•ç»%%_.st-Sellers&LandmarksThe Press and ItsDirector Win PmiseFrom+Theif Commercial ColleaguesforrisPhilip&on/AB'49/AM'52CHEERS FOR'CHAMPAGNE' AND'OLD CHICAGO'Editor:First, congratulations on your inclusion,on the back cover of your SPRING/84 issue, ofthe song Vm Strong for Chicago. The music isstirring and exubérant, and the lyrics are asspirited as "Wave the flag for old Chicago."Ail of the articles are especially enlighten-ing and thought-provoking. However, I wasparticularly impressed by "Green Mulch andChampagne" by Michael Alper, AB'81,AM'83, which emphasizes the opportunitiesgiven to collège students to become ac-quainted, quite early in their collegiate careers,with vital scientific research methods. Thisearly exposure to this sort of study un-doubtedly gives thèse young people keen in-terest, industrious application, and valuableknowledge.JackD. Hess, AB'37Woodland Hills, CACHEMICALS ANDCANADIANJURISPRUDENCE:ANOTHERVIEWEditor:The case of the Nova Scotia landowners'struggle to protect their environment is atouching one, but Edgar Friedenberg's(PhD'46) essay (SPRING/84) is so f ull of f actualmisinformation that his case against Canadianjurisprudence cannot stand.The herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T are stillwidely used to control broadleaf weeds in hu-man food crops and in recreational areas suchas golf courses and lawns. Properly synthe-sized, neither should contain dioxin. Manu-facturing residues of TCDD dioxin on theorder of a few parts per billion may be présentin 2,4,5-T. This level of dioxin poses no serioushazard to human health if the chemicals arehandled with a minimum of common sensé.Friedenberg asserts that the use of défoliants in Vietnam had a "devastating" effect onthe local population. How can he possiblyknow this? No impartial study of this population has been done. The area is under militaryoccupation by a régime interested in exag-gerating any harm traceable to US activities.The American vétérans seeking compensation for injuries caused by défoliants hâveyet to demonstrate any such injuries. Al-though the vétérans themselves may not ac-cept this, their rates of death, illness, and birthdefects hâve repeatedly turned out to be no higher than those for any other Americans ofsimilar démographie status.Friedenberg also states that the use ofthèse chemicals has been banned in the US andelsewhere. Regulated would be a better termthan banned. 2,4-D is extensively applied onU.S. farms. I use several gallons a year to control hemp and thistles in pasturelands. Chil-dren routinely play on lawns sprayed withthèse chemicals. Everyone involved seemsreasonably healthy.Nova Scotia Forest Industries could cer-tainly hâve had good reasons for wanting tospray 2,4-D on their tend. Most agriculturalproducts would be more expensive and inshorter supply if such chemicals were notused . The reaction of the Nova Scotia 15 seemsto be more a case of hysteria than seriousenvironmentalism .Reading this polemic against the Canadianjudicial practices actually made me a bit envi-ous. I wish our own légal System was able todeal with neurotic and vexatious litigants insuch a refreshingly summary fashion.Jan Berkhout, AB'55, PhD'62Professor of Industrial PsychologyUniversity of South Dakota,VermillionEditor's note: This letter was written prior tothe May 10 $180 million out-of-court seulement byseven chemical companies in favor of the plaintiffs,Vietnam vétérans exposed to Agent Orange.FRIEDENBERG ESSAY ADISSERVICE TO U.S.CANADA RELATIONSEditor:I was appalled to read in the SPRING/84issue an article by Edgar Z. Friedenberg,PhD'46, on Canadian civil rights.It is permeated with error and misinformation and I fault you for not checking the state-ments in the article with some compétentperson.Misunderstandings between Canada andthe US are fostered by ignorance and it is a disservice to circulate the foolishness embodiedin the pièce by Friedenberg.R. Warren James, PhD'49North Gower, Ontario, CANADASON AFFIRMS FATHER'SVOTE FOR ANASTAPLOEditor:I enjoyed the profile of George Anastaplo,AB'48, JD'51, PhD'64, in the WINTER/84 édition. I am a graduate of the law school and cur- rently am a member of the f aculty of Loyola University School of Law, along with Anastaplo.My connection with Anastaplo has a bit ofhistory to it . My f ather, a Chicago attorney, was amember of the Character and Fitness Commit-tee which considered Anastaplo 's second try foiadmission to the Illinois bar in the late 1950s.Over the years, as I learned about the baradmission cases, I realized my father had beenpart of "history." I never knew how he voted,however, because he died when I was youngbef ore we were able to discuss much about hiswork. Consequently, I felt that his vote wouldtell me something signif icant about this partof his life, which was in many ways unknowntome.Even af ter becoming a lawyer, however, Idid not make an effort to discover what hisvote had been. It was only when Anastaplocame to Loyola that my curiosity spurred me toact. Not without some trépidation, I ap-proached George and told him of the connection. He was most interested to discover thevote as well, and together we consulted a lawreview article about the bar admission cases,which in a footnote listed the voters. Fortu-nately for faculty collegiality, my father wasone of the few who voted for George.I wish very much now that I could hâvespoken with my father about the vote. For onething, with ail the wisdom of hindsight and thesafety of not having been on the firing line, If eel his vote was correct. But more importantly,I believe it was a courageous décision. Myfather, a former président of the Chicago BarAssociation, was conservative politically andhis law practice was devoted to corporate andcommercial matters. Such a vote in the late '50scould hardly be thought of as popular.But I believe now that he voted as he didbecause he concluded that the nub of the mat-ter was the importance of individual conscience in a democracy. For him, personalintegrity was the essence of lawyering and individual conscience the source of integrity.James P Carey, JD'68Chicago"ALLALUMNIARENOTASSES"Editor:Please . AU alumni past a certain âge are notasses, rearing on hind legs and braying in invective against Seymour Hersh and/or articlesabout him in your excellent periodical. I am 69and embarrassed at the pompous and foggy-brained contemporaries whose letters youprint. Surely Claudia Boynton was not theonly one among us seniors with both the lei-Continued on page 48.UNIVERSITYr>FO-nr4i~-nK,IA,~A-7.,.iI-.,- ,q84EditorFelicia Antonelli Holton, AB'50Staff WriterMarianne Eismann, AM'84DesignerTom GreensfelderThe University of Chicago Office ofAlumni AffaireRobie House5757 South Woodlawn AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637Téléphone: (312) 753-2175Président, The University of ChicagoAlumni AssociationMichael Klowden, AB'67Executive Directorof University Alumni AffaireCarol Jenkins Linné, AB'66Associate Directorof University Alumni AffairsRuth HalloranProgram DirectorMark Reinecke, AM'81Director, Alumni Schools CommitteeRobert Bail, Jr.The University of ChicagoAlumni AssociationExecutive Committee, the CabinetMichael Klowden, AB'67Edward J. Anderson, PhB'46, SM'49Jay Berwanger, AB'39Anita Jarmin Brickell, AB'75, MBA'76Gail Pollack Fels, JD'65Mary Lou Gorno, MBA'75Guy Nery, AB'47Clyde Watkins, AB'67Gregory Wrobel, AB'75, JD'78, MBA'79Faculty /Alumni Advisory Committeeto the University of Chicago MagazineEdward W. Rosenheim, AB'39,AM'47, PhD'53 ChairmanDavid B. and Clara E. SternProfessor, Department of Englishand the CollègeWalter J. Blum, AB'39, JD'41Wilson-Dickinson Professor,the Law SchoolJohn A. SimpsonArthur Holly Compton DistinguishedService Professor, Department ofPhysics and the CollègeLorna P. Straus, SM'60, PhD'62Associate Professor, Department ofAnatomy and the CollègeGreta Wiley Flory, PhB'48Linda Thoren, AB'64, JD'67The University of Chicago Magazine ispublished by the University of Chicago incoopération with the Alumni Association.Published continuously since 1907.Editorial Office: Robie House, 5757Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois60637. 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The University ofCHICAGOMagazine/Summer 1984Volume 76, Number 4 (ISSN-9508)IN THIS ISSUEThe Press— Where "Least-Sellers" Of tenTurn Out to be "Landmarks"A leader in scholarly publishing, the Universityof Chicago Press willingly takes on projects nocommercial house would consider— and winsaccolades.Page 8Académie Tournais — A Mirror forIntellectual ChangeFrom the 109-year-old Botankal Gazette to the9-year-old Signs the Press's journals reflect thedevelopment of intellectual trends.Page 18Happily Ever Af ter: Children'sPublishing Grows UpBy Marianne EismannOver the last two-and-a-half décades, Zena Sutherlandand the Center for Children's Books hâve had animportant impact on the quality of books for children.Page 21Modem Science and Ethics: Time for aRe-examination?By Léon KassScience, says the author, is "explicitly anti-philosophie. . . neutral to the large human and metaphysicalquestions that dominated ancient philosophy."Page 24"Mad and Beautiful Accidents"By Marianne EismannThe story of novelist and poet Marguerite YoungPage 34Page 24 DEPARTMENTSOn the QuadsAlumni NewsClass NewsDeathsBooks 231324244Cover: Morris Philipson, AB'49,AM'52, director of the Universityof Chicago Press.(Photo by James Ballard.)On The QuadsCOLLEGE AND GRADUATETUITIONTOINCREASE FOR 1984-85Tuition increases for students in theCollège, graduate divisions, and profes-sional schools were announced late lastwinter by the University.This fall, room and board rates willincrease by 5.7 percent, resulting in a$4,100 cost for freshmen and $4,725bill for upperclassmen.Undergraduate tuition for 1984-85will increase by $750, from $7,920 to$8,670. The term bill, which includestuition, required fées, and room andboard will be $13,052 for freshman and$13,427 for upperclassmen.Tuition for graduate students in thearts and sciences will be $9,060, up from$8,310 in 1983-84. Tuition in the profes-sional schools will range from $8,700 forstudents in the graduate library schoolto $9,975 in the médical school to $10,200in the law school, and $10,450 in thebusiness school.The University has also announcedincreases in financial aid for students.Aid from the Universités gênerai or un-restricted funds will increase by 21 percent to $5.85 million for undergraduates,by 11 percent to $6.9 million for graduatestudents in the arts and sciences, and by10 percent to $3.8 million for graduatestudents in the professional schools.Total financial aid will increase to $19.35million in 1984-85, up from $17.3 millionin 1983-84 and $7.8 million f ive yearsago. Fif ty-three percent of ail studentsreceive scholarship or fellowship aidfrom the University.University président Hanna Grayissued the following statement concern-ing the increases:"The importance of strengtheningail sources of income, including tuition,has never been greater for maintainingthe University's quality. While tuitioncovers only a portion of the cost of edu-cating our students, it is a signif icantcomponent of the University's budget. "At the same time that we containcosts in nonacademic areas, we must beable to attract and retain the strongestfaculty and students, provide f irst-ratefacilities for both, and maintain thehighest standards of research."Our tuition in the Collège and forgraduate students in the arts and sciences remains lower than at similar institutions. The percentage increase fortuition of 9.5 percent for undergraduatesand 9 percent for graduate students inthe arts and sciences for the next académie year is less than it has been in thelast three years. The increase is neces-sary for a broad range of needs, fromlibrary acquisitions and laboratory rénovations to the création and strengthening of such important programs as ournew department of computer science."We must face the inescapable factthat in many areas of opération, costsfacing the major research universitiesexceed the national inflation rate whileexternal sources of support, notably fédéral funding for student aid and for theresearch that has traditionally character-ized this University, continue to erode inreal terms."We hâve an established strategy ofcontaining costs in nonacademic areasin order to help meet the priorities nec-essary to insure the quality of a University of Chicago éducation."Nowhere is the issue of qualityclearer than in faculty salaries, whichhère and elsewhere in the 1970s laggedsubstantially behind the inflation rate.Although we hâve improved them, wemust do more to make them compétitiveif we are to retain and recruit the bestscholars."Similarly, increased financial aidfor undergraduate and graduate students is absolutely essential. In 1984-85,our University student-aid allocationswill hâve increased by more than 65 percent since 1981-82: 93 percent for undergraduates, 66 percent for graduate students in the arts and sciences, and 37percent for students in the graduate professional schools. From gênerai or unre-stricted funds alone, the increase since 1981-82 will be 79 percent for the entireUniversity: 105 percent for undergraduates, 76 percent for graduate students inthe arts and sciences, and 56 percent forstudents in the graduate professionalschools."We must continue to provide a student f inancial-aid package that will support our 'aid-blind' policy for undergraduate students. No qualif ied studentin the Collège should be refused admission for financial reasons, and graduatestudents must be assured of our bestefforts to make available the funds theyneed to complète their work hère."As we approach our centennialyear in 1992, we also must deal withaging facilities. We hâve embarked onan extensive but necessary program ofnew construction and rénovation of oldbuildings. Most notably, completion ofthe John Crerar Library, the PhysicsTeaching Center, and the Kent ChemicalLaboratory will give our students so-phisticated new facilities in which topursue their work."Student access to computers oncampus has been vastly expanded.More attention must be devoted to im-proving the quality of student life out-side the classroom as well. We plan thissummer to begin the basic structuralwork on a major rénovation of Ida NoyésHall as a much-improved student center."Finally, it is also imperative tomaintain the strength of our libraryholdings at a time when acquisition ofboth old and new materials has shown asteady, sharp increase in cost. The importance of thèse holdings to an éducation at Chicago simply cannot beoverstated."No one enjoys increased costs, butthey are a fact of life for institutions aswell as individuals. Through our majorfund-raising efforts, we are doing ail inour power to expand alternative sourcesof income, and we will continue to reduce nonessential costs as much as possible. Thèse endeavors, together with «^the prudent use of tuition income, are fdesigned to protect the real and endur-ing value of our educational offerings."UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGA71MC :;c.er 1984BRADBURNTOSUCCEEDADAMSASPROVOSTNorman M. Bradburn, AB'52, willsucceed Robert McCormick Adams,PhB'47, AM'52, PhD'56, as Universityprovost. Bradburn will take over theoffice in September, when Adams be-comes secretary of the SmithsonianInstitution.The provost is the second senioracadémie off icer of the University.Bradburn, director of the NationalOpinion Research Center since 1979, isalso the Tif fany and Margaret Blake Dis-tinguished Service Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. Heserved as chairman of the départaientfrom 1973 to 1979 and was master of theSocial Sciences Collegiate Division andassociate dean of the graduate Divisionof the Social Sciences for three yearsprior to that time. He is also a professorin the Graduate School of Business andin the Collège. He is chairman of theNorman Bradburn Committee on Survey Research and amember of the Committee on PublicPolicy Studies.Bradburn, whose major areas of research are the methodology of samplesurveys, studies of racial intégration,and psychological well-being, joined thefaculty in 1960. In addition to his undergraduate degree from the University,Bradburn has an A.B. from Oxford University, an A. M. in clinical psychologyand a Ph.D. in social psychology fromHarvard University.Bradburn has received a number ofhonors for his research, including theAlexander Von Humboldt-Stif tung Fel-lowship. He is a fellow of the AmericanStatistical Association and the International Statistical Institute.In her March 7 announcement ofthe appointment, Président Gray said,"Norman Bradburn brings to this position an outstanding record as a behavioral scientist and administrator. He hasa wide understanding of the complexand cohesive nature of the Universityof Chicago. I am delighted that hewill serve." LAUMANNIS NEW DEANOF SOCIAL SCIENCESEdward O. Laumann, a sociologistwith spécial research interests in howpeople try to influence national policy,will succeed William H. Kruskal as deanof the Division of the Social Sciences onOctober 1.Kruskal, Ernest DeWitt Burton Dis-tinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Collège,is returning to full-time teaching af terserving as dean since 1974. He receivedhis doctorate from Columbia Universityjoining the faculty hère in 1950.Laumann has been a member of thefaculty since 1973 and chairman of thedepartment of sociology since 1981. Hehas a Ph.D. from Harvard Universityand taught at the University of Michiganbefore coming to Chicago. CurrentlyLaumann is director of the new WilliamF. Ogburn/Samuel A. Stouffer Centerfor the Study of Population and SocialOrganization. He is author or co-authorof six books and has been the editorof the American journal of Sociologysince 1978.FIFTHHUMANITIESOPENHOUSE TOBEHELDThe Humanities Open House, aday-long event in which the Division ofthe Humanities offers programs for any-one interested in the subject— membersof the community alumni, and potentialstudents — will be held October 13.Wendy O'Flaherty professor inthe Divinity School, the department ofSouth Asian languages and civiliza-tions, the Committee on Social Thoughtand the Collège, will give the keynoteaddress.BIOLOGICAL SCIENCESREORGANIZATION REFLECTSCURRENT AREAS OF STUDYThe current state of the study of lifeprocesses at the molecular and cellularlevel spurred the récent reorganizationof three departments in the Division ofthe Biological Sciences.As of July 1, the department of bio-chemistry and molecular biology andthe department of molecular genetics3and cell biology replaced the depart-ments of microbiology biochemistryand biophysics and theoretical biology.The department of biology was not in-volved in the reorganization but willcontinue with a new focus on evolution-ary and population biology.Faculty chose in which of the twodepartments they would maintain theirprimary appointaient.Dr. Elliott Kieff, PhD '71, professorin the departments of medicine and microbiology and chairman of the reorganization committee, said the streamliningref lects the current principal areas ofbiological research. "Many faculty in ailthèse departments are using biochemistry and molecular genetics to analyze,alter, and reconstruct life processes,"he said.Dr. Frank Fitch, MD'53, SM'57,PhD'60, the Albert D. Lasker Professorin Pathology and associate dean of biological sciences, said the reorganization"will more accurately ref lect the currentand developing interests of the faculty.It will also allow us to strengthen ourprograms and better develop new ones."The department of biochemistryand molecular biology is concerned pri-marily with the fundamental chemistryof biological molécules, while the department of molecular genetics and cellbiology deals with the mechanisms oflife processes of viruses and cells, in-cluding genetics, virology, and cell anddevelopmental biology. Much overlap inresearch interests, methods, and instruction between the two departments isexpected, Kieff said.JANETROWLEYRECEIVESCANCER RESEARCH AWARDSDr. Janet Rowley, PhB'45, SB'46,MD'48, a cytogenetics specialist at theUniversity who studies the relationshipbetween gènes and cancer, is the récipient of the 1983 Esther Langer Awardand the f irst Hussain Makki Al JumaInternational Cancer Prize for her out-standing contributions to cancerresearch.The Hussain Makki Al Juma Prize,awarded by the International UnionAgainst Cancer and the government ofKuwait, carries an award of $120,000.The $1,500 Langer award was presentedby the Ann Langer Research Founda- Dr. Janet Rowleytion, which is aff iliated with the University's Cancer Research Foundation.Rowley is professor in the department of medicine and director of theHematology/Oncology CytogeneticsLaboratory at the University's médicalcenter. Her research has focused on de-termining the particular chromosomechanges that occur in leukemia, on theirresponse to therapy and, more recentlyon the prior exposure of patients to mu-tagenic agents.Dr. Donald W King, vice-présidentof the médical center and dean of theDivision of Biological Sciences and thePritzker School of Medicine, said, "Dr.Rowley, through years of insightful research, has become one of the nation'sleading experts on the complex world ofcancer and genetics. Her laboratory hasbeen at the forefront of research provid-ing supporting évidence for the viewthat chromosome changes are one fundamental part of the development ofhuman cancers."In 1973, Rowley was the f irst to discover a chromosome transaction — anabnormality in which a pièce of onechromosome breaks and attaches itself to another — associated with a particularform of leukemia.The Ann Langer Foundation wasestablished in 1946 by friends and relatives of Langer, who died of cancer.The award honors Esther Langer, AnnLanger's sister-in-law, who was a found-ing member of the foundation, and ispresented annually for the outstandingcontribution to cancer research. TheKuwaiti prize will be presented everyfour years for the greatest contributionto cancer research in that time.In May, Rowley collected yet another honor when she was elected to theNational Academy of the Sciences.D'ANGELO GIVES $4 MILLIONFOR LAW LIBRARY ADDITIONDino D' Angelo, AB'42, JD'44, a senior partner in the Chicago law f irm ofFriedman and Koven will donate $4 million in his family's name for a six-story,38,000 square-foot addition to the lawlibrary.D' Angelo 's gif t incorporâtes a $1million gif t announced in 1982.The addition will provide space for250,000 books. The existing library, built4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Sr .in 1957, is f illed to capacity with 300,000volumes. Another 75,000 books arestored at other campus libraries. Theexpanded facility to be called theD'Angelo Law Library, will also provideadditional space for faculty and administrative offices and allow for reallocation of more room for the moot courtand the Law Review.The addition will be sheathed inglass to complément the late EeroSaarinen's design of the current library.W. Kent Cooper, a Washington, D.C.architect who served as design masterfor Saarinen's original plan for the LairdBell Law Quadrangle, is in charge of theproject. Kevin Roche, Saarinen's chiefdesign associate, will be design consultant for the addition.D'Angelo was born in Italy in 1920,the son of a storekeeper. He emigratedto the US with his family as a child.D'Angelo said the gif t is something hefeels he owes to the University. "I believe that we ail hâve debts to pay andeach pays them in his own way. Debts toinstitutions that 'shape you or save you'are harder to satisfy since the obligation was neither negotiated nor freelyaccepted. . . . Actually thèse debts cannever be repaid; the debtor can onlyhope to match the obligation. Perhapsthis gif t helps me to achieve parity."A real estate developer as well as alawyer, D'Angelo has acquired severalChicago office buildings, including theCivic Opéra House and the BritannicaCentre.GOLDSTINEHEADSPHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETYMathematicianHermanH. Goldstine,SB'33, SM'34, PhD'36, was elected executive off icer of the American Philosoph-ical Society last January. The Society wasfounded by Benjamin Franklin and isthe nation 's oldest learned organization.Approximately 100 of the society's 650members are Nobel lauréates. TwentyUniversity faculty members belong tothe society.Goldstine had been a permanentmember of the Institute for AdvancedStudy in Princeton, N.J. and was an IBMresearch fellow there. He began his académie career at Chicago as a researchassistant. Goldstine also taught at theUniversity of Michigan bef ore moving tothe Institute for Advanced Study in 1942 as an assistant project director for theelectronic computer project.During World War II, Goldstineplayed a vital rôle in the development ofENIAC and EDVAC, the f irst electroniccomputers. At IBM, Goldstine served asdirector of the math sciences departmentand director of scientific development.In 1970, he turned his attention to thehistory of science. His five books includea history of computers, The Computerfrom Pascal to von Neumann.Goldstine is a member of the University's Visiting Committee to the Division of the Physical Sciences. He is arécipient of the University's ProfessionalAchievement Award. He holds degreesfrom the University of Lund, Sweden;Adelphi University, Long Island, NY;and Amherst Collège, Amherst, MA.MELLON FOUNDATION GIVES$1.3 MILLION TO CAMPAIGNFOR ARTS AND SCIENCESA $1.3 million grant to the University's Campaign for the Arts and Sciencesfrom the Andrew W. Mellon Foundationhas brought the total of donations to thedrive to more than $44 million.The campaign began April 15. Itsf ive-year goal is $150 million for supportin stimulating new approaches to teach-ing and research in the Collège, the divisions, the Oriental Institute, and thelibrary. The money will also be used toprovide increased fellowships andteaching internships for graduate students, support for junior faculty in thehumanities, and for the establishment ofa spécial humanities fund.RESEARCHER LINKSDWARFISMTOGENETICMUTATIONMédical Center scientist Charles M.Strom, PhD'77, MD'79, has determinedthat achondroplasia, the most commonform of dwarf ism, is probably the resuitof a defect in the gène that codes for theproduction of a protein that is a majorcomponent of cartilage. Achondroplasiais the failure of normal development ofcartilage.Strom, an associate professor in thedepartment of pediatrics and with theJoseph R Kennedy Jr. Mental Retarda- tion Research Center at the médical center, presented his f indings to the May 3meeting in San Francisco of the Societyfor Pédiatrie research.Achondroplasia is the most common of the approximately 30 diseasescalled chondrodystrophies or skeletaldysplasias. The condition results inshort limbs and a large head. Other fea-tures, which may require surgical correction, are bowlegs, curvature of thelower spine, and narrowing of thespinal canal.Achondroplasia occurs in 1 out of26,000 live births.Strom, who worked with William B.Upholt, a research associate in the department of pediatrics, found the genet-ic defect in a 14-month old girl who is apatient at the médical center's WylerChildren's Hospital. Strom comparedthe child's DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid,the blueprint for an individual's geneticmake-up) with DNA from each of herparents. In both parents, the gène wasnormal. However, the child was missingat least one-third of the gène, Strom saidBecause this particular gène is large,there is no certainty that other peoplewith achondroplasia hâve the same defect. But it is likely that many peoplewith achondroplastic dwarf ism willhâve a defect in that gène, Strom said.Finding a genetic basis for achondroplasia may allow for prénatal diagno-sis and for gène therapy in the future.Currently however, there is no way toprevent the disease, nor is there a non-surgical means of treating it.CENTER FOR CONTINUINGEDUCATION CONVERTED TONEW GRADUATE RESIDENCEIt used to be that when peoplewalked into the former Center for Con-tinuing Education at the corner of Kim-bark Avenue and 60th Street, theywould be carrying a small overnightcase or, at the most, a weekend bag.That ail changed last fall, when the center reopened as the New Graduate Résidence Hall and 138 students moved inwith ail the traditional paraphernalia ofacadémie life— stéréos, plants, and afour-season wardrobe.The Center closed in November of1982, following the recommendations ofa faculty commission that found while(Above) View ofthe lobby ofthe GraduateRésidence Hall from the second floor lounge.