THE/UNIVERSITY OF HICAGO MAGAZINElXXIVOLUME -B0Œ-NUMBER 4SUMMER 1979THE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOMAGAZINELXXIVolume LXXII, Number 4Summer 1979(ISSN 0041-9508)Alumni Association5733 South University AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637(312) 753-2175Président: Charles W. Boand, llb'33,MBA' 5 7Executive Director: Peter KountzAssociate Director: Ruth HalloranProgram Director: Sylvia HohriAlumni Schools CommitteeDirector: J. Robert Bail, Jr.Régional Offices10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 855Los Angeles, California 90067(213) 277-7727845 Third AvenueNew York, New York 10022(212)935-19771000 Chestnut Street, Apt. 7DSan Francisco, California 94109(415)928-03372737 Devonshire Place, NWWashington, D.C. 20008(202) 332-3950Second-class postage paid at Chicago,Illinois, and at additional mailing offices.Copyright 1979 by The University ofChicago. Published quarterly Spring, Summer,Fall, and Winter by the University ofChicago Alumni Association. CONTENTSOn the Midway 2Court Théâtre: Twenty-five Years 6Postcard From Olympus 17Alumni News 20Class Notes 26Letters to the Editor 36Crédits 36Musings from Alumni House 37Guest Editor: Paula S. Ausick, ab'72Assistant Editors: Richard A. KayeLinda ThorneON THE MIDWAYAdmissions to Class of 1983Going StrongDirector of Admissions Fred R. Brooksannounced that applications for admissions in 1979 represent a new high forthe last two décades. Of 2,815 applications submitted, the Committee on Admissions offered admission to 1,783persons for the Autumn Quarter.Through July, 724 of that number hâveaccepted admission through a class de-posit.According to Brooks, the new Class is"academically strong and economically,ethnically, and geographically diverse."There are 480 men and 244 women inthe Class, making the Class compositionsixty-six percent maie and thirty-fourpercent female. The students come fromforty-two states, the District of Colum-bia, Puerto Rico, and eight foreign coun-tnes. Thirty per cent of the Class résidein Illinois, and there are twenty-fivestates with five or more représentatives.After Illinois the states which draw themost students are New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio,and California. The Midwest area con-tributes forty-six per cent of the newClass, with the Middle Atlantic régioncontnbuting twenty-nine per cent andthe Western United States bringing ineight per cent.Nearly twenty per cent ot the Classhas spécial alumni relationships, whileeleven per cent of the Class has a parentwho attended the University. Thirty percent has a brother or sister who is or wasenrolled, and five per cent has otheralumni affiliation. Although there aresome financial aid applications yet to beprocessed, more than sixty per cent ofthe Class will receive some form offinancial aid. Brooks emphasized that"this symbolizes the University's com- mitment to the intellectually talentedregardless of économie background.""I hope we will soon reach ourgoal of3,000 applications from first-year candidates," said Brooks. "We still seek to in-crease the number of persons who ac-cept admission to the Collège once it isoffered."Visiting Fellows ProgramA student-faculty committee met duringthe winter and spring quarters of 1979to formulate plans for a Visiting FellowsProgram. The purpose of the program isto afford students at the University anopportunity to meet and to talk in-formally with persons active in a widevariety and range of public affairs.Visits to the campus will normally betwo to three days duration. In additionto a public lecture, the guests will meetwith students in classes, discussiongroups, at informai réceptions, and overmeals in the résidence halls.Président Hanna Gray announced theestablishment of the program in herState of the University address lastApril. The program is made possible bya spécial gift to the University by theWomen's Board.Monson Named Director of CareerCounseling and PlacementJulie Monson has been appointed Director of Career Counseling and Placementby Vice Président and Dean of StudentsCharles D. O'Connell. Monson held asimilar position at Pomona Collège,Claremont, California.Monson's duties include counselingail PhD candidates seeking employmentthrough the Office of Career Counselingand Placement, supervising the place ment of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree récipients, co-ordinatingthe University's student employmentprogram (including the fédéral CollègeWork/Study program), and career counseling service to undergraduates andgraduâtes seeking to change their fieldsof concentration.The Office of Career Counseling andPlacement serves as the University'sliaison with employers from other uni-versities, business, and government forail students except those in the graduateprofessional schools of business, law,and medicine which place their own students.Monson has a master's degree fromthe Claremont Graduate School inurban planning and an AB from StanfordUniversity in international relations. AtPomona Collège, Monson designed andadministered a successful internshipprogram with more than thirty off-campus organizations.Sussman Appointed Chief CounselCampbell Serves as Secretary to theBoard of TrustéesPrésident Hanna H. Gray announcedthe appointment of Arthur M. Sussmanas General Counsel and Vice Présidentof the University effective July 1, 1979.In addition to his duties as chief légalofficer, he will co-ordinate governmentrelations for the University.For the past two years, Sussman hadbeen University Légal Counsel ofSouthern Illinois University in Carbon-Julie Monson, Director of CareerCounseling and Placement1dale. He received his SB from CornellUniversity in 1963 and his llb fromHarvard Law School in 1966. Hesuceeds Allison Dunham who retired inJune as General Counsel and Secretaryof The Board of Trustées and as the Arnold I. Shure Professor in the LawSchool. Dunham will teach at the Hast-ings Collège of Law in San Francisco be-ginning in the autumn.F. Gregory Campbell, spécial assistantto the président of the University, willalso serve as the Secretary of The Boardof Trustées of the University. Campbellwas the spécial assistant to Mrs. Graywhen she was acting président and pro-vost of Yale University in 1977-78 andhas been spécial assistant at Chicagosince she became président on July 1,1978.Reiner 1979 Ryerson LecturerErica Reiner has been named the Noraand Edward Ryerson Lecturer at theUniverstiy for the 1979-80 académieyear.Reiner is the John A. Wilson Professor in the Oriental Institute and in theDepartments of Linguistics and NearEastern Languages and Civilizations. Sheis editor-in-charge of the Assyrian Dic-tionary, a project she has been associatedwith for the past twenty-seven years. Inaddition to the dictionary project, Rein-er's extensive work in Akkadian in-cludes/1 Linguistic Analysis of Akkadianas well as many articles on her researchinto astronomical, astrological, magical,and médical texts. One of the few schol-ars who knows the Elamite language, shehas published an Elamite grammar andother studies on Elamite texts.Her Ryerson lecture, to be given nextspring, will draw together her years ofresearch on the languages and literaturesof ancient Babylonia and Assyria.The lecture, established by the Trustées of the University in 1973, providesa faculty member an opportunity tomake a major statement about his/herwork to an audience from the entireUniversity. Nominations are soughtfrom the entire faculty of the University.A faculty committee chooses a candidatewhom it recommends to the président ofthe University for the lectureship. Reiner is the seventh Ryerson lecturer.Ultmann Receives Langer AwardDr. John E. Ultmann, director of theCancer Research Center at the University, has been awarded the Esther LangerAward for 1979 for his contribution ofleadership in cancer research. Erica Reiner, 1979-80 Ryerson LecturerUltmann is also associate dean for Research Programs and professor in theDepartment of Medicine in the Divisionof Biological Sciences and in the Pritz-ker School of Medicine. He has servedas director of the Cancer Research Center since 1973-The Langer Foundation, an affiliate ofthe University of Chicago ResearchFoundation, was established in 1949 byfriends and relatives of Ann Langer, whodied of cancer. The award honors thelate Esther Langer, sister-in-law of AnnLanger and a founding member of theFoundation.A Year in the DarkIf you always imagined the movie thea-ter to be a dark haven where the less-than-responsible student could hidefrom his accumulating homework backhome, you may be surprised to learnthat the University has its own FilmArchive where students, who are notfilm majors, can come and use moviolasand a permanent film collection. Startedin September of 1978 by Gerald Mast,professor in the Department of English,the Archive, which is located on thefourth floor of Cobb Hall, holds morethan five hundred films and enoughequipment for four simultaneousscreenings. Any student or facultymember can sign up in Cobb to use oneof the two moviolas to study the films atdifférent speeds or can watch films pro-jected in the Archive screening room."In most places, films are rented forthe film class, shown once and sentaway," explained Mast. "The studentcan't spend more time with a film, and there are no machines that allow a student to look at it in a more detailed way.Although there is an estimation that200,000 students in universities in theUnited States take classes in film andtélévision, there are less than ten, maybesix schools with this kind of facility fortheir graduate students." Mast said thatto his knowledge, this is the only university where undergraduates who are notfilm majors can use a permanent collection of films with equipment.The Archive's films are the first part ofa collection which will contain athousand films within the next twoyears. A committee, made up of Mast,professors John Cawelti, Thomas Mapp,and Robert Morrissey, along with thereprésentatives of two campus filmgroups, chooses the archivai films. Themovies are purchased through the Archive's funds, provided by an anonym-ous donation. The présent collection in-cludes examples of major figures such asChaplin, Griffith, Renoir, Eisenstein,and Hitchcock. Mast said he finds it dif-ficult to build what might be called an"idéal" collection, since several important movies were never copyrighted andtherefore are difficult to obtain."Wé were guided by what is avail-able," he said, "but the idea is to hâve areprésentative collection of narrative,expérimental, documentary, and ani-mated films. In addition to the works ofimportant directors we like to hâveworks of historical importance which arereprésentative types in the developmentof film."Gerald Mast, Professor in the Departmentof English and the Collège.3Although the University does nothâve a film department and is withoutfilm majors. Mast is highly optimisticabout the future of the Film Archive."It's a growing collection, and I intendit to be not only an archive for the University community, but for the région. . . maybe the country."University Receives Grants fromKaiser Foundation and SearleThe Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundationhas given stock valued in excess of Simillion to the University of ChicagoCenter for Health AdministrationStudies in the Graduate School of Business. The grant will be used over aneight-year period for graduate studentfellowships and curriculum ennchment.A grant of $2.5 million was made tothe University by the Chicago Community Trust. The University was one offive area universities to receive grantstotalling $16 million from the estate ofJohn G. Searle, Jr., board chairman ofthe pharmaceutical firm of G.D. Searleand Company before his death in Janu-ary.Other schools receiving grants wereNorthwestern University ($10 million),Loyola University ($1.5 million), DePaul University ($1 million), and IllinoisInstitute of Technology ($1 million).The $2.5 million grant to the University of Chicago is unrestricted; its use isto be determined.McNamara Receives Pick Award AmidProtestsThe first Albert Pick, Jr. Award for Out-standing Contributions to InternationalUnderstanding was presented to RobertS. McNamara, président of the WorldBank, at a dinner at Hutchinson Communs on May 22.The award, made possible by a grantfrom the Albert Pick, Jr. Fund ofChicago, was established in memory ofAlbert Pick, Jr., an alumnus and a trustée of the University who died in De-cember 1977. Pick was active in nationaland international organizations whichpromote international understanding.Early last year, the University and thePick Fund agreed to establish the awardwhich includes a cash gift of $25,000 tothe récipient. In the language of theagreement, the award was to be presented to an individual "who has con-tributed significantly to internationalunderstanding."Commenting on the award in a University press release, Président HannaH. Gray said, "Of course, the award is an honor to an individual for work accom-plished. But we at the University share ahope with members of the Pick familyand officers of the Pick Fund thatthrough the years the award will be asource of encouragement to individualswho are working for internationalunderstanding and inspiration to others.It is a wonderful and fitting way to re-member Albert Pick, too, and for thatopportunity we are grateful."The announcement of the Awardcommittee's sélection of McNamarasurprised many. Some faculty members,students, and staff at the Universitycriticized McNamara's participation informulating United States policy in VietNam during his tenure as Secretary ofState from 1961-68. Other facultymembers questioned the ad-hoc methodin which McNamara was chosen statingthat many were not even aware of theAward's existence. (McNamara wasselected by an award committee appointed by former Président John Wil-son.)Some one hundred and fifty guests at-tended a dinner to honor Robert S.McNamara's work with the World Bank.McNamara spoke of the needs of theworld to cooperate in lifting the burdenof poverty: "There are, of course, manysound reasons for development assistance. But the fundamental case is, I be-lieve, the moral one. The whole ofhuman history has recognized the prin-ciple that the rich and powerful hâve amoral obligation to assist the poor andthe weak. That is what the sensé ofcommunity is ail about: the communityof the family, the community of the nation, the community of nations itself . . .Thus for the developed nations to domore to assist the developing countriesis not merely the right thing to do, it isalso increasingly the economically ad-vantageous thing to do . . . It is not aquestion of the rich nations diminishingtheir présent wealth in order to help thepoor nations. It is only a question oftheir being willing to share a tinypercent — perhaps three percent — oftheir incrémental income."In closing, McNamara emphasized,"Our task, then, is to explore — to explore a turbulent world that is shiftinguneasily beneath our feet even as we tryto understand it. And to explore ourown values and beliefs about what kindof world we really want it to become."The arrest of some twenty-five persons marred a day of otherwise peacefuldémonstrations by some 1600 people.Events of the day began with a two-hourpicnic on the Quadrangles featuringlong-time anti-war activist, Dave Del- linger. Teach-ins were held in variousplaces on campus. The events culmi-nated with a démonstration that eveningoutside of Hutchinson Commons, site ofthe présentation dinner.As the démonstration was coming to aclose, some protesters sat-in on University Avenue. AU were charged with dis-orderly conduct in refusing to move outof the street when ordered by citypolice. Ail arrests occurred after the officiai démonstration was over. The University had not preferred charges againstany arrested and no disciplinary actionswere taken in connection with the May22 events.In a statement issued on May 23, a dayafter the dinner and démonstrations,Président Gray announced the formation of a faculty advisory committee tostudy the "range of University medals,prizes, and awards, as well as the policiesand criteria pertaining to them."The eight-member Faculty AdvisoryCommittee on University Awards andPrizes is chaired by Dr. Irwin H. Rosen-berg, professor of medicine. Others onthe committee are Alfred T. Anderson,Jr., associate professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences and theCollège, Bernard S. Cohn, professor inthe Departments of Anthropology andHistory, Ralph Lerner, professor of social sciences in the Collège, WendyO'Flaherty, professor in the DivinitySchool, South Asian Languages andCivilization, Committee on SocialThought, and the Collège, Paul E. Peter-son, professor in the Departments ofEducation and Political Science and theCollège, Harry V. Roberts, professor inthe Graduate School of Business, andGeoffrey R. Stone, associate professorin the Law School.Président Gray also expressed herPersonal regret over the arrests and emphasized that no disciplinary actions orcharges would be made. Gray stated,"Responsible dissent and discussion areessential to the University's task." In aManon interview Président Gray said,"The [Pick Sélection] Committee emphasized the rôle of the World Bank andthe importance of development. Thereis a larger history. It is a very difficultquestion. I believe this debate will noteasily be resolved. It raises fundamentalquestions about the burden and lessonsof history."Ancient Mesopotamian Hut:An Architectural WonderA team of archaeologists from theOriental Institute at the University ofChicago and the University of Copenha-4Thèse walls are the remains of the Round Building at Tell Rasuk, datingfrom about3000 BC.gen hâve uncovered in central Iraq whatmay be the oldest building with abarrel-vaulted roof. The unbaked, mud-brick roof covers a unique, round structure dating from 2900 BC that was prob-ably used by ancient Mesopotamians as aborder garrison."Every architect who has looked atour building' s roof shakes his or herhead and says it couldn't be done withmudbrick," says McGuire Gibson of theOriental Institute and director of theChicago-Copenhagen team. "But itwas." It is clear, he says, that the ancientbuilders were not using wood beams."A round building like this would bedifficult to build and had to hâve beenbrilliantly planned. It was obviously notjust thrown up by a local village," saysGibson, who is an associate professor ofarcheology in the Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages andCivilizations.The building is located at the centerof a small town that is surrounded by atown wall. Measuring twenty-seven me-ters in diameter with thick walls fourmeters high, the building is clearly thesettlement's fortified center.A Mesopotamian settlement radiâtesout from the round building. If the townwall were breached by an enemy, thepeople could start withdrawing throughtheir houses to the garrison. Gibson saysthat it is "like a web leading in to thecenter building with narrow, irregularlanes of access;" an attacking armywould hâve had a hard time penetratingthe central citadel.The discovery was made last winter inthe Hamrin Basin, northeast of Baghdadand within sight of the mountains thatrun along the Iraqi-Iran border. The région will be gradually covered by damwaters over the next five years. TheChicago-Copenhagen archeologicalteam, along with teams from sevencountries, is assisting the Iraqi Government in a concerted salvage opérationthat will excavate seventy sites in theare a.Gibson and his team spent six monthsat their site and plan to return for a second season in the Fall. They expect thatwork can continue over the next threeor four years before dam waters coverthe site completely.Previously, archeological study ofMesopotamia has centered in Iraq atsites of such major ancient cites asBabylonia, Nippur, Ur and Nineveh.Now, says Gibson, archeologists are ob-taining a comprehensive picture of thesettlement and living patterns at thefringes of the Mesopotamian world.At the time the first cities were being A tentative reconstruction of the plan of theRound Building.created in southern Mesopotamia, theHamrin Valley was an agriculturalbackwater, though a heavily fortifiedone. Important roads passed through thearea, including the main trade route thatlinked Mesopotamia to Iran and thelegendary caravan routes of central Asia.Since the basin was small, and eut byrivers and marshes, incapable of sup-porting a large population agriculturally,major cities never developed. "TheHamrin was probably a place you passedthrough to get somewhere else," saysGibson, "just as it is today."Gibson believes that archeologists areentering a fruitful new period ofMesopotamian research. "We couldlearn more in the next ten years than wehâve in the past fifty," he says. The Iraqi Government plans to support several international salvage opérations in connection with dam projects atHaditha, on the Euphrates River, andNineveh, on the Tigris. As with theHamrin salvage project, the governmentis assuming the costs of labor, transpor-tation and housing at the sites.Of the new era of anthropological research that he sees developing, Gibsonsays, "We are opening up totally un-touched areas as a resuit of the Iraqicommitment. What we are finding maychange our ideas of what ancientMesopotamia culture was like." The Office of Public InformationThe University of Chicago5COURT TbeATRe:TweNTy-Five ^garsWhen a group of Russian moviemakers toured the University in i960, the members were taken to an open,grassy space known as Hutchinson Court to watch twoCourt Théâtre rehearsals. After sitting transnxed forseveral hours in the English-style, ivied courtyard, thevarious Russian directors, producers, scriptwriters, and, actresses were asked how they liked the outdoor pro-*Ç\ductions of Molière'sSV»/>/« and Sophocle's Oedipus Rex.','y^Ali were impressed with the idea of an outdoor theater,Y explaining that in Russia it is too cold most of the timefor such things. One woman in particular seemed toexpress the entire group's sentiments, when, in brokenEnglish, with her hands gesticulating, she exclaimed, "Itis. . . . atmosphera!" She was, thereupon, applauded byher compatriots.For twenty-five years now Court Theatre's summer-natural theater" atmosphère has made it not only a]•'$ Hyde Park institution and a shimmering feather in theUniversity's cap, but also a professional company ofcity-wide importance. More than any other theatercompany in the Chicago area, Court has earned its réputation through its undaunted interest in performing theclassics and in presenting some notable modem plays. Ithas received high critical acclaim. Court productions ofe Birtbday Party, She Stoops to Conquer, and most re-ntly, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead hâve beenated for the prestigious Jefferson Award given fortheater in Chicago.inning in 1954 as a semi-professionalks current status as an ambitious the-®|%>se aùâï^jqs^içaw actors from as far as Califor-tàj^ew YorJ^^fliïK. evolved into what Artistic" -ëb. Nicholas R^uTViews as a burgeoning na-menon — the im^-rsîty-underwritten pro-'r^troupe, such a§^h.atswhich exists atarvard.kbefeW^ilPitiy,^MP» ârc to perfortt^th^èéit?