Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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I S veereiariesy neil, The -tpriointed f UPOH the lliofthese li l95D0Iisi- Etfd of llml Orgitlli. i'l'theB Oard 'dull' is the 115 between 5 alumni, f'-'11 Alumni alliee was .ated with told Score- ft' it is to ation uith rshliery '25 Septeuiher :ie has ad- : hundred t union at ri 1925, the 1 activities 1 gi: ol 1lr. tin on the :urupletely ul' Cornell i Straight ure which r-fllian. inistrative ,L Willard ti-fl such the nine lpj ft,'EISUll has pftlll' with the '.' llliill on -to being 1 llttll, he I-,. nf lll6 ul' the- lp. QQCFC' ,y Class 1-hlj H0111 .errtalltff :Intl grilling v :Hill ln Und lt Illelllllit Q.'l. 'tml I I O 'lfllli CORNELLIAN COUNC I L The Cornellian Council is the ollicial money-raising agency of the University. lt was organized in the auturnn of 1908 and resulted from a desire on the part of a large number ofAlumni to make systematic annual gifts to the University. The found- ers of the Council had in mind the idea of doing away with the indis- criminate and merely occasional solicitation of funds from the Alumni and of having all appeals for the University's needs made by one or- ganization vested with authority. The class of 1909, in its senior year, was the hrst class to establish its memorial to the University in the form of subscriptions to the Alumni Fund. Every class since has fol- lowed the example of 1909 and prior classes have joined enthusiastically in the plan. This year marks the twenty-Hfth anniversary of the founding of the Council and these years represent a quarter century of service 'to Cornell. From 1910 through June, 1933, gifts to Cornell through the Cornellian Council have amounted to S5,tl98,fl6lll.28. Of this amount 51,920,928 has been avail- able to the University without re- striction as to its use. The Council is made up of rep- resentatives-one or more from each Cornell Club throughout the world, one or more from all geo- graphical districts where there are no active clubs, a man and woman from each class graduated, and a number of at-large members elected by the Council. The Executive Committee and the ollicers of the Council are selected from these rep- resentatives and constitute the controlling body. There is a paid executive stall' at Ithaca to carry on the active routine work ol' raising funds. Paul Arthur Schoellkopf 106, of Niagara Falls, is now serving his third term as President of the Coun- cil, having been elected to this posi- tion in June, 1931. Mr. Schoellkopf prepared at Cas- cornelliun council . . . eadilla School and at the lfniversity Preparatory School at llhaea and was graduated from Cornell with the degree ol' liuehelor ol' ,Xrls in l906. While an undergraduate at Cornell, Alr. Sehoellkopl' was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, the Clee Club and the Varsity football team. lle was elected to the Masque, the Savage Club and to Quill and Dagger, and served on the Sopho- more lianquet and Vigilanee eom- mittees. hir. Sehoellkopl' is president of the Niagara and Hudson Power Com- pany, general manager ol' the Cana- dian Niagara Power Company, Ltd., and a director of many of the large power companies in New York and eastern Canada. He is a trustee of the Niagara County Savings Bank, the Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital and the Y.M.C.A., and is vice-presi- dent of the Association of Com- munity Chests and Councils. His clubs are numerous. He is active in the Cornell Club of New York and the Cornell Club of Niagara Falls, of which he has served as presi- dent. ln 19111-, with other members of the Schoellkopf family, he joined in making a handsome gift to Cornell University, which made possible the construction of Schoellkopf Field, named for the founder of the Schoellkopf family in this country. An active member of the Cornell University War Memorial Commit- tee, Mr. Schoellkopf himself cn- dowed two rooms to honor the memory of the members of Zeta Psi who gave their lives in the World War. Since his graduation in 1906, Mr. Schoellkopl' has been an active alumnus, lilling the position of chair- man ofthe Semi-Centennial Endow- ment Campaign Committee in Ni- agara Falls in 1919-1920, and serv- ing as a member of the Cornellian Council for many years. Under the leadership of Paul Schoellkopf, the Cornellian Council continues to render effective service and financial help to Cornell, despite wwf, 1 4 1 1 PAUL ARTHUR SCHOELLKOPF the dillicult times in which we are living. A TRIB UTIJ Wefeel that it would be an olnisslon to these pages ifwe failed here to pay a brief tribute to the tate Harold Flack, former Executive Secretary of the Cornellian Council, who died in July, 7933 after The Corncltianl' for that year had been issued. For nearly a decade hir. Flack directed the active work ofthe Council, coming to Ithaca from a publishing hrrn in New York to take up what was then a feeble and unformed enterprise. During Americais participation in the lltorld War, hflr. Flack obtained a leave of absence to serve his country. He became connected with the Red Cross and later enrolled with thc aviation, service. Following active service in France, Mr. Flack was one of a group of American omcers who studied at 0.1:- ford after the Armistice. He returned to Cornell in 1919 to resume his work with the Council. As executive secre- tary of this organization he accom- plished a ,hnancial triumph. He es- tablished for himself the reputation of being one of the most successful fund-raisers in the country. His .zeal and energy were instrumental in rescuing Cornell from a serious hnancial disturbance in 1919. In .that year nearly 86,500,000 were raised in the campaign that was characterized as having saved Cornell from dis- asterf' G Nlr. Flackls place on the COLUlCLl has not yet been flled, and the same may be said of his place as a citizen in the Community. 17

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- 7- 1 A WM . A . 41,,.......-.,.,i.,,...,.-.---,i.-i-'. f- lv-'---b -...., I..- ....,.. - . .- Y J..Jil., Q the cornell olnmni corporation . 1. l DR. FLOYD WINSLOVV THE CORNELL ALUMNI CORPORATION Cornell has several alumni or- ganizations, largely independent in their fields of action, although natu- rally interlocking to a degree. The Cornell Alumni Corporation is the general alumni association, and has as its object the promotion of the interests of the University and the fostering among its members of a sentiment of regard for one another and attachment to their Alma Mater and the ideal of service to humanity. At a meeting in 1872, representa- tives of the classes then graduated founded the organization known as the Associate Alumni of Cornell Univcrsi ty. As the alumni increased in number and formed local clubs and organizations, the need arose for a more competent and central or- ganization. The Associate Alumni became a corporation in 1903. In 1923 the name of the association was changed to the Cornell Alumni Cor- poration. All persons who have at- tended Cornell University as stu- dents, whether graduated or not, are members. More than a hundred alumni clubs, in all parts of the world, form the main structure of the or- ganization, and the corporation de- rives its financial support mainly from assessments levied on these clubs. Besides tl1e annual meeting in 16 Ithaca just before Commencement, the corporation holds biennial con- ventions, generally in the autumn. Until 1930 these conventions were scheduled annually: at Cleveland in May, 1921, at Chicago in April, 1922, at Buffalo in October, 1923, at Pitts- burgh in October, 19211, at Detroit in October, 1925, at Philadelphia in November, 1926, at St. Louis in November, 1927, at Washington in November, 1928, at Rochester in October, 1929, at Ithaca in Novem- ber, 1930, and again in 1932. In the future conventions will be held in the even-numbered years. Fifteen alumni comprise the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Twelve are district directors, elected from twelve districts into which the world has been divided, while three are directors-at-large. The personnel of the Board this year includes the following district directors: Central New York, William J. Thorne '11, Metropolitan New York, William W. Macon '98, Eastern New York, C. Reeve Vanne- man '03, Western New York, Dr. Floyd S. Winslow '06, New England, Chester T. Reed '03, Middle Atlantic, William I-I. Henderson '04, Keystone, Howard M. Rogers '07, Southern, Creed W. Fulton '09, Great Lakes, Frank D. Boynton, Jr. '17, Central, Frank G. Gardner '91, Western, Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. