The University of Chicago•magazme '. <�:� ,':: �'�J. " ·.�.,)":,�.ovember 1966� ,'�" -::,)�'yI' I'I' _,. I, jl.l�. "i j ft I tr �?� �,,.::--- ---- -- - ---�:;::."-.:::. . - _- -;.. ..Dr. Charles B. Huggins: 1966 Nobel LaureateThe University of ChicagomagazineVolume LIX Number 2November 1966Published since 1907 byTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPhilip C. White, '35, PhD'38PresidentC. Ranlet LincolnDirector of Alumni AffairsConrad KulawasEditorTHE ALUMNI FUNDErrett Van Nice, '31ChairmanHarry ShollDirectorREGIONAL REPRESENTATIVESEastern Office39 West 55 StreetNew York, New York 10019(212) 757-1473Mrs. Edwin E. Vallon3600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1510Los Angeles, California 90005(213) 387-2321(Mrs.) Marianne Nelson485 Pacific AvenueSan Francisco, California 94133(415) 433-4050Published monthly, Oct-June, byThe University of ChicagoAlumni Association5733 University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637(312) 643-0800 ext. 4291.Annual subscriptions, $5.00.Second-class postage paid atChicago, Illinois.All rights reserved. Copyright 1966 byThe University of Chicago Magazine. 2 Dr. Charles B. Huggins: 1966 Nobel Laureateuc faculty member to share the 1966 Nobel Prize in medicine4 Society: The New Business of BusinessLyle M. Spencer10 Students in VISAMartin Gardner12 Urban Blues (excerpt)Charles Keil17 QUADRANGLE NEWS21 SPORTSHORTS22 PROFILES24 CLUB NEWS25 ALUMNI NEWS31 MEMORIALS32 UNIVERSITY CALENDARThe University of Chicago Magazine is published monthly, October through June, by the AlumniAssociation for alumni and the University faculty. Editorial contributions are welcomed.Front Cover: Dr. Charles B. Huggins, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professorand Director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research. Dr. Huggins will share the 1966Nobel Prize in medicine with Dr. Peyton Rous of Rockefeller University.Inside Front Cover: students in Hutchinson Commons, recently reopened as a dining hall.Photography Credits: pages 9, 17, 19,20, and 22 by The University of Chicago; inside frontcover and pages 11, 23, and 24 by Stan Karter; front cover by Archie Lieberman; pages 12and 15 by Ron Flerlage, taken from the book, Urban Blues, by Charles Keil (UC Press, 1966);page 3 courtesy of Science Research Associates.Dr. Charles B. Huggins:1966 Nobel LaureateOn the morning of October 13, the Huggins householdnear the University campus was awakened by a telephonecall. Dr. Charles B. Huggins, the William B. Ogden Distin­guished Service Professor and Director of the Ben MayLaboratory for Cancer Research, was informed that he wasto share the 1966 Nobel Prize for medicine. His reaction wassurprise and incredulity."We were admonished," Dr. Huggins later told newsmen,"that the 'phone might start ringing. That was the under­statement of the year." Receiving a Nobel Prize, he says, is"like having your house burn down-it's terribly exciting. It'sa very great honor, of course. Although it's not one of thegreat events of life-such as birth or marriage or death-it'sof inestimable value to have favorable recognition of one'swork by colleagues, to have them say, in effect, 'not too bad,not too bad at all .. .' But I hope that this will not makeme proud."Dr. Huggins and his wife, Margaret, live at 5759 KenwoodAvenue. They have two children, Charles E. Huggins, a sur­geon at Harvard Medical School, and Emily, a housewife. Dr.Huggins has been here for forty years and is the twenty-sixthNobel laureate to be associated with the University.Le prize will be shared with Dr, Peyton Rous of Rocke­feller University, a man Huggins refers to as "my hero inmedicine." Dr. Rous discovered in 1911 that a germ-sinceproved to be a virus-could cause cancer in chickens. Dr.Huggins showed in 1941 that advanced cancer of the prostatecould be controlled by hormone therapy. Dr. Huggins de­scribed his research, after receiving word of his award:"I've worked for thirty years with a deep conviction that'everyone has within himself some potential to restrain thegrowth of cancer. This potential is seldom fully realized."In a person with no natural defenses, Dr. Huggins said,cancer may cause death in six weeks. Yet, in an average case,a person with cancer will live for three years. This meansthat the body, by some tumor/host balance, is able to defenditself to some extent."Our work has been to study the role of hormones as re­straining agents. Now hormones are extremely powerfulsubstances, but they are not toxic. So if they do no good,2 they also may do no harm. This offers an important advan­tage, because in experimental medicine one must always fol­low the Golden Rule. In the investigation of disease, one maydo only those things acceptable for himself or his family."Our research was proven in animals first. As in most suc­cessful research, we experienced wonderfully good fortune.We first became interested in prostate cancers while doingsome biochemical studies in dogs. Now, of all the creatureson the face of the earth, only the dog and man are known tohave prostate tumors and cancers. In our experiments it wasinevitable that sooner or later we would get an older dogwith a prostate tumor. The first time this happened, beingengaged in highly esoteric studies, we found it vexatious.But then we encountered another, and we asked ourselves,is nature trying to speak to us?, is nature saying study this?So we deliberately sought animals with prostate tumors, andwe quite quickly found ways to shrink them. Then we werevery, very fortunate in being able to transpose the techniquesto human beings."From our studies of hormones and the tumor/host balancewe were able to establish a paradigm consisting of three ex­tremely simple principles. They're simple, I believe, becausenature works very simply indeed-because if nature neededcomplicated schemes, much more would go wrong in thephysical and biological world than does at present."The first principle is that cancer cells differ utterly fromthe target cells in which they arise. Because of this basic dif­ference, cancer cells and normal cells react quite differentlyto their hormonal environment. The second principle is thatcertain cancer cells will die when certain hormones are with­drawn, while normal cells only become dormant in thisunfavorable climate. The third principle is that certain cancercells will die when certain hormones are introduced in exces­sive amounts.Dr. Huggins' treatment for cancer of the prostate involveseither withdrawal of male hormones-by orchiectomy, orremoval of the male reproductive glands-or administeringlarge doses of female hormones. This type of therapy islimited to cancer of the prostate only, Dr. Huggins empha­sizes; it is a "modality of treatment," to be used like surgeryor X-ray for a specific type of cancer."Until this morning I have lived a completely uneventfullife. I've been busy and happy doing experiments. This isentrancing in its fascination. It's a lively way to spend one'slife, because one pits his brain and his hands against nature-which is a just judge, not an imperfect one, as people mightbe. Nature does not care who you are. If you ask the rightquestions, you'll get the right answers. Nature cannot lie orbe unfair."In our work, creativity and originality are everything.It's the same as in the arts. Where at first there was nothing, we work, and then there is something. It's creativity thatmakes a man do what he has no right to do-work a seven­day week; endanger his health, neglect his family. So greatis its delight."Dr. Huggins was asked, on the morning of the announce­ment, what his plans were for that afternoon. His immediatereply was, "I'll be back in the lab." D3Society: The New Business of BusinessLyle M. SpencerLittle more than five years ago, Dwight Eisenhower, inhis last message as President, warned of the growth of amilitary-industrial complex that could endanger Americanfreedoms. It was an important warning. Commentators nowand then honor it by repetition, but no one has yet suggestedwhat to do about it.T would like to strike a more optimistic note. I want todescribe the early growth of a new complex in which indus­try and government also are intertwined, but towards a fardifferent end. It might be called a "social-industrial com­plex." With the government acting as broker, a number oflarge American corporations are organizing some of thenation's best-trained and original minds in the fields of socialreform, education, and management to equalize the spreadof opportunity in American life. Social causes which in thethirties were the domain of college professors, labor unions,and student demonstrations are today becoming the newbusiness of business.To describe this new concern of American business, r wishI could find a better word than "opportunity." It is an am­biguous word that calls up much of the double-talk of anearlier day when business was strictly business and "eco­nomic royalists" blockaded social reform. "Opportunity"was the watch-word of early industrialists who often apolo­gized for child labor by saying that any juvenile might growup to be President, or, better still, a millionaire. It was afavorite word of Willie Loman's brother, Ben, who believedthat anyone could strike it rich among the black flies ofAlaska or the veldt of darkest Africa.I am not talking about that kind of opportunity. I meanthe simple opportunity of doing a week's work for a decentpaycheck, of living in a house one can afford on a street ofone's choice, and, if you please, the opportunity of aspiringto live in a better house on a better street if one chooses.More than all these, I am speaking of the opportunity toacquire chunks of the accumulated knowledge which manleaves as a legacy to his children on printed pages and evenin ordinary speech.A few months ago, instead of "opportunity," I would havereached for the simpler and more specific word, "education."I would have said that business is getting deeply involved inthe problems of education, and left it at that. But my businesscompetitors and I are rapidly learning that one cannot getinvolved in the difficult problems of education without also4 getting involved in the much more difficult problems of theorganization of society itself. We talk about computer­assisted instruction, but we also talk about illiteracy andthe so-called culturally deprived. If you overhear an IBMman talking about building an image, there's now a goodchance he doesn't mean the corporate image. He may betalking about the citizens of New Bedford, a conservativeold whaling town in Massachusetts, and the image they haveof five hundred school dropouts in a Job Corps center atthe edge of town. It happens that that Job Corps Center­known as Rodman-is operated by my company, ScienceResearch Associates, a subsidiary of IBM. We have signeda contract with the people of the United States, in whichwe promise to deliver social and educational reform.If one swallow doesn't make a summer, neither does onecontract make a social-industrial complex. But look at whatis happening all around us. A list of the contractors for theJob Corps looks like a digest of trading on the New YorkStock Exchange: Litton Industries, Xerox, RCA, BurroughsBusiness Machines, General Electric, Packard-Bell, North­ern Natural Gas, and others.RecentlY, School Superintendent John Henry Martin ofMount Vernon, New York, told a congressional committeethat "the center of gravity for educational change is movingfrom the teachers' college and the superintendent's officeto the corporation executive suite." That may be overstatingit, but we do hope to find out more about how a child learns,not only in classes of twenty-five, but in classes of one hun­dred, in discussion groups of perhaps five and six, and whathe can best learn sitting all alone at a study carrel.We plan to find out more-because we must find out more-about what is specifically meant when we say that pre-Lyle M. Spencer, President of Science Research Associates,Inc., is a trustee of the University, a member of the CitizensBoard, and a member of the Alumni Fund Board of Direc­tors. He is an active leader in many other educational insti­tutions and associations. He was a Fellow in sociology at theUniversity from 1935 to 1938. This article is adapted fromhis Colver-Rosenberger lecture at the University on July13, 1966.5school children of the ghetto become educationally disabledfor lack of certain sensory stimulations and language expe­rience. We plan to find out because at some early date Amer­ican industry-the companies engaged in the new social­industrial complex-will be competing to design, produce,and market learning materials for children of the ghetto.I don't know whether these materials will be sold to theFederal government, local public schools, local communityaction programs, or whether ghetto parents will buy themat the five-and-ten. But I do know that our country is atlast committed to equalizing the educational opportunityof every young American and that many large business firmsare involved in that commitment.We hope to find out more-because we must find out more-about what is specifically meant when we say that everyschool-child learns in his own way at his own rate of speed.We-and other companies-are experimenting with high­speed computers as aids in teaching children. Possibilitiesgrowing out of the new electronic-curriculum mix are with­out number. Whether tomorrow's machines will be mechan­ical tutors, television sets, do-it-yourself kits, or simplywords printed on file cards, or combinations of all these, wedon't yet know. But we are deeply engaged, in collaborationwith the Federal government and local schools, in finding out.We hope to find out more-because we must find out more-about what is specifically meant when we say that schooldropouts can have the direction of their lives reversed. Bywhat specific means can we change them to school "drop­ins" and persuade them to believe in themselves as rightfulclaimants to productive, secure, good-paying jobs? Thesehigh-minded problems require practical, hard-nosed ques­tions. Just how handicapped is an 18-year-old who haslearned the habit of consistent failure in ten or twelve yearsof schooling? Must he learn everything in the curriculum thathe failed to learn before, or can he base a new, useful educa­tion on certain selected building blocks, such as reading andarithmetic? To what degree can he base a useful educationon things he's really interested in, such as the mechanics of ahot rod, the social science of neighborhood gangs, the Eng­lish of Popular Mechanics magazine, or the arithmetic ofa paycheck in a work-study program?We don't yet have many answers, but we are getting somenew leads about where more of the answers lie. They lie notonly in published materials and educational gadgetry, but in6 human relationships. We are finding out at the Rodman JobCorps Center some differences between conventional schoolteachers and what we choose to call tutor-counselors. Weare finding out that school dropouts who never wrote agood school composition on "My Vacation Last Summer"­perhaps because they never had one-can turn out an electri­fying issue of the Rodman News, the student newspaper atRodman. They .can write poems of surging anger and burn­ing aspiration. One Rodman boy, John Castle bury, a failurein English and rejecter of school, found within himself thisshort poem for the Rodman News: "I am a sky without aheaven or stars. / Sugar and no sweetness / Man withoutlove." Are we to say that this boy is beyond education?Most of these questions are not new. But I believe it issomewhat new to find them important to a businessman,speaking in his capacity as a businessman. Why are com­panies like IBM, Xerox, and RCA getting their well­manicured hands dirty in the problems of poverty? Perhapsif we used our brains, electronic or otherwise, we at SRAwould stick to our old business of designing precise testsfor middle-class teachers to give to bright-eyed youngsters.Economically speaking, it's a much more reliable activity.We believe the problems of education can eventually turninto a sensible business, too.: Right now, they add up to farmore cost than profit. So did color television.Purposely, I have cast this argument in the shape of