Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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JUNE ZO, 9 BRIEF NEWS OF CAMPUS A D TOW THE EAGLES were in town Senior Week-hundreds of them-to attend their annual State convention. Ithaca decorated itself with red-white-and-blue bunting, cleared State Street for the Grand Parade, and the Class of '10 and the Class of '15 loved it. THE BUNTING-or its equivalent- goes up again June 30, when 700 farm boys and girls from all parts of the State arrive in Ithaca to take part in the fourteenth annual 4-H conference spon- sored by the College of Agriculture. The Christiance-Dudley Pharmacy, purveyor of ice cream, will then have its innings after this four days of gazing wistfully across the street at the Ithaca Hotel. TOWN TRUCKS are to be bedecked and bedizened to bring school children to Stewart Park, July 4th, Speeches, fireworks, ball games, parades, dedica- tions, and more speeches, are to follow- all piously planned to remind farmers hereabouts of the advantages of trading inglthaca. OTHER THINGS are happening in the County: it has just finished the first audiometer test ever given all of a county's children. Twenty of them, the test disclosed, need the wax to be dug from their ears, 64 have tonsils or ade- noids, 117 should be taught lip-reading. MAYOR LOUIS P. SMITH has de- cided that he Chooses Not to Run for reelection, joseph B. Myers, present chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and staunch Republican, has thrown his hat into the ring. WE, WHO have been taking great in- terest in Stewart Park's menagerie, CIVIL ENGINEER PASSES The Cornell Civil Engineer for May- ,Iune contains a discussion of Model Studies on Ohio River Bear Traps by David H. Tully '18, First Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, USA, and the names and addresses of all members of the Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University. This is the last issue of the Civil Engineer before its merger with the Sibleyjournal into The Cornell Engineer. The editor, Williamj. Weakland, Jr. '36, who will also head the board of the new Cornell Engineer, modestly details the paper's four accomplishments of the year: C15 the acquisition of a director for the School of Civil Engineering, CLD drastic revision of the School's honor system, CQ an administrative course in Civil Engineering, and QQ merger with the Sibley Journal. He did not claim credit for the McMullen regional scholarships! were pleased as Punch, June 10, to hear of the birth of three cygnets, heirs to some two of the Park's five swans. THE TOWN BOARD of Ithaca has given Forest Home permission to spend S35,o00 on a new water district there, with service mains and things. PROFESSOR EDWARD A. WHITE and the Ornamental Horticulture Depart- ment were hosts, June 6, to one hun- dred Home Bureau women and their guests who made a tour of University flower gardens. MORTON W. BRIGGS '37 of Mill- brook has been awarded S300 by the Institute of International Education for study during his Junior year at the Sorbonne, Paris. GRADUATES of Cascadilla School were entertained at a dinner held at the Cortland Country Club, June 13. Head- master Clarence M. Doyle 'oz and faculty member Edward K. Campbell ,13 were two of the speakers. NO MORE will the undergraduate hailing from Spencer, N. Y., go home vacations via East Ithaca and the E. C. 8a N. The Lehigh, operator of the branch, has received permission from the Inter- state Commerce Commission to abandon some twenty-rwo miles of the road be- tween Spencer and Ithaca. SUNDAY AFTERNOON drivers up Ellis Hollow way are pausing these days to see the CCC's new camp, being built to house that particular branch of President Roosevelt's Work Army de- tailed to the University's arboretum pro- ject. The buildings haven't been' painted yet, but look substantial and pleasant. HOTEL COURSES FILLING Of the nine summer courses in Hotel Administration which open june 1.4 for hotel employees, one is already filled and others are rapidly approaching capac- ity enrollment, according to Professor Howard B. Meek, head of the Depart- ment. The courses vary in length from one to three weeks. That now booked full is in quantity food preparation. Others include elementary accounting, hotel accounting, food and beverage control, interpretation of hotel financial statements, hotel housekeeping, hotel promotion Cto be given by W. Reuel Needham '1.5D, personnel methods, and hotel stewarding. Numbers are limited to those which can be given personal in- struction. Many hotels send selected members of their staffs to take one or more unit courses each summer. SENIOR WOMEN met at their class banquet,June II, honoring Miss Edith W. Ouzts, AM '30, retiring hostess of Willard Straight Hall, and meeting together as undergraduates for almost the last time. Speakers included Dean Floyd K. Richt- myer '04 of the Graduate School, Mary Donlon '10, president of the Federation of Cornell Women's Clubs, Miss R. Louise Fitch, dean of women, and Violet J. Brown '35 of Brooklyn, vice-president of the Dramatic Club and Class historian. Virginia M. Lauder '35 of Binghamton was toastmistress. ALPHA DELTA PHI is again the possessor of a pin it gave many years ago to Mrs. Ezra Cornell, wife of the Founder. Mrs. Franklin Cornell returned it to the Chapter recently as an item for its archives. THE CORNELL LIBRARY Cdowntownl marked the 150th anniversary of John James Audubon's birth by exhibiting the 310,000.1 elephant folios of the American painter-naturalist which formed a part of the original gift to the Library by Ezra Cornell. LEONARD LEIBLING, editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier, was in town the week-end of June 6, to attend the W. Grant Egbert memorial services at Ithaca College. Mr. Leibling is all for the American composers, he told the Journal they were fully the equal of their foreign colleagues. UNIVERSITY STATION WESG is Go- ing Places, it joins the Columbia net- work about July 1. Customary local programs will be continued, there is to be no extension of broadcasting time. The CBS will be tapped only during Lulls. BEQUEST OF EIDLITZ '85 The University and four alumni are beneficiaries under the will of Robert J. Eidlitz '85, who died May 17, 1935. One- half of Mr. Eidlitz's interest in the Marc Eidlitz Construction Company of which he was president goes to its employees, Mrs. Eidlitz CSadie Boult0nD '85 receives household and personal effects, a life interest in the residuary estate with the right to use 315,000 of the principal annually, and the use of the Eidlitz home at Dobbs Ferry. The University shares with six other organizations and societies the balance of the estate after Mrs. Eidlitz's death and after deductions of twenty percent each to the New York Hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital. Specihc bequests, which totalled S151,000, go, among others, to Charles L. Eidlitz, and Ernest F. Eidlitz '90, his brothers, and to Robert M. Falkenau '05, rt nephew.

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8 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS POUNDBD 1899 Published for the Cornell Alumni Corpora- tion by the Cornell Alumni News Publishing Corporation. Weekly during the college year and monthly in July, August and September: thirty-five issues annually. .S'uhrrription.r.' 54.00 a year in U. .S'. and porter- xionfg Canada, J'4.55,' Foreign, ,,4.j0. Single copier fifteen centr. Suhruiptionr are pa-yahle in advance and are renewed annually until cancelled. Editor and Publisher R. W. SAILOR '07 Managing Editor H. A. STEVENSON '19 Associates: L. C. Boocrnzvnn '11 F. M. COFFIN '11 Printed by The Cayuga Press ITHACA, NEW YORK REUNION TRENDS Much thought is being given to re- union trends by class dividuals and in their tion. It is apparent aspects of the events gradual change. Today the reunion tendency to see more and the surrounding secretaries, as in- organized associa- that the general are undergoing a parties exhibit a of the University country, to grow occasionally thoughtful and sentimental, to make more noise at the rally and less at the dormitory, and to attend practi- cally in a body the official events of the schedule. Some of this change is a reflection of the happy addition to the alumnal schedule of Cornell Day in May, and of the Alumni Institute the week following reunions. The credits and debits of the Dix plan are in for a lively discussion. The problem of four small classes is different from that of four large classes in a Dix group. Some day four classes will be in conjunction where the crowd will be so large that practical consideration of food, lodging, and entertainment will establish some sort of limit to expansion of the idea. A reunion for such a pitifully short time docs not give a real opportunity for contacts numbering hundreds, and a thousand contemporaries assembling for two days would be nothing short of tantalizing. Beyond the obvious purpose of bring- ing together old friends, the object of a reunion is to bring back to their univer- sity as many alumni as possible so that they may renew by contact their affection and appreciation for the place and the persons that compose it. The solution probably lies in the lengthening of the period to utilize Thursday and Sunday, and the encourag- ing ol the perpetual reuner by allording him equal opportunity along with the Dix and the quinquennial groups. Per- manent