|âsks Rudatk;-^;lassics;reWR/il)>X reluctant to présent modem works."We are always concerned with keeping students in-volved in Court Théâtre. And already there are manystudents who act and direct in Court, many of whom goon to high-quality schools of drama. But we are a professional theater, by which I mean we hâve a long tradition of first-rate productions behind us precisely be-cause we use proven actors and technicians. This is theonly way to perform the sort of classical theater we'reinterested in."And by emphasizing 'classical', I don't at ail mean torule out twentieth century plays. We do proven playshère, and some of our most successful ventures hâvebeen modem works — Butley, for example, or last win-ter's The Birthday Party which had a tremendous criticalfollowing."When Court Théâtre began in the summer of 1955, itemerged on the heels of the then, directionless, be-leagured University of Chicago Theater and the student"Tonight at 8:30" theater séries. Setting up a viable theater in the post-Hutchins period was a difficult task, forthe Hutchins' plan called for a university more concerned with the teaching of fundamental material thanwith extracurricular activities. Likewise, the Universitywas a place for the study of the arts but not necessarilythe practice of them. Yet, University Theater managedto add its innovative 'Tonight" séries and eventuallyCourt Théâtre to its program.The 'Tonight at 8:30" séries, formed at the University in the 1950-51 school year, was to become thetheatrical héritage for Court Théâtre. "Tonight" wasconceived as the créative alternative to University Theater. The "8:30" group saw themselves as a sophisticatedtheater group which would put on quality shows. Ac-cording to Paul Sills, one member of the troupe, "Therewould be girls in evening dresses, lemonade, cherries,and that sort of thing."The "Tonight at 8:30" séries became renown as ani "»o;anization composed of some highly talented Univer-^*^j|y§àts who produced unusual, well-done drama. De-&$P^^ESjpopularity, the "Tonight" group was ruled off-Jn late 1952 when it became clear that most ofembers were no longer University students. The7Jinx Halliday, a woman so beautiful that "the audience would understand ivhy . . . "— Trojan Women, 1956.group moved to a neighboring Hyde Park hall wherethe members formed the Playwrights' Theater. Soon,Hyde Park became home of the Compass and SecondCity groups as well. Performers and directors such asAlan Arkin, Ed Asner, Elaine May, Shelly Berman, FritzWeaver, Rolf Forsberg, and Mike Nichols receivedtheir early training in thèse groups.During this theatrical ferment, Court Théâtre wasborn with guidance from Marvin Phillips, then head ofthe University of Chicago Theater. After spending ayear doing classical and avante-garde theater at the University, Phillips, according to a student helper, one daywas standing at a window on the second floor of MandelHall overlooking the courtyard. He suddenly blurtedout, "We've got to hâve a theater out there! Right in themiddle, we can build a stage on the fountain and use ailthe walkways, the roofs, and the buildings andWindows — we can use this whole, airy courtyard. Wecan seat them on the grass, right in the middle of thetriangle that's made by the walks."Phillips quickly assembled a financial prospectus andwon approval to hâve the courtyard used as the settingfor his summer theater. When the first play, Molière'sThe Doctor in Spite of Himself, opened, Phillips said hewas "flabbergasted" to discover how good the show ac-tually was. The play ran to full houses for two weeks.The next play, Molière's The Forced Marriage, opened to four consécutive nights of rain. According to directorPhillips, it taught the Court producers that there weresimply some plays which did not corne across well inoutside theater — Marriage was one of them. Because ofthe subtlety of the play, many of the Unes were missedin the outdoor production. It turned out that the bestperformances of Marriage occurred indoors on rainynights. Still, at the end of the season in accountingshowed that Court had played to an audience of almost2,500 people. With a net loss of only one hundred andeight dollars, Court Théâtre had made a rather auspi-cious beginning.The University seemed delighted, the staff and castwere enthusiastic, and it appeared that Court might beable to live up to the ambitious boast on its future granddesigns which appeared in that season's program:Instead of following a star System or relying on theproduction of last year's Broadway successes, we arepresenting only examples of the world's greatestdramatic literature, in the best of the académie theater. The outdoor Court Théâtre has been chosen forits beauty, its suitability for the production ofMolière, and its seasonal appropriateness . . . Thefirst beginnings of drama were produced in open-airtheaters, and it is only comparatively lately thatdrama has withdrawn into the indoor theater . . . Wehope to find our experiment this year sufficientlywell received to warrant a summer festival next year,and that not only the University community and theSouth Side, but the whole city will find educationaltheater exciting and rewarding.The following year brought an imaginatively con-ceived production of Euripides' Trojan Women. The director, Rolf Forsberg would later attribute the Greekplay's successful run at Court to the courtyard's peculiarenvironment. He pointed out that "it was idéal perform-ing the play at Court since the theater there resemblesthe Acropolis in some respects."Most of the cast in Trojan Women were black. SinceForsberg wanted to insure that the audience did notidentify the people in the show as white or black, heresolved the problem by painting the faces lavender,with very exaggerated facial lines — the effect of Greekmasks but with expressive movements. The costumeswere also extraordinary. The women wore formlessgowns which gave them, said Forsberg, "a timelessquality — their robes could hâve been modem or ancient." The men were dressed in black leather tunics andblack belts, black riding britches, and black helmets.Forsberg claimed he was aiming for a production whichwould suggest contemporary issues through the simplestory of the Trojan tragedy. "We were definitelysuggesting the oppressor," he emphasized, "the Nazi,the fascist. Anything."One highly unusual and amusing incident surroundedthe casting for Trojan Women. According to what is nowlegend, Forsberg was not happy with any of the actresseswho had tried out for the part of Helen of Troy, and sohe talked to a young woman whom he had met at a clubfor exotic dancers on South State Street. He convinceda woman named Jinx Halliday into making her "acting"début at Court Théâtre.Director Forsberg was to recall that he "wanted her[Helen of Troy] so beautiful that the audience wouldunderstand why, as far as Menelaus was concemed, theTrojan could ail bloody well go to hell." Jinx Hallidayaccepted the part and went on to create a stir. She de-cided to capitalize on her classical theater début bybooking herself for a speaking engagement in a Chicagolecture hall on the topic of "Nudity and the AmericanTheater." When a head dean was informed of an upcom-ing newspaper article on Halliday's triple-threattalents — stripper, speaker, and Court Théâtre actress — heushered Forsberg into his office, lectured him about hisdubious publicity methods, and suggested he drop Halliday. Forsberg decided to back the stripper while askingher to drop her speaking date. This she did.But Halliday was not through providing CourtThéâtre with the provocative or the exciting. CarolHorning, then the costumer for the season, described amémorable Sunday evening:As Menelaus waved his sword menacingly at Helen,and she fell to her knees, shrugging her shoulders tomake her cape fall off on eue, her strap broke. No undies. She kept her poise like the trouper she wasand waited forTalthibius to wrap her in her cape andcarry her back to Attica. Some members of the audience may hâve thought we were carrying this "bareyour breast to the sword" bit too far, but we werespared political repercussions.Trojan Women was considered the triumph of Court'ssecond season. It even garnered a picture and article inthe March 1957 issue of Théâtre Arts magazine.The Court Theatre's 1957 season was hailed in theChicago Maroon as "the University of Chicago's high-brow version of summer stock", a poke at the somewhatheady fare for that summer — Oscar Wûde'sSalomé, BenJonson's The Alchemist, and Christopher Marlowe's di-abolical Dr. Faustus. Both the Jonson and Marloweplays were turned into critically winning productions,but the Wilde work seemed to fail out of the play's ownweaknesses. The Alchemist, in particular, earned Court agood amount of notoriery for years as, what one stafferreferred to, "the show where we blew up the audience."Meyer Braiterman, a student helper, was later to recallwhat may be the perfect cautionary taie for the overlyambitious spécial effects man."There is an explosion in the Alchemist's lab in theplay," he explained, "and we decided the first time wedid the explosion on the speakers that it wasn't verygood. No matter how good your sound System is, explosions don't make it. So we got a potato chip can, and thefirst time the noise was on speakers we timed it with thesilent explosion in the potato chip can which sent up acolored A-bomb shaped smoke cloud. But it didn't workwith the speakers either. So we decided to make it liveand put a little explosive in with the color bomb in thechip can. Ail that time we were weakening that can."The last night of the performance the crew went toget the wiring device which ignites the explosion fromthe potato chip can. But, according to Braiterman, it wasgone."It [the potato chip can]just wasn't there. Afterwardswe found pièces of it ail over the court. Nobody hadcomplained of being hit by a pièce of tin — which wasfortunate and amazing. It was a magnificent explosion!"As Court moved into the next décade, the Théâtre,which had been dubbed by one critic as "a company ofdyed-in-the-wool thespians with city-wide amateur andprofessional expérience," began to reach out to a largermetropolitan audience. Advertisements for the summerseason, as well as for the newly-added modem jazzséries (which included luminaries such as Duke Ellington), were placed in city newspapers. This aidedCourt in attracting the attention of Chicago newspapercritics. In 1962, Robert Benedetti — who returned toCourt this season to direct Hamlet and Rosencrantz andGuildenstern are Dead — became artistic director. TheBenedetti years marked a deliberate departure fromCourt Theatre's tradition of a classical format.9"We continue to risk the production of plays likeUlysses in Night Town and Pantagleize," Benedetti toldhis theater audience then in explaining Court's newinterest in the more obscure, "because we are firmlyconvinced that th e apathy towards and lethargy in ourAmerican theater is a resuit of a refusai by mercenaryproducers to risk failure. More to blâme for the lack ofcréative vitality in our theaters are those playwrights,directors, and actors of real talent who allow themselvesto be compromised for the sake of continuing popular-ity. . . . Ail in ail, the producers hope that by the break-ing of some traditions, we hâve in some way contributedto the welfare of the dramatic arts."Benedetti was clearly interested in pursuing the sortof controversial theater which had drawn some flap theprevious year, when a production of Ulysses in NightTown prompted a campaign within the University towithdraw the play on the grounds that "Court Théâtreshows should be something parents can bring their kidsto." Benedetti had gone ahead with Martin Roth's production only to win accolades from the press for havingbrought expérimental theater to Chicago at its freshestand most bawdy. The production had gained hosannasfrom Broadway director Burgess Meredith and actorZéro Mostel, both of whom were in town for shows oftheir own.The first play, of what was to be artistically adventur-ous, although financially troubled season, wasTheKnigbtof the Burning Pestle, which Benedetti later referred to as"an obscure work which perhaps should hâve remainedobscure." Much more successful was Court's Americanpremière production of Pantagleize, an avant-garde play by the then unknown Belgian playwright, Michel deGhelderode. A heavily symbolic and surrealistic play,Pantagleize told of a prophet-imbecile who one dayclimbs a lamp post to proclaim, "What a lovely day!" andmanages to start a révolution in the process."If it had been an hour shorter," Benedetti said at thetime, "I think Pantagleize would hâve been close tobeing one of the Court masterpieces. It ran at first forthree hours and forty minutes, and got progressivelylonger thereafter. For those who could stick it outthough, it was marvelous, and it made terrifie use of thecourt. The director even made the chimes in the towerbehind us go off when bell-ringing was called for in theplay.""I was intrigued at doing a playwright that probablywouldn't hâve been done in the Court unless some oneof us had the courage to go ahead and try," the directorJames O'Reilly said in an interview in 1962. "And Ithought the show deserved production. Our présentation represented a departure from what usually wasdone in Pantagleize, according to the comments of theBelgian Consul of Chicago, who came to our performance. He and his party liked the show, and they werereally amazed by the fact that it was done outside. Theywere certain there just had to be a stage around theshow to do it."Pantagleize was hailed by the Chicago Daily News as a"noble experiment". There were many in the cast, likeactress Carol Horning, who felt "this is the kind of thingCourt Théâtre should do — really theatrical, expérimental stuff." Court audiences had corne to expect theclassics; however, as a resuit of the grumblings withinTom No/as as Pantagleize sur-rounded by unconscious rerolu-tionaries and ivaiters.10Christine Bacon and Lawrence McCauley in the fantasticcostumes designed for A Midsummer Night's Dream, 7973.the community over the theater's shift in répertoire,Court discontinued its exclusive présentation of modemplays in 1963. Interestingly, the season following that ofthe Benedetti experiment turned out to be mostsuccessful — critically and fïnancially — in Court's history,and it was a summer devoted entirely to the classical.Between 1962 and 1963, Chicago's three daily news-papers added substantial theater suppléments to theirpages, supplying Court with free publicity and new patrons. With the season's first production, A Midsummer' sNight Dream, director O'Reilly took advantage ofCourt's expansive locale in presenting what is often con-sidered an "outdoor" play."We went out and searched around and found ItalianChristmas tree lights, and we had them strung in thetrees in the Court surrounding the stage. And we didsome nice things with the lighting — big pools of lightunder the trees for the différent acting areas. Ail ofthèse effects were for the play's sake. A MidsummerNight's Dream, the way we did it, is not very deep, and itdidn't require a lot of analyzing afterwards. It was donefor the spectacle and color and fun and excitement and Ithink it worked. It was a real crowd-pleaser, and a lot ofpeople told me how much their children enjoyed it.""From the point of view of pleasing the eye," Bene detti told one reporter at the time, "I think Midsummer'sNight Dream was the best play the Court ever did. Jim'sinterprétation was just terrifically sound — he recognizedthe fact that the play was written in différent styles, eachstyle reserved for one of the groups of the play. Thelovers hâve a particular style — a highly romantic style.The group of fairies hâve a particular elevated fantasticstyle of their own, and I mean images, diction, meter,and everything, and the rustics hâve a particular style oftheir own too." The sheer visual appeal of the Court'sshow brought the production to the attention of theChicago office of CBS, the head of which made a proposai to the Court suggesting that the play be featuredas one segment of the CBS Repertory Theater program.O'Reilly and Benedetti adapted the popular rustics séquence at the play's end, and the show was picked upfor, first, local and then national télévision. As a resuit ofthe show, Court actors received money for their workfor the very first time. The Court's réputation as a bud-ding theater to watch was enhanced in the city."We must return to the basic vitality of theatrical fun-damentals," wrote Robert Benedetti in an article in-troducing the last play of the season, King Lear, in the"Panorama" arts section in the Chicago Daily News."The American theater must be purged of the in-groupappeal if theater is ever to become a force in our culture.We must allow the theater to regress to the state inwhich it will satisfy the hunger of ail men to use theirimaginations. Therefore, in our attempt on King Lear, Ihâve dispensed with ail sound and lighting effects, withail props, with ail the suggestive costuming aimed atassisting rather than covering the actor's body, and hâvefocused attention upon the very éléments upon whichShakespeare depended; the live actor, the live text, andthe very live imagination of the audience." Hère was thenotoriously ambitious Benedetti attempting to directclassical theater in an expérimental key, as he tried toconvey "the sensé of drama as a dance, or a flowingphysical movement" without what the director consid-ered the usual entrapments of the stage. According toJames O'Reilly, who played the part of Lear, the star-tling innovations which Benedetti introduced — stormscènes brought off without any sound effects, swordfights without swords, allowing actors great freedom increating their characters — gave the play "a semi-barbariefeeling, a barrenness, a crudity, and an earthen sparcequality" which made it unlike anything he had ever seenat Court. Many in the audience spoke of their firm senséthat the cast, the director, and the technicians ail had aclear, single, almost communal vision of Shakespeare'spurpose in the play. Members of the Court productionattributed Benedetti's cohérent orchestration oïLear tothe meticulous and generous way in which he ran hisrehearsals."We started the rehearsal process with long discussions in which the smallest character player was free11to contribute ideas," Benedetti said in 1963. "This kindof académie brainstorming involved the cast as a wholeand I think gave everyone the sensé that, no matter howsmall his part, the overall interprétation of the play was aconcern of his. Everyone's cog in the wheel had to bejust right." Benedetti found Court's setting outsideMandel Hall to be especially advantageous in emphasiz-ing Lear's mythic origins dating back to a time of greatbarbarism. He treated Mandel Hall and the Gothic sur-roundings as gargantuan stone-grey castles of feudalBritain. Never before had a director mined more theat-rical possibilities out of Hutchinson Court.King Lear was to capture more national and local critical adulation than any previous Court production. Writ-ing in the Chicago Daily News, Richard Christensenraved that Court Théâtre had created "a constant re-minder that we are in the présence of the greatest poem,the greatest play of the English language . . . the actorsand their director hâve grasped the soûl and gone to theheart of the drama, transcending their weaknesses to asincerity of effort and love of their work that is a joy tobehold . . . . At the very least, this is d.Lear that is under-standable. The actors know what they are saying; not aline is cast aside as meaningless .... The actors' failingsare never those of the spirit. They hâve corne to a greatplay with ail the resources at their command, and ingrappling with it, they hâve given us the most rewardingtheater expérience of this summer, and an enduring sa-lute to our common humanity." Christensen's praisecould not be entirely dismissed as a provincial Chicagocritic's naïve and extravagant boasting over the local talent. There was some other indication that the show really was that good. As Court Théâtre attendence recordswere being broken, arrangements were being made tohâve Court's King Lear broadeast on the CBS RepertoryTheater. Benedetti and O'Reilly adapted the play fortélévision, and it appeared before Chicago-area audiences and then for national viewing. Meanwhile, theChristian Science Monitor ran an article entitled "WhenTent Fare Begins to Pall", in which part-time dramacritic and Northwestern University professor PeterJacobi lamented the sad shape of summer theater