profitsbecause that is what a businessman is expected to do. AsTex Thornton, chairman of Litton Industries recently said,"There are those who characterize the businessman as some­thing less than patriotic and compassionate .... The wordseems to have gotten around that the businessman is forpoverty-not against it." While businessmen are againstpoverty in principle, too many of us have been indifferentto it in practice. We don't ask enough hard questions aboutits causes. We have not become sufficiently involved asbusinessmen' with the national business of attacking poverty.Weat IBM, and our competitors, are now beginning to dosuch thinking because it has become our business to do so.. This is a: healthy development. True enough, the degree ofengagement by business in the attack on poverty is stillquite small. But it will grow.Both business and social reform stand to gain by a growingpartnership. Until recently, agencies of social concern, chief­ly government and education, stood at the short end ofcompetition for our most vigorous minds. Business couldeasily win the competition. They offered the reward mostvalued in our culture-money. Academic skills and mana­gerial talents that might well have been allocated toimproving government and education have flocked intomanufacturing cars, advertising breakfast cereal, or sellinginsurance because that's where the money is. Only in timesof deepest national need-I am thinking of World War II­did it become popular among our most able people to devotetheir best energies to public need.Recently, however, there are signs of great change in whatour culture values as high reward. Some months ago, a storyon the first page of The Wall Street Journal created as muchconcerned conversation among top businessmen as any Ican remember. That story reported that students in our lead­ing universities, by and large, don't want to enter business.Beyond earning a good living, making money is not theirconsuming goal. What they seem to want is to feel they arepart of social change. Many are joining the Peace Corps orVISTA, or volunteering to help us with the Job Corps.On the other hand, men who have committed their lives topublic concerns are today moving from public agencies intoprivate enterprises without changing their commitment.Frank Keppel, the most forceful U. S. Commissioner ofEducation we ever had, and former dean of the HarvardGraduate School of Education, is now head of GeneralLearning Corp., the new company formed by General Elec­tric and Time, Inc. Burke Marshall, the former assistantattorney general for civil rights, is now the general counselof IBM, and he has just accepted the chairmanship of aPresidential committee to re-evaluate the draft. EugeneFubini, a new vice-president of SRA, came to us from gov­ernment, where he was Assistant Secretary of Defense.Another kind of example involves a University of Chicagograduate. Some years ago, here in Chicago, Jerome M. Zieg­ler headed a group called the American Foundation forPolitical Education. Something like the Great Books Foun­dation but with more specialized subject material, hisorganization was devoted to promoting discussion groupsand publishing reading materials on the complexities ofinternational affairs and public administration. Later, Mr.Ziegler was twice a candidate for Congress in the westernsuburbs. Today, employed by SRA and IBM, he is an activeagent of social change as director of the Rodman Center. Let me turn now from these general ideas to specificones we have had to cope with as a partner with governmentin operating a job corps center. When the first group ofyoung men showed up at Rodman last August, what did Mr.Ziegler and his associates find? The typical Job Corpsmanhad quit school at the seventh grade. He couldn't pass afifth-grade reading test. He was seven pounds underweight.Four out of five had never been to a physician or a dentist.Two-thirds are from a family whose head is unemployed.The family of one out of two is on relief. Almost one outof two come from broken homes. Out of this background,these boys build their self-concepts and are supposed to de­velop what we of middle-class values call aspiration. Is it anywonder that only one out of ten Corpsmen has ever helda job?About half of these Corpsmen are of an eligible age formilitary service. Traditionally, such young men are attractedto the military life. As Richard Rovere recently wrote, "Themilitary is to a large degree the Negro's high school and hisHarvard." The same might be said of the Appalachian white.But, like Harvard, the military has an academic barrier atits' gate. Of Job Corpsmen who are otherwise eligible formilitary service, forty-seven percent fail their entranceexamination-seventeen percent for physical reasons, thirtypercent because of a relatively simple educational test.With such a group of prospective students, who have castschool out of their lives and whom society has all but castout of its life, you can readily see why SRA and our colleaguecorporations hesitated before undertaking Job Corps con­tracts. Were we ready to say that we could succeed whereother public and private institutions have largely failed? Ofall the various battle areas in the War on Poverty, only onesection of the Economic Opportunity Act, the one establish­ing the Job Corps, allowed for participation by privatecontractors. Our alternatives were this engagement in theWar on Poverty or the role of watching from the sidelines.We chose to get in.Our task at Rodman is to equip 750 Corpsmen, deficient inreading, writing, and arithmetic, and non-believers in them­selves, to be, of all things, operators of sophisticated officemachines, to be competent in office procedures, and, wher­ever there is hope of success, to be computer operators andprogrammers.Because so little is learned in classrooms, we have taken a7total environmental approach-24 hours a day, seven days aweek. One thing we learned almost immediately was thatwe were expecting too little from them. We had planned totake between 14 and 24 months to graduate them into on­the-job training. But the staff soon learned that the students'lack of education is not the equivalent of stupidity. Whilefew of the boys could read beyond the fifth grade, their testscores in other abilities almost equalled those of a high­school senior class. The staff decided to aim at getting theaverage boy ready for on-the-job training in ten months,many in six. Very shortly, we will know whether that staffestimate is sound.Le Corpsmen are taught in small groups of five or six.They study alone or with buddies, or in small groups, pro­gressing at their own pace with a variety of learning materials,including workbooks and self-instruction materials. We haveobserved an eagerness among these young men for what wecall "hands-on" training. If they hate arithmetic books, theymay love adding machines. One of our most successful ex­periments has been asking each student as soon as he arrivesto write a letter home on an electric typewriter. Most studentshave never seen such a machine before, and they tackle thenew task with enthusiasm.We have learned never to call their teachers "teachers."That term only stirs up the Corpsmen's deep negativism to­ward schools. Instead, we call them "tutor-counselors," andthat is what they really are. Tutor-counselors are young andknowledgeable about the backgrounds of students. They areaccessible models of success with whom the boys can iden­tify, and often the first friends they ever had in the outerworld of the middle class.If this description of what we do sounds as though we havefound all the right keys, it is misleading. We are only begin­ning to learn. We are not sure of where our education willlead us any more than we are sure of where theirs will leadthem. But as one Job Corpsman wrote, "J truly think thatit was the best mistake I have made-joining, that is."One mistake we made at the outset was in thinking thatrunning a Job Corps center was chiefly an educational task.We soon found out that our main adversary was hostility, notignorance. The hostility of these young men is directed not8 only at school but at nearly every other established segmentof our middle-class society, from which they feel excluded.At the same time we have learned to be impressed at theirdetermination to make the most of their Job Corps experi­ence, which they openly describe as perhaps their last chance.The boys seem to be torn by continuing struggle betweentheir hostility and their positive determination. This strugglerecently erupted in what citizens of New Bedford, Massa­chusetts, call a riot, although it was no such thing. Last May21, a rumor spread through the Center that some local boyshad attacked a number of Corpsmen in town. The RodmanCenter and New Bedford had not always been comfortablewith each other during their several months of living to­gether. The Corpsmen felt the residents of this old NewEngland town were cold and unfriendly. The townspeoplehad the impression that most Corpsmen had police recordsand were rowdies. Understandably, teenage boys of NewBedford were less than delighted at the import of hundredsof competitors for the attentions of their girl friends. In fact,one morning the sun rose to light a freshly-painted messageon the side of an old brick building. It said, "War On TheJob Corps."This mutual mistrust, however, lay dormant until the rumorof May 21 swept through the camp. At 1 1 : 15 that night,about forty Rodman students, some with passes and someunauthorized, marched out of the Center, down RodneyFrench Boulevard toward the center of town. Immediately,about twenty-five staff members left the Center and over­took them. There, in the middle of the boulevard, the staffmembers urged and cajoled the students to consider theconsequences of their loss of temper. Meanwhile, alarmedresidents along the boulevard called the police who cordonedoff the area. The staff members, aided by a number ofthoughtful students, persuaded the group to return to Rod­man. The incident was over.But today it is still talked about as the "Rodman Riot."Soon afterward, a member of the city council sensed an emo­tional local issue and introduced a resolution asking Presi­dent Johnson to remove the Job Corps from Rodman.Although we knew that many councilmen had seriousmisgivings, we were not wholly prepared for the result: theresolution passed unanimously. From the beginning, wegreatly underestimated the importance of good communityrelations in running a successful Job Corps Center.Of course the Job Corps Center has not been closed, wetrust it will not be, and we are hard at work to help the campand the town understand each other better. It is not an easytask, but it surely is an educational one, requiring a fearfulamount of management time. We are learning things aboutpublic relations with which few public relations men at IBMever expected to find themselves concerned.Perhaps one solution to this local problem in the War onPoverty is as predictable as one national solution I citedearlier. Perhaps the city fathers of New Bedford, includingits leading businessmen, will understand their relationshipto Rodman to the degree that we find ways of involving themin its problems.Scratch almost any New Bedford critic of Rodman andyou'll probably hear him say what national critics of theJob Corps almost always say. The cost of trying to save amember of the Job Corps from failure comes too high. In­deed, it is high. Estimates of the cost of training a Job Corps­man for employment run up to $11,250 for a full two-yearstint. The Job Corps says it is trying to reduce that averagecost to $7,765. Even at that, the government would bespending more than the estimated budget for an undergradu­ate's first two years at The University of Chicago. That's quitea bill for teaching a kid who still may be learning his ABC's.Well, there are some standard, obvious replies. An alterna­tive for many a boy may be to maintain him in jail, after heis fully convinced that society and its laws leave no place forhim. That cost is $2,450 a year, for Heaven knows howmany years. Another possible alternative is public welfare.This cost skyrockets in proportion to the young man's viril­ity, and then what does society to about his children?On the other hand, the cost of keeping a Job Corpsmanincludes certain overdue obligations that society has nevermet. It includes the price of physical neglect. More than one­third of Corpsmen are fitted with eye glasses they shouldhave had long ago. It includes the cost of an average of sixdental fillings per youngster. And it includes the cost ofheaping upon them a quantity of food that has produced anaverage gain in weight of ten pounds per youngster. It in­cludes all the costs of maintaining these Corpsmen 24 hoursa day, seven days a week. For those who like all their answers in dollars and cents,there is the promise that a successful Job Corpsman willeventually repay his government's investment through in­come taxes. Someone has figured out that if a Corpsmangraduates into a job at the extremely modest pay of $1.68an hour-and never gets a raise in pay for the rest of hiscareer-he will repay the $11,000 investment by the taxeshe pays during his working life.I must admit that I don't find fiscal arguments the mostpersuasive ones. I am more interested in finding ways toend this problem forever than in what it costs to enlarge thetax-paying potential of the 500 students in our center. I ammore interested in finding and cultivating the roots of humanpotential than in a cost-accounting approach to misery. Forall the talk of saddling future generations with today's publicdebt, my concerns lie with saving future generations fromthe continuing price of social neglect-human as well as fiscal-perpetuated by previous generations, including my own.As an educational publisher, I have observed that newapproaches to education for a changing world do not comeeasily to the mammoth establishment of our middle-class­dominated educational world. The pressure for change usu­ally comes from somewhere out in left field, and the locationof left field keeps changing. Right now, left field is the Waron Poverty. The so-called culturally deprived child sits inthe eye of a hurricane that is shaking the foundations ofeducation. For example, Project Headstart has alreadyshaken loose an old, largely unquestioned but indefensiblenotion that six years old is the earliest age at which formallearning should begin. For many years hence, nurseryschools for middle-class children will change in reaction tonew research among nursery-age children who happen tolive in the ghetto.Similarly, if those of us involved in the Job Corps canindeed construct a method of successful education for teen­agers with whom established methods have failed, we willhave helped make a fundamental contribution with implica­tions far beyond the Job Corps. The eventual beneficiariesof our experience may be the sons and daughters not onlyof the poor but of all citizens. We will have learned some­thing important about what makes youngsters want to learn.That will be a contribution in which I, for one, will be proudto have taken part, not only as one trained as a social scien­tist, but as a businessman. 