UniversityMARCH 1958<>// s'r/'i'* >4*/ /'*?%**m fy M w£* j-j iJ;J^iSy^^nJWjrifc1laqel2 „<><* -A. 9 *%What is theThe Bell System is wires and cables andlaboratories and manufacturing plants andlocal operating companies and millions oftelephones in every part of the country.The Bell System is people . . . hundredsof thousands of employees and more thana million and a half men and women whohave invested their savings in the business.It is more than that. The Bell Systemis an idea.It is an idea that starts with the policyof providing the best possible telephoneservice at the lowest possible price.But desire is not enough. Bright dreamsand high hopes need to be brought to earthand made to work.You could have all the equipment and stillnot have the service you know today.You could have all the separate parts ofthe Bell System and not have the benefitsof all those parts fitted together in a nationwide whole. Bell System?The thing that makes it work so well inyour behalf is the way the Bell System is setup to do the job.No matter whether it is some simple matter of everyday operation— or the great skillsnecessary to invent the Transistor or developunderseas telephone cables to distant countries—the Bell System has the experienceand organization to get it done.And an attitude and spirit of service thatour customers have come to know as a mostimportant part of the Bell System idea.Bell Telephone SystemMemolmThe Squire of WeyerhauserLast July, Director of AdmissionsWilliam E, Scott and wife Ethel climbedinto their big black Lincoln and drove400 miles northwest to Weyer hauser,Wisconsin, to spend the Fourth.Weyerhauser is a community of 331souls. It was named for the lumber company which has since moved to Tacoma,Washington.The Scotts were the guests of MargaretPerry and her mother. Margaret is Assistant Dean of Students in the department where Mr. Scott has served innearly every capacity during his 35 yearswith the University. Margaret's motherspends the winters in Chicago with herdaughter, the summers in her Weyerhauser, Wisconsin, home and garden.After a picnic dinner it was decidedto take a ten-minute break and showr theScotts the town. At the edge of town,four blocks later, they passed a Danish -crested stone gate marking the 13- acreestate of a family long since moved toFlorida.In 1955 Bill Scott had had a heartattack while traveling in India for theState Department. Back on campus hehad considered an early retirement. Now,on this Fourth of July in Weyerhauser,he and Ethel agreed this w;as it. If theycould buy this "ranch,1' they'd dropeverything and move north by west.Within months the deal was completed.And by Thanksgiving the Scotts wereserving turkey to old campus friends intheir completely modernized country home with a kitchen nearly the size ofScott's former Chicago apartment.Change-of-pace living has always beentypical with Ethel and Bill. Today theywould he living in a, spacious apartmentoverlooking Drexel Square; tomorrowthey would purchase a Morgan Parkhouse with a lily pond; next year theyw7ould sell the messy pond for a morecomfortable home in Beverly; then awayfrom storm windows to an apartmentoverlooking the Midway; and finally toWeyerhauser, where they knew only acolleague's mother who spent her wintersin Chicago.In the early days of the Scotts inChicago, there were always students inthe spare rooms being helped throughcollege. People were always coming andgoing. Every day there were new friends.What about now — one hundred milesnortheast of Minneapolis? Already Bill isthe squire of Weyerhauser with friendsin every block. Ethel can't make it tothe post office and back in less than amorning because, up and down the road,there is so much chatting to do; so muchsimmering coffee to sip.Wherever you find the Scotts you willfind gracious living.The President of Florida StateIt's not true, of course, but the wordaround campus was that Dean Robert M.Strozier would not accept the presidencyof Florida State University until his goodfriend Chancellor Kimpton agreed tomake the inaugural address.In any event, the Kimptons and theStrozier s, who have spent many pleasantweek-ends together, were together againover the February 21 week-end whileChancellor Kimpton helped inaugurateFlorida's President Strozier at Tallahassee.Which reminds me that one of mymost enjoyable interludes from theAlumni office was the winter followingChancellor Kimpton's inauguration. Itraveled with the Messrs. Kimpton andStrozier from Seattle to Washington, D.C.while they told the story of Chicago'sCollege changes to high school administrators at special luncheons and to Chicago alumni clubs in the evenings.My job wras to set up schedules and tokeep the show on the road. This included locating good oyster stew atdepot lunch counters ahead of midnightsleepers, and handling all check-out details at hotels.The favorite wise-crack of the Kimp-ton-Strozier team as they passed thecheck-out desk was "Our father wrill paythe bill."Alumni in the NewsPictured in Time the first week inFebruary were two alumni in separatenews stories: Fowler B, McConnell, %16, went fromhis graduation to stock boy at SearsRoebuck & Co. He worked his way viashoe-buying, mail order, and retail departments to the vice presidency andfinally the presidency of Sears in 1946.He made Time by being advanced tochairman of the board, He is also amember of the University's Board ofTrustees.Bruce Sagan, '50, purchased the HydePark Herald in 1953, after two experience-packed years with the Chicago CityNews Bureau. The Herald has plenty ofweekly news as Hyde Park consistentlyattracts nation-wide attention to its vitaland unique re-development program.Sagan provides alert news coverage andillegal conversion uncoverage to bringpopularity and prosperity to his weeklynewspaper.Bruce made Time when he recently expanded his domain by purchasing (forover a million dollars) the SouthtownEconomist. This 52 -year- old neighborhood news sheet currently has an impressive 152-thousand circulation andmore than a hundred employees.Arthur O. Hanisch, 17, of Pasadena,California, owner of the Stuart Co,(pharmaceuticals), made Time in lateJanuary under "art" because of his newPasa.dena plant which Time termed "Palace for Pills/'Arthur, an officer in our SouthernCalifornia Chicago Club, has repliedcordially to my airmail request for pictures and story details. If this materialarrives too late for this issue* the storywill be carried in a subsequent issue.Meanwhile, Barrie Simmons, '52, whocleared our College in record time, madeTV news and an impressive chunk ofmoney on the $64,000 Challenge whileWilbur Hatch, '22, at the other end ofthe coaxial cable, was credited with arranging and directing the music for theLucille Ball-Desi Arnez Show.In a sadder news area, the bloody trailof young Charles Starkweather, stretching from Lincoln, Nebraska, as far westas Douglas, Wyoming, left Chicago alumnus C. Lauer Ward, JD '36, his wife, andtheir housekeeper, dead in their Frenchprovincial mansion in fashionable SouthLincoln. Mr. Ward was president of theCapital Steel Works.Mystery SolvedA two-day program in "ReligionFaces the Atomic Age" which began oncampus Sunday, February 2, and endedat dinner in the Palmer House Monday,the 3rd, was a huge success. If you received an invitation and wondered whyyou were selected it probably was because you are a member of the AlumniAssociation.H,W.M.MARCH, 1958 1individual and most distinctiveOUR OWN MAKE TROPICAL SUITSof Dacront-and-wool or English worstedsWith the continuing trend to lighter-weight clothing, these fine tropicals are now worn from Marchright into Summer, making them one of the mostuseful suits a man could own. Our selection is unusually fine, featuring as it does materials woven exclusively for us in our own designs and colorings... as well as our expert workmanship and distinctivesty] ing. In attractive dark pin stripes on tan or grey. . .solid shades of blues, greys or browns . . .and fancypatterns. Coat and trousers. 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Y.GRamercy 5-20392 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEIPictured above is our new Research and Development Centernow under construction in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Scheduledfor completion this year, the ultramodern lahoratory will housethe scientific and technical staff of the Avco Research andAdvanced Development Division.Avco's new research division now offers unusual and excitingcareer opportunities for exceptionally qualified and forward-looking scientists and engineers.Write to Dr R. W . Johnston, Scientific and Technical Relations,Avco Research and Advanced Development Division,•JO South Union Street, I a ne re nee, Massachusetts, IDEALS ANDPRACTICALITY"Science and Philosophy mutually criticize each other and provideimaginative material for each other". . . Alfred North Whitehead.In the increasing preoccupation of science with material thingsand progress, the truth of this statement by one of our greatestphilosophers is often overlooked and forgotten. The scientificphilosopher is a rare being and is becoming rarer still, nor canhe be adequately replaced by the group technique or the'brainstorm ' session.It should be one of the noblest aspirations of all our sciencesto provide for the true contemplation of the inner meaning offacts and to stimulate that interplay of mind on mind bywhich alone we may progress.In all these things, however, we cannot forget the problemspeculiar to research and development in private industry. Theobligation to work to otherwise-determined time-scales posesa nice problem in balancing ideals against the practicalitiesof everyday life.It is in this field that the test of management comes. Its successat meeting such continuously conflicting requirements determines the character and ultimate success of the organization.With such thoughts as these in mind, we here at Research andAdvanced Development Division of AVCO are seeking uniquepeople. 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Twodays after the issue came off the press,we received announcement of his acceptance of an appointment to the facultyof the Graduate School of Business ofthe University (see News of the Quadrangles, Page 24).I n the flood of stories which haye appeared in the press in the wake of sputnik and public concern over our missileand satellite programs, few haye pausedto ask: "After missiles and satellites,what?" Eugene Rabinowitch does so.While he attempts no answer, he givesmuch for all to ponder in his article ofthe same title (Pages 14-19) , which originally appeared in the December issueof Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, published on campus.Editor and a founder of the Bulletin,Rabinowitch is Research Professor ofBotany at the University of Illinois inUrbana. He was born in Russia andeducated in Europe, and received hisPhD in chemistry from the Universityof Berlin. From 1939-46, he was ResearchAssociate, Cabot Solar Energy Conversion Research Fund, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1944-46,Senior Chemist a.nd Section Chief of theManhattan District Project. He has beenon the faculty of Illinois since 1947.Relobert Rosenthal, AM '55, is a manwho never gets away from his work. Hedoesn't want to for books are his loveand as head of the Department of SpecialCollections of the University library, heis surrounded with treasures of the pasttha,t have brought researchers and scholars across oceans to study. In MSS:Living Past (Pages 12-18), he conveysmuch of the romance and tells somethingof the history of the University's manuscript collection.A.S on a number of occasions in thepast, David Abelson is responsible forthe art work appearing in this issue ofThe Magazine. His drawings appearon Pages 6, 7, 9 and 10. Dave is amedical student at Billings and manages to do his illustrations when notboning up for recurrent tests.I_ he quota is set, the drive is on. Allthat is needed is your contribution tothe 1958 Alumni fund campaign (Page19). S^^^f *^ UNIVERSITYQucaqoMAGAZINE ^J MARCH, 1958FEATURES6 After Missiles and Satellites, What?12 MSS: Living Past19 Kick-Off 1958 Fund Drive20 C Men in Football Hall of Fame Volume 50, Number 6Eugene RabinowitchRobert RosenthalDEPARTMENTS1 Memo Pad5 In This Issue22 Alumni Club News23 News of the Quadrangles27 Class News32 MemorialCOVERPictured against a background from the special collections of HarperMemorial Library is Alan Simpson, Associate Professor of History.The scrolls which he is studying are from the Bacon collection of thelibrary. Simpson is basing two forthcoming books on the collection:one, an economic study of the English gentry during the period of itsrise to political dominance, 1540-1660; the other, a detailed study ofthe estates of Nicholas Bacon, one of the most prominent figuresamong the gentry of the period.Background (upper left, clockwise): Letter of Robert F. Stockton,then commanding the U. S. land forces in Southern California, toSenator Douglas during the Mexican War; Napoleon's letter, apparently to one of his brothers, announcing his marriage to Marie Louiseof Austria; a letter from the Viscount Rochester, written in the handof John Donne, explaining his position in a dispute over a government office; an affidavit in the handwriting of Abraham Lincoln, written in 1851, when the 42-year-old Lincoln was prospering as a lawyerin Springfield; a survey of a plot of land on the New River in Virginia,belonging to the Loyal Land Company in the 18th century. Photographed by Robert Sbarge, Lewellyn Studio.THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE5733 University Avenue, Chicago 37, IllinoisEditor Editorial AssistantMELANIA SOKOL M. ROSS QUILLIANTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONExecutive Secretary-EditorHOWARD W. MORTAdministrative AssistantRUTH G. HALLORANRegional DirectorsCLARENCE A. PETERS (Eastern)WILLIAM H. SWANBERG (Western) The Alumni FundORLANDO R. DAVIDSONFLORENCE I. MEDOWStudent RecruitmentMARJORIE BURKHARDTProgrammingELIZABETH SHAW BOBRINSKOYPublished monthly, October through June, by The University of Chicago Alumni Association,5733 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Annual subscription price, $4.00. Single copies,25 cents. Entered as second class matter December I, 1934, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois,under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising agen+: The American Alumni Council, B. A. Ross,director, 22 Washington Square, New York, N. Y.MARCH, 1958 5After Missilesand Satellites, WHAT?By KIGKNE RABINOWITCHKditor. BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTSOURS is a schizophrenic age. We live on two differentlevels, in two incompatible worlds.In one of these worlds — no longer a dream world —all men, irrespective of their national allegiance, form asingle community. Common dangers confront them: insufficiency (or threatened exhaustion) of natural resources; overpopulation, and the hunger and sicknesswhich they breed; misuse of science and technology.All men need permanent, stable peace. Their commoninterest calls for better understanding of nature andgreater mastery of its forces. In the age of atomic bombs,jets, missiles, radio communications, and space travel,their fears cannot be banished, and their aspirations cannot be satisfied unless they all work together. An increasing number of people everywhere are becomingaware of this.Since nations have been accustomed for centuries toliving on an entirely different level — where group interests and international strife abide, rather than cooperation and concern for the common weal — they canact on this basis only grudgingly and fitfully. In a ventureonto the new level, sixty-four nations, urged on by theirscientists, have ccme together in the InternationalGeophysical Year. Recently, while carrying out the program of this collective undertaking, Russian scientistssucceeded in launching artificial satellites — the first man-made objects to become cosmic bodies in their own right.The natural reaction of scientists everywhere is to rejoicein this feat, and