(Below, right) Two résidents use the exerciseroom in the Graduate Résidence Hall. (Above,right) Wendy Wallner, a student in the Graduate School of Business, makes lunch in thekitchen ofthe Graduate Résidence Hall.participation in continuing éducationand conférences was increasing, use ofthe building was decreasing. The décline was attributed to the availability ofmany compétitive hôtels in Chicago,especially the Hyde Park Hilton.During the conversion from ahôtel to a graduate résidence, a faculty-student committee met to help planchanges. When Edward Durell Stonedesigned the Center in the early 1960s, itcontained 120 hotel-type guest rooms.Little work was done to those existingguest rooms, other than convertingthem from double to single rooms, atthe suggestion of the committee. Mostwork took place on the f irst and secondfloors. Meeting rooms on the secondfloor were converted into dormitoryrooms. A kitchen, dining room, exerciseroom, laundry and récréation roomwith ping-pong tables and vending machines were also created on the secondfloor, ail from former meeting rooms.6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984The f irst floor now has a télévisionroom, a large meeting room, a computerroom with three terminais, and twosmall rooms for meetings or studying. Inaddition, four bedrooms reserved forhandicapped students were added onthe f irst floor. An apartment was createdfor the faculty résident head, JosephIsenbergh, assistant professor in theLaw School.The cost of the remodeling andrénovation was $1,080,000, accord-ing to University project architectDennis Dills.KUDOSThree 1983 graduâtes of the Collègeare récipients of the prestigious MellonFellowship in the Humanities for1984-85. The fellowship, awarded forthe f irst time for the 1983-84 académieyear, provides for full tuition at the graduate school of the student's choice and agenerous stipend. The awards are madefor one year of study and may be re-newed for an additional year or years.Stéphanie Levy, AB'83, GeneralStudies in the Humanities/comparative literature; Laura Perez, AB'83, AM'83,Spanish; and Martin Schoenhals, AB'83,anthropology, received the awards.Elaine Fuchs, assistant professor inthe department of biochemistry; PeterW. Jones, associate professor in the department of mathematics; and ThomasF. Rosenbaum, assistant professor in thedepartment of physics, hâve been namedPresidential Young Investigators by theWhite House Office of Science andTechnology Policy.The three are among 200 universityscientists and engineers receiving upto $100,000 a year for f ive years. Theamount includes a $25,000 base grantfrom the National Science Foundationand up to $37,500 a year from NSF tomatch contributions from industry. Theawards support research by facultymembers near the beginning of theiracadémie careers and are intended tohelp universities retain talented re-searchers who might otherwise pursuenonacademic careers. Rosenbaum isalso the récipient of a $25,000 Alfred PSloan Foundation Award. DavidGalenson, associate professor in thedepartment of économies, and DavidLynn, assistant professor in the depart ment of chemistry, also received Sloanawards.Four graduate students are therécipients of the $7,500 Charlotte W.Newcombe doctoral dissertation fel-lowships for 1984-85. They are MarciaBunge, MST'79; Karen Guberman,AB'75, AM'79; and William Schweiker,ail of the Divinity School, and JudNewborn, AM'77, of the anthropologydepartment. The fellowships are admin-istered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and are designed to support students for 12 months of full-time dissertation work.Milton Singer, PhD'40, professoremeritus in anthropology and the PaulKlapper Professor Emeritus of SocialSciences in the Collège, is the f irst récipient of the Distinguished ScholarshipAward of the Association for AsianStudies. Barbara M. Stafford, professorof art, has been named a WoodrowWilson Fellow for 1984-1985. She willspend the year at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Stephen Gluck, assistant professor of medicine, has received a Searlescholarship; a three-year, $157,500 grantfor his research on cellular régulation ofa transporting enzyme. EdwardManouelian, a junior in the Collège, isone of 67 students in the US to receivean NEH stipend for summer researchthis year. Manouelian is a Slavic lan-guages and literatures major.John E Gould Jr. MBA'63, PhD'66,dean of the Graduate School of Business, has been named DistinguishedService Professor and George E. Block,professor in the department of surgeryhas been named the Thomas D. JonesProfessor. Président Gray announcedthe appointments in April.Four members of the faculty hâvewon John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships for 1984. They are John A.Brinkman, professor in the OrientalInstitute; Elizabeth Helsinger, associateprofessor in English; John A. Simpson,the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in Physics;and George Stocking, professor in anthropology and director of the MorrisFishbein Center for the Study of Science& Medicine.Jack Halpern, Louis Block Professorin the Department of Chemistry, wasone of four Illinois scientists elected inMay to the National Academy of theSciences. S7The PressWhere "Least-Sellers" OftenTurn Out to be "Landmarks"w ILLIAMRAINEYHarper wouldbe pleased.In October,1890, he presented the Board ofTrustées withOfficiai Bulletin No. 1, which listed "TheUniversity Publication Work" as one ofthree gênerai divisions of the universityhe planned to launch.Harper, writes Thomas WakefieldGoodspeed, in A History of the Universityof Chicago, "wasaprofoundbelieverinthepower of the printed page. Through thePress he believed the usefulness of theUniversity would be immensely enlargedand carried to the ends of the earth...hisheart was set on building the UniversityPress into the System, making it not an incident, an attachment, but one of the greatdivisions ofthe University, an organic partof the institution."Today, the University of Chicago Pressis the largest university press in the coun-try. It has also been called, on good au-thority the best university press in thecountry. Publishers and academiciansalike hâve praised it as a leader in innova-tive scholarly publishing. It has receivedgrants, citations, and accolades in Worldwide récognition of its excellence.With an annual sales volume of $17million resulting from a yearly produc tion of about 240 new titles (half in hard-cover, half in paperback), 45 periodicals,and a backlist of more than 3,000 works,the Press is twice as large as the next largest of the nation's approximately 81 académie presses, and many times largerthan most of thèse.Only the Anglo-American Oxfordand Cambridge University presses arelarger, but they had a head start. "Theyhâve about 500 years on us," notes MorrisPhilipson, AB'49, AM'52, director of thePress.In April, Anthony Yu, PhD '69, professor in the Divinity School, the department of Far Eastern languages and civili-zations, the department of English, theCommittee on Social Thought, and theCollège, was awarded the 1983 Gordon J.LaingPrize for his book, The fourney to theWest. The prize is given annually by theBoard of University Publications to the"faculty author, editor, or translator ofthe book published during the precedingtwo years which adds the greatest distinction to the list of the University ofChicago Press."Yu translated those four volumesfrom the Chinese . Based on the actual pil-grimage of the monk Hsuan-tsang toIndia in the early seventh century thestory was handed down orally for almosta thousand years before being writtendown in 1592, during the Ming dynasty. THE JUNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO PRESSThe plaque (above) was, for years, on theexteri-or of the original Press building, seen at leftthrough a window of the AdministrationBuilding, current home ofthe Press.The fourney to the West tells of the monkTripitaka, who was sent to heaven inquest of the basic Buddhist scriptures,accompanied by the Sand Monk, theMonkey King, and Idiot, the pig spirit.Yu's brief, informai remarks on ac-cepting the Laing prize illuminate someof the reasons why the Press has achievedits enviable réputation."Fourteen years ago," Yu recounted,"a naive assistant professor approachedMorris Philipson, the director of the Press,to ask if he would sponsor a mammoth un-dertaking, the translation of this work."This was in the face of strong rumorsthat a translation of this work had alreadybeen begun by another person with thebacking of the People 's Republic of China.I pointed this out to Morris."Heaskedme, 'Doyoureally wanttodo this?'A LEADER IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, THEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS WILLINGLYTAXES ON PROJECTS NO COMMERCIAL HOUSEWOULD CONSIDER-AND WINS ACCOLADES."Isaid, 'I don'tknow how many versions there are of the lliad or the Odyssey,but I think this work can stand twoversions.' "When Yu's work was completed lastyear, reviewer David Lattimore, whoteaches Chinese at Brown University,commented:"The appearance of the fourth volume now— the f irst three were issued in1977, 1978, and 1980-completes one of thegreat ventures of our time in humanistictranslation and publication."This willingness to back projectsdeemed worthy by the Press's editors, re-gardless of how much time it might taketo complète each one, combined with af ierce dedication to excellent scholarshipand an equally strong adhérence to impeccable standards for editing and production, are what hâve earned the Pressa réputation as the "best" in its f ield.In its f irst couple of years, the University did not hâve funds forestablishing a press and arrangements were made with D.C.Heath & Co. of Boston to run ittemporarily. By 1894, Harper was able tobring the Press to campus, conferring onit the status of an académie department.Over the next eight years, the Presspublished 200 scholarly books, predomi-nantly in éducation, literature, politicaleconomy the sciences, and Semitic lan-guages. It also began publishing a dozenjournals in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, biblical studies, botany andsociology. During those first years thePress was, in effect, a house publisher. Itwas not until 1905 that scholarship fromoutside the University was published un-der the Chicago imprint. Today, about aquarter of the Press's authors are University of Chicago faculty.The Press dépends on the Universitymore for editorial than for financial support. Ail books the Press publishes mustfirst be approved by the 14-member Boardof University Publications, which includesfaculty members, the provost, and theprésident of the University. Faculty members consider it an honor to be selected bythe provost to sit on the Board.Review by the Press's Board cornesonly after a manuscript has made itthrough a number of earlier stages. Man-uscripts are first read by the Press's acquisitions editors. If a work is deemed worthyof publication, it is passed on to two experts in the subject, who report on themanuscript's scholarly merit. Finally the Board reviews thèse manuscript évaluations, or the manuscripts themselves,and makes a judgment. University faculty members get one considération thatother authors do not: No editor may rejectthe work of a member of the Chicago faculty unless a négative référée 's reportfrom an outside expert is received. Presseditors may reject other manuscripts ontheir own authority.The Press does not hâve a standingendowment, as do other large académiepresses such as the Harvard UniversityPress, or a subsidy from the University asdo many smaller university presses. In-stead, the University advances the Pressmoney each year for operating expenses,which the Press pays back— with interest.Unlike a commercial press, the University of Chicago Press is under no obligation to turn a profit. As a non-profitorganization, ail it must do is break even.It has been doing just that for more than25 years.Because its primary concern is its contribution to scholarship and not to thecheckbook, the Press can invest time onprojects it deems worthy even thoughsome of those might take décades tocomplète.The Lisle Letters was one such project.Begun in London in 1930, it was finallypublished by the Press in 1981. In 1930,the Elizabethan scholar Muriel St. ClareByrne had the idea of editing the exten-sive and well-preserved 16th-century cor-respondence of Viscount Lisle, EdwardIV's illegitimate son. Her project earnedthe enthusiastic support of one T. S . Eliot,then a director of the British publishinghouse of Faber & Faber, who signed her toa contract in 1941. During the 1960s, withthe project still growing, the University ofChicago Press agreed to be the Americanco-publisher. But as the immensity of theproject became apparent, Faber & Faberpulled out, leaving Byrne and the Presswith 23 volumes of manuscript materialand little prospect of getting it into print.Philipson himself finally raised the money needed to publish the six-volumework, with more than half the fundingcoming from the Joseph Regenstein Foundation. When The Lisle Letters appeared in1981, it was widely hailed as a monumentof historical scholarship, and received theCarey-Thomas Award for the Best Example of Creative Publishing, from R. R.Bowker Company and Publishers Weeklymagazine. J. H. Plumb, reviewing thework in the New York Times Book Review,called it "one of the most extraordinaryhistorical works to be published in the century." And Keith Thomas, in the London Sunday Times wrote: "The achieve-ment is remarkable. We can really hearthe people of early Tudor England talk-ing." The Press has recently published asingle- volume abridgment of the letters.The Press hadn't even sent off TheLisle Letters when it embarked on a yetmore massive undertaking. The existingtexts of Giuseppe Verdi's opéras and othermusical works are not always clear. ThePress is now correcting the works, in whateminent musicologist Robert Craft hascalled, "the most valuable undertaking ofits kind in the history of music publicationin the United States": a 37-volume criticalédition of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi,under the gênerai editorship of PhilipGossett, professor and former chairmanof the department of music. Each volumeconsists of a standardized, full orchestralscore and a companion volume of criticaland editorial commentary. Rigoletto, edit-ed by Martin Chusid of New York University was the first volume to be published,in March, 1983. Donal Henahan, musiccritic of the New York Times, said it illustrat-ed "the state of the art in musical scholarship," and music scholars around theworld hâve called it a landmark. They'renot holding their breaths for the rest of thevolumes, though, since the séries is pro-jected to take at least 30 years to complète.Another Press book, Sic et Non, PeterAbailard's philosophical discourse onGod, création and the nature of man,published in 1978, required 43 years, evenwith two translators."We do tend to spend time on ourbooks," acknowledged Philipson. "Butthe purpose of a university press is notspeed, it's scholarship and accuracy"Speed, however, is a relative at-tribute. It's expected that religion scholarJacob Neusner, of Brown University whobegan his 35-volume translation of thePalestinian Talmud in 1982, will complètethe project by 1990— seven years ahead ofschedule. Such dedication has earnedhim the name "Fast Jack" at the Press.One reason the Press can balance itsbudget while undertaking projects of extraordinary magnitude is that, unlikecommercial publishers, it can seek subsi-dies or grants. The National Endowmentfor the Humanities subsidizes the production of certain works, which it sélectsthrough an involved application process.Manufacturing costs for A Historical Atlasof South Asia were f inanced largely by pri-vate donations. Publication of Rigolettowas supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,10 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGA7INIF/q..mm,.r 1984mm KThe Press's senior editors, starting left front, clockwise. Karen Wilson, AB'74, AM'77, art history and criticism; Geoffrey Huck, économies and lin-guistics; Barbara Hanrahan, (seated) ÀM'70, literary criticism and theory, religious studies; David Brent, anthropology, philosophy, psychology;Pénélope Kaiserlian, (center, seated) associate director ofthe Press; SusanAbrams, history and philosophy of science; John Tryneski, AB '76, politicalscience; Margaret Hivnor, AM'77, paperbacks; Douglas Mitchell, AB'65, sociology, history"EVERY EDITOR DREAMS OF DISCOVERINGSOME LONELY GENIUS WHO HAS ANEARTH-SHATTERING PROJECT TO OFFER.AND IT DOES HAPPEN. RARELY, BUT IT DOES."The editors ofTHECmcAGoMANUAL ofStyle, Bruce Young, AB'38, AM'40, and Catherine Seybold.the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund forMusic, Inc. and especially by Brena D.and Lee A. Freeman, Chicago patrons ofthe arts.Last f ail, the Press received a $250,000challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant,which must be matched three-for-one byfunds raised from private donors, is toestablish an endowment of $1 million tosupport publications in the humanities.The Press was the only university pressamong the approximately 75 cultural andeducational institutions receiving suchgrants.Projects like The Lisle Letters and TheWorks of Verdi are glamorous compared tomost of the Press's publications. Philipsonstresses that most of what they do at thePress is less spectacular. That, af ter ail, isone reason for the Press's existence. Forexample, a commercial press would rare-ly if ever, print a book that stood to sellonly a thousand copies, since the printingcosts per copy are much higher for a smallrun. Such books must either be high-priced or low-prof it earners.At the University of Chicago Press it'snot unusual to print just a thousand cop ies of a book . It's also more f easible for thePress to keep a slow-but-steady seller inprint for many years. Next fall, the Presswill publish the Lucidarium of Marchettoof Padua, a critical translation by JanHerlinger, PhD'78, of a 14th-century musical treatise. It is expected to sell 750 copies over two years. That's the kind of project that would be laughed out the door ata commercial house but epitomizes themission of a scholarly press.The chance to fulf ill that charge waswhat lured director Philipson back to theMidway from a successful career in NewYork 's publishing world. When Philipsonleft his position as senior editor at BasicBooks to become executive editor at Chicago in 1966, he did so because "it became in-creasingly obvious to me that the kind ofbook I most enjoy doing became less andless désirable at a commercial house."Philipson recalls working at RandomHouse, where he directed the publicationof a collection of Jean-Paul Sartre 's philo-sophical writings. "The print run was5,000 copies. It came out in early Septem-ber (1964) and in October Sartre won theNobel Prize for literarure. The 5,000 copies were exhausted within a few months and they didn't want to reprint it."Philipson no longer has such frustrations. When the Press published the Eng-lish translation of Sartre 's The Family Idiota critic for The New Republic commented:"It looks as if the University of ChicagoPress has committed a commercially suicidai act of cultural heroism."In the person of Philipson, the Presshas as its director one of the most respect-ed figures in publishing today In Decem-ber, 1982, Philipson became the first director of an académie press ever to win thecountry's highest award given by authors,the Publisher Citation from PEN (Poets,Playwrights, Essayists, Editors, and Nov-elists, an international writers' organiza-tion.) The award praised Philipson forhaving "raised the University of ChicagoPress to its place as the best university press in the country." His colleaguesécho that view. Alfred Knopf, for whomPhilipson used to work, calls his formeremployée "a remarkable man." Knopf,generally regarded as the dean of American publishing, admits, "I do not under-stand how he manages as much as hedoes. He has been an extraordinary phe-nomenon since he took that job."Jack Goellner, director of the JohnsHopkins University Press, f inds Philipsonequally impressive. "He's a guy whothinks no small thoughts," Goellner said."He seems to hâve a breadth of vision notavailable to the rest of us." Such admiration may be due in part to Philipson'sother accomplishments: he has published his own scholarly work on Jungianaesthetics (the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University), Ald-ous Huxley, Leonardo da Vinci, and LéoTolstoy He also has written four published novels.Philipson scored another first as director of an American university presswhen he was invited to the Queen's Gar-den Party in 1981, following publicationof The Lisle Letters.. Queen Elizabeth IIwas among the donors who helped de-fray the costs of publication of the work.Philipson accompanied the editor, MurielSt. Clare Byrne, to Buckingham Palace.Philipson directs a staff of 223. Thisincludes 94 in the Journals Division (someof them off-campus editors); 66 in theBooks Division (this includes 13 in production and design, 12 manuscript editors, and 13 editors and editorial assistants in acquisitions); and 61 in thebusiness office and warehouse.The Press, like any good publishinghouse, serves as an excellent trainingground for editors. Press employées hâveUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984lef t to head other university presses or totake administrative positions in publishing houses. Currently John Ryden, former editor-in-chief at the Press is director of the Yale University Press; AllenFitchen, former editor for humanities, isdirector of the University of WisconsinPress; Wendy Strothman, former editor,is director of Beacon Press in Boston.Philipson attributes much of the Press'ssuccess to its close working relationshipwith the University. He is especially ad-miring of Harper's foresight in planningfor that relationship. "He was a genius,"Philipson said. "He envisaged a university from scratch, and his conception in-volved publication of the research doneby faculty. No other university in thecountry has a press that was an intégralpart from the beginning."At the Press, success is measured incritical esteem, not in dollars. The ChicagoTribune dubbed the Press "The King of theLeast-Sellers." Edward Shils, X'37, the Distinguished Service Professor in theDepartment of Sociology and the Committee on Social Thought, once quipped,"I'd consider the Press a failure if any ofits books became a best-seller."Despite Shils's tongue-in-cheek protestations, the Press has had its share ofbest-sellers, even if most do not quitequalify as commercial blockbusters. StreefCorner Society, the mémorable sociologi-cal study of a Boston Italian slum circa1943, by William Foote Whyte, PhD'43,has sold 235,000 copies. A River RunsThrough It, published in 1976 as the firstwork of fiction by Norman Maclean,PhD'40, the William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus of English, (who wrote itat the âge of 73) sells at a rate of 13,000 pa-perback copies annually (A new hard-cover édition of A River Runs Through Itwas issued last year, with photographs byMaclean 's son-in-law, Joël Snyder, SB'61,associate professor in the Committeeon Art and Design and chairman of the Committee on General Studies in theHumanities.) The Press's all-time best-seller is Kate Turabian's A Manualfor Writ-ersofTermPapers, Thèses, and Dissertations,which has sold 4.1 million copies since itwas published in 1937. (Turabian, now re-tired, was for 25 years editor of officiaiuniversity publications and dissertationsecretary.) The ubiquitous guide continues to sell more than 150,000 copies a year,and is of ten as basic a component of a collège student's accoutrements as is a Shetland sweater. Another mainstay of thePress is The Chicago Manual of Style, firstpublished in 1906. Nearly 80 years later, itis now in its 13th édition, and still sells arespectable 18,000 copies a year. More-over, The Manual, a detailed guide to ev-ery step of book production, from copyediting to design and typography, is re-garded as the "bible" of style books bywriters and editors.The Press counts on the continuingsignificance of the books it publishes,T.H. PLUMB, IN HIS REVIEW OF THE LISLELETTERS, IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW:"ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARYHISTORICAL WORKS IN THE CENTURY."both to fulfill its charge and to supportitself. About two-thirds of the Press's income from book sales cornes from itsbacklist, and half of that amount cornesfrom the sale of about 100 titles, the Press'sperennial best-sellers.Some of the books that hâve becomebreadwinners for the Press were surprises, like Maclean 's ARiverRuns ThroughIt, which commercial publishers rejected.While that success pleased the people atthe Press, perhaps nothing is so gratifyingas when a ground-breaking work of scholarship helps to pay the bills in the bargain.Thomas Kuhn's book, The Structure ofSci-entific Révolutions, is probably the most in-f luential work published by the Press. It isnot only widely used in studies of science,but it has inf luenced studies of other disciplines as well. Since publication in 1962, ithas sold some 594,000 copies, and continues to sell at the rate of about 26,000 copiesa year. Stanley Elkins's Slavery: A Problem inAmerican Institutional and Intellectual Life,which the Press published in 1959, was instrumental in the émergence of black studies as an académie discipline and has soldalmost 200,000 copies.An even chancier gamble paid of f in1980, when the Press published a historybook which the author had withdrawnfrom Yale University Press. Although ithad a controversial subject and footnotesin 12 languages, Philipson says he wasmore impressed by "how exceptionallyreadable, how interesting and entertain-ing the book was." Readers and criticshâve borne him out. The book, JohnBoswell's Christianity, Social Tolérance, andHomosexuality, went on to win critical ac-claim, numerous readers (it has sold morethan 39,000 copies to date, an unusuallyhigh number for a university press) andthe American Book Award for history.Boswell's path to the Press was typi-cal of ways in which the Press's editorsfind projects to présent to the editorialboard. Each editor nurtures a network of"like-minded" experts in his or her ownf ield, according to history and sociologyeditor Douglas Mitchell, AB'65. (Mitchellalso spent five years as a graduate student in the University's Committee onIdeas and Methods.) The network assistsin the pre-screening of books, a processMitchell calls "gate-keeping"— the intimation being that if no one watches thegâte the editor gets flooded with moreproposais than he or she could possiblyread. The traditional conception of an editor as someone who ambles into his office, has some coffee, and waits for manuscripts to arrive in the morning mail and Average sales per year(for still active titles) Total Salesto 3/84150,000 paper900 cloth 