch, PhD, who wrote oredited some 45 articles for the Encyclopedia Britannica while attending theU. of C, was featured in an article whichappeared recently in the Chicago Tribune. Hirsch, who fled Germany in 1933after his father, a member of the town'scouncil, had been arrested by the Nazis,is now on the faculty of Roosevelt College in Chicago where he is an associateprofessor of history.Phyllis Wise Davidon is a researchassistant with the American MedicalAssociation's Council on Foods and Nutrition, in Chicago. She is divorced fromher husband, William Davidon, '47, SMJANUARY, 1954 29AJAX WASTE PAPER CO.1001 W\ North Ave.Buyers of Waste Paper500 pounds or moreScrap Metal and IronFor Prompt Service CallMr. B. Shedroff, LA 2-8354BEST BOILER REPAIR & WELDING CO.24-HOUR SERVICELICENSED - BONDEDINSUREDQUALIFIED WELDERSHAymarket 1-79171404-08 S. Western Ave.. ChicagoTelephone HAymarket 1-3120E. A. AARON & BROS., Inc.Fresh Fruits and VegetablesDistributors ofCEDERGREEN FROZEN FRESH FRUITS ANDVEGETABLES46-48 South Water Market@.nciiifMcf in (iecruc4i hoductiigleuwtxlELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.UUIHlBItll Mlflllictmili ina Jliotit 0ttLtCIRICAl MATERIALSAND FIXTURE SUPPLIES5801 Halsted St. - ENglcwood 4-7500 '50, who is working at the Nuclear Instrument Co., in Chicago.1946Alfred Schwartz, AM, PhD '49, writesfrom Drake University that he's "beenbusy writing, speaking and directing apublic relations program to recruit morestudents for the teaching profession. Ialso get paid to teach a full academicload. There is seldom a dull momentout around Drake and Des Moines."Florence Simon, AM '50, informs usthat she was married June 21 to HerbertS. Levin and is living in Los Angeles.A daughter, Regina Helm Conner, isthe newest addition to the Mary LinaStr'auff Conner family of University City,Mo. Mrs. Conner also reports that herfive-year-old son, Stephen, has enteredkindergarten and "loves every minuteof his class work." Her husband, David,is starting his seventh year with Business Week Magazine.Karl B. Zucker, SB '48, who was recently married, has moved from Cleveland and is now on the faculty of OhioNorthern University as an assistantprofessor of psychology.1947"Have found the most stimulating assignment since leaving the City Grey,"reports Capt. Richard K. Blaisdell, MD.Dr. Blaisdell has recently been assignedto duty ^it Tainan, Formosa. Says he:"Am working with young Chinese medical officers in their hospitals. They areextremely eager to learn and amazinglyquick, though lacking in thoroughlysound basic medical training and experience." He also reports running intotwo other U. of C. (Rush) graduates:Dr. William Chow, '25, MD '29, SurgeonGeneral, ground forces, and Capt. Herman F. Burkwall (USN) MD '31, physician-missionary.Kenneth F. Duchac is director of theKingsport (Tenn.) Public Library. Heworked in the Detroit, Mich., and Decatur, 111., public libraries before accepting his present post in September. TheDuchacs have two children.A Rotary Foundation Fellowship hasbeen awarded James W. Ellington ofMaysville, Ky. Under the one-yeargrant, Ellington will be permitted toattend the University of Gottingen, Germany, where he will study education.He is also working at the U. of C. forhis PhD degree.Ruth Kelly, AM, is director of casework for the Board of Children's Guardians, in St. Louis. She also is an instructor at George Warren Brown Schoolof Social Work at Washington University.A clipping from a Riverside, Calif.,newspaper carries the announcement ofthe engagement of Jack Foster Rowles.JD, and Miss Clara Jean Lolmaugh, ofHement, Calif. February 6 has been setfor the wedding date. Jack is a partnerin the law firm of Forrest and Rowlesin Bellingham, Wash. In addition to private practice, he has been a chief deputyprosecuting attorney since 1950. Hisfiancee is at present an instructor intheory, piano and organ at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara College.Robert G. Ri singer, AM, is now Assistant Professor of Education at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn.Law offices have been opened by Gerald S. Specter, JD '51, of Chicago, who until recently had been specializing inEstate Planning and Business Insuranceas a special agent for the Acacia MutualLife Insurance Co. of Washington, D. C.Chemist Hope R. Wallner, an employeeof the Corn Products Refining Co. ofChicago, and Ralph W. Gregg were recently married.Raymond D. Zinser, AM, is at Grace-land College, Lamoni, Iowa, where he isa sociology teacher and assistant deanof the faculty. He has recently beenreleased from active duty with the Officeof Chief of Naval Operations, in thePentagon, as a lieutenant commander.1948West Point graduate, Lt. Col. Jay P.Dawley, SM, has recently been assignedto the Korean Communications Zone,which furnishes supplies and communications to all UN forces in Korea. Col.Dawley's wife, Natalie, and daughter,live in Washington, D. C.Lester Mouscher is a customer's manat the stock brokerage firm of H. Hentz& Co., in Chicago.Raymond Leonard Richman, AM, hasbeen appointed to the faculty of theUniversity of Pittsburgh's School of Business Administration. Formerly on thefaculty at Westminster College where hewas Visiting Professor of Business Administration and Economics, Richman isnow working at the U. of C. and is acandidate for his PhD.August Vavrus, AM, was marriedAugust 26 to Hallie P. Jackson.Bernard Zinman is an economist withthe ECA in Washington, D. C.1949Anne Curry has a new name and anew address. She was married on August 22 to Linsley Wyant, a graduate student in math at U.C.L.A. Their home isin Venice, Calif.Florine Grossman, AM, was married onJune 14 to Daniel H. Gilfer, a U.C.LA.graduate.Harry J. LaPine, AM, has been appointed a vocational counselor in theoffice of the dean of men at CornellUniversity. He was married last Juneto the former Joan van Pelt.William Schwab, Jr., writes from Enid,Okla., that he is still a buyer for severaldepartments in a department store, andthat he is also teaching a class in marketing at Phillips University this winter.The Arthur Wendels are out in PortAngeles, Wash., now, where Arthur ispracticing medicine, and Mary Alice(Reed, '44, AM '47) is busy with theirthree children: Reed, 4, Martha, 2, andDavid, 1. Mary Alice writes, "PortAngeles is an up and coming communityand full of community activities. Hunt-'ing and fishing and mountain climbingare within easy reach so we spend oursummers in the out-of-doors. We doenjoy the alumni news, and wish moreof our friends would also let us knowwhere they are."1950Bernard Barash, MD, is a resident atWestern Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh, where Dr. Henry Brosin, formerlyon the staff at Billings, is director. TheBarashes have three sons, 7, 3, and 2,in ages.Walter M. Beattie, Jr., AM, has beennamed director of Services to the Aging,THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEARTHUR L. HAARMEYER, MBA '50Community Welfare Council of Madison,Wis.Harris L. Dante, PhD, enters his fourthyear as a member of the faculty at KentState University in Ohio. Dr. Dante isan associate professor of history. Hehas three children, Susan, 10, Nancy,6, and John, 5.The U. S. Air Force recently announcedthe promotion of Arthur L. Haarmeyer,MBA, to first lieutenant. He is now assigned as assistant chief of the pilotsrequirements section in the USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center,in St. Louis.James T. Powers, MBA '53, and Dorothy Koenig, SM '52, were married October 3 in Thorndike Hilton Chapel. James,who received his Illinois CPA certificatein September, is working for a publicaccounting firm in Chicago. Dorothy isemployed as a bacteriologist by the Illinois Research Hospital.A 7-pound 4-ounce girl, ElisabethKathryn, was born to Stanley and Elisabeth Zaruba Starr, AM, of Mt. Kisco,N. Y., last summer.1951The Rev. Theodore Johnson, AM, isthe new president of Luther Junior College in Wahoo, Nebr.Gordon Paul Ralph, AM, and MissEmmery Claire Buchmann of Chicago,were recently married. Ralph, who is athird year law student, is now workinghere