The University of Chicagomagazine April 1968COBB LECTURE HALL.189 1Come to the1968 Réunion,June 5-8!See the new Cobb Hall. Meet old friendsand classmates. Join us in the spécialevents for alumni, including: reunion din-ners; the alumnae breakfast, with spécialguest Mrs. George W. Beadle; a spiritedroundtable on the 1968 élections withProfessors Yale Brozen, Morris Janowitz,and Philip Kurland; the all-alumni lunch-eon and présentations of the HowellMurray Student Awards, the Alumni Citations, the Alumni Professional Achieve-ment Awards, and the Alumni Medal; acampus and community bus tour; thePresident's Réception; the Communications Dinner and présentation of the 1968Communicator of the Year Award; and,finally, the traditional InterfraternitySing at Hutchinson Court.Left: The bust of Silos B. Cobb,one of the original benefactors of theUniversity, in renovated Cobb Hall.The University of ChicagomagazineVolume LX Number 7April 1968Published since 1907 byTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOALUMNI ASSOCIATION5733 University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637(312) 643-0800, ext. 4291Fay Horton Sawyier, '44, PhD'64PrésidentC. Ranlet LincolnDirector of Alumni Aff airsConrad KulawasEditorREGIONAL OFFICES39 West 55 StreetNew York, New York 10019(212) 765-54803600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1510Los Angeles, California 90005(213) 387-2321485 Pacific AvenueSan Francisco, California 94133(415) 433-40501629 K Street, N.W., Suite 500Washington, D.C. 20006(202) 296-8100Subscriptions: one year, $5.00;three years, $13.00; riveyears, $20.00; life, $100.00.Second-class postagepaid at Chicago, Illinois. Ailrights reserved. Copyright 1968 byThe University of Chicago Magazine. ARTICLES2 Mental Retardation: What's Being DoneNew research and treatment facilities at the University Clinics8 Getting Together with Urban SchoolsCoopérât! ng with our neighbors in teaching and researchio The New Cobb HallTotal rénovation, and tradition too14 Helping the College-Bound NegroA $750,000 scholarship and training program at ChicagoDEPARTMENTS17 Quadrangle News19 People22 Club News23 Alumni News26 Memorials28 Profiles29 ArchivesThe University of Chicago Magazine is published monthly, October through June, for alumniand the f aculty of The University of Chicago. Letters and editorial contributions are welcomed.Front Cover: An 1891 architectural rendering of Cobb Hall.Photography Crédits: Inside cover and pages 10 and 11 by Uosis Juodvalkis; page 28 cour-tesy of the U. S. Marine Corps; other photos from University files.Mental Retardation:What's Being DoneWhen Sara was one week old she was referred to theUniversity's Pédiatrie Mental Development Clinic, partof the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Mental Retardation Research Center. Mongolism was suggested by some of herphysical characteristics. Sara was seen by the Clinic direc-tor, Dr. Arthur O. Stein, to détermine whether she wastruly mongoloid and, if so, ^whether her condition was ofthe hereditary type.The questions would be resolved by a chromosomecount, a recently-developed method of analysis readily ap-plied to blood. At a particular stage of cell division, rod-shaped bodies in the cell nucleus are identified as thechromosomes, which carry the gènes, the units of heredity.There are 44 matched pairs of chromosomes, the auto-somes, in normal human cells, plus two sex chromosomes.The cells of a mongoloid child bear an additional smallchromosome, resulting in a trisome rather than a normalpair.13JL Vesults of the analysis indicated that Sara had the extra chromosome, but that her condition was not inherited.Had Sara's mongolism been of a hereditary type, her parents would hâve been informed that the chances were asgreat as one in three that every future child would alsobe mongoloid. (The chances are one in 700 for the population at large.)Further examination revealed that Sara had a heartmurmur. Many infants hâve innocent murmurs whicheventually disappear spontaneously; this murmur might,however, indicate the présence of a congénital heart de-formity, a fréquent occurrence among mongoloid chil-dren. The significance of the murmur will be establishedby Consulting with a pédiatrie cardiologist at the hospital.Sara's cardiac care is precisely that offered to other, non-mongoloid children, including surgical correction of adefect, if medically appropriate.Sara's parents hâve been encouraged to rear her athome, so they may eventually judge for themselves howwell she will be able to fit into her family and society; andto allow her to benefit from the support and stimulation best available within her family. The goal will be to helpSara lead a meaningful, if not independent, life.A social worker — who also holds a teaching appoint-ment in the Department of Pediatrics and the University'sSchool of Social Service Administration — will meet withSara's family to help them understand and adjust to theproblems of having a mentally retarded child. If the pro-found emotional turmoil that parents of a retarded childgenerally undergo is severe, she may recommend psychiatrie consultation.Sara will continue to visit the Mental DevelopmentClinic. The degree of her intellectual handicap, whichamong mongoloids varies from severe to mild, will bedetermined. In infancy, her progress in acquiring newskills and developing speech will be followed. When sheis about two years old, a clinic al psychologist will evaluateSara's ability to learn. A consultant in spécial educationaltechniques will help devise a program of éducation, to beadjusted as Sara grows.The Mental Development Clinic, which studies and as-sists about 200 new patients a year, is in the University'snew Silvain and Arma Wyler Children's Hospital and ispart of the Department of Pediatrics. The Clinic and considérable laboratory space were funded by the Joseph P.Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and together constitute the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Mental Retardation Research Center, directed by Dr. Albert Dorfman. .TJLht Mental Development Clinic utilizes the spectrumof skills available at The University of Chicago to studyand serve the mentally retarded. A number of researchprojects are already underway. Others are planned.A Diagnostic Nursery will be established in Wyler Hospital in the near future. Its purpose will be to distinguishbetween easily confused causes of retarded behavior inpreschool children. In the very young it is often difficult todifïerentiate between retardation, profound sensory loss(such as deafness), and deep emotional disturbance orpsychosis. The Diagnostic Nursery also will seek be-havioral différences between emotional and organically2IA scintillation counter, used in research with radioactive tracer isotopes.4 caused psychoses, such as those brought on by metabolidisorders.Early diagnosis of the nature and cause of retardedfrehavior may be immensely important. In many cases thehandicapping condition, once diagnosed, can be haltedor reversed. If a child is deaf, his hearing may be restoredthrough surgery or increased by a hearing device. Cer-tainly the child can learn to compensate for his loss at aschool for the deaf. The emotionally disturbed child mavbenefit from psychiatrie help. At the University's SoniaShankman Orthogenic School, directed by Bruno Bettel-heim, significant progress is being made in reaching thèsedeeply disturbed youngsters. In any case, early diagnosis isdésirable. If the extent of a child's capabilities can beroughly defined at a very young âge, and if the parents canbe helped to understand the child, many of the secondaryemotional problems that frequently complicate mentalretardation can be avoided.The Diagnostic Nursery will be operated by the KennedyCenter and initially staffed by a supervising teacher, anaide, and a clinical psychologist.sk-Jtudies relating mental retardation to prénatal and earlypost-natal events are being undertaken in a Clinical Research Center recently established in Wyler Hospital. TheCenter is geared to study respiratory, cardiac, and meta-bolic defects in infants born at the University's ChicagoLying-in Hospital. Members of the Department of Obstet-rics plan to computerize data describing each pregnancy,delivery, and newborn child. Long-term follow-up studiesmay reveal the extent to which the prénatal period andearly life affect the older child. Dr. F. Howell Wright isconducting a similar study on seventy prématuré infantswith birth weights of less than three and a half pounds.He and his associâtes are evaluating the audio-visual, neu-rological, and psychological development of thèse infantsand comparing them with children born at average weight.Mental retardation has often been correlated with eventsduring pregnancy and birth. If, for example, placenta!bleeding impairs the supply of oxygen to the brain, retardation may ensue. It is well known that some infantsborn to Rh-negative mothers and Rh-positive fathers, andt0 women who are affected by German measles virusduring early pregnancy, run increased risk of retardation.Methods of immunizing against German measles and the£h mismatch are currently being perfected; methods oftreating Rh-affected babies while still in the utérus, orimmediately after birth, are being successfully administerednow. As the relationship between the prénatal and earlypost-natal periods become more precisely defined, methodsof improving prénatal care will be revealed, and the possi-bilities for predicting and preventing mental retardationwill increase.A joint undertaking between the Chicago Board ofHealth and the University's Department of Pediatrics hasresulted in the establishment of the Woodlawn ChildHealth Center (UCM picture story, Dec, 1967) in thedepressed area adjacent to the University. Through thisclinic, outpatient services hâve become directly accessibleto the 35,000 children who live in the area. The MentalDevelopment and Woodlawn clinics are working on ascreening program aimed at detecting early signs of mental retardation in the children served, treating those children, and investigating the spécifie effects of environmenton mental development.Lead poisoning has proved to be a fréquent cause ofmental retardation. It prevails mostly among slum childrenwho chew on plaster coated with old-f ashioned lead-basedpaint. The urine of young slum-dwellers is routinelyscreened for lead poisoning by the Chicago Board ofHealth. The Woodlawn Child Health Center tests andtreats those children whose lead levels are abnormallyhigh. Treatment continues until normal levels are restored.At the same time, social workers track down and eliminatethe source of lead. Long-term studies are being undertakento détermine the spécifie effects of various levels of leadpoisoning on the kidney and brain.The Woodlawn Mental Health Center, which is co-fected by Drs. Sheppard G. Kellam and Sheldon Schiffof the University's Department of Psychiatry, hajs beenassessing the mental health needs of , and collecting back-ground data on, the 2,000 youngsters in Woodlawn whoenter first grade each year. (A program of prévention andearly treatment is being administered to 50 percent of thisgroup.) Two-thirds of thèse children hâve difficulty ad- justing to the school situation and about four percentannually are rejected by the schools. One of the Center 'sprojects will be to compare the socio-economic statusesof those children who do not perform well in school withthose who do.TJLhe Mental Health Center, the Child Health Center,and the Mental Development Clinic are planning a coopérative program to correlate their médical, social, andpsychological data. Although the high incidence of mentalretardation among the culturally and economically depressed is well documented, the relationships betweenpsychological, intellectual, physiologie al, and environmen-tal factors are still poorly understood. Most of the projectsreviewed above will indirectly or by design contribute toisolating some of thèse presently tangled factors.Mental retardation could be significantly reduced byeliminating slums, improving prénatal care, and detectingcarriers of those inherited disorders which may cause retardation. However, what is known is not adequatelybeing applied. Contributing to this gap are two factors:a shortage of physicians trained to recognize and managethe mentally retarded, and too few centers which combinethe skills of the obstetrician, pediatrician, neurologist, psy-chiatrist, psychologist, and social worker with laboratoryfacilities required to prevent, diagnose, and treat mentalretardation.At The University of Chicago, attempts are being madeto reduce this gap. Every médical student spends at leasttwelve to sixteen hours in the Mental Development Clinic,and many elect to spend more time there. The student isthe first to see the patient. He records the médical history,physically examines the patient, offers diagnoses, and rec-ommends treatment and tests. Dr. Stein, attended by thestudent, then explores the history, reexamines the patient,and reviews the student's approach. Often psychologistsand a social worker participate in the discussion. In addition, médical students attend staff meetings and seminarsin which cases of mental retardation