09Students in VISAMartin GardnerIn autumn, 1963, a group of University of Chicagostudents decided to do what they could to help patientsat Chicago State Hospital, a mental institution thatwas, like most others in the nation, critically under­staffed. Under the leadership of Albert Hausiather,then a fourth-year student, they formed the VolunteerInstitutional Service Activity. Since then, VISA hasbecome a regular student activity, with a membershipranging from ten to fifty volunteers. The students visitthe hospital one afternoon each week and lend assist­ance on both adult and children's wards.Martin Gardner, '66, the author of this article, is aformer president of VISA. He is currently teachingmathematics in Ghana, for the Peace Corps.The first VISA students saw the fence around ChicagoState Hospital as a concrete expression of one of the mostdestructive attitudes toward mental illness: rejection. Thedrab, metallic wards, designed to hold, not treat, humanbeings, expressed an equally destructive attitude: pessimism.Some patients had been there for over a decade. Some hadnot seen a friend or relative in that time and knew the out­side world only through the ward staff or television. How­ever, VISA students were encouraged by the Director ofthe Illinois Department of Mental Health, Dr. Harold M.Visotsky, who made it possible for three members to studyand observe a similar program at Harvard, and who alsosponsored a conference on student mental health volunteerprograms.Initially the students and patients were about equallyshocked by their encounters. It was several months beforethey knew each other and looked forward to their meetings.Then there were encouraging changes. The patients tookmore interest in their surroundings and personal appearance.One patient at first spent entire afternoons with the studentsshuffling about, one hand rigidly extended. She soon beganto care for herself, stopped shuffling, and began to talk.Another patient, deaf and mute, formed a friendship with10 a student who began teaching her to read and write. A thirdpatient, who spoke Japanese but was not known to speakEnglish, found a friend in a Japanese-speaking student andbegan to use English again.Incidents like these are not uncommon. They are simplythe result of genuine contact between students and patients,an approach which makes use of professional therapy andrecreation, but it is basically neither professional norrecreational.VISA's members do not give treatment to the patients, anddo not view them as schizophrenics or psychotics. However,VISA does seek professional guidance. A ward psychiatristis available to discuss goals for a particular patient, thepatient's response to treatment, and the kinds of activityand contact which look most promising. For its first twoyears VISA also had its own psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Laufe,a private practitioner living in the University community,who acted as advisor to the group. Now Eugene Gendlin,Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychology andPhilosophy at DC, is the group's informal advisor.The only "therapy" that VISA students attempt is recrea­tional. Recreation on a ward includes group activities suchas dancing and singing, and individual activities, such asplaying cards, drawing, and painting. It helps frightened Orotherwise reticent patients to feel relaxed with the students,and to draw out these patients with a type of contact lessdemanding than conversation. Often it gives a patient confi­dence in himself, and tempts him to associate with otherpatients. Recreation also promotes the feeling that patientsand students are one group, spending an afternoon together.It is thus not an end in itself, but a method for beginning arelationship which may be less threatening than a one-to­one confrontation.One of VISA's most important functions is to give a patienta chance to test reality and to re-establish bonds with theoutside world. By being friendly and firm, students help thepatient to realize who he is, where he is, and what is goingon around him. Personal contact can give a patient renewedinterest in the outside world.VISA students must try to be sincere, honest, and sympa­thetic. They must try to appreciate the hell a patient hasgone through, both with his illness and his confinement.They must appreciate the loss of personal dignity and humancontact which commitment to a state hospital brings. Butstudents must try to see something of value in a patient,apart from his illness. The friendships they hope to createcannot be based solely on sympathy. They must like a pa­tient and appreciate his uniqueness as a person before areal friendship can be built. This all means, of course, thatnot every student can or should befriend every patient. Thestudent tries to form realistic relationships. He can expectto be successful only insofar as he invests those qualitieswhich are crucial to his friendships on the outside.Wle a therapeutic friendship does not differ funda­mentally from an ordinary friendship, it does require morecourage. The courage needed is not physical-the student isin no danger from patients, who are far more likely to bepassive than violent. Neither is it the courage of the sortneeded to face a contagious disease-the psychic mechan­isms which normally safeguard a volunteer's mental healthare no less effective in his relations with patients. The cour­age really needed is of another kind. It is the courage towalk onto the ward, to disregard the traditional misconcep­tion of mental illness, and to persist in treating the patientas a valuable human being. A patient wants a friend, but hisfear may prevent him from showing his need, or may causehim to show it in bizarre ways. If the student can patientlyand firmly keep trying to make contact, he can succeed.This prediction of success is not idle speculation. Thedozen years of experience 'of a college student program atthe Metropolitan State Hospital in Boston has shown thatstudents can greatly improve the patient's condition andincrease his chances for release. The Final Report of theJoint Commission on Mental Illness and Health (Action forMental Health) said: "Various theories have been set forthto explain the effects of one treatment or another, but noneof them are wholly convincing on the basis of indisputableevidence, with the exception of one observation: the schizo­phrenic often responds despite himself to continual personalattention or well-directed social activity." The report furtherstates that college students are especially useful with chronicpatients, and recommends that "the volunteer work withmental hospital patients done by college students and manyothers should be encouraged and extended." VISA studentsagree. 0 V lSA students Oil a women's ward at Chicago State Hos­pital: (above) James E. Meyers; (be/ow) Joseph J. Shay.11Excerpt:Urban BluesCharles KeilCharles Keil, AM'64, once worked as a jazz musician inEurope. He came to Chicago as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow,following bachelor's studies at Yale, to do graduate workin anthropology. Now in Nigeria as a Foreign Area ResearchFellow, studying Tiv music, dance, and composition, hehopes to investigate" highliie" and "juju," the West Africanversions of urban jazz and blues, and eventually to do acomparative study of American, Negro, Nigerian, Greek,and Portuguese urban folk music. The following excerptfrom his Urban Blues, recently published by The Universityof Chicago Press, is taken from the chapter entitled "B. B.King Backstage." Other chapters and topics in the bookinclude "Afro-American Music," "Blues Style: An Histor­ical Approach," "Fattening Frogs for Snakes?," "Soul andSolidarity," and "Blues Styles: An Annotated Outline."Keil believes in a valid and valuable Negro culture, but takesissue with those who subscribe to the "dangerous illusionthat the Negro is an all-American boy at heart .... If weare ever to understand what urban Negro culture is all about,we had best view entertainers and (hustlers' as culture heroes,integral parts of the whole, rather than as deviants andshadow figures."'W:le more than two hundred thousand black Amer­icans assembled in Washington to claim their long­anticipated freedoms one hot August afternoon not long ago,a visitor sat backstage at the Regal Theatre on Chicago'sSouth Side eagerly looking forward to an encounter withB. B. King, possibly the best of the big name blues singers.Before going to the Regal I had been watching another Kingon TV as he stirred the throng of marchers with his finalappeals. Now as I waited for B. B. to come off stage I beganto draw comparisons in my mind between the two Kings­the preacher and the bluesman-both leaders in their respec­tive fields, both eloquent spokesmen for their people, bothfrom the Deep South. Recalling Martin Luther King's effec­tive oratory and the artistic devices he used to stretch outand strengthen his delivery, I was struck by the stylisticcommon denominator that binds the sacred and secularrealms of the two Kings into one cultural unit. The preacherused two phrases over and over again as he improvised theconclusion of his address, "Let freedom ring from ... " fol­lowed each time by a different range of American mountains,and then "I have a dream ... that someday ... " used tointroduce each item on the list of promises to the Negro thathave yet to be kept. This relentless repetition of phrases, thelisting of American landmarks and the long enumeration ofNegro goals, gradually moved the audience to an emotionalpeak, a fitting climax to a stirring demonstration. Employinga standard twelve-bar blues form, repeated over and overagain in song after song, turning out well-known phrases inevery chorus yet always introducing novel combinations andsubtle new twists in each performance-in short, using thesame patterns-B. B. King rarely fails to give his listenersmuch the same kind of emotional lift.This formula may be stated in a number of different ways;"constant repetition coupled with small but striking devia­tions"; "similar wails and cries linked to various tumblingstrains and descending figures"; or simply "statements andcounter-statements"-all of which equal "soul." It is a pat­tern that a Negro child in the rural South or the urban ghettolearns by heart, normally in a church context, and it is asold as the oral traditions and call-response patterns of WestAfrican poetry and music. In the hands of an amateur orsomeone attempting to squeeze cash profits from the formu­la, the net musical result can often be extremely dull andmonotonous; but when the formula is handled with care bya sincere and experienced artist (or minister), whose senseof timing is sure and whose imagination never lags, thecumulative effect can be devastating. It's the magic formulathat is the emotive key not only to the Rev. C. L. Franklin'ssermons and parables, but to Jimmy Smith's incredibilityand Ray Charles' genius, or even John Coltrane's hypnoticquality. To the uninitiated-and a surprising number ofmusic critics are included in this category-Jimmy Smith'sfunky runs, Coltrane's sheets of sound, or B. B. King'scliches seem monotonous, tiresome, or just plain boring;but to the people who have been exposed to the music forthe longest time and who have listened to it with care andattention, these artists never lose their freshness and vitality.Part of the continued respect which a blues singer like B. B.King enjoys is due to his successful manipulation of the time­tested formula in a style full of nuances and shadings that aredistinctly his own; but part of this respect stems from the factthat he is more than a singer or a guitarist-he is a personal- ity, a spokesman, a culture hero perhaps. His problems areevery man's problems; and when he sings about those prob­lems and the guitar talks back or echoes his exposition,everyone present feels that he is taking part in the conversa­tion. At some of B. B. 's ballroom performances I have talkedwith people in the audience. A few always claim to be rela­tives. A lady who has put away a few drinks will say, "Yeah,I used to be his 01' lady, a few years back, when I was sweetsixteen." People like to think of B. B. as a friend, a lover, orone of the family. It is at this point that the comparison be­tween the two Kings shows more contrast than similarity.Both men are airing the grievances of their people: but withMartin Luther King, the complaints are general, political,and phrased in terms of a call to action; B. B. King's con­cerns are specific, deeply personal, and have little or nothingto do with social protest.The blues boy can't resist preaching to the people occasion­ally, but his politics are always familial. He may pause inthe middle of a song to say: I'd like to tell you a little storynow. Ladies, if you got a man, husband, or whatever youwant to call him, and he don't do exactly like you think heshould, don't cut him, because you can't raise him overagain you know. Don't hurt him. Treat him nice. And fellas,I want to say to you, if you got a woman, a wife, or whateveryou want to call her, and she don't do like you think sheshould, don't go up side her head. That don't do but onething: that'll make her a little smarter, and she won't let youcatch her the next time! So all you do is talk to her softly,real sweet, and you know, and you tell her, ((I know you'lldo better" - rand into the lyric of the song again 1.Those who suspect that the driving force behind the blueswill disappear in the harmonious and fully integrated societythat the Reverend King envisions are probably mistaken,because it is conflict between the sexes more than conflictbetween cultures that motivates the blues artist to bring histroubles before a sympathetic audience. It can be argued, Isuppose, that the impact of slavery and centuries of discrimi­nation have so demoralized the Negro male and disorganizedthe Negro family that the battle of the sexes is particularlyfierce in this segment of American society; the blues, accord­ing to this line of reasoning, are simply a musical reflectionof this sad state of affairs. All sorts of fearsome statistics onillegitimacy and desertion rates can be mustered to supportthis view, and the inevitable conclusion is that a decade or13so hence, when slums, poverty, and bigotry are largely athing of the past, the blues will die a natural death along withthe environment that produced them. There is an elementof truth in this view, of course, but I wonder, first, whetherthe poverty and prejudice that have nurtured Negro culturewill be removed or intensified in the future, and, second,whether a substantial increase in prosperity and tolerancewill erase the culture or strengthen it. A rich man can stillbe a soul brother, and a blues man like B. B. King canadhere to some basic middle-class values without diminish­ing his authenticity one iota. Whatever the future holds, Isuspect that men and women wilI have little trouble in find­ing excuses to fuss and fight. These basic conditions of fric­tion are enough to ensure the continued existence of theblues for many generations to come, if only because no formof music yet evolved has been able to express so simply anddirectly the frustrations, satisfactions, and reversals of themating game ....I t is illuminating to place B. B. King in perspective vis-a­vis the blues world as it has developed in the past fifteenyears, since his present position is unique in a number ofrespects.In 1949 when Riley B. King, "the Beale St. Blues Boy"gave up spinning records as a disc jockey in Memphis andbegan making records instead, three new and distinct bluesaudiences were also beginning to emerge. Since at least thetum of the century, there has always been an adult Negroaudience for blues, although since the death of the race labelsin the thirties this audience seems to have been slowly butsurely dwindling in size. There are many reasons for thisshrinkage, but the two principal ones are easy to understand:increased competitiveness in the record industry, leadingcompanies to emphasize the pop market to the exclusion ofartists with limited appeal; growing class-consciousness onthe part of Negroes and a corresponding reluctance to beidentified with that "nasty," "gutbucket," "bottom," "in-the­alley" music "from slavery days." Beginning in the lateI 940's however, a blues renaissance took place on threefronts at once. Bluesmen who had been scuffling for a livingfound themselves billed as rhythm-and-blues artists, andtheir record sales began to grow. Ralph Bass, formerly A14 and R man at Chess Records, remembers touring with vari­ous blues shows in the South during this period and noticingthe larger numbers of younger patrons at the gate, predomi­nantly Negroes still, but with increasing numbers of whitesturning up at every show. At first they just listened andwatched, but soon a section of the dance floor had to beroped off to accommodate white teenagers. This new thirstfor blues on the part of white youth spread quickly to theNorth and West; Elvis Presley made some records, and therest of the rock-and-roll story needs no retelling here. Shout­ers like Wynonie Harris and Joe Turner set the pace, butit is not often recognized that many of the early rock-and-rollsingers, white and Negro, were influenced also by what mightbe dubbed the postwar