:EBRU ARY, 1954 MAGAZINE,. '. p ? ™ ¦"¦*"/*¦*. L. * W " '"~ ft¦¦: 1 ¦¦ s* ? i * 5* Jf mm m ¦**< ™i ^'fi'"*! *5i *> ill*£Vg*% • * $ ? • •i K§: W I'll '# ' --w' ¦ * ' u! ¦ ¦¦*..¦' 1 ^ 1 i ./•^fl V' JEEEw 1 ^b * V0ft *. ¦Bp^ ^^^B^.Playwrights Theatre Chib. . . Page 12 Bringing Pathos into Focus. . . Preston T. Roberts,Directory of Chicago ClubsCaliforniaLos Angeles Wm. D. Campbell,453 South SpringSan Francisco Phillip Lawrence,2124 Hyde Street.Berkeley - Edwin Rowell,1061 Miller Avenue.ColoradoDenver Richard Hall,604 Equitable Bldg.Washington, D.C. Frederick Sass, Jr.,3903 W. Leland, Chevy Chase,Maryland.FloridaSt. Petersburg Roy Nelson, .276 Second Avenue, North.Orlando Dr. George Crisler,157 E. New England, WinterPark.IllinoisPeoria Chester Anderson,912 Central Nat'l. Bank.Springfield Carol Hall,2501 Lowell Avenue.IndianaIndianapolis Frank Springer, Jr.,4420 N. Penn Street.Gary Clarence Freeman,821 Jackson Street.Elkhart Dorothy Boynton,1923 Greenleaf Blvd.IowaDavenport Gifford Mast,219 E. Kimberly Road.KansasWichita Robert Moore,4740 Mt. Vernon Road.MichiganDetroit Paul Lorenz, MinnesotaMinneapolisMissouriSt. LouisKansas CityNew YorkNew York CityOhioClevelandCincinnatiDaytonOregonPortlandPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaTexasDallasUtahSalt Lake CityWashingtonSeattleWisconsinMilwaukee Dr. Nathan Plimpton,407 Doctor's Bldg.Richard Stout,705 Olive Street.Inghram Hook,4940 Summitt Street.Alden Loosli,927 Rahway Road, Plainfield,New Jersey.Harold Nissley,3514 Radcliffe Road.Mrs. Joseph Green,603 Asbury, Forestville, Ohio.Myron Murray,1102 Callahan Bldg.Robert Weiss,1227 Ash Street, Oswego, Ore.Dr. Edwin Aubrey,708 Argyle Road, Wynnewood,Pennsylvania.Ira Corn,5222 Wenonah Drive.Calvin Smith,5705 S. 1700 W., Murray, Utah.Dr. John Hogness,6319 W. 21st Ave., N. E.Charles Erasmus,808 N. Third Street.14389 Abington.These Walgreen Foundation Lectures are scheduledFOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR MEMBERSSo many of our members have asked why thefamous Walgreen Foundation lectures aren'tscheduled in the evenings so alumni can attend.In the past they usually have been scheduledat 4: 30 P.M. for the convenience of the students.Now, at the request of the Alumni Association,a series is set for the last two weeks in Februarywith you in mind. If you approve of this addedservice for our members we hope you will (1)plan to attend this series and/or (2) drop us a card indicating approval, which will encourageus to ask the Walgreen Foundation to schedulefuture series for your evening convenience.U^s^yL President,The Alumni Association5733 University AvenueChicago 37, IllinoisTVAMon. Feb. 15Wed. Feb. 17Fri. Feb. 19 By Gordon R. ClappChairman of the Board, Tennessee Valley Authority8:00 P.M.Mon. Feb. 22TVA: An Approach to the Developmentof a RegionMen and Management Rebuild a Valley Wed* Feb# 24Farmers, Fertilizers, and Education Fri. Feb. 26Room 126 — Judd Hall, 5835 Kimbark AvenueAdmission Free TVA among the Federal State and LocalAgenciesLight and Power for Human Needs andEnterprisesTVA and National StrengthALUMNI OPEN HOUSESaturday,February 27th, 1954Afternoon Toursl. Testing Laboratory2. Research Institutes3. Humanities: Music4. Humanities: Art5. Reading Clinic6. Meteorology Dept.7. Counseling Center8. Oriental Institute9. Botany Dept.10. Laboratory School11. Midwest Inter-LibraryCenter12. Chemistry Dept.13. National Opinion ResearchCenter14. Geography Dept.15. Nursery Schooland Center for Children'sBooks16. Physics Dept.17. Orthogenic School18. International House19. Zoology Dept.20. Child Guidance andPsychology Clinic21. Geology Dept.22. University Clinicse§no l^aOpen House: February 27On Saturday, February 27th you areinvited to be our guest on the quadrangles for our annual Alumni Open House.You will visit the laboratory of yourchoice in the afternoon; have dinnerwith your friends at the QuadrangleClub; visit the student exhibits in theReynolds Club lounges; and be a guestat the all-student show in Mandel Hallin the evening.The complete program appears in theJanuary Tower Topics. Return the reservation coupon promptly so we cangive you your first- choice tour. Duespaying members of the Association willhave preference, of course.The 22 tours set up for this year's OpenHouse surprised even me!Late in November I sat down with oneof my office associates, Dean Tyler Jenks.The holiday season brought a lull in hisfield work so I outlined this popularprogram we have been staging in February and asked him to see how manyinteresting tours he could set up. Wedid 11 last year.I was surprised and pleased when hereturned later with a possible 22. ButDean is new at this game and I had towarn him that he'd finally have to settlefor 15. There would be faculty membersor departments who couldn't or wouldn'twant to take time to prepare for suchprograms.But Dean and the Chicago faculty made my prediction look like a Chicagoweather forecast. All 22 tours camethrough with imagination. Faculty members who I was sure would duck thisone had compliments for the program,not alibis for not cooperating. Some 50faculty and staff members have cancelled Saturday afternoon personal plansto show you what they are doing inresearch and teaching.When we approached the studentsabout the Mandel Hall program we wereflooded with enthusiasm. They were stillremembering the best jam-packed, applauding audience they ever played to —at last year's Open House. So they'll beon stage to give *you music, drama, andacrobatic comedy.When it came to dinner plans I toldMiss Wherry, the Quadrangle Club manager, my problem. Last year we usedthe main dining room and the solariumand had to turn them away.Her answer: we'll set- up the entiresecond floor and give them a beef dinnerfor under three dollars so that everyonecan afford to come.With such unanimous cooperationacross the quadrangles you can understand why we are so enthusiastic aboutinviting you back for Open House onSaturday, February 27th.Look at us!How many times have I listened to:"Chicago ranks second only to Harvardin . . ."; and how many alumni have said,"First I read the New Yorker and then, ifI have time, I read The University ofChicago Magazine."Of course there have to be second violins but sometimes it's fun to sit in the chair of the concertmeister. So — for themoment — here we sit.Jerry Greenwald writes from the Pentagon about his work and coffee hourswith a gang of U. of Chicagoans [see details in News of the Classes under 1948].His letter ends:Finally, let me sing out the praises weall feel for the Alumni Magazine. Shag[editor Donohue] is doing a fine job andin our apartment itfs read cover to cover,even while [get this!] the New Yorkerspile up.Lt. Gerald B. Greenwald ['48, JD '51]Lowell A. Siff ['49, JD '52]Arlington, VirginiaMolly washes her hairFrom Dexter Fairbank's ['35] annualyear- end report on his family:Molly, a high school junior, has athriving baby-sitting business with clientele limited to those with 21-inch orlarger TV screens . . . In her spare timeshe is doing some oil painting, readingmovie magazines, doing home work, andwashing her hair.Lucy is in the eighth grade . . . Hersocial life seems to require long phoneconversations which I have limited tothree minutes but which are seldom lessthan half an hour.Dexter III, age nine, is in the flower ofhis brathood. When asleep he's lovable. .° . At the moment he is constructing atree house. If the tree can stand it —I can.Marj [mother] is now an ex officioDO YOU AGREE?Returns from an annual nation-wide survey of U. of C. Magazinereaders show that alumni want more stories about research on-and-offcampus, news of progress and future University plans, and an analysisby faculty members of major world developments.Seven hundred and fifty subscribers were spot checked in this year'spoll, and 223, or nearly 30%, responded. Their answers to questionsabout features they most enjoyed reading revealed a sharp increasein interest in Book Reviews, with articles written by faculty members,University news, and Class News, running again first, second, and fourth.Following is a chart showing features voted "most popular" by alumniin 1949 and 1953:1949 Vs 19531. Faculty written articles 1. Faculty written articles (85% read)2. University news 2. University news (76%)3. Alumni success stories 3. Book Reviews (42%)4. Class News 4. Class News (37%)5. Book Reviews 5. Alumni success stories (31%)6. Letter Column 6. Reader's Guide (29%)7. Memo Pad 7. Memo Pad (19%)Returning to major articles alumni want featured more frequentlywe find that 67% want more research articles; 58% University News;47% World Affairs; 36% Interesting Alumni; 20% Interesting Students;18% College News, and 15% News of the Divisions.FEBRUARY, 1954 1But why MEN over 45?Our doctors still don't know why, but if you are aman over 45 you are six times as likely to developlung cancer as a man of your age twenty years ago.They do know, however, that their chances of saving your life could be about ten times greater ifthey could only detect cancer long before younotice any symptom in yourself. (Only 1 in every20 lung cancers is being cured today, largely because most cases progress too far before detected.)That's why we urge that you make a habit of hav ing your chest X-rayed every six months, no matter how well you may feel. The alarming increaseof lung cancer in men over 45 more than justifiessuch precautions. Far too many men die needlessly !Our new film "The Warning Shadow" will tellyou what every man should know about lungcancer. To see this film and to get life-saving factsabout other forms of cancer, phone the AmericanCancer Society office nearest you or simply writeto "Cancer" — in care of your local Post Office.American Cancer Society *THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMAGAZINEVolume 46 February, 1 954 Number 5IN THIS ISSUEFrom Iraq to Bartlett 4Bringing Pathos into Focus, Preston T. Roberts, Jr 7Playwrights Theatre Club 12Memo PadBooks DEPARTMENTS. . . 1 Reader's Guide 2119 Class News 22COVER: Richard E. Vilcstrom, Director of the Collegium Musicum,opens up the evening all-student show of last year's Mid-WinterAlumni Open House. For news of this year's Open House, see page 1.Cover and photos on pages 6, 7, and 16-17 by Stephen Lewellyn. Photo onpage 24 by University of Wyoming News Service, on page 26 by "OfficialU. S. Navy Photograph," and on page 27 (top) by Rebman Photo Service.The drawings on pages 8 and 9 are used through the courtesy of Motivemagazine, on page 10 through Harper Library, and on page 11 through thecourtesy of the University Press. The last drawing is from the book jacket ofSophocles: Three Tragedies, edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore.PUBLISHED BYExecutive EditorHOWARD W. MORT THE ALUMNIEditorHAROLD E. DONOHUE ASSOCIATIONAssociate EditorAUDREY 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.member of more committees than youcan shake a gavel at. She has risen sohigh in the Junior League that it wasnecessary for her to fly to Boise to conferwith other delegates regarding suchproblems as to what size martini to servebefore meetings.As for me [says Dexter] , I've lost someweight and some hair during the year.I had a . . . hospital visit this summer.My advice is to watch out for the cutenurses. They have the longest hypodermic needles . . .The Fairbank family lives in Portland,Oregon where dad is an officer with theAngel Lumber Company.Reunion in ManilaFrom Harold Gosnell, PhD '22, a former U. of C. faculty member, comes thisnews about himself and a number of ourFilipino alumni:"American University gave me a leaveof absence last fall to study the Philippine elections on which I am planning towrite some articles for professional journals. While I was in Manila, the University of Chicago Alumni Associationof the Philippines held a dinner for meat which the following alumni werepresent:"Cecilio Putong, PhD '37, Secretary ofEducation; Maria Cid Peralta, PhD '52,Executive Secretary, The PhilippineWomen's University; Ricardo JR. Paspual,PhD '39, Secretary, College of LiberalArts, and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines; Aman-do Clemente, PhD '20, Head, Departmentof Chemistry, University of the Philippines; j. P. Apostol, '28-30, Filipiniana.Divisiojn, Bureau of Public Libraries; MissHerminia Auchetu, AM '50, PhilippineNormal College; Antonio Isidro, PhD '34,Professor and Head, Department of Education, University of the Philippines; Mrs.Constancia /. de Jesus, '52-53, Chief,Library Extension Division Bureau ofPublic Libraries; Cristino J ami as. '18,AM '19, Professor and Head of Department of English, University of the Philippines; and Juan del Castillo, Professor,University of the East, Manila."I was much impressed with how wellthese alumni have done. The Associationhas about thirty members. The University of Chicago stands high in the Philippines."Oberlin citationsClarence B. Hilberry, PhD '30, andRoger W. Sperry, PhD '41, received twoof the first alumni citations granted byOberlin College in its 120-year history ata special banquet held last Fall. Thecitations Went to twenty-four of Oberlin's30,000 alumni.The citation to Dr. Hilberry, presentedby William Stevenson, president of Oberlin College, read:"Clarence Beverly Hilberry has devoted the whole of his professional life toFEBRUARY, 1954 education. He went from graduate schoolto Wayne University as instructor inEnglish in 1930, and last July, after distinguished service in many posts asteacher and administrator, was made itsPresident. Wayne University has knownhow to profit by his scholarship, histeaching, his understanding of academicaffairs, and his judgment. As its President, his labors will benefit not only theUniversity, but the City of Detroit andthe State of Michigan."The citation presented to ProfessorSperry read:"In less than a score of years, RogerSperry has worked his way to the heartof some of the most complex problems in neurophysiology. With quiet and patientpersistence, he has developed delicateskills of surgery, planned and executedcareful measurements of behavior thathave shed light where light was needed.As teacher, author, research worker, andas a person, Roger Sperry typifies anoutcome of Oberlin training we are proudto honor."Dr. Sperry, who is chief of the sectionon developmental neurology at the National Institute of Health, left the University of Chicago faculty in January tojoin the staff of the California Instituteof Technology where he is serving asHixon Professor of Psychology.— H. W. M.3FromIraqtoBartlettRailroadsChoirsPunchMountainsSymposiaA BallNew U. of C. R.R.is now operating in distant Iraq.You may find this information valuable as you plan your next vacation.At any rate, you may find Mr. CarlKraeling's description of what it isall about informative. Explains ourDirector of the Oriental Institute:"Last fall, when the partnership ofthe Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania's Museum in theexcavations at Nippur, Iraq, had tobe dissolved (since Pennsylvania wasshifting its sphere of interest) wewere left with half a (Decauville)railroad to buy or sell as part of thejointly owned assets of the expedition. Through the kindness of Mr. andMrs. George McKibbin, it was possiblefor us to buy Pennsylvania's share,so we have become sole owners ofthe property and it is working hardfor us in Iraq."Dr. Donald McCown, Field Director of the continuing Oriental Insti tute excavations on the site of theold Sumerian city, was so delightedby the developments that he had thecars painted with the legend U. C.