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Tobring it closer to an algorithm, we wouldhave to say that, if we separate people fromthe consequences of their folly, then therewould be more foolishness; but if we separate them from your folly, or the folly of theReagan administration, then there would beless injustice.Milton Friedman's old idea of negativeincome tax is the best solution to poverty, inmy opinion. All the poor really need is money, to liberate them from all the follies thatthey had nothing to do with. When the solution is that simple, it's foolish to ignore it. Ina free society, people shouldn't even have towork, if they don't want to . In such a society,however, everyone would want to work, because it would be worth working for. Todoubt that is cynical, and cynicism is theroot cause of mean-spiritedness.Kenneth J. Epstein, SM'52Chicago, ILTHE HIGHER COST OFHIGHER EDUCATIONEditor:Perhaps your readers would be interested in an eye-opening experience of mine.My first grandchild to apply to the University for admission informs me that it is estimated to cost about twenty thousand [dollars] a year currently. That is twenty timeswhat it cost me fifty years ago. I am aware ofsome increased costs, but twenty times?From 1937 to 1940 it cost me about a thousand [dollars] a year before graduating. Iknow this as a fact because I worked at theQuadrangle Club at minimum wage, fortycents an hour. By performing every jobopening at that time— waiter, janitor,switchboard, and "night-watchman"— Iearned about twenty dollars a week.The only real expense for me was time.By working forty or more hours a week I had to schedule several classes at the same hourand "read" for those not enrolled for.Academically, my grandson will do better than I; but that is not necessarily true forhis general education.Question: if the general cost of living isup anywhere from six to ten times in fiftyyears, why is higher education so muchhigher?Another question: the University ofChicago is probably the best in the country,but why doesn't its "excellence" include theability to offer the same high educationalstandards at a lower cost than thecompetition?William M. 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Copyright ©1988 by theUniversity of Chicago.Editorial office: The University of ChicagoMagazine, Robie House, 5757 SouthWoodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.Telephone (312) 753-2323. The Magazineis sent to all University of Chicagoalumni.Typesetting by Skripps & Associates,Chicago. The University ofCHICAGOMagazine /Spring 1988Volume 80, Number 3IN THIS ISSUENemesisBy Felicia Antonelli HoltonIf mass extinctions have occurred on Earthevery 26 million years for the past 250million years, were they caused by extraterrestrial events?Page 2RoomiesWhen two strangers move in together, theysometimes become best friends. Sometimes they don't.Page 10Campaign for the Arts and SciencesGoes over the TopPage 18DEPARTMENTSChicago Journal 26Chicago History Brief 29Class News 36Books 46Deaths 48Cover: Paleontologists David Raup (left) andJack Sepkoski stand before the skeleton ofAlbertosaums in the great hall of the FieldMuseum of Natural History, Chicago.Albertosaums lived 75 million years ago,near the Badlands, Red Deer River,Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Michael P. Weinstein)OortCloud •Nemesis'».'. *»o •**••• *?.»?¦• • » . »* *' • • V , ™ • •*•*». , o " »I. * •> ./>%"• »•»»'».»#• . »* .' •¦ * 0 * •. • .»..»* • .. ••.•.*••a*.* -. •' »°.. -.•.**..«" «• f *# <?• . •.- »*••*..'* .. i* • 8»e %?>*..*•% .• •**...*••• ; *¦'. -. -o. •- . . .•> o -•,«• '..k' •?" '""".(J» I . , -, ft-* O »» \ , ' •V' *#«,» » ..• . *, 04*tw«••••o •¦•*.*•«. V ? .tf- • •>«b *.••©•" %.*.«•'••» ••**• % *- 'tfO\S¦- ¦ » . *& *'• - » •. • tj .»¦ . "k* .». • * " *• ••"•„. .**. 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Ever since graduate school, he has been compiling data onthe fossil record of marine life. In 1982 he published A Compendium of Fossil Marine Families, which his colleague, paleontologist David Raup, refers to as "a moderately thick and utterly boring volume of names offamilies, their first and last known occurrences, and literature citations for each." For this research, ratherthan spending time out in the field chipping at rocks in search of fossils, Sepkoski has spent many hours inlibraries, poring through thousands of monographs and papers that record fossils found since the eighteenth centurv.(Top, left) Drawing shows proposed orbit of Nemesis in relation to the Solar System. Nemesis is said to pass thro,26 million years. (Above) Restoration o/Brontosaurus excelsus/nw; the Jurassic period, Wyoming. One-i the Oort Cloud of comets everyieth natural size.At the University of Chicago, Sepkoski(formally he is J. John Sepkoski, Jr. , professor in the Departments of Geophysical Science and Anatomy, the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and theCollege) has found a soulmate in Raup(SB'53, the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of Geophysical Sciences). Raup likes to concentratehis energies on highly theoretical,mathematical studies of the evolutionof life. "I have never described ornamed a new fossil species, a fact thatcaused some amusement when I waselected president of the PaleontologicalSociety some years ago," he oncewrote.In i983, the two joined forces andbegan analyzing the data in Sepkoski'sCompendium. Sepkoski was interestedin the early expansion of animal life inthe oceans ("just the opposite" of massextinctions, he observed later). Raupwas more inclined to pursue otherquestions about evolution, such as:How does the evolution of diversity offish compare with that of swimmingreptiles? They examined data on 3,500families of marine organisms, of whichmore than 2,500 had vanished from thefossil record.In the late spring of 1983, as theyworked with graphic output from theircomputer analyses, they realized theywere coming across a non-random pattern in the data. Their analyses suggested that there has been a mass extinctionof animal and plant life on Earth aboutevery 26 million years, for the last 250million years.Puzzled, they re-analyzed theirdata."It was a nerve-racking time, " Rauprecalled. "We were stimulated butskeptical. We wanted to avoid self-delusion."They published their findings. Asscientists, they expected that their workwould meet with intense scrutiny andsome criticism from colleagues.They got that, and lots more.For one thing, the publication oftheir findings has touched off a ragingdebate in scientific circles about massextinction. Among those participatingare astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, andstatisticians— some in support of, somehighly critical of the Raup-Sepkoskianalysis.According to Raup, their findingshelped to change what he calls "theonce rather old-fashioned science of paleontology" and sent it into a "maelstrom of excitement and controversy."Furthermore, the Raup-Sepkoskithesis has inspired new research andtheories, some of the latter on thewild side.Millions of Periods ofYears Ago Mass ExtinctionOne important outcome is that astronomers at several universitiesaround the country are now scanningthe skies, trying to find some extraterrestrial explanation for the 26-million-year cycle of mass extinctions.Geologists and paleontologists arere-examining the record of rocks, tryingto find evidence for patterns in massextinctions.The two paleontologists have received enormous attention from thepress— partly because of humans' longfascination with the dinosaurs, whichvanished in a mass extinction some 65 million years ago. The press has furtherbeen intrigued because one of the theories put forth by scientists suggeststhat the periodic mass extinctions mayhave been caused by fallouts of solar debris resulting from the travels in orbit ofa sister star for the Sun. The scientistsnamed this hypothetical star "Nemesis, " after the Greek goddess of retribution and righteous indignation.Along with criticism from other scientists, Sepkoski and Raup have beenrapped on the knuckles by some of thepress. Not once, but twice, The New YorkTimes has published editorials criticizing their theory. In the first, the titleread "Miscasting the Dinosaur's Horoscope, " which ended with the admonition that "astronomers should leave toastrologers the task of seeking the causeof Earthly events in the stars." (Raupnotes that it was published on April 2,1985, and suggests that perhaps it wasmeant to be run on April 1 but was heldover.)The public, too, has been drawn into the debate, through television talkshows and the press.As an indication of how taken people have been by the catastrophe-and-death-star scenario, Shriekback, a British rock group, recorded a song basedon Nemesis. And in science fiction stories, catastrophic impact from spacehas become a more common scenariothan before.At least one children's book hasbeen written that reflects the Raup-Sepkoski analyses and the Nemesistheory, thus enabling parents to beright up-to-date when their childrenask, "Why did the dinosaurs die?": TheDinosaurs and the Dark Star, by RobinBates and Cheryl Simon (MacMillan,1985).Consequently, the two scientistsfeel they have been "saganized." Rauphas named this phenomenon after CarlSagan, AB'54, SB'55, SM'56, PhD'60,David Duncan Professor of PhysicalScience at Cornell University, directorof Cornell's Laboratory for PlanetaryStudies, and erstwhile host of the television series, "Cosmos." To be "saganized, " says Raup, is to be (a) reported on widely by the press; and (b) comeunder attack (unjustly) from other scientists for seeking personal glory.In fact, Raup was driven to write abook about his and Sepkoski's experiences, because he wanted "to say something about the way scientific researchworks and how it interacts with con-4 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988temporary society. Science is not thepure, isolated endeavor that is usuallydepicted. It is rarely a simple process ofposing hypotheses, devising experimental tests, and waiting for Yes or Noanswers. Although the answers areoccasionally simple, getting thempublished and accepted in the scientificcommunity is not. And scientists arevictims of the same emotions and beliefsystems as other people."In his book, The Nemesis Affair, Raupwrites: "The Nemesis theory may turnout to be a major step forward in our understanding of the natural world or anembarrassing period of near-insanityin scholarship."* * *How did Raup and Sepkoski arriveat all this, from a long list of "utterlyboring" names of extinct marineanimals?At the time Raup and Sepkoskioriginally published their findings, thelist for the last 250 million years consisted of 2, 160 families of marine fossils.Later work included lists of nearly11,800 genera, of which 9,250 are extinct. Sepkoski, of course, keeps adding to it, and trying to make the information more accurate.And why marine animals?"The reasons for that are simple,"explained Sepkoski. "We've got a farbetter fossil record for ocean systemsthan we do for land systems. The mainreason is simply that land is an area ofnet erosion, and ocean is an area of netaccumulation of sediment. So we expect, first, that the rock record, andthus the fossil record, will be more continuous and voluminous in the oceanareas than in the land areas. Secondly,for economic reasons, particularly petroleum exploration, there's a lot morework being done on marine sedimentsthan land sediments. So we have amuch more complete knowledge of thefossil record for the oceans than forland, even though when we think aboutmass extinctions, particularly about thespectacular animals such as the dinosaurs, they were on land."Although the number of dinosaurfossils found is relatively small, paleontologists have been able to make certainobservations from them. For example,fossils of dinosaurs called tyranno-saurids show up in the American West,the Gobi desert, and other places, butonly in the rock layers laid down duringthe Cretaceous period, which lastedGeology Department, Field Musuem of NaturalHistory, Chicago. from 144 million to 65 million years ago.Although fossils of a large variety of dinosaurs are found in the latest Cretaceous rocks, no definite dinosaur fossils have ever been found in the Tertiarylayer just above it. The evidence suggests that something happened 65 million years ago to wipe out the dinosaursand many other forms of life. (The samesort of geological evidence exists, moreor less, for the other mass extinctions aswell.)Ever since the first dinosaur fossilswere found in 1824, scientists have speculated about what caused them to dieout. There have been many theories:the climate became too hot or too coldand affected their reproductive capabilities; some sort of disease killed themoff; newly evolved mammals ate all oftheir eggs; or they were poisoned bysome species of plant.Actually, scientists don't reallyknow exactly what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs— or any of theother mass extinctions throughout theEarth's history. "Mass extinctions hasbeen sort of a cottage industry for scientists," says David Jablonski, associateprofessor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences and the College."Because of the scrappy nature ofthe terrestrial fossil record, it's very difficult to get estimates of what the normal rates of species extinction are, andwhat the rate of species extinction during mass extinctions is, " said Sepkoski."Also there's the problem that we don'tknow whether mass extinctions occurovernight or during one bad weekend,as Dave Jablonski has speculated, or ifthey' re protracted events . If they're protracted events, then there are really twocomponents to mass extinction: one ishow much the rates of extinction are increased; and the second is how longthese higher rates of extinction exist."As Raup and Sepkoski worked,they began to realize that their data insistently fell into a non-random pattern. They found eight significantpeaks in the measured extinction rate-that is, eight mass extinctions. The mostrecent was 11.3 million years ago. Going back in time /^5^~s^the others oc- fbk ^^^rV\wcurred 38, 65, 91, ^W^^g^S144, 194, 219, ^"2T~A2and 248 mil- y**^44«t_^— -^-sl/1lion years ago. ^-»v. \ _^J<Albertosaums (Gorgosaurus) While the last four happened closeto 26 million years apart, the intervalsseem more irregular in the past, possibly because the measurement of geologic time becomes less accurate. Raupand Sepkoski interpreted the data tosuggest that the Earth may have escaped a mass extinction twice, once inthe 53-million-year interval between 91and 144 million years ago and again inthe 50-million-year interval between144 and 194 million years ago. Subsequently, however, they found evidenceof a small mass extinction around 115million years ago, right where they predicted one. *As the non-random patternsemerged from their data analyses, thetwo scientists recalled the theory forcyclical extinctions put forth in 1977 byAlfred G. Fischer, then at PrincetonUniversity (now at the University ofSouthern California); and a graduatestudent, Michael A. Arthur (now aprofessor at the University of RhodeIsland).Fischer and Arthur stated that theiranalysis suggested that mass extinctions occurred every 32 million years.Raup commented, "Many of us (most,in fact) did our best to look the otherway. . . We all knew that the history ofthe Earth was too complex to be amenable to such a simplistic description.What would keep the system on time?"When their own analyses showed anon-random cycle, they asked, "Couldthis be Al Fischer's big cycle?"There was another study they keptin mind as they worked. In 1980 afather-and-son team of scientists, Luisand Walter Alvarez, together withFrank Asaro and Helen Michel, foundan anomalously high concentration ofthe rare element iridium at Gubbio innorthern Italy. Iridium is normallyalmost absent from the Earth 's crust butrelatively common in some types ofmeteorites. These samples of iridiumwere found precisely at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. In a paperpublished in the June 6, 1980, issue ofScience, the group reported that high iridium content had also been found inCretaceous rocks in Denmark and NewZealand. Consequently, they suggested an extraterrestrial phenomenon asthe cause of the extinction of the dino-^ saurs and other animals.<ST Luis Alvarez, SB'32, SM'35,[fe PhD '36, a 1968 Nobel laureate,p& is a senior research physicist at5Tx»2 Lawrence Berkeley LaboratoryI CrJOtu W/L/71 m. sand professor of physics emeritus at theUniversity of California, Berkeley. Hisson, Walter, is professor of geology atthe latter institution.The basic thesis of the Berkeleygroup is that a large asteroid hit theEarth 65 million years ago. They estimated that the force of the meteorite'simpact created about sixty times thatobject's volume in pulverized terrestrialrock, together with fragments of the asteroid itself (with its iridium), to be shotup into the atmosphere. The atmosphere then became so clogged withdust that sunlight was blocked andphotosynthesis of green plants was in- •hibited or stopped completely. This, inturn, broke down food chains and led tothe demise of animals dependent, directly or indirectly, on plants for food.The Berkeley group estimated thatthe asteroid must have been about sixmiles in diameter. They based their estimate on the amount of iridium foundat Gubbio and elsewhere, and fromthe known iridium concentrations inmeteorites.Sepkoski recalls: "The whole massextinction thing broke with the discovery and publication by the Alvarezes oftheir evidence that there was a majorimpact at the end of the Cretaceous period which was associated causallywith the extinction of dinosaurs andother life forms."The Alvarezes wondered if thiswas an isolated event, or if other massextinctions in life history might havebeen caused by similar impacts. Well, Iwas sitting on a data set that could beused in answering those questions, sowe started working with it."Many paleontologists expressedgreat skepticism over the Alvarez impact theory.To understand why, it helps to takea quick review of the view, held by manyscientists, that the history of the planetcould be explained by events occurringgradually over immense periods oftime: the principle of uniformity or un-iformitarianism. This was the geologicunderpinning for Darwin's theory ofevolution.The idea of uniformitarianism, inwhich processes like the ones we see atpresent operated continuously throughPaleontologist David Jablonski (right) suggests that large-scale patterns in the evolutionof life on Earth may be shaped as much bychance as by evolutionary fitness. the past, was promoted enthusiastically in 1830 by Charles Lyell, a British geologist. At the time, many scientistsleaned toward the notion of catas-trophism to explain changes in theEarth's history. This hypothesis had• Planet X(changing positionthrough time)SunEarthNeptuneComet disk '1/1 000 of one light yearOur Solar System showing the comet disk inrelation to the changing position of Planet X inits eccentric and changing orbit.been supported at the beginning of thenineteenth century by George Cuvier, aFrench paleontologist who establishedthe fact of widespread species extinctions in the past. He theorized that extinctions might have been caused by repeated devastations by global flooding.This, of course, delighted pious geologists because it seemed to confirm thereality of the biblical flood.Scientists argued over the Lyell-Cuvier positions for years. The Lyellianforces eventually won, and this has affected thinking in geology and a number of other fields.Because of this, geologists haveshied away from looking for "extraordinary agents" to interpret theEarth's history.Raup points out that the current debate and argument aboutcatastrophes caused by extraterrestrial forces is in many waysa revival of the Lyell-Cuvierargument.In recent years, many scientists have felt that catas-trophism, freed of its supernatural associations, shouldbe considered along with gradualism in studying evolution. The hypothesis of the Alvarez groupstrengthened this view.Now, the Raup-Sepkoski findingsare pushing science further in the direction of accepting catastrophe as a "normal" part of the Earth's history.Since 1980, a tremendous amountof research has been done by others onthe killing scenario.Sepkoski and RaupfirsLwent public with theitiindings at a symposiumon "Dynamics of Extinction" at Flagstaff, AZ, in 1983. Sepkoski presentedtheir results and concluded that the 26-million-year periodicity might best beexplained by extraterrestrial processesrather than Earth-bound ones."There was nothing particularlyprofound about this choice; it simplysaid that regular cycles on long timescales are more common in the SolarSystem and Galaxy than in or on theEarth," explained Raup. "In the environment of space, lots of bodies are circling other bodies at pretty regularrates. The Galaxy rotates completelyabout its axis every few hundred million years, our Solar System oscillatesup and down throughthe Galaxy in tensof millions ofyears, and so on."Not beingable to explainour observations by normal means, wesuggested anabnormal interpretationanotherdiscipline.But we had to stop there — hoping, ofcourse, that the astronomers and astrophysicists would pick up the challenge.They picked it up with a vengeance."Accounts of Sepkoski's Flagstaffpresentation appeared in Science, ScienceNews, and The Los Angeles Times, thusproviding non-geologists and the general public with thefirst summary of theidea.In February 1984,Raup and Sepkoskihad a short paperpublished in The Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences 1.4 (PNAS). They presented five pages of statistical analysis arguing for 26-million-year periodicity andconcluding that the cycles are probablydriven by Solar System or galacticforces. They suggested that passage ofthe Solar System through the spiralarms of the Milky Way galaxy might becausing events on Earth that in turnbrought on the extinctions.A scant two months later, in April1984, five papers giving astrophysicalinterpretations of the 26-million-yearperiodicity were published in Nature.The five papers were preceded byrather negative editorial commentariesby John Maddox, chief editor of Nature,and Anthony Hallam, professor of geology at the University of Birmingham.Michael R. Rampino and RichardStothers of NASA's Goddard Institutefor Space Studies suggested that theperiodic extinctions could have beencaused by massive interstellar clouds ofdust and gas clustered near the centralplane of the Milky Way. They calculatedthat during a typical passage throughthe Galaxy's central plane, the SolarSystem should collide with or passvery close to one of these clouds.The gravitational force of thisdust cloud would disturb theOort Cloud, a vast shell of trillions of icy fragments surrounding the Solar System ata distance of up to ten trillionmiles from the Sun. Evenduring the Solar System'scalm times, the gravitational pull of a passing staroccasionally affects theOort Cloud (named forthe Dutch astronomer JanOort, who deduced its existence in 1950). The pullsends an iceball, which fallsDrawings from The Nemesis Affair by David M.Raup, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. Copyright ©1986by David M. Raup. Reprinted by permission. out of the Oort Cloud, plunging towardthe Sun. As it gets closer, sunlight boilsdust and gas from its surface. The dustand gas are swept back into long glowing tails by sunlight and the solarwind and a comet is formed.100,000 light yearsEdgewise view of the Milky Way galaxy showing the present position of our Solar Systemnear the galactic plane. The Solar Systemcrosses the galactic plane every 31 to 33 million years. It should be emphasized that noneof the diagrams shown in these pages is drawnto scale. If this were attempted in the abovesketch, for example, the Solar System would beinvisibly small.If the Solar System passed throughan interstellar cloud, the effect wouldbe considerably more forceful. Cometswould be hurtled out of the Oort Cloud .The resulting cometary bombardmentor series of bombardments of the Earthwould send so much debris into the atmosphere that very little sunlightwould get through. This could bringabout a cosmic winter that would extinguish much of the life on Earth. Such adisaster could happen each time theSun went through the Milky Way plane.If comets have bombarded theEarth at fairly regular intervals, Rampino and Stothers reasoned, they musthave made craters that can be datedgeologically. Moreover, the ages of craters should be bunched at regular intervals. When the two scientists analyzeda list of impact craters and their ages,compiled by Richard Grieve, a geologistthen at Brown University who is now atthe Geological Survey of Canada inOttawa, they found that the ages offorty-one craters formed over the last250 million years were clustered at30-million-year intervals. That wasenough, they felt, to match extinctionsand the crossings of the Solar System ofthe Milky Way's central plane.A similar hypothesis was put forth by R. D. Schwartz and P. B. James.However, there is a problem withthis hypothesis, Raup points out. Thelast periodic mass extinction took placeeleven million years ago, and so theEarth should now be almost midwaybetween extinction episodes. But theSun is at present moving up, and is veryclose to the Galaxy'scentral plane, where intheory it should be encountering dust cloudsthat cause cometarybombardments. Butapparently no suchbombardments havehappened in recentgeological times.and Rampino have anthe dust clouds are notvertical oscillationofJ Solar Systempresent positionofSolar System'IStothersexplanation:distributed evenly around the Galaxy.The Earth happens to be in a cloud-free"safety zone" right now, and will remain in it for the next three millionyears.That argument has been considered and rejected by two other teams ofastronomers. At Berkeley, Marc Davis,Piet Hut, and Richard A. Muller speculated that the Sun has a dim, undiscovered companion star— a death star, thepress called it— with an orbit that bringsit close to the Solar System every 26 million years. As the star nears, its gravitational pull disturbs the inner OortCloud, knocking comets from it andcausing mass extinctions. They basedtheir theory in part on the fact thatmany stars in the Galaxy are part ofdouble-star systems, in which bothmembers orbit a common center ofgravity.A similar hypothesis was presentedby Daniel Whitmire of the University ofSouthwestern Louisiana and Albert A.Jackson IV of Computer Sciences Corporation in Houston.The Berkeley group suggestednaming the theoretical star "Nemesis,"after the Greek goddess who struckdown the proud and arrogant. Mullerfavored calling it "George," after thesaint who slew the dragon (dinosaur).Muller and Walter Alvarez alsoexamined Grieve's list of craters, considering only the small set of craterswith the most certain ages. They concluded that there was a period of 28 million years between periods of heavycratering.Muller and his research associatesare now scanning the skies, looking forNemesis. At Berkeley, another team ofastronomers is poring over star catalogues, including data from IRAS, theinfrared satellite, trying to find starswith the motions and spectral characteristics that Nemesis should have.In January 1985, Daniel P. Whit-mire, this time with John J. Matese,published a paper in Nature proposinganother hypothesis— that the 26-million-year periodicity was actuallydue to the motion of an unrecognizedtenth planet, Planet X, lying beyond theorbit of Pluto. Although the Planet Xhypothesis uses comet showers to explain the extinctions on Earth, thesource of the comets is different fromthose suggested by the Nemesis group.Many astronomers have postulated theexistence of a disk of comets beyond theorbit of Neptune. The comet disk, if itexists, is nowhere near the Oort Cloud;the disk is about 35 astronomical unitsfrom the Sun and the main Oort Cloudis 20,000 to 40,000 astronomical unitsout. An astronomical unit (AU) isequivalent to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (about 150million kilometers, or 93 million miles).Whitmire and Matese's hypothesis forPlanet X suggests regular changes ofthe Planet X orbit so that the planetsweeps through the comet disk every 26to 28 million years, disturbing cometorbits and causing comets to showerdown on Earth.Thus, there are several astronomical explanations for periodic extinction.So far, none has been proven right orwrong, although a number of criticalstudies have been published, arguingvehemently for or against thesescenarios.Meanwhile, Raup's and Sepkoski'sfindings have been criticized by manyscientists. At a special session of the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society debating the Nemesishypothesis, held in January 1985, ScottTremaine, then at MIT and now at theUniversity of Toronto, reported