Texas clean-up movement in bluessinging led by stylists like T-Bone Walker, Amos Milburn,Charles Brown, and Lowell Fulson, who sang with a lighter,more relaxed feeling and worked in larger bands with saxo­phone sections and arrangements. While the rock-and-rollspecialists were distorting and reshaping this style to meetteenage demands, Mississippian B. B. King adopted thiscleaner Texas or Territory-band style and refined it stillfurther.Not long after the rock-and-roll craze began to spread,white intellectuals, college students, liberals, cognescenti, andlater the beatnik-folknik crowd rediscovered the blues intheir quest for "truth," "vitality," and "authentic ethnicity."Singers who had long been in partial retirement or in totalobscurity were unearthed and recorded for posterity. Musi­cians still active like Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, andSonny Terry were quick to -adapt their styles to this newaudience. Considering the premium placed on authenticity,it is rather ironic that many musicians who had been livingin the city since their childhood found it convenient to letthemselves be labeled country singers, primitives, or folksingers, unhooking their electric amplification and cleaningup their diction a bit to fit the new roles demanded of them.Samuel Charters' book The Country Blues added fuel tothis particular revival fire, and it is still burning strong today.The third new audience can really be considered a part ofthe second in some respects, but European blues fans forman important audience that has the added virtue of beingextremely catholic in taste; blues artists who are neither folkheroes nor rock-and-roll stars in this country-for example,Shakey Jake, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Brother Mont-gomery, Lonnie Johnson-will be enthusiastically receivedabroad. Europe thus fills a big gap in the American bluesmarket, and many a bluesman has found to his surprise thathis biggest following is in France or England.In view of all these new resources from which a blues artistcan earn a livelihood today, it is interesting to compare therecent activities of John Lee Hooker and B. B. King. Onemonth Hooker can be found working around joints and binsin Detroit; then he may move to a "folk" nightclub in NewYork, where he entertains the college set! then on to theNewport Jazz Festival or a European tour; and he occasion­ally records a tune that becomes a hit rock-and-roll itemamong teenagers, like his potent Boom, Boom, Boom. Fromone record or personal appearance to the next, Hooker hasat least four different audiences to choose from-and choosehe does, going around the circle from one group to another,modifying his style and material slightly to suit the tastesof his listeners.With Hooker's example in mind, it is astounding that B. B.King has never been to Europe, has never done a collegeconcert or appeared at a folk club; he has never been on ajazz festival stage and, aside from a few obscure records withstrings and trimmings, he has never directed his efforts to­ward a pop or teenage market. In other words, he is stillsinging to the same audience he has always had-that is, thepeople who know best what the blues are about. Further,unlike Ray Charles and Bobby Bland, he has n�ver attemptedto enlarge this audience by using gospel chord progressionsor other churchy effects. Certainly B. B. sometimes lookslike a preacher when he sings; like that of so many blues artists, his earliest musical training was in the church; butno trio of "Amen" girls like the Raylettes or the Bland Dollsplays a part in his presentation; and there are few if anysongs in his repertoire that can be traced directly to thechurch.All these observations and facts lead to one striking conclu­sion: B. B. King is the only straight blues singer in Americawith a large, adult, nationwide, and almost entirely Negroaudience. If the adjectives "unique," "pure," and "authentic"apply to any blues singer alive today, they certainly apply toB. B. King ....Upon being ushered into a small and crowded dressingroom, I settled myself in a corner while B (as he is known tohis friends) climbed out of his clothes and into a dressinggown. On the TV set in the corner Senator John Stennis fromMississippi was reading some remarks on the freedom marchfrom a prepared text. B went over and turned up the volume,and everyone quieted down. "I'm sure the Congress willnot be pressured by any minority group into passing legisla­tion that is not in the nation's interest. This march is goingto backfire on the people who organized it," the senatordrawled. I was embarrassed and muttering to myself. Noone spoke. When the senator disappeared from the screen,B shook his head slowly and said simply, "I was born inMississippi. "From this starting point we talked about blues and relatedtopics late into the afternoon. Constant interruptions at the15rate of about one every three minutes proved almost as in­formative as the interview itself, since B. B. King is manythings to many people. The little sister of an old Memphisgirl friend dropped by to say hello, and five or six other fansand folks from home found their way past the police sergeantat the stage door and into B's dressing room. Singers GeneChandler and Chuck Jackson, the disc jockeys Purvis Spannand E. Rodney Jones, and various band members steppedin for a minute or two, each with a different problem: toborrow a razor or a radio; to inquire when, where, and howto fix an amplifier; to pick up ice cubes, paper cups, Cokes;to discuss the party at Lee's Lounge the night before; toarrange a party for the coming evening; to ask for a stack ofautographed pictures. One after another people "fell by"in a never ending stream, it seemed. No one was turnedaway; no favor was refused; all invitations were acceptedthat didn't conflict with the Regal's scheduled three shows aday-and, at this point, according to his own estimate, he hadhad less than twelve hours' sleep since arriving in Chicagosix days earlier. ...I've heard a few things you've done with strings and things;are you trying to get into the pop market and out of theblues field?King: No, I'm me. I sing blues, and that's what I do best.I won't ever get into the big money. You Know I Love You-I felt that all right, and it was sort of commercial. Butmost of the time I feel forced, hemmed in with all that stuffbehind me. Strings are O.K., and later on I might be ableto fit them into songs and still be myself, but not yet. Do youfollow me?I think so; a contrived context like that puts you off yourstride.King: Yeah, that's it. Let me put it this way. Frankie isFrankie, and he's the greatest. That doesn't mean I wantto sing like him, but I would like to be called a singer, amusician, an artist, rather than a blues singer, and be giventhe same kind of respect for my style that Sinatra gets forhis. When I go to a jazz club, sometimes the leader or theM. C. will say "B. B. King, the well-known blues singer, isin the audience tonight," and the way he says "blues" youknow he really means "nasty." I'm a blues singer all right.And I don't mind being called a blues singer just so longas the tone of voice is right, you know. When a lot of peoplesay "blues singer," you know they're thinking of some16 ignorant lush moaning in a gutter some place. I believe thatif a bluesman leads a pretty straight life and really studies­I mean learns music-he can gain the respect of the people.Like Sonny and Floyd, they stick to their thing, they keepat it, and they get respect. If you're doing something as wellas you can and working to improve, people shouldn't putyou down. There's no reason why a man can't sing blues as aprofession and still be a gentleman. That's the main reasonI'm sticking with blues because I'd like to show- people thatit can be done ....The ninth grade was as far as I ever got in school-startedthe tenth grade and quit. I've always regretted that, at leastsince my d. j. days. I've missed the lack of education. I keeptaking correspondence courses on this and that, read whenI get the chance, and I've even been working on a pilot'slicense. I've only been up a few times with the instructor,but I sure am proud of my hours. Man, people think theaverage blues singer is stupid, and I'd like to get that outof their heads, set things straight. It really hurts me to hearmy people put blues down. It's our big contribution-some­thing to be proud of. Some people don't want to lowerthemselves to listen, or they think they're lowering them­selves if they listen; they're afraid of what people will say-that is, the people they think are better class. Some peoplelike to copy the class above them, and they're the ones whowon't listen. There have been times when I go out to singand give it all I have-people just sit there, chin resting onone hand, staring into space. r mean they couldn't care less.When that happens, sometimes I walk off and cry. I'm seri­ous-I really do cry. It's emotionally upsetting to see peoplehate my music who should like it. ...What kind of music do you like besides blues?King: I like to think I'm open to all kinds of music. Youshould listen to everything, take each man as he comes.I've got about fifteen thousand records in a collection athome, cylinders, lots of 78's of the older singers, and a lotof things besides blues, little bit of everything. Spanish -music I like, and there's a Japanese instrument that soundssomething like a guitar that knocks me out.I'll bet you're thinking of koto music.King: I think that's it. It has a movable set of bridges, andthey hit one note at a time, slow and hard. I didn't hear itat first, and then it began to reach me after I listened a fewtimes, That's soul all right. 0Quadrangle NelsPro Musica Concerts-Three concerts bythe Renaissance Wind Ensemble of theNew York Pro Musica marked the formalopening of a permanent exhibition atRockefeller Chapel of the Mary MacDon­ald Ludgin Memorial Collection of liturgi­cal banners. Created by Norman Lalibertefor the Vatican Pavilion of the New YorkWorld's Fair, the banners were donated tothe University by Earle Ludgin, a Trustee,in memory of his wife, Mary MacDonaldLudgin. The Pro Musica concerts wereperformed Oct. 2 and were open to thepublic without charge.Record Freshman Class-The 75th Anni­versary class of incoming freshmen is thelargest ever enrolled at the University. Itincludes 420 men and 290 women, from44 states and six foreign countries. Of the710 students, 59 per cent ranked in thetop 5 per cent of their high school graduat­ing classes; 82 per cent were in the top1 ° per cent; and 95 per cent were in thetop 20 per cent. Over half of the incomingclass is receiving financial assistance. Thefreshmen arrived on campus September20 for an intensive two-week period oftesting and orientation. In addition toplacement tests, the new students met withadvisers, took campus and city tours,spent two evenings at the theater, and at­tended a concert.Cancer Research-Two hundred cancer re­searchers from the United States andabroad met at the University on October10 and 11 for 'The International Sym­posium on Endogenous Factors Influenc­ing Host/Tumor Balance." The meetingwas part of the University's 75th Anni­versary observance and was held at theCenter for Continuing Education. Twentyspeakers described research on the threeknown natural mechanisms for controllingtumor growth-the hormone systems of thebody, the immunity system of the body,and the body's blood clotting mechanism-and on the reasons why these mechan­isms sometimes fail. Chicago Catn paign Chairman David M. Kennedy (seated), with (from left) William H. Garvey,Jr., Edward McCormick Blair, Rohert S. ingersoll, Rohert W. Reneker, and Iohn S. Coulson.Chicago Campaign Chairman-David M.Kennedy has been named Chicago areachairman for the University's $160,000,-000 "Campaign for Chicago." Mr. Ken­nedy, a Trustee of the University andchairman of the Council on the GraduateSchool of Business, is chairman of theboard of directors of The Continental Illi­nois National Bank and Trust Companyof Chicago. His appointment was an­nounced jointly by Fairfax M. Cone,Chairman of the Board of Trustees, andGaylord Donnelley, General Chairman ofthe Campaign for Chicago and a U niver­sity Trustee.Mr. Donnelley said: "David Kennedy isan extremely busy man with many profes­sional and civic interests. We are fortunateto have him accept the leadership of theUniversity's effort to secure wider eco­nomic support from its immediate com­munity." Mr. Donnelley also noted thatthe Campaign for Chicago, the first phaseof a ten-year effort to raise $360,000,000,is "a historic campaign that is being viewedwith interest throughout the United States."Mr. Kennedy said that he had accepted"the challenge of the chairmanship" be­cause "my close association with theUniversity has impressed upon me itsimportance to the well-being of the entire metropolitan area. The University of Chi­cago is a great private urban universitythat deserves and needs the support ofChicago area citizens and corporations.It is an important force in maintainingChicago's position among the great citiesof the world."Mr. Kennedy's first action as Chicagoarea chairman was to announce the ap­pointment of six prominent citizens whowill serve as co-chairmen of three specialregional committees. Co-chairmen of theChicago Regional Individuals Committeeare Edward McCormick Blair, Trustee ofthe University and partner in William Blair& Company, Chicago, and William H.Garvey, Jr., '30, President and Director ofHales & Hunter Company, Chicago. Co­chairmen of the Chicago Regional ParentsCommittee are George A. Ranney, Trus­tee of the University and Vice-Presidentand General Counsel of Inland Steel Com­pany, Chicago, and John S. Coulson, '36,Vice-President of Leo Burnett & Com­pany, Chicago. Co-chairmen of the Chi­cago Regional Corporations Committeeare Robert S. Ingersoll, Trustee of theUniversity and Chairman of the Boardand a Director of Borg-Warner Corpora­tion, Chicago, and Robert W. Reneker,'34, President of Swift & Co., Chicago.17Record Court Theatre Season - CourtTheatre closed its 12th season Sept. 4 witha record total attendance of 17,200, amore than 60 per cent increase over theprevious year. The summer's productionswere Shaw's Saint Joan and Shakespeare'sTwelfth Night and The Merry Wives ofWindsor. Court Theatre's Director isJames O'Reilly, also Director of Univer­sity Theatre. Harvey Landa, assistant pro­fessor of theatre at II1inois Institute ofTechnology, served as Director of PublicRelations for the season and also directedTwelfth Night.Gifts and Grants-The University of Chi­cago Center for Policy Study has beenawarded a $17,200 grant by the NewWorld Foundation of New York City tohelp support the new center's year-longstudy of China.The Harris Bank Foundation of theHarris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago,has made a gift of $100,000 to the Uni­versity.The Ford Foundation has awarded agrant of $750,000 to enable the Uni­versity's Community and Family StudyCenter to expand programs aimed at con­trolling population growth. The grant willenable the Center to further populationcontrol in the United States and abroadby training professional specialists to directpopulation control programs; by providingtechnical assistance and consulting facili­ties for family planning programs invarious parts of the world; by providingprofessional evaluation of family planningprograms established by governmentsabroad; and by carrying on research infamily planning.The University has received a $230,000gift from Mrs. Morris Fishbein to helpestablish a professorship in the History ofBiology and Medicine in honor of her hus­band. Dr. Fishbein received his BS degreefrom the University in 1910 and his MDfrom Rush Medical College in 1912. Heis an Emeritus Professor in the University'sSchool of Medicine and an active writerand editor.18 The Library of The University of Chi­cago has received a $118,000 grant fromthe National Science Foundation to assistit in the development of a computer-basedbibliographical data system. Designed tosupport several phases of the operationsand services of the University's libraries,it is hoped that many aspects of the newsystem will be in operation by the timethe proposed Joseph Regenstein Libraryis