THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZIVOLUME LXXINUMBER 2WINTER 1979THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOMAGAZINEVolume LXXI, Number 2Winter 1979(ISSN 0041-9508)Alumni Association5733 South University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637(312) 753-2175President: Charles W. Boand, LLB'33,MB A' 5 7Acting Director. Peter KountzAssistant Director Ruth HalloranProgram Director Sylvia HohriAlumni Schools CommitteeCoordinator: J. Robert Ball, Jr.Regional Offices10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 855Los Angeles, California 90067(213) 277-7727825 Third Avenue, Suite 1030New York, New York 10022(212)935-19771000 Chestnut Street, Apt. 7DSan Francisco, California 94109(415)928-0337601 Wilkes StreetAlexandria, Virginia 22314(703) 549-3800Second-class postage paid at Chicago,Illinois, and at additional mailing offices.Copyright 1979 by The University ofChicago. Published quarterly Spring, Summer,Autumn, and Winter by The Universityof Chicago. CONTENTSOn the Midway 2A Hyde Park Childhood 5Dorothy Michelson LivingstonNostalgia 14Postcard from Olympus 16Alumni News 18Class Notes 20Letters to the Editor 28Credits 28Editor: Iris M. PoliskiEditorial Assistant: Paula S. AusickON THE MIDWAYTuition Increases AnnouncedThe University announced its 1979-80tuition rates on February 15. Undergraduate tuition will be raised from$4,095 to $4,500, graduate tuition from$4,305 to $4,740, divinity and libraryschool tuition from $4,245 to $4,665,medical school tuition $4,380 to $4,965.In the law school, tuition will jump from$4,800 to $5,460, and in the businessschool, from $4,875 to $4,550.Charles D. O'Connell, University vicepresident and dean of students, indicated that to help financially needystudents, unrestricted student aid fromthe University's operating budget wouldbe increased by over ten percent, from$5.4 million to $6 million. In addition,O'Connell noted, students will continueto have the benefit of about $2 million inendowed student aid. He said that up totwenty percent more in federal and statescholarships is likely to be available toneedy undergraduates next school year.Room and board fees in the University's residence halls will also be raisedfor 1979-80. A freshman will pay$2,540 for full room and board, an increase from $2,310 in 1978-79-Sandmel First Helen A.Regenstein ProfessorSamuel Sandmel is the first Helen A.Regenstein Professor of Religion in theDivinity School. He was professor ofBible and Hellenistic Literature andformer provost and director of GraduateStudies at Hebrew Union College inCincinnati.The new professorship wasestablished by a grant from the Josephand Helen Regenstein Foundation tobring Sandmel to the University, according to Joseph M. Kitagawa, professorand dean of the Divinity School and pro fessor in the Department of Far EasternLanguages and Civilizations.Sandmel, a specialist in New Testament literature, particularly in its relation to Judaism, was general editor ofthe Oxford Study Edition of The NewEnglish Bible. His books include AJewish U nderstanding of the New Testament, The Hebrew Scriptures, Herod:Profile of a Tyrant, and The Enjoyment ofScripture. Oxford University Press willpublish his work on Philo of Alexandriathis year.Sandmel has been a visiting professorat the University of Chicago and at several European institutions, including theLeo Baeck College in London, where hewas Honorary Visiting Principal in1968-69- He is also a former presidentof the Society of Biblical Literature.A native of Dayton, Ohio, he receivedhis AB from the University of Missouriand his PhD from Yale. He is a graduateof Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati,where he was ordained in 1937. He hadserved on its faculty since 1952.On the Road for The U of CIn June 1982 some five hundred younggraduates will file into RockefellerMemorial Chapel wearing the variousexpressions with which most humansgreet moments of transcendent importance, boredom, anticipation,quietude, joy. Probably their thoughtsrange far beyond the quiet rustlingsounds that precede a University ofChicago convocation.Independent of such ambiance, but apart of each graduate's immediate history, is a chain of events that broughtthese fledgling doctors, teachers,lawyers, and citizens of the world to theUniversity. In 1977 these graduateswere hurrying through the rounds as signed to high school seniors: SATs,ACTs, achievement tests, hand-cramping forms to fill out, campus visits,interviews. They probably did not noticea crisply dressed young man with briefcase striding through the halls towardthe counselor's office, though some ofthem did eventually speak with him,squirming a bit under his insistent questions. Some never met him.The University of Chicago admissionsofficers — there are eight — have an important task: marketing the Universitythroughout high schools of the UnitedStates. They crisscross the country inplanes and in rented cars, sleeping in thepolyurethane splendor of motel chains,eating enough fast foods to destroyweaker digestive tracts.Informational materials in hand,week-long schedules on the dashboard,they turn onto the paved landscapeswhere America's young begin to passfrom adolescence to adulthood: the highschool compounds which, to the casualobserver, fade into interchangeability.Such University admissions officers asLuther Rollins, AB'76, and MichaelWalker, AB'72, are not casual observers,however. As they walk down schoolhalls to the counselors' offices, they arementally noting posters, informationsigns, bulletin boards, responses of students, the art work, even locker arrangements to gather what might becalled an individual-excellence index: Isthis a nurturing environment for a student who would flourish at The University of Chicago?Near the counselor's office thescrutiny becomes more specific. Whichare the favored colleges that rate starstatus in the form of pennants? What isthe balance of private to public institutions represented in the catalog information racks? How available to thestudents in this information? Is the University of Chicago represented? Arethere many out-of-state schools? Howmany are private liberal arts colleges?The counselor's arrival ends the inspection and, if this is a first visit, admissions officer and counselor begin hunting for the common denominator: students. The route is circuitous, and, according to the admissions officers whosetracks we are following, often one mustfirst penetrate the cloud of fallacies thatsurround the University of Chicago.On two bright days last November,Rollins and Walker encountered the twomost common misconceptions about theUniversity:Counselor: We are a walk-to highschool, as opposed to the outlying highschools where students can afford to2drive. So, I don't think you'll find manystudents here who can afford to go tothe University of Chicago.WALKER: We're still in the positionof looking for students first, and lookingat their financial resources afterward.We do not select schools to visit on thebasis of an economic index. Some of thecriteria we use are the number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists aschool has; schools that have sent students to the University in the past;schools that have a traditional connection with the University, such as facultymembers who are alumni or friends ofthe College; and schools where studentshave indicated interest in the College byreturning information flyers sent tomany of those who take the PreliminaryScholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) forcollege-bound juniors.Counselor: What about thisimage of the University of Chicagobeing in the middle of a ghetto whereyou step in and are never seen or heardfrom again?Walker: (Showing him a map ofthe city and pointing out the Universitylocation.) We're just west of theMuseum of Science and Industry andnot far from the lake. I live in HydePark, which is where the University islocated, and I do not feel unsafe. I don'thave a car, and I take public transportation everywhere. There was good reasonto worry about personal safety in the late50s and early 60s. In fact, a number ofpeople feared that the University's existence was in jeopardy, and some seriously suggested that the Universitymove. It didn't. Instead, it spearheadedone of the first and one of the few successful urban renewal projects in thecountry. Today, the University is a safeplace to work and study, and Hyde Parkhas one of the lowest crime rates forneighborhoods in Chicago.The misconceptions are enunciated,they are correctable, they are corrected.Such attitudes tend to make the luggageheavier and the miles longer for Rollinsand Walker. And then there are thecounselors, the principals, and certain ofthe students who have placed educationon the consumer shelf, its worth to beassessed in terms of immediately marketable skills."Half of our top students are seekingskill development, not education. Theysee themselves as electrical engineers.They are in a middle-income group thatdoes not qualify for federal aid. Andthat's the way it is," said one counselorin a suburban high school near Milwaukee. It is an area which, he noted,was rich in residents who are teachers. In a special visit, the University Laboratory School first grade class presentedPresident Hanna Gray with an inauguration collage. The class project grew fromthe students' fascination with the October inauguration procession. Mrs. Gray,describing the gift, said, "It covers half of my office and it has a rather smallperson labeled 'President' and then lots of very big people who are namedJennifer,' 'Michael,' and 'Sally,' and they have balloons coming out of theirmouths ... in which the children are saying, 'Hi, Dad,' as they watch the procession. And I am thankful to say, some balloons that say, 'Hi, Mom.' That showsyou how far the University has come."This kind of outlook provokes Rollins,who came to the University from aworking class neighborhood in Quincy,Illinois. A 1976 graduate of the Collegewho pieced together his education costswith a Stagg Scholarship, student aid,loans, and earnings, Rollins carries withhim a great empathy for the financiallystruggling student.Rollins sees too many school personnel who ask few questions, listen little,and are dedicated to coffee breaks andneat appointment books. He says this attitude is typified by the counselor whoannounced that she loved this time ofthe year because with all the student appointments, "the day goes quickly." Rollins and Walker use a persistent low-keyapproach to counter negative attitudes.By the time Rollins left, the counselorwho had said "That's the way it is" hadjoined in a more positive discussion ofthe reasons why young people and theirparents did not see the value of a qualityliberal arts education.What do the admissions officers say?They talk about the common core program, opportunities for undergraduateresearch, an eight-to-one teacher-student ratio, and varsity, intramural,and club sports programs. They talkabout a well-rounded student life on asmall campus where professors have meals with students in dormitory dininghalls. About the ASHUM program, afour-year program that follows two yearsof common core courses, conferring amasters degree in human biology and abetter-than-average chance for advancedstanding in medical school. They talkabout PERL (Politics, Economics,Rhetoric, and Law) and about intellectual rigor and commitment. "If youcan survive four years of this, you're notan average person," says Rollins, "andgraduate schools and prospective employers know this."They offer guidance to high schoolseniors. The young man at Case HighSchool in Racine who is interested inpolitical science and who might verywell go to the University of Wisconsin,got a two-minute survey on the state ofthe discipline and a suggestion of twoalternate majors from Walker. "If you'reinterested in foreign service or government work, I'd urge you to consider aprogram in public affairs such asChicago's perl program," says Walker."And, of course, languages should be animportant part of your program. Economics, either as a supplement or amajor, would make you attractive tomany employers."Continued on page 28.3At the Smart Gallery"The Decorative Designs of Frank LloydWright" exhibit brought some of the architect's most interesting work to theDavid and Alfred Smart Gallery thisFebruary.The exhibit included Wright's designsfor silver, china, linens, carpets, and adress, in addition to the familiar "organic" shapes of his architecture.Visitors to the exhibit were able tostudy the architect's original drawings,photographs of the finished projects,and associated pieces — a satisfying overview of each project presented.Mounted against cream-colored wallsdefined by oak trim, the exhibit was animmediate reminder of the Robie House. It remains Frank Lloyd Wright'sarchitectural