inChicago. After attacking the "commercial tents andtheir répétitive fluffs of entertainment", Jacobi went onto laud what he saw as the city's only summertime savinggrâce. There was, he contended, a way out of the hovel."The University of Chicago, for instance, has a mag-nificent setting for its classics: a quadrangle, a land-scaped lawn surrounded by classic architecture, impos-ing buildings ofgrey University stone and soaring roofs.I saw only King Lear of their répertoire, but Lear wasenough to show the potential of the setting. This is not aStratford Lear, but it is not an insignificant one. It shunssword play and ail but a bare minimum of props to allowamateur actors to focus on the words of the tragedy." "The resuit," Jacobi concluded. "is a minor treasure, aproduction that rarely stumbles and occasionally soars, aproduction that contemplâtes, that moves with pur-pose." By approaching classical drama with a new, expérimental excitement and by greatly extending the usesof Court's Hutchinson courtyard, Benedetti and his castmoved Court Théâtre into prominent position as an in-novative, yet classically-oriented Chicago theater.Court's tenth anniversary season saw the présentationof three of Shakespeare's "Italian" plays, and for the firsttime in Court's history, there was one director behindail four productions. The last play of the season, Romeoandjuliet, brought Court some rather unwelcome sen-sationalized média attention. Director O'Reilly had castJoe Ford, a University undergraduate, as Romeo, andTerri Turner, a black actress who had previously playedin the 1961 Court version oiHenry IV, Part I, as Juliet.Since its earliest days Court had always had a réputationfor being one of the few Chicago theaters to hâve inte-grated productions. Ray Stubbs, a black actor who appeared in Court's 1957 production of Oedipus Rex and asthe lead in the 1956 Othello, was a Court regular until helanded a rôle in the movie version of Raisin in the Sun.Directors Rolf Forsberg and Robert Benedetti had usedblack actors throughout their careers with Court. So itcame as something of a surprise when the black pressshowed an interest in "breaking" a new story which wasnot really new. The Chicago Defender sent a reporter tointerview Ms. Turner, and shortly thereafter an editor atJet Magazine, a magazine with a predominantly blackreadership, commissioned a cover article emphasizingthat Turner was playing opposite a white Romeo."But then that was a very important year for the civilrights movement," Turner recalled recently. "It was alsothe summer of the 'Mississippi Project'. It was in themiddle of the sixties, when things were rather turbulent,and so it caused a little stir. Even today Chicago is veryprovincial in that respect — only one step away fromMississippi. But there was never any actual problem onthe set."Turner, who played leads for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare Festival and who was a featured actress in theBroadway play, The White Devils, retumed to Court this1979 season to play Gertrude in Benedetti's version ofHamlet. She remembers that Benedetti was always sur-prised at how few black actors auditioned for Courtplay», although Court has always been open to blacks."The Negro is not an intégral part of our theaterscène because our scène usually reflects our communityscène," Benedetti told an interviewer fifteen years ago."That's an unfortunate thing, because like organizedreligion the theater ought to feel some moral obligationabout doing ail it can to improve the situation. It's reallyrough to cast a Negro or to develop a truly integratedtheater company. This is partly because our American12Director James O'Reilly (center) with Joe Ford and Terri Turner inRomeo and Juliet, 7964.theater has been mostly realistic in this century. Wehâve been interested in greater détail and fidelity to theappearances of things in the real world than the classicaltheater was. As a resuit, we can't accept a Negro actorplaying the part of a white actor, because that's not theway things look in real life. Or we can't imagine a Negroactress being the daughter of two white actors. "Peoplewithout the imagination to make a willing suspension ofbelief will generally be deprived of many rich expériences in ail kinds of art."The 1964 season marked the last summer that Courtwas under the overall direction of Benedetti, who re-signed his position to join Second City. Shortly beforehe left, he was asked by a reporter how it was possiblethat an "amateur" theater group such as Court couldproduce high quality productions on such a consistentbasis." Amateur' as we use the word today implies a levelof proficiency below that of the 'professional'. Therewas a time when the truly great artist was always an'amateur', that is, someone who worked at what he didfor the love of it alone, and not for the money. Thosewho made their living at it were 'professionals', andwhile they might hâve been of greater technical facility,they were suspected of not having much soûl."Oddly enough, Benedetti did not care to défendCourt as a professional theater. And yet by the time heended his term at Court, the theater which had oncehovered between being "amateur" on the one hand and"professional" on the other, was now identified by mostof its public as as a top-notch Chicago theatrical institution. The change to a new professionalism was even acause for some to lament. Benedetti's administrationhad introduced lighting towers and an Elizabethan-stylefaçade to the Court stage area in 1963, which moved Court Théâtre pioneer Marvin Phillips to brood overthe controversial plan and Court's lost innocence."The old-timers still like the idea of the lights comingout of the trees," the Theatre's first administrator anddirector said then. "We like the idea of trying to keepthe théâtre as outdoorsy as possible . . . We knew it washard to set the lights up in the trees and we knew itmade things much more convenient to get out of thetrees, but we liked the idea of lights in the trees. It was acase of love or something. But I knew the lights wereeventually going to be taken out of the trees. I saw it inthe audience. The audience started out mostly collègestudents and Hyde Parkers, but pretty soon peoplestarted coming from the wealthy sections of Chicago,from the North Shore. I think Meyer [Meyer Braiterman, producer manager] did a study in i960, and do youknow that by then more people were from the NorthShore in our audience than any other section of town?Hyde Park came in second. This was a reversai, and Isaw it coming when the idea of bringing your blanketsand sitting on your program on the grass was going to goaway. I knew that eventually we were going to hâvechairs for the audience that I call 'the little old ladieswith silk dresses.' I knew that the time was going tocome when people were going to wear ties to theCourt."James O'Reilly succeeded Benedetti as Court's artis-tic director, and for the remainder of the sixties andearly seventies Court continued on a strict course ofclassical drama with barely a nod to the new. (Perhapsthe only exceptions being Dylan Thomas' UnderMilkwood in 1970 and Miller's The Crucible in 1971, butthèse were hardly untested plays). One of the most ac-complished of Court productions during this period wasO'Reilly's rendition of Richard III, where O'Reilly di-rected his future successor Nicholas Rudall in the leadrôle."I had directed O'Reilly back in 1968 when we didFord's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and he played the rôle of afriar," Ruddall recalled today. "Hère was his chance todirect me. It was an incredibly difficult show to pull off,what with the heat and the demands of the rôle. I hadplayed Richard in high school and always wanted to do itagain. What made this Richard III panicularly a challenge at one point was when we went on during themoon landing. We had télévisions set up on stage duringthe intermissions. It became very clear that we had anaudience divided between those who were worried overNeil Armstrong's destiny and those who were worriedover Richard's hère on earth."Rudall began as artistic director in 1972. Born inWales and a graduate of Cambridge University where heacted in the student theater, Rudall won a scholarship tostudy classics at Cornell. After receiving his doctoratethere, he came to Chicago to accept an associate pro-13Laurel Cronin, Maureen Gallagher,and Megan McTavish in She Stoopsto Conquer, 1978.fessorship in classical languages. While teaching he con-tinued to participate in Court enterprises. Today, Rudallteaches full-time while watching over Court, usuallyworking a sixteen-hour day before retiring in the eve-ning. Under Rudall's command, Court has added a win-ter theater program known as Winter Court, and hastaken the University of Chicago Theater under its wingas Studio Court. This year Rudall wants to turn Courtinto a University-based, permanent repertory companywith its very own building."What we've been aiming towards thèse last few yearsis a kind of professionalism," Rudall said. "Pro-fessionalism is a difficult word to define, but what itpartially means is the paying of some actors, designersand technicians. This is a simple économie fact, but onehas to do this if one is to keep a standard of performancecapable of dealing with Hamlet or The Birthday Party orwhatever plays we do. By a permanent company wemean retaining certain résident actors to perform in asmany plays as possible, and to pay them to do that. Theconcept of a résident company is crucial to the kind oftheater I want to do. If we are to do Ibsen and Chekhovand Shakespeare and Aeschylus and Pinter, we needtrained actors who work together. You can't simplywhip A Doll's House together in a few weeks. I believevery strongly in the idea of a company, which is to say inthe idea of theater as a collaborative art. And if thecollaboration is consistent, then the art improves."This season's players are composed of a combinationof Chicago actors, Court Théâtre old-timers, and a Art is tic Director D. Nicholas Rudall14Court Theatre's 1979 production o/The Way of the World.hand-full of out-of-state performers who entered Courtvia auditions. "When summertime starts comingaround," said Meagan Fay, who plays a lead in The Wayof the World and who last appeared at The Body Politic,"a large part of the talk in the Chicago theater world iscentered on the Court Théâtre and the possibility ofgetting a part there in the summer season. Because notonly is Court one of the only theaters in the city to pay asalary you don't hâve to starve on, it's the only Chicagotheater where actors can be rigorously trained withsome proven drama. That really doesn't go onelsewhere. Even nationally, it's hard to get a classicalbackground in the theater." Fay, who spent some timeacting in Ireland before returning to Chicago, was im-pressed with the absence of compétitive pressure atCourt which discouraged her at other theaters in thecity."There isn't the kind of awful cut-throat feeling hèrethat you see at other theaters. There seems to be roomfor everyone hère." Asked about what she anticipatedfrom her Hyde Park audiences, Fay said she was a littleanxious."You could say we've been warned aboutthem — how scrupulous they are in judging performances, how they bring their play books with them to thethéâtre. Joe Dellger — the actor who plays Hamlet — wasjoking that he never worries about forgetting a line atCourt. He figures he can just ask someone from theaudience if he needs help.""There is a very healthy communal atmosphère hère,"said Linda Buchanan, stage designer and sometimes cos tume designer who last year was nominated for Jeffer-son award citations for her She Stoops To Conquer costume designs and her set design for The Birthday Party.Buchanan is one of the ten or so permanent staff members at Court. "Most theaters, unless they're connectedwith a school, don't keep a complète company. Youcorne in and do a show and that's it — good-bye. But hèrethere's at least a permanent core of regular people, andit makes for a much better theater. As designer, I'm notconstantly under an enormous amount of pressure toalways prove myself. I'm able to experiment, to be alittle risky in my designs occasionally, and because ofthat I hâve a lot more room to grow as a designer.""It's particularly challenging trying to design the stageon an outdoor theater. Outside, ail of the movementsthat go on seem bigger. Two steps out on the stagetowards the audience will seem like quite a distance. Forthis season, both of the directors wanted an Elizabethanstage, and I had to do a good deal of research into Renaissance stage design."To Court's current administration, there is only onedirection for the Théâtre to move in if it is to fulfill itsambitious year-round program — towards a permanentcompany and a new facility."Over the last eight years," said producing directorJim Lichtenstein, "there hâve been three threads run-ning through Court's development. And they lead to theeventual development of a permanent company, a newbuilding, and a careful technical reorganization.""The move towards résident professional companiesat universities," said Rudall, "is one which has takenplace over the last décade. Court's development hasbeen organic. We've grown as the demands of the University hâve become clear. We've not imposed a professional group from the outside to corne on in. On thecontrary, we've been hère for a long time, and the actorswe've tried hâve been hère for a long time, and theactors we will use will be hère for a long time. We'vegrown by continuing with those aspects of Court whichhâve worked and by dispensing with those aspects whichhâve not."The Magazine expresses appréciation to D. NicholasRudall, artistic director, the staff, and the summer companyof Court Théâtre for their time, inspiration, and materials.We would also like to acknowledge our gratitude to Al Tann-ler, University Archives Research Specialist, for guiding usin our research and to Thomas H. Arthur for his thesis,Court Théâtre, The First Ten Years, which provided theMagazine with much background material and facts. ToRichard Kaye, researcher and muse, the Magazine is mostgrateful for his writing skills and his good humor. Mr.Kaye is currently a second year student in the Collège and isalso co-editor of the Chicago Literary Review, the literarysupplément of the Chicago Maroon.15HOMECOMINGOCT. 13Soccer - 10:00 amFootball- 1:30 pmFeslivities16LVan Buitenen Named toBobrinskoy ChairThe University of Chicago establishedthe George V. Bobrinskoy Pro-fessorship of Sanskrit in the Departmentof South Asian Langauges and Civiliza-tions, in honor of one of its most distin-guished and innovative Sanskrit Schol-ars.J.A.B. van Buitenen, who has beenDistinguished Service Professor ofSanskrit since 1973, has been named thefirst professor to the new chair. VanBuitenen joined the faculty of the University in 1957. He is the celebratedtranslator of the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.George V. Bobrinskoy, after whomthe new professorship is named, taughtat the University for thirty-nine yearsuntil his retirement in 1967. He is professor emeritus in the Departments ofLinguistics, Slavic Languages and Litera-tures, and South Asian Languages andCivilizations.Bobrinskoy came to the University in1928 after having taught at Yale. Heheaded the Russian section of the U.S.Army Specialized Training Program atthe University during World War IL Healso developed the académie programfor Russian language and literature. Asthe program in comparative philologyevolved into linguistics, he served aschairman of the Department of Linguistics from 1951 to 1966.In addition to fathering threedepartments — South Asian Languagesand Civilizations, Slavic Languages andLiteratures, and Linguistics. Bobrinskoyserved as Dean of Students in the Divi sion of the Humanities from 1954 to1967. He is currently a DistinguishedScholar and chairman of the Departmentof Linguistics at Yale University.Four Receive Quantrell AwardsFour faculty members were récipients ofthe 1979 Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:David Bevington, professor in theDepartment of English and the Collège;Clifford Gurney, professor in theDepartment of Medicine;Peter Wyllie, professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences andthe Collège; andMarvin Zonis, associate professorin the Department of Behavioral Sciences and the Collège.Each received the $2,500 prizeestablished by Ernest Quantrell, x'05 in1938.Six Elected to American Academyof Arts and SciencesSix members of the faculty of the University were elected fellows of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are:Walter Blum, the Wilson-Dickinson Professor in the Law School;Daniel X. Freedman, the LouisBlock Professor and chairman of theDepartment of Psychiatry;Ping-ti Ho, the James WestfallThompson Professor in History and FarEastern Languages and Civilizations;Mark G. Inghram, the Samuel K.Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics and the Collège;Samuel B. Weiss, professor inBiochemistry, Microbiology, FranklinMcLean Mémorial Research Institute,and the Ben May Laboratory; andArnold Zellner, the H.G.B.Alexander Professor in the GraduateSchool of Business and director of theH.G.B. Alexander Research Foundation.Bradburn Heads NORCNorman M. Bradburn was appointedDirector of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). He is the Tiffanyand Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and chairman of the Department of Behavioral Sciences. Hehad been a senior study director at NORCsince 1961, served as director of NORCfrom 1967-71. He has also been président of NORC's board of trustées since1975.Bradburn succeeded Kenneth Pre-witt, who is professor of political scienceand in the Collège and chairman of theCommittee on Survey Research. Prewittwas elected président of the Social Science Research Council.Brown Dean of Rockefeller ChapelBernard O. Brown has been namedDean of Rockefeller Mémorial Chapel.He has been associate dean since 1967and is assistant professor of ethics andsociety at the University's DivinitySchool where he is also director ofministerial studies.In announcing the appointment, Président Hanna H. Gray said, "BernardBrown's willingness to become the Deanof the Chapel is good news for the University and for the community. In itsfifty years the Chapel has become afocus of and an important force in thespiritual, artistic, intellectual, and sociallife not only of the University, but ofHyde Park and the city."Mr. Brown is singularly fit to be itsdean. He is a scholar of religion, amember of the University's faculty; he isactive in many community affairs, andfor two décades he has been a tirelessworker for the improvement of the cul-tural and spiritual lives of the students,faculty, and the résidents of the neigh-borhood."Brown succeeded the Révérend E.Spencer Parsons, who has been deansince 1965. Parsons has joined HealthResources Ltd., a health counseling andphysician placement company, as theirNew England représentative in Boston.Parsons is on a year's leave of absence17from his faculty position in the University's Divinity School.The Dean of Rockefeller Chapel, inaddition to his preaching ministry, con-ducts services and provides ministry toindividuals. He is also responsible foréducation through faculty and studentstudy groups and for interchurch andinterfaith coopération.New Football CoachThomas P. Kurucz has been appointedAssociate Professor in the Departmentof Physicial Education and Head Football Coach. He was previously coachingat Millersville State Collège in Penn-sylvania and was assistant coach at theUniversity of Tennessee-Chattanoogaand at the University of Kentucy.Kurucz is only the fifth football coachin the history of the University. Formercoaches were Amos Alonzo Stagg,Clarke Shaughnessy, Walter Hass, andRobert E. Lombardi.Massey Directs ArgonneWalter E. Massey has been named Director of Argonne National Laboratoryand Professor in the Department ofPhysics at the University. He was previously a professor of physics at BrownUniversity and was also dean of the collège there. Massey succeeded Robert G.Sachs, who returned to research andteaching at the University last January.Argonne National Laboratory is oper-ated by the University for the U.S. Department of Energy and the ArgonneUniversities Association.Fisk University HonorsJohn Hope FranklinOn March 10, John Hope Franklin, theJohn Mathews Manly DistinguishedService Professor in History, was theguest of honor at a dinner in Chicagogiven by Fisk University to mark theestablishment of the John HopeFranklin Chair in History at Fisk.Franklin received a bachelor's degreefrom Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1935.Franklin has been a member of thefaculty at the University since 1964 andwas selected by the faculty as the University's first Nora and Edward RyersonLecturer in 1974. In 1976 the NationalEndowment for the Humanities selectedhim as the fifth Jefferson Lecturer;Franklin's lecture was published underthe title Racial Equality in America. He isthe author and editor of works on American history, especially on the history of Bernard Brown, Dean of Rockefeller Chapelthe American South and the black expérience. He is a member of the FiskUniversity Board of Trustées and is theprésident of the American HistoricalAssociation.Ran Transforms Plath Poem to MusicA red heart that "winces continually" asit expands and contracts is one of theevocative images that inspires ShulamitRan's new song cycle. The Israeli-borncomposer's work for voice, clarinet, andpiano is based on "Appréhensions", apoem by Sylvia Plath written during theyoung poet's last troubled years.Ran is one of nine contemporarycomposers commissioned by WFMTRadio in Chicago to write new songs foran upcoming broadcast séries on theTwentieth Century Art Song.An associate professor of compositionat the University of