4,097,25950,000 paper400 cloth 1,208,060THE TOP TEN: THE PRESS'S BEST-SELLERSKateL. TurabianA Manual For Writers ofTerm Papers, Thèses,and DissertationsKate L. TurabianA Studenfs Guide forWriting Collège PapersRichmond Lattimore (trans.)The Iliad of HomerCarlos Castillo & Otto F.Bond (comp.)The University of ChicagoSpanish DictionaryDavid Grene & RichmondLattimore (eds.)Aeschylus IDavid Grene & RichmondLattimore (eds.)Sophocles IThomas S. KuhnThe Structure of Scientif icRévolutionsDavid Grene & RichmondLattimore (eds.)The Complète GreekTragédies, Vol. IMilton FriedmanCapitalism and FreedomJ.M. Powis Smith et al(éd. & trans.)The Complète Bible: AnAmerican Translation 26,00045,000 paper2,000 cloth17,00024,00026,00014,00014,000 1,013,463782,012682,809609,305593,926547,201474,309450,00014 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO M AG AZINE/Summer 1984then spends the day reading is far fromthe reality of the job, Mitchell said. Mostof a Press editor's day is spent dealingwith administrative détails, writing grantapplications, talking with members ofthe"network," and cultivating authors whoare proven successes. "It's a tricky thingto hang on to a successful author,"Mitchell said, but added, "bonds of loy-alty and trust develop if things hâve gonewell." Still, the process takes work and re-quires keeping in touch through visits,conventions, and phone calls. "The dayswhen you routinely remembered birth-days and anniversaries and sent cardsand f lowers are long over," Mitchell saidwith a smile. In 1984, an editor has to bepart Maxwell Perkins and part LeeIacocca. "The volume of paper that cornesthrough hère is just vast and it can beoverwhelming," Mitchell said. He doesread manuscripts, of course, but as a rulehe reads them at home at night and on theweekends.Manuscripts arrive at the Press ina variety of "accidentai and serendipi-tous ways, including over the transom,"Mitchell said, but the grapevine is "prob-ably the most reliable tool editors hâve infinding new projects." John Boswell'saward-winning book is a grapevine acquisition and is perhaps the "most spec-tacular success" of this kind the Press hashad, Mitchell said. Boswell was deter-mined that the publisher of his book,which Mitchell said "almost single-handedly established gay studies as alegitimate académie enterprise," be a"staid, prestigious university press thatwould know how to handle the reviewprocess, to take it in front of the faculty."According to Mitchell, Jaroslav Pelikan, aYale University colleague of Boswell's anda University of Chicago Press author, sug-gested that Boswell try Chicago. Boswellcontacted Mitchell and immediatelygained an ally "The minute I read hisone-page proposai I thought we were re-ally onto something hot," Mitchell said.The task then was to f ind reviewers whowould give a dispassionate appraisal of asubject to which many people hâve deep-ly ingrained emotional or religious re-sponses. Mitchell said he conducted a"careful sounding out of potential reviewers, not to préjudice the case in f avorof the book, but simply to get a neutralhearing." The neutral hearing was ob-tained and the book published to tremen-dously favorable reviews. But the Pressonly acquired the manuscript afterBoswell ascertained that it could meet hisexacting spécifications for placing foot- notes at the bottom of each page (a process that has become much easier and lessexpensive in the past few years withadvances in computerized pagination)and for typesetting the multi-lingualfootnotes.Boswell is not the only Press writer tocheck out a potential publisher as thor-oughly as publishers scrutinize potentialauthors. Pénélope Kaiserlian, the Press'sassociate director, said one scholar did hisown market research by asking ail of thebookstore owners or managers in Cambridge, MA for an opinion on the best university publisher. The Press won the poil."I was very pleased to hâve our réputation confirmed by our customers,"Kaiserlian said.Sometimes manuscripts reach thePress in much less calculated ways.Mitchell was sitting in his office lookingout over the quadrangles one day whenthe phone rang. His caller was Gary AlanFine, a sociologist from the University ofMinnesota, who was passing throughHyde Park on his way to the Folklore Institute in Indiana. Fine had a proposai fora study of fantasy games, such as Dun-geons and Dragons. Since this was six orseven years ago and the game was just be-ginning to be known outside of its devo-tees, Mitchell said he had no idea of whatFine was talking about, "but it soundedintriguing." The resuit? Fine's SharedFantasy: Role-Playing Games as SocialWorlds was published in 1983. Anotherbook American Sociology and Pragmatism:Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction by J. David Lewis and Richard L.Smith was published after someone—Mitchell still doesn't know who— senthim a copy of the Notre Dame sociologydepartment's newsletter that discussedthe work of the authors. Discoveries likethose and a 1981 book, Oral History andDelinquency.TheRhetoricofCriminologyhyJames Bennett, AM'65, PhD'72, are partof what make the editor's job exciting.Success is even more fun when it cornesfrom unexpected or neglected quarters.Bennett had a doctorate but was unaf f ili-ated with a university and unemployedwhen he asked the Press if he could see itsfiles on sociologists of the 1920s and1930s. Mitchell met Bennett and learnedthat an earlier version of Bennett's bookhad been rejected by the Press. But theeditor liked the sound of this "maverickstuf f that didn't fit any mold," and askedBennett to revise and resubmit his manuscript. "Every editor and gatekeeperdreams of discovering some lonely ge-nius who has an earth-shattering project to of fer. And it does happen. Rarely but itdoes," Mitchell smiled.£ £ ^W^^^\ arth-shattering"& * I « projects may be the^¦^ idéal object of theI . quest of a scholarlyJ^t^J publisher, but thePress's réputation is secure enough that itcan risk a little levity now and then. Versa-tility has long been one of the secrets of itssuccess. While it does release such recon-dite works as Rhythmic Gesture in Mozartand Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy,the Press has also reprinted works by hu-morists Robert Benchley and Will CuppyPhB'07, AM'14 and community organizerand activist Saul Alinsky PhB'30.It can also occasionally risk the un-usual. The Press will soon publish TheEater's Guide to Chinese Characters, byJames D. McCawley, SM'58, professor inthe departments of linguistics and FarEastern languages and civilizations. TheGuide is a gastronomie Berlitz manual,leading linguistically-disadvantaged Chinese food aficionados into untranslatedareas ofthe menu.While The Eater's Guide is not usualUniversity of Chicago Press fare, its publication is in many ways typical ofthe waythe Press does things. The Guide's scholarship is impeccable and its practicality isbeyond dispute.If the Guide does turn out to be a financial success, however, the Press willbe just that much more pleased. "It couldbe as successful as The Preppie Handbook,"mused Philipson, recalling a phenome-nally successful book published severalyears ago by the Workman Publishing Co."Or it can be a disappointment and not getmore than a thousand or a few thousandreaders. It's a wide-open gamble."Gamble or no, in its own way The Eater's Guide is still a scholarly work and that,of course, is what the Press is ail about.Quality is proven not only by numbers,but certain of the Press's statistics are es-pecially impressive. It has published, byone tally, 10 Pulitzer Prize winners and 16Nobel lauréates.Over the years, the Press's books hâvegarnered numerous prestigious prizes.Three of its authors hâve won NationalBook Awards: Howard Nemerov in 1978for The Collected Poems; William H.McNeill, AB'38, AM'39, the Robert A.Millikan Distinguished Service Professorin the Department of History and the Collège, in 1964 for The Rise of the West; andGeorge Schaller, in 1973, for The Serengeti15Lion. Nemerov's book also won the Pulitz-er Prize. The Press has been awarded theCarey-Thomas Award twice, once for TheLisle Letters and in 1943 for A Dictionary ofAmerican English on Historical Principles,edited by Sir William A. Craigie andJames R. Hulburt. To list just a few more:In 1980, John Dann's book, The RévolutionRemembered won the American Révolution Round Table award as best book ofthe year; in 1981, Stephen Greenblatt'sbook, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: FromMore to Shakespeare won the British Coun-cil Prize in the Humanities; and in 1982,Lawrence Lipking's book, The Life of thePoet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers,won the Christian Gauss Award from PhiBeta Kappa. Most recently, Costa RicanNatural History, edited by Daniel Janzen,professor of biology at the University ofPennsylvania, was awarded the annualR. R. Hawkins Award, by the Associationof American Publishers, as the outstand-ing technical, scientif ic, or médical bookofl983.The Press's books hâve won prizes fordesign, as well as for editorial content.The American Institute of Graphie Artsselected The Sensé ofUnity: The Sufi Tradition in Persian Architecture by NaderArdalan and Laleh Bakhtiar as one of theFifty Books of the Year, in 1974. And in1975, the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmerica named ThePrints of Rockwell Kentby Dan Burne Jones as one of the out-standing books of the year.The commitment that results in thèsesuccesses is costly. For every money-maker like the Manual of Style or A RiverRuns Through It the Press releases, itpublishes more than a dozen "least-sell-ers." Unfortunately it has been gettingharder than ever for the Press to continuepublishing such works to the extent itused to. The limited return on intenselyspecialized books, designed for limitedaudiences, can make their productioncosts prohibitive. And those for whomsuch books are designed— students andteachers — are often the least able to ab-sorb the added expense. The business ofpublishing demands that its participantsbe cautious.At the Press, Philipson and his staffare careful not to exercise that caution inthe form of editorial timidity. They are ex-perimenting to f ind ways of beating theeffects of inflation, through new develop-ments in print and computer technol-ogy and through innovative marketingtechniques.In one such move, the Press haslaunched Chicago Original Paperbacks. Thèse are books issued simultaneously incloth and paper bindings, the former,higher priced, for the library market, thelatter for individuals. The goal of this ven-ture is to make specialized monographs,with limited markets and short printruns, affordable to scholars. The prob-lems of inflation, together with declininglibrary sales, hâve meant that scholarssometimes hâve difficulty buying thebooks in their f ields."By placing a book in the ChicagoOriginal séries, we can extend the printrun somewhat, because we can count onindividual sales, while still setting theprice of the cloth édition at a price that willnot be a burden on libraries," explainedPhilipson. Chicago Original Paperbacksare priced at around $12.50 to $15.00 forthe paperback édition, which is a bargainfor scholars. That price is low enough sothat teachers sometimes can use the bookas an assigned course text.The Press has, as part of a more ag-gressive marketing strategy begun topick up books that commercial publishers hâve allowed to go out of print.Among the books the Press has acquiredare David Herbert Donald's CharlesSumner and the Corning of the Civil War,which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961;Howard Gardner's The Quest for Mind:Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the StructuralistMovement; and Richard R McKeon's Introduction to Aristotle. McKeon is theCharles F. Grey Distinguished ServiceProfessor Emeritus in the Departments ofClassical Languages and Literatures andPhilosophy.The Press also acquired a spoof onévolution called The Snouters, by HaraldStumpke, originally published by Dou-bleday & Co., which has sold more than4,000 copies so far. (Stumpke is a pseudo-nym for Gerolf Steiner.)For years, the Press has had its ownnational sales force, which is uncommonamong university presses. It continues touse large direct mailings and advertise-ments in general-interest periodicalssuch as the Village Voice, to reach a wideraudience.The Press recently has become moreactive in promoting foreign sales, whichnow account for approximately 18 percent of volume. In addition to its long-time London sales office, the Press hasjoined a consortium with the presses ofHarvard, Yale, M.I.T., and the Universityof California to retain représentatives inJapan and Canada. It is also part of agroup that promotes sales in LatinAmerica. For writers, publication by the Pressbrings professional récognition and thesatisfaction of knowing their books areIikely to be around for a while. JohnDewey's The School and Society, sold 2,000copies last year; it was first published in1899. Friedrich Hayek's 40-year-old book,The Road to Serfdom sold 2,000 copies lastyear, in a paperback édition which thePress first issued in 1956.Producing excellent translations ofworks written in languages other thanEnglish is another of the Press's directives.Rébellion in the Backlands, by Euclides daCunha, considered one of the most important books written by a Brazilian duringthis century sold 900 copies last year, 82years after it was initially published and 40years after it was reissued by the Press.The New York Times Book Review, in a front-page review, called da Cunha's book "aïiterary landmark." Da Cunha's book istypical of the Press's commitment to translation: last year, it published more translations than any other university press,mainly from French, but from Germanand Russian as well.In a move that may be compared tothe diversification of a stock portfolio, thePress sometimes looks for a gênerai read-ership in ways that won't put it in directcompétition with commercial publishers.For example, in its new Phoenix Fictionséries the Press has resurrected out-of-print novels by authors such as J.B.Priestley and Gabriel Fielding. ThePriestley books are Angel Pavement, TheGood Companions, and Bright Day. TheFielding novel is In the Time ofGreenbloom.The Press is the U.S. publisher of theworks of novelistR. K. Narayan, general-ly considered India's foremost English-language writer. One accomplishment inwhich Philipson takes spécial pride ishaving acquired the rights to a number ofthe works of the late Danish writer, IsakDinesen.Revived works, specialized works,manuals, emendations. Académie presses are often perceived as the collectors ofleftovers, the publishers of books commercial houses don't want. "There is adegree to which there is truth in that,"says Philipson. "But it's in no senséshameful. The choice of what theywouldn't touch is usually made on judg-ments of sales in terms of quantity notquality."Leftovers? Not by a long shot. Morelike food for thought for the connoisseur.And when the table is set by the University of Chicago Press, you can be sure that abanquet is at hand . slu UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAG AZINE/Summer 1984Philipson présides over an editorial meeting with (left), Margaret Hivnor, (right rear) Pénélope Kaiserlian, and (right front) Susan Abrams.AT THE PRESS, SUCCESS IS MEASURED INCRITICAL ESTEEM, NOT IN DOLLARS. THECHICAGO TRIBUNE DUBBED THE PRESS"THE KING OF THE LEAST-SELLERS.'// The Press • IIAcadémie JournalsA Mirror of Intellectual ChangeThinking small was not one ofWilliam Rainey Harper'sgreater attributes. In 1894, thesame year the Press moved tocampus from its original Boston office, he founded the Journals Division, with the idea that — eventually—every department at the University wouldhâve its own publication. If Harper'sdirective had been carried out precisely and each department, committee, or pro-gram at the University now had a journalto its name, there would be some 100 journals issuing from the Press.Harper's point, according to journalsmanager Jean Sacks, AB'39, was that "Ifwe're going to be a research institution,there 's no point in doing research if youcan't get it published." One hundredjournals might be too much to handle, both editorially and financially and theUniversity of Chicago Press, for whichthe Journals Division produces half thetotal annual income, has settled for a listof45. Some, such as Journal of Religion andthe Journal ofNear Eastern Studies are 100years old or more and were adopted bythe Journals Division at its founding.The list of titles of journals, alongwith the dates they were first published,provide a microcosmic history of thedevelopment of ideas and intellectualtrends. The history of académie scholarship has traveled a long and interestingroad from 1875's Botanical Gazette to 1903'sModem Philology to 1933's Econometrica to1960's Technology and Culture tol97Ts Adolescent Psychiatry to 1975's Signs: Journal ofWomen and Culture in Society. Signs wasfounded by Sacks. "That's my baby" shesaid. The founding of Signs was emblem-atic of the diversification of scholarlyfields. "It was started at a time whenwomen 's studies were not given much respect in académie circles. They are now,and Signs had a lot to do with that," Sackssaid. The founding of Signs "fostered a lotof research that would not hâve beendone bef ore because there was no place topublish it," she said. In its first years,Sacks said, the académie response toSigns was "'oh, please, won 'tit go a way?'But it hasn't gone away." The first year ofpublication Signs reached a circulation of8,200, a high figure for a Press journal,but soon settled down to 6,500. "Theythought it was going to be a sophisticatedMs." Sacks laughed. "They didn't knowit was going to be about académieresearch."The current multiplicity of scholarlyapproaches and points of view has madeit easier for writers to f ind a spécifie forumbut, at the same time, has made it harderJean Sacks, AB'39, assistant director of the University of Chicago Press and manager of thejournals division.I INIVFRÇTTV OR CHICAGO \A Ai" A -7iNrcic mo^àkW>- ???*>'.'?'Al-ii _JRKl fWVWi amuseîïcï AM AW1HfcM*lli>4t ^Ki^yW*C Ffe-i^u -Tunt-W-Pfr- Buttent tteym: * ty }P5^WI4TH.y+ RMir+fJMX JtMUl 4U fwlOi W ax. 88UtVf'W^W^^P^^^M^^ïï^^FROM THE 109-YEAR-OLD BOTANICALGAZETTE, TO THE 9-YEAR-OLD S/GNS, THEPRESS'S JOURNALS REFLECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLECTUAL TRENDS.for journals in gênerai to survive, Sackssaid. The Press publishes, and is commit-ted to continuing to publish, what Sackscalled a "f air number of what you wouldcall generalized journals, many of whichhâve an historical aspect. But with ail thissplintering and twigging, consumerstend to buy that specialized journal" tothe détriment of the more gênerai publications. Sacks said that Edward Garber,professor in the department of biology,the Collège, and the Committee onGenetics and editor of Botanical Gazette,remarked recently that, '"pretty soonyou're not going to hâve anyone who hasan overview/" a sentiment with whichshe agrées. "That's why we consider itvery important to keep thèse gênerai journals alive," Sacks said.Economies is not the deciding factorin whether the Press starts a new journalor continues an old one, but it does play alarge part. A proposai for a new journalarrives on Sacks's desk every few weeks.Of the more than 20 proposais receivedlast year two— the Journal ofLabor Economies and Molecular Biology and Evolution—were accepted. Proposais for journalscorne to the Press in various ways. The editor of an existing journal may be unhap-py with his or her publisher and ask thePress to take over that function. Or a journal may hâve outgrown the office andstudent help of the faculty member whostarted it. "Some of those (indepèndentjournals) get up to 1,500 or 2,000 (sub- scribers) and it's almost impossible tokeep it going. It's a real business opérationwhen it gets that large," Sacks said. Finally, someone may simply hâve an idea for ajournal that doesn't exist yet. Ail proposais or existing journals are examined and"if we décide it's editorially valid, then wedécide if we can publish it," Sacks said.Market research is conducted to see ifthere is a true need for the journal. "Wehope to be able to take a new journal andhâve it be self-supporting within three tof ive years," she said. "I don't think in thisbusiness you ever recover the original in-vestment, you just want to get it to thepoint where it pays for itself ." As a gênerairule, Sacks said, journals with a circulation of 2,500 or more meet that require-19ment. Income from subscriptions, about70 percent of which are taken by libraries,is supplemented by grants wheneverpossible.Specif icity, though it helps a journalfind its audience, does not promise lon-gevity. The defunct International Journal ofAmerican Linguistics died because it wastoo spécifie. The journal studied NativeAmerican languages, such as Coyote andMayan, Sacks said, and at its height hadbetween 350 and 400 subscribers. ThePress tried to save the journal by cuttingcosts and only producing it on microfilmrather than printing and binding it. "Itstill didn't pay" Sacks said. "Some ofthose languages only hâve about 10 people left who know them." Some ailingjournals fare better. Sacks recently spenta year searching for an editor for the fail-ing Physiological Zoology. She found oneand the journal is now doing much better. Recently, the Journals Division tookcharge of a new type of publication, thetri-annual Winterthur Portfolio of theWinterthur Muséum, in Winterthur, DE.Circulation was down and its former publisher, the University of Virginia Press,decided not to continue with it. The portfolio is still not doing well. "We've notbeen able to pull it out and I don't knowthat we ever will," Sacks said. Shesmiled. "It's very specialized, but I just lovethe thing."An answer to the Journals Division 'scirculation worries might be to aim themore widely-focused journals toward amore gênerai audience. But Sacks saidthat would defeat the Press's purpose."We are really geared to do académie research. We do it best. We are not geared tothe commercial world." Although thejournals are meant for a scholarly, ratherthan a popular, audience they do offersome timeliness to a Press which is moreconcerned with the timelessness of itsworks. Citing the late Professor of English Ronald Salmon Crane's adage thatevery book should be an article and ev-ery article should be a footnote,'" Sackssaid the quality of the scholarship in ajournal article is "exactly the same as abook, only in short form." The form alsomeans that the time needed to get intoprint, the crucial requirement of current'publish or perish' academia, is "muchf aster than a book; it's about nine monthsto a year faster," Sacks said. Because ofthis speed, scholars can and do use thejournals as forums for debate and exchange of fresh ideas. Robert Biggs, editor of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies,and professor in the Oriental Instituteand the department of Near Eastern Lan guages and Civilization, said, "We canoffer to get things into print fairly fast."Biggs, who is only the seventh editor inthe journal's 100-year history, also made apoint in favor of his publication 's moregênerai approach. "Covering a variety offields, we can be on top of whatever'sgoing on in terms of récent discoveries."The discussions held in the pages ofthe various journals can get feisty. Scholars are "ail prima donnas," Sacks saidwith a laugh. The vigor with which thedebates are conducted adds to their inter-est. Some notable exchanges hâve madetheir way from journal to book. On Meta-phor grew out of articles in Critical Inquiry,one of the liveliest of the Press's journals."Tom Mitchell (W.J.T. Mitchell, professorin the department of English languageand literature, the Committee on Art andDesign, and the Collège, and editor ofCritical Inquiry) is a great example ofsomeone who will publish things hedoesn't believe in at ail," Sacks said.A similar transition was made byan article written by Milton Friedman,AM'33, which reappeared in 1974 in bookform as Milton Friedman 's Monetary Framework: A Debate With Four OfHis Critics. OfFriedman and those critics, Sacks said,"I'm not too sure they don't ail hâte eachother." In académie terms, of course. SUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINF./Snmmm- 19S4The Press • IIIHappily Ever AfterChildren's Publishing Grows UpBy Marianne EismannOver the last 25 years or so,the question of what liter-ature is has been at thecenter of a number of académie haggles. Some participants in the discussion hâve suggestedthat instead of reserving the term "litera-ture" for works of fiction which are, or aredestined to be, "classics," the label mightbe applied to the best writing of any kindon any subject. Quality, rather than genre,would thus become the deciding factor.That argument is one that ZenaSutherland, AB'37, AM'66, has beenmaking for a long time. Sutherland is editor of the Bulletin ofthe Center for Children 'sBooks, and associate professor in theGraduate Library School. The insistenceon literary quality is the motivating factorin her reviews and her teaching. "Literary quality is as important in abook for a six-year-old as it is for a professor of English, Sutherland feels. And inthe 38 years since the now-internationalBulletin made its début as a mimeo-graphed f lyer circulating only within thewalls of Judd Hall and the department oféducation, the concern of readers forquality in children's literature has madeitself felt throughout the publishingindustry.The transformation— effected by theexpectations of those who read children'sliterature as well as in the intentions ofthose who produce it— ended the perception of children's literature as an "easymarket," Sutherland said. The change inattitude was brought about, in part, by"a lot of other people like me givingspeeches, and talking to librarians, parents, and teachers."Sutherland, who has worked as a consultant for children's programming atNBC, as a contributing editor to SaturdayReview and, since 1972, as the children'sbook editor for the Chicago Tribunespearheaded that transformation. Shehas contributed to dozens of publications, served on a gaggle of book awardjuries, and received numerous awards ofher own, including, in 1983, the American Library Association's prestigious GrolierAward, considered the Oscar of the children's literature business. A festschrift,Celebrating Children 's Books: Essays in Hon-or of Zena Sutherland, was published in1981 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books,New York. The book "was a very excitingthing for me because it was so personal,"she said, with ail of the contributorsIda Levine, a candidate for an M.A. in the Graduate Library School, examines books atthe Centerfor Children's Books in Regenstein Library21among her "dear friends." The book's editors, Betsy Hearne, AM'68, and MarilynKaye, PhD'83, respectively currentand former dissertation students ofSutherland's, hâve joined with Lothrop,Lee & Shepard in donating their royaltiesand earnings towards the annual ZenaSutherland Lecture on children's literature. Award- winning author and illustra-tor Maurice Sendak inaugurated the séries last year. This year 's lecture was givenby writer Lloyd Alexander.Quality is rewarded in other ways, aswell. In 1981, ScottO'Dell, author oilslandofthe Blue Dolphins and many other booksfor children, telephoned Sutherland aboutestablishing an award for historical fictionfor children.Elizabeth Speare became the first récipient of that prize April 24th, for her1983 Newbery Honor Book, The Sign ofthe Beaver. Speare received the $5,000award — the largest in the US for children's literature — at a ceremony at theOriental Institute 's Breasted Hall.Sutherland said O'Dell stipulatedthat the award