completed.A $50,000 gift from the Harriett Pull­man Schermerhorn Charitable Trust hasbeen received by the Divinity School ofThe University of Chicago to help financeits publication of The Chicago Encyclo­pedia of Religion and Theology. The firstwork of its kind since 1908, the new ency­clopedia is expected to become a definitivereference source in religion and theology.A cooperative study of school curriculain approximately twenty nations has beeninitiated at the University with the as­sistance of a $450,752 grant from theU.S. Office of Education. The study willutilize the most modern research proce­dures to measure achievement in biology,chemistry, physics, reading comprehen­sion, and literature in the language of eachcountry, and French and English as for­eign languages. It is expected that thestudy will determine how students of theparticipating nations compare with oneanother, as well as provide reliable evi­dence of the bearing on learning of suchfactors as family status and the age atwhich the child starts school. Principalinvestigators for the project are BenjaminS. Bloom, Professor of Education, andC. Arnold Anderson, Professor of Edu­cation and Sociology and Director of theUniversity'S Comparative EducationCenter.The University for the seventh consecu­tive year has received a $5,000 unrestrict­ed grant for eye research from Researchto Prevent Blindness, Inc.The University has received a five-yeargrant of $809,000 from the National Insti­tutes of Health to increase research train­ing for young teaching surgeons. The grantwill permit extended 'residence training of selected surgeons to give them more expe­rience in the basic sciences most closelyrelated to their specialties and thus in­crease their abilities as academic surgeons.An initial grant of $352,477 has beenreceived from the United States PublicHealth Service to establish a clinical re­search center in the new Silvain and ArmaWyler Children's Hospital. The new centerwill be devoted to the study of medicalproblems of children, with particular em­phasis on the newborn, especially withrespect to heart and lung diseases. Dr.Rene A. Arcilla, Assistant Professor ofPediatrics, will be director of the newcenter.The Middle School (grades 5-8) of TheUniversity of Chicago Laboratory Schoolshas received $62,500 from EncyclopaediaBritannica Films. The gift will be used toexpand the facilities and staff of theSchool's Learning Center in order to studythe -motivation and progress of both ableand poor pupils working on their ownprojects outside the classroom.Meteorite "Life"-New evidence that or­ganic compounds found in meteorites arenot signs that life exists on other planetswas reported recently by Edward Anders,Professor in the University's Departmentof Chemistry and the Enrico Fermi Insti­tute for Nuclear Studies.Speaking at the 47th Annual Meetingof the American Geophysical Union inWashington, D.C., Anders reported theresults of experiments which showed thatsuch compounds could easily have beenformed without the aid of living organ­isms under conditions that existed duringthe early history of the solar system. In- the experiments, conducted by Martin H.Studier, Senior Scientist in the ChemistryDivision of Argonne National Laboratory,and Ryoichi Hayatsu, Research Associateinthe Enrico Fermi Institute, many of theorganic compounds were duplicated al­most exactly using only simple gases andpulverized material from meteorites. Thesesubstances were chosen to simulate thecomposition of the solar system during itsearly stages of formation."The Gift" Revived-On June 15, 1916,during the University's 25th Anniversarycelebration, nearly 300 students, faculty,and alumni cooperated in a production of'The Gift," a masque depicting the educa­tion of Youth by Alma Mater. The per­formance was staged outdoors, just westof C-Group, before an audience of 1,500,and was directed by Lucine Finch. Por­tions of the production are shown in themural by Jessie Arms Botke on the wallsof Ida Noyes Theatre.A contemporary group is planning arevival of 'The Gift" as part of the 75thAnniversary celebration. However, rec-.ords of the original production are notcomplete, and the group is appealing toalumni and other members of the Univer­sity community for additional material orinformation. Respondents should contactAnnette Fern, Reference Department,Harper Library. Mortality Study-Among white Ameri­cans, the higher a person's family incomeand level of education is, the longer he canexpect to live.This was the general conclusion reachedby Philip M. Hauser, Professor of Soci­ology and Director of the University'sPopulation Research and Training Center,and Mrs. Evelyn Kitagawa, Associate Pro­fessor of Sociology and Associate Directorof the Center, in a recent report of theresults of a six-year study designed to pin­point the effects of various social and eco­nomic factors on the nation's death rate.Supported by a $1,017,000 grant fromthe U.S. Public Health Service, the studyexhaustively examined records on 340,000Americans who died between May 1 andAugust 31,1961.Other specific findings were that incomedifferences have a greater effect than edu­cational differences on the death rate ofWinners of the 1966 Ernest E. Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:(from left) A runas Liulevicius, Elder J. Olson, David E. Orlinsky, and Nathan Sugarman. white males 65 and older, while educa­tional differences have a greater effect thanincome differences in the case of whitefemales 65 and older.These results are the first reported in aseries which will cover all aspects of thesix-year study. Future reports will presentfinal data on the effects of income andeducation on death rates, show the effectson the death rate of the white populationof other factors, such as marital status,occupation, and place of residence, andprovide information on the death ratesof the non-white population by similarcharacteristics.Professor Hauser feels that the study hasprovided more information about peoplewho die in the United States than was everpreviously available. In commenting onthe goals of the study he said, "By high­lighting the areas where mortality is stillhigh, the study will help provide bases forbetter planning and implementation ofpublic health programs designed to cutdown on wastage of human life in thiscountry."Correcting Genetic Mistakes-Richard C.Hard, Jr., Visiting Assistant Professor ofPathology, and Birgitta Lullgren, ResearchTechnologist in the Department of Path­ology, are the co-authors of a recent reportwhich suggests that scientists may somedaybe able to make major changes in thegenetic make-up of cells in the body. Suchchanges might be used to cure geneticdiseases like phenylketonuria (PKU), arecently-discovered cause of mental re­tardation.The so-called genetic diseases are abnor­malities in the body chemistry caused bydefects in the inherited genetic material.In the case of PKU, the effects of thedisease may be prevented by the early in­troduction of a special diet, but a perma­nent cure for genetic disease could only beaccomplished by making a major changein the genetic materials of the individ­ual's body cells. The experiments mayopen the way to development of techniquesby which this could be accomplished.19Faculty and StaffDaniel J. Boorstin, Professor of History,is the editor of A n A merican Primer (TheUniversity of Chicago Press). The two­volume work contains selections of Ameri­cana chosen and introduced by 83 promi­nent historians.Frieda S. Brown, Assistant Professor ofFrench; Richard E. Flathman, AssistantProfessor of Political Science; FriedheImRadandt, Instructor in German; Merrill A.Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of French;and Susanne H. Rudolph, Associate Pro­fessor of Political Science, have receivedInland Steel Faculty Fellowships for 1966-67. The fellowships were established in1964 through a grant from the InlandSteel-Ryerson Foundation and providefunds for travel and research during therecipients' quarter out of residence.Frank R. Bruel, a specialist in the historyand theory of social welfare policy, hasbeen appointed Associate Dean of theSchool of Social Service Administration(SSA). He has been a professor at SSAsince 1960.John F. Burton, Jr., has been appointedAssociate Professor of Industrial Relationsand Public Policy in the Graduate Schoolof Business. He was previously assistantprofessor of economics at Yale University.Gerhard Casper, since 1964 a memberof the faculties of law and political scienceat the University of California, Berkeley,has been appointed Associate Professor ofLaw. Phil C. Neal, Dean of the UniversityLaw School, said that Mr. Casper's ap­pointment "is part of the program forenlarging the Law School's work in com­parative and international studies, a pro­gram made possible by a recent grant of$8.5 million from the Ford Foundation tothe University for these fields."Pramod Chandra, Associate Professor ofArt, has been appointed director of thenew American Academy of Benares,India, which will serve as a center for20 South Asian art. The Academy was con­ceived and will be administered by theAmerican Committee for the History ofSouth Asian Art, whose chairman is Mr.Chandra.Dr. Ivan Diamond, Instructor of Medi­cine, has received the Joseph A. CappsPrize for Medical Research by the Insti­tute of Medicine in Chicago.Dr. Edgar Draper, Assistant Professor ofPsychiatry, has been elected chairman ofthe Chicago chapter of the Academy ofReligion and Mental Health for the year1966-67.Milton Friedman, AM'33, the PaulSnowdon Russell Professor of Economics,is now a regular contributing columnistfor Newsweek. He is one of the nation'sleading conservative economic scholarsand the co-author of A Monetary Historyof the United States.Milton Friedman Grant Gilmore, Professor of Law, hasbeen named co-recipient of Harvard LawSchool's Ames Prize for legal scholarship.Mr. Gilmore received the award for histwo-volume work Security Interests inPersonal Property, published in 1965.Leo A. Goodman, Professor of Statisticsand Sociology, and Hans Zeisel, Professorof Law and Sociology, shared a CanadianAdvertising Research Foundation prizewith a New York advertising executive fortheir research on methods of measuringthe effects of television through controlledfield experiments.Jack Halpern, Professor of Chemistry,has won an American Chemical SocietyPetroleum Research Fund grant of$40,000.Eric P. Hamp, Professor of Indo­European Linguistics and Director of theCenter for Balkan and Slavic Studies atthe University, has been awarded a Ful­bright-Hays international exchange grantby the U.S. Department of State for theyear 1966-67.Philip M. Hauser, '29, AM'33, PhD'38,Professor of Sociology and Director ofthe University's Population Research andTraining Center, has been named presi­dent-elect - of the American SociologicalAssociation. He will serve as president­elect during 1966-67 and as the Associa­tion's 58th president during 1967-68.Ping-ti Ho, the James Westfall Professorof History and a Fellow of the Center forPolicy Study, and Lee C. Teng, Directorof the Particle Accelerator Division of theArgonne National Laboratory and Profes­sorial Lecturer in the Department ofPhysics, have been elected to the Acade­mica Sinica, the most prestigious scholarlysociety of the Republic of China. Thesociety admits scholars in the physical andbiological sciences and the humanities, andis comparable to the U.S. National Acad­emy of Sciences.Dr. Charles B. Huggins, the William B.Ogden Distinguished Service Professorand Director of the Ben May Laboratoryfor Cancer Research, has received twoawards. The Mallinckrodt PharmaceuticalsCo., St. Louis, presented him with theRamon Guiteras award for his work incancer research at the 61 st annual conven­tion of the American Urological Associa­tion, and the Worshipful Society ofApothecaries of London awarded him itsGold Medal in Therapeutics on June 29.Dr. Huggins was subject of the cover storyof the August 29 issue of Modern Medi­cine, a leading medical journal. (On Oct.13 Dr. Huggins was named co-recipient ofthe 1966 Nobel Prize for medicine-seep. 2.)Manning Nash, AM' 52, PhD'55, Pro­fessor of Anthropology in the GraduateSchool of Business, has received a $51,000grant from the National Science Founda­tion to conduct a two-year study of social.and economic change in a rural section ofthe Malaysian state of Kelantan.Dr. Michael Newton, the incoming Di­rector of the American College of Obste­tricians and Gynecologists, has been namedClinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gyne­cology at the University. Dr. Newton isan authority on cancer of the reproductiveorgans, an active member of several medi­cal societies, and the author of more than75 articles in medical journals.Ralph Shapey, Assistant Professor ofMusic and Director of the ContemporaryChamber Players, has received a NationalInstitute of Arts and Letters grant forcreative work.Irving A. Spergel, Associate Professor inthe School of Social Service Administra­tion, is the author of Street Gang Work:Theory and Practice (Addison-Wesley,Inc.), which "aims at an understandingof the social, organizational, individual,and group characteristics of street gangsin large, lower-class urban areas, and de­velops principles and techniques for work­ing effectively with such groups."Constantine S. Spyropoulos has beenappointed Professor of Physiology. Anauthority on electrophysiology, Mr. Spyro­poulos most recently has been Co-directorof the Department of Biophysics andCybernetics at the University of Genoa.George J. Stigler, PhD'38, the Charles R.Walgreen Distinguished Service Professorof Economics and in the Graduate School of Business, has been named to an inter­national advisory panel that will help planthe 200th anniversary celebration of thepublications of Adam Smith's The Wealth0/ Nations.Dr. Alvin R. Tarlov, Assistant Professorof Medicine and at the Argonne CancerResearch Hospital, has been named aJohn and Mary R. Markle Foundationscholar in academic medicine. The awardcarries with it a $30,000 grant, to be usedover a five-year period to help support therecipient's medical research program andto aid in his development as a scientistand teacher.5partshartsBasketball Outlook-Coach Joseph M.Stampf sees potential in this year's varsitybasketball team for bettering last year's12-won, 4-lost record. "We had a youngteam last year, with many freshmen andsophomores on the squad," Coach Stampfsays. "This year the team is more matureand experienced and, because of this,should be more versatile. It should be avery interesting team to watch." Eight outof nine 1965-66 lettermen are returning,among them Martin C. Campbell, aJunior from Evanston, Illinois, who forthe past two seasons has been Chicago'sleading scorer with an average of 13.3points per game. Also returning is DennisC. Waldon, a Sophomore from Cicero,Illinois, who was last season's second topscorer. Four of the returning men areStagg Scholars: Campbell, William W.Pearson, Dennis W. Sienko, and RandallG. Talan. The season will begin with ahome game against Lake Forest Collegeon December 3. According to CoachStampf, "there is not an easy game on theschedule, and Tulane will probably be ourtoughest opponent this season." SPORTS CALENDARCross CountryNov. 5: UC vs University of Illinois/Chicago Circle, at Montrose Park, Chi­cago.Nov. 12�' NCAA College DivisionChampionships, at Wheaton, Ill.Nov. 19: NAAU Junior 10,000 Me­ter Championships, at WashingtonPark, Chicago.Nov. 26: NAAU Senior 10,000 Me­ter Championships, at Los Angeles,Calif.Nov. 21: NCAA University Cham­pionships, at Lawrence, Kan.Nov. 24: CAAU 500 Meter Cham­pionships, at Riis Park, Chicago.SoccerNov. 2: UC vs Lake Forest College,at Lake Forest, III.Nov. 6: UC vs Northwestern Uni­versity, at Evanston, 111.Nov. 9: UC vs Northern IllinoisUniversity, at De Kalb, Ill.Nov. 12: UC vs Ball State Univer­sity, at Chicago.Nov. 19: UC vs University of Illi­nois, at Champaign, Ill.SwimmingDec. 2: UC vs Wilson JuniorCol1ege,at Chicago (B team).Dec. 3: UC vs Eastern MichiganUniversity, at Chicago.Dec. 9: UC vs Northern Illinois Uni­versity, at De Kalb, Ill.GymnasticsDec. 3: Midwest Open, at Oak Park(III.) High School.BasketballDec. 