& McK R. R."So, if you are in Iraq, do not missthe opportunity for a free ride on theU. C. & McK. Your diploma or yourtrustee appointment letter (FormL-4) entitles you to free transportation at the dig. No other universitycan make this statement."The Road's motto: A private carto every passenger."The University Choirand Sadlers Well's Ballet teamedup for two performances during theholidays when the Choir chanted thechoral sections of Ravel's score inthe ballet, "Daphnis and Cloe." The55-voice group sang from the orchestra pit in the Civic Opera Houseduring the New Year's eve and theJanuary 2 matinee performances. Miss Jane Olson, secretary to Mr. Richard Vikstrom, director of the Choir,sang with the group and describedthe exciting opportunity as "a lot ofhard work. We had no sooner performed 'The Messiah' on December 6in the Chapel," said she, "than westarted in on rehearsals for the verydifficult polytonal music used inRavel's score. Many of our choirmembers cut their Christmas holidaysshort to return for final rehearsalswith Robert Irving, musical directorof Sadlers Well's."Was Mr. Irving impressed with theperformance?"Apparently," Jane said. "He toldus we were 'stripes and stripes' aheadof other choruses who have sung thepart."The English Departmentheld a reception the afternoon ofDecember 29th for all graduates of4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE-IRAQI VISTA-DOMES (SEE BELOW, LEFT)the Department, many of whom werein Chicago to attend the annual convention of the Modern LanguageAssociation. Chancellor and Mrs.Kimpton were present to help NapierWilt, Dean of the Division of theHumanities, greet over 300 formergraduate degree holders.The reception was held at the University Club. The hit of the partywas a fountain flowing holiday punchover a huge cluster of grapes. Weunderstand that some 30 gallonsevaporated from this steady, invitingflow.Aspen and the Alpsare two locales where courses inthe College will be offered nextsummer.Expanding its initial off-campusprogram of last summer, the Collegeagain will offer Humanities I inAspen, and the History of WesternCivilization course in Cambridge, England, along with three languagecourses.French will be offered in Paris fromJune 29 to September 8; German willbe taught in Innsbruck, Austria, fromJune 30 to September 11; and Spanishis scheduled for Madrid from July 3to September 12.Since the language courses are designed to reap the fullest possiblebenefits deriving from its location, itis thought that students will profitmore from the courses if they alreadyhave some knowledge of the language.A prerequisite, therefore, of two yearsof high-school work in the languagehas been established for all applicants.The Aspen course is open to collegestudents and to high-school juniors,sophomores, juniors, and seniors.The other courses are available toqualified high-school graduates andcollege students.Pamphlets describing the programare available from the Admissions Counselor, The University of Chicago.Atomic scientistHarold C. Urey, DistinguishedService Professor of Chemistry, wasawarded the 1953 Cardozo MemorialAward of Tau Epsilon Rho, international law fraternity, for his achievements in atomic science.The award, given annually to anoutstanding American, was presentedto Dr. Urey when the fraternity heldits 33rd annual convention in Chicagolast December.In his acceptance speech, Dr. Ureyremarked, "During the last years,we have witnessed a virtual abandonment of the Bill of Rights of ourConstitution in order to fight subversive activities of a small part ofour population."I believe that fundamentally weare behaving as frightened people inthese matters."The procedural methods," he wentFEBRUARY, 1954 5on, "are very similar to those of theInquisition, including sudden arrestor arraignment, presumption of guiltwhen accused, and unknown accusations by unknown persons. Congressional committees should investigatewithin the spirit of the Constitution."He concluded, "We must standfirmly for what is good and morallyright. Let us not say that we disapprove of the methods used but doapprove of the ends sought. Eachtime that men use or condone evilmethods, they become a little moreevil and when they have finally arrived at what should have been a 'good end, they have become completely evil."The 259th Convocationin Rockefeller Memorial Chapel onDecember 18 witnessed the conferring of honorary degrees upon twoHarvard professors. The degree ofDoctor of Laws was presented toZechariah Chafee, Jr., Professor ofLaw; and the degree of Doctor ofHumane Letters was awarded toLINDA — LAST YEAR'S WASH PROM QUEEN Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan LittauerProfessor of Jewish Literature andPhilosophy.Professor Chafee was cited as a"dedicated and distinguished scholarand teacher; in recognition of hisnumerous contributions to legal learning, and for his broad vision, judgment, and courage in setting forththe great advantages of open discussion."Professor Wolfson was presented as"one of the foremost living historiansof Western thought, uniquely learnedin the terminology and systems ofGreek, Christian, Muslim, and Jewishphilosophers, and singularly endowedwith the ability to make crystal-clearthe profound and involved speculations of ancient and of medievalthinkers."The convocation address was givenby Newton Edwards, Professor ofEducation, on the subject, "Educationfor Decision-Making in a Democracy."Human developmentresearch activities of the membersof the Committee on Human Development guarantee a full agenda for thegroVp's Fifth Annual Symposium tobe held on Saturday, February 6th,in the Assembly Hall of InternationalHouse.The morning session, beginning atnine o'clock, will include Helen Koch,"Professor of Psychology, on herstudies of family constellation andsibling attitudes; Dr. Rosalind Cart-wright, on research in psychotherapybeing conducted at the CounselingCenter; Mr. James Abegglen, researchassociate, on studies of social mobilityamong American businessmen; MissChristine Kris, on methods of assessing physiological age; Dr. RobertHess, Assistant Professor, on thetransmission of psychological characteristics from parent to child; andBenjamin Wright, on the personalityattributes of counselors for disturbedchildren.The afternoon session will be addressed by Erik Erikson, noted psychoanalyst, author, and staff memberof the Austin Riggs Center, Inc.Interested persons are invited toattend the symposium. There will bea registration fee of $1.00.The Wash Promis set for another appearance inBartlett Gym, on February 20, and abevy of beauty queens is beinggroomed for the annual crowning ofthe Miss University of Chicago, 1954model. (Shown here is the formerLinda Marinelli, A.B. '53, last year's Queen. Miss Marinelli was marriedDecember 26th to John Henry Lan-dor, Ph.B. '48, M.D. '53.)Bartlett is a particularly fittingplace for the Prom this year sincethe gym is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Before the echoes of President Harper's acceptance speech atthe building's dedication had diedaway, the Washington Prom hadmoved in — back in February, 1904. Adescription of the Prom in the earlydays of Bartlett Gym reveals thatfor a smaller charge, those who didn'tcare to dance were admitted to therunning track where they could watchthe festivities through the bowers ofcrepe paper. At midnight, all adjourned under the canopy leadingfrom Bartlett to Hutchinson Commonsfor supper. At the tables a specialedition of the Daily Maroon carriedthe long list of those attending.The first Washington Ball was heldin 1894 at the Barry (Del Prado)Hotel — the present site of International House. About thirty couplesattended and danced quadrilles, polkas, schottisches, and waltzes.The waltz may be all that's left ofthe 1894 Ball to show up in 1954, butthe Wash Prom continues as a festive University tradition.The Geography Departmentis celebrating a mid-century anniversary of its founding in 1903-04. Itis the oldest Department of Geography in any institution of highereducation in the country and for manyyears was the only such departmentin America.Its founder was Rollin Salisbury,Professor of Geographic Geology andDean of the Graduate School ofScience in the University. Throughthe men trained in the departmentand researches conducted here, theDepartment has exerted considerableinfluence in the formation and development of geography departmentselsewhere.Various events to commemorate the50th birthday have been scheduled.One such program is a winter-quarterseries of three lectures on "Chicagoat Mid-Century," to which membersand friends of the University — and ofChicago — are invited.Geographers Allen Philbrick andHarold Mayer of our Department willdiscuss on three successive Wednesday evenings: "Chicago's MillionSquare Miles," on Feb. 17; "Chicago,City of Critical Decisions," on Feb.24; and "Chicago: University, Com-Continued on page 18THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBringing PathosInto Focus"To discover something relatively newso late in Western cultural history isin itself no small accomplishment."by Preston T. Roberts, Jr.Assistant ProfessorFederated Theological FacultyPROF. PRESTON T. ROBERTS, JR., WITH AN ACQUAINTANCEI T IS BECOMING increasinglyclear that the modern theatre is oneof the great theatres in Western cultural history, just as historic in itsown setting as the ancient Greek, theElizabethan, or the French Neo-Preston T. Roberts, Jr., is alsoChairman of the Field of Religionand Art in the Federated Theological Faculty. This article firstappeared in the December, 1953,issue of Motive, the magazine ofthe Methodist Student Movement. Classic theatres were in theirs. It isbecoming no less clear that modernplays have a characteristic movementand structure all their own, an innerworld of events and meaning just asserious as those which we associatewith Greek or Christian drama.The first and most distinguishingmark of modern plays is their pathos.Just as Greek plays like Oedipus theKing were distinguished by their preoccupation with what is simply andpurely tragic about life and just asChristian plays like King Lear havebeen distinguished by their concernfor what is redemptive or more thantragic in life, just so modern plays like A Streetcar Named Desire andDeath of a Salesman would appear tobe distinguished by their absorptionin what is pathetic or less than tragicand incapable of redemption in experience. They seem to be peculiarlyconcerned with those aspects of experience which lie below the conscious mind or active will, whether itbe Darwin's instinctual struggle forsurvival, Pavlov's conditioned reflex,Freud's repressed unconscious, Marx'slatent class conflicts, or Dewey'shabit, inertia, and fatigue. Theycharacteristically deal with senselessagencies and compulsive forces atwork deep inside and far outside hu-FEBRUARY, 1954 7man nature, underground aspects ofexistence whose operations the humanspirit cannot readily observe, understand, enjoy, or control.It is this preoccupation with whatis pathetic in life which endows modern plays with their distinctive innermovement and structure. They maybegin with a sense of meaningfulnessand hope, but they end in a sense ofmeaninglessness and futility. Theirprotagonists are usually rather sickand driven figures long before theplay begins, stripped of almost everymeaning and value except mere lifeitself. At the start of the action, theyare confronted with an initial situation which appears to present a possible way out of their pathetic misery.However, in the course of events,they exhibit themselves to be completely incapable of responding toany such new way of life.Instead of taking hold of what ispossible, they cling to what is impossible — some memory they can never re-enact or some dream theyare always powerless to be or do.Some kind of sickness, psychologically within or sociologically without,drives them relentlessly this way andthat and down and down until theymove from normality to madness anddestroy themselves or are destroyedby others in senseless acts of violence.The movement or change in characterin a modern play is from bad to worsefortune or from one form of misery toanother. The structure of the incidentsor plot is the expression of a remorselessly efficient causality. Whatappeared at the beginning to be theirlast chance, indeed their only realchance, does not turn out to havebeen a real chance at all in the end.The final emotional effect upon us asthe audience, or as readers, is therefore one of mingled poignance anddespair: poignance because the protagonist has become such a shadowof his former or potential self; anddespair because there has been no one meaningful way for him to liveand so many meaningless ways forhim to die.Southern belleBlanche DuBois> for example, inA Streetcar Named Desire, is a verysick and lost woman before the playbegins. As the elder and more attractive daughter of an old, aristocraticSouthern family, she has been drivento solve the problem of her life bydefying the harsh, yet living andsolid, realities of the new South inthe name of the soft, but dead andephemeral, appearances of the old. Inthe hopeless process of so doing, shehas simply lost one thing after another — the ancestral plantation estatecalled Belle Reve through foreclosure,her boyish and gifted husband throughsuicide, her position as school teacherin the little Southern town of Laurel,Mississippi, through an attempt toseduce one of her more sensitive andintelligent pupils,; and her status as arespectable member of any smallSouthern community through stillother expressions of her growingnymphomania. About all that is leftof Blanche as the play begins is afaded, haunted, and weary remnantof her former or potential self. At thestart of the action, her appearanceand behavior are, pathetically enough,more like those of a lowly prostituteor a cheap coquette than of the grandSouthern belle or lady who figures soprominently in her memories anddreams.In the course of the action withinthe play itself, Blanche is given whatappears to be her last and only realchance to rescue her life from suchpathetic ineffectuality. During a prolonged visit at the shabby New Orleans flat of her younger and lessattractive, but married, pregnant, andwell-adjusted sister — Stella — she isintroduced to a more meaningful wayof solving the problem of her life.Stella's more creative way is basedupon acceptance rather than defianceof the new South. However, Blancheproves herself to be completely incapable of responding to this morecreative way of life by virtue of thesickness with which her past andpresent insecurities burden her. Infact, everything she says and doesmakes any normal way of life, not tospeak of a more creative one, less andless possible for her.In the first part of the play, faintmemories of their early childhoodtogether at Belle Reve and vaguedreams of an eventual rescue by someyoung and wealthy Southern gentleman drive Blanche to reject her sis-WILLY LOMAN— "COMPELLED TO FACE -UP TO THE FACTS FOR THE FIRST TIME"8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBLANCHE "MAY HAVE HAD A PAST BUT NO REAL PRESENT OR ACTUAL FUTURE"ter's husband, Stanley Kowalski, ina highly defensive way. He is aPolish worker and — to say the least —no gentleman. Instead of welcomingthe strength and vitality of the marriage between Stella and Stanley asenabling her to make a fresh start,Blanche attempts to weaken the relationship by accusing Stella of thatkind of a purely physical love for herhusband of which Blanche herselfhas long since become a hopeless victim. She also proposes that Stellaleave Stanley in order to set up a littleshop somewhere with her. In so doing,she only succeeds in arousing Stanley's suspicion that she has made agood thing out of selling Belle Reve,is a real threat to his wife and home,and is a lost woman in many moreinteresting ways than meet the eye.Mitch appearsIn the middle part of the play, afterStella has refused to leave Stanleyin spite of her sister's hysterical objections to him, Blanche's torturedmemories of her dead husband makeher emotionally uneasy before theadvances of Mitch, the one eligiblebachelor among the friends of Stanley and Stella who is at once a partof the old and? the new South. Although Mitch is very much tied tohis mother's apron strings — and noteverything Blanche might desire in asuitor — she does need him just asdesperately as he needs her. However, this inner ambivalance onBlanche's part here, conjoined withthe outer consequences of havingprovoked Stanley in the first part ofthe action, quickly destroys her lastchance of deliverance from patheticmisery. Instead of being rescued byMitch, she suffers the humiliation ofbeing exposed and then raped byStanley the night Stella is away at ahospital having her baby. In the lastpart of the play, Blanche's compulsive fantasy of a romantic rescue byShep Huntleigh, a young Dallas millionaire, takes over her entire sensibility and cuts her off from all possibility of salvation. She ends in thearms of a fate worse than rape andindistinguishable from death — thearms of a doctor and nurse from apublic mental institution. Through nointellectual error in judgment or willful fault of her own, Blanche DuBoishas been driven ; from her initial neurosis to her final psychosis. In theprocess, she has lost a moral struggleshe could not possibly have won. Asa sick and lost woman, she may havehad a past but no real present oractual future..Just so, Willy- Loman, in Death of a Salesman, is a very sick and lostman long before that play begins.Willy Loman is a salesman. As amember of the vast lower middleclass in an urban and industrialAmerica, he has been driven to solvethe problem of his life by defying thedark realities of his lot as a salesmanin the name of the bright appearancesof a younger, more rural, and lessclass-conscious America. He has remembered the early pioneers and thefirst capitalists who made good withor without effort. He has dreamt ofrising to the top and beating the system, either directly through his ownefforts or vicariously through thelives of his sons, Biff and Happy. Inthe hopeless process? of so doing, hetoo has simply lost one thing afteranother — from his yard and gardenwhich encroaching apartment houses have snuffed out, to the love and respect of his elder and favorite son,Biff, who has become a bum becauseof his inability to fulfill his father'sdream. As the play begins, Willy Loman is an almost completely brokenman, shattered in body, mind, andspirit. The idea of suicide has notmerely occurred to him; he has actually attempted to take his own life,not just once, but several times.Biff comes homeIn the course of the action, Willyis given what appears to be his lastand only real chance to rescue hislife from such pathetic ineffectuality.This apparent chance is presented tohim by the return of his prodigal son,Biff, who has come