be made not annually buton the basis of merit alone. "It took threeyears before we found a book which wethought to be worthy of the award,"Sutherland said. The Sign of the Beaver isabout an interracial friendship in colonialAmerica. Speare, whoisinherseventies,has "written very few books and ev-ery one of them has been superb,"Sutherland said. Speare's other booksinclude two Newbery Medal winners,1959's The Witch of Blackbird Pond and1962 's The B ronze Bow. Her other books areCalico Captive, Life in Colonial America, andThe Prospering.Despite the récognition of the effortsof Sutherland and her colleagues, themetamorphosis of the children's bookmarket from a prépondérance of fluf f tosubstance has been a slow one, she said.As buyers of children's books becamemore sophisticated, publishers "began tobe aware that there were consumers whowere demanding certain standards bemet, which is not to say there were neverany good books, which there were," shesaid. Critical controls, however, were absent. "What reviewing there was wasrather tepid and tended to be not only un-critical but accepting of really poor books,"she said. Sutherland said she doesn't believe that reviewers of the time were con-sciously doing a disservice to their readersbut that "apparently they felt you didn'thâve to be discriminating as with adultbooks."22 As the children's book industry grew,that belief was moved to a back shelf. Approximately 3,000 children's books are nowpublished annually — a rate Sutherlandtermed "not an explosion but a fairly rapidgrowth. Children's books hâve become bigbusiness." The greatest proportion of thatbusiness is done by libraries which, unlikein the adult market, buy more books thando bookstores.Despite their lion's share of the market, "most librarians can't afford to paysomeone to read books from cover to cov-er" to direct their purchasing, Sutherlandsaid. The Bulletin reviews nearly 800books a year in eleven issues, helping toguide librarians, teachers, and parents intheir choice of books for their clients, pu-pils, and children. For example, RichardDigance's 1983 Another Animal Alphabetwas not recommended by the Bulletin,which termed it "nonsense poetry aboutanimais, alphabetically arranged. Therhymes are often contrived, the scansionuneven, and the humor is the one appeal-ing facet of the poems, but it varies ineffectiveness."Carole S. Adler's The Shell Lady'sDaughter, also published in 1983, receiveda better write-up, on the basis of its literarymerits as well as for its story of a daughterwho leams that sometimes children hâveto be emotionally supportive of their parents. "Trenchant and touching, this is abook written with insight and compassion; the story has a natural f low and tightstructure, and the few characters aresharply-etched and psychologically intri-cate and believable," Sutherland wrote.Writers of children's books also find theBulletin useful, Sutherland said, in gaug-ing market demands and trends.Lest it ail sound too serious,Sutherland points out that "we certainlydo not ignore what might appeal to children" though the Bulletin reviews lookfor more than mère entertainment.Sutherland's ratings go from bookswhich are of "spécial distinction;" tothose that are recommended; of acceptable quality; of marginal quality but acceptable for collections with a spécialneed for the spécifie type of book; tobooks that are not recommended.New books and certain new éditionsof older books and classics are reviewed.For instance, a one-hundredth anniver-sary édition of Pinocchio was issued recently. Because the new edition's translation was différent from the standard one,Sutherland said she "took the trouble togo through it. I could find différent parts Zena Sutherlandin the way the author handled dialogue."So deciding what to review, since thereare so many books and only eleven issuesofthe Bulletin a year, is the combination ofSutherland's judgment and expérience.Her primary guidelines, however, arewhether she feels a book is good and de-serves récognition, if its author or illustra-tor has recently won an award, if its author or illustrator is renowned in his orher field, or if the subject is either ex-tremely popular or rarely touched on.Sutherland writes ail the reviews herselfafter weekly discussions with an adviso-ry committee, comprised of Ellin Greene,associate professor in the GraduateLibrary School; Isabel McCaul, AM'64,retired teacher and librarian from theUniversity Laboratory Schools; HazelRochman, MAT'74, Lab School teacherand librarian; Robert Strang, Lab Schoolteacher; and Yolanda Federici, retiredsupervisor of children's materials for theChicago Public Library, ail of whomSutherland said "give a great deal and ex-cept for their own interest get nothing outof it." The assessments include a synopsisof the story (if there is one) and a description of the book's purpose as well asSutherland's estimation of its success. Sowhen Sutherland recommended RobertCormier's 1983 novel, The BumblebeeFlies Anyway as a "tragic" and "stun-ning" book, she also noted its attention todevelopmental values of courage and ad-justment to death.In addition to editing the Bulletin,Sutherland directs the Center for Children's Books out of a few rooms tuckedUNIVERSITY OF CHIC AGO M un a micK.™™. ioaiaway on the f ourth floor of Regenstein Library. The Center, which was establishedin mid-1940s as an off shoot of the department of education's former Center forInstructional Materials, is essentially anexamination center for people, primarilylibrarians and teachers, who buy booksfor children. Holidays and birthdays,however, extend the pool of visitors toparents as well. "At Christmas they cornein droves," Sutherland said, and oftenask for individual recommendations onwhat books they should buy— requestsSutherland simply does not hâve time toanswer. Collège teachers also use theCenter as a tool for training studentteachers. The Center maintains a catalogof children's books, cross-referencedacross 11 catégories, helping researchersto locate books by author, title, subject,genre, curricularuse, developmental value, appeal, year of publication, type ofillustration, reading level (by grade inschool), and whether the book is part of aséries. Publishers send their new booksto the Center for review; older books areacquired in a variety of ways. "By beg-ging, borrowing, and stealing, we hâveacquired ail of the classics and even some that were not classics before we startedgetting review copies," Sutherland said.Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects of Sutherland's work is reading anewly-arrived book and suspecting thatit might join the ranks of the great children's books. 'TU never forget my first(Robert) Cormier book, The Chocolaté War,"she said. "I thought it was a great new talent, but you can never tell with just onebook. I was terribly interested in how kidswould respond. It was tough, honest— nosweetness and light." Sutherland's currentopinion of Cormier— that the promiseheld — is shared by many.Cormier's books are part of a currentmove toward realism in children's novels,but are likely to outlast the trend. Othercurrent trends Sutherland has identifiedare formulaic, "squeaky clean" romances,akin to Harlequin Romances for youngerreaders, a development Sutherland saidshe déplores. Other movements in the in-dustry hâve shown the increasing popu-larity of "choose-your-own-adventure"novels, which Sutherland believes show a"definite video influence" and ask thereader to choose between alternativeswhich lead to différent conclusions; paper engineering books, which offer the readertabs to pull and sometimes enhance thebook but often "do nothing but make thebook more expensive and fragile"; andbooks for chUdren as young as six monthsold, which deal with a single topic such asdressing or eating. Ongoing trends include realistic fiction, and an explosion offantasy books. Originally most of thèseworks came from England, Sutherlandsaid, but there has been a "reaUy great im-provement in the quality of native fantasy," she said. The fantasies are closer toscience fiction than they are to fairy taies,and often involve phenomena such astime shifts.Spending her days with chUdren'sbooks for more than 25 years has con-vinced Sutherland of the foolishness ofdrawing up lists of the best children'sbooks of the last 10 years, or the best chUdren's book of ail time . Each year there arehalf a dozen or so "outstanding" books,Sutherland said, and distinctions between them move rapidly from being ar-bitrary to being useless. "You couldn'teven say 10 are the best of ail time. You'dhâve to pick a hundred, and even thennot everyone would agrée." HMODERNSCIENCEANDETHICSTIME FOR ARE-EXAMNATION?By Léon Kass The promise and the périlof our time are inextrica-bly linked with the promise and the péril of modem science. On the onehand, the spread ofknowledge has overcomesuperstition and reduced fear born of ignorance, while the application of knowledge through technology has made lifeless poor, nasty brutish, and short. Asone of my colleagues puts it: Before thetwentieth century, human life was simplyimpossible. On the other hand, new technologies hâve often brought with themcomplex and vexing moral and social difficultés, and scientif ic discoveries sometimes raise disquieting challenges to tra-ditional notions of morality or of man'splace in the world. Moreover, thanks toscience 's contributions to modem war-fare, before the twentieth century ends,human life may become literally and per-manently impossible. The age-old question of the relation between the tree ofknowledge and the tree of life acquires aspécial urgency.The relation between the pursuit ofknowledge and the conduct of life — between science and ethics, each broadlyconceived— finds its institutional incarnation in the relations between the university and the broader community. Themodem American university is animatedby the self-generating and independentsearch for new and universally validknowledge, but it is unavoidably influ-enced by the ethos and remains subject tothe laws of its particular society Thebroader society tolérâtes and even pro-motes free and basic research in universi-ties, yet it frequently presses its demandsfor "relevant" study and appliedresearch, and insists, increasingly thatthe universities participate in promotingLéon R. Kass, AB'58, MD'62, the Henry R.Luce Professor ofthe Libéral Arts of Human Biologyin the Collège, and professor in the Committee onSocial Thought, has helped initiate several new ven-tures in libéral éducation in the Collège, includingthe "Human Being and Citizen" course he taughtjointly with his wife, Amy Apfel Kass, AB'62, senior lecturer in the humanities in the Collège. He isfaculty chairman of a new undergraduate degreeprogram in the Collège, "Fundamentals: Issues andTexts." In 1983 he received the Quantrell Award forexcellence in undergraduate teaching. His firstbook, Towards A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs will be published by theFree Press of Macmillan in 1985. This article wasadaptedfrom the Ph i Beta Kappa address at the University in fune, 1982.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAG AZINE/Sncertain social goals, e.g., equality byadhérence to spécial enactments, e.g.,affirmative action, which are themselvesnot directly relevant to the pursuit ofknowledge.The University of Chicago is, in somerespects, a paradigm of the twentiethcentury American university. It was bornon the threshhold of the présent centuryas a full-fledged research university—one of the first of its kind. It played a central rôle in inaugurating the atomic âge.Moreover, filled with hopes of humanprogress through the advancement oflearning, it sought and found for itself amotto that would embody its under-standing of the proper purposes of a university for the twentieth century.In 1912 the University of Chicago Magazine published for the first time the new-ly-adopted coat-of-arms and a eut of theseal of the University, both containing theUniversity's motto: Crescatscientia, vitaex-colatur . The coat of arms, lacking a motto,had been adopted by the Board of Trustées in August, 1910— after careful searchand study for almost twenty years— butthe seal and the motto only on 30 January1912. Our University has f lourished morethan the proverbial three-score-and-tenyears under its lofty motto. None of us isold enough to remember the original actof dedication; but we are ail able to examine and ref lect on its meaning.In good Chicago fashion, we beginwith the text. We are confronted by twoparallel clauses, one about knowledge,scientia , one about life, vita . The verbs aremoreambiguous. Cresco means "toriseinheight; to grow, thrive, increase; to be en-larged and strengthened." Excolo , hère inthe passive voice, means "to be im-proved, polished, adorned, perfected,ref ined, civUized, ennobled, embellished,or enriched." Both verbs are in the sub-junctive: "Let knowledge grow, thrive,increase"; "Let lif e be improved, perfected, civUized, adorned, enriched."Even more ambiguous, because un-specified by the text, is the relation between the exhortation regarding knowledge and the exhortation regarding Hfe.They might be independent and addi-tive: Let knowledge increase, and let lifebe improved . They could be related as antécédent and conséquent, with the second clause a statement of resuit: Letknowlege increase, with the resuit that lifebe improved or civUized or enriched. Or,they could be related as means to ends,the second clause expressing purpose:Let knowlege grow, in order that lUe be en- DCIENCE, says the author, is"explicitly anti-philosophie. . . neutral to thelarge human and metaphysical questions thatdominated ancient phihsphy"We ARE TODM far lesscertain than were previous générationsabout the truth ofthe propositionembedded in the motto:'As knowledge increases, so lifeis enriched/'riched. The motto, on its Latin face,seems to be uncommitted on the relationbetween knowlege andlife. Nonetheless,it clearly embraces the prospect of agrowth or increase of the former and animprovement or enrichment of the latter.The University déclares both its belief inand its commitment to the possibUity ofprogress. The motto permanently expresses the University's enduring dévotion to change.In seeking the meaning of the motto,we are not limited to the text itself. Weknow something of its origins, its author,and the meaning he intended . In an articleentitled "The Phoenix and the Book," ap-pearing in the same June, 1912 issue of theMagazine, David A. Robertson AB'02, atthe time a member of the English department, reports on the origins of the motto:"How many mottos hâve been proposed,I suppose not even the Student CouncUcan imagine. Some were very good butsuggested the conventionalities and gen-eralizafions of the eighteenth century.Many of the most interesting were effortsat formulating the purpose of a twentiethcentury university, like service to thestate."In November, 1910, Président HenryPratt Judson had written to ex-PresidentCharles WiUiam Eliot of Harvard, seekinghis suggestions for a motto and including along list of the proposais then under review. "We hâve had many suggestions,2b most of them more or less hackneyed,"Judson wrote, adding, "the only one thatespecially appeals to me" is Sine LegesNulla Libertas ("There is no freedom with-out law"). Nearly ail the other suggestionscontained Veritas, truth, and many alsospoke of service. None mentioned Scien-tia, knowledge.The first mention of the increase ofknowledge appears in a letter from Président Judson to Professor WiUiam GardnerHaie of the classics department, datedDecember 12, 1910:"An important member of the Board ofTrustées suggested the other day as a motto for the University, "The Increase ofKnowledge.' He asked me to put it intoLatin. I did so in a rough-hewn fashionthus: Pro Scientia Augienda . Now wUl yoube good enough to put it into good Latin, sothat I can add it to our list."The motto finally adopted was con-trived by Paul Shorey, the distinguishedclassicist andhumanist. Robertson's article gives this charming account: "ProfessorShorey, something more than a year ago,when on his way to an eastern classicalmeeting, found the wheels of his Pullmanclicking again and again that line from theintroduction to In Memoriam:'Let knowledge growfrom more to more.'"This he thought was a good phras-ing of the purpose— one purpose— of auniversity: the increase ofthe total sum of human knowledge. In the more compactLatin he phrased it Scientia crescat... Atabout the same time Professor Shorey inhis effort to include the idea of servicewas minded of the passage in the sixthbook of the Aeneid in which VergU tells ofseeing in the happy f ields those who onearth enriched or adorned human lUe.(Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.)And so he got his second verb and sub-]ect—Excolatur vita. In putting the twoparts together he related them in Englishby and so. Hence, Dr. Shorey offered as amotto for the University:Crescat scientia, vita excolatur,Let knowledge growfrom more to moreAnd so be human life enriched."According to Shorey, the increase ofknowledge and service to humanity weredistinguishable but not unrelated goals.Knowledge could progress and humanlife could be improved, but the latter, atleast in part, could resuit from the former:the knowledge to be increased was some-ho w also to be usef ul for human lUe . To besure, knowledge was to be pursued notonly for its utUity as a means of enrichinglife. Nevertheless, the motto as under-stood by Shorey implies as a propositionor self-evident truth: "The increase ofknowledge improves or enriches life."We would not be wrong to say that theUniversity of Chicago raised and stUlflies the hope-filled banner of theEnlightenment.But ail is not yet clear. Unf ortunately,neither Shorey nor the motto tells us inwhat way, by what means, or in whatmanner, knowledge enriches life, nor, forthat matter, what is meant by enrichment. Indeed, there are multiple ambi-guities yet unexplored. We are both freeand obliged to ponder thèse matters forourselves; we even hâve the motto'sblessing to increase our knowledge of themotto, both as to its meaning and itstruth.Multiple questions arise regardingeach of the terms. I limit myself to one ortwo about each. First, scientia. Does scientia ref er indiscriminately to knowledge ofail sorts? Does the f ield of scientia includemorals, metaphysics, and theology noless than logic and the natural and socialsciences? How does knowledge dUferfrom correct opinion, on the one hand,and wisdom, on the other?Next, what is meant by growth or increase of knowledge? Is knowledge, inprinciple, understood to be limited or infinité? A true growth might imply a limitUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984Technologies do Meedprésent troubling ethical and politicaldilemmas; but the advancement ofscience itself présents subtlerbut probably more profound challengesto our well-being.and a completion, but the line from Ten-nyson that Shorey appropriated says"from more to more" and implies limit-lessness. What then of the unity orwholeness of knowledge: are we to becontent with an aggregate or sum, anever-expanding encyclopedia with onlyalphabetical order, and no integrity? Itwas once powerf ully argued that one can-not truly know anything unless one kneweverything, on the grounds that fullknowledge of any part required knowingitflspflrfofthewhole.Canscî'enfmreallybescientia if it is understood to be infinitelyadditive or if its possessors show no con-cern with its intégration? Is "Let knowledge grow from more to more" inadver-tently the motto not of a um'versity, but ofa mu/fz'versity?Turning next to vita, whose life is to beenriched as a resuit of the growth ofknowledge, that of the knowers or that ofthe non-knowers? If also or especiallythat ofthe non-knowers, are the intendedbenef iciaries understood to be primarUymembers of our own political communityor, rather, allmembersof thehumanrace?Though the text of the motto itself doesnot answer thèse questions, the idéal ofservice which Shorey sought to capturewould seem clearly to imply benef its to ailhuman beings as human beings, non-knowers and knowers, Americans andnon-Americans alike. Universal humani-tarianism parallels the universalist spiritof science. What then is the bond of theUniversity to our particular polity, theAmerican republic, under the protectionof whose laws it seeks to enrich, throughuniversal knowledge, the lUe of universaland homogeneous mankind?Finally, two crucial questions aboutenrichment, its content and its measure.First, content: Does enrichment mean primarUy wealth, ease, safety health, lon-gevity and greater power over capriciousnature? Or is it largely a matter of aesthet-ics— of adornment, polish, and refine-ment? Or does enrichment mean also oreven especially ennoblement of characterand conduct for individuals, and libertyand justice for ail? What if thèse variousgoods are in tension with each other, saye.g., if prosperity and ease underminegood character? Which shall we callenrichment?This leads to the question about themeasure: What is the standard for judgingchange to be improvement? How do weknow enrichment to be enrichment? Do wehâve reliable scientia or knowledge of bet-ter and worse? If, as is now widely be- lieved, the standards for judging betterand worse are themselves constantlychanging, how can thèse changing mea-sures measure the changing measurables?To this point, I hâve raised a séries ofquestions, seeking better to understandthe meaning of the motto. Several ofthem — including this question of standards— will corne up again, and for morecareful considération, as I move to examine whether we can still subscribe to itsteaching.We are today far less certain than were previousgénérations about thetruth of the propositionembedded in the motto,"As knowledge increases, so life is enriched ." Some of this doubt may be an accident of history, born of frustration withthe complexity of the world situation andanxiety about our future. Certainly theloss of innocence regarding technologymust contribute to a certain loss of faithregarding progress and the simple benef-icence of the increase of knowledge. Butthe deepest causes, I submit, lie else-where and are, I suspect, not accidentai.For there is, and always was, somethingquestionable about the enlightenmentpromise itself, quite apart from the questions about technology (see, e.g., Rous-seau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.) Technologies do indeed présent troubling ethical and political dilemmas; butthe advancement of science itself présentssubtler but probably more prof ound challenges to our well-being, ultimately call-ing into question the very foundations ofour ethics and the principles of our political way of life.Now it is an old but ill-rememberedstory, more or less forgotten under therosy optimism of the Enlightenment, thatinquiry is a risky business, in principlesubversive of the authoritative beliefsand practices of the community. Whenbrought to trial by the city of Athens oncharges of not believing in the gods of thecity, Socrates understood that not healone but philosophy itself was on trial.However much we are moved to take phi-losophy's side in its contest with the city,the Socrates of Plato's dialogue shows usonce and for ail how the activity of seeking knowledge undermines the rule ofopinion, and hence also, in principle,threatens the ruling opinions of one'stime and place. If philosophy zoas, andmodem science is, the attempt to replaceopinion by knowledge, and if every society is rooted in certain dominant opinions— whether about the gods or justiceor the equal rights of man— science essen-tially endangers society by endangeringthe supremacy of its ruling beliefs. It isone thing to hold on trust as true that oneshould honor one's father and mother or27s,¦CIENCE REJECTS ail authoritysave the truth, and prefers skepticism totrust and submission when truth isunavailing; the political communityrequires trust in, submission to, and evenrévérence for its ruling beliefs.that ail men are created equal and en-dowed by their Creator with certain inaliénable rights; it is another thing to hâveto prove it.Our ancient political wisdom teachesthat the improvement of Ufe requiresmore than the conquest of disease or ofexternal necessity. It dépends decisivelyon the governance and the moral and civ-ic éducation of human beings and citi-zens. Science, however much it contrib-utes to health, wealth, and safety, isneither in spirit or in manner friendly tothe concems of governance or moral éducation. Science fosters and encouragesnovelty; political society, govemed by theraie of law, cannot do without stabUity. Science rejects ail authority save the truth,and prefers skepticism to trust and submission when truth is unavaUing; the political community requires trust in, submission to, and even révérence for itsruling beliefs and practices. Science isuniversal and cosmopolitan; the politicalcommunity is always particular and exclusive, resting on a distinction betweenwho is in and who is out . The love of truthand the love of one's own are not alwaysreconcUable.In light of thèse fundamental and ir-reducible tensions, the freedom accordedinquiry in libéral démocratie régimesmust be seen as extraordinary the exception rather than the rule. The remarkablething is not that démocratie Athens exe-28 cuted Socrates, but that they waited untUhe was seventy to do so; in Sparta — not tosay Moscow — he would not hâve beentolerated at ail. Thèse ref lections should,by right, make science and thought especially grateful to libéral democracy andeager to serve in its défense . Yet, paradox-ically as science it is universalist and cosmopolitan, and does not take sides between liberalism and totalitarianism.Worse, modem science, even modem political science, by its own self -définition,déclares that we cannot know what wemost need to know, namely, which way oflife or form of régime is better or best andwhy. The spécial character of modem science adds its own subversive éléments tothe iconoclasm of inquiry as such. Wehâve corne to the heart of the matter.The pursuit of knowledge in our timedif f ers radically from the Socratic pursuitof wisdom. When we say "knowledge,"we mean scientific knowledge. The para-digm of our knowing, aped by the othersciences, is mathematical physics, a science that took its beginnings in the seven-teenth century, in explicit oppositionboth to ordinary expérience and to spéculative philosophy. Most radically, it rede-f ined what it means to know something, interms of the standards of certainty andclarity possessed by symbolic mathemat-ics and through the rigorous applicationof a universal method. Explicitly anti-philosophie in its spirit, it rejects as un- worthy of its attention ail questions that itcannot treat methodically and "objec-tively" and confines its attention to thoseproblems that permit a scientUic ap-proach and solution. It is thus, at best,neutral to the large human and meta-physical questions that dominated ancient philosophy, and which human beings, especially students, stUl ask and willalways ask— questions about meaning,being, ultimate causes, the eternity ornon-eternity of the world, justice and injustice, the good, thetrue, andthebeauti-ful. On the scientUic view, there can be noknowledge, properly so-called, of thèsematters, no knowledge, strictly speak-ing, of theology or even about ethics:opinions about good and bad, justice andinjustice, virtue and vice hâve no cogni-tive status and are not subject to rationalinquiry— they are, as we are fond of say-ing, values, merely subjective. As scientists, we can, of course, détermine moreor less accurately what it is dUferent people believe to be good, but we are, as scientists, impotent to judge between them.Even political