0^ thl AUNIVEKSITY OF CHICAGOSE&1AL HECORD DEPILIBRAWYCH1CAGO IL 6 0 6 3 7THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOMAGAZINEVolume LXXI, Number 3Spring 1979(ISSN 0041-9508)Alumni Association5733 South University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637(312) 753-2175Président: Charles W. Boand, LLB'33,MBA' 5 7Acting Director: Peter KountzAssistant Director Ruth HalloranProgram Director Sylvia HohriAlumni Schools CommitteeCoordinator: J. Robert Bail, Jr.Régional 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. CONTENTSOn the Midway 2Coming to Chicago 6Dr. Benjamin MaysThe Lady Who Saved VolcanoesRuth EisenbergPostcard from Olympus 16Alumni News 18Class Notes 21Letters to the Editor 27Crédits 27 13Published quarterly Spring, Summer,Autumn, and Winter by The Universityof Chicago. Editor: Iris M. PoliskiEditorial Assistant: Paula S. AusickCollège Applications UpA fruitful year for the Schools Commutées is taking shape: applications to theCollège are up over the same period ayear ago, and East Coast Alumni SchoolsCommittee volunteers met in NewYork City to consolidate gains and re-cruiting skills."It's true," said Admissions DirectorFred Brooks. "Applications are up overlast year; we expect an entering class of700. In addition, we anticipate a class of100 transfer candidates."Creating an entering class is some-thing of a tripartite effort by the Admissions Office, the Alumni Schools Com-mittees and the Student Schools Committee. Throughout the recruiting year,the efforts of thèse groups intersect. Atthe NYC-May workshop, AlumniSchools chairmen and co-chairmen metto brush up on the University's académieprograms, faculty admissions policiesand procédures, and student life in thecollège. In the east, high school juniorsbegin to make serious décisions aboutcollèges in May; the NYC workshop willhelp ready the Alumni Schools Committee volunteers to work with thèsestudents.The Student Schools Committeemembers are students hère at the University who serve as second-stage volunteers on the campus on their visitshome. This group produces a newsletterfor prospective students, a Chicagoorientation guide, and attends prospective student gatherings besides acting ashosts to prospective students visiting thecampus. Their February phonathon encourages prospective students who hâvebegun the application process to complète it, and they help plan and staff the"April Weekends" — those weekendswhen admitted students and parents visitthe University campus. University Renews, Expands MédicalCenterA major modernization program hasbeen announced for the University'sHospitals and Clinics. The $70 millionupgrading program will include construction of a 500-bed hospital facilityon the north side of Wyler Childrens'Hospital south of 58th Street and westof Drexel Blvd.Président Hanna Gray said that "theimportance of maintaining a first-ratemédical school led to the déterminationto undertake this large modernizationprogram. The décision is rooted notonly in académie considérations but alsoin a concern for providing outstandingclinical services."The 500 beds being replaced by thenew facility include virtually ail the bedsin Billings Hospital (opened in 1927)and in Chicago Lying-in Hospital(opened in 1931), the two oldest structures among the 12 buildings in themédical complex. A new ChicagoLying-in will become an intégral part ofthe new hospital structure. The 98 bedsin Wyler Children's Hospital (opened in1967), 97 beds in the Clarissa C. PeckPavilion of Billings Hospital (opened in1961), and the eight intensive care and18 acute care beds in the new Surgery-Brain Research Pavilion (opened in1977), will remain intact. The proposednew hospital building will includeemergency facilities to replace the présent emergency rooms.The University's médical center nowhas a total of 721 beds. Thus the replacement of the 500 beds will not in-crease the total bed capacity of the facility. The annual total patient volume in-cludes 23,000 admissions and 300,000ambulatory patient visits.Financing of the program will comefrom three sources: $15 million through fund-raising, 13 million in funds gener-ated by the hospitals through operatingefficiencies, and the balance in Iong-term borrowing. Robert B. Uretz, VicePrésident for the Médical Center andDean of the Biological Sciences and ThePritzker School of Medicine emphasizedthat funds would be generated withoutan increase in patient fées.Mrs. Gray said the $15 million in newfunds for construction would be in-cluded in a $25 million fund-raising effort to begin shortly. The other $10million will be sought for support ofacadémie programs in the médical areaand the biological sciences, includingteaching, research, and student facilities.Batty, BattyYet another production of "Dracula" hashit the stage; surely 1979 is the year ofthe Bat. Batty is the more apt description of Bernox Players' "Dracula: Princeof Darkness/Lost in the Funhouse."It lunged onto the Ida Noyés Hall lit-tle theater stage during a spring quarterweekend and included characters fromseveral other productions ("Eliza Dolit-tle," "Don Quixote," "Dancing Bear").The Bernox Players are organized byMark Bernstein and Michael Cox;primarily they dwell in Lower RickertHouse, one of the houses in the Wood-ward Court complex.Thèse productions of inspired sillinessinvolve vats of greasepaint and lots offright wigs. We mention thèse eventsbecause little campus hilarity is regularlyreported and verily, it exists. There isconsidérable theater, however, and itseems reasonable that Bernox Playerswould make its contribution throughthis respected art form rather than, say,painting the fieldhouse green. Close ob-servers continue enchanted that theproductions seem to work: surely theham extant on this campus is sufficientcompany for a thousand eggs.Michael Cox will graduate this spring,ordinarily a death knell to a theatricalteam. However, Bruce Cox, second yearstudent and brother, has transferredfrom Columbia to the University ofChicago. The show goes on.Development: The NewOperating PlanWith the end of the Campaign forChicago and the beginning of a new administration at the University, this is atime of careful évaluation and planningfor ail of the University's fund raisingprograms. This year has seen the création of a major operating plan for theOffice of Development, the first such2comprehensive plan in several years, ac-cording to Clyde Watkins (AB'67), Director of Development.The plan includes an overall fundraising goal of $26.65 million for FiscalYear 1978-79, a slight increase over lastyear, which was the final year of theCampaign. Activity levels for each program are monitored on a monthly basis,reports Watkins, with targets for eachstate of the development processthrough proposai submission to grantdécision. Thus, should a program fallbehind during the early stages, addi-tional activity can be invested to bringthings back to schedule. "Thèsecumulative targets help us plan howmuch préparation we hâve to be doingnow, in order to assure enough solicita-tions next quarter for the desired gifttotals the quarter afterwards," he said.Much of the activity thèse days is di-rected to the raising of "core support:"student aid, library acquisitions and fac-ulty salaries. Strengthening thèse areaswill strengthen the University's centralcore. So far, the situation is encouraging.Watkins and his staff are optimistic thatthis year's goal will be exceeded. "Muchof our success dépends upon thealumni," he adds, "for they provide themost important support of ail throughthe Alumni Fund."Music Department MovesThe Department of Music at the University will move into Goodspeed Hall,and into a segment of the ClassicsBuilding, according to the departmentand a spokesman for the University ar-chitect's office.The architectural firm of Skidmore,Owings and Merrill will convert thespace. Almost the entire Goodspeedarea will be devoted to the music department; the Classics reading room areawill become récital space.The Renaissance Society Gallery,presently housed in Goodspeed 101,will move to the top floor of Cobb Hallwhere it will share the Bergman Gal-lery's space. The move will provide theRenaissance Society with two and onehalf times the space they presently hâve.Other relocations involve the linguis-tics department in Goodspeed. It willmove to a newly renovated area on thethird floor of Classics which presentlyhouses empty stacks.Construction is planned to beginshortly after the end of the spring quarter. The présent quarters for the musicdepartment — old Lexington Hall builtaround the time of the Columbian Exposition — will be raied. Its démise,somewhat overdue, was first recom-mended in 1932.May FetingWith May came the Festival of theArts — FOTA — a month-long aggregationof music, dance, theater, film, andfrolics. Funded by private donations andby the Student Government FinanceCommittee, the events are planned andoperated by a student committee.A film séries, noontime event séries,and midnight séries run simultaneously.Performing arts range from the Reifica-tion Company and Mighty Joe Young(comedy and blues respectively),through evenings with Second City, withMark Twain, and with the Halcyon Theater Company. Classical violinist DanielHeifitz added an evening of master classto his May 14 concert performance.The American première of KoboAbe's "The Eléphant is Dead," was May21. A transfixed audience saw thedramatic présentation in Japanese, withtranslations projected on the bodies ofthe play's dancers. Other dance includedElvi Moore's élégant movements and alive cabaret theater performance.FOTA is the fortunate neighbor of theUniversity's music department and wasthus the récipient of groups playingmusic of the Renaissance, music fromthe Baroque, to note but two crafts in anentire flotilla of musical events.Director of this year's FOTA is Cor-delia Watson. Karen Peterson is chair-man of the Noontime Séries, PhilipBorgnes of classical music, and MichèleDesvignes of the Midnight Séries. Theyail mention that more than moral support from alumni would be welcomed. Court Theatre's 25th AnniversaryCourt Théâtre célébrâtes its rwenty-fifthanniversary this summer season. Threeplays will be presented in repertoryfrom July 5 through September 2, Wed-nesdays through Sundays. Curtain is8:30 PM evenings and 3:00 PM Sundaymatinées.HAMLET by William Shakespeare, Di-rected by Robert Benedetti.ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERNARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard, Directedby Robert Benedetti.THE WAY OF THE WORLD by Congreve,Directed by Peter D. Arnott.HAMLET Opens July 5, ROSENCRANTZopens July 6, and THE WAY OF THEWORLD opens July 11. The ChicagoOpéra Théâtre production of COSI FANTUTTE will be performed as part of agala célébration weekend — the firstweekend in August. Other events of thatweekend will be a Friday, August 3,concert and a Sunday tandem performance of both HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ.For ticket information, write to CourtThéâtre, 5706 University Avenue,Chicago, Illinois 60637.Let the Sunshine InTwo student publications debuted oncampus this past year: Inquiry and NewChicago. Both quarterly journals investi-gate the life of the mind in very différentways.One of the most exciting featuresabout the Collège has always been thequality of its students. How many timeshâve you stayed up until dawn discussingsome hot, intellectual point with fellowstudents? Inquiry attempts to reflect thatspirit. It brings together some of thebest undergraduate, académie writing.Its purpose, as stated by editors TomBamonte, fourth year political sciencestudent, Jintae Lee, fourth year mathstudent, and Adam Schulman, third yearchemistry major, is "to uncover some ofthe best work written by students" and"to bring together independent Unes ofthought from ail areas of intellectual activity in the Collège."According to New Chicago editorsDavid Skelding, third year historymajor, and Lucy Conniff, second yearEnglish major, the life of the mind coulduse a housecleaning. Thus, New Chicagouses the feature story as its premierliterary form. Each issue will include aprofile of a student and of a professor,essays, and other articles. Its first issueprofiled Paul Ricoeur, the John NuveenProfessor in the Divinity School, De-3The illustrations are taken from the Berlin Collection catalogue:Pierre François d'Hancarville, an adventurer and antiquarian, issued Etruscan,Greek, and Roman Antiquities (1766-67) which contains the décorative designs andcolored engravings applied to vases, plates, and other objets d'art in ancient times.partment of Philosophy, and in theCommittee on Social Thought, and BillMullin, an MBA student who won élection to the Massachusetts State Houseduring his Harvard Collège years — NewChicago billed him as the "Kennedy ofthe Business School." The political situation in Iran and the philosophy andpsychology of graffitti were subjects ofother articles. New Chicago hopes toprésent a viable alternative to campuslife. Only "rational letters to the editorare encouraged" according to the lastpage of New Chicago.For information about obtaining thèsejournals write to Inquiry or to NewChicago, 1212 East 59th Street, IdaNoyés Hall, Chicago, Illinois 60637.Student Book Collections CitedGeorge Fowler and M. J. Cartea werenamed winners of the Library Society'sthird annual student book collectingaward. Fowler' s collection — Russian lit-erature from Pushkin to theRévolution — was named first place win-ner; Cartea's Growth of ScientificKnowledge collection took second.Awards of $ 1 00 and $ 5 0 are given to thefirst and second prize winners.The compétition is open to ail regis-tered undergraduates and graduate students. Contestants submit descriptionsof their libraries, représentative items,and are limited to printed and writtenmaterial.Of his Russian literature collection,Fowler says, "I am trying to build a représentative overview of the diversity ofthe century of classical Russian literature. ... in Russia more than anywhereelse, the entire pattern of intellectualthought is represented in literature, sothat only by reading . . . can one come tounderstand the tradition of Russianthought." Fowler is a graduate student inthe Department of Slavic Languages andLiteratures.Cartea's collection comprises volumeswhich define and describe the créationof scientific thought and knowledge. Heexplains that authors in the collection,additionally, address themselves toother questions: "Who were theforerunners of the scientific man? theRenaissance man? the Faustian man?"Cartea, a student of économies, addedto this description a quote from WalterBenjamin: "The most profound en-chantment for the collector is the lock-ing of individual items within a magiecircle in which they are fixed as the finalthrill, the thrill of acquisition, passesover them." The Berlin ConnectionThe New York Times proclaimed it "oneof the largest book deals ever consum-mated." On October 27, 1891, Président William Rainey Harper of the newUniversity of Chicago contracted to buythe entire stock of the renowned book-selling firm, S. Calvery & Company ofBerlin.For many years the German firmsupplied scholarly collections in NorthAmerica and Europe. In branches ofclassical philology and classical ar-chaeology, the Calvery collection wasreputed to surpass the collections in theBritish Muséum or the Royal Library ofBerlin. Its antiquarian book cataloguecovered many subjects includingOriental literature, Greek and Latinclassics, linguistics, and the natural sciences. Seventy-five years old and readyto retire, owner G. Heinrich Simon waswilling to sell en bloc