home to have itout with his father and to discoverFEBRUARY, UL954 9LEAR "ASKS FOR AND DESERVES MUCH OF THE DIRE SUFFERING HE RECEIVES"who and what he and his fatherreally are. Biff attempts to deliverhis father from his pathetic miseryby suggesting a new way of life basedupon defiance of or indifference tothe old dream of making good orbeating the system. But Willy proveshimself to be completely incapableof responding to his son's new way oflife because of the sickness withwhich past and present insecuritieshave beset him. Everything he saysand does makes his son's new wayof life less and less possible for him.In the first part of the play, he forcesboth himself and his son into makingone last, desperate attempt to rise tothe top. In so doing, he only succeedsin losing his own job and driving hisson into a position where he will haveto leave home forever. In the lastpart of the play, Willy is compelledto face up to the facts for the firsttime in his life: the fact that he isworth more dead than alive, becauseof his insurance policy; and the factthat suicide is the only way left forhim to make good and beat the system.What is most distinctively modernabout Blanche DuBois and WillyLoman as protagonists is that they are defeated by their emotional insecurityor sickness rather than by their ignorance or intellectual finiteness or byany kind of moral guilt or religioussin. They fail in their moral strugglesimply because they are incapable ofresponding to the good, not becausethey do not or cannot know what thegood is or because they refuse to dothe good which they do know. Whatis peculiarly modern about the plotsin which their characters are implicated is that the course of the actionmoves from a bad to a worse state ofaffairs rather than from good to bador from bad to good fortune. What ischaracteristically modern about theemotional effect they provoke in us,as the audience or readers, is thesense of poignance and despair ratherthan the Greek sense of pity andfear or the Christian sense of judgment and forgiveness. We feel poignance rather than pity or judgmentbecause the protagonist is defeatedby an emotional quirk or block ratherthan by any intellectual error injudgment or willful pride. We feeldespair rather than fear or forgiveness because what appeared to be theprotagonist's last and only real chance turns out to have been no real chanceat all.On the other hand, traditional playsof the Greek and Christian types havevery different kinds of movement andstructure and very different kinds ofemotional effect. In Greek plays, likeOedipus the King, the protagonist isdefeated by his ignorance or intellectual finiteness, not by his emotional insecurity or sickness. The plotmoves from good to bad fortune andfrom happiness to misery, not frombad to worse fortune and from oneform of unhappy misery to another.The final emotional effect is (as Aristotle said) one of pity and fear, notone of poignance and despair. We feelpity because the protagonist suffersin excess of what he morally andreligiously deserves. We feel fear because there nonetheless have been norational means of escape from hispredicament.Oedipus, for example, is defeatedby his ignorance of the facts that hehas murdered his father, Laius, andmarried his mother, Jocasta. Thesefacts of parricide and incest are factshe has to know to avoid tragedy.However, these are precisely the factshe does not know and cannot knowby virtue of his intellectual finiteness.In terms of what he does or can know,Oedipus does the perfectly right, just,and noble thing throughout the action. Namely he simply persistsinflexibly in his search for the murderer of Laius regardless of the consequences to himself. What is socompletely and purely tragic abouthis fate is that the best course ofaction of which he can possibly thinkturns out to be exactly the course ofaction which seals his doom, destroysthat which he most loved, and accomplishes the opposite of what he sonobly intended.The pattern of incidents or plot inwhich the character of Oedipus isimplicated therefore moves from initial good fortune to final bad fortune,from initial happiness to final misery.Such a character and such a plot donot provoke emotions of poignanceand despair because the protagonisthas been able to remain true to hisown essential nature throughout thecourse of the action, and he can accept or defy his fate with the shakenbut undiminished integrity of his soulat the play's end.From bad to goodIn Christian plays like King Lear,the protagonist is defeated by hisguilt and sin, not just by his sicknessor his ignorance, and the plot eventually moves from a bad to a good10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEstate of affairs and from misery tohappiness, not simply from good tobad or from bad to worse fortune.King Lear is defeated in his moralstruggle by his spiritual pride. Thispride expresses itself at the very beginning of the action when he insistsupon identifying his status as a kingwith his role as a father and refusesto distinguish between the pleasing,but merely apparent, virtue of his twofaithless daughters, Goneril and Regan, and the painful but real virtueof his one faithful daughter, Cordelia.He therefore asks for and deservesmuch of the dire suffering he receives.However, the ultimate consequencesof his pride are not merely patheticor only tragic but redemptive as well.ForgivenessIn the course of the action, KingLear is rescued from his spiritualpride by processes of judgment andforgiveness operating both inside andoutside his own nature. He movesfrom the false, illusory, and complacent happiness born of pride, throughthe meaningful suffering which comesof judgment, to the final happiness offinding his life in the very processof losing it. The emotional effectprovoked by the story of King Learis thereby a Christian sense of judgment and forgiveness, not a modernsense of poignance and despair or aGreek sense of pity and fear. Wefeel judgment because King Lear hassuffered wliat he has morally andreligiously deserved. We feel forgiveness because King Lear has beenenabled to forgive his daughter, Cordelia, even as he has been forgivenby her.The second distinguishing mark ofmodern plays is that the Greek concern for what is purely tragic aboutlife, and the Christian concern forwhat is redemptive or more thantragic in life, are used, as foils tothe modern concern for what ispathetic. The pathos of modern playsis thereby rendered all the morepathetic by the invocation of tragicand redemptive motifs which turn outto be in excess of or irrelevant to thefacts.For example, Blanche DuBois isendowed with what appears to be bothChristian and Greek qualities as aprotagonist. In the first part of theplay when she is giving the marriagebetween Stanley and Stella such aninexcusably hard time, she is madeto appear far more arrogant in herspiritual pride than neurotic in heranxiety. Just so, in the middle partof the play where she converses withMitch, she is represented as beingFEBRUARY, 1954 far more blind in the Greek sensethan presumptuous in the Christiansense, or sick in the modern sense.However, in the course of the action,both our initial hope for the downfallof her self-righteousness and ourlater desire that her blinded nobilitymay not suffer in excess of what itdeserves are transformed by our finalrecognition of the nature and extentof her sickness. It is then that wecome to see that both her pride andher ignorance are expressions of hersickness. Her final movement fromneurosis to psychosis is thereby rendered all the more sad by the factthat we had been led to hope thatsome kind of judgment and forgiveness might rescue her from her pride.Her end is rendered all the moredesperate by the fact that we hadbeen led to hope that some kind ofa movement from ignorance to knowledge might enable her to defy oraccept circumstance with the unbroken integrity of her spirit.Similarly, in Death of a Salesman,we are led to believe that WillyLoman is more blind than simplydriven in the first part of the play,and that he is more proud than justOEDIPUS-"DEFEATED BY HIS IGNORANCE" blind or driven in the second part ofthe play. When his wife Linda speaksto her sons of the greatness of Willy'sspirit in the face of impossible oddsboth inside and outside his own truenature, we feel his suffering nobilityno less than his piteous abnormality.We therefore hope that he may notsuffer in excess of what his essentialnobility deserves. When his son Bifftries to tell his father that he is afake and has failed his son no lessdeeply than his son has failed him,we feel Willy's moral guilt and religious sin no less than his intellectualfiniteness or his emotional insecurity.We therefore hope that some kind ofjudgment and forgiveness may rescuehim from his pride. When all is saidand done, however, it becomes clearthat Willy's blindness in the Greeksense and Willy's pride in the Christian sense have both been foils toWilly's sickness in the modern sense.ComparedIf it is possible to say what distinguishes modern plays from more traditional forms of serious drama, itbecomes necessary to say what positive relationships they have to theirGreek and Christian prototypes. Inthis connection at least three thingsmust be said.First of all, from a purely historicalstandpoint, we have to recognize thatmodern plays are portraying an aspectof existence which both Greek andChristian plays tended to ignore ordeny. That is, modern plays arebringing pathos into the focus ofdramatic interest and attention forthe first time, a type or level ofexperience which Greek and Christianplays ignored as being less thantragic or incapable of redemption, anddenied as being unworthy of seriousdramatic representation. As such,modern plays enjoy the rare distinction of bringing to full expression thethird basic kind of subject mattercharacteristic of serious drama in theWest, a subject matter which is justas great in its own terms and in itsown setting as the materials of Greekand Christian drama were in theirs.The historic uniqueness of modernplays, and the greatness this fact ofhistoric uniqueness alone represents,can scarcely be exaggerated. To discover something relatively new solate in Western cultural history is initself no small accomplishment. Tohold high what has traditionally beenheld low is a still more remarkableachievement.In the second place, from a moreContinued on page 1811There is no "school" of dramaat the University; but from thestudent theatre has come thePLAYWRIGHTSTHEATRECLUBJ^INCE LAST JUNE, a line of peoplehas been trudging up a long flightof stairs on Chicago's north side, towhat once was a chop suey palace.They walk across an ancient tiledfloor, crowded with new, comfortablegarden chairs, sit, and wait for thelights to go out. When different lights,spot-lights, come up, they watch andlisten to the Playwrights Theatre. Notall of the audience knows that eachperformance is a kind of Alumnimeeting, that most of the companynot only went to the University, theygot their first taste of the stage whileworking with the University Theatre.On campus, the University Theatercompetes with the curriculum and thelong list of other extracurricularactivities. Still, in its seven years, U. T. has put on 46 major productions, ranging from "The Agamemnon" to Cocteau's "The Typewriter."Under the general direction of OtisImboden, who took his Masters inEnglish last year, U. T. also producesreadings of plays.While on campus, with the U. T.as an actor and student director,one Paul Sills began talking about aprofessional full-time theater for thecity of Chicago. In effect he was asking a whole city to change its reputation as a "bad" town for the theatre.Chicago audiences are notorious fortheir apathy. Now here was a youngman with his B.A. ('51) who thoughtthat this reputation existed only because Chicago was as tired of themediocre "shows" that came out of Broadway, as it was bored by the localtheatre groups who produced disastersranging from soap operas to badShakespeare. What was needed, hefelt — and said to anyone who wouldlisten — was a group of young actorsdoing good plays. The actors should beyoung so that they would not alreadybe warped by the techniques of theshaky commercial theatre. The playsshould be good — written anytimesince plays were first written — because only good plays made goodtheatre, and good theatre, to Sills,meant any story about people whichhad something to do with today.He met David Shepherd, recentlyout of Harvard, who had tried the ideain the East and failed. Shepherd,by no means rich, was on a Wander-12 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINESILLS MAKES A POINT TO TROOBNICK, ALTON, AND PEISNERjahr across the country, workingwhen he had to, attending any andall kinds of theatres. One of thosehe visited was the University Theatre.Although burned once, he still thoughtthat a repertory theatre in an alertcommunity would pay off. He andSills compared notes. Another participant in these early talks — everywhere, in drug stores and bars, wherethe coffee became cold and the beerswent flat — was Eugene Troobnick,who was working on his Master's inEnglish literature after being a stockcompany actor, radio announcer, andfree lance writer. At that point theycalled their plans the "idea."The idea was not a simple one. Howmany people, with more money andexperience at hand, had not given up? Where would the actors come from,let alone an intelligent audience? Andthe theater, itself? Like most peoplewith a calling, Paul Sills would talkabout nothing else. When a friend ofhis wanted to discuss a new magazinein Chicago, he was polite but emphatic. "I will not talk about it," hesaid. "Please understand. I will nottalk about it because I cannot. AllI can talk about is this new theater."Other people began to understand.Other alumni, now working in Chicago, heard of his idea. They heardhow designers, electricians, musicians,and writers were interested. Shepherdmet more of Sill's fellow alumni anddecided to invest, if they found atheatre.A man does not talk as much about why a city needs a theatre unless heknows something about the city. Sillsgot to know it even better. He,Shepherd, and Troobnick scouredthe city, on foot, by bus, and — if oneturned up — the car of a friend, anyfriend, who was interested in thesearch. They looked for four monthsand finally found the former restaurant, old and abandoned, at 1560North La Salle.Sills and his colleagues do not liketo remember what the place lookedlike then. Only the inner eye couldfantasize enough to transform an oldloft into a theatre. There was, firstof all, no stage. There were no seatseither. Further, there were no dressing rooms, light board, prop rooms,or box-office. Everybody knows thatFEBRUARY, 1954 13ZOHRA ALTON AND BERNIE PIVEN IN SCENE FROM SHEPHERD'S "FIELDS OF MALFI"every theatre has to have a box-office.But there was space. Sills and Shepherd rented it and sent out word thatthey were ready to begin work.First came the stage, designed byJohn Holabird, director of dramaticsfor Francis Parker High School inChicago. Probably the only one ofits kind, the stage juts out into theaudience. It is based on the Elizabethan extension, and — according toone rather articulate actor — "hasproven itself a versatile cross betweenthe arena and end stage, incorporatingthe advantages of both." For someproductions, a small balcony is setup. No one seems to mind if theaudience is reminded of Shakespeare'sGlobe.Next, the seats; about two hundredof them. Then came the lights, hungunder the close eye of the city's dif ferent departments of safety. Becauseof the city's interest, the name camenext. At first it was to be calledsimply the Playwrights Theater, indicating that new plays were welcome.But there are zoning laws, so it hasto be a Club. Members pay dues(fifty cents per season) and mustpresent membership cards at the doorwith their nightly contribution. Bythat time a box-office had been putup, along with functional dressingrooms in what had been the kitchen.Now all that was needed were actorsand a play.The final spring production of theU. T., back on campus, had been "TheCaucasian Chalk Circle," by BertoldBrecht. It had played to good audiences in Mandel Hall. For many ofthe cast, it would be their last workas students. Sills had directed it. He decided to put it on again, for thewhole city, if it would come, withmost of the same cast, if they wantedto be connected with the new theatre.Most of the city stayed away, butmany of the former student actorsjoined the Playwrights. Announcements went out, along with a statement by Sills."We are not one of these so-calledarty groups," it said. "The plays weare doing aren't as well known as'Life With Father' or 'Three Men ona Horse,' but they are good plays tosee and hear."The play was produced. Then camethe critics' reviews. Said one, notedfor his rough treatment: "Let no flightof stairs or lack of Loop comfortskeep you from an experience such asNew York alone has been privilegedto own these last 20 years or more.The grass at home seems suddenlyvery green."The next production was "RoundDance" by Arthur Schnitzler. "Another off-beat item that few commercial producers would take a chancewith," said Chicago Sun-Times