3: UC vs Lake Forest College,at Chicago.Dec. 10: UC vs Iowa Wesleyan Col­lege, at Mt. Pleasant, Ia.21ProfiJesEthel Goldsmith"There are many significant jobs forwomen that aren't necessarily paid jobs,"says Ethel Goldsmith, who has worked asa Volunteer at The University of ChicagoHospitals and Clinics for over ten years.Charming and friendly, with a ready smile,she is firm in her belief that work maybring richer rewards than salary.Mrs. Goldsmith is a long-time residentof the University community. She attendedHyde Park High School and took her ABin Social Service at the University in 1940.Even at this early date she thought thatcommunity work was what she reallywanted to do: undergraduate studies"helped to make me aware of social prob­lems." While at the University she met herhusband, JUlian, in a freshman Englishclass. He is now Professor and Chair­man of the Department of GeophysicalSciences.Mrs. Goldsmith began volunteer work atBobs Roberts Children's Hospital in 1956.She asked to work with patients, and herfirst job was with the library and readingto children. A few years later she tookcharge of the Art Cart, a unique therapyprogram that led to her work with adults.Patients are permitted to select reproduc­tions of paintings from the Art Cart tobrighten up their rooms - and perhapsbrighten up their outlooks as well. Mrs.22 Goldsmith made a great success of dis­pensing that "intangible medicine."Now, as a nonprofessional volunteermember of an otherwise professional Psy­chiatric Consultation Service, she servesas an "activities therapist." Her work isunique, and there were no precedents toguide her when she accepted it. She spendstime with a patient informally-in recrea­tion or just visiting-and lets friendshipsdevelop spontaneously. At staff meetingsshe injects the patient's viewpoint, helpingthe staff better to understand the impactof hospitalization and psychiatric consul­tation. Her efforts also help keep patientsactive, interested, and alert so that theyare less dependent on hospital care. Shedescribes her work as "completely fasci­nating and a marvelous learning experi­ence. But, of course, I don't pretend to bea psychiatrist." She recently co-authored apaper on volunteer psychiatric work withDr. Georges R. Reding, Assistant Profes­sor of Psychiatry, which will appear in afuture issue of the Community MentalHealth Journal. Her success in an areawhere nonprofessionals had never beenused will, she hopes, encourage a greateruse of volunteers. Mrs. Goldsmith ob­serves: "You'll get better volunteers if youoffer better volunteer jobs. It works bothways."In addition to her volunteer work at theHospitals, Mrs. Goldsmith is a memberof the Bobs Roberts Service Committeeof which she has been President, Vic�President, and currently Treasurer. Sheis on the Women's Board of the FieldMuseum, and on the Board of the HydePark Art Center. She recently was selectedas one of five finalists in the 1966 ChicagoVolunteer of the Year contest.Mrs. Goldsmith has three children-twosons at home and a daughter away atschool. She also has social and other obli­gations as the wife of the Chairman ofthe Department of Geophysical Sciences.Yet she never feels rushed. "1 happen tobe a strong believer in activities of all sortsfor people. I think that we're all betteroff if we use as much of ourselves as Wecan at all times."Stuart M. TaveStuart M. Tave is a soft-spoken, genialman with a scholarly reputation and a live­ly sense of humor. These traits, valuableto him as a Professor of English, are ex­pected to serve him well in his new roleas Master of the Collegiate Division of theHumanities.Tave was born in Brooklyn on April 10,1923. He attended Columbia Universityand received his AB in 1943. From 1943to 1946 he served in the United StatesNavy as a Japanese language officer in thePacific, after taking naval training "in themountains of Colorado." After the war heinterviewed Japanese citizens as part of abombing effects survey, and he later sailed on a captured Japanese battleship to thefirst atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. "Iwas aboard to read the Japanese labels,"he recalls, "but the American engineersknew more about the ship than 1 couldtell them."After discharge from the Navy he wentto Harvard University, where he receivedhis AM in 1947. On his way to GreatBritain in 1947 to study at Oxford, he methis wife, Edel, aboard ship. They weremarried the following year. He receivedhis D.Phil. from Oxford in 1950, andcame to The University of Chicago in1951. "I had the same experience thateverybody has in coming here-coming toan urban university and suddenly beingastonished by the fact that there are treesaround. I really felt that 1 was moving tothe country, and J came to like the Uni­versity very much. 'There is an intellectual turmoil at theUniversity which is the normal element inwhich people here live and breathe. Noteveryone is attracted to that sort of thing.1 find it exciting. I'm enormously im­pressed by the inventiveness of peoplehere, and I have learned continually fromthem. I've had the experience of beingannoyed - sometimes appalled - by someideas, and later being semi-converted."Tave holds a Quantrell Award for Excel­lence in Undergraduate Teaching at theUniversity. He is the author of two booksof British literary history, the most recentbeing New Essays by De Quincey . His firstbook, The A miable Humorist, A Study ofthe Comic Theory and Criticism of the18th and Early 79th Centuries, shows notonly his interest in humor itself but alsohis approach to a literary period. "I aminterested in the history of the idea ofhumor within that particular period-whatthe people thought about it, what theirconception was of it. The idea was chang­ing very rapidly and was related to manyother things, too, including politics, reli­gion, psychology. Studying humor was onevery useful way of grasping a whole com­plex of ideas." He sees his own writingstyle as "solemn." An interest in humor"may give me some place to turn to," hesays, when the demands of his new jobgrow.One of the chief advantages of the newCollege, Tave says, is that "it is directedtoward students. Part of the rationale fordividing the College into a sub-set of spe­cialized colleges is to give a student some­thing smaller, closer to himself, that hecan feel a part of." However, his newrole carries administrative responsibilitieswhich, especially in the new College's be­ginning months, are pressing. "AlI theseyears I've been preaching something tomy students, in a fatherly sort of way,which has turned out to be too true: bigideas get you involved in all kinds of littledetails." Like most academic administra­tors at the University, Tave intends tocontinue as a teacher. "This is what 1 havebeen, what I conceive myself to have beentrained for, and what 1 feel I can do best."23WashingtonAlumni of the School of Social ServiceAdministration met for lunch at N apo­leon's Restaurant, Sept. 6. Frank R. Breul,Professor and Associate Dean at SSA, wasguest speaker.Los AngelesLaw School alumni met for lunch at theDisneyland Hotel, Sept. 21. Phil C. Neal,Professor and Dean of the Law School,was guest speaker.ClevelandMinnie T. Shores, '29, authoress andresident of the Lutheran Home for theAged, was guest speaker at a luncheonmeeting at Stouffer's Shaker Square, Oct. 8.COMING EVENTSSan Francisco: November 2Daniel J. Boorstin, Professor of History,will be guest speaker at a dinner meeting,8: 00 PM at the World Trade Club.Los Angeles: November 4Ray Koppelman, Associate Professor ofBiochemistry and Master of the CollegiateDivision of Biology, will be guest speakerat a dinner meeting, 6:45 PM at the USCFaculty Center. Baltimore: November 6Joshua C. Taylor, Professor of Art andHumanities, will speak on "The Complexi­ties of Modern Art," followed by a gallerytour, at the Baltimore Museum of Art,4:30 PM; cocktails at 5:30 PM.Minneapolis / St. Paul: November 8George R. Hughes, Professor in the Ori­ental Institute, will present the film "TheEgyptologists" at a dinner meeting.Cincinnati: November 17Peter H. Rossi, Professor of Sociologyand Director of the National Opinion Re­search Center, will be guest speaker at adinner meeting.Houston: November 25Wayne C. Booth, Professor of Englishand Dean of the College, will be guest ofhonor at a reception.Detroit: November 29George P. Shultz, Professor and Deanof the Graduate School of Business, willbe guest speaker at a dinner meeting.New York: November 30Wayne C. Booth, Professor of Englishand Dean of the College, will be guest ofhonor at a reception.Omaha: December 1George J. Stigler, Professor of Econom­ics, will speak at a dinner meeting. Philadelphia: December 6Benson E. Ginsburg, Professor of Biol­ogy, will be guest speaker at a dinnermeeting.Cleveland: January 26Martin E. Marty, Professor in theDivinity School, will be guest speaker ata dinner meeting.Washington: January 27William H. McNeill, Professor and Chair­man of the Department of History, will beguest speaker at a dinner meeting.Detroit: February 14Philip M. Hauser, Professor of Sociologyand Director of the Population Researchand Training Center and of the ChicagoCommunity Inventory, will be guestspeaker at a dinner meeting.For information on coming events, or forassistance in planning an event in yourcommunity with a guest speaker from theUniversity, contact (Mrs.) Jane Steele,Program Director, The University of Chi­cago Alumni Association, 5733 UniversityAve., Chicago, Ill. 60637, MI 3-0800.Below: Chicago area alumni at a danceand supper, August 26, held on the Quad­rangle Club tennis court. The event fol­lowed a Court Theatre performance foralumni.24Alumni NewsMyron Glass Frank Cullinan15Lester R. Dragstedt, ' 15, SM' 16, PhD'20,MD'21, Emeritus Professor of Surgery atUC and presently Research Professor ofSurgery at the University of Florida,Gainesville, recently gave the GeorgeMorris Curtis Memorial Lecture at Co­lumbus, Ohio. The lecture honors Dr.George M. Curtis, former Professor ofSurgery at the University of Ohio. Dr.Dragstedt is an Honorary Fellow of TheRoyal College of Surgeons of England,Honorary Chairman of the InternationalAssociation for the Study of Diseases ofthe Liver and Stomach, Lyon, France, andholds the Gold Medal of the Malmo Sur­gical Foundation, Malmo, Sweden.19Pauline V. Young, '19, currently teach­ing at the International Club, MenorahSociety, Y.W.c.A., in India, has publishedthe 4th edition of Scientific Social Surveysand Research. The book has been trans­lated into Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Tur­kish, Portuguese, Braille, and parts intoGerman. Her other publications includePilgrims of Russian Town, Methods ofinterviewing, Probation and Delinquency,and over 50 articles in professional jour­nals. She is working on a new volume,Interviewing and Life Histories. Dr. Younghas served as a visiting professor at uni­versities in Israel, Hong Kong, andHawaii.20Arthur C. Wickenden, AM'20, DB'21,PhD'31, professor emeritus of religion atMiami University in Oxford, 0., was awarded an honorary doctorate degreefrom Denison University, Granville, 0.,in June. An ordained Baptist ministersince 1921, Dr. Wickenden established thedepartment of religion at Miami U. in1927. He retired in 1963.23Paul L. Whitely, AM'23, PhD'27, Emer­itus Professor of Psychology, Franklin &Marshall College, was awarded an honor­ary Doctor of Pedagogy from that in­stitution.24Walter MacPeek, '24, a professionalleader with the Boy Scouts of Americasince 1924, is the author of The ScoutLaw in Action (Abingdon Press), a newbook "designed to help leaders make thetwelve points of the Scout Law vital guide­posts for boys ages 11 and up." Mr. Mac­Peek is currently assistant to the directorof the Editorial Service of the NationalCouncil BSA, and an associate editor ofScouting Magazine.25David King, AM'25, formerly on thefaculty of Tennessee Technological Uni­versity, Cookeville, Tenn., is teaching atLambuth College, Jackson, Tenn. He alsotaught at the University of Akron, Ohio.He is a former president of the Ohio StateAssoc. of Political Science.26Myron S. Glass, SM'26, supervisor in theElectron Device Laboratory at Bell Tele­phone Laboratories, Murray Hill division,marked 40 years of service with Bell inJuly. Mr. Glass has worked variously onthe development of electronic devices,magnetrons, and, most recently, millimeterwave devices. He is in charge of a groupresponsible for the development of mag­netic measurement techniques in connec­tion with the Telstar communicationssatellite. A Senior Member of the Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engineers, hehas <eighteen patents in the field of electrondevices. 27Harold L. Mason, PhD'27, has retiredas a member of the staff of the MayoClinic, Rochester, Minn., and as Professorof Physiological Chemistry in the MayoGraduate School of Medicine, Universityof Minnesota at Rochester. Dr. Masonhad worked with the Clinic since 1928,served as head of the Section of Biochem­istry from 1957 to 1964, and was a seniorconsultant in biochemistry since October1, 1964. He is a noted authority on the"structure of glutathione, the isolation andstructure of adrenal cortical hormones andurinary steroids, and on porphyrins andvitamins." In June of this year, Dr. Masonreceived the Fred Conrad Koch Award ofthe Endocrine Society.28Wilson Law, AM'28, mathematicsteacher in the public school system for 50years, retired recently from the Harrison(Ohio) High School. In 1956 he retiredfrom Proviso East High School, West Chi­cago. As a student at UC, he taught in theLaboratory School. Mr. Law, who is 75years old, and "has never been sick in hislife," is quoted as saying, "I would con­sider myself as one with an abundance ofenthusiasm. My biggest success in theclassroom comes from enthusiasm, thespirit in which I enter things."31Frank P. Cullinan, PhD'31, has beenmade a Knight of the Order of Leopoldby King Baudouin of Belgium in recog­nition of his "service to Belgian agricul­ture, over the years, in making availablehis extensive knowledge-particularly ofU.S. crops research-to Belgian agriculturespecialists." Mr. Cullinan retired in 1964from more than 30 years of service withthe U.S. Department of Agriculture,where he was Associate Director of theAgricultural Research Service's Crops Re­search Division since 1957. Most recentlyhe served as Vice President and Chairmanof Local Arrangements for the 17th Inter­national Horticultural Congress, held inAugust at the University of Maryland.25Edwin H. Lennette, '31, PhD'35, MD'36, has been appointed chairman of thePanel on Viral Diseases of the U. S.