science, once the inquiryinto how men ought to live communallynow studies only how they do live and thecircumstances that move them to changetheir ways. Man's political and moral lUeis studied not the way it is lived, but ab-stractly and amorally like a mère physicalphenomenon.The sciences are not only methodologi-caily indUf erent to questions of better andworse. Not surprisingly they find theirown indUference substantively ref lectedin the nature of things. The scientUicfindings about nature and man are notcongenial to human need, self-image, oraspiration. Nature, as seen by our physi-cists, proceeds deterministically withoutpurpose or direction, utterly sUent onmatters of better and worse, and withouta hint of guidance regarding how we areto live. According to our biological science, nature is indiffèrent even as between health and disease: Since bothhealthy and diseased processes obeyequally and necessarily the same laws ofphysics and chemistry, biologists con-clude that disease is just as natural ashealth. And concerning human longing,we are taught that everything humanlyloveable is perishable, whUe ail thingstruly eternal— like matter-energy andspace— are utterly unlovable. The teach-ings of science, however gratUying as dis-coveries to the mind, throw icy waters onthe human spirit.Now one might justly say that there isUNIVFRSTTY OF C\A\C &r.n \A A(~ A vtmc/c iQajAs SCIENTISTS, we can,of course, détermine more or lessaccurately what it is différent peoplebelieve to be good, but we are,as scientists, impotent tojudgebetween them.no guarantee that the truth will be ediïy-ing. Further, science, in its neutrality tomatters moral and metaphysical, canclaim that it leaves to thèse separate domains the care of the good and matters ofultimate concern. This division of labormakes sensé up to a point: Why should Icease to believe courage is good or mur-der is bad, just because science cannotcorroborate thèse opinions? In fact, manya pious man over the past century hasthus compartmentalized his beliefs, em-bracing Darwinism during the week andBiblical religion on the Sabbath. But thistolérant division of live and let live is intel-lectually unsatisfying and finally won'twork, because deep down we know thatthere cannot be incompatible truths regarding the one universe, especiallywhen one side claims to know " objective-ly", i.e., truly. Regardless of the intent ofscientists, the teachings of science, asthey dUfuse through the community, donot stay quietly and innocently on the scientUic side of the divide. They challengeand embarrass the notions about man,nature, and the whole that lie at the heartof our traditional self-understanding andour moral and political teachings. The sciences not only fail to provide their ownstandards for human conduct; their f ind-ings cause us to doubt the truth and theground of those standards we hâve heldand, more or less, stUl tacitly hold.The challenge goes much furtherthan the notorious case of évolution versus Biblical religion. Is there any elevatedview of human lUe and goodness that isproof against the belief that man is just acollection of molécules, an accident onthe stage of évolution, a freakish speck ofmind in the mindless universe, funda-mentally no dUferent from other living—or even non-living— things? What chancehâve the ideas of freedom and dignityunder even any high-minded humanisticdispensation, against the teachings ofstrict determinism in behavior and sur-vival as the only natural concern of lUe?How fares the belief in the self-evidenttruths of the Déclaration of Indepen-dence and the existence of inaliénablerights to lUe, liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness, to whose défense the signerspledged their lives, their fortunes, andtheir sacred honor? Does not the scientUic view make us skeptical about the existence of any natural rights and thereforedoubtful of the wisdom, and even suspi-cious of the motives, of those who riskedeverything to défend them? If survivaland pleasure are the only possible princi pes that nature does not seem to reject,does not ail courage and dévotion to honor look like folly?The chickens are coming home toroost. Libéral democracy founded on adoctrine of human freedom and dignity,has as its most respected body of thoughta teaching which has no room for freedom and dignity. Libéral democracy hasreached a point, thanks in no small part tothe success of the arts and sciences towhich it is wedded, where it can no longer défend intellectually its founding principes. Likewise also the enlightenment:It has brought forth a science that can ini-tiate human lUe in the laboratory but iswithout embarrassment incompétent tosay what it means either by life or by thedistinctively human, and therefore, whoseteachings about man cannot even beginto support its own premise that enlightenment enriches lUe.The thoughts I hâve expressed, itshould go without saying, are not born ofa hostility to science or a lack of appréciation for its accomplishments. Indeed,similar concerns hâve been expressed byeminent scientists, including the lateFrench biologist and Nobel lauréate,Jacques Monod, in his essay Chance andNecessity:"There are far more grave and moreurgent dangers threatening modem so-cieties already."Hère, I am not referring to the popu- lation explosion, to the destruction of thenatural environment, nor even to thestock pile of megatons of nuclear power;but to a more insidious and much moredeep-seated evil: one that besets the spirit. One that was begot of the sharpestturning point ever taken in the évolutionof ideas. An évolution, moreover, whichcontinues and accélérâtes constantly inthe same direction, ever increasing thatbitter distress of the soûl."The impact of his prodigious attain-ments in ail areas of knowledge over thepast three centuries is forcing man tomake a heart-rending revision in his concept of himself and his relation to theworld, a concept which had become root-ed in him through tens of thousands ofyears."The whole of it, however— the spir-it's disorder like our nuclear might— is theoutcome of one simple idea : that nature isobjective, that the systematic confrontingof logic and expérience is the sole sourceof true knowledge."Crescat scientia, vita excolatur?It is a long way from Paul Shorey'shopes for the enrichment of lUe, resultingfrom growth of knowledge, to the diag-nosis of spiritual disorder, resulting fromthe same growth of knowledge. What arewe now to do and to think? Must wechoose between ignorance or despair?Must we now reject or abandon the motto, or replace it with "Crescat ignoratia,1HE PURSUIT of knowledgein our time differs radically from theSocratic pursuit of wisdom.When we say "knowledge," wemean scientific knowledge.Spiritus sanetur," "Let ignorance growfrom more to more and so be the humanspirit healed?" Not at ail. The motto stUlmakes sensé, perhaps now more thanever. Our current dif f iculties call for morethought, not less, albeit also thought of asomewhat différent kind. They beckonus to seek deeper knowledge, preciselyabout the adequacy of what 'we alreadyknow — or think we know— and alsoabout the possible knowabUity of whatwe hâve declared to be unknowable. Anew intellectual challenge for the University présents itseU: to study and thinkthrough — much more thoroughly precisely, and deeply— the questions aboutscience and ethics we hâve just been dis-cussing: (1) Questions about the reason-ableness of divorcing science from ordi-nary expérience, on the one hand, andfrom phUosophy on the other — and alsoquestions about the relation betweenknowledge and wisdom; (2) Questionsabout the proper relation between theuniversalist character of science and thenecessarUy particularistic demands ofhuman institutions and polities— in particular, the connection between freethought and libéral democracy; (3) Questions about the correctness of the claimsthat reason is impotent and that nature issUent in matters of morals and polities; (4)Questions about the relations among thesciences, in search for a more cohérentunderstanding of the whole. In short, we must ponder the full range of questionsraised by the relation between knowledge and human lUe or between the university and the broader community. Thegoal of securing knowledge truly usefulfor lUe dépends ultimately on such a re-f lexive search for self -knowledge— f or institutions and communities, no less thanfor individuals.In conducting thèse re-examinations,we are not seeking for pie in the sky. Fordespite the tremendous achievements ofour non-teleological and mechanistic natural and human sciences, there is amplereason to believe that the fundamentalquestions about the nature of nature andthe being of man are far from closed. Forexample, do not the remarkable powersof self-healing, présent in ail livingthings, make us wonder whether dumbnature in fact inclines purposively to-ward wholeness, being not simply neutral between health and disease? Do wereally think that the lower can properlyaccount for the higher, that animais—never mind human beings— can be finally understood in terms of inorganic mat-ter and motion? Are we persuaded by thereductionist arguments that a chicken isjust an egg's way of making another egg,or, more precisely, a gène 's way of makingmore gènes? Can biochemistry and neu-rophysiology ever do justice to what weknow first and best, our inward expérience of ourselves as passionate, purpose- ful, and thoughtful beings? Is it reallytrue, as one of my colleagues claims, thathuman love wUl soon hâve a biochemicalexplanation? Finally, is nature (as distinguished from science) really "objective?"Do not the deterministic and "objective"accounts of behaviorists or neurophy-siologists utterly f aU to account for theirown passionate and spontaneous questfor truth, never mind the thoroughlymysterious arrivai of their f lashes of in-sight? Is there not something f inaUy de-fective about objective thinking U it is inprinciple blind to the mind of the thinkerwho thinks?On the other side, we must seriouslyalso re-examine, in the light of the genu-ine discoveries science has made, the tra-ditional notions of freedom and virtue,choice and responsibUity and the place ofman in nature. UntU we do this carefullyand thoroughly, we do not know U theyneedtobere-affirmed, abandoned, orre-vised. Ultimately our goal is a richer,more comprehensive "new science" ofman, in relation to the whole. This mustbe compatible with the findings — U notnecessarUy the interprétations — of thenatural, psychological, and social sciences. But it must also do justice to the fullrange and complexity of human powersand activities, and it might thus providesome standards for addressing moral andpolitical questions and for judging enrichment to be genuine enrichment.There can, of course, be no guaranteethat such a unUied science is possible . Buteven U the quest for it f aUs, the search wUlmake us more keenly aware of what wecan and cannot know— and why In theprocess, we wUl hâve gained self -knowledge— including valuable knowledge ofour ignorance.Curiously this task for thought, ofsuch potential usefulness for life, requires that we resolutely resist tempta-tions or demands that we be useful, hèreand now. Though informed by a seriousconcern for morality, the inquiry itseUmust be morally neutral, not "objective-ly" detached, but certainly impartial. Thelast thing we need are prejudgments oridéologies, whether of the left or of theright, that usurp the place of genuinethought. In the long run, it is most of ail bythe deepest and most honest reflectionon fundamental matters and by the éducation of thoughtful men and womenwho carry such reflection into ail walks oflUe that the University makes its mostuseful contribution to the communityand to human lUe . S30 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZTNE/Siimmpr 1QK4ALUMNI NEWSThe University of Chicago Club ofMetropolitan Chicago (UC2MC)had high tumouts for two spécialevents during the last year. Over seven hun-dred alumni attended the UC2MC's summervisit to the Vatican Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Right) Alumni listen ontape recorders to descriptions ofthe historyand significance ofthe Apollo Belvédère.Edward A. Maser, AM'48, PhD' 57, professor in the departments ofart and Germanielanguages and literatu re, a former director ofthe David and Alfred Smart Gallery, gave apreview lecture. After the viewing, manyalumni attended a réception hosted by Président Hanna Holborn Gray at the UnversityClub.UC2MC's Winter Alumni Night at theJohn G. Shedd Aquarium turned out to be apopular event with families. (Above) Amother points out some ofthe exotiefish.Guests watch a scuba diver as he swimsamong hundreds offish in the Coral Reefexhibit at the John G. Shedd Aquarium, siteofthe UC2MC's winter Alumni Night.Viewers were able to ask the diver questionsvia a spécial microphone hook-up. Thefivehundred alumni andfriends who attendedalso got a peek at the behind-the-scenes partofthe aquarium. The evening opened with awine and cheese réception and closed with alecture and slide show. To AU Alumni ofWoodward Court(néeNewDorms)The University is planning aséries of events for the weekend ofFebruary 8, 9, and 10, 1985, to cele-brate more than a quarter century ofhistory at Woodward Court and tohonor Izaak and Pera Wirszup, Résident Masters of Woodward Courtsince 1971.The célébration wUl include semi-nars, réceptions, parties, and the200th Woodward Court Lecture onSunday evening, February lOth. Ailformer résidents of Woodward Courtare invited to return to campus for thecélébration.If you would like to receive moreinformation about the plans to honorMr. and Mrs. WUszup and Woodward Court, write to:Ralph HamUtonDean of Students OfficeAdministration 2195801 South Ellis AvenueChicago, Illinois 60637Photographs ByMichael P. WeinsteinCLASS NEWS"I O AlanD.Whitney,PhB'13,ofWinnetka,_Lv_J IL, who will soon be 91, has two sonsand four grandchildren.1 C Samuel J. Pearlman, SB 15, SM'17,JL_/ MD'17, of Los Angeles, has observedhis 90th birthday. He is a professor in the sur-gery department at the UCLA School of Medicine, and has been married for 58 years.'I f7 Virgil D. Angerman, X17, of Schaum-_L / burg, IL, is, at 90, a direct mail consultant for the Boise Cascade Envelope Division.Patricia Aima Parmelee, PhB17, of LosAngeles, "gives a spécial salute" to the rejuve-nation of Ida Noyés Hall, which was dedicatedsoon before her graduation day.J. Marshall Peer, SB 17, of Palos Park, IL,has celebrated his 99th birthday. His daughteris Ruby Peer Sampson, PhB'23.'I O Dorothy Hackett Holabird, X18, hasJLO two sons, seven grandchildren, andthree great-grandchildren.Lee Sutherlin, SM'18, of West Caldwell,NJ, and his wife own the farm on which he wasborn. They hâve two grandchildren.^fj Henry W. Kennedy, PhB'20, of Chica-ZiV go, has two grandchildren.J. Paul Yost, PhB'20, lives in Pontiac, IL,and writes that University students or graduâtes are "always welcome."f) O Eula Phares Mohle, AM'22, of Tulsa,' ' OK, is a voter registrar for the Leagueof Women Voters of Tulsa, and has traveled toBrazil and the People 's Republic of China.Alexander Wolf, SB'22, MD'29, of Chicago, is retired after many years of practice andas an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Médical School.Marie NiertgarthZander,PhB'22, of Sara-sota, FL, is, at 82, a leading real estate broker.23 Ruby Peer Sampson, PhB'23. See J.Marshall Peer, SB 17.O A MaryCaseleyMundhenke,PhB'24, ofZ± Jacksonville, FL, has moved into Sun-dale Manor, a Christian apartment center. Sheis also taking classes at the Florida JuniorCollège.Ferol Potter, PhB'24, SM'38, lives in Co-lumbia, MO, with her sister.Louis J. Stirling, SB'24, of Mill Spring,NC, is still going off the high dive, more than60 years after winning a letter in diving in 1923.O [T Colston Warne, PhD'25, of Bedford,Z-\D MA, is an emeritus member of theboard of Consumers Union, of which he was afounding member and président.O /I Elinor Nims Brink, PhD'26, is retiredZjCj and lives in a retirement résidence inJacksonville, FL.Emily Pitzer Dieffenbach, PhB'26, of Schuylerville, NY, is retired after 43 years ofteaching.Lucile Prier Wetzell, PhB'26, has moved toSpokane, WA.O fT Edith Rambar Grimm, PhB'27, of Chi-^- / cago, the first woman vice-président inretailing in Chicago, was honored by Carson,Pirie, Scott & Co. for "her directional thinkingand vanguard achievements."Ray C. Petry, AM'27, PhD'32, of Dayton,OH, is retired from Duke University, and occa-sionally lectures at the University of PugetSound.Catherine Ann Roherty, PhB'27, AM'41,ofMadison, WI, is active in social work.OQ George Ehnebom, PhB'28, AM'33,4—kJ lives in Elmhurst, IL.Catherine Boettcher Felding, PhB'28, ofSarasota, FL, has contributed $25,000 to createan opéra room in Edwards Theater in Sarasota .Florence Frank, PhB'28, of Phoenix, AZ,has been awarded the Public Service Citationfrom the University of Chicago AlumniAssociation. Elliott A. Johnson, PhB'28, JD'31, ofHouston, TX, practices law, opérâtes a ranch,and is on the board of éducation of the SouthTexas Collège of Law and the Board of the University of Houston Foundation.OH Marcus Block, MD'30, is still in full-\J\j time médical practice, and is assistantprofessor at the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry.George F. James, PhB'30, JD'32, of Bristol,ME, and Key Largo, FL, who formerly taughtat the Law School, is retired from law practiceand teaching, as well as from his post as corpo-rate counsel and financial vice-président ofMobil Oil Corporation.Alec E. Kollenberg, LLB'30, is retired andlives in Laguna Hills, CA.Jack Menzies, PhB'30, is retired and livesin Green Valley, AZ.Arthur H. Rosenblum, SB'30, SM'32,MD'35, of Chicago, is co-director of pédiatrieallergy and immunology at Michael ReeseHospital.Ernest Street Stevens, PhB'30, of High-lands, NC, is retired and has f ive great-grand-U.S. Postal ServiceHonors WoodsonThe late Carter G. Woodson, AB'08,AM'08, is the subject of the US PostalService 's latest issue in its commemo-rative Black Héritage USA séries. The portrait of Woodson holding a book was issuedin February in récognition of Black HistoryMonth.Woodson, often ref erred to as the fatherof black history, was founder and présidentof the Association for the Study of NegroLife and History and director and editor ofthe Journal of Negro History.Born to former slaves near New Canton, VA in 1875, Woodson was not able to attendschool regularly until he was 20 years old.His efforts at self-study, however, allowedhim to finish high school in two years beforeattending Berea Collège in Kentucky. Aftergraduation from Berea, he was principal ofDouglas High School in Huntington, VA forthree years and supervisor of schools in thePhilippines for four years. He attended theUniversity during summer sessions.Woodson received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1912.Woodson, who died in 1950, is the sev-enth American to be honored by the postalservice's Black Héritage séries. Others in theséries are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , HarrietTubman, Scott Joplin, Benjamin Banneker,Jackie Robinson, and Whitney MooreYoung.UNIVERSITY riFGHirAr.o m ar: a 7TMCICchildren. He wrote that he "DEPLORES themodem day habit of students actually step-ping ON THE SEAL in the floor at MandelHall."Irma Frantz Watson, PhB'30, of HotSprings Village, AZ, together with her hus-band joined other members of the Daughters.of the American Révolution on a trip to France .She is the group's State Régent of Mexico, anda member of its National Board.O'I Eloise Webster Baker, SB'31, SM'32, ofV-/ JL Lamar, AR, visited the campus and herold roommate recently.Marion White Dickey, PhB'31, of St.Louis, MO, has been made a limited partner inthe firm of Edward D. Jones & Co.Arthur A. Engel, PhB'31, of Santa Monica,CA, wrote an extensive article for The JapanTimes concerning nationalism and militarismthere.George L. Hecker, PhB'31, JD'33, of LosAngeles, CA, is making "slow but steady"progress, as chairman of the gif t committee ofthe Class of '33. He is attempting to raise$50,000 as a gif t to the University from the class.RobertC. Ranquist, SB'31, SM'33, MD'36,of Frankf ort, IL, has retired from médical practice after 40 years.OO Ruth Rosenthal Aronberg, PhB'32, of\J^ St. Louis, MO, interviews prospectiveUniversity students, and does volunteer socialwork.Edward G. Klemm, PhB'32, of Louisville,KY, was recently married. His crossword puzzles are syndicated in 400 publications.Maurice B. Olenick, SB'32, of PalmSprings, CA, is retired as an 1RS agent andlawyer.Lester A. Reynolds, X'32, lives in Ste-wartsville, IN.Emil Rintelmann, AM'32, of Milwaukee,WI, is retired after 61 years as an educator.Ruth Elna Schoneman, PhB'32, of Chicago, is active in the Society of ArchitecturalHistorians.OgdenK. Smyth, SB'32, of Portland, TX,and his wife hâve celebrated their 50th wed-ding anniversary.Maxine Speyer, PhB'32, of ClarendonHills, IL, is président of the Hinsdale chapter ofthe American Association of Retired Persons.Charles Woodruff, PhB'32, JD'34, of Alex-andria, VA, is retired from law practice, but isstill active as a consultant, and chairs an American Bar Association committee.RobertM. Ziele, PhB'32, of Naperville, IL,is retired after 40 years as a manager for LyonMétal Products, Inc.O O George F. Dale, SB'33, of Radford, VA,\J\J is retired, but is still membership secre-tary of an "international warship buffsorganization."Alexanderene Liston Fischer, PhB'33, ofPompano Beach, FL, is retired after teaching inChicago high schools for 47 years.Arnold C. Schultz, PhB'33, AM'35, of Tus-con, AZ, is retired after 40 years as a teacher, in-cluding 10 years at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.Dorothy C. Scott, AM'33, of Estes Park,CO, is a great-grandmother, and an active painter and lithographer.Helen Davis Szold, PhB'33, of Ft. Lauder-dale, FL, and her husband hâve been marriedfor 50 years.Robert Zolla, PhB'33, isco-ownerof Zolla-Lieberman Gallery in Chicago.O A H. B. Copleman, MD'34, of Cranbury,\J jl NJ, is team physician for Rutgers University, and médical director at the Johnson textiles industry.Clifford G. Massoth, PhB'35, of Home-wood, IL, has continued to work in public relations since his retirement in 1976 as director ofcorporate relations for the Illinois Central &Gulf Railroad.Loyd R. McCulley, AB'35, of Irvine, CA, isretired . He has traveled with his son to Ireland,and plans a trip to London soon.Herman Pines, PhD'35, of Evanston, IL,FAMILY ALBUM-'84Robert Mosky; Leslie Bull Mosky, MBA'84; Anthony Smith-facobs, MBA '59; Mrs. Smith-Jacobs.& Johnson eastern surgical dressing plant inNorth Brunswick, NJ.Edwin M. Duerbeck, AB'34, AM'35, ofLaguna Hills, CA, and his wife traveled forthree weeks in China.Charles C. Hauch, PhB'34, AM'36,PhD'42, and his wife, Ruthadele LatourretteHauch, AM'39, are retired and living inArlington, VA. Their daughter is CharlotteHauch Hall, AM'67.Sydney H. Kasper, AM'34, of SilverSpring, MD, is public relations consultant toAmericans for Indian Opportunity, an organization involved in achieving économie self-sufficiency for American Indians.Kirby E Walker, AM'34, of Jackson, MS,has been a visiting professor and adviser toBelhaven Collège since his retirement fromthe Jackson Public School System.QC Fred Fortess, SB'35, of Ventnor, NJ,\3C? professor emeritus at the PhiladelphiaCollège of Textiles and Science, received theHarold DeWitt Smith award for his work in the the Vladimir Ipatieff Professor of ChemistryEmeritus at Northwestern University wasawarded an honorary doctorate by the Université Claude Bernard in France.Q/l Clarence A. Bostwick, AM'36, ofCJU Phoenix, AZ, enjoys golf ing.G. Helen Campbell, AB'36, AM'38, of Polo, IL, is retired from teaching.Ellis K. Fields, SB'36, PhD'38, of RiverForest, IL, is president-elect of the AmericanChemical Society. He will assume the postJanuary 1.Louis Krafchik, MD'36, ofHighlandPark,NJ, is retired from the practice of pediatrics after 45 years. He is associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentist-ry of New Jersey, Rutgers Médical School.Léonard F. Reichle, AB'36, of New YorkCity, is a group vice-président and member ofthe board of directors of Ebasco Services, Inc.He is also a member of the board of trustées ofthe Polytechnic Institutes of New York andchairman of the Fusion Energy Advisory Panel33"Mad and Beautiful Accidents":The Taie of Marguerite YoungBy Marianne Eismann, AM'84Do things just happen to MargueriteYoung, AM'36, or does she make themhappen?Item: It is 1934. Already a published poet,Young visits Chicago and the University for thefirst time, accompanied by a young maie poet .He has business to attend to and suggests theymeet at Rockefeller Chapel in the afternoon.While waiting, Young décides to walk aroundthe campus, just to see what it looks like, and tostop in at the admissions office, just to seewhat happens. She f ills out an application. Theadmissions of f icer asks her to corne back to seehim before she leaves the campus that afternoon. An hour or so later, Young is accepted forgraduate study in English and of f ered a fellowship. A week later she moves to Chicago.Item: It is 1942. Young is in Iowa City, hav-ing recently f inished her account of utopiansocieties, Angel in the Forest. It is midnight andshe is standing beneath a streetlamp. A manapproaches and asks if she is a writer. She saysshe is. He asks if she has a manuscript he cansee. She says she does. He tells her to call himthe next week in New York City and takes Angelin the Forest with him on the overnight train toMinneapolis. The man turns out to be a vice-président of the publishing firm of Reynal &Hitchcock, a forerunner of Harcourt BraceJovanovich. A week later in New York, Youngwent "with fear and trembling to Eighth Streetand Sixth Avenue to a pay téléphone to askwhat had happened." What had happenedwas that Mark Van Doren had read the manuscript, liked it, and recommended it forpublication.Item : It is 1947. Young is invited with othersto spend a weekend as the guest of FrankTaylor of Reynal & Hitchcock at his home inWestport, CT. Young, who doesn't ordinarilydrink, joins Taylor for cocktails as they wait forthe train at Grand Central Station. They hâve afew drinks and miss their train. They hâve afew more drinks and miss their next train.Eventually, they get on a Connecticut-boundtrain and arrive at Westport. The next morn-ing, Taylor asks Young when she can start . Starton what, she wants to know. She is told to lookin her bag. She does and f inds an advance anda contract she has signed to write a novel.Young remembers the scène. '"I said, 'Well, Ican't start tomorrow, Monday, I'm undershock. I'U start Tuesday.'" What had happened, she realized, was that she had signedthe contract at Grand Central Station.She remembers her feelings that Monday."I had always thought I'd write a novel when Ireached the âge of wisdom, but when wouldthat be, and hère I was plunged into writing a novel." She started on Tuesday and 18 yearslater finished what many acclaim to be hermasterwork, the 1,198-page Miss Macintosh,My Darling, which was finally published byCharles Scribner's Sons.It is 1983. Young is visiting her nièce andnephew in Hyde Park (Vivian Heller, administrative secretary at the Smart Gallery, andReinhold Heller, professor and chairman ofthe department ofartandactingdirectoroftheSmart Gallery). She takes a walk along 58thStreet, past the Robie House and the Magazineoffice. She is a striking figure, dressed in a col-orful collage of ethnie clothing: Peruvian skirt,Chinese jacket, Brazilian scarf, Irish stole,Afghan pendant. People inside Robie Housenotice her and wonder who she is. Momentslater, Young steps into Robie House and asks totalk to the editor of the Magazine. Ninety minutes later she leaves, after delivering a fable-like account of her life