critic,Herman Kogan. "This week, anyweek," he went on, "their little theater... is the most interesting place onmy beats these nights."Still not being 'arty,' Playwrightswent on to show "Mooney's Kid Don'tCry," by Tennessee Williams; "Woz-zek," by Georg Buchner; "The Coming of Bildad," a new play by DirectorSills; Jonson's "Volpone"; Shaw's firstplay, "Widower's House"; "TheFields of Malfi," by the producerDavid Shepherd; "The Glass Menagerie," by Williams; and "The Dyb-buk," by Sol Ansky.Not all of the reviews were as glowing as the first. The Herald- Americanman said that "one supposes Playwrights had to perform ('The Fieldsof Malfi,' by David Shepherd) sinceMr. Shepherd is the producer." ClaudiaCassidy, of the Tribune finished herarticle on Sills' "The Coming of Bildad," by saying "this is queer hodgepodge, but it has those gleams ofpromise, and those outbursts of wildexuberance that spill over the edgesand strain at the theatre's seams. Itmakes me wish Mr. Sills good luck."Sidney Harris was not inspired by"Round Dance," but his review endedwith the flat statement that "whatever its obvious defects, this newgroup offers a distinct challenge toits hidebound rivals."To continue this challenge, more isneeded than luck, as the members ofPlaywrights know. For some of themit is a full time job, with a nominalwage forthcoming now and then. Theirday begins about noon, when they14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEUniversity Alumni with PlaywrightsWilliam Alton, '51Zohra Alton, '52Edward Asner, ex '49Creighton Clarke, '52Owen Cunliffe, '54Hey ward Ehrlich, AM '51Joy Grodzins, '51Joyce Hiller, ex '51James Holland, '51 (master's candidate)Jonathan Jackson, '54Estelle Luttrell, '53Sandra MacDonald, '51Charles Mason, student (Law School)Mike Nichols, ex '51Sheldon Patinkin, '53, (master's candidate)Marvin Peisner, '45, AM '46Anne Petry, '54Paul Sills, '51Eugene Troobnick, (master's candidate)gather at 1560. First they have toclean-up after the night's performance. Then they rehearse for the nextplay, if they do not have to mail outannouncements, paint the set, makecostumes, memorize lines, write ads,sell ads, or merely go to a part-timejob to make enough money for theirfood and rent.Six o'clock lunchThe jobs vary. Two of the womenare professional models. Two of themen load railroad cars for the postoffice. Another works for an Industrial Relations publication on campus,while another is a full-time stockbroker farther down on La Salle.Two women have problems gettingbaby-sitters. One of the men teachesart history at the University Collegecertain nights. Two others are announcers for an FM station in Chicago.At about six each night, the company goes out for lunch; then they come back again to get set for theevening performance. This meansanother "clean-up" with everyone onthe mops, dust-cloths, and brooms. Make-up goes on next (the womenwho are not acting become the attractive ushers). The light-man changeshis overalls for a blue serge and sitsin the box-office, waiting. The audience comes, sometimes filling thehouse, at other times a "happy few."The newspaper critics, by now familiar, are spotted immediately andword sent backstage, depending onwho is acting that night, since someactors do better under that kind ofpressure. With the show over thepaint comes off and the companycloses up the theatre, this time for alate supper, then home to differentrooms, apartments, and houses.Poets companyWhen the Playwrights Theatre Clubfirst began, there was a productionevery night except Monday. But withthe heavy schedule of different playsand part-time jobs, this has beenreduced to four nights — Thursdaythrough Sunday. The other nightsare taken up with other projects.One is The Poets Company, whichwas created in Chicago last year tocollect and produce original versescripts by modern American poets.Playwrights was chosen as the producer. Its first show, presented lastNovember, consisted of short playsby poets Delmore Schwartz, RuthHerschberger, and Reuel Denney(who is also Associate Professor ofSocial Sciences in the College).Others are the acting and playwritingworkshops run by Sills and Shepherdon Monday nights and Saturday afternoons, respectively. Of course, thereis no spare time.Since the theatre is small, a packedhouse is the only one which makesmoney. To pack a theatre each nightBEGINNING OF A PRODUCTION: THE COMPANY READS FOR PARTS IN "THE DYBBUK"FEBRUARY, 1954 15MOST OF THE COMPANY OF PLAYWRIGHTSEugene Troobnick David Shepherd Paul SiSheldon Patinkin Edward Asner Marvin Peisner Heyward Ehrlich William Alton BobSandra MacDonald Joy Grodzins Helen Axelrood Zohra Alton i°J16 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEis almost impossible. But for thelast month people have been turnedaway from the held-over productionof "The Dybbuk." Sun-Times criticKogan was one of those who managedto make it, and he — not a soft man —said that it was "powerful and compelling." He called the mystical storyof the young woman possessed by aspirit, her young lover, "one of thebest productions — perhaps the verybest — yet staged by the PlaywrightsTheatre Club." Maybe he found thecorrect words to describe what washappening to the "idea" when he alsowrote, "obviously the Playwrights'people are limited in physical technicalities in the small upstairs theatreat 1560 North La Salle. But thereseems, in this production, to be nolimit to their talent, imagination andunderstanding."This month Playwrights is tryinganother "off-beat" production: "ThreePenny Opera," by Bertold Brecht, with music by Kurt Weil. Brecht'sstory deals with problems which facea man who is head of the thieves ofLondon, wants to run the organization on a business-like plane, and hastwo wives. The show, which openedJanuary 28th, will run through February 21st, unless it is held over.After that comes T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." Then, becausethe group still has good theatre inmind, other shows will be played,other parts of the history of dramawill be explored, along with new playswhich have not yet been produced,perhaps not yet written. As the nameimplies, they want new work.This month, also, on campus, theUniversity Theatre began casting forSynge's "Playboy of the WesternWorld." Thus the University continuesan extracurricular activity whichhas produced such an addition todrama in Chicago and the Mid- West.—H.E.D.THE LINE-UP FOR TICKETS AT 1560 NORTH LA SALLE ON AN OPENING NIGHT17Bringing Pathos into FocusContinued from page 11critical viewpoint, we have to recognize that the pathetic aspect of experience stressed by modern playsis not only historically unique butclassically serious as well. That is,modern plays are not simply portraying an aspect of experience neverfully portrayed before. They also areportraying this aspect of experienceconvincingly, by means of a spareand disciplined dramatic form of theirown discovery. They are demonstrating that what is pathetic or lessthan tragic in life is just as important,dramatically speaking, as what istragic or more than tragic. They areshowing that sickness in the modernsense is no less capable of arousingour sympathy than ignorance in theGreek sense or guilt and sin in theChristian sense. They are disclosingthat it is just as moving for charactersto pass from bad to worse fortuneand from one form of misery to another as it is for characters to passfrom good to bad fortune or frommisery to happiness.In the third place, from a constructive point of view, modern playswould appear to be just as meaningful and true to life as they are historically unique in subject matterand aesthetically moving in dramaticform. They seem to be capturing oneof the ultimate images of man's life, an image so ultimate in nature that allpast and future images must nowstand subject to it. In other words,we have to add the modern theme ofman's pathetic ineffectuality to theGreek theme of man's suffering nobility and the Christian theme of man'sidolatrous impatience if we are tocomprehend the whole of life. In fact,the modern image of man's emotionalinsecurity would appear to be so revealing that we can no longer properly see what the Greeks meant byman's finiteness or fully understandwhat Christians have meant by man'sspiritual pride apart from some basicreference to what the moderns meanby man's piteous abnormality. Another way of saying the same thingwould be to say that Greek andChristian plays can never mean quitethe same thing to us again and cannever mean quite as much to us nowthat we have seen and read modernplays. In short, modern plays haveenabled us to see the limitations, noless than the scope, of more traditionalforms of drama.As if the attempt to say what distinguishes modern plays from moretraditional forms of drama along withthe attempt to say what we shouldthink of them in relation to theirGreek and Christian prototypes werenot sufficiently ambitious topics formunity, and Region," on March 3.The lectures will be held at 8 o'clockin Social Science Building, room 122.There is no admission charge.A memorial servicefor Ellsworth Faris, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, who died December 19, was held in Bond Chapel onJanuary 4.A noted social psychologist, Dr.Faris was a member of the department from 1919 until his retirementin 1939. He succeeded to the chairmanship of the department in 1925,following the retirement of Dr. AlbionSmall.Former colleagues and associates ofDr. Faris, who spoke at the memorialservice, included Everett Hughes,present Chairman of the Department;Eustace Haydon, Professor Emeritus a short article, I should like to endwith a brief prediction concerningthe drama of the future: namely, thatit will seek to bring Greek, Christian,and modern images into a moremeaningful relationship to one another. The plays of the future willnot simply identify these images, asif they were little more than threeways of saying the same thing. Norwill they simply contrast them, as ifthey were just three rival and ultimately conflicting truths. The relationship between them will be oneof tension, not one of simple identityor simple contrast. In other words,the plays of the future will relateGreek, Christian, and modern motifsdialectically, as three basic parts ofone complex, yet unitary, truth.The futureIn any event, the drama of thefuture cannot simply negate the stories of Oedipus and King Lear or thestories of Willy Loman and BlancheDuBois even if it should equal or gobeyond them. Greek, Christian, andmodern plays have been too uniquein subject matter, too moving in dramatic form, and too meaningful andtrue to life simply to be negated. Ifthe plays of the future are to be great,they will have to fulfill, not justnegate, these traditional forms ofdrama; and they can do so in onlyone of two basic ways — either byrelating them to one another or byfusing them with some fresh andnovel insight of their own.of Comparative Religion; Dr. RuthCavan, of Rockford College, a formerstudent and assistant of Dr. Faris';Professor Ernest Burgess, ProfessorEmeritus and former Chairman ofthe Department, and Professor SamuelKincheloe, of the Federated Theological Faculty, one of Mr. Faris'former students and colleagues.Professor Burgess spoke of the distinguished contribution Mr. Farismade to sociological knowledge. "Mr.Faris took the lead in demolishingthe theory of the instincts as theexplanation of human behavior. Hemade an acute analysis of the 'natureof human nature' in an essay by thattitle."Mr. Burgess concluded by saying,"Dr. Faris was a genial soul whogreatly enjoyed the companionship ofhis friends. 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He will live on in hiswritings and most of all in the intellectual development of a generationof students who found his words ofwisdom profound as social psychology,and practical in application to theproblems of daily living.As an exampleof "excellence in design" the bookplate shown (above) was exhibitedin the Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of the Society of TypographicArts at the Art Institute in 1953. Itwas designed by James F. Hayes forbooks given to the University — andfor books purchased from endowedor other special funds.This particular plate was made forthe Emil Martin Martinson book fund,set up late last year in the form ofa bequest. Mr. Martinson receivedhis B.D. in 1898. — A.P.PRE-PUB OFFERCOLUMBIA-VIKING DESKENCYCLOPEDIAOVER MOO PAGESRegular Edition $7.95; Before Nov. I $6.95Thumb-Indexed $8.95; Before Nov. I $7.95ORDER NOW FROMTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOBOOKSTORE5802 Ellis Ave., Chicago THE ARAB WORLD. Nejla Izzeddin,AM '31, PhD '34. Chicago: HenryRegnery Company, 1953. pp 412+ xii.$6.50.There are not many spokesmen forthe Arab cause in the United States.Many persons have a feeling that"there is a case for the Arabs" intheir conflict with Israel, but few persons are able to put the argumentover with conviction. The Israelishave the advantage of coming fromWestern society, and have implantedin their little state just those elementsof culture by which we Westernersare most apt to judge others. We tendto think of Israel in terms of democracy and short pants, cooperativefarms and a Kaiser plant. Measuredby this sort of standard, the Arablands do not come off well. There islittle democracy, there are no shortpants; agriculture tends to be feudal,and there is little industry. But tojudge Arab lands by a yardstickmarked off in units of our own valuesis not only unfair; it is misleadingand inaccurate. Arab culture is notwestern culture; Arab society can bejudged fairly only in terms of its ownstandards. For this, the judging mustbe done by a member of the society.Then may the judgment be communicated to us — the success of Arabsociety in attaining its own culturalgoals — to be compared with our ownsociety's success in attaining our cultural goals, within our framework ofopportunity.Arab life justifiedNejla Izzeddin has set out to justifyArab life to the West, by explainingits independent cultural heritage. Shemakes clear that contemporary political developments in Arab lands areless to be judged in the familiarphrases of world politics, than interms of the centuries of Islamic tradition which comes down to the present as living reality for Moslems oftoday. She identifies herself with theIslamic tradition so completely thatshe is able to slip unself-consciouslyfrom historical narrative to statementof religious faith, and back, withoutbatting a footnote. This is the charmof this book. As a sincere attempt tointerpret Islamic society and its values to the West it is not only very useful,but probably unique.The book is longer than it needs tobe. Miss Izzeddin has tried to coverall the history of all the Arab andNorth African states in one part ofone volume. There is a regrettableamount of repetition, apparently inNEJLA IZZEDDIN, PH. D. '34, AUTHORESSthe interests of pressing home hersalient points. The book cannot beused as a reference work, for thoughit has the trappings of scholarship,there are errors in detail and lapsesof judgment in interpretation whichsuggest that the serious student wouldbe best advised to go to the established authorities Miss Izzeddin hasused, not always with full documentation. If a single example of lack ofhistorical care may suffice, I shouldlike to submit Miss Izzeddin's treatment of recent developments in theSudan. But all this is pettifogging —the value of this book lies not in itsworth as a text, but in its humanvalue as a polemic written by anArab.Strange as it may seem, I think thatthe weakness of this book is attributable to the fact that Miss Izzeddinwas educated in the West. She graduated from Vassar, and received herFEBRUARY, 1954 19doctorate from our own Alma Mater.This has not dampened her ardor forher way of life — but it has led her towrite of her way of life from a vantage point in the West. A feeling thatthe standards of the West in suchthings as technology, health, and education are the standards to whichArab lands should aspire creeps intothe book again and again. This I finddisappointing, and an evidence of abit of cultural wrench — Miss Izzeddinappears to be torn, in spite of herself.Sometimes I wonder whether a senseof inferiority is not an important factor in Moslem personality — there arepassages in Miss Izzeddin's book whichremind me of the plaintive wail ofthe cabaret music of Damascus. Iwould have been happier had theauthor granted nothing whatsoever tothe West; had the author told thestory of her culture giving us creditfor nothing at all, standing proudlyupon the very great cultural attainments of Islam. But had the authorbeen able to do this, she might neverhave been able to write this book forus in her really delightful English.Calvin StillmanAssistant ProfessorSocial Sciences (College)AS I REMEMBER. The Autobiography of Edgar J. Goodspeed. NewYork, Harper & Brothers, 1953. $3.50.The memoirs of Edgar J. Good-speed, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Professor Emeritus of NewTestament and Patristic Greek, willbe of particular interest to Universityof Chicago alumni. But apart fromthe relationship which makes them ofspecial interest to alumni of the University—which he and his