Chicago, Ran saysshe was immediately taken with thepoem when she first read it. "It neverworks for me to slowly fall in love with atext," the composer says. "It needs to beinstant and renew itself every time Ilook at it. That happened with thispoem."Each stanza of Plath's poem revolves around a color, Ran explains, with thepoem moving from white to red to grayto black. "It is surrounded with beautifulimagery and expresses the transformation of an emotional and mental state,"she explains, "ail very musically invitingto a composer."Though, on one level, the poem'swords and its dramatic context provide abasis for the musical approach, the musicmust, in the end, stand on its own, shesays. "A pièce of music must be aboutmusic, which I would define as a mean-ingful organization of sound in time. Itshould be possible without understanding a word of the poem still to under-stand the music."Ran says she writes no differently forvoice and text than she writes for an ensemble of many instruments, but shefinds working with voice particularly in-spiring. "Voice, especially a woman'svoice, is the most beautiful instrumentto me. Its color and expressive potentialis in some way s unmatched. Unlike anyother instrument where there is some-thing in between — the pianist plays onthe piano — the singer' s body is his instrument. It is more direct and to myears more beautiful."Ran started creating music even before she began piano lessons at âge18eight. Instead of reciting rhymes in herbooks, she sang them. "It was a naturalthing. I saw or heard a melody in anypoem presented to me." She could notunderstand how other people could lookat the pages and not see the mélodies.Ran admits that she has lost some ofthat musical innocence but still tries tobring the same sensé of spontaneity toher work. The effect she tries for is "ofsomething not always appearing in themanner you would totally expect yet, atthe same time, fitting totally."The level of spontaneity she seeksdoes not necessarily occur spontane-ously but is the resuit of technique andmusical knowledge combined with inspiration. "A composer tries to bringabout inspiration instead of sitting andwaiting for it. You learn to invite theMuse."The thirty-year-old Ran came to theUnited States at the âge of fourteenunder a scholarship from the MannesCollège of Music in New York. Thatwas the year her first orchestral work,Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, wasperformed by the New York Philharmonie in a Young People's Concert. Ranhas continued to hâve her musical com positions performed, recorded, and pub-lished by major organizations in thiscountry and abroad. She has also performed extensively as a pianist.Ran calls herself "extraordinarilylucky" for having started young and received support throughout her careerfrom many différent sources. Thoughshe recognizes the difficulties womencomposers hâve faced in getting theircareers off the ground, she has receiveda steady stream of awards, grants, andcommissions. Besides the WFMT score,her commissions include Ensembles for17, Fromm Foundation (1975); DoubleVision, the Marion Corbett MémorialFund (1976); and Concerto for Piano andOrchestra, the National Endowment forthe Arts (1976)."Certainly in the past there was a tre-mendous bias against women composers. They were not supposed to be capable of composing," she says. "It wasthought that they could perhaps writepoems, but certainly not symphonies.Their brains weren't suppose to begeared for it."The lack of rôle models may hâve dis-couraged many women from even tryingto enter the field, she says, but in her case it never dawned on her that therewere no great female composers in thepast."I grew up in Israël and maybe thathas something to do with it. There, noone ever asks the question, 'What's itlike to be a woman composer?" It's aquestion that is always asked hère."Ran is currently working on herbiggest project to date, a one-actchamber opéra called "The Journey."She received a Guggenheim Fellowshipin 1978 to work on the libretto in Israëlwith writer Israël Eliraz.-The Office of Public InformationThe University of ChicagoShulamit Ran, Associate Professor of Composition19Alumni Schools CommitteeFrom as far as Malaysia and as near as57th Street, approximately 724freshmen will corne to the Midway thisautumn as members of the Class of 1983in the Collège. It will be a "record"group in many ways, reports Director ofCollège Admissions and Collège Aid,Fred R. Brooks, Jr.: ". . . larger than anyClass in the last décade, drawn frommore candidates than any year in the lastquarter-century, and as geographically,economically, and ethnically diverse asany Class in living memory. One charac-teristic, however, does not change: theClass, like the applicants from whom ithas been drawn, is remarkably strong. Interms of both their Collège Board scoresand their rank in their graduatingclasses, freshmen in our Collège, as faras we are able to détermine such mat-ters, rank among the top half-dozengroups of entering collège students inthe country." And many of them will behère because of the efforts of AlumniSchools Committee members.A total of 1,074 people in thirty-threecommittees nationwide are helping at-tract students for the Collège. Theirwork is guided by the Office of CollègeAdmissions and the Alumni Associationand assisted by interested faculty andstaff as well as by currently enrolled students in the Collège. In addition 251alumni serve as interviewers of applicants in areas where no formai committee is organized. Perhaps one other record has been broken this year. Inter-viewing over 1,000 students, morealumni hâve been involved in assistingwith the sélection of this years freshmanclass than ever before.But interviewing applicants is onlyone function performed by AlumniSchools Committee (ASC) members. Insome locales they accompany admissions counselors on their high school visits totalk with prospective students and serveas referral sources for those schools andstudents during the remainder of theacadémie year. They represent the Collège at high schools' Collège Day s andNights. They "follow up" with individual counseling for potential applicantsand reflect the Admissions Office's con-cern that the application process be keptas personald as possible. They host parties and information sessions for interested high school students and their parents.Last year, from September throughApril, Alumni Schools Committeessponsored thirty-eight parties and information sessions for prospective students.One such session held in mid-September has become the traditionalstart of the New York City Committee'sactivities. More than 200 prospectivestudents and parents last year heardDavid N. Schramm, chairman and professor in the Department of Astronomyand Astrophysics, talk about the educa-tional opportunities in the Collège andthe benefits of a private libéral arts éducation. Then followed a présentationand discussion by Fred Brooks on theways and means of financing such anéducation. The character of the programreflects how the members perceive theycan best serve the Collège and the potential student and his or her family.Many réceptions are held in Decem-ber during the intérim between Autumnand Winter quarters. Currently enrolledCollège students, home for vacation,traditionally play an important rôle inthèse programs. Last December fiveCommittees made use of a slide show ofthe campus and the city of Chicago de-veloped and narrated by members of theStudent Schools Committee. After thèse présentations the students chaired paneldiscussions on aspects of student life andfielded questions from prospective students. Undergraduates hâve high credi-bility with prospective students and hâvebeen particularly helpful in the AlumniSchools Committee effort.However, the réceptions are as diverse as the locales in which they areheld. Janel Mueller, associate professorin the Department of English and theCollège and chairman of the Committeeon General Studies in the Humanitiesand her husband, Ian, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy,the Committee on Conceptual Founda-tions of Science and the Collège, werefaculty représentatives at December réceptions in Kansas City and Denver.They worked up their own informaislide présentation in addition to descriptive remarks about life in the Collège from the faculty member's point ofview and were assisted in answeringquestions by alumni and current students. The Muellers first became involved with Alumni Schools Committees during the 1977-78 académie yearwhen they each had a leave-of-absenceand were living in Washington, D.C.The local ASC chairman was able to re-cruit them away from their scholarly research from time to time to become participants in both the work of the Committee and the local Alumni Club.Another faculty member whose in-volvement in student recruitment continues while on a leave-of-absence isHerman L. Sinaiko, associate professorin the New Collegiate Divisions and theDivision of Humanities. This past Aprilhe joined alumni, successful applicants,and their parents at a réception honoringthe new members of the Class of 1983sponsored by the Boston AlumniSchools Committee. Mr. Sinaiko pre-viewed académie life in the Collège forthe admitted students by teaching a"sample class" which alumni were eventually allowed to join and enjoy as a re-newal of their own classroom expérience. The premise of such a format isthat after ail the descriptions there isnothing so convincing as the expérienceitself.As early as 1955 alumni of the University were systematically involved in aprogram of student recruitment. Whilesupport for the first program of recordwas generated by the 1955 capital giftscampaign, the Alumni Association andthe Admissions Office quickly came tounderstand the value of alumni in-volvement. In late 1950s the Admissions Office started asking selectedalumni to interview those Collège can-20Wdrt looking for700 Einsteins,Aristotles,Tblstoys, étal(\bu can help us fïnd them.)The University of Chicago? Never heard of it."'I prefer a private school."'No, I want something smaller. No more than 20,000students."Ail you can do there is study."'It's just for grad students."Believe it or not, thèse are some of theresponses we receive when we ask the country'sbrightest high school students what they know aboutthe Collège of the University of Chicago.Doesn't it make you mad? It's your schoolthey're misinformed about. And you can do somethingabout it.We're looking for a few brilliant students, just700, to fill our freshman Collège class each year. Of theone million high school students who go on to collègeeach year, we want the best, the very best. We wantstudents like you, or better. And right now we canuse your good offices to help dispel some falseimpressions.We're asking you to speak out, at a party, atyour club, wherever and whenever proud parentsbroach their bright children's plans for school. We'reasking you to tell them the facts.Tell them that the University of Chicago andits Collège, far from being an educational megalopolis,maintains the same sélect total of 8000 students thathas inhabited thèse Quadrangles for générations.Tell them this University has been resolutelyprivate for thèse past 90 years. Tell them that the Collège, numbering just2650 students, is just half the size of the collèges atHarvard or Yale.Tell them that 450 full-time professors of theUniversity teach in the Collège, one for everysix students.Tell them there are more than 100 studentactivities on the campus, that 70% of our studentsparticipate in one or more of 26 intramural sports, andthat over 250 win varsity letters in intercollegiatesports each year.Tell them that the University of Chicago —along with Oxford, Cambridge, and the University ofMoscow — is acclaimed as one of the eight greatuniversities of the world.Of course we don't want you to raise falsehopes. The standards for admission to the Collège andthe University are fully as high as they were in your day.( Almost ail students admitted hère will be, in académieaptitude and performance, in the upper 5% of theirclasses.)To help you spread the word to qualifiedyoung people, we've prepared an information packagebrimful of facts and fancies about this place, thenoteworthy things that hâve happened hère, and what 'shappening hère right now. (Included is our 1979football schedule.) You'll enjoy browsing throughthèse materials. And there is no obligation.Except, perhaps, to speak out for the Collègeof the University of Chicago whenever you get a chance.~lPLEASE!DONT TURN THE PAGE BEFORE YOU CLIP THIS OUT AND MAIL IT.Mr. Fred R. Brooks, Jr.Director, Office of Collège Admissions1116East 59th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637Yes, I'm ready to speak out for the Collège ofthe University of Chicago. Arm me with the facts.NAME ADDRESS-CITY _STATE_ JZIP_ The Collègeof the University of Chicagol_.didates unable to travel to Chicago or tomeet with traveling admissions représentatives. As the group of potentialinterviewers continued to grow andtheir value as resources broadened, theDirector of Admissions and Aid pro-posed that Alumni Schools Committeesshould be created in every city wherenumbers and interest justified them.Acting on that proposai in February of1968, the Cabinet of the Alumni Association approved and urged the formation of such committees.By autumn of 1968 rwelve AlumniSchools Committees had been orga-nized. The greatest period of growthtook place between 1970 and 1972,when twenty-eight new committeeswere added and the total membershiprose to 930. Some organizationalchanges hâve taken place in the last fewyears to bring the number of committeestoday to thirty-three.The 1979-80 académie year promisesto be one of some growth and muchstrengthening for Alumni SchoolsCommittees. Plans include régionalworkshops, a newsletter, and the formation of several new committees.The first of four scheduled régionalworkshops for chairmen took place inNew York City on May 12. SeventeenASC leaders representing rwelve easternseaboard committees and four in-dependent alumni interviewers met withthe Dean of the Collège, other University officiais, and Collège Admissionsand Alumni Association staff members.The workshop's primary purpose was tostrengthen communication between theUniversity and its volunteer student recruitment leaders and further to encourage communication among the leadersthemselves. The alumni attending heardupdates on académie programs, studentlife, admissions and financial aid matters,and participated in "mock" AdmissionsCommittee meetings in order to get abetter idea of how applications are eval-uated. The participants also discussed"job descriptions" for Alumni SchoolsCommittee members and chairmen de-signed so that alumni volunteers willhâve a clear idea of how they can besthelp the University in student recruitment.Those présent also recommended thepublication of an Alumni Schools Committee newsletter. A quarterly, it appeared for the first time this past Augustand will serve to keep members currenton académie as well as admissions andfinancial aid policies and procédure. Likethe workshop, it, too, will facilitatecommunication among members.Similar workshops are scheduled forthe autumn: for ASC chairmen in the West, in San Francisco on September15th: for Mid- Western chairmen, on theQuadrangles on Ocotber 20th: and leaders of newly formed Committees in theChicago suburbs and exurbs, on campusin early November.Parallel to University administrationinterest in Alumni Schools Committees,is that of the Ad Hoc Commission onAlumni Affairs, convened by PrésidentHanna H. Gray last January and chairedby Trustée Arthur W. Schultz. TheCommission has already signaled itsstrong endorsement of alumni assistancein student recruitment and its pre-liminary recommendations call forstrengthening that effort through suchmeasures as a national organizationmodeled on and coordinated with theactivities of two existing national alumnivolunteer bodies, the Alumni FundBoard and the Alumni Cabinet.The University of Chicago like any institution of higher learning today, dépends on its alumni more than at anytime in the past. While the AlumniSchools Committee program is one facethighlighting the desirability of a continu-ing relationship between the Universityand its students, it also serves as modelfor relationships needed during the crucial years ahead in student enrollment.For the endeavor is central to the in-stitutional idéal of a quality gênerai éducation, and the involvement combinesthe resources of faculty and staff withthose of its students whether they befrom the past, the présent, or the future. J. Robert Ball.Jr., Director of AlumniSchools CommitteeHalloran Promoted toAssociate DirectorRuth Halloran was recently promoted toAssociate Director of UniversityAlumni Affairs.Ms. Halloran has been with the Association for twenty-nine years in whichshe has served in many différentcapacities — from advertising manager toacting director. In her many jobs andduties with the Association, she hasbrought efficiency, integrity, andhumaneness to every task she has taken.In her position as Associate Director,Ms. Halloran will continue to coordinateail staff opérations and oversee the dailyopérations of the Alumni Association.One of Ms. Halloran's most importantduties will be to continue her service asthe Personal campus représentative toail alumni and friends,Executive Director Peter Kountzlauded Ms. Halloran's promotion: "It isrichly deserved and long overdue." 1979 ReunionNineteen alumni and eleven studentswere honored by the Alumni Association of the University of Chicago duringthe 39th annual Reunion Luncheon andAwards Assembly, which highlightedthe two days of Reunion '79, May 18thand 19th.Members of the Emeritus Club, theClasses of 1929, 1939, 1944, 1949,1954, 1969, and 1974 were received byPrésident and Mr. Gray at their home.Tours of Hyde Park and the campuswere given, as well as spécial tours of thenewly renovated Henry Crown FieldHouse, the exhibition, "The Art of Rus-sia: 1800-50" at the David and AlfredSmart Gallery, the Oriental Institute,Regenstein Library, Rockefeller Chapel,and the Surgery and Brain Research In-stitutes. Walter A. Walker, AB'55, spokeat a luncheon for black alumni. E.Spencer Parsons, dean of RockefellerChapel, dedicated the new windowgiven by the Class of 1928. The windowwas designed by Harold Haydon, professor emeritus of the Department ofArt and the Collège and former directorof the Midway Studios. ProfessorHaydon received an Alumni Citationlast year during Reunion '78.Reunions each year provide a way tore-establish old friendships and re-evaluate the contribution of the University over several générations. The Professional Achievements Awards, theAlumni Citations for Public Service, andthe Alumni Medal are presented to distinguished alumni in récognition of theirprofessional achievement, leadership incommunity service, and extraordinaryservice to society. The promise of to-day's students is recognized through theHowell Murray Awards and The Classof 1914 Scholar Award.Gilbert F. White, SB '32, sm '34, PhD'42, received the highest award, theAlumni Medal, for his leadership in thestudy of the management of water resources. Dr. White has been one of themost effective scholar-scientists in thedevelopment and maintenance of aglobal inquiry addressing key problemsof the environment. He has participatedin dozens of national and internationalpublic projects and has served as chairman of the Commission on Man and theEnvironment of the International Geo-graphical Union, as président of the Sci-entific Committee on Problems of theEnvironment of the International Coun-cil of Scientific Unions, and as chairmanof the United Nations Panel on inte-grated River Basin Development. Before joining the faculty of the Universityof Chicago Department of Geology in221956, he was président of HaverfordCollège. From 1963 to 1969 he servedas national chairman of the AmericanFriends Service Committee. In 1970, hewas appointed director of the Universityof Colorado's Institute of BehavioralSciences; he retired in 1978. He has received the Public Service Citation of theUniversity of Chicago Alumni Association, the Daly Medal of the AmericanGeographical Society, and the EbenAward of the American Water Resources Association. He is a member ofthe National Academy of Sciences andthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among other awards he holdshonorary doctorales from Hamilton,Swarthmore, Earlham, Augustana, andHaverford Collèges, and from MichiganState University.Six alumni were awarded with theAlumni Citation for Public Service. Thisyear's récipients were Edward B. Bâtes,AB '40, Egbert H. Fell, MD '31, FrankGreenberg, phB '30, JD '32 (cum laude),William Moses Jones, MD '32, Anna L.Keaton, PhD '33, and Russell K. Nakata,am '51.Edward B. Bâtes has had a major rôle inhelping to make Hartford, Connecticut,a model of what corporate citizenshipcan accomplish toward community prog-ress. Through his vision as chairman ofConnecticut Mutual Life InsuranceCompany and other business organiza-tions, he has worked for a reciprocalunderstanding of the problems and goalsof business and community leadership.He has been chairman of communitydevelopment organizations, includingthe Greater Hartford Corporation andthe Greater Hartford Process, Inc.Through his success in solving the problems of his community, he has provedhis personal conviction that in urban Society business and community are part ofthe same fabric.Egbert H. Fell, emeritus clinical professor of surgery, Rush Médical Collège,is internationally known for his pioneerwork in cardiac surgery and for his workwith children's heart disease. With Dr.Benjamin Gazul, he has developed oneof the country's finest cardiology units atCook County Hospital. At the height ofhis professional career in 1965, Dr. Fellelected to become a médical missionary.He and his wife worked in the MiddleEast through the