the entire librarycontaining some 300,000 volumes andsome 150,000 dissertations.On July 1, 1891, Harper had beennamed the first président of the idea of aUniversity of Chicago. The newly-acquired campus on Chicago's SouthSide had yet to be constructed. Theopening of the University was onlyfifteen months away. Much had to be done: Faculty and students to recruit,buildings to construct, and money to ac-quire. While vacationing in Berlin thatAugust, Harper heard of the Calverysale. A shrewd entrepreneur, he sensedthat the acquisition of a collection ofsuch volume and quality would providehim with the publicity to attract scholars,students, and money. The réputation ofthe collection alone would help legiti-mate the scholastic commitment of theUniversity of Chicago.Simon's offer stated that the collection contained the greater part of thelibrary of Pope Pius VII, three auto-graphed letters from the painterRaphaël, a fourteenth century Book ofHours illustrated by an artist of the earlyBurgundian School, one of four knowncopies of Goethe's dissertation, a copyof the astronomies by Adlus with handnotes by Adlus and so on and so on. AUthis for 230,000 marks. With furtherbargaining the price dropped to 180,000marks or $45,000. With such induce-ments, the Board of Trustées of theUniversity agreed to its purchase. Thetext of the resolution contained the firstuse of the name "Berlin Collection" forthe Calvery books.The money was quickly secured fromthe Board with individual members as4Martin A. Ryerson, H. H. Kohlsaat,C. L. Hutchinson, Byron L. Smith, A. A.Sprague, C. H. McCormick, C. R.Crâne, H. A. Rust, C. J. Singer, andHarper himself pledging money. Ail ofthe names with the exception ofHarper's appear on the collections bookplate.The next day, October 28, 1891, thepurchase made front-page news in theNew York Times. The Associated Presscarried the story coast to coast. TheBoston papers lauded the Berlin Collection on its editorial pages. Lettersfrom everywhere congratulated Harperon the deal.Harper basked in public acclaim. Theventure succeeded. Within five years theUniversity library was the largest in thecity of Chicago and the second largestuniversity collection in the United States. The Berlin Collection contrib-uted its dominant but uncertain share tothe numbers of volumes. Physically sec-uring the Collection had been prob-lematic.With the arrivai of Harper's wire ac-cepting the deal, Simon wrote back, "Itseems that there will be no more than120,000 volumes of books and 80,000dissertations" instead of the contracted280,000 volumes and 150,000 dissertations. Only 57,630 volumes and 39,020dissertations were secured by the University. "One of the largest book dealsever consummated" became part of library lore. However, the quality of theBerlin Collection and its effect for thenew University could not be denied. Itimmediately placed the University incompany with other great American andEuropean institutions of higher learning. Some one hundred books from theBerlin Collection ranging in subjectmatter from médiéval manuscript toBuffon's delicately hand-drawn birds tohistoriés of science and to illustratedtravelogues will be on display from April24 through October. Members of theVisiting Committee to the Library andthe Library Society, heirs of the originalnine donors to the Collection and otherfriends of the Library attended a dinnermarking the opening of the exhibit.Président Hanna H. Gray was the key-note speaker.An illustrated catalogue with a historyof the Collection is available for $7.50(checks made payable to The Universityof Chicago Library) from The LibrarySociety, The Joseph Regenstein Library,1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois60637.Theodor de Bry, a sixteenth century German engraver, created intriguing glimpsesinto distant lands and societies which fueled the growing fascination with the New Worldand Asia with his Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et IndiamOccidentalem.5Coming to ChicagoDr. Benjamin MaysJL had been thinking about the University of Chicago test was not a good one. The students were Negroes;since 1911, when I entered the seventh grade at the their parents were unschooled and poor, mostly fromhigh school of South Carolina State Collège, rural areas or small towns. Even the sophisticated stu-Orangeburg, South Carolina. I had heard the name of dents from Charleston, Columbia, or Greenville werethe University of Chicago for the first time when N. C. not much better off than the rest of us who came fromNix, my high school mathematics teacher, kept refer- the farm. Nix kept talking about the University ofring to the University in his classes. Professor Nix had Chicago. I was continuing to dream of the day when Ispent one quarter at the University, but one would hâve would be a student there.thought that he had earned a PhD from the institution. I It was a long way from Epworth in Greenwoodcan understand his enthusiasm for the place, because he County, South Carolina where I was born; fourteencould not hâve matriculated from the University of miles from the town of Greenwood, ten miles fromSouth Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, only a few Ninety-Six (the nearest station where I could get a trainmiles from where he was born. Nix, being one of my going to Columbia or Charleston) and four miles to thefavorite teachers, had already made a tremendous im- post office where we got our mail; but it was muchpression upon me. At that time, at the âge of seventeen, further from the University of Chicago — further inI had no idea how I was going to study in a university. I space, time, and involvement in the académie life ofwas still testing my own ability at State Collège and the university scholars. It was much further in time — it was61935 when I received the doctorate from the University. It was a long struggle with one stumbling blockafter another appearing in my path. The road to theUniversity was not a straight one, but led from a four-months county school to five years at South CarolinaState, one year at Virginia Union in Richmond, Virginia, three years at Bâtes Collège in Lewiston, Maine,and finally to Professor Nix's University of Chicago.In ail thèse places, I was seeking validation of my ownintellectual ability. South Carolina had told me, in wordsand in deeds, that I and my people were inferior andthat the inferiority was a permanent condition becauseGod did it. Everything in South Carolina proclaimedthis doctrine with the éloquence of a Demosthenes. Thelaw, the state constitution, the courts, the whitepreachers and white churches, and the environment hadproclaimed this doctrine so loudly that many of theNegroes had accepted the fallacy that they were inferior. I never believed it and never accepted it. I hâvenever believed that God would do this to anybody orany people.By the time I had finally made my way to Bâtes Collège, I had read in the catalogue that very soon after theopening of the collège year the Sophomore Déclamation Contest would be held. I had won two prizes inpublic speaking during my high school years at State, soI made up my mind that I was going to try to win thecontest at Bâtes. I didn't know whether one couldchoose his own déclamation subject, but I decided totake a chance. I had been mightily impressed with anoration entitled "The Supposed Speech of JohnAdams." I committed it to memory and ail during mysummer job I rehearsed it before the mirror of aPullman car on the New York Central Railroad where Iworked. When the announcement of the SophomoreDéclamation Contest was made, I presented myself,asking permission to use the speech which I alreadyknew quite well. I entered the contest and was chosen asone of the nine to compete in the finals.Someone told me that Mrs. Fred Pomeroy, wife ofProfessor Pomeroy who was head of the biology department, was skilled in speech and drama. She hadstudied speech in Boston. I was taking a course in biology and asked Professor Pomeroy to inquire whetherhis wife would train me for the contest. He assured methat she would be happy to help me and indeed she wasmost gracious in coaching me. Campus gossip had it thatI could not hope to win because of my Southern drawl.This was news to me, since I had always assumed thatthe Southern drawl was uniquely the possession ofSouthern whites. However, the rumor intensified mydétermination to win, and I did, by unanimous décisionof the three judges. The victory gave me campus récognition by faculty and students and I was elated to winover my nine white competitors. However, that contest was truly won on the Pullman cars of the New YorkCentral Railroad and through the coaching of Mrs. FredPomeroy and "Professor Rob", as Gosvenor MayRobinson, professor of speech at Bâtes, was affection-ately called.I hâve always been deeply appréciative when peopledid things for me that they were in no way obliged to do.I shall never forget Mrs. Pomeroy, and as long as shewas alive I went to see her whenever I was in Lewiston.Bâtes meant much to me, but I was not satisfied. Iwanted to go to the University of Chicago to competewith white men from across the United States, ail races,ail classes, and ail nationalities.Although I had been licensed for the ministry in 1919(I was ordained two years later in 1921), I came to mysenior year at Bâtes still undecided about my future. Iwas not as sure as I had been in my earlier years whenthe pastor and church people at Mount Zion had pre-dicted that I would preach. Professor Halbert HaineBritan told me he could get me a fellowship at the University of Chicago in the Department of Philosophy. Ihad done well in mathematics and had given somethought to doing graduate work in that field. Andknowing my interest in religion, Professor HerbertHowell Purinton was ready to speak for me at NewtonTheological Seminary and the University of Chicago.Religion finally won out over both philosophy andmathematics.Xxlthough I had set my sights on the University ofChicago during my high school days, I was interested inhearing about Newton Theological Seminary. When theNewton "scout" came to Bâtes recruiting in the springof 1920, he made it quite plain that Newton was notinterested in Negro students and advised me to go formy theological training to Virginia Union Universitywhere I had spent my freshman collège year. So, it wasnot only Holderness School in New Hampshire thatdidn't want Negroes; the famous Newton TheologicalSeminary was similarly prejudiced. Professor Purintonassured me that I need feel no concern over Newton'sracially closed doors because the University of Chicagowas superior.After graduation and a brief Southern sojourn, I re-turned North to work as a Pullman porter that fall,hoping to earn enough to pay a few debts, and to saveenough to enter the Divinity School of the University ofChicago in January 1921. Christmas was close and I hadto make the trip to Columbia, South Carolina to seeEllen, whom I had not seen since our marriage. Mybride, whom I had married in Newport News, Virginia,in August, had returned to South Carolina to teach. Ihad it ail planned. From Columbia I expected to work as7a porter to Chicago to save what little money I had andto pick up a few tips en route. My plans fell apart. I wasunable to get any work out of Columbia. Instead I wasgiven an assignment on a "deadhead" car (when aPullman car is not in service, a porter is sent along toprotect it) which was hitched to a slow-moving freight.In Richmond, I learned that my deadhead had beenassigned to Pittsburgh and not Washington. I tried toget an assignment to Chicago out of Richmond. No suc-cess. I decided to beg the train conductor to let me gofrom Richmond to Washington on my Pullman keys.Kindly conductors occasionally permitted this, andluckily this conductor consented. Cheered by his considération, I had hopes that Washington would assignme to a car bound for Chicago.I almost made it. The slip assigning me to Chicago hadbeen put in my hand, and then I was told, "Wait a minute!" The assignment clerk went through some lettersand told me that since I was wanted in Boston he wouldhâve to send me there. As soon as I got to Boston, theman in the yard office told me that the superintendentwanted to see me. I knew what was coming.Though I had worked in the Pullman service for sev-eral summers and had a good record, I was fired inBoston in December 1920. Two things were responsi-ble: Boston was my headquarters and the district out ofwhich I worked. It was customary not to pay a porterwhen he was being held for service in his home district.If things were slack and a porter couldn't get an assignment he received no pay, even if ten or more dayspassed before any work developed, but a New Yorkporter in Boston would be paid. Porters not regularly inthe employ of the Pullman Company resented this par-tiality. Some local officiais would try to save the PullmanCompany money by detaining their own men for spécialservice while giving assignments to porters from otherdistricts.That fall, Harvard had played Yale one Saturday af-ternoon in New Haven. The Boston porters who cameinto Boston any day of that week, Monday through Fri-day, were held in Boston to guarantee that there wouldbe enough porters to service the parlor cars whichwould be needed for fans going to the Harvard- Yalefootball game. Several Boston porters came in on Monday, and instead of being sent out again they were toldto report on Saturday to go to New Haven. Portersfrom other districts who came into Boston were assigned out. The Boston porters protested to no avail.So, a group of us decided to make out our own timeslips and sent a letter to the Pullman superintendent inChicago explaining the situation and requesting pay forthe week. Chicago authorized Boston to pay us. Oursignatures had appeared only on the time slips; however, since I was the only collège man in the group, thePullman officiais in Boston immediately suspected me of initiating the appeal to Chicago. The porters had pre-viously agreed that the group was responsible ratherthan any one person, and although no one was fired forthis incident, my name was suspect.Later, I had an altercation with a Pullman conductor.Early one morning, around six o'clock, I was to discharge a passenger at Syracuse. While he dressed, I puthis bed away so he would hâve a place to sit until arrivaiin Syracuse. Just as my passenger got off, a gentlemancame up and asked me whether I had a seat to Buffalo. Isaid "Yes." When I told the conductor, he replied that Ihad no space. I explained, telling him that his diagramwould show that I had put one passenger off at Syracuse.The conductor kept insisting that I had no space; andeven if I had discharged a passenger, the berth had notbeen put away. I was equally insistent because it was Iwho had put the berth away. The conductor and I ex-changed hot words. He said that he was going to reportme. Since the conductor was the porter's superiorofficer, a black mark from him could spell disaster — anddid. The conductor carried out his threat; he reportedme to the Boston superintendent. It took few words forthe superintendent to tell me that I was fired and hedemanded the return of my keys.JL his firing was on Friday, December 31, 1920. I hadforty-seven dollars in my pocket and a thousand milesseparated me from the University of Chicago. I toldBryant, another porter and my friend, my plight andhow much I wanted to enroll in the University ofChicago on Monday, January 3, 1921. I was talking tothe right man. Bryant and I had had adjacent cars goingto Buffalo one summer day. However, he got sick andwas unable to care for his passengers, so I took care ofhis car as well as my own. In Buffalo, Bryant had to betaken to a hospital. After putting away his car and mine,I went to the hospital to see my friend and took him the$13.60 his passengers had given me in tips. When Iexplained my predicament to Bryant, he was eager tohelp me, again expressing his appréciation for my earlierkindness to him. Bryant had an assignment out ofSpringfield, Massachusetts, for Cleveland, on NewYear's night. First he offered to give me his assignmentto Cleveland, but we both realized that he would losehis job if he did so. Next, he offered to take a chanceand let me deadhead with him to Springfield, Massachusetts, and from Springfield to help me hide fromthe conductor until we got to Cleveland.I was to join Bryant on his deadhead car at Back Baystation. But Bryant's deadhead car was hitched to a fasttrain which did not stop at Back Bay. When the traincame whizzing through Back Bay, it was literally flying.Bryant was on the platform of the station holding my8bags. This was on Saturday night, January 1, 1921. 