-JapanCooperative Medical Program, sponsoredby the Office of Science and Technology,the White House, and the National Insti­tutes of Health. He is chief of the viraiand rickettsial disease laboratory, Cali­fornia State Department of Public Healthand lecturer in virology at the School ofPublic Health, University of California,Berkeley. Dr. Lennette is currently a mem­ber of the National Advisory Allergy andInfectious Diseases Council of the N a­tional Institutes of Health and the Com­mittee for Vaccine Development of theNational Institute of Allergy and Infec­tious Diseases.34Noel B. Gerson, '34, has published Light­H orse Harry, a biography of GeneralHenry Lee, George Washington's greatcavalryman in the Revolution and fatherof Robert E. Lee. Mr. Gerson is a formernewspaper foreign correspondent and theauthor of many books.Thomas E. Keys, AM'34, recently re­ceived the Noyes Award for DistinguishedService from the Medical Library Asso­ciation at its annual meeting in Boston.Mr. Keys is librarian of the Mayo Clinic,Rochester, Minn., and associate professorof the history of medicine in the MayoGraduate School of Medicine, Universityof Minnesota. He is a former president ofthe Medical Library Association.Sidney L. Simon, '34, PhD'39, has beenappointed general manager of the ana­lytical instrument division of TRACOR,Inc., a research and development firm inAustin, Tex. Previously he was vice presi­dent for engineering of the Ford Instru­ment Company, a division of Sperry-RandCorp. .Malcolm L. Smith, AM'34, has beenappointed director of the Manpower Man­agement Division of the Naval MaterialSupport Establishment at its Washington,D. C. headquarters. In his new positionMr. Smith 'will supervise the utilizationof the nearly 400,000 military and civilian26 personnel in the Navy's material com­mand. Since his release to inactive dutyin 1946 he has served in increasingly re­sponsible positions in the fields of logistics,planning, and management with the Bu­reau of Aeronautics and its successor, theBureau of Naval Weapons. He has beenassistant director of the plans division inthe material command since 1963.35Paul A. Samuelson, '35, is a contributingcolumnist for Newsweek magazine. He isa leading liberal economist and is current­ly Institute Professor of Economics atMassachusetts Institute of Technology.36John G. Tanner, MS'36, has joinedLangevin, Santa Ana, Calif., as the Elec­tromechanical Engineer of the Electro­mechanical Products Group. He has had22 years of experience with solenoids andother electromechanical devices as wellas in the fields of metallurgy and chem­istry.37Jack Chernick, '37, Senior Physicist atBrookhaven National Laboratory, Upton,N. Y., and Associate Head for TheoreticalPhysics of the Reactor Physics Division ofthe Nuclear Engineering Department, re­cently was named co-winner of the Amer­ican Nuclear Society Special A ward for1966, with Professor Mark Nelkin of Cor­nell University. A Fellow of ANS, Mr.Chernick was honored "for his contribu­tions to important physics problems ofreactors, including resonance capture, re­actor kinetics, and the interpretation ofintegral experimental data; for his investi­gations of many novel reactor designs; andfor his continuing leadership in the de­velopment of reactor physics and physi­cists of the highest quality."Donald M. Mackenzie, AM'37, PhD'55,has been elected the ninth president ofPark College, Parkville, Mo. Prior to hisarrival at Park, he was associated forthree years with the Danforth Foundation,St. Louis. He was associate secretary ofthe commission on colleges and uriiversi- ties of the North Central Association,1957-60, and staff director of the IllinoisCommission on Higher Education, 1956-57. He was formerly dean of LindenwoodCollege, St. Charles, Mo., and of Black­burn College, Carlinville, Ill.38Mamie Anderzhon, '38, SM'48, recentlywas the guest speaker at the WashingtonCounty Study Group for Geography Edu­cation Workshop's annual spring meetingin Canonsburg, Pa. Miss Anderzhon isassociate professor of geography at In­diana (Pa.) State University, and a pastpresident of the National Council forGeographic Education.Charlotte G. Babcock, MD'38, professorof psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Insti­tute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, recently spokeat the annual meeting of the Citizens Ad­visory Committee of the Child WelfareServices of Beaver County, Pa.Sidney A. Burrell, '38, former associateprofessor of history and a member of theCommittee on British Civilization at Bar­nard College, is the new head of theHistory Department at Boston University.Dr. Burrell has received research grantsfrom the Folger Shakespeare Library,Washington, D.C., and is a former Gug­genheim Fellow. He has also been a mem­ber of the Center for Research in WorldPolitical Institutions at Princeton Univer­sity.James W. Button, '39, has been electedvice president in charge of merchandisingof Sears, Roebuck, and Co., in Chicago.He has been president of Simpson-Sears,Ltd., Sears' Canadian affiliate, since 1962.In his new post he will supervise 51 buy­ing divisions, the retail and catalog salespromotion divisions, and their supportingstaff departments.39Mary Houk, AM'39, retired Director ofthe Indiana University Division of SocialWork in Indianapolis, has begun a new jobon the professional staff of the Council onSocial Work Education, New York. MissHouk was on the LU. faculty since 1945,Frank Orenstein Bertram Rijasserving as Director of Field Work for theDivision of Social Work since 1951. Previ­ously, she, taught for four years at the UCSchool of Social Service Administration.40John Atherton, AM'40, PhD'52, presi­dent of Pitzer College, Claremont, 111.,received an honorary Doctor of Laws de­gree from MacMurray College, Jackson­ville, Ill., at its 115th commencement lastspring.Francis H. Itzin, AM'40, formerly asso­ciate professor at the University of Iowa,is now professor in the Jane AddamsGraduate School of Social Work, Univer­sity of Illinois. During the 1960-61 termhe was a Fulbright lecturer at UniversityCollege, South Wales, and at Monmouth­shire, G.B.42Lily Detchen, PhD'42, has been pro­moted to Research Professor of Educa­tion, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pa. Amember of the Chatham faculty since1948, she will continue to serve as Direc­tor of Evaluation Services.Max M. Mills, '42, Iowa State Senator,recently was guest speaker at the annualFarmer-Businessman Banquet, Iowa City,Ia. Mr. Mills, a practicing lawyer at Mar­shalltown, is a past president of, theMarshalltown Chamber of Commerce, aformer county attorney, and was namedOutstanding Young Man in MarshallCounty.Frank E. Orenstein, AM'42, has beennamed Vice President and Director of Re­search for the .-"-Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associa­tion, New York. He joined the Bureau in1960 as Manager of Survey Research inthe Marketing Planning and Research D�­partment, and was promoted to MarketingManager earlier this year.43Elaine R. Berman, '43, SM'51, is cur­rently director of the Eye Research Lab­oratory, Biochemical Section, for theHebrew University-Hadassah MedicalCenter in Jerusalem, Israel. Mrs. Bermanis also a recipient of a grant from the Na­tional Institutes of Health, U.S. PublicService.44Haskell M. Block, '44, recently was visit­ing professor of comparative literature inthe department of French at the Universityof Illinois for a five-month session. Hehas been a professor at Brooklyn Collegesince 1961.Rev. Hartley C. Ray, DB'45, Chaplainat Philadelphia State Hospital, recentlyspoke on "Contemporary Atheism" at theNortheast Unitarian-Universalist Fellow­ship in Philadelphia.46David Reed, '46, wrote "Ghana: Com­munism's Big Defeat in Africa" for theJune, 1966 issue of Reader's Digest.Bertram E. Rifas, '46, AM' 50, formerlymanager of research for Pacific Inter­mountain Express, Oakland, Calif., hasjoined Matson Research Corp., San Fran­cisco, as a senior economics systems ana­lyst. Mr. Rifas lives in San Mateo, Calif.,with his wife and three children.47Lawrence L. DeMott, AM'47, has beenappointed associate professor of geologyat Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.Catherine McDaniel Strayhorn, AM' 4 7,recently took office as president of theAuxiliary to the Davidson County Medi­cal Society and the Nashville Academy ofMedicine, Nashville, Tenn. Robert J. Wolfson, '47, AM'50, PhD'56,his wife (Betty Bunes, '45), and theirthree children, have moved from Cali­fornia to Syracuse, N.Y., where Dr. Wolf­son is Professor of Economics at SyracuseUniversity. He was formerly PrincipalScientist at System Development Corpora­tion, Santa Monica; a member of the re­search staff of the RAND Corp., SantaMonica; Senior Project Director at CEIRInc., Beverly Hills; and a faculty memberat UCLA, Michigan State University, andUc.48Arthur H. Cash, '48, Associate Professorof English at Colorado State University,has published Sterne's Comedy of MoralSentiments: the Ethical Dimension of the'Journey' (Duquesne University Press).The book won an international competi­tion of the Modern Humanities ResearchAssociation and is published under theirauspices. Mr. Cash has published a num­ber of articles in the Times Literary Sup­plement. Last year he was associated withSt. Catharine's College, Cambridge, whilecollecting materials for a biography ofSterne. He is chairman of the LaurenceSterne Memorial Committee, organizedto support a trust in England which hopesto purchase Shandy Hall and restore it asa memorial to the novelist.Ernest C. Siegfried, MD'48, AssistantSurgeon General of the U.S. Public HealthService, is the new Medical Director ofthe U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Dr. Siegfriedwill be responsible for the "health andmedical care of 21,000 inmates in 36facilities operated by the Bureau of Prisonsin 23 states and the District of Columbia."He formerly was area director of the Divi­sion of Indian Health for the Southwesternstates, headquartered at Phoenix, Ariz.49Milton Goldberg, AM'49, has been pro­moted to professor of literature at AntiochCollege. He has been at Antioch since1957 and is the author of poetry, shortstories, and articles for numerous profes­sional and educational journals.27Robert W. Parsons, '49, assistant chiefof plastic surgery service at Walter ReedGeneral Hospital, has been promoted tolieutenant colonel in the U. S. Army. Heentered the armed forces in 1955 and wassent to the Medical Field Service Schoolat Fort Sam Houston, Tex. From 1956 to1959 he served as a resident in generalsurgery at Fitzsimons General Hospital inDenver. In 1961 he received a fellowshipto Barnes Hospital in S1. Louis, and uponcompletion of his studies, was assigned tohis present post at Walter Reed. Col. Par­sons is a member of the American Collegeof Surgeons, the American Society ofPlastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, andthe Military Surgeons of the UnitedStates. He is also a deacon of the North­wood United Presbyterian Church in Sil­ver Spring, Md., where he lives with hiswife and four children.Herbert Spielman, PhD'49, has beenpromoted by the President to Class 3 inthe Foreign Service of the United States.He joined the State Department in 1949,and has been stationed in the U. S. Em­bassy in Paris. Now overseas again, hewas in Washington, until recently, as eco­nomic officer in the Office of Italian­Austrian Affairs. Mr. Spielman is a formerpresident of The University of ChicagoAlumni Club of Washington.John F. Vickrey, '49, AM'52, assistantprofessor of English at Lehigh University,has been appointed a co-editor of theJournal of the Viola da Gamba Society ofAmerica. The Society is composed of some200 musicologists, professional musicians,music teachers, and amateur students ofthe violas da gamba, "a family of bowed,fretted, stringed instruments related to,though significantly different from, the.violins."50H. Murray Herlihy, AM'50, PhD' 54,Chairman of the Department of Eco­nomics at Lake Forest (Ill.) College, hasbegun a year's sabbatical to continue re­search on a comparison of occupationalwage structures in the U.S. and Canada.His studies will take place, in part, at the28 University of Alberta, and at the Depart­ments of Labor in Washington, D.C., andin Ottawa.H. Martin Weingartner, '50, SB'50, AM'51, has joined the faculty of the Univer­sity of Rochester's College of BusinessAdministration as a full professor. Aneconomist, business consultant, and spe­cialist in financial management and statis­tics, he formerly served on the facultiesof Carnegie Institute of Technology, TheUniversity of Chicago, and at the Massa­chusetts Institute of Technology. He is theauthor of a book, Management Program­ming and the A nalysis Of Capital Budget­ing Problems.51Dwight Melvin Cramer, '51, has beenpromoted by President Johnson to Class 4in the Foreign Service of the UnitedStates. Cramer, who has been with theForeign Service since 1952, is presentlyassigned to the Department of State as apolicy officer with the Office of MunitionsControl. He was previously stationed inAustria and West Germany.Matthew S. Meselson, '51, associateprofessor of Biology at Harvard, hasbeen awarded an honorary degree by Oak­land University. Working with FranklinW. Stahl, professor of biology at the Uni­versity of Oregon, Meselson gained atten­tion in the late 1950's for the developmentand application of the ultracentrifugationtechnique in research on reproduction ofthe molecule.William J. Riordan, SM'5J, PhD'55, hasbeen promoted to Head of the Under­water Systems Department at Bell Tele­phone Laboratories, New York. Previouslysupervisor of the planning studies group,Mr. Riordan has participated in evalua­tion, system design, and operation researchstudies in the Underwater Systems Labora­tory since joining Bell Laboratories in1956.52Helen J. Hahne, SM'52, has been madea trust officer in the trust department ofthe First National Bank of Chicago, the John Vickrey William Riordanfirst woman in the Bank's history to beappointed an officer. An attorney special­izing in taxes, income, and inheritance,Miss Hahne was employed by the firm ofWoodson, Pattichall and Garner prior toher association with First National.Paul A. Marier, AM'52, has been ap­pointed Manager of Labor Relations,Industrial Relations Department of TheStanley Works, New Britain, Conn. Sincejoining Stanley in 1960, he has served assupervisor of special employment, man­ager of employment, and manager of laborrelations and employee services for NewBritain plants.53Arthur C. Featherstonhaugh, AM'53,formerly on the faculty of Illinois StateUniversity, Normal, Ill., has been ap­pointed Assistant Professor of History atNorwich University, Northfield, Vermont,for the current academic year. Mr. Feath­erstonhaugh has completed courses to­ward his PhD in History at UC, and isworking on his dissertation, "The Euro­pean View of West Africa and the WestAfrican to 1700."Brucia Witthoft (Mrs. William G.), '53,has received a Danforth Foundation Grad­uate Fellowship for Women for studytoward a PhD in Art History at HarvardUniversity. The Danforth program forwomen requires that recipients havebachelor's degrees and "at some timeprior to appointment must have experi­enced a break of three or more years intheir academic or teaching career." Anrecipients plan to become classroom teach­ers in a high school, college, or university.Richard Denison John Bouseman54George Berliant, MBA'54, recently wasappointed to the newly created position ofgeneral manager of the Chicago AreaCorrugated Divisions of Stone ContainerCorp. Mr. Berliant, who has been withStone Container for 27 years, will continueas general manager of the company'ssouthwest Chicago plant and will also beresponsible for the operation of plants inNorth Chicago, 111., and Milwaukee, Wis.Michael J. Brennan, AM'54, PhD'56, isthe new Dean of Brown University'sGraduate School. A Professor of Eco­nomics and former secretary of thefaculty, Mr. Brennan is an authority onprice theory and on econometrics. He hasbeen a recipient of a Danforth Founda­tion Teaching Fellowship and a FordFoundation Faculty Research Fellowship.He has served as an economic consultantto the U.S. Department of Agriculture,and to private industry.55Theodore R. Robinson, '55, recently re­ceived a Doctor of Industrial Medicinedegree from the University of Cincinnati.Victor B. Slotnick, SM'55, is the newassistant director of clinical investigationin the medical division of McNeil Labora­tories, Inc., Fort Washington, Pa.Ronald A. Ward, PhD'55, has begun ayear-long fellowship at the London (Eng­land) School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine. A recipient of the Secretary ofthe Army's Research and Study Fellow­ship, Mr. Ward is assistant chief of theDepartment of Entomology, Division ofCommunicable Disease and Immunology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,Washington, D.C. His studies in Englandwill be concentrated in the field of arthro­pod-borne diseases.56Richard D. Denison, MBA'56, is the newtreasurer of The Quaker Oats Company.He joined the company in 1965 as assist­ant to the treasurer. Previously, Mr. Deni­son worked nine years with Glore Forgan,Wm. R. Staats, Inc., investment bankers,attaining the position of vice president in1965. He is a member of the UniversityClub and the Investment Analyst Societyof Chicago.Martin Shaw, '56, recently incorporatedthe All Risk Insurance Agency of Elm­hurst, Ill.57John L. Bjork, MBA'57, of Wilmette,Ill., has been appointed assistant to thepresident of Signode, Corp., Chicago, aproducer of steel and non-metallic strap­ping.John W. Bouseman, AM'57, is the newAssistant Executive Dean of CentralYMCA Community College, Chicago.Since 1955 Mr. Bouseman has served invarious capacities within the three schoolsof the college, including Dean of Studentsfor the Junior College, and Dean of theCentral YMCA Community College. Heis a past president of the IndependentSchools Association of Greater Chicago.Sam Greenlee, X'57, a writer residing onthe island of Mykonos, Greece, recentlywrote a short story, "The Sign," for theNegro Digest.George E. Wellwarth, PhD'57, has beenpromoted to Associate Professor of Eng­lish at Pennsylvania State University. Hisbook, The Theatre of Protest and Paradox(N.Y.U. Press) has gone into its secondprinting, and has recently appeared in aSpanish edition. Mr. Wellwarth is co­editor and co-translator of ModernFrench Theatre (E. P. Dutton & Co.),and" of the forthcoming Modern SpanishTheatre and Post-War German Theatre. 