of "mad and beautifulaccidents."One of those accidents occurred shortlyafter she began her studies at the University.Young was looking for a job to supplément herfellowship. The student employment officetold her that a patient at Billings Hospital wasadvertising for a student. Young called aboutthe position and was given a rather unortho-dox job description. "I am taking a vacationfrom the modem world," the prospective employer said. "Would you like to corne alongwith me?" Young was suff iciently intrigued togo over to Billings and see what the job wasabout. When she got there, she was taken to aroom whose walls were covered with life-sizeillustrations of Alice in Wonderland. "There wasa beautiful lady lying in bed," Young recalled."She was an opium addict, not through anyf ault of her own," but because médication shehad been given had not been properly con-trolled. "She wanted someone to read Shakespeare to her. That was her vacation from themodem world." Young took the job.Soon after, the "opium lady," as Young refers to her, was permitted to return to her HydePark home . "E verything in the house was really gold and silver and jade," Young said. Shecontinued to work for the opium lady, and rev-eled in her love and support for literature andthe arts. The support was more than esthetic—when Edna St. Vincent Millay's first book ofpoetry was published, the opium lady bought5,000 copies "just to make sure she would bethe poet of the year," Young said. Millay mostlikely would hâve made it any way, but the opium lady's support was part of an enthusiasmYoung appreciated and shared. The onlydrawback was the threatened occasional visitby the opium lady's brother— a patient at a psychiatrie asylum. The opium lady challengedYoung to stay overnight in the face of a possibly unsettling visit from the brother. "Did I hâvethe courage?" was the challenge Young re-membered. "If I did, I could sleep in Edna St.Vincent Millay's bed (which the opium ladyhad acquired). That didit. For Edna St. VincentMillay, I would hâve risked my life."In the spring of 1983, Young went to St.Louis, MO to be honored by the national Associated Writing Program administered by OldDominion University of Norfolk, VA. Amongthe célébrants at the conférence was Young'sbrother, Missouri state Rep. Robert EllisYoung, who has served longer in the Missourilégislature than any other représentative in thestate 's history and of whom Marguerite Youngquipped, "He's so Missourian by now youwould think Mark Twain invented him."Awards are nothing new to Young, who has received the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, andNewberry Library awards, but the APW conférence and her appointment to the New YorkState Council on the Arts, move her deeply.Since she says she is "not in any way involvedMarguerite Youngwith the literary-political scène, it was a verygreat compliment to me because now I canreally help young writers."But nurturing young writers is somethingYoung has been doing for many years. She hastaught at Indiana, Iowa, Columbia, FairleighDickinson, Fordham, and Seton Hall universi-ties and now teaches at New York City's NewSchool for Social Research where she has beena member of the faculty for more than twentyyears. Young speaks reverently of the éducation she received at the University of Chicago,and says her most important bit of advice toaspiring writers is to get the best éducationthey can."The University of Chicago gave us themost beautiful éducation," she said, goingthrough names of professors whose influenceand inspiration are clearly still part of her life.English professor Robert Morse Lovett is re-membered as "that great and brilliant manwho was one of the major influences on mydestiny." Also lauded is Ronald Salmon Crâne,34 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984the specialist in literature of the eighteenthcentury who is considered the founder ofthe Chicago school of literary criticism andin whose class she read Tom Jones fourteentimes, analyzing the structure of the novel.The expérience is one she imparts to herown students. "I always laugh and tell mystudents I thought it was a masterpiece clearthrough the thirteenth reading." Her académie work has always informed her writing. "I majored in epics, never dreaming Iwould be writing one."But becoming completely aware of thestructure of a work, no matter what she really thinks of Tom Jones, is critically importantand is what she teaches to her own students."I teach my students style," she said, re-counting a conversation she had on theStreet in Manhattan with Allen Tate, a fewdays after she signed the contract for whatwould eventually be Miss Macintosh, MyDarling. Young repeated the conversation.Young: What is a novel?Tate: It's new.Young: How do you write one?Tate: Write what you think.Young: What is style?Tate: Style is thinking.Young: What is the form for?Tate: To keep an educated readerreading."That's ail I started out with and that's ail Iteach," Young said. "I just tell my studentslanguage is important and... that the wayyou présent things is so that they be beautiful, as noble as you can make them."Young says she is encouraged by theabilities of her students, but feels that talentis not enough to make a writer. "There aremany great talents. There are few who go onwriting because you hâve to hâve the abilityto sacrifice everything else (except for) yourfamily and your duties."Equally important, Young says, is to es-tablish a viable routine. "In my neighbor-hood, you can set your watch by me. Theyknow exactly when I'm going to the littleSicilian restaurant." And every Monday, at5p.m., she can be found at Pennyfeathers, arestaurant at Sheridan Square in Green-wich Village, not far from the New Schoolfor Social Research and Young 's apartment."AU my students, past and présent, knowthat I'm there at 5 o'clock and corne in fromail over the world to see me. . .They go andthey corne, they drif t in and out and they always call me the shoreline character. Theysay the shoreline changes, but wherever itis, I'm there."Being there, wherever the right placehappens to be, seems to be what makes thedifférence in having your life happen ormaking it happen. "Sometimes my students at the New School ask me ho w to get apublisher, which is not my f ield because it'ssocomplex," Young said. "Isay, 'Well, standon a corner at midnight in Iowa City under astreetlamp and be approached by a dark sin-ister stranger.' They love that." of the US House of Représentatives.William H. Safranek, SB'36, of De Land,FL, is retired from Battelle Mémorial Institute ,and is a technical editor for the American Elec-troplaters' Society.David J. Tschetter, MD'36, lives in Green-ville, NC.OT7 John F. Charles, AM'37, PhD'38, of<J£ CrawfordsvUle, IN, served as chairman of Wabash College's SesquicentennialCommittee.John S. Cousins, AB'37, enjoys retirementin St. Louis, MO.Ralph E. Ellsworth, PhD'37, of Boulder,CO, has received an honorary degree fromOberlin Collège, Oberlin, OH.Jack D. Hess, AB'37, of Woodland Hills,CA, is a professor of romance languages andliteratures at Pierce Collège, Rindge, NH.Milton G. Johnson, AM'37, of SilverSpring, MD, is retired from the National Oce-anic & Atmospheric Administration. He is areprésentative for a non-governmental organ-ization to United Nations conférences on "Lawof the Sea."Elizabeth Harris Lawson, X'37, of Chicago, has retired as an associate professor at Chicago State University.Norman G. Lipsky, AB'37, of Cedar Rap-ids, IA, is traveling, playinggolf, and enjoyinghis retirement.Emil Lucki, AM'37, PhD'40, of Clear-water, FL, did his graduate work at the University with the aid of a scholarship and fellow-ships, and the University later sponsored himfor teaching positions. "Next to my parents,the University of Chicago shaped my life andmy 'good fortune,' " he writes gratefully.Lillian Giddings Moukas, AB'37, lives inDaytona Beach, FL.Louise Hoyt Smith, AB'37, and her hus-band, Daniel C. Smith, AB'38, JD'40 live in Ta-coma, WA. Dan teaches at the University ofPuget Sound Law School.OO John Adair, AB'38, of Coyle, OK, has\J\D opened the St. Francis of the WoodEcumenical Spiritual Retreat.Mary Ella Harrison, PhB'38, of Glen-wood, IL, is92.Daniel C. Smith, AB'38, JD'40. See LouiseHoyt Smith, AB'37.QQ Margaret Merrifield Clark, AB'39, of\Jy Estes Park, CO, is retired from teaching, and is active in many sports and in singing.Mabel Carlson Greig, PhB'39, of OakPark, IL, is retired from teaching.Ruthadele Latourrette Hauch, AM'39.See Charles C. Hauch, PhB'34.David Kritchevsky, SB'39, SM'42, of BrynMawr, PA, is président of the Society of Expérimental Biology and Medicine.Dale Moen, PhD'39, of Shell Lake, WI, received a distinguished service award fromLuther Collège, Decorah, IA.Pauline O. Roberts, SB'39, of Pasadena,CA, visited the University campus while inChicago to attend the 40th anniversary of hergraduation from médical school.Donald R. Smucker, AB'39, of Indianapo-lis, IN, retired after 40 years in the industriàlcoated abrasives field. Your Nominations,PleaseEach year during Reunion Weekend,the Alumni Association honors alumniwho hâve made notable contributions intheir professional fields, in communityservice, or in outstanding service to theUniversity. We invite ail alumni to assistin the annual awards program by nomi-nating candidates whom you think mightbe deserving of one of the alumni awardsto be given in 1985.There are five catégories of awards:The Alumni Medal, which is awarded forextraordinary distinction in one's field ofspecialization and extraordinary service tosociety; The University Alumni ServiceMedal, which is awarded for extendedextraordinary service to the University ofChicago; The Professional AchievementCitation, which recognizes those alumniwhose attainments in their vocationalfields hâve brought distinction to them-selves, crédit to the University, and realbenef it to their fellow citizens; The PublicService Citation, which honors those whohâve fulf illed the obligations of their éducation through creative citizenship andexemplary leadership in voluntary servicewhich has benef ited society and relectedcrédit upon the University; The AlumniService Citation, which is awarded foroutstanding service to the University ofChicago.Your nominations should reach usnot later than September 1, 1984. Theywill be kept conf idential by the AwardsCommittee who, working anonymously,review and evaluate the information oneach nominee. The final candidates areselected by vote in the spring. The committee requests that you not inform yourcandidates that their names are to be considered. Nominations should be sent tothe Awards Committee, Robie House,5757 Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637.AC\ Gayola Goldman Epstein, AB'40, of\t \J Chicago, travels, reviews books, and isa grandmother.Edward W. Hazelton, AM'40, of Chicago,is a retired high school principal.Robert Cuba Jones, X'40, of Oaxtepec,Mexico, is writing his memoirs, concerning national and international économie and socialcopditions.Lester B. Rickman, AM'40, of Columbia,MO, is minister-president emeritus of theChristian Church of Mid-America. He alsoserves on two collège boards of trustées.Forrest M. Swisher, MD'40, and his wife,Lois Hay Swisher, SB'40, hâve moved to Albe-querque, NM, after Dr. Swisher's retirement./\ *"| Louise Ecklunnd Blakeman, X'41. SeertJL LloydJ. Blakeman, Jr.,SB'56.Thomas A. Hait, PhD'41, of Seattle, WA,had a scholarship fund named in his honor es-tablished at West Georgia Collège, Carrollton,G A, and was recently awarded that collège 's"Founder's Award."Betty Evans Price, AB'41, of St. Peters-burg, FL, is retired from elementary schoolteaching and is active in volunteer work. NJ, is retired. He is now an intérim pastor, andworks with many religious groups.Donald Patinkin, AB'43, AM'45, PhD'47,is président of the Hebrew University inJérusalem.A A Jack A. Batten, PhB'44, MBA'50, ofTTTI Sioux Falls, SD, is a pastoral counselorto the Near East Mission in Turkey.Laurence Finberg, SB'44, MD'46, of Tarry-FAMILY ALBUM-'84!\^ JLawrence Wagner; Jeanne Schlageter Arnoff, AB '46, AM'49; Julia Wagner, AB'84; Agnes Schlageter;Jeffrey Wagner. (Notshown, father, foseph f. Wagner, fD'50.)A1*) David L. Fisher, SB'42, of GardenTI^. City, NY, has been appointed to thatcit/s planning commission.Eleanor Hartzler Knight, AB'42, of Ur-bana, IL, has retired from high school scienceteaching after 23 years.Harold Steinhauser, AB'42, MBA'43, ofDavis Junction, IL, is a professor at Rock ValleyCommunity Collège, Rockford, IL.Mildred Rees Tordella, AB'42, ofWilmington, DE, does social work, and hasspent two years helping to launch an assistance program for victims of spouse abuse . Shehas 13 grandchUdren.Robert L. Wrigley, Jr., PhD'42, and hiswife, Ada Espenshade Wrigley, SB'36, SM'38,live in Alexandria, VA. He is retired from theDepartment of Défense.Af\ Samuel I. Clark, AB'43, PhD'49, of^\U Kalamazoo, MI, has been elected vice-président of the National Collegiate HonorsCouncil.Joseph Heartberg, AM'43, of Red Bank, town, NY, has been appointed professor andchairman of the department of pediatrics at theState University of New York Downstate Médical Center in Brooklyn. He also co-authored abook in 1982, Waterand Electrolytes in Pediatrics.Maurice R. Hilleman, PhD'44, of MilesCity, MO, was awarded an honorary doctoratefrom the University of Leuven in Belgium forhis work in virology research.AÏZ The Very Rev. Pius J. Barth, O.F.M.,^tsj PhD'45, of Chicago, is trustée and professor of religious éducation at the CatholicTheological Union, Chicago. He was formerlydean at Quincy Collège and at De Paul University, and is past provincial superior of the Fran-ciscan Order, and past président of the International Institute of Pedagogy in Rome, Italy.He is also retired executive vice-président ofCatholic University of Puerto Rico. In récognition of his 15 years of service to Catholic University of Puerto Rico, especially as founder,dean, and professor of the Graduate Education Program, the university dedicated its new Graduate Research Center to Father Pius. Thecenter's inauguration was planned to coincidewith the commémoration of Father Pius's golden sacerdotal jubilee célébration in Puerto Ricoin September, 1983.Anne Mairesse Freedman, AM'45, of LosAngeles, CA, is retired from the Calif ornia Department of Mental Hygiène, and is active inher church.AtZ Constance Slater Gabier, PhB'45, ofTC\_y Ellicott City, MD, has married GeorgeW. Hilton, AM'50, PhD'56, of Los Angeles,CA, a professor of économies at UCLA.Daniel Goldberger, PhB'45, AM'50, ofDenver, CO, has been elected to a second termas président of the Denver Rabbinical Council.Betty Foyer Johnson, AB'45, of Honolulu,HI, is a volunteer in many social service, wild-life conservation, and environmental groups.A fi Virginia Mae Ohlson, SB'46, AM'55,TxU PhD'69, of Chicago, was awarded anhonorary Doctor of Humane Letters fromNorth Park Collège, Chicago. She teaches atthe Collège of Nursing, University of Illinois.Kurt Reichert, AB'46, of San Diego, is professor emeritus at San Diego State UniversitySchool of Social Work. He has returned to thetheater and works with the San Diego Reperto-ry Company.Morrison Rudner, SM'46, of Sun City, AZ,retired as a principal in the Chicago PublicSchool System.A^7 Jacob Brouwer, AM'47, of Sheridan,^t / NY, is retired after 25 years as chief ofsocial work service at a Vétérans Administration hospital, and is active in his church.Fred E. Fiedler, AM'47, PhD'49, of Seattle,has been appointed to a second term as a member of the Washington Médical DisciplinaryBoard.Lin Lundgaard, AB'47, of Edina, MN, isvice-président and national sales manager ofthe f lour milling division of Cargill, Inc.Nick G. Mavromatis, MBA' 47, of Akron,OH, is assistant f ood director at the Universityof Akron.Dorothy Warshaw Saxner, SB'47, SM'48,of Chicago, is vice-président of the book division of American Hospital Publishing, Inc.Rozella Schlotfeldt, SM'47, PhD'56, ofCleveland, was awarded the D.Sc. honoriscausa by Wayne State University, Détroit.E.B. Smith, AM'47, PhD'49, of CollègePark, MD, lectured last year on American history at a Peking university.John B. Storer, MD'47, of Rockwood, TN,has been named a corporate research fellow ofUnion Carbide Corp.Annette Jackson Young, AM'47, of Castle-ton, VA, retired from social work, and works asa realtor.AQ Henry A. Bachofer, Jr., MBA'48, ofT^O Gregory, MI, has built an earth-shel-tered passive solar home.Grâce Counts Finch, AM'48, of Vandalia,OH, performs with the Dayton PhilharmonieOrchestra.Ernst L. Gayden, PhB'48, of Bellingham,WA has published a review of Ethnie Chicago inthe Journal of Ethnie Studies, Summer, 1983. He36 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAG AZINE/Summer 1984teaches in the Huxley Collège of Environmen-tal Studies at Western Washington State Collège, Bellingham.Edward Henry, AM'48, MBA 48, PhD'55,of Burlington, VT, will retire in June, 1985, asprésident of St. Michael's Collège, WinooskiPark, VT.Melvin R. Levin, AM'48, PhD'56, of Baltimore, is chairman of the American PlanningAssociation 's Task Force on Employment andUnemployment .Audrey Swanberg Maier, SB'48, ofGrantsburg, WI, is director of nursing atBurnett General Hospital.Douglas J. Marvel, PhB'48, ofLongmeadow, MA, is New England managerfor US Intec, Inc.K.C. Mulcahy, AB'48, MBA'50, of FortWashington, MD, is enjoying retirement after32 years with the fédéral government.Joseph Scherer, AM'48, PhD'51, ofGeorgetown, ME, is a member of the NationalLabor Panel of the American ArbitrationAssociation.H. Elizabeth Clifford Terry, PhB'48, ofGeneseo, IL, and eight of her friends from theclasses of '47 and '48 held a "mini-reunion" atthe Quadrangle Club.Jérôme M. Zierler, AM'48, of Ithaca, NY, isdean of the New York State Collège of HumanEcology at Cornell University, Ithaca.AQ Alan P. Frederickson, AB'49, of Ever-TI y green, CO, is an architect. He and hiswife hâve sailed to Greece and back from New-port Beach, CA.Richard A. Freeman, AB'49, of Atlanta, is alimited partner in Bear, Stearns, and Co.Robert D. Harvey, AM'49, PhD'65, ofReno, NV, is professor of English at the University of Nevada.Edward G. Jones, AB'59, of Reisterstown,MD, is président of E.G. Jones Associates, anexecutive recruiting f irm.Esther Milner, PhD'49, is retired fromBrooklyn Collège, Brooklyn, NY, and lives inHudson, NYRobert Plane, SM'49, PhD'51, of Potsdam,NY, is président of Clarkson Collège, in Potsdam, and also owns a vineyard and winery.Arthur Sable, SB '49, of Boulder, CO, wasfeatured in a ITS News and World Report articleentitled "Inventive Genius is Alive and Well inthe U.S."CH José A. Colon, SM'50, PhD'60, of San\~/ \J Juan, PR, is meteorologist in charge,Weather Service Forecast Office in San Juan,and has been elected a fellow of the AmericanMeteorological Society.Jules Corbett, SB'50, of Chicago is retiredafter 28 years as a prof esssor of microbiology atRoosevelt University, Chicago.Sue Finman, AB'50, of Madison, WI, hasbeen named secretary of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.H. Murray Herlihy, AM'50, PhD'54, ofChicago, has retired after 25 years from LakeForest Collège, Lake Forest, IL, where he waschairman of the économies department for 15years. Upon his retirement, the H. MurrayHerlihy Honors Prize in Economies wasestablished.George W. Hilton, AM'50, PhD'56. See Constance Slater Gabler,PhB'45.Robert S. Jacobs, PhB'50, of Glencoe, IL, isa partner in the law f irm of Friedman & Koven,and is chairman of the National Board of Trustées of the American Je wish Committee.Jeanne Harper Miller, AB'50, AM'54, ofChicago, is a counselor with the Chicago Public Schools.Benedict J. Smith, MBA'50, of Détroit, hasbeen promoted to senior vice-président of theManufacturers National Bank of Détroit.Gertrude Mason White, PhD'50, ofFranklin, MI, retired from teaching in 1981, buthas since taught at the University of Haifa, Israël, and at Rollins Collège, Winter Park, FL.C"! C. Ray Dobbins, AM'51, of German-•^J JL town, TN, retired after 34 years as editor of The Cumberland Presbyterian.C O Paul Carroll, AM'52, of Chicago, has\J*L received both a literary prize and a fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts invites fellow classmates to write or call him athis home.C Q Ralph Crews, MBA'53, of Golden Val-\-S\J ley, MN, is retired after 23 years withthe Air Force, and 14 years with the FédéralAviation Administration.CTO Sondra Raines Gebhart, AB'53, ofvjkj Ardmore, FA, practices law. She hasreturned from a trip to the People 's Republic ofChina where she studied the development ofthat country's légal System.Richard W. Saxe, AM'53, PhD'64, of Tole-do, OH, was named "Co-operating Professorof the Year" by the American Association forthe Advancement of Science. He is chairmanof the department of supervision and administration at the Collège of Education, the University of Toledo.54 David L. Daniel, AM'54, of Chicago, isretired after 45 years with Cook Coun-FAMILY ALBUM-'84Bill Ferris, MBA'81; Leslie Terris, MBA'84.Countil.Hubert C. Huebl, AB'52, of Dearborn, MI,is a practicing surgeon.Henry G. Manne, JD'52, of Atlanta, wasthe subject of a Fortune magazine article con-cerning insider trading, and a speaker at thetenth anniversary of the Héritage Foundation.Frank J. Piehl, PhD'52, of Naperville, IL, ismanager of analytical services at Amoco Research Center.John Wooding, AB'52, of Oak Lawn, IL, ty Public Aid and the Illinois Department ofPublic Aid.George L. Morrow, MBA'54, of ArlingtonHeights, IL, has been elected vice-chairman ofMidCon Corp.Charles Schutz, AM'54, PhD'62, of Albion, MI, discussed political humor, one of hisspecialties, on a Kalamazoo TV show.Thomas E Steiner, AB'54, AB'58, AM'62,of Oak Park, IL, has married Linda AnneMiles.CC Jan Berkhout, AB'55, PhD'62, of Ver-\J^J million, SD, is professor of industrialpsychology at the University of South Dakota,and was a NASA faculty fellow in 1982-1983.Lawrence R. Jeffery, SM'55, of Lincoln,MA, has been named to a high-level positionwith the IEEE Communications Society andthe US Air Force Scientif ic Advisory Board.C Zl Robert Baumruk, AM'56, of Chicago,\J \J is head of the government publicationsdepartment of the Chicago Public Library.LloydJ. Blakeman, Jr., SB'56, and his wife,Louise Ecklund Blakeman, X'45, live in PalosPark, IL, where Dr. Blakeman is a gênerai prac-titioner. He is also on the staff of Palos Community Hospital.M. Bertha Brandt, SM'56, retired in 1982and has moved to Jefferson, OR, from Chicago. She has since traveled to China.Philip A. Delaney, MBA'56, of Glenview,IL, has been elected président of the Harris son, WI, was awarded the DistinguishedAlumni Award from Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, last year. He is a professor ofphysics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and works at FermUab in Batavia, IL.Martin Shan, AB'56, of Schaumburg, IL,has been promoted to président of Lincoln Associates, Ltd. insurance agency.Robert Alan Silverman, SM'56, and hiswife, June Silverman, X'60, of St. Louis, attended the 1983 convention of the Photographie Society of America.C.r7 Payton Smith, JD'57, of Seattle, is a\J I partner in the law firm of Davis,Wright, Todd, Riese & Jones, where he special-izes in anti-trust and commercial litigation.CO Paul Alkon, AM'58, PhD'62, of Roll-\JO ing Hills Estâtes, CA, has won a Gug-genheim Fellowship. He is Léo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of SouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles.FAMILY ALBUM-'84Randy Kettering, PhD'84; Ilene Lanin-Kettering, AM'80, PhD'83.Trust and Savings Bank and of Harris Bank-corp, Inc.Spencer E Edwards, AM'56, of SierraMadré, CA, after retiring from the miïitary,founded the Gooden School, an independentschool dedicated to classical éducation.Isabelle Havens, SM'56, of Pontiac, MI, isretired from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital laboratory, but still teaches courses at St. Mary 'sCollège.Lee G. Pondrom, SM'56, PhD'58, of Madi- CQ Montague Brown, AB'59, MBA'60, of\J y Shawnee Mission, KS, is président ofStratégie Management Services, Inc., and ad-junct professor in political science at the University of Kansas.Norval B. Stephens, Jr., MBA'59, of Bar-rington, IL, has been elected to the DePauwUniversity board of trustées, and has com-pleted two years as président of the DePauwAlumni Association.G. Elsie Will, AM'59, of Silver Spring, MD, lives in Rossmoor Leisure World Retirement Community.fjT\ Robert L. Beisner, AM'60, PhD'65, ofO \J Washington, DC, is in his third year aschairman of the department of history atAmerican University.Richard F. Collins, AM'60, of Terre Haute,IN, is the interlibrary loan librarian at theCunningham Mémorial Library, at IndianaState University.June Silverman, X'60. See Robert AlanSilverman, SM'56.Seymour J. Wolfson, SM'60, ofSouthfield, MI, has received the "Outstanding Contribution Award " from the Associationfor Computing Machinery. He is an associateprofessor of computer science at Wayne StateUniversity, Détroit./1"1 Lawrence A. Allen, PhD'61, of ChapelO J- Hill, KY, married Patricia J. Mize. Heis aprofessor at the University of Kentucky,Lexington.James A. Bond, PhD'61, of Chicago, is associate professor in biological sciences, and assistant dean in libéral arts at the University ofIllinois at Chicago.Richard D. Gifford, MBA' 61, of Lombard,IL, is vice-président of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., an executive recruiting firm.Robert F. Wilkinson, MBA 61, of Upper St.Clair, PA, has been appointed a vice-présidentfor PPG Industries Coatings and Resins Group./TO Larry W. Bowman, AB'62, AM'65, of\j£m Storrs, CT, has been appointed head ofthe department of political science at the University of Connecticut. He has also beenawarded a Leslie Martin Fellowship at HebrewUniversity in Jérusalem.David Greenberg, SB'62, SM'63, PhD'69,of New York City, has received the distinguished scholar award of the Criminology Section of the American Sociological Association.He is a professor of sociology at New YorkUniversity.Cora L. Mayo, AM'62, of Chicago, hasfounded a publishing firm, From the BlackExpérience, Inc./IO Mona Bleiberg Bennett, AB'63, ofVJ^-/ Brookline, MA, has been appointeddeputy commissioner of mental health at theMassachusetts Mental Health Center.Edwin B . Firmage, JD'63, LLM'64, JSD'64,of Provo, UT, led a study on "Peacemaking inthe International Arena."Nelson N. H. Graburn, PhD'63, of Berkeley, CA, is chairman of the department ofanthropology at the University of California,Berkeley.Douglas O. Rosenberg, SB '63, ofNorthbrook, IL, is président and chief executive off icer of the Glenbrook Hospital.Richard R. West, MBA'63, PhD'64, of Leb-anon, NH, has been named the NathanielLeverone Professor of Management at theAmos Tuck School of Business Administrationat Dartmouth University.fi A s- Gene Éalaban, MBA'64, of High-\J JL land Park, IL is vice-président and gênerai manager of Dynascan Corporation.38 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984Frank A. Casurella, MBA 64, of Atlanta,has been elected a senior vice-président of theChicago Title Insurance Company.Gène Feit, SM'64, PhD'68, of Indialantic,FL, is director of the Government AerospaceSystems Division of Harris Corp. His son,David J. Feit, is a freshman in the Collège.David Joël, AB'64, lives in Milford, MA,with his wife and two children. He is in saleswith Pixel Computer, Inc.Myron Scholes, MBA'64, PhD'70, of PaloAlto, CA, has been named Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance at the business school ofStanford University.fi C Bill Adler, MBA 65, of Barrington, IL,\J\_/ has been elected président of the Mid-west Society of Professional Consultants.Charles L. Chaney, AM'65, PhD'73, of Bolivar, MO, has been elected président of Southwest Baptist University, Springfield, MO.Robert Hassenger, PhD'65, of SaratogaSprings, NY, has been promoted to professorat Empire State Collège, Saratoga Springs.Michael J. Loux, AM'65, PhD'68, of SouthBend, IN, has been named dean of the Collègeof Arts and Letters at the University of NotreDame.Ulrich Melcher, SB'65, of Stillwater, OK,has returned from France where he did research in plant virology as a Fulbright Scholar.He is professor of biochemistry at OklahomaState University.Joe Wolfson, SM'65, of Arlington, VA, andhis wife had their first child last year, Julia BethWolfson.fi fi Steven L. Bashwiner, JD'66, of High-V_/V_/ land Park, IL, and his wife, DonnaGerber, AM'74, MBA'82, hâve a daughter,Margaret.Robert T. Garrity, MBA'66, of Kingwood,TX, recently returned from Europe as treasur-er for the Gulf Oil Company, eastern hémisphère, to become président of the Gulf OilFinancial Corporation.David McCracken, PhD'66, of Seattle, hasbeen named associate dean for the arts andhumanities in the Collège of Arts and Sciencesat the University of Washington.Houston H. Stokes, AM'66, PhD'69, ofChicago, is head of the department of économies at the University of Illinois.