landmark on the Universitycampus. Wright, speaking of the UnityTemple in Oak Park, the Imperial Hotelin Japan, and the Robie House, onceremarked, "These are what I had to say."On exhibition from March 12 throughMay 6 will bejackson Pollock: New FoundWorks. The Art of Russia: 1800-1850will be on display from May 18 throughJuly 5.The David and Alfred Smart Galleryis located on the campus of the University at 5550 South Greenwood Avenue.The Gallery welcomes the public, freeof charge, Tuesday through Saturdayfrom 10 AM to 4 PM and Sunday fromnoon to 4 PM.Above: Dining room table and chairs designed for the Federick C. Robie House (1908-09).Right: Window designed for the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois (1912).4A HYDE PARKCHILDHOODBy Dorothy Michelson LivingstonIllustrated by Linda Jamesyerson Laboratory was a mysterious sort of castle witha heavy oaken door into which my father disappearedalmost every day of my early life. I often walked withhim from our house on Kimbark and Fifty-eighthStreet to the laboratory, but on Saturday mornings he sometimes invited me inside.Leaving the bright winter sunlight, our eyes adjusted to the subdued light of thecorridor and we hung our coats in his office. I followed him down to the basementlaboratory where his assistant, Fred Pearson, greeted us. Fred and his brother notonly operated the instruments for experiments on the speed of light (the interferometer and the ruling engine), but they had also built them. In those days around1915, you had to start from scratch. For his experiment on the speed of light, holeshad been cut in the ceiling and walls of Ryerson to allow the beam of light, flashedfrom the rotating mirror, to play on the plane mirror placed in the attic at the far end ofthe building. The rotating mirror, crux of the experiment, had eight or sometimestwelve facets. I learned later that a beam of light projected from the source playedon one of these as it turned at one hundred twenty-eight revolutions per second.Mirrors and lenses guided the beam on its journey. By the time it returned to itssource, the mirror had turned a minute fraction of a degree, enough to divert thereturning beam to a measurable angle. My father, knowing the distance traveled, thespeed of the mirror, and the angle of deflection, could calculate C, the speed of light.Among the instruments in the basement was an extremely accurate balance. FredPearson showed me, by weighing one of my hairs, how sensitive it was. The littlescales staggered under its weight.Constructing the ruling engine had been a problem at Ryerson over the years. Itspurpose was ruling gratings — pieces of speculum, upon which a diamond etchedsome ten thousand lines to the inch. This diffraction grating served as a spectroscopeto break up a ray of light into its various colors. The finer the lines, the greater theresolving power. Any irregularities distorted the incoming beam as well as theinformation carried by these rays. The temperature surrounding the ruling engineisolated in the "Holy of Holies" had to be maintained at a constant degree. This meantthat we could only look at the prima donna under glass. Any fluctuation, even thatcaused by body heat, had to be avoided. These instruments were so sensitive that myfather, on assuming the chairmanship of the physics department, had requested thatthe foundations and walls of Ryerson Laboratory be built of extra-solid dimensionsand that all heavy traffic be diverted from the immediate vicinity.6In another room of the laboratory, Father showed me a collection of butterflies,hummingbirds' wings, and beetles he had brought back from South America wherehe had recently given a lecture. I looked at them through a microscope and saw apattern of ridges and grooves closely resembling the grating in the ruling engine.' Sunlight broke into iridescence on their surfaces. We marveled that these birds andinsects could produce diffraction in this effortless fashion.e children attended the Laboratory School on Kimbarkand Fifty-eighth. It was called the University Elementary School when I entered there for first grade in1912. We were taught the nursery rhymes in Latin,and in sixty-eight years I have not forgotten: Domina Maria, tota contrarialQuibiticrescit in borto? In May of 1917, the French president sent General Joffre and somemembers of their crack troop the "Blue Devils" to arouse American sympathy andbring us to their aid in World War I. We school children lined up along the Midwaywaving French flags and singing the Marseillaise as these burly warriors drove slowlyby in open cars.The Laboratory School's Scammon Gardens was the scene of many pageants. Withemphasis on the classics, we dressed in togas and tunics complete with helmets andspears to fight the glorious battle of the Greeks and Romans — all to music.Biology lessons took place there too. My class had the care of a large greenspotted frog. In the autumn we took his cage out to the garden to watch him burrowdown into the soft mud where he remained all winter, hibernating under the snow.In spring he emerged looking thin and hungry. We gave him a good breakfast ofangle worms.Almost every day when school was out I toured the neighborhood looking for abright yellow ice wagon pulled by huge black percherons and their driver on roundsdelivering ice. The driver somehow resembled his horses: tall, very strong, butgentle. Deliveries were made from the alleys dividing every block to the back doorsof each house.Cruising up and down these alleys, I heard the almost musical voices of mengathering scrap metal: "Rags and old iron . . . raaaags aaand ooooold iiiiiron."Kitchen doors opened from time to time as a housemaid called to have some debris7taken away. There are those at Ryerson who still believe that this is where theequipment for Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment ended up after his death, alongwith some Michelson interferometers.When I found a wagon, I would climb into the driver's seat and hold the reinswhile the driver chipped a block of ice in the rear of the wagon with his pick,clamped his tongs into it, swung it up on his shoulder which was protected by a largeblack leather pad, and carried it into a house. There, under the cook's direction, heshaped and fitted it into the ice box.In our family of three girls I was my mother's last cry for a male child. I don'tknow whether it was the psychological impact of this wish or my natural inclinationto be a tomboy that made me prefer wrestling with a gang of boys rather than playingwith dolls. I remember once getting the worst of a battle when my father, returningfrom the laboratory, passed a pile of dirty children pounding each other in the grass.Among the several pairs of limbs protruding from the scramble he recognized one ofmine, grabbed hold of it, and extracted his daughter. I received a severe lecture onour way home and that evening he and mother had a discussion about the problemof their rowdy child.e took a very dim view about my riding around on theice wagons, too. Curfew was imposed, under which Ilanguished indoors, secretly planning an escape. Out-.side my window, toward evening, I could see thelamplighter making his rounds with a tall pole which he inserted in the street lamp toignite the gas light. It began very small and slowly loomed brighter into a glowingflame. When surveillance was minimal, I took some savings from my pig bank,mounted my tricycle, and headed down Kimbark to Fifty-seventh Street and towardLake Michigan at a speed that frightened pedestrians. I passed Woodworth'sbookstore and Norton's candy shop (where I laid in supplies), peddled hard underthe Illinois Central viaduct, passed the Museum to La Rabida, then a pseudo-Spanish castle built on the lake front. Here I dismounted to sit on the steps andsavor the image of the confusion and remorse I hoped would be taking place athome. But as the evening set in I grew lonely and I was rather glad when a policemanbrought me home. There I was soundly spanked and forgiven.Our house on the corner of Fifty-eighth and Kimbark was surrounded by tall lilacbushes. In spring you could smell the blossoms all the way down to Woodlawn pastthe Robie house. No two houses could have been more unlike than these two. Ourshad turrets, fishtailed shingles, porches and a mysterious attic, dumbwaiters, and acoal cellar. The Robie house fascinated us then as it has generations since because ofFrank Lloyd Wright's astonishing streamlined construction. My sister Madeleine andher best friend Elizabeth Nitze, daughter of Professor William A. Nitze of romancelanguages at the University, had an ill-suppressed desire to investigate this house.One fine Thanksgiving afternoon they climbed over the low wall and finding an opendoor they entered. Near the kitchen they found a storeroom well stocked withjellies and jams, which they sat down to devour — jar after jar of raspberry, plum,and wild grape.Mrs. Robie suddenly appeared. Learning who they were, she led them to theliving room and gave them a lecture on the evils of illegal entry and theft. Mrs.Robie was an ardent Christian Scientist. "If you were hungry, children," she said,"you should have rung the doorbell and simply asked me for food." Madeleine wasunable to explain that this approach lacked something in the way of a challenge andbesides, they confessed they were not in the least hungry, having just finished adinner of turkey with cranberry sauce. They left after many apologies feeling ratherlike Peter Rabbit caught in Mr. McGregor's garden.My favorite playground lay just across Fifty-eighth Street between Kimbark andWoodlawn. The grass grew tall enough for hide-and-seek and the gnarled old cot-tonwoods were fine for climbing. Father would sometimes come with us to cut a littlebranch to make a whistle. He was as deft with his penknife as he was with each of hisinstruments. He chose the soft yellow part of a twig about four inches long and madea notch in it near one end. Then, loosening the bark by pinching it all along the twig,he slipped it off the bare stem. Using this inner core, he cut away a slice along thewhole length of it and then slipped it back into the tube of bark. It made a beautifulshrill note as he blew into it. My sisters, Madeleine and Beatrice, each received onecut so that the whistle made a chord when three of us blew together.My mother was something of a women's libber even in her day. She smokedcigarettes in public, admired Thorsten Veblen and Eugene Debs, fenced rather well,and rode horseback astride. Twice a week two handsome horses were brought fromthe Falkenburg stables to the stone mounting block in front of our house. She oftenrode with her friend, Harriet Walton Freund, wife of Professor Ernst Freund, whowas virtually the architect of the Law School. Mrs. Freund was quite a beautifulwoman, voluptuous in a glowing Renoir style, but she worried about her weight.Regular horseback riding was supposed to take it off. They rode over beautifulcinder trails winding down the Midway from Washington Park to Jackson Park past9the Japanese houses, remnants of the Exposition of 1893. Once Mother came backfrom one of these rides with a nasty cut on her cheek. Her horse had shied and pitchedher off, landing her in the cinders.eyond Hyde Park, my sisters and I were often takento hear Frederick Stock conduct the Thomas concertsat Orchestra Hall. We saw Pavlova do her famous"Dying Swan." We heard Galli-Curci sing and sawJoseph Schildkraut play in "Lilliom." But my personal taste was for a more vulgarform of entertainment. Whenever possible I escaped to the Frolic Movie House onFifty-fifth Street, where for ten cents I saw hero William S. Hart rescue maidenBlanche Sweet from the villain. Catching her in his arms as she hurled herself fromthe second story window, he galloped off toward the Nevada mountains and thesetting sun.South of Chicago lay the Indiana Dunes. In 1912 Miller was still a wilderness, afavorite spot for spring outings. It held a special charm for each member of myfamily. Other places to be considered included the quaking bog where islands ofsphagnum moss, bracken fern, and pink lady's slippers floated on an undergroundmarshy lake. The trick there was to jump from one island to another without sinkingin up to your thighs. My father opted for the dunes. He packed up his easel andwatercolors and took us in a cab to the Illinois Central station where we boarded asouthbound Stony Island local.My mother was an excellent amateur botanist, a former pupil of Professor Coulterin her undergraduate days at the University. The dunes, she told my sisters and me,are the most northerly stand of many subtropical plants and animals. Several speciesof cactus thrive as well as a hardy palmetto. Rattlesnakes too were found, she warnedus.My father would wander off to pick a subject