American MissionHospitals. For two years he was alsochief of surgery at the Haile SelassieUniversity Public Health Collège inEthiopia, where he helped to trainworkers for the World Health Organiza-tion. He continues to fulfill the obligations of his éducation in clinics in Hawaii and on the Kona Coast.Frank Greenberg, the senior memberof the Chicago law firm Greenberg,Keele, Lunn & Aronberg, is a nationalleader and spokesman for judicial re-form and me rit sélection of judges. Hisre-evaluations of the judicial Systemhâve benefited the state of Illinois inparticular through his chairmanship of aspécial commission appointed by the Illinois Suprême Court to investigatecharges against two sitting SuprêmeCourt justices; the Greenberg Commission report was a vital contribution tothe integrity of the court. His work ledto the judicial disciplinary provisions ofthe Judicial Article of the 1970 IllinoisState Constitution. He has served on theIllinois Judicial Inquiry Board since itsinception.William Moses Jones has helped todevelop and conduct the John A. Andrew Clinical Society workshops at Tus-kegee Institute that increase the oppor-tunity for the professional interracialdevelopment of physicians and surgeons. He is now in private practice asan ophthalmologist in Chicago, has spent many years as a member of theteaching staff at the Médical School andClinics of the University of Chicago, andhas always been an encouragement toyoung doctors and black youth. He is onthe staffs of Woodlawn, Jackson Park,and Provident Hospitals in Chicago andSturgis Mémorial Hospital in Michigan,where he and his wife donate facilitiesand operate an American Camping Associate nonprofit camp, which hasserved the Chicago Metropolitan YMCA,Cosmopolitan Nursery, the Girl Scouts,and the children of the Deaf School,Constantine, Michigan. He is a Fellow ofthe American Collège of Surgeons andof the American Academy of Ophthal-mology, as well as a consultant to theChicago Board of Education.Anna L. Keaton is cited for a continu-ous forty plus years of service to civicand charitable organizations and for herwork with the elderly. She has broughtvoluntary civic leadership to the seniorcitizens of Bloomington-Normal, Illinois and the surrounding areas of Mc-Lean County. She served on the YWCAboard of directors and helped to gener-23ate programs for the elderly and tostimulate other retired citizens to makesignificant contributions to their com-munities. In 1978 she received an hon-orary degree from Illinois State University, where she was formerly Dean ofWomen, recognizing her vocational andcivic achievements. A former boardmember of the Bloomington Businessand Professional Women's Club, she wasnamed Career Woman of the Year in1966, and in 1976 she received the localKiwanis Outstanding Senior CitizenAward.Russell K. Nakata, Canon of St.John's Cathedral, Denver, and since1974, chairman of the Housing Author-ity of the City and County of Denver,was active in the development of Col-orado's Fair Housing Law, which was thefirst of its kind in the country. As amember of the Mayor's Advisory Coun-cil for Community Development, theRev. Nakata has guided the city towardan équitable disbursement of Fédéralfunds to the advantage of low-incomerésidents. His influence reaches beyondhis local community in his leadership inthe National Association of Housingand Redevelopment Officiais, to includesuch organizations as the Denver AreaCouncil of Churches, the Mental HealthAssociation, the National Council onAlcoholism, Planned Parenthood ofColorado, and the Social Relations andAction Programs of his church on a localand diocesan level.Twelve alumni were recognized forachievements within their professionthrough the Professional AchievementAward. They were Edward Asner, X '48;Harriet George Barclay, PhD '28; Bernard R. Berelson, PhD '41; Edward M.Bernstein, phB '27; N ikom Chan-dravithun, AM '54; Clinton L. Compère,SB '36, MD '37; Hugh A. Edmondson,MD '31; James T. Farrell, x '29; DavidKritchevsky, SB '39, SM '42; Ben S.Meeker, AM '40; Mike Nichols, X '52;and Harriet Lange Rheingold, PhD '55.Edward Asner first became known as acharacter actor in the early 1960s and1970s and his crédits during those yearsinclude most of the major télévision anthologies. In 1969, he accepted the rôleof "Lou Grant" on the Mary Tyler MooreShoiv and became a national celebrity.He received Emmy awards for that rôlein 1970-71, 1971-72, and 1974-75. In1976 he received his fourth Emmy forhis performance in Rich Man, Poor Man,and in 1977, his fifth for his performance in Roots. In 1978 he received a sixthEmmy for "outstanding lead actor in adrama séries" for his performance in his own séries Lou Grant.Harriet George Barclay, emeritusprofessor of botany of the University ofTulsa, has discovered and cataloguedmany new species of alpine flora throughher explorations throughout the world.Her collection from the Andean paramosand punas housed at the National Her-barium has become an unparalleled toolfor the study of plant communities andan important contribution to plant tax-onomy. Some of her discoveries bearher name; for example, three com-positae from Colombia and Ecuador:Espletia barclayana and Diplostephiumbarclayanum. She has shared her knowl-edge with others in classrooms and inlecture hall and on field tours in Northand South America, Europe, and Africa.Bernard R. Berelson is known inthree fields: in library science and éducation, in behavioral sciences, and in population studies. When he was dean of theUniversity of Chicago Graduate LibrarySchool, he extended library science cur-ricula into a perusal of social communication. Additionally he conducted majorstudies on graduate éducation and onvoting patterns. Berelson initiated theFord Foundation's program in the fieldof communication analysis. His researchand public exposition on populationproblems are primary factors in identify-ing the field and providing informed action toward solutions Worldwide. He re-cently retired as président of the Population Council.Edward M. Bernstein was successivelyprincipal economist for the U.S. Trea-sury, assistant director of monetary research, and Assistant to the Secretary ofthe Treasury. In 1946 he left the Trea-sury to serve as research director of thethen newly organized InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF). Since his résignation from the IMF in 1958, he has beenconsultant to central banks, international monetary institutions, and private organizations. The internationalmonetary policy expressed through theIMF owes much of its development tohim, both in its formative stages at Bretton Woods and in its later élaboration.He is "the monetary experts monetaryexpert." No American economist hashad a greater continuing impact on U.S.foreign économie policy than Edward MBernstein, an impact that has been feltover the past thirty-five years.Nikom Chandravithun is the chieftechnical adviser to an internationallabor organization project in Bangkok,building a régional operating base forimproving the lot of the common work-ers in Southeast Asia. He graduatedfrom the School of Social Service Ad ministration, Chicago, and earned anadditional AM in labor économies at theUniversity of Wisconsin in 1955. Uponhis return to Thailand, he was vitally instrumental in the formation of a gov-ernmental department of cabinet rank todeal with the welfare of laborers and theprincipal contributor to the légal récognition of labor unions. He has soughtthe adoption of modem social-workmeasures for rehabilitating youthful of-fenders, protecting unemployedwomen, and improving the welfare ofthe Thai laborer.Clinton L Compère is the Edward W.Ryerson Professor and chairman of theDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery atNorthwestern University, and throughhis efforts, Northwestern has becomeone of the three major centers in theUnited States for research and trainingin prosthetics and orthotics. He participated actively in the origin and growthof the Rehabilitation Institute ofChicago and continues to serve as vicechairman of the board of directors. Dr.Compère was one of the first physiciansto initiate clinical and laboratory research for joint replacement. He devel-oped coopérative efforts between engineering scientists and orthopaedic surgeons for better patient rehabilitation.Hugh A Edmondson retired as chairman of the University of SouthernCalifornia School of Medicine's pathol-ogy department in 1972 after nearlyforty years on its faculty. He is the au-thor of two fascicles in the Atlas ofTumor Pathology and has made majorcontributions to the knowledge of liverdisease. For instance, his early récognition of the likely link between benignliver tumors and oral contraceptives. Heintroduced the term "alcoholic liver disease" and has made original contributions to the pathologie physiology ofacute pancreatitis.James T. Farrell, the author of theStuds Lonigan trilogy, has inspired andinstructed each new génération ofAmerican writers since he began to pub-lish some fifty years ago. He has neverceased writing — his novels, short stories,literary criticism, and poetry comprisemore than fifty published works. InApril of this year, Mr. Farrell wasawarded the Emerson-Thoreau Medal ofthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has elicited respect ofhis older and younger contemporariesfrom Mencken and Dreiser to Saul Be-llow.David Kritchevsky performed the firstexpérimental work demonstrating theeffects of dietary unsaturated and satu-rated fats on the development of24atherosclerosis. He has probably donemore than any other scientist to showthe effects of various carbohydrates onthe development of atherosclerosis. Heis professor of biochemistry in theSchool of Veterinary Medicine of theUniversity of Pennsylvania and associatedirector of the Wistar Institute.Ben S. Meeker has made a significantcontribution to the professionalizationof probation and parole during hiscareer in social work, corrections, andteaching spanning a period of forty-fiveyears. In 1973 he retired as chief probation officer of the U.S. District Court forthe Northern District of Illinois. Sincethat time he has been a research associate in the Law School Center forStudies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago and is currently anadjunct professor in the Department ofSocial Justice, the University of IllinoisCircle Campus. Among many otherhonors and awards, he received in 1966a Fulbright Award to conduct a séries oftraining institutes and conférences onprobation methods in the major cities ofJapan.Mike Nichols is the well-known stageand film director and performer, whosecareer started in University Theater andin the Hyde Park/University communityin the 1950s. He developed his talentthrough the improvisational troupe thatPaul Sills began hère, the CompassPlayers (later Second City). Since 1963,he has directed a major successful playon Broadway every year. He receivedthe Tony Award in 1963, 1964, 1965,and 1971 and the New York DramaCritics Award and the Academy Awardfor Best Director for his film, TheGraduate.Harriet Lange Rheingold reenteredgraduate school in 1953 and her dissertation became a classic study of thesocial responsiveness of institutionalizedbabies and lead to her appointment tothe National Institute of Mental Health.She began her career as a clinicalpsycologist with an AM from Columbiain 1930. Since 1964, Dr. Rheingold hascontinued her research on social and in-tellectual development in infancy as research professor at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill.Howell Murray AwardsEleven students were honored duringthe Reunion Luncheon and Awards As-sembly. Cynthia Ann Sanborn, asophomore majoring in political science,received the Class of 1914 ScholarAward. Miss Sanborn has been on the dean's list every quarter and is a memberof the Women's Track Team. Ten students were winners of the Howell Murray Awards for outstanding, contribution to the University's extra-curriculum by graduating students. Therécipients were Peggy Sue Culp, Car-pentersville, Illinois; Jeffrey DavidGreen, Sands Point, New York; AnnDolores Harvilla, O'Fallon, Illinois;Bobbye Jean Middendorf, Peoria, Illinois; Elizabeth Robin Morse, OakRidge, Tennessee; Richard WarwickRohde, Corvallis, Oregon; David OliverShipley, Jr., Jefferson City, Missouri;Steven Taylor Thomas, Milwaukee,Wisconsin; Eric Paul Von Der Porten,Santa Rosa, California; and PeterThomas Wendel, Clayton, Missouri.Alumni EventsCINCINNATI: Area alumni were invitedto Stouffer's on April 29 for dinner anddiscussion with Jonathan Z. Smith, deanof the Collège and William Benton Professor of Religion and Human Sciences.Dean Smith spoke about Chicago's han-dling of the current "crisis in literacy."Barbara Goefft was the event's alumnacoordinator.MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: A gêneraialumni réception was held on May 16 atthe Children's Théâtre of the Min-neapolis Institute of Art for PrésidentHanna Gray.LOS ANGELES: Gerald Mast, professor inthe Department of English and in theCollège and a specialist in the historyand theory of cinéma, was in LosAngeles on June 9 to speak to localalumni on the question "Why StudyFilm?" The luncheon program, held atthe University Hilton, was designed toengage the audience in the académiestudy of film.NEW YORK CITY: Alumni met on May20 to take a walking tour of the UpperEast Side. Conducted by Marjorie Pear-son, AB'70, AM'72, architectural histo-rian and director of the research department of the Landmarks PréservationCommission of the City, the tour fo-cused on the areas's history and architecture.New York area alumni were invitedto a réception and dinner for PrésidentHanna Gray held at the Delegates' Din-ing Room of the United Nations on May9. On June 10, alumni toured the EnidA. Haupt Conservatory at The NewYork Botanical Garden. After the tour,the group was invited for refreshmentsat the Snuff Mill Restraurant on theBronx River.NORTHWEST INDIANA: Dr. Richard H.Kessler met with alumni on May 9 at theRed Lantern Inn in Beverly Shores toshow slides taken during a trip to Chinain 1978 and to share his observations ofthe practice of medicine in that republic.Dr. Kessler, a rénal specialist, is a professor in the University's Department ofMedicine and the Senior Vice Présidentfor Académie Affairs at Michael ReeseHospital and Médical Center. ElizabethWilliamson AB'43, AM'48, coordinatedthe program.PHILADELPHIA: Michael S. Schudson,assistant professor in the Department ofSociology and the Collège, met withalumni on June 4 at the Hilton Hôtel.After a réception and dinner, he spokeon the history of American journalism.Martin Wald MBA'57, JD'64, coordinated the dinner and discussion.PITTSBURGH: On April 26, area alumnigathered at the home of Joan Daley tohear assistant professor of sociologyMichael S. Schudson speak on the transformations occurring in American journalism during the last two hundredyears.SANTA BARBARA: On April 5, areaalumni and their guests heard MargaretK Rosenheim, dean of the School ofSocial Service Administration, speak on"The Art of Helping." The group met atthe La Concha Room of the Mar MonteHôtel and enjoyed refreshments afterlisting to Dean Rosenheim.SAN FRANCISCO: Wayne C. Booth,George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, addressed theannual meeting of the University ofChicago Bay Area Club on June 7 in theSheraton-Palace's Ralston Room. Mr.Booth joined alumni for cocktails anddinner and then asked them to partici-pate in a discussion of the question:"Was Plato Wrong About the EthicalDangers of Art?"WASHINGTON, D.c: Estelle Ramey,PhD'50, spoke at the annual dinner ofthe University of Chicago Club of Washington on May 12. Addressing alumni atthe Woman's National DémocratieClub, Dr. Ramey delivered a speech ti-tled "Why Hâve We Educated Womenin America?"251917The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing awarded its Charles S. DownsAward for Outstanding Service to theDirect Marketing Industry in Chicago toVIRGIL ANGERMAN, X'17.1919JEANNETTE PICCARD, SM'19, an aero-space consultant to NASA received anhonorary degree from Carleton Collègeon June 8. In 1974, she was one of thefirst women ordained a priest in theEpiscopal Church.Long-time cancer researcher andfounder of the George and Anna PortesCancer Prévention Center of Chicago,CAESAR PORTES, x'19, has recently retired as médical director of GottliebHospital, Melrose Park.1922FREDERICKA BLANKNER, PhB'22,AM'23, retired classics professor atAdelphi University on Long Island, ar-gued her own éviction case in ManhattanCivil Court on June 1 in New York City.Northwest Missouri State Universityconferred its Distinguished AlumniAward and Distinguished Service Awardon MATTIE DYKES, AM'22.1923Speaking to students at Samford's Cum-berland School of Law, HENRY STEELECOMMAGER, PhB'23, AM'24, PhD'28,said that the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause, though a major part ofthe Constitution, is often forgotten by the courts. Commager also addressedthe 21 st annual Missouri Conférence onHistory. His talk was titled "History andthe Great Community of Learning."WALDEMAR M. HEIDTKE, AM'23, wasawarded a PhD from Marquette University on May 21, 1978. His dissertation istitled "Influence of the Early andMédiéval Church on the GermanEvangelical Hymnody from 1524 until1675."ARCHIBALD T. MCPHERSON, PhD'23,was awarded honorary membership bythe American Society for Testing andMaterials during cérémonies hosted bythe ASTM Middle Atlantic District onApril 4 in Maryland.1924mark H. INGRAHAM, PhD'24, University of Wisconsin-Madison professoremeritus of mathematics and deanemeritus of the Collège of Letters andScience, has recently authored From aWisconsin Soapbox, his fifth book sincehis retirement in 1966.The Révérend CHARLES SATCHELLMORRIS, PhB'24, has been commis-sioned a Kentucky Colonel by KentuckyGovernor Julian M. Carroll. The Révérend Morris received his award on May 4at a banquet held at the Galt House inLouisville.1925The Federated Arts Council ofRichmond, Virginia awarded its Distinguished Service to the Ans Award toMARY WINGFIELD SCOTT, AM'25,PhD'36, for her efforts on behalf of historié préservation in Richmond.1926RALPH S. BOGGS, PhB'26, PhD'30, wasinvited to Spain to deliver a lecture onthe beginnings of folklore scholarship.He spoke before the Sixth Congress ofExtremaduran Studies, which was cele-brating the 500th anniversary of Pizarro,conqueror of Peru, and the Battle ofAlbuhera, where Ferdinand's and Isabel-la's victory opened the way for the unityof Spain.GRAHAM A. KERNWEIN, SB'26,md'31, has been named senior staffmember of the Rockford MémorialHospital medical-dental staff.1927MELANIE PFLAUM, phB'29, and her hus-band, IRVING B., PhB'28, are living inJavea, Alicante, Spain, and are busilywriting. She is at work on her rwelfthnovel; her eleventh was The Old Girls,published by Pegasus Press. He is con-tributing editor for Spain of Atlas maga zine. Sons PETER, AB'58, AB'59, andTHOMAS, JD'76, are continuing thePflaum family's "Chicago tradition."J. C. THOMPSON ROGERS, MD'27, hasauthored a book which chronicles thedevelopment of the Carie Clinic, Hospital and Foundation in Urbana: Carie:Concept and Growth.Since retiring in 1964 from his position as professor of business and head ofthe marketing department at San Francisco State University, JOHN B.SCHNEIDER, PhB'2 7, am'29, has beenanything but idle. He has taught at uni-versities in Australia and Nigeria andserved as a marketing consultant inEthiopia, Indonesia, and Paraguay.1928Noted attorney for Nathan Leopold,Jack Ruby, and others, ELMER GERTZ,PhB'28, JD'30, has recently had a bookpublished, Odyssey of a Barbarian: TheBiography of George Sylvester Viereck.Gertz's close friend, German immigrantViereck was a leading poet during the30s who was imprisoned during WorldWar II for issuing pro-Nazi propaganda.Visiting the Collège of William andMary to give a talk on careers, HELENHILL MILLER, PhD'28, spoke of a writingcareer that extends more than fifty years.As literary editor at Bryn Mawr, Mrs.Miller was responsible for bringing thecollege's first poet-in-residence, RobertFrost. She has also been a correspondentfor Newsweek and the London Economist,as well as a contributing editor to TheNew Republic.FOUNT G. WARREN, AM'28, was hon-ored March 2 3 for sixty consécutiveyears of membership in the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale chapter ofPhi Delta Kappa, an international honorary society in éducation.1930ELWOOD ATHERTON, SB'30, PhD'37,was honored at a retirement dinnergiven by the Illinois State GeologicalSurvey. Dr. Atherton has specialized instudying the subsurface geology of Illinois and has received national récognition as an authority in stratigraphie geology.HARRY A. BROADD, PhB'30, professorof art history at Northeastern IllinoisUniversity, Chicago, from 1967 through1978, was given the rank of ProfessorEmeritus of Art History during North-easterns June commencement cérémonies.1932EDWARD H. levi, phB'32, JD'35, formerU. S. Attorney General and Président26Emeritus of the University, has beennamed to the board of Directors of theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation.1933ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF, LLB'33, has announced that he will retire from theUnited States Senate at the end of histhird term.HERMAN E. RIES, JR., SB'33, PhD'36,research associate in the Department ofBiology, participated in the 1978-1979Lectureship Program of the Robert A.Welch Foundation. His lecture, "TheStructure of Monomolecular Films," wasdelivered at three Texas universitiesduring February.The lithographs of dorothy cara-NINE SCOTT, am'33, were exhibited atthe Artworks, Inc. Gallery, Marinette,Michigan.SIDNEY WEINHOUSE, SB'33, PhD'36,professor emeritus of biochemistry atTemple University School of Medicineand past director of its Fels Research Institute, has been triply honored. He hasbeen elecred to the National Academyof Sciences, has