£J~7 Paul Brown, MBA'67, of Quincy, IL, isO/ listed in the 1984 édition of The International Who 's Who oflntellectuals. He is director ofmanagement . services and InstitutionalResearch at Quincy Collège.Gerri Wenger Friedberg, AM'67, of Hins-dale, IL, is a social work consultant and is onthe advisory board of the Institute of Psychia-try of the Northwestern University MédicalCenter.Stephen W. Guittard, MCL'67, of Détroit,MI, has been named vice-président, gêneraicounsel, and secretary of General MotorsCorp.Charlotte Hauch Hall, AM'67. See CharlesC. Hauch, PhB'34.Thomas C. Heagy, AB'67, MBA'71, of Chicago, has been promoted to executive vice-président of the Éxchange National Bank ofChicago. Frank J. Larkin, MBA'67, of Plymouth,MN, has been named président and chiefexecutive officer of CenterCare, a hospitalSystem.Ralph R. Orlik, AB'67, AM'76, of Arlington, VA, is a senior computer Systems analystat the Library of Congress.Michael S. Sigal, JD'67, and his wife hâvehad their first child. They live in Chicago.Marjorie M. Smith, SM'67, of New York ident of Amoco Chemicals Corporation.Helen Walker Konowitz, AB'69, of Ti-buron, CA, has married Gary Konowitz. He isa CFA with his own tax practice, and she is anoffice manager for a small investment firm.Greg Skala, AB'69, of Sooke, BC, Canada,has completed the MEd program at the University of Victoria, and is district président ofthe International New Thought Alliance forCanada.FAMILY ALBUM-'84Pat Caldwell; Eisa Caldwell; f. Lenza; Pam Caldwell, MBA' 84; Rollin Caldwell, AB'50; Jan Hatton.City, is a partner in the law firm of Coblence &Warner, where she specializes in litigation.Kenneth I. Solomon, JD'67, of MortonGrove, IL, has been re-elected chairman of theLaventhol & Horwath National CouncU.Eric Van Young, AB'67, of LaJolla, CA, hasaccepted an appointment in the department ofhistory at the University of California at SanDiego. He and his wife had a son in 1982.fiQ Danny Boggs, JD'68, of BowlingOO Green, KY, has been appointed deputysecretary of the US Department of Energy.Eve Kahana, PhD'68, of Détroit, is chair-elect of the behavioral and social sciences section of the Gerontological Society.Michael L. Miller, AM'68, PhD'78, of ElkGrove Village, IL, is teaching in Krakow, Po-land, on a Fulbright grant.Stephen Ruzicka, AB'68, AM'73, PhD'79.See Camilla Anne Cornélius, AM'79.69 Robert D. Cadieux, MBA'69, of Barrington Hills, IL, has been named pres- Alan Stiefel, MBA'69, of Denver, owns MLAssociates, a data processing firm.'VO Peter W. Bruce, JD'70, of Shorewood,/ \J WI, has been named vice-président,gênerai counsel, and secretary of Northwestern Mutual Life.Andrew H. Connor, AB'70, JD'79, of ParkForest, IL, practices law with Reuben &Proctor.John A. Kirchner, AM'70, PhD'79, of LosAngeles, has received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at California StateUniversity, Los Angeles.'T'I Brian R. Alm, AM'71, of Rock Island,/ -L IL, is a product information specialistat Deere & Company corporate headquarters.Francis A. Boyle, AB'71, of Champaign,IL, has been promoted to full professor at theUniversity of IUinois, Collège of Law.Joyce M. DeHaan, AB'71, of Kent, NY, isco-founder and chairman of the board of amanagement Consulting firm.Albert Shpuntoff, SB'71, is an assistantprofessor at the University of Nebraska atOmaha.Gerald M. Stokes, SM'71, PhD'77, ofRichland, WA, has been named manager ofthespace sciences and expérimental methodssection at Batelle's Pacific NorthwestLaboratories.Léonard A. Zax, AB'71, of Washington,DC,andhiswife hâve had their first child . Zaxworks for the Washington law firm of Fried,Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman."VO Elevene M. Bryant, AB'72, of West/ Zm> Hartford, CT, has been appointed director in the group insurance and services division of the CIGNA Corporation.Ronald MacNicholas, MBA'72, ofWheaton, IL, has been elected vice-présidentand chief financial off icer of MidCon Corp.James Peterson, AM'72, of Chicago, IL,and his wife, Judy Mendils-Peterson, AM'73hâve had their first child. Jim has been in pri- rJr\ Dennis R. Coll, MBA'73, of Chicago,/ \J IL, is président and chief executive of-f icer of Murdoch & Coll, Inc.Thomas S. Haley, Jr., AB'73, of New Bri-tain, CT, received an MBA from the Universityof Hartford in 1976.David F. Lindenfeld, PhD'73, of BâtonRouge, LA, conducted research in East Ger-many on a grant from the Irex Foundation.Judy Mendils-Peterson, AM'73. SeeJames Feterson, AM'72.Sidney S. Pomper, MBA'73, of Devon, PA,has been promoted to vice-président of thePhiladelphia National Bank.Ellen A. Rudnick, MBA'73, of Deerfield,IL, has been named président, Baxter TravenolManagement Services Division.John F. Schnier, AM'73, of Rockford, IL, isassistant to the director of the Illinois Guar-dianship and Advocacy Commission.Ronald C. Wacker, AM'73, of Chicago,won the 1983 Dean Conley Award for excellence in writing given by the American Collègeof Hospital Administrators.FAMILY ALBUM-'84Morton Frisch, AM'49; Caria Jameson Frisch, AM'83; Lester Jameson, PhB'46.vate practice in psychotherapy for f ive years.Jeffrey Quilter, AB'72, of Ripon, WI, conducted archaeological excavations last sum-mer at El Paraiso, Chillon Valley, Peru.Pamm Reichl, AB'72, AM'74, of Riverton,IL, works for the Illinois Commission on Inter-governmental Coopération.James Reilly, JD'72, of Springfield, IL, hasbeen appointed chief of staff by GovernorJames Thompson. HM Paul Binsfield, MBA'74, of Duxbury,/ jt MA, has been named director of the office of business development of Intertel.Tom Carll, MBA'74, of Fairview Park, OH,has been promoted to vice-président of Wholesale marketing for the Sherwin-Williams paintstores division based in Cleveland, OH.Franklin S. Felber, AM'74, is appliedphysics group manager at Western ResearchCorp. in San Diego. Thomas J. Garrity, MBA'74, of Zionsville,IN, has been promoted to director of the agri-cultural marketing division of Eli Lilly and Co .Donna Gerber, AM'74, MBA'82. SeeSteven Bashwiner, JD'66.Louis Goldman, JD'74, of Manhattan, hasmarried Barbara Berg, and is a partner in theWashington, DC law firm of Wald, Harkrader,and Ross.Johnnie Brown Hazard, PhD'74, JD'77, ofChicago, is with the law firm of Bell, Boyd &Lloyd, dealing with environmental law.Gary Alan Miller, AB'74, SM'74, of Spo-kane, WA, has built a log house in the SelkirkMountains, and works for the US Forest Service on a backpack traU maintenance crew.David E Robichaud, AB'74, of Decatur, IL,has been promoted to supervisor in the tax department of the Atlanta offices of Touche Ross&Co.Perry Toback, MBA'74, of Skokie, IL, is assistant gênerai manager of Telemotive, a division of Dynascan.C. William Zadel, MBA'74, of Libertyville,IN, has been named vice-président of businessdevelopment of the health and science groupof Corning Glass Works.fyC Glen L. Allie, MB A'75, of Ballwin, MD,/ \_/ hasbeenelectedvice-presidentofMer-cantile Bancorporation of St. Louis.Bernard R. Bonnot, AM'75, PhD'76, ofYoungstown, OH, has been named to a three-year term on the communications committeeof the United States Catholic Bishops.Randall Cohn, MBA'75, of Chicago, IL,owns Ventura Realty, Ltd., which he formedafter working for f ive years as a managementconsultant.Michèle J. Hooper, MBA'75, of Evanston,IL, has been named director of coverage andreimbursement policy at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.Brian Kay, AB'75, and Helen Ho Kay,AB'75, of Bethesda, MD, hâve had their firstchild. They are both staff f ellows at the National Institutes of Health.William J. Laffey, MBA'75, of Holyoke,MA, has been named administrator of Providence Hospital.Frederick A. Wasser, AB'75 , of Sait LakeCity, edited a feature film, Children ofthe NorthWoods.*7fi Carol A. Edelen, MST'76, of Chicago,/ \J hasbeenappointeddirectorofthebusi-ness assistance center at Olive Harvey Collège, Chicago.John W. Estey, MBA'76, of Glenview,IL, has been elected chairman of the boardand chief executive officer of S&C ElectricCanada, Ltd.Lynn M. Larsen, MBA'76, of Chicago, hasbeen named director of marketing services atSmith Laboratories.Diane Nemec-Ignashev, AM'76, ofNorthf ield, MN, has been promoted to assistant professor in the department of modem languages and literatures at Carleton Collège,Northfield, following completion of Ph.D. re-quirements in Rùssian literature at the University of Chicago.Keith Elliot Mostov, AB'76, of New York,UNIVERSITY OF CHlPAr.n M An a 7imcic.. ion*Wild Onions:Breaking The MoldClose your eyes. Picture a médical student. Short white coat. Always try-ing to do more than time will allow.Studying histology at the laundromat. Re-viewing gross anatomy at the supermarket.Running through the endocrine System atthe gas station.Open your eyes. Look at Daniel E. Wolf,AB'80, just finishing his third year as a student at the MUton S. Hershey Médical Centerof Pennsylvania State University in Hershey,PA. Writing fiction. Discussing Chekhov.Editing a literary magazine.So much for stéréotypes. Whether theimage of a médical student as a monomania-cal, human studying-machine was evertruly accurate, it is one that no longer reignssuprême. Wolf and a group of médical students at Hershey are the exception that mayre write the rule.Last winter, Wild Onions, reportedly thenation's only literary magazine edited, written, and photographed by médical students, debuted under the aegis of Wolf and astaff of fifteen other médical students atPenn State. The title reflects Wolf 's commitment to his belief that being a good doctorrequires more than knowing the textbookscold as well as, perhaps, a bit of nostalgia for'Chikagou,' city of the wild onion. What-ever the inspiration, Wild Onions is a way tosay that being a good doctor means being insympathy with people, rather than justknowing how they are put together. "Ourunabashedly simple point," Wolf's fore-word states, "is that the worth while thingsare those that bring life: not by increasingquantity, tenaciously clinging, grasping,controlling; but rather by enhancing quality, freely giving, nurturing; and above ail,seeing clearly with open eyes the many fac-ets of reality."Obviously, Wolf says, science must be apriority for physicians. "The bottom UnestUl remains the scientif ic method," with thebest doctors being the clearest thinkers andmostsensitivediagnosticians. "Butthere'sawhole realm of other things" that can con-tribute to a doctor's skill, he says. "Addingthe humanistic élément to medicine can'thurt as long as it's not to the exclusion of thescientif ic basis of medicine."Wild Onions is one way of establishingthat common ground. While some of its sto-ries are about médical students and médicalsubjects, that is perhaps because the writerswrote about what they know.One thème, however, that may be be-hind Wild Onions is Wolf's awareness of thecomplexities of living in a nuclear âge. Wolfnow describes himself as "anti-nuclearpower," and says that is a change from hisdays as an undergraduate. The foreword to Wild Onions demonstrates his concern. "OnDecember2, 1942, Enrico Fermi and his col-leagues at the University of Chicago beganthe first controlled, self-sustaining nuclearchain reaction ever achieved by man. With-in a short time, two medium-sized indus-trial cities were wiped from the face of theearth. For good or ill, the nuclear âge haddawned, and the world was irrevocablychanged . . . We at Hershey live in the shadowof Fermi's achievement, both literally andf iguratively. From nuclear energy and nuclear medicine to nuclear weaponry, we liveamong the by-products of a civilization inwhich our moral and social developmentDaniel Wolftends to lag behind technology. We hâvehardly begun the job of reordering our livessanely in the wake of the shock-waves ema-nating from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. YetScience rushes on, laying the groundworkfor ever more lethal sources of energy, andan ever more intricate subordination of nature— ultimately of ourselves."Wild Onions provides a way for studentsof science to stop and smell, if not the f low-ers, at least the wild onions they pass alongthe way. It reminds them thàt they are morethan repositories for the thousands of factsthey must know to practice their professions. Wolf said he found the time toproduce the year-long Wild Onions projectbecause, "it's too important not to do," adding that one of the most surprising thingsabout putting the magazine together wasfinding out the kinds of médical studentswho are also writers. "Sometimes," Wolfsaid, those students hâve "a rather toughand austère façade and they write thèse ten-der poems." It's the kind of surprise Wolflikes to encounter. Last March, he was as-signed to a surgery rotation. His attending(supervisory) surgeon was reading theAeneid. "So we talked about the classics inthe O.R. and that was nice." Dan Wolf be-lieves that's something that should happenmore often.— Marianne Eismann, AM'84 received a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University,and is an M. D. candidate at the Cornell University médical school.Gary A. Reed, AB'76, of New York City,has been named a vice-président of the IrvingTrust Company.Aaron A. Rhodes, AM'76, PhD'80, of Boston, is assistant to the président of BostonUniversity.Maria Crawford Scott, AB'76, of Chicago,has been named editor of the Journal of theAmerican Association oflndividual Investors.John M. Sergey, MBA'76, of Beachwood,OH, is vice-président and gênerai manager ofthe Fasson Roll Materials Division in the USwith responsibility for Australian and Mexicanopérations.James E Simpson, MBA'76, of Lisle, IL, isprésident and founder of Aquila Corp., a Chi-cago-based distributor of computer forms.Stephen J. Tinsley, AM'76, of Chicago, hasbeen promoted to senior vice-président of theAtler Group.Joyce Rosa Walsh, AM'76, of Chicago, isan account manager at a médical center.'T'T Mark McCampbell Biggs, AB'77, of/ / Galena, MO, is a professional musi-cian, and has released two albums.Kathleen Hughes, MBA'77, of Amherst,VA, has married Mark W. Legnini.David F. Ingraham, MBA'77, of Minne-tonka, MN, is marketing director for newproducts in the Minnetonka division of General Mills Corporation.A. Thomas Johnson, AM'77, of Louisville,KY, practices law and teaches in the philosophy department at the University ofLouisville.J. Michael Kirkman, MBA'77, of Washington, DC, has been named vice-président of theInterface Group, Ltd.Walter S. Kurek, MBA'77, of ArlingtonHeights, IL, has been assigned to the RollingMeadows office of Arthur Andersen & Co.Thomas J. Lopina, MBA'77, of Winston-Salem, NC, previously vice-président of finance at Ariens Co., has been named président of Gravely International, a commerciallawn equipment manufacturer.Bonnie K. Wachtel, AB'77, MBA'78, ofNew York City, is an attorney with Weil,Gotshal & Manges.Ross A. Atwood, MBA'78, and ChristineKurowski Atwood, MBA'80, of Oak-land, CA, hâve had their first child. Ross is ter-ritory manager at General Electric Co., andChristine is a consultant with Peat, Marwick,Mitchell &Co.CindyClark, AM'78, of Chicago, has beenpromoted to associate research director at LéoBurnett, Inc.Arthur D. Durant, AM'78, of Lansing, MI,is director of a substance abuse treatmentprogram.Russell E. Hagberg, MBA'78, of Palatine,IL, has been appointed director, compensationand benefits in the human resources department of Santa Fe Industries, Inc.David Kirchheimer, MBA'78, of La Cres-centa, CA, has been promoted to manager ofthe comprehensive professional servicesdepartment of the Los Angeles office of PriceWaterhouse Co.Jerry Kominski, AB'78, of Philadelphia,PA, has received a grant from the NationalCenter for Health Services Research to complète his dissertation in public policy analysisat the University of Pennsylvania.StuartShulruff, MD'78, of PineBrook, NJ,completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Illinois last year and now practiceswith a multi-specialty group practice.Marty Simon, AB '78, of San Francisco, is anensign in the US Navy, serving as damage con-trol assistant on the U.S. S. Goldsborough.Richard L. Stoller, MBA'78, of ArlingtonHeights, IL, has been appointed vice-président of marketing for international opérationswith Maremont Corporation.'TQ Kent Bailey, PhD'79, of Silver Spring,/ y MD, was married last year to SusanWagner. He works in statistics at the NationalHeart, Lung, and Blood Institute.Caroline Ballantine, MBA'79, has joinedthe Chicago office of Heidrick and Struggles asan associate.Richard Bentley, AM'79, of Chicago, hasbeen named director of research of the Fédération of Independent Illinois Collèges andUniversities.Camilla Anne Cornélius, AM'79, ofGreensboro, NC, is an associate in privatepractice of psychotherapy. She is married toStephen Ruzicka, AB'68, AM'73, PhD'79.Kathryn Cullen, MBA'79, of Chicago, hasbeen promoted to partner in Alexander Grant& Company, one of the nation's 10 largest CPAfirms.George de la Flor, AB'79, graduated fromthe McGeorge School of Law at University ofthe Pacific, Stockton, C A in June, 1983, and hasopened his own law office in San Diego.Anastassios D. Fakonas, MBA'79, of Chicago, has been elected a principal of Towers,Perrin, Forster and Crosby, a managementconsultant firm.Helen Fedor, AB'79, visited Czechoslova-kia and Austria, studying languages and visit-ing relatives.Lisa Gurk Herman, MBA'79, and her hus-band, Michael F. Herman, PhD'80, of NewOrléans, hâve had a daughter. Lisa is productmanager at Luzianne Blue Plate Foods, andMichael is an assistant professor at TulaneUniversity.Mary Lynne Kukowski, AB'79, of NewYork City, has joined Kidder, Peabody & Co. , asa securities analyst, following the cable télévision and motion picture industries.Michael McConnell, JD'79, of Washington, DC, works with the US Solicitor General'soffice.Robin W. Michel, MBA'79, of Washington,DC, is vice-président and manager of a new régional office of Wells Fargo Realty Advisors.Scott Monrad, MBA'79, of Seattle, is con-troller of the sensing Systems division ofELDEC Corp., an aerospace electronicsmanufacturer.James T. Nyeste, JD'79, of Chicago, hasmarried Maria Hand Nyeste, AM'79. He is anattorney with Wildman, Harrold, Allen &Dixon in Chicago, and she is completing herPh.D. in art history at the University.Cynthia Sternau, AB'79, of Ne w York City, is an advertising and spécial sales manager fora book publishing firm.H. Rudolf Zeidler, MBA'79, of Glenview,IL, has been promoted to vice-président ofsales and marketing of the components andSystems group at Zenith Radio Corporation.QO Christine Kurowski Atwood. SeeOU Ross A. Atwood, MBA'78.Anna Fountas, MBA'80, of Troy, MI, hasbeen promoted to manager of média information services at Campbell-Ewald Co.Michael F. Herman, PhD'80. See LisaGurk Herman, MBA'79.Michael D. Johnson, MBA'80, PhD'83, ofYpsilanti, MI, has been appointed assistantprofessor of marketing at the University ofMichigan Graduate School of BusinessAdministration.Narayan E Murarka, MBA'80, of Chicago,has been promoted to director of research forthe department of microwave and electro-optics technology at the Illinois Institute ofResearch.Erica Peresman, AB'80, of Los Altos, CA,is completing her third year at Stanford LawSchool, and plans to practice with the law firmof Pettit & Martin in San Francisco.Thomas W. Seidel, MD'80, of Ann Arbor,MI, is married to Kathleen Tighe Edwards.Seidel is a pediatrician at C.S. Mott Children'sHospital.Ol William J. Henry, MBA'81, of Lake-O -L wood, CO, has been elected treasurerof Angus Petrotech.Mary C Phillips, AB'81, of East Chicago,IN, has been promoted to assistant cashier atthe First National Bank of East Chicago. Kenneth Resnick, MD'81, of New Haven,CT, is a résident in ophthalmology at Yale-Ne wHaven Hospital. He and his wife hâve hadtheir first child.Michael Wheeler, MBA'81, of WesternSprings, IL, has been elected vice-president-treasurer and assistant secretary of Stone Container Corporation.O ^ Richard A. Kaye, AB'82, of New YorkOjL. City, is assistant literary editor ofNation magazine.Adam R. Lid, AB'82, of Ft. Benning, GA, isattending U.S. Army Officer CandidateSchool.Anthony LoCoco, MBA'82, of Addison,IL, has been named vice-président for financeand administration at Chicago White MétalCasting, Inc.Narendra Nemivant, MBA'82, of Chicago,has been promoted to manager of design andprocess engineering at Ford Motor Company.Edward J. Ram, Jr., MBA'82, of Oak Park,IL, is a staff consultant with Arthur Andersen&Co.Thomas J. Scorza, JD'82, of Chicago, hasbeen appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.QQ Gary R. Franklin, JD'83, of Atlanta,0\J has joined the Atlanta law firm ofAlston & Bird as an associate.Patricia Kendell, AM'83, of ArlingtonHeights, IL, is a coordinator at Bethesda Hospital in Chicago.Ellen Parsigian, MBA'83, of Southfield,MN, has been named assistant vice-présidentfor corporate financial services at Comerica,Inc.DEATHSFACULTYBlanche B. Boyer, AB'20, AM'21, PhD'25,professor emeritus of classical languages andliteratures, died in January at the âge of 87.Joseph E . Mayer, professor of chemistry atthe University from 1946 to 1960, died in October. He was the Cari Eisendrath Professor,EnricoFermi Institute, and prof essor emeritusof chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and wasprofessor at the University of California.THE CLASSES1900-1909Elizabeth Mace McFarland, PhB'07,January, 1982.1910-1919Robert W. Baird, PhB'12, September.Katherine Norcross Beck, SM'12, November.Ruth Sager Bixby, PhB14, December. Margaret Culver Hammett, PhB14,December.Jacob R. Kantor, PhB14, PhD'17, February.Warren M. Miller, MD14, October.Ralph M. Hogan, SB'15, AM16, PhD'27,January.William P Butler, X16, January.Cari A. Dragstedt, SB16, SM'17, MD'21,PhD'23, March, 1983.Icie Macy Hoobler, SB16, January.Ruth Prosser McLain, PhB16, AM18,November.Benjamin E. Shackelford, PhD16, November.Ruth Thomas Spurgin, PhB'16, November.William D. Appel, SB'17, November.Donald V. Hops, PhB'17, April, 1983.Samuel H. Kalis, LLB17, November.Clarence W. Rainey, SB'17, MD'22, January.Dwight C. Sigworth, MD17, April, 1983.Arthur G. Asher, SB18, MD'20, September.Miriam Bowman-Simon, PhB'18, November.Walter F. Kohn, PhB'18, December.Eleanor Marshall Schmidt, Certificate'18,February.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 1984Ray Q. Brewster, PhD'19, July, 1983.John C. Henderson, PhB'19, February.Norma Edmonds Lawson, PhB'19.Carroll Mason Russell, SB 19, October.Cari W.H. Sass, JD'19, October.1920-1929Evelyn Mae Boyd, AM'20, December.Romaine Tiffany Capper, X'20.William R. Hunt, MD'20, October.Gleonard H. Jones, JD'20, September.Frank J. Madden, PhB'20, JD'22, December.Florence Foxwell Otten, Certif icate'20,September.Allison L. Burdick, MD'21.Edward S. Clark, X'21, October.Ruth Lachman Falvey, X'21, April, 1983.Théodore W. Hawes, X'21, January.Ben Herzberg, SB'21, JD'22, January.John Ladner, LLB'21, October.Victor L. McQuistion, LLB'21, October.John EMehlhope, X'21.Ernest R. Mowrer, AM'21, PhD'24, December.Martin William Schultz, PhB'21, September.Wolfgang Seidenadel, X'21, June, 1983.Ruland Barber, X'22, March.Gwendoline Gurnett Gault, PhB'22, June, 1983.LeonE. Gillen, PhB'22, February, 1983.Ford H. Kaufman, PhB'22, June, 1983.John C. Kerr, X'22, December.Edolph A. Larson, SM'22, February, 1983.John W. McCaffrey, X'22, February.Allen T. Price, AM'22, October.William R. Ruminer, SB'22, December.Théodore L. Vitkin, PhB'22.David E. Anderson, SM'23, December.Frederick A. Baepler, AM'23, November.Hugh C. Graham, SB'23, MD'26.Ellsworth Marshall, SM'23, July.Roy D. Templeton, SB'23, November.Robert L. Tiffany, X'23, August.Edward S. West, PhD'23, January.Martin L. Conrad, JD'24, December.Mabel Percie Crompton, SM'24, January.HamparE. Kelikian, SB'24, MD'28.William R. Lemm, PhB'24, December.CarlJ. Sandstrom, SB'24, PhD'29, September.Peter S. Sarelas, PhB'24, December.Lucy Lucile Tasher, PhB'24, JD'26, AM'32,PhD'34, January.Florence Erskine Teal, PhB'24, January.Stella H. Tharp, X'24, May, 1983.Robert L. Weiss, PhB'24, September.Elizabeth Hord Hay, PhB'25, January, 1983.Fred E. Law, PhB'25, December.Carroll Knopf Lenning, AB'25, September.Benjamin ElijahMays, AM'25, PhD'35, March.Robert K. Murakami, LLB'25, November.Joseph S. Perry, AM'25, JD'27, February.WUliam Riggall, PhB'25, December.OttoN. Thorndal, AM'25, April, 1983.William Waldman, PhB'25, October.Frances White Chittum, AM'26, August.Théodore H. Gasteyer, SB'26, MD'31,November.Henry M. Geisman, PhB'26, February. MargaretPrestHearn, PhB'26, February, 1983.MaeKissane, (Sister Marie Jeanne Kissane, CSC),PhB'26, 1983.Joseph Morrison, SB'26, December.William G. Piersel, AM'26, July, 1983.Allen E. Ragan, AM'26, June, 1983.Leona Train Rienow, PhB'26, August.Grâce Lucile Robey, SM'26, MD'32, August.Ruth Mintz Sack, X'29, May.Adelaide Ames Schade, PhB'26, March.Philip Boies Sharpe, PhB'26, October.Lois Curry Strayer, AM'26, February.Fred Wilkins, PhB'26, July.Lawrence A. Williams, SB'26, SM'27, MD'30,December.Sybel Beach Wiltshire, PhB'26, October.Marian Priscilla Billig, X'27, March.Treacy H. Duerfeldt, SM'27, MD'29,December.Rose Formento Eneborg, PhB'27.Thomas Field, PhB'27, January.Mary Marcelle Henneberry, PhB'27.Ethel Smith McDonald, AM'27, November.Honora Lillybeck Roe, SB'27, November.Sidney M. Smith, X'27.Thomas B. Stephenson, X'27, November.Adolph N. Straka, SB'27, March, 1983.Adèle Mof fett Whitf ield, PhB'27, February.Maturin Ballow Bay, SB'28, February.Robert F. Bittrich, PhB'28, JD'30, December.Paul E. Crowder, PhB'28, June, 1983.David H. Feldman, LLB'28, January.Frieda Stein Fenster, PhB'28, December.Frances Boyd Hurlock, AM'28.Gertrude Grâce Moderow, AM'28, November.Eldred L. Neubauer, PhB'28, October.Elizabeth Jane Mahoney, PhB'29, AM'42,June, 1983.M. Ruth Pettigrew, AM'29.1930-1939Harry A. Broadd, PhB'30, October.Hildahl I. Burtness, MD'30, May, 1983.Arthur Shu Yuan Chen, AM'30.Cora Lillian Davenport, AM'30, August.Frank Greenberg, PhB'30, March.Charles E. Herzog, PhB'30, JD'32, January.John R Kirmiz, PhB'30, SM'31.Maurice E. McLaughlin, AM'30, February.Rebecca E. Pitts, AM'30, October.Howard E. Rothrock, X'30, November.Ruth Mintz Sack, X'30, May, 1983Donald L. Vetter, LLB'30, Decembef.Jean Wunderlich, AM'30, LLB'31, August.Milton H. Cohen, PhB'31, February, 1983.Kenneth H. Collins, MD'31, October.Joseph Mathew Ginet, X'31, November, 1982.Wilber Hart, MD'31, December.Helen Knopp Miner, PhB'31, November.Maurice R. Teis, SM'31, July, 1983.Susan Grey Akers, PhD'32, January.George Faris, PhB'32, AM'41, September.Robert R. Haun, PhD'32, October.Glenn S. Kropf, AM'32, April, 1983.Philip S. Mitchell, AM'32, October.Edgar Williams, AM'32, June, 1983. Rose Vucker Diskint, AM'33, October.Hyman M. Greenstein, PhB'33, JD'35,September.GoldieBreslichHaydon, PhB'33, February, 1983.Maurice Kadin, SB'33, MD'37.Joseph