to admire and congratulate their Russiancolleagues who have achieved it.We have no doubt that the Russian scientists wholaunched the first satellites into space were inspired, primarily, by the urge to explore the universe around us.They sent into empty outer space instruments to measurecosmic rays, to follow the earth's magnetic field, to determine the frequency of meteors, or to observe the sun'ssurface, in order to satisfy the human thirst for knowledge— not to help a group of men increase their power.But the schizophrenic nature of our era makes it impossible to enjoy this triumph of human inventivenesswithout realizing that, on another level, joy and pride arechanged to grim apprehension. On this level, where mankind is not a single community but an agglomerationof quarreling fragments separated along national or ideological lines, the advancement of science within onesegment becomes a threat to the others. The satellitesappear on this obsolescent but still frighteningly reallevel, grim announcements that one faction of mankindhas increased its power to coerce the others. To all thoseopposing the political or economic ideology of this factionand resisting its spread, it now appears (in the words ofTrevor Gardner) that "destruction looks down theirthroats." Thus the IGY, the shining effort of internationalcooperation, recedes into dimness, and instead thereemerges the vision of a terrible danger to fragmented andfeuding human society.To scientists, it is clear that in our time the worldcommunity of interest is a living reality, the only possible path into the future, while the traditional world ofinternational strife is only pseudo-real. It is a world inwhich the behavior of nations is determined by theshadows of once meaningful concepts — national sovereignty, martial glory, national security and defense, victory or defeat. Yet, scientists cannot ignore the continued power of these shades of the past to shape theattitudes of nations and the decisions of their leaders.This is the tragic dualism of the role of science in thepresent world. Believing in the universality of scientificendeavor and the world-wide humanitarian purpose of7science, scientists at the same time areloyal to the segments of mankind towhich their birth, choice or convictionhave assigned them. They are obligedto provide the rulers of these fragments — elected or self-appointed —with arms which can be used for defense, deterrence, or aggression. Thisdichotomy will not end until mankindfrees itself from the bondage of fragmented allegiance. Our Russian colleagues know this as well as we do.They will understand why Americanscientists, while congratulating themon their great achievement, are alarmed by its implications for the future.JL he upheaval in the world, and thestorm on the American political scene,caused by the Soviet satellites, is astriking confirmation of the belief thatscience has acquired a decisive importance in human affairs. If our political leadership (and our publicopinion!) had been more receptive tothis idea, the American Vanguardproject would not be bringing up therear!Did the beeps from the Soviet moonawaken the American people to therealities of the scientific age? Theshock has been great and could besalutary; but the meaning of theseevents must be pondered far beyondtheir obvious, immediate lesson. Thislesson was grasped immediately byalmost all commentators — from Vice-President Nixon to the editorial writerof the smallest provincial newspaper.The few diehard apologists of the"don't worry, boys, everything isunder control" school — the ShermanAdamses, the Charlie Wilsons ("aneat scientific trick"), the ClarenceRandalls ("a ridiculous bauble")found little support even among themost faithful admirers of the conservative, paternalistic philosophy ofa business -minded government. Thefailure of the creed of reducing federal spending, balancing the budget, and"letting private industry do the job"is too obvious. However, Americanpublic opinion forgets as easily as it isaroused. We cannot be sure that theeffect will be lasting. The Presidenthas told the American people thatthey should "keep their chins up" —it sounded almost as if security were"just around the corner." With thepassage of time (and perhaps withsome evidence of internal troubles inthe Soviet Empire), bromides from high places may again revive complacency. How long will people straintheir eyes to get a glimpse of a streaking point of light in a morning sky?Football games, race riots, and thedoings of film stars are more exciting!Probably the shock has been strongenough to give us a new, streamlinedorganization of the missile work. Theappointment of Dr. Killian is a step inthis direction. But will America learnthe deeper lesson of these events?Will it concede to science and learning the place on the national scaleof values which alone can assureAmerica a leading position in thescientific age? Will school curriculabe reformed? Will the financial andsocial status or the science teachers inschool and college be improved? Willscientific achievement find the recognition to which only a few exceptionally dedicated scholars are indifferent, and without which the brightest students are but little attracted toscientific careers? Will Americanleaders pay heed to what scientistshave to say about the realities of thescientific age, about what science cando for (and to) ourselves and ourdescendants — if we mean to have descendants! Will films, radio, and TVcease to represent scientists as impractical dreamers, or as evil, heartless men, ready to experiment witheverything without regard to humanfeelings? Will America understandthat without rational, scientific humanism as one of its pillars, a freesociety will not survive?XjLmong the popular beliefs Americanscientists have been questioning allalong, two are of particular relevancetoday. One is the smug belief in thesuperiority of American scientific andtechnological capacities; the second isthe opinion that competitive privateindustry provides the best answer toall production challenges under anycircumstances.The best informed and mostthoughtful American scientists havenever underestimated Russian scientific capacities. One hears ad nauseam that "nobody expected the SovietUnion to acquire atomic bombs asquickly as it actually did" — an alibifor an administration whose head, twoyears after the first Soviet atomicbomb test, still asserted that the Russians had no "real" atomic weapons.It is therefore appropriate to recall that in 1945 American atomic scientistspredicted that it would take Sovietscientists four to five years to develop their own atomic bombs.A few years later, at the time of"purges" in certain branches of Russian science, this writer warned: "Itis wrong to think of contemporarySoviet science as being largely paralyzed by ideological dictatorship ofignorant politicians. Some branchesmay be dead or stunted, but it is stilla vigorous, growing tree. Limbs thathave been cut off sprout new shoots;those .prevented from growing in theirnatural direction, grow around theobstacle."Particularly unfounded has been theAmerican complacency about theRussian competition in rocketry. Itis incorrect to speak of America's"losing its lead" in this field to theRussians. The fact is that Americaalways has been behind Russia —Czarist or Communist — in many areasof applied mechanics. We never madean effort to catch up. Russia has hadan unbroken scholarly tradition inhydrodynamics, aerodynamics, andballistics. It is ridiculous to seek theexplanation for Soviet rocket successin the capture of German specialists.We got the most important of thesespecialists, and it was our militarytechnology — and not that of the Russians — that needed this infusion offoreign blood to develop the art in thiscountry. Even now, the most advancedrocket undertaking in America (theRedstone army team that producedthe Jupiter and, according to recentnewspaper stories, was about ready toproduce a satellite launching rocketat the time when the satellite program was transferred to the Navy) isin the hands of Wernher von Braunand thirty of his fellow Germanrocketeers, the men who created theterror weapons V-l and V-2 in thelast World War.Traditional Russian strength inthese fields of science has been asmuch a reason for their success as theSoviet government's early recognitionof the military and political importance of the rocket problem. It musthave already had high priority in thedays when Katyusha rocket launchershelped turn the tide at Stalingrad.J^ince 1945, when the "ManhattanDistrict of Army Engineers" underGeneral Groves "crashed through"8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE¦S\Xiin three years from the first nuclearchain reaction to the atomic bombbursts at Alamogordo, Hiroshima, andNagasaki, suggestions have beenheard that this or that scientific aimcould be reached in a hurry If a similar program were established. Ingeneral, scientists have not been enthusiastic about this idea.It is in the nature of science thattruly great steps forward are seldommade in a hurry, or even significantlyaccelerated by programming and organization. Even in our age of vastsubsidized research projects, themost important advances remain theresult of "private enterprise" of individual minds. This is not necessarily true, however, of practical applications of established scientificprinciples. Here, a large, well-organized, publicly sponsored effort, withno financial handicap, can bring aboutin a short time what private enterprise, hampered by competition andprofit considerations, may not be ableto achieve in a much longer time.If, in 1939, the atomic bomb development had been left to private industry, America would have had her firstatomic bomb after, and not four yearsbefore, Russia.The almost religious belief of thepresent administration in the superiorefficiency of profit-motivated industry may be the main reason that instead of catching up with the Russianlead in the rocket field after the war,we have fallen farther behind it.This interpretation may appear unreasonable — perhaps even subversive— to a business administration and aPresident carefully coached in thevirtues of private enterprise. Despitethe experience of the ManhattanProject, they may be as unable torealize the limitations of their economic credo, as Soviet leaders areunable to recognize the advantagesof private enterprise in other areas.Dogmatic belief in the superiority ofthe "socialist" economy condemns theSoviet Union to backwardness in supplying its people with food, clothing,housing, furniture, and other consumption goods. Equally surely, unquestioned belief in the greater efficiency of private industry handicapsAmerican leadership in the realization of great technological aims,whose practical achievement requiresfinancial and logistic organization beyond the capacity of an individualfirm. Admittedly, there is no reason whyAmerica should have the lead in alltechnical progress. It can be argued,for example, that since America hasthe least immediate stake in the development of industrial nuclear power, it does not need to strive forleadership in this field, leaving it tocountries (such as Great Britain)whose need is truly pressing. True,even here, considerations of politicalprestige and American leadershipmay call for a national effort on ascale and with an urgency for whichthere is no justification in nationaleconomy. This has been the subjectof a long and bitter controversy between the AEC, led by Mr. LewisStrauss, and its congressional critics.Each side has strong arguments forits stand.There can be no such doubts in thefield of military missiles and rockets.America needs them more than anyother country, and competition between different automobile makersor airplane firms will not producethem faster than they could be produced by a centrally directed government project. Similarly, if we believe that leadership in space travelis of crucial importance for America,future competition between Macyand Gimbel will not get Americansthe first tickets to the moon, while aconcerted national effort may.JOLowever forcefully and urgentlywe try to repeat the Soviet rocketachievement, it seems likely that forseveral years to come our achievements in this field will remain lessspectacular than those of our competitors. How calamitous can thissituation become? The question hastwo aspects. One is the psychologicaleffect on the standing of the UnitedStates, especially in the "uncommitted" part of the world. The Sovietsatellite has done far more to enhance respect for the Soviet Unionthan did claims of having perfectedan intercontinental ballistic missile.This may be because the existence ofthe satellite has been demonstratedfor all to see, while that of the missilewas merely announced in deliberatelyvague language. (Here, by the way,is a useful lesson on the relative mer-MARCH, 1S58 9its of secrecy and openness in thecold war.) The sooner an Americansatellite joins the procession of sputniks in the air, the less fateful willbe the injury to American reputationfor advanced technology, but theformer belief in our pre-eminencewill never return,"From the point of view of actualbalance of power — more specifically,of deterrent air-nuclear power — atthe disposal of the two major antagonists, the satellite is of only indirectimportance. What matters is the capacity for launching nuclear missilesat targets anywhere on the globe. TheSoviet successes so far make it likelythat this capacity will be acquiredby the Soviet Union ahead of America. The crucial question is whetherduring the period of Soviet monopolyin transcontinental nuclear ballisticmissiles, the American deterrent establishment, based on manned SACplanes, will retain its effectiveness.The race is therefore primarily between the American long-range missile program and the Soviet programof defense against manned bombers.A really dangerous imbalance willarise if, before American ballisticmissiles are available in operationalnumbers, the Soviet military scientists have developed weapons able(in their belief) to deny the retaliatory threat of SAC bombers. Moreominous than Khrushchev's proclamation of the Russian capacity todrop nuclear missiles on every pointon earth is, therefore, his boast thatAmerica may as well scrap its bombers, since the danger for suchmanned planes is (or soon will be)prohibitive. Here lies a real and critical danger; with the Soviet Unionconsiderably ahead of the West in thedevelopment of offensive missiles,there is no reason to be complacentabout their capacity to develop defensive weapons,xTLdmiration for the Soviet drive todevelop rockets and satellites shouldnot induce us to believe that Sovietscience in general is superior toAmerican science (not to mentionWestern science as a whole). Russiahas had remarkable scientific successes in the past; in many areas ofscientific endeavor an unbroken tradition of achievement goes back to•The Jupiter lias since successfully launchedthe first U- S. satellite Explorer into space. the seventeenth century, to the daysof Lomonosov. Under the Soviet regime, science has received the greatest encouragement, and almost unlimited financial support. This hasled to an immense quantitative expansion. Many fields, in which theseeds had been sown long before therevolution, rapidly blossomed. Olderscientists, who had long toiled as individuals with little support weregiven the chance to create largeschools. News areas (such as geneticsand nuclear physics) were opened upby pioneers. Soon, however, Sovietscience began to suffer under excesses of party orthodoxy; e.g., theyoung discipline of genetics, almostdevastated by charlatans invokingthe patronage of dialectical materialism. Stevan Dedlier, in a recent article in the Bulletin of the AtomicScientist (which seems to have costhim his research job in Yugoslavia!),suggested that only the w^ell- established tradition of Russian science haspermitted it to survive this harassment with relatively minor damage.At first, the vast quantitativegrowth of Soviet science inevitablydepressed the average quality of scientific work; but gradually this weakness was overcome, and soundachievements began to appear. Nevertheless, none of the greatest recentadvances in pure science — physics,chemistry, or biology — originated in the Soviet Union. Only one Nobelprize has gone to Russia since therevolution — the chemistry prizeawarded in 1956 to Prof. N. N. Sem-enov for his study of chemical chainreactions. During the same period,47 have been awarded to America(including several that went to European scientists established in America after 1934). This disproportionis not a result of Western bias or ignorance of Russian achievements;rather, it is a fair reflection of relative contributions to the progress offundamental science. It shows thatthe gap between quantitative expansion and qualitative perfection hasnot been quite closed in Russia in the40 years since the revolution. It maybe argued that Soviet education, however well it prepares a future scientistor engineer for competent work inhis field in research or industry, isnot very conducive to awakening hismind for the unorthodox, fearless,critical thinking, which is requiredfor really epochal discoveries (e.g.,evolution, relativity, quantum theory).JL he obvious first lesson of the Soviet rocket success is that Americamust put a maximum effort into itsown rocket development, unhampered by budgetary considerations,service rivalries, or hesitations aboutusing "socialist" methods instead ofrelying on private industry. This lesson, we hope, will stick. The second,medium- range, lesson is that Americashould give more scope to scienceand scientists, in education as well asin social and political life. This lessonhas yet to be learned. This is, however, not all. It would be a tragedyif, in the face of the challenge presented by Soviet science and technology, and the necessity to match it inevery important field, we postponeindefinitely all thinking beyond themeeting of this challenge. Americamade a similar mistake when it refused, during the war in Europe, tothink beyond the day of victory. Inthe same nearsighted way, Americanleaders refused, before Hiroshima andNagasaki, to listen to scientists concerned with the long-range consequences of the use of atomic weapons in Japan. The time to thinkabout our ultimate hopes and aims,beyond the winning of the arms race,is now7 — in fact, it is long — overdue.10 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEWhen the difficulties of reaching anagreement with the Soviet Union inthe U.N. on international control ofatomic energy became apparent in1947, some American scientists madean attempt to reach their Russian colleagues to discuss this problem withthem. Through official Soviet channels, they were informed that Sovietscientists were "too busy to talkabout politics." Recently, when thisunknown episode in history wasquoted to a prominent Russian scientist visiting this country (who complained that the atomic arms raceshould have been stopped at the verybeginning), he replied, after a silence,"Yes, we were busy then — busycatching up with America." Becausein the eyes of the Soviet leaders —and perhaps in those of the Sovietscientists as well — catching up withAmerica appeared more importantand urgent than exploring ways toprevent the atomic arms race fromgetting under way, the opportunity todo so was lost. The Russians did notwant to "negotiate from weakness."Therefore, serious negotiations aboutthe abolition of atomic weapons weredelayed until Russia had its ownatomic weapons — at which time itwas too late for effective control.The American reaction to the revelation of the Soviet lead in missiledevelopments is similar. The matterof first priority is now to catch upwith the Russians; it seems almostimproper to talk about anything else:about the terrifying implications ofa race in space weapons, whoevermay be ahead. American scientistsare "too busy" to think about theseimplications. By the time both weand the Russians possess operationalintercontinental missiles, with hidden,well-protected bases for launching,their abolition will become technicallyimpossible — and militarily unthinkable, since the strategy of both sideswill be built around them.An 1946 an American physicist, LouisRidenour, published in Fortune awhimsical but prophetic piece. Hesaw the earth surrounded by a swarmof atom bomb-carrying satellites,owned by various nations. By pressing the proper button, one of thesedeadly moons could be made to dropon a target anywhere in the world.In well-protected underground operation centers, the military of every nation were keeping day and nightwatch, with their eyes glued to radarscreens and their fingers on the fateful switches. An earthquake in California, a misinterpretation of theblip it produced on the radar screen,a snap decision of an overwroughtofficer — and the rain of atomic satellites began to fall upon the cities ofthe world, as one nation after another was drawn into the deadlychain of "massive retaliation."Ten years later, this vision is beginning to look ominously realistic.In a year or two, dozens of satelliteswill be flashing through the skies,some harmless (or even useful, likethose planned for the IGY), someobserving and photographing everycorner of the world in preparationfor a missile war. A few years more,and Ridenour's fantasy of remotelycontrolled nuclear bomb carriers maybecome a reality. Perhaps, mannedspace stations from which atomicrockets could be discharged to reachtheir targets in a matter of minutesif not seconds will be sailing aroundthe earth.A lawyer has recently asked fornew laws to define the limits of national sovereignty in the sky. Howfar into the universe does the USSR,or the U. S., Thailand, or Monacoextend? Ten miles, a hundred miles,a million miles? A physicist an swered, half jokingly, that perhapsnational sovereignty should extendindefinitely into space, dividing theuniverse into conical segments withthe different nations of the earth attheir apexes. As the earth rotates,these cones will sweep the sky. Fora brief interval, the sovereignty ofthe United States will encompass theplanet Venus, or the star Sirius, thenit will be replaced by that of Egyptor Venezuela.Extending national sovereignty intointerplanetary space would of courseproduce continuous complaints of violations, and invocation of force toprotect it. The physicist suggestedthat the main sport of nations in thefuture may be shooting down satellites and missiles violating their airspace. It would be a merry contestof science and art, and the UnitedNations could keep impartial score!This picture of the future may bewhimsical nonsense; but in strainingour energy and inventiveness to draweven with the Soviet Union in thepossession of long-range missiles andthe capacity to place them on targetsanywhere in the world, we may tooeasily forget to think what the worldwill be like after we have successfully achieved this purpose. It willbe a world constantly tottering onthe brink of disaster, with survivaldepending on permanent sanity andrestraint not only of the leaders ofsovereign nations, but — as in the vision of Ridenour — also of varioussubordinates in key posts, who willhave no time to refer the fateful decision to the capitals.While we have no choice now butto try to maintain an equality in thecontest for deterrent power, weshould not delay thinking of how wecan ever escape from the nightmareof nuclear space deterrence. We mustnot delay convincing first ourselves,then our leaders and our people, ofthe absolute necessity for ending thepolitical fragmentation of mankind.Mankind must emerge from the infantile age of quarreling and fightinginto the mature period of recognitionof its community of interests. Wemust make it clear to ourselves andthe world that America intends in thefuture to live in the world of thefuture, and to break away from thefetters of the past.It is time to ask, and to keep asking, for an answer to the question:After missiles and satellites, what?MARCH, 1958 11.. itf&0«\Robert C. Bald, Professor of English, studies Bacon papers in Harper Memoria! Library specialcollections. Bald's discoveries m the Bacon collection shed new light on the career of John Donneas secretary to Sir Robert Drury, son-in-law of Sir Nicholas Bacon, II, and form the basis of hisforthcoming book on Donne and the Drury family. Left: Signature of Donne discovered byBald on a legal document in the Bacon collection.J\t one stroke, the University ofChicago Library was established asone of the greatest libraries of its kindin the United States. Soon after assuming the presidency of the thennewly-founded University of Chicagoin 1892, William Rainey Harper leftfor Germany in. search of men andideas for the new institution. Whilethere he negotiated one of the largestacquisitions of books and manuscriptsever made by an institution of higherlearning. He purchased the stock of S. Calvary & Co., antiquarian bookfirm in Berlin, In the rush of preparing the acquisition for immediate use,the exact size of the purchase wasnever accurately determined, but it isknown that the library numbered atleast ninety thousand books, dissertations and manuscripts.In addition to establishing the University library, the purchase was toset a pattern for the early building ofChicago's manuscript collections. Theywould come first as part of large collections of printed books which wereimmediately necessary to create a research collection, supplemented byoccasional individual manuscript purchases. No special attention was givento planned building of the manuscriptcollections because of the urgent needto establish the book collections on afirm basis. However fortuitous theiracquisition, these early manuscriptsformed the nucleus of the University library's collection of medieval andrenaissance manuscripts and in theirown right were important additionsto the library's research collections.The Calvary or Berlin collection asit is popularly called in the annals ofthe library, yielded fifty-three manuscripts, most of them codices datingfrom the 15th century. Other largebook purchases, including the Heng-stenberg, Ide and American BibleUnion collections, subsequently yielded other manuscripts and by 1912,ninety-nine items could be listed.Theological and classical authors predominated in the library's collectionwhich included, for example, theworks of Saint Bernard and SaintJerome, a 15th century book of hours,Eusebius' Historia Ecclesiastica, Aristotle's Ethica, Baldus de Perusio'sConcilia de lure, and Juvenal'sSatirae. Interesting if relatively small,the collection included only a few12 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEPhotographs by Robert SbargeLewellyn StudioMSS: Living PastUniversity Library Special CollectionsWillmanuscripts relating to modern political and literary history.By 1912, however, the Universitylibrary began to be the beneficiary ofa number of important collectors andfrom them the manuscript collectionsreceived a great and sudden growth.The most significant gifts of manuscripts came from Dr. Frank W. Gun-saulus, who over a period of yearsdonated a variety of manuscripts including the renowned manuscript ofBoccaccio's Genealogia Deorum and a14th century manuscript of Petrarch'sSonnets. Gunsaulus also donated tothe library his collection of EugeneField books and manuscripts includingField's manuscript of The Temptationof Friar Gonsol. With Edward B,Butler of Chicago, he gave the librarya noteworthy collection of autographswritten principally by men famous inAmerican history. Among them werefive Washington manuscripts, including some of his early surveys of thePotomac River and the original ofThomas Jefferson's letter to SamuelHarrison Smith in which he offeredhis private collection of books to Congress after the destruction of the Congressional Library by the British.Letters of Jackson, Madison, Adams,and Lincoln were also in this veryrich collection of some one hundredsixty manuscripts.In 1913, the University purchasedits first major collection of manuscripts. For a number of years,Colonel Reuben T. Durrett of Louisville, founder of the Filson Club, hadbeen attempting to sell his large collection of Americana and Kentuckianawhich he had collected over a periodof fifty years. His library consistedboth of a large collection of books and a great variety of manuscripts, whichcovered a period from 1674 to 1900,with particular emphasis on the history of Kentucky and the Ohio RiverValley. It included letters, diaries,collections of personal papers, officialdocuments— almost any kind of sourcewhich Durrett believed wTould shedlight on the history of Kentucky andthe surrounding territory. After careful investigation, the University purchased the collection from Durrettand thus, on a rather grand scale, began its manuscript collecting in thefield of American history. There areapproximately twenty -eight hundredmiscellaneous pieces in the collection,most of them originating in the periodof the late 18th and early 19th centuries when Kentucky w7as beingsettled and undergoing political development. The miscellaneous piecesinclude not only manuscripts of localcharacter — letters, diaries, muster rolls,commercial papers, etc. — but also thecorrespondence of such men of national importance as Washington,Hamilton, Jefferson, and Clark.Among larger collections of personal papers within the Durrett Collection are those of Joshua Lacy Wilson, the "old school" Presbyterianminister of Cincinnati; the John Lewisfamily, early Kentucky pioneers; JoelTanner Hart, the Kentucky sculptor;and George Nicholas, the friend ofJefferson and Madison, who was aleader in the Kentucky constitutionalconvention of 1792. These manuscriptssupplemented thirty thousand volumes of books and newspapers whichwere also part of the Durrett purchase, and are now part of the library's general and rare book collections.MARCH, 1958In the 1920's, the growth of themanuscript collections received newimpetus from the expansion of research programs in the humanitiesand the social sciences at the University, and the collections began toachieve a scope and depth that wouldsustain a variety of research programsover a long period of time. Specialfunds became available either by giftor from appropriations for special research then underway. The new collections of manuscripts varied in subject and in period from large groupsof medieval manorial documents tothe holographs of modern poets. Thisdevelopment of the manuscript resources coincided with a similar development of the book collections, forit was evident that the ultimate usefulness of manuscripts depended inlarge part on the availability of thecollateral printed sources.One of the important benefactorsof the University during the firstthirty years of its history was MartinA. Ryerson. During the decade of thetwenties, his interest made possiblethe acquisition of a number of significant medieval manuscript codices aswell as a collection whose importanceto scholarship is still being heavilyexplored today. In 1929, Ryerson purchased for the university library oneof the eighty-one extant manuscriptsof Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, thismanuscript being the only manuscriptof the Tales in an institution of higherlearning in the United States.It was fitting that this particularmanuscript should come to the libraryat that time, for Professors John M.Manly and Edith Rickert were then inthe midst of their monumental research establishing a critical text forthe Tales. For this task they acquired,with funds from the bequest ofFrederick Ives Carpenter, the photostatic reproductions of all extantmanuscripts and manuscript fragments of the Tales that today formpart of the library's manuscript resources. Coincidental with the editorialwork on the Tales, Manly and Rickert,wdth their research team, began thecollection of sources for Chaucer'slife, known as the Chaucer Life Records. From an assiduous culling ofall likely sources in English librariesand manuscript depositories, Manlyand Rickert gathered a large store ofdocuments, in photostat and transcript, which not only threw new lighton Chaucer but also created a collec tion of unusual sources for the studyof English life in the late 14th andearly 15th centuries.It not frequently happens that amanuscript or manuscript collectionacquired with a specific purpose inmind in due course outlives the original intent but attracts new7, perhapseven greater interest for other purposes. This occurred in another acquisition made possible by Mr. Ryer-son's generosity, the collection ofmuniments of the family of SirNicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of theGreat Seal under Elizabeth I. Afterthe dissolution of the monasteries in1539, some forty manors of the greatmonastery of Bury St. Edmundspassed into the hands of Sir Nicholas,and with the lands he received the records pertaining to this property.When the several thousand deeds,letters, manorial rolls, and other documents, dating from about 1200 to 1750,were acquired by the library in 1924,the possibilities for utilizing the collection for linguistic and paleographicstudy were immediately apparent,especially to scholars working on theChaucer projects. Nor was the importance of the collection for Englishsocial and economic history underestimated. Soon after its purchase SirWilliam Beveridge used it for hisstudies of wTages and prices in England, but not until recent years hasthe collection been used actively forserious historical study at the University. While scattered specimens andsmall collections of such manorialdocuments exist elsewhere, onTy twocollections are of comparable scope interms of size and continuity. The library's collection is the only one ofits kind in an American university,Mr. Ryerson was not alone in hisgenerous philanthropy. In the 1920's,Miss Shirley Farr, an alumna, established a fund for the purchase ofmanuscripts in memory of her father.From this fund upon recommendationof a committee of faculty members,the library acquired an unusual selection of twenty-one manuscripts. Twoare 14th and 15th century manuscriptsof Gudio de Columna's romance ofchivalry, the History of the Destruction of Troy, one of the most wddelyread "chansons de geste" in which theheroes of the Iliad became knights ofthe Crusades. The library also acquired 15th century manuscripts ofBoccaccio's Teseide, his most celebrated epic poem, and the Fiammetta, Above: A page from Walt Whitman's manuscript of his article,"The Bible as Poetry," written in1883. (Gift of Helen Gunsaulusj14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEBelow: Letter In which Mark Twainsquelches a would-be autographcollector who was, at the time, anofficer in an Ohio insane asylum. in which he writes of his passionatelove for Maria d' Aquino, a youngmarried woman who is the real Fiam-metta. Among the most beautifulilluminated manuscripts in the library's collection purchased with theFarr funds are a French Home written about 1470 and a French manuscript of about 1365 of Jacques deCessole's allegorical romance. TheGame and Play of Chess. Anotheritem is a 15th century Italian manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy.Among more interesting non-literaryitems acquired by the library withFarr funds were a manuscript ofRichard Fitzneale's description of theEnglish exchequer of the late 12thcentury; a collection of official ordinances for Guadalajara, Spain,governing trade during the reign ofFerdinand and Isabella; a Grundbuchor rental detailing the ownership andtransfer of land in a section of Austriafrom 1477-1517; a manuscript containing four medieval works on lexicography; and a collection of sixty-eight manuscript fragments (10th to16th centuries) mostly extractedfrom bindings for use as examples inpaleographical study.During the 1920's the library alsoreceived significant additions to itsmedieval and renaissance collectionsfrom a group of Alumni. These included such beautiful as well, astextualiy- important works as Rogerof Waltham's Compendium Morale,Justinian's N ovel I a e ConstiUt tioneswritten in Bologna in the middle ofthe 13th century, and an early 12thcentury manuscript of the miracles ofthe Virgin. With this group also camea 13th century scientific treatise representing the monastic teaching ofscience and some sermons. Five centuries ago it was housed in the Library of Meaux Abbey, a Cistercianhouse in Yorkshire, and this particular fact led to its recent inspectionby a scholar since it was the onlymanuscript in this country whichcould be positively established ashaving been once in Meaux Abbey.As an expert in the history of theEnglish carol this investigator wasinterested in Meaux because in England an entirely different manuscripthad recently been discovered whichwas of the greatest importance inthe history of the English carol.Upon inspection of Chicago's smallvolume he found, used as the flyleaves, fragments of polyphonic music of the early 13th century which arevery rare and important documentation for the early history of music.Thus an inspired scholarly guess resulted in a truly significant discoveryin a manuscript which it had been thelibrary's fortune to receive somethirty years before through the assistance of the university's alumni,As the collections of medieval andrenaissance manuscripts grew, manuscripts of the modern period werealso being acquired. The papers collected by William H. English, U. S.senator from Indiana and historianof the old Northwest, were depositedin the library to supplement the holdings of the Durrett Collection. English had gathered a variety of manuscripts relating to the early historyof Indiana and the surrounding area,including letters of the early governorsof the state. Other collections ofmanuscripts, chiefly of the 19th century, included the papers of ElijahGrant, a Four ie rite reformer of Ohioand Kansas during the middle ofthe century; Fielding Lewis' plantation records for his property along theJames River in Virginia; papers ofAmerica's pioneer physician. Dr,William Beaumont, frontier physiologist who first studied the digestionand movement of the human stomachin a living man; and the political andfamily papers of Wyndham Robertson,Virginia's twentieth governor andWhig party leader, who played aninfluential role among the moderatepolitical factions in that state beforethe Civil War. These are some of thelarger American historical manuscript collections acquired throughthe middle of the 1930's; however, themost significant single acquisition of19th century American political manuscripts was the collection of fifteenthousand letters written to StephenA. Douglas during his career in theUnited States Senate. This voluminousmass of correspondence has servedas the major source for the principalpolitical biography of Douglas. Because of its broad representation ofletters from all manner of politiciansprior to the Civil War, it remains aprimary source for the political history of the 1850's.The Douglas papers were purchasedas an adjunct to the Lincoln collectionof William E. Barton, which had beenacquired in the early .1930's. TheBarton collect ion contained a smallbut important collection of tniseei-MARCH, 1958 15If* % * c f,^>ir*n> ,-;,tTrVm CC«^ rttn W^* * »* »11 ..& |: Av-UulfcrnpiCK Ammo ow««u irtl* r ^tW^f,y.V\ . 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V .* „ v .Above: Painstaking yet bewildering proof corrections of Honore Balzac forrevision of his Les Secrets des Ruggieri (gift of Shirley Farr in memory of herfather).Opposite page: a — Portion of a Meaux Abbey polyphonic music fragment of the13th century discovered in the binding of one of the library's manuscripts (giftof Alumni Association), b — Diagrams from a 13th century English scientifictreatise showing the theory of the eclipse of the moon (above) and a theory ofthe flow of tides (gift of Alumni Association), c — Portion of a delightfullyilluminated page by Eugene Field of his poem "Robin Hood" (gift of Frank W.Gunsaulus). d — Page from a f 4th century French translation of de Cessolis'sallegorical book on the game of chess which deftly uses the structure of the gameto discuss morals and statecraft (gift of Shirley Farr m memory of her father).e — Portion of a voters list of 1802, including name of William Henry Harrison,for a convention of the Indiana Territory to draft grievances for presentationto Congress (from the English Collection, gift of Willoughby Walling). laneous manuscripts laid against thebackground of the Civil War. Thelack of Lincoln manuscripts was sooncorrected by the acquisition of therelatively small but highly valuedHannah collection. Among unusualLincoln manuscripts included in thispurchase were a fragment from theyoung Lincoln's sum book, writtenabout 1825, the earliest known writing of Lincoln; a promissory notesigned by Lincoln in 1832, one of theearliest business documents bearinghis signature; a long letter to his wife,written during the year 1848 while hewas serving as congressman, and aprinted copy of the EmancipationProclamation signed by Lincoln andSeward,Various European collections alsowere being acquired. The letters ofCecilia Bohl de Faber, Spanish romantic novelist of the 19th centurywho wrote under the pseudonymFernan Caballero, were one addition.British history was represented bycollections of letters of such politicians as Charles Godolphin (17thcentury); Welborne Ellis (18th century) ; Robert Walpole (18th century) ;and that fire-brand Irish politician ofthe 19th century, Charles J. P. Mahon,known as The O' Gorman. A stronginterest in Lafayette developed at theUniversity in the late 1920's and sometwo hundred fifty letters were acquired over the years to establish thelibrary's holdings of Lafayette manuscripts as one of the richest in thecountry.In the 1930's the generosity of a far-seeing (and to this day anonymous)alumnus and friend of the University,enabled Harriet Monroe, founder andeditor of Chicago's famous Poetrymagazine, to give to the library herletters and records of almost twenty -five years. Within this vast collection of twenty -five thousand pieces,documentation for some of themost important developments in thehistory of modern poetry can befound. Miss Monroe's extensive andoften intimate friendship with poetssuch as Ezra Pound, John GouldFletcher, Amy Lowell, Edgar LeeMasters, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, andothers are recorded in the correspondence. Among the important worksof these poets which were first published in Poetry, manuscripts of thefollowing poems are preserved in thecollection: T. S. Eliot's The Love SongMARCH/ 1958 ifof J. Alfred Prufrock, Ezra Pound'sThree Cantos, Carl Sandburg's TheWindy City, and Robert Frost's TheWitch of Coos.Harriet Monroe's gift includedcorrespondence from the founding ofPoetry in 1912 to the year of herdeath, 1936. In 1953, the library acquired the subsequent editorial correspondence of the magazine withprovision for the addition of futurerecords, thus assuring a continued record of America's most influentialmagazine of poetry.From the time of its establishmentthere has been in the University astrong interest in New Testamentstudies. With the acquistion cf theHengstenberg collection the libraryacquired its first New Testamentmanuscript, the Hengstenberg Harmony. After the acquisition of fourother New Testament manuscripts andfragments, no other New Testamentmanuscripts were received until 1929.Then, in a two-year period, the library's collection was increased byfifteen additional manuscripts. Thereafter its New Testament collectiongrew in almost annual investmentsuntil today it includes sixty-sevenGreek, Syriac, Armenian, and Latinmanuscripts. Many of the manuscripts not only are priceless art objects because of their rich Byzantineminiatures, but being unknown previously to scholars, many are of greatimportance for textual study. Themanuscripts have been given nameswhich reflect their romantic past, thepeculiarity of their contents, or thegenerosity of their donors: there is A fragment fromthe sum book ofAbraham Lincolnwritten when hewas about fifteenyears old and livingin southern Indiana. ItIs the earliest known sam-ple of his handwriting.(From the William E. Barton Lincoln Collection.)the "Gospels of the Fluting Shepherd," named for one of its quaintmarginal illuminations; "The Lec-tionary of St. Menas," the wonderworker, named because of its probableorigin in the Monastery of St. Menason Cyprus; a beautifully illuminatedArmenian Gospels known as the"Ganjasar or Red Gospels" because ofthe heavy use of red in the illumination; and the Rockefeller-McCormickNew Testament, hailed as one of thegreat art objects of America, namedfor its previous owner. The development of this collection has been carefully nurtured over the years by Professor Emeritus Edgar J. Goodspeed,and the collection has been named inhis honor.Within more recent years the library's manuscript collections havecontinued to grow along the broadlines described above. Two new fieldsof special emphasis by the libraryare world peace and the political consequences of the discovery of atomicenergy. The former interest datesback to the acquisition of the SalmonO. Levinson Papers in 1939. Following the Treaty of Versailles, Levinson,a Chicago lawyer, was determined tofind some way to establish permanentworld peace. During the 1920's hisefforts culminated in the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. Nearly everyAmerican public figure active in thesphere of international relations during the 1920's and 1930's is represented in this collection of over 40,000pieces. More recently, the deposit ofthe papers of the Committee to Framea World Constitution and the WorldCitizens Association bring this themeup to date. Closely allied to the subject ofworld peace if not at the core of theproblem today are the consequencesof the first controlled release ofatomic energy in 1942 under thewest stand of Stagg field. Soon afterthis momentous achievement it wasthe scientists themselves who, perhaps more fully than others, realizedthe political as well as military implications of the unleashed atom. Inleaving the laboratory for the politicalarena, the atomic scientists attemptedthrough various organizations to inform the public of the great changethat atomic energy has made in theworld and to warn of the dangers ofits misuse as a political and militarywreapon. The papers of three of themost influential of these groups havecome to the library and form a sourcefor the postwar history of the impactof science on the wTorld scene. Theorganizations are the EmergencyCommittee of Atomic Scientists, theAtomic Scientists of Chicago, and theBulletin of Atomic Scientists.Frank O. Lowden's career as Governor of Illinois, prominent Republican,and advocate of scientific farming, isreflected in his voluminous correspondence, presented in 1946 by Mrs.C. Phillip Miller and preserved as partof the library's manuscript resourcesof contemporary politics.Recently added to the library's collections of earlier manuscripts arethree collections relating to post-revolutionary France, the gifts ofWilliam M. Spencer of Chicago. Theyare a collection of fifty military lettersof Napoleon Bonaparte to his Ministerof War, General Henri Clarke; thecorrespondence of a French priestwho, during the late 1790's served asa Royalist spy; and a collection oftwo hundred twenty -five letters ofvarious men of affairs in late 18thcentury France. Included in this lattercollection is a letter by Napoleon announcing his marriage to Marie Louiseof Austria in 1810.Thus, through the years, the University library has acquired whatmust be considered a distinguishedcollection of manuscripts. Like mostacademic libraries, it has never had abook fund large enough to enable itto set aside monies for the systematicacquisition of manuscript resources.That its collections are as extensiveas they are, and that so many of thegroups of manuscripts complementeach other as well as they do, is re-18 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEKICK-OFF 1958 FUND DRIVEThe 1958 drive of the Alumni Foundation is off and running.More than a hundred alumni hadaccepted appointment, at press time,as local chairmen in the campaign for15,000 gifts and $550,000. Early acceptances included Philip H. Wainand Norman Barker, Jr., Los Angeles; Howard G. Hawkins, Jr., SanFrancisco; John F. Merriam, a trusteeof the University, Omaha, and Kenneth F. MacLellan, Jr., Evanston."In this year of economic uncertainty, a superior job of mobilizingalumni support is required of theAlumni Foundation," commentedHoward L. Willett, Jr., national chairman. "This good early response isimportant, for strong local chairmenand committees are an indispensableadjunct to our direct mail campaign.Each multiplies the effect of the other."A new feature this year is a seriesof regional conferences for AlumniFund chairmen. These are scheduledat Chicago, March 7; Los Angeles,March 14; San Francisco, March 15,and New York, April 10.Other 1958 chairmen include:ATLANTIC COAST— Dr. Isee L. Council, Jacksonville, Fla.; Miss Els-beth B. Wagner, St. Petersburg;Charles E. Lee, Springfield, Mass.;Dr. Morris H. Cohen, Worcester; Mrs.Lucy S. Herring, Asheville, N. C;Mrs. C. A. Troupe, Charlotte; MissEthel M. Speas, Raleigh; Mrs. JohnF. Lewis, Winston-Salem; Miss Al-meda J. Garland, Lynchburg, Va.;Dr. Charles G. Polan, Huntington,MSS: continuedmarkable in view of the somewhatfortuitous nature of the additions.Scholarship owes a substantial debtto the many donors and other friendsof the library whose interest and foresight have made these acquisitionspossible.Another important group of manuscripts which have general significance is housed in the UniversityArchives which wras established in thelibrary to preserve the records ofthe University. Although primarilyvaluable for the history of the University and of scholarship, thesepapers of members of the facultythrow light on many fields of endeavour. W. Va,, and Dr. Donald S. Barnhart,Morgan town.SOUTH— Mrs. John F. Krueger, Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Mac BartonGreer, Mobile; Dr. Arthur P. Kruse,Montgomery; Dr. Earl E. Klein, Baton Rouge-University, La.; Mr. andMrs. Gordon H. McNeil, Fayetteville,Ark.; Miss Christine L, Oglevee,Jackson, Miss.; Robert H. Espenshade,Memphis; Dr. Herbert S. Pomerance,Oak Ridge, Tenn.SOUTHWEST AND FAR WEST— Dr.Minna M. Hansen, Santa Barbara;Dr. H. Karl Lad wig, Boise; Dr. Donald C. Moyer, Santa Fe; William T.Nelson, Bartlesville, Okla.; Dr. RalphS. Newcomb, Oklahoma City; Ira G.Corn, Jr., Dallas; Dr, Anton H, Berkman, El Paso; Philip D. Raymond,Fort Worth; Dr, Howard G. Swann,Galveston; F. Max Schuette, Houston; Dr. Monroe S. Carroll, Waco,Tex., and Dr. Archie S. Wilson, Richland, Wash.CENTRAL STATES— Miss Ruth H.Kline, Charleston, 111.; Mrs. CasperPiatt, Danville; Joseph E. West,Galesburg; Arthur J, Lauff, Jacksonville; Mrs. Max T. Terrill, Macomb;Dr. Norbert C. Barwasser, Moline;Dr. K. Dexter Nelson, Princeton;Mrs Pauline A. Witzleben, Quincy.Dr. Stephen S. Visher, Bloomington, Ind.; Dr. Harold D. Cay lor, Bluffton; Dr. Edward L. Haenisch, Craw-fords ville; Mrs. Harry C. Hougham,Franklin; Miss Louise E. Scheidt,Kokomo; Russell L. Palm, La Porte;Clifford G. Wild, Logansport; Mrs.Harriet F. Wright, Richmond; Stan-dau E. Weinbrecht, Terre Haute; Mrs.Roy L. Pierce, and Mrs. FinneyBriggs, Valparaiso.Dr. Frank E. Brown, Ames, IowTa;Dr. Harold E. Bernhard, Cedar Falls;Norman G. Lipsky, Cedar Rapids;Mrs. Van W. Hunt, Mason City; CarlA. Dragstedt, Jr., Sioux City; Frederick G. White, Waterloo; Dr. Alexander Lichtor, Kansas City; Mr. andMrs. John G. Stutz, Topeka; Dr. Herbert Wald, Louisville.Hugh C. Sebastian, Albion, Mich.;Dr. John B. Rowe, Flint; Dr. CharlesE. Black, Lansing; Mrs. William C.Hoppes, Marquette; Fred R. Bush,Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Donald Bicknell,Saginaw; Dr. Gerald A. Gladstein,Duluth, Minn.; Lawrence J. O'Mara, John F. Merriam, Omaha Campaign ChairmanMinneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. ArmourH. Nelson, Moorhead; Donald B.Smith and Dr. Vernon E. Olson, St.Paul; Mrs. James Rowan, Winona.Miss Ethel L. Hardaway, Carthage,Mo.; Seth W. Slaughter, Columbia;William T. Garrett, Marysville; MissGrace J. Gregerson, Fargo, N. D.;Mrs. Paul C. Matthews, Grand Forks;Miss Mabel M. Reidinger, Akron,Ohio; Dr. Harris L. Dante, Kent; Dr.F. James Schrag, Springfield; CecilR. Fetters, Toledo.Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Baird, Ap-pleton, Wis.; Miss Frances C. O'Hare,Kenosha; N. George De Dakis, LaCrosse; William B. Holmes, LakeGeneva; Richard H. Jung, Sheboygan; James E. Hoff, Sr., Waukesha;Neil Johnston, Wausau.CHICAGO SUBURBS— Glenn L. Pierre, Arlington Heights; Mrs. ZalmonS. Goldsmith, Aurora; A. F. Allen,Batavia; Robert J. Straker, Berwyn;Mrs. Martin A. Salmon, ClarendonHills; Mrs. Andrew F. Stehney,Downers Grove; Melvin H. Spector,East Chicago, Ind.; William S. Gray,III, Elmhurst.Eugene R. Cohn, Gary; Robert J.Greenebaum, Glencoe; Mrs. Ethel T.Freel, Hammond-Munster, Ind.; Mrs.Bernard S. Chizewer, Highland Park;Pompey J. Toigo and Dr. BernardMortimer, Joliet; William R. Ruminer,La Grange-La Grange Park.Norbert Burgess, Oak Park; CecilL. Bothwell, Jr., River Forest; Mrs.George Maher, Skokie; Dr. and Mrs.Richard W. Mattoon, Waukegan; Mrs.John T. Cusack, Western Springs.MARCH, 1958 19Harvey Harmon, executive secretary, National Football Foundation and Football Hall of Fame,addresses alumni and friends honoring "C" men elected to the Football Hall of Fame.*Order of the ^ ^ football greatswin place in FOOTBALLHALL OF FAMEThree Maroon football "greats"were honored at a ceremonyFebruary 1, on their election to theNational Football Hall of Fame.They are Amos Alonzo Stagg, WalterHerbert Eckersall, and John JayBerwanger.Harvey Harmon, executive secretary of the National Football Foundation and Football Hall of Fame,officiated at the presentation ceremony which took place in the University Field House during half-timeof the Knox-Chicago basketball game.The "Grand Old Man" of the Midway, now 96, wras not present to ac-* Seated (left, to right) : Walter L. Hass, Director of Athletics; Walter G. Eckersall, representing the Eckersall family; Harold W.Lewis, president of the Order of the "C";Jay Berwanger, recipient of election to theFootball Hall of Fame, and Chancellor Kimpton. Standing (left to right): Kent Karohl,Richard Cousens and William Lester, studentson campus, who assisted at the ceremony. cept the certificate representing hiselection as an outstanding coach, butresponded from his home in Stockton,Calif., in a telephone broadcast, whichbrought nostalgic memories to themany alumni and Order of the "C"who, with students and friends,packed the bleachers of the FieldHouse on the occasion. Harold W.Lewis '23, president of the Order ofthe "C'\ accepted the certificate onbehalf of Stagg.The only one elected to the Hall ofFame both as a player (at Yale) andas a coach, Stagg was Director ofAthletics and football coach — andsometime baseball, basketball, andtrack coach as well — during his forty-one years wdth the University, dating from its opening in 1892 to his retirement in June, 1933. His innovationsand ability as a coach, and his inflexible integrity, made him a leadingfigure in the development of intercollegiate athletics.After he left Chicago, he coachedthe College of Pacific to nationalfame, and then assisted his son, AmosAlonzo, Jr., at Susquehanna University.Walter Eckersall, three-time "AllAmerica" choice, and elected to theFootball Hall of Fame as the "alitime" quarterback, established an enduring reputation in the four years(1903-06) he played at Chicago. Abrilliant runner, quarterback, punter,and drop-kicker (he kicked five field20 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEgoals in games with Illinois and Nebraska), he was the hero of the 2-0upset of Michigan's "point-a~minute"team on Thanksgiving Day, 1905."Eekie," later a sports writer for theChicago Tribune and a football official, died in 1930 at the age of forty -five. Walter G. Eckersall, AB '37, anephew accepted the certificate onbehalf of the Eckersall family.Jay Berwanger, the only one of thetrio to receive his certificate in person, wras the last of the legendaryMaroon players. A fast and powerfulrunner who broke away for longruns, he gained more than a milefrom scrimmage, averaging five yardsa play, during the three seasons, 1933-35, he played for Chicago. He alsowas an exceptional punter and defensive player. After his final season,he was the virtually unanimous choicefor "All America" teams and receivedthe Heisman Award and the ChicagoTribune's "Most Valuable Player" trophy. A lieutenant commander in thewar, Berwanger lives in Hinsdalewhere he has a manufacturing business.Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimptonaccepted the plaques presented to theUniversity. These certificates will reside permanently in the Trophy Roomof Bartlett Gymnasium. Three similarcertificates will hang in the Hall ofFame at Rutgers University.Three other former Chicago playershave been honored by the Hall ofFame: Hugo Bezdek, '06, as a coachat Pennsylvania State College; Paul Des Jardiens, '15, as a Maroon player;and H. O. Crisler, '22, as coach ofthe University of Michigan.Following the presentation ceremony and an exciting last half ofthe Knox-Chicago basketball game,the Order of the "C" held a receptionfor alumni and friends in the FieldHouse, while students gathered at IdaNoyes for an all-campus dance co-sponsored by Inter- fraternity andInter-club councils."Stockton, California, calling!"Young Bill Flinn looks admiringly at Jay Berwanger (right), AB '36,as his parents, T. E. Flinn, '38, and Mrs. Flinn, visit with the Berwangers.Mrs. Berwanger (center) is the former Philomela Baker, AB '36.Recalling the "old days"over coffeeare (left to right) :Evelyn Stinson (Mrs. WilburJ.) Urban, PhB '31;Wilbur Urban, SB '31;Martha Steere (Mrs. Russell)Baird, '40;Russell Baird, AB '38;Mrs. Norbert Burgess;Arthur Cahill, '31, andJames M, Sheldon, PhB '31.MARCH, 1958 21ALUMNI CLUBACTIVITYLOUISVILLE: Richard M. Kain, AM'31, PhD '34, Professor of English atthe University of Louisville, led aninformal discussion on the humanities in the "space age," February 25.LAKE COUNTY, ILL.: The largestaudience in the three-year history ofthis active club turned out February25 to hear retiring Professor HaroldC. Urey discuss the weaknesses inour secondary school education of thenation's future scientists.DENVER: Gilbert F. White, '32, PhD'42, Chairman of Geography, is thenation's top authority on water resources, and Denverites are worriedabout possible water shortages. Therefore Professor White was the unanimous choice for the speaker at theannual Denver alumni dinner,March 6.WASHINGTON, D. C: C. TaylorWhittier '36, AM '38, PhD '48, Superintendent of Schools in MontgomeryCounty, Maryland, chaired the meeting on January 22 at which alumniand Director of Admissions CharlesO'Connell discussed "Should I SendMy Child to Chicago?"Alumnus Paul Hume, '39, musiccritic of the Washington Post, wasthe speaker at the club's Februarymeeting. Hume made the nation'sheadlines some years ago when HarryTruman reacted to a Hume reviewof a Margaret Truman concert. INDIANAPOLIS: Robert Osgood,Assistant Professor of Political Science, discussed U. S. military policywith Indianapolis alumni on January10 at a meeting arranged by RuthBozell, '13, and chaired by JulianKiser, '37.RHODE ISLAND: Edward J. Brown,Professor of Modern Languages atBrown, spoke to the fall meeting ofthe Rhode Island alumni on November 26.CLASS REUNIONSff)Q Alumni Day, June 14, the^0 Class of 1908 will be celebrating its 50th Reunion. Class Vice President Helen Sunny McKibben isdirecting planning, assisted by President Norman Barker in Long Beach,Calif., and Eleanor Day Jones inRacine. They have hopes of betteringthe record attendance of NaughtSeven at its 50th last year.* I O The annual dinner of the Classof 1918 will be expanded intoa three day 40th Reunion this year,beginning with dinner on June 13 andending with cocktails at the home ofArt Baer on Sunday, June 15.OS Following a suggestion madeby Henry Paulman, Arrangements have been made with the Oriental Institute to have the 30th Reunion of the Class of 1928 in theInstitute's Museum. Dinner will be served and special tours arranged before the Sing on Saturday, June 14.MO Preliminary planning for the15th Reunion of '43 has sentthe committee and the Alumni Officein search of a long list of class members who got separated from Chicagoby the war and haven't been heardfrom since. The reunion dinner willbe Friday, June 13 — perhaps in theLoop. David Petty is chairman.fA,Q The twelve alumni assembledfor the first meeting of the 10thReunion Committee laughed at thenotion of "the class of 1948" but intend to gather a group of friends ata party in the recreation room of thenew Women's Dormitory on Saturdayafternoon, June 14, before the Sing.Bill Hey is chairman; Jim Oates andAllen Dropkin are handling arrangements.'2 2 After 25 years, '33 is going topublish a Cap and Gown.Questionnaires are out to class members seeking information and pictures.Class President Joe Zoline is directing reunion planning; John Hollo wayand Warren Thompson will superviseproduction of the book.OO The Twentieth Reunion classwill wine and dine on the roofterrace of the Del Prado, Friday,June 13. Gregg Geiger is designingpublicity, Rusty Baird is planning theprogram, and Aileen Wilson Henry isorganizing a personal contact campaign. Co-chairmen Graham Fairbankand Bruce Young are assisted by acommittee of twenty -five or moreclassmates.COMING ALUMNI CLUB EVENTSDate Place Speaker ChairmanMarch 14 Los Angeles John C. Wilson Judge Stanley Mosk, '33March 15 San Francisco John C. Wilson Horace Angell, '41April Seattle Louis Gottschalk Joseph A. Whitlow, '39April 9 Philadelphia Julian Levi Werner Zimmt, '47, PhD '51April 10 New York City Julian LeviRobert M. HutchinsBruno Bettleheim Henry Sulcer, '33April 13 Aurora Edward S. Rosenheim, Jr.James M. Sheldon Anne Haltzman Goldsmith '38April 24 Minneapolis -St. Paul Dr. Nathan C. Plimpton, 34, MD '37May 7 Detroit Theodore W. Schultz Ray Macdonald '35May 23 Washington, D. C. Burton B. Moyer, '3922 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEMarried Housing Clears HurdleThe demolition of four square blocks of Hyde Park forthe construction of married student housing came nearerto reality recently, when the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed a final appeal by residents and property owners tohalt redevelopment plans. The Southwest Hyde ParkNeighborhood Corporation, a private group sponsored bythe University, now will proceed immediately into thearea. Howrever. Julian Levi, attorney for the corporation,said that "no pressures will be placed on owners," andthat they will be given "many many months" to findother living quarters. The corporation is also preparedto help them find other housing.The area affected runs from 55th street to 56th, andfrom Cottage Grove to Ellis. Seven modern buildings,housing over 1200 families, are planned.Awards and AppointmentsThree faculty members in the humanities and socialsciences have been named recipients of awards totalling$13,000 by the American Council of Learned Societies.They were among 48 scholars in these fields to receiveawards.NEWS OF THEErnest Sirluck received $7,000, and Oscar Broneer andDonald F. Lach each got $3,000. Sirluck, Associate Professor of English and a specialist in the works of Miltonand the Puritan Revolution, wall use his grant for ayear's work on a book he is writing, Milton and the Lawof Nature,Broneer, Professor of Classical Archaeology and fielddirector of a U of C expedition now in Greece, will usehis grant to continue work in that country. Lach, Associate Professor of History, will use his grant to supportresearch he is conducting for the first volume of a history,The Impact of the Far East in Europe, 1500 to 1800,*- * # * * *Dorothy Stock, PhB '42, AM '48, PhD '52, has beenappointed Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Psychiatry Department. A specialist in group dynamics andgroup therapy, she has done research with the Naval Research Laboratory and with the University's Departmentof Education and, since 1955, has been a project directorat Chicago's Veterans Administration Research Hospital.¦x- * * * * -x-Dr. Nancy E. Warner, SB '44, MD '49, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology. She has beenassistant laboratory pathologist at Cedars of LebanonHospital in Los Angeles since 1954.* -X- * # * *Sverre Petterssen, Professor of Meteorology and Director of the department's Weather Forecasting ResearchCenter, has been elected president of the AmericanMeteorological Society for 1958-59. He is a noted authorityon weather forecasting and author of three books on thesubject. He came to the University in 1952 from the Ait-Force Weather Service, where for four years he directedscientific service.MARCH, 1958 Director of National ObservatoryQUADRANGLESMeinel To Head ObservatoryAden B. Meinel, Associate Director of Yerkes, whosework in connection with the National Astronomical Observatory was described in our last issue, has now beennamed the first director of that observatory. He will continue directing operations from his Phoenix, Arizona,field office until a site on which to build the observatoryhas been selected.Plan Exhibit for Brussels FairThe 1958 Universal and International Exhibition, aworld fair comparable in size and scope to the New YorkWorld Fair of 1939, will open in Brussels, Belgium, inApril. One of the features of the exhibition will be aninternational science section, organized in the hope ofdemonstrating to fair visitors that pure science is international in character, and that there is a strong interdependence between diverse scientific disciplines.Planned by J. W. Moulder, Professor of Microbiology,and a subcommittee composed of L. M. Kozloff, AssistantProfessor of Biochemistry, A. Novick, Assistant Professorof Microbiology, J. C. Holper and S, E. Luria, and designed by Chicago architect Leon Hyzen, the scienceexhibit will have a 28-foot diameter. Shown clusteredin the center will be models of actual virus cells. Panelswill explain in English, Dutch, and French some basicfacts about virus life.Sixteen nations have agreed to make contributions tothis section, which will be housed in a special pavilion.Exhibits will be organized into four categories: the atom,the molecule, the crystal, and the living cell. As part ofthe last of these categories, the exhibit, pictured on thefollowing page, will help illustrate Viral Biology.23Talalay Awarded Huge GrantOver half a million dollars, specifically allocated to pay the salary ofyoung Dr. Paul Talalay until hereaches retirement age, has beengiven the University by the AmericanCancer Society. The grant totaling$587,344 is the largest ever made bythe Society, and probably the largestever made to a single individual byany voluntary agancy. The money ispart of a program designed to lurethe most brilliant young scientists inthe country to fight cancer,Talalay is an Associate Professorof Biochemistry, working at the University's Ben May Cancer ResearchLaboratory. His work on enzymes,W'hich won him the Theobald SmithAward, was described in our February issue.The American Cancer Society'scampaign for $30 million will openin April.Chagall Eevisits ChicagoMarc Chagall, considered one ofthe titanic figures in the art worldtoday, concludes a three- week stayas visiting Professor to the University's Committee on Social Thoughtthis month. This is Chagall's firstvisit to the United States since 1946when he participated in a lectureseries sponsored by the Committee on"The Works of the Mind."During his current stay, he is conducting three seminars on "Art andLife" for faculty members, students,and associates of the Committee onSocial Thought, of which John U. Nefis Chairman. Now in his 70th year, Chagall hasbeen described as an artist who, inan age when the mood of many artists is one of disillusionment andanger, paints from sources of love,nostalgia, and reverence and joy inlife. He is known for his colorfulpaintings reminiscent of live in hisnative Vitebsk, Russia.Stigler to Join FacultyGeorge J. Stigler, PhD '38, one ofthe nation's most eminent economists,will join the faculty of the School ofBusiness of the University of Chicago, July 1. Stigier's appointment isas Charles R. Walgreen Professor ofAmerican Institutions and Directorof the Walgreen Foundation.A professor of economics at Columbia University since 1947, Stigler isnow on leave of absence at the FordFoundation's Center for AdvancedStudy of the Behavioral Sciences atPalo Alto, Calif. He previously hadbeen a member of the faculties ofIowa State College, the University ofMinnesota, and Brown University.In announcing the appointment, W.Allen Wallis, Dean of the School ofBusiness, said, "Stigier's works inboth theoretical and applied economics have been among the most important of the last quarter century.He frequently tests and clarifies accepted theory by using it in realapplications. His recent book on scientific personnel is an example of important contributions arising out ofthis interplay of fact and theory."A strong opponent of interferencewith the free working of competition, whether from government, labor orindustry, Stigler has asserted thatprivate monopoly is relatively unimportant and that where monopoliesare found they can usually be tracedto government sponsorship."Stigier's appointment, said DeanWallis, is one of the most importantin a series of major appointmentsrecently made by the School of Business. In the past year the faculty hasbeen increased by twenty, the newappointments including Bernard Berelson, formerly Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program of the FordFoundation; Yale Brozen, formerlyProfessor in the Technological Institute and the Department of Economics, Northwestern University; John S.McGee, formerly economist, Petroleum Division, First National CityBank of New York; George P. Schultz,formerly Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at MassachusettsInstitute of Technology; and EdwardL. Wallace, formerly Chairman of andAssociate Professor in the Departmentof Accounting at the University ofBuffalo.Stigler visited on campus February 19, when he presented the firstHenry Simons lecture, established atthe University of Chicago to honorthe late professor in the departmentof economics in the University's LawSchool. Simons, w?ho died in 1946,was a leading spokesman for the classical school of economics, known asa staunch advocate of free enterprise.Wanted: Scientific AmbassadorsIs the United States overly modestin displaying its scientific achievements?Joseph M. Harrer, associate director, Reactor Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, suggestedthat wTe might be."By our simple negligence in showing off what we do, we convincepeople that we have nothing to show.Our science is not behind, but we arehiding our talents."In an address before a meeting ofthe Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, he elaborated, "Reports atpresent about the American scienceexhibit at the World's Fair in Brussels indicate the Russians have outclassed us completely."This can impress people in thatarea. It impresses the little fellowswho, even though they look on us asfriends, must be convinced that weModel ©f science exhibit planned by committee of U of C faculty members for 1958International Fair at Brussels24 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEJohn Mueller, Doug Maurer and Bill Mathieu go over music for the coming Blackfriarsmusical comedy, Alpha Centauri, Written by Mueller (left), the science fiction-themedshow deals with a trip to one of the star's planets by a group of American spacemen.are interested in them. They wantto see how well we are doing. If wefail to show the true progress in thiscountry, these people will becomeconvinced that they should look elsewhere for their real friends."What the United States needs toincrease its prestige abroad, according to Harrer, is "scientific ambassadors" who combine showmanship withan understanding of other peoples.Said he, "We need what I call grassroots diplomacy on a scientific level."Boom for GuestsThe problem of guest housing atArgonne National Laboratory hasbeen alleviated with the opening ofthree new apartment-motel-typebuildings on Argonne's 3,700 -acresite. Completion of the buildings coincided with the start of the sixthsession of the U. S. Atomic EnergyCommission's International School ofNuclear Science and Engineering atArgonne at which 67 foreign andAmerican scientists are in attendance.Before completion of the three newbuildings, Argonne had three smallstructures for housing distinguishedvisitors. Each of the new buildingshas six four-room units, so arrangedthat they may be rented in any combination of one to four rooms. Eachunit consists of one kitchenette -livingroom and three bedrooms, with doubleplumbing. All rooms have outsideentrances so they may be isolated forindividual occupancy. Two buildingshave one story; the third has an extralower ground floor which contains a recreation-lounge area, laundry facilities, and ultimately will provide asmall kitchen and dining room."Provision of this new facility is amatter of necessity rather than convenience," said J. H. McKinley,Argonne business manager. "Commuting time from the laboratory todowntown Chicago is at least an houreach way, and there are few temporary rental apartments available inthe surrounding western suburbs.Even with the three new buildings,Argonne will not have enough spaceto house many of its visiting scientists."Under research arrangements withseveral universities, faculty and students spend three months to a yearat Argonne. The new guest facilitywas authorized by the AEC and costapproximately $500,000.India Sends Educators for StudyTen prominent educators from India have begun a five -month intensive study of examination methodsand procedures at the University ofChicago under the direction of Benjamin S. Bloom, Professor of Education and Chief Examiner for theUniversity.Training these educators in examining is part of a ten -year programof educational reform proposed byBloom, which the Indian Ministry ofEducation is carrying out in cooperation with state and local educationalagencies."India is using its examining systems as a major tool in developing its educational system to serve itsneeds as a modern independent nation. We will help these educatorsdevelop education goals which willserve India as it goes through economic and social change," he said.According to Bloom, the presentexternal examining system in Indiahas been a powerful force in limitingeducation to the rote memorizationof poorly understood subject matter.The ten -year program of the IndianMinistry will be carried out by stagesto broaden the goals of secondaryeducation in India. New educationalgoals will include not only knowledgeof subject matter, but also the application of principles and ideas tonew problems, skill in using and relating ideas, and other abilities inproblem solving. These goals will beclarified through the examining process and gradually will be included inexamination questions, Bloom said.The ten educators here for studyunder the program are; Smt. S. Shuk-la, Central Institute of Education,Delhi; Shri T. S. Mehta, assistant coordinator, Government Central Pedagogical Institute, Allahabad; Shri R.H, Dave, assistant coordinator, Extension Service Department, A. G.Teachers' College, Abmedabad; ShriD. G. Kulkarani, lecturer, Government Training College, Raichur; ShriHari Singh, lecturer, Women's Training College, Dayal Bagh, Agra.Shri B. V. Bapat, principal, TilakCollege of Education, Poona; Shri H.M. Datta, Balwant Rajput College,Agra; Shri Y. B. Patwardhan, Secondary Training College, Bombay;Shri Ramsakal Sinha, lecturer, Bha-galpur Training College, Bhagalpur(Bihar); and Shri A. Samuel Du-rairaj, coordinator, Extension ServicesDepartment, Teachers* College, Peri-anaickenpalayam.In addition to courses in the Department of Education, the Indian educators will attend special seminars,visit classrooms in secondary schools,and will each serve an apprenticeshipwith a member of the University's examining staff.At the end of the five months, theywill return to India where Bloom willhelp the educators set up a new examination construction and researchunit. He will work with them inworkshops and seminars conducted forsecondary teachers, administrators,and teachers* college facultiesthroughout India.MARCH, 1958 25T. A. REHNQU13T CO SidewalksFactory FloorsMachineFoundationsConcrete BreakingNOrmal 7443$SARGENT'S DRUG STOREestablished 1852Chicago's most completeprescription and chemical stockphone RAndoiph 6-477023 N. 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Powers, '51, paying his respects to the Alumni Office. Whatbrought him from the warm climeof Georgia to face the cold, wintryblast of Chicago? His story follows:"Back in 1947, a group of students who lived in Burton-JudsonTower, plus a few others who livedoff campus, became close friends.Although we were at that time allstudents in the College, our friendship was not based upon commonintellectual pursuits. Rather, wejust all found ourselves very compatible with regard to non-intellectual subjects like stud pokerand parties. One night in 1947, justbefore the Christmas holidays, wewere discussing the changes thata person undergoes after he leavescollege, and speculating as to howinteresting it would be to see eachother ten years after. One thingled to another, and we ended theevening by making a solemn vowto meet again on New Year's Eve,1957, for a reunion."Most promises of this sort arepromptly forgotten, but fortunatelymost of us corresponded with eachother over the years. So, early in1957, we decided to carry out ourmutual promise arid made plansto meet in Chicago for a celebration. Six of us made it. Theywere, in alphabetical order, Jackson V. Burgess, '51; Ernest Callen-bach, MA '53; R. B. Draper; HoraceJudson, '48; Matthew S. (Bud)Meselson, '51 and I. "On the evening of the 31st, weall met in front of the gates leading to Burton-Judson Court. Although the gates were locked,some friendly student let us in,and we performed the ritual ofclimbing the 102 steps to thetower. We all felt as young as wedid ten years before, but strangelynone of us were able to run upthe steps as we did ten years ago."After reminiscing in the towrerwe retired to Morton's restaurantfor a steak dinner and more talk."To me, one of the most interesting things was the different pathsour lives had taken. Some idea oftheir diversity may be gainedfrom the following: Jackson Burgess is a writer and is living inGreensboro, N. C. A recent novelof his entitled Pillar of Cloud wasselected by the Literary GuildBook Club as their August, 1957,book-of-the~month. Ernest Cal-lenbach now lives in Berkeley,Calif., and is employed by the University of California Press. Amongother things, he writes most of theblurbs that appear on the jacketsof books published there. R. B.Draper left the University priorto graduation, went North andstudied architecture under FrankLloyd Wright. He is now practicing his chosen profession in Nashville, Tenn, Horace Judson is nowin the advertising business. He isemployed by a New York City advertising agency. Matthew Mesel-son recently received his PhD inbiochemistry from California Institute of Technology and is nowdoing further research work therein the Department of Chemistry. Iam now a CPA and work for theAtlanta (Georgia) office of thepublic accounting firm of Peat,Marwick, Mitchell & Co."Before parting, we reaffirmedour vows to meet in 1967. However because of the snow and thecold, we decided to hold our 1967reunion in Mexico City. Althoughwe had all lived in Chicago for anumber of years and were consequently a.ccustomed to very badweather, we decided that by 1967,we would be too old and "soft"to put up with it; hence, the decision to go South in '67. My guess,however, is that we all will be solonely to see the Chicago campusagain by then that we will returnto meet again in the Big City."26 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEa Nass \etusQ7 1 g Col. Harry D. Abells, '97, re-** tired superintendent of theMorgan Park Military Academy, and hiswife Helena had a happy