received the LucyWortham James Award for Basic Science from the Society of Surgical On-cology, and has received an honorarydegree in medicine and surgery from theFree University of Abbruzzo in Chieti,Italy.1934ROBERT HASTERLIK, SB'34, MD'38, hasjoined the staff of the La Jolla CancerResearch Foundation as associate director for cancer prévention.1936A member of the Pasadena AssistanceLeague and one of its book review lec-turers, raezella klepper anderson,Am'36, spoke at the Founders DayLuncheon of Assistance League in Hollywood .ELLIS KIRBY FIELDS, SB'36, PhD'38,research consultant at Amoco Chemicalsin Naperville, was named J. ArthurAlmquist Lecturer at the University ofIdaho in March, 1979- On May 1, 1979,he received the Merit Award of theChicago Technical Societies Council forhis outstanding contributions to scien-tific knowledge and the profession ofchemistry.The urban landscape paintings ofRICHARD ABERLE FLORSHEIM, X'36,were exhibited at Detroit's Arwin Gal-leries.Washington State University's botanydepartment chairman ADOLPH HECHT,SB'36, SM'37, has found a reward at the end of his "primrose path." Having re-searched the Oenothera, the genus ofevening primroses, for more than fortyyears, Hecht has had a species named forhim by discoverer Dr. Werner Dietrichof the University of Dusseldorf:Oenothera hechtii.DAVID B. TRUMAN, AM'36, PhD'39,président of the Russell Sage Foundation, has been elected to HampshireCollege's Board of Trustées.1939ED BRICE, x'39, is writing a practical ad-vice column for the Fort Worth, TexasStar-Telegram.National Alumni Fund Chairman andChairman of the visiting committee tothe Center for Far Eastern Studies EM-METT DEDMON, AB'39, was the featuredspeaker at a meeting of the EconomieClub of Southwestern Michigan."Black Holes and Quasars" and "Ori-gin of the Universe" are the titles of twolectures delivered to the Evansville, In-diana Muséum of Arts and Sciences byWASLEY S. KROGDAHL, SB'39, PhD'42.ROBERT F. LANE, PhD'39, writes to USthat at eighty-one years old, he is stillsprightly and still remembers his fouryears at the Graduate Library School atthe University of Chicago. According toMr. Lane, he has received a communication from the Library School — the firstin thirty-five years. He is looking for-ward to hearing from them again.In "The Real World of IndustrialChemistry," an article appearing in theJournal of Chemical Education, VICTOR H.PETERSON, AM'39, looks at how industrial chemistry has affected Americanlife.The Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western New York honored ROBERTWARNER, MD'39, as its "Harvard Man ofthe Year."1940M. E. GRENANDER, AB'40, PhD'48,founded and currently is the director ofthe Institute for Humanistic Studies atthe State University of New York atAlbany, where she is a professor of English. She has also recently organizedtwo international conférences: Helios-From Myth to Solar Energy, which cov-ered the sun in art, literature and science; and Apollo Agonistes-TheHumanities in a Computerized World,which covered various aspects of "manas machine" as well as the impact of thecomputer on the humanities both tech-nically and conceptually.In an article appearing in PublicUtilities Fortnightly, "Coal Managementat the Plant Site for Efficient Power Génération," ralph c. mccollum,AB'40, focuses on some économie factsof life about coal-fired power générationby electric utilities.MONRAD G. PAULSEN, AB'40, JD'42,first dean of Yeshiva Unviersity's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, wasawarded an honorary doctoral degree bythat university. Dean Paulsen left thedeanship at the University of VirginiaLaw School in 1976 to establish the na-tion's first law school under Jewish auspices. He returned July 1 to a professor-ial chair at the University of Virginia.ELMER B. POTTER, AM'40, professoremeritus, U.S. Naval Academy, wasawarded an honorary Doctor of Lettersdegree from the University ofRichmond. Mr. Potter's latest book isNimitz, a biography of the fleet admirai.1941EDMUND DE CHASCA, PhD'41, an inter-nationally known authority on theSpanish epic and ballad, was presentedthe Distinguished Alumnus Award atBlackburn Collège in Carlinville, Illinois.SARA RICHMOND HARRIS, AB'4l,executive secretary of the Center for theStudy of Aging, has been selected forthe llth édition of Who' s Who of American Women. Mrs. Harris is on the University's National Development FundBaord and is the Albany-area chairmanof the Schools Committee for the University of Chicago.ROBERT W. SCHAFER, AB'41, LLB'42,has been promoted to director of theInternai Revenue Service's Criminal TaxDivision in Washington.1942"Life after Life: A Scientific Examinationof the Question of Immortality" was thetitle of a speech delivered at TulaneMédical School by ALBERT MORA-CZEWSKI, SB'42, sm'47, PhD'58. In histalk, Father Moraczewski discussed reports of persons who hâve allegedly returned to life after clinical death.1943AARON BROWN, PhD'43, sends a fondremembrance of Governor Nelson A.Rockefeller. A Rockefeller Fund Fel-lowship made it possible for Brown tofinance his Chicago éducation, and theGovernor later appointed him to severaleducational committees and commissions in New York. Brown writes, "Iremember Governor Rockefeller as anoutstanding statesman and a man of ded-icated concern for ail people."The National Wine Distributors Association has appointed FRANKLIN B.2^evans, AB'43, MBA'54, PhD'59, as research consultant: économies, advertis-ing and marketing.WALLACE C. KOEHLER, SB'43, SM'48,has been selected as a corporate researchfellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.PHILLIP MCMANUS, AM'43, MBA'46,has been made chairman of the board atthe McDonough Company, Par-kersburg, West Virginia.MARSHALL W. WILEY, PhB'43, JD'48,MBA'49, has been appointed Ambassa-dor to Oman. His appointment is especially timely since Oman lies on one sideof the stratégie Strait of Hormuz andIran on the other. Approximately fortypercent of the free world's oil now transits the Strait of Hormuz from the Per-sian Gulf to the Western world and Ja-pan.ROBERT WILLIAM WISSLER, SM'43,PhD'46, MD'48, director of the Spe-cialized Center of Research inAtherosclerosis and the Donald N.Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Pathology at the University,recently took part in two importantmeetings in San Antonio, Texas. Hegave the keynote address at the FirstInternational Symposium on the Importance of Non-Human Primates inCardiovascular Disease. A few weekslater, he co-directed the Workshop onthe Pathobiology of Atherosclerosis.1944Hebrew Union College-Jewish Instituteof Religion has awarded the honorarydegree of Doctor of Divinity to DAVIDGREENBERG, AB'44, rabbi of theScarsdale-Tremont Temple, Scarsdale,New York.MAURICE R. HILLEMAN, PhD'44, hasbeen named senior vice président ofMerck, Sharp and Dohme ResearchLaboratory.In "Politics and Language: Why Thereare No 'Authoritarians,' "an article appearing in the spring 1979 issue of PolicyReview, SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN, AM'44,PhD'51, argues for a clearer use of language by démocratie governments. Shestates that the term "authoritarian" haswrongly come to be used to describe anygovernment of which we disapprove andthat we must be more précise in ourwording in order to make sensibleforeign policy décisions. Letwin hastaught at Cornell, Brandeis, Harvard,and the London School of Economiesand is the author of two books, HumanFreedom and The Pursutt of Certainty.JESSE HAUK SHERA, PhD'44, dean ofthe Case Western Reserve UniversitySchool of Library Science, has recently received the Kaula Award for outstanding contributions to the field of libraryscience.RUTLEDGE D. VINING, PhD'44, pro-fessor of économies at the University ofVirginia, recently retired and was giventhe title of professor emeritus.1946De Paul University has conferred anhonorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on JAMES B. PARSONS, AM'46,JD'49, chief judge of the U.S. DistrictCourt for Northern Illinois.1947NORMAN BARKER, AB'47, MBA'53, hasdeveloped a plan to provide Californiacities with financial and other consultinghelp. As chairman of the UnitedCalifornia Bank, Barker launched a plancalled the UCB Small Cities Program.The program has been effective in aidingtwo California cities and has beenadopted for statewide use by theCalifornia Round table, an organizationof the state's chief executive officers.RUTH M. CASEY, AM'47, director ofsocial work at Topeka State Hospital,has been named Kansas Social Workerof the Year.IRA G. CORN, JR., AB'47, MBA'48, hasauthored a book, The Story of the Déclaration of Independence. Mr. Corn ownsone of twenty-one copies that remain ofthe document's first officiai printing.HERBERT J. GANS, PhB'47, AM'50, hasrecently published his sixth book, Decid-ing What' s News: A Study of CBS EveningNews, NB C Nightly News, Newsweek,and Time (Panthéon Books). In June,the University of Pennsylvania Presspublished his On the Making of Ameri-cans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman,which he co-edited with Nathan Glazer,Joseph Gusfield, and ChristopherJencks.KENNETH A. GUTSCHICK, PhB'47,SB'48, SM'50, has been made executivedirector of the National Lime Association.PATRICIA ROBERTS HARRIS, X'47, wasrecently appointed Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, andWelfare by Président Carter.MURRAY MOGEL, AB'47, was sworn infor a ten-year term as judge on the Crim-inal Court of the City of New York.VIVIAN GUSSIN PALEY, AB'47, had herbook, White Teacher, published by Harvard University Press earlier this year.She is a kindergarten teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory School.ALBERT E. REES, AM'47, PhD'50,Princeton economist and former head ofthe Council on Wage and Price Stability, has been named président of the AlfredP. Sloan Foundation, one of the nation'slargest philanthropie institutions.The honorary degree of Doctor ofHumane Letters was conferred uponJOSEPH J. SISCO, AM'47, PhD'50, président of the American University, byHebrew Union College-Jewish Instituteof Religion during commencementcérémonies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr.Sisco is a former State Departmentcareer officer who was under-secretaryfor political affairs.SHERWIN J. STONE, PhB'47, JD'50,senior partner of the Chicago law firm ofLieberman, Levy, Baron and Stone, Inc.,has been elected to the presidency of theboard of trustées of Central CommunityHospital.PAUL P. VANRIPER, PhD'47, chairmanof Texas A&M University's Departmentof Political Science, 1970-1977, hasbeen named director of that university'snew interdisciplinary Master of PublicAdministration program. During 1978he received a senior summer fellowshipfrom the National Endowment for theHumanities for a study of the politicaland administrative writings of Luther H.Gulick.1948IRVING BENGELSDORF, SM'48, PhD'51,director of science communication atCaltech, has been elected an honoraryfellow of the Society for TechnicalCommunication. He is one of onlyseven persons to receive this honor during the twenty-six-year history of STCJAMES W. CARTY, JR., BD'48, is the author of two new books: Cuban Communications, published by Bethany Collège Press, and Communication y Re-laciônes Pûblicas: una guia para las Iglesias, published by Casa (Jnida de Publi-caciônes, S. A., of Mexico City.GABRIEL FACKRE, DB'48, PhD'62,professor of theology at AndoverTheological School in Boston, was aprincipal lecturer at the 78th AnnualEarl Lectures and 57th Annual PastoralConférence sponsored by the PacificSchool of Religion in Berkeley, California. The thème of Dr. Fackre's lecturewas "A Christian View of the Future."MARILYN M. DUNSING, MBA'48,PhD'54, was appointed to the EconomieAdvisory Board of the U.S. CommerceDepartment.DON E. FEHRENBACHER, AM'48,PhD'51, professor of history at Stanford,has won a Pulitzer Prize for his book TheDred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics.T. D. LINGO, PhB'48, directs the Ad-venture Trails Research and Develop-28ment Laboratories, and he recently gavea free public lecture at the labs' head-quarters atop Laughing Coyote Mountain near Black Hawk, Colorado. Lingo'slecture, "Brain Self-Control," presentedthe basic neurological discoveries whichcause the "nirvana" and "born-again"expériences of Eastern and Westernreligions.GEORGE W. WETHERILL, PhB'48,SB'49, Sm'51, PhD'53, authored an article in the March 1979 issue of ScientificAmerican, "Apollo Objects." The articleexamines some thirty known asteroid-like bodies whose orbits cross the earth'sorbit. Thèse bodies may be the nuclei ofcornets that hâve lost their volatile com-ponents. Wetherill is director of theDepartment of Terrestrial Magnetism ofthe Carnegie Institution, Washington,D. C.C. N. YANG, PhD'48, récipient of theNobel Prize for Physics, has been instrumental in arranging an exchange ofscholars between the State University atStony Brook, New York and FutanUniversity, Shanghai, China. This is thefirst exchange of scholars between aChinese university and a collège in NewYork.1949harold M. agnew, sm'49, PhD'49, recently retired director of the Los AlamosScientific Laboratory, expressed concernover problems that could be caused by acomprehensive test ban treaty betweenthe United States and the U.S.S.R. whenhe spoke before an American SecurityCouncil audience in Washington in Jan-uary.CHARLES N. MAXWELL III, SB'49,SM'51, professor of mathematics atSouthern Illinois University, has received that institution's OutstandingTeaching Award.JAYNE C. PHEIFFER, AM'49, has beennamed vice président of personnel forUnited Financial Services Corporation.JAMES PONG, AM'49, Taiwan's Epis-copal Bishop and a specialist on Chineseand Asian religions, reports that hislatest book is titled Christian Doctrineand Chinese Religious Thought.RODERICK W. PUGH, phD'49, was invited to the University of Ibadan in Iba-dan, Nigeria to deliver three lectureslast January. Pugh is a professor of psy-chology at Loyola University and authoroîPsychology and the Black Expérience.KONRAD ROTHER, AB'49, has beenappointed président of Hoffman prop-erties, a subsidiary of the HoffmanGroup Inc. Rother will also serve as viceprésident of the Hoffman Group Inc.and as a member of the board. The University of Bridgeport conferred the honorary degree of Doctor ofLaws upon JOËL SEGALL, mba'49,AM'52, PhD'56, président of BernardBaruch Collège and former DeputyUnder Secretary for International Affairs, Department of Labor.Lehigh University granted Professorof English JOHN F. VICKREY, PhB'49,am'52, a leave-of-absence for fall 1979to continue his research and writing onOld English poetry.1950HARRY N. D. FISHER, AB'50, JD'53, wasawarded the 1979 Florence GoddardBook Prize by the Wednesday Club ofSt. Louis for "Safeway on a TectonicPlate," title work of his third book ofpoems and hymns.JANE GRAY HAYES, AM'50, won réélection last fall as San Jose's mayor withan overwhelming seventy percent plural-ity. As mayor, HAYES has fought for con-trolled growth, brought more womenand Chicanos into local government,established a 24-hour mayoral hotline,and supported gay rights.ANDREW 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.CHARLES J. LAVERY, PhD'50, wasawarded an honorary Doctor of Lawsdegree at the University of Rochester'sMay Commencement. Lavery has beenprésident of St. John Fisher Collègesince 1958.MYRON I. VARON, PhB'50, deputycommanding officer of the U.S. NavalMédical Research and DevelopmentCommand in Bethesda, Maryland, is re-tiring from that position. But he hasalready accepted another job — that ofpresident/scientific director of theAmyotrophic Latéral Sclerosis Societyof America.1951Illinois Governor James Thompson hasappointed SOLON B. COUSINS, AM'51,chairman of an 18-member steeringcommittee to coordinate the state's participation in the International Year ofthe Child. Cousins is the exectutive director of the Metropolitan ChicagoUnited Way.ROBERT HEIKES, SM51', PhD'52, hasjoined National Semiconductor Corp. ina newly-created position which will seehim responsible for ail of the company'sEuropean and Latin American business. In May, Warner Brothers and CBSpresented "Dummy," a film aboutDonald Lang, a deaf and dumb illiteratewho was sentenced to prison forallegedly murdering a prostitute. Hislawyer, lowell myers, mba'51, is alsodeaf. Myers, who has never lost a caseon appeal, is America's only deaf triallawyer and is the author of Law and theDeaf which has become a handbook forthe courts concerning the deaf.1952JOHN C. imhoff, MBA'52, has beenelected président of the University ofChicago Hospital AdministrationAlumni Association for 1979. On January 1, he assumed his new duties as Président and Executive Officer of the Galion Community Hospital, Galion, Ohio.The United States Senate has ap-proved Président Carters nomination ofROBERT J. KUTAK, AB'52, JD'55, anOmaha, Nebraska attorney, to a secondthree-year term on the board of direc-tors of the Légal Services Corporation.HENRY G. MANNE, JD'52, Distinguished Professor of Law and director ofthe University of Miami's Law and Economies Center, has been awarded a$5,000 Freedom's Foundation Prize for"excellence in éducation leading to bet-ter understanding of the private enter-prise System." The award was presentedto Dr. Manne on May 10 at ValleyForge, Pennsylvania.IRWIN A. ROSE, PhD'52, a seniormember of the Fox Chase Cancer Cen-ter's Institute for Cancer Research inPhiladelphia, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at its annualmeeting last April. Dr. Rose has addedconsiderably to scientific knowledgeabout how enzymes work.For an unprecedented second time,FLONNIA chambers taylor, am'52,has been selected as Lexington, Ken-tucky's Outstanding Woman. Taylor waspreviously so honored in 1945.1953ARTHUR GENTILE, PhD'53, has beennamed executive director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences inArlington, Virginia. He was formerlyvice président for académie affairs at theUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas.DAVID M. raup, SB'53, has beenelected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is presently chairman of geol-ogy at the Field Muséum in Chicago.HORACE TAFT, SM'53, PhD'55, has re-signed his administrative post at YaleCollège where he was dean for eight29years. Taft, a physicist and grandson ofWilliam Howard Taft, intends to returnto scientific research and teaching.JANE WELKER, AM'53, was one of fourUniversity of California/Davis facultymembers to receive the 1979 Distinguished Teaching Award. Welker is alecturer in human development and director of the UCD Early ChildhoodEducation Center.1954ROBERT U. AYRES, SB'54, is the author ofUncertain Futures: Challenges forDecision-Makers (New York: John Wileyand Sons, Inc.).MARY P. BASS, AB'54, JD'57, has beenappointed Inspector General of the Department of Commerce by PrésidentCarter. Since 1973 Bass has been gênerai counsel and vice chancellor for légalaffairs for the New York City Board ofHigher Education.HARON J. BATTLE, PhD'54, is servingas executive director of the Gary Educa-tional Development Foundation.After eight years of research and writing about widows, Loyola Universitysociologist HELENA ZNANIECKALOPATA, PhD'54, has published the firstmajor study of widowhood in America.The book is based on a study of 1,169Chicago-area widows and describes howthey are affected by the changes in theirsocial Systems and examines in détail thedifférences in the support networks ofwomen of various âges, éducation levels,and racial identity groups. The book,Women as Widows — Support Systems, ispublished by Elsevier.MARCUS RASKIN, AB'54, JD'57, visitedHampshire Collège in Amherst, Massachusetts, last February to deliver twolectures, "The Common Good" and"The National Security State." Raskin isfounder and co-director of the Institutefor Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.The Herman Schneider Award, thehighest honor bestowed on an educatorby the Coopérative Education Association, was presented to JAMES w. WlL-SON, PhD'54, research director and AsaS. Knowles Professor of CoopérativeEducation at Northeastern University.1955DALE E. ZIMDARS, AM'55, PhD'67, hasbeen elected chairman of the faculty atRocky Mountain Collège, Billings,Montana for 1979-80. He is an associateprofessor of history at the collège.1956A. DOUGLAS MCNAUGHTON, PhD'56,professor of religion at Adrian Collègein Michigan, received an honorary Doc tor of Humane Letters degree from thatinstitution during its commencementcérémonies.JERI WARRICK-CRISMAN, AM'56, director of National Community Affairsfor the National Broadcasting Company,has been elected to the board of direc-tors of the Women's Action Alliance.The Alliance is the national resourcecenter on women's issues and programs.WILFORD F. WEEKS, PhD'56, has beenelected to membership in the NationalAcademy of Engineering. He is currently a research glaciologist at the U.S.Army Cold Régions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NewHampshire.1957THOMAS R. FITZGERALD, PhD'57, recently wound up his tenure as présidentof Fairfield University and took over thepresidency of Saint Louis University onJune 15.SAM GREENLEE, x'57, spoke at theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia inFebruary in conjunction with the university's Black History Month.Greenlee is the author of The Spook WhoSat By The Door, which received theBook of the Year Award from both theLondon Times and the London Telegraph.The book, which has been made into amotion picture, is both a satire on thecivil rights problems in the U.S. and aserious attempt to focus on the issue ofblack militancy.PAUL HOFFMAN, AB'57, AM'58, is theauthor of Courthouse (New York:Hawthorn Books, Inc.).JARO MAYDA, JD'57, professor of lawat the University of Puerto Rico, is theauthor of François G'eny and ModemJurisprudence (Louisiana State UniversityPress). He is also working on a new édition of his 1967 book, Ecomanagement.WALTER F. MURPHY, PhD'57, is theauthor of The Vicar of Christ (Macmil-lan).1958JOHN H. GRIBBIN, PhD'58, has been appointed director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He wasformerly library director at Tulane.ROBERT JEWETT, DB'58, has writtentwo books that appeared during the firsthalf of 1979- Jésus Against The Rapture:Seven Unexpected Prophecies (WestminsterPress), and A Chronology of Paul's Life(Fortress Press). The latter appearedwith SCM Press, London, under the titleRedating Paul's Life, and was translatedthis summer for Kaiser Verlag, Munich.Jewett will be on sabbatical leave thisyear from the Department of Religious Studies, Morningside Collège, SiouxCity, Iowa, working on the Epistle to theRomans and related projects.ROBERT H. PUCKETT, AM'58, PhD'6l,received a Blue Key National HonorFraternity Award for excellence inteaching. He is professor of political science at Indiana State University.1959JUDITH ADLER, ab'59, am'61, was fea-tured in a free concert sponsored by theNew York State Council on the Arts inNew Rochelle on May 23. With ShirleyBloom, Adler presented piano interprétations of music by Poulenc, Satie,Faure, Debussy, Ruth Loman, andBloom herself.FRANKLYN BROUDE, AB'59, MBA'60,is the director of Continuing Educationand Spécial Projects at Illinois Instituteof Technology.RICHARD H. TIMBERLAKE, JR.,PhD'59, has authored Origins of CentralBanking in the United States (HarvardUniversity Press).1960H. GENE BLOCKER, AB'60, has authoredtwo books. The Metaphysics of Absurdity(University Press of America) examinesthe theoretical foundations of Sartre,Camus, Ionesco, and Beckett and relatestheir nonfictional and fictional works.Philosophy of Art (Charles Scribner'sSons) combines philosophical aestheticsand art. Blocker is a philosophy professor at Ohio University.Illinois Governor Thompson hasnamed JOHN CASTLE, JD'60, to head thestate's Department of Business and Economie Development. Castle is theformer director of the Department ofLocal Government Affairs.WILLIAM B. HAUSER, SB'60, is now thechairman of the University of Roches-ter's history department. An authorityon East Asian studies, Hauser has been amember of Rochester's faculty since1974.The Association of American Geog-raphers has honored ROBERT KATES,AM'60, PhD'62, for his outstanding contributions to the field. He is a UniversityProfessor and professor of geography atClark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.JOHN C. LONGSTREET, AB'60, wasawarded a Superior Public ServiceAward for Outstanding ProfessionalEmployée at an April 26 luncheon at thePalmer House in Chicago. He is a dataprocessing instructor at the ChicagoCity-Wide Collège, and his particular as-signment is to provide instruction incomputer programming to severely30physically disabled "homebound" students.1961MARVIN BELL, AM'6l, participated inAlfred University's Performing Artistsand Speakers Séries in February. Mr.Bell, author of eight books of poetry, isa 1958 graduate of Alfred. A regularcolumnist for the American Poetry Re-view, he is currently a professor in theUniversity of Iowa's créative writingprogram.JUDITH ANN KATZ JAFFE, ab'61, received a master's in éducation from Boston University at a spécial June commencement ceremony held in Heidel-berg, German. She and her family hâvenow returned to the states after havingspent seven years in Europe.1962DAVID GREENBERG, SB'62, PhD'63, isthe editor of Corrections and Punishment(Beverly Hills, California: Sage).ROBERT H. KOFF, AM'62, PhD'66, isthe dean of the School of Education atthe State University at Albany. Koff hadbeen the dean of Education at RooseveltUniversity, Chicago, since 1972 and wasa member of the University of Chicago'sfaculty from 1964 to 1966. He receivedChicago's outstanding teacher award in1965.MARTIN VALA, SM'62, PhD'64, hasbeen promoted to the rank of professorin the Department of Chemistry at theUniversity of Florida.1963ROBERT H. ATEN, AM'63, is director offiscal research in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington,D.C. He has previously worked in otherfédéral government capacities, as well ason budgetary and financial matters forNew York City, and has been an in-structorof économies and public financeat Baruch Collège in the New York CityUniversity System.The Fédéral Energy RegulatoryCommission has announced the ap-pointment of STEVEN M. CHARNO,AM'63, as an administrative law judge.He is a former adminstrative law judgewith the Interstate Commerce Commission.JOYCE H. CLARK, AM'63, has been appointed director of Guidance Programsand Services, Department of Pupil Personnel Services and Spécial Education,Chicago Public Schools.DAVID L. CRABB, JD'63, has been appointed associate director ofdevelopment-planned giving at Hamil-ton Collège. He served as assistant to the vice président for development andpublic affairs at the University ofChicago between 1966 and 1970, andwas later spécial assistant to the secretary of the Board of Trustées at the University.ROBERT A. GOLDWIN, PhD'63, is di-recting a new project for the AmericanEnterprise Institute for Public PolicyResearch. The ten-year project, "ADécade of Study of the Constitution," isfinanced in part by a Bicentennial Challenge Grant from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities and in part byfunds to be raised by AEI The programwill include annual conférences on con-stitutional thèmes, numerous essays onthe Constitution, and videotaped paneldiscussions. Goldwin is a former political science professor at the University ofChicago.JUDITH ROBBINS KNIGHT, AB'63,sends us some somewhat tardy classnotes. She received an AM in 1965 fromthe City University of New York and isnow teaching mathematics to fifththrough eighth graders in Bethesda,Maryland. She is married to JONATHANKNIGHT, AB'63, who received a PhDfrom Columbia in 1969- He is associatesecretary, American Association of University Professors. The Knights hâvelived for two years in Kensington, Maryland with their sons, Kenneth, 11, andGregory, 9-The youngest judge presently sittingin Cook County is Associate JudgeALAN LANE, AB'63. He was Chicago'sformer chief city prosecutor, a post hewas appointed to by Mayor Daley in1974.RICHARD E. PYLER, SB'63, has beennamed technical editor oiBreivers Digest.Pyler is an assistant professor of cerealchemistry and technology at NorthDakota State University.The University of Nebraska Press hasrecently published a book by SUSANSTAVES, AB' 63, Players' Scepters. Staves isan associate professor of English atBrandeis University.CHARLES E. VERNOFF, AB'63, was appointed an instructor in the Departmentof Religion at Cornell Collège, Mt. Ver-non, Iowa for the académie year 1978-79 and was advanced to the rank of assistant professor upon completion of hisPhD in religious studies at the Universityof California, Santa Barbara, this pastJune.1964The American Physical Society hasawarded its 1979 Davisson-GermerPrize to JOËL APPELBAUM, SM'64,PhD'66. The prize is given in alternate years for contributions in atomic physicsand in surface physics. Appelbaum is asupervisor in the Corporate EconomiesDepartment of Bell Laboratories.JAN HOWARD FINDER, SM'64, isworking as an educational specialist withthe U.S. Army Albany District Recruit-ing command in Albany, New York. Hehas also sold a short science fiction story,which will appear with a collection thisfall, and is chairing a science fiction convention to be held in Albany thisNovember.ROBERT ROSKOSKI, JR., MD'64,PhD'68, has been named professor ofbiochemistry and head of the department at Louisiana State University Médical Center. He was previously an associate professor of biochemistry at theUniversity of Iowa in Iowa City.1965CHARLES R. CAMPBELL, MBA'65, hasbeen promoted to senior vice présidentand chief financial officer of Sara Lee-USA. Mr. Campbell has been with SaraLee since 1977.JOHANNES FABIAN, AM'65, PhD'69, isnow a full professor at Wesleyan University. He has been teaching an-thropology there since 1974.PHILIP L. hall, sm'65, PhD'67, associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, has been named assistantprovost at that institution.MARGARET M. HEYMAN, AM'65, is theauthor of Alcoholism Programs in In-dustry. The book was published in 1978by the Rutgers Center of AlcoholStudies in New Brunswick, New Jersey.WOODRUFF IMBERMAN, AM'65,PhD'73, travels around the country tell-ing businessmen how to keep unions outof their plants and offices. Président ofImberman and DeForest, a Chicago-based management consulting firm, he'slogged over 10,000 miles this yearalone. His major advice to employers?Treat your employées fairly.1966RANDY BLASING, AM'66, is writingpoetry and giving readings. His work hasappeared in The American Poetry Review,Poetry, The Paris Review, and The YoungAmerican Poets. His first collection, LightYears, was recently published by PerseaBooks.Atlanta University has appointedTHOMAS W. COLE, JR., PhD'66, university provost and vice président foracadémie affairs. Dr. Cole has served onthe Atlanta University faculty for thepast rwelve years in capacities rangingfrom assistant professor to Distinguished Callaway Professor of Chemis-31try and chairman of the Department ofChemistry."Undergraduate éducation is notwhere the action is for many professors;and, somewhat paradoxically, thepoorest attitudes are at the finest uni-versities." Those concerned words cornefrom an articleby ROBIN LESTER,MAT'66, PhD'74, titled "Professor,Teach," which appeared in the March 5,1979 édition of the New York Times.Lester, headmaster of the Trinity Schoolin New York City, feels that many professors serve their own interests but notthe interests of their undergraduate students.RAYMOND JEFFORDS, JR.,AB'66, assistant professor of accounting at St. JohnFisher Collège, has received the col-lege's 1979 Award for Teaching Excellence.JOHN PAZOUR, AB'66, has been appointed deputy secretary for family assistance in the Department of PublicWelfare, Commonwealth of Penn-sylvania. He was previously senior policy analyst for Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.An anonymous donor gave the American Humane Association $25,000, andJIM POLT, PhD'66, is using that money toconduct a study on loneliness in dogs.He's at work on a pamphlet that will ad-vise dog owners and prospective ownerson behavior that may indicate a forlorncanine. Polt is a psychology professor atColorado Women's Collège.STEPHEN H. ROITER, MBA'66, hasbeen appointed président of the M. E.Baker Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.THOMAS D. THOMSON, PhD'66,joined Crocker Bank in San Francisco assenior vice président and chiefeconomist this past June. He supervisesthe analysis and forecasting of businessconditions on régional, national, andinternational levels. He is a former viceprésident and chief economist of DétroitBank and Trust.1967LEMM ALLEN, SM'67, is a Chicago HEWrégional administrator at the Office ofHuman Development Services. He hasmoved back to the city from Denver,where he was associate director for programs in the Colorado Department ofSocial Services.CHARLES J. BAILEY, AM'67, PhD'69,has been invited to the Netherlands Institute for a year beginning in August.His book, English Phonetic Transcriptionfor Teachers, will appear soon.PATRICK J. HENRY, AM'67, has beennamed coordinator of NeighborhoodResponse, a new urban initiative of the nation's life and health insurance business and the Academy for Contempo-rary Problems, a public foundation op-erated by seven national organizations ofstate, county, and municipal officiais. Heis a former program officer for civic affairs for the Cleveland Foundation.If you're in the market for a service,want to get the job done well at a fairprice — and live in the Washington, D.C.area — look at a copy of the WashingtonConsumers' Checkbook, originated byROBERT M. KRUGHOFF, JD'67. TheCheckbook is a nonprofit, subscriber-supported, no-advertising magazine thatis published twice a year, and each timefocuses on a spécial area of consumerconcern.MARGARET MURATA, AB'67, AM'71,PhD'75, writes from Rome. She's on hersecond sabbatical leave there, workingon a chronological catalogue of the city'sseventeenth-century operatic performances. She will return to the School ofFine Arts at the University of California,Irvine, where she has been promoted toassociate professor. And when she doesreturn to California, she'll be bringingalong a new copy of a 1782 Florentineharpsichord.DAVID L. SCHAEFER, AM'67, PhD'71,was granted tenure at Holy Cross Collège, Worcester, Massachusetts wherehe teaches political science.The Center for Migration Studies haspublished ltalian-Americans and Religion: An Annotated Bibliography by Sil-vano M. Tomasi and EDWARD STIBILI,AM'67.DAVID SUDERMANN, AM'67, PhD'73,has been awarded an Andrew W. MellonFaculty Fellowship in the Humanities.The fellowship provides a full year's sal-ary at Harvard, where he will become amember of the Department of Languageand Literatures faculty during the1979-80 académie year. A Pacific Lu-theran University foreign languages professor, Sudermann's specialty ismédiéval religion as it affected literatureof its time.Was Hamlet really mad? And whatcaused his madness? Was it his dépression over his father's death, or his guiltover his incestuous feelings for hismother? Though Ernest Jones or G. B.Shaw might not hâve bought the theory,ROBERT VARE, AB'67, spéculâtes that ailof Prince Hamlet's psychological problems were caused by his addiction — toDanish pastry. Vare's article, "The'Sweet Prince' Loved His Danish," appeared in the New York Times.1968JAMES BORLAND, AM'68, PhD'73, hasbeen appointed chairman of the De partment of English at Adrian Collège,Adrian, Michigan.EDWARD J. FOX, am'68, has beenelected assistant treasurer of Uniroyal,Inc., responsible for foreign exchange;foreign financing, with emphasis onnon-European areas; and Uniroyal'spension fund. He will be based inMiddlebury, Connecticut.KENNETH C. LEVIN, AB'68, MBA'74,and PHYLLIS KELLY LEVIN, x'71, reporttheir return to Hyde Park. They hâverecently purchased an apartment over-looking Chicago's campus. Ken is a viceprésident of Butcher and Singer, Inc.,and Phyllis is working for the QuakerOats Company.JOYCE ABEL KAUFMAN, AM'68, isbusy teaching childbirth préparationcourses in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. A cer-tified childbirth éducation insttructor,she estimâtes that she has taught child-hood préparation to about 400 couplessince 1971.JAN J. SAGETT, JD'68, married Mar-lene Taylor in April. He is a deputy associate commissioner of the Social Secu-rity Administration; she is a personnelspecialist with the Library of Congress.JOAN PHILLIPS SANDY, AB'68, andROBERT E. SANDY, JR., jd'68, are enjoy-ing the practice of law in their own firmin Waterville, Maine. They are raisingtheir daughter, Mary Phillips Sandy,who was two-years-old last June, in theiroffice located in their home.ROBERT L. SCHUETTINGER, AM'68,has been elected président of UniversityProfessors for Académie Order. UPAOsupports traditional académie values andopposes compulsory unionization offaculty members. He has also been appointed an Associate Fellow of Daven-port Collège, Yale University. Schuet-tinger is presently director of studies atthe Héritage Foundation in Washingtonand editor of its quarterly journal, PolicyReview.STEPHEN STEINBERG, MBA'68, hasbeen promoted to vice président of theFirst National City Bank of New York.STUART STRUEVER, PhD'68, andFELICIA ANTONELLI HOLTON, AB'50,are co-authors of Koster: Americans inSearch of Their Prehistoric Past (AnchorPress/Doubleday). Archaeologist Strue-ver and journalist Holton tell the storyof explorations on the Koster farm nearKampsville, Illinois. The finds at Kosterprovide évidence of people living inpermanent dwellings on this continentfourteen centuries before the pyramidswere built, forty centuries beforeStonehenge, and sixty centuries beforeKing Tut.BETTY JO TAFFE, MAT'68, has beenelected to a second term in the New32Hampshire Legislarure and has been appointed vice chairman of the HouseEducation Committee.Wake Forest University has given itsexcellence in teaching award to RALPHC. WOOD, JR., AM'68, PhD'7 5, assistantprofessor of religion.1969FRANK BAECHER, AM'69, has been appointed supervisor of the Catholic Family Service office in East Chicago.WILLIAM E. BARNHART, MST'69, wasawarded a Hughes Fellowship for the1979 session of the Stonier GraduateSchool of Business, held at RutgersUniversity in June. Barnhart is currentlya financial reporter for the Sun-Timesand is studying for his MBA at the University of Chicago.STEPHEN M. MILLER, AM'69, is thenew director of business research anddevelopment, Lee Enterprises, In-corporated, Davenport, Iowa.DOUGLAS K. PINNER, MBA'69, hasbeen named président and chief executive officer of Guterl Spécial Steel Corporation in Lockport, Pennsylvania.LINNEA VACCA, AM'69, PhD'78, received the Maria Pieta Award at the annual honors convocation of Saint Mary'sCollège, Notre Dame, Indiana. Theaward is given each year to a facultymember in récognition of excellence inteaching underclasswomen. Vacca is anassistant professor of English at SaintMary's.DENNIS C. WALDON, AB'69, writes totell us about his new job and his newbaby. In January, he became a partner inthe Chicago law firm of Roan &Grossman. And in May, 1978, he andhis wife, Pamela, became the parents ofElizabeth Kathleen.JAMES O. YERKES, AM'69, PhD'76, isone of rwenty-rwo Americans who willbe Fulbright Research Scholars at RuhrUniversity in Bochum, West Germanyduring 1979-80. His project is to prépare a new critically edited translation ofHegel's "Vorlesungen ûber die Beweisevom Dasein Gottes," or "Lectures onthe Proof of the Existence of God."Yerkes is an associate professor of the-ology at the Earlham School of Religion.1970VICKI DAY, MAT'70, exhibited hergraphies last February at the WestsideArt Gallery and Bookshop in Las Vegas,Nevada She is co-founder of the BlackWomen's Coalition in Springfield, Illinois, and is currently teaching ad-vanced art at Rancho High School.EVELYN H. LAZARE, mba'70, has recently founded Lazare Associates. Thefirm is located in Toronto, Canada, and provides research and technicalwriting/editing services in the healthcare field.ALLEN R. SANDERSON, am'70, received a Thomas Jefferson teachingaward during June commencementcérémonies at the Collège of Williamand Mary. Sanderson has been amember of the collèges économies department since 1973, and received theaward for outstanding teaching.JAMES P. WALSH, JD'70, has been appointed to a three-year term on Arizo-na's Air Pollution Hearing Board.Walsh, a Phoenix attorney, was anArizona state senator from 1975 to1977.BERNARD WINOGRAD, AB'70, hasbeen appointed treasurer of the BendixCorporation, Southfield, Michigan.Winograd joined Bendix in 197 5 asmanager of public affairs and sub-sequently served as an executive assistant.1971WENDELL WILKIE GUNN, MBA'71, published "The Civil Rights Struggle: PhaseII" in the spring 1979 issue of the Lincoln Review.CHARLES HOLLANDER, AM' 7 1 , and hiswife, Janet Kravetz Hollander, formerstudent advisor in the Collège, happilyannounce the birth of their daughterAmelia Friedman on April 12.JEFFREY JAHNS, JD'71, wasone ofonehundred fifty persons from across thenation who were invited to participate ata three-day session sponsored by theNational Trust for Historié Préservation. The purpose of the March conférence was to establish parameters ofhistorié préservation for the 1980s. Apartner in the Chicago law firm of Roan& Grossman, Jeff has spoken on thelégal aspects of historic préservation forthe Bureau of National Affairs, the Cityof Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Landmarks PréservationCouncil.MARGO P. JONES, AB'71, went on tocomplète an M.ARCH. at MIT in 1976,and recently has become a registered ar-chitect in the state of New Hampshire.She is currently practicing with the firmof Bednarski-Stein, in Greenfield, Massachusetts.STEVEN KRAMER, PhD'71, is Studyingthe possibility that some blind individu-als may one day grow their own tissue toreplace a damaged or diseased portion ofthe eye. Kramer is professor and head ofthe Department of Ophthalmology atthe University of California.WILLIAM LEVITT, JR., PhD'71, chairman of the art department at WagnerCollège in New York City, has been made a full professor. He is currentlycurating an exhibition of the work ofGrandville, a French graphie artist, forthe Smithsonian Institution.1972THEODORE BERLAND, AM'72, waselected président of the GreaterChicago Area Chapter, American Médical Writers Association at its annualmeeting in June.WILLIAM CARNEY, AM'72, was fea-tured ténor soloist at a March concert ofthe Fairfield County Chorale in Nor-walk, Connecticut.DANIEL GOLDEN, AB'72, has recentlybeen promoted to principal viola of theLondon Ontario Symphony Orchestra.He also played in the orchestra of theFestival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italythis past summer. GAIL HARTMANNGOLDEN, AB'73, is working as a clinicalpsychologist at St. Thomas PsychiatrieHospital in St. Thomas, Ontario. TheGoldens invite old friends to visit.RUDOLPH S. HOUCK III, JD'72, hasbeen awarded the 1979 IBM/Schulte zurHausen Fellowship for research ininternational law. The fellowship entailsone year of research at the Institute forInternational and Foreign Trade Law,Georgetown University Law Center,Washington, D.C., and one year at itssister institute, Goethe University inFrankfurt, West Germany. The programleads to an LL.M. from Georgetown.Houck has been associated since 1972with the Pittsburgh law firm of Berk-man, Ruslander, Pohl, Lieber & Engel.1973MICHAEL J. CURLEY, PhD'73, professorof English at the University of PugetSound in Tacoma, Washington, has beenawarded a study fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies for1979-80. He will go to Harvard University as a Celtic languages fellow to research the political significance of theMerlin legends. Curley was a La VerneNoyés Scholar at Chicago.joan drucker, am'73, marriedBruce Winstein, an assistant