J. Laub, PhB'33, JD'35, September.Vernon Nelson, PhB'33, August.Eunice Wadsworth Thompson, X'33.Richard L. Bâtes, MD'34, January.George J. Constantine, PhB'34, November.Byron Morey Getzoff, PhB'34, JD'35, January.Jane Eger Kadin, AB'34.Veronica Agnes Phee, PhB'34, February, 1983.Mary Frances Shuford, MD'34, June 1983.Andrew C. Smith, PhD'34, February.Marvin A. Bargeman, PhB'35, August, 1982.Donald M. Britton, MD'35, January.William A. Burns, PhB'35, September.Thorne Deuel, PhD'35, February.Crystal Nusbaum Lyons, SM'35, July.Kathryn Lain Marsh, AM'35, December.Lewis L. Robbins, SB'35, MD'38, DecemberWilliam S. Pettigrew, AB'36, JD'38, August.Sanford Goodfriend, MD'37, April, 1983.Lyman C. Huff, SB'37, SM'39, PhD'57,July, 1983.Irène Buckley Knudsen, AB'37, AM'40,October.David Malaiperuman, PhD'37.E. Grosvenor Plowman, PhD'37, March.Burley L. Brotman, AB'38, July.Josiah Crudup, PhD'39, May, 1983.Marshall Glenn, MD'38, October.Henry S. Kaplan, SB'38, MD'40, February.Samuel Kaplan, AM'38, CLA'38, January.Ithiel de Sola Pool, AB'38, AM'39, PhD'52,March.John L. Rigotti, AB'38, 1982.John W. Rowen, SB'38, PhD'41, January.Marguerite Elizabeth Brown,(Sister Mary Luke Brown), AM'39, January.Raymond J. Dunne, AB'39, MBA'42,April, 1983.Ruel E. Hall, AM'39, February.Robert V Shirley, X'39, June, 1983.1940-1949Muriel Ruekberg Last, SB'40, SM'42,December, 1982.Sylvia Pinsky Patlogan, AB'40, AM'41.Marshall S. Waller, SB'40, MBA'50, February.La Verna Wharton Williams, AM'40.Matthew H. Block, PhD'41, MD'43, October.Thomas R. French, AB'41, January.Edward F. Grubbs, AM'41, December.Wellington D. Jones, Jr., AM'41, November.Ruth Leah Pitman, AM'41, October.Patrobas C. Robinson, AM'41, February.Frederick L. Swanson, Jr., AB'41, December.Charles E. Vandeveer, AM'41.AlexGarber, AB'42, AM'44, September.Paul G. Wolff, SB '42, MD'44, November.Frances Dorothy Acomb, PhD'43, January.Marion B. Grady, AM'43, PhD'51, December.Alice Cynthia Dodge, AM'44, January.Julien H. Isaacs, SB'44, MD'46, January.4.1Leroy L. Johnson, AB'44, December.Edward Grieve Shadbolt, X'44, January, 1983.John J. Antel, MD'45, January.Carlton Fay, AB'45.Percy B. Polen, PhD'45.Jan Terebelski, SM'45, June, 1983.Robert M. Colpitts, Sr., X'47, November.Marjorie Anne Zumstein, BLS'47, February.Earl W. Barrett, SM'48, PhD'58, August.Alfred K. Guthe, AM'48, November.Evelyn Eigelbach Robinson, AB'48, AM'51,February.Frederick E. Seaberg, Jr., AM'48, September.Agnes Dickson Love, SM'49.A. Ernest Raymond, PhB'49, June, 1983.Lawrence D. Tintor, PhB'49, September.1950-1959Marion Herbert Groves, PhD'50, November.Charles M. Martin, MBA'50, December.Thomas R. Putsche, Jr., AB'50, December.SanfordM. Schwartz, AB'50, AM'54, February.Robert A. Spicely, MBA'50, April, 1983.Mary Cockef air Holt, X'51, January, 1983.Donald E. Paquette, AB'51, JD'54, November.Mildred Jones Cobb, AM'52, September.William H. Reinmuth, AB'52, SM'54,Manuel Conrad Elmer, PhD14, FootnotesBackground Bench Marks (Apollo Books). Select-ed comments, observations, and sketches tak-en from the " gênerai accumulation " of Elmer'sfiles.Thomas M. Camden, XP'31,X'72, The JobHunter's Final Exam (Surrey Books). Camden'stwo previous books were about job-hunting inChicago and in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.Herbert A. Simon, AB'36, PhD'43, andK. Anders Ericsson, Protocol Analysis: VerbalReports as Data (MIT Press). The book gives thepsychologist's tool of protocol analysis a new,broader base . Simon is professor in the departments of psychology and computer science atCarnegie-Mellon University.Dorothy Odenheimer Bridaham, AM'37,Kitchen Stuff: Art, Food, Travel, Verse, and Taies(Tumbleweed Press, Denver, CO). An Ulus-trated cookbook, cooking history, and familyrecord.Louis Shattuck Baer, SB'38,MD'38, BetterHealth with Fewer Pills (Westminster Press,Philadelphia, 1982). Baer, clinical professor ofmedicine emeritus at the Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine, says love, faith, and hopeplay a major rôle in healing and suggests thatholistic techniques be combined with tradi-tional médical practices.Milton B. Singer, PhD'40, Man's ClassyEssence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology(University of Indiana Press). Singer arguesthat a semiotic anthropology holds the key tomany of the intellectual problems generatedby the debates in the 1960s over structuralism. December.James D. Rose, AM'52, January.Henry W. Kircher, PhD'53, January.Ruth Sacks Chusid, AM'54, July.Lawrence H. Krell, AM'54, December.Amy Frances Brown, PhD'55, December.William S. Morris, PhD'55, July.Virginia Phillips Gregorius, AM'56.Paul Hoffman, AB'57, AM'58, March.Howard A. Somers, Jr., MBA'57, December.Andrew EH. Armstrong, AB'58, AM'59,December.Pauline Irvin Davis, AM'58, February, 1983.Richard H. Malone, MBA'58, January.Stanley J. Miller, MBA'58, October.Cari F. Mees, PhD'59, April, 1983.1960-1969Marvin A. Brottman, PhD'62, October.Stephen M. Brown, AB'64, AM'66, May, 1983.Robert E. Sang, AM'64, January.William A. Lamb, AB'68, MD'72, February.1970-1979Melvin B. Gorton, MBA'70, February.Thomas C. Green, AM'70, PhD'78, July, 1983.Edith Scott, PhD'70, November.Singer is professor emeritus in the departmentof anthropology at the University and PaulKlapper Professor Emeritus in the Division ofthe Social Sciences and in the Collège.Eva Howink, X'41, Lives ofFamous Women(Golden Quill Press, Francestown, NH) andJ Live In A Muséum (Poetry International/Sayeeda Publications, Madras, India). Lives ofFamous Women combines prose and verse in cel-ebrating the lives of 20 famous women.Thomas A. Sebeok, AB'41, and UmbertoEco, editors, The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes,Peirce (Indiana University Press). The book ispart ofthe Advances in Semiotics Séries. Sebeok isDistinguished Professor of Linguistics andSemiotics and Professor of Anthropology atIndiana University and is editor of Semiotica.Sigrid Phyllis Steamer, SB'41, SM'42,PhD'46, Able Scientists— Disabled Persons: Bio-graphical Sketches lllustrating Careers in the Sciences for Able Disabled Students (John RacilaAssociates). Steamer, who is disabled, is awidely recognized zoologist who retired recently from a 35-year career as a radiobiologistat the Argonne National Laboratory. The bookdescribes the lives and achievements of twen-ty-seven disabled scientists and students ofscience to show that individuals with physicallimitations can succeed in scientific and tech-nical work.Paul L. Higgins, DB'45, Pilgrimages: AGuide to the Holy Places of Europe for Today'sTraveler (Spectrum/Prentice Hall). A guide toreligious sites in the British Isles, northernFrance, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the.Neth- erlands, and Germany and tips on what to doonce you're there.Marshall Edelson, PhB'46, PhD'54, MD'55,Hypothesis and Evidence in Psychoanalysis (University of Chicago Press). Edelson is professorof psychiatry at the Yale University Schoolof Medicine, director of éducation in the Yaledepartment of psychiatry, and director ofresearch in the outpatient division of the Con-necticut Mental Health Center. He is a practic-ing psychoanalyst.Robert Hemenway, AB'46, AM'51, At TheBorder (Atheneum). Hemenway won theO . Henry prize for short fiction in 1970 and wason the staff of the Neiv Yorker for thirteen years.Advance reviews of At The Border, which inseven vignettes traces the life of a man fromchildhood to middle âge, call it "an odd yet en-chantingly slow... éducation of the heart....a stunning accomplishment."Wayne C. Booth, AM'47, PhD'50, andMarshall W. Gregory, AM'66, PhD'70, TheHarper & Row Reader (Harper & Row). A text-book for use in composition and humanitiesclasses including essays by the authors and anarray of epigraphs and short pièces. Booth isGeorge M. Pullman Distinguished ServiceProfessor of English at the University.Albert Rees, AM'47, PhD'50, Striking ABalance: Making National Economie Policy (University of Chicago Press). Rees is président ofthe Alfred P Sloan Foundation and was for-merly provost and professor of économies atPrinceton University. His book, written for thegênerai reader, sets forth the principal goals ofnational économie policy, the instrumentsused to achieve those goals, and the politicaland économie problems arising from conf lictsamong goals and inappropriate choice ofinstruments.Morris Janowitz, PhD'48, The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Conscious-ness (University of Chicago Press). Janowitz isLawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished ServiceProfessor in the department of sociology andin the Collège.Henry S. Maas, PhD'48, People and Con-texts: Social Development from Birth to Old Age(Prentice-Hall). The book follows the lifecourse in a framework that is simultaneouslyenvironmental, interactional, and develop-mental. Maas was an assistant professor in theUniversity's Committee on Human Development before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for almost 20years. He is now at the University of BritishColumbia.Virgil Vogel, AM'49, PhD'66, Iowa PlaceNames of Indian Origin (University of IowaPress). Vogel's book, which he describes as being of "no practical value but. . .a matter of un-derstanding our héritage," is his fourth majorstudy of American Indian place names. Vogel,now retired, has taught collège, high schooland elementary school students.Charles Garvin, AM'51, PhD'68, Interper-sonal Practice in Social Work (Prentice-Hall).Garvin lives in Ann Arbor, MI.Earl M. Herrick, AB'52, Sociolinguistic Variation: A Formai Model (University of AlabamaPress). Herrick shows how a certain kind of lin-guistic theory, which can describe how peopleactually communicate with one another, canalso describe the varieties of language that areBOOKS by Alumni4-1 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 19844 W ÎT #"""#- ? 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Corsini, PhD '55, The Ency-clopeàia of Psychology (John Wiley & Sons).Corsini 's four- volume work was published inMarch .Jack J. Honomichl, AM'56, Marketing/Research People: Their Behind-the-Scenes Stories(Crain Books). Honomichl, the research colum-nist for Advertising Age for more than a décade,was given access to private marketing fiïes forhis book, including Président Reagan's 1979marketing plan. The book features case historiés of the marketing of Arm & Hammer bakingsoda, the Renault Alliance, Cycle dog food andinterviews with Robert Teeter, Richard Wirthlin,Peter Hart, ' and Patrick Caddell. Honomichlwas a double winner of the 1983 AdvertisingJournalism Awards sponsored by Compton Advertising "to honor the writer of those articleswhich are particularly créative and thought-provoking."William T. Bluhm, PhD'57, Force or Freedom? A Paradox in Modem Political Thought (YaleUniversity Press). Bluhm claims that only byrenouncing Cartesian dualism and necessitar-ian notions of law and by embracing fundamental norms based on public moral reasonand enlightened interest will we bring an endto paradoxical polities and the ultimate irre-concilability of force and freedom. Bluhm isprofessor of political science at the Universityof Rochester.Robert C. Judd, AB'57, and Dorothy H.Judd, Mastering the Micro: Using the Microcomputer in the Elementary Classroom (Scott, Fores-man and Company). The Judds' book is a brief,nontechnical guide to using and understand-ing the microcomputer. Robert Judd is visitingprofessor of management at the University ofNew Orléans.Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, AB'59, TheSun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way: OnChild-Centered Teaching (Gryphon House).Clemens, who holds an MA from Teachers' Collège of Columbia University, has been a teacherin the New York City and San Francisco publicschools, founder and director of a learning center for children, and instructor in chûd care development at Merritt Collège in Oakland, CA.Joseph Epstein, AB'59, The Middle of MyTether: Familiar Essays (WW. Norton & Co.).This is the second volume of Epstein 's essays,selected from his columns in The AmericanScholar. Epstein teaches writing and literatureat Northwestern University.Joseph Frank, PhD'60, Dostoevsky: TheYears OfOrdeal, 1856-1859 (Princeton University Press). This is the second volume of Frank 'sprojected five-volume life of Dostoevsky.The New York Times called the first volume,Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849, a"masterpiece." Frank is professor of comparative literature at Princeton University.Martin Carnoy, AM'61, PhD'64, The Stateand Political Theory (Princeton UniversityPress). Carnoy is professor of éducation atStanford University.Robert W. Luyster, AM'61, PhD'64, Hamletand Man's Being: The Phenomenology of Nausea(University Press of America). Luyster is associate professor of philosophy at the Universityof Connecticut. Barry H. Rumack AB'64, ToxicologieEmergencies (Brady Press). Rumack, a physi-cian, is associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Rocky Mountain Poison Center inDenver. He is also président of the AmericanAssociation of Poison Centers.Carol Rumack, X'65, Périnatal Brain Imag-ing: The rôle of CT. and ultrasound (YearbookMédical Publishers). Dr. Rumack is foundingprésident of the American Association ofWomen Radiologists and in September will beinstalled as a fellow of the American Collège ofRadiologists.Sotirios A. Barber, AM'66, PhD'72, OnWhat the Constitution Means (Johns Hopkins).George Kateb of Amherst Collège says Barber,"reawakens wonder at the mère fact that acountry has lived by a charter for 200 years andthat the charter, in its foundations as weU as in itsaspirations, reaches to the deepest moral andethical questions." Barber is professor of political science at the University of South Horida.Robert Bianchi, AB'66, AM'68, PhD'77,Interest Groups and Political Development inTurkey (Princeton University Press). Bianchi isassociate professor of political science at theAmerican University in Cairo.Bill Freund, AB'66, The Making ofContempo-rary Africa: The Development ofAfrican Society Since1800 (Indiana University Press). Freund, who isaf f iliated with the University of Witwatesrand inJohannesburg, South Africa, investigates whathe terms the régressive and progressive featuresof colonialism in Africa and says that Africa wasconquered "to open it up for capital in the oneway that was historically possible."Marshall W. Gregory, AM'66, PhD'70, TheHarper & Row Reader. See Wayne C. Booth,AM'47, PhD'50. Gregory is associate professorof English at Butler University and director ofthe Lilly Endowment's post-doctoral teachingawards program.Michael Homel, AM'66, PhD'72, DownFrom Equality: Black Chicagoans and the PublicSchools, 1920-41 (University of Illinois Press).Chicago 's public schools were substantially in-tegrated by 1920. But by 1941, Homel reports,city and school authorities had systematicallythwarted this naturally occurring trend andcreated a segregated System which lef t blackschools overcrowded and underfunded.Homel, professor of history at Eastern Michi-gan University, shows how the change oc-curred and how it still influences the currentdebate on éducation in Chicago.Dorothy J. Solinger, AB'67, Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Polities of DomesticCommerce, 1949-1980 (University of CaliforniaPress) and, as editor, Th ree Visions of ChineseSocialism (Westview Press). Solinger is associate director of the Asian Studies program andadjunct associate professor of political scienceat the University of Pittsburgh . She recently received two grants to pursue a study of the poli-tics of économie readjustment in China andwill go to Wuhan, ER.C. thisfall.Stephen E. Tabachnick, AM'67, The TE.Lawrence Puzzle (University of Georgia Press).Tabachnick is an associate professor of modemEnglish literature at Ben-Gurion University ofthe Negev, Beersheva, Israël. The book coversail aspects of Lawrence's career, including hisrôles as a strategist, diplomat, and intelligenceofficer. Franklin E. Zimring, JD'67, and MichaelTonry, eds. Reform and Punishment: Essays onCriminal Sentencing. Zimring is the Karl N.LleweUyn Professor at the law school. A full professor since 1973, Zimring was selected by Timein 1977 as one of ten outstanding teachers whowere likely to shape the future.Michael R. Darby, AM'68, PhD'70, JamesR. Lothian, AM'69, PhD'73, Arthur E.Gandolfi, Anna J. Schwarz and Alan C.Stockman The International Transmission of Inflation (University of Chicago Press).Benjamin Ginsberg, AB'68, AM'70,PhD'73, The Conséquences of Consent: Elections,Citizen Control and Popular Acquiescence (Addi-son-Wesley, 1982) Ginsberg, who teaches atCornell University, -discusses the history, sig-nif icance and character of démocratie électoralinstitutions.Claire C. Roberts AM'68, Sharing the SameBowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Classin Accra, Ghana (Indiana University Press).Robertson is a Faculty Research Associate inthe African Studies Program at Indiana University. Her book discusses the socioeconomicmarginalization of women through the use offour case historiés.RudigerDornbusch, AM '69, PhD '71, andMario Henrique Simonsen, eds., Inflation,Debt, and Indexation (MIT Press). Dornbusch isprofessor of économies at MIT.Jacob A. Frenkel, AM'69, PhD'70, éd.Exchange Rates and International Macroeconomics(University of Chicago Press). Frenkel is DavidRockefeller Professor in the Department ofEconomies and the Collège and editor of theJournal of Political Economy.James R. Lothian, AM'69,. PhD'73, TheInternational Transmission of Inflation (University of Chicago Press). See Michael R. Darby,AM'68, PhD'70.Richard T. Schaefer, AM'69, PhD'72,Sociology (McGraw-Hill). A collège textbookapplying sociological principles to the under-standing of social policy issues. Schaefer isprofessor of sociology and assistant dean oftheCollège of Arts and Sciences at Western IllinoisUniversity, Macomb.J. Ronald Engel, AM'71, PhD'77, TheStruggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes(Wesleyan University Press).Frank Burch Brown, AM'72, PhD'79, Transfiguration: Poetic Metaphor and the Language ofReligious Belief (University of North CarolinaPress). Burch Brown was recently promoted toassociate professor of religion and humanitiesat Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is the récipient of a 1984-85 NEHgrant to work on a book in religious aesthetics.Transfiguration studies ways in which the me-taphoric language of literary art is significantin shaping religious expérience and reflection.Emily Grosholz, AB'72, The River Painter(University of Illinois Press). A first collectionof poems by Grosholz, who has published in-dividual pièces in more than a dozen journals,including Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, andHarper's. Grosholz teaches philosophy atPennsylvania State University.Barbara M. Stafford, PhD'72, Voyage IntoSubstance (MIT Press). Stafford's study re-opens the complex question of how nature wasperceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment, when artists, scientists, and writersif UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINF./Summer 1984aeetnoven s stnng {juaneiin F Op. 59, no. 1.is inséparable frofji créative activity. 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Did Hutchins waste ail that he investedin the University? (Claudia Boynton wouldhâve preceded Hutchins, but so would W. E . D.Stokes, Jr., Lenox, MA, whose letter is the mosthumiliating to someone who hopes not to suf-fer the disrespect such aged invite.)Any way, cheers! Maybe poor old Stokesy,if indeed he exists, is trying to call attention tohis having blood (he writes that it "boils") and,as for Henry Cagg, Winter Park, FL, congratulations for being so open-minded as to printanything from a Floridian!Martha Billman, X'49Santa Cruz, CAMORE ON DOCEditor:Because of involvement in post-production on The Oasis, I only just caught up with TedShen's article on Doc Films (WINTER/84). I en-joyedTed's effort, but the article is riddled witherrors and omissions.Peculiarly, while he mentions that one Docmember started reviewing films for the Chicago Reader while he was still in the Collège, andthat he is a member of the "exclusive NationalSociety of Film Critics," Shen neglected tomention that I was the original fUm critic forthe Reader while an undergraduate and am alsoa member of the NSFC He states that I hâve"lately been involved in film production"while in fact I hâve been so involved since 1971and hâve produced four features to date, including the unmentioned Final Exam, on whichthe executive producer was Doc alumnus4S Augustana Collège, Rocklsland, IL.T.L. Brink, PhD'78, The Middle Class Credo(Palo Alto R&E). Brink is executive vice président ofthe San Carlos, CA-based managementfirm of Costa Sol International.CurtisE. Larsen, PhD'80, Life and Land Useon the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarcheology of anAncient Society (University of Chicago Press).Bahrain was home to a f lourishing civilization4,000 years ago and provides a nearly idéal set-ting for constructing a model that accounts forboth environment and culture as factors inchanging land use. Larsen is a geologist withthe U.S. Geological Survey.Michael Mahern, AB'72, MBA'73. The Oasiswas scheduled to make its début in May at theCannes Film Festival.For what it's worth, I never joined a "Hollywood" firm of any kind, let alone one "spe-cializing in entertainment law." (I was a litiga-tor for a Century City firm for a number ofyears between projects, while simultaneouslywriting criticism for the Los Angeles Reader.) Ialso hâve appeared as an actor in Eating Raouland The Paper Chase, and developed the CBStélévision séries, Zorro and Son.There was no mention of former Doc of f i-cer Jack Friend, X'69, who has been with Co-lumbia for many years, nor of Earl Miller, X'60,who is pioneering video feature productionout hère. And just because the Academy neglected director Philip Kaufman, AB'58, (TheRight Stuff) is no reason for Shen to do so.Shen also scants the contributions of thegénération ahead of him to Focus! magazine,which was actually founded by Steve Mânes,X'69, (who received screenplay crédit onMother, Jugs, and Speed) and Miller in 1966, not1968 as indicated. And it may be a technicalpoint, but Doc's auteurist orientation predatesthe 1968 publication of (Andrew) Sarris's TheAmerican Cinéma, though copies of the FilmCulture 1963 issue with his earlier essay on thesubject were cherished gospel in those daringdays. Also neglected was the pivotai figure ofJohn Cawelti, (former professor in the departments of English and history, in the Collège,and in the committees on General Studies inthe Humanities and Art and Design), who pro-tected the organization from the déprédationsof a student activities committee often bent ondestroying Doc Films and who blazed the trailfor Gerald Mast, AB'61, AM'62, PhD'67 (professor in the department of English languageand literature, in the Collège, and on the committees for General Studies in the Humanitiesand Art and Design) to follow.It's admirable that Ted devoted the energyto preserving memories of the history of DocFilms, but since his efforts are likely to be taken as authoritative in the future, such correctionsseemed essential.As memory cascades back, I am remindedof William Routt, AB'61, AM'65, PhD'82, whohas been teaching at many universities overthe last décade and a half, and of writer-direc-tor Melvin Frank, PhB'34, (A Touch of Class). I'msure there are many more. The truth is that theU of C has spawned many laborers in the worldof mo vies, and what's nice about it ail is that westill feel a sensé of solidarity with one anotherthat began with the collegiality of Doc Films.Myron S. Meisel, AB'72Los AngelesTHAT'S ALL, DOCEditor:I would like to add a few comments to thediscussion of the rôle of women at Doc Films.During my years in Doc Films (1962-65), Iwas the most consistently active female member. I would guess that had I wanted to try, 1could hâve made a serious run for leadership.That I did not pursue this course is due, I think,to the particular transformations the group un-derwent in those years.1) In 1962, Doc Films was a mixed group ofgraduate and undergraduate students, alongwith a few ex-students who hung on in HydePark. We were a highly diverse group withbroad intellectual range . That was a key part ofits appeal. By 1965, the group was a club for undergraduate boys (I use the term advisedly) forwhom film was the main (and sometimes only)interest. The basement office — oh so difficultto find— was a spécial place to hang out with asélect group of initiâtes.2) Concomitantly, the conceptual struggleof those days was between Europeanists andAmericanists— roughly comparable to the oldand new guards. We were ail, more or less, supporters of the auteur theory, although theAmericanists were (in my prejudiced memory)considerably more dogmatic and doctrinaire.In the final analysis, the people who ranDoc Films at that time were those who put thatinvolvement above everything else— it wastheir intellectual, emotional, and social center.Let me suggest that the personality type was atthat time more a maie than a female model.JordyBell,AB'65Croton-on-Hudson, NYTHE MORE THINGSCHANGEEditor:"My First Year" (SPRING/84) by DavidFischer, Class of 1987, f ills me with astonish-ment. Invariants do exist.If I were such a skUlf ul writer, I would hâvewritten the same about my feelings as a first-year student in 1932.Thomas J. Bevan, SB'36Tulsa, OKUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/Summer 19843 faculty authors you should knowANTHONY C.YUProfessor in the Divinity School, the Departments of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of English languageand Literature, and the Committee on Social Thought, and editor and translater of . . .THE JOURNEY TO THE WESTThis translation of one of the great Chinese classics, the 16-century novel Hsi-yu chi, is in the words of David Lattimorein The New York Times Book Review: "One of the great ventures of our time in hurnanistic translation and publication . . .the most exciting translation of any book I hâve read in quite some time." In four volumes.WENDY DONIGER O'FLAHERTYProfessor in the Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee onSocial Thought, and the Collège, and author of . . .DREAMS, ILLUSION, AND OTHER REALTTIESTo explore the vastly differing ideas of reality in Indian and Western thought, OTlaherty offers a close examination of Indianmyths— ancient taies that portray drearning and waking as part of one reality, stories of dreams within dreams. She interweavesthe text with commentary and argument, using Western perspectives from such thinkers as Plato, Freud, Piaget, and Gombrich.PAUL RICOEURJohn Nuveen Emeritus Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee onSocial Thought, and author of . . .TIME AND NARRATIVEVolume 1 . Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. The first of a two-volume work, this book is concernedwith the "healthy circle" that Ricoeur finds between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it is expressedin narrative; narrative is meaningrul to the extent that it portrays temporal expérience. One of the foremost philosophers ofour time, Ricoeur is a thinker whose importance is feit in the social sciences as well as in the humanities.r.._ 10% Alumni Discount with This Coupon The University of Chicago Press, Dept BN, 5801 Ellis Avenue, Chicago LL 60637.Please send me books as indicated below. set(s) Journey to the West at $126.00 cloth(regularly $140.00) set(s) Journey to the West at $45.00 paper(regularly $50.00) copy(ies) Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realitiesat $22.50 cloth (regularly $25.00) copy(ies) Time and Narrative at $22.50 cloth(regularly $25.00) ? Payment enclosed. 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