work hehad done with a graduate student, JulieHeisler, which challenged the statistical findings on periodic extinction.And in June 1985, Antoni Hoffman,a paleontologist at Columbia University, published a paper in Nature inwhich he severely criticized the Raup-Sepkoski statistical analysis of the extinction record. The paper was introduced by a John Maddox editorialstrongly endorsing its conclusions.The pendulum swung the otherway again in October 1985, when three chemists at the University of Chicagoreported that they had found evidenceof a worldwide fire 65 million years agothat may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and most otherlife. The findings were reported in Sci-V& /Slice of rock found at the K-T boundary (theboundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiaryperiods, about 65 million years ago). Thespec-imen is from Flaxbourne River, South Island,New Zealand. The top layer is Tertiary marl;the bottom layer is upper Cretaceous limestone. In the center is a layer of boundary clayin which the Anders-Lewis-Wolbach teamfound soot.ence by Edward Anders, the Horace B.Horton Professor in the Department ofChemistry and the Enrico Fermi Institute; Roy Lewis, senior research associate in the Department of Chemistry andthe Enrico Fermi Institute; and WendyS. Wolbach, SM'86, a doctoral candidate in chemistry. Their discovery alsosuggested that a "nuclear winter"might be longer lasting and more extensive than has been predicted.The three chemists reported theirdiscovery of a worldwide layer of soot-elemental carbon— in sediments fromthe end of the Cretaceous period, 65million years ago. They said that suchsoot particles are produced only in aflame or hot gas— probably continent-wide wildfires ignited by the impact ofan enormous meteorite."The large amount of soot suggestseither that much of the Earth's vegetation burned down or else that substantial amounts of fossil fuels were alsoignited," the chemists reported.The fire would destroy anything inits path, but its side effects wouldspread over the entire Earth. Becausesmoke absorbs sunlight much more efficiently than does dust, it would greatly prolong the darkening and cooling ofthe Earth. The fires would also produce vast quantities of poisons such as carbon monoxide.The Wolbach-Lewis-Anders findings also have implications for studiesof "nuclear winter, " the hypothesis thateven a small nuclear war could causefires whose soot would block out theSun for months."This soot is an ancient analogue ofthe smoke cloud predicted for nuclearwar," the scientists wrote. "Our datasuggest that some of the assumptionsused in nuclear winter scenarios weretoo optimistic. Soot production by largewildfire appears to be ten times more efficient than assumed. Thus cooling ofthe Earth would be more pervasive andlong lasting than has been thought."Evidently the geologic record canprovide data not only on an ancient cataclysm but also on similar disasters-man-made or natural— that threatenthe Earth in the future."The researchers found the carbonin sediments from Denmark, Spain,and New Zealand.The discovery of the soot was unexpected. The chemists were searchingoriginally for further evidence of a meteorite impact 65 million years ago, butthey were looking for traces of noblegases such as neon and xenon. Lewisand his colleagues had previouslyshown that these gases, which are characteristic of meteorites, normally residein grains of carbon.When the researchers isolated carbon from the sediments, they found init no measurable noble gases from themeteorite. This suggests, they said, thatless than one part in 20,000 of the original meteorite survived the impact.But the carbon itself was unusual . Itconsisted mainly of small, fluffy granules—features characteristic of formation in flames."Wildfires seem to be the mostplausible source of the soot layer, " theywrote.Another voice from the Universityof Chicago next joined the debate. Paleontologist David Jablonski, in an articlein Science, suggested that the large-scalepatterns in evolution of life on Earthmay be shaped as much by chance as byevolutionary fitness.His research is the first detailedcomparison of normal extinction andmass extinction. Jablonski found that,whatever their cause, mass extinctionssuddenly and unpredictably changethe rules governing survival and extinction. The fittest animals are as likely toUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988be destroyed in these cataclysms as lesssuccessful ones.His work does not challenge the validity of evolution by natural selection.He suggests only that selection of themost "fit" species takes some unpredictable detours in the long history oflife. That is, over the long run, evolutiondoes not always forge animals that areprogressively better adapted to theirenvironments.He explained that until now, mostscientists assumed that mass extinctions were caused simply by an intensification of stresses that always exist inenvironments. In other words, just as innormal times, stronger or more fit species would survive.But according to Jablonski, "Massextinctions seem to change the rules ofsurvival. Species can struggle for millions of years to compete successfully intheir environments, only to have therug pulled out from under them by amass extinction event."This means that, unlike normal selection processes, mass extinctionevents "do not promote the long-termadaptation of animals.""We no longer need to believe thatgroups lost in a mass extinction werenecessarily inferior to the groups thatsurvived," he said. "We're probablyhere only because the dinosaurs diedout, not because our ancestors weremore fit."Jablonski's conclusions are basedon his five-year study of animals thatlived during and just before theCretaceous-period mass extinction 65million years ago. Working in sand andclay deposits in the southeastern United States, Jablonski retrieved the fossilremains of more than 1,000 differentspecies of clams and snails. These humble creatures are good subjects becausetheir hard shells were readily fossilizedand because they lived in the sea,where their fossils were protected insediment on the sea floor.Jablonski found that before theCretaceous-period extinction, specieswith broad geographic ranges weremore likely to thrive, as wereWendy Wolbach found soot in sediments from the end of the Cretaceous period, to an extentwhich suggests that continent-wide wildfires may have burnedmuch of the Earth's vegetation65 million years ago. those that dispersed their larvae overlarge areas. But during the extinction,neither trait helped species survive.Jablonski said his work may haverelevance to animals living today, especially those threatened by humanactivities."Today, the tropics have the greatest number of animal groups that arevery susceptible to extinction. Unfortunately, the tropics are also the mostthreatened by human activities. Wemay be creating the biggest mass extinction of the last 60 million years."Conversely, still another studyfrom Chicago has challenged the credibility of the Raup-Sepkoski analysis.Stephen Stigler, professor in the Department of Statistics and the College,and Melissa Wagner, AB'87, now a consultant with Price Waterhouse & Company , Washington, DC, then a studentin the College, studied the methodsused by Raup and Sepkoski and arguedthat the statistical test used by the paleontologists to find the 26-million-yearperiodicity in mass extinctions mighthave been inherently biased towardthat conclusion. They said that the appearance of the 26-million-year cyclemay be only an artifact of the statistics, rather than traces of a real regularity in extinctions.In their analysis of the statisticaltest used by Raup and Sepkoski in1984, Stigler and Wagner confirmedmuch of the work done by the paleontologists."It's remarkable how many of thestatistical conclusions we have independently confirmed,"Stigler said. "That's unusual in these sorts ofproblems."But they alsodiscovered that geologic stages are defined," Stigler explained, "there is a built-in tendency toshow a 26-million-year cycle, even if noperiod is present."This tendency is considerablyweaker than the 26-million-year cyclefound in 1984, but its existence at precisely the same period made Stiglersuspicious.The second effect observed by thestatisticians may heighten this tendency to show a 26-million-year cycle. Theydiscovered it when they investigatedhow the test would be affected if thedates in the fossil record were sometimes recorded at too early a time. Thistype of error is known by paleontologists to occur because if some fossils arenot preserved, some families of animalswill appear to have become extinct earlier than they really did."In a sense, the test is more sensitive to measurement error than to a realsignal," Stigler said. "Because of that, Ithink the analysis doesn't point unambiguously to a real 26-million-year cyclefor extinctions."Stigler added that, thecurrent worknotwithstanding,many of thepast statistical criticismsof the periodicity theory are ill-founded. "We'velargelyContinued onPage 45ROOMIESPhotographs by James L. BallardChris Lascola knew hisfreshman-year roommatewas trying to tell him something when Lascola walkedinto their bathroom one day."My roommate hadcleaned exactly half of everything: half of the sink, half of the bathtub, and half of the toilet bowl," remembered Lascola, now a third-yearstudent in the College.Anyone who's ever experienced lifeas one half of an "odd couple" will immediately sympathize with Lascola— orhis former roommate.Remember your student days in theCollege— the exhilaration (once youwere past feeling intimidated) of participation in the small discussion groups,the enormity of the reading list, the bullsessions in the dorms? Remember thelong climb to the fourth floor of yourdorm, to the little room you calledhome— and shared with a stranger? Remember the endless compromiseswhich were necessary, as you and yourroomie learned to live together withoutresorting to blows?Lifestyles elsewhere may change,but at the University, some things remain the same. For their first year oncampus, freshmen must live in a residence hall* unless they live at home.Later in their university careers, for financial reasons, many students sharerooms or apartments with others. In either situation, they still must learn howto make the compromises necessary forany two or more people to live togetherpeacefully.Many college roommates, likeEdward Anderson, PhB'46, SM'49,and Richard Bechtolt, PhB'46, AM'50,or Lois Levy Greenberg, AB'50, and°D°, Ec.ov>^6o^B£SnS Rita Harmos Nessman,AB'50, AB'56, AM'70, become lifelong friends. Eventhese eventually happypairs must undergo a period of adjustment, whenthey first find themselvessharing a room, or an apartment.Some students choose to room witha known quantity during their freshman year. Louisa Williams, AB'87, andSue Wroebel, AB'87, were best friendsat Dundee Community High School(now Dundee-Crown High School), inCarpentersville, IL. They roomed together in Upper Wallace House* atWoodward Court for all four of theiryears in the College.The security of having a friend in acompletely new place meant a lot toWilliams as a freshman. "When I firstarrived at Woodward Court to registerand move in, I breathed a sigh of reliefwhen I saw Sue walk through thedoor."For most first-year students, however, a stranger stands in that doorway.It's the job of Constance Holoman, director of student housing, to try to puttogether strangers who have a goodchance of becoming friends. Last yearHoloman matched pairs and trios ofroommates from the 870 freshmen and*The University housing system consists of 35 houses.Most of these are grouped in larger residence halls, such asBurton-Judson Courts, Woodward Court, Pierce Hall, orShorelandHall.Goodbye Dining Hall, Hello Tuna "Very, very, goodfriends" Phoebe Cooper, Lisel Virkler (in rear), Kim Ng,and Julie Schmid (in rear) enjoy sharing an apartmenttogether. Do they cook? Mostly, they admit, they eat alot of tuna. r^iB " B JKl" r*v » /""V |L^s tunJ0* \1 ¦ ^H 1L °»1 «!•• TUNA Jt R^unaJ,'***10 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988>gg S ffl ;f» jnilUBi;Sura.,: TUNA l«8DM TUNA J•atlfcam B ¦Kir«««<TUNAiiCnamirfflrCUT*j TUflAJ*y*«. TUNA**?* ft* TUNAi^'KIWI,fUNAiiWL IKmmk TUNA i« M3Ml*Kiim TUNA iftK"DMW«N TUNAj£|11J iiiniiiiiH** F1 _ mi*• ~**—~ T -A.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988transfer students who entered the College in Autumn Quarter 1987. Holomansays that she tries to make those combinations as felicitous as possible, basedon the answers to a questionnairewhich all incoming College studentscomplete as part of their application forstudent housing.The questionnaire covers a varietyof issues related to one's preferences fora roommate and a dormitory— whetheror not the roommate should have a stereo, for instance. The student then mustrank those items in order of importance. Holoman said that the criteriamost often ranked highly are the preferences for a non-smoking or for a quietroommate.Once those criteria have been considered in order to avoid ostensibly incompatible pairs, the art of the matchup begins. Holoman personally sortsthrough the blue questionnaire cards("I usually spread them out on the floorof my living room," said Holoman,who shares an apartment in ShorelandHall's Filbey House with her husband,Christopher Holoman, AM'84). Unlessthe student has specifically requested aroommate with the same academic interests and geographical origins— thereare check boxes on the cards for thosecategories as well — she aims for whatshe called a "cross-fertilization.""That's really what the housing system is all about, " said Holoman. "If wematch up a student from Keokuk, IA,and a student from New York City andthey're both interested in drama, thenmaybe they can get to know each otherby saying, 'Have you ever been in thisplay...?'"Some freshmen, not satisfied withthe ten categories on those little bluecards, prefer to elaborate. "I have receivedtwo- to three-page letters from incomingstudents," Holoman added, "detailingeither their specifications for a roommateor their own eccentricities."Like any matchmaker, Holomanhas her successes. But sometimes, despite her thoughtful pairing, the students she has assigned to share a roomturn out to be incompatible.Ken Sawyer, resident head for Henderson House in Pierce Tower and a student in the Divinity School, recalled aTuning In, Tuning Out Freshmen Brett Gordon andJohn Shin share a room in Hitchcock Hall. They havedifferent tastes in music, and thanks to modern technology, each can enjoy his own choice simultaneously. freshman room assignment whichpaired a student of the Jewish faith withan anti-Zionist. Hendersonians remember another match-up that produced an ultimatum: "Keep the messon your side of the tape [which theirritated student had used to mark adividing line between himself and hisless tidy roommate] — or else."Happily, not all "odd couples" result in small border wars or microcosmsof Middle East conflict."Our backgrounds are basically different, and we have very different political and religious views," said GraceChan, a second-year student in the College from Hong Kong, who shared aroom in Shoreland Hall during freshman year with Helen Denham, fromGainesville, FL. "Still, we got alongvery well together. A lot of our interests are different, but there are a lot ofthings that we are both interested in.""Grace would get the symphonytickets, and I'd take her to see The Philadelphia Story," said Denham. "It's reallynice to be able to exchange those interests and know that the other personloves them just as much as you do, andto be able to introduce things to yourroommate. That's something which weshared."Probably we wouldn't have chosen to live together had we been sent alist of names and qualities, " she added,"but putting us together was one of themost interesting things of freshmanyear. We valued each other's opinionsbecause it taught us so much. One of myteachers said, 'If you're learning morefrom me than you're learning from yourroommate, you're doing somethingwrong.'"* * *While the University housing system sets forth a set of rules, regulations,and disciplinary procedures, Holomansaid, "We don't regulate our studentsvery closely. We give them standards ofacceptable behavior and we expectthem to act responsibly." To quote fromthe four-page memorandum whichevery resident receives, ". . . the purpose of the House System is to offerconditions which permit reasonable order for study and sleep."Jeff Groulx, a senior in the College,looking back on his freshman year,does have a complaint about one housing regulation."The worst thing about having aroommate is that we were both the samesex," he said, laughing. While many of the residence halls are coed, roommates must be of the same sex."The best part is that roommatesusually bring stereos,Fraternal Living John Julian (right), senior in the College, chose to move into the Phi Delta Theta house sohe could live with his fraternity brothers. He shares aroom with Karl Kuszaj, second-year student.TV's, and other things that you canuse," said Groulx.According to J. Keith Privett, asophomore in the College, that swordcan cut both ways. "One of my roommates had this tape deck with his stereothat allowed him to play cassettes continually without having to turn themover, " Privett recalled. "That was great,except that I ended up listening to Simonand Garfunkel in the Park all three hundred times that he played it.""The best thing, " Privett estimated,"is having a roommate who becomesa friend."Freshman John Shin agrees withPrivett's complaint." One of the worst things about having a roommate is that I can't play themusic I want to play," he said. Eventhough he and his roommate, BrettGordon, each have a stereo system intheir dorm room, their difference inmusical tastes can cause discord inmore ways than one."Brett is into hard rock; I'm moreinto dance music," said Shin.A few students chose to remainanonymous when commenting abouttheir roommates:"My roommate gets eight times thenumber of phone calls that I do, and Ihave to answer them when she isn'tthere.""The worst thing about my room-13mate is the dirty underwear he leaveslying around the room.""One of my roommates expectedme to act as a fashion expert. He wouldalways ask 'Does this go with that?' and'Does that go with this?' After awhile Iwould pick the very first combination ofclothes that he showed me and say,'That looks good.'"These problems rank as minoraggravations, but for any grievancewhich roommates and housemates cannot settle between and among themselves, University housing provides alive-in authority structure. Each majorThe Odd Couple Chris Lascola, third-year student inthe College, got the message his freshman year roommate was trying to send, when he came home to findthat only one-half of the bathroom sink, toilet, andbathtub had been scrubbed clean.residencehall has a resident master (RM),usually a senior faculty member; eachhouse has a resident head (RH) and resident assistant (RA).Prospective RH's must be at leasttwenty-five years old and either a member of the University faculty or administration, or a graduate student past thefirst year of study. RA's must be at leasttwenty years old and may be either College or graduate students. RH's havethe responsibility for interviewing andselecting their RA's, while Holomanhelps choose the RH's for the vacanciesthat arise from year to year.An important function for thehousing staff is to provide an opendoor, at all times, for students who needadvice, or want someone to talk to.They also plan dinners, theater out ings, trips to downtown Chicago, andother activities to give students opportunities for entertainment and socializing. Study breaks, probably the mostpopular house activity, usually takeplace at ten o'clock on weekday nightsand frequently feature junk food as ahealthy escape— psychologically if notnutritionally— from food for the mind.Groulx, now a fourth-year student,became RA for Fishbein House inShoreland Hall this year. As such, heworks with the Fishbein House RH's,Leo and Joy Kocher. Leo Kocher,MBA'87, is assistant professor of physical education and athletics."The most rewarding part of my jobis my role as counselor," said Groulx."When students approach me for advice, I can identify with their problemsbecause I have usually experiencedthem or something similar to them."Roommates themselves, whenthey're not disagreeing about whoseturn it is to empty the trash can, can provide the same support for each other."My roommate and I have helpedeach other adjust," said Jordan Marsky,first-year student in the College. "It'sscary to come to a school like this alone.In fact, I think the worst thing about having a roommate is that we hang aroundeach other too much, " he said.Christine Chang, another first-yearstudent in the College, also foundthat her roommate could help hermake the transition to college life."In the beginning, we talked witheach other about the changes wewere experiencing, and the differences between home and here, " Changsaid. "I could depend on my roommatebeing there to talk to."* * *After a mandatory first year in thehousing system (unless they live athome), students in the College haveseveral housing options.Many students elect to stay in thehousing system as upperclassmen. Of3,232 students enrolled in the Collegeas of the beginning of the 1987-88academic year, 2,147 lived in the 35College houses in the University housing system. Of these, about 830 werefreshmen, and the remaining 1,300were upperclassmen who chose to stayin the residence halls.For instance, at the end of theirfreshman year, Grace Chan and HelenDenham planned to remain in Shore-land Hall, where students who haveseniority in their houses have the chance to move into full-fledged apartments. Some units in Shoreland Hall, aluxury hotel that had become a residential hotel before the University purchased it in 1973, have full kitchens,dining and living rooms, and views ofLake Michigan.Elsewhere in the housing system,in buildings like Pierce Hall andWoodward Court that were built as traditional dormitories, one of the advantages to renewing one's room contract isthe possibility of moving into a singleroom. For that matter, Shoreland Hallalso has a few studio apartments for students, some with efficiency kitchens.However, at the spring housing lotteries, underclassmen like Chan andDenham must choose from what theupperclassmen leave behind."By the time it came to be our turnto choose a room, " Chan said, "our current room turned out to be the bestroom left. So we tried to get friends ofours in other Shoreland Hall housesto 'pull' us into a better room assignment." As it happened, Chan did get"pulled" into an apartment in DudleyHouse, on the twelfth floor of the Shore-land; Denham moved off-campus intoan apartment.When she did so, Denham was following a tradition familiar to generations of Chicago students— learning tocope with the joys and pains of apartment living. Among the over onethousand College students who liveoutside the University housing systemin 1987-88, about 175 commute fromhome; about 100 live in fraternityhouses; but the vast majority (about800) live in private apartments.Those who leave the residence hallsdo so for various reasons. Edward"Ted" Farhangi, a fourth-year studentin the College, found that his Shore-land Hall room became the refuge forneighboring freshmen who didn't getalong with their roommates. Instead ofgoing back to their own rooms to faceyou-know-who, these disgruntledfreshmen would hang around inFarhangi's room."In an apartment," said Farhangi,who now lives off-campus with twoother students, "I don't have to worryCristina, Here's A Message Maria-Cristina Mendoza,(left) is grateful to roommates Melissa Bradley, AB'87,and Erica Adelberg. When she needs to be reminded to pay bills, they tactfully leave a note on the door.Mendoza and Adelberg are juniors in the College.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988:y'J35wtau& l*l*\K> N, iM^IUdUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988about people dropping in every fiveminutes."Lisel Virkler and her roommatesfeel just the opposite; they live above apizza restaurant, which virtually guarantees a steady stream of visitors.Virkler shares a four-bedroom apartment in Hyde Park with three othersophomores in the College, JulieSchmid, Phoebe Cooper, and Kim Ng."In a way it's fun to live here because everybody knows where you are.People drop by after having a pizza,"said Virkler.The four roommates met duringfreshman year. "Phoebe and I wereroommates in Breckinridge House andJulie lived there too, " said Virkler. "Kimlived in Woodward Court; we'd becomefriends from class."One reason we like living in anapartment is that we don't have to go toa dining hall. We prefer to do our owncooking. It's a lot cheaper. Being in thedorm was fun for a year, but we weretired of it. You feel a lot more independent in an apartment."Although Virkler and her roommates live above a pizza restaurant,they don't eat too much pizza, partlybecause they can prepare their ownfood more cheaply."Usually each of us makes something for herself , something simple, because we all have different schedules.Once in a while we'll make a meal, orone of us will offer to do it. None of us isa big cook— we eat a lot of tuna fish,"said Virkler.John Julian prefers having a roommate to living alone. He chose to moveinto the Phi Delta Theta fraternityhouse so he could room with one of hisfraternity brothers. When he lived atBurton-Judson Courts, he had a roomof his own."I guess I'm more gregarious thanmost," said Julian, a fourth-year student in the College. "I wanted to have aroommate."Julian sees his fraternity house assomewhere between home and thedorm. "Like home, I know and like everyone who lives here. Unlike thedorm, the people in the house run thehouse altogether— we set the rules andplan our own house budget, about$100,000 a year.Among Friends The four occupants of this apartmentin Shoreland Hall share a relaxed attitude toward housekeeping. (L. to r.) Joel Barr, Dante Bacani, David Stuve,and Scott Becker are all students in the College. "Last year, I was house steward,which meant that I was responsible fora food budget of $33,000. I had to hirethe house cook and help to plan the daily menu. It was a good learning experience, one that I wish everyone could gothrough."What Julian praises as good experience comes on a much smaller, thoughno less important, scale to studentswho decide to move into private apartments. They, too, must learn to run ahousehold: they push grocery cartsdown supermarket aisles; call landlords to complain about heat or the lackthereof; and in general, move a stepcloser into the world that they will inhabit when they finally graduate. Here,where students must begin their ownmonthly ritual of check- writing to keepcreditors away, roommates work together in other ways."My roommate pays my bills when Ican't, " said Chris Autry, a second-yearstudent in the College. "By now thephone would have been disconnected ifmy roommate hadn't covered for me.""The best thing about having aroommate is sharing expenses," saidMaria-Cristina Mendoza, a third-yearstudent in the College. "I'm a flakeabout paying bills. I get notes on mydoor in the morning saying, 'Cris-tina, you owe.'"Financial necessity frequentlyplays a role when it comes to choosingapartment mates. A small Hyde Parkstudio apartment (and these are verylimited) can rent for $300 a month andmore. Many students prefer to sharesome of the larger apartments in theneighborhood, even if it means sharingspace— and expenses— with a person orpersons who are less than close friends.Farhangi described well how manyroommates relate to each other as apartment mates."I have strong ideas of what a roommate relationship should be," saidFarhangi. "It should be like a professional relationship. My roommates aremy friends, but they're not my bestfriends. They always want to party together with me, but I want to spendtime with my real friends."But then I'd say the best thingabout having my roommates is thatthey are relatively understanding,"Farhangi added. "They do put up witha lot. For instance, I smoke, and neitherof them does. Also, when I'm in a badmood, I don't talk to anyone at all. I become a recluse." Virkler, on the other hand, findshaving close friends for roommatesmakes life very pleasant."We are all very, very good friends, "she said. "Having roommates who aregood friends is almost like being part ofa family. There's almost always somebody there at the apartment, so younever feel isolated. At the same time,Learning To Share Sharing a room is a first-time experience for first-year student Yana Hudson (right)— she isan only child. Having Mai Chen as her roommate hashelped to make the transition easier. They're shown intheir room in Pierce Hall.since wehave our own bedrooms,if you want to be alone