but simplified costumes, a separ- ate schedule of events to augiiient the class ailairs. and the annual assurance of :i welcome may build out of the oil Classes a new and attractive addition to tlie reunion period. The mtirq alumni that enjoy frequent contacts with Cor- nell, the more Cornell can rely on her alumni when she needs them. PROFESSOR HERRICK RETIRES GLENN W. Hniuucre '96 Approximately seventy friends and associates of the Entomology Department crowded Willard Straight's largest priv- ate dining room May 13 to honor Pro- fessor Glenn W. Herrick '96, who retires from active teaching this June after more than twenty-five years of service. Speakers at the dinner included Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, emeritus, former dean of the College of Agriculture, Pro- fessor Simon H. Gage '77, Histology and Embryology, emeritus, Dean Cornelius Betten of the University Faculty, and Professor Percival J. Parrott, Grad. 'o6, vice-director of the State Experiment Station at Geneva. Professor James G. Needham, PhD '98, Was toastmaster, and read many letters and telegrams from friends unable to be present. Professor Herrick is retiring from teaching this year to devote more time to research and writing. He spoke briefly of the mixed emotions of the occasion. Since I909 he has taught the courses in Economic Entomology in the College of Agriculture. He returned to Ithaca then as assistant professor, from having been professor of biology and director of the State Experiment Station of Mississippi and later of Texas. In 1911 he was ap- pointed professor of economic entom- ology and entomologist tothe Experi- ment Station here. Recently he has de- voted himself especially to the study of insect pests of shade trees, and the Uni- versity Press is to publish in August his book, Shade Trees and Their Insect Enemies. He has written many bulletins and numerous other books, among them, A Textbook of Zoology, Insects of Economic Importance, Manual of ln- iurious Insects, Insects lnjurious to the Household and Annoying to Man, and collaborated with John H. Comstock '74 and Anna Botsford Comstock '79 on their Manual for the Study of Insects. For several years before it was turned over to the University, Professor Herrick was secretary of the Comstock Publishing Com pa ii y, coM1NG EVENTS Time and place of regular Cluh luncheon: are printed .reparateb as we have space. N oricer of other Cornell eoentr, hath in Ithaca and ahroad, appear helow. Contrihution: to thi: column mutt he received on or hefore Thursday to appear the next Thursday. JUNE 14-18 At Ithaca: Summer convention, American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers JULY 4-6 At Ithaca: Symposium on ionic physics JULY 8 At Ithaca: Summer Session opens JULY 15-1o At Ithaca: American Institute of Cooperation AUGUST 16 At Ithaca: Summer Session closes Professor Herrick is a member and former president of the American Associ- ation of Economic Entomologists, a member of the A.A.A.S., Fellow of the Entomological Society of America, of the Biological Society of Washington, D.C., and of Societe Linneenne de Lyon. He is a member of Quill and Dagger, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Gamma Rho. Professor and Mrs. Herrick CNannie,Y. Burkej '97, are the parents of Marvin T. Herrick '11, Stephen Mi Herrick '17, and Anna G. Herrick '31. JERSEY ENTERTAINS SCHOLAR Upwards of forty-five members of the Lackawanna Cornell Club of New Jersey saw and heard from the holder of the Club's first scholarship, Russell W. Boettiger '35 of Mountain Lakes, N. J., at their annual spring meeting, held at Canoe Brook Country Club at Summit, June 7. Graduating at the top of his class in Administrative Engineering, having worked his way through the University with the help of the Club scholarship, Boettiger spoke on the 'value of such a scholarship to the undergraduate. Professor Herman Diederichs '97 spoke at length on the new athletics set-up and on the plan for regional alumni scholar- ships. Harold A. CTigeD Jewett '19 en- tertained at the piano, Campus movies were shown, and a buffet supper was served. Other guests besides Professor Diederichs, Boettiger, and Jewett, were Clarence J. Pope ,IO, president of the Cornell Club of Northern New Jersey, and Kenneth R. Pelton '16 of the West- held Club. Officers elected for 1935-6 are Hugh C. Edmiston '15, president, Paul W. Drake '10, vice-president, and Edward G. Williams '15, secretary-treasurer. DR. ABRAM T. KERR '96 and Mrs. Kerr were in Philadelphia June IO, attending the graduation at George School, Pa., of their daughter, Cynthia. DR. JAMES E. KNOTT, PhD '16, Veget- able Crops Extension, has published a re- vision of his book, Vegetable Growing.