family didso much to make great — they are ofimportance to all who are interestedin American education and culture.Mr. Goodspeed's memories recallPLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE CLUBTHREE PENNY OPERAby Bertold BrechtThursday through Sundayat 8:30from January 28th toFebruary 21stMURDER IN THECATHEDRALby T. S. Eliotfrom February 25thto March 21stMembership information on request1560 North WHitehallLaSalle Street 3-2272 vividly the religious leadership of hisfather and his uncle, life in a Chicagosuburb, study in the closing days ofthe old University, life in a representative church college, graduatestudy at Yale, the new University ofChicago, and abroad. They picturethe career of a distinguished scholar,social relationships with public spirited Chicagoans, the contributions ofMr. Goodspeed's capable and inde-fatiguable wife, Elfleda Bond Good-speed, the amazing continued activityand output of a Professor Emeritus,and withal the penetrating observations of an outstanding humanist, essayist, lecturer, and scholar.Unique familyThis book supplements Mr. Good-speed's father's History of the University of Chicago, 1891-1916. Not onlydoes it carry the chronicle farther, butit also makes useful additions toknowledge of the early days. Naturally, the larger contributions are ofthe period of Mr. Goodspeed's service,carrying the narrative to 1937. Thesememoirs are part of a unique familylibrary, for many will remember thebiographical sketches as well as thehistory written by Mr. Goodspeed'sfather, Thomas W. Goodspeed, andthe biographies written in part or inwhole by his brother, Mr. Charles T.B. Goodspeed.In this reviewer's judgment, themost significant aspect of these memoirs is the "case history" of the preparation and the activity of a humanistscholar. The reader will note theliterary and linguistic elements in thehome environment, and the social relations of the boy and the youth withgreat humanists. Many will wonderat the six year term of post-graduatestudy. Few will be able to appreciate,but all may well admire, the broadscope of this preparation, with mastery of Hebrew, Assyrian, Ethiopic,Syriac, Aramaic, and Coptic; classical, koine, and patristic Greek; a conversational command of Latin. Onlyspecialists will fully comprehend whatwas involved in the mastery, alongwith language, of the highly specialized techniques and competences required to work with facility in thenon-literary papyri and manuscripts.But herein is the key to the understanding of a distinguished career.The marvel is that the story is toldwith disarming simplicity.No doubt the reader's interest willbe captured most readily by Mr.Goodspeed's telling of his adventuresin translating the New Testament.Hardly less stimulating is the story of the finding of the Edith RockefellerMcCormick New Testament. Implicitin both these narratives, however, arethe telling illustrations of what Mr.Goodspeed achieved as a humanistand the effects of what he accomplished: the distribution of more thana million copies of his AmericanTranslation, the acquisition by hisUniversity of a manuscript collectionwhich is rivalled by only one otherAmerican University, and the trainingof students whose number is legion.They include many who now apply inuniversities and theological seminarieswhat Mr. Goodspeed by his learningand leadership brought to his classroom, his seminar, and his study.Through family relationships andclose association with PresidentsHarper, Jucjsxm, and Burton, Mr.Goodspeed was in a position to knowmany of the intimate details of thefounding, establishment and growthof the University of Chicago. He tellsmany tales, serious and jocose, ofhimself and of his associates. Theseadd to the value of the book. Mr.Goodspeed's humor and urbanity arealways in evidence. The zest for living which characterized Mr. and Mrs.Goodspeed in equal degree is evidentin the story of the busy years of retirement, during which, in a newenvironment, another equally vividperiod brought new and differentsatisfactions. Mr. Goodspeed evincesa great spiritual serenity when hismemories bring him to Mrs. Good-speed's death; those of his readerswho knew them both will find andderive uplifting faith here.The readers of AS I REMEMBERwill be entertained; Mr. Goodspeed isalways entertaining — in society, in theclassroom, in his essays and books,and in his lectures. But he is alwaysinstructive, too.Donald Riddle, '20, PhD '23Radio Station W F M T... 78 fiours a dayall of it devoted to . . .serious musicdramapoetryand discussion7 a.m. to J a.m.98.7 on your FM dialTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEJ\eader£ QuideSCIENCE AND SOCIETYIf you want to follow up on President Eisenhower's United Nationsspeech on atomic energy — and theproblems thereof — you may find thislist of books helpful. Some of thebooks deal specifically with questionsof atomic power, and how to use it,and others deal more generally withthe role of science in a democraticsociety. The suggested books areedited from a longer list prepared byWilliam T. Hutchinson, Professor ofAmerican History, for alumni consumption.THE ABSOLUTE WEAPON:ATOMIC POWER AND WORLDWebb-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. 51MOnroc 6-2900 ORDER. Edited by Bernard Brodie.New York, Harcourt Brace, 1946.This volume is a discussion of theuse and abuse of the atom bomb,written for the general reader, by fivemembers of the Yale Institute ofInternational Studies. It analyzes theimpact of atomic weapons upon warand international politics.ENDLESS HORIZONS. By Vanne-var Bush. Washington, Public AffairsPress, 1946.This is a scientist's view of variousproblems of science, stressing thepublic's interest in them. It is acollection of articles, reports andspeeches made by Mr. Bush, whoheaded the Office of Scientific Research and Development during thewar.THE POLITICS OF ATOMIC ENERGY. By Harry Gideonse et al. NewYork: Woodrow Wilson Foundation,1946.Essays by Gideonse, Raymond Fos-dick, William Ogburn, and FrederickL. Schuman on the challenge presented to the United States and theworld by the atom bomb are includedin this volume.ATOMIC POWER AND MORALFAITH. By T. V. Smith. Claremont,California: Claremont College, 1946.In this book, a philosopher faces the ethical challenge presented by powerunlimited.MODERN ARMS AND FREE MAN:A Discussion of the Role of Sciencein Preserving Democracy. By Van-nevar Bush. Simon and Schuster,1949.This is a very informative book,without being frightening. Full ofcontroversial and vital subjects, it isan interpretation of the impact ofscience on the relations of men in arapidly changing world. It revealsMr. Bush's abiding faith in democracy.WAR AND HUMAN PROGRESS:An Essay on the Rise of IndustrialCivilization. By John U. Nef. HarvardUniversity Press, 1950.A stimulating integration of theindustrial, cultural, and military history of the Western world. Excellentfor providing historical perspectiveto some of our contemporary problems.THE IMPACT OF SCIENCE ONSOCIETY. By Bertrand Russell. Columbia University Press, 1951.A distinguished philosopher andmathematician, provocative as always,states tersely his reflections upon thisproblem. The volume includes thethree Matchette lectures delivered atColumbia University in November,1950.SCIENCE AND COMMON SENSE.By James B. Conant. Yale UniversityPress, 1951. ^In this book, Mr. Conant furnishesessential background for an understanding of the role of science in ademocratic society.How Much Do You Want 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. The Sun Life, established in 1865,invites you to give serious consideration to the excellent prospects offered bythis professional career of public service.• Expert training • Immediate income with commission and bonuses •• Generous hospitalization and retirement plans •The Branch Manager of the Sun Life office serving your territory will gladly discuss with you the advantages of aSun Life sales career. For a complete list of the Company's 100 branches in the United States and Canada, write theHead Office, 218 Sun Life Building, Montreal.FEBRUARY, 1954 211896G. A. Bale wrote a note from TempleCity, Calif., to his Alma Mater recently,full of happy memories and appreciationof the University. "Just a note to express my constant gratitude for thecountless and measureless blessings ofmy nearly four years at the U. of C. Myregistration was number 120; I was agraduate of the Divinity School; a chumof Hubbard's; Dr. Judson's clerk; specialfriend of Starr; substitute under Stagg.Now in my 87th year, happy and hopingstill to be of some use before I leave forsome better state than California."1899In recognition of his generous contribution to Chicago's musical endeavors,Percy B. Eckhart was judged winner ofthe 1953 Citation of the Chicago Business Men's Orchestra and the MusicalCourier. The Citation was established asan annual project of the Chicago Business Men's Orchestra two years ago tohonor "the Chicago area individual ororganization, not engaged professionallyin music, judged to have made thegreatest contribution to Chicago's music."Mr. Eckhart, a prominent Chicagolawyer, and businessman, has been aleading spirit in many civic musical endeavors. In 1911 he organized the Ravi-nia Company and from 1938 to 1950served as chairman of the Ravinia Festival Association.1903Wynne Garlick of Long Beach, Calif.,had herself a big vacation last summer.After attending the Class of '03 reunionon campus last June, she attended theHarvard commencement, and then spentsix weeks in England.Herman Schlesinger, PhD '05, is one offour famous representatives of the American chemical profession honored by PhiLambda Upsilon this fall when his namewas placed on its select roster of honorary members. Dr. Schlesinger waschosen for this honor on the basis of hisoutstanding contribution to research ininorganic chemistry, especially the hydrides of boron and related metallohy-drides, for the discovery of which he andhis students are given credit. Dr.Schlesinger is Professor Emeritus ofChemistry.1907Dudley K. Woodward, Jr., Dallas attorney, is the chairman for the 1953-54Texas United Defense Fund drive. Mr.Woodward has served as chairman ofthe Board of Regents of Texas University, and belongs to several bar associations. 1910Lillian Gubelman, AM '23, writes fromSanta Cruz, Calif., that she is having agood time taking life easy.1911Conrado Benitez was delayed in Chi cago late last fall on his way to a conference in Geneva while he spent sometime in the hospital. Conrado is chairman of the Board of Trustees of thePhilippine Reconstruction Movement. Hewrites, "more and more the Philippinesare becoming an interpreter of Americaamong our fellow-Asian neighbors andI do a bit of self-imposed crusading inthat direction.1912James Groves, SM, PhD '15, is a grandfather now, with the birth on December2 of Thomas Dexter Hedden, son of Mr.AL MASON HANDS SILVER ICE-BUCKET TO WEBER WHILE BERLIN LOOKS ONChanges at Webb-LinnThe hyphen between Webb-Linnindicates a long and close relationshipbetween Abraham Weber, '07, JD '09,and Louis Berlin, '09, which began intheir student days at the Universityand has continued through the morethan forty years of their associationas co-owners of Webb-Linn PrintingCompany — printers of the Magazine.Mr. Weber's retirement in Januarydoesn't change the friendly associationof these two men, although it makesfor a few changes in the businessset-up. Mr. Berlin succeeds Mr.Weber as president of the firm, whichleaves Mr. Weber free to indulge inhis favorite pastime of traveling.The farewell party given by Mr.Berlin for Mr. Weber at the StandardClub was no sooner over than Mr.Weber was off for a five -month tourof Africa. A veteran globe-trotter, Mr.Weber has been saving Africa as oneof the few remaining continents forhim to conquer.This change also brings the positionof vice-president to Abraham Falick,MBA '51, who joined the firm in 1948as a salesman and was later appointedadvertising manager. Abe has guidedthe friendly — and business — relationship between the firm and the Magazine during this past year. While at the University, Mr. Weberstudiously pursued his legal education,and Mr. Berlin applied himself energetically to all manner of courses andextra-curricular activities. Manyalumni who read this box may beamong those helped through schoolby the Employment Service whichMr. Berlin founded and ran for fouryears while he was a student. Hisenergies went into activating thebusiness end of the Daily Maroon, andafter graduation he continued hisinterest in publications by foundingand editing The Sentinel, the ChicagoJewish weekly.Mr. Weber joined him in this enterprise, as well as practicing law. In1921 they went in on another ventureto found the Webb-Linn printing firm,which under their leadership hasbecome one of the largest publicationprinting plants in the Midwest.In addition to building a thrivingbusiness, both men have taken anactive part in civic and philanthropicendeavors. Mr. Berlin was cited by theAlumni Association in 1951 for hismany civic undertakings. He continues on the board of directors ofMt. Sinai Hospital. Mr. Weber is amember of the board of directors ofGraphic Arts Association of Illinois.22 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEAlumni barriersAmong our alumni there are agoodly number of globe trotters.Eleanor Burgess, '20, is one ofthem. A few years back she spenta sabattical year traveling in SouthAmerica. This year she is a Ful-bright grantee, teaching English inthe Eden Girls' College, a government school in Dacca, East Pakistan. She writes,"I have classes in each of thefour years of the College, and amthoroughly enjoying being associated with the College. My homeis in the Government CircuitHouse. A cook-bearer prepares allmy meals in a kitchen at the rear,and serves them in my room, thecustom here. Everyone is cordialand hospitable and the social lifeis very pleasant."Not so pleasant, however, was thesad news in a letter she receivedfrom one of our alumni in thatarea. From Kshitindra Kumar Nag,'23, in Calcutta, came these words:"I was indeed delighted to hearfrom a member of my Alma Mater.I am now a resident irC IndianUnion at Calcutta."I would have been too pleasedto meet you at my earnest willnear my old home (in Pakistan)but for the partition of India. Youhave come all the way, half theglobe — but alas! we alumni cannotmeet as we please even though sonear yet so far because of barriersrecently imposed between twoBengals."Whenever you chance to be thisway again do let me know. I wouldsurely inform you if I can avail ofan opportunity to visit my home inPakistan and go to Dacca for thatmatter."and Mrs. (Genevieve Groves) GregoryHedden, PhD '51.1915Harold A. Moore, senior vice-presidentof Chicago Title and Trust Co., has beenelected chairman of the Chicago BetterBusiness Bureau.1916Alice Hertel is an assistant to the Boardof Examiners of the Chicago Board ofEducation.Jessie Marsh writes from MontanaState College that "the annual Yellowstone Park 'sightseeing' trip for the blindwhich I inaugurated four years ago hasgrown so that our Association set it upas a tri-state trip this year and weactually had blind from seven states included. They want annual participation,so the idea — which is almost a phobiawith me — is growing apace. I'm working full time now trying to get a statewideproduction shop and training center forthe blind set up to carry on where oursummer school for the blind leaves off."1917Harold P. Huls, JD '21, a member ofthe Public Utilities Commission of California, resigned this position recently toaccept the appointment of Judge of theSuperior Court for the County of LosAngeles on October 1. The appointmentwas made September 13 by GovernorEarl Warren before he became ChiefJustice of the U.S. Supreme Court. JudgeHuls' court is Department 68, one of 80departments in the largest trial court inthe world. Stanley Mosk, '33, is also ajudge in this court. Harold Huls hasalways been a loyal supporter of Chicagoand all things good in his own community. In 1951 we brought him back tocampus to award him an alumni citationfor good citizenship.1918Twenty days after Ethel Myers retiredlast May 1 as an assistant director ofthe passport office of the Department ofState, she used her own passport toboard the Queen Elizabeth for Europe.In three and a half months she visitedeleven countries, and found it a "richexperience."Arthur Turman is chief engineer ofthe Engineering Division of the Producing Department in the San FranciscoOffice of Standard Oil of California.1919Edna Richardson Meyers of Chicago,planned to spend the winter at MorongoValley, near Palm Springs, Calif.1921M. Glenn Harding is executive director of Koinonia Foundation in Baltimore.J. Ernest Wilkins, JD, is serving asvice-chairman of the government's contract committee which was establishedto see that persons employed on government contracts are not discriminatedagainst because of race, color, creed ornational origin. A Chicago attorney, Mr.Wilkins is the only Negro member amongthe nine public members appointed tothe committee by President Eisenhower.1922Robert Collins is an executive withThe Pulse, Inc. — "foremost rating servicefor radio and television programs. Wemake more than 1,200,000 interviews inthe home yearly — largest sample withthe exception of the U.S. Census." Oneof Mr. Collins' pet business interests isexamining the belief- content of advertising. As the result of a consumer survey,his advice to advertisers can be summedup in one simple sentence: "If you wantto increase sales, make your advertisingmore believable." The best-selling prod ucts have the best-believed advertising,the survey conducted by Pulse showed.Harold D. Lasswell, PhD '26, has beennamed by the National Book AwardCommittee to serve on the non-fictionjury for the National Book Award. Inaddition to Dr. Lasswell, other judges onthe non-fiction board include BernardDeVoto, Detlev W. Bronk, Erwin Can-ham, and William Dix.William MacWhorter writes that he is"still sailing the Seven Seas — as a merchant seaman."Forrest Wilkinson Peters is an instructor in Psychology at Long Beach CityCollege in California.1923Harold F. Moses, vice-president of theCarter Oil Co., has been appointed deputy manager of exploration and deputychief geologist of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.).B. Fain Tucker, who won in the Chicago fall judicial elections, is the firstwoman judge in Chicago for 21 years.Her hope was to get an assignment inFamily Court, and follow in the foot-JOSEPH H. 