1 wasdue to register at the University of Chicago on Mondaymorning, January 3.I decided to pay my way on the next train from BackBay to Springfield and look for my friend, who was notto leave Springfield for Cleveland until late that NewYear's night. My ticket cost me $3.17. When I foundBryant in Springfield, making down his beds, I put on awhite coat to help him finish the job and receive hispassengers. This was ail very well; but how was I to getto Cleveland without the conductor discovering me andpulling me off the train? Bryant and I agreed that Iwould évade the conductor by getting behind him as hewent through the train checking his passengers and col-lecting tickets. When a conductor checks his passengers,he usually takes a seat somewhere and makes up hisrecord. While the conductor was preparing his records,Bryant hid me in a vacant upper berth, and there I sleptuntil late the next morning. Somewhere betweenRochester and Buffalo, when Bryant was sure the conductor was not around, he awakened me.I dressed and Bryant stowed me away in the linencloset. To keep me from suffocating, he put a cord onthe door so that it wouldn't slam and lock. To protectme further, he placed the soiled linen bag in front of me.Twice the conductor came to that closet for something,but I was securely hidden. Thus concealed and bar-ricaded, I rode into Cleveland, where Bryant's car ter-minated. This was Sunday night, January 2. Registrationat the University of Chicago was less than twelve hoursaway — and I was still three hundred miles away..Luck was still with me. When I got to Cleveland, thePullman man-in-charge was short of porters. He neededsomeone to man a car to Toledo. I explained that I hadto register the next morning at the University ofChicago and pleaded with him to send me to Chicago. Ihad been fired and was no longer in the employ of thePullman Company, but, fortunately, another set of keyswas in my pocket. (How I got them, I do not now know.My mother, perhaps, would hâve considered them ananswer to her prayers!)The Cleveland man was sympathetic and told me thathe had a porter coming in who was really too tired to goto Toledo, but if I would make down the car and put thepassengers to bed so that the tired porter, due thirtyminutes before the Chicago train was scheduled toleave, could go to bed and get some rest, he would sendme to Chicago as a swing man (a porter sent along tohelp, but not in charge of the car). I was only too happyto accept his offer. I arrived in Chicago at eight AM onJanuary 3. I had arrived at Bâtes with ninety dollars inmy pocket; I landed in Chicago with forty-two dollars. Thanks to Bryant, I had eaten between Springfieldand Cleveland. I registered on the day of my arrivai inChicago, found a place to live a few blocks from theUniversity, and secured a job washing dishes in theCommons. There was virtually no tuition in the DivinitySchool. I got my meals in return for washing dishes and,if I remember correctly, got paid something besides.Finally, at long last, I was registered at Chicago, aboutwhich N. C. Nix had bragged so much and of which Ihad dreamed so often. Moreover, I was to corne in contact with some of the University's great scholars. De-spite my extremely conservative background and or-thodox religious upbringing, the ultra-modern views ofthe University of Chicago scholars did not upset myfaith. What they taught made sensé to me.But I found more préjudice at the University ofChicago and in the city of Chicago than I had found atBâtes and in the city of Lewiston, Maine. Less, ofcourse, than I had found in Greenwood County. At theUniversity, Negro women could not occupy the dor-mitories. Negro men could live in Goodspeed Hall, butonly because Goodspeed was the dormitory reservedfor graduate students in the Divinity School. MostSouthern students, and some Northern students, wouldnot eat at the same table with Negroes.Negro students, therefore, took great delight in in-creasing the physical activity of the prejudiced. In theUniversity Commons, where the majority of the students ate, the service was cafétéria style, so that personswent through the line, selected food, and sat whereverthey chose or where there was space. Those personswho would not eat at a table with Negroes were soonspotted. Many times I saw white men and women, half-way through their meals, take up plates, silver, andglassware and move to a table where there were noNegroes. Some of us took pleasure in plaguing thèsepeople by deliberately seating ourselves at a table wheresome white person had fled to escape eating with Negrostudents, who followed him from table to table, andfinally who caused him, with ill-concealed disgust, toleave without finishing his meal.At Bâtes, teachers spoke to Negro students on campus and downtown, especially if the Negro student wasin the professor's class. I knew one or two professors atthe University of Chicago in 1921 who never recog-nized a Negro student when off campus or on. Wesometimes saw one of them with his wife, and wheneverwe did we spoke, calling him by name, bowing and tip-ping our hats. Of course, he had to return the courtesy.We enjoyed that response. Lewiston restaurants wereopen to Negro students without discrimination. Not soin Chicago in 1921. Most of the restaurants, perhaps ail,in the vicinity of the University of Chicago denied service to Negroes. Interesting and stimulating though theUniversity was, it was not quite the "heaven" Professor9Nix's fond recollection had painted — at least not withregard to racial discrimination.JLn the Divinity School, my major professor was EdwinE. Aubrey, professor of Christian Theology and Ethics.My courses in that department were just about equallydivided between Aubrey and Henry Nelson Wiemanwho led my philosophy courses and philosophy of religion courses. Aubrey was hard, and experienced students advised me to avoid him. But Shailer Matthewadvised me to take Aubrey's courses. When I got an "a"in Aubrey's first course, I was delighted and continuedto make A's.It was Aubrey who suggested that I do my thesis withhim. Since I had talked with Wieman about a subject formy thesis, I found myself in a dilemma. Wieman made iteasy for me. He thought my thesis should be with Aubrey. I was delighted once to hear Aubrey say in publicthat he sponsored me and voted for me to receive thePhD and that he would do it again. Aubrey was an ableteacher and I wished that someday I would lecture withthe clarity of Professor Aubrey. We remained friendsuntil his death and every Christmas, Mrs. Aubrey and Icontinue to exchange greetings.Henry Nelson Wieman whetted my aptitude forfurther exploration into philosophy. He led the classthrough the works of Alfred North Whitehead, theeminent English mathematician and philosopher. It wassad to hâve Wieman tell me in one of my visits that hefelt that his life had been a failure. He felt that he hadleft nothing for posterity. I pointed out that as a studentof his, I knew he would live on with me and his otherstudents and the grandchildren of his students. Hisbooks and articles would be read by générations tocome, researchers would study his theology andphilosophy.Even if Wieman's image fades, it will come up again.Kierkegaard is an example: he is resurrected in com-temporary life. I can understand Wieman's position. Fora while, he was perhaps the most talked abouttheologian-philosopher in the country. The ChristianCentury did much to make Wieman known to thepeople of this nation. This feeling of defeat may becommon to ail of us . . . one should do his best and leavehis image to God and the people.Professor J. M. P. Smith, chairman of the Departmentof the Old Testament, was an able scholar and an ablelecturer, clear as crystal. I thought he was prejudiced,but I had no proof. I was able to get only a "B" but neveran "A." If one read the many books assigned in thecourse, he did well. Also, a research paper was requiredin Smith's course as in every course in the DivinitySchool. Professor Wilbert was another able teacher in the OldTestament department, and his lectures were lucid.Shailer Mathis, dean of the Divinity School, was not ascrisp a lecturer as others, but he made up for it byallowing more questions and discussion. Dean ShirleyJackson Case, my master's thesis advisor, was a man whowalked straight and erect and had a stern face. His concentration was Early Christianity. There was little discussion in Case's class. I usually made A's in his courses.It was in connection with my master's thesis, "The Sur-vival of Pagan Religion in Early Christianity," that Ilearned that Dean Case was kind. After completing mythesis, I left it with him to read. When finished, he sentfor me. He made a few minor suggestions. They wereminor, but I was scared to death that he was not going tookay it. Observing my fear and nervousness, he said,"Mr. Mays, don't be upset, I am going to approve thethesis. You hâve done a good job."When I defended my thesis for the PhD degree, I wassitting before six professors in the Divinity School. Idefended the thesis with no difficulty. While the committee was discussing my défense, Dean Case askedAubrey if I was coming back to get my degree. Thispeeved Aubrey and he snapped at the Dean saying,"Knowing Mays as I do, he would not make that décision until I tell him he had passed the examination."There were three other comments on the thesisexamination. Professor Kinchloe, who had told me thatI could never get a thesis out of the subject I had cho-sen, took back his words and congratulated me when heheard the défense. Professor Donald Riddle of the NewTestament department told Aubrey that he would beproud if I had written that thesis in his department.How could I forget J. Edgar Goodspeed and J. DewittBurton, both of the New Testament department.Goodspeed was scholarly, gentle, and kind. He is notedfor his translation of the New Testament in modemEnglish.No man was more impressive than Burton. Each per-son in the class was assigned sections in the New Testament and had to report to the whole class. He was oneof my ablest teachers throughout my whole académiecareer. Every time he called upon me to recite, I was"scared." When he got through expanding on what I haddone, I knew I had flunked the course. In the finalexamination, questions were framed to cover thecourse. I was surprised and happy when I received an"A."I liked Burton because he always spoke to me and heknew me by name. He had lifted the restriction thatkept Negro students from using the recreationalfacilities in Reynold's Hall. After the death of the University président, Burton was made acting président.During that time, I am told, he mapped out the expansion of the University for years to come. When Burton,10at a board meeting, revealed his plans for the University, they were so impressed that they made him président. I received my master's degree from Burton in1925. After three quarters of stimulating and rewardingwork, I went to Morehouse Collège to do my firstteaching.\N hen I returned to the University in 1932, I hadwritten my first book, The Negro's Church. I was told bya friend, Dick Edward, that I had better try to get mydoctor's thesis out of that book. He told me if I did notget my thesis out of that study, I would not complète thedoctorate. Of course, no university would accept athesis which that school did not supervise. He waswrong. While I was in the Divinity School, forty percentof the doctoral candidates had failed their final writtenexamination and never got their thesis accepted.Another fine man taught me during a summer quarter. It was a course on "The Authority and Prestige ofthe Catholic Church." As I recall, his name was Sullivan.Ail the students had to write on the same subject. Thatcourse awakened an appréciation for the CatholicChurch which was helpful to me when I was appointedby Président Kennedy as one of four Americans to attend the funeral of Pope John XXIII, led by Vice Président Lyndon Johnson. When Professor Sullivan returned the paper, he told the class that the best paper (ina class of approximately twenty) was the one turned .inby Benjamin Mays. That evening I had a visitor.He wasn't hésitant at ail in displaying his préjudiceagainst blacks. He said that he wanted to see a paperwritten by a Negro that Professor Sullivan said was thebest. I handed him the paper and, after reading it, hesaid, "It's a pretty good paper." I replied that ProfessorSullivan thought it was excellent. I asked him about hisgrade. He replied, "I got a 'B'." I replied, "Good." Hesaid he had never known an intelligent Negro before."There were a few in my town, but I never knew them."How divisive and cruel ségrégation is.One of the most fascinating courses I ever took at theUniversity was with a man whose theology I rejected.The man was A. E. Hayden, a humanist. He wouldsweep away ail angels, Jésus, Christ, God, heaven, andhell. As I recall, Professor Hayden believed that mancould build a world of peace, goodwill, and justice without relying on the traditional Christian theology. I wasattracted to him because of his firm belief in humankindand the fervor with which he defended his position. Hedid it with the zeal of the old-time Baptist preacherwhom I heard in the Baptist community in SouthCarolina. I heard him say in Rockefeller Chapel that"the life of one child was more important than ail of thebuildings put up on the campus of the University." I thought that if this man thought like that I would take asmany courses as I could with him without jeopardizingthe courses required in my major. Hayden was a hand-some, scholarly, and kind man. I liked him and he likedme, and he seemed to enjoy my questions attacking hisposition. He became a part of my life — a beautiful man,indeed.The higher I moved up the académie ladder, the moreI felt obligated to ail the people who had touched mylife. As I look back, I am more and more convinced thatno man is self-made. One is due crédit for his ability toslug it out despite crippling circumstances and crédithimself for using his mind, but God and his parents gavehim his mind. Any man who say s he is self-made tells anuntruth. One is indebted to people who gave him ahelping hand and an encouraging word. "No man is anisland entire of himself." So no man has a right to lookwith condescension upon a man born poor or illiterate,for he too might hâve been born poor or illiterate.Even people who hâve made a négative impact on mylife hâve been a part of me. They showed me what Imust not become. I was determined that I would not letthe mob beat me