for his JD degree. The bride attended school at Neuchatel, Switzerland,and is a graduate of the University ofWisconsin.1952Alfred S. Dale, Jr., is associate ministerto students at University Church (Methodist) at the University of SouthernCalifornia.Robert Gerhard, SM, has been employed this past year by the AtomicEnergy Commission's Exploration Division as a uranium geologist. He is incharge of two rotary drill rigs exploringfor uranium ore bodies in the GrandJunction, Colo., territory.James J. Kocsis, SM, and Grace Herzog, '42, were married this past fall. Theyare living in Chicago where James isJANUARY, 1954 employed as a researcher with the Wilson Laboratories.Joseph S. Lobenthal, Jr., AM, is studying for a year at the University of Frankfurt. He recently married Edith Lichten-berg of New York.Barbara Polikoff, AM, has been appointed to the staff of the Chicago Natural History Museum as an assistant inthe public relations department. Whileattending the U. of C. she was assignedby the University's Industrial RelationsCenter as a writer for its "leadership andpeople," Human Relations project.Sherwood Rowland, PhD, and his wife,Joan (Lundberg, '46) have a daughter,Ingrid Drake Rowland, born last August.The Rowlands are at Princeton University, where Sherwood is an instructorin the chemistry department.Richard B. Simons, PhD, is teachingGerman to G.I.'s stationed in the townof Kaiserslautern, 65 miles southwest ofFrankfurt, Germany.Alfred P. Tischendorf, AM, a candidate at the U. of C. for his PhD degree,is to attend the University of Birmingham in England for a year of study. Mr.Tischendorf, a resident of Kent, Ohio,was awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship which provides a one-year grantfor studies abroad. He will study English History.1953Alice Coppess, AM, has accepted theposition of supervising nurse instructorat the Orange County Hospital in Orange,Calif., in the departments of tuberculosisand communicable disease.Tristram J. Cummins, MBA, a commissioned officer with the U. S. AirForce, is stationed at the Wright-Patterson Base in Ohio.William Russell, PhD, is now teachingEuropean and Latin American historyat St. Norbert College, West De Pere,Wis.Kathryn R. Tompkins, AM, of Chicagoand Lt. Col. W. H. Vance, Jr., were recently married. The couple is now residing at 1649 East 50th street, Chicago.^MemorialCharlotte H. Foye, '95, of Chicago diedJuly 7 of this year.Margaret Piper, '98 (Mrs. Charles Gordon Gibson) died October 24 at the ageof 77. Following the death in 1926 of herhusband, a Rush Medical College graduate, she moved from Sioux City, Iowa,to live with one of her daughters inMadison, Wis.The Rev. William Henry Jones, '00,died October 18 at the age of 78. Aretired Baptist minister, his home wasin Scarsdale, N. Y.George B. Noyes, MD '03 (Rush), diedFebruary '53.Fred Mowen Bobo, '04, died August15, 1953 in Pasadena, Calif., after a shortillness. He was president of the John L.Bobo Company in Los Angeles.Horace B. Shaw, '05, died October 6.The Rev. Kenneth O. Crosby, '08, diedOctober 6 in Eau Claire, Wis., at theage of 67. He had served as vicar ofSt. Katherine's Episcopal Church inOwen, Wis., since 1945. He went to CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency70th YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Fee64 E. 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Craig Bowman, 10, MD 12, diedthis past summer.Elijah Jordon, PhD 11, of Indianapolis,Ind., died this past summer. He hadbeen Professor of Philosophy at Butler.William E. Stanley, 12, JD 13, a Wichita, Kan:, lawyer, died September 26.Edwin J. Cohn, 14, PhD 17, notedchemist whose research discovered poliocombatant gamma globulin, died earlythis fall in Boston. The Higgins University Professor at Harvard University, hehad served as Chairman of the divisionof medical sciences, director of the University laboratory of physical chemistryrelating to medicine and public health,and chairman of the department of biophysical chemistry. He was the recipientof many awards for his distinguishedcontributions in the field of research,including the Medal of Merit from theUnited States government. He was anauthor of many articles and books inhis field.Ruth F. Johnson, 14, of Lovelock, Nev.,died October ^5.Everett E. Rogerson, 15, of Geneva,111., died early this fall. He had beenan account executive with the Board ofTrade brokerage firm of Lamson Bros.