you canjust go into your room and shut thedoor.""People who are there on a day-today basis are easier to talk to about yourproblems," said Sheila Ralston, afourth-year student in the College."Unfortunately, in an apartment,there's always someone around whenyou want privacy."Many students, when asked fortheir idea of the best and worst aspectsof having a roommate, mentioned thisvery paradox— roommates provideready companionship when you wantcompany or sympathy, but intrudewhen you want to be alone.One student summarized particularly well the good and bad of the roommate experience."The best thing about a having aroommate is that there's someone therewhen you get home," said HughHallman, a third-year student in theLaw School. "The worst thing abouthaving a roommate is that... there'ssomeone there when you get home."17FOR ? THEArtCIENCE150,000,000GOAL<»18 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988The five-year Campaign for theArts and Sciences has exceededits goal of raising $150 million by December 31, 1987, HannaH. Gray, president of the University, has announced.Campaign volunteers raised a totalof $151.7 million to support programsin the College, graduate divisions,Divinity School, public policy studies,and the Oriental Institute. Campaignfunds also went to the library and theSmart Gallery for maintenance and theenhancement of their collections.The successful completion of thecampaign was celebrated at a dinner atHutchinson Commons on February 18.Guests included trustees, donors, andvolunteers."The success of the Campaign forthe Arts and Sciences will play a criticalrole in strengthening the core of ouruniversity as we move toward the centennial," said Gray. "Our objectives areto attract the best people and enablethem to do their best work, to venture onnew paths of teaching and learning."She commended campaign volunteers for their dedication and hard workand expressed her gratitude to thedonors."This happy conclusion resultsfrom the hard work of hundreds of individuals who share a deep commitmentto our university," she said. "As theyhave written, called, and visited oneanother for the sake of this campaign,they have rekindled in one another awarm affection for the University."Gray recognized the leadership ofB. Kenneth West, MBA'60, chairman ofthe Board of Trustees, and other trustees in the campaign effort."Ken West has been an untiring anddevoted volunteer during the entire lifeof the campaign," she said. "The University owes him its deepest thanks. If itwere not for people like him, the campaign would not have achieved thissuccess."Donors and volunteers, includingmany alumni, responded generouslythroughout the campaign, rightthrough its final months, she said,many digging deep for a second or thirdgift."The participants in this campaignhave shared in sustaining the Collegeand divisions through increased sup-Assyrian court official (limestone relief, tenfeet high, from Khorsabad, Iraq, circa 710B.C.), at the Oriental Institute. From acourtyard wall in the palace of Sargon II, Kingof Assyria. -. j*8 ; ' ' '1<j port for research, faculty salaries, student aid and library resources. TheCampaign for the Arts and Sciences hashelped to realize the University's mostsignificant goals for the 1980s," saidGray.Contributions to the campaignhave enabled the creation of sixteen fullprofessorships, three visiting professorships, and three five-year "term"chairs, as well as construction of theKersten Physics Teaching Center, establishment of the Graduate School ofPublic Policy Studies, and thestrengthening of the College and theDivisions.The renovation of Ida Noyes Halland the construction of the MaxPalevsky Cinema, as well as the creation of a number of new fellowships andscholarships, have improved the quality of life on campus for the studentbody."The successful completion of theCampaign for the Arts and Sciences is atruly significant event for the University," said West. "The University hasbeen helped in many essential waysbecause of the strong support it hasreceived."The campaign's objectives were toincrease endowed support for facultysalaries, student aid, the library, andbasic research, especially by youngerfaculty, and to improve the physicalplant. A further objective was to increase unrestricted support and to addto the University's unrestricted endowment, he said."Since the start of the campaign, wehave seen the creation of the GraduateSchool of Public Policy Studies, theconstruction of the Kersten PhysicsTeaching Center and other new research facilities, the renovation of IdaNoyes Hall, and the creation of sixteenfull professorships," West said. "Wehave also welcomed the endowment ofmany new scholarships and fellowships, and the receipt of thousands ofindividual, foundation, and corporategifts for all purposes."This achievement reflects the generosity and hard work of many donorsand volunteers. On behalf of the trustees, I extend our deepest thanks tothem for sharing so freely of theirtalents and resources."Many donors showed their confidence in the University's stewardshipby making generous unrestricted gifts.These gifts are vital to any private uni-I versify because they provide basic sup-port for faculty and students."Gray thanked the faculty for theirparticipation in the campaign."The faculty's generous show ofsupport is an important symbol to thelarger community," she said. "Its contributions are a statement of faith in thisinstitution and in its commitment toquality in education and research."Gray also praised the work of campaign volunteers."Trustee leadership was the key tothe campaign's success. Our chairmenof the board, B. Kenneth West and thelate Edwin A. Bergman [AB'39] andRobert W. Reneker [PhB'34], inspiredus all with their enthusiasm and tirelesshard work. I would also like to thankRobert O. Anderson [AB'39], whoserved as campaign chairman; BarrySullivan [MBA'57], chairman of theBoard's development committee; andRichard Morrow, chairman of the corporate committee. Special thanks aredue Gaylord Donnelley, KingmanDouglass, and Weston Christopherson,all of whom played key roles," shesaid."I would also like to thank MajorGifts chairmen Charles Marshall ofNew York and Norman Barker, Jr.,[AB'47, MBA'53] of Los Angeles fortheir work in soliciting gifts on the twocoasts, and Robert M. Halperin[PhB'47], who participated from SanFrancisco."Robert Brawer [PhD'70], PhilipWhite [SB'35, PhD'38], and Dr. NancyWarner [SB'44, MD'49] did the same forspecial gifts, led by special gifts co-chairmen Michael Winter [AB'64,MBA 65] and the late Morris M. Rossin[AB'38]. Hart Perry [AM'40] initiated the work of the Hutchins Fundand was ably succeeded by RichardBechtolt [PhB'46, AM'50] in raisingthese special funds for curriculumdevelopment."The work of our two Alumni Fundchairmen, William B. Graham [SB'32,JD'36] and the late Emmett Dedmon[AB'39], should also be recognized.They served with remarkable enthusiasm and dedication, as have President'sFund chairmen Robert Picken [AM'33]and Jay Berwanger [ AB'36] .""The loyalty these volunteers haveshown for Chicago is the backbone ofthis institution," Gray said. "Theirteamwork was the essence of thisfund-raising effort, which has helpedto provide the essential sustenancethe University needs for the coming years. Together we will continue toseek to strengthen the University's resources in order to maintain Chicago'sexcellence."UNRESTRICTED GIFTSPROVIDE FLEXIBILITYUnrestricted gifts from individuals,foundations, and corporations accounted for one-fifth of the campaigntotal. The majority of these gifts werefrom alumni, who contributed in theannual Alumni Fund drives."These gifts are of vital importanceto private universities. They give President Gray the ability to meet the University's most pressing needs," saidWilliam B. Graham, chairman of theAnnual Fund. "They are essential to attract and retain the best faculty, to support the most creative research, tomaintain the University's ratio of faculty to students, and to recruit the mostoutstanding students."Unrestricted funds help the University maintain and renovate physicalfacilities, maintain the strength of the library, and help provide support services and financial aid for faculty andstudents.Annual giving has increased 30 percent since the campaign began, withmore than 125,000 unrestricted giftsmade to the Annual Fund during thatperiod."We're pleased to see the University building a generation of donors whowill remain constant and loyal givers,"Graham said. "Unrestricted funds helpthe University fulfill its principal mission of maintaining its strength andflexibility. They represent a substantialvote of confidence in the University'sleadership."In addition to annual giving, theUniversity received $11 million in unrestricted bequests from 137 estates.Among the largest unrestricted estate gifts are those from HermonDunlap Smith (trustee 1942-70, lifetrustee 1970-83); Lillian Barbour(PhB'17, AM'28); Victor Mingers(PhB'19); Lulu Quantrell (X'06); andLillian Fisher Grade (PhB'34).Unrestricted corporate gifts totalling $3 million included contributionsfrom Commonwealth Edison; Amoco;and Cummins Engine.(Top, left) Samuel D. and Elaine Kersten;(center) the Kersten Physics Teaching Center;(bottom) Summer noontime concert,Hutchinson Court.2(1 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988TWENTY-TWO NEWPROFESSORSHIPSHAVE BEEN ENDOWEDDuring the campaign, twenty-two newprofessorships were endowed: sixteenfull professorships, three visiting professorships and three five-year "term"chairs.The new chairs represent nearlyone-sixth of the campaign total. Theyare:The Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professorship: Namedfor the alumnus (AB'39), life trustee,and campaign chairman, former chairman of Atlantic Richfield Co.The Alvin H. Baum Professorshipin Economics: Named for the late alumnus (PhB'20), a prominent Chicago investment banker.The Edwin A. and Betty L.Bergman Professorship: Named for thelate alumnus (AB'39) and chairman ofthe Board of Trustees and his wife(AB'39), generous friends of the University and patrons of the arts.The Nathan Cummings Professorship in Jewish Studies: Named for thelate founder of Consolidated FoodsCorporation, donor of the CummingsLife Sciences Center.The Emmett Dedmon Visiting Professorship in Public Affairs: Namedfor the late distinguished Chicagojournalist, alumnus (AB'39), trustee,and, for twenty years, chairman of theAlumni Fund.The Andrew Thomas and GraceMcNichols Greeley Professorship inCatholic Studies: Named for the parents of the Rev. Andrew Greeley(AM'61, PhD'62).The Robert S. Ingersoll Professorship in Japanese Studies: Named forthe life trustee, former chairman of theBorg- Warner Corp., and former U.S.ambassador to Japan.The John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professorship: Namedfor the insurance executive and founderof the John D. and Catherine T Mac-Arthur Foundation.The John U. Nef DistinguishedService Professorship in the Committee on Social Thought: Named for thedistinguished economic historian,alumnus ('17), and founder of the Committee on Social Thought.The Yehan Numata Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies: Named(Top, right) Max Palevsky; (center) MaxPalevsky Cinema; (bottom) Cobb Gate,Regenstein Library in background. for the founder of Mitsutoyo Manufacturing Co. and of Bukkyo DendoKyokai (Buddhist Promoting Foundation), which endowed the chair.The Helen A. Regenstein Professorship in Literature: Named for thegenerous friend of the University, andlate president of the Joseph RegensteinFoundation.The Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professorship: Namedfor the late alumnus (PhB'34) and chairman of the Board of Trustees, presidentof Esmark.The David Rockefeller Professorship in International Economics:Named for the alumnus (PhD'40) andlife trustee, former chairman of theChase Manhattan Bank.The Laura Spelman RockefellerProfessorship in the Philosophy ofComparative Religions: Named for thewife of the University's founder, JohnD. Rockefeller.The Ludwig Rosenberger Professorship in Jewish Studies: Named forthe prominent Chicago businessman,donor to the library of the Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica.The Stein-Freiler DistinguishedService Professorship: Named for sisters Elizabeth B. Stein (X'28) and thelate Jeanette Stein Freiler (PhB'25), loyal supporters of education.The Marjorie and Robert E. StrausProfessorship in the Department ofNeurology: Named for the late, longtime member of the Women's Board andher late husband, chairman of theAmerican National Bank & Trust Co.The Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professorship in Latin AmericanStudies: Named for the prominent Texas lawyer, who was deeply interested inLatin American studies.Distinguished Service Professorship: To be named this spring.Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Professorships (three five-year awards).TUDENT FINANCIAL AIDRECEIVES SUPPORTThe campaign increased supportfor student financial aid by over $17million through the generous giftsof foundations, corporations, andindividuals.The Grainger Foundation endowedthree fellowships in physics, creatingopportunities for promising youngphysicists to contribute to their field.The first two Grainger fellowships21were created in 1985, one for a graduatestudent and the other for a College senior majoring in physics. These awardsare unique, said James W. Cronin,SM'53, PhD'55, University Professor inthe Department of Physics, becausethey are awarded to students already atChicago."These two fellowships have greatly enriched experimental research inour department," Cronin said. "We canrecognize outstanding performance bystudents who originally may not havecome here on a scholarship. I am certainthat the broad program the GraingerFoundation has endowed at Chicagowill continue to strengthen studentperformance in the laboratory as well asin the classroom."The Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding candidate in experimental physics selectedby a faculty committee after a search ofthe best graduating Ph.D.'s in thenation. The fellowship supports theappointee for two years.Each appointee is chosen on thebasis of merit alone. Normally, requirements for postdoctoral research fellowships include assisting a particularprofessor on a research project, butGrainger fellows will have the freedomto conduct independent research underthe guidance of a faculty sponsor.Two other graduate-level fellowshipprograms received extensions through aten-year grant from the Searle Fund ofthe Chicago Community Trust.Most of the $3 million grant is beingused to extend the Searle Graduate Fellowship Program, which has supportedmore than forty students since it beganin 1979.The program supports students interested in advanced studies in fieldswhere research and scientific findingshave clear implications for public policyand for the quality of contemporary life .Searle fellows, who are nominated bytheir departments, receive full tuitionand a stipend for up to four years. Allfour graduate divisions have participated in the program.Starting in 1988-89;Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion will support a student from HongKong to study in the College. The four-year scholarship will be awarded to astudent who will study politics, economics, philosophy, or law at theUniversity. The corporation is one ofthe world's largest banks, with operations throughout the world.The Dolin Foundation Scholarshipswere begun during the campaign by thelate Fred M. Dolin, AB'63, MBA' 65, andhis family. A member of the AlumniSchools Committee from 1972 to 1979,Dolin initiated the Dolin Foundation'scurrent program of providing one four-year merit scholarship annually to themost outstanding student admitted tothe College.A grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis supports the DorothyDanforth Compton Minority Fellowships for graduate students. It alsois used to support currently enrolledminority students who are completing dissertations. Since 1981, the program has supported twenty-two black,Mexican American, Native American,and Puerto Rican graduate students.The purpose of the fellowships is toencourage an increasing number ofminorities to enter the teachingprofession.The Edwin A. Bergman Scholarship was established in the Collegewith memorial contributions in honorof the late trustee. Bergman, AB'39,served as trustee from 1976 to 1986 andas chairman of the Board from 1981 to1985.Under Bergman's leadership, thecampaign was successfully launched in1983. That year, the Bergmans established the Edwin A. and Betty L.Bergman Professorship. Earlier, theyhad established the Bergman Gallery,designed as both a studio and exhibition center.The Humanities Fellowship Fundwas established with an anonymousgift. Three students have received support through the fund so far. (Top row, I. to r.) B. Kenneth West, RichardBechtolt, Richard Morrow, Dr. NancyWarner. (Second row, I. to r.) Weston Chris-topherson, Barry Sullivan, Norman Barker,,«*,..Jr., William B. Graham. (Third row, I. to r.)Hart Perry, Robert M. Halperin, CharlesMarshall, Irving Harris. EW KERSTEN PHYSICSCENTER; PALEVSKYCINEMA; IDA NOYESRENOVATIONSSome of the campaign's most visiblecontributions have been new and renovated facilities on campus.Among them are the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, the Max PalevskyCinema, and Ida Noyes Hall. Equallysignificant are gifts to provide operating funds and maintenance for theDavid and Alfred Smart Gallery.With their multi-million dollar gift,Elaine and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr.,AB'35, made possible the constructionof the Kersten Physics Teaching Center,which completed the Science Quadrangle. The new building's dedication in1985 was the centerpiece of a two-dayinternational symposium on undergraduate science teaching that also celebrated the reopening of the renovatedKent Chemical Laboratory.President Gray described the Kersten Physics Teaching Center as "abuilding of originality, representing thebest balance of change and continuity"in its design and "involving long hoursof planning by the faculty."In his dedicatory remarks, SamuelKersten, founder and president ofWater Saver Faucet Co., said he wantedto return something wonderful to theUniversity."I am highly gratified to be associated with such a magnificent structure," he said.The facility is connected to the University's Research Institutes by an enclosed second-story bridge. It linksclassrooms with research laboratoriesto encourage interaction betweenstudents and faculty.The modern, three-story limestoneand glass structure, designed by thearchitectural firm Holabird & Root,has won an award for its design. Its57,000 square feet of space includetwelve teaching laboratories, two lecture halls, and four classrooms. Other facilities include a functioning helio-stat, computer-terminal room, and, ina rooftop observatory, a computerizedteaching telescope donated by the Fundfor Astrophysical Research.The renovation of Ida Noyes Hallalso was undertaken during the campaign. Renovation began during thesummer of 1984 with basic repairs. Newdoors, windows, porches, and a darkroom were added. An elevator was installed, providing access for the handicapped to all three floors. As the resultof a $1 million gift from Max Palevsky,PhB'48, SB'48, Ida Noyes gymnasiumwas converted into a cinema with a full-sized movie screen, a stage for lecturesand performances, tiered seating, astereo sound system, and a lobby andrefreshment area. (It is formally knownas the Max Palevsky Cinema, but students refer to it as "the Max.")A gift from the Women's Boardmade possible the renovation of first-floor and lobby furniture in Ida Noyes.Workers cleaned and re-upholsteredthe antique pieces of furniture, cleanedoriental rugs, and repaired light fixtures and woodwork to complete theproject.The Smart Family Foundation demonstrated its continuing interest in theDavid and Alfred Smart Gallery, whichit originally helped build in 1971, bymaking several important gifts. Thefoundation first supplied a matchinggrant used to initiate the successfulSmart Gallery Challenge in 1983. Morerecently, it provided the gallery with amajor endowment to help meet operating expenses. Funds from the endowment are used to maintain the gallery'scollections, to support the preparatorywork for special exhibitions and educational programs, and to meet otherneeds.FACULTY SALARIES,RESEARCH SUPPORTEDMore than $6 million in gifts has signifi-cantly strengthenedfaculty support at theUniversity since thestart of the campaign, inaddition to the gifts establishing endowed professorships.Many donors gave through specialfunds which endow junior and seniorfaculty research fellowships and provide discretionary funds for new faculty salaries.A combined medical and behavioral sciences research project receiveda substantial endowment from theSmart Family Foundation. The projectis designed to detect and correct learning disabilities in preschool-agedchildren.A research team of behavioral sciences and pediatrics specialists is observing cognitive abilities and brainfunction in young children, seeking information important to the early diagnosis of intellectual, language, orspatial-numerical deficiencies. Eventually the project will concentrate onintervention programs for each problem area.Team members include SusanCohen Levine, associate professor inthe Departments of Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics; Janellen Hut-tenlocher, the William S. Gray Professor in the Departments of Educationand Behavioral Sciences; and PeterHuttenlocher, professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology.Support for faculty salaries in theCollege was increased by $2.6 millionwith an anonymous gift from a formerstudent.Faculty in the Department of Economics have already begun to benefitfrom a $581,000 gift from the PewMemorial Trust. The fund has providedthe resources for faculty to developcourses in the undergraduate economics curriculum and sponsor predoctoralworkshops in which graduate students, faculty, and leading scholarsfrom other institutions share theirresearch.FAIRCHILD GRANTENHANCES PHYSICALSCIENCES RESEARCHThe Fairchild Foundation has helped tostrengthen physical sciences researchhere significantly with a $2 milliongrant made during the campaign.The grant provides the "venturecapital" that allows many of the division's newly appointed scientists— orsenior faculty striking out in new directions—to get their research projects underway, said Stuart A. Rice, dean of the24 Division of Physical Sciences. This seedmoney supports the initial phases oftheir research, enabling them to generate sufficient preliminary results toapply successfully for federal funding.An example of Fairchild-funded research is the work of David G. Lynn,associate professor in the Departmentof Chemistry. In his laboratory, he hassucceeded in getting parasitic plants torecreate the sophisticated chemicalprocesses they use to monitor theirenvironment."There are 30,000 species of predator plants, such as the mistletoe, " Lynnsaid. "They use a chemical communication system to find host plants by secreting an enzyme that monitors otherplants around them, and allows them toeat and digest their hosts."Lynn said he is currently workingon a parasitic plant called witch weedthat eats corn, sorghum, wheat, andrice in Asia and southern Africa. "Nowthat we have modeled this process inthe laboratory, we can study the mechanism by which the signal moleculesturn on the chemical communicationsystem," he said. "Eventually, weshould be able to manipulate thesemolecules and their signals."Fairchild funds have also made possible the purchase of a state-of-the-artelectron microprobe for the Department of Geophysical Sciences. IanSteele, senior research associate, saidthe microprobe is one of only two of itskind in the United States.Again, thanks to the Fairchildgrant, Chicago's scientists and facultycan hook up their local computer workstations with supercomputing facilitiesaround the nation. R. Michael Town-send, director of the Numerical Calculations Laboratory, said the hookupsaves researchers a great deal of timeand trouble in performing experimentsand retrieving data."Some of the problems our scientists work on could take months if theyhad to do them on their local work stations," Townsend said. "Before we installed this direct line to the supercomputers, we had to send somebody to thesupercomputer centers or mail tapesand then wait for the data to comeback."Now, scientists can work and rework calculations involving largeamounts of data in much less time, hesaid.UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988ACQUISITION, PRESERVATION FUNDS FOR LIBRARYOne of the largest capital gifts forthe library came from the Joseph andHelen Regenstein Foundation. The$1 . 5 million gift will be used to meet thelibrary's most pressing maintenanceneeds."Maintenance of such large buildings is costly, " said Martin D. Runkle,AM'73, director of the library. "We havethe most attractive and functional library facilities of any that I have seen. Ifirmly believe that maintaining theirphysical appearance and making minormodifications are essential to the library's ability to function. RegensteinLibrary is heavily used. There's alwayssomething— chairs or tables— to replace, and we must be careful to keepthe air in the library clean and properlyhumidified."Funds for modification and expansion are needed when technological advances require new equipment, Runklesaid."When we have to install new laserdisk readers and computer terminals,this affects the configuration of the staffand their space," he said.Several campaign gifts have allowed acquisition of new primary resources and periodicals that promoteadvancement in research.Gifts from the Sterling MortonCharitable Trust will be used for acquisitions. "This gift will allow us to putthe money where it's needed, " Runklesaid. "Often we use such funds to buyperiodical serials in various subjectareas."Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal, who have a long-standing interestin the preservation of books and manuscripts, made an additional gift to theMarie-Louise and Samuel R. RosenthalBook Fund; and the estate of LudwigRosenberger made an additional contribution to the library.Ruth Regenstein, the daughter ofHelen and Joseph Regenstein, Sr., andthe sister of trustee Joseph Regenstein,Jr., gave a major gift in support of theHelen and Ruth Regenstein Collectionof Rare Books.Two campaign gifts went to theJohn Crerar Library. A gift from WilliamY. Hutchinson, MBA'54, president andchief executive officer of ContinentalScale Corporation, helped meet expenses involved in bringing the Crerarcollection together when the JohnCrerar Library, previously located at the Illinois Institute of Technology,moved here in 1984, becoming partof the University Library. The University's science-related collections weremerged with the Crerar collection in thenew facility, which opened in 1984.The Chicago Community Trust alsomade a grant to the Crerar Library to beused directly for the preservation of thecollection and for development of apreservation plan.In addition to these large gifts,alumni made hundreds of smaller giftsthrough a special Library TelefundDrive last year. Together they pledged$80,000 to match a National Endowment for the Humanities challengegrant for the library. The funds are being used for books and preservation inthe humanities."People who had not responded toUniversity fund-raising appeals in thepast found this an especially attractiveopportunity to help their alma mater, "said Robert A. Brawer, who chaired theeffort."I'm sure many of these alumnihave a warm place in their hearts for thelibrary, and fond memories of the manylong nights they spent there," he said.ELLON FOUNDATIONSUPPORTS HUMANITIES,AREA STUDIES, ANDSOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISIONThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundationmade grants totalling $7. 