down. I would not let a drunkard, adope addict, a thief, make me follow in their footsteps.If I did, they would détermine the destiny of my life.Even thèse unfortunate ones are a part of the group thathâve driven me on.My first trip abroad came in 1935. I was one of thir-teen Americans to be chosen by the National Council ofthe National YMCA to attend its world convention inMysore, India. I had never been outside the UnitedStates before, and the National Council had given ustime to spend eight or ten days visiting London andParis, Palestine and Egypt, and Bombay, near which theIndia conférence was in session.There I met three very important people: Nehru,Mrs. Pandit (Nehru's sister), and Mahatma Gandhi. Ihired an interpréter to tell me what was being said inHindi. I concluded from the speakers that the Britishdays in India were numbered. I didn't see Gandhi at thecongress because he went to his tent; he was engaged inhis evening prayers. But his secretary told me if I couldcome to Warda, he would arrange for me to hâve anextended conférence with the Mahatma. This was goodad vice: I had an opportunity to talk with him for ninetyminutes, one of the greatest expériences in my life.Physically, Gandhi was not impressive, he weighed onlyninety pounds; but mentally, spiritually, and morally, hewas a giant of a man. I told him I had elected to visit himinstead of the Taj Mahal. He replied that I had chosenwisely because if I came to India again, he would proba-bly be dead. He was right. By the 1952 meeting of theCentral Committee of The World Council of Churchesin Luckow, Gandhi had been assassinated.I needed ail that I had gotten at the University to11make a contribution in the world scène. There is no wayI could hâve been given the opportunities to attendthèse conférences without the people who saw in me thequalities that would enable me to make a contribution tothe cause of justice and equality. There is, for instance,Channing Tobias whom I knew when I was a high schoolstudent at the State Collège in Orangeburg, SouthCarolina. Tobias recommended me to become a national YMCA secretary, visiting collèges and YMCAs inSouth Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee. It was Tobias who was responsible for my 1937visit to India for the World YMCA Conférence. And itwas Tobias who recommended me to Mordecai Johnsonas the first Negro dean of the School of Religion atHoward University..Zxn able man, Tobias was éloquent in speech andadamant about doing everything he could to make theletter "c" functional in the YMCA. Had he been white,he might well hâve led the YMCA in the United States.He opened the way for me and he and my friends in theYMCA across the world are among the host of peoplewho hâve continued to inspire me. Because I spoke andpreached in churches, collèges, and universities, I wasnominated and ultimately elected vice président of theFédéral Council of Churches of Christ under BishopOxnam (who was elected at the same time président ofthe Fédéral Council of Churches in Pittsburgh in 1946).This position brought me invitations from City Councilsof Churches in the Midwest, New York, Pennsylvania,Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and other places.When the Fédéral Council merged with other dénominations into the National Council of Churches of Christ,the stage was set for my participation in the WorldCouncil of Churches which was organized in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1948. I had never entertained the ambition to become the most widely known black church-man in the United States. But it seemed to be happening and the University of Chicago helped to prépare mefor thèse encounters.At Amsterdam, as a delegate from the National Baptist Convention, I never dreamed that I would be one ofninety persons elected to the Central Committee, thecommittee that carries on the work of the World Council between world assemblies. The truth of the matter is,I tried my best, when nominated, not to serve. WhenRévérend Aubrey (brother of Professor Aubrey, mymajor professor at the University), came to me for arecommendation from the National Baptist Convention, I insisted that a pastor in the National Baptist Convention should be the man. When he asked me who, Isuggested Doctor J. H. Jackson of the Olivet BaptistChurch in Chicago. Révérend Aubrey was head of the Baptist Church inEngland. When he came back to me, he said the Nomination Committee had nominated me for membershipon the Central Committee. I had spoken in plenary sessions, making changes or additions in sessions on race,économies, justice, etc., but only because I thought aWorld Assembly should speak prophetically to theworld. The names of the ninety members were printedand posted twenty-four hours before the vote and I wasunanimoiisly elected along with the rest. Représentatives from the USSR could not come to Amsterdam, sothree places were reserved and we operated with ninetyminus the Russians.Now I began to take my rôle more seriously. I wasnot just a member, a body filling space, but one who hadto make an impact in a conférence where world prob-lems and issues were discussed.The teachers in my life hâve played a significant rôlein making me what I am today. Even those who nevertaught me in their classes stamped their imprint uponme. My expériences at State and Virginia Union had ledme to Bâtes, a new world for me. Bâtes did wonders forme. I had competed successfully with the Yankee. Butthis was not final — I wanted to match my wits in a greatuniversity where men and women from across theUnited States and from across the world studied. Iwanted to be able to respect myself, and on the basis ofperformance be respected by others. The University ofChicago provided that opportunity. The universitymight hâve been Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Yale,or Harvard, but I had been lured to the University ofChicago by my high school teacher, N. C. Nix, and thatwas good. It is a good feeling to know that you hâvegraduated from one of the best universities in the world,not the oldest but one of the best.It is mighty fine to be an alumnus of a universitywhere one does not hâve to apologize for its standingamong the great universities. It is good to know that theUniversity started out great under the leadership ofWilliam Rainey Harper; he stamped his spirit of scholar-ship and character so indelibly upon the University thatthey serve it to this day. If a university is to be judged bythe contribution of its faculty and its alumni to thewell-being of mankind, the University of Chicago is in-deed a great university.Benjamin E. Mays, AU' 25, PhD'35, is an internationally-known educator and président of the Atlanta Board of Education. One of the prime improvers of the quality of éducationand social justice in this country, he was président ofMorehouse Collège from 1940 to 1967. His autobiography,Born to Rebel, was published in 1970. He is the author ofanother six books and has received honorary degrees from fouruniversities.\2Ruth EisenbergThe Lady Who Saved VolcanoesThe Albuquerque VolcanoesI was a newcomer to Albuquerque late in 1968. Myhusband George was semi-retired to teach at the newMédical School at the University of New Mexico, andwe were much taken with the Southwest after the flatprairie and leafy green of Chicago's north suburbs.Especially exciting was the large mountain rising amile above us to the east, and a vast désert stretchingwestward. The western horizon was broken only by fivesmall long-extinct volcanoes. The sunsets behind thescalloped row of volcanic cônes were especially beauti-ful. Several miles below the cônes the irregular lava flowhad formed a black basait palisade. Ail thèse created abeautiful land form, somewhat reminiscent of the artistChristo's twenty-two mile "Running Curtain" inCalifornia.The eastern mountain was spectacular as the lightchanged upon it, but I looked to the volcanoes moreoften. They seemed to provide a natural edge, serving tocontain the city's growth which had followed the old UShighway — Route 66, Chicago to California. The mountain served the same boundary purpose on the east asdid Indian réservations to the north and south. Other- wise, the city had no center, no form. Like most westernUS cities where land had been cheap, it sprawled everywhich way.In my secret Walter Mitty life, I had been an ar-chitect, not a social worker or a suburban housewife. Ihad read the Lewis Mumford articles in the New Yorker,bought his The City in History, and attended lectures bythe country's leading city planners. So in 1969 I turnedto the Architecture School of the University of NewMexico for a course entitled, "The City." At its end, Iasked the professor for suggestions for further work.Humoring the little old lady in tennis shoes, he said,"Why don't you find out who owns the volcanoes on theWest Mesa?"I was amazed. I had assumed they must be publiclyowned. The alarming discovery was that they wereowned by a local rancher and were up for sale, mostlikely for a suburban-type real estate development. Be-ginning my search for ways and means, I called variousUniversity faculty members, a botanist, zoologist,geologist, archeologist, looking for something unique (adésert snail darter!), hoping something might bring in13Ruth Eisenberg, the "Volcano Lady"environmentalist support. A bitter-voiced archeologisttold me that a volcano similar to thèse a few miles southof the city had been leveled to the ground to simplifyroad construction, a fate that could overtake my volcanoes. He also told me that one of mine had a cavewhich had been occupied for ten thousand years by pre-historic Indians, and referred to me a doctoral thesis onthe cave and on surrounding Indian campsites.While only seven miles from downtown Albuquerque, the volcanoes were accessible only by a rough dirtroad, and because the land was used for grazing, a sériesof locked gâtes had to be surmounted. But the effortnecessary to reach them was worthwhile. Hère was a360 degree panorama; the Rio Grande River, with itsgreenbelt cutting through the arid land, the SandiaMountains as a backdrop, the mountains cradling SantaFe and Los Alamos to the north, yet other mountains inthe distance. A perfect place for hiking, picnicking, rid-ing, silence and peace.The largest of the peaks had been exploited; at itsbase was a surface mine from which great quantities ofthe dark brown cinder rock (scoria) had been removedfor landscape and building material. Even this holecould be turned to advantage. I saw it as perhaps anopen classroom where not only geology and biology would take on more meaning, but history especially.Below in the valley, the conquistadores had come, fol-lowed by the Church and the settlers; the valley becamethe trade route from Spanish America. With ail of thisgoing for it, why wasn't it city land?I examined various studies which had been madefrom time to time by consulting firms hired to enhancethe cow-town image of the city; each had recommendedcity ownership of the volcanoes. The studies had beenpaid for and filed away. I had been attending the meetings of the Planning and Zoning Commission as observer for the League of Women Voters and knew of thecountless hours put in by the commissioners on littledétails: the permissible height of fonces and walls, thenumber of curb-cuts allowed for parking lots, the an-nexing lot by lot to the city, but preserving a naturalresource did not come up in my term as watcher.The head of the City Planning Department was delighted with my inquiry. The professional plannerswanted the land, but because of the high cost, it was noton the administration's list of priorities. Now I could bespokesman and try to create demand.I had been talking to people: "How would you like tosee a Taco Bell on the top of one volcano, an OrangeJulius on another, and MacDonalds' golden arches on athird?" It was ridiculous because you couldn't get waterup there easily but people didn't think of that. "Howterrible," they said, and that was the beginning of ourorganization. Only thirty people, we formed "Save theVolcanoes" in the summer of 1970.W e worked at city, county, state and Fédéral levels togain support and to try to raise funds. We appearedbefore parks and récréation boards and departments,planning and zoning boards and departments, statelegislators and congressional delegates. We circulatedpétitions, printed bumper stickers, had a photo contest,and held several Volcano Days with speakers on biology, geology, anthropology. We conferred with theNature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and Friends of theEarth. At least, people were becoming aware that Albuquerque had volcanoes and something should bedone to keep them.In early 1973, we made an all-out présentation to theCity Commission, with maps, charts, and speakers. TheCommission shrugged off our appeal, saying the citysimply could not afford to buy the land. There was oneexception. Commissioner Nancy Koch offered to studythe appeal further; she accepted a packet of pétitionswith 3,000 names and a bundle of letters from somefourth graders from a school in a Chicano neighborhoodwho hoped, some day, to get to the volcanoes theycould plainly see from their classroom.14About this time there were increasing efforts to get agênerai aviation airport west of the volcanoes. An architectural student, permitted to look into some planning files, "borrowed" and brought us a map whichshowed the access road to the airport crossing the volcano strip between the three southern and two northerncônes, effectively spoiling their aesthetic and recrea-tional potential. He had been told the map had beendiscarded, but there it was, and who might not pounceon it one day?l\ year earlier, our senior and highly esteemedSenator Clinton Anderson had expressed interest in ourwork and asked to be kept informed. We now ap-proached him, map in hand, explaining that it had beendismissed, but obviously not destroyed. The Senatorfelt toward the volcanoes as we did; he phoned someonein Washington at once; the someone came and met withus and recalled a once-upon-a-time plan to hâve a RioGrande River National Parkway consisting of a numberof parks and Indian Pueblos to be connected, like a"string of beads" along the mid-Rio Grande. In a fewdays there were newspaper articles reading, "SenatorAnderson Wants 'String of Beads' Along Rio Grande."The Senator wrote to Governor Bruce King about this,suggesting that a Volcano Park be included. We sent outurgent letters to our supporters, asking that they writeto the governor too, and to the city government. Someprestigeous citizens wrote, and those handfuls of lettersdid the trick.With King, Anderson, and Commissioner Koch in-volved, a funding deal was worked out, using statemoney, a grant from the Bureau of Outdoor Récréationof the Department of the Interior, the Four CornersCommission, and a city matching grant: in ail, $623,000or $700 an acre for 890 acres. The city bought the volcanoes, the three southern ones, with a land areagreaterthan New York's Central Park.Around this time attitudes were changing everywherein favor of conserving open space and spécial environ-mental features. Albuquerque's government created acitizen body to formulate a Comprehensive Plan forMajor Open Space. A task force to détermine prioritiesfor using the limited funds available was formed, onwhich Save the Volcanoes was represented. The twonorthern cônes were purchased by the city in 1976 as aresuit of the task force's décision.But in less than two years after the ComprehensivePlan was enthusiastically endorsed, and under a différent administration, the