are considered, andthey see retarded children who hâve been admitted to thehospital.5Graduate students in the School of Social Service Administration and graduate trainees in clinical psychologyalso study in the Mental Development Clinic, and traineesin child psychiatry will be able to work in the proposedDiagnostic Nursery. Practical expérience is fortified byspécial seminars and classes on mental retardation. Graduate students in ail related disciplines and pédiatrie résidents at Wyler are able to specialize in mental retardation.The University's Divinity School students often partici-pate in seminars sponsored by the Mental DevelopmentClinic. A récent Interdenominational Colloquium for Chi-cago-Area Clergy was devoted to mental retardation andrun by the Mental Development Clinic's staff.Many of the University's graduate physicians, psycholo-gists, social workers, and divinity students enter académiecareers. This generally means that they combine work inthe clinic or community with work in the laboratory andclassroom, thus passing on their knowledge and expérienceto students and patients alike.While methods of reducing the occurrence of mentalretardation and helping the afflicted are known, the dis-tressing fact is that no biological causes can be found toaccount for seventy-five percent of the existing cases ofmental retardation — and only a small proportion can becured among the twenty-five percent where causes can befound. It is possible that the diagnosis and cure of retarded behavior will not be achieved until normal as wellas abnormal biochemical processes of growth and behaviorare fully understood.AJL Jls the principles of growth and behavior are evolvedin the basic research laboratories, clinicians must grasptheir relationship to médical problems and find practicalways of putting those principles to use. At the University ofChicago, the conversion of pure to applied knowledge isfacilitated by the fact that many practicing physicians aresimultaneously engaged in basic research. The applicationof basic principles to the problems of mental retardationis likely to increase as more investigators become exposedto and challenged by the problems of mental retardation.The relationship between pure research, applied re search, and mental retardation can be dramatized by re-viewing the work of Dr. Albert Dorfman, a physician andbiochemist who chairs the Department of Pediatrics anddirects both the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Mental Retardation' Center and the University-affiliated LaRabida Sani-tarium for Rheumatic Fever.In 1946, with his PhD and MD in hand, Dr. Dorfmanentered the Army and was put in charge of biochemistryat the Army Médical School. There he hoped to continuestudying the biochemistry of enzymes which he had begunas a student. However, he found that his laboratory was-,not equipped for enzyme work. He also found two journalson his laboratory desk which played a rôle in directing hisfuture work on connective-tissue studies.An article in one of the journals introduced the theorythat the bénéficiai effect of aspirin on the connective-tissuedisease rheumatic fever was due to the ability of aspirin toinhibit the action of the enzyme hyaluronidase. The production of hyaluronidase in the diseased tissue by thebacterium streptococcus was postulated as a cause of rheumatic fever. Dr. Dorfman was attracted to this article be-cause as a médical student he had developed an interestin rheumatic fever and in the mysterious power of aspirin(which to this day retains its secrets) to relieve inflammation caused by that disease.An article in the second journal speculated that rheumatic fever was caused by the absence of natural inhibitorsof hyaluronidase in human blood. Dr. Dorfman read thearticle because it was written by a friend. Inspired by hisinterest in inflammatory diseases and by the fortuitouscircumstances in which he was placed, he tested thèsethéories and found that neither could be experimentallysubstantiated.It became apparent that understanding the causes andcure of connective-tissue diseases such as rheumatic feverrequired a profound understanding of the connective tissueitself. Dr. Dorfman set up a study program, concentratingon those components of connective tissue, including hyal-uronic acid, called mucopolysaccharides. Summarizing hisexpérience, in 1951, he cautioned a symposium that: "Tothe investigator expecting a quick answer to the problemsof rheumatic fever, biochemical studies hold forth a mul-tiplicity of disappointments, but for the investigator in-terested in elucidating the physiology and pathology of6connective tissue, such studies hold forth a myriad offascinating discoveries."In 1952, Dr. Dorfman read a paper describing abnormalmucopolysaccharide deposits in the connective tissue ofpatients with Hurler's disease, a hereditary affliction char-acterized by mental deficiencies and gross physical malformations — hence its popular name, gargoylism. Dr.Dorfman had some patients with Hurler's disease in hiscare at the time. He was able to demonstrate an abnormalprésence of mucopolysaccharides in their urine.He went on to establish, in 1957, that the abnormalmetabolism of mucopolysaccharides was the actual causeof Hurler's disease.Y Tnile Dr. Dorfman and his associâtes hâve continuedto study the basic chemistry of mucopolysaccharides, manyimmédiate Conséquences of his discovery hâve ensued. Forexample, Dr. Dorfman and his associate, Dr. ReubenMatalon, hâve shown that tiny pièces of skin may be takenfrom patients with Hurler's disease to establish tissuecultures, and that thèse cells grown in the laboratoryexhibit the same abnormality of mucopolysaccharide metabolism as the patients' body cells. This technique hasbeen put to important theoretical and practical use. Usingcultured Hurler's cells, investigators can study the basiccontrol mechanisms for formation of mucopolysaccharides.It is now possible to use this technique both for diagnosingpatients as well as identifying carriers of the disease. Ex-periments currently are being conducted on cultured Hurler's cells to see whether abnormal metabolism can benormalized. Success may lead to therapy for Hurler's andrelated mental-deficiency-causing diseases.The Mental Development Clinic serves several func-tions. Since its inception in 1965, it has been a source ofhelp and hope for parents and patients. It has provided anucleus of patients and facilities on which clinically ori-ented investigators in the médical and non-medical facul-ties may draw. The Center provides students with theopportunity to study retardation and perhaps specialize inthe field. And it has provided challenge to researchersinterested in the problems of abnormal growth. ?7Cooperating with our neighbors in teaching and research:Getting Together in Urban SchoolsThe University is actively concerned with the plight ofthe inner-city schools neighboring the campus, where over-crowded classrooms and overworked teachers are part ofthe way of life for ghetto children. (See p. 15 for an ac-count of some of the University's other good-neighborprojects.) Four years ago, a unique and fruitful coopérativeteaching project was launched.At the suggestion of a school officiai, a Visiting Pro-fessor Program— in which Chicago professors visit schoolsin Hyde Park/Kenwood and Woodlawn— was set up. Mrs.Alta Farr Blakely, Chairman of the English Department atHyde Park High School, spoke effusively about one of theparticipants in the program:"Herman Sinaiko [Associate Proïessor of Humanities]has corne each of the last three years to talk on TheRepublic. He's really a bail of fire, so exciting and knowl-edgeable. Once he came at eight o'clock in the morningand was scheduled to speak through two forty-minuteperiods. After the second period, the students folio wed himout of the classroom, and he ended up discussing Plato inthe halls until noon."The current program revives a tradition dating back to1892, when faculty members gave regular Friday after-noon lectures at Hyde Park High School.The Visiting Professor Program started in the summerof 1964 when Roald Campbell, newly-appointed dean ofthe Graduate School of Education and Chairman of theDepartment of Education, was developing additional waysby which the University could maintain and increase itscontacts with neighboring schools. The three most dramaticresults of thèse efforts hâve been the Visiting ProfessorProgram, the University's invitation to the schools toutilize many of its resources, and the schools' coopérationwith the University in research projects."At times in the past there was antagonism between theUniversity and neighborhood schools," says Campbell."University people sometimes told the schools what to do,even if they weren't really acquainted with the schools'problems. Now both sides hâve learned that we can't ex-pect each other to act exactly as we want."A séries of meetings was arranged, beginning in theautumn of 1964. Thèse meetings were attended by Campbell, Curtis C. Melnick, then the local District (#14) Superintendent of the Chicago Public School System, someof the principals of the District 14 schools, and Universityfaculty members, several of them from the Graduate SchoolQÎ Education. At one of the earliest meetings, Donald J,Blyth, Principal of Hyde Park High School, proposed avisiting professor program wherein a teacher from anelementary or secondary school would, if interested, invitea University faculty member to discuss problems andquestions with students in the classroom. It was agreed togive the program a try. Most of the original liaison workfor the University was done by R. Bruce McPherson, Sec-retary of the Committee on Urban Education, and Mrs.Maryl Levine, then Assistant to the Dean of the UniversityExtension.FJL. rom the beginning the program was a success. McPherson said that there hâve been at least thirty visits, mostof them to public schools, each school year for the pastthree years. When a teacher contacted McPherson, he andMrs. Levine found a professor who could answer theteacher's needs. McPherson then arranged a meeting forthe two, and often second and third visits were arrangedinformally. McPherson said, "Our batting average hasbeen nearly perfect. We've been able to answer everyrequest."Visiting professons hâve discussed subjects ranging fromGerman and French to biology and medicine. A psy-chiatrist has talked to students at Mt. Carmel High Schoolon "Marriage and the Family," and graduate students hâvediscussed Negro history at Scott Elementary School andthe Wadsworth Upper Grade Center, both in the Woodlawn Negro ghetto, and at the Bret Harte ElementarySchool in Hyde Park.The enthusiasm of the Chicago faculty is one of theprincipal reasons for the program's success, according toboth Mrs. Levine and McPherson. "We sent our questionnaires to faculty members to see if any were interested,"said Mrs. Levine. "We got a tremendous response. Theprofessors were very willing to be involved with an educa-tional program in the community."8Âbove: Charles Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the CollégialeDivision of the Social Sciences and the Department of History,talking to students at Hyde Park High School near the UC campus.The teachers at neighborhood schools were candid inevaluating their own limitations in spécifie fields. "Wetold the professors what the class had accomplished in theparticular topic, what questions were still bothering us,and what the abilities of both the class and ourselves were,"says Mrs. Blakely. "There was no resentment. We knewthat thèse professors had done extensive research in theirfields of interest and knew a great deal more about themthan we did."McPherson also began efforts to get the schools to ap-proach the University. Each quarter he and William Boyd,his successor in the project, hâve sent a list of educationalresources and activities at the University— "a Baedeckerof opportunities," according to Blyth— to teachers in theelementary and secondary schools in the area. McPhersonencouraged the teachers to contact him or the person incharge of a particular activity about anything that wouldinterest their classes. Included on the lists are such itemsas tours of the Oriental Institute and Robie House, spécialconcerts, and lectures ranging from "Das deutsche Dramaseit 1945" (given in German) to "The Urban Crisis."High school science fairs hâve been held in Universitybuildings, and Chicago professors and students hâve beenjudges at thèse fairs. When Kenwood High School pre-sented an operetta, it was staged at Mandel Hall.From the beginning, the area schools cooperated inopening up their resources to the University for researchprojects. Much of the research has been done in the Negroghetto in Woodlawn, bordering the University on the south.We couldn't ignore Woodlawn," says Campbell. "It wasnght next door and was facing tremendous problems."The Woodlawn Community Board, composed of twenty-°ne members, evolved from the first meetings to providePeople of Woodlawn. The Board has seven members from collaboration among the University, the schools, and thethe University, seven from the public schools, and sevenfrom The Woodlawn Organization (TWO).The Urban Education Development Project (UEDP)has made use of this collaboration. In its first phase, theproject, funded in February, 1967, is an attempt to assessthe problems in the Woodlawn schools. Eventually it willtry to design programs of research, development, and action to combat five school problems: space; maintenance;staff and personnel relationships; home and communitybackground; and teaching and learning situations.Willard J. Congreve, Assistant Professor of Educationand Director of UEDP, said, "The teachers, administra-tors, and parents hâve cooperated completely with us.They've thrown open the doors for us to do the researchnecessary to success of our project."Herbert A. Thelen, Professor of Education, has beenconducting a five-year research project with the childrenof the Lab School and Scott Elementary School for overtwo years. With a grant from the National Institute ofMental Health, Thelen is studying problem students.Two groups of sixteen children are chosen from eachschool after an évaluation of spécial tests and ratings byteachers. Thèse children hâve a variety of problems, butthere are two common types. A child, usually a boy, isaggressive and constantly disrupts the class. At the otherextrême, a child, usually a girl, is very passive and neverdisturbs the class, but she never participâtes. She may belearning nothing."We started off just hoping to improve relations a bit,"says Congreve, "but things hâve mushroomed. There hasbeen a tremendous dialogue between the schools and theUniversity, and we're getting results."The many projects hâve resulted because teachers,parents, professors, and administrators hâve found waysto take advantage of what Blyth calls "the happy proximityof our schools to one of the great universities of theworld." ?9THENEWCOBBHALLA n old diagram for the first floor ofCobb Hall shows the floor space allottedto a chapel, a lecture room, abook store, ci téléphone and telegraphoffice, a mail room, and officesfor five deans, the examiner,the registrar, the comptroller, and theUniversity press. That was October,1892. The University had just opened itsdoors, and Cobb Hall, its firststructure, was acknowledged to be one ofthe finest university buildingsin the country. Today, after the passingof three-quarters of a century anduntold thoirsands of students, the buildinghas undergone a unique rénovation andcan again lay claim to that distinction.Unwilling to consider giving up itsmost historically and traditionallysignificant building, the University sawonly one course when it became clearthat the old structure was obsolète:préserve the sturdy, stone Gothic exteriorbut totally rebuild the interior.The bill came to $2,450,000, many timesthe original cost of the building,but the purpose has been achieved. Apasser-by sees no changes beyondsome inconspicuous new exit doors at thenorth end. Among the new facilitiesinside: a 500-seat auditorium, namedafter Ernest E. Quant rell; anart gallery, with studio space for anartist-in-residence, mode possibleby a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A .Bergman; a lounge with coffee facilitiesfor students and faculty, namedafter Howard L. Willett; a biologylaboratory; twenty-six classrooms andtwenty-seven offices; a facultylounge; four music-listening rooms; anda small recording studio. In addition,the building is fully air-conditionedand is serviced by two elevators.Left: Inside the main entrance.¦«fcS'WAI nn4.J¦/( èove: 77îe Bergman Gallery, where the Président' sRéception for ail alumni will be held on reunion day, lune 8.Left: One of the new classrooms.Overleaf: For an outside view of Cobb Hall, thisturn-of-the-century photo is still current. The Gothicexterior was preserved in the récent rénovation.11/V11t iR-ali 1111¦ ¦ al Imilm ,-*.\\ir~«gyiv L B^Sïï"1 """" -•""• âfijjIf ¦¦¦> fil 11 1 KI|é lil r T" P ,1l J*'"'<*JanWlÉhBBBlai ¦ ié^KL^*. 1 ' :Helping theCollege-BoundNegroA new, $750,000 schqlarshipand training program:14 "The latest step in a University-wide effort to deal withthe problems of the urban ghettos and to extend the University's educational responsibilities still further . . ."With those words, Président George W. Beadle an-nounced a broad University program to provide scholar-ships and extra training to Negro students. The new program will include a spécial summer project for 100students of inner-city high schools, a recruiting drive toadmit more Negro students in the Collège, and tutoringand scholarship plans to help them when they get hère.The $750,000 project is the latest in a wide array ofUniversity efforts to solve ghetto problems. "Over theyears," Président Beadle said, "the University has in-vested a large portion of its resources — both money andmen — in trying to find solutions to the enormous diffi-culties that beset our cities. Thèse efforts touch manydifférent areas: law, medicine, social welfare, éducation,and a variety of other disciplines. In addition, many faculty members hâve carried out individual research thathas had a profound influence."Président Beadle noted that the University has beenfortunate in having the coopération of the community inits efforts. "In the development and opération of researchand training programs," he said, "the University has beenguided throughout by the principle that no community isto be regarded as a convenient laboratory, but that mean-ingful programs require full community participation infundamental policy détermination."The scholarship program is "aimed at attracting students from the ghettos who otherwise would not hâve anopportunity to attend Chicago." Président Beadle saidit would be financed by the University for the présent andthat outside funds would be sought to endow the programpermanently.The program will hâve the following four major éléments:— A spécial summer program in 1968 for one hun-dred students from inner-city schools on the south side ofChicago, to be staffed by eight faculty members and tencurrent students from the University. The program, forwhich help was originally and unsuccessfully sought fromthe fédéral Upward Bound program, will be supportedinstead by the University itself if other funds cannot befound. Estimated cost: $45,000 to $50,000. A tutoring program beginning this autumn for enter-ing Freshmen whose previous educational préparationmade them "risks" under the usual admission criteria of theCollège. Estimated cost: $20,000 per year.—Spécial scholarships from the University itself andfrom assured sources outside the University to meet theneed of those students who would go on from the programsdescribed above to become résident students at the University for their undergraduate years. At an averagescholarship of $2,000 — based on the current level ofsupport for similar students now enrolled — the estimatedcost of the scholarship program between 1968 and 1972is $560,000.— A spécial recruiting program for freshmen enteringthe Collège in the autumn of 1969, 1970, and 1971. Thisprogram, headed by a full-time director in the Office ofCollège Admissions, will aim specifically at identifying,motivating, encouraging, and giving supplementary préparation to students currently in their second, third, andfourth years of high school. It will involve spécial Satur-day programs on campus for thèse students for the nextthree years and a one-to-one sponsorship by currentstudents in the Collège from backgrounds similar to thoseof the high school students. Estimated cost: $40,000 ayear, or $120,000 over three years.Both the tutoring and recruiting programs, PrésidentBeadle said, will be greatly helped by a spécial one-yeargift of $60,000 from the Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation to be used to help indigent students. "We hopeto use the grant to develop imaginative and resourcefulprograms whose success will attract even wider support."Beadle noted that Olin-Mathieson had also granted theCollège an additional $15,000 to be used to help raise thebalance of the funds required for this program.An estimated 206 Negro students hâve been admittedas freshmen to the Collège in the past four years, ac-cording to Wayne C. Booth, Dean of the Collège. (Exactfigures are not available, since applications for admission,like ail University records, do not indicate racial data.) Ofthèse, 75 accepted their admission and 69 are still enrolled, he noted."The ability of thèse students to meet a demandingacadémie challenge has been thoroughly demonstrated."Said Dean Booth. "We are determined, for the sake of the students and the University, to continue to avoiddiluting académie programs or subjecting unprepared students to programs in which they can only flounder."Some of the other University programs that deal withghetto problems include:— The Expérimental School Program. The University,working with a Woodlawn policy board consisting of représentatives of the Board of Education, The WoodlawnOrganization, and The University of Chicago, has com-pleted a study on improvements in elementary and sec-ondary éducation in the Woodlawn community. Fromthèse studies, proposais hâve been made which hâve beenapproved by formai action of the Chicago Board of Education providing for the désignation of an expérimentalschool district in Woodlawn. Support is now being soughtby the Chicago Board of Education and the Universityunder fédéral législation.—The Woodlawn Child Health Center. The Center wasestablished in 1967 on 63rd Street and is under the direction of Dr. John D. Madden, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University. In its first six months of opération,the Center handled 6,000 out-patients and registered 2,500new patients. It is free to résidents of Woodlawn and provides a wide range of treatment.— The Woodlawn Mental Health Center. This projecthas been under way since 1964 under the direction ofDrs. Sheppard G. Kellam and Sheldon Schiff, AssociateProfessors of Psychiatry. Through the efforts of the Center, many children excluded from school because of maladaptation at an early âge hâve been enrolled in spécialclasses.— Advisory services in family planning, provided formany years by the University's Department of Obstetricsand Gynecology. A récent grant from the RockefellerFoundation has made it possible to expand the service toprovide contraceptive supplies and patient care to indigents whose clinic fées are not covered by Aid to Dépendent Children or other sources.— A program for exploring the University's rôle infinding means of bringing médical knowledge and effective health services to society. The program is among thetasks of Dr. Robert S. Daniels, the recently-appointedAssociate Dean for Community and Social Medicine in15the Division of the Biological Sciences.— A new Vétérans Administration Hospital. The University is currently in discussions with the VA on the construction of a 500-bed hospital on the campus just to thewest of the Silvain and Arma Wyler Children's Hospital.It is estimated that this will provide approximately 1,000para-prof essional jobs for Woodlawn and other areas.— The Coopérative Program for Educational Oppor-tunity (CPEO). Currently based at Yale, the CPEO ismoving to the University community, July 1, and willcontinue its national talent searching opération amongNegro students from this base. The University will admin-ister the U.S. Office of Education grant under which theCPEO opérâtes.— The Edwin F. Mandel Légal Aid Clinic. Establishedin 1957, the Clinic pro vides free légal services for indigent persons. Located in the Law School, it is under thedirection of Philip H. Ginsberg, Assistant Professor ofLaw. University of Chicago law students assist in provid-ing services under the supervision of a professional staff.During the year ending last September 30, 5,209 personswere aided by the Clinic.— The Social Services Center of the School of SocialService Administration. The new Center coordinates aprogram that includes child day care, family counseling,légal aid, médical care, and other services. When a building for the Center is completed next year, the Center willbe expanded to involve many agencies in a wider varietyof social service.— A Divinity School PhD program inaugurated in 1966and aimed at training for the ministry in the inner city.The program provides ail Doctor of Ministry studentswith an extensive, in-role expérience as humane helpersand agents of change. This course brings the students intocontact with médical, légal, and social welfare personnelworking in the ghettos so that they will be more effectivemembers of a healing and rehabilitative team.— A new "team" approach to teaching in inner-cityschools, developed by the Graduate School of Education.Groups of teachers and specialists will be trained to un-derstand the educational and environmental needs of theghetto and will be placed in schools as a group. The firstefforts will start this autumn at DuSable and KenwoodHigh Schools. Teachers will be drawn from advanced- degree candidates in the Graduate School of Educationand from the Chicago public schools.— The Visiting Professor program of the GraduateSchool of Education. Started in 1964, the program bringsfaculty members from the University to the elementaryand secondary schools in the neighborhood. About thirtyvisits hâve been made each year since the program began.— The Center for Urban Studies. This is an interdiscipli-nary unit set up in 1963 to coordinate the University'sexisting research and teaching in urban affairs, to sponsorand undertake research studies, and to provide consultation services for private and governmental groups con-cerned with the cities.— A two-year Center for Policy Study project designedto attack the social and political barriers to change in theurban environment. The CPS project includes a séries ofconférences and research projects on subjects such as riotsand the média, private industry and the hard-core unem-ployed, and constitutional questions involving city andsuburban schools.— A pilot grant from the Center for Policy Study to agroup of University scientists to begin the development ofnew scientific methods for fighting crime and increasingPersonal security in the cities.— A Graduate School of Business spécial internship-aidplan designed for Negro students. Sponsored by severalmajor business firms, the plan provides financial aid tocover tuition and living expenses and summer internshipson a job that gives substantial contact with managementwork and personnel. The job is offered in the summerbefore the student enters the School and in the summerbetween the two years of study.— Summer programs for English teachers from Chicagoslum-district schools, held by the English Department in1965 and 1966. A 1968 program for teachers of teacherswill be open to applicants from anywhere in the nation.— Student tutoring projects. Two community projectsstarted by University students are helping tutor under-achieving elementary and high school students from nearbyinner-city schools. Student Tutoring Elementary Project(STEP) works with elementary school students and isbased in a community church in Woodlawn. StudentWoodlawn Area Project (SWAP) works with high schoolstudents and is based in Ida Noyés Hall. ^16John T. Wilson to BeDean of FacultiesJohn T. Wilson, former Spécial Assistant to Président Beadle and Professorof Psychology, will leave his post asDeputy Director of the National ScienceFoundation to return to the University,Oct. 1, as Vice-Président and Dean ofFaculties. This will make him the seniorofficer for the administration of académieaffaire under the University Président.Président Beadle said: "We are proudto announce that Mr. Wilson will returnto the University to work closely withMr. Levi in guiding the académie program and plans of this great university.Mr. Wilson brings to Chicago a thoroughunderstanding of scholars, administration, and government. He also knows theUniversity's faculty and environment be-cause of his previous tenure hère."Wilson left the University on July 1,1963, to accept his présent position withthe National Science Foundation. Heserved as chief assistant to the directorJohn T. Wilson during a period of major growth of theFoundation's activities. Wilson was pre-sented the Foundation's first DistinguishedService Award on May 18, 1967.Majoring in psychology, Wilson earnedhis AB (with distinction) at GeorgeWashington University in 1941, his AMat the State University of Iowa in 1942,and his PhD at Stanford University in1948. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappain 1941, and to Sigma Xi, national honorfraternity for scientists, in 1942.Wilson first joined the staff of the National Science Foundation in April, 1952,to direct the Foundation's program in expérimental psychology. He had been assistant director for biological and médicalsciences of the National Science Foundation for six years before coming to theUniversity in 1961.He also has been assistant executivesecretary of the American PsychologicalAssociation and a member of the Department of Psychology faculty of GeorgeWashington University. He later washead of the personnel and training research branch in the biological sciencesgroup of the Office of Naval Research.Wilson is the author of a number ofarticles on psychology and human learning, personnel sélection and training, andresearch programming and administration.Autumn Tuition Hike;Lab School AffectedTuition and fées will go up $40 perquarter next autumn, Vice Président Gilbert L. Lee, Jr., announced recently. Thenew rates for a full-time student will be$700 per quarter, or $2,100 per year.Tuition fées at the Laboratory School willbe increased by $25 per quarter for Kin-dergarten and Nursery School (to $675per year) and $50 per quarter for ailother grades (to $1,350 per year). "Theincrease was made necessary by the con-tinued rise in costs and by certain require-ments that must be met by the budgets ofthe University," Lee said.Charles D. O'Connell, Dean of Stu dents, said: "The University will continue, of course, to maintain its extensiveprogram of student aid. Approximatelyhalf [the undergraduates] receive aidfrom the University, with the averageamount about $1,500. If you include out-side sources, the figures show approximately two-thirds receiving aid."Next year's budget is expected to provide $5,295,000 in student aid funds,compared to this year's $5,263,000.The new tuition rates apply to ailareas of the University but three. TheGraduate School of Business' 190/ MBAprogram increased its rates by $15 acourse to $170 for one course and $325for two courses. There will be no changefor the Executive Program of the Graduate School of Business. The ExtensionDivision increased its tuition by aboutAve percent to $85 for one-half course,$135 for one course, $195 for one andone-half courses, $245 for two courses,$295 for two and one-half courses, and$350 for three courses.Lee, the University's Vice Président forBusiness and Finance, reported that ex-penditures for 1968-1969 are expected toincrease by $1,243,000, while total in-come from opérations (excluding unre-stricted Campaign Gifts) will increase byonly $482,000.The new tuition figure is comparable tothose of other leading private universitiesColumbia (Collège), Princeton, and Yaleeach will charge $2,150 next académieyear. Harvard's tuition will be $2,000 andStanford's $1,920.Library to Get Cône CollectionA comprehensive private collection ofmore than 1,200 books on advertising,public relations, business psychology, andrelated fields has been given to the University by Fairfax M. Cône, Chairmanof the Board of Trustées and director ofthe Foote, Cône & Belding advertisingagency. About 300 rare books will beadded to the collection before it is trans-ferred.Cone's fellow directors of Foote, Cône17& Belding hâve endowed a $40,000 fundto care for the books and to add to thecollection. Both gifts were made to theUniversity in commémoration of thetwenty-fifth anniversary of Cone's found-ing of Foote, Cône & Belding.Président George W. Beadle said: "Mr.Cone's collection contains most of thebooks ever written on advertising andpublic relations. We are grateful to Mr.Cône and his associâtes for their gen-erosity."The library system will assume owner-ship of the books when the $21,500,000Joseph Regenstein Library is completedin 1969. Most of the collection will behoused in the Business Library. Spécialbookplates honoring Cône will be printedand placed in the books."Mr. Cone's comprehensive collectionis a tribute to his pioneering career inadvertising and public relations," saidHerman H. Fussler, Director of the Library. "The library will keep it currentby adding important new works in thèseand related fields as they are published.The growth of complex problems in advertising, marketing, and the closelyallied disciplines will require increasingattention by students in the GraduateSchool of Business, the Department ofEconomies, and others."Arthur W. Schultz, senior vice président, director, and manager of the Chicago office of Foote, Cône & Belding,said: "It is most fitting that Mr. Cone'scollection be given to The University ofChicago. He has been a member of itsBoard of Trustées for eighteen years andChairman for the past five years. Duringthis time, he has seen the Universitystrehgthen its position as one of the finestacadémie institutions in the world, andhe is proud of the rôle he has played inthis development."The Cône Collection is a resuit of fiveyears of painstaking work in huntingthroughout the world for books, many ofwhich had been printed in small éditionsand are now in corporate or institutionallibraries. A few of thèse rarities are:History of Advertising, by Henry Samp- son, London, 1875; One Hundred Yearsof American Commerce, edited by Chaun-cey M. Depew, 1895; London Trades-men's Cards of the 18th Ce$tury, 1925;Dictionnaire de Chiffres et de LettresOrnés, N.M. Tilliard, Paris, 1767; History of Signboards, Larwood & Hotten.London, 1875; and Picture Posters,Charles Hiatt, New York & London,1896.Trustée Robert P. Gwinn HeadsBusiness School Alumni CampaignRobert P. Gwinn, '29, président andgênerai manager of Sunbeam Corporation, has been named national chairmanof a three-year $1,000,000 Alumni Campaign for the Graduate School of Business. Gwinn's appointaient was announcedby Gaylord Donnelley, Chairman of theCampaign for Chicago and a Trustée ofthe University.Gwinn is a Trustée of the Universityand a member of the Council on theGraduate School of Business, the Councilon the Physical Sciences, and the Visiting Committee on the Collège.As national chairman, Gwinn has anorganization of Business School alumniin Chicago and thirty other major citiesaround the country.Récent giving by the School's alumnihas been at the rate of $110,000 a year,one-third of the drive's goal for each ofthe next three years. The resulting $1,-000,000 will be used in support of facultysalaries, student aid, and research. Thisamount will earn $333,333 from theFord Foundation, which has pledged onedollar for every three raised from othersources.Gwinn joined Sunbeam in 1936 andwas elected président and gênerai manager in 1955. He is a member of theCommittee on Economie Developmentand is a director of the Continental Cas-ualty Company, the Continental Assurance Company, The First National Bankof Chicago, Riverside National Bank,Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and theInstitute for Philosophical Research. Int House Students in WashingtonTwenty foreign students at Chicagogot an insight into the opération of theU.S. government at a high level at aspécial five-day seminar program in Washington, March 18 to 22. The program isa yearly event organized by InternationalHouse.The students annually meet with sen-ators, représentatives, Suprême Courtjustices, major cabinet level departmentadministrators, and outstanding news-paper correspondents and authors. Thisyear's program included conférences withSuprême Court Justice William O. Douglas and Senators Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.).International House gave each studenta grant to cover travel expenses. TheForeign Student Service Council in Washington arranged for students to live withAmerican families while there.John Simpson Named toNew Ryerson ChairPhysicist John A. Simpson has beennamed the first Edward L. Ryerson Dis-tinguished Service Professor, a new chairestablished through Nora Butler Ryer-son's gift in honor of her husband, Edward L. Ryerson, retired chairman ofInland Steel Company. Ryerson is a LîfeTrustée of the University and formerchairman of the Board of Trustées.A Distinguished Service Professorship,signifying meritorious scholarly contributions to the académie world as a whole,is the highest honor the University canbestow upon a scholar already on thefaculty.Simpson said that Edward Ryerson andhis family "hâve represented the finestkind of moral and intellectual publicleadership for the Midwest and our University. He has a fine view of the University, a broad view, and I think it iswonderful that his contributions and dévotion to the University will be recog-nized in the form of an académie chair inhis name."18Ryerson was the first chairman of theIllinois Public Aid Commission, servedas président of the Chicago OrchestraAssociation for fourteen years, and holdsthe Alexis de Tocqueville Service Award,presented by the Welfare Council ofChicago once each fifty years. He servedas the first président of the Chicago Educational Télévision Association after hav-ing acted as chairman of the committeethat obtained the license from the F.C.C.to acquire and operate Channels 11 and20 for the Chicago community.Simpson is Professor in the Department of Physics and in the Enrico FermiInstitute. He is credited with discoverieson the nuclear composition and origin ofcosmic rays from the galaxy and discoveries concerning the solar control ofthe amount of cosmic rays which reachthe earth. He designed and built the firstcosmic ray neutron monitors, which en-able detailed study of the variation ofcosmic ray intensity and the magneticfields in interplanetary space.Simpson has been involved in Ameri-ca's space research since 1958, when ex-periments he directed were launched intospace aboard the Pioneer II space probe.His cosmic ray télescope, aboard theExplorer 34 launched last May, recentlygave support information for Surveyorlunar probe analyses. He currently hasan experiment in space aboard the Or-biting Geophysical Laboratory, launchedMarch 4.Botany and ZoologyDepartments MergeA more unified approach to teachingand research in botany and zoology isexpected to resuit from the récent com-bining of the two disciplines under thenew Department of Biology. The change,contrary to current trends to specializa-tion and fragmentation in many disciplines, was announced in January by Dr.Léon O. Jacobson, Dean of the Divisionof the Biological Sciences. The aim ofthe department, Dr. Jacobson explained,!s not to train classical botanists or zoolo- gists, but biologists with spécial areas ofinterest."Biological scientists hâve been mov-ing in a multidisciplinary direction forsome time," said Dr. Jacobson. "Researchin both the plant and animal kingdoms isno longer viewed as being two separatefields of study, for this obscures the un-derlying similarity of ail living organisms.This merger will provide an increasedconcentration of both research and teaching talent. While both departments hâvehad great strength as separate units, thisconcentration on one interdisciplinarystructure will provide a unified approachto what is essentially one field, biology."William K. Baker, a geneticist and Professor of Zoology, will serve as intérimdepartment chairman. Baker "has a broadunderstanding of modem biology and isan internationally known geneticist," saidDr. Jacobson. "He is an idéal choice tocontinue to build the department in thedirection of modem biological researchand teaching."The department's size is expected to increase somewhat, although definite planshâve not been made. At présent, the department occupies four buildings on campus, in addition to greenhouses and spécialcontrolled environmental facilities.New Stagg Field Work to StartChicago athlètes will be working outon an all-new Stagg Field by next autumn,according to plans revealed by WallyHass, Director of Athletics, at the annualOrder of the "C" dinner. The new athleticfacilities will be located at 55th Street andCottage Grove Avenue, just west of theprojected new student village.Included in the area will be a 440-yardrunning track, a combination football-soccer field, and a baseball diamond. Plansfor a complète gymnasium are under discussion.The old Stagg Field is the scène of anarmy of heavy construction equipment aswork progresses on the new Joseph Reg-enstein Library. Bartlett Gym is slated foreventual conversion to women's facilities. PeopleRonald M. Andersen, Research Associate at the Center for Health Administration Studies and Instructor in theGraduate School of Business, and OdinW. Anderson, Professor in the GraduateSchool of Business and the Departmentof Sociology, and Research Director ofthe Center for Health AdministrationStudies, are the authors of A Décade ofHealth Services (University of ChicagoPress), published in January.David Bakan, Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Collège,is the author of Disease, Pain, and Sacrifice, in which he examines the reflexiverelationship between human understanding and suffering. The book was published by The University of Chicago Pressin February.Benjamin S. Bloom, PhD'42, Professorof Education, in January presented apaper on "The Rôle of the EducationalSciences in Curriculum Development" atthe World Conférence on CurriculumDevelopment in Moscow. He wâs one offour men invited by the Director Generalof the United Nations Educational, Scien-tific, and Cultural Organization to présentpapers at the UNESCO-sponsored Conférence. Bloom presented the case forcurriculum research centers— such as onehe was instrumental in developing forIsraël two years ago — as the best meansof keeping éducation abreast of changes.Wayne C. Booth, Dean of the Collège,was one of three experts examining thequestion, "Who should go to collège andwhy?", on The University of ChicagoRound Table télévision program, Jan. 21.Also participating were James M. Red-field, Master of the University's New Col-legiate Division, and Joseph Katz, asso-19ciate director of Stanford University'sInstitute for the Study of Human Problems and author of numerous books oncollegiate éducation and life.Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine novelistand critic, discussed "Walt Whitman: theMan and the Myth" in Breasted Hall ofthe Oriental Institute on January 30. Hisappearance was sponsored by the WilliamVaughn Moody Lecture Committee withthe coopération of the Department ofRomance Languages and Literatures. Thefollowing day, Borges led a seminar onthe thème, "El Aleph y otros textos," inthe Social Science Research Building.Borges is the widely acclaimed author ofFicciones. He is the Director of the National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina.Roald F. Campbell, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, is president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The an-nouncement was made February 9 at the1 968 AERA Annual Meeting in Chicago.Campbell, who is also chairman of theDepartment of Education and the William Claude Reavis Professor of Education, will take office in February, 1969.Charles Castleman, 26-year-old violinvirtuoso, performed at a récital in Man-del Hall, Feb. 9. The concert was sponsored by the Department of Music as partof its Chamber Music Séries. Castleman,a native of Quincy, Mass., won the silvermedal at the Queen Mother Elisabeth ofthe Belgians compétition in 1963.Dr. Donald S. Frederickson, Directorof the National Heart Institute, and Dr.Mason Sones, Jr., of the Cleveland ClinicFoundation, discussed the latest techniques in diagnosis and treatment ofcoronary artery disease at an open conférence at The University of ChicagoHospitals and Clinics, Jan. 31. Dr. Frederickson, whose specialty is fat metabolism in coronary disease, talked on "Lipo-protein Abnormalities in Coronary HeartDisease." Dr. Sones, a pioneer in préciseanatomical diagnosis of coronary arterydisease in living patients, discussed "An-giocardiographic Diagnosis and SurgicalTherapy of Coronary Heart Disease." The one and one-half hour program was mod-erated by Dr. Arnold M. Katz, AssociateProfessor of Medicine at Chicago.Milton Friedman, AM'3.3, the PaulSnowden Russell Distinguished ServiceProfessor in the Department of Economies, tëstified on his position on the goldcover before the United States Senate'sCommittee on Banking and CurrencyFebruary 1. Friedman said that the présent requirement for a gold cover shouldbe removed.Kenneth R. Hansen, professor of économies at the University of California atBerkeley, said on The University of Chicago Round Table télévision program,Feb. 18, that the fédéral government iscarrying out économie programs thatkeep Negroes in the ghettos. Hansen wasjoined in the discussion of "The Shameof the Suburbs" by Richard C. Wade,Professor of American History, and JackPahl, président of Elk Grove Village, aChicago suburb.Dr. Robert J. Hasterlik, Professor ofMedicine, and Illinois ReprésentativeLewis V. Morgan, Jr., (R-Wheaton),JD'54, hâve been named co-chairmen ofthe Illinois Commission on Atomic Energy for 1968-1969. Morgan, a partnerin the DuPage County law firm of Redmond, Morgan, Mraz, and Bennorth, isserving his third term in the IllinoisHouse.George R. Hughes, Professor of Egyp-tology, has been appointed Director ofthe Oriental Institute. The three-year appointaient will be effective July 1, 1968.Hughes will succeed Robert Adams, Professor of Anthropology, who has servedas Director since 1962.Dwight J. Ingle, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology,has been named one of ten récipients ofModem Medicine' s 1968 Awards for Distinguished Achievement. Ingle was citedby the magazine for his contribution toendocrinology and for establishing thepublication Perspectives in Biology andMedicine. Now a full-time researcher, hecurrently is developing techniques forthe study of liver régénération. Jeannette LaVelle, Miss UC for 1968Jeannette LaVelle, a second-year student from Kearny, Ariz., was seleetedthis year's Miss University of Chicago ina campus-wide élection in February.George J. Metcalf, Professor of Germanie Philology and Chairman of theDepartment of Germanie Languages andLiteratures, has been elected président ofthe American Association of Teachersof German.Mrs. Patricia Garland Morisey, anexpert on child welfare, delivered theCharles N. Crittenton Lecture on "TheUnmarried Mother and Her Family: NewApproaches to a Persistent Problem" atthe School of Social Service Administration, April 2.Helen Perlman, Professor of SocialService Administration, spoke at the Annual Forum of the University of Mary-land School of Social Work, March 19.She also discussed "Parenthood and Per-sonality Change" at the University o'Utah, March 28.Dr. Mark Ravitch was the Felton Be-quest Visiting Professor at the Roj*Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Aus-tralia, from April 5 to 8. Dr. Ravitch isProfessor of Surgery and Pédiatrie Sur-20gery. He also is Head of the Section ofpédiatrie Surgery in the Department ofSurgery and the Wyler Children's Hospital.Wallace W. Robbins, minister of theFirst Unitarian Church of Worcester,Mass., preached at Rockefeller MémorialChapel, February 25. His sermon wastitled "Is This Not the Christ?". Robbinswas président of the Meadville Theologi-cal School and Professor of the Churchin the Federated Theological Faculty ofthe University from 1944 to 1956. Forfive of those years he was Associate Deanof the University Chapel.Mark B. Rosin, a senior majoring inEnglish, has been awarded a DanforthGraduate Fellowship, providing tuitionand living expenses for four years ofgraduate study leading to the PhD.Daniel Rouslin, violinist in the Lexing-ton String Quartet of the University'sContemporary Chamber Players, gave arécital in Mandel Hall, April 9. He playedSonata in G Minor for UnaccompaniedViolin by Johann Sébastian Bach, thepremière of ABC for UnaccompaniedViolin by Joseph Olive, Sonata in GMajor (opus 96) by Ludwig van Beethoven, Four Pièces (opus 7) by AntonWebern, and Phantasy (opus 47) byArnold Schoenberg. James Kidd accom-panied Rouslin on the piano on the lastthree works.Kurt Rossmann, former research associate at the Eastman Kodak CompanyResearch Laboratories, has been appointée!a Professor of Radiological Sciences inthe Division of Biological Sciences. Con-currently, he was appointed Director ofthe Section of Radiological Sciences inthe Department of Radiology. His mainfield of académie interest is the study offactors arïecting the image quality ofradiological imaging Systems. Dr. Léon0. Jacobson, Dean of the Division of theBiological Sciences, said, "Dr. Rossmannbrings to the University and to the Department of Radiology a program of investigation which promises to bring important advances in diagnostic radiology°f great benefit to the patient." Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Professor of The-ology and Literature and Chairman ofthe Theology and Literature Field in theDivinity School, is editor of Adversityand Grâce, which attempts to assess récent fiction from the standpoint of itsreligious significance. The book, to bepublished in May by The University ofChicago Press, is the fourth volume in aséries entitled Essays in Divinity.Bernece K. Simon, Professor and General Director of Field Instruction in theSchool of Social Service Administration,has been appointed to a four-year termon the Social Work Training ReviewCommittee of the National Institute ofMental Health.Edward Stankiewicz spoke on "TheParts of Speech in the History of ModemLinguistics" at the thîrd National Con-gress of Dutch Slavicists held at LeidenUniversity, Netherlands, March 27 to30. Stankiewicz is Professor of SlavicLinguistics and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.H. Burr Steinbach, Professor of Biology, will go on leave to become the firstdean of Graduate Studies at the WoodsHole Océanographie Institution, WoodsHole, Mass., in September. He also isdirector and président of the Marine Biological Laboratory.Stuart M. Tave delivered the Convocation address, entitled "The RelevantUniversity," at the University's 322ndConvocation in Rockefeller MémorialChapel, March 15. Tave is Master of theHumanities Collegiate Division, AssociateDean of the Collège, and Professor ofEnglish. John T. Dunlop, Professor ofEconomies at Harvard University, re-ceived an honorary Doctor of Laws de-gree. Dunlop is an internationally-knownauthority on labor and industrial relations. He is the author of Wage Détermination Under Trade Unions and Industrial Relations Systems. Blaze Koneski,Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy atthe University of Skopje, Yugoslavia, re-ceived an honorary Doctor of HumaneLetters degree. Koneski is a scholar, lin- guist, and authority on the Macedonianlanguage. He also is considered today'sleading Macedonian poet.Lila Swell, Assistant Professor of Social Service Administration, appeared ona télévision discussion of "Marriage andFamily" on WBKB, Chicago, February19.Jérôme Taylor, Professor of Englishand Chairman of the Committee on Médiéval Studies, and Lester K. Little, Assistant Professor in the Collège and inthe Department of History, hâve editedand translated Nature, Man and Societyin the Twelfth Century: Essays on theNew Theological Perspectives in the LatinWest. The new book is a sélection ofnine essays from La théologie au douzième siècle by M.-D. Chenu, O.P., theFrench medievalist. It will be released byThe University of Chicago Press in May.Dr. John Van Prohaska, Professor ofSurgery, coordinated a program on prom-ising methods for management of inopérable cancers, at the University Hos-pitals and Clinics, March 13. Dr. Prohaskaopened the program with a discussion ofsurgical control of endocrine glands asa means of treating mammary cancer.The program was part of the Frontiersof Medicine séries.T. Viswanathan and his troupe per-formed a program of Indian music inthe Laird Bell Law Quadrangle, April 6Viswanathan has been playing the nativeIndian flûte publicly since 1938 and hasmade concert tours of Europe, Asia, andthe United States. Other featured per-formers were Nageswara Rao, who playsthe vina, the oldest known Indian stringedinstrument, and Jon Higgins Bhagavatar,a singer. The concert was sponsored bythe Committee on Southern Asian Studies.David E. Wilder, professor in the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Co-lumbia University, spoke on "GraduateTraining in Education and the Future ofResearch on Reading" in Judd Hall,April 8. The lecture was the third in the1967-68 séries sponsored by the ReadingResearch Center of the Graduate Schoolof Education.21CLUB NEWS San FranciscoJames H. Lorie discussed Science andSecuritiês: Récent Findings on Securities,Portfolios, and Markets aL a luncheonmeeting at the Commercial Club, March29. Lorie is Professor of Business Administration in the Graduate School ofBusiness and Director of the Center forResearch in Security Priées (sponsoredby Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner andSmith, Inc.).Los AngelesYale Brozen, Professor in the Graduate School of Business, spoke on TheUntruth of the Obvious at the Sheraton-West Hôtel, March 14. Brozen touchedupon the minimum wage rate, livingconditions of migrant workers, the Tennessee Valley program, urban slums,transportation, usury, race riots, and theaverage life of the automobile. A réception folio wed the talk.DallasYale Brozen, Professor in the Graduate School of Business, spoke on TheUntruth of the Obvious at a dinner at theSouthern Methodist University StudentCenter, March 21. Brozen touched uponthe minimum wage rate, living conditions of migrant workers, the TennesseeValley program, urban slums, transportation, usury, race riots, and the averagelife of the automobile. A réception pre-ceded the dinner.HoustonPrésident George W. Beadle and University Trustée Stanley G. Harris, Jr.reported on The Campaign for Chicagoand discussed the University's plans forthe future at the Hôtel America, March27. A réception followed the talk.PortlandMilton Friedman, the Paul SnowdenRussell Distinguished Service Professorin the Department of Economies, discussed Self -Interest, the Draft, and HigherEducation at the University Club, March21. A réception followed the talk. New YorkThe Contemporary Chamber Playerspresented a concert of works of StepanWolpe at Town Hall, March 23. Theplayers are under the direction of RalphShapey, Associate Professor in the Department of Music. A spécial block ofseats was set aside for alumni and theirguests.DenverPrésident George W. Beadle and Robert C. Upton, Co-chairman, RégionalOrganization of the Campaign for Chicago, gave an informai report on theCampaign at the Tiffin Inn, March 7.Président Beadle also discussed the University's plans for the future.SeattleDr. Roderick Winthrop Childers, Assistant Professor of Medicine, spoke onThe Rabelaisian Irish at a dinner-meetingat the Olympic Hôtel, March 27. Askilled cardiologist and an outstandingclinician, Childers was friend and phy-sician to the late Brendan Behan. His talkincluded accounts of some of his sortieswith Behan. A cocktail hour preceded thedinner.AtlantaGrosvenor W. Cooper spoke on Musical Literacy at the Atlanta Marriott MotorHôtel, March 19. Cooper is Professor ofMusic and of Collège Humanities andChairman of the Committee on GeneralStudies in the Humanities. His field ofspécial interest is the criticism and analysis of music, particularly the music ofBeethoven. A réception preceded thetalk.DétroitComposer-pianist Easley Blackwood,Associate Professor of Music, and theLexington String Quartet presented a concert at Stouffer's Northland Inn, February 27. Blackwood played his ownwork, Three Short Fantasies, after givinga brief talk. The Quartet played themusic of Mozart and Webern. A Champagne réception followed the concert.22Itutnni News~*~\ 15Howard M. Jones, AM'15, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at Harvard University, haswritten a new book, Belief and DisbeliefIn American Literature (The Universityof Chicago Press), a discussion of thebeliefs of American writers from theRévolution to the présent."~18Margaret Hayes, '18, a 1965 AlumniAssociation citée, was honored by theIllinois Council for Exceptional Childrenfor her work with the physically handi-capped upon her retirement, Oct. 14,1967.23Henry Steele Commager, '23, AM'24,PhD'28, professor of History and American Studies at Amherst (Mass.) Collège,has been awarded an honorary LLD atDickinson Collège, Carlisle, Pa.25Meredith P. Gilpatrick, 25, PhD'57,retired as Ohio Archivist for the OhioHistorical Society on March 11.Habuku Kodama, '25, retired psychology professor at Japan Women's University in Tokyo, is conducting experi-ments with children in schools near jetairports that show that, while they sufferno major physical effects from the noise,half of the pupils develop a loss ofhearing ability. There also are signs ofirritability and emotional instability. TheProject will be completed in 1969 whenKodama will be able to détermine if theloss of hearing is permanent.W. Conway Pierce, SM'25, PhD'28,professor of chemistry emeritus at theUniversity of California in Riverside,has been honored by that institution bythe naming of a new building as PierceHall.^27Melvin G. Barker, '27, vice président°f Field Communications and director ofPublic aff airs for télévision station WFLD in Chicago, will retire this year. He willcontinue with Field Communications ina consulting capacity.29 ~~A. Russell Griffith, AM'29, JD'33, hasretired as principal financial officer ofSafeway Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. He willcontinue to serve as director and memberof the executive committee.Mrs. Perry Kallison, PhB'29, a histor-ian, has been named a volunteer assistantresearch associate of the Institute of TexanCultures and will assist the institute in itsstudy of the Jewish people of Texas.Evelyn Oppenheimer, PhB'29, a lec-turer, writer, and literary agent, reviewedthe book, Picasso & Co.y in a lecture atthe Dallas (Tex.) Muséum of Fine Arts.Robert I. White, PhB'29, AM'36, PhD-45, président of Kent (Ohio) State University, was the f eatured speaker at Northern Illinois University's. summer commencement in De Kalb, 111.31J. Allen Hynek, SB'31, PhD'35, Chairman of Northwestern University's department of astronomy, is consultant to theAir Force's Project Blue Book, an investigation of unidentified flying objects.33Alice Mooradian, X'33, executive director of the Golden Age Clubs and a 1966récipient of a citation from The Universityof Chicago Alumni Association, has beenpresented with a civic award by the Cath-olic War Vétérans of Niagara Falls (N.Y.)Post 925.Louis B. Newman, MD'33, Professorof Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwestern University Médical School, has beenpresented the 1967 Award for "Outstand-ing Contributions in Médical Rehabilitation Through Sustained and DedicatedService" by the Association of MédicalRehabilitation Directors and Coordina-tors.35F. S. Alfenito, MD'35, has retired from Michigan Blue Shield's Board ofDirectors aftèr serving six years.Arthur H. Baum, PhB'35, has been appointed Director of Advertising and Public Relations at Oxford ManufacturingCo., Oregon, 111.Glen B. Gross, PhB'35, has been namedvice président personnel at New YorkLife Insurance Co.Harry Hill, PhD'35, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Con-cord Collège, Athens, W. Va., in June,1967.Alex Ladenson, AM'35, PhD'38, hasbeen named chief administrative officerof the Chicago Public Library.William E. Looby, MD'35, has joinedthe staff of Colorado State Hospital as amédical specialist.Irwin E. Perlin, PhD'35, former headof the mathematical analysis branch atGeorgia Institute of Technology, has beennamed head of the Rich Electronic Computer Center at Georgia Tech.37 ~Robert E. Elder, AM'37, PhD'47, haswritten a new book, The InformationMachine: The United States InformationAgency and American Foreign Policy(Syracuse University Press). The bookanalyzes the government's propagandamachine and its rôle in the formulationof foreign policy.Théodore T. Puck, '37, PhD'40, a University of Colorado biophysicist and director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institutefor Cancer Research at the CU MédicalCenter, has been appointed to the ad-visory council of the National Instituteof Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. 39E. F. "Bud" Beyer, '39, is associateprofessor of physical éducation at StateUniversity Collège, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Healso writes a regular column for the in-ternationally distributed magazine, TheModem Gymnast, and has been conducting a teaching clinic at State Universityfor teachers.Hank Grossman, '39, président of the23Manufacturer' Représentative organiza-tion of Grossman, De Partolo, & Hannon,Inc., has been elected président of theHousewares Club of Chicago for 1968.41Helen Huus, AM'41, PhD'44, has beenpromoted to professor of éducation atthe University of Missouri in KansasCity. During a sabbatical leavein 1965-66she spent over eight months on a worldtrip which included speaking engagements at schools around the world. MissHuus is an authority on reading and haswritten widely on the subject.43 *Samuel J. Fanning, AB'43, professorof history at St. John's University, Brooklyn, N.Y., spoke on "Irish- American Attitudes Toward Ireland," at a récent meeting of The Gaelic Society at St. Paul'sSchool Hall, Manhattan, N.Y.David Heller, AB'43, JD'48, and DeaneHeller, X'48, are co-authors of a newbook, Paths of Diplomacy (J. B. Lippin-cott Company).Robert M. McCormack, MD'43, headof the division of plastic surgery at theUniversity of Rochester (N.Y.) School ofMedicine and Dentistry, was a George A.Bail visiting professor of surgery at theIndiana University Médical School lastspring.Miltonl. Shadur, '43, JD'49, a Glencoe,111., attorney, has been installed as secre-tary of the Chicago Bar Association.45Francis W. McKenzie, AM'45, a psy-chologist, has been appointed director ofthe expanded division of pupil personnelservices in the Brookline, Mass., schoolSystem.Ernest C. Miller, AB'45, MBA'46, alieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force,recently attended the Air University académie instructor course at Maxwell AirForce Base in Alabama.George S. Rieg, Jr., PhB'45, MBA'49,JD'53, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve,was graduated from the Army Command and General Staff Collège, Ft. Leaven-worth, Kan., on July 8, 1967.47 ~Earl N. Lockard, PhD'47, has been appointed professor of English at Clarion(Pa.) State Collège.Marshall N. Rôsenbluth, SM'47, PhD-49, a nuclear scientist, is prof essor of phys-ics at the San Diego campus of the University of California. Mr. Rosenbluth'sfather, who is now eighty years old, wasawarded his SB at Pennsylvania State University's June commencement.Richard C. Shaw, MD'47, has beennamed médical director of the Connecti-cut Mutual Life Insurance Co.Arthur A. Silver, PhB'47, won wide attention last summer for a séries of ads inCleveland (Ohio) newspapers on the plightof children on public welfare, the lack ofa suicide prévention center in Cleveland,and the frustration of Negroes in Cleve-land's ghettos. The ads called attention toon public assistance is entitled to only 73the fact that every family in Clevelandcents a day for each child for food andclothing. The first ad, captioned "Thanks-giving spécial: 17 cents a pound," showeda can of dog food. It noted that wealthyOhio was 30th state in aid to needy f ami-lies with children. The other ads weretitled "Let 'em Starve" and "Merry Christ-mas, kids." One said that rats eat betterthan some people. His ads, which weredone on a voluntary basis, provoked muchpublic interest, including both dissent andcommendation, and reprints were re-quested by governors of fourteen states.Henry F. H. Sims, AM'47, has beennamed pastor of St. Patrick's Church inDamariscotta Mills, Maine.Thomas G. Woods, PhB'47, SB'49, alieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, hasbeen awarded a Bronze Star medal foroutstanding meritorious service in combatopérations in Vietnam.49Herbert L. Baird, Jr.,. AM'49, PhD'55,has been appointed an associate professorof foreign languages at Western Wash ington State Collège in Bellingham, WashJohn R. Coleman, AM'49, PhD'50, for!mer program officer in charge of socialdevelopment work with the Ford Foundation, was named président of Haverford(Pa.) Collège last summer.Bernard Farber, AM'49, PhD'53, pro.fessor of Sociology and a member of theInstitute for Research on ExceptionalChildren at the University of Illinois, hasedited a new édition of the book, The OldLove and the New: Divorce and Readjust-ment (Southern Illinois University Press),written by Willard W. Waller, AM'25.G. Wayne Glick, AM'49, PhD'57, former dean and vice président of Franklinand Marshall Collège, Lancaster, Pa., hasbeen named Président of Keuka Collège,Keuka Park, N.Y.Raymond L. Gorden, AM'49, PhD'54,has been named professor of sociology atAntioch Collège.Lewis M. Killian, PhD'49, has writtena new book, The Impossible Révolution:Black Power And The American Dream(Random House), a sociological studyof the Negro in a white society.51 ~James S. Counelis, AM'51, PhD'61, associate professor of éducation at PennState University, University Park, Pa., recently presented a paper, "Macro-Administration in American Higher Education:Some Research Directions," at the American Educational Research Association inNew York City.Edna A. Fagan, AM'51, assistant ad-ministrator of Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha, recently spoke on "To FindA Future- — Look Inside Yourself," at thegraduation cérémonies at Research Hospital and Médical Center's School ofNursing in Kansas City, Mo.53 ~Donald E. Butterfield, AB'53, writesthat he spent two months last spring as anAmerican Médical Association VolunteerPhysician to Vietnam, performing surgeryin a civilian hospital in the Mékong Delta.Since his return, he has gone into private24practice of surgery in Cambridge, Mass.,and also is teaching at the Harvard Médical School.Cari D. Dalke, X'53, has been appointedvice président of the Illinois ConsumerFinance Association.John W. Dixon, Jr., PhD'53, associateprofessor of art history at the Universityof North Carolina, spoke on "Chagall'sStained Glass, or a Lost Art Revived," ata récent Norfolk (Va.) Society of Artslecture séries.Sumio Matsuda, AM'53, has beenawarded a PhD in English at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.55 ~Robert L. Emrich, AB'55, AM'58, for-merly with the U.S. Department of JusticeOffice of Law Enforcement Assistance,has been named assistant dean of theSchool of Criminal Justice at Albany(N.Y.) State University.Glendell W. Gilman, PhD'55, has beenpromoted to Régents' Professor of Indus-trial Management, the highest académietitle awarded at Georgia Institute of Technology.Robert Ginsberg, AB'55, AM'58, hasbeen named assistant professor of philoso-phy at the Delaware Campus of the Pe.nn-sylvania State University. 57Douglas A. Fox, AM'57, assistant professor of religion at Colorado Collège, hasbeen appointed a Fellow of the Societyfor Religion in Higher Education. Thefellowship will enable him to spend a yearin Japan, where he plans to do research onMahayana Buddhist concepts of time andhistory.Alden Guild, JD'57, has been namedclerk of the executive committee for National Life Insurance Company, Barre, Vt.Han-Kyo Kim, AM'57, PhD'62, assistant professor of political science at theUniversity of Cincinnati, has been awardeda post-doctoral grant by the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.Dorthea Lane, AM'57, has been named director of the Adoption Services Divisionof the Illinois Children's Home and AidSociety in Chicago.Marvin H. Zelibor, MBA'57, has beennamed gênerai manager of the Paygro Division of the Mead Corp., Dayton, Ohio.59Donald W. Brooks, MBA'59, has beennamed manager of marketing and devel-opment planning at A. O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee, Wis.William J. Brown, AM'59, has beenpromoted from associate economist toeconomist at The American Bankers As-sociation's Department of Economies andResearch in New York City.Ronald P. Grossman, '59, PhD'65,former assistant professor at MichiganState University, has been appointed assistant professor of history at Lake Forest(111.) Collège.61George W. Welsh, MBA'61, GeneralManager of the Research Division ofGeneral American Transportation Corporation, writes to correct our erroneouslisting of his office address as Allentown,Pa., in the December, 1967, issue. Mr.Welsh's office is in Niles, 111.John J. Renaldo, AM'61, PhD'67, hasbeen named assistant professor of historyat Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh.David W. Soukup, JD'61, has beennamed a municipal judge in Seattle, Wash.63 ~Edwin B. Firmage, JD'63, LLM'64,JSD'64, assistant professor of law at theUniversity of Ut ah in Sait Lake City, lastspring was named head of the Démocratieparty's research and publications committee.Frederick L. Hafer, MBA'63, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, wasgraduated in June from Air University,Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery,Ala., and reassigned to Cam Ranh BayAB, Vietnam, for duty as an electronicsengineer.Cleta Miller Hanebuth, SM'63, a for mer research assistant in pediatrics atMichael Reese Hospital, Chicago, hasbeen appointed an instructor in chemistryat Illinois State University, Normal, 111.65 ~Robert Angell, PhD'65, has been appointed assistant professor of biologicalsciences at the University of Denver inColorado.Archie Clegg, AM'65, has been appointed an assistant executive director ofthe Family Service and Mental HealthCenter^of South Cook County, 111.Raymond W. Fannings, AM'65, hasbeen named supervisor of the group homeprogram for the Illinois Children's Homeand Aid Society in Chicago.William P. Loehrer, MBA'65, has beennamed gênerai manager at the Indianapo-lis service center of Joseph T. Ryersonand Son, Inc., of Chicago.Stanley A. Lorens, PhD'65, has beennamed assistant professor of psychiatry atthe University of Iowa.William C. Rubright, SM'65, formerchief of periodontics for the U.S. Armyat Fort Polk, La., has been named assistant professor in the department of peri-odontology at the University of Iowa Collège of Dentistry.Judith A. Shell, '65, AM'66, writes thatshe and Michael B. Lavinsky, JD'65, weremarried in Denver on June 25, 1967.They are living in Boulder, Colo., whereMrs. Lavinsky is a member of the Englishdepartment at the University of Colorado.Howard H. Tessler, MD'65, a captainin the U.S. Army, completed a médicalservice officer basic course in Septemberat Brooke Army Médical Center.67Adèle Dobkowski, '67, is teaching in aPhilippine elementary school as a PeaceCorps volunteer.George L. Gardiner, Jr., AM'67, formerassistant librarian in spécial collections atFisk University, Nashville, Tenn., hasbeen appointed instructor in library science and assistant librarian at Illinois StateUniversity in Normal.25joîtarialJohn Darst, MD'03, physician, diedJan. 8, 1968.Evelyn M. Hayde, 05, retired teacher,died Mar. 24, 1968.Thyrza Barton Dean, '07, social workerand former head of the Pasadena Charitable League in California, died Feb. 11,1968.James R. McCarthy, '07, civic leaderand lumber executive in New Orléans,has died.Dwight L. Akers, '08, PhM'09, his-torian, essayist, and author of children'sbooks, died Mar. 12, 1968.Charles L. Hess, '11, SM'12, retiredBay City, Mich., physician, died Feb. 25,1968.Guy Y. Williams, SM'll, professoremeritus at the University of Okîahoma,died Jan. 31, 1968.Elizabeth Ayres Kidd, '12, AM'15,former music teacher at New Trier HighSchool, Winnetka, 111., died Feb. 28,1968.Edwin P. McLean, '12, MD'13, ofBrownsville, Tex., former Decatur andMaroa, 111. , physician, died Feb. 18,1968.Geraîd P. Lawrence, MB' 13, retiredphysician, died Jan. 16, 1968.Howard Ellis, '14, JD'15, specialist inlibel law and gênerai counsel of the Chicago Tribune, died Feb. 18, 1968. Thefamily requests that persons wishing tomake contributions contact the HowardEllis Mémorial fund at The University ofChicago Law School.Mrs. Marie Shillinglaw, '14, long activein civic affairs, died Jan. 24, 1968.Charles K. Stulik, '14, MB' 16, diedFeb. 1, 1968.Hill Blackett, '15, a former advertisingconsultant, has died.Charles T. Holman, DB'15, ProfessorEmeritus in The Divinity School, diedFeb. 3, 1968.Lucille B. Koch, '15, died Mar. 10,1968.Albert B. Moore, AM'15, PhB'21,former head of the history departmentand dean emeritus of the Graduate Schoolat the University of Alabama, died Apr. 19, 1967.James R. Elliott, MB' 16, of Pasadena,Calif., former associate professor of orthopédie surgery at the University ofKansas School of Medicine, died Mar.14, 1968.Edward F. Kixmiller, '16, died Oct. 29,1967.Helen R. Oison, '17, died Jan. 5, 1968.Ernest E. Leisy, AM'19, professoremeritus of English at 'Southern Metho-dist University, Dallas, Tex., and formerhead of the Illinois Wesleyan UniversityEnglish Department, died Mar. 8, 1968.Alfred W. Philips, AM'20, retiredteacher at Eastern Washington State Collège in Cheney, died June 21, 1967.Boîpha Parker, '21, former home économies department head at Banville(111.) High School, died Mar. 4, 1968.George A. Bassford, AM'22, of Ashland, Wis., has died.Muriel E. Forsland, '22, Chicago public school teacher for 46 years, died Mar.11, 1968.Willis K. Weaver, SM'22, PhB'28, research chemist with Baxter Laboratories,Inc., died Mar. 11, 1968.Alex L. Hillman, X'23, a 1966 Alumnicitée, former publisher, investment executive, and art collecter, died Mar. 25,1968.Robert L. Belt, MB'24, of Pasadena,Calif., died Feb. 25, 1968.William J. Fulton, '24, retired Chicagoteacher, died Feb. 19, 1968.Ray M. Lawless, AM'24, PhB'40, retired educator, died Mar. 21, 1968.Margaret B. Thayer, '24, AM'26, diedSept. 30, 1967.Ruth Hargrave, '25, professor of éducation and head of Central State University's teaching éducation program inWilberforce, Ohio, has died.Wakelee R. Smith, '25, sales managerfor the Chicago Engravers Corporation,died Feb. 27, 1968.John W. Coulter, PhB'26, professoremeritus of geography at the Universityof Cincinnati, died Bec. 7, 1967.Bean W. Hodges, '26, MB'31, Benver,Colo., physician, died Jan. 28, 1968. Vernon T. Sanders, AM'26, formerchairman of the English department atBronxville (N.Y.) High School, died Jan26, 1968.Martin Taitel, '29, statistician, economist, and consultant, died Nov. 241967.Reginald H. Smart, MB'30, authorityon diseases of the chest and developer ofthe Los Angeles City Schools tuberculosisprévention program, died Feb. 7, 1968.Paul E. Feldman, '31, director of research at Topeka (Kan.) State Hospital,author, and lecturer, died Feb. 18, 1968.Earl R. Moses, Sr., AM'32, professoremeritus of sociology at Morgan StateCollège, Baltimore, Md., died Feb. 21,1968.Robert K. Hill, '33, retired vice président of American Manufacturers MutualInsurance Co., died Feb. 26, 1968.Harvey Wish, AM'33, the Elbert JayBenton Bistinguished Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland, Ohio, author, and lecturer,died Mar. 9, 1968.Peter Zimmer, '34, the last footballcaptain elected under Amos Alonzo Stagg,died Sept. 21, 1967.William C. Smiley, '35, PhB'39, Tar-zana, Cal, chemist, died Mar. 29, 1968.Aleta S. Williams, '37, retired Chicagoschoolteacher, died Mar. 24, 1968.Arnold M. Rose, '38, AM'40, PhO'46,sociology professor at the University ofMinnesota and former member of theMinnesota House of Représentatives, diedJan. 2, 1968.Helen Hardenbergh, MB'39, retired pe-diatrician and former head of the Porter-ville State Hospital outpatient clinic atSanta Clara Valley Médical Center inCalifornia, died Mar. 11, 1968.Robert C. Linder, PhB'39, superin-tendent of the Tree Fruit Research Center, Wenatchee, Kansas City, Mo., diedJan. 2, 1968.Frank R. Neu, '41, public relationsdirector for the American Bairy Association, died Mar. 13, 1968.Samuel A. Schuyler, MBA'44, a hospital consultant, died Sept. 24, 1967.26/Vn advertisement for Chicagochairs, with some little-known facts0n the birch tree, from theRoman Empire to the University. . .In the athletic contests of ancientRome, trophies of birch branches wereawarded to the victors, a practice whichlater spread to récognition of achieve-ment in other areas. In time, the "fasces"—a bundle of birch rods, sometimeswith a protruding axe — became a sym-bol of authority, carried through thestreets on civic occasions by lictors,the sheriffs of their day.In the New World, the birch had beenused extensively by Indians, notablyfor wigwam pôles and the bark canoë.But the earliest settlers largely ignoredthe tree in favor of softer woods whichlent themselves more easily to construction in primitive circumstances.Woodsmen often were discouraged bythe labor needed to hew down a birch,especially when they felled a treewhose toughness had kept it uprightlong past its useful âge for lumber.Most observers, deceived by thebirch's graceful appearance, were un-aware of its great strength. JamesRussell Lowell called it "the most shyand ladylike of trees."The sap and leaves of the birch yieldan oil similar in fragrance to winter-green, and one of the tree's early useswas in the flavoring of a soft drinkknown as birch béer. As the characterof its wood became apparent, the birchbegan to be used in the manufacture ofProducts where durability was important: tool handles, wagon-wheel hubs, ox yokes, barrel hoops, wooden-ware. Challenging oak and hickory forstrength, and excelling them in beauty,birch soon came to be favored by themakers of sleighs and carriages. And,finally, cabinetmakers adopted thewood for the finest furniture.Some of the first railroad tracks werespiked to birch crossties. In the earlydays of the automobile, birch was usedby some coach makers for the mainframe and other structural members.During the métal shortages of WorldWar II the British used the wood in themanufacture of airplanes —especiallyin the well-known mosquito bomber,constructed almost entirely of birchplywood. Tennis rackets and skis arestill made of birch.Some years ago, the Alumni Association found a century-old New Englandfurniture manufacturer who continuesto employ hand craftsmanship in theproduction of early American birchchairs. The firm, S. Bent & Brothers ofGardner, Mass., is still operated bythird and fourth génération descendentsof its founders. Hundreds of their piècesare now in the homes and offices ofalumni and —especially the sturdy arm-chairs— are found everywhere on campus, from the President's office to theQuadrangle Club. model available through the AlumniAssociation.The designs for the Chicago chairsoriginated in colonial times and reachedtheir présent form in the period from1820 to 1850. The selected yellowbirch lumber cornes from New Brunswick, Canada, and from Vermont andNew Hampshire. Except for modern-day improvements in the adhesives andthe satin black finish, the chairs arefaithfully traditional.Identification with the University isachieved by a silk-screened goldChicago coat of arms on the backrest,At least one United States Président,while in the White House, owned aBent & Brothers armchair, identical incolor, design, and construction to the complementing the antique gold détail stripings on the turnings. The armchair is available either with black ornatural cherry arms. Ail chairs areproduced on spécial order, requiring aminimum of four weeks for delivery,and are shipped express collect fromthe factory in Massachusetts.The University of ChicagoAlumni Association5733 University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637Enclosed is my check for $ , payable toThe University of Chicago Alumni Association, for the following Chicago chair(s): Armchairs (cherry arms) at $42 each Armchairs (black arms) at $40 each Boston rockers at $35 each Side chairs at $25 eachName (please print)Address 27ProfilesCol. Barbara J. BishopA Marine with a master's degree infine art and a prédilection for Pucciclothes? Not likely, most people wouldsay.But they probably haven't met Col.Barbara J. Bishop, MFA'48, Director ofthe Women Marines.And, despite her highly cultivatedtastes, she is a woman who enjoys theadministrative responsibilities that go withadvising the Marine Corps Commandantabout the more than 2,500 women in hisbranch of the service.She is quick to say that she doesn'tconsider herself unique. "There are otherofficers, men and women, with académiebackgrounds in the fine arts and manymore Marines with an active interest inthe arts," she comments.However, many would wonder how ayoung girl from Boston, a student ofdancing as well as art, found her wayinto what is universally regarded as oneof the roughest and toughest branchesof military service."In February, 1943," she explains,"my mother and I were listening to the1 1 PM news and heard the Marine Corpswas organizing what then was called theMarine Corps Women's Reserve. Un-like the stories of parents reluctant tosee their daughters go into the armed services, my mother said, 'Well, whatabout it?' It sounded good to me."It was a décision she never has re-gretted.Until making that -décision she hadthought of becoming a curator or artacademician in a muséum.Miss Bishop was graduated with non-ors in 1938 from Everett High School inMassachusetts and then entered the co-educational program of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. Her graduatingclass in 1943 was the first wartime-accel-erated class in what had been a six-yearprogram.She was sworn into the Marine CorpsWomen's Reserve on February 18, 1943.(The head of the Women's Reservetraining program at the time was CaptainCharlotte C. Gower, AM'26, PhD'28.)At its World War II peak, the serviceincluded more than 18,000 women.Miss Bishop was assigned to a numberof duty stations in the United States before being released to inactive duty statusin 1946 with the rank of captain.Following a décision made while shestill was at Yale, she came to The University of Chicago for graduate study."During my last two years at Yale,"she said, "I was extremely impressed bya certain lecture séries on Renaissance artgiven by a visiting professor who laterjoined the Chicago faculty. Throughoutmy wartime service, I never deviatedfrom my intention to enter Chicago whenreleased from active duty."She recalls her two years at the University as "perhaps the most satisfyingexpérience of my life.""The impact of Department of Artfaculty members with whom I came inclose contact, particularly Ulrich Mid-deldorf, Bertha Wiles, and MargaretRickert, was unforgettable. Of course,"she added, "I was deeply and happily in-volved in study in a field which was andis tremendously exciting to me."Her master's dissertation was on fiveFlorentine cassone panels in the BostonMuséum of Fine Arts.She started work on her doctorate but,at that point, the Marines again entered her life. In June, 1948, Congress madewomen members of the regular MarineCorps, instead of the old Women's Re-serve. Letters were sent to 800 womenMarine reserve officers, with 21 to bechosen to form the nucleus of the newwomen Marines.In October of that year, word camethat she had been selected and she wasback in uniform by December. She explains it simply: "For me, there couldbe no other service."She also has said, "At the risk ofshattering some illusions about art students, paper work is my business and 1always hâve enjoyed it. But then, themajority of art students at Chicago wouldnot hâve fit the popular notions of thebohemian way of life."Col. Bishop said that the Marine Corpshas offered "a career of infinité variety,of challenge, responsibility, and ofwarmth and satisfaction in the personalinvolvement of self."It is a career for the venturesomewoman," she continued, "because shestill must dare to be différent in an occupation which the majority find un-usual."She remembers the command of theWomen Recruit Training Battalion atParris Island, S.C., as her most interest-ing and demanding assignment, but addedthat she has particularly fond memoriesof her duty tours in Hawaii and Italy."Hawaii," she said, "always will be afavorite of mine because it is so lovelyand so warmly hospitable — a visual treatfor the artist."Of Italy, she commented, "Not unex-pectedly, because of a lifetime fascination with Italian Renaissance art, my tourin Naples could not hâve been a moreappropriate assignment. And the workitself, in a six-nation NATO Headquar-ters responsible for the défense of Italy,Greece, and Turkey, was as exciting asit sounds."She found the Italian people "extremely congenial and friendly, sympa-thetic, and eager for one to appreciatetheir country's beauty."Perhaps it was there that she became a28convert of Italian dress designers."Wearing a uniform makes life sim-pler," she mused, "but well-designedclothes definitely are a vice of mine. Officers assigned to duty at HeadquartersMarine Corps are not required to wearuniforms at work unless the occasion de-mands it. Consequently, I'm frequently incivilian clothing."She has held her présent post in Washington for four years, the normal termfor the director of the women Marines,but her tenure was extended for one yearand she now expects to retire in March,1969.What then? Col. Bishop claims that, intypical female fashion, she hasn't made adefinite décision, but it is quite possiblethat she will return to Chicago. — VMSARCHIVESApril, 1893 — The University's second convocation, at which no honors or degreeswere awarded, was held in the gymnasiumon April 1 . Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlinspoke on "The Mission of the ScientificSpirit" and Président Harper gave a state-of-the-University address.Prof. Hermann E. von Holst announcedan expérimental departure in his historyclasses from the traditional lecture form.On alternate weeks he and his studentswould exchange oral questions duringtwo of the four classes. The UniversityNews praised both this new libéral moveand the récent relinquishing of control ofexaminations to individual professors.The Weekly for April 15 hailed theélection of a Mr. Shaw, a Negro, asspeaker of the University house of représentatives, the student congress.Snell Hall was completed and occu-pied by women from the Béatrice dormi-tory. The old Béatrice was scheduled forconversion to a hôtel for visitors to theColumbian Exposition. The Divinity dor-Nûtories were similarly completed and0ccupied by men from the old Drexel. A forty-five acre tract at Lake Geneva,Wisconsin, was selected as the site forthe Yerkes Astronomical Observatory.Construction of the main télescope wasalready under way. Prof. George Haierevealed his design for an apparatuswhich would make possible the photo-graphing of the sun's corona at any time,without waiting for the rare solar éclipses.April, 1918— "Letters from the front"appeared regularly in University publications. Following is one received in Apriland published in The University of Chicago Magazine:"The first American régiment to becalled into action was marching towardthe front. For months past it had beenshooting at circles on cardboard, stabbingstuffed dummies, and throwing fuselesshand grenades at imaginary trench lines.Now conditions were to be différent. TheAmericans were going into the real workfor which they had corne. Their auto-matics were loaded, the two reserve magazines were full; their cartridge belts wereheavy with the weight of clips-of-five.They were at the front. From this villagewhere of the houses there remained onlyunderground caves fortified into soldiers'abris, they could feel the rumbling hun-dred-and-fifty-fives; and overhead theycould see a score of white puffs, Frenchshrapnel reaching for a Boche, a silverspeck in the blue— probably taking snap-shots of them for his artillery."It riappened that by the roadside therewas a temporary camp for prisoners.Through the double fence of barbed wirethose just captured looked from theirpens. Both groups stared: the field-greymen caked with mud and stained withblood; the brand-new army."The new army grinned. It shoutedschoolboy German over the fence to"Fritz." Someone tossed a cigarette. Thenas others saw the eagerness with whichthe gift was seized they reached into theirown pockets and tossed dozens. Theirgrin was contagious. Thus the long Unepassed firing its first volley over the barbed wire."Standing next to me was a person whohad gone through three and a half yearsof war. He took in a breath sharplythrough his teeth. ." 'Wait, said he; wait till their palshâve been blown to pièces beside them.Wait until they hâve been gassed once.Then see!'"And as we watched thèse young men ofpeace who had gone to war to destroy hâte,I wondered."-C. Le Roy Baldridge, '11.April, 1943 — Three Chicago faculty members were elected to the National Academyof Sciences: A. Adrian Albert, Professorof Mathematics; Oswald H. Robertson,Professor of Medicine; and Cari G.Rossby, Professor of Meteorology.Many fraternities stopped serving mealsand curtailed other activities due to re-duced membership, and there was wide-spread talk of closing some houses forthe duration of the war. Alph Delta Phi,one of the hardest hit, leased their housein April to the Reynolds Club, which hadgiven up its quarters to military classesin meteorology.Paul Steiner, Professor of Pathologyand a cancer researcher, announced thediscovery that a substance in the urine ofhuman cancer patients could produce thedisease in laboratory mice.The University of Chicago Round Table was cited by the Office of War Information and the National BroadcastingCompany as a "wartime asset." The radioprogram was originated in 1931 to letthe public listen in on the kinds of discussions heard at faculty lunch tables. ByApril, 1943, the program was carried by119 radio stations across the nation andhad an estimated audience of seven million families. In one April program, DeanRobert Redfield of the Division of SocialSciences called for fédéral législation ofa "Fair Racial Practice Act" to outlawracial discrimination in the United States.[ The Round Table recently was revived onpublic télévision, originating from WTTWin Chicago. — Ed.}29LAURA FERMInow tellsthe story ofthe greatbrain wave ILLUSTRIOUSIMMIGRANTSThe Intellectual Migrationfrom Europe, 1930-41It was a wave of immenseproportions. It brought to ourshores talented men and womenwho were to enrich our culture inevery scientific, intellectual, andartistic field. Laura Fermi, whosehusband Enrico was among themost distinguished of thèse, writesof the illustrious Europeans who —driven to America by forces ofintolérance and oppression — foundnot only a haven of comf ort but astimulating home in which theycould carry on their work,accomplishing more professionallythan they had ever thought possible"at home." By the tens ofthousands they came — Einstein,Bruno Walter, Stravinsky, Chagall,Franz Alexander, Hannah Arendt.Mrs. Fermi knew many of them.Her book is an enthrallingchronicle of the tragic or f unny" impression of many great andwarm personalities, of aninternational académie community. . . and of brave and determinedpeople who made new lives forthemselves after their old livescrumbled."— Publishers' Weekly."This is a trail-blazingachievement, painstakinglyresearched and warmly written."—JOHN barkham, SaturdayReview SyndicaleIllustrated with photographs. $7.95UNIVERSITY OF (£CHICAGO PRESS '