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Vernon AvenueNOrmal 7-0433FEBRUARY, 1954 23steps of the first woman judge everelected in Illinois — Mary Bartelme.1924Earl Speicher, PhD, who has beenDean of Northland College since 1947,completed thirty years of service in theNorthland faculty last June, at whichtime the alumni presented him with abronze plaque in honor of the occasion.He joined the Northland College facultyimmediately after completing his doctorate at the University.1925Anna Kenny, AM '29, PhD '45, whoteaches in the Department of English atthe University of Illinois, Navy Pier,writes with enthusiasm of her experience on campus last summer with theSchool-College Program, a project sponsored by a grant from the Ford Foundation to interpret the College program toChicago area high school and collegeteachers.Catherine G. Rawson, vice-president ofthe University of Chicago Alumni Association, is one of Chicago's better interiordecorators. Currently she is second vice-president of the American Institute ofDecorators and a member of the NationalBeard of Governors. Their national conference will be held in Chicago nextJune. Miss Rawson is responsible forthe attractive lounge at Alumni House.1926John F. Latimer, AM, Associate Professor of Classical Languages at GeorgeWashington University, has been namedUniversity marshall. He will continuewith his duties as Assistant Dean of theCollege of General Studies and Executive Officer of the Department of Classical Languages.1927Hildegard Sumner Doll (Mrs. Frank)has been named director of nursingservice for the University of NebraskaSchool of Nursing and University Hospital.Edith Sauer, AM, is director of public relations and publicity for the CaribeHilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico.1928Arnold Johnson, Chicago industrialist,has recently concluded another big sportsdeal. With associates, he bought YankeeStadium last December. A sportsmanwhose chief hobbies are hunting andfishing, he was vice-president and treasurer of the Chicago Black Hawks, andstill serves as a director on the Nationalleague team. He is chairman of theAutomobile Canteen Corporation ofAmerica, a large vending machine company, and is associated with a score ofother businesses.Helen Williamson, AM '32, is a busykindergarten teacher in Narbeth, a suburb of Philadelphia. "There is a strongPTA here. I have two splendid Mother'sClubs. It is a pleasure to work cooperatively with each of these as well as aserious-minded and well-trained faculty.I continue my interests and labor throughthe N.A.C.E., Pi Lambda Theta, and thePennsylvania State Education Association." She indulges her hobby by servingas chairman for the Philadelphia Countyof the State Folklore Society and memberof the Philadelphia Academy of 'NaturalSciences. She takes herself and herycung charges on many nature trips.1929* Harry Hagey is a partner in the firmof Stein Roe & Farnham in Chicago.The Hageys have two daughters, Ann,16, and Virginia, 15, and a 13-year oldson, Harry.* Marcella River Lehmann writes thather twin sons graduated from high schoollast spring and that one has enteredOberlin College, and the other is working for a year before entering collegenext fall. She is a resident of Mokena,111.* Fay Warhaftag Pusstelnik lives inChicago where her husband is a dentist.They have two daughters, now in theCollege of the University.1930Winford Addison, AM, is principal ofthe Corona Evening High School in California.Sophie Cheskie, MBA '46, spent lastsummer in the Scandinavian countries.Marion A. Fischer, AM '50, is a counselor of student teachers at ChicagoTeachers College.Brandon Grone, PhD '34, is presidentof the Socony Vacuum Oil Co., of Egypt,with offices in Cairo.Asa J. Merrill, JD, is an attorney withthe Bureau of Law of the InterstateCommerce Commission, in Washington,D.C.Raymond Nelson has been assigned tothe 7th Army Headquarters in Stuttgart,Germany, as a field director for theAmerican Red Cross.James G. Smith, MD, and his partner,Roland Banks, are operating a twenty-sixbed hospital and five-man clinic in Wau- GEORGE DUKE HUMPHREY, AM '31Education vs. sheepFolks out in Wyoming are veryproud — and with ample justification — of the achievements of theirUniversity.Its success story was well toldseveral months ago in CoronetMagazine, and we call your attention to it, in case you didn't see itwhen it came out, because muchof the success results from the outstanding efforts of George DukeHumphrey, AM '31."Duke" Humphrey became president of Wyoming U. in 1945, afteryeoman service in his home stateas president of Mississippi StateCollege.His own struggles to get an education — it took him fourteen yearsto get his college degrees — and hisefforts to raise educational standards in the South had done muchto strengthen his own convictionsthat education is a tremendous opportunity.As the story puts it, "The statejust hasn't been the same sinceone July day in 1945, when a solidly built, six-foot Southernerclimbed from his car at the Wyoming-Colorado border, looked outover the vast reaches of sagebrush toward the blue line of distant mountains, and vowed hewould give his best to the state hehad come to serve."To some, entering Wyoming onfoot after such a dedication mighthave seemed merely a sentimentalgesture. But to those who knowGeorge Duke Humphrey, it wouldseem just what it was — the natural,unaffected act of a man whosewhole life has been devoted to acourageous quest for learning."24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEGEORGE DeYOUNG. MD '32chula, Fla. Dr. Smith has been theresince 1947, following four years of servicewith the Army medical corps.1931Donald Dalton, Washington attorney,has been appointed to the National Veterans' Preference Committee of theAmerican Legion.Victor E. Hruska, JD '32, is assistantgeneral manager of the Prudential LifeInsurance Co., south central home officein Jacksonville, Fla.1932George DeYoung, MD, has been appointed regional medical consultant ofthe National Foundation for InfantileParalysis for six central states. In thiscapacity, Dr. DeYoung, a former publichealth officer, works in close cooperationwith state, county and local health officials and with National Foundation staterepresentatives on problems relating topolio patient care. He has a degree inPublic Health pending from the University of Minnesota. His published thesis,"Poliomyelitis Following Strain, Stressand Surgical Procedures," has become adefinitive work on the subject.Louis Sass recently transferred to theExploration Division of the ProductionDepartment in Gulf Oil Corporation'shome office in Pittsburgh.Charlotte Schuchardt, AM, AssistantDirector of the Institute of GeneralSemantics, was married November 1 toMr. Allen Walker Read, an associate professor of English at Columbia University.John N. Schumacher is in the commercial research division of the Aluminum Company of America. Friends whodrop in on him in the Alcoa's handsomenew headquarters in Pittsburgh will findhim ready to conduct a personal tourthrough the new building. He writes,'There are a great many architecturalinnovations in the new building, but therevolutionary one is the use of formedaluminum sheet for the exterior walls. We are told that, at the present time,there are thirty new structures nowbuilding or well along in the designstage, employing this method of exteriorwall construction."1933Marc Cleworth, AM, writes that he isstill "peddling books" to colleges anduniversities in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.C. B. Tziolas, AM '38, is director ofvocational rehabilitation, Wisconsin Neurological Foundation. He was marriedlast April 19 to Patricia Lynch.Lou Williams Page (Mrs. Thornton)SM '35, PhD '47, has two children. ThePage's second child, Leigh Page II, isnow 18 months old. The Pages, who livein Washington, D.C, were both facultymembers at the University of Chicagobefore going to Washington.1934Capt. Martin Carlson has been on active duty with the Navy for the past 13years, but writes that he will probablygo to inactive duty in a few months, inwhich case he will return to Chicago.He has been serving as a legal specialistin the Real Estate Section, Navy Department of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,Washington, D.C, for the past four years.1935Phillip Doolittle is employed by thePennsylvania Railroad in Chicago. His wife died over a year ago, leaving himfive children to raise.Howard Hudson, former associate editor of the Magazine and more recentlypresident of our Washington, D.C. Club,is liaison officer and member of the steering committee of the National PlanningAssociation in Washington, D.C.So many alumni from the mid-thirtieswill remember Paul R. Kitch, who helpedrun the Reynolds Club during his student days, that we thought they wouldbe interested in the five little Kitcheswho arrived at this office via a Christmascard. Paul is a prominent lawyer inWichita, Kansas.Clifford G. Massoth, editor in charge ofpublic relations staff, Illinois CentralRailroad, Chicago, has been invited toMexico City by the National Railways ofMexico to reorganize its magazine andpublic relations work. He left this monthon his new assignment.Lewis Robbins, MD '38, is continuingas Director of the Department of AdultPsychiatry of the Menninger Foundationin Topeka, Kan. He has three children:Douglas, 7, Donald, 2%, and Jean, 1%.1936Eaton Read, MBA, PhD '38, who joinedthe faculty of the University of Bridgeport, Conn., as Professor of Marketing in1948, has been Dean of the College ofBusiness Administration there since 1949.Maurice M. Shapiro, SM '40, PhD '42,head of the Cosmic Ray Branch in theNaval Research Laboratory, has beenFIVE SONS ENJOY COMPANY OF A FRIEND AT THE HOME OF PAUL R. 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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 MAURICE M. SHAPIRO, MBA '36, PH. D. '38named Superintendent of the NucleonicsDivision of the Laboratory. At the University, Dr. Shapiro was a member ofArthur Compton's cosmic ray group.During the war he was a group leaderat the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,and served as consultant on hydrodynamics to Admiral Parsons. He served as asenior physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory before joining theNaval Research Lab in 1949. Dr. Shapirois among the pioneers in the applicationof the powerful technique of detectingnuclear particles with special photographic emulsions.Robert S. Whitlow, a New York attorney, was married last May 23 to LeeJane Smith.1937Jess Joseph, Jr., is manager of the appliance department of Albert Mathias &Co., Inc., in El Paso, Texas. He has twochildren: Jess III, who is six years old,and Paul, 3.James S. May, MD '40, has been nameddirector of the Dallas Child GuidanceClinic, a Community Chest agency. Heassumed his new duties last September.Dr. May and his wife have three sons.James L. Walters, Assistant Professorof Biology, and his wife, Marta, are ascience research team at Santa BarbaraCollege of the University of California.They both participated in the 1953 meeting of the Genetics Society of Americaheld in Boston. The meetings were heldin conjunction with the annual meetingsof the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Walters isstudying the problem of chromosome behavior in the California peony. In thisplant, the peculiarities of the chromosomeare not abnormal but are regarded as part of the hereditary changes whichtake place in the process of evolution.The working out of the mechanisms ofthese changes has been Mr. Walter'schief research interest for a number ofyears.1938Dorothy Emerick, AM '42, has a newhome and new job. She' recently movedfrom Portland, Ore., to Olympia, Wash.,were she works as training consultant inthe State Dept. of Public Assistance.Robert Hughes is assistant manager ofthe social security office in Milwaukee,Wis.Edgar W. Mills, Sr., AM, is managerof the Rexair Division, Martin-ParryCorp., in South Central Texas. His officeis in San Antonio.1939Ruth Irene Huff Cline, PhD, is Associate Professor of English at Eastern Illinois State College in Charleston, Illinois.Alex C. Davidson, Jr., MBA, is assistantdirector of industrial relations of American Steel and Wire Division, UnitedStates Steel Corporation. He is responsible for the administration of safety,works protection and workmen's com-"One free physicist"Ralph Lapp, '40 PhD '46, one ofAmerica's foremost authorities onatomic energy, spoke at WagnerCollege in New York on the subject, "Science Remaking theWorld."In 1949 Dr. Lapp organized theNuclear Science Service to serveas a consultant to industry on theuses of atomic energy. In this position he is known as "the one freephysicist."He points out that were he inthe Atomic Energy Commission orthe Defense Department he couldnot write or say what he believesmust be told about the problems,progress and possibilities of atomicenergy — "always within the verystrict bounds of national security,"he adds.He is an extensive writer on thesubject. His latest book, The NewForce, published in 1953, is thestory of atoms and people in bothpeace and war. In it he cites theprogress being made in industrialuse of atomic energy.A division director of the wartime Manhattan Project, after thewar, he was assistant director ofthe Argonne National Laboratoryuntil appointed scientific adviser tothe War Department General Staff.He later headed the NuclearBranch of the Office of Naval Research before organizing NuclearScience Service.26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINERadio Free EuropeJohn Jefferson, '41, has startedon the second year in his very interesting job with Radio FreeEurope. He joined the staff inFebruary, '53, and last May wasnamed deputy program manager.Jack writes from Munich, Germany, that two other Chicagoalumni are also working for RadioFree Europe, the American-sponsored anti-Communist stationbroadcasting to satellite Easternand Central Europe. Allan Drey-fuss, '41, is one of the RFE correspondents in Stockholm, andRobert Wainboldt, is the overallprogram director.Jack covered the Korean warfor twelve months as a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcastingsystem. He explains his move toRFE against the background ofhis experiences in Korea:"The memories of Korea havebeen very vivid to me for manyreasons, including the fact that Ivery nearly lost my life there.Free lancing in London seemedvery pointless at times with theKorean war continuing and theworld in the state it is in. RFErepresented a chance to get backinto the fight."Parent organization of RFE isthe National Committee for a FreeEurope, with representatives fromall the countries overrun by theRussians. In addition to RFE, theCommittee sponsors the Free University of Strasbourg, France,where young refugees are trainedto help establish democratic governments when their home landsare freed, the Mid-European StudyCenter, the Research and Publications Division, and the CitizensService Committee, which providesfinancial and physical aid to refugees.Jack's classmates will remember that his interest in reportingnews was much in evidence as acorrespondent for the Tribune during his undergraduate days.pensation matters in the fourteen plantslocated in the midwest and eastern seaboard states. The Davidsons have a sonand daughter, and live in Bay Village,near Cleveland.Benjamin Draper is the executive producer of the TV program, "Science inAction." Ben writes, "I'm having a difficult time explaining what a former U.of C. economist is doing producing ascience television program. At any rate,that is what I have been doing thesepast four years, and apparently the showis achieving some success for we areseen in five different cities in the countrynow, all sponsored, and no subsidies. Weare likely one of the few educational shows that packs its own freight andmakes a bit of money for the educationalinstitutions that sponsor it."Judith Graham