entire plan was placed injeopardy. The heirs to the remaining ranch land wantedto sell without the long wait for the city and county'sfunds, and a plan to divide the land into forty-acre "ranchettes" (i.e., suburban homes), was approved bythe Probate Court. There were heated meetings to keepthe Comprehensive Plan from being broached, and Savethe Volcanoes strongly pictured the violation to thecityscape if the area immediately below the cônesshould be developed. This determined résistance, plusthe support of a new mayor, resulted in the city con-tracting to buy the 2,100 acres in question. An optionwas obtained on ail the land, and the city — with matching funds from the Fédéral Héritage Conservation andRécréation Service — is buying the land in chunks asfunds become available. And hopefully, in ten years ailthe land will be city-owned. Meanwhile, access to theuse of the land was given to the city. The Open SpacePlan remains viable.The entire Volcano Park area is now about five and ahalf square miles, which in time will hâve recreationalfacilities adding greatly to the already overcrowdedfacilities in the nearby mountains for the use of therapidly expanding city.Hère ends Mrs. Ruth Eisenberg's, PhB'28, narrative.She sent her story in response to our request; we hadbeen told of the project by other Albuquerque alumniand had read a fascinating description of the work in thelocal Albuquerque newspapers.While her version of the story is complète, the ap-propriate postscript we believe is this from an article byV. B. Price in Albuquerque's weekly paper, The Inde-pendent:Ruth Eisenberg is a hero of the city. She's not aprofessional politician with a career to promote;she's not a glad-handing investor with profits topromote; she's not a whiz-bang bureaucrat withjob security to promote. She is a public interestperson and a champion of open space. She doesthings for the common good.It still seems incredible that [she] actually man-aged to do it. But every morning when I look outmy kitchen window and see the West Mesa volcanoes free of roads and buildings, I know she didit. I'il be grateful to her as long as I live hère.On Sunday, June 4, 1978, "An Evening at the Volcanoes," honored Ruth Eisenberg. A concert by theNew Mexico Symphony Orchestra woodwind ensemblewas played mounted in the natural amphitheater she hasdescribed, which is now named for her. Mayor DavidRusk made the dedication before an appréciative audience who had brought picnic suppers, as the area's old-timers had in the times before the fonces went up. TheIndian cave is now listed on the State Register of His-torical Sites. And, in certain circles around Albuquerque, Mrs. Eisenberg is now known as "the volcanolady" — an honorable title.15Enrollment Committee AppointedAn ad hoc committee on University enrollment has been appointed by Président Hanna Gray. In her charge to theCommittee she said, "We must analyzeboth the current situation and the récenthistory of enrollment patterns and try tomake realistic projections about whatmay be anticipated in the five and tenyears ahead."Committee members represent across section from University faculty.They are: Norman Bradburn, chairman;Alan Donagan, Philip C. Hoffman,Norman Nachtrieb, Tetsuo Najita, andThomas L. Whisler. Among them, theyrepresent the Collège, the Divisions ofthe Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Biological Sciences,and the Graduate School of Business.Ex officio members are Jonathan Z.Smith, Dean of the Collège, and CharlesD. O'Connell, Vice Président and Deanof Students, and Jonathan Fanton, VicePrésident for Académie Resources andInstitutional Planning."It must be a central objective of theUniversity," said Mrs. Gray, "to sustainand even gradually increase Quadranglesenrollment. But there are many issuesthat need to be studied, for the nature ofthe student population . . . (has) to dowith the whole character and program ofthe University and with its aims."Toulmin Delivers Ryerson Lecture"The Inwardness of Mental Life" was thetitle of the sixth annual Ryerson lecturedelivered at the University at the end of April. Professor Stephen Toulmin wasthe speaker; the séries was establishedby the trustées to commemorate Noraand Edward Ryerson. Nora Butler Ryerson was a founding member of theWomen's Board; Edward Ryerson was atrustée of the University for forty-eightyears and chairman of the Board ofTrustées for five.Each year, the lecturer is appointed bythe Président of the University, on therecommendation of a faculty committee.This committee solicits individual nominations from each member of the facultyduring the winter quarter preceding theacadémie year for which the appointaient is made.This year's lecturer, Stephen Toulmin, is professor in the Committee onSocial Thought, in the Department ofPhilosophy, and in the Divinity School.His major interests are the history andphilosophy of science and the scientificand historical bases of epistemology. Hisacadémie work has sought to clarify thenature and rôles of concepts and con-ceptual thought in order to better un-derstand the idea of rationality.Toulmin is the author of Reason inEthics (1949), Philosophy of Science(1953), The Uses of Argument (1958),Foresight and Understanding (1961),Human Understanding (1972), andKnowing and Acting (1976).He is co-author, with June Goodfield,of The Fabric of the Heavens (1961), TheArchitecture of Matter (1963), and TheDiscovery ofTime (1965); and with AllenJanik otWittgenstein's Vienna (1973).Since the lectureship's beginning in1975, speakers hâve been John HopeFranklin, the John Matthews ManlyDistinguished Service Professor in the Department of History; S. Chan-drasekhar, the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and As-trophysics; Philip B. Kurland, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished ServiceProfessor in the Collège and Professorin the Law School; Robert Streeter, theEdward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and in the Collège; and Dr. AlbertDorfman, the Richard T. Crâne Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Biochemistryand the Committee on Genetics.Shils Named 1979 Jefferson LecturerEdward Shils has been named the 1979Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities bythe National Endowment for theHumanities (neh). He is DistinguishedService Professor in the Committee onSocial Thought and in the Departmentof Sociology.The National Endowment created theJefferson Lecture in 1972 to recognizeindividual leadership in bringing theperspectives of the humanities to bearon issues of broad public concern.The lectureship carries an award andstipend of $10,000, and the lecturer isexpected to publish the lecture or sériesas the annual Jefferson Lecture in theHumanities.Shils will présent the lecture in threeparts on the topic "Render untoCaesar. . . : Government, Society andthe Universities and Their ReciprocalRights and Duties."The second part of the lecture, titled"The Conflict of God and Caesar," wassponsored by the University and waspresented in the Glen A. Lloyd Auditorium at the Law School on April 10.Traditionally, the lecture is first presented in Washington, D.C. and then inadditional cities across the country. Partone of Shils' lecture, "The Claims ofCaesar and Their Limits," was presentedin Washington on April 9- The last part,"A New Déclaration of Right andDuties," was given in Austin, Texasunder the sponsorship of the Universityof Texas on April 17.Shils is the third University facultymember to be chosen for this honor.John Hope Franklin, the John MatthewsManly Distinguished Service Professorin History, served as the Jefferson Lecturer in 1976, and Saul Bellow was thesixth lecturer in 1977. Bellow is theRaymond W. and Martha HilpertGruner Distinguished Service Professorin the Committee on Social Thought andin the Department of English.16XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SPECIAL OFFER TO ALUMNI10% Discount fromThe University of Chicago Press06554-535860-755675-8 CRITICAL UNDERSTANDINGThe Powers and Limits of PluralismWayne C. BoothThrough extended accounts of three major pluralists, Ronald S. Crâne, Kenneth Burke, andM. H. 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Président Hanna H.Gray made the appointment which iseffective July 1, 1979- Kountz is cur-rently acting Director of Alumni Affairsand Assistant Director of the University's Center for Policy Study.He will work closely with the recentlyappointed ad hoc Commission onAlumni Affairs which has undertakenthe first systematic review of alumni affairs in fifteen years and is expected to provide guidance in shaping futurealumni programs. Kountz, an alumnus,will carry out Commission recommen-dations.Peter Kountz received his PhD inHistory of Culture from the Universityof Chicago in 1976. From 1969 to 1978,he taught humanities at Roosevelt University's Collège of Continuing Education. His principal field of interest isTwentieth Century American Religionand Culture. He can be reached at theUniversity's Alumni Association.Robert Nach man, Chris O'Neill, Chairmenof the Aluumni Fund, and Emmett Ded-mon, National Chairman of the AlumniFund. Alumni Fund Takes to TéléphonesAt the end of March, the University'sAlumni Fund had reached $1.125 of the$1.9 million goal. This included thePresident's fund, the Century fund, andthe gênerai fund. Thèse are unrestrictedgifts from alumni and friends of theUniversity.Many alumni are being reachedthrough a concentrated téléphone cam-paign. Development phones are beingmanned by University students in mostcases. This project is designed to makecontact with alumni in areas where noalumni fund committee exists and thus,where numerous alumni hâve nevercontributed to the University.Of this latter group, 22 percent hâvemade spécifie pledges to the alumni fundand an additional 21 percent hâve saidthey will contribute, but were notspécifie about amounts. RobertNachman and Christine O'Neill, Di-rectors of thèse efforts, report that as ofmid- April the fund raising phone effortshad generated some $50,000. Alumni Affairs Study CommissionContinuesUnder the direction of Arthur Schultz,x'41, AB'67, the ad hoc commission onalumni affairs (convened this winter byPrésident Hanna Gray), has met twice.The group, charged with reviewingthe University's relationship with its86,000 alumni, has formed eight sub-committees to cover the significant aspects of the study. The subcommitteesare:Financial (relationship to fundrais-ing): Edward Anderson, Jr., PhB'46,SM'49, and C. William Kontos, AB'47,AM'48.Housekeeping (how records arekept, définition of an alumnus, in-houseprocédures): Robert Fitzgerald, MBA'60.Organization and Purpose: CharlesW. Boand, LLB'33, MBA'57, and DanielSmith, AB'38, JD'40.Recruitment of students, collègeand graduate (including "class" identityin the Collège): Charles D. O'Connell,am'47, vice président and dean of students and Michael Klowden, AB'67.Communications — The Universityof Chicago Magazine and other: EdwardRosenheim, AB'39, am'46, PhD'53,professor in the Department of Englishand Arthur Schultz, x'4l, AB'67, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee.Programs including Reunion andAwards: Janel J. Mueller, Department ofEnglish, University of Chicago and LucyAnn Geiselman, phD'65.Relationship to ProfessionalSchools: Sister Candida Lund, PhD'63,and Walter J. Blum, AB'39, JD'41, professor in the Law School, University ofChicago.Relationships to graduate divisions:David Schramm, professor in the Departments of Astronomy and As-trophysics and Juana Sinclair Harper,AB'74.The committee's first meeting wasFebruary 15, the second, April 18-19-The group will submit its final report toPrésident Gray in June, 1979-Alumni are invited to send suggestions and comments to the ad hoc commission via Chairman Arthur Schultz,care of The Alumni House, 5733 University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637.Alumni EventsALBANY: Dean of the Collège JonathanZ. Smith spoke on "Libéral vs. Professional Education" on January 20 at adutch-treat dinner at Newman's Har-18borside Restaurant. Sara Harris andMrs. Béryl Drobeck, SB'44, were coor-dinators for the event.AKRON: Professor Joseph Williams ofthe Department of English and the Collège spoke to area alumni and friends onFebruary 20. Paul Harris, MBA' 5 5, wasthe alumni coordinator for the program.On April 18, Dean of the CollègeJonathan Z. Smith discussed "The Collège Today" with area alumni at a dinnerat the Hilton Inn. Dr. Mabel Riedinger,AM'30, was the alumni coordinator forthe program.ATLANTA: Professor Gwin Kolb of theDepartment of English and the Collègeand Mrs. Kolb joined area alumni onApril 20 in an informai réminiscence ofstudent life on the Midway from the '40sto the présent. Mrs. Katherine White,SB'40, coordinated the program.BOSTON: The Luncheon Round Tableconvened in February in the HarvardRoom at Purcells offering discussions ofideas from the work of area alumni andformer faculty. Speaker and topics forthis season: February 14, Charles Foley,AB'48, senior vocational rehabilitationcounselor and coordinator of placement,Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, "Rehabilitating the Handicapped";March 14, Huson Jackson, phB'34,président of Sert, Jackson and Associates (architects for Harvard'sHolyoke Center, Peabody Terrace, andScience Center). "Is Modem Architecture Bankrupt?"; April 18, David Wylie,AB'50, lawyer and city councillor, "Ef-fects of the Property Tax Revolt onMassachusetts Cities"; May 16, RonaldSanfield, AM'74, policy analyst for theMassachusetts Rate Setting Commission, "Politics and Economies of HealthCare Régulation."On March 1, Vivian Boreck, am'71,pianist and commentator, gave a talk on"Melody and Musical Energy" at the Ar-lington St. Church. Harry Greenwald,AB'70, is the alumni coordinator for theevents.BOULDER: On May 10, Ruth EarnshawLo, PhB'31, spoke to area alumni abouther "Impressions of Living in China,1937-1978." Mrs. Lo experienced theJapanese invasion, the Communist libération in 1949, and the sweeping changesthat marked Chinese life in the last fortyyears. David Satterly, MBA'59, was thealumni coordinator.CHICAGO: On February 24, alumni andfriends met at the Mid-Town TennisClub. University Tennis Coach ChrisScott was on hand to give pointers. Dennis Waldon, AB'69, coordinated theevent.On April 2 at the Drake Hôtel inOakbrook, Edward Rosenheim, directorof the National Humanities Instituteand professor in the Department of English and the Collège, gave his "Confession of aTemporary Administrator." Hespoke to area alumni on the NationalHumanities Institute where nineteenfellows assemble each year to study theimpact of science and technology oncontemporary life. Ellen Thro, AM'62,was the alumni coordinator.Marvin Zonis, director for the Centerfor Middle Eastern Studies and associateprofessor in the Department of Be-havioral Sciences and the Collège, spokeon "Political Crisis in Iran: New Dimensions for the Middle East and the UnitedStates" on April 4 in Highland Park.Robert, ab'35, and Hope, AB'36,Samuels coordinated the program.Gilbert, AB'51, am'54, and Vivienne,AB'51, Schechtman coordinated theprogram featuring Robert Z. Aliber,professor in the Graduate School ofBusiness and chairman of the Committee on Public Policy Studies, on "Upsand Downs with the Dollar," in Matte-son on April 10.On May 18 and 19, alumni returnedto the University campus to meet oldfriends and rediscover their student daysat the annual Alumni Reunion.HONG KONG: February 24 marked thealumni réception for the members of theCitizens Board, Board of Trustées, andthe Visiting Committee. John Soong,MBA'42, coordinated the