for his watercolor. Holding hishands up to frame a rectangle, he selected a view that "composed." Sometimes Iwatched him work, blocking in the pines with thick brush and shading the dunes in acool wash tinged with violet. Lake Michigan went in the color of lead. If the sketch10became muddy through overworking as sometimes happened, he took out a penknife, ran it ruthlessly around the block pad to peel off the sheet. Discarding hiseffort, he would begin again more boldly.My sisters and I shed our shoes on the particular morning I recall, to dabble in thecold waters lapping the lonely shore, unpeopled as far as we could see."Come children," my mother called. "We will walk over to the moving dunes."Picking our way through the woods we climbed a hill to see where we were. Therebefore us was the naked dune blowing grain by grain across a forest of scrub oak,maple, pine, and hawthorn, leaving a broad trail of devastation behind it. Blackened trunks and leafless branches protruded from the withered floor of the lifelessforest. The dune, blown by the prevailing wind, was piling up across a patch of livingtrees, some of which were barely visible above the sand. In a desperate effort tosurvive, the oaks and maples were putting forth a mass of blossoms and a bumpercrop of winged seedlings. The blackened trail extended as far as we could see withsigns of life creeping back in patches of fireweed, blueberries, sassafras, and hazel-bush.Downwind, blithely unaware of the impending doom, stood the forest rustling inthe breeze. Birds filled the air with lively chirping, bees collected honey, insectsmunched, and life went on as though forever."Can't we stop it, Mother?" we asked anxiously. The answer came eventually withthe advent of the bulldozer, the subdivision, and the six-lane highway. Even in itsheartless assault, the wicked giant brings back a nostalgia now that he is tetheredunder beachgrass roots and imprisoned by the encroaching city.uring prohibition my mother was quite shameless'about distilling bathtub gin and various wines. Thedoorbell rang one day and I opened it to see a verywell-dressed gentleman who asked to see my mother."She is resting," I told him, "may I help you?" "Oh no thank you," he repliedentering the living room, "I'll just wait here." Not knowing about my mother'sclandestine operations I was rather nonplused at this stranger's behavior. I thoughthe might be a bill collector or a salesman of some sort. He did not look like one of11her botanists or poets. So I went up to her room and told her a Mr. What-ever-his-name-was awaited her downstairs. She sprang out of the chaise lounge where shehad been resting and went down to welcome him. Together they disappeared towhat had been the former maid's bathroom where I later found out he dropped theappropriate pills into the mixture of juniper berries and juice to hasten fermentation. Then with the formality of an undertaker, he bowed and made a discreet exit.My parents sold the big house on the corner of Fifty-eighth Street sometimearound 1925 and decided to build a smaller one on the back of the lot. Madeleine'shusband, Philip Maher, was the architect. On the evening before she sailed forEurope (Mother frequently sailed for Europe), she and Father dined with the Matters. "Would you like to build us a house, Philip?" she asked."What kind of house, Mrs. Michelson?" he asked."Oh, just an awfully nice house," she answered. Philip took out a pencil andsketched on the back of an envelope the pretty little French provincial house nowstanding at 1220 East Fifty-eighth Street."That looks charming," she said. "Put a little glass conservatory on the diningroom for my plants and have it ready when I return in the autumn." Philip says hehas never had a client so easily pleased before or since.Hyde Park had been through a dreary time in the fifties and early sixties, and itsaddened me to wander around my old haunts. But all that has changed now and Ifound much of the former charm reappearing. I look back on my childhood therewith affection and although I have no degrees after my name, I believe byosmosis — maybe, I absorbed the concept of real education growing up in the shadowof this great University.Dorothy Michelson Livingston is author o/Master of Light, a biography of herfather Albert A. Michelson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics — the firstAmerican to do so. Mrs. Livingston visited the University campus last summerand returned to many of the homes and haunts she describes here. She lives inNew York City. The ruling engine (p. 6) was transported — very carefully — toBausch and Lomb, Rochester, New York where it is still in use.Linda James, MFA'77, is a Chicago-based artist ivhose works have been exhibited at Midway Studios and The Joseph Regenstein Library. Her previous worksinclude designs for the Prince Charles luncheon {October 1977), the inauguration for Hanna H. Gray (October 1978), and the set design for EdwardAlbee's "Seascape" produced by Court Theatre (Winter 1979 season).Memories of the Pepsi GenerationForever a FreshmanOh let me stay forever new,Forever fresh and just-began,Forever sapling, never grew,Forever stripling, never man,Embracing still the stumbling loveOf tyro's curiosity,Not chasing yet the graces ofThe specialist's pomposity,Forever awed, enthralled, enfired,Ever snagged but never mired,Ever tasting, never sated,Eager to be educated,Trusting in professors' pearls,Lusting for the Good, the girls,Certain of my every creed,Shedding them the more I'd read,Aimless toward some higher rung,Stealing time I could not borrow,Never thinking past tomorrow,Reveling without remorse,Discussing Plato till I'm hoarse —O Time! Return that golden yearOf fledgling fun and novice cheer;Unclothe me as I stood before,To live a freshman, evermore!Paul Stregevsky, 1977.It's The Good Old Hyde ParkGame Rules— 1970OBJECT: The object of this game is to getout of Hyde Park for good. The winnergets a good laugh at everyone else's expense and gets to pick up the pieces.TO START: Each player chooses hiscounter and places it on the cornersquare designated "Bandersnatch." Eachthen draws two mobility cards; theplayer with the highest grade-point average goes first and play proceeds to theleft. The player whose turn it is is knownas "The Mover"; other players areknown as "Waiters." A "Waiter" becomes a "Mover" when it is his turn; thisfact becoming manifest when someonefinally says: "It's your turn."A SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSEON THE UTILITY OF GAMES: Games are forms of social frameworks to which theindividual subjects himself to ease theawkwardness of conversation. The realpurpose of people sitting together in acircle is talking. Games are useful in disguising those silences which occur whenno one has anything to say to anyoneelse. Bear this in mind and use the gamewisely (content, incidentally, is not relevant to the process of conversation. Youshould never permit your vacuity to influence your conversational performance), performing simultaneously anyother activity which people sittingaround in a circle together happen tosuggest to you.HOW TO WIN: You may leave HydePark for good when you have fulfilled allof the requirements, experienced all thatHyde Park has to offer, achieved afinancial and emotional equilibrium, andbe moving in the right direction.THE ADVANCED GAME: The advancedgame differs from the above rules inonly one particular: having fulfilled all ofthe above requirements, you must stillremain in Hyde Park. The ADVANCEDGAME is the more authentic version andis recommended to those who have mastered the BEGINNING GAME.Excerpted from "The Good Old Hyde ParkGame Rules," Year Box, 1970. Out of ChaosCollege and university officials may beconcerned about possible violence whenclasses resume next month, but violenceis not likely to be caused by a Universityof Chicago group whose main weapon issatire.Students for Violent Non-Action(SVNA) spark belly laughs, not administration buildings, when its members poke fun at pollution, war, prudery,women's liberation, politics, and anything worthy of contempt.The group of undergraduates so farhas:* Held nude swim-ins under auspices ofa subcommittee called Students Krazyfor Institutional Non-DenominationalNaked and Educational Diving intoPools (SKINNIEDIP).* Handed out pollution kits for personswithout their own pollution problems ina program called Grateful AmericansSupporting Pollution (GASP).* Launched a men's liberation movement called Student Project for EqualRights for Men (SPERM).* Formed a sisterhood called OutragedVirgins Uniting for Men (OVUM) "toprove conclusively the innate inferiorityof women, but perhaps their mentalsuperiority to the average, healthy African violet."Francine Malbranche, who will be ajunior history major this fall, said femaleSVNA members went to the women'sliberation demonstration at the CivicCenter Wednesday."The speakers were fantastically un-feminine," she declared. "We didn'tpicket ourselves. 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Iunderstand that if for any reason I am not completely satisfied, theymay be returned within ten days for a full refund or cancellation ofchargesList price totalLess 10%Sales tax(in III.) Total I enclose payment. Publishers pays postage.anywhere in the world. (Add 5% sales tax for orderssent to Illinois addresses.) Please bill me. To: The University of Chicago Press11030 S. Langley AvenueChicago, Illinois 60628NAME.ADDRESSCITY. -STATE. _ZIP_AD 041 715POSTCARDFROMOLYMPUSSunspots and the WeatherScientists are finding strong evidencethat solar eruptions, flares, and coronaldisturbances at and near the surface ofthe Sun contribute in an important wayto the climate of the Earth, directly affecting human fortunes. A useful guideto the intensity of solar activity is thenumber and duration of sunspots, "cool"regions that appear dark in contrast withthe rest of the Sun's face. Astronomershave studied sunspots for centuries, butthe mechanisms that produce and maintain the spots have eluded understanding until now, says University ofChicago astrophysicist Eugene N.Parker.Without solar activity, generated byintense magnetic fields in the Sun, theearth would be a much colder place,Parker says. When the Sun is in an activephase, it produces high levels of ultraviolet radiation and x-rays, which tend toheat the upper stratosphere of the Earth;this gives rise to north-south winds thatcarry warm tropical air toward the poles,moderating the climate in the temperatezones and producing a suitable environment for human activity.Sometimes the Sun "switches off" foras long as a century, with scarcely anymagnetic activity and few sunspots.Then the temperate regions grow cold,as they did in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such Sun-induced,prolonged cold snaps may have driventhe Norsemen out of Greenland, endingtheir colonization of North America; thefreezing of lakes in the warm and fertilevalley of the Yang-tze in China accompanied by major political unrest, wasprobably the result of another period of16 solar passivity. On the other hand, theSun entered a period of "superhigh" activity in the twelfth century, warmingthe Earth abnormally and causingdroughts that may have driven the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern UnitedStates out of their Mesa Verde territory.Magnetic field lines, and thus flaresand eruptions, on the Sun are concentrated in regions near sunspots. Thesunspots themselves, which are coolerthan the surrounding medium, do notproduce the solar activity that changesEarth's climate, but the spots are goodindicators of the extent of solar activityat a given time.The general appearance and behaviorof sunspots is well known. The spots arewide depressions, typically a fewthousand miles in diameter and severalhundred miles deep; they are shapedlike shallow pie plates, with slopingouter walls, dimpling the surface of theSun. Sunspots form when many magnetic flux tubes, near-vertical columns ofintense magnetic field about twohundred miles in diameter and manythousands of miles in length, cluster together to form a single large tube risingup from the solar surface and spreadingout like spokes on an umbrella. Additional flux tubes rise from the Sun's interior like great looping strands ofspaghetti and join the spot to maintainit. The spots endure anywhere fromhours to weeks, then break up into manyseparate tubes and disappear.But, says Parker, no one has explainedsatisfactorily why the spots form in thefirst place, or why they do not instantlydisintegrate whenever they happen to form. The individual flux tubes, driftingat random across the face of the Sun,have no apparent reason to group themselves together: Indeed, the magnetictubes should repel one another, like twopower lines held close together,whenever they chance to meet.Parker resolves the problem by invoking an unseen current beneath the visible surface of the Sun that carries fluxtubes over to a newly forming spot andbinds the tubes together to maintain thespot's existence. This invisible current,the product of thermal convection beneath the spot, acts on the tubes byaerodynamic drag forces."We can understand sunspots," hesays, "only if we assume that underneaththem are convective downdrafts: If youlook at the dynamical behavior of themagnetic flux tubes associated withsunspots, you must assume adowndraft."The effect, says Parker, can be understood in terms of a terrestrial analogy,the apparent motion of icebergs againstthe prevailing surface currents. Most ofthe iceberg, as is well known, is underwater. A strong current below the surface, moving in a different directionfrom the ocean's surface layers, can carrythe iceberg "against the current" as seenfrom above. In the same way, a powerfuldowndraft beneath a sunspot wouldgenerate currents deep under the Sun'ssurface (beginning about five hundred toone thousand miles down) convergingradially on the spot. These deep currentstend to drag the flux tubes, against electromagnetic resistance, into a tight-knitgroup within the sunspot's boundaries.The presumed downdraft, in additionto corralling magnetic flux tubes to preserve and enlarge the spot, serves to reduce upward energy flow and disperseheat piling up beneath the spot due toconvection. It makes possible the stability of sunspots, which Parker labels the"dynamical clustering phenomenon."Unfortunately, astronomers cannotsee deep enough into the Sun to observethe underside of a sunspot directly. "Sowe have at once propounded a theoryand cut off any hope of verification,"says Parker. "At present, I don't see anydirect confirmation or refutation in thecards."Eugene N. Parker is DistinguishedService Professor in the Departments ofAstronomy and Physics, the EnricoFermi Institute and the College, andformer chairman of the Department ofAstronomy. Parker's research onsunspots is supported under a generalgrant from the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration.University of Chicago AlumniAre Invited to AttendFOTA(Festival of the Arts)Major Events IncludeApril 20 FOTA FESTFOTA's 25th Opening CelebrationReification Company, Mighty Joe Young and much moreIda Noyes, 9:00pm - 1 :00amApril 30Mandel Hall, 8:00pmMay 12 Anark Twain ¦ One AAan SnowRichard HenzelCloister Club, 8:00pmMay 19 FOTA Picnic en the QuadsNoon to 4:00pmREUNION '79(May 18th & 19th)For more information on either of these events fill in the form below and mail to:Program OfficeAlumni AssociationUniversity of Chicago5733 S. UniversityChicago, IL 60637Name,(Please Print Clearly)Address Phone (Day) (Evening)Class of 1 9 Please send me information about ? FOTA ? Reunion17ALUMNI NEWSAndrew W. Mellon Foundation GivesUniversity $1 Million.A grant of $1 million was awarded to theUniversity this February by the AndrewW. Mellon Foundation. The grant, forthe support positions for outstandingyounger and intermediate faculty members in the humanities, is one of a seriesawarded to five major research universities for this purpose. The Mellonprogram will allow the universities toappoint, reappoint, or advance to tenurea limited number of younger humanistswhom the institutions could not otherwise appoint, retain, or advance.In accepting the grant, PresidentHanna Gray said, "Once again, the Mellon Foundation has created a programthat addresses a critical and central needof the University. This program is amost welcome successor to the earlierMellon Grant in support of junior faculty. We are enormously grateful to theFoundation for its generous support andfor the spirit which informs it." Mrs.Gray said the precise allocation of thegrant would be made by the provost inconsultation with the dean of the Division of Humanities.The terms of the Mellon grant allowthe University to spend the $1 millionduring a seven to ten-year period. TheUniversity is required to raise $1 millionin matching endowment funds committed to the purposes of the grant. If theUniversity matches the Mellon award ona three to one basis, an additional$700,000 of endowment funds will beavailable from the Foundation.Commission Studies Alumni AffairsAn ad hoc Commission on Alumni Affairs has been appointed by Hanna Hol-born Gray, University president; the group has been asked to review the University's relationship with its 86,000alumni and to propose a restatement ofthe general principles and purposes ofthe University's Alumni Association andits programs.Commenting on this charge, Mrs.Gray said, "It is appropriate and important to conduct a general study of theUniversity's relationship with its alumniand alumnae at this time." Among thespecific topics the group will considerare: the objectives and effect of localalumni clubs, the involvement of alumniin recruiting applicants for the College,the adequacy of communication withAlumni and the relationship of theAlumni Association to the University'sfund raising activity.University Trustee Arthur Schultz,X'41, AB'67, chairman of the board ofFoote, Cone and Belding, is chairman ofthe Commission. The first meeting wasin mid-February; a total of at least fourmeetings will be held before the groupsubmits its final report to President Grayin June 1979- The Commission willcarry out much of its work through subcommittees.Schultz emphasized the importance ofmaintaining a good relationship betweenthe University and its alumni. "It's atwo-way street," he said. "The alumnisupports the University through recruiting, annual contributions, and moralsupport, while the life of each alumnuscan be enriched with intimate involvement in University affairs."The members of the commission are:EDWARD ANDERSON, JR., PhB'46,SM'49, partner-investment broker withTweedy, Browne & Knapp; WALTER J.BLUM, AB'39, JD'4l, the Wilson-Dickerson Professor of Law at the Uni versity of Chicago; CHARLES W. BOAND,LLB'33, MBA'57, an attorney with Wilson& Mcllvain and president of the AlumniAssociation; ROBERT FITZGERALD,MBA'60, vice president of Harris Trust& Savings; LUCY ANNE GEISELMAN,PhD'65, dean of the Department of Continuing Education and acting assistantchancellor, University of California,Berkeley; MICHAEL KLOWDEN, AB'67,an attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg &Knupp; Sister CANDIDA LUND, PhD'63,president of Rosary College; JANEL M.MUELLER, associate professor of Englishat the University of Chicago; CHARLESD. O'CONNELL, AM'47, vice presidentand dean of students and associate professor in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago;EDWARD W. ROSENHEIM, JR., AB'39,AM'46, PhD'53, professor of English atthe University of Chicago; DAVIDSCHRAMM, professor of astronomy andastrophysics at the University ofChicago; ARTHUR SCHULTZ, x'4l,AB'67, chairman of the board of Foote,Cone & Belding; DANIEL C. SMITH,AB'38, JD'40, vice president and generalcounsel, fmc Corporation; WILLIAMkontos, ab'47, am'48, chief of US-SinaiSupport Mission and JUANA SINCLAIRHARPER, AB'74.Alumni are invited to send suggestions and comments to the commissionalso; letters can be directed to ArthurSchultz, chairman, in care of AlumniHouse, 5733 University Avenue,Chicago, Illinois 60637.Alaska and China Tours UnderwayA trip to mainland China, with stopoversin Egypt and Paris is scheduled for December 1 through 24, 1979- Sponsoredby the University's Extension Division,the tour is limited to fifty persons andwill cost $3,475.Guide for the artistic and cultural aspects of China is Harrie A. Vanderstap-pen, professor of an, Departments ofArt and of Far Eastern Languages andCivilizations at the University. Participants will visit five Chinese cities including Peking and view the Summer Palace,the Temple and Altar of Heaven, andthe army of six-thousand life-size claysoldiers.The Ming Tombs, Yungang, Sian,Loyang, Chenchou, and Shanghai are onthe itinerary. The Cairo stop, scheduledfor December 2, includes a tour of thepyramids and an optional trip to Luxor.The two-day stop in Paris on the return18Jay Berwanger, AB'36, first Heisman Trophy winner.trip may be considered optional; thosewishing to omit Paris will pay $60.00less than the total tour cost.Additionally, an Alaska cruise, scheduled from August 4 through 19 is available to the alumni and friends of theUniversity. Planned via the Inside Passage, travelers will see Glacier Bay,Juneau, Valdez, Sitka, and Ketchikan.The cruise itinerary will permit excursions to Glacier Bay National Monument, Prince Rupert, and the nineteenthcentury town of Homer. The ship is theS.S. Universe, and the tour guide isSarah Robinson of the University. Thetour cost varies from $1,577 to $2,077depending upon cabin accommodations,and additional charges will be made foroptional excursions to the Arctic Circleand Alyeska.Brochures and all cost and travel information are available from JoanCowan, Assistant Dean, University ofChicago Extension, 1307 East 60thStreet, Chicago, Illinois 60637. Or call(312) 753-4178.Alumni College ExaminesHigher EducationThe annual Alumni College will convene July 23 through 28 at The Centerfor Continuing Education on the University campus. Alumni and alumni family members are invited to attend.Speakers and discussion groups willconcentrate on "Higher Education —Current Problems and Future Trends"and will consider facets of the directions,economics, and methods of education.Education in the United States will becompared to its European counterpart,and the effects of the federal government's pressures on education will beexamined. Seminars on graduate, professional, and non-traditional educationwill round out the week of discussion.Additional tours, entertainments, andprograms will be available for participants and for their families. Most of thelecturers will be members of the University faculty, and as in other years, willjoin the group for informal conversation. Further information is availablefrom Alumni College, Center for Continuing Education, 1307 East 60thStreet, Chicago, Illinois 60637.Berwanger Presents Heisman Trophy toUniversityOn December 5, 1935, Jay Berwanger,AB'36, was awarded the first HeismanTrophy. In a piece of elegant understatement, one of the Chicago newspapers remarked that Berwanger was "the best football player east of the Mississippi River" and noted the award.The Heisman Trophy has since become a symbol of athletic excellence andan honored and coveted award. At aspecial testimonial dinner this December, some 135 alumni, faculty, andfriends of the University were presentwhen Jay Berwanger gave his HeismanTrophy to the University. It stands instate in the Bartlett Gymnasium TrophyRoom, a tribute to Ail-Americannumber 99, the man who earned it, andto the spirit of athletics at the University.Alumni EventsDETROIT: On November 14 at the Mackinac Level of the Renaissance Center,Richard Taub, associate professor of social sciences, spoke to alumni andfriends about "The Future of the City."NEW JERSEY: Melvin B. Gottlieb, SB'40,PhD' 50, director of the Plasma PhysicsLaboratory at Princeton, spoke to areaalumni and friends on the developmentof nuclear fusion as an alternative meansof producing energy on November 29 atSt. James Church in Upper Montclair.Albert Meyer, SB'27, PhD'30, was thealumni coordinator.NEW YORK CITY: Area alumni andfriends gathered at THE BALLROOM onJanuary 22 to hear one of the country'sleading jazz pianists, Dick Hyman.NEW ORLEANS: Richard Stern, professorin the Department of English, spoke to area alumni on January 21. Joan Bennett, SM'64, PhD'67, coordinated theevent.SAN DIEGO: Jonathan Z. Smith, dean ofthe College and the William BentonProfessor of Religion and the HumanSciences in the College, spoke to areaalumni and friends on a "Portrait of theCollege Today."SAN FRANCISCO: On December 7 areaalumni and friends were treated to a discussion and slide show of "Nuclear Messengers from Our Sun and Galaxy — U ofC Experiments in Space" by John A.Simpson, the Arthur Holly ComptonDistinguished Service Professor in theDepartment of Physics, Enrico FermiInstitute, and the College.CHICAGO: During November and December, city and suburban area alumniattended receptions to honor newly installed President Hanna H. Gray. Thefour receptions were held at the Continental Plaza on November 6; theSheraton-Oak brook on November 12;the Holiday Inn O'Hare/Kennedy onNovember 19; and Hutchinson Commons on December 3-MILWAUKEE: On February 4, areaalumni met President Hanna H. Gray ata reception held in her honor at the Performing Arts Center of the BradleyPavilion.HOLLYWOOD-MIAMI: President HannaH. Gray greeted area alumni at a reception held in her honor at the DiplomatHotel on February 25.191924ALICE CRANDELL PARK, SB'24, was included in the Who's Who of AmericanWomen, tenth edition. She had compiled and published an historical genealogy, Parklels and Bunch on the TrailWest.1925BENJAMIN E. MAYS, AM'25,PhD'35, isthe first recipient of the American Educator Award. Established by U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest L. Boyer,it honors individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment andoutstanding leadership in helping toachieve the goals of access and excellence in education. Mays, who was a recipient of a University of ChicagoAlumni Medal in 1978, serves as thechairman of the board of education forthe city of Atlanta.1926WILTON M. KROGMAN, PhB'25, AM'27,PhD'29, continues as director of research at the H. K. Cooper Institute forResearch, Education, and Rehabilitationof the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Cleft Palate Clinic. In the June-July issue ofModern Maturity, Krogman was described as "foremost among a handful oftalented physical anthropologists. Heknows so much . . . that, working with20 CLASS NOTESan artist or sculptor, he can help identifya body by reconstructing facial and physical features from only skeletal remains."1928ALONZO POND, AM'28, was a recent recipient of a distinguished service citationfrom Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.He is an authority on desert areas and isco-author of The Survival Book, whichremains widely used. He was director ofWisconsin's Cave of the Mounds in theearly 1940s and later served nine yearsas chief of the desert branch, Arctic-Desert-Tropic Information Center, AirUniversity, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.1930ROBERT S. SHANE, SB'30, PhD'33, hasbeen named a fellow of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers.1931According to PAUL J. HARTSUCH, SM'31,PhD'35, a group of University alumnigathered in Jacksonville, Arkansas lastspring. Some of the attendees had notseen each other for forty years. Includedwere lyle o. hill, sm'33, PhD'38;JAMES R. MACDONALD, PhD'36; ALBERTE. SID WELL, PhD'34; JAMES H. PHILLIPS, SM'62, and HENRY W. NEWSON,PhD'34. Hill was president of Reason-Hill, Inc. in Jacksonville. Macdonald was head of the Department of MechanicalEngineering at the University of Mis-sippi; Sidwell is director of research anddevelopment at Transvaal Inc. inJacksonville; Phillips is energy coordinator for Region V of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Newson is the James B. Duke Professorof Physics at Duke University and director of the Triangle Universities NuclearLaboratory.A lectureship in higher education hasbeen named for EARL V. PULLIAS,AM'31, professor emeritus of highereducation at the University of SouthernCalifornia in Los Angeles. He was thefirst chairman of the Department ofHigher Education there.JAMES H. SMITH, am'31, professoremeritus at Loyola University, is movingfrom Chicago to Rancho Palos Verdes,California. He was the first deputy superintendent of the Chicago PublicSchools.1934RUTH CAMP CALLAHAN, PhB'34, SM'35,has retired from Proctor and Gamble."We moved," she says, "from our farmto Rising Sun where we have a houseoverlooking the Ohio River." She ispresident of the Ohio County Councilon Aging.ROBERT p. TATE, PhB'34, was electedto honorary membership on IllinoisWesleyan University's board of trustees.He is a retired insurance executive andreal estate developer.1935ROBERT M. ADAMS, AM'35 and BETTYBACHRACH ADAMS AM'33, have brisklyretired to Northhampton, Massachusetts. They canoe, swim, hike, andbirdwatch over the U.S. and in Europe.He has been a member of the AmericanAssociation of Variable Star Observersfor thirty years and has logged nearly60,000 observations of same. She hasalmost 400 life birds to her credit.1937NORA RYERSON RANNEY, X'37, hasbeen appointed to the executive committee of the Chicago CommunityTrust, a collective of 150 family and individual charitable funds. Mrs. Ranneyhas worked for civic organizations including the Chicago Commons Association and the Orchestral Association.1940CHARLIE SHEDD, x'40, and his wifeMartha are involved in family and marriage counseling from their home base inFrogmore, South Carolina.1941This fall JOSEPH B. GITTLER, PhD'4l,was Distinguished Visiting Professor ofSociology at George Mason Universityof the State University System of Virginia. This April he will be a visiting professor of American studies at HiroshimaUniversity, Japan. He retired last Junefrom Yeshiva University, New YorkCity, where he was a dean and universityprofessor of sociology.FRED T. HOLDEN, PhD'4l, has beenpromoted to senior geological scientistat the Exxon Company. He is assignedto the southwestern exploration divisionin Midland, Texas.RALPH B. JACKSON, SR., AB'4l, reports from Godfrey, Illinois that he is nolonger at Western Military Academy,which was sold in March. However, hismemorabilia from there include a 75mmcannon which he has tucked away in theback yard and his 1931 Model A Ford"complete with brother-in-law seat."For the 1978-79 academic year,ALBERT SOMIT, AB'4l,PhD'47, executivevice president and professor of politicalscience at State University of New Yorkat Buffalo, is on leave as a fellow at theNetherlands Institute for AdvancedStudy in the humanities and social sciences. He will also direct a study of recent changes in European universitygovernance.1942HOWARD C. DRIBBLE, md'42, has joinedthe staff of the Southern IllinoisUniversity-Carbondale Health Serviceas a primary care general physician.JOHN H. JOHNSON, x'42, has beennamed to the international executivecommittee of Here's Life, a Christiansocial and evangelistic mission. Johnsonis publisher of Ebony, Jet, Ebony Jr., BlackStars, and Black World.1943JOHN F. GUSTAFSON, Ab'43, has beenelected a member of and has been certified as a management consultant by theInstitute of Management Consultants.MARSHALL W. WILEY, PhB'43, JD'48,MBA'49, has been nominated to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. Hejoined the Foreign Service in 1958 andwas posted in Taiz, Beirut, and Amman.He has been principal officer in Cairoand director of North African Affairs atthe State Department. He was principalofficer in Baghdad from 1975 to 1977and was most recently Deputy Chief ofMission in Jidda.1947MARGARET H. SMITH, Sm'47, recently retired from Southeast Missouri StateUniversity, Cape Girardeau, Missouri.She had been associate professor of geography there.1948GEORGE ANASTAPLO, AB'48,PhD'64, was Distinguished VisitingProfessor in the Department of Political Science at Memphis State University for the autumn quarter. Hetaught a course entitled "LandmarkCases in Constitutional Law."CHARLES F. CLUSTER, AB'48, JD'58,has joined the law firm of Vedder, Price,Kaufman & Kammholz as a partner intheir Chicago office.In September GERALD B. GREEN-WALD, AB'48, JD'51, presented a paper,"Liquefied Natural Gas TransportationSafety," to an International Bar Association meeting in Sydney, Australia.Greenwald is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arent, Fox, Kint-ner, Plotkin & Kahn.HELEN TUNIK GOLDSTEIN, AB'48, is alecturer in religious studies at GrinnellCollege, Iowa.SEYMOUR L. HALLECK, PhB'48, SB'50,MD'52, professor of psychiatry at theUniversity of North Carolina at ChapelHill, was presented the Edwin Sutherland Award by the American Society ofCriminology. A specialist in forensicpsychiatry, Halleck has written andedited numerous books and articles oncrime. He is a member of the board ofdirectors of the National Council onCrime and Delinquency and the American Society of Criminology.LAURIN L. HENRY, AM'48, PhD'60, isdean of the School of Community Services at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. An authority onthe U.S. presidency and on governmental bureaucracy, Henry was previously a senior staff member and research associate at the Brookings Institute, Washington, D.C.JEROME M. ZIEGLER, AM'48, is thedean of the New York State College ofHuman Ecology at Cornell University.A specialist in urban education, highereducation, and intergovernmental relations, he was previously chairman ofthe Department of Urban Affairs andPolicy Analysis at the New School forSocial Research.1949ARYEH BLUMBERG, AM'49, AM'51,PhD'73, was appointed a professor ofadministrative sciences in the School ofProfessional Arts and Sciences atMontclair State College, New Jersey. KENNETH T. BROWN, SM'45,PhD'5 1,has been appointed to the National Advisory Eye Council. Brown is an authority on retinal physiology and a professorof physiology at the University ofCalifornia at San Francisco.FRANK S. GREENBERG, PhB'49, ischairman of Grinnell College's ParentsFund for 1978-79- He is president ofBurlington Industries Inc.JOHN C. RAYBURN, AM'49, PhD'55,has retired as dean of graduate studiesand professor of history at Texas A & IUniversity, Kingsville, Texas. He is afellow of the Texas State Historical Association.vernon snow, am'49, professor ofEnglish history at the Maxwell School atSyracuse University and curator of theCenter for Parliamentary History atYale, has been named to the board oftrustees of Clarkson College, Potsdam,New York.1950COLLIN D. CAMPBELL, PhD'50, an authority on money and banking and amember of the Dartmouth College economics faculty since 1956, is the first incumbent of its Berry Professorship, thefirst designated specifically for the Department of Economics.VERNON W. RUTTAN, AB'50,PhD'52,returned to the University of Minnesotaa professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics afterfive years as president of the Agricultural Development Council in NewYork. In May he received an honoraryDoctor of Law degree from RutgersUniversity in recognition of his work inagricultural development.FRANK M. SCHABEL, JR., PhD'50, director of chemotherapy research atSouthern Research Institute inBirmingham, Alabama was the recipientof the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb MemorialAward for his work in the development,improvement, and application of a variety of animal tumors as models for thestudy of human cancer. Schabel alsoholds appointments in the Departmentsof Microbiology, Pathology, andMedicine at the University of AlabamaMedical Center.1951ERNEST w. COOK, am'51, has recentlystarted a management consultant business specializing in human serviceagencies. He has served as deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, director ofhealth planning for Rhode Island, andregional services administrator for theDepartment of Mental Health.211952MARTIN M. ARLOOK, AB'52, was appointed by the National Labor RelationsBoard as its regional director for PuertoRico and the Virgin Islands. He hasbeen a member of the Board's legal staffsince I960.MARY CRUMLEY, AM' 5 2, is the recipient of the 1978 Human Rights Award,presented by the United Nations Association of McLean County, Illinois. Shewas honored for her work with the Illinois State University host family program for foreign students. 1953PETER H. AMANN, AM'53, PhD'58, hasbeen appointed William E. Stirton Professor of History at the University ofMichigan at Dearborn.1954RALPH CONANT, AM'54, PhD'59, is thepresident of University College, Camden, Maine. He is the former presidentof Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois.JUSTIN M. JOHNSON, AB'54, JD'62,has been named to the board of trusteesof Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh.He also serves as vice chairman of the board of the State Board of LawExaminers.1955JOHN BENFIELD, MD'55, has been appointed chairman of the Division ofSurgery at the City of Hope NationalMedical Center, Duarte, California. Heis known for his lung transplantation research and his clinical contributions incancer of the lung, breast, andesophagus.JAMES SCHOENWETTER, AB'55,AB'56 has been promoted to full professor of anthropology at Arizona StateUniversity in Tempe. He reports,J-lte Uimveiutu oj- Chicaae Student cd-ctivdui LJtTice /Uteienti{eatnunc.J-lte, K^s/lenri yvLulet KJtclie^ttJLet. the Jinection o <z^>falua oj: /Uea'cUimmFor additional information, call the Student Activities Office,(312) 753-3593.Return to: Ms. Kathleen WildmanManager, Reynolds Club5706 S. University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637Please sencL .tickets at $12.00 each for STRINGOF PEARLS on April 27, 1979. FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1979Ida Noyes Hall 9:00 pm1212 East 59th Street<^>ltina or 1/ea.tliNameStreet-City. -State- _Zip_TelephonePlease enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope and your check madepayable to the University of Chicago with this form.22somewhat whimsically, that "with myundergraduate record I wouldn't fulfillminimum requirements for admission toASU's graduate program today. On theother hand, the 1951 [uc] Collegecatalog did insist that the program wasdesigned to produce scholars."1956JAMES S. KAHN, PhD'56, has beennamed associate director for nucleartesting at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California.FRANKLIN N. KARMATZ, AM'56, hasbeen appointed senior lecturer to theQueensland Institute of Technology,Brisbane, Australia. He was previouslyat the University of Missouri where heheld a chair for business journalism.Prior to his teaching career, Karmatzworked as a reporter for Time and was abureau chief for Business Week. He conceived, designed, and edited the ChicagoReview which still maintains the formathe originated in 1953.CHARLES S. RHYNE, AM'56, was madea full professor of art history at ReedCollege in Portland, Oregon.1957DELPHINE BARTOSIK, SB'57, has beennamed acting director of the Division ofGynecologic Endocrinology at theHahnemann Medical College & Hospital in Philadelphia.JARO MAYDA, JD'57, professor of lawat the University of Puerto Rico LawSchool, was a consultant to the UnitedNations' environment program on "Definitions of Internationally Shared Natural Resources" and worked in cooperation with the International Associationof Legal Science on a "Manual on Environmental Legislation." He is also amember of an expert group on the control of offshore sources of pollutionunder the 1976 Barcelona Conventionfor the protection of the Mediterranean.1958ROBERT BERGMAN, SB'58, MD'62, is thedirector of residency training in the Department of Psychiatry of the Universityof New Mexico Medical School.LAWRENCE D. KESSLER, AB'58,AM'62, PhD'69, associate professor ofhistory at the University of NorthCarolina, has been appointed directorfor international programs in the College of Arts and Science at UNC.Economist HERBERT STEIN, phD'58,was appointed a senior fellow of theAmerican Enterprise Institute for PublicPolicy Research, Washington, D.C. Heis the A. Willis Robertson Professor ofEconomics at the University of Virginia. 1959ALAN B. ANDERSON, DB'59, AM'66,PhD'75, is head of the Department ofReligious Studies at the University ofNorth Carolina at Greensboro. He isco-author of The Pastoral Ministry andthe Life of the Priest and is at work on asecond book.1960EDNA HEATHERINGTON BERGMAN,SB'60, received a Master of Architecturedegree from the University of NewMexico in August. She is revising herthesis for a book and is presently employed with Channell Graham inAlbuquerque.STANLEY D. CHRISTIANSON, MBA'60,has joined the board of directors ofThrall Car Manufacturing Co, ChicagoHeights, Illinois. He has served the firmas treasurer-controller, vice president-treasurer, and vice president of finance.JOHN PHILLIPS, AB'60, PhD'66, exhibited his paintings in the Bergman Gallery of the University of Chicago lastfall.1961MURRAY STUART DAVIS, AB'6l, AM'62,writes from the University of Californiaat San Diego that he is a professor ofsociology, happily married, and writingbooks. His first book was published ayear ago.BARBARA LERNER, AM'6l, PhD'65,JD'77, Chicago psychologist and attorney, has been appointed the first Visiting Scholar in Measurement and PublicPolicy at the Educational Testing Servicein Princeton, New Jersey.RODNEY NAPIER, AM'6T, is presidentof the Athyn Group, Management Consultants, Philadelphia. He is a formerprofessor of psychoeducational servicesat Temple University.1962CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH, AM'62,PhD'66, associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics atthe University of Maryland, had received a National Endowment for theHumanities research grant to do a seriesof translations of Averroes' Middle Commentaries on Aristotle's Organon.ROLF CHARLSTON, AM'62, AM'64, hasbeen named associate academic dean atNewberry College, South Carolina.Charlston was formerly the assistantarchvist/historian for the LutheranSchool of Theology in Chicago.CLINTON p. FUELING, SM'62, professor of mathematics at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, received a grant to study the potential for maximizing the service of very expensive computer centers.GARY GREENBERG, AB'62, AM'63, hasjoined a research expedition in theGalapagos Islands to monitor the behavior of the land iguana.JOHN GUBBAY, MBa'62, received aPhD in education from Northern IllinoisUniversity in 1977 and is an assistantprofessor of business at Moraine ValleyCommunity College in Palos Hills, Illinois.1963Colleagues and friends at Yale University Law School have established aneducational trust fund for the childrenof the late t. franke o'rourke, jd'63-Yale professor of law, STEPHENWIZNER, JD'63, is the trustee of the fund.DOUGLAS R. WHITE, SB'63, MD'67, isassociate professor of medicine at theBowman Gray School of Medicine ofWake Forest University. Co-chairman ofthe Professional Education Committeeof the American Cancer Society, hisprimary research interest is in the treatment of breast cancer.1964ANDREW A. AFFRUNTI, MBA'64, hasbeen promoted to director of manufacturing for the Bassick Division ofStewart Warner Corp. in Bridgeport,Connecticut. He is also in charge of theBassick plant in Spring Valley, Illinois.WILLIAM E. BRENNEN, MBA'64, hasbeen elected a member of the Instituteof Management Consultants. He is president of W. E. Brennen & Co., inEvanston, Illinois.NORMAN DIAMOND, AB'64, is takingoff "a year or two" to work on twobooks, one on questions of politicalstrategy, the other on factors influencingconcepts in science. He is chairman ofthe Department of Political Sciences atAntioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.DOUGLAS R. MCMANIS, PhD'64, wasappointed editor of Geographical Review.LINDA THOREN, AB'64, JD'67, hasjoined the firm of Hopkins, Sutter, Mul-roy, Davis & Cromartie in Chicago.1965martin DANN, AM'65, received his PhDlast June from the Graduate Center ofCity University of New York. His dissertation was "Social History of Immigrant and Working Class Childhood,1890-1915."EUGENE GARVER, AB'65, PhD'73, waspromoted to associate professor of philosophy at California State University atSan Bernardino.23BENNETT G. GRAY, AM'65, is an assistant professor of English at EssexCounty College in Newark, New Jersey.He recently opened a bookstore in EastOrange, New Jersey — J&B Quality Paperbacks. The bookstore specializes inblack literature.ALLAN L. PORT, SB'65, has joined theAnalytic Sciences Corporation in Reading, Maine where he is a member of itsresource management group. Previously, Port was an assistant professorof mathematics at Temple University inPhiladelphia.WILLIAM F. STEIGMAN, JD'65, is legalcounsel for Hahnemann Medical College & Hospital of Philadelphia. He wasformerly assistant director and seniorstaff attorney, Office of the GeneralCounsel, American Hospital Association, Chicago.ARTHUR E. WISE, MBA'65, PhD'67, hasjoined the Rand Corporation's education policy research center in SantaMonica, California. He had been servingPresident Carter in a project to create acabinet-level department of educationand will continue to assist the project ona part-time basis. He had been associatedean of the Graduate School of Education and associate professor of educationat the University of Chicago.1966ROBERT BIANCHI, AB'66, AM'68,PhD'77, has been appointed to the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies inCalifornia where his area of specialty isthe Middle East.SANDRA C. DANFORTH, AB'66, AM'69,PhD'77, is assistant professor of politicalscience at Grinnell College, Iowa. Shewas a member of the faculty at FortLewis College and had been an administrative assistant with the American Research Institute in Turkey, and was aPeace Corps volunteer.ARTHUR v. WOLFE, PhD'66, is associate professor of management atTexas A&M University. He is presidentof Arthur Wolfe and Associates, a management consulting firm.1967KNIGHT COOLIDGE, AB'67, MBA'71,married Karen A. Grady in St. Anne'sChurch, Annapolis, Maryland, in September.IGNACIO D. MARAMBA, MBA'67, is asenior investment officer at the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C.PETER W. PARSHALL, AM'67, PhD'74,was made associate professor of art history by Reed College, Portland, Oregon. Sister MARY JOYCE SCHLADWEILER,AM'67, is now at Cardinal Stritch College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a reading clinician, instructor of college skills,and coordinator of the Reading/StudySkills Lab.AVIS C. VIDAL, AB'67, is assistant professor in the Department of City andRegional Planning at Harvard University.1968ROBERT CHEVALIER, SB'68, MD'72, wasrecently appointed to the faculty of theUniversity of Virginia at Charlottesville.He is assistant professor of pediatrics.FRANCINE GLASBERG NAVAKAS,AB'68, PhD'72, has been appointed as apart-time visiting lecturer in English atNorth Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She was an assistant professor ofEnglish at Temple University inPhiladelphia.DAVID E. GUMPERT, AB'68, has joinedthe Harvard Business Review as associateeditor. He was previously with the Boston bureau of the Wall Street Journalwhere he was a staff reporter.BEATRICE STERN, AB'68, received herPhD in English from the State Universityof New York at Buffalo. This autumnshe joined the faculty of the Universityof Puerto Rico at the Colegio Uni-versitario de Cayey where she has responsibility for literature courses. Shewelcomes correspondence.Lt. ROBERT A. STOREZ, AB'68, iscommanding officer of the USS Quapaw(AFT- 110). He was previously weaponsofficer aboard the USS Garcia.1969FEDERICK DENNY, AM'69, PhD'74, wasappointed associate professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.ROBERT O. EDBROOKE, JR., AM'69,phD'73, is the editor and publisher ofthe periodic Shorey Newsletter, an amazing single-spaced ten-page compendiumof information directly or vaguely relating to a half-decade of Shoreyites, residents of Pierce Towers. He asks thatfolks keep in touch.DAVID K. FARKAS, AM'69, was appointed as assistant professor of Englishat West Virginia University. He hastaught at Texas Tech University and is aspecialist in technical and scientific writing.MORRIE GASSER, AB'69, is a memberof the technical staff at MITRE.KATHERINE SILLARS GASSER, AB'69, aformer member of the University ofChicago Chess Club, has started playingthe game again after a ten-year sabbatical to raise a family. Last year she won several local tournaments, and this past Julyshe placed third in the 1978 U.S. Women's Chess Championship held inRochester, New York.PENNY S. GOLD, AB'69, is the first recipient of the Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women at theNewberry Library, Chicago. The fellowship is given to help establish promisingjunior women scholars in the academicprofession. She is assistant professor ofhistory at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. Gold will use her fellowship torevise her doctoral dissertation: "Imageand Reality: Women in Twelfth-CenturyFrance."DONALD E. MOSIER, PhD'69, MD'71,has recently been appointed a researchphysician at the Fox Chase Cancer Center's Institute for Cancer Research innortheast Philadelphia. An im-munologist, Mosier was formerly asenior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland.COLLEEN A. M. STAMESHKIN, AB'69,and DAVID M. STAMESHKIN, AB'67,have written us of the birth of their firstchild, Anne Mirian, in June, three daysbefore their tenth wedding anniversary.Both have received PhD degrees fromthe University of Michigan; she is an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Millersville State College;he is director of the Harrisburg UrbanSemester, supported by several collegesin central Pennsylvania.1970ANDREW HARKNESS, MBA'70, is the director of international marketing forEnvirotech, Menlo Park, California. Heis responsible for the section manufacturing liquid-solids separation equipment.LEWIS H. MARGOLIS, AB'70, MD'74,returned from a one term as visiting lecturer in pediatrics at Tokyo, Kyoto, andNagoya City Universities in Japan. Hereports that the alumni group in Tokyois "lively and active."JOHN TYMOCZKO, AM'70, PhD'73,teaches biochemistry and cell physiologyat Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. He is directing a project whichwill attempt to determine how malesteroid hormones work and why certaintissues grow only in their presence. Theresearch may lend significant data to certain types of cancer research.1971ROXANNE BAILIN, ab'7 1, is the directorof the Legal Aid and Defender ClinicalProgram at the University of Colorado24School of Law. She was married last August to a Denver lawyer.WARREN COPELAND, AM'71, PhD'77,assistant professor of religion at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, isthe first recipient of the MatthiesAward. The award is made to further theeducation of selected teachers. Cope-land will study energy-related policy inthe U.S.RICHARD A. HUTCH, AM'71, PhD'74,was appointed lecturer in religion andbehavioral sciences at the University ofQueensland, Brisbane, Australia. He isalso part of a research scuba diving teamat the Australian Institute of Marine Science.ROGER A. MARKLE, MBA'71, wasnominated to be director of the Bureauof Mines at the Interior Department. Atthe time of his nomination he waschairman of the Interagency Task Forceon Power Plant Siting.TIMOTHY O'BRIAN, AB'71, and hiswife Doris Wickman are the parents of ababy girl, Amy Veronica, born last June.O'Brien is currently leading a treatmentteam at a state-operated residentialtreatment program for emotionally disturbed children in Louisville, Kentucky.His wife is a third year medical studentat the University of Louisville MedicalSchool.DAVID L. POST, AB'71, completed apost-doctoral internship in clinical psychology at St. Luke's Hospital Center inNew York City and is currently in theBoston area pursuing a career in teaching and clinical psychology.CAROL HOGFOSS RUBIN, AB'71,graduated this past spring from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. She is engaged in smallanimal medical and surgical practice inAtlanta. Her husband, DON RUBIN,x'72, received a joint appointment inthe Departments of Speech Communication and Language Education at theUniversity of Georgia. With son Joshua,born 1975, they are enjoying the country life in Covington, Georgia.EILEEN SHIELDS, MAT'71, is doingadministrative work for Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services in St.Paul, Minnesota. Ms. Shields says thatthe twin cities are a "jogger's heaven."CHARLOTTE EUBANKS STOKES,MAT'71, recently joined the faculty ofthe Alexandria, Virginia Department ofEducation. Her responsibilities includeteaching history and reading to juniorhigh school students.MICHAEL WAGNER, AB'71, received aPhD from Yale University's Departmentof Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in June. He is teaching microbiologyat Southeastern Massachusetts Univer sity in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.1972The School of Hygiene and PublicHealth at the Johns Hopkins Universityawarded a PhD degree to Stanley r.BECKER, AB'72, AM'74.ROY BLEIWEISS, JD'72, has beenelected to the board of directors of theSouthern California Chapter of theAntiquarian Booksellers Association ofAmerica.DAVID F. GORDON, AM'72, PhD'78, isassistant professor of sociology at SUNYat Geneseo. He presented a paper inAugust at the Ninth World Congress ofSociology (Uppsala, Sweden) based onhis dissertation research on the JesusPeople.ziayl HAQUE,AM'72,phD'75, associate professor of Arabic and IslamicStudies at the Islamic Research Institute,Islamabad, Pakistan, has been editor ofthe Institute's English journal, IslamicStudies, since 1975. His book, Landlordand Peasant in Early Islam, was published last year. He is currently workingon another book.EDWIN T. LEE, AB'72, is working towards a masters degree in geography atthe University of Texas at Austin. Herecently graduated from the Universityof Texas Law School and was admittedto the Texas Bar. He is a lobbyist for theLone Star Chapter of the Sierra Cluband is also awaiting the consequences ofhaving passed the written and oralexamination for the Foreign Service.DENNIS F. MILLER, AM'72, was appointed energy policy advisor to theHouse Subcommittee on Environment,Energy, and Natural Resources of theGovernment Operations Committee ofthe Congress. He was formerly a principal research scientist for the BattelleMemorial Institute in Washington, D.C.He also holds a faculty position with theUniversity of Maryland's Open University.1973judy i. Mitchell- davis, ab'73, recently opened her own law firm inChicago with both loop and neighborhood offices — North Dearborn andNorth Kedzie, respectively. She asks tohear from old University friends.JOSEPH C FARAH, AM'73, has recentlybeen appointed assistant director of theOffice of International Programs at Indiana University-Purdue University atIndianapolis.GARY E. HOOVER, ab'73, is manager-strategic planning and research for the May Department Stores Company, St.Louis, Missouri. He was previously withSanger Harris in Dallas, a division ofFederated Department Stores.GORDON KATZ, AB'73, is currentlylaw clerk to Chief Justice Edward F.Hennessey of the Supreme JudicialCourt of Massachusetts. He was recentlyawarded first prize in the Nathan Bur-kan Memorial Competition at BostonCollege Law School for his essay"Copyright Preemption under theCopyright Act of 1976: The Case ofDroit de Suite."PHILLIP MUSICH, PhD'73, receivedthe Meller Basic Medical ResearchAward from the Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine of Yeshiva University, NewYork City in honor of his research contributions to understanding the role andactions of the basic genetic materialDNA.MARGARET LEA SHEERAN, AM'7 3,passed the CPA examination in ChapelHill, North Carolina in May.GREGORY H. STANTON, AM'73, is Currently in India in a Berkeley ProfessionalStudies Program.GERALD V. STOKES, PhD'73, hasjoined the faculty of the George Washington University Medical Center in theDepartment of Microbiology. He plansto continue his Chlamydia research andinstruct medical and graduate studentsin animal virology. He has a three-year-old son, Gordon K Stokes.1974JOAN BOSSERT, ab'74, is currently ahighway environmental analyst for theColorado Department of Highways. Sheis the project manager of Colorado'scontroversial Centennial Parkway, atwenty-six mile circumferential roadwayaround the southwest Denver region.Ms. Bossert has just bought a house inDenver and welcomes hearing fromfriends. She lives at 1410 S. Dahlia,Denver 80222.TIMOTHY A. JENSEN, AM'74, PhD'76,is a lecturer in religion studies at SturtCollege of Advanced Education, Bedford Park, Australia.MARILEE A. MELVIN, AM'74, is administrative assistant at the NationalLegal Center for the Public Interest inWashington, D.C.MADELINE MIRABITO, AM'74, is inher second year of law school at BostonCollege. She is writing for the AmericanJournal of Law and Medicine publishedby the Boston College School of Law.ELIZABETH SCHNUR, AB'74, is doingdoctoral work in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan.She claims that the weather is colder inAnn Arbor than in Chicago.251975B. PATRICK HALL, AM'75, is an advisorin the College at the University ofChicago, an unrealized poet, and a part-time student in the University's eveningMBA program. He claims that businessschool can be of great value for formerEnglish majors. "After all," Hall writes,"Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot were ininsurance and banking respectively."HENRY HOCHERMAN, AB'75,graduated last June from Rutgers University Law School. He is now an associate attorney with the Wall Street lawfirm of Craveth, Swaine & Moore.MICHAEL C. KRAUSS, AB'75, MBA'76,has joined Swift & Company as an assistant product manager in the ConsumerProducts Division. He was previouslyan account supervisor at Foote, Cone &Belding in Chicago.ROBERT W. LEE, AB'75, has graduatedfrom Wayne State University's lawschool and passed the Michigan barexam. He is currently pursuing anotherdegree in the University of Florida'sMasters in Taxation Program.SIMON SCHUCHAT, AB'75, is currentlyteaching English language skills and literature at Fu Tan University in Shanghaiin the People's Republic of China. Hebelieves that he is the first American tobe hired by any Chinese university sincethe change in US-Chinese relations.Schuchat's third book of poems, Light &Shadow, has been published by VehicleEditions.1976BRUCE BECKER, MD'76, is in his secondyear of residency at Boston UniversityHospital and will start a fellowship ingastro-intestinal specialization nextJune.JOHN R. FIELDING, AB'76, is Studyingfor his master's degree in industrial administration at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.SCOTT PHILLIPS, AB'76 and MARYWILD, AB'76, were married July 1. He isworking for Prudential Life Insuranceand she is in graduate school studyingbio-medical engineering. They live inRichton Park, Illinois.WILLIAM RICE, am'76, is on the staffof the Missouri Department of Conservation where he is Outdoor SkillsEducation Specialist. He teacheselementary, secondary, junior high, andcollege students everything from watersafety and fishing through bird watching.1977LEON W. CHESTANG, PhD'77, has beenappointed professor of social work at theUniversity of Alabama. CLIFTON E. EALY, JR., PhD'77, is anassociate professor of mathematics atNorthern Michigan University. He iscurrently doing research at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio during the1978-79 academic year.In Memoriam1900-1919Mattie Bernice Tschirgi, PhB'04; EdithYoung Lidster, x'07; Grace MayerFrank, PhB'07; Edna McCormack Moul-ton, EdB'07.Clifford E. Smith, MD'10; E. WilliamBeatty, phB'll; William S. Cooper,PhD'll, professor emeritus of botany atthe University of Minnesota, died in October; Frederick Dickinson, AB'12;Maurice A. Pollak, x'12; Karl Lewis,SB'13, MD'15.Janet Flanner, x'14, writer and correspondent under the pen name "Genet"for the New Yorker magazine, died inNovember. She received a ProfessionalAchievement Award from the University of Chicago Alumni Association lastspring; Alexander Squair, PhB'l4; JohnW. Chapman, PhB'15, JD'17, formerlieutenant governor of Illinois from1953-61, died in August.Nicholas Stam, sb'15, md'17; RoyKehl Thomas, JD'15; Genevieve C.Walsh, x'15; Henry E. Cope, SB'l6,MD'23; Fairie Mallory Engle, PhB'l6;Carrie Baxter Gellett, PhB'l6.Ralph Brown, MD'17, research organic chemist for the U.S. Bureau ofMines and the Department of the Interior, died in October; James Ellis,PhB'17, former president of the ArthurKudner, Inc. advertising agency, died inHot Springs, Virginia last June; AlgurH. Meadows, PhB'17, chairman of theGeneral American Oil Company ofTexas, died in June; Elsa Lund Retzke,PhB'17; Helen Addicks Schork, PhB'17;Leo P. Sherman, SM'17, PhD'23, professor emeritus of chemistry at GrinnellCollege, died in October; Frank H.Swanson, PhB'17, AM'18.Wilson B. Moody, MD'18; HelenSchnering Speer, PhB'18; LeRoy H.Bernard, PhB'19, AM'20, MD'29; SamuelJ. Fogelson, SB'19, MD'21; HermanVanVelzer, x'19.1920-1929Raymond L. Fulford, x'20; Edna Eisen-drath Kraus, x'20; James McKnight,PhB'20; Henry L. Schmitz, SB'20; Stanton H. Speer, PhB'20. Hugh C. Gregg, PhB'21, am'23; NelsS. Jorgenson, AM'21; Lee Park, LLB'21;Leslie H. Winans, MD'21.Frances Crozier Gates, PhB'22; Perci-val Gates, SB'22; John F. Picks, SB'22,MD'24; Jacob Sacks, SB'22, SM'24; Norman Shortridge, PhB'22.Joseph E. Jensen, SB'23, MD'26; RoyV. Peel, AM'23, PhD'27; Frederick C.Heidner, MD'24; Benjamin B. Kopstein,SB'24; John H. Mead, phB'24.Frances Lifvendahl Ascher, PhB'25;Maurice E. Cooper, SB'25, MD'30; William O. Harrison, am'37; Ruth StaggLauren, SB'25, daughter of the "GrandOld Man" of UC football, Amos AlonzoStagg, died in May; Helen Ross, x'25,pioneer in the psychoanalytic study ofchildren and former administrator ofChicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis,died in August. In 1976 the Universityof Chicago established a Helen Rossprofessorship in social welfare policy atthe School of Social Service Administration; Dorothea L. Scheer, SB'25; WilliamS. Snyder, Jr., MD'25; Edward G. Stoy,AM'25, PhD'28; Gurdon S. Straus, x'25;Horace S. Strong, phB'25.Thaddeus Adeszko, x'26; J. TrimbleBoyd, PhB'26; William P. Carter, AM'26,PhD'37; Benedict Einarson, AB'26,AM'27, PhD'32, Edward Olson professoremeritus in the Department of ClassicalLanguages and Literature at the University of Chicago, died in August; Cecil M.Johnson, AM'26; William P. Merrill,PhB'26, JD'28; David Voss, AM'26,PhD'32.Gaylord P. Coon, MD'27; B. SmithHaworth, AM'27; A. Ross Mclntyre,SB'27, PhD'30, MD'31; Lewis S. C.Smythe, AM'27, PhD'28; Abraham O.Tapper, PhB'27, JD'29; Frances ChurchVan Pelt, sm'27.Alice Moulthrop Osborn, am'28;Floyd Mallott, AM'28; Edward Rayl,PhB'28; Franklin Reding, MD'28; ClaraGoldsmith Roe, AM'28; Richard S.Royster, AM'28; Sidney Gorham, Jr.,PhB'28; JD'30; Ralph J. Silverwood,PhB'28.John H. Davis, Jr., PhD'29; David W.Gipson, am'29; Rebecca Nitka Glick,SB'29; Henry W. Meyer, am'29-1930-1939William H. Cowley, PhD'30; Ralph H.Fouser, MD'30; Harold Haynes, AM'30;Roscoe McKinney, PhD'30, professoremeritus of anatomy at Howard University, died in October; Ethel KirschMotzer, sb'30; Milton M. Raff, PhB'30;Katherine E. Wheatley, PhD'30.Elvin G. Byers, PhB'31; ErwinJohnston, AM'31; John B. Stout, AM'31;Kent H. Thayer, SB'31, MD'35.26Mildred McKie, MD'32; Mary Dillingham McPike, PhD'32; Hazel PerryRussell, phB'32, AM'36; Gerald B.Switzer, PhD'32; Eleanor Frank White,PhB'32.Florence Fox Farrell, AM'33; Edith L.Lottman, PhB'33; Helen R. Long,phB'33; Margery Dell Pike, am'33.Alfred J. Benesh, MD'34; Robert B.Jefferson, PhB'34; Vera Ford Powell,AM'34; J. Dyke van Putten, PhD'34.Arthur C. Burt, md'35; Alice C. Ellis,AM'35; Nathan Fradkin, MD'35; FrancisB. Lane, PhB'35; Cyril K. Richard,phB'35.Walter A. Kumpf, AM'36; Luther S.Mansfield, phD'36; Glen R. Simmons,SB'36, PhD'42; David B. Truman,am'36, phD'39; John E. Tysell, md'36.Lloyd E. Harris, MD'37; Melvin C.Ury, AB'37, JD'39; Oscar Bodansky,MD'38; Lucille Fulk, x'38, LaMont C.Cole, sb'38, phD'44.1940-1949Edgar M. Bowman, ab'40, JD'42;Eugene A. Luening, AB'40; Llewellyn E.Copeland, PhD'4l; Maurice Saiger,AB'41, MBA'42; Theresa McKee Severn,SB'4l.Edna B. Gearhart, AM'42; MinnaHansen Danziger, PhD'42; Rudolph W.Janda, Jr., SB'42, MD'44; Dorothy E.Neubauer, AM'42; Edward Saunders,JD'42; Agnes C. Vukonich, ab'42,AM'51.Albert S. Cahn, Jr., SM'43; Elgin F.Hunt, am'43; Glen M. Whitesel, md'43;Marian Lowe, AM'44; Brandel Works,PhB'44, mba'46.James J. Ahern, MD'45; Geraldine E.Rowley, BLS'45; Hale G. Smith, am'45;Robert D. Story, SB'45, MD'47.Earl E. Krause, AM'46; Frederick J.Port, MBA'46; David J. Walton, MBA'46.James Grant Boiling, x'47; Gilbert J.Joyce, SB'47; Robert C. Monahan,MBA'47; Christine L Oglevee, AB'47,SM'48; Walter E. Wright, phB'47.John P. Armstrong, AM'48, PhD'53;Leo G. Reeder, AM'49; PhD'52.1950-1959John B. Cleveland, MD'50; RichardCrumley, SM'50, PhD'56; Karel W. de-Leeuw, SB'50, SM'51; Dorothy N. Murphy, AM'50.Lawrence E. Savage, MD'56; Kurt R.Mattson, MBA'57; John W. Dubocq,x'58; E. Ray Inman, x'58.1960-1976Thomas T. Luginbyhl, MBA'63; NobukoKitano Hirabayashi, AM'67; Thomas L.Mc Arthur, MBA'67; William J. Sharpe,Jr., MBA'71; John T. Lewis, AM'76. Books have an enduring quality, as do thereputations of th<> great libraries in wnichthey are housed. Your gift to the Fund forBooks is neededContribute ms payable to the University of Chicago LibraryMai! to: The Fund tor BooksThe Joseph Regenstein Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago Illinois 60637T enclosp $ for honksGift in memory ofAc dress City State ZipDnnnrAddrpssCity -Zip27The SurvivorsI was shocked — no other word can convey my reaction — when I read "TheSurvivors of '68" in your InaugurationIssue.Is this the best that the University cando with our young people — to turn out agroup of graduates who, now in their30s, can think of little more than "settling?" Where is the divine spark ignitedin many of us in the past by Hutchinson,Lasswell, Sapir, Bretz, Wirth, Hayden,Shorey, and other humanists?Sunk in the mire of the Great Depression, beset by clamors from right andleft, confronted by bigotry, we werenevertheless conscious that we were atthe University to obtain an education inliving with a purpose, not just for a living. We were alive not only to the terrible problems of our day — unemployment, disarmament, fascism, andcommunism — but also to the great issues of all time — truth, justice, loyalty,and love.... I would like to see the questionnaire on which the responses weremade, and also to know for sure that theanswers were not handpicked for aforeseeable result. Is this possible?Sydney H. Kasper '34Silver Spring, Md.A copy of the questionnaire has beensent to Mr. Kasper along with a newsrelease describing the general response.All quotes were taken from the last section, labeled "Comments," and nearly allrespondents who commented gave uspermission to use the quotes. Naturally,the private comments have remainedso — Editor. On the Road . . .Continued from page 3During a conversation with a confident young woman at Racine's Washington Park High School, Walker discovered that he was talking to a finalistin the National Council of Teachers ofEnglish essay contest, that she was studying German, French, and Latin in preparation for her goal of becoming a translator, and that she was on the track andcross-country teams. "I'm only runningthree to five miles a day because it's offseason," she confessed.Walker, who does three to five milesdaily himself, is off in good form, explaining that the College offers sixty-four foreign languages. The student isvisibly impressed as he describes thescope of the Assyrian Dictionary project, and her interest deepens as he describes women's track and cross-countryand the Gertrude Dudley Scholarship.Hearing of her interest in the Universityof Wisconsin at Madison, Walkersketches the advantages of life on a smallcampus in a big city.In a Milwaukee high school, Rollinssits down with a young man who, thoughhe is an outstanding student, on the debate team, and participates in everyavailable sport, cannot focus on anythingbut money and his family's lack of it.Rollins' questions about college preference and academic interest are barelyanswered, as the senior details his part-time work record, his savings, the needsof brothers and sisters, and his ambivalence about pursuing a program he willenjoy or one that promises a good salaryimmediately after graduation. Rollinspatiently shifts the conversation back to the student's needs and goals, pointingout that four years of college is a onetime investment, that there are manyforms of financial assistance for students,that over sixty percent of the University's undergraduates receive some formof financial aid. Rollins makes some inroads and the student begins to talkabout his interest in social sciences and adim dream of becoming a lawyer. Hedecided to complete a form indicatinghis interest in the College and his wish toreceive more information along with anapplication. Like all the students interviewed on the road, this senior will receive a follow-up letter from the admissions officer urging him to visit the campus and go through the application process.Traveling to big and small cities andliving out of a rented car is only a smallpart of the working life of a staffmember in the Admissions Office. Farmore effort goes into the task of screening applications, interviewing prospective students, and, as members of theAdmissions Committee, voting on theiracceptability.But for some young men and womenin the high schools of the United States,visits by Rollins, Walker, and others areopening the door to a world where, as itsays on Chicago's emblem, knowledgeincreases and life is enriched.And, on convocation day, thegraduates may not remember how theywere introduced to the University ofChicago, but the people in Admissionswill as they gather brochures, appointment books, suitcases, and hit the roadfor Chicago — again. Nancy MossCreditsMichael Shields: page 3The David and Alfred Smart Gallery.page 4From the Mary Bolton Wirth Papers,Department of Special Collections, TheUniversity of Chicago Libraries: page 14Eric Futran: Cover photoArt direction: Paula S. Ausick28On the cover: That archtypal medievallady, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was described in the last Magazine. The king onthis issue's cover (taken from the westside of Mandel Hall), reminds us thatHenry II, Eleanor's king and consort, isa fascinating study of personality andpower.In 1127, Henry I of England, duke ofNormandy and son of William the Conqueror, gave his twenty-five-year-olddaughter Matilda to Geoffrey, Count ofAnjou. Geoffrey was fourteen andMatilda was appalled. It was an ac-rimonius marriage, but after seven yearsit produced a son, Henry II. This Henrydid not grow to chivalrous knighthood.He was stocky, slightly bowlegged,ruddy with reddish hair, careless abouthis clothing, and had great reserves ofenergy. Less wonderfully, he was stubborn with black moods and temper tantrums and heir to an unimpressive parcelof land ruled by his father. That gentleman had taken to wearing in his helmetflowers from the common broom —planta genesta — from whence thenickname "plantagenet."Henry and Eleanor married when hewas nineteen and she was twenty-nine.Eleanor had divorced Louis VII ofFrance, effectively moving the vast landsof the Aquitaine from the Capetian tothe Angevin camp. She and Henry, greatplotters, were an impressive team: sheprovided Aquitaine, his countries wereAnjou and Maine, Matilda looked afterNormandy. One October while Henrywas campaigning in the Vexin, KingStephen of England died of a "flux ofhemorrhoids." Since Stephen hadnamed Henry his heir (his own son having died of tainted eels), Henry Plantagenet became king of England in 1 1 54;it is here that the Chancellor ThomasBecket enters the story.Becket was a tall, dark, elegant man ofwit and learning. Henry's gifts to his newchancellor were prodigious, and Becker's household was civilized and sumptuous, an atmosphere utterly unlikeHenry's rag-tag court.Tranquility reigned for about sevenyears — a little trouble in Wales, a fewraids into Brittany, the birth of six children: William, Henry, Matilda, Richard,Geoffrey, and Eleanor; all but Williamsurvived. It was the 1161 death of theold Archbishop of Canterbury thattriggered the problems. Becket protested, but Henry pressed the post uponhim and a strange transformation wasmade. Becket, if chroniclers are to bebelieved, had been a sort of chaste sensualist. Now he was austere, and worse,put Henry after God. Besides scrimmages over Becket's determined retrieval of church property,there was the case of the "criminousclerks." Some nominal clerics in lowerorders were tried for crimes in theecclesiastical courts; Henry insisted theybe tried in the civil courts. There werevicious words between archbishop andking, accusations of treason, refusals offealty, and in 1164, Becket fled toFrance.All this emotion took its toll: un-tended borders seethed with rebellion,Henry grew aged and choleric andEleanor learned about Rosamond Clifford. Rosamond, daughter of the Norman knight Walter de Clifford, wasHenry's latest distraction. Tucked awayin the ancient manor of Woodstock, shewas fair and elegant, unlike many ofHenry's careless dalliances. During theirtwelve-year liaison, Henry spent aboutthree and a half years at Woodstock, andsome fast subtraction indicates thatRosamond had ample time for needlework. In any case, after the 1167Christmas Court in Argentan, Eleanorpacked and left for her own estates inPoitiers.Becket's stay in France mellowed theking's temper; by the summer of 1 1 70, akind of peace had been forged betweenHenry and Thomas. By December,Becket was sailing toward England,briskly excommunicating the bishopswho had illegally crowned the youngHenry, ensconced at Winchester. Furious, the excommunicated bishopsstormed back across the Channel toHenry who then lost his temper. It wassufficient. Four of his barons driftedaway and on December 29, 1170, murdered Becket and his attendants at Canterbury Cathedral. The martyrizationwas instant; townsfolk carried off bits ofcloth dipped in blood. Henry heardabout the killing two days later and theBishop of Lisieux, writing PopeAlexander, said his grief was so intensethat "we feared for his life."The strife in Henry's life and kingdomseemed to be accelerated by the murderin the cathedral. Though he mournedfor forty days, few believed he was innocent of the crime. He was called a tyrant and threatened with excommunication. By 1172, Christmas Court at Chi-non was a brawl: too many sons hadheard too many promises without receiving the land or power to make themreal. It must have been much like theChristmas Court depicted in Lion inWinter. But the events described in thatfilm would place the action at about1176: by then, to save himself from herconspiracies, Henry had put Eleanor under house arrest, and had takensixteen-year-old Alais Capet as his mistress. Poor Alais. She had been promised in marriage to Richard and was supposedly under the protection of thePlantagenets.Despite this new attachment, Henrywas surly. The sons were plotting.Richard, at least, was legitimately busyputting down rebellion in the Aquitaine.But the young king was a charming wastrel, indolent and boasting. And Geraldof Wales says that son Geoffrey was a"deceiver and a dissembler." Worse, tovarying degrees they had joined thetough young French king, Philip Augustus, to fight their father.By 1183, a full-scale revolt includedyoung Henry, Geoffrey, Philip, theduke of Burgundy and the count ofToulouse .. . . the latter two, Henry's oldenemies. Young Henry, ignoring hisfather's entreaties for loyalty and order,careened into pillaging. Shortly afterlooting a shrine he fell into fever anddysentery and died. Richard, themother's favorite, would be king. Andthe rest, as they say, is history. Eleanor'slot improved; Richard saw to that. In1 186, Geoffrey was trampled to death in_„, , <•a tournament and in July, 1189, the ailing Henry died broken-hearted: his sonJohn had sided with Richard against him.As for other endings: Rosamond haddied in 1176 or 1177 of natural causesand was buried at the nunnery ofGodstow. Alais was deemed too shopworn to keep and was finally sent back toher family. At thirty-five, she marriedand disappeared from history. Richardwas crowned king on September 3,1189; he would lead the Third Crusadeand die of a crossbow wound in 1199.Eleanor would live fifteen more yearssurvived by one daughter and son John.He, as Henry had hoped, would ruleEngland after all, but would lose thelarger part of the Angevin empire including Normandy. His son would beHenry III and reign for fifty-six years.L£90Qm-s^- 09 V") I HO¦1SV3. our09VDTH9 jo ai ismiainor