58Charles Frantz, PhD'58, former Direc­tor of the African Studies and ResearchProgram at Howard University, has beenappointed Executive Secretary of theAmerican Anthropological Associationfor a three-year term. Mr. Frantz recentlyreturned from a trip to Africa. His majorfields of interest as a social anthropologistinclude "plural societies in Africa andCanada, values and ideologies, and theinterrelations of race and culture."William R. Harmon, '58, Lieutenant inthe U.S. Naval Reserve, is serving as anadvisor to a Vietnamese naval patrol craft.He writes that an issue of the Magazinerecently caught up with him after travelingfrom Chicago to Ireland to California toVietnam.Waleed Mohammed Sadji, JD'58, beganhis first foreign diplomatic post as dele­gate to the United Nations from the King­dom of Jordan in the February session ofthe Security Council.59Claire Marie Anderson, AM'59, former­ly a research assistant at UC, has beennamed assistant professor in the Jane Ad­dams Graduate School of Social Work,University of Illinois/Chicago Circle.Lloyd R. Koenig, SM'59, PhD'62, is withthe Geophysics and Astronomy Depart­ment of the RAND Corp.o. B. Parrish, MBA'59, has been pro­moted to Group Product Manager formedicinal products, the Pfizer Labora­tories Division, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.In his new position he is responsible formarketing planning for all of the labora­tories' medicinal products. Previously Mr.Parrish was Product Manager for Dia­binese, an oral drug for control of diabetes.He has been with Pfizer since 1959, andwith the Laboratories. headquarters staffsince 1962.Richard G. Sherrington, '59, has begunservice as a Peace Corps Associate Direc­tor in Turkey, where he will superviseeighty Volunteer teachers of English whoare working primarily in small towns. Mr.29Sherrington recently completed two yearsof service in Turkey for the Peace Corps.60Jerome I. Berlin, PhD' 60, director andmanagement consultant for the HumanDevelopment Institute, Inc., Atlanta, wasprincipal speaker at the annual CardiacSymposium for Nurses held in Chatta­nooga, Tenn. The topic of his talk was"Communicating with the Cardiac Pa­tient."Raul Nunez, MBA'60, Lt. Colonel in theU.S. Air Force, has entered the Air WarCollege, the U.S. Air Force senior pro­fessional school at the Air University,Maxwell AFB, Ala. The ten-month in­tensive course of study is intended toprovide "senior officers and key civilianswith a better understanding of the ele­ments of national power and aerospaceresources. "Shelley C. Stone, PhD'60, associate pro­fessor of education at Purdue University,is co-author of a new basic college text­book in student guidance, designed "tooffer a clearer understanding of the fieldand the contributions it can make to thegrowth of an adolescent." The book,Fundamentals of Guidance (HoughtonMifflin), views "guidance" in its modernfunction as an attitude toward studentsaffecting the entire school program, ratherthan as a term designating specific services.61Alan Greenway Bemis, '61, SM'62, hasreceived the PhD in Organic Chemistryfrom Iowa State University. His thesistopic was "Oxidation of FunctionallySubstituted Carbanions."Lieut. K: Barry Brennan, '61, MS'65,received the U. S. Air Force silver pilotwings upon his graduation at Laredo AFB,T ex. He is stationed with the Indiana AirNational Guard unit at Baer Field.Ted J. Solomon, AM'61, has been namedassistant professor of religion, FloridaPresbyterian College, St. Petersburg, Fla.He recently was at UC on a DanforthTeacher Grant.30 62Ted Cohen, '62, is a recent recipient of aDissertation Fellowship presented by theWoodrow Wilson National FellowshipFoundation. A student in the HarvardUniversity Department of Philosophy, Mr.Cohen is writing a study of the aesthetictheories of Aristotle and Kant. The Dis­sertation Fellowships are awarded to "out­standing graduate students in the humani­ties and social sciences who plan a careerin college teaching."Harvey B. Plotnick, '63, has been namedPresident of Henry Regnery Co., the Chi­cago publishing firm. He lives with hiswife, Susan, and their newly-arrived son,Andrew Michael, in the Old Town districtin Chicago.63Lawrence Grauman, Jr., AM'63, hasjoined the faculty of Antioch College asa teaching associate in literature under athree-year experimental program financedby the Danforth Foundation. He and sixother associates recruited for the programwill carry half a normal academic loadwhile devoting the remaining time to asystematic study of the problems in teach­ing undergraduates. Mr. Grauman waspreviously assistant professor of Englishat Trenton State College and is a doctoralcandidate at New York University.James N. Hood, '63, began research inFrance this summer for his PhD in His­tory from Princeton University, workingunder a Dissertation Fellowship awardedby the Woodrow Wilson National Fellow­ship Foundation. His thesis will deal witha study of the post-revolution conditionswhich caused the riots in Nunes in 1790.The Dissertation Fellowships are awardedto "outstanding graduate students in thehumanities and social sciences who plana career in college teaching."Douglas Rosenberg, '63, 1 st Lieutenantin the Field Medical Service branch of theU.S, Army, has been re-assigned to Ben­jamin Harrison Hospital, Indianapolis,Ind., after serving a twelve-month tour ofduty in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. Barry Brennan Tom Braden64Peter A. McCarron, MBA'64, has joined3M Company as a product planning spe­cialist in the Duplicating Products Divi­sion.Douglas R. McManis, PhD'64, hasjoined the faculty of Columbia Universityas associate professor of geography. Heformerly taught at Eastern Michigan Uni­versity.65w. Eugene Groves, '65, a former Rhodesscholar, is the new president of the Na­tional Student Association.James F. Harper, AM'65, began teachingFrench and Spanish at Briarcliff College,Briarcliff, N. Y., this September. A PeaceCorps volunteer who served in Malawi,Africa, from 1963 to 1965, Mr. Harperspent the past summer in France for Con­tinental Study Projects. He also is workingon his PhD in Comparative Literature atNew York University.66Tom Braden, MA 1"66, has begun PeaceCorps Volunteer work in Somalia, EastAfrica. He and his wife, Sandra StalleyBraden, completed a thirteen-week train­ing course at Columbia University Teach­ers College, New York, and will teachEnglish, math, science, and industrial andcommercial arts during their overseasassignment..Michael Lawrence, JD'66, has been ap­pointed Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience at De Pauw University, Green­castle, Ind. His primary interest is consti­tutional law.fllrmorialsLouise Larrabee, 'OS, formerly of Chi­cago, died at her home in New Canaan,Conn., July 11, 1966.Reuben M. Schutz, 'OS, died in Portland,Ore., May 26, 1966.Harold G. Moulton, '07, PhD'14, Hono­rary LLD'37, former President of TheBrookings Institution, died recently.Eugene B. Patton, AM'07, PhD'08, ofTuckahoe, N.Y., died April 20, 1966.Albert Dudley Brokaw, '08, PhD'13, afounding partner in the firm of Brokaw,Dixon & McKee, N.Y., died July 3, 1966,at Orange, N.J.Anna P. Wheeler, PhD'IO, professoremeritus of mathematics at Bryn Mawr(Pa.) College, died March 26, 1966.Donald T. Grey, '11, MA'13, died inEast Lansing, Mich., April 27, 1966.Mrs. William Henry Keats (GertrudePerry, '11), died in Port Jefferson, N. Y.,June 8, 1966. She had long been active incommunity and cultural affairs on theNorth Shore of Long Island.Richard C. Samsel, JD' 11, of Bean Sta­tion, Tenn., formerly Dean of Law atLaSalle Extension University, Chicago,died June 25, 1966.Clark "Skee" Sauer, , 12, former footballand baseball letterman at UC, died inBath, N.Y., July 8,1966.W. Arthur Shelton, AM'12, developerof a pioneer wholesale price index, diedApril 27, 1966, in Washington, D.C.Florence D. Diment, '13, of Berkeley,Calif., died April 4, 1966.Earl D. Huntington, '14, head of themedical department of the Chicago Bridgeand Iron company, died in August, 1966.J. Ernest Carman, PhD' 15, of Columbus,Ohio, died January 12, 1966.Merrill Dakin, '15, of Buffalo, N.Y., diedOct. 3, 1965.Charles E. Lang, ' 15, retired superinten­dent of Elementary School District 5, Chi­cago, died June 22, 1966, in Atlanta, Ga.John S. Noffsinger, AM' 15, a senior con­sultant for the Peace Corps., died May4, 1966, in Washington, D.C.William E. Goodman, ' 16, of Chicago,died June 21, 1966. Thomas L. Patterson, SM'16, PhD'20,head of the physiology department atWayne State University, Detroit, Mich.,died May 14, 1966.Enrique E. Ecker, PhD' 17, professoremeritus of immunology, Western ReserveUniversity, died March 5, 1966, in Cleve­land.Mrs. Dorothy Milchrist Geiger, , 18, diedin September, 1962.George A. Atkins, '20, of Elkhart, Ind.,died May 26, 1966.Harman Kurz, '20, SM'21, PhD'22, diedDec. 16, 1965.Clarence R. Stone, AM'21, of Orinda,Calif., died Dec. 28, 1965.Walter M. Campbell, '22, of Boulder,Col., died May 17, 1965.Stanley D. Dodge, '22, PhD'26, of AnnArbor, Mich., died April 21, 1966.Gladstone H. Yeuell, AM'23, retiredHead of the Department of History andPhilosophy of Education, University ofAlabama, died May 30, 1966.Ralph H. Rogers, AM'25, of Plymouth,Mass., died May 15, 1966.Clara Axie Dyer, AM'26, Associate Pro­fessor and Head of the Speech and DramaDepartment, George Fox College, New­berg, Ore., died June 15, 1966.Ralph E. Kharas, JD'27, Dean of theSyracuse University College of Law, diedMay 18, 1966, in Syracuse.Ralph Stob, AM'27, PhD'31, died April5, 1965.Reid M. Brooks, '29, of Davis, Calif.,died January 17, 1966.Raymond M. Hilliard, '31, Cook County(Ill.) Public' Aid Director, died July 4,1966.Albion F. Hargrave, Jr., '33, MBA'60,of Winthrop Harbor, Ill., died April 9,1966.Mrs. P. J. Toigo (Laura G. Hull, '33),of Aurora, Ill., died on February 23, 1966.Herman L. Aaron, '34, JD'35, of High­land Park, Ill., died in July, 1966.Esther L. Wiersen, '34, of Chicago, diedon March 13, 1966.Claire J. Danziger, '35, died recently inChicago. Prudence V. Kelley, AM'36, died re­cently.George Lunter, '36, an attorney in RiverForest, 111., died March 18, 1966, in,Chicago.George J. Schwaegerman, Jr., '36, JD'37,died April 13, 1963, in Elkhart, Ind.Andrew Stauffer, X'36, a biology teacherat Ohio Northern University and theauthor of a general biology text, died re­cently in Lima, O.Robert M. Lowell, SM'38, of Glenview,Ill., died February 16, 1966.Jonah W. D. Skiles, PhD'38, former headof the University of Kentucky departmentof ancient languages and literature, diedMay 4, 1966, in Lexington, Ky.William J. Hawkins, MD'39, a fellow insurgery and in proctology of the MayoGraduate School of Medicine, Rochester,Minn., died at his home in Pasadena, June7, 1966.Andrew E. Leonas, '40, business managerfor the SUbscription service division ofTime, Inc., died in Chicago, May 10, 1966.Brother William Mang, C.S.C., PhD'40,died in Austin, Texas, in June 1966.Robert W. Franzen, '42, died on April16, 1966, in Chicago.Walter E. Stiefel, PhD'45, former chair­man of the University of Tennessee de­partment of Romance languages, diedMay 4, 1966, in Durham, N. C.Richard M. Davis, '52, an editorial asso­ciate for Eastern Airlines, died in NewYork City, April 1, 1966.Joseph Sargent, AM'52, died June 17,1966, at Georgetown University Hospital,Washington.Dr. John Forbes Perkins, Professor ofPhysiology and a faculty member for 19years, died August 7, 1966. He had beena member of the research committee ofthe Chicago Heart Association since 1963.Robert W. Spike, director of the Doctorof Ministry Program of the Divi nitySchool, was killed Oct. 16 at Ohio StateUniversity while visiting there to partici­pate in the dedication of a new studentunion building.31UNIVERSITYCALENDARNovember 3-5National Debating Competition, spon­sored by the Forensic Association.November 4Doc Films presents "Los Olivados." SocSci 122,7:15 and 9:15 PM.Chamber Music Concert: Early MusicQuartet, European ensemble for music ofMiddle Ages and Renaissance. MandelHall, 8: 30 PM.Lecture: David Stronach on "Excava­tions at Pasargadae," Breasted Hall, 8: 30PM.November 7Lecture: "Teaching and Learning 1991:The Role of Technology in Education."Second in a series of eleven, sponsoredby the Graduate School of Education.Law School Auditorium.November 7-8Peace Research Conference, Center forContinuing Education.November 7-9Conference: Divinity School AlumniCentennial Conference in the Field ofTheology: "The Present Status and Pros­pects for an Empirical Theology." Di­vinity School.November 8Doc Films presents "Shadow of aDoubt." Soc Sci 122,7:15 and 9:15 PM.Folk Dancing: International House,8:00 PM.Lecture: Ludwig von Mises, at BreastedHall. Co-sponsored by Student Govern­ment Speakers Program and Whig Society.November 9Public Lecture: Eberhard Bethge on"Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Man, TheWork, The Time." Fifth in a series. Chi­cago Theological Seminary, 4: 30 PM."Chicago Reaches Out" Lecture Series:"Toward Outer Space," by John Simpson,Professor in the Department of Physicsand the Enrico Fermi Institute. FullertonHall, The Art Institute of Chicago, 11: 00AM. Admission $2.00.32 November 11Public Lecture: Adam Yarmolinsky, for­mer Assistant to the Secretary of Defense,on "China' and the National Security."Sponsored by the Center for Policy Study.Law School Auditorium, 4:30 PM.November 13International House Day, and Candle­light Ceremony. International House,3:30 PM.November 14Monday Lecture: Rene Dubos, Memberand Professor of the Rockefeller Institutefor Medical Research. Downtown Center,8:00 PM.November 15Doc Films presents "The MagnificentAmbersons." Soc Sci 122, 7: 15 and 9: 15PM.Folk Dancing: International House,8:00 PM.November 16Public Lecture: Eberhard Bethge on"Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Man, TheWork, The Time." Sixth in a series. Chi­cago Theological Seminary, 4: 30 PM.Lecture: Thomas G. Ayers, President ofthe Commonwealth Edison Co., on "CivilRights and the Business Community."Sponsored by the Graduate School ofBusiness, Business East 103, 1 :00 PM.Doc Films presents "China Gate" and"Shoulder Arms." Soc Sci 122, 7: 15 and9:15 PM.November 17-18Conference: 'The Landlord and theTenant." Law School Auditorium.November 18-19Conference: "Law and Discrimination,"a continuation of the Conference on theLandlord and the Tenant. Sponsored bythe NAACP Legal and Educational Fund,Law School Auditorium.November 18-20University Theatre presents "The Hos­tage" by Brendan Behan. Mandel Hall,8:30 PM. November 19Concert: Musical Society. HutchinsonCommons, 8: 30 PM.November 21Lecture: "Teaching and Learning 1991:New Knowledge About the Learner."Third in a series, sponsored by the Gradu­ate School of Education. Law SchoolAuditorium.Public Lecture: Rep. Morris Udall CD­Ariz.) on "Congressional Reform." Spon­sored by the Center for Policy Study. LawSchool Courtroom, 4: 30 PM.November 22Folk Dancing: International House,8:00 PM.November 28Public Lecture: Henry Hall Wilson, Ad­ministrative Assistant to the President ofthe United States. Sponsored by the Cen­ter for Policy Study. Law School Court­room, 4:30 PM.November 28-30Conference: Divinity School AlumniCentennial Conference in the Field ofTheology and Literature: "The Presenceof Grace in Recent American Fiction."Divinity School.November 29Folk Dancing: International House,8:00 PM.November 30Public Lecture: Eberhard Bethge on"Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Man, TheWork, The Time." Seventh in a series.Chicago Theological Seminary, 4:30 PM.9 kad fWtee � ill nty lum6e:lUte 60Jt &efilude, two. 60Jt 61lie1Wkip, fWtee 6" &eciety.-Henry David Thoreau, WaldenChicago chairs are sturdily built of northern yellowbirch in traditional designs. They are finished in blacklacquer with antique gold trim, and with the Universityseal on the backrest. 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