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IO CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Concerning TH E F AC ULTY PROFESSOR GILBERT Ross is leaving the University's Faculty after four years as assistant professor of Music, to accept a position as associate professor of music at Smith College. Professor Ross, one of lthaca's most popular concert artists, has achieved wide distinction as a violinist, his Faculty concerts here have been among the best-attended offerings of the Music Department. With Mrs. Ross and his two children, he will leave for North- ampton after the close of the Summer Session, at which he is to teach. Last week, with Richard Parmenter '17 and Professor George S. Butts '15, Agricul- tural Extension, he sailed in Parmenter's twenty-one-foot yawl from Annapolis to Cape Cod. MRS. CORNELIUS BETTEN, '10 Sp., has resigned as instructor in Home Econom- ics, a position she has held since 1915 and during the year 1911-11. Thirty-eight members of the staff entertained her at dinner at the old Jones house at Taug- hannock June 1. Mrs. Betten has been one of the directors of the International Association and this year was elected to honorary membership in Mortar Board, Senior women's honorary society. She is national secretary of Delta Delta Delta and alumna advisor to the Cornell chapter. Her husband, PhD '06, is Dean of the University Faculty, their son, Cornelius, Jr. '31, is assistant in Chem- ISIFY. Miss EDITH W. Ouzrs, AM '30, hostess at Willard Straight Hall for the past three years, is recipient of a fellowship to the graduate school of Columbia University next year, where she is to make the first study of the social and educational as- pects of student unions in the colleges of the United States. She will continue at Willard Straight until September. DR. FRANK AD,-.1R, Clinical Surgery at the Medical College in New York, was married, May 19, to Mrs. Marion Hop- kinson Brooks at the home of Mrs. Brooks mother, Mrs. Ernest Hopkinson, 1110 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Pmsintxr FARRAND was commence- ment speaker at the one-hundredth grad- uation exercises of Lafayette College, june 7, and was honored with the degree of Doctor of Lztws. Addressing the 165 members of the class, he urged freedom of inquiry, opinion, and thought in uni- -.ersity and school. Dux lhvrnit S KINSDAII En ineer . ... , , U lg, - ing, Spoke :xt 11 luncheon of the Cornell Club of C.l1lc.:1go,Alunc 13. He was 3 commencement speaker at Armour ln- stitute that d:1y..june 14, he spoke tothe College of lgngincering, Newark, N. J., and June 14 he is scheduled as commence- ment speaker at the Shrub Oak High School in Westchester County. DR. EUGENE F. BRADFORD, Registrar and Director of Admissions, was com- mencement speaker,June IO, at Houghton College. Miss GRACE SEELY '04, head residcnt of Sage College, sails on the SS Cham- plain, July 5, to spend the summer in France. DR. DEAN F. SMILEY '16, Hygiene Cnow on leavel, is to speak at the annual con- ference of health oHicers and public nurses to be held in Saratoga Springs, June 16 to 18. PROFESSOR FORREST B. WRIGHT '11 and Mrs. Wright QMildred E. Deislerl '14 and family left Ithaca June II for a two- weeks' motor trip to Kentucky and Georgia. PROFESSOR CHARLES CHUFP, Plant Path- ology, was rather seriously injured in the leg by a batted ball at the Extension picnic held recently at Taughannock, the bruise resulted in a ruptured blood vessel and the formation of blood clot. PINHASS L. PARISH, his wife, and his five-year-old daughter were killed in an automobile accident at Scranton, Pa., June 9, as they were returning to their home in Brooklyn