Pool has moved to SanFrancisco where she has a post doctoralfellowship at Stanford Medical School.David M. Scheffer, JD '41, is an enforcement attorney for the Internal Revenue Service at the Omaha Office ofRegional Counsel.1940Howard Z. Herzig is an aeronauticalresearch scientist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Heco-authored a technical paper presentedin December at the annual meeting ofthe American Society for MechanicalEngineers in New York City. The paperwas entitled, "Visualization Studies ofSecondary Flows with Applications toTurbomachines." Mr. Herzig joined thestaff of the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland in 1946.Robert C. Jones has gone to Mexicoto engage in free lance economic andsocial consulting work.Maud Rasmussen Cleworth, AM, is afree-lance educational consultant. Shehas been director of the reading clinicat Washington University in St. Louisduring summer sessions, and will directthe reading clinics at ISNU again in1954. She has been doing book reviews,in dramatic form, in addition to herother responsibilities.Lillian Sheffner Goodkin reports fromLos Angeles, Calif., that she and herdoctor husband have three children:David, 10, Carol, 7, and Peter, 5. Lillianis active in community organizations, andis an immediate past president of LambdaOmicron Gamma Auxiliary.William J. Suchy is waiting for thenext election and another chance to getelected to the School Board of Cicero,111. In addition to his political ambitions,he is making a study of juvenile literature, visual education, and juvenile delinquency. He is also enrolled in a training program for executives at Sears,Roebuck and Co., in Chicago.John A. Watson, MD, is practicingmedicine in Bremerton, Wash., after fouryears of service in World War II. "Haveone wife, two kids, one mortgage. Guessthat makes me about average."1941Donald L. Buchanan, MD, is directorof the radioisotope unit of the Veteran'sAdministration Hospital in West Haven,Conn.1942Joel (AM '48) and Merle Sloan Bernstein continue as European residents.They moved from Paris on December 1to Via Severano, 3, Rome, Italy whereJoel is special assistant to the Chief ofthe Foreign Operations Administrationto Italy. Their son, Jonathan, is now twoand a half, and he has a new baby sis- ALEX C. DAVIDSON, MBA '39ter. Deborah Lynn, born last August 27.George D. Blackwood, AM '47, PhD '51,is working in a general education program at Boston University. He is married, and has "a wonderful, active year-and-a-half old daughter."Paul D'Arco is director of personnelat the Admiral Corp., in Chicago.Melvin (PhD '45) and Blanche LernerGerstein were in England in December.After a visit in London they proceededto Cambridge where Dr. Gerstein wasinvited to comment on papers presentedby scientists from NATO countries beforethe Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD)v/hich is a part of NATO. Dr. Gersteinis Head of the Combustion FundamentalsSection of the Lewis Flight PropulsionLaboratory of the National AdvisoryCommittee for Aeronautics. He attendedthe initial meeting of the AGARD combustion panel in Rome last year.James Hackett, a 2nd Lieutenant inthe Army, was recently awarded theBronze Star medal for meritorious serviceMELVIN GERSTEIN, '42, PH. D. '45FEBRUARY, 1954 27in Korea. He is a platoon leader forCompany C of the 7th Infantry Division's 13th Engineer Combat Battalion.He has also received the Purple Heart,the Korean Service Ribbon, and UnitedNations Service Ribbon.Gregory Hedden, SM '50, PhD '51, hasa son, Thomas Dexter, born December 2.Dr. John H. Ivy and his wife, the former Shirley Power, are residents of Elkhart, Ind., where John is a physician.Werner Keucher, AM, is president ofthe Baptist Missionary Training Schoolin Chicago. For the past five years hehad served as pastor of First BaptistChurch in Shelton, Conn.Sara Larson, SM, has been on leaveof absence this year from the Departmentof Geology and Geography, Kansas StateCollege, to complete requirements for herPhD in geography at the University ofNebraska.Richard Matthews is at Princeton University where he is "trying to keep theEngineering Library running."Dr. Seymour Steinhorn is serving asHead of the Department of Psychiatry atthe Institute for Juvenile Research andengaged in private practice in Chicago.Warren Wilner, Jr., MD '45, and hiswife, the former Eloise Goode, '44, areliving in San Francisco where Warrenis on the staff of Stanford UniversityHospitals. He plans to move down tothe new Peninsula Hospital early thisyear. The Warrens have a four-year-old daughter, Wendy.1943Eleanor Bernstein Seegman, AM '44,writes that she and her husband arebuilding and hope to move soon into anew house located in beautiful San Fernando Valley (L.A.). She has been teaching Shakespeare in the Glendale publicschool system.Ruth Lambie, SM, is Assistant Professor of Home Economics and Child Development at East Carolina College inGreenville, N. C.John W. Ragle is on leave of absencefrom Springfield (Vt.) High School thisyear to do some writing. He taught English at the Phillips Exeter Academy inNew Hampshire last summer and will doa repeat performance this summer.Chloe Roth Fox is an associate editorwith American Exporter in New YorkCity.1944Capt. Ruth L. Greenfield, SM, has beennamed Director of the Advanced MedicalTechnician Course at Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center, Washington, D. C. Forthe past ten months she has been assistantdirector of this first Army school established to train enlisted personnel in thefield of practical nursing.Frederic L. Kempster is an assistanteditor at Scott, Foresman and Co., inChicago.Dorothy Nelson (Mrs. Rodney Hems-worth) is a psychiatrist at the IndianaUniversity Medical Center.Abba H. Salzman of Chicago is still CAPTAIN ROBERT WEAVER, MD '44"scanning the horizons" as staff researchgeographer for Rand McNally & Co.Though located in the Cartographic Research Department in Skokie, he remainsby residence a confirmed Hyde Parker.Salzman recently attended the annualmeeting of the West Lakes Division ofthe Ass'n. of American Geographers in^Minneapolis.¦ Capt. Robert Weaver, MD, who arrivedin Germany in December, is a pediatrician at the Bremerhaven port of embarkation. His wife is with him, and isassigned to the U.S. Army Hospital'sDetachment C at Bremerhaven.1945Wayne J. Colahan, AM, is educationalrepresentative for the EncyclopediaBritannica in Rochester, New York.L. P. Johns, MBA, has accepted a position as patent attorney with the firm ofFrease & Bishop in Canton, Ohio.James Light, AM '47, who has beenteaching at Syracuse University since1949, earned his PhD from that institution last June.Irving Rozenfeld, MD '47, is back incivilian life after serving for two yearswith the Army Air Force. He is practicing pediatrics now in Chicago. He andhis wife, Betty Frankel, '44, AM '45, havethree children. The family was able tobe with Irving during his entire tour ofduty.Louis B. Thomas, MD, is working aspathologist in surgical pathology at thenew National Institute of Health clinicalcenter in Bethesda, Maryland.1946Joy Eisenberg Lipman is raising threesons these days, now that Mayer Samueljoined his two brothers, Marc, 2x/2, andHarvey, IV2, on November 11.Archie E. Hendricks, AM, PhD '49, hasmoved from Vermont to Brookline, Mass.,where he is now employed as assistantsuperintendent of schools. A son, DavidEugene, was born June 23rd of this year. Charles Higgins, SM '47, Assistant Professor of Geology, is also Chairman ofthe Department of Geological Scienceson the Davis Campus of the Universityof California. "This new full-time position on the Davis campus," he writes,"reflects just one of the measures to expand the facilities of this campus of theUniversity under the aegis of the newly-established College of Letters and Scienceon the Davis campus, which was untiltwo years ago an agricultural college."Gwin J. Kolb, AM, PhD '49, has beenappointed an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago.Anne L. Lowald Yondorf is a Glen-view, 111., homemaker. The Yondorf'ssecond child, Thomas George, will celebrate his first birthday on March 13.Anne MacGowan was married last June20 in Heidelberg, Ger., to Lt. Col. RobertShannon, Jr. They are now in Columbus,Ohio, where Lt. Shannon is assigned toOhio State University ROTC detachment.Anne writes that Barbara Bloomquistwas maid of honor at the wedding.Robert E. McKemie is assistant manager of the George Owens Lumber Co.,in Dallas, Texas.Leon Miller, AM, PhD '50, writes thatCarol Janette Miller was born September23. Leon continues in his post as chairman of the Division of Education atNorthwest Missouri State College. During his final years at Chicago, Leon wasdirector of alumni education in chargeof our special alumni courses.Robert Moses, MD, has recently entered the Army and is practicing psychiatry at the Brooke Army Hospital inSan Antonio.Georgiana Rogers writes that she isGeorgiana Hlavacek now, and is livingin Clarendon Hills, 111.1947Albert Ballert, PhD, has recently accepted a position with the Ford MotorCo., and will be involved in a projectstudying the metropolitan areas of theUnited States for the sales planning andanalysis department. Since 1950 he hasbeen senior research planner for theChicago Plan Commission. The coursesin geography he has been giving at theDowntown College have been taken overby Mary Colby. Albert will continue tohandle the new home -study course entitled Geography and World Affairs.Edwin Diamond, AM '49, has resignedhis full-time responsibilities as assistantto the Dean of the University College tobe Chicago staff correspondent for International News Service. He has continuedwith the Downtown College on a part-time basis to concentrate on experimentalprograms for the Center.Alvan Feinstein, SM '48, MD '52, aftercompleting his internship, is now takinga one year residency in internal medicineat the Yale University Service in theNew Haven Hospital.A daughter, Stephanie, was born toErnestine and Marshall Forrest, JD, ofBellingham, Wash., June 14. Marshall,who is practicing law and serving as ajustice of the peace, recently received28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEa national merit award for their house,designed by Bassetti and Morse of Seattle.A Christmas newsletter from RobertGemmer and his family reports a busyand happy year for their household. Heis minister of the First Church of theBrethren in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Hewas honored this fall by being electedFresident of the Cleveland Heights Ministerial Association. He also continues onthe National Committee of the Fellowshipof Reconciliation and is the chairmanof the local group. The Gemmers havetwo children, David and Jeanie, whokeep things humming.Following his discharge from theMarine Corps, Kenneth Kuester is working as electronics engineer for UnionPlastic Films Co., in Chicago. He andhis wife have a baby daughter, SusanMarie, born September 1 in Corona,Calif.Lillie Linton Lexton, MD, has temporarily retired from active practice inorder to devote more time to her children. A second child, Nancy, was bornMay 15. The Lexton's are now living attheir recently purchased Dude Ranch inthe Adirondack Mountains, Garnet Lake,N. Y.Herbert M. Leiman sent greetings tothe Alumni office from Camp Rickett,Va. He wrote, "I'm in my fourth weekof basic training, with only four moreto go — so my address here is temporary."Clinton McClarty, Jr., AM, has beenteaching in the elementary school inOakland, Calif., this year. He writes thathe married a Japanese girl while employed as an education specialist inJapan. They have one child, Susanna,who is two and a half years old.Irving I. Rimer, AM, is public information director of the PennsylvaniaCitizens Association.Academic work towards a master'sdegree has been completed by LaurelSacks Fischer of Akron, O., at Kent University. "I hope to complete my thesis'Emotional Needs of Children as a Basisfor Reading Guidance' by June," shewrites. Mrs. Fischer has two children,Janis Fleur, 8 months old, and Jesse Martin, who was 3 years old Christmas day.First Lt. Robert Shaw, who recentlyarrived in Germany, is a surgeon withthe Bremerhaven port of embarkation'sU. S. Army Hospital. Lt. Shaw was ahouse surgeon for the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New YorkCity before entering the Army last July.Margaret Smith, SM, a member of theDepartment of Geology and Geography,Kansas State College, is completing herrequirements this year for the PhD ingeography at the University of Texas.Seems that we jumbled up a bit thenews about Gerald Specter, JD '51, whichappeared in the January issue. It shouldhave read simply that Mr. Specter isspecializing in estate planning and business insurance as a special agent for theAcacia Mutual Life Insurance Companyof Washington, D. C.Douglas Stewart, Jr., of Arvada, Colo.,and Bobbie Woolsey, Denver kindergarten teacher, were married August 28.FEBRUARY, 1954 Both are working at the University ofDenver on their master's degrees.1948Henry Bachofer, Jr., MBA, is the divisional staff accountant of the Ford MotorCo., in Detroit.Miriam N. Danielson, AM, is a teacherand dean of women at Trinity Seminaryand Bible College in Chicago.Jordan Jay Hillman, AM, JD '50, is anassistant state's attorney in Chicago.Mr. and Mrs. Morris Janowitz announcethe birth of a daughter, Rebecca, onOctober 29. Morris, PhD, was recentlypromoted to an associate professorship atthe University of Michigan. Gayle Shu-lenberger Janowitz, AM '51, has been engaged in private practice as a remedialreading teacher.George M. Kaiser, AM, begins his second year as school psychologist at theU. of C. Laboratory School.James Keyes has been appointed citypersonnel officer in Denver. Jim hasworked with the city for three yearsand before his present assignment waspersonnel technician, department of improvements and parks.Seymour Z. Mann, AM, PhD '51, isChairman of the Department of PoliticalScience at Harper College of the StateUniversity of New York, in Endicott. Heassumed post of Fulbright lecturer inPolitical Science at the University ofFrankfort for the second semester.The Jack McClures, MD '50, are inKansas City, Mo., where Jack is in histhird year of a four-year residency atthe University of Kansas Medical Centerand his wife, Marie, is nursing arts instructor at K.U.M.C. School of Nursing.Burton Moore, AM '51, is a staff writerfor Coronet Instructional Films in Chicago. His wife, Joan Willard Moore,AM '53, is doing graduate work at theUniversity.James W. Sack, JD, of Cincinnati, O.,is an attorney at General Electric's jetengine plant. He and his wife NancyLevin, AM, have two sons, James, twoand one-half, and John, two months.Donald Smith is now affiliated with thefield engineering staff of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, Calif. Hewas formerly an instructor at Keesler AirForce Base.Ira and Marjorie Leventhal Stone havea son, Jack Murray, born September 6.1949Following two years of service in theArmy with the Ordnance AmmunitionCenter, Dan Andrew, MBA, is now inthe fuel oil, coal and feed business withhis father in Woodstock, 111.Raphael A. Burnstein of New York hasa research fellowship in physics and isnow working for his doctorate at theUniversity of Washington in Seattle.Capt. Carl Dragstedt, Jr., writes thatafter four years in service in Japan, heand his family are looking forward toreturning to the States. His two youngestchildren, Maureen and Graham, havenever seen their homeland, and the two As a student in the Business School ofthe University of Minnesota, Hubert D.Wheeler prepared himself for the general insurance business.In this work, he found that peoplekept asking him about life insurance.And he became interested enough tofind out the answers."The more I saw of life insurance,"says Hubert Wheeler, "the more I likedits human side. Somehow, I felt a greatersense of personal accomplishment on behalf of the client when I had helpedhim with his life insurance."I joined New England Mutual fulltime in 1937. I've certainly had no regrets. I have the satisfaction of doingan important job and of receiving compensation in direct relation to theeffort I bring to it. And I have my owntime for work and for recreation."He has worked effectively enough tohave become a member of the MillionDollar Round Table as well as our general agent in Duluth.If you like to help others as you helpyourself, it may pay you to investigatethe opportunities offered at New England Mutual. Mail the coupon belowfor a booklet in which 15 men tell whythey chose a careerwith New EnglandMutual. »NEW ENGLAND MUTUALBox 333Boston 17, Mass.Please send me, withoutcost or obligation, your booklet,"Why We Chose New England Mutual."Name Address ; City Zone State-The NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL Lite Insurance Company ol BostonThe company that founded mutual life insurance in America — 183529Pentagon PalsYou might say the Magazine begins and ends this issue with anote from Gerald Greenwald, '48,JD '51. His kind words about theMagazine grace Memo Pad, andhere's the second course of his letter, with news about himself."For the past year I have beenan Army First Lieutenant assignedto the Office of the