9 million during the campaign, endowing three"term" professorships and ten instruc-torships, and supporting area studiesand other work in the humanities andsocial sciences.The most recent Mellon grant was$1.5 million to support ten young instructors in the humanities and the allied social sciences over a five-yearperiod.Each of the instructors will receive atwo-year appointment to teach coursesin the College's Common Core.President Gray called the new in-structorships "a unique training opportunity to acquaint the next generationof teachers and scholars with generaleducation in liberal arts colleges."Young Ph.D. recipients will nowhave greater opportunity to get theteaching experience they need to lay thefoundations of their careers, " she said."We expect these young, talented scholars to consider a career commitment to(Continued on Page 30)25CHICAGO JOURNALCOMMITTEE REVIEWSCOLLEGE TEACHINGA nine-member committee hasbeen established to review and recommend policies related to the appropriate use of graduate students in teaching in the College.Roger H. Hildebrand, chairman ofthe Department of Astronomy andAstrophysics, is chairman of the committee, which also includes John W.Boyer, AM'69, PhD'75, professor ofhistory and master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Jeremy K.Burdett, professor of chemistry andmaster of the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division; Philip C. Hoffmann,SB'57, PhD'62, professor of pharmacological and physiological sciences andmaster of the Biological Sciences Collegiate Division; Ralph M. Lerner,AB'47, AM'49, PhD'53, professor inthe Committee on Social Thought;Janel M. Mueller, professor of English;Kathleen J. Shelton, associate professor of art and master of the Humanities Collegiate Division; and TheodoreL. Steck, professor of biochemistryand molecular biology. Allen R. Sanderson, AM'70, associate provost, isan ex-officio member of the committee.The committee will look at ways inwhich graduate student teaching canbe a positive experience for both theapprentice teacher and the undergrad uate student, said Norman M. Brad-burn, AB'52, provost of the University.It will develop a general statement ofprinciples to guide the use of graduatestudents in different activities such asgrading, classroom or laboratory assistance, and course instruction.The University initiated the Chicago Teaching Program last year, a project designed to prepare graduatestudents for teaching careers. Theprogram provides workshops, forums,and other offerings to supplementstudents' teaching experiences.GOULD APPOINTED TOSECOND TERM AT GSBJohn P. Gould, Jr., MBA'63,PhD'66, has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of theGraduate School of Business (GSB).In her announcement of Gould'sreappointment, Hanna H. Gray, president of the University, said that he"has provided superb leadership atthe school over the past years." Sheespecially noted his efforts to strengthen relationships between the GSB andthe rest of the University."I think we're unique in the tiewe have to the rest of the University, "Gould said. "Few other businessschools are associated with a university of this caliber, and those that maybe aren't as well integrated with the scholarship that goes on. That's agreat advantage to us."Gould's attempts to build on thatrelationship have already borne fruit,especially in a series of new joint degree programs with the area studiescenters, the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Division of the PhysicalSciences.During the next five years, Gouldhopes to improve further the accessthat GSB students have to courses inother schools and divisions, as well asto make GSB's programs more accessible to other students.ENDOWMENT FUNDHONORS JOHNSONAn endowment fund establishedto continue focusing attention onresearch interests of the late EarlJohnson, AM'32, PhD'41, professoremeritus in the Division of the SocialSciences, has given a boost to the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), of which Johnson wasa longtime director.More than $170,000 has been donated to the Earl S. and Esther JohnsonFund, including a bequest from Johnson's estate and gifts from friends andalumni. The gifts will enable the fundto support a colloquium named forEarl Johnson in addition to other projects, said Ralph A. Austen, professorin the Department of History and inthe College, and MAPSS director."The goal of the colloquium is toinvite scholars or social scientists inpublic life, or prominent critics ofsocial science, to discuss the role ofsocial science in the practical, moral,and cultural realms of the modernworld," Austen said. The first EarlSALUTING THE SUN Led by Donald N.Levine, AB'50, AM'54, PhD'57, former deanof the College, students greeted the rising sunat Promontory Point one cold January dawn.They were performing a yoga exercise called"Salutation to the Sun" as part of the sixth annual Kuviasungnerk, the University winterfestival. Levine also conducted early morningsessions of Kangeiko, a winter training program which centers on the martial arts. He isthe Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College.26 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988Students and alumni participated in a February career conference at Ida Noyes Hall.Speaking in a panel discussion were (I. to r.)Michael Levine, Brandeis University's director of development for the Midwest; Clarine C.Hall, MBA'77, mayor of Winnetka, IL; BruceDelahome, AB'78, MBA' 80, account supervisor for DDB Needham Worldwide; andJudith Ng SooHoo, AB'78, senior market research analyst for Motorola, Inc. The AlumniStudent Relations Committee of the AlumniAssociation, the University of Chicago Clubof Metropolitan Chicago, and the Office of Career and Placement Services co-sponsored theevent. (Above) Bruce Delahome, AB'78,MBA'80; and Liz Michaels, senior in the College. (Right) Mary Lou Gorno, MBA'76, partner at Tatham-Laird and Kuder, Inc.; andRichard G. Gamble, senior in the College.(Far right) Clarine C. Hall, MBA'77; withSusan L. Chorvat and Karen E. Anderson,seniors in the College.Johnson Colloquium on the SocialSciences in Society is planned forwinter 1989.Johnson, who wrote The Theory andPractice of the Social Studies, was directorof MAPSS during the 1940s and 1950sat a time when the program providedadvanced training to high school andcommunity college social scienceteachers. He retired from the University in 1959, and died in 1986.The fund was established in 1981in Johnson's honor through a driveinitiated by Dorothy K. Meyers, AB'45,AM'61, a Chicago alumna of the program, and other alumni. The fund willcontinue to provide an annual prizefor the best master's thesis producedby a MAPSS student.ROIZMAN, ROWLEYWIN MAJOR PRIZESTwo faculty members in the Division of the Biological Sciences— a virologist and a geneticist— have receivedmajor international prizes for theirresearch.Bernard Roizman, the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Profes sor of Virology and chairman of theDepartment of Molecular Geneticsand Cell Biology, was selected to receive the 1988 ICN International Prizein Virology. The prize consists of anaward citation and $50,000 and honorsRoizman's "significant contributionsto the understanding of viruses and tomajor advances in the treatment anddiagnosis of viral disease."Janet Davison Rowley, PhB'45,SB '46, MD'48, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, wasco-winner of one of this year's KingFaisal International Awards. Rowley,renowned for her work on the relationship between genes and cancer, sharesthe $93,000 prize with MelvynGreaves, director of the Institute forCancer Research in London. Rowleywas honored for research which identified genetic markers in adult leukemia patients. (See "With a Little Bit ofLab Space," The University of ChicagoMagazine, WINTER/88.)Roizman "has made major contributions to the study of the molecularbiology of herpes simplex viruses for the past thirty years, " said the awardcitation. "A characteristic of his scientific work is the immediate applicationof basic fundamental research to problems in human health." His studies ofviral DN A led to methods of tracingthe transmission of the virus, which inturn resulted in procedures that havesignificantly reduced the spread of thevirus among infants and newborns inhospital nurseries.Rowley's research has focused ondetermining the particular chromosome changes that occur in humanleukemia cells and relating certainrecurring patterns of change to thetype of leukemia, to the response totherapy, and, more recently, to theprior exposure of patients to mutagenic agents.SCALIA RETURNS ASKOVLER FELLOWAntonin Scalia, associate justice ofthe U.S. Supreme Court, came to theUniversity in January as a MarjorieKovler Visiting Fellow. Scalia taught asa professor in the Law School from1977 to 1982.As part of his visit, Scalia delivered a public lecture, "The Constitution, the People, and the Courts, " atthe Law School Auditorium."Unlike any other nation in theworld," Scalia said, "we considerourselves bound together. . .by beliefin certain principles and the mostimportant of those principles are setforth in the Constitution."The U.S. Constitution's two-hundred-year survival, Scalia said,was testimony to its importance inbinding the United States together."France has been through fivewritten constitutions and eleven different forms of government whilewe've been working on this one, "he said.In addition to his lecture, Scaliamet informally with students andfaculty in a variety of settings. Hevisited several classrooms to talk withstudents studying such subjects asConstitutional law and Americanpolitical thought. The Marjorie KovlerVisiting Fellows program is designedto encourage interaction between students and prominent individuals inthe arts and public affairs.BRIEFSMartin E. Marty, PhD'56, theFairfax M. Cone Distinguished ServiceProfessor in Divinity, was elected president of the American Academy ofReligion at their 1987 convention inBoston. He will head the 5,000-member group through 1988. Marty isthe third Divinity School faculty member to serve as president over the pastten years. The others are Langdon B.Gilkey and Wendy O'Flaherty.Joel Snow, formerly director ofscience and technology affairs at theU.S. Department of Energy, has beennamed associate vice-president forresearch and for Argonne NationalLaboratory. He succeeds Nancy M.O'Fallon, who is now at the U.S. ArmsControl and Disarmament Agency.Snow's duties will involve primarilythe University's oversight of the laboratory for the Department of Energy.His office will be at Argonne NationalLaboratory.A lectureship has been establishedin the memory of Robert S. Mulliken,PhD'21, who died in 1986 after fifty-eight years on the faculty. Mulliken,who was a member of the physics and chemistry departments, developedmolecular orbital theory, which is stillused to calculate the properties ofmolecules. He received the 1966 NobelPrize in chemistry for his work. Thefirst lecture will be given on May 9 byNobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg ofthe National Research Council of Canada, who was a member of the facultyat Yerkes Observatory in the 1940s. Thelectureship is endowed with fundsraised by the chemistry departmentfrom private individuals. Seniors were guests of the Alumni Associationat the Quadrangle Club on February 5, at theAnnual Senior Dinner. Kyle Dixon andMonica Casper, seniors in the College, servedas masters of ceremonies. Senior Karen E.Anderson; Clyde P. Watkins, AB'67; andRalph W. Nicholas, AM' 58, PhD' 62, dean ofthe College, spoke after dinner. (Above left)Nancy J. Loube pins a boutonniere on the lapelof John W. Slocum. (Above right) Karen E.Anderson and Kyle D. Dixon. (Left) Julie A.Powell, Karin M. Kenny, Qader Baig, andMark L. Chenevey. (Right) KatharineA. Short, Sheila D. Lynch, and AlisonMcCurdy.28 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988CHICAGO HISTORY BRIEFOn the evening of June26, 1893, the University of Chicago heldits third Convocation, the first atwhich it awarded degrees. It was a very special occasionboth for the university and for youngEiji Asada of Japan. That evening, hewas awarded the first Ph . D. degree conferred by the new university.Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed'sHistory of the University of Chicago: TheFirst Quarter Century contains a description of the event:"When the one candidate [Asada]for the Doctor's degree rose to ascendthe platform, and the audience saw thathe was a Japanese, there was one continued round of applause until he hadtaken his place before the President[Harper]. And when the degree of highhonor was conferred and the hood wasplaced about his neck, the applausebegan again, and lasted until the modest and able young scholar resumedhis seat."It is significant of the internationalcharacter of the work which the University is set to do that the first to win thePh.D. should be a foreigner and Dr.Eiji Asada's name will ever stand firston the roll of honor in the GraduateSchool.""I, Eiji Asada, was born on the 22ndof May 1865, in a small town calledHanaoka in the southern part of Japan, " begins the vita for Asada's dissertation, The Hebrew Text of Zechariah 1-8.It was his conversion to Christianity in the 1880s that changed thecourse of Asada's life. As one of hisfriends, Harper H. Coates, wrote ofAsada, "He was a student in the Imperial University and seemed to haveevery prospect of a successful careeropening before him, quite a number ofhis classmates and College chums having later attained to some of the highestpositions in the educational and political world of Japan."He was brought face to face withthe Christian religion and with all theintensity of his soul he determined atwhatever sacrifice to commit his life toJesus Christ. He gave up the course ofstudy he much loved, and entered upon a course of preparation for service in theChristian cause. .. "In 1888, after only one year at Imperial University, Asada came to the United States to study theology. He enrolledat the Theological Seminary at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, inSeptember of that year."While in the school of Theology, "Asada later wrote, "I became so interested in Semitic studies and OldTestamentwork that I attended Professor Harper's Summer Schoolfor five sessions andstudied OldTestamentliteratureand Semiticlanguages."Harper,thena proressor at the Baptist theologicalSeminary in the Chicago suburb ofMorgan Park, taught these summerschools in the study of the Hebrew language throughout the 1880s.Asada thus found a teacher andfriend in the future president of theUniversity. In May 1891, after receivinghis bachelor of divinity degree fromNorthwestern, Asada wrote Harperthat he planned to study at the UnionTheological Seminary in New York,but expressed uncertainty about hisdecision.Harper urged Asada to study at thenew University of Chicago, whose presidency Harper would assume in July1891. At the University, scheduled tobegin classes in October 1892, Harperguaranteed that Asada would receive"a fellowship which will pay you atleast $200 and a room, being the equiva lent of $300. Possibly we can make itmore than this, viz., $400."In spite of Harper's advice, Asadadid indeed study at Union TheologicalSeminary during 1891-92 and also atColumbia University in New York; buthe accepted Harper's offer of a post assenior fellow in Semitic languages andarrived in Chicago for the University's1892-93 inaugural year.Asada was a well-liked, diligentstudent . In a remembrance of him in theDecember 1914 issue of The University ofChicago Magazine, Edgar J. Goodspeed,DB'97, wrote that Asada "certainly hadno superior among us [his fellow graduate students] in conversational readiness and contagious humor."Diploma in hand, Asada returnedto Japan in August 1893. The "modestand able young scholar" received an appointment as professor in the AoyamaGakuin. In May 1897, he was appointedlecturer of the English department ofthe Tokyo Higher Commercial School,where in August of that year he becameprofessor in the foreign languagesschool. In July 1899, when this same'school became the independent Tokyobchool of Foreign Languages, Asadawas appointed its head teacher.In Japan, Asada continued as anactive member of the Methodistchurch, which he had joined as a student at Imperial University. In May1896, Asada attended the InternationalMethodist Conference in Cleveland,OH.Asada also maintained his ties tothe University. He served as presidentof the University of Chicago Club ofJapan. When the club hosted HarryPratt Judson, second president of theUniversity, and his wife, in a 1914 visitto Japan, Asada gave the welcomingaddress.Two months after the Judsons' visit, on November 9, 1914, Asada died. In1916 his wife, Mika Asada, collected herlate husband's extensive writings into abook, Asada Eiji Tsuikairoku (The Memoirsof Dr. Asada)."It will never be forgotten here,"wrote William Rainey Harper, in a letterto his former pupil eight months afterAsada's graduation, "that you were thefirst doctor of the University."29(Continued from Page 25)undergraduate liberal arts education. "The instructors will be responsiblefor two sections of the same course eachquarter and will be encouraged to teachcourses of their own design during onequarter, especially in the second year oftheir appointments. They will workclosely with College students in smallclasses that emphasize discussion andwriting.The Mellon Foundation's grantshave particularly strengthened theUniversity's interdisciplinary efforts.Briefly described, they include:*A $1 million grant establishingthree five-year appointments called"term chairs." These are designed toenable creative, imaginative facultymembers to explore new areas and design new courses at a time in their careers when their research interestsmight otherwise be more narrowly focused, according to Norman M. Brad-burn, AB'52, provost of the University."These faculty members will havethe opportunity to develop new ideasand broaden and deepen the effectiveness they have already demonstrated inteaching and research," he said.The three appointed to Mellon"term chairs" are: Robert Ferguson, theMellon Professor in the Department ofEnglish Language and Literature; Russell Hardin, the Mellon Professor in theDepartments of Political Science andPhilosophy, and the Committee onPublic Policy Studies; and David W.Oxtoby, the Mellon Professor in theDepartment of Chemistry.*$6 million in grants to area studiesprograms, described below.*A $1.3 million grant that supportsgraduate workshops in the humanitiesand social sciences. These workshopsprovide a collegial setting in which advanced graduate students and facultycan explore areas of mutual interest,share research, and profit from the criticism of their peers.* Grants totalling $2.45 million, primarily for strengthening the traditionalhumanities and interdisciplinary studies. They include the $1.35 millionMellon Fund for the 1980s, designed tosupport primarily younger faculty inorder to ensure a more even flow ofscholars into the humanities.AREA STUDIES ENRICHEDBY NEARLY $6 MILLIONArea studies programs have been sig nificantly strengthened through nearly$6 million in individual and foundationgifts and grants.Area studies is an integrated approach to the study of the language, literature, history, and culture of acivilization.Campaign support will go to area-studies programs for: Korea, LatinAmerica, South Asia, East Asia, andWestern Europe.The Andrew W. Mellon Foundationhas made four challenge grants totalling $1.63 million to endowments supporting area-studies programs for LatinAmerica, South and East Asia, andWestern Europe.The recent grant for the WesternEuropean Studies Program will support an interdisciplinary European coreprogram designed to help faculty andstudents reexamine what constitutesand defines European culture and society from an area-studies perspective.The program's intellectual activityis designed to enhance a critical evaluation of Europe in relation to other regions, according to historian John W.Boyer, AM'69, PhD'75, director of theprogram. It will create a new focus forresearch and teaching by developing amore specific framework for interpreting European political, social, economic, and cultural developments from theearly modern period to the present.The Center for Latin American Studies, established here in 1968, is one ofeleven federally-funded national resource centers of its kind sponsored bythe U.S. Department of Education. Thecenter supports more than 200 graduatestudents specializing in Latin America,either as master's candidates in LatinAmerican studies or as candidates invarious disciplines with primary research interests in Latin America,according to John H. Coatsworth, professor in the Department of History.In addition to providing fellowships, the center has awarded sixty-three grants to graduate students in thehumanities and social sciences for fieldresearch in eight Latin Americancountries.The Center for East Asian Studies(formerly the Center for Far EasternStudies) is one of the leading centers inthe country, supporting programs inthe languages and cultures of Japan,China, and Korea. The center supportsthirty faculty and seventy-one studentsfrom various departments in the Divisions of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and the Divinity School.Korean studies received a $1 million gift from Korean businessman andentrepreneur Jong Hyon Chey, AM'61.Korean studies were expanded here in1985, with the establishment of theCommittee on Korean and East AsianDevelopment in the Department of EastAsian Languages and Civilizations.Chey is chairman of Sunkyong,Ltd., one of Korea's largest manufacturing and trade conglomerates, and ispresident of the University of ChicagoClub of Seoul. He is also president ofthe Korea Foundation for AdvancedStudies. Chey regularly supports atleast ten University students and equally as many others who attend othermajor universities in the U.S.In addition to Mellon Foundationsupport, South Asian studies receivedan anonymous gift of $407, 000.Many scholars from South Asiacome to Chicago to carry on their research because of the University's richprogram in South Asian studies,according to anthropologist Ralph WNicholas, AM'58, PhD'62, dean of theCollege. "Chicago offers the richestprogram in the languages of the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent of any university in the country, and it offers the widest range of research in the socialsciences and humanities in this area ofany university," Nicholas said. "Theprogram is supported by a library collection that is unique in its range and accessibility. All of these activities serveto make Chicago a magnet for SouthAsian studies."CORPORATE GRANTSPROMOTE POLYMERSCIENCE RESEARCHInternational Business Machines (IBM)made a grant of $2 million to the University for the expansion of polymer science research in the Division of Physical Sciences.As a result of the IBM grant the division is increasing the concentration offaculty in the field, improving researchfacilities and teaching, and expandingits base of support for student and postdoctoral programs in the polymersciences.Polymers are large aggregations ofidentical molecules that are fundamental parts of proteins and starches, aswell as of synthetic plastics and resins.They are used in such diverse applications as wire insulation, industrial30 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988packaging and gas separation processes, and in containers that are replacing cans and bottles for many uses."Polymers are the key materials fora great variety of industries, and polymer research presents important scientific challenges, " Stuart A . Rice, dean ofthe Division of Physical Sciences, said."But American universities have givenit little attention in the past twodecades."Chicago already has a tradition ofpolymer research, and the new fundingshould be especially useful because ofthe University's successful experiencein combining research from differentfields. Particularly important is theJames Franck Institute, which providesa research base for more than a score ofphysicists and chemists."We believe that our multidisci-plinary environment is well suited tothis kind of program," Rice said. "Weare building on the experience of theMaterials Research Laboratory in theFranck Institute and on our collaborative relationships with ArgonneNational Laboratory."The five-year IBM grant coverscomputer and scientific equipment,graduate student support, and the recruitment of new faculty in polymer science. A vigorous international recruitment effort is underway for top-notchresearchers, Rice said.The grant has already stimulated anumber of faculty to focus their research on polymer science, accordingto Rice. They have begun work in suchareas as glassy polymers and liquidcrystals. The division has also orderedtwo large new spectrometers to analyzethe newly created polymers.A spokesman for IBM said the grantsignifies a closer working relationshipbetween IBM and the University.ARRIS GIFT TO ESTABLISHPUBLIC POLICY SCHOOLIrving B. Harris, life trustee of the University, gave the largest single campaign contribution from an individual—a $7 million gift to enable the establishment of the new Graduate School ofPublic Policy Studies.In announcing the Harris gift, President Gray said, "The generosity andcommitment that Irving Harris hasshown to this University, to other institutions, and to public causes is overwhelming. He has done so much, andwe will be forever grateful." The school will be generated fromthe Committee on Public Policy Studies, which was established in 1976. Thecommittee is composed of faculty fromseveral related areas of interest.Harris said he chose to support theestablishment of the new school at Chicago because of the University's"worldwide reputation for interdisciplinary cooperation and excellence."At present, many of the best andbrightest minds of this nation are beingsiphoned off into lucrative professionssuch as law, investment banking, andaccountancy, " he said. "We do not do aswell as we should in attracting top people into public life. I'd like the GraduateSchool of Public Policy Studies to helpattract top minds to address ourtoughest public policy questions, suchas the cycle of poverty in all itsaspects."Harris, a native of St. Paul, MN, anda graduate of Yale University, has beenactive in many charitable and public-interest organizations in Chicago andelsewhere.In addition to the Harris gift, thenew school received a visiting professorship from the friends and family ofthe late Emmett Dedmon, AB'39. Theycombined their resources and efforts toendow the Emmett Dedmon VisitingProfessorship of Public Affairs, whichis the first endowed chair to be associated with the school. The goal of theFriends of Emmett Dedmon Committeeis ultimately to fund a full professorship in his memory.A former Maroon editor, Dedmonbegan his career as an assistant foreigneditor with The Chicago Times in 1939.When he resigned in 1978, he was vice-president and editorial director of TheChicago Sun-Times and its evening counterpart, The Chicago Daily News.A trustee of the University from1966 until his death in 1983, Dedmonserved as national chairman of theAlumni Fund. He was the first recipientof the Alumni Medal for outstandingservice to the University.The most recent campaign gift tothe Graduate School of Public PolicyStudies is from Jerry Knoll, AB'47,MBA'47, former deputy director of theInternational Rescue Committee inWashington, DC, who has endowed thefirst scholarship fund in the newschool. Knoll scholarships will be givento students whose research deals withpublic policy and international affairs,federal education policy, or the rela tionship between economic and national defense policy.In addition to the scholarship,Knoll gave a $10,000 unrestricted gift tothe campaign for the school's use.EFS ESTABLISHPROFESSORSHIPEvelyn S. and John U. Nef, '17, havepledged $1.5 million to establish theJohn U. Nef Distinguished Service Professorship in the Committee on SocialThought. A faculty member since 1929,Nef is professor emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Economics."John Nef has supported the Committee on Social Thought since the dayhe helped found it forty-six years ago.He has demonstrated what the committee means to him through many years ofservice to this institution, and manythoughtful gifts," said President Gray."The endowment of the John U. NefDistinguished Service Professorshipprovides a significant addition to the intellectual life of the University, and weare most thankful for the generosity ofMr. and Mrs. Nef."In 1942, Nef; Robert M. Hutchins,then president of the University; anthropologist Robert Redfield, Jr.,PhB'20, JD'21, PhD'28; and economistFrank Knight founded the Committeeon Social Thought, bringing togetheran interdisciplinary faculty to "contribute to the unification of all recent discoveries in the arts and sciences." Nefserved as chairman from 1942 to 1964.The committee's aims are to teachprecision of scholarship and to fosterawareness of the permanent questionsat the origin of all learned inquiry. Faculty members and students represent awide range of interests; work in thecommittee normally requires a conceptual framework wider than that of traditional specialized departments. Located in the Division of the SocialSciences, the committee is an exampleof the University's commitment to interdisciplinary programs. Students accepted into the program normally worktoward a Ph.D.COLLEGE CURRICULUMDEVELOPMENT RECEIVES$3 MILLION IN GIFTSNearly $3 million in campaign giftshave helped the College maintain its(Continued on Page 34)31Dinosaur Fossils, Valley of the Kings, MayanRuins, Prehistoric Amerindians, Chinese Archaeology,Shakespearean Theater — Try One of Our:Adventures Of The MindEducation does not cease with graduation; it is a life-long continuing process. The University and its graduates throughthe years have had this perspective and, as theUniversity approaches its Centennial, it acquires enhanced meaning. To foster andimplement the idea of continuing intellectualand cultural development, and at the sametime to demonstrate that learning has lostnone of its joy since your student days, theaffice of Alumni Relations presents the opportunities here listed to challenge your mindand your senses.Alumni CollegesArchaeological Studies: The Amerindian(10,000 BC). The Center for AmericanArchaeology, Kampsville, Illinois, July 9-11, $225 per adult; children, 9 to 16, $200,including special programming.