program.LOS ANGELES: Area alumni attended"Science Update" on February 23featuring a luncheon and an afternoon ofprésentations by Irving S. Bengelsdorf,SM'48, PhD'51, director of ScienceCommunication, California Institute ofTechnology, on "A Look at the Cosmos"; Clair C. Patterson, phD'50, facultymember in the Division of Geologicaland Planetary Sciences, California Institute, on "A Look at the Earth"; andMartin D. Kamen, SB'33, PhD'36, director of molecular biology and professor of chemistry, biological sciences, andbiochemistry at the University of Southern California, on "A Look at Life."On March 15, Président Hanna H.Gray met area alumni at an informai réception at the Music Center of LosAngeles.CLEVELAND: Joseph M. Williams, professor in the Departments of English andLinguistics and in the Collège, spoke on"Style and Composition — Problems in Writing" at the Sheraton Inn on February 19. Virginia Kuper, AB'46, was thealumni coordinator.DENVER: R. Steven Berry, professor inthe Department of Chemistry, JamesFranck Institute, and the Collège spokeon "The Total Social Costs of Coal andNuclear Power" on April 9 at the Deni-son Auditorium of the University ofColorado Médical Center. BarbaraWagonfeld, AB'58, coordinated the program.MINNEAPOLIS: Area alumni were in-vited to meet Président Hanna H. Grayat an informai réception on May 16 atthe Children's Théâtre.NEW ORLEANS: Richard Stern, novelistand professor in the Department of English, met with area alumni at the homeof alumnajoan Bennett, Sm'64, phD'67,in January.NEW YORK: Tom Logan, x'69, associatecurator of Egyptology at the Metropolitan Muséum of Art and adjunct associateprofessor at New York University,spoke about the history and installationof the Tutankhamun Exhibit on February 7 at the Stephen Wise FreeSynagogue and to area alumni in NewJersey on February 14.On March 20, Professor R. StephenBerry spoke on "The Total Social Costsof Coal and Nuclear Power."Janet D. Rowley, PhB'45, SB'46,MD'48, professor in the Department ofMedicine, spoke on "Do ChromosomeChanges Cause Cancer" to area alumnion April 18.On May 9, Président Hanna H. Graymet with area alumni at a réception anddinner.Marjorie Pearson, AB'70, AM'72, tookarea alumni on a walking tour of NewYork's Upper East Side on May 20.SAN FRANCISCO: On April 28, Bay areaalumni participated in "Chicago by theBay IV — China at the Crossroads."Members of the Bay Committee:Donald L. McGee, JD'66; Frank H.Hughes, ab'39; Marcia B. Kallison,AB'66; Robert J. McCarthy, JD'72; andArthur A. Silver, phB'47.WASHINGTON, D.C.: On March 6, PeterC. Marzio, AM'66, PhD'69, director ofthe Corcoran Galley of Art presentedhis views on the rôle of the Corcoran inthe contemporary American art scène.Alumni and friends met at the FairfaxRacquet Club on February 24 for "ATennis Night and Buffet Supper."On April 17 Président Hanna H.Gray met with area alumni at an informai réception at the Sheraton-Carlson.19Contributions payable to the University of Chicago Library.Mail to: The Fund for BooksThe Joseph Regenstein Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOv LIBRARY / I enclose $_ for books.Gift in memory ofAddress City Donor -State-AddressCity .State- ^ip__Zip_201910RAY PALMER BAKER, X'10, has C0IÏ1-pleted a volume of réminiscences de-scribing his expériences as a graduatestudent in the Department of Englishhère in 1910 and 1911. His seven volumes on the revolutionary period inAmerica (War in the Révolution) hâve al-ready appeared.1913J. HARLEN BRETZ, PhD' 13, was named inthe dedication of the Columbia BasinScablands Conférence tour book inJune. The scablands, flood-carved val-leys, and geological formations in east-ern Washington state, were named byBretz in 1923 after he studied the probable path of enormous quantities ofmelted glacial ice there. He is professoremeritus in the geophysical sciences atthe University of Chicago.LEON UNGER, SB'13, md'15, receivedone of the first Distinguished ServiceAwards from Northwestern UniversityMédical School's Department ofMedicine. Dr. Unger returned the hon-orarium instructing that it be used forthe benefit of students interested in thefield of allergy. CLASS NOTES1915GEORGE CALDWELL, phB'15, reportsthat while traveling in Germany thissummer, fog and snow prevented himfrom approaching the Reich's EaglesNest. The Caldwells, who were visitingtheir U.S. Army Captain son, had betterluck touring médiéval castles andchurches.1922ARTHUR H. NETHERCOT, PhD'22, iswriting his autobiography for the archives of Northwestern University. Heis Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor ofEnglish, Emeritus, at NorthwesternUniversity and résides in ColoradoSprings.1925HELEN HUBER STEVENS, PhB'25, washonored for her more than twenty-fiveyears of public service at the dedicationceremony of the Helen H. StevensCommunity Health Center in Carlisle,Pennsylvania in May.1930The School of Social Service Administration of The University of Chicago conferred a Distinguished ServiceAward on ARLIEN JOHNSON, PhD'30,this winter.1932Baker University conferred on EARL S.JOANSON, AM'32, PhD'4l, the honorarydegree of Doctor of Humane Letters.He was, for fourteen years, the chairmanof the Committee on the DivisionalMasters Program at the University ofChicago.SOLOMON E. SPECTOR, PhB'32, JD'34,has been appointed vice président anddirector of regulatory compliance andquality assurance of the Mogen DavidWine Corporation.1935JOHN CHARNOW, PhD'35, am'36, wasthe récipient of the School of Social Service Administration of The Universityof Chicago's Distinguished ServiceAward for 1979-1936VAN AKIN BURD, AB'36, a recognizedauthority on the life of John Ruskin, hasretired from the faculty of State University Collège at Cortland. He is one ofthree English professors in the StateUniversity of New York awarded therank of "Distinguished Professor."DONNA DICKEY GUYER, AB'36, hasretired after nearly twenty-three years atScott, Foresman & Company Educa-tional Publishers and plans to dévote hertime to writing. She and her husbandhâve moved to Boynton Beach, Florida.Last January, KATHERINE DUNHAM ,PhB'36, was honored with a gala tributeat Carnegie Hall where three générations of her dancers performed severalof her works. Dunham received the1979 Albert Schweitzer music award forher work in the arts and the humanities(the only other récipient has been IsaacStem in 1975). She has been hailed asthe pioneer in black dance. Dunhamcurrently teaches at Southern IllinoisUniversity where she directs the Per-forming Arts Training Center and theKatherine Dunham Muséum. She wasthe récipient of the 1968 ProfessionalAchievement Award from the University of Chicago Alumni Association.The Société d'Encouragement au Progrès Medal of Honor was recently presented to MAURICE M. SHAPIRO, SB'36,SM'40, PhD'42, of the Naval ResearchLaboratory for his research in cosmic-rayastrophysics.1937JOHN E. JEUCK, AM'37, MBA'38, PhD'49,is the winner of the first McKinsey21Award for Excellence in Teaching. He isRobert Law Professor of Business Administration at the University ofChicago Graduate School of Business.He will receive a prize of $10,000 fromthe McKinsey Foundation in récognitionof his contributions to the préparation ofstudents for careers in management.S. P. whiteside, ab'37, was recentlyappointed chairman of the executivecommittee of the Aluminum Association. He is vice président, aluminum division, Kaiser Aluminum and ChemicalCorporation, Oakland, California.1938This past winter, CATHERINE STREETCHILMAN, AM'38, received the Distinguished Service Award for 1979 fromthe University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.SIDNEY E. MEAD, AM'38, PhD'40, wasawarded an honorary doctor of arts degree last October by Rider Collège,Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He is aprofessor emeritus from the Universityof Iowa and is currently a visiting professor of history at the University ofArizona.1939ROBERT O. ANDERSON, AB'39, was presented the Management Award by theNew York Art Directors Club in December. He was cited as ". . . one . . .who knows the différence between décoration and design. No one has donemore to encourage good design in thecorporate world." He is a trustée of theUniversity of Chicago.1940JOHN A. JOHNSON, JD'40, is chairmanand chief executive officer of COMSATGeneral Corporation, Washington, D. C.He was président of the corporationfrom 1973 until 1977. COMSAT is an ac-ronym for communications satellite.1943LAWRENCE J. BATES, SB'43, has beenelected senior vice président of theAmerican Bureau of Shipping.ROBERT F. FOSTER, SB'43, has beenworking for the International ExecutiveService Corps in Singapore. Assigned toHong Leona Finance, Incorporated,Foster assisted the firm's expansion intothe Singapore market.JOANNE SIMPSON, SB'43, SM'45,PhD'49, has been appointed councillorfor the American Meteorological Society for a three-year term. She is WilliamW. Corcoran Professor of Environmen-tal Sciences at the University of Virginia. 1944SHIRLEY HAAS, PhB'44, was appointedas the director of Library Public Information of the Chicago Public Library lastNovember.BATES LOWRY, PhB'44, AM'52,PhD'56, was recently appointed to theboard of visitors of Boston University'sAmerican and New England StudiesProgram. He is the founder and directorof the Dunlap Society, which promûtesthe study of American art and architecture. Lowry is former director of theMuséum of Modem Art, New YorkCity.1946Président of the American Meteorological Society for 1979 is CHESTER W.NEWTON, SB'46, SM'47, PhD'51. He hasbeen senior scientist and head of empiri-cal studies at the National Center forAtmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, since 1973.1947BABETTE CASPER BLOCK, PhB'47, SB'49,is planner/evaluator for Marin CountyCommunity Mental Health Services andteaches a course in Methods of HealthEducation at Dominican Collège, SanRafaël, California. Daughter Lisa is asecond-year student in the Collège hère.DONALD boyes, ab'47, MBA'47, director of transportation for ReynoldsMetals Company in Richmond, Virginia,has been elected président of the National Industrial Traffic League.ROBERT E. GOFF, AM'47, was electedas a member-at-large for the nationalboard of directors of the Girl Scouts ofthe U.S. A. at the récent National Council Conférence in Denver, Colorado.Goff began his Girl Scouting career withthe Permian Basin Council in 1964when his daughter became a Girl Scout.JEAN H. PRIEST, PhB'47, SB'50,MD'53, has been promoted to professorof pediatrics and assistant professor ofpathology at Emory's School ofMedicine in Georgia.HERBERT RIEHL, PhD'47, wasawarded the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest honor be-stowed by the American MeteorologicalSociety, for his "outstanding analyses oftropical phenomena . . ." He is a seniorscientist at the Coopérative Institute forResearch in environmental Sciences ofthe University of Colorado and NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration.ROZELLA M. SCHLOTFELDT, SM'47,PhD'56, received a Distinguished Ser vice Award from the University of SanDiego for her contributions to the de-velopment of the profession of nursing.She is professor of nursing at San Diego.1948GEORGE ANASTAPLO, AB'48, JD'51,PhD'64, published an article on "NotesFrom Charles Dickens's ChristmasCarol" in the January 1978 Interprétation. The article, which was dedicated toProfessor Arthur Heiserman who diedin December 1976, will be included in avolume to be published by SwallowPress of Chicago.IRVING BENGELSDORF, SM'48,PhD'51, director of science communication at California Institute of Technology, has been selected for an EnergyHall of Famé Award by the EnergyCareer Center Committee and the directors of Energy Fair Incorporated.ERNST L. GAYDEN, PhB'48, is On sab-batical leave from Western WashingtonUniversity to work on a book tentativelytitled "Environmental Planning: TheEcosystems Approach." He was respon-sible for initiating and designing the firstundergraduate program in environ-mental planning in the US.JANET E. KING, AM'48, continues towork in social work counseling. Shemoved to the Adult Active Communityinjamesburg, New Jersey in November.DEVAVRAT NANUBHAI PATHAK,AM'48, has been appointed vice chan-cellor of Saurashtra University, Rajkot,India.WILLIAM N. STOKES, SM'48, has beenappointed a principal in the internationaldevelopment group of Kearney Management Consultants.RONALD J. WILLIAMS, PhD'48, hastaught in the Near Eastern Studies department at the University of Torontosince 1946. He is a specialist in the Démode form of Egyptian and his early Toronto classes in Egyptian language andhistory were among the first offered byany Canadian universities.1949MERRILL COHEN, SM'49, PhD'51, hasbeen elected to the Collegium of Distinguished Alumni, Boston UniversityCollège of Arts. The award was madeduring the May 1978 alumni reunion.TILMAN C. COTHRAN, PhD'49, is en-gaged in research and study of the aging.He is professor of sociology and associate dean, Collège of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University inKalamazoo.JEROME G. manis, am'49, has beengranted retirement with emeritus statusfrom Western Michigan University in22Kalamazoo. He has been a facultymember there since 1952. He has beendirector and grantee for numerous proj-ects for the National Science Foundation, US Office of Education and USPublic Health Service.JOYCE MILLER, PhB'49, AM'54, hasbeen appointed to the US Metric Boardas an at-large-member. She is vice président and director of social services ofthe Amalgamated Clothing & TextileWorkers Union.BILL F. ROTHSCHILD, SM'49, wasnamed an "engineer of the year" byRockwell International Corporation. Heis a technical staff member of the com-pany's Stratégie Systems Division inAnaheim, and was honored for his ". . .contributions to the development ofplating and finishing processes for elec-tronics and inertial instruments."ALBERT WEEKS, Am'49, is professor ofcontinuing éducation at New York University. He is the author of a séries ofarticles that hâve recently appeared inthe bi-monthly Freedom at Issue. Articleson the ruins of Chichén Itzâ and observation of the "serpent phenomenon" atthe Great Pyramid at sunset appeared inSky & Télescope and the Braniff Airwaysmagazine, Flying Colors.KARL J. WEINTRAUB, AM'49, AM'52,PhD'57, was been elected to the KnoxCollège Board of Trustées. He is theThomas E. Donnelly Professor of History and dean of the Division ofHumanities at the University ofChicago. Knox Collège is in Galesburg,Illinois.1950ANDREW KENDE, AB'50, professor ofchemistry at the University of Roches-ter, has been named "Inventor of theYear" by the Rochester Patent Law Association for his pioneering work in thedevelopment of chemical processes forsynthesizing certain anticancer drugs.JORDAN H. LEIBMAN, AB'50, MBA'55,retired after eighteen years of servicefrom the Impérial Packaging Companywhere he was vice président and gêneraimanager to enter the Indiana UniversitySchool of Law. He was elected Note andDevelopment Editor of the Indiana LawReview and received his JD in May. Hehas accepted an appointment as assistantprofessor of business law at IndianaUniversity School of Business for thecoming académie year.CONSTANCE PERIN, AB'50, AM'72,was one of eight judges who selected thewinners of the twenty-sixth Architectural Awards program sponsored byProgressive Architecture magazine. Shehas been a consultant to the AIA at Princeton University, the PresidentialTask Force on Suburban Problems ofHUD, the Rouse Company of Columbia,Maryland, Building Research AdvisoryBoard, and the National Academy ofScience. She is Emens DistinguishedProfessor at the Bail State University'sDepartment of City and Régional Planning.myron I. VARON, PhB'50, has retiredfrom the Navy to accept an appointmentas vice président and scientific directorof the Amyotrophic Latéral SclerosisSociety of America. ALS is also known as"Lou Gehrig's Disease." Varon, whoholds both an MD and PhD, was deputycommanding officer of the US NavalMédical Research and DevelopmentCommand in Bethesda, Maryland.H. MARTIN WEINGARTNER, AB'50,SB'50, AM'51, has been elected viceprésident of the Institute of Management Sciences for a three-year term. Heis the Brownlee O. Currey Professor ofFinance at Vanderbilt University'sOwen Graduate School of Management.1951JAMES STEVE COUNELIS, AM'5 1 , PhD'6 1 ,was récipient of the Norbert WienerAward third prize.DANIEL ROBBINS, ab'51, former assistant curator of the GuggenheimMuséum in New York, was recently appointed to the board of visitors of Boston University's American and New En-gland Studies Program. Currently asenior fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Robbins is anadvisor for private collections of Euro-pean and American painting andsculpture since 1800.A. A. EL-SHERBINI, MBA'51, is thechief of the Planning and ProgrammingDivision of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development based in Rome, Italy.1954ARNIE MATANKY, x'54, was elected tohis third term as président of the National American Vétérans Press Association. He is founder of the Near NorthNews, a community newspaper servingChicago's Near North side. He is pastcommander of The American LégionNorth Loop Post No. 949 and a memberof Post No. 7 10 of the Jewish War Vétérans.1955Fulfilling a long-time dream, DONFISHER, AB'55, AB'56, spent Octoberjourneying to Népal and trekking twohundred miles in the Himalayan foot-hills with a party of Sherpas and com- panions. He reached his rwin goals: theMt. Everest Base Camp (17,800 ft.) andthe Kala Patar peak (18,200 ft.).DARRELL H. RENEKER, SM'55,PhD'59, is récipient of the US Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award,the second highest honor conferredupon an employée by the department.Reneker, who works at the NationalBureau of Standards, won the award forhis "important contributions to our understanding of the structure and prop-erties of plastics."WALTER WALKER, ab'55, has beenappointed to the board of directors ofthe Memphis Branch of the Fédéral Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He is présidentof LeMoyne-Owen Collège in Memphisand was vice président of planning at theUniversity of Chicago for five years. InFebruary, he was selected one of the 100Young Leaders of the Academy byChange Magazine.1956JERI WARRICK-CRISMAN, AM'56, waselected to the board of directors of theWomen's Action Alliance, the nationalresource center on women's issues andprograms. She is director of NationalCommunity Affairs for the NationalBroadcasting Company.1957HENRY H. SCHMIDEK, AB'57, wasnamed to the advisory médical panel ofthe Paget's Disease Foundation. He isprofessor of surgery and chairman of theDivision of Neurosurgery at the University of Vermont Collège of Medicine,Burlington, Vermont.1958MARY E. BURNS, PhD'58, was grantedretirement with emeritus status from theSchool of Social Work at WesternMichigan University in Kalamazoo. Shehas been professor of social work at theUniversity of Michigan, was on the University of Texas faculty and served onthe University of Chicago's School ofSocial Service Administration faculty.wilma MILLS, AM'58, is associateprofessor in the Department of Politicsand Economies at Cedar Crest Collège,Allentown, Pennsylvania. She teaches avariety of courses as well as directing themanagement studies program.1959Appointed councillor for the AmericanMeteorological Society was TIRUL-VALAM N. KRISHNAMURTI, PhD'59. Heis professor of meteorology at FloridaState University in Tallahassee. The appointment is for three years.231963MIRIAM D. BALANOFF, JD'63, waselected a state représentative to the Illinois Législature.1965In a long Chicago Sun-Times article, LEEhecht, sm'65, mba'69, was describedas an entrepreneur and problem-solver.He is chairman of Holloway HechtHacker Boldy Incorporated, a hospitalservices company; chairman of KanyonStudios, a commercial multimédia filmcompany; and chief executive officer ofElectron Storage Ring Corp. Heperiodically conducts classes in entre-preneurship at the Graduate School ofBusiness of The University of Chicago,saying "The University gives me legiti-macy. It's so much better than sayingyou're retired, an investor or hâve business interests." Hecht is thirty-six yearsold.Barbara j. katz, ab'65, am'69, recently moved from Washington D.C. toPhiladelphia where she is writing for thePhiladelphia Inquirer. She was previ-ously a reporter for the National Observerand the Washington Post.LARRY D. LUTCHMANSINGH, AM'65,is chairman of the Department of Art atBowdoin Collège, Brunswick Maine.He has been a member of the facultythere since 1974, and is a former director of the college's art history program.FRANCES VOLLERT MOSER, SB'65,MS'67, PhD'77, is a therapeuticradiological médical physicist at Northwestern Mémorial Hospital and assistantprofessor in the Northwestern University Médical School.1966HOWARD J. ISADOR, AB'66, JD'69, waselected vice président and administrative head of the trust department ofAmalgamated Trust & Savings Bank inChicago.MARIE L. KESSEL, AM'66, recently received a PhD in English from the StateUniversity at Stony Brook. In the fallshe was appointed director of gêneraistudies at Terra Technical Collège inFremont, Ohio.1967LEMM ALLEN, AM'67, formerly associatedirector for programs in the ColoradoDepartment of Social Services in Den-ver, has been appointed the Departmentof Health, Education, and Welfare'sChicago régional administrator of theOffice of Human Development Services. SUSAN FRANCES (aka Susan Spel-brink, Susan Beekman) AB'67, AM'71,PhD'73; Judy Landt (aka JudyGoldstone), AB'68, MAT'70, and MerlinRainwater (aka Marilyn Scholl, MerlinEntenman), AB'68, were University ofChicago Collège roommates. At a tenthreunion in California, they discoveredthat between them, the décade yieldedfourteen years of post-AB éducation,twenty-one différent jobs, résidences inten différent cities, twenty-one years ofmarriage, and between one and five"Great Thoughts." Ail are now single;July engages in the private practice oflaw in Chicago, Susan is an associateprofessor of psychology at HumboldtState University, and Merlin is a community health care activist and nursingstudent at the University of Washington.HAROLD J. GORMAN, MBA'67, is thedirector of the Department of Safetyand Permits for the City of New Orléans. He is responsible for the administration of a two-hundred persondepartment which enforces the regula-tory codes affecting zoning construction,housing, and motor vehicles.WILLIAM D. MCGUIRE, MBA'67, hasbeen appointed vice président andgroup manager in the commercialbanking division of the Citizens Bank &Trust Company in Park Ridge, Illinois.The American Cancer Society hasawarded $49,981 to the University ofRochester Médical Center to supportrecombinant DNA research by GARY A.WILSON, SM'67, PhD'70. His study is de-signed to develop techniques for cloningBacillus Subtilis, a harmless organismfound commonly in soil.1968willie DAVIS, MBA'68, former GreenBay Packer, is the owner of a LosAngeles Schlitz béer distributorship anda Los Angeles radio station. Accordingto a Milwaukee Journal article, Davis saysthat receiving his MBA was "the mostsignificant moment" in his life. "Fromthen on, it wasn't just, 'Hey, I can playfootball,' " he said. "I knew I couldcompete in another arena."ALAN STONE, MTh'68, DMn'70, is theeleventh président of Aurora Collège,Aurora, Illinois. He was previously atthe University of Maine at Orono wherehe was director of development and university relations. Président Stone was in-stalled in January.RICHARD W. WINCHELL, AB'68, issenior patent attorney in the Patents,Trademarks and Licensing Departmentof Miles Laboratories, Incorporated, Elk-hart, Indiana. 1969JEAN MALLEY, AB'69, became a gêneraicontractor and a founding member ofSisters Construction Inc., an all-womenconstruction company based in Berkeley, California. She writes that some ofher most exciting design and construction projects hâve been a forty foot, rwo-story octagon in Mendecino County, aforty foot base pyramid house, an octag-onal house in Hawaii, and a hexagonalstudio and bath house in Berkeley.Malley recently received her black beltin the Korean martial arts in the style ofKuk Sool Won and teaches the arts in anew women's studio in Berkeley.DENNIS J. molamphy, sb'69, is an as-sociate with the Wichita law firm ofMartin, Pringle, Fair, Davis & Oliver.He and his wife recently had a son,David Ryan Molamphy, who may yetinherit that venerated nickname — "TheMole."VICTOR PEO, mba'69, has been namedDirector of Financial Planning andAnalysis for the electronic componentsdivision of TRW Incorporated inWestwood, California.1970A. RICHARD JANIAK, MBA'70, viceprésident of Smith Barney, HarrisUpham & Company Incorporated (in-vestment bankers), has been transferredto the firm's international headquartersin Paris.In the January 29 issue of Time,DONALD CARL JOHANSON, AM'70,PhD'74, described Australopithecusafarensis as a new species — theearliest — in man's evolutionary lineage.Johanson named his hominid discoveryLucy after the Beatles' song Lucy in theSky with Diamonds, playing on a basecamp tape as Johanson's team retumedwith their discovery from a sédimentbed in the Afar région of Ethiopia.STUART N. LERWICK, SB'70, is assistant actuary and supervisor of the actuariat reserves unit at Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, San Francisco. Hewas formerly senior actuarial analystthere.MICHAEL MILGROM, AB'70, is an attorney working for the Fédéral TradeCommission, Cleveland RégionalOffice.FREDERICK L. SILVERMAN, MAT'70,received a PhD in Education from theUniversity of Houston in May, 1978.He is at the Collège of Education inShreveport, Louisiana; the Silverman'sson was born this July. Barbara ZarinI Silverman is a nurse.241971After two years as assistant professor inthe computer science department at Illinois Institute of Technology, SUSANNAGINALI, SB'71, PhD'76, joined the re-search and development staff of BellLaboratories, Naperville, Illinois.O. JOHN ROE, x'71, was promotedfrom régional manager to executive viceprésident for merchandising at T.S.C. Industries, Chicago.1972JEROME BROOKS, PhD'72, has just re-turned from two years abroad as aSenior Fulbright Lecturer in Americanliterature at the University of Madagascar. He is currently teaching in the English department at the City Collège inNew York City.CLARA SHEFFER, AB'72, has joined theteaching staff of the Illinois Deaf-BlindService Center and School.EMILY SIEGER, AB'72, AM'76, writesthat she has completed her term of indenture to the Rockefellers and is leav-ing her position in the film departmentof the Muséum of Modem Art in NewYork to become a public servant in theMotion Picture Division of the Libraryof Congress.ALICE LEVINE, AM'72, has been appointed visiting assistant professor ofEnglish at Emory University, Atlanta,Georgia.1973PETER BENNO GILLIS, AB'73, plans toreturn to the University of Chicago tocomplète a graduate degree in médiévalliterature. He is currently a writer forMarvel Comics.MARY C. MOSTER, AM'73, has joinedGardner Jones and Company as an ac-count executive last November. She andher husband, William Gilliland, directorof the Merrill Chase Gallery, live onChicago's north side.The University of Chicago School ofSocial Service Administration AlumniAssociation honored CYNTHIA STUEN,AM'73, with its 1979 Récent GraduateAward for outstanding contributions inprofessional service.ROBERT W. WELNHOFER, MBA'73, isnow vice président and corporate sec-retary of Safety-Kleen Corporation, aninternational company based in Elgin,Illinois.1974DAVID L. BLOOM, AM'74, has beenelected to the board of directors of theFamily and Individual Services of FortWorth and Tarrant County, Texas. HARRIET GROSS, PhD'74, recently ad-dressed the American Sociological Association, saying, couples who live apartfind their lifestyle " 'no bargain.' . . .they take pride in being the kind ofpeople who 'care about each others'careers' and who can successfully copewith the inconveniences . . . of this arrangement means that they see mar-riages which cannot do thèse things as aréférence point. . . . Lacking any othermodel from which to interpret and makesensé of their own expérience. . . ." Sheis university professor of sociology andwomen's studies at Governors StateUniversity, Park Forest South, Illinois.ANDREW T. KOPAN, PhD'74, waspromoted to professor of éducation anddirector of the Division of EducationalFoundations in the School of Educationat DePaul University in Chicago.WAYNE H. LAU, MBA'74, has beennamed vice président and manager ofthe Bank of Califomia's new real estateloan department in Portland, Oregon.JANN PASLER, AM'74, is currently onthe music department faculty at theUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville.She had been in France on a fellowshipfor the past few years.DUANE SHINNICK, JD'74, MBA'74,married Phyllis Bert in November. Sheis employed at San Diego State University and he is a deputy district attorneywith the County of San Diego.LOUISE W. STANEK, PhD'74, has beenappointed director of training development and collège relations at PhilipMorris Incorporated in New York.1975kerry P. BROUK, mba'75, has beenelected assistant treasurer of HarrisBank International Corporation, NewYork, subsidiary of Harris Bank,Chicago.1976ZIGY KALUNZNY, AM'76, writes thatafter living in Europe for over two years,he has settled down in Austin, Texas.He works as a professional photographier for various publications includingTime, People, the Washington Star, theItalian magazine Panorama, and someTexas daily newspapers.1977Navy Ensign DEBRA K. ANDERSON,AM'77, has completed the communication officer ashore course at the NavalEducation and Training Center, New-port, Rhode Island.MARKES E. JOHNSON, PhD'77, hasbeen awarded a two-year research grantfrom the Petroleum Research Fund ad- ministered by the American ChemicalSociety. His field work will begin thissummer on Manitoulin Island in LakeHuron and will add to his research onthe "Paleobathymetry of Mid-continental Silurian Strata."MICHAEL SINGER, ab'77, was recentlyappointed editor of the Baltimore Journal, the officiai publication of the Baltimore city government. He had been amedia-publication specialist for theMayor's Office of Manpower Resourcesin Baltimore.Récent Books by AlumniCHARLES B. CHAVEL, PhB'28, Writingsand Discourses (Kithvei Haramban),translation.ELMER GERTZ, PhB'28, JD'30, Odysseyof a Barbarian, Prometheus Books.TERESA FERSTER GLAZIER, AM'31,The Least You Should Know about EnglishForm B, Holt, Rinehart & Winston.CARL WILLIAM STROW, PhD'32,Change and Life Problems, Vantage Press,Inc.THOMAS B. LARCON, AM'38, Soviet-American Rivalry, W. W. Norton &Company.WILLIAM H. MCNEIL, AB'38, AM'39,The Metamorphosis of Greece Since WorldWar II, The University of ChicagoPress.LOUIS SHATTUCK BAER, SB'38,MD'38, Let the Patient Décide: A Doctor'sAdvice to Older Persons, The WestminsterPress.GLENN NEGLEY, PhD'39, UtopianLiterature: A Bibliography, The RégentsPress of Kansas.ERNEST SAMUELS, PhB'23, JD'26,AM'31, PhD'42, Bernard Berenson: TheMaking of a Connaisseur, The HarvardUniversity Press.WILLIAM H. MAEHL, PhD'46, Germanyin Western Civilization, The Universityof Alabama Press.JOROSLAV PELIKAN, PflD'46, TheChristian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine Volume III: TheGrowth of Médiéval Theology (600-1300),The University of Chicago Press.RITA BLUMENTHAL KRAMER, AB'48,Giving Birth: Childbirth in AmericaToday, Contemporary Books.SAMUEL A. PORTNOY, AM'49, The Lifeand Soûl of a Legendary Jewish Socialist:The Memoirs of Vladimir Medem, KTAVPublishing House, Inc.ALBERT L. WEEKS, AM'49, and Herbert I. London, Myths That RuleAmerica, New York University Press.EUGENE T. GENDLIN, AM'50, PhD' 5 8,Focusing, Everest House.25PAUL NEIMARK, x'54, The VirileMan, Pocket books.SCHUBERT M. OGDEN, DB'54, PhD'58,Faith and Freedom, Abingdon Press.J. B. KETTERSON, SB'57, SM'58,PhD'62, and K. H. Bennemann, ThePhysics of Liquid and Solid Hélium, PartII, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.JUDITH MCCOMBS, AB'60, AM'6l, Sis-ters and Other Selves, Glass Bell Press;Against Nature: Wilderness Poems,Dustbooks.WILLIAM B. OGLESBY, JR., PhD'6l,Referral in Pastoral Counseling,Abingdon Press.BRUCE F. POWERS, SM'6l, The U.S.War Machine, Crescent Books.RONALD E. ZUPKO, AM'62, FrenchWeights and Measures before the FrenchRévolution: A Directory of Provincial andLocal Units, Indiana University Press.JEAN F. BLOCK, AM'63, Hyde ParkHouses, The University of Chicago Press.PATRICIA ERENS, AM'63, The Films ofShirley MacLaine, A. S. Barnes andCompany.ROBERT A. MOSS, SM'62, PhD'63, andMaitland Jones, Jr., Reactive Inter-mediates, Volume I, John Wiley & SonsInc.DAVID BACKUS, DB'65, European Rec-ipes for American Fish and Game, WillowCreek Press.JAMES A. BROWN, AB'54, AM '58,PhD'65, and Philip Phillips, Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from theCraig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Pea-body Muséum of Archaeology andEthnology, Harvard University.MARTIN STERNSTEIN, SB'66, andShirley O. Hockett, Applied Calculus: AGoals Approach, D. Van Nostrand Company.MARY KAY THOMPSON TETREAULT,MAT'66, Women in America: Half of History, Rand McNally.EASTWOOD ATWATER, PhD'69,Psychology of Adjustment, Prentice-Hall,Inc.ROBERT E. MEAGHER, AM'69, An Introduction to Augustine, The New YorkUniversity Press.RICHARD T. SCHAEFER, AM'69,PhD '72, Racial and Ethnie Groups, Little,Brown and Company.JOHN A. ROHR, PhD'70, Ethics forBureaucrats, Governors State University.DRAGA B. SHILLINGLAW, AM'71, TheLectures of Professor T. G. Masaryk at theUniversity of Chicago: Summer 1902,Bucknell University Press.ELIJAH ANDERSON, AM'12,A Place onthe Corner, The University of ChicagoPress.CHARLES L. BOSK, AM'73, PhD'76, Forgive and Remember: Managing MédicalFailure, The University of ChicagoPress.BRENDAN BROWN, mba'75, MoneyHard and Soft: On the International Cur-rency Markets, Macmillan Press.In Memoriam1900-1919B. Gage Leake, x'01; Albert L. Hop-kins, AB'05, JD'08; Cari H. Davis, SB'06,MD'09; Mary Louise Dément Rugg,SB'06; Edith McGrew, x'07; Clara A.Rookus, SB'08; Dean M. Kennedy,PhB'09; Jeanne R. Price, AB'09; RalphMcReynolds, SB'10; MD'13; Robert H.Stevens, SM'10; Elizabeth Upton Vaw-ter, phB'10.George Harold Earle, PhB'll; Earl Q.Gray, SB'll, JD'13; Samuel E. Hirsch,PhB'12, JD'14; George H. Jamison,SB'13; AM'20; Louise David Jonas,PhB'13; Ina Perego Stannard, PhB'13;Robert L. Elliston, SB'l4, MD'l6;Katharine Densford, AM'15, présidentof the American Nurses Associationduring the forties, died last Septemberin Minneapolis.Mildred Lambert Hillhouse, AM'l6,PhD'24; Wm. August Swanson, x'16;Elizabeth Brown, PhB'18, AM'19,PhD'23, professor emeritus at San DiegoState University, died in February;Pauline Callen, PhB'18; Eugénie Willis-ton Earle, PhB'18; Ruth R. McCracken,X'18; Eva McMillan, PhB'18, BenjaminH. Unruh, MD'18.Dorothy Brigham Cassidy, x'19;Ralph Sawyer, PhD' 19, retired viceprésident for research of the Universityof Michigan and scientific director of theBikini atom bomb test of 1946, died inDecember; Aaron Speier, SB' 19, MD'21.1920-1929Roland F. Holloway, PhB'20; JamesDolliver, JD'21; Louis S. Hardin, JD'21;Mildred Lambert Hillhouse, AM'21,PhD'24, former member of the staffs atthe University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, and Grinnell Collège,died in October; Elis S. Hoglund,PhB'21, retired vice président andformer director of General Motors Corporation, died last October; LenoreLeins, X'21; Amos M. Mathews, JD'21,one of the first fliers in the US Air Corpsin World War I, died last December;Lewis G. Norgren, x'21; StephenUrban, x'21; Everett W. Walker, x'21. Lola Hazelwood, phB'22, AM'47;Harold Lasswell, PhB'22, phD'26; FerrisLaune, x'22; Walter H. Maddux, MD'22;Emma B. Peters, AM'22; Helen TouzalinSeefurth, PhB'22; Agnes Reid Winner,PhB'22.Grâce Benscoter Hanna, PhB'23;Harold I. Meyer, md'23; Walter H.Milbacher, sb'23, md'26; John W. Mut-tart, x'23; Robert M. Oslund, PhD'23,MD'32; Ella Kostlevy Rogers, x'23;Lester R. Wingfield, PhB'23.Regena Beckmire, PhB'24, AM'32;Norris C. Flanagin, PhB'24; Robert C.Heatherington, SB'24, MD'28; JulesLadany, x'24; Arnold H. Maremont,PhB'24, JD'26; Egon W. Peck, x'24;Donald H. Taylor, PhB'24.Roy C. Brown, am'25; William G.Friedemann, PhD'25; Maurice P.Meyers, MD'25; Charles W. Morris,PhD'25; Echo Dolores Pepper, PhD'25.Norman F. Arterburn, JD'26; DouglasB. Bell, MD'26; Florence A. Endres,phB'26; Rebecca Ethel Hey, ab'26;Robert Ladd, MD'26; John C. McMillan,AM'26; Ethel I. Preston, PhB'26; EmmettL. Riordan, PhB'26; Cari E. Slabach,x'26.Hildegarde Sumner Doll, x'27; RalphB. Kennard, PhD'27; Seymour L.Edelstein, phB'27, JD'29; Walter A.Weber, SB'27.Claude H. Christensen, AM'28; CeliaS. Malcheski, PhB'28; Florence E.Robinson, PhB'28; William A. Roblyer,PhB'28; Mollie Krom Sanders, PhB'28.Harry Cléments, PhD'29; EllenHartman McClellan, PhB'29; HanchenE. Rosenbacher, x'29; Carolyn TeetzelTredwell, PhB'29; Ralph W. Vance,AM'29.1930-1939Barbara Bell Birney, X'30; Austin T.Gardner, PhB'30; Elizabeth SimpsonGood, PhB'30; William W. Ladany,PhB'30; Charles Schwartz, AB'30,PhD'33.C. Richard Carpenter, x'31; Joseph J.Jasper, PhD'31; Helen Von ThadenKroepel, PhB'30; Edgar L. Nefflen,MD'31; James L. Poppen MD'31; Bernard Brodie, PhB'32, PhD'40.Robert W. Beasley, AM'33; MorrisBergen, sb'33, AM'35; Irving C. Lambert, PhB'33, MBA'45; John W.Meredith, MD'33.Clyde W. Blanke, AM'34; Belle M.Borland, SM'34; Querin Dorschel,llb'34; Esther Gustafson, PhB'34; JohnG. Nardin, PhB'34; Harry M. Shuger,PhB'34; Lane Thomason, JD'34.Mary A. Gallagher, AB'31; John D.McKee, AM'35; William G. Granert,AB'36; Gordon W. Morris, Sr., AB'36;26Roy E. Stone, AB'36, JD'39; A. LéonardAnderson, AB'37, JD'39; William M.Longnecker, PhD'37; Joseph P.Ohlmacher, MD'37; Clara L. Smith,SB'37, SM'46; Géraldine J. Korda,PhB'38, AM'39; Simon Frank, ab'38.Elizabeth A. Beeman, SM'39, PhD'47;Frank D. Curtin, PhD'39; Florence M.Finlayson, PhB'39; Gerald A. Fostvedt,PhD'39, MD'42; Rexford Alden Horton,AB'39, AM'40.1940-1949Cecil R. Fetters, SM'40; Marjorie K.Morray, AB'40; Jack W. Snow, AM'40;Sara J. Stratham, AB'4l; Ruth McKen-dry, AM'42.Miriam M. Benade, AM'44; UrsulaFreyer Mandelstam, PhB'44, AM'47; G.Warren Nutter, ab'44, am'48, PhD'49;Richard R. Taylor, SB'44, MD'46; Marjorie Schuster Philip, PhB'46, AM'50.Roger J. Crise, MBA'47; Jeffrey A.Haseltine, AB'47; Samuel A. Schmitt,P)B'47, SB'47, SM'6l; Warren G. Med-ford, AM'48, died in December.Cari J. Dueser, MBA'48; Cecil G.Frantz, MBA'48; Esther Lowenthal,AM'48; Walter E. Morial, MBA'48; Ken-neth Nathenson, mba'48; Warren S.Redford, AM'48; Peter W. Rizzo, SM'48;Aaron S. Seidman, AM'49.1950-1959Paul W. Eberman, PhD'50; Osceola Williams Nelson, AM'51; Maxine FedderNeidinger, AM'51; Susanna L. Chase,AM'52; D. Geneviève Dixon, am'53;Clinton W. Oleson, AM'53, PhD'68.John N. Emerson, PhD'54; Charles W.Fishel, PhD'55; Jay Schwartz, JD'57;James R. Dafler, SM'58; Jay C. Dahm,db'59; Charles A. Frame, am'59; FrancisX. Lynch, PhD'59-1960-1973Bruce E. Ellickson, MBA'60; SheldonSacks, PhD'60, professor of English andlinguistics at the University of Chicagoand founding editor of the journal Critical Inquiry, died January of a heart at-tack during a visit to Israël.Charles F. Keithahn, ab'63, AM'66;Peggy Mulvihill Walsh, PhD' 64; ManuelLawrence Jackson, AM'64, first executivedirector of the Martin Luther King Family Service Center and a member of thefaculty at the School of Social Work atGeorge Williams Collège, died inJanuary.Richard P. Davison, AM'65; HermanM. Pomrenze, AM'65; Ralph C. Breades,JD'66; Alan A. Aichinger, AM'67,PhD'70; Gordon L. Boss, MBA'70;Christopher G. Wickstrom, AB'73,JD'76, a Philadelphia-area lawyer, diedof a brain tumor. Letters We Wish Had Been PrintedTo the Editor of The New York Times:In the Times (February 10, 1979), JaneGeneisse writes of the new président ofthe Metropolitan Muséum of Art, William Macomber, as being "the Yale andHarvard-trained son of a well-to-doRochester, N.Y. family." Mr. Macomber may well hâve leamed much at Yale,and subsequently be trained at Harvard,but in addition he became educated atthe University of Chicago where heeamed an AM from the Humanities Division in 1951.It would appear that this omission isconsistent with the Times policy ofomitting Chicago credentials. Whilereading my favorite paper, some récentomissions come to mind immediately:Katherine Dunham is honored at Carnegie Hall for her many years of contributions to the world of dance and theTimes neglects to note her PhB'36 fromChicago, and when the other Katherineannounces her stepping down from thehelm of the Washington Post, her ABfrom Chicago is again omitted (as wasany mention of her position as a long-time trustée of the University), and al-though you were duly glowing in yourpraise of Herbert Simon's Nobel awardin économies for 1978, you conve-niently minimized (or did you actuallyomit) his AB'36 and PhD'43, both fromthe University of Chicago.Being Brooklyn-born and raised,Chicago-educated and now a Long Island ( Smith town) résident, I am con-stantly amazed at this "eastern-Ivy League" mentality regarding the Mid-west. Admittedly, you DO hâve much tofear, especially if the newspaper business in New York goes the way of theeducational scène (with the currentchancellor of SUNY, the current chan-cellor of CUNY, and the former Comis-sioner of Education (Mr. Nyquist) ailChicago graduâtes. When that time doescome, I'm sure your excellent reporterswill make certain to check out the so-called (according to Time Magazine)"Chicago connection."Paul Glatzer, AB'56, AM'58Smithtown, New YorkCréditsDon Rocker: page 6Jim Nachtwey: page 13Spécial Collections, Joseph RegensteinLibrary: page 4-5Art direction: Paula S. Ausick27Do you remember. . . the sound of sweet voices in Rockefeller Chapel?Now, Sing in Praise, a high-fidelity record of fourglorious high school choirs and a high schoolstring orchestra with the Rockefeller ChapelChoir in concert in Rockefeller Chapel at the firstUniversity of Chicago Invitational High SchoolChoral Festival.Recorded at the May 12 evening concert in the chapel, the choirs of Addison Trail HighSchool, Francis W. Parker School, Kenwood Academy, and the University High Schoolwith the string orchestra of Oak Park and River Forest High School and the ChapelChoir.Music of Victoria, Schùtz, Haydn, Mozart, Gabrieli, Byrd, Gibbons, Weitz, Palestrina,Tallis, di Lasso, Goudimel, and Sweelinck sung and played in the chapel, recordedmagnificently by a top-flight recording studio, and reproduced perfectly on record.Remember? You will when you hear this.Please send me copies of Sing in Praise at $5.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling. A check made payable to theUniversity of Chicago is enclosed.Mail to: Rockefeller Chapel — Invitational Choral Festival5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637Name Address City State Zip Code On the cover: Pity the knight. The flag-ging defender on the front cover is takenfrom the west entrance of Ida NoyésHall. He conclu'des our médiéval coverséquence, despite temptations to de-scribe alchemists and clergy, both ofwhom adorn vario.us campus buildings.This créature on'fiorseback is to us thesymbol of his âge of chivalry. Poorknight. He carried some fifty-fivepounds of plate armor, a wooden staffabout the size of a railroad crossing gâteand spent a good percentage of his life inthe saddle. On the battleneld, a de-horsed knight in armor had to be hoistedupright by a page; indeed, heart attacksfrom the weight and heat of the métalwere not unknown.For tournament regalia, his war horsecost anywhere from rwenty-five to onehundred livres (each livre equaled twohundred and four pennies of puresilver), his crested helmet about fifty,plus additional sums required by asquire, the other horse (a traveling pal-frey), and sundry banners, trappings,and clothing.In A Distant Mirror (Knopf), BarbaraTuchman remarks that this knightlyfighting was a work substitute — it gavehim something to do as his raison d'êtrediminished. Although bemoaned bykings, popes, and the Dominicans, tour-naments were regarded as superior toother amusements which includedhunting, chess, backgammon, dice,songs, dances, pageants, and listening tointerminable verse epics.The complaint was that the tourneyscost money and wasted good knights.True. A typical event might gather onehundred knights, each with twomounted squires and six servants — inlivery — and last for days. Losers paiddearly, winners could take their oppo-nent's horse and armor to keep or sell.Wounds were hideous: lopped limbs,split skulls, and great varieties of pierc-ings were common. But spectators wereenthusiastic. Beyond fair ladies flingingfavors (scarves and sleeves), merchants,prostitutes, pickpockets, musicians,magicians, and vendors of ail kinds at-tended. Perhaps some of our current spectatorsports bear a historical relation to thèsegatherings — gatherings which faded asknights and times changed. A good dealof the code of chivalry was illusion, ofcourse. Some hâve suggested that vari-ous crusades were mounted to get thèsequite dangerous fighting machines out oftown. Perhaps chivalry did, in its lowerforms, encourage a knight to keep histeeth and nails clean. Mrs. Tuchman'sthoughtful summary is this: "If the codewas but a veneer over violence, greed,and sensuaiity, it was nevertheless anidéal. . . . toward which man's reach, asusual, exceeded his grasp."'¦&&¦-' 'Awards: Help frofh Our FriendsEach year during Reunion Weekend, the Alumni Association honors^^aniwho hâve made notable contributions in their professional fieldsorin^BRmunity service. We ask that you assist us in this program bynominating candidates who you think might be deserving of one of thealumni awards to be given in 1980.There are three catégories of awards: THE PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVE-MENT AWARD, which recognizes those alumni whose attainments in theirvocational fields hâve brought distinction to themselves, crédit to theUniversity, and real benefît to their fellow citizens;THE ALUMNI CITATION, which honors those who hâve fulfilled theobligations of their éducation through créative citizenship and exemplaryleadership in community service which has benefited society and reflectedcrédit upon the University;THE ALUMNI MEDAL, the highest honor, which is awarded for extra-ordinary distinction in one's field of specialization and extraordinary service to society.Your nominations should reach us not later than September 1, 1979-They will be kept confidential by the Awards Committee, twelve formerawardeesXwho, working anonymously, review and evaluate the information on ejch nominee. The final candidates are selected by vote in theSpring. The committee requests that you not inform your candidates thattheir names are to be considered. Nominations should be sent to theAwards Committee, Alumni House, 5733 University Avenue Chicago,Illinois 60637.