Judge AdvocateGeneral here in the Pentagon.Presently, I'm serving as ActingChief of the Research Branch, ajob which entails keeping myfinger on the legal opinions supplied the Army and various othergovernmental agencies by the several divisions of the Office. TheJAG Office functions somewhat asthe legal counsel of a large anddiversified corporation (The ArmyEstablishment), court-martial workbeing our largest single area ofactivity, but this alongside manycivilian-type legal problems."Fellow Chicagoans assigned hereare Wallace Riley, '46, Leslie Sharfand Carrol Head, JD '52, all frequent confreres at the Pentagoncoffee bar. Also, for the past yearI've been sharing an apartmentwith Lowell Siff, '49, JD '52, myold roommate from the ZBT House.Between Lowell, my fellow ChicagoJAG's and the numerous Chicagoans we see socially here in town,DC is considerably closer to theMidway than the map suggests."AJAX 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.. ChicagoGolden Dirilyte(formerly Dirigold)Complete sets and open stockFINE BONE CHINAAynsley, Royal Crown Derby, Spode andOther Famous Makes of Fine China. AlsoCrystal, Table Linen and Gifts.COMPLETE TABLE APPOINTMENTSDirigo, Inc.70 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago 4, IILTelephone HAymarket 1-3120E. A. AARON & BROS., Inc.Fresh Fruits and VegetablesDistributors ofCEDERGREEN FROZEN FRESH FRUITS ANDVEGETABLES46-48 South Water Market0.fiCfu(Nce ik ctccriici MoovcrsigleivtwdELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO.OistHluiit, Mmiiiriuiiii ¦¦< tiklirt olELECTRICAL MATERIALSAND FIXTURE SUPPLIES5801 Halsted St. - ENglewood 4-7500 other youngsters, Marsha and Terry,don't remember much about it.Alexander Farkas is buyer in thepopular-price dresses section of Alexander's Department Stores, Inc., in NewYork City.Warren E. Gauerke, PhD, is acting asconsultant to city and county teachersthroughout the Atlanta area. He hasbeen at Emory University in the division of teacher education since 1951 andis now specializing in education administration and supervision.Murray Harding is with the Wall StreetJournal in Chicago. He and his wife,Virginia Buck, have a son Scott, twoyears old.Pediatrician Newell Johnson, MD,writes that after spending ten months atLos Angeles Children's Hospital, he hasjoined the staff of Magan Clinic in Co-vina, Calif.Ensign Mary Louise Kimmell has beenin the Navy for two and a half years.She is at present at Bainbridge, Md.,Training Center, attached to the administrative command as one of many assistant personnel offices. She also holdsthe billet of Information and EducationOfficer — "interesting and demandingwork."Peter S. Raible, formerly of Berkeley,' Calif., moved to Providence, Rhode Island last fall. He didn't indicate thenature of his new position.Peter Selz, AM, Assistant Professor ofArt History at the Institute of Design inChicago, has recently returned from fourmonths in Europe on a Belgian-American Educational Foundation fellowship,to study 15th century Flemish art. Anarticle on the trip, "Letter from Germany" written by Peter and his wife,Thalia Cheronis Selz, '51, appeared inthe August 1953 issue of the Art Digest,and Thalia is currently working on a review of the Venice film festival whichshe was able to attend. Her story,"When Judas Kissed," was published inthe spring issue of the Chicago Review.Francis Shevlin, MBA, has been promoted to secretary of Aldens, Inc., ofChicago. Mr. Shevlin celebrated his 20thanniversary with Aldens last June. Heis the father of six daughters.Helene C. Ward was married on November 28 to Ivan Ward King.Stanley A. Zahler, SM, PhD '52, andEleanor Jeanette Haugness were marriedin November '52. Zahler is now doingbacterial viruses research on a publichealth service fellowship at the University of Illinois.1950Sylvester Adessa, AM, is now associate secretary of the Casework Divisionof the Community Welfare Council ofMilwaukee County, Wis. He was formerly with the Jewish Children's Bureau inChicago.A third addition in the Earl E. Buckhousehold was expected in January. Earlis practicing law in New Jersey and isassociated with the New York City investment firm of Hornblower & Weeks.He and his wife, Minna Rodnon, '48, have two children: Beverly, and Carolyn.Louise Cason, MD, has opened an officefor the practice of pediatrics in CoconutGrove, Florida.Walter Chizinsky, SM, has been working under Dr. Lester Aronson in the department of animal behavior at theAmerican Museum of Natural History inNew York City, in research dealing withthe behavior of tropical fishes. He hasalso been working towards his PhD atNew York University. He was marriedlast June 14.The Rev. John Forwalter writes thathe and his wife have moved from theFirst Universalist Church in Bridgeport,Conn., where John was minister, andwhere, for the last year he also held aposition as chemist for the Bassick Co.,to Brownsville, Texas, to take charge ofthe All Souls Unitarian Church. Hiswife, Lois, is teaching biology in thelocal high school. "University studentsand alumni should look us up on theirway through to Mexico City."Harold R. Harding is the alumni secretary of Grinnell College. Before thisappointment last Fall, he was with theKoinonia Foundation in Baltimore fortwo years.Lt. Harry G. Kroll, MD, and his wifeand two children, Linda Carolyn andDavid Gardner, are now living inMonterey, Calif., where he is serving theTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEArmy as an orthopedic surgeon at FortOrd. Dr. Kroll formerly was on the staffof the Mayo Foundation in Rochester.Ernest S. Newmark, MBA '53, andMiss Peggy Wolf of Chicago were married October 18. Newmark is on the staffof Standard Oil of Indiana.Richard Pelz, JD, moved across thecontinent recently, from WashingtonState to Washington, D.C. where he isan assistant to Congressman Don Mag-nuson. Dick was a Seattle attorney withthe firm of Haugland and Medley beforehis present appointment. He is a formerpresident of the Young Democrats ofKing County, Wash.Elias Rizzo, AM, is still employed withthe Bureau of the Budget, ExecutiveOffice of the President, concerned withthe military programs and budget.Major Morris D. Schneider, PhD, presently serving at the Army Medical Service Graduate School (Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center in Washington, D.C),has been assigned to the Third ArmyArea Medical Laboratory, Fort McPherson, Ga. Morris and his wife have threechildren: Sharon, Rae, and Marc David.Robert Judd Sickels, MA, '53, is nowon the faculty of Wooster College, servingas an instructor in political science.Samuel Somora, Jr., of Baroda, Mich.,is working for radio station WHFB atBenton Harbor as an announcer andscript re-write man.G. B. Votaw, AM, is working as assistant research economist for the Bankof America in San Francisco, havingcompleted two years of graduate studyat Lincoln College, Oxford University.Archie S. Wilson, SM, PhD '51, ofRichland, Wash., has three children.Steven Daniel, the youngest, is now 18months old.1951Omar Juveland, SM, PhD '53, hasjoined the staff of the Whiting ResearchLaboratories of Standard Oil of Indiana."Bob" Kirsch, Jr., is a core drill supervisor for Continental Oil Co., at Cold-water, Kan. He and his wife have aboy, Karl Frederick, who is 18 monthsold.Kurt Konietzko received his master'sdegree from Temple University last Juneand is continuing his studies for hisPhD. He has been granted an assistant-ship to Dr. Page, who heads the Department of Psychology.William D. Serbyn, SM '53, is now aresearch assistant in the math department at Carnegie Institute of Technologyin Pittsburgh.Sherman Shapiro, AM, is an assistantprofessor in the Department of Economicsat the University of Texas.Ronald Williams, AM, is presently employed as a senior economist with theDetroit Housing Commission.1952Ruth Curd and "Skip" (J. Allen) Dickinson were married August 22 in Spokane, Washington.After his graduation, George Dashnau,FEBRUARY, 1954 AM, secured a position as assistant tothe plant superintendent, Ajax ElectricCompany, in Philadelphia. Last Augusthe was promoted to assistant productionmanager. He and his fellow classmate,Francis Springer, '51, have formed abusiness partnership to sell vitamins bymail order.Patricia J. Frank, AM, is teaching general science in Junior High School inQueens, New York.Samuel Gandy, PhD, was elected president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains at the1953 Princeton session of the Association.He is also a member of the National Advisory Council of the National StudentYMCA.Davice A. Greenblatt has moved toRego Park, New York, and is workingas a technical typist for a chemical engineering company.Sara Ivie writes that "it seems asthough I never finish school. When Ileft the personnel office at the University last September I came down hereto Bloomington, 111., to study commercialart at Illinois Wesleyan University."Joan Palovick and Cpl. Bruce Boydwere married in Frankfort, Germany, lastMay.May Sanders, AM, is director, Graduate Nurse Program, University of Tennessee School of Nursing, in Memphis.Wayne Selsor is campus minister forChristian Churches, campus of TexasTechnological College in Lubbock. Heis teaching and counseling, as well asgiving bible lectures and preaching allthrough the "Panhandle" and West Texasplains. He has two children: David, 4,and Carol, 7.Zarah Sheket, MBA, is employed byCapitol Manufacturing and Supply Co.,of Columbus, O., and is being trained inall phases of pipe product manufactureand management. At the end of his year'straining, he'll be managing the company'ssubsidiary in Israel.Alvin Winder, PhD, and his family —the former Barbara Dietz, '48, and sons,Mark, 3, and Joshua, 18 months, are liking the climate and ocean breezes inCoral Gables, Fla. Alvin is chief psychologist at the Veteran's AdministrationMental Hygiene Clinic in Miami.1953Albert Feldman has been named director of the Health Division of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles.Robert William Goy, PhD, of HotSprings, Ark., is animal psychologist forAnimal Behavior Enterprises.George Hayduke, MBA, has been employed as comptroller and office managerof the Guy L. Waggoner Estate, a largecattle and oil producing company withextensive holdings in Texas, New Mexicoand Arizona. The Company's offices havebeen moved from Vernon, Texas, toPhoenix, Arizona. George is married andhas two children.Robert Markens, MBA, has been electedassistant secretary of Aldens, Inc., inChicago, and promoted to manager ofthe legal, tax and insurance department. CLARK-BREWERTeachers Agency70th YearNationwide ServiceFive Offices — One Fee64 E. Jackson Blvd., ChicagoMinneapolis — Kansas City, Mo.Spokane — New YorkAMERICAN COLLEGE BUREAU28 E. JACKSON BOULEVARDCHICAGOA Bureau of Placement which limits itswork to the university and college field. Itis affiliated with the Fisk Teachers Agencyof Chicago, whose work covers all the educational fields. Both organizations assistin the appointment of administrators aswell as> of teachers.Our service is nation-wide.HYLAND A. NOLANPLASTERING, BRICKandCEMENT WORKREPAIRING A SPECIALTY5341 S. 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Heretired from the Company in 1948 after44 years of service. A patron of the arts,he was a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of The Orchestral Association of Chicago, a governing lifemember of The Art Institute, honorarypresident of the Chautauqua Institute, adirector of the Chicago Galleries Association, and founder and honorary president of the Norton Gallery and Schoolof Art in West Palm Beach, his secondhome for a number of years.On December 17 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra program included theBach Air from Suite Number 3 in DMajor, played in Mr. Norton's memory.Julien Erode, '04, died on November 3in Memphis, Tenn. He headed the BrodeCorporation which dealt in products ofcotton seed, soybeans and peanuts. Mr.Brode was active in student organizationsas an undergraduate at the University.He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.Irene Engle Egbert (Mrs. Justus), '06,a former teacher and leader in educational affairs, died November 20 after anillness of several years. She was a formerpresident of the Buffalo Branch of theAmerican Association of UniversityWomen, former member of the Board ofExaminers of the Buffalo School Department and a former teacher of English inMillard Fillmore College of the University of Buffalo. She is survived by herhusband, five daughters, and a son.Frederick Lesemann, '06, MD (Rush)'08, died November 25 in Los Angeles,Calif., where he made his home afterretiring a year ago. He was formersenior surgeon at Englewood Hospital inChicago.Henry Barton Robison, PhD '07, diedon October 11, at the home of his daughter, Georgia Robison Beale, '26, AM '38and his son-in-law, Howard Beale, PhD'21, in Madison, Wis. He was Dean Emeritus of the School of Religion at Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. He didhis graduate work under PresidentHarper. He had served as Dean at Culver-Stockton from 1910 to 1944.Frank H. Pike, PhD '07, died November 13 at Roosevelt Hospital in New YorkCity at the age of 79. He was a notedneurologist who taught at the Collegeof Physicians and Surgeons, ColumbiaUniversity until his retirement in 1942.He was an instructor in physiology atthe University of Chicago for four yearsbefore joining the faculty of ColumbiaUniversity in 1911. He was noted forhis work in respiration, epilepsy and theevolution of the nervous system.Herbert Bebb, JD '13, prominent Chicago lawyer and professor at John Marshall Law School, died November 25 atthe age of 66 in St. Luke's Hospital. POND LETTER SERVICEEverything in LettersHooven TypewritingMultigraphingAddressograph Service MimeographingAddressingMailingHighest Quality Service Minimum PricesAll Phones: 219 W. Chicago AvenueMl 2-8883 Chicago 10, IllinoisPHOTOPRESS, INC.OFFSET-LITHOGRAPHYFine Color Work a SpecialtyQuality Book Reproduction731 Plymouth CourtW Abash 2-8182Platers - SilversmithsSince 1917GOLD, SILVER, RHODIUMSILVERWARERepaired, Refinished, RelacqueredSWARTZ & COMPANY10 S. Wabash Ave. CEntral 6-6089-90 ChicagoA. 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KIDWELLAuto LiveryQuiet, unobtrusive serviceWhen you want it, as you want itCALL AN EMERY FIRSTEmery Drexel Livery, Inc.5516 Harper AvenueFAirfax 4-6400 A memorial service was held on December 8 under the Auspices of the CityClub cf Chicago and the John MarshallLaw School. The program from thatservice reads, in part:"His passing bereaves many besideshis family and weakens a number offine causes to which he gave service bothbrave and intelligent. He achieved agood life partly because of his efficientmind and partly because he tried inevery way open to him to make lifegocd for others. The City Club has losta member who for thirty years stood asa symbol of, and labored to realize, itsfinest civic ideals." Mr. Bebb was aformer president of the Chicago CityClub, and was cited by both the Mayor'sCommission on Human Relations, andthe University Alumni Association forhis services as an outstanding citizen.He was active in Republican politicsin Chicago. For more than 25 years heconducted the column, "Legal Friend ofthe People," in The Tribune. He is survived by his widow, Mary, and twodaughters, Mrs. Mary Scheideler andMrs. Dorothy Fisher.Sayrs A. Garlick, '13, a retired highschool teacher, died October 23.Rockwell Barnes, '14, an artist, diedvery suddenly on November 24, at theage of 63.John Knox, PhD '17, died July 15,1953. He had retired to an avocado grovein Fallbrook, Calif., in 1951. His deathwas due to coronary occlusion.Albert F. Styles, '17, died on December11, 1953, in Grace Hospital, Hutchinson,Kan., after a long illness.Sterling Johanigman, ex'18, died inNovember, 1953, in Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago. A well known executive inChicago investment banking circles forthirty years, he was vice-president ofthe Milwaukee Company, an investmentfirm, and was in charge of the company'sChicago office.George Everett Marsh, ex'18, died October 16, 1953, at the age of 76, in PortRepublic, Md., after suffering a heartattack. He was a retired electrical engineer for the Veterans Administration, anda former faculty member of the CaseSchool of Applied Science.Metha L. Wulf, SB '20, died this fall(the exact date was not furnished). Shewas a teacher in the Cleveland publicschools for more than forty years.Cecil M. Shanks, SM '35, died December 20, 1953, after being stricken withcoronary thrombosis. He had devotedalmost all of his professional life toteaching at Tusculum College, in Greene-ville, Tenn. After years of distinguishedservice as Professor of Physics and Geology, he was honored by Tusculum College with the degree of Doctor of Science.Burton L. Hoffman, '38, MD '41, PhD'51, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgeryat the University of Chicago, died December 2 at Billings Hospital after a longillness. A former lieutenant commanderof the U.S. Navy, Dr. Hoffman served asa medical officer in Trinidad during thewar. He had been a member of the University medical staff since 1941. 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