professor atthe Enrico Fermi Institute, in a weddingceremony held at Scripps Collège lastMarch. She is an assistant vice présidentat Crocker Bank International inChicago.PETER GILLIS, Ab'73, grew up readingabout Benjamin J. Grimm, betterknown to fans of Marvel comic books as"The Thing." Gillis is now writing forMarvel about "The Thing," "The In-credible Hulk," and "Captain America,"creating the stories, the narration, andthe dialogue. He is also at work on afantasy novel and several science-fiction33stories, and would like to return to theUniversity of Chicago to pursue a master's and a doctorate — in médiéval litera-ture.EDWARD W. GJERTSEN, MBA'73, hasbeen appointed a commissioner of theMetropolitan Sanitary District ofGreater Chicago by GovernorThompson. Gjertsen was formerly président and chief executive officer of Inte-riors Incorporated.DIANA G. KAHN, AM'73, assistant professor of psychology at Oberlin Collège,is one of twenty-nine scholars, artists,and writers who hâve received appoint-ments for 1979-80 as fellows and research associâtes at the Mary IngrahamBunting Institute of Radcliffe Collège.Kahn will continue her research on "Sexrôle choices, parental antécédents, andoccupational sélections of collègewomen."DEBBIE LEVEY, AB'7 3, is now writing aquarterly at MIT Sea Grant, "Research inOcéan Engineering: University Sourcesand Resources." She is also teaching science writing to graduate students at Boston University.WILLIAM j. SIMON, MBA'73, has beenelected vice président at Central National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio. Mr.Simon was formerly an assistant viceprésident in the Spécial Industries Division of the Corporate Banking Department."State of Siège," a collection of onehundred prints by photographer JOHNWELLS, AB'73, was shown at MidwayStudios at the University of Chicago lastApril. Wells is a graduate student in finearts at the University studying photog-raphy with Laura Volkerding.1974PEARL D. JOHNSON, AM'74, MAT'75, received her doctor of medicine degreefrom the Loyola University's StritchSchool of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. She plans to enter into a familypractice résident program at St. JosephHospital East at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.WALTER JOST III, AM'74, returned tothe University of Chicago and receivedan AM in General Studies in theHumanities this past June. He will enterthe Committee on Ideas and Methodsthis fall.GERALD LEVINSON, AM'74, PhD'77, acomposer and assistant professor in themusic department of Swarthmore Collège, was awarded one of the first God-dard Lieberson Fellowships presentedby the American Academy and In-stitutes of Arts and Letters. The awardcarries a stipend of $10,000. DOUGLAS J. DEN UYL, AM'74, has received a PhD from Marquette University.vera L. ZOLBERG, PhD'74, has beenpromoted to the rank of associate professor at Purdue University in Calumet.Zolberg has been on the faculty ofPurdue-Calumet since 1974 and teachessociology.1975STAN BILES, AB'75, is currently servingas the county manager for the LaneCounty government in Lane County,Oregon. He claims he is the youngestmanager of a county budget in excess of$100 million in the nation.The Board of Directors of GoodSamantan Hospital, Lebanon, Penn-sylvania, has appointed DAVID L.BRODERIC, MBA'75, administrator.BRUCE BURSTEN, SB'74, received aPhD in chemistry from the University ofWisconsin-Madison in June, 1978, and,as a récipient of a National ScienceFoundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, iscurrently studying at Texas A&M University.BARRY ALAN KOZYRA, AB'75,graduated from Rutgers University LawSchool in June, 1978. He was admittedto the New Jersey Bar in December ofthat year and is now associated with theNewark law firm of Walder, Steiner &Sondak.MARY ANN BRENNAN NEWCOMB,x'74, has been named assistant vice président for corporate communications atthe First National Bank of Boston. Sherésides with her husband, Winthrop, inAllston.WILLIAM A. PRIEBE, mba'75, has beenpromoted to vice président in the in-vestment services group of the FirstWisconsin Trust Company in Mil-waukee. Priebe has been with WisconsinTrust since 1977.MONICA ROSENTHAL, ab'75, receivedher MD from the University of IllinoisCollège of Medicine in May. In June,she entered a residency program in gênerai surgery at Cook County Hospital/University of Illinois Hospital.1976THOMAS PRITZKER, JD'76, MBA'76, hasbeen named a trustée of Michael ReeseHospital and Médical Center. As a newtrustée, he carries on his family's long-standing association with the médicalcenter. He now occupies the vacancyleft on the board by his father, Jay Pritz-ker.BRADFORD ROBINSON, AM'76, isworking for the state of Connecticut asan environmental analyst in pesticide control. He would like to hear fromfriends at 434 Willard Avenue, Apt. B2,Newington, Connecticut 06111.1977CATHY A. BEIMFORD, MBA'77, Waselected a trust investment officer by theboard of directors of American NationalBank and Trust Company of Chicago.STEPHEN GILLENWATER, AB'77, is aVISTA volunteer with the MissouriBoard of Probation and Parole in St.Louis. He is involved with a programthat seeks to get ex-offenders and otherSt. Louis résidents to work in partner-ship to help parolees get jobs and keepout of prison.ROBERT E. ROSS, MBA'77, was namedsecond vice président in the trust department at the Northern Trust inChicago. He serves in the personalfinancial planning division of that department.RANDI E. SHERMAN, AM'77, presented a paper in May at the FourteenthInternational Congress on MédiévalStudies, sponsored by the Médiéval Institute at Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo, Michigan. The paper was titled "An Iconographie Investigation ofSome Genesis Miniatures of the RipollBible."1978PARTRICIA BOWEN, AM'78, has beenchosen to become the sixth minister inthe history of the First Unitarian Churchof South Bend, Indiana. Bowen hasserved churches in Texas, Wisconsin,Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Maine.While at Chicago, she received the Bil-lings Prize for excellence in preaching.For RON EMMONS, AM'78, seeing themovie Midnight Express was a very Personal expérience. The film tells the storyof American Billy Hayes's five-year incarcération in Sagmalcilar Prison, Istanbul, Turkey, for possession of hashish.Charged with the same offense, Em-mons spent ten years in the prison, evensharing a cell with Hayes for a year.Emmons is now teaching literatureclasses at the Uptown extension ofShimer Collège and has just finished acollection of poems about his prison expériences, Cold Stone on a Warm Stone.Compétition for entrance into Japan'stwo major universities is extremelykeen, so keen that as of ten years agofailure to be admitted could seriously af-fect one's chances for a successfulcareer. Graduâtes of Japan's other universities are today establishing their position in that nation's society, but compétition is tough at those schools, too.To make sure the children of Chicago-3-1based Japanese businessmen will nothâve forgotten their native languageskills once they've returned to Japan, theFutaba-kai School has been establishedin Skokie. HOROSHI OKANO, PhD'78, isthe school's administrator.KATHRYN STEARNS, AM'78, hasjoined the editorial staff of the Min-uteman in Lexington, Massachusetts. Sheis a former business manager and production assistant for The Chicago Review.In MemorianCORRECTION: The Magazine regrets thatMarjorie K. Morray, AB'40, was re-ported in the spring issue as deceased.We humbly apologize to Mrs. Morrayand her friends for the error.1900-1919Charles L. Baker, sb'08; Renslow P.Sherer, PhB'09, one of the men re-sponsible for the establishment ofRavinia Music Festival, died in April;Verne D. Dusenbery, JD'10; George W.Bancroft, x'11, one of the foundingmembers of the American Board ofPlastic Surgery, died in ColoradoSprings.Grâce E. Fry singer, xT4; Bert EdwinLarson, x'14; Jessie B. Marsh, x'14;Ruby Dale Matthews, SB' 14; NathanFine, PhB'15, a noted authority on theAmerican labor movement, died lastJune in Albany; Edward A. Léonard,x'15; George Spencer Lyman, PhB'15.Nadine Hall Grimes, SB' 17; Esther J.Muling, phB'17; Joséphine Offenlock,PhB'17, AM'32; James Peyton Sizer,x'17; Smart W. Cochran, x'18; ThomasT. Gentles, x'18; Gracia L. Linde,phB'18; Elizabeth H. Denning, x'19;Marion Fine, SB' 19; Margaret MaryFitzgerald, phB'19-1920-1929Ralph H. Cannon, phB'20, one-timesports editor of Esquire and of theChicago Herald American, died last Mayin Billings Hospital; William C. Helmle,x'20; Herman T. Mossing, PhB'20; LucyReddish, PhB'21.Edwin W. Ahern, SB'22; Ethel Fanson,MD'22; Bernice H. Smith, phB'22;Catherine D. Arjona, AM23, PhD'27;Annabel Clark Croll, AB'23; Addie T.Felker, PhB'23; Marie A. Hinrichs,PhD'23, MD'34; Daisy M. Clouston,AM'24; Oliver Ray Herr, phB'24; William S. Hockman, am'24; Ralph L. Ma non, PhB'24; Eugène L. Outland, am'24;Marie Peck, PhB'24.Roy A. Crossman, MD'25; Eva CowanGarden, SB'25, AM'35; Harold A. Logan,phD'25, professor emeritus of politicaleconomy at the University of Toronto,died last April; Elmer W. Voight,PhB'25, JD'28; Helen M. Bichowsky,AM'26; William W. Eagleton, JD'26;Mary C. Tillman, PhB'26; Hannah B.Tillman, phB'27.Eli E. Fink, PhB'28, JD'30, a seniorpartner with Fink, Coff, and Stern, attorney for comédienne Fanny Brice inher suit against Twentieth-Century Fox,died; Clarence Hendershot, am'28,PhD'36; Charles D. Kurtz, sb'28, md'31;Julia Manaster, PhB'28; Alyce McWil-liams, PhB'28, AM'31; Léo Wolfson,PhB'28, JD'30; Marie M. Yeaton,PhD'28.Leota Archer, PhB'29; Mary PhillipsDecker, PhB'29, AM'35; Gaines S. Dob-bins, x'29; Simon O. Lesser, PhB'29,noted literary critic, author of Fictionand the Unconscious, and retired University of Massachusetts/ Amherst professorof English, died last May in North-ampton, Massachusetts; Florence J.Roberts, AM'29; Henry E. Underbrink,am'29; Richard B. Williams, phB'29;Harold B. Wood, am'29.1930-1939Lester G. Barth, PhD' 30, internationallyknown embryologist and researcher atthe Marine Biological Laboratory inWoods Hole, Massachusetts, died lastFebruary in Woods Hole; Irma N.Laase, AM'30; Marion J. Marshall,phB'30; Albert H. Miles, x'30; Callie M.Totten, phB'30.Jay Richard Bone, AM'31; Helen G.Gerhart, PhB'31; Jean E. Hewetson,PhD'31; Wilson Edward Sweeney, SB'31,Sm'33; Evelyn Stinson Urban, PhB'31;Elsbeth Wagner, PhB'31.William Burrows, PhD'32, professoremeritus in biology and récipient of theMédical Alumni Association's Gold KeyAward in 1978, died from injuries sus-tained in an automobile accident near hishome in Cobden, Illinois, November15.William F. Einbecker, AM'32; ThomasH. Fitzgerald, JD'32; John V. Healy,phB'32; Mildred M. Hopp, PhB'32;Helen H. Hunscher, PhD'32; Thomas E.Lyon, AM'32; Thomas H. Slusser, Jr.,PhB'32, JD'33.Violette L. Burstatte, PhB'33; Inès N.Asher, AB'34, AM'36; Roger C. Hender-son, MD'34; Ernst Kirch, SM'34;Matthew C. Wagner, am'34.John L. Bloxsome, AM'35; Harry Hill, PhD'35; James Hemenway Morton,SM'35; Leona Rickman, phB'35.James Dunbar Bell, am'36, PhD'41,retired foreign service officer andformer Ambassador to Malaysia, died ofcancer last April in Santa Cruz; JoëlDean, phD'36; Elizabeth J. Loomer,x'36; Susannah F. Redhouse, SB'36;Roswell P. Snead, mba'36; Roger Wal-terhouse, PhD'36.Blanton E. Black, SM'37; Cleta W.Clawson, AM'37; Willey Klingensmith,AM'37; Leone G. Piekarski, SB'37; Bernard Rosenblatt, md'37.Théodore W. Anderson, SB'38; DorisCarothers, x'38; Neil H. Jacoby,PhD'38, former vice président of theUniversity of Chicago and foundingdean of the University of California'sGraduate School of Management, diedin May at the UCLA Médical Centerafter suffering a heart attack; Edna O.Johnson, AB'38; AM'41; Franklin A.Thurman, sm'38; NeilJ. VanSteenberg,PhD'38.Edwin F. Irwin, AB'39; SeymourKeith, AB'39, JD'4l; Eisa Augusta Muel-ler, AM'39-1940-1949Mary Caroline Hanes, AB'40; JoanRosina Anesey, SB'44; Jane Christie Ep-stein, AB'44; Dorotha Bradford Kelsay,BLS'44.Howard R. Blair, phB'46; Lucile MayoSmiderski, AM'47; Frank J. McLoraine,JD'48; Elsie Matovich Parry, PhB'48.Minna Green Duncan, AM'49; JohnA. Jones, Jr., AM'49, a Foreign Serviceofficer with the International Communication Agency, died last June in Washington, D.C.; Mary B. Schlutow, ab'49;Elijah White, AM'49-1950-1959Philip Abrahamson, AM'50; ShirleyMarshall Kennedy, AM'50; IlaFern War-ren, sm'50; Arthur W. Trautman, x'51;Frederick Prussner, PhD'52.William Rebelsky, x'55; SidneyFeldman, SB'56; Michael Schrager,AM'56.1960-1970Thaddeus Borun, SB'6l, PhD'65, one ofthe nations best-known cancer re-searchers, died of a heart attack last Jan-uary while attending a seminar in Miami;Michael Schilder, SM'6l; Norman H.Tarnoff, MBA'6l; Julia Apte r, PhD'64.James Vernon Dilley, PhD'65;Grazina A. Juodelis, AM'65; Judith Ben-nert, Racz, AB'67, senior editor of ForumMagazine, died in the crash of Flight 191at O'Hare Field on May 25; ThomasCarlisle, mba'70.35LETTERS TO THE EDITORjrw^^ mm Jl '~~~' l ' ¦^ISïH*saf-'-J* ^IBC1 "' ¦ '^ivSSH ¦ «H»,^^ '^ •*. '¦ ¦-trjrt-wt. ¦¦ ^^T' JT . -,r<h '..^fa^g?^'' ¦-¦¦'¦ ^*&5LJBHbi$"-J^^^^^HPBusiness School TuitionOn page two of the Winterof 1979 issueof your publication, I note the followingstatement:In the Law School, tuition will jumpfrom $4,800.00 to $5,460.00, and in theBusiness School, from $4,875.00 to$4,550.00.This leads me to one or more of the following conclusions:1. I want a Business Schoolgraduate to do my income tax returnsnext year;2. I don't want a Business Schoolgraduate to do my income tax returnsnext year;3. I should hâve gone to the Business School;4. It's a good thing I didn't go tothe Business School;5. The Business School, true to itslaissez faire économies, acknowledges adécline in applications; and/or6. The statement is a misprint.Please enlighten me as to which oneor more of the foregoing conclusions arecorrect.Alexander A. Kolben, AB'58, JD'63, AM'64New York, New YorkThe Editor replies: Thank you for yourhilarious letter. Number 6 is correct;$4550.00 is a misprint. The figureshould be $5550.00. Ail other pos-sibilities may be true except number 5.Students are fighting to get into the Business School.No Stones UnturnedI was dismayed to read Nancy Moss' ac-count of the duties of a University admissions officer. Is that Chicago they're marketing? Is that how students andschools are approached in the hard-times coming 1980s? I hâve never imag-ined Chicago recruitment, but if I had Iwould not hâve seen a "crisply dressedyoung man with a briefease stridingthrough the halls to the counselor'soffice." Is that how people get toChicago? I had always believed Chicagopeople got there along the same Unes asI did, to wit: sitting in WashingtonSquare Park during a summer mathcourse at NYU I made a brilliant but in-consequential remark (alas, now longforgotten) and a member of the partyremarked "Gee, you should go to theUniversity of Chicago." "What's that?" Iasked. "It's a place where smart peoplego." So I went. I cannot imagine beingfired in the same manner by a briefease-carrying young man or woman who filledme in on the sports program as well ason the emphasis on individual excellence.In addition, are we still dealing withthose old saws about The Neighborhoodand The Cost? Is it possible that schoolsstill inquire — as Miss Moss notes —about "personal safety" left over from the late 50s and early 60s? This is, afterail, the beginning of the 80s!No, in this day of the degree mill andthe prevalance of the médiocre, I wouldhâve expected to hâve seen recruitmentdifficulties in one area only: "Go away.Our students don't want that life of themind, that questioning that lets nothingrest unexamined, those Chicago tasksthat once begun never let up ail life long.Cost, neighborhood, sports programsmean nothing. Your challenge is tooexacting . . . except for Jones, hère . . .now he's ..."Bonnie Gréer, AB'63Cornwallville, New YorkHappy DaysI found "A Hyde Park Childhood" byDorothy Michelson Livingston (Winter,1979 issue) charming and evocative,although I do not agrée that the Fiftieswere dreary. I can't speak for the Sixtiesbecause I wasn't there, but surely thereare other alumni who can and who weresufficiently stimulated by Ms.Livingston's article to fill in the gaps between her "then" and the présent.Audrey Stem Wyatt, x'55Arlington, VirginiaCorrectionIn the Summer 1979 issue of the Magazine, Dr. Benjamin Mays' degrees andawards were erroneously listed as four.It should hâve been reported as forty-From the EditorWe are saddened to report that as wewent to press, James T. Farrell passedaway at the âge of seventy-five. We feelhis loss as a strong, outspoken figure onAmerican life, but we shall rememberhim through his outstanding literature.CréditsCourtesy of the Office of Public Information: pages 2, 3, 18, 19Courtesy of the Oriental Institute: page 5Posters, arrwork, and photographs, courtesy of Court ThéâtreReunion arrwork: Linda JamesArt direction: Paula S. Ausick36*¦Musings from Alumni House. . . .As I write to you for the first time we atAlumni House are in the midst of ourwork for the Alumni Affairs StudyCommission. Since January, 1979, thework of this Commission, chaired byTrustée Arthur Schultz, has occupied ailof us. By the time you read this issue ofThe University of Chicago Magazine theCommission will hâve sent its final report to Président Hanna Gray for herapprovaL Then the task of implementingail the recommendations of the Commission begins and we will hâve yetanother phase of the University's alumniaffairs program and a set of new re-sponsibilities for the Alumni Association.The next several months will be crucial ones for us as we, with your help,begin to shape the University alumni affairs program of the next several years.The Commission has shown us that wehâve done some wonderful things withand for University of Chicago alumni inthe past, but it has also shown us thatthere are a great many weaknesses toour program. It is thèse weaknesses thathâve made many of you wonder not onlyabout what we do for alumni and howand why we do it but more importantlyhow the University perceives its alumni.Some will argue that the University ofChicago has had a strong alumni affairsprogram and others will argue just theopposite. Some, of course, will take theproverbial middle position. Whateverposition one takes on this matter, theCommission^ work has convinced usthat there is room for great improve-ment in our relations with our alumni.Because of ail of you, we realize thatwe now hâve the opportunity to makewhat is good a great deal better. Yourcontinued dévotion to and interest inthe University of Chicago makes theprocess of renewal a great deal easierand that much more valuable and satisfy-ing.It will take some time for ail the recommendations to reach implementationbut there will be real changes im-mediately. Some of thèse changes youwill see and read in The University ofChicago Magazine. This publication is,after ail, the publication for and to the85,914 registered alumni of the University of Chicago and it should reflect theirinterests and concerns as much as it re-flects the interests and concerns of theirUniversity. Beginning with this issue,the Magazine will include more newsabout the University and the alumni.With this issue of the Magazine too, Ibegin my "Musings from AlumniHouse," a column which will, I hope, remain true tdt the "musings" and"Alumni House'^of its by-line. Eventually, the Magazine', will carry more writing by alumni and more portraits ofinteresting and notable alumni.Currently, we are engaged in anationwide search foï a new editor ofThe University of Chicago Magazine. TheSummer, 1979, issue has been guest-edited by Paula Ausick, ab'72, a goodfriend and former staff member of theAlumni Association who is now a pub-lishing professional in Chicago. She ishelping us keep the Magazine onschedule as we continue our search andwe are ail very grateful to her. We hopeto hâve the new editor by September 1.With this new editor will corne a newperiod for The University of ChicagoMagazine and ail of us in Alumni Houseare looking forward to the appointment.(The Magazine will, incidentally, carrya good bit of news about the work of theAlumni Affairs Study Commission — andsome of its report — in the next severalissues. We hope too to be able to solicitand publish alumni responses to theCommission's report.)Let me hasten to add, however, thatwe are not interested in change for itsown sake. We are interested in maintain-ing the strengths of the University'salumni affairs program while we rebuildand strengthen the weak areas. So it iswith the Magazine. You should not ex-pect to see a slick, journalistic, master-piece of puff but rather an improvedsolid and tasteful University alumnimagazine that remains true to its University's mission and to the spirit andsensibilities of the alumni who hâve hadso much to do with making this University what it is. As the newly appointed Executive Director of University Alumni Affairs Iwant to guard and nourish the strengthsof the University of Chicago through itsalumni at the same time that I sharethèse strengths with those non-alumniwho are interested in the institution andwant to know more about it. I will continue my teaching and writing so I willbe able to speak more carefully aboutthe académie life of the institution as Itravel and speak to various alumni andnon-alumni groups. I am very, veryhappy to be back at the University and Iam eager to be about our work in University alumni affairs. We hâve much todo and, with your help, we will do it. It isthis help which makes our efforts sothoroughly worthwhile.Until next time. . . .Peter Kountz, am'69, PhD'76Executive DirectorUniversity Alumni Affairs |UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO*StRlAL RECORD DEPTLIBRARYI n-6 Çâ&î Mr»*H STgrci-IC 60637LH 1? C4Sv.711978/79c» 2 Th*a Universityof Chicago03 JAN 30 '80LH 1• C48v.711978/79c.2 The Universityof Chicagomagazine*THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY