Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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4 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI FUND SUPPORT GREATER Cornellian Council Re-Elects Becker '05 That the Alumni Fund, with still two weeks left of the current fiscal year, had already attained more subscribers to the welfare of Cornell than in all of last year was the encouraging report made by the executive committee of The Cornellian Council at its annual meeting in Morrill Hall on June 15. To that day, 487.1 alumni had contributed S79,484.7.0, it was reported, as compared with a total of 4693 subscribers in all of the fiscal year 1933-34. Neal Dow Becker '05, complet- ing his first term as president of the Council, presided, and was re-elected. On Monday he was elected a member of the University Board of Trustees. All Help in Gain Archie M. Palmer '18, executive secretary of the Council, reporting for the committee, pointed out that this gain was directly attributable to the excellent cooperation this year of class representa- tives, many of whom sent special letter appeals to their classmates, to competi- tion among classes stimulated by the periodical reports of class standings pub- lished in the ALUMNI News and The Cornellian Council Bulletin, to the novel check-and-envelope supplement in the last Bulletin soliciting passengers on the annual Good-Will Cruise of the Good Ship Cornell, made possible by the help of Walter L. Todd '09 and Howard Reineman '10, to the personalizing of appeals to larger prospective donors by means of letters signed by the president of the Council, and generally to the ag- gressive and interested leadership of Becker, the Council's president. It is reported that through Saturday T11 persons had used the combination check and envelope enclosure to sub- scribe S3,o64.1o, and Palmer says that with two weeks still to count in this fiscal year and the full volume of these contributions just beginning to appear, he expects that the honor roll of the names of Alumni Fund subscribers, to bc published after June 30, will number between six and seven thousand. This large number of contributors has already more than offset this year's curtailment ol' receipts from customary large givers, indicating clearly, Palmer says, that al- though the gift of an individual may be bllklll. when he joins in mass formation with his neighbors, the same effort be- CUIUCS .tn irresistible and mighty force. lzicty gift to the Alumni Fund, whatever its amount, makes the donor it member of The C.ornell1,1n Council and inscribes his name on the published honor roll. This -.x .is the twenty -sixth annual meet- ing of the lioartl ol Directors of the Lountil, toinposetl ol' representatives ltom each class, membets-at-lzu'ge, :intl from igeoqmpliittil areas, with the oflicers and executive committee of the Council. During the first twenty-five years of its existence, it was reported, gifts totalling S6,I97,7.5I.'L9 were made through the Council. And, despite the trying times through which we have been passing during the past few years and the pressure of other demands, Cor- nell alumni have continued to respond generously to the support of the Univer- sity .... I ,The amount given annually to the University through The Cornellian Council enters into the ofhcial budget of the University and that budget is adopted each year on the basis of these prospective contributions. Yet, despite all The Cornellian Council has been doing, the University nevertheless each year runs a deficit. President Farrand and 'the Trustees have repeatedly stated that if it were not for the contributions through The Cornellian Council, the annual de- ficits of the University would be much larger. The executive committee reported that during the year the Council office had mailed nearly 30,000 notices to Alumni Fund subscribers, approximately 9,000 letters were sent by class representa- tives to non-subscribers and to subscribers urging increased contributions, more than 1600 letters to members of the Senior Class as part of its campaign, more than 4,000 in connection with the Pound Memorial Fund, the special fund of the College of Architecture, and other special appeals, and at least 4,000 letters were written by the executive secretary and members of the staff, in addition to the sending of acknowledgements and membership cards to all contributors. The Class Memorial campaign of the Class of '35, conducted by Paul Reinhardt of Oakland, Cal. and Mary Rowe of Fort Myer, Va., resulted in 767 Seniors subscribing a total of 53,650 in annual iff' Nant. Dow Beckett '05, New TRUSTEE pledges to the unrestricted Alumni Fund, mostly in the amount of 85. This was the largest number of subscribers to a Class memorial fund in the twenty-six years since the Class of '09 started the custom. Among significant gifts and