// nuriti on Evolutionary Biology; Jack Horner, paleontologist, Museum of the Rockies; and astaff naturalist. Hopson will give slide lectureson the dinosaur era. Horner, supervisor of thenearby dinosaur excavation, will conducttours of the sites. The naturalist will leadhikes in the surrounding Bob Marshall Wilderness Area. Swimming and horseback riding included in cost. Glacier National Parkand Yellowstone are within easy driving distance.Explore and learn about the earliest period ofAmerican Indian life in Illinois with JaneBuikstra, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center. Buikstra will be assistedby other research scientists, such as DavidAsch, archaeologist and Smithsonian fellow;and Ed Hajic, Director of the GeomorphologyLaboratory at the Center. Lectures and sitetours.The Dinosaur Era. Pine Butte Guest Ranch,Choteau, Montana. August 21-28, $800 perperson (double occupancy) , $ 1 , 500 per couple.Week-long series of lectures and site tours,investigating the mysteries of the dinosaurera. There will also be a day-long trip to GlacierNational Park. The ranch, operated by the Nature Conservancy, is located near Great Falls,Montana. Faculty: James Hopson, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Committee AlumniCollegesAbroad Canada's Maritime Provinces and the Gulfof St. Lawrence. June 8-18, 1988;$2,495-$4,695 per person (double occupancy). Lecturers: Jacques Dalibard, Executive Directorof Canada's national preservation organization, Heritage Canada; and Peter Stokes, restoration architect.A cruise that explores some of the most beautiful and interesting regions of the CanadianMaritime Provinces. Visit Nova Scotia, NewBrunswick, Prince Edward Island, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec City, and Montreal.Eastern Turkey and Russian Adventure.(Sponsored by North American Friends of theAmerican Research Institute in Turkey.) June13-July6, 1988;$2,974 per person (double occupancy), plus airfare. Lecturer: RichardChambers, Associate Professor, Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.Visit Istanbul, Harran, Mt Nemrut, Van, Ani,Erevan, Tblisi, Leningrad and Moscow.China and the Yangtze River. June 24-July10,1988; rates start at $4,395 including airfare; detailed rates available after April 1st.Lecturer: Guy S. Alitto, Associate Professor,Departments of History and Far EasternLanguages.Ancient Civilizations of the New World.May 3-15, 1988; $2,595-4,095 per person(double occupancy). Lecturer: Evan Z. Vogt,Chicago alumnus and Professor of Social Anthropology, Harvard.A cruise and land expedition to explore theMayan and other Precolombian sites. The tripincludes a land portion in Mexico and Guatemala, and a cruise on the Illiria to such sitesas Palenque, Chichen Itza, and Tikal. Tour includes Beijing, Xi'an, several daysaboard the M.S.White Emperor sailing theYangtze from Chongqing to Wuhan, withstops at Shibao-Block/Warnxian, Fergjie/White King City as well as side trips to theThree Small Gorges/Yangtze Gorges. Twodays in Shanghai and environs.Byzantine Art Treasures.(Sponsored by the Center for Middle EasternStudies.) July 14-August 3, 1988: $2,990 perperson (double occupancy), plus airfare.Lecturer: Robert Nelson, Associate Professor,Department of Art.Visit Istanbul, Cappadocia, Trabzon, Erevan,Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev.WesternEuropeanPassage.August 3-19, 1988;from approx. $4,000 per person (double occupancy), including airfare from New York.Lecturers to be announced.Cruise from Copenhagen aboard the RoyalViking Sea through the Kiel Canal to Amsterdam, Antwerp/Brussels, Edinburgh, Dublin,Saint Lazaire/Loire Valley, and Southampton.In the Steps of Tamerlane.(Sponsored by the Center for Middle EasternStudies.) August 29-September 21, 1988;$2,925 per person (double occupancy), plusairfare. Lecturer: John Woods, AssociateProfessor, Departments of History and NearEastern Languages and Civilizations.Visit Istanbul, Harran, Mt. Nemrut, Van, Ani,Erevan, Taskent, Samarkand and Moscow.Moscow/Leningrad. November 9-20, 1988;$2,985 per person including airfare from NewYork.Lecturers to be announced.Four days in Moscow, and four in Leningradand environs, including excursion to formerroyal village of Pushkin and nearby Pavolovsk.The Muslim World of the Mediterraneanand North Africa. November 24- December14, 1988; from $4,395 per person (doubleoccupancy), plus airfare. Lecturers to beannounced.Aboard the privately-chartered Illiria, cruisefrom Athens to Malta to Bizerte/ Tunis, Cadiz/Seville, Casablanca/Marakesh, Canary Islands, Banjul (The Gambia), and Dakar (Sene-ffall. Chicago on the Nile. (Sponsored by the Oriental Institute.) November 13-30, 1988; $5,870per person exclusive of airfare (double occupancy). Lecturer: Lanny Bell, Associate Professor of Egyptology, and Field Director of theEpigraphic Survey based at Chicago House inLuxor.Cruise down the Nile from Cairo to Luxor. Visitthe Pyramids, ancient cities and temples(Karnak and Luxor). Observe the impact ofAswan Dam and efforts to preserve the sanctuaries of Rameses II and Nefertari.TheaterSummer in Stratford.fOfifce of ContinuingEducation). Late June through mid-September. Price $350-425 per person, with additional special alumni discount of $30.Five summertime study tours to the StratfordTheater Festival in Ontario. Four and five-daytrips enable participants to see five to sixplays. The tours are led by University facultymembers, each of whom conducts specialpre-and post-trip seminars to discuss theplaywrights, their works, and Stratford's interpretations of them.Stratford Theatre Festival 1988 will includeproductions of Richard III, The Taming of theShrew, My Fair Lady, The Three Musketeers,Alls Well That Ends Well, Murder in the Cathedral, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Not AboutHeroes, Irma La Douce, Twelfth Night, King King Lear Weekend. (Office of ContinuinEducation.) Weekend seminar, May 27-29, oiShakespeare's King Lear, at Starved RodState Park, Illinois.Tuition, per person, ineluding accommodations and meals, $225.Lecturers include D. Nicholas Rudall, Associate Professor, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures and Artistic DirectorCourt Theatre; and members of the teachinjstaff of the Basic Program of Liberal Educatioifor Adults.PotpourriElderhostels. [Sponsored by InternationalHouse.) June 19-25; June 26-July 2; July 1016. $230 per person, including accommodations, meals and course materials.Three liberal arts courses are given at eachhostel. Sample subjects include: Early Music(Renaissance and Baroque); Chicago's Sculpture and Architecture; Science in the SovietUnion; Shakespeare's Henry IV , Parts 1 & 2.Faculty drawn from University of Chicago andother area institutions.Management Seminar, Vail, Colorado. (Continuing Education.) Two sessions June 26-July15; July 24-August 12; $3,600 per person, persession.The seminar is for those who want toconcentrate on the interpersonal, organizational and behavioral aspects of managementin complex and rapidly changing corporatesettings. Faculty: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Professor and Chairman, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Professor, Departmentof Education; Laurence E. Lynn, Professor andDean, School of Social Service Administrationand Member of the Committee on Public PolicyStudies; Paul N. Pohlman, Director, Management Development Seminar; Thomas L. Whis-ler. Professor, Graduate School of Business.Other faculty are drawn from Harvard, BostonUniversity, universities abroad, and the private sector.Liberal Education Courses on Campus.Information about liberal education offeringsfor the Summer Quarter available after April1st.(Continued from Page 31)position as a leader in undergraduatecurriculum development.A $100,000 grant from the ExxonFoundation, combined with supportfrom the Robert Maynard HutchinsFund, as well as a number of other foundations, have resulted in a series of conferences and seminars that continue toaddress crucial issues in liberaleducation.The Robert Maynard HutchinsFund was established in 1983 tostrengthen the College, and specificallyto provide faculty resources, supportcourse development, underwritegraduate-level teaching internshipsand promote public discussion on thecentral issues of liberal education.Donald N. Levine, AB'50, AM'54,PhD'57, the Peter B. Ritzma Professorin the Department of Sociology and former dean of the College, said the worksupported by the campaign has provided a firm base for essential growth."There is no way you can have high-quality programs of liberal educationwithout periodic inquiry and debateabout their purposes and directions,"he said. "Mr. Hutchins always considered it a vital part of the College's mission in the University to mount suchinquiries."Among the curriculum initiativeswas "Project 1984," an intensive, yearlong review and debate by College faculty and students interested in undergraduate curricular issues in general, aswell as specific components of the baccalaureate program. Eleven task forces,supported by the Exxon Foundation,examined such issues as course elec-tives,. student research, writing skills,creative work in the arts, and physicaleducation.Project 1984 was complemented bythe Chicago Conferences on Liberal Education, designed to bring educatorsfrom the nation's colleges and universities together in annual meetings toexplore issues of liberal arts curriculardesign and teaching practice. The conferences have been supported by Exxon, the Robert Maynard HutchinsFund, the Dreyfus Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Topics for the conferences held sofar have been: "Undergraduate Education in Chemistry and Physics"; "Questions, Classic Texts, Today's Students";and "Western Civilization and ItsHistories." The fourth conference will be heldthis spring and will investigate the purposes and principles of teaching foreign languages in a university setting.An important curriculum initiativein the College has also been implemented thanks to a three-year, $100,000grant from the Ford Foundation. Thegrant establishes a program of twelveupper-level undergraduate researchseminars in the College. The programwill make awards of up to $12,000 eachto a faculty member or group of facultyto plan and teach elective courses thatwould offer ten to twenty students theopportunity to be involved in guidedinquiry. The courses will also bring faculty into closer contact with undergraduates and give College students a preview of what they might expect from acareer m teaching and research.ELIGIOUS INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES FUNDEDThree new professorships in religiousstudies will further the interdisciplinary study of religion in the DivinitySchool and the Social SciencesDivision.Two of the chairs will supportscholars interested in Catholic andBuddhist studies, and the third is designated for the study of comparativereligions."Through its inclusion of these newprofessorships, the campaign has enhanced the Divinity School in directions that are especially important to itspurpose: scholarly attention not only toChristianity but also to the diversity ofreligious traditions in human civilization, and scholarly interaction with thediversity of disciplines within the University," said Franklin I. Gamwell,AM'70, PhD'73, dean of the DivinitySchool.The Laura Spelman RockefellerProfessorship in the Philosophy ofComparative Religions will encouragethe scholarly comparison of religions atthe Divinity School. The chair was endowed through a $1 .25 million gift fromLaurance S. Rockefeller. It is expected todraw upon the University's longstanding encouragement of close relationships among departments, the importance placed upon the study ofnon-Western civilizations at the College and graduate levels, and the outstanding research resources of areastudies with regard to the cultures ofAsia, Africa, and Latin America. Rockefeller named the chair afterhis grandmother, whom he describedas "a very spiritually minded personwho encouraged Grandfather infounding the University of Chicago."Of the chair, Rockefeller said, "I shareDean Gamwell's conviction that, sincethe religions of the East and West arecoming into closer contact, it is essential that each understand the historyand philosophy of the other. It follows,of course, that we in the West will findprogressively more to learn from thewisdom of the East."The Yehan Numata Visiting Professorship in Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School was endowed by theBukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Buddhist Promoting Foundation). The group, whichis dedicated to making Buddhism morewidely understood, endowed the chairto bring to Chicago the finest scholars ofBuddhism and related subjects. YehanNumata, founder of Bukkyo DendoKyokai, founded the Mitsutoyo Manufacturing Company, one of Japan's leading producers of precision measuringinstruments.The Reverend Andrew M. Greeley,AM'61, PhD'62, novelist and widelypublished writer on sociology andeducation, established the AndrewThomas Greeley and Grace McNicholsGreeley Professorship in CatholicStudies, in memory of his parents. Theprimary affiliation of scholars appointed to the professorship will be either the Divinity School or the Divisionof the Social Sciences. David Tracy, aleading Catholic theologian, is the firstperson to be named to the Greeleyprofessorship.ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPIN NEUROSCIENCEA grant from the Lucille P. MarkeyCharitable Trust and a professorshipendowed with a gift from the lateMarjorie Straus have greatly strengthened the University's neuroscienceprogram.Dr. David Paul Richman has beennamed the first Marjorie and Robert E.Straus Professor in the Department ofNeurology.The chair was endowed with a $1 . 25million gift from Marjorie Straus, whosaid at the time she made the gift that itstemmed from her "lifelong interestand volunteer activities in health fields.I have been supporting specific re-34 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988search projects in the Department ofNeurology, and now I would like to express my gratitude in a more tangibleand lasting manner."Straus was a Chicago resident andmember of the Women's Board from1960 until her death early this year. Herlate husband, Robert E. Straus, hadbeen chairman of the board of theAmerican National Bank & Trust Co.Richman is studying the interplayof the nervous system with the immunesystem."This professorship will allow meto increase my efforts in my specialization—the disease myasthenia gravis, orMG. MG is an autoimmune disease inwhich the body makes antibodiesagainst a portion of the muscle receptors that receive messages from thenerves," Richman said. "The disease,which can strike any group of muscles,strikes about one in every 10,000 to20,000 persons, primarily young women and older men. It most often affectsthe muscles that control chewing, swallowing, and eye movement and iteventually can affect the arms and legs.Occasionally, severe breathing difficulties may appear, sometimes resulting indeath."Richman's work concerns the development of a model nerve receptormolecule that will help scientists understand how specific receptors receiveinformation transmitted through thenerve.The Markey grant supports basicresearch in the Departments of Neurology and Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences and the Committee onImmunology.Of the $8.7 million grant made tothe University, $6.7 million supportscampaign purposes.The grant allows scientists to expand current research projects as wellas add laboratory space and equipment. It also has enabled the recruitment of nine scientists with specialtiesin molecular biology; genetics and immunology; cell interactions; neurotransmitters; and neuropharmacologyand neurochemistry.Focusing on the mechanisms involved in normal nervous system function and in disease, the research has important implications in the diagnosisand treatment of such problems asAlzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(Lou Gehrig's disease). PEW FREEDOM TRUSTSUPPORTS COMBINEDM.D./Ph.D. PROGRAMSeven medical students are currentlyenrolled in a combined M.D./Ph.D.program which has benefitted by a $1million grant from the J. Howard PewFreedom Trust of the Pew CharitableTrusts.The Pew Program in Medicine,Arts, and the Social Sciences began inJune 1986. It combines medical trainingwith graduate studies in law, business,divinity, or the social sciences.The purpose of the program is toeducate physicians outside of the medical profession so that they are betterable to address such issues as risingcosts, the social role of the physician,ethical questions, and problems in thephysician-patient relationship usingthe language of their new field of expertise in combination with their knowledge of medical language.ESEARCH PROJECTS ATORIENTAL INSTITUTEThe Oriental Institute received over$1.8 million in campaign gifts to support a wide variety of research projectsrelating to the origin and developmentof civilization in the ancient Near East.An anonymous gift of nearly $1 million will help to support several currentinstitute undertakings, including theEl-Qitar Project, and the Assyrian, Demotic, and Hittite dictionary projects.El-Qitar is a second-millenniumfortress on the Euphrates River inpresent-day Syria. It guarded communication and trade routes between theMediterranean and the East. The Chicago excavation group, led by ThomasL. McClellan, associate professor in theOriental Institute and the Departmentof Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has so far uncovered the basiclayout of the city's defenses and publicbuildings on the acropolis.The Assyrian Dictionary Project,begun at the University in 1921, is publishing a multi-volume encyclopedia ofthe language and culture of the Assyrian and Babylonian peoples, inhabitants of Mesopotamia between 2500 B.C.and A.D. 100. Erica Reiner, PhD'55, theJohn A. Wilson Distinguished ServiceProfessor in the Oriental Institute andthe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is editor-in-charge.The Demotic Dictionary Project stu dies the language written in Egypt between the seventh century B.C. and thethird century A.D. Its director is JanetH. Johnson, AB'67, PhD'72, professorand director of the Oriental Institute.The Hittite Dictionary Project, directed by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., professor in the Oriental Institute, is producing the first true dictionary of thelanguage of the Hittites, who lived4,000 years ago in what is now Turkey.Campaign gifts also help supportthe Epigraphic Survey, begun by JamesH. Breasted, the Institute's founder, in1924. The survey's goal is to scientifically reproduce, annotate, and publish theancient public art of all of Egypt. Thecurrent area of activity centers onLuxor, where Chicago House, the survey's headquarters, is located.The Prehistoric Project, directed byRobert J. Braidwood, PhD'43, professoremeritus in the Oriental Institute, hasalso benefited from the campaign.Braidwood's team is investigating theorigins of a settled village-farming community way of life at a number of sites insouthwestern Asia. Currently they areexcavating a site at Cayonu in southeastern Turkey.TWO NEW PROFESSORSHIPSIN JEWISH STUDIESSeveral campaign gifts will go tostrengthen Jewish studies, includingtwo professorships.The chairs have been named forNathan Cummings, the late trustee ofthe University, and the late LudwigRosenberger, a Chicago businessman."These gifts reflect the importanceof Jewish studies to this university,"said Norman M. Bradburn, AB'52, provost of the University. "The new chairsprovide a depth and diversity essentialto a fuller study of the Jews, their history, religion, and social development."A $1 million bequest from NathanCummings, with an additional$250,000 in funds from his family, endowed the Nathan Cummings Professorship in Jewish Studies. The bequestwill encourage scholarship in Judaismin fields ranging from the Hebrew Biblethrough Rabbinic literature and medieval Judaism to modern Jewish religionand theology."My father, Nathan Cummings,grew up in a house of traditional observance of Judaism, and its ideals andliterature were of paramount importance to him," said Beatrice CummingsMayer, X'47, a Chicago businesswomanwho is a member of the Women's Boardand the Visiting Committees to theSchool of Social Service Administrationand the Visual Arts.Cummings founded ConsolidatedFoods Corp., now known as Sara LeeCorporation, which is based in Chicago. In 1970, he gave nearly $3 million tothe University to help underwrite construction of the Cummings Life ScienceCenter. The building, dedicated in1973, contains the laboratories and faculty studies for the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, andMolecular Genetics and Cell Biology.Cummings died in 1985.The Ludwig Rosenberger Professorship in Jewish Studies will support ascholar in any of the areas of learningpertaining to post-Biblical, secular Jewish history, culture, and civilization.Rosenberger's intent, in endowing thechair, was to foster research in the120,000-volume Ludwig RosenbergerCollection of Judaica he gave to theJoseph Regenstein Library in 1980.Believed to be the largest individualcollection of Judaica in the world, themassive Rosenberger collection spansthe history of Jewish social and politicalthought from A.D. 1200 to the present.There is no religious literature in thecollection, which covers Jewish life inwestern Europe, America, and the Middle East.In addition to the new chairs, a special fund was developed during thecampaign to help support scholars devoted to deepening our understandingof the Jewish community through studies of current social and economicpatterns and their antecedents in therecent past.The Arcadius Kahan Fund commemorates the eminent University ofChicago historian who studied the economic and social history of Russian andEastern European Jews.The fund will provide support for avisiting scholar in modern Jewish socialstudies who will interact with presentfaculty and students, enriching theirunderstanding of the historical experience of the Jewish people in the MiddleEast, Europe, and America. When sufficient additional gifts are added to thefund, it will be used to endow a professorship that will provide support forstudy and teaching in this field. B CLASS NEWS"1 C\ Norman S. Parker, AB' 10, PhD '16, is ninety-JLvJ seven years old and lives in Carmel, CA.-1 C SamuelJ.Pearlman,SB'15,SM17, MD'17,JLC/ lectures in the Department of Head andNeck Surgery at the Medical School, Universityof California, Los Angeles. He is ninety-fouryears old."1 /^ A. Margaret Bowers, PhB'16, of Madison,JLO WI, enjoys civic activities, walking, and attending concerts. She is ninety-five years old."I rj Ethlyn Lindley Walkington, PhB'17, is re-JL / tired and lives in Twin Falls, ID.*\ Q Harold J. Fishbein, PhB'18, has served theJLO U.S. government and the American RedCross since 1918. He lives in Walnut Creek, CA.Evermont R. Huckleberry, SB'18, MD'21, ofSalt Lake City, UT, is part of an Elderhostel groupand enjoys woodcarving and reading."1 Q Joseph Chada, PhB'19, PhD'32, lives in±!y North Miami Beach, FL.OrV Kathleen Foster Campbell, AB'20, lives injlLx) Fresno, CA. Her daughter is Harriet Campbell Stephens, AB'50, of West Sacramento, CA.Max A. Noble, PhB'20, of Wichita, KS, is ninety years old. He and his wife, Luella, celebratedtheir sixty-fifth anniversary last July.O^l Chalmer C. McWilliams, PhB'21, former£* _L president of the class of 1921, lives in Carmel, CA.OO Arema Chadwick Fowler, PhB'23, lives inAO Nashville, IN.In August, Frances Andrews Mullen, PhB'23,AM'27, PhB'39, of Sherman Oaks, CA, was honored at the forty-fifth annual convention of the International Council of Psychologists in New YorkCity for her continued involvement and dedication to the International Council of Psychologistsand her outstanding contributions to international psychology.John R. Whitaker, MBA'23, is ninety years oldand lives in Newville, PA.O A Bernadine Freeman Bailey, AM'24, of Mat-ZJjL toon, IL, has written many books and poems, for one of which she won a prize from TheWorld of Poetry. She is listed in several referencebooks and is a member of three press cluborganizations.Glenna Mode Ball, AB'24. See 1925, HerbertA. Ball.Finis G. Cooper, MD'24, of Los Angeles, isninety years old.Rose Smith Meyer, PhB'24, of La Jolla, CA, iseighty-four years old and attends classes at the Institute for Continued Learning at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. She writes, "After reading Brooke Shields's curriculum at Princeton, I amglad I received my Ph.B. from Chicago."Alice Crandall Park, SB '24, is eighty-six yearsold and lives in Washington, DC.Ferol E. Potter, PhB'24, SM'38, took a tour ofChina and Hong Kong. She is eighty-eight yearsold and lives in Columbia, MO.r\ P- Hal Baird, PhB'25, AM'28, and his wife,£«\J Gordie Lou, of Orlando, FL, have beenmarried for fifty-eight years.Herbert A. Ball, SB'25, and his wife, GlennaMode Ball, AB'24, are retired and live near BlackMountain, NC.The auditorium of the U.S. Naval OrdinanceLaboratory has been named after Ralph Bennett,PhD'25, for his wartime contributions. Bennettlives in San Francisco, CA.O /^ Charles F. Jespersen, SB '26, and his wife,jLXj Helen, celebrated their sixtieth anniversary in November. They have fourteen grandchildren and live in Lockville, MD.William H. Owen, PhB'26, has retired as president and sole stockholder of Guarantee FinanceCorp., Des Moines, IA. He and his wife, Louise Hoodley Owen, recently celebrated their sixty-first anniversary.Margaret Pittman, SM'26, PhD '29, of Washington, DC, was given a certificate of appreciationfrom the Centers for Disease Control for her contributions to medicine. In October, she received anaward for her work on pertussis (whoopingcough) vaccine standardization from the Societyof Infectious Diseases of America.Ory Dorothea K. Adolph, PhB'27, lives in a re-Am / tirement community in Cleveland, OH .Charlotte A. Crawley, AM'27, of Roanoke,VA, has retired from social work.Frederick R. Eggan, PhB'27, AM'28, PhD'33,and Joan Maris Eggan, AB'34, have moved to Santa Fe, NM. Joan practices psychotherapy and is aneducational adviser. Frederick is involved in research for the Hopi Indians in their claims againstthe Navajo Indians and the U.S. government.Charles M. Mann, SB'27, and Marjorie KneenMann, AB'37, are retired and live in Hot SpringsVillage, AR.in: nun 88nO Alex Brodsky, PhB'28, of Glencoe, IL, has^.O received a ten-year service award from theU.S. Small Business Administration for his voluntary counseling service to the small businesscommunity.Babette Schoenberg Brody, PhB'28, is eightyyears old and lives in Chicago.Alice K. Brown, PhB'28, lives in Sun City, AZ.AllanA.Filek, SB'28,MD'33, is president of amodel railroad club in Sun City, AZ.William T. Harrison, PhB'28, of Santa Barbara, CA, traveled to the Grecian islands, Athens,and Istanbul.O Q Bernard R. Halpern, SB'29, lives in San Ra-JLS fael, CA.John M. Jackson, SB'29, PhD'32, and his wife,Betty, attended the Seventh World Congress ofFood Science and Technology in Singapore. Theylive in Lakeside, MI.Marjorie Niehaus Maxwell, AB'29, of Tipton,IA, participated in the tennis competitions of theIowa Games last summer at the age of eighty. Herhobbies are reading, bridge, and traveling.Laura Kyes McCrory, PhB'29, lives in WestFargo, ND.Chester C. Schroeder, PhB'29, is an underwriter for Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceCo., Evansville, IN.QA Marquis T. Alderman, PhB'30, is enjoying\3 \J retirement in Hot Springs, AR.Raymond M. Dickinson, PhB'30, lives inSpringfield, IL.Ruth Holmes Prior, PhB'30, of Scottsdale,AZ, vacationed in Italy with her daughter andgrandchildren.Arthur H. Rosenblum, SB'30, SM'32, MD'35,of Chicago, is clinical professor emeritus of the pediatrics department of Michael Reese Hospitaland Medical Center and has a private practice.Winifred E. Weter, AM'30, PhD'33, of Seattle,WA, is professor emeritus of the Seattle PacificUniversity, Seattle, WA.O^l Lucille Shower Dennis, PhB'31, of Terrev3JL