with their daughter, Yemema Papish '3 6, after visiting Papish's brother, Dr. jacob Papish, PhD '11, acting head of the Chemistry Depart- ment. lVIiss Papish and a younger brother were seriously injured. PRoFEssoR D. B. JOHNSTON-WALLACE, Agronomy, spoke June IO to a conference of workers on pasture investigation from the Dominion Department of Agriculture and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. OBITUARY BESSIB ELLEN OUTFERSON, for fourteen years secretary of the Graduate School, died at the Ithaca Memorial Hospital, june 9, after a four months' illness, at the age of 47. A graduate of Columbia Uni- versity in 1909, Miss Outterson taught until coming to Ithaca in 1910, a year later she became secretary of the Graduate School. She was well-known to a large number of students in the Graduate School, those returning to reunions last week-end learned of her death with the regret expressed by Dean Floyd K. Richt- myer 'o4: Miss Outterson brought to her work a devotion seldom if ever sur- passed, she was helpful fat beyond the ofhcial duties of her position. Her death will bring sorrow to thousands of gradu- ate students all over the world whom she had befriended in so many ways. Miss Outterson took graduate work at Cornell in 1918 and 1919. t Concerning THE ALUMNI '75, '18-Dr. Edward Bausch '75, formerly president of Bausch St Lomb Optical Company of Rochester, has been appointed chairman of the board of that company, Theodore B. Drescher '18 has been made a vice-president. '91 ME-Stanley W. Hayes, president of the Hayes Track Applicance Company, Richmond, Ind., has been granted forty- one United States patents as a result of his research in railroad track material. His avocation is raising forest trees and shrubs on his glacial moraine farm near Rich- mond. His address is P. O. Box 304. '96-William Best, Jr. is vice-president of the General Cigar Company, Inc., 119 West Fortieth Street, New York City. '98 BSA-Henry W. Jeffers of Plains- boro, N. J. was elected chairman of the Republican State Committee, May 18. Jeffers is with the Walker-Gordon Milk Company and chairman of the state board of regents. 5 'oo LLB-Christopher Wilson of Coombs 8: Wilson, New York City, was elected a director of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce at their annual meeting, May 1o. , '01-Earl B. Alvord, head of the new products department of the Grasselli Chemical Company, Cleveland, O., an- nounced, May 14, that for years the chemical industry has sought a low cost commercial substance which would kill pests and fungi and yet be harmless to the host plant and humans, and that research progress promises radical or fundamental changes in the commercial products of the industry with an annual volume of ap- proximately S2.0,000,000, according to Howard Carswell, staff writer for the World-Telegram. 'O1 BArch-R. H. Shreve was one of the New York delegates to the Mil- Waukee, Wis. convention of the American Institute of Architects which convened May 11 for a four-day session. '05 AB-George C. Boldt, Jr. sailed, June 7, for England where he intends to spend part of the summer. We have been informed that Boldt is a grandfather. 'O7 AB-Robert Schurtnan is vice- president of the Byron jackson Company, Huntington Park, Cal. '08 ME-Albert J. Boardman is vice- president of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company. '10 MD-Dr. Charles I. Hyde was married in 1915. He has one son, Leroy, in the University, Class of 1936 Arts, and later Medicine, his other son, Bernard, expects to enter in the Fall, and his daughter is to enter high school in the Fall. Dr. Hyde wrote that he in- tended to be here for reunion.