& Co. for the past 33 years.James H. Lawson, 16, died May 28.David Harold Davis, '20, JD '22, diedMay 11 in El Paso, Texas. Formerly apracticing attorney in Chicago, he waspast commander of Woodlawn Post 175,the American Legion. He had made hishome in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the pastfive years.Raymond Philbrook Miller, '20, died onOctober 12 at the age of 55 in Denver,Colo. He was manager of the GreeleyDivision of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., at the timeof his death. His father was Frank Justus Miller, who was a member of theDepartment of Latin and dean at theUniversity of Chicago from the time ofits founding until his retirement in 1925.Raymond Miller is survived by his wife,a daughter, and his sister, WinifredMiller Clark, 13.Tom Leeming, '21, died June 18 inHighland Park (111.) hospital followinga cerebral hemorrhage. He was associated with the Chicago law firm ofEckert, Anderson and Leeming for 30years.Merlin Muth, '21, died August 6. Heserved with the Northern Trust Co., inChicago as an accountant and tax specialist for a number of years beforemoving to Webster Groves, Mo.William Berry, PhD '22, died July 11 ofa heart attack. At the time of his death,he was Assistant Head, PhysiologicalPsychology Branch, Office of Naval Re-searchHarry Morrison Sharp, SM '22, PhD '25,died July 30 of a heart attack in theObion County (Tenn.) General Hospital.At the time of his death he was mayorof Troy, Tenn., having been re-electedto his fourth term in June. He had POND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHooven TypewritingMultigraphingAddressograph Service MimeographingAddressingMailingHighest Quality Service Minimum PricesAll Phones: 219 W. 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Dr. Bennett, who was47, was said to have lost his life in aheavy surf while trying to get his 12-year-old daughter, Martha, to shore. Thegirl made it safely to the beach. Dr.Bennett headed many anthropology expeditions for the American Museum ofNatural History of New York in Centraland South America and joined the Yalefaculty as an associate professor in 1940.He was promoted to full professor in1945.Bertha Vermilya, '29, a retired Toledoschool teacher, died September 10. Shewas a resident of Toledo for about 30years, and for the past 14 years was ahistory teacher at Woodward HighSchool.Maurice Jones, MD '30, died July 20.He was a Kansas City physician andteacher of pathology and bacteriology.Joseph R. Kenney, MD '30, died September 21. He was a resident of Pittsburgh.The Rev. C. H. Smiley, AM '30, formerly of Houston, Texas, died March 4.He had served for many years as a missionary in India for the United ChristianMissionary Society.Loren B. Grimsley, SM '31, PhD '33,died on August 25. He was an industrialchemist in Chicago.Leon Ploche, MD '31, a Chicago physician, died February 1, 1953.Ruth Irene Barnes, '34, died March 28.She was a librarian in Pleasant Ridge,Mich.Jewett P. Motley, Rush MD '37, diedApril 22. He was a Birmingham, Ala.,physician.Hans L. Leonhardt, PhD '41, died September 11 in Chieago. His widow writes,"He had been ill off and on for the pasttwo years, but after his sabbatical yearin Europe he was looking forward to hiswork as professor in the Department ofPolitical Science at Michigan State College. We were visiting our daughterwhen his illness became worse and hedied suddenly on the last stage of ourlong trip home."Arthur A. Bright, Jr., AM '42, PhD '49,died suddenly on May 14. At the timeof his death he was Director of Researchat the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston.Kenneth O. 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