Haute, IN, is a professional artist. She islisted in Who's Who of American Women.Alice Kathleen Gay Hammond, AM'31, andher husband, Harold, live in Detroit, MI.Alton S. Hansen, MD'31, lives in Sun CityWest, AZ.36 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 198$George L. Hecker, PhB'31, JD'33, and hiswife, Janet, celebrated their thirty-second anniversary. Hecker practices law in Los Angeles.Helen Bullock Ostron, PhB'31, has retiredfrom teaching. She and her husband, John, live inhis one-hundred-year-old family home in EastRandolph, NY.George H. Otto, SB'31, PhD'42, of Linton, IN,is a consulting geologist.Albert A. Terry, MD'31, lives in Austin, TX.O^ Luis W. Alvarez, SB'32, SM'34, PhD'36, re-OZ- ceived the 1987 Enrico Fermi Award, thehighest scientific award given by the U.S. Department of Energy. It recognizes exceptional achievement in the development of atomic energy. Alvarez, who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in1968, is professor of physics emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and senior scientist emeritus at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.Jessamine M. Durante, PhB'32, has retiredfrom a banking career and lives on Hilton HeadIsland, SC.Florence Andrews Frappier, PhB'32, is retiredand lives in San Francisco, CA.Lucy Riddell Huntington, PhB'32, and herhusband have three sons. They live in Spartanburg, SC. Last summer, Donald C. Lowrie, SB'32,PhD'42, of Santa Fe, NM, worked as a naturalist inWyoming. He is finishing a research paper on spider ecology and is professor emeritus of biology atCalifornia State University, Los Angeles.MM 88OO Gertrude Roston Baldwin, PhB'33. SeeOO 1933, Elizabeth Milchrist Hanlon.George F. Dale, SB'33, retired, is secretary ofan international warship-buff society. He lives inRedford, VA.Jean Stillman Duffield, SB'33, is an honorarymember of the Cambridge Archaeological Societyof the University of Cambridge, England .Bertha Errant Feist, PhB'33, of St. Louis, MO,traveled to the Near East, including Brunei andMalaysia.Elizabeth Milchrist Hanlon, PhB'33, AM'37,and her husband, Julian, celebrated their forty-sixth anniversary and have a great-granddaughter. They were visited at their home in Charlottesville, VA, by Thomas M. Andrews,SB'34, and Gertrude Roston Baldwin, PhB'33.Laura Cook James, PhB'33, JD'35, of Baden,Austria, attends the opera, concerts, and theballet.Harvey J. Karam, MD'33, practices medicinein Akron, OH.Adelle V. I.ampos, PhB'33, of Silver Springs,MD, went on a tour of Poland, a highlight of whichwas a raft trip down the Dunajec River.Helene J. McMurtry, AM'33, enjoys rural lifeat her home, April Acres, in Wisconsin.Dorothy Carnine Scott, AM'33, of Estes Park,CO, gave a one-woman show of her lithographs atthe University of Arizona, Tuscon.Rubin Sharpe, PhB'33, JD'35, retired, is vice-chairman of the Milwakee, WI, chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives.Sidney Weinhouse, SB'33, PhD'36, receivedthe 1987 National Achievement Award of theAmerican Cancer Society. He is senior scientist ofthe Lankenau Medical Research Center, Philadelphia, PA.O.A Thomas M. Andrews, SB'34. See 1933,v_/TI Elizabeth Milchrist Hanlon.Joan Maris Eggan, AB'34. See 1927, FrederickR. Eggan.Belle Korshak Goldstrich, PhB'34, of Miami,FAMILY ALBUM '88Felix E Loeb, Jr., AB'51; Gail Loeb; Loretta R. Loeb; Jeffrey A. Loeb,AB'82, SM'82, PhD'87; and Felix F. Loeb III, AB'81. David Wong, AM'82, PhD'87; Caroline Ho Wong (in arms); andOdalia Ho Wong, AM' 83, PhD'87.Bartholomew Sparrow, student in the Division of Social Sciences;Samuel N. Stokes; Houston H. Stokes, AM' 66, PhD'69; Maria-CristinaJ. Squeff, SM'82, PhD'85; her husband, Mitchell P. Stokes,SM'80, PhD'87; Barbara Stokes (in arms); Diana Stokes; AnaSahium; and Antonio Sahium. Donald W. Fiske, professor emeritus in the Department of BehavioralSciences and the College; Trib Mason; Gwendolyn Fiske; Kathryn F.Mason, AM'75, PhD'87; and her husband, Alan P. Fiske, AM'73,PhD'85.37FL, has resigned as chairman of the University'salumni fund-raising activities for the Floridaarea.Helen L. Morgan, AB'34, AM'36, lives inClaremont, CA.James D. Nobel, X'34, is director of the Council on Human Relations, Cleveland, OH, and RuthUetz Nobel, X'34, teaches creative movement atCuyagoga Community College, Cleveland. Theylive in Solon, OH.Theodore K. Noss, AM'34, PhD'40, retired,lives in Black Mountain, NC.Royal M. Vanderberg, SB'34, SM'40. See1937, Kirsten Richards Vanderberg.OC Charles A. Bane, AB'35, retired, is chair-vU\_/ man of the publications committee of thesenior division of the American Bar Associationand is researching Abraham Lincoln's law practices. He lives in Palm Beach, FL.W. Edward Clark, AB'35, of Omaha, NE, hasbeen traveling in England and France.Fay Belrose Friedman, PhB '35, has two grandsons in college. She lives in Lexington, KY.Jane E. Matson, AB'35, retired, is professor ofcounseling at California State University, LosAngeles, and is a dissertation adviser at Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL. She spent two weeksin the Soviet Union in an exchange program sponsored by the American Association of Communityand Junior Colleges. Matson lives in La Canada,CA.Bernard D. Meltzer, AB'35, JD'37, distinguished service professor emeritus in the LawSchool, is counsel to the firm Sidley & Austin, Chicago.O r G. Helen Campbell, AB'36, AM'38, tookC/O an "art and culture" tour of France. Shelives in Polo, IL.Margaret Stone Hollerman, AB'36, lives inMinneapolis, MN.JoanE. Kain, AB'36, AM'38, of Bethesda, MD,has retired after thirty-one years in federalservice.William Koenig, AB'36, has four grandsonsand lives in North Hollywood, CA.Marian E. Madigan, PhD'36, manages herfamily farm in Weston, NE.Alexander R. Mortimer, PhB'36, is eighty-twoyears old and lives in San Gabriel, CA.The Simon M. Shubitz Cancer Research Prizeand Lectureship, named for Simon M. Shubitz,MD'36, is now given annually. Shubitz lives inNorth Hollywood, CA.Truman H. Solverud, X'36, has retired as vice-president of the American National Red Cross,Arlington, VA.In September, Sara Baumgardner White,SB'36, and Richard D. White, SB'36, of CorpusChristi, TX, celebrated their fiftieth anniversary.O fy Virginia Clark Abbott, AB'37, of Green\J I Bay, WI, enjoyed the fiftieth reunion of theclass of 1937.Joan Naumburg Hertzberg, AB'37. See 1968,Daniel Hertzberg.Jane McNamara, granddaughter of WhitneyC. Jansen, AM'37, is a junior in the College. Jansenlives in Bethesda, MD.Grace Wolfsohn Leonard, AM'37, is enjoying her retirement in Washington, DC.Marjorie Kneen Mann, AB'37. See 1927,Charles M. Mann.John G. Morris, AB'37, is looking forward tothe University's centennial celebration. He andhis wife, Tana Hoban, are European correspondents for National Geographic in Paris, France.Virginia Schwarz Softer, AB'37, is active in local elections, the Democrat's Club, and is a librarycommissioner for Fremont, CA.Kirsten Richards Vanderberg, AB'37, AM'40,is educational finance consultant to the League ofWomen Voters, CA, and Royal M. Vanderberg,SB'34, SM'40, consults on the development andrepair of scientific display equipment. They live inRancho Cordova, CA.D. Throop Vaughn, AB'37, lives in OlympiaFields, IL.REM 88JUNE 3-4OO Edith Stansberry Beadle, SB'38, lives inOO Lee's Summit, MO.Nadreen A. Burnie, AB'38, AM'39, lives inAustin, TX.Sidney E. Mead, AM'38, PhD'40, was honored with a Festschrift presentation at the University's Swift Hall and Quadrangle Club. Mead andhis wife, Mildred, live in Silver City, NM.FAMILY ALBUM '88Scott W. Atlas, MD'81; and his wife, Janice M. Rossi, PhD'87. Lisa Shinohara Dent, AM'82; and Charles T. Dent, PhD'87.Raymond Wallenstein, JD'34; and his son, David J. A. Wallenstein, Bruce Delahome, AB'78, MBA80; and his wife, Roxanne T. Laux,AB'82,AM'87. AB' 76, SM'82, MB A 87.38 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988Bernice (Beth) Silver Sheffel, AB'38, AM'45,and Irving E. Sheffel, AB'39, received honorarydoctor of humane letters degrees from WashburnUniversity, Topeka, KS. Irving is vice-president ofthe Menninger Foundation, Topeka, KS.Alice M. Weatherwax, SB'38, of Wheaton, IL,has retired as financial secretary of the ChicagoTeachers Union.Mary Walter Woodrich, AB'38, of ChagrinFalls, OH, participated in the symposium, "Women and the Constitution, " in Atlanta, GA.OQ Galen W. Ewing, PhD'39, of Las Vegas,\_J y NM, is a national councilor of the AmericanChemical Society and has written a number oftextbooks.David Kritchevsky, SB'39, SM'42, spent twoweeks as visiting professor for the Royal Society ofMedicine, London, England. He is professor andassociate director of the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA.Virginia Kenny Lamer, X'39, is a volunteer forthe American Red Cross in Concord, CA.Irving E. Sheffel, AB'39. See 1938, Bernice(Beth) Silver Sheffel.Vern L. Zech, MD'39, of Bull Shoals, AR,writes that, in his retirement years, he is deeplyappreciative of his education at the University.A C\ John P. Conrad, AM'40, writes the column,TtU "News of the Future: Research and Development in Corrections" for The Federal ProbationQuarterly. Conrad lives in Davis, CA.Elise ByfieldGilden, AB'40, of Tucson, AZ, isretired but still involved in treating learningdisabilities. Betty Glixon, AB'40, is a librarian at Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY.Thelma Iselman Hayes, AB'40, is co-author ofa newspaper series on brain diseases. Hays is involved in the Alliance for the Mentally 111, theNorth Coastal San Diego (CA) County organization that she founded. She also serves on theCarlsbad Housing and Redevelopment AdvisoryCommittee and assists her husband, ThomasH. Hayes, in his geriatric medical practice inCarlsbad, CA.Mona Jane Wilson Schoch, SM'40, of BeechGrove, IN, has received the national Goodwill Industries of America Volunteer-of-the-Year Awardfor her work in adult education . Also see 1978, EricB. Schoch.Kazimer B. Skubi, MD'40, retired, co-founded the Summit Madison Medical Group,Seattle, WA.David L. Weber, AB'40. See 1970, TrudyKarlson.4-1 Robert R. Bigelow, SB'41, MD'43, of OakTC-L Ridge, TN, has retired after thirty-five yearsas a surgeon.Mary E.Coleman, AM'41, PhD'45, is a volunteer teacher for children who are "low-achievers."She is professor emeritus of the University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia.Joseph B. Gittler, PhD'41, is director of theCenter for the Study of Race and Ethnic Relationsat George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, wherehe is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology. Gittler is also co-editor of The International Journal of Group Tensions. W. Austin Herschel, AB'41, AM'51, lives inTampa, FL.Evelyn Geiger Jones, AB'41, operates her owntax and accounting service in Orlando, FL.Robert EmilKoenig, SB'41, PhD'53, of Haver-town, PA, was awarded the doctor of divinity degree by Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, for hiscontributions to the educational program of theUnited Church of Christ.Ernest Stern Leiser, AB'41, former vice-president of CBS News, is a resident fellow at Columbia University, New York City, on a grant fromthe Gannett Center for Media Studies.David M. Pletcher, AB'41, AM'41, PhD'46, isprofessor of history at Indiana University,Bloomington.Louis M. Welsh, AB'41, of Del Mar, CA, playsthe role of the judge on the television series "Superior Court."John E. Wilson, SB'41, is part-time professorof biochemistry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, after servingthirty-five years on its faculty.Irvin Zelitky, AB'41, lives in Foster City, CA.A <"\ David Lewis Fisher, SB '42, of Garden City,Tl^i NJ, is chairman of his local Boy Scout district. He consults part-time for the New YorkTelephone Co.Daniel L. Levy, AB'42, of Los Angeles, spentlast summer traveling through the Netherlands,France, and England.R. Katharine Meyer, AB'42, is a pioneer forthe Baha'i Faith in Santiago, Chile.Bradley H. Patterson, AB'42, AM'43. SeeFAMILY ALBUM '88Peter M. Weber, PhD'87; and Karen M. Hogberg Weber, AB'85. Di-Jia Liu, PhD'87; and his wife, Lin Xiang-Qun Chen, PhD'87.Matilde Rivera; Nanette Rivera Wordehoff, MBA'87; and Eugene C.Wordehoff, MBA'87. Chris Funk, student in the College; his father, Robert W. Funk, AM '87;Toni McKee; and Michael Funk.39mm .¦snunwl|)IAHII«s| *JiLJ 4i urn Mr i- Come Back ToWhere It All Began:No One ElseCan TakeYdur Place&*2^'^^yr> ¦ TheUniversity1 TJriiiChicago [l I1]u«*H JUNE 3-4REUNION '88 will start at 9:00 am onFriday, June 3, and will continue throughSaturday evening, June 4.40 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988¦ Class Reunion CelebrationsI Friday, June 3Luncheon: 60th ReunionDinners: 20th, 25th, 35th, 40th, 50th, 55th ReunionsParties: 5th, 10th Reunions¦ General Reunion EventsFriday, June 39:00-5:00 Registration on the Main Quad9:00-8:00 Hospitality Center at Alumni House(Robie House)11:00 Donald G. York: "A New Telescope forChicago"Noon-2:00 Box LunchNoon-2:30 60th Reunion Luncheon3:30-6:00 Order of the 'C Reception3:30-5:00 W.A.A. Reception3:30-5:00 International House Reception4:00-6:00 Perlman Lecture by George E. Reedy, Jr.:"The Presidency and the Weil-Being ofAmericans"4:30-6:00 Receptions in Residence Halls6:30 Class Reunion Dinners: 20th, 25th, 35th, 40th,50th, 55th7:30 10th Reunion Party8:00 5th Reunion Party10:30 Dunham Telescope Tour, Kersten PhysicsTeaching CenterSaturday, June 45:00 am "Salute to the Sun" at Promontory Point8:00-5:00 Registration and Hospitality Center8:30-10:00 Breakfast11:00 Allan Bloom: "The Closing of the AmericanMind"Noon-2:00 Picnic on the Quad1 :30 Motet Choir Concert, Bond Chapel3:00 "The Inner City, the Underclass, andPublic Policy":Panel Discussion with William Julius Wilson5:00 Champagne Reception with President HannaHolborn Gray, Hutchinson Court6:00 Candlelight Dinner and Alumni AwardsCeremony, Hutchinson Commons9:00 InterfraternitySing¦ Throughout both days, there will be special tours of theOriental Institute, Smart Gallery, Court Theatre, RobieHouse, Bergman Gallery, the new Science Quadrangle,Rockefeller Carillon, Mitchell Tower, and Special Collectionsat Regenstein Library. In addition, there will be both walkingtours and double decker bus tours of the campus and HydePark-Kenwood. Program subject to change.¦ The 57th Street Art Fair will be on Saturday and Sunday,June 4 and 5.¦ Discount AirfaresI Specially negotiated discount airfares are available to allalumni returning to Chicago for Reunion Weekend throughthe Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service office in RollingMeadows, Illinois. Alumni may choose to fly into eitherMidway or O'Hare Airport and must travel anytime betweenMay 27 and June 9. For reservations or information call800-331-8132 (outside Illinois only) or 312-398-7731. AskMr. Foster is open Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 5:00 CST. Be sureto indicate that you will be attending Reunion in order toreceive the lowest possible fare. ¦ Reunion Lecturers and PanelistsALLAN BLOOM (PhB'49, AM'53, PhD'55)-"The Closing ofthe American Mind"A professor in the College and the Committee on SocialThought, Mr. Bloom has become one of the University'sbest known scholars since his controversial The Closing ofthe American Mind hit the best-seller list. Following his talk,Mr. Bloom will respond to questions.GEORGE E. REEDY, JR. (AB'38)- "The Presidency andthe Well-Being of Americans"A member of the 50th Reunion Class, Mr. Reedy is bestknown as the former Press Secretary for Lyndon B.Johnson. He wrote the widely-acclaimed The Twilight of thePresidency, and an updated version has recently beenpublished. He is the Nieman Professor of Journalism atMarquette University in Milwaukee. The Helen HarrisPerlman Lecture is sponsored annually by the School ofSocial Service Administration.WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON -"The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy"The chairman of the Department of Sociology, a professorin the College and a MacArthur Fellow, Mr. Wilson is theauthor of The Truly Disadvantaged, which examines theeconomic roots of conditions in inner city ghettos and theeffects of public policy on the underclass. Three alumniwill take part in a discussion of the issues addressed bythe book. The panel will also respond to questions fromthe audience.Elijah Anderson (AM'72) is an associate professor ofSociology at the University of Pennsylvania.Irwin Garfinkel (AM'67) is the Director of the Schoolof Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Margaret Mary Weir (PhD'86) is an assistant professor of Government at Harvard University.DONALD G. YORK (PhD'71)-"A New Telescope forChicago"A professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and in the College, Donald G. York is an expert on interstellar and intergalactic matter and is currently searching forforming galaxies. He will discuss recent advances in thetechnology of state-of-the-art telescopes and will highlightthe research taking place at the University's new telescopein New Mexico.¦ AccommodationsThe Hyde Park Hilton offers U. of C. alumni a special rate of$69 per room per night (single or double occupancy). A freeshuttle bus will run between the hotel and campus throughout the weekend. Please make your reservations directlywith the Hilton before May 2 by calling the toll-free numberlisted below. To assure getting the special Reunion rate,be sure to indicate that you will be attending the Reunion.Hyde Park Hilton4900 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 606151-800-237-7275 (in IL) or 1-800-237-4933 (outside IL)On-campus accommodations are available at InternationalHouse for $21 per night (single occupancy only with ashared hall bathroom). Please make your reservationsdirectly with:Residence Director, International House1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637312-753-2280 ¦411943, Shirley DoBos Patterson.In October, Shirley Buro Robeson, AB'42,AM'43, of Chicago, participated in a panel discussion at the fiftieth anniversary meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference. She teaches at LaneTechnical High School, Chicago.The sociology department of the City University of New York, Queens College, in Flushing,NY, has established a scholarship in the name ofErich Rosenthal, AM'42, PhD'48. Rosenthal, professor emeritus at Queens College, lives in GreatNeck, NY.Charles C. Schultz, AB'42, is retired and liveswith his wife, Katherine, in San Francisco, CA.Mary May Weisert, X'42, of San Diego, C A, is awatercolor painter.Arthur M. Wolf, X'42, is retired and lives inOlympia Fields, IL. He writes that he has foundthe only position for the truly educated and involved man— sitting and reclining.y|Q Frank Brooks, SB'43, MD'45, of Peoria, IL,T!\3 has retired after thirty-six years of medicalpractice.In October, Silvia Gaetti Calesini, AM'43,presented a paper at the University of Dallas'ssymposium in celebration of the anniversary ofColumbus's discovery of America. Calesini teaches French at Richland College, Dallas, TX.For seven weeks this summer, Carl F. Christ,SB'43, PhD'50, lectured on western-style macroeconomics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.As one of a group of western economists invited toteach in China, he helped map out a new economics curriculum for Chinese universities. Christ isprofessor of political economy at Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, MD.Ruth Elizabeth Miller Jenks, AB'43, lives inConcord, MA.Allen B. Kellogg, PhD'43, retired, lives inNapa, CA.E. Everett Lef forge, MD'43, retired, lives inSan Jose, CA.Shirley DoBos Patterson, SB'43, has retired aschief of the recreation planning branch of the National Park Service, Washington, DC. She and herhusband, Bradley H. Patterson, AB'42, AM'43,live in Bethesda, MD.Eleanor Bernstien Seegman, AB'43, AM'44,of Encino, CA, is a tutor at the San Fernando Valley(CA) Guidance Center for Children.Lawrence M. Seiver, AB'43, is vice-presidentof the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, PA.A A Mark S. Beaubien, SB'44, MD'46, has re-HtrT. tired from the National Institute of Healthin Bethesda, MD. Harriet Frazier Beaubien,AM'50, is involved in volunteer activities. Theylive in Washington, DC.Laurence Finberg, SB'44, MD'46, is chairmanof the American Board of Pediatricians and president of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research.Finberg is professor at the State University of NewYork, Brooklyn.Richard L. (Dick) Furry, PhB'44, JD'50, isvice-president of the Dayton chapter of the International Association for Financial Planning. Heis a partner in the law firm Dunlevey, Mahan &Furry, Dayton, OH.John B. Shilton, X'44, travels and is active inthe Plato Society of the University of California atLos Angeles, of which a number of Universityalumni are members. He and his wife live in SantaPaula, CA.Gladys Shellene Stanley, SB'44, of Castro Valley, CA, is retired and volunteers for the Oakland(CA) Symphony.AJZ Jeanne B. Grant, PhB'45, of Fort Lee, NJ,jZsJ appeared on the game show, "Wheel of Fortune." She won twenty-one thousand dollars incash and prizes, including a car.Ernst R. Jaffe, SB'45, SM'48, MD'48, ofTenafly, NJ, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Yeshiva University, NewYork City. Jaffe is senior associate dean and professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine, New York City, and is director of the Bel- fer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research.Harry G. Kroll, PhB'45, SB'47, MD'50, of Topeka, KS, has retired from orthopedic surgerypractice. He is on the editorial board of The Journal ofKansas Medicine.Gary Garrison Somers, AM'45, of Twen-tynine Palms, CA, has retired after over thirtyyears of social work. She is involved in communityservice and is on the board of her local hospiceprogram.Betty Jane Stearns, PhB'45, AM'48, received aYWC A of Metropolitan Chicago 1987 OutstandingAchievement Award for her work in communications. She is executive vice-president of Dore-mus Porter Novelli in Chicago, part of Omnicrom,the world's second-largest communicationscompany.In September, Mildred Carlson Terry, PhB'45,of Winter Haven, FL, was ordained to the SacredOrder of Deacons in the Episcopal Church Dioceseof Central Florida . She is the chaplain for the GoodShepherd Hospice of Polk County, FL.A ^ E. Theodore Bachmann, PhD'46, retired,jlO continues research and writing on historical aspects of the ecumenical movement. He livesin Princeton Junction, NJ.Herbert S. Kadish, AB'46, is a career guidanceteacher at Criss Cole Rehabilitation Center, a program for blind and visually impaired people inAustin, TX.Esther Langlois, X'46, is a clinical psychologist. She practices family and marital therapy inLakewood, OH.Sebastian V. Martorana, AM'46, PhD'48, wasselected for the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges Distinguished Leadership Award, which was presented at the Association's annual convention in April. Martorana isprofessor at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.Leon F. Miller, AM'46, PhD'50, is retired andlives in Maryville, MO.Orvin T. Richardson, PhD'46, and his wife,Harriet, travel and keep active in civic and socialaffairs. They are retired and live in Muncie, IN.Oscar F. Schaaf, AM'46, retired, teaches andworks with graduate students part-time at theUniversity of Oregon, Eugene.W. H. Tilley, AM'46, PhD'64, of Union City,NJ, has retired from teaching to complete a writingproject.George P. Werner, AM'46, AM'48, of Green-acres City, FL, is coordinator of the West PalmBeach District for Educational Opportunities, atravel/study program based in Lakeland, FL. Heand his wife, Grace, have traveled to China for thisprogram.ATJ Theresa Christian, SM'47, of Philadelphia,TI/ PA, has retired as associate professor atthe Villanova University College of Nursing,Villanova, PA.Donald R. Gerth, AB'47, AM'51, PhD'63, ofGold River, CA, is involved in the development ofthe Center for California Studies. He is presidentof California State University, Sacramento.Fredricka Doll Gute, AM'47, lives in Shreve-port, LA.Stanley Joel Levine, AB'47, has three granddaughters and lives in Miami Beach, FL.i;i i Min 88A Q Inez Baucum, AM'48, received an honor-jlO ary J.D. degree from Lubbock ChristianUniversity, Lubbock, TX, where she is assistantprofessor.Guy Black, AM'48, PhD'51, has retired aftertwenty years as professor of business economics atGeorge Washington University, Washington, DC.He lives in Fairfax, VA.Wilda J. Dailey, AM'48, of Chicago, received a Distinguished Service Award from Beloit College,Beloit, WI, in recognition of her personal achievement, career growth, and service to society.Robert W. Hattery, PhB'48, AM'54, PhD'61, isadjunct associate professor of political science andassociate professor emeritus of continuing studiesat Indiana University, Bloomington.Carlos S. Kakouris, AM'48, has retired fromteaching and is a vice-president at Smith Barney inCoral Gables, FL.Gordon P. Martin, PhB'48, AM'52, of Sacramento, CA, is retired, but does occasional consulting on library buildings.Alexander H. Pope, AB'48, JD'52, traveled inthe Indian Himalayas. He practices law with Mayer, Brown, and Piatt, Los Angeles, CA.John F. Silver, MBA'48, of Atlanta, GA, isretired.Donald S. Tull, SB'48, MBA'49, PhD'56, professor emeritus of the University of Oregon,Eugene, taught in Cologne, West Germany, lastwinter.Barbara Deacon Van Arsdale, PhB'48, of Sarasota, FL, has taught at the Pine View School for theGifted for twenty years.Dorothy Baker Windhorst, AB'48, SB'54,MD'54, of New York City, is vice-president of themath/science education group of the National Executive Service Corps. Windhorst is an executiveon leave from Pfizer, Inc., in Groton, CT.A Q Elizabeth Petersen Becker, AB'49, ofTl^7 Peekskill, NY, is a systems analyst for Tran-samerica Interway Corp. and a member of severalecological societies.After twenty-five years, George M. Colby,PhB'49, AM'52, of Urbana, IL, has retired as assistant professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.G. Wayne Glick, AM'49, PhD'57, of Lancaster, PA, is president emeritus of Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME.E. Thomas Gumbert, MBA'49, is administrative lieutenant governor of the Toastmasters Clubin Kansas and part of Missouri.Robert T. Handy, PhD'49, is a visiting professor at Drew University, Madison, NJ. He is theHenry Sloane Coffin Professor Emeritus ofChurch History at Union Theological Seminary,New York City.Susan Pearlman Kagan, X'49, received a PSC-CUNY research grant for work on a biography ofArchduke Rudolph of Austria, a pupil ofBeethoven. She is assistant professor at the CityUniversity of New York, Hunter College, NewYork City.Guy J. Kelnhofer, Jr., PhB'49, AM'51, PhD'68,retired, is active in post-traumatic stress-therapygroups at Veterans Administration medical centers. His wife, Maria, also lectures on the effects ofthis problem. They live in St. Paul, MN.William W. Kinkead, MBA'49, retired, lives onChesapeake Bay in Prince Frederick, MD.P. Herbert Leiderman, AM'49, is professor ofpsychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.Kaspar T. Locher, PhD'49, is assistant professor of German and the humanities at Reed College, Portland, OR.James J. Monge, Jr., AB'49, is a surgeon atthe Duluth Clinic, Duluth, MN. He and his wife,Marie, have four children.LinY. Reed, DB'49, has retired as senior minister of the First Congregational Church, Portland,OR. He has since had interim ministries in VeroBeach, FL; and Koloa, Kauai, HI.Joseph P. Roth, JD'49, of Park Forest, IL, ischairman of the board of trustees of the ChicagoSouth Suburban Mass Transit District.Lola G. Selby, AM'49, spent last summer inGreat Britain visiting old friends. She is professoremeritus of the University of Southern California,Los Angeles.Donald F. Stetzer, SB '49, SM'66, PhD'75, hasreturned from sabbatical in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is associate professor of geography at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.42 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988W. Sheridan Warrick, AM'49, has retired asexecutive director of International House and director of foreign student and scholar services forthe University of California, Berkeley.3f\ Harriet Frazier Beaubien, AM'50. SeeU 1944, MarkS. Beaubien.John H. Bloom, AM'50, lives in Lansdowne,PA.Jules J. Corbett, SB'50, is senior vice-commander of the Illinois department of theAmerican Legion. He is also a member of the national American Legion's Americanism Commission and other educational programs. Corbettis professor emeritus of Roosevelt University,Chicago.Harold P. Ford, PhD'50, of Bethesda, MD, hasretired from the Central Intelligence Agency.John B. Goodenough, SM'50, PhD'52, is professor of electrical and mechanical engineering atthe University of Texas, Austin.William F. Hamilton, AM'50, is educationalconsultant for the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and Case Western Reserve University, bothin Cleveland, OH.Patricia Kin Hodges, AB'50, is a mentor in theFielding Program and the Mid-career Development Institute, Santa Barbara, CA.Wolf Kahn, AB'50, of New York City, was theconvocation speaker for the 1987 graduating classof the Portland (ME) Art School.Robert B. Lange, AM'50, teaches at CasperCollege, Casper, WY.Malcolm M. Lawler, MBA'50, of Dallas, TX,has retired as vice-president of investor relationsof Central and South West Corp., a Dallas electric-utility holding company.Jay M. Sawilowsky, AB'50, practices law inAugusta, GA.Ralph E. Schwartz, PhB'50, SM'52, of FallsChurch, VA, has returned from Germany, wherehe ran a field office for the Institute for DefenseAnalyses.Harriet Campbell Stephens, AB'50. See 1920,Kathleen Foster Campbell.ET"i Henry D. Blumberg, AB'51, has retired\J X from law practice and devotes his time tothe Brooklyn Bridge Book Store in New York City.Roland P. Brown, MD'51, is superintendent ofthe Mennonite Christian Hospital in Hwalien,Taiwan.Dwight Cramer, AM'51, and his wife, Carol,of Bethesda, MD, are traveling by cruise ship. Cramer is collecting information for lectures on thecountries that they visit.Abraham J. Falick, MBA'51, is chairman of theCoalition for Rapid Transit, a citizen's group in LosAngeles. He is also president of Navigator Press,Inc., Los Angeles.Sara Innis Fenwick, AM'51, is professor emeritus of library science of the University of Chicago .She is chairman of the Library Committee of Sun-coast Manor Retirement Community, St. Petersburg, FL.Charles E. Kirkpatrick, MAT'51, has retired aspersonnel director of the Dallas IndependentSchool District in Dallas, TX, where he alsoresides.David F. Redman, MBA'51, is managing partner of Redman Enterprises, Oceanside, CA.George S. Rosenberg, AB'51, is director of theoffice of interdisciplinary programs at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where heis professor of sociology.E. Isabel Webb, AM'51, is a retired teacherand lives in Hammond, IN.Eugene S. Wehrli, PhD'51, is president ofEden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, MO,where he has been professor of New Testamentstudies for twenty-seven years.