bequests to the University during the year, the report cited that of the Liberty Hyde Bailey I-lortorium, by Dr. and Mrs. Bailey, those of C. Sidney Shepard, a Trustee from 1896 to 1918, Walter P. Cooke '91, Mrs. Ida M. Sivyer,' mother of the late Fred L. Sivyer '03, Belle Sherman, Ruth B. Ettinger, and Robert J. Eidlitz '85, one of the founders of the Council and a generous contributor throughout his life. A special gift of -a musical reference library by William F. E. Gurley '77 was also noted. Special Work Effective Under the chairmanship of Edward Cornell '89, succeeding' Becker who had been chairman since its organization in 1914, the Council's committee on be- quests has sent periodically to individuals among its eight hundred lawyer-members advice of the UniVersity's specific needs and of ,phases of its program which can be aided by bequests of stated amounts. The chairman and 'executive committee, composed of J. DuPratt White '90, John J. Kuhn '98, EarlJ. Bennett '01, Winthrop Taylor '07, Lawrence G. Bennett '09, Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. '17, Jacob Mertens, Jr. '19, and Becker and Palmer, ex-officio, are preparing for distribution to lawyers and others interested in the making of wills naming Cornell as beneficiary, a booklet containing forms and other pertinent information. The committee reported that the Pound Memorial Fund, initiated this spring by the Law Association atthe suggestion of Edwin Marshall '94, had now reached the sum of 85,454, and is planned to be completed during 1935. The meeting adopted a resolution pro- posed by a committee headed by Walde- mar H. Fries '10 setting forth that the best interests of the University and the alumni require that all solicitations for University projects be made only through The Cornellian Council as approved by its executive committee. It also adopted revisions of the by- laws of the Council proposed by a com- mittee headed by Francis O. Affeld, Jr. '97 which simplify the organization of the Council by putting its business man- agement in the hands of the executive committee of eleven members instead of the board of ,directors of about 360, which meets only once or twice a year, and providing for the election of execu- tive committee members in three groups of three each, one group to retire each year and to be ineligible for re-election for one year after the expiration of their terms. The other two members of the executive committee are the president and CCo11ri71fzcff on page 73

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JUNE 10, 1935 3 academic development, said that its financing here by the Carnegie Corpora- tion was a marked tribute to the unique, well-rounded facilities possessed only by Cornell, and that under the direction of Professor Gilmore D. Clarke '13, it was being participated in not only by its original sponsoring Colleges, Architecture and Engineering, but also by Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, and Law, with selected students of every College taking the first year's courses. The quality of the student body, the President said, improves each year, with undergraduate leadership through the Student Council and otherwise better this year than for several past. He spoke of the financial problems of the Adminis- tration, paid high tribute to the Trustees for their success in these troubled times in keeping the deficits to but a few thousand dollars in a seven-milli0n- dollar operation, and said that the financial condition of the University was by no means a cause for alarm. Pfann and Whinery Trustees A. Wright Gibson '17, as chairman of the ofiieial committee of canvassers, re- ported the election of George R. Pfann '14 and Andrewj. Whinery '10 as Alumni Trustees. The 10,013 ballots cast repre- sent'approximately thirty percent of the degree holders, qualified to vote. Of these, 151 were rejected by the canvassers as not conforming to the rules which govern the election, leaving a net total of 9,861 ballots counted. Pfann received 4,497, Whinery, 3,765, and the other four candidates finished as follows: Charles M. Chuckrow '11, Henry W. Edgerton '10, John B. Tuck '93, and Homer Cudmore '05. At noon Saturday in the Drill Hall, class tables covered most of the nearly two acres of drill floor, and most of the reunion crowd and many members of the Faculty and their wives were there. Three bands were in evidence,' leading the var- ious classes in the traditional parade around the Drill Hall after luncheon, '08 used a small red pig led by a farmer in straw hat and overalls to announce a refined hog-calling contest at the picnic dinner of '07, '08, '09, and '10 that evening at Taughannock, arranged by the secretaries, Whinery and Mrs. Grace, of the Class of '10. Class pictures followed the luncheon, and Saturday 'afternoon was spent by many at Taughannock, by others in getting better acquainted and recalling old times at the various class head- quarters, and by still others at the fraternity and sorority teas and open houses. At Willard Straight Hall alumni and undergraduates were entertained at a tea dance before the former scattered to their several class dinners on the Hill and downtown. Again that evening the Dramatic Club gave their Senior Week performance, The Chief Thing, in the University Theatre, but it was attended largely by Seniors and their parents and friends, most of the alumni going to crowd Bailey Hall for the reunion rally. Gather at Rally Here William H. Forbes '06 acted as master of ceremonies and led the singing, announcing The Crew Song as sung for John N. Ostrom '75, who coached and stroked the first winning Varsity crew, at Saratoga sixty years ago, and who was in the audience. The accordion of Edwin H. Hilborn '36, the singing banjo of Alfred F. Sulla, Jr. '19, and the rendi- tions of the Savage Club quartette, com- posed or' C. Wesley Thomas '11 Sp., William B. Corcoran '13, Truman K. Powers '30, and Allan H. Treman '11, were loudly applauded. jacob S. Fassett, Jr. '11 was called to the stage and told several stories, interrupted frequently by the cowbell gouging of his green- sweatered classmates in the audience g and Charles A. Norris, Jr. '11 entertained with his famous Ithaca street car im- personations. Pham by Fenner IN THE DRILL HALL DURING THE SATURDAY ALUMNI-FACULTY LUNcHEoN The recdrd-breaking Class of '10, gay in orange and black blazers and hatbands, lines up with. its brand to lead the gala parade Of all reunion classes around and around the two-acre drill for, of which the center was occupied with tables arranged by classes.

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JUNE zo, 1935 5 IMPRESSIVE COMMENCEMENT E DS YEAR President Awards 1012 Degrees as Impressive Climax to 'Senior Week President Farrand told the black- gowned graduates who filled the or- chestra section of Bailey Hall and part of the dress circle at the University's sixty-seventh Commencement, june 17, that the benefits of individual oppor- tunity should be continued, and that its exercise at the expense of the common good could be checked by public moral- ity. He declared that no one could wish to leave unchanged the order that has brought social and economic abuses, but that necessary changes should be checked -by investigation of those things that have been found worthwhile. The University, the President de- clared, is highly concerned with what its graduates do as citizens, it is looking to them for leadership in the problems of the present time. A threat of rain had driven Commence- ment exercises from Schoellkopf, the thousand graduates had assembled at the Drill Hall and marched from there to Bailey Hall through lines of parents and friends. Major Charles S. Ferrin of the ROTC served as marshal in the absence of Colonel john J. Fulmer, Commandant, student marshals were Walter D. Switzer of Williamsport, Pa. and Frank Irving of Los Angeles, Cal. The students, Trustees, and Faculty members filed into Bailey Hall to the processional, Marche Pontificale Qde la TombelleD , they remained standing to sing America and to hear the invoca- tion given by the Rev. William F. Hastings, of Ithaca's First Congrega- tional Church. Major Ferrin presented 130 Seniors to President Farrand, who awarded them, on authority of the President of the United States, commissions as Second Lieutenants in the United States Army Reserve Corps. They were recommended for commissions by President Farrand and Colonel Fulmer. Forty-nine were commissioned in Field Artillery, 1.6 in Infantry, I3 each in Ordnance and Signal Corps, and 7.6 in the Veterinary Corps. Candidates for degrees were then in- troduced by the deans of the various colleges, and were awarded them by President Farrand. Following President Farrand's address, benediction was pronounced by Mr. Hastings, and the group stood as the Alma Mater was softly played upon the Bailey Hall organ. The postlude was the finale of Widor's Sixth Organ Symphony. What with parents, starry-eyed and eminently marriageable young ladies, the reuning Classes of 'Io and '15, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Uni- versity's graduating class had a busy and a pleasant time of it indeed this Senior Week. By Friday the Miss Ash- tons and the Miss Nevvmans had every- body satisfactorily ready to graduate, 1935 CLASS DAY EXERCISES AND SENIOR SINGING SUNDAY EVENING Pham by FK 'L r .On the platform: G. Paull Torrence, Jr. of Evanston, Ill., presiding, Paul H. Reinhardt of Oakland, Cal., Class historian, Eleanor Middleton of Long Island City, Class poet, Oleg P. Petroff of Montclair, N. J., Class orator, William.D. Dugan of Hamburg, Senior 'custodian of the class pipe, and John H. Mayer of Kansas City, Mo., Junior custodian of the pipe.