flood of greeting cards in celebration of their 60thwedding anniversary December 27. Harrywrites: "I carry on with my 85 years. Ifollow the orders of my superior physicians who declare that, for my age andhaving had two heart attacks, I am amiracle." The Abells live at 34 ProspectStreet, North Bennington, Vt.Dr. Alfred T. Lees, MD '01, has retiredfrom his medical practice, and lives inMedford, Ore. His avocation is gardening. He writes that he raises vegetablesand flowers, and is active in the localrose society.Ernest E. Quantrell, '05, and his wifeare on board the "Bergensfjord" on aneleven-week cruise to Australia and NewZealand. He writes that he is lookingforward particularly to visiting NewZealand. They will return to New Yorkin March.A nostalgic note from Comfort H.Compere, '08, with a gift to the University: "In the fall of 1905 my roommateHarry C. Hanszen, '05, and I moved intosuite 29 Hitchcock and then 48 when PaulHarper, '08, JD '13, moved out followingthe passing of President Harper. In 52years both Harry and Paul passed awayon the same day . . ." Compere is president of Nutri-Food, Inc., Wilmette,Illinois.Carolyn Whitlock, '08, was a delegateto the International Meeting of ClubWomen in Geneva, in 1955. Last year shetoured South America. She now lives inValparaiso, Ind.Lander MacClintock, PhB, '11, AM '13,PhD '17, has recently published Orpheusin America, which is a part of Offenbach'sdiary that tells of the popular composer'strip to the new world. University ofIndiana Press is printing the book.Elisabeth A. Keenan, PhB '12, is nowemeritus teaching at the school where shehas been since 1918, Schurz High Schoolin Chicago.Dr. Harry L. Huber, SB '13, SM '16,PhD '17, MD '18, of Chicago, and his wifeattended the Rotary International convention in Lucerne, Switzerland, lastMay, and then spent two months touring Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, England, Belgium and Sweden. In 1956,Huber toured the Russian Ukraine with adelegation of American agriculturists,visiting collective farms, state farms, andagricultural expositions in Moscow andmany other Russian cities.Sarah McGoughey Oakley, '16, sendsthe following note:"My Dear Alumni Association:"Am still here — only 87 years young!Busy as usual. Enjoying the lovely Floridaflowers and sunshine. Grateful for God'scare during the years. Have been teaching all my life. Began at 14 years of age— 20 years in classrooms — the other years,coach work. Am so proud of my relation with Chicago University."Frederick Richard Kilner, '16, has formany years been president and publisherof the Florists' Publishing Co. and theAmerican Nurseryman Publishing Co.His magazine, the Florisfs Review,ranks first in advertising volume amongall trade publications in the UnitedStates, and is among the first ten for alltypes of magazines. A weekly, the magazine is now 60 years old.In 1949, Kilner received an award fromthe National Association of Nurserymenfor having done more for the industrythan any man outside it. Last Decemberhe was honored with a citation from theSociety of American Florists. His wife isColleen Browne Kilner, PhB '15.I 7^94 Edwin L. Weisl, PhB '17, JD'19, a New York corporationlawyer, recently headed a "fast moving"senatorial inquiry into Russian successesand U. S. failures in development of missiles and satellites.Margaret A. Hayes, PhB '18, a Chicagoschool principal, moved into a new building last year, the Jane A. Neil School at85th and Michigan. The school has about200 crippled children, brought in bybusses from all of the city south of 71ststreet, and also non-handicapped children. "Visitors," Miss Hayes writes, "aremost welcome!"Dr. Virgil S. Counseller, SB '18, MD'19, head of a section of general surgeryin the Mayo Clinic since 1928 and Professor at the University of Minnesota, retired from the clinic in December to devote himself to a practice in Phoenix,Ariz. Long recognized as an authorityon the surgical treatment of diseases of women, Counseller has made many contributions to the improvement of surgicalprocedures in this field, and is the authorof 228 papers in the literature.L. H. Tiffany, SB '19, of the Departmentof Botany, Northwestern University, isthe co-author of Life, an Introduction toBiology, with C. S. Pittendrigh of Princeton. The book, which is published byHarcourt, Brace and Co., attempts an integrated approach to biology.Dr. John S. Lundy, MD '19, senior consultant in anesthesiology in the MayoClinic and Professor at the University ofMinnesota, received the second Award ofMerit of the Horace Wells Club of Connecticut during December. It was givenfor Lundy's outstanding contributions toanesthesiology.Henry Kennedy, '20, leaves March 5, fora tour by air of the capitals of Centraland South American countries, hopingearthquakes and revolutions subsidewhile he is en route.Lauren tza Schantz -Hansen, PhB '21, ofWest Lafayette, Ind., is now ProfessorEmeritus at Purdue after 28 years ofservice. Purdue granted her a sabatticalleave last year, which she spent atCold Spring Institute in the Highlands ofthe Hudson. She writes that it was a wonderful experience, which left her "rejuvenated in mind, body and spirit."Ola Elizabeth Winslow, PhD '22, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1941, has writtenMaster Roger Williams. Like JonathanEdwards, for which she won the Pulitizeraward, the new book is a biography ofa major New England leader. It is published by Macmillan Co. Ola has authored four books in all. She has taughtEnglish at Goucher, Wellesley, and Rad-cliffe colleges.Dr. Gordon E. Davis, SM '22, principalmedical bacteriologist at the RockyMountain Laboratory of the U. S. PublicHealth Service, Hamilton, Mont., is retired after 26 years of service. His present address is Campton, N.H.Tekla Blach Wolf, '23, is presidentof the Indianapolis Council of Women.Her husband Walter and her son Louisare president and vice-president, respectively, of H. P. Wasson & Co. Shehas one more son, one daughter, and sixgrandchildren.Margaret Macklin Heflin, PhB '23,writes from California, "If I sell one ofthese motels, I can't think of anythingmore pleasant than a Chicago get-together before the deluge of summer vacationists on Highway 99."MARCH, 1958 27")Am")Q Helen Coyle Bartz, SM '24,Zi7mJ.O MD '28, and her husbandRudolph Bartz, PhB '28, both live in Chicago, where he is director of advertisingfor Science Research Associates, and shea practicing psychoanalyst.Rabbi Simon G. Kramer, AB '24, AM'26, of the Hebrew Institute of UniversityHeights, New York, and a member of theNew York University Board of Chaplains,was one of 21 persons receiving the GoldKey of Merit from the Jewish CultureFoundation of NYU in December.Berthold C. Friedl, AM '26, of the University of Miami, and his family recentlyreturned from a trip to France, where hisdaughter Eleanor, 17, read a paper tothe Congreso de Cooperacion Intelectualon "The Teaching of Spanish in theUnited States."Dr. Armin F. Schick, SB '28, MD '32,and his wife, Susanne Artingstall Schick,AB '45, have three children: Fred, asenior at Elmhurst College; Susanne, twoand one-half years, and Samuel Armin,ten weeks.Schick has published original research,on the structure of the heart muscle, andis a member of the New York Academyof Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He is aninternist and a Fellow of the AmericanCollege of Physicians. Louis Zimmerman, PhB '28, of Milwaukee, taught creative writing atthe University of Wisconsin extensionafter her husband died last spring, buthas now discontinued teaching to goback to her own writing, a "five-yearplan novel with a Chicago background."John H. Garland, PhB '28, SM '29, PhD'40, Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, has been re-electedto the office of treasurer of the NationalCouncil for Geographic Education. Hehas served in the post since 1944. Garland is the author of textbooks and numerous articles.Arnold M. Johnson, PhB '28, has beenelected president of Automatic CanteenCo. He also will continue as vice chairman of the board. Formerly owner ofYankee Stadium in New York, Johnsonhas been president and principal ownerof the Kansas City Athletics since 1954.He is also on the directorate or executive committee of several other companies, including Henry Holt & Co.,Minneapolis-Moline, and H. M. Byllesby& Co.Herberta VanPelt Branson, SB '28, ofTulsa, Okla., is a stratigrapher for ShellOil Co. She is very active in the TulsaLittle Theatre, the Quota Club, and theCommunity Chest. ^Q 22 Dr. George W. Stuppy, PhDZ, +/ <J*j >29; has been elected president of the Presbyterian Medical Staff,Chicago, succeeding Dr. Francis H. Straus.He is president of the Chicago Rheumatism Society, vice-president of theBoard of Governors of the Illinois Chapter, Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and chairman of its medical andscientific committee.Elizabeth Wisner, PhD '29, will retireas head of the Tulane School of SocialWork next June. She will remain onthe faculty as Professor of Public Administration. She will be succeeded byanother Chicago graduate: Walter L.Kindelsperger, '39, AM '40.Herbert E. Northrup, SM '30, instructorat Technical High School, Springfield,Mass., is now teaching a course in chemistry at Western New England College.Mary Herzog Statham, PhB '30, AM'46, is an adoption worker at the LosAngeles County Bureau of Adoptions.Clarence M. Davis, '31, of Chicago, anunderwriter for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, has beenhonored by his company for scoring thehighest individual percentage increase inproduction over the three precedingyears.©©©©©©©©©©©©©© SPECIAL REPORTMr.„at_„ ANDREW N. SERROS NEW YORK LIFE AGENTORLANDO, FLORIDABORN: July 2, 1922EDUCATION: University of Florida, School ofBusiness Administration, B.S., 1948.MILITARY: U.S. Air Force— Second Lt. Jan. f43-Dec. !45REMARKS: February 1, 1949 was the first day formerAir Force Lieutenant Andrew Serros reported in as aNew York Life representative at the Company'sJacksonville General Office. Since that day, he'scompiled a sales record that speaks for itself. Thefirst year on the job he qualified for the Company'sStar Club — and for the President's Council in eachsucceeding year. From 1952 to 1957, he received the National Quality Award fromthe National Association of Life Underwriters. To cap all this success, Andywon a seat at last year's industry-wide Million Dollar Round Table. Behind thisimpressive record lies Andy Serros' sincere interest in his clients' insuranceneeds and enthusiasm for his job — two factors that could foretell even greatersuccess for Andy with New York Life in the years ahead.t@z Andrew Serros, after nine years as a New YorkLife representative, is well established in a careerthat can offer security, substantial income, andthe deep satisfaction of helping others. If you'dlike to know more about such a career for your self with one of the world's leading insurancecompanies, write:NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.College Relations Dept. G-751 Madison Avenue, NewYork 10, N.Y.28 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEOlive H. Bradfield, PhB '33, a teacherin the Department of Special Services(handicapped children) in the publicschools of Evanston, 111., got her AM inspecial education at the University ofFlorida last year.Lionel F. Artis, '33, recently addedmembership on the board of directorsof the United Fund of Indianapolis to hislist of civic committee memberships.Clara Frances Breslove King, '33, AM'34, and her husband will celebrate theirsilver wedding anniversary on April 1.She teaches part time in the English andModern Languages Department of OakPark (111.) High School.2 4.27 Gerald H. Lovins, SM '34, is** now with Hanovia Chemical& Manufacturing Co., where he intendsto round out his engineering career inthe lamp industry. He and his wife,Miriam Block Lovins, PhB '34, AM '35,live in Upper Montclair, N. J.Graydon Megan, JD '34, attorney andsecretary of the Inland Steel Co., hasbeen elected president of the ChicagoCrime Commission. He has been a member and officer of the commission formany years, and is also secretary of theBetter Government Association, a member of the Glenwood School Board, andvice chairman of the 1957 CommunityFund-Red Cross Joint Appeal.Ellmore C. Patterson, '35, has beenelected a director of the InternationalNickel Company of Canada, Ltd. He isa vice-president of J. P. Morgan & Co.,Inc., in charge of the bank's Canadianactivities. He also is a director of theGreat American Insurance Company andits affiliated companies.Isaiah A. Wiles, '35, recently receivedthe German Labor Service Commemorative Badge for his efforts in securing employment for German units. A colonel,Wiles is commander of the U. S. ArmyHospital in Wurzburg, Germany. Hiswife June is with him in Germany.Floyd J. Wiercinski, SB '36, SM '38,has been appointed Associate Professorin the Biological Sciences at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pa.He holds a PhD from the University ofPennsylvania.William M. Crockett, '37, director ofcommunity relations for the MiamiBeach (Florida) Federal Loan Association, has been elected president of theSavings and Loan Public Relations Society covering four counties in southernFlorida. He recently returned from atrip to South America. 20 AO ^ary Anna Patrick Askew,DOm*l\J gB ,38} of Hinsdale, 111., andher husband have three children,Warren, Jr., 16; John, 12, and Patricia,10. She writes that they are looking forward to the reunion.Shirley Barish Miller, AB '38, lives inLos Angeles with her husband and twochildren, Jay, 10, and Gail, 8. Miller isin the automobile business.Since 1878HANNIBAL, INC.Furniture RepairingUpholstering • RefinishingAntiques Restored1919 N. Sheffield Ave. • LI 9-7180BOYDSTON AMBULANCE SERVICEAuthorized Ambulance ServiceFor Billings HospitalOfficial Ambulance Service forThe University of Chicagophone NOrmal 7-2468NEW ADDRESS- 1708 E. 71 ST ST.RICHARD H. WEST CO.COMMERCIALPAINTING and DECORATING1331W. Jackson Blvd. TelephoneMOnroe 6-3192PENDERCatch Basin and Sewer ServiceBack Water Valves, Sump-Pumps6620 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUEFAirfctx 4-0550PENBER CATCH BASIN SERVICEROCKEFELLERcould afford to pay $6, $7, $8, $9 andmore for vitamins. Can you? Our comprehensive 20 element formula supplies ALLvitamins and minerals for which need hasbeen established, plus 6 others, yet costsless than half the price of "name" brands.Why? Because we buy direct from themanufacturer. You save the commissionsof 4, even 5, middlemen. As to quality,MacNeal & Dashnau vitamins are made bya reputable 4-A pharmaceutical manufacturer established since 1833. They are unconditionally guaranteed to meet all FDAand government standards. Your moneyback without question if you are not completely satisfied. 100 capsules, over threemonths' supply, $3.15.AfacAteeU & jba&httau(AM'52, UofC)P.O. Box 3651C-Phila. 25, Pa. Frances Bleier Rose, '38, now has threegrandchildren given her by her twomarried daughters. She writes that sheis currently busy at creative painting.Wanda Kantorowicz Griffin, '38, andher husband, David Griffin, '47, havemoved from New Orleans to Norman,Okla., where he is teaching Spanish atthe University of Oklahoma.Dr. William M. Cruickshank, AM '39,Director of Education for ExceptionalChildren, Syracuse University, has beenelected to the American Academy ofCerebral Palsy in recognition of hisresearch and writing in that field. Theauthor of a textbook and other publications, Cruickshank is now directing aresearch program on the education ofchildren with brain injury, sponsoredby the U. S. Office of Education.Walter L. Kindelsperger, '39, AM '40,Professor of Group Work at TulaneUniversity, will succeed Elizabeth Wis-ner, PhD '29, next June as head of theTulane School of Social Work. ProfessorKindelsperger went to New Orleans in1942 as group work and recreation secretary of the New Orleans Council ofSocial Agencies. He joined the Tulanefaculty in 1944.Kenneth H. Vanderford, PhD '40, hasended eleven years of service with theCreole Petroleum Corp. and Foundation,and is working on a study of name usageand filiation in Venezuela under theauspices of the University of Venezuela.After that he plans a trip to Europe andSpain, and then to return to the teachingof Spanish.A~)mAl William D. Copeland, '42, is*^> ¦ ' a Presbyterian minister atPoison, Mont.Patricia Kachiroubas Bartholomew,AB '43, expects another short stay oncampus in April when she comes toLying-in to have her second child. Herfirst, Mary, was born there in November,1956. She taught high school in EastChicago until June, 1956. Her husbandis James Bartholomew of Purdue University.Dr. Alfred J. Hartzler, SB '43, SM '44,PhD '51, and his wife, Mary Peterson,AB '50, have left for "at least" a year inJapan and the Far East, where he will beworking for M.I.T. on a Navy contract."We'd love to see any of our nomadicfriends," he writes. "Emil (DB '52) andBarbara Rohrke Gudmundson stoppedby on their way to Emil's new churchnear Houston, and Nan and Bob (MD'51) Vosburg visited us this spring.They're still in Pittsburgh where Bobis in his psychiatric residency."MARCH, 1958 29Dorothy L. Frederick, 'VA. ol I'ocklord.III., and her husband now have threechildren, the last hot n in January. 1957.Dr. airiMiiu- K. Haycock. PhB '47,SB '48, is senior resident in general sur-gory at St. Barnabas Medical Center inNewark. N. J. She is the author of arecent article in the Wonc'ii'.* Medico!¦\sstwiati"U Jtmrtud.David Greene, '47, and his wife arehappy to announce the arrival ol theirsecond child, Michael Jellery. on Augusthi. They live in Chicago. Edwin Diamond. '47. AM '49. sciencewriter for International News Service,Washington, has heen appointed scienceeditor of Nrtrsirrvk magazine, accordingto the Hifdr Park fir raid. Kdwin's wife,Adelina Lust, "47. was editor of thetlrrald from 19.r>:i to 195th After graduation Diamond was Assistant to the Deanof University College before becomingfamous in the field of science writingCharles Phil Richman. AB 47, of Chicago, was recently named vice-presidentof Martin K. Janis & Co., public relations firm 4$-4Q K"'"""! %l tirawniR, *48, andV his wife now have one child,Garrison They were married in 1954and live in Chicago.Lawrence Goldstein, PhB '48. and hiswife Gloria Baumgarten Goldstein, PhB'48. and their two children. David, 6,and Joan, ~< live in Cleveland. Ohio.Janet Vanderwalker Myers. SB '48,writes thai her husband. Lawrence S.Myers. SB '41. PhD '49. was chairmanof the nationwide Conference on Radio-biology sponsored by UCLA and theAtomic Energy Commission, held onCatalina Island. They live in PacificPalisades. Calif., and have three boys,aged 12. t>. and 'A. Her current preoccupation is League of Women Voters workon water resources.Richard C. Atkinson, PhB '48, hasjoined the faculty of the University ofCalifornia at. Los Angeles as AssistantProfessor of Experimental Psychology.Formerly he was a research associateand lecturer at the Applied Mathematicsand Statistics Laboratory. Stanford University.Marvin W. Mindes, AB 48, JD '51, isworking with University College, lecturing and setting up programs forthem. He also has an individual legalpractice in Chicago.Richard K. Bernstein, PhB '48, ofTrenton, N. J.. Barry 11. Rappaport, AB"57. and Harold M. Weiser, AB '49, bothof Brooklyn, rue new students at theSchool of Law ol New York University.Matthew S. IlaxelriK. Jr., AM '48, hasbeen appointed an instructor in Englishat Fenn College. Cleveland. He hastaught at Alabama Polytechnic Institutearid at the University of Kentucky. Heexpects to receive his PhD from Chicagoin "58, on completion of his thesis.Robert E. Block, AB '48. is an insurance agent for Prudential iv> NewtownSquare, Pa. He and his wife have threechildren, and are proud of the fact thatthey built their large house themselves.Margery Howard Orein, AB 48, hasone child, John, horn on December 3.llev husband is clue to receive his MSand NavK degrees at M.I.T. in June.Richard Wclton. MBA '49. has beenappointed a sales supervisor in the Coated Abrasives Division of Armour andCo.. Alliance, Ohio. He will handle salesfor the area adjoining St. Louis.E. Donald Kaye, "49. and Janet BensonKaye. "48, have a new daughter as oflast June 11. They now live in Tulsa.U/io o/ Arnencos /urges* box producers • iondusky. Vhio30 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEQ(VK3 Mary Wolk Board, AM '50,«/W «/ *J anc] ncr husband now havetwo children, the second of whom issix months of age. They live in Waterloo, Iowa.David L. Jickling, AM '51, AB '48, PhD'53, is doing management analysis workin the Executive Office of the Secretaryof the Navy in Washington. He and hiswife have three children, Mark, Mary,and Lucy.UNIVERSITY NATIONAL BANK1354 East 55th StreetMemberFederal Deposit Insurance CorporationMUseum 4-1200Phones OAklartd 4-0690— -4-069 1 —4-0692The Old ReliableHyde Park Awning Co.INC.Awnings &nd Canopies for Ali Purposes4508 Cottage Grove AvenueLEIGH'SGROCERY and MARKET1327 East 57th StreetPhones: HYde Park 3-9100-1-2DAWN FRESH FROSTED FOODSCENTRELLAFRUITS AND VEGETABLESWE DELIVERYOUR FA VORITEFOUNTAIN TREATTASTES BETTERWHEN IT'S » .A product f Swift &7409 ScPhone I CompanySo. State StreetRAdcliffe 3-7400 We've just learned that Cynthia WoodAlexander, '53, is married to Paul S.Alexander, DB '54, and that they haveone son, David Knox Alexander, oneyear old. Since graduating Cynthia hasstudied a year at National College ofEducation and at Washington University. Paul is minister of the Mt. SinaiCongregational Church in Long Island,N. Y.Leokadya Kozlowski Connelly, AM\53, is soon to leave her California homoto live near Dreux, France, with herhusband.Thomas F. Ednie, AB '51, SB 53, MD'55, is base surgeon at Presque Isle AirForce Base, Maine. He and his wifeNatalie have two boys, aged 2 and 4,and a third child on the way.fZ4 Cfi Robert L. Payton, AM 54,formerly an editor with theStamats Publishing Company, CedarRapids, la., has been appointed editorof the Washington University Magazine.the school's alumni publication. He hashad five years experience in editorialwork, is married, and has two children.Gordon E. Samson, PhD '55, has beennamed Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Department of Educationat Fenn College, Cleveland. He hastaught at and been principal of highschools in Quebec, done research at theuniversity's Midwest AdministrationCenter, and been Executive Assistantfor the Education Policies Commissionof the National Education Association inWashington, D. C.John Payne Mitchell, PhD '55, has beenUnder Secretary of Public Instructionfor UNESCO Affairs in Liberia sinceOctober. Before that he was Commissioner of Immigration and Deputy Attorney, He is also a member of theboard of directors of the Liberian YMCA,chairman of the executive committeeof the United Christian Fellowship ofLiberia, and a member of the AmericanSociety of International Law. He ismarried.Ronald E, Williams, AM '51, is employed as manager of electronic dataprocessing with the General Tire andRubber Co., Akron, Ohio.Charles Tiplitz, AM '51, and his wife,of Cedar Grove, N. J., became the parents of a girl, Lillian Beth, in September.Emanuel Savas, AB '51, SB '53, AM'56, Columbia, is working on his PhDin chemistry at Columbia. He has beenawarded the Quincy Ward Boese Fellowship for 1955-58. Dr. Leonard A. Sagan, MD '55, acaptain in the Army, has been assignedto Fort Ord, Calif., having recently completed a course in combat medical service at Fort Sam Houston. Tex.John I. Lundmark, JD '55, has joinedthe stall of Argonne National Laboratoryas an attorney in the legal department.He has spent the last two years as anattorney with the Army.Barbara Ellen Levine Koehler, AB '56,is now teaching English at HephzibahHigh School, located in a small community just outside Augusta, Ga.BEST BOILERREPAIR& WELDINGCO.24 HOUR SERVICELicensed • Bonded • InsuredQualified WeldersSubmerged Water HeatersHAymarket 1-79171404-08 S. Western Ave., ChicagoWebb-Linn Printing Co*Specializing in theproduction ofSCIENTIFICMEDICALTECHNICALBOOKSMOnroe 6-2900PARKER-HOLSMANiJWTininnniMEniniiiiDiinnMin ~yZ\Real Estate and Insurance1461 East 57th Street Hyde Park S-2S25:k:K:t|JrMARCH, 1958 31AAemormfDr. Thomas Z. Ball, MD '95, of Craw-fordsville, Ind., died June 19, 1957.Dr. E. H. Ehlert, MD '99, of Minneapolis, died in September.Edna M. Simpson Schlesinger, '04, diedin December. Her husband, Herman I.Schlesinger, SB '03, PhD '05, HonoraryDSc '54, is emeritus Professor of Chemistry. Mrs. Schlesinger was a member ofSigma while on campus.Edward B. Caron, '12, a Chicago attorney, died in November.Fred M. Walker, '08, famous ChicagoC man, died at 73 in his home in OakPark on February 1, of a heart attack.Before settling in the investment businessin Chicago in 1940 Fred had gone fromcollege football and baseball to majorleague pitching and college coaching. Hepitched for the St. Louis Cardinals andthe New York Giants. For 24 years hecoached at more than 15 major colleges,including Chicago, Michigan State, UtahState and De Paul University. At thetime of his death he was vice-presidentof Chesley & Co. on LaSalle Street.Bertha M. Henderson Jones, '08, diedin her home in East Stanwood, Wash., onAugust 26. She was an active and popular girl in her student days, and hadmany friends among Chicago alumni.Dr. Edward A. Oliver, MD '09, Professor Emeritus of the Department ofDermatology and Syphilology at Northwestern University's Medical School, diedin November. He has been a consultantat many Chicago hospitals, and in 1947was president of the American Academyof Dermatology and Syphilology.Frederick Holmes, '13, died recently.He was president of Duncan ElectricManufacturing Co. of Lafayette, Ind.,from 1929 to 1950, and chairman of itsboard from 1950 until his death. In1946 he was cited in Who's Who.John M. Flynn, PhB '14, JD '15, ofMiliv, Wis., died December 18.Herman G. Kopald, PhB '14, died October 31. He was associated with Moses& Singer in New York.Adeline Rossman, Hallstrom, PhB '14,of Evanston, died in November. She wasa member of Pi Delta Phi while on campus, and an enthusiastic alumna inAlumni Foundation work. C. C. McCown, PhD '14, ChairmanEmeritus of the New Testament Department of the Pacific School of Religion,Berkeley, Calif., died in his sleep lastJanuary 10.Josiah Deming Ferguson, AB '15, ofSilver Spring, Md., died in WashingtonSanitarium, Md., April 13.Dorothy Van Pelt Phipps, SB '20, retired Chicago Teachers College scienceinstructor, died in January. She was thestate representative of the National Science Teachers Association, and author ofmany articles on science teaching. HerPHOTOPRESS, INC.OFFSET-LITHOGRAPHYFine Color Work a SpecialtyQuality Book ReproductionCongress St. Expressway andGardner RoadCOIumbus 1-1420POND LETTER SERVICE, Inc.Everything in LettersHooven Typewriting MimeographingMultigraphing AddressingAddressograph Service MailingHighest Quality Service Minimum PricesAll Phones: 219 W. 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Phipps, SB '23, AM'24, PhD '34, is Principal of Thorp Schoolin Chicago. Her sister, Herberta Van PeltBranson, is SB '28, SM '30.Elizabeth Eppler, '20, of Ft. Worth, Tex.,died in November.Harold A. Fletcher, PhB '22, of Philadelphia, died January 6. His wife is theformer Winifred King, PhB '24.Martin S. Morris, PhB '26, of Chicago,died of a heart attack on September 2.Loy Norrix, AM '34, PhD '42, for 21years Superintendent of the Kalamazoo,Mich., City Schools, died of a heart attack in January. He was widely recognized in state educational circles and hadrecently been named president-elect ofthe Michigan Association of School Administrators.Aside from a short period of militaryservice in World War I, Norrix spent hisentire life in education. He was influenced to become a teacher by his ownteachers in a small rural school wherehe went for the first six years of hiseducation. He himself first taught in aone-room rural school, and rose to besuperintendent of schools in two smalltowns, then in larger towns, and, aftertime out for his Chicago education, became superintendent in Houghton, Mich.,and later Kalamazoo.Renzo Bianchi, AB '36, AM '38, PhD'50, Chairman of the Economics Department of Carleton College, Northfield,Minn., died in November after a lengthyillness. He formerly taught at the U of C,as well as at Wilson Junior College andSchurz Evening Junior College, both inChicago.Edward F. Van Horn, AB '40, of Hinsdale, 111., died November 20.32 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINEi&m8d§ & m ASENCY ORGANIZATIONGENERAL AGENTDavid G, HuntingTWhat is this company's rolein the progress of a man's career?From the start David Hunting had his sights set on a management career.As he puts it: "The big thing which led me to choose the insurance businessand New England Life was the good prospect of an early opportunity in management. And there were no barriers to keep a man from progressing rapidly."Dave did progress rapidly. After four years of experience in the field andhome office, he felt he was ready for management responsibilities. NewEngland Life did, too. In 1952 we put him in charge of a new agency inPhiladelphia.Dave now had his own business — without needing to raise capital. Hehad strong financial and administrative support. At the same time, he wasfree to make his own decisions and employ his own ideas.In five years Dave has led his agency to a position among the top third ofall our agencies. Much of this success is due to the competence of the youngmen he personally selected and trained. (His 16 associates average about$10,000 yearly income.) Dave*s organization chart, above, shows the extentof his present operation.New England Life's role in furthering a career is then essentially this: toprovide latitude for individual expression in an atmosphere of full companysupport. And this holds true whether a man chooses a management career orprefers to develop a clientele of his own.If career opportunities of this sort appeal to you, write for more information to Vice President L. M. Huppeler, 501 Boylston St., Boston 17, Mass.No wonder he points with pride to his organizationchart. In five years David Hunting (Amherst '1+6;MBA Harvard Business yJf8) has led his agency to aplace among the top third of all New England Lifeagencies. A BETTER LIFE FOR YOUNEW ENGLAND(^^V/CUttfw JL Jl A Mil BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTSTHE CO MPA NY THAT FOUNDED MUTUAL LI FE I NSU RANGE I N AMERICA— 18 35HARRY BENNERf '12, ChicagoGEORGE MARSELOS, '34, Chicago These Chicago University men are New England Life representatives:ROBERT P. SAALBACH, '39, OmahaJAMES M. BANGHART, '41, Adv. Mgr., St. Paul JOHN R. DOWNS, C.L.U., '46, ChicagoHERBERT W. SIEGAL, '46, San AntonioAsk one of these competent men to tell you about the advantages of insuring in the New England Life.Operation Moonshooteris no sputnik space chaser.Actually^ it was the ^working title fora 32-page section of your next (April) issue of the University ofChicago Magazine* Fourteen smart editors of fourteen leadingalumni magazines* combined their talents to bring a specialreport onAmerican Higher Education -1958The project was so fantastic in its conception that it lookedas though these fourteen editors were shooting for the moon(Moonshooters). They were but they made it.This is a survey of higher education on the campuses of American colleges and universities. Erick Hartmann, top camera manfrom Magnum Photos, Inc., spent two months shooting fivethousand pictures on coast-to-coast campuses to illustrate these32 pages.One hundred fifty-three alumni magazines in the United States,Canada, Mexico, and over seas will carry this report on sevenfreight car-loads of paper to 1,350,000 alumni magazinereaders.Watch for it in your next issue ofTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE* The magazinesBrown Aiumni Monthly The Johns Hopkins MagazineCalifornia Monthly The New Hampshire AlumnusThe University of Chicago Magazine Ohio State University MonthlyColumbia Alumni News Sooner Magazine (Oklahoma)Dartmouth Alumni Magazine The Pennsylvania GazetteThe Emory Alumnus The Andover Bulletin (Phillips Academy)Harvard Business School Bulletin Wellesley Alumnae Magazine