£TO Joan Blair Florence, AB'52, lives in San\J Z~ Francisco, CA.Antoinette (Toni) SoderKutras, AB'52, of Tar-zana, CA, has taught in the Los Angeles UnifiedSchool District, Woodland Hills, CA, for twenty-eight years.Robert March, AB'52, SM'55, PhD'60, is chairman of the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Anna Reicha Petrovich, AM'52, of Lincoln,NE, is retired and involved in many communityorganizations.Peter D. Vryniotis, AB'52, lives in Asnieres-Sur-Siene, France.MiniumC O Samuel C. Adams, Jr., PhD'53, has been insJ\J the U.S. foreign service for thirty years. Hehas served as an ambassador, delegate to a specialsession of the United Nations General Assembly,and administrator for the Africa Agency for International Development. He lives in Houston, TX,and is a consultant on developing countries'relations.(Arthur) Roy Both, MBA'53, of Homewood, IL,has retired as president of Ideal School Supply Co . ,Oak Lawn, IL. He is a school-supply consultant.In collaboration with Franklin S. C. Chen,Pearl H. Chen, PhD'53, has published an articleevaluating the explanations for Japan's economicsuccess in The Norfolk State University Research Bulletin . She is professor of history at Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA.In September, Jo Eleanor Elliott, AM'53, received the University of Michigan Medical CenterAlumni Society Distinguished Service Award. Elliott is director of the nursing division of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services inRockville, MD.JT A Ronald Blum, AB'54, SB'55, SM'56, is di-vJ^fc rector of the Academic Computing Service,Towson State University, Baltimore, MD.In September, Richard Ham, son of HowardM. Ham, PhD'54, was married to Rebecca Ann St.Jean. In the same month, the Hams' son Stephenand his wife, Mariella, had a daughter, LaurenElizabeth.Robert L. Payton, AM'54, is scholar-in-residence in philanthropic studies in the Department of Religious Studies of the University ofVirginia, Charlottesville.C C Theodore M. Norton, AM'55, PhD'60, has\J\J retired from teaching political science atSan Jose State University, San Jose, CA.Walter L. Walker, AB'55, is professor of human values and ethics in the College of Medicine,University of Tennessee, Memphis.PT /^ Ivan A. Backerman, AB'56, of East Point,C/O GA, is president of the Atlanta Obstetricaland Gynecological Society. He practices medicinein the suburban Atlanta area.Wilford F. Weeks, PhD'56, of Enfield, AK, ischief scientist at the NASA/UAF Alaska SyntheticAperture Radar Facility at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His research is focused on pack icein the world's oceans.£Tr^ Daniel E. Johnson, JD'57, is a law partnerU' / with Baker and Daniels, Indianapolis, IN.Corrine Marzano Owens, SM'57, attendsFlorida International University, Miami, FL.PT O Barbara Lisco Lewis, AB'58, after twenty-\J O five years of raising children, is the publisher of her local weekly newspaper. She and herfamily live in Short Hills, NJ.Daren Kaimann Loeb, AB'58, AM'60, is afamily law budget counselor in Milwaukee, WI.Edwin D. Peterman, DB'58, is senior pastor ofChrist the King Lutheran Church, Houston, TX,and coordinator of ecumenical relations for theTexas-Louisiana Synod of the Lutheran Church inAmerica.Theodore Ruhig, AM'58, of Sacramento, CA,is president of the Council of Sacramento SeniorOrganizations.CQ Allan E. Coe, SB'59, and his wife, Rose\Ds Harwell, live in Palm Springs, MO, andhave five sons. Richard L. Grant, MD'59, AM'61, is directorof the sexuality clinic of the University of IllinoisCollege of Medicine at Peoria.Laurie Martin Gunter, PhD'59, of Seattle,WA, is professor emeritus at Pennsylvania StateUniversity, University Park, PA.Diane Intriligator Jacobson, AB'59, is a psychiatric social worker in New York City.Mary Lou Wickersheim Muehleis, BFA'59, ofElmhurst, IL, is corporate administration manager for Kitzing, Inc., a Chicago trade-show-exhibitagency.G. Edward Schuh, AM'59, PhD'61, is dean ofthe Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.Norval B. Stephens, Jr., MBA59, of Bar-rington, IL, is the president and founder of NorvalStephens Co., a Schaumburg, IL, marketing consultant firm.£lf\ David S. Bigelow, MBA 60, teaches inter-\J\J national case studies at American andFrench business schools. He lives on his familyfarm in Londonderry, VT.John T. Bycraft, MBA'60, is owner and president of Jack-Post Corp. , a manufacturer of outdoorproducts in Buchannan, MI.Harry M. Greenwood III, AB'60, is the districteducational specialist of special education forthe island of Kauai (HI). Greenwood lives inKapaa, HI.Douglas C. Hemstreet, X'60, is the founder ofthe Serendipity Association, a service for the research and implementation of holistic health andworld peace in Virginia Beach, FL.Francis D. Keenan, Jr., SB'60, ofLeesburg, FL,is a semi-retired surgeon. He is interested in writing, philosophy, literature, and nature./"•i Phillip D. Kimble, DB'61, teaches childOX psychology at California State University,Fresno, and is director of the Friendship Center forthe Blind, Fresno, CA.John Mills, SB '61, is chief of infectious diseases at San Francisco General Hospital, SanFrancisco, CA, and professor of medicine at theUniversity of San Francisco School of Medicine,where he is involved in AIDS research.£**} Nancy Sherrer Kapstein, AM'62, received\JaL an A.B. degree in art history from the European division of the University of Maryland, Brussels, Belgium. She and her husband live with theirtwo daughters in Brussels.Richard P. Martin, AB'62, is director of theMcCain Auditorium, Kansas State University,Manhattan, KS.Daniel Rosenblum, SB'62, MD'66, enjoyedattending reunion activities in Chicago and Washington, DC. He is a physician in Kensington, MD.David M. Rothman, JD'62, of Los Angeles,CA, is a Los Angeles Superior Court judge and co-chair of the California Judicial Council AdvisoryCommittee on Gender Bias.Minium/lO Peter N. Ireland, son of Susan Roth Ire-KjO land, AB'63, and William E. Ireland,AB'63, is enrolled in the University's joint A.B./A.M. economics program in the class of 1988. Susan is managing attorney of the Massachusetts office of the United Auto Workers-General MotorsLegal Services Plan. The Irelands live in Lexington, MA, and recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary.Martha Heineman Pieper, AM'63, AM'74,PhD'79, practices psychotherapy in Chicago.£1A Mildred B. Ford, X'64, has retired and livesDt: inBlackville, SC.Jack B. Jacobs, AB'64. See 1983, David S.Schaffer, Jr.Edward P. Vargo, AM'64, PhD'68, is openingthe first graduate program in translation and inter-43pretation in Taiwan. He is dean of the College ofForeign Languages and Literatures, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan.Herbert J. Walberg, PhD'64, was chairman ofthe U. S. delegation to an education-reform conference sponsored by the Organization for Economicand Cooperative Development in Paris and received the Medal of Freedom from the Universityof Liege, Belgium. Walberg is research professor ofeducation at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Frank T. Watters, AM'64, is foster care coordinator for Lilliput Homes, Inc., Stockton, CA.Si \Z M. Barbara Akin, AM'65, PhD'70, is chair-Ov^ man of the Department of History at GroveCity College, Grove City, PA, and vicar of the Episcopalian Church of the Epiphany. She is a memberof the general board of chaplains of the EpiscopalChurch and, for the second time, deputy to theChurch's general convention.Vernon M. Edgar, AB'65, is a calibration specialist for Wiltron Co., a manufacturer of electronic test equipment in Mountain View, CA. Edgar isassociated with the National Poetry Week Committee and lives in Morgan Hill, CA.Jerry J. Felmley, MBA 65, attended the 1987Paris Airshow in France. He is the owner/principalof Catalyst Associates & Consultants, Washington, DC.Robert C. Foster, MBA'65, is president andchief executive officer of Bezie National Bank,Frankfort, MI.Michael Feer, X'65, of Boston, MA, is mediator of the special-education appeals bureau of theMassachusetts Department of Education.GlenE. Holt, AM'65, PhD'75, is executive director of the St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO.Marden Paru, AM'65, of Edison, NJ, is the national campaign director of the ORT Federation inNew York City, part of the World ORT Union,which supports schools for rehabilitation andtraining internationally.Vincent J. Pelletiere, AB'65, is chief of theplastic surgery department at Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, IL.James G. Thorne, MBA'65, is on the board oftrustees of Denison University, Granville, OH. Heis vice-president of human resources at FisherControls International, Inc., in St. Louis, MO./^ /^ Andrea J. Borr, AB'66, of Los Gatos, CA, isUU a software designer for Tandem Computers, Inc., in Cupertino, CA.Stephen M. Clauser, AB'66, received a Special Achievement Award in September from thecommissioner of the U.S. Immigration Service forhis work in preparing the implementation of provisions for immigration-reform legislation.Clauser is records manager for the U.S. Department of Justice in Los Angeles.Robert E. Craig, MBA'66, is general managerof the Hess Wine Co., Napa, CA.Gregory Gogo, AB'66, is in the 1987-88 edition of Who's Who in American Law. He practices lawin Trenton, NJ.Naomi R. Goring, AB'66, is married to JerryM. Porter. Goring is a systems analyst with Evaluation Research Corp., Vienna, VA.Karelisa VoelkerHartigan, AM'66, PhD'70, isassociate professor of classics and DistinguishedAlumni Professor 1987-1989 at the University ofFlorida at Gainesville. She was elected Teacher ofthe Year for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1987) of the U. of F.Barbara Jur, AB'66, is assistant professor ofmathematics at the University of Tennessee,Chattanooga.Eugene I. Lowenthal, AB'66, is vice-presidentand director of a research program at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.,Austin, TX.George McDonough, X'66, director of the Seattle Pacific University Library, Seattle, WA, ispresident of the Northwest Association of PrivateColleges and Universities Libraries.Donald L. McGee, JD'66, is general counselfor Grubb & Ellis Co., San Francisco, CA.Hugh E. M. Murphy, MBA'66, is senior vice- president of European, African, and Middle Eastern operations for the Brown-Forman Corp., Louisville, KY.Alfredo F. Vidaurre-Valdes, MBA'66, is chiefexecutive officer of Chilean Refractories, Inc.,Santiago, Chile.fc^J Deanna Dragunas Bennett, AB'67, ofO/ Clearwater, FL, was awarded the Air ForceMeritorious Service Medal for her work in establishing the Joint Warfare Center, a computer simulation center for the Department of Defense. Bennett is a computer specialist at MacDill Air ForceBase in Florida.Richard A. Berg, SB'67, is professor and deputy chairman of the Department of Biochemistry atthe Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Pis-cataway, NJ. He and his wife, Samantha Curran,live in Lambertville, NJ.Michael B. Bourgo, AM'67, is a marketingmanager with the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) in Cedar Rapids, IA.Erroll B. Davis, Jr., MBA'67, is president of theWisconsin Light and Power Co., Madison, WI.Alison H. Edwards, AB'67, is a lawyer withthe Cook County Public Defender's Office. Shehas two daughters and lives in Chicago.Patrick J. Henry, AM'67, is director of urbandevelopment for DKM Properties in Princeton,NJ.Glenn R. Hodges, MD'67, is chief of staff ofthe Veterans Administration Medical Center inKansas City, MO.Christine Luisi-Abbott, AB'67, AM'69, liveswith her husband and children in Zurich,Switzerland.Roxanne Foley Pavageau, MST'67, and Philippe M. Pavageau, MBA68, live with their threechildren in Versaille, France. Roxanne is an elementary teacher at the Lycee Internationale, St.Germain, France.Cheryl Register, AB'67, AM'68, PhD'73, awriter, lives in Minneapolis, MN, with her twodaughters.Frances Glazer Sternberg, AM'67, is directorof the Rockland Center for Holocaust Studies inSpring Valley, NY.REUNION 88/^Q Alan D. B. Bloom, AB'68, and his wife,DO Shelli, have a daughter, Rachel Leah.Bloom is senior vice-president of Maxicare HealthPlans, Inc., Los Angeles.Morrie K. Blumberg, AM'68, is a drug abusecounselor at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM. He is also on the boards of directorsof the Albuquerque UNICEF Advisory Counciland Alternative House, Inc., which helps formerfederal prisoners move back into society.Bruce E. Chaddock, AM'68, is on the adjunctfaculty of the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, and at the Stonier Graduate School ofBanking of the University of Delaware, Newark,DE. Chaddock is vice-president and director oftraining and development for the Citytrust Bancorp, Bridgeport, CT.Peter P. Deboer, PhD'68, is director of adultand continuing education at Calvin College,Grand Rapids, MI, where he is professor ofeducation.Dennis J. Dingemans, AB'68, associate professor in the geography department of the University of California at Davis, is chair of the campusGeneral Education Committee. He and his wife,Robin Datel, have a son, Theodore.Theodore F. Fathauer, AB'68, is meteor-ologist-in-charge of the National Weather ServiceForecast Office in Fairbanks, AK. He is listed inWho's Who of the West.Last July, Daniel Hertzberg, AB'68, received aGerald Loeb Award for deadline reporting for his coverage of the Wall Street insider-trading scandalfor The Wall Street Journal. The Loeb Awards recognize significant contributions to public understanding of business and financial issues. He is theson of Joan Naumburg Hertzberg, AB'37.Sally Leibowitz Kitch, AM'68, is the first recipient of the National Women's Studies Association's Illinois-NWSA Book Award. She was presented with the award for her book, ChasteLiberation: A Symbolic Analysis of Celibacy and FemaleCultural Status, at the Association's 1987 nationalconference. Kitch is professor and acting directorof women's studies as well as director of themaster-of-arts program in liberal studies at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.Phillipe M. Pavageau, MBA'68. See 1967, Roxanne Foley Pavageau.Vicky J. Slavin, AB'68, is married and has adaughter, Jocelyn Slavin Pinkerton. Slavin is manager of the library at Lotus Development Corp.,Cambridge, MA.Frederick R. Schram, PhD'68, is acting director of the San Diego Natural History Museum, SanDiego, CA.Talbert O. Shaw, AM'68, PhD'73, is presidentof Shaw University, Raleigh, NC.Elliot M. Simon, AM'68, sings bass with theNorthern California Chamber Chorale and is on asteering committee of the River Jewish Community, a cultural/educational organization. He lives inGuerneville, CA.Marion S. Sirefman, BFA'68, and her husband, Mark Podolner, live with their two childrenin Oak Park, IL. Sirefman is a medical investigatorfor the Illinois Department of Registration and Education, Chicago./I Q Kathleen Harker Anderson, MBA'69, is an\Jy associate director with County NatWestLimited in London, England.Brian R. Bachman, MBA'69, of Scottsdale, AZ,is president of General Semiconductor Industries,Inc., a Square D company in Tempe, AZ.In September, Edwin C. Bridges, AM'69,PhD'81, chosen by the U.S. -U.S. S.R. Commissionon Archival Cooperation, traveled to the SovietUnion to observe record-keeping proceduresthere. The trip's purpose was to explore ways forAmerican researchers to gain better access to Soviet materials, as well as to develop professional relations between archivists of the two nations.Bridges is director of the Alabama Department ofArchives in Montgomery, AL.Bruce E. Caswell, AB'69, and Carol CohenCaswell, SB'69, have a daughter, Rebecca. Bruceteaches political science at Temple University,Philadelphia, PA . Carol is manager of software development for Sun Refining and Marketing Co.,Philadelphia.Joan M. Connell, AM'69, PhD'69, is the firstwoman academic vice-president of Xavier University, a Jesuit institution in Cincinnati, OH.In November, Charles M. Cutler, AB'69, presented his co-authored paper on hospital management at a Chinese-American conference in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Cutler is seniorvice-president and chief medical director of RhodeIsland Group Health Associates, Providence, RI.Christopher J. Eigel, MBA'69, is executivevice-president of Koenig & Strey, Inc., a realtyfirm in Glenview, IL.rjr\ William H. Coffenberry, MBA'70, has re-/ \J tired as chief of the contract-pricing division of the U.S. Army Armament Munitions &Chemical Command, Rock Island, IL. He lives inBettendorf, IA.Trudy Karlson, AB'70, and David L. Weber,AB'40, of Madison, WI, had a reunion with classmate Louis E. Janus, AB'70, and his wife, SuzanneThorpe, of Minneapolis, MN.rj*\ Felix Ki Chen, AB'71, MD'75. See 1975,/ X Roger L. Taylor.Anne Barrett Clark, AB'71, PhD'75, and herhusband, David S. Wilson, have a second daughter, Tamar Elise Wilson. Clark is assistant adjunctprofessor at the Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI.44 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 198Last summer, Sharon M. Keigher, AM'71,PhD'85, was a Gerontological Society Fellow atthe Chicago Department of Aging & Disability,where she studied the homeless elderly. Keigheris assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.rjry \n August, Randall C. Bailey, AM'72, re-/ Am ceived his Ph.D. in religion from EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA. He is assistant professorof Old Testament and Hebrew at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, GA. Baileyalso represents the Progressive National BaptistConvention on the Commission of Faith and Order of the National Council of Churches,Faye K. Zucker, AB'72, AM'75, is managingeditor of the book division of Raven Press, Ltd., inNew York City.P7Q Charles J. Beirne, PhD'73, is academic/ \D vice-president of the University of SantaClara, Santa Clara, CA.George W. Van Cleve, AB'73, of McLean, VA,served as chief minority counsel for the U. S. selectcommittee to investigate covert arms transactionswith Iran.7/1 (Nonnie) Louanna Furbee, PhD'74, spent/ TT last summer studying a community insouthern Peru. Furbee is professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.In November, Robert R. Goates, AB'74, married Sara (Sally) Jacqueline Fitzhugh. They live inGarland, TX.Robert Heifer, AB'74, AM'82, and (Mary) Lisa deGruyter, PhD'82, had a son, Aren FransdeGruyter-Helfer in November. They live in Austin, TX, where Heifer is working towards his Ph . D.in library and information science at the University of Texas and deGruyter is head of a branch of theAustin Public Library.John R. Laing, PhD'74, and his wife, KathyKing, have a daughter, Genevieve Rebecca KingLaing. They and their son live in Rochester, NY.rj g" JohnG. Carlson, MBA'75, of Andover, MA,/ \~J is chief financial officer of Learning Services Corp., a health services company located inthe Boston, MA, area.Classmates Roger L. Taylor, MD'75; Philip G.Hays, MD'75; and Felix Ki Chen, AB'71, MD'75,are all in medical practice in Kankakee, IL.r7/^ Patrick O. Brown, AB'76, PhD'80, MD'82./ O See 1980, SueKlapholz.Martha McManus Holzer, MFA'76, is consulting for an art project for the city of Aurora, IL. Shehas a daughter, Margaret.77 Ja^ Atkinson, AM'77, is minister at the/ / Unitarian Church of Davis, CA.Stephen A. Gillenwater, AB'77, AM'85. See1980, Nancy L. Alexander.REM 88HTQ In 1986, Marie Hanc Aspell, AB'78,/ O MBA'81, married Richard Aspell in the University's Bond Chapel. Marie is supervisor in themergers and acquisitions department of the Quaker Oats Co., Chicago.In September, David W. Brody, AB'78, and hiswife, Barbara Mendelson, had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann. They live in New York City.Mark W. Busse, AM'78, has completed hisPh.D. in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He is a postdoctoral fellow in theCommittee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.Ellen B. Tabor, AB'78, completed her psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts Mental HealthCenter, Boston, MA, and is on the faculty of theUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School atWorcester. Tabor also works in a state hospital andhas a private practice.7Q In October, Stacie Stutz Aaron, AB'79,/ y MBA'79, and her husband, John, had a (Continued from Page 9)replicated their results," he said. "Thedifference is that we think the appearance of periodicity may be caused by thetest's sensitivity to the geologic timescale and to certain types of measurement error."He said that further searches forperiodicity in mass extinctions shouldattempt to take account of the effect ofthe measurement error, although he acknowledges that may be difficult."The data are good," he said, "butthey contain so much noise that it maynever be possible to conclusivelydemonstrate statistically the existenceof a cycle over that 250-million-yeartime span."Sepkoski points out, "The data constantly change; people's opinions arechanging; new information is comingin from all over the globe. We're also increasing the time resolution on the datacontinually. So any data set on the fossilrecord is a temporary one, it's in a stateof flux, and the hope is that each addition to the data set represents a successive approximation of the truth, whatever it is."We're now facing an awful lot ofcriticism," he said. "About once amonth someone publishes somethingattacking some aspect of the analysis.Like any other study in the natural sciences, there are chinks. There are certain assumptions and there are certainsimplifying things you can do in datamanipulations. Because all of this hasreceived so much publicity, anytimesomeone finds a chink in our hypothesis, they try to make it into a majorcrack. Someone thinks he or she hasmade the big discovery and found theflaw that will bring the whole thingdown. In every case so far, what they'vebrought up we've been aware of, andwe've mentioned the flaw parenthetically, or have already thought itthrough, and have decided that it's notthat big a problem. It's pretty much apain in the neck when these thingscome out, to decide whether or not towrite a response, how to handle it, andat this point we just avoid most of thosecriticisms."He went on to say: "Something interesting has happened in the last fewmonths. Small glassy particles calledmicrotektites have been found in several horizons of sedimentary rocks. Microtektites are small globules of glassyrock that are thought to have been produced by melt-rock. When something hits hard, just the shock energy of impact will melt rock; essentially dropletsof molten rock are spewed out, whichthen cool in the atmosphere. Microtektites have been found in two horizons, at the end of the Cretaceous andthe late Eocene, associated again withextinction events, although the evidence for the former is hotly debated."Also in the last few months iridiumanomalies have been found in the middle Miocene— that's the one that happened eleven to thirteen million yearsago. They have also been found in thelate Eocene [38 million years ago] and inthe Cenomanian [91 million years ago] .So now there is evidence, with iridiumanomalies and other suggestions of impact in sediments from all of the lastfour periodic events shown in our data.Granted, that most of the samples seemto be quite small, but still, they arethere. Now, it's not clear whether thoseanomalies [the samples of iridium andmicrotektites] are due to extraterrestrialimpact or just to terrestrial concentrations. What needs to be examined iswhether these might have been produced by protracted falling of cometarydust. If so, then it may have been thatextraterrestrial processes caused theselow-level anomalies at the extinctionevents."The debate continues. Whethermass extinctions on Earth actually didoccur with a fairly constant periodicityhas yet to be proven— or disproven.Whether the mass extinctions werecaused by an extraterrestrial force hasyet to be proven— or disproven. Meanwhile, astronomers continue to scanthe skies, geophysicists scrutinizerocks, and statisticians test the analyses. And the press, as each new argument is voiced, responds. All of this, asRaup points out, is how science works.Suggested further reading:Books:David M. Raup, The Nemesis Affair:A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs andthe Ways of Science (W. W. Norton &Company, 1986).David M. Raup and David Jablonski, editors, Patterns and Processes in theHistory of Life: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Patterns and Processes in the Historyof Life (Springer- Verlag, 1986).Steven M. Stanley, Extinction (Scientific American Library, 1987).K. Mallory and L. Kaufman, TheLast Extinction (MIT Press, 1986).45daughter, Melissa Ann. They live in Richmond,VA.Caron L. Atlas, AB'79, AM'80, is development director of Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY, anarts and education center in Central Appalachia.She is also on the boards of Appalshop and the Alliance for Cultural Democracy.Joseph Scott Weiner, AB'79, received hisPh.D. and his M.D. from New York University,New York City, and is now a psychiatry resident atthe New York University Medical Center.QC\ In September, Nancy L. Alexander, AB'80,OU and Stephen A. Gillenwater, AB'77,AM'85, were married at the University's BondChapel. Alexander received her A.M. degree inapplied linguistics and education from the Columbia University Teachers College, New York City,and teaches at a junior high school in Brooklyn,NY. Gillenwater is a budget analyst for the city ofNew York at the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Mental Health.Steven S. Block, AB'80, is vice-president ofEmpire National Securities, Inc., an independentaffiliate of Empire of America Federal SavingsBank in Buffalo, NY, and is vice-president of Empire of America Advisory Services, Inc. Block andhis wife, Kristie, live in Snyder, NY.Sue Klapholz, PhD'80, and Patrick O. Brown,AB'76, PhD'80, MD'82, have twin sons, Zacharyand Ariel. Brown is a post-doctoral fellow at theUniversity of California, San Francisco.Kris Organ, AB'80, lives in Richmond, CA.Q^l Elizabeth S. Colodny, AB'81, is manager ofO X staffing for the Consumer Banking Groupof the Chemical Bank in New York City, where shealso resides. Geralyn A. (Geri) Yoza, AB'81, MBA'87, ofSanta Monica, C A, is a senior import planning administrator for Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., in Torrance, CA.Q <") (Mary) Lisa deGruyter, PhD'82. See 1974,OZ. Robert Heifer.Dena Seifer Friedman, MD'82, and Alan L.Friedman, MD'82, are married and live in Monmouth Junction, NJ. Dena is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Robert Wood JohnsonMedical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ. Alan is in private practice in obstetrics and gynecology.miniumOO Jean M. Connolly, MST'83, teaches at St.Ov3 Peter's School in Philadelphia, PA.David S. Schaffer, Jr., AB'83, graduated fromHarvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. He is lawclerk to Jack B. Jacobs, AB'64, vice-chancellor ofthe Court of Chancery, Wilmington, DE.Shinichi Yamashita, MBA 83, is a supervisor atYokagawa Hewlett Packard in Tokyo, Japan.Q A James W. (Bill) Bean, AM'84, and LorillOtC Brown Bean, AM'84, of Glen Ellyn, IL,have a daughter, Robin Taylor. Bill is associate director of research at Information Resources, Inc . , aChicago market research consulting firm. Lorill ison leave of absence from the Quaker Oats Co.,Chicago, where she is senior research analyst. Martin L. Stephens, PhD'84, is director of laboratory welfare for the Humane Society of theUnited States, Washington, DC.Kenneth P. Zuckerman, AB'84, is a student atTulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA.Of" Dwight D. Allman, AM'85, of Berkeley,OCy CA, was married in August. He is preparing his dissertation proposal for the political science department of the University.Margaret A. Graf ft, AM'85, works in the clinical services department of Cook County Hospital,Chicago.Joseph S. Mekonis, AB'85, is working towardhis J. D. degree at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.Marlene A. Munnelly, AB'85, is in her firstyear of studies at the School of Law, Boston University, Boston, MA.Eben C. Werber, AM'85, is working towardhis Ph.D. in sociology at Yale University, NewHaven, CT.Q(L Jane C. Banaszak Holl, AB'86, and MarkOO M. Banaszak Holl, SB'86, are married andare graduate students at Cornell University,Ithaca, NY.Kenneth F. Jones, AB'86, is a distribution analyst for the UNISYS Corp., Addison, IL.Margaret M. Loebl, MBA'86, is senior financial analyst at the treasurer's office of General Motors Corp. in New York City.Sharon L. Martin, AB'86, is an account executive with Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, an advertising firm in New York City.Wendy S. Osanka, AB'86, is a paralegal with aChicago law firm.BOOKS by AlumniElinor Nims Brink, PhD'26, Norman GranvilleNims: Neiv Englander, privately printed. Brink livesin Jacksonville, FL.Martin M. Crow, PhD '34; and Virginia Everett Leland, AM'27, PhD'40, contributors, The Riverside Chaucer (Houghton Mifflin). This book includes the authors' essay, "Chaucer's Life, " whichgrew from their work at the University's ChaucerLaboratory. Leland is professor emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University, BowlingGreen, OH. Crow is professor emeritus of Englishat the University of Texas at Austin.Helen Charley, SM'41, Tecnologia de Alimentos(Editorial Limusa). This is a Spanish translation ofCharley's college textbook, Food Science, publishedby John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Charley lives in Carlisle, IN.Paul Baker Newman, SB'40, AM'54, PhD'58,The G. Washington Poems (Briarpatch Press). Newman is professor of English at Queens College,Charlotte, NC. This is his seventh volume ofpoetry.Norman B. Sigband, AB'40, AM'41, PhD'54,Communicating in Business, third edition (Scott,Foresman). Sigband, professor at the Universityof Southern California, Los Angeles, received anhonorary doctorate from DePaul University, Chicago, in June 1986.Howard L. Parsons, AB'42, PhD'46, Christianity Today in the USSR (International Publishers) . Thisstudy examines the impact of Christianity on anadvanced socialist society. Based on a recent visitto the USSR, this book includes a history of Christianity in Russia and the Soviet Union and theviews of Soviet scholars on the meaning of religionin Soviet life. Parsons is professor and chairman ofthe Department of Philosophy at the University ofBridgeport, Bridgeport, CT.(Mary) Louise Carus Mahdi, AB'44, AM'54;Steven Foster; and Meredith Little, editors, Betwixt& Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation (Open Court Publishing Company). This is a collection of essays from authorities on initiation andrites of passage in modern societies. The essaysconsider the damaging effects of a society whichneglects ritual initiation of its youths. Mahdi is editor of Open Court's Reality of the Psyche Seriesand is in private practice.Ennis Skillen (pseudonym for John P. Skil-lern, X'46), Navajo Neverland (Exposition Press ofFlorida). A novel. Skillern, retired as associatecommissioner of the U.S. Department of Health,Education, and Welfare, lives in Lakewood, CO.Thomas E. Connolly, AM'47, PhD'51,Faulkner's World: A Directory of His People and Synopsesof Actions in His Published Works (University Press ofAmerica). In July Connolly retired as professoremeritus of English at the State University of NewYork at Buffalo after teaching there since 1953.Edwin Diamond, PhB'47, AM'49, The Spot: TheRise of Political Advertising on Television, second edition (MIT Press). Diamond is professor of journalism at New York University, where he recently relocated his news study group.Ralph Lerner, AB'47, AM'49, PhD'53, TheThinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the NewRepublic (Cornell University Press). Focusing onthe efforts of prominent founders such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, this book weighs their claim to having established a new model of liberty and self-governanceand shows how their thought helped to shapepublic discourse, perceptions, and institutions.Lerner is professor in the Committee on SocialThought and in the College at the University ofChicago.Martin Picker, PhB'47, AM'51, The Motet Booksof Andrea Antico (University of Chicago Press). Picker is professor and chairman of the music department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.Ronald Goldman, AM'48, and Juliette Goldman, Show Me Yours: Understanding Children's Sexuali ty (Penguin). Goldman is Foundation Professorof Education at La Trobe University Melbourne,Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.Murray Krieger, AM'48, editor, The Aims of Representation: Subject/Text/History (Columbia University Press). During the last several decades theoriesof the text and textuality have seen a shift in focusfrom the author as a controlling agent to the sceneof writing itself to, most recently, the historicalforces that produce the scene. This book offers essays that confront these changes in the direction ofcritical theory as it moves toward social theory.Krieger is University Professor of English at theUniversity of California, Irvine.Donald E. Osterbrook, PhB'48, SB'48, SM'49,PhD'52; John R. Gustafson; and W. J. Shiloh Un-ruh, Eye on the Sky: Lick Observatory's First Century(University of California Press). This is a popularhistory of America's first "big-science" researchinstitution. Osterbrook, former director of LickObservatory, is professor of astronomy and astrophysics on its faculty.Harry Prosch, AB'48, AM'50, PhD'55, MichaelPolanyi: A Critical Exposition (State University ofNew York Press). This book brings all of MichaelPolanyi's diverse inquiries into focus around hisattempts to uncover the philosophic roots of ourmodern mind's distrust of itself. Prosch is professor emeritus of philosophy at Skidmore College,Saratoga Springs, NY.Robert T. Handy, PhD'49, A History of UnionTheological Seminary in New York (Columbia University Press). Handy is professor emeritus of churchhistory at the Union Theological Seminary, NewYork City, and visiting professor at Drew University, Madison, NJ.Sam Meyer, AM'49, Teacher Talk on College English (Morton College). In five essays, the authorshares the results of his research and experience inteaching English composition and literature formore than three decades. Meyer, professor emeri-46 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988tus at Morton College, Cicero, IL, lives in Chicago.Robert N. Rapoport, AM'49, New Interventionsfor Children and Youth: Action Research Approaches(Cambridge University Press). This book is ananalysis of ten innovative research cum actionprojects in the children's mental health field.Rapoport is co-director of the Institute of Familyand Environmental Research, London, England.CesareEmiliani, PhD'50, The Scientific Companion (Wiley). This is an overview of modern sciencewith formulas and data, ranging from the Big Bangto the evolution of Homo sapiens and beyond. Also,Dictionary of the Physical Sciences (Oxford UniversityPress). This dictionary and reference book includes seventy tables. As co-author, General Science(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). A general sciencetextbook for high schools. Emiliani is professor ofgeological sciences at the University of Miami,Coral Gables, FL.Lydia Burton, AB'52, AM'67; CatherineCragg; Barbara Czarnecki; Sonia Paine; SusanPedwell; Iris Phillips; and Katharine Vanderlin-den, Editing Canadian English (Douglas & MclntyreLtd . ) . Written in response to the need of Canadianeditors and writers to identify features of Canadian language usages, the book deals with overlapping conventions of style, as well as with distinctive Canadian preferences. Burton heads her ownfirm, Lydia Burton Editorial Services, Toronto,Ontario, Canada.D. C. Donderi, AB'55, SB'58; and D. O. Hebb,Textbook of Psychology, fourth edition (LawrenceErlbaum Associates). The fourth edition of thistext, whose earlier editions have been translatedinto twelve languages, emphasizes the evolutionary continuity of behavior between humans andother primates, including sophisticated forms ofmental activity like communication and self-consciousness. Donderi, associate professor inthe psychology department at McGill University,Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is also vice-presidentof Human Factors North, Inc., a consulting firm.Laurel Richardson, AB'55, AB'56, Der NeueAndere (Knaer). This is a German language translation of Richardson's book The New Other Woman.Richardson is professor of sociology at Ohio StateUniversity at Columbus, OH.Stephen Philip Cohen, AB'57, AB'58, AM'59,editor, The Security of South Asia: American and AsianPerspectives (University of Illinois Press) . This bookexplores the diversity of policy perspectivesamong Indians, Pakistanis, and Americans, offering expert viewpoints by residents of each state.Cohen is professor of political science and co-founder of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Robert L. Beisner, AM'60, PhD'65; and JoanR. Challinor, editors, Arms at Rest: Peacemaking andPeacekeeping in American History (Greenwood Press) .Beisner is chairman of the history department atthe American University, Washington, DC.J. Rogers Hollingsworth, PhD'60; and EllenJane Hollingsworth, Controversy about American Hospitals: Funding, Ownership, and Performance (American Enterprise Institute for Public PolicyResearch/University Press of America). This volume brings together the sociological, political science, and historical literature to provide us with acritical overview of the development of public, private, and not-for-profit hospitals. Hollingsworthis professor of history and sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.Christine Farnham, AM'62, PhD'77, editor,The Impact of Feminist Research in the Academy (IndianaUniversity Press). This collection of essays evaluates the impact of feminist scholarship on a widerange of disciplines in the humanities and socialand natural sciences. Farnham is assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.Marlin L. Heckman, AM'63, PhD'70, The Gemof Lordsburg: The Lordsburg Hotel/College Building,1887-1927 (University of La Verne Press). This isthe story of the land-boom hotel that never had apaying guest. Heckman is librarian and professor at the University of La Verne, La Verne, CA.John Tropman, AM'63, Public Policy Opinion andthe Elderly (Greenwood Press). Tropman is a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.Harvey Wolinsky, MD'63, SM'63, PhD'67,Heart Attack Recovery Handbook (Warner Books).Wolinsky is clinical professor of medicine atMount Sinai Hospital, New York City.(Virginia) Valiska Gregory, AM' 66, The Wordslike Angels Come (Juniper Press). This is Gregory'sfirst book of poems. Also Riddle Soup and The Oatmeal Cookie Giant (Macmillan/Four Winds). TheChicago Sun-Times chose these two books, part ofGregory's Mr. Poggle and Scamp series, as two ofthe "best-of-the-best" children's books publishedin 1987. Gregory lives in Indianapolis, IN.George A. Beck, AB'67; Larry A. Bakken; andThomas R. Muck, editors, Minnesota AdministrativeProcedure (Butterworth Legal Publishers). This legal treatise provides a detailed explanation of administrative contested case and rulemaking procedure. Beck is an administrative law judge withthe Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings,Minneapolis, MN.Philip C. Kolin, AM'67, David Rabe: A TheaterHistory and Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Garland Publishing). This bibliography is the firststudy of Tony Award-winning playwright DavidRabe, who is best known as the most importantplaywright of the Vietnam War. Kolin is professorof English at the University of Southern Mississippi and the founding co-editor of Studies in AmericanDrama, 1945-Present.John Lekner, PhD'67, Theory of Reflection (Mar-tinus Nijhoff). This monograph on reflection ofelectromagnetic and particle waves is intended forresearchers in optics, microwaves, or radio propagation, and also for those studying transmissionand tunneling of electrons through barriers.Lekner is reader in physics at the Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.Kathleen McCourt, AM'67, PhD'75; GregoryD. Squires; Larry Bennett; and Philip W. Nyden,Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline(Temple University Press). This book is first in theTemple University (Philadelphia, PA) series Comparative American Cities. It is a critical analysis ofChicago's development in recent decades, demonstrating how the favoring of private enterprise has resulted in severe poverty, unemployment, and racial and class tension. McCourt isassociate professor and chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at LoyolaUniversity of Chicago.Stanford Shulman, MD'67, Kawasaki Disease(Alan R. Liss, Inc.). Shulman is professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School,Chicago, and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago.Grant Venerable, SM'67, PhD'70, The Paradoxof the Silicon Savior: Charting the Reformation of theHigh-Tech Super-State (MVM Productions). Thisbook appraises America's high-tech super-culture. Venerable is principal technical consultant for Omnitron Associates, San Rafael, CA.Nancy Foner, AM'68, PhD'71, editor, New Immigrants in New York (Columbia University Press).In case studies based on in-depth research, thecontributors to this book examine the move to NewYork City from the immigrants' perspective, analyzing the effects that the city has had on theirsocial and cultural worlds. Foner is professorof anthropology at the State University of NewYork, Purchase.David Carrasco, ThM'70, AM'72, PhD'77;Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; and Johanna Broda,The Great Temple ofTenochtitlan: Center and Periphery inthe Aztec World (University of California Press).This book is an interdisciplinary interpretation ofthe discoveries made in the excavation of the GreatAztec Temple between 1978 and 1983. Carrasco isassociate professor of religious studies and director of the Mesoamerican Archive and ResearchProject at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.David C. Jacobson, AB'70, Modern Midrash: TheRetelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth- Century Hebrew Writers (State University of NewYork Press). This book shows how and towardwhat ends biblical stories, legends, and Hasidictales have been used in shaping modern Hebrewliterature. Jacobson is assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.Daniel H. Kaiser, AM'70, PhD'77, editor, TheWorkers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below(Cambridge University Press). The essays in thisbook address the process of worker alienation andthe way that the Bolsheviks appealed to, ratherthan exploited, the working population. Kaiser isRosenfield Professor of Social Studies at GrinnellCollege, Grinnell, IA.Leith Mullings, AM'70, PhD'75, editor, Citiesof the United States: Studies in Urban Anthropology (Columbia University Press). The authors analyzecontemporary urban problems in the UnitedStates. Mullings is professor of anthropology atthe City University of New York (CUNY) MedicalSchool and at the CUNY Graduate School andUniversity Center.J. T. Dillon, AM'71, PhD'78, Questioning andTeaching (Croom Helm). This manual of practicedetails the right use of student and teacherquestions during recitation and discussion. AlsoQuestioning and Discussion (Ablex). This multi-disciplinary study reports twelve divergent analyses of the same set of classroom transcripts. AlsoQuestioning Exchange (Taylor & Francis). This multi-disciplinary journal treats all aspects of questioning in all fields of behavior. Dillon is associate professor of education at the University of California,Riverside.Susan Seliger, AB'71, AM'72, Stop Killing Yourself: Make Stress Work for You (G. P. Putnam's Sons).This book has also been published in England andFinland. Seliger is articles editor for Working MotherMagazine in New York City.Jonathan Butler, AM'72, PhD'75, and RonaldNumbers, editors, The Disappointed: Millerism andMillenarianism in the Nineteenth Century (IndianaUniversity Press) . This book chronicles the resultsof William Miller's prediction of the second coming of Christ and the end of the world "about theyear 1843." The contributions in the volume focuson the leaders of the millenarian movement,Seventh-Day Adventism, and Millerite philosophies. Butler is visiting scholar in the Department of History, the University of California,Riverside, CA.Joe T. Darden, X'72; Richard Child Hill; JuneThomas; and Richard Thomas, Detroit: Race andUneven Development (Temple University Press).Through their historical, sociological, political,and demographic examination of Detroit, the authors argue that the current decay of much of metropolitan Detroit is the result of economic decentralization, chronic racial and class segregation,and regional political fragmentation— trendswhich have escalated since World War II . Darden isdean of urban affairs and professor of geographyand urban affairs at Michigan State University,East Lansing, MI.Yue-man Yeung, PhD'72, Community Participation in Delivering Urban Services in Asia (InternationalDevelopment Research Centre). Yeung is registrarand professor of geography at Chinese University,Hong Kong.Francis B. Harrold, AM'74, PhD'78, and Raymond A. Eve, editors, Cult Archaeology and Crea-tionism: Understanding Pseudoscientific Beliefs about thePast (University of Iowa Press). This book includescontributions from specialists in anthropology,sociology, history, and psychology. It is concernedwith how and why beliefs, such as those of Noah'sArk and ancient astronauts, become popular. Harrold is assistant professor of anthropology at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington.Ann Grodzins Gold, AB'75, AM'78, PhD'84,Fruitful Journeys: The Ways ofRajasthani Pilgrims (University of California Press). This book, based onGold's two years of research in a small Indian village, won the first Hans Rosenhaupt Book Awardfrom the Woodrow Wilson National FellowshipFoundation, Princeton, NJ. Gold is a post-doctoral47fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.Richard J. Parmentier, AM'76, PhD'81, TheSacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau(University of Chicago Press).Robert J. Richards, PhD'78, Darwin and theEmergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior(University of Chicago Press). Richards is associate professor of history, philosophy, and behavioral science at the University of Chicago.Terence C. Halliday, PhD'79, Beyond Monopoly:Lawyers, State Crises, and Professional Empowerment(University of Chicago Press). Halliday maintainsthat the primary commitment of lawyers to economic monopoly has long been complimented by"civic professionalism" as the legal professiontakes on more responsibility in the American democratic system when state capabilities diminish.Halliday is a research fellow and chair, executivecommittee on academic affairs, at the AmericanBar Foundation. He also lectures on sociology andpolitics in the College at the University of Chicago .Leo Katz, AB'79, JD'82, AM'82, Bad Acts andGuilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (University of Chicago Press) . Katz is a lawyer with theChicago firm of Mayer, Brown & Piatt.Richard Evanoff, AM '80, American Thinking(Seibido Press). This is a collection of essays on American thought and culture for students of English as a foreign language in Japan. Evanoff is lecturer at Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.Sherry Tucker, PhD'80, and Walter R. Nord,Implementing Routine and Radical Innovation (Lexington Books). Tucker is director of compensationand organization consulting at the C & B Consulting Group, St. Louis, MO.Gabrielle Brochsztejn Brenner, PhD'81, andReuven Brenner, Rivalry: In Business, Science, amongNations (Cambridge University Press). GabrielleBrenner co-authors two chapters, one on entre-preneurship, the second on advertising, memoryand custom. She has also co-authored parts ofBrenner's previous books and is assistant professor at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales,Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Martin Starr, AB'81, editor, The Scrutinies of Simon Iff, by Aleister Crowley (Teitan Press, Inc.).Starr has collected six of Crowley's detective shortstories, which were published serially in Americaduring World War I under the pseudonym of"Edward Kelly." Starr is computer systems manager for the University's Office of ResearchAdministration.Sherry Kent and Mary Szpur, with TernHorwitz, Sweet Home Chicago: The Real City Guide,third edition (Chicago Review Press). This "insid ers'" guide to Chicago includes chapters by Christopher D. Carr, AB'82; Christine E. Heim, AB'74;Edward J. (Jack) Helbig III, AB'80; Molly E.McQuade, AB'81; BobbyeMiddendorf, AB'79; L.Dale Richesin, AM'78, DMN'80; Robert Skeist,X'68; and Andrew P. Szpur, AB'86.James M. Borders, PhD'83, European and American Wind and Percussion Instruments: Catalogue of theStearns Collection (University of Michigan Press).Borders teaches in the School of Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Eileen Mary Brewer, PhD'84, Nuns and the Education of American Catholic Women (Loyola UniversityPress). This book studies the Midwestern conventacademies conducted by nuns, which providedsecondary education for Catholic girls up until theearly twentieth century. Brewer analyzes the roleof the nun in the intellectual, religious, and emotional growth in American Catholic women ofthe time.John Stackhouse, PhD'87, contributor, TheDictionary of Christianity in America (InterVarsityPress), and Twentieth-Century Shapers of AmericanPopular Religion (Greenwood Press), a referencebook. For the dictionary, Stackhouse wrote articles on Christian organizations and biographies ofreligious leaders. Stackhouse is assistant professor at Northwestern College, Orange City, IA.DEATHSFACULTYR. Pierce Beaver, professor emeritus in the Divinity School, died in November at the age ofeighty-one. He joined the University faculty in1955, becoming emeritus in 1971. He contributedhundreds of articles on missions to dictionaries,encyclopedias, and journals, and edited theChristian World Mission Books. He also authoredseveral books on the historical impact and purpose of Christian missionary work.Lowell T. Coggeshall, life trustee and vice-president emeritus of the University, and Frederick H. Rawson Professor Emeritus of the Department of Medicine, died in November at theage of eighty-six. During his tenure, he was alsodean of the Division of Biological Sciences, overseeing the expansion of the University Hospitals.An authority on tropical diseases, he held variouspublic-health advisory positions and served theU.S. government as a scientific investigator. In1975, the University established a professorship inmedical science in his name.David G. Williams, professor emeritus in theDepartment of English Language and Literature,died in November at the age of eighty. He servedon the University faculty from 1945 until he retiredfrom teaching in 1973. He also served as an assistant dean of students in the College from 1977 until1981. He was chairman of the Division of the Humanities from 1957 to 1960, the year that he wonthe Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quan-trell Award for Excellence in UndergraduateTeaching.TRUSTEESWilliam V. Kahler, life trustee of the University, died in December at the age of eighty-nine. Before his retirement in 1963 from the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, he had served as its presidentand chairman of its board of directors. He was alsoa director of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank andof Marshall Field and Company. He was elected tothe Board of Trustees in 1955, becoming an honorary trustee (later life trustee) in 1962. THE CLASSES1910-1919Stuart A. Queen, AM'13, PhD'19, September.Leo J. Carlin, PhB'17, JD'19, November.1920-1929Joseph Arnsdorff, PhB'21, September.Margery Ellis, PhB'21, AM'27, December.Eleanor C. Block Greenebaum, PhB'22, October.Masuo Kato, PhB'22, AM'23, January 1986.Kenneth Lawton, PhB'22, November.Vera E. Friedlander Morris, PhD'22, June.Carl H. Vetter, PhB'22, August.Miriam Huffman Hay den, AM'23, August.Stella K. Davis, SB'24, MD'27, July.Frank L. Mechem, LLB'24, PhB'27, August.John S. Millis, SB'24, SM'27, PhD'31, January.Edith P. Crawshaw Shaw, PhB'24, December1986.Dorothy R. Willis Caruso, PhB'25, October.Eleanor M. Johnson, PhB'25, October.Harold R. Nissley, PhB'25, MBA'35, September.Mary E. Davis Sander, PhB'25, November.Evelyn F. Slater, PhB'25, April 1987.Irving H. Goldberg, PhB'26, JD'27, December.Oliver C. Sollenberger, X'26, November.James H. Crowder, Jr., SB'27, MD'29, May.lone Olga Jarosh Kakaris, PhB'27, October.H. Leigh Baker, MAT'28, March 1987.Joseph M. Cody, PhB'28, JD'31, January.Helen L. Moffitt Curry, PhB'28, June.John L. Lawson, SB '28, December.Ida Adelman Rosenbaum, PhB'28, June.Evelyn Heacox MacRae, AM'29, April 1987.Thomas Marshall, X'29, April 1987.1930-1939Constance Gavares Acton, AB'30, July.Frank E. Rubovits, SB'30, MD'36, November.James D. Rutter, PhB'30, December.Lillian L. Burwell Lewis, SM'31, PhD'46,January 1987.Walter Mallmann, PhD'31, February 1987.Elizabeth H. Grader Schreiber, PhB'31,January 1987.Alfred D. Sterges, X'31, December.Josephine Richard Emery, PhB'32, August.John K. McCalmont, MAT'32, December.Dorothy R. Mohr, SB'32, AM'33, November. Caroline Apeland Pellett, PhB'32, November.John G. Neukom, PhB'34, November.Elizabeth A. Flanagan, PhB'35.Elton K. Morris, SB'35, December.Henry W. Cutter, AB'37, JD'40, October.Amos Dorinson, SB'37, PhD'46, October.William S. Klein, MD'37, March 1987.James J. Callahan, Jr., X'38, February 1987.JohnH.Geagan, SB'38.Arnold T. Phillips, X'38, August.1940-1949Bernard E. Epton, X'40, December.Albert Linch, AB'40, June.Helen Ong Siu, AM'40, March 1987.Mary E. Hvid Lundahl, SB'41, October 1986.Frank A. Reker, AB'41, June.Felix Reichmann, AM'42, July.Patricia Lewis Mone, AB'43, July.Francis Joseph Von Albade, AB'43, September.Dorothy M. HeinkeMalm, X'44, September.Frank W. Beare, PhD'45, May 1986.June Newton Rankin, AM'45, November.Aileen Paradise Moore, AM'46, November.Edward B. Schlant, AB'47, April.Mildred L. Jackson Smith, AM'47, March 1987.Richard H. Orr, SB '48, January 1986.Shirley Manheim Hennes, X'49, May.Robert A. Park, AM'49, JD'55.1950-1959Louise Chamberlin Kerr, AM'50, July.Robert G. Armstrong, PhD'52.Stanley Baron, AM'52, August.Bernard Krauss, AM'52, January.Joseph G. Ellis, X'53, August.Peter G. Trutza, PhD '56, March 1987.Henrietta D. Maas Molnar, AM'58, September.Clifford D. Seidler, MBA'58, August.1960-1969James C. Higgins, PhD'61, April 1987.John J. McNally, PhD'61, December.Charles P. Warren, AM'61, December.Walter C. Kipper, MBA 63, September.Richard A. Pollack, AB'66, AM'69, August.Grace D. Wolf, AM'66, June.1970-1979D. Laurence Duvall, MBA 73, March 1987.48 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAGAZINE/SPRING 1988A Season UMMERWITHTHE UNIVERSITYOF CHICAGOCome and sample the possibilitiesthat the University s remarkablearray ofsummer cultural andintellectual delights offer.HE CREDIT SUMMER SESSIONCourses and Programs for Credit • Summer Quarter 1988 • June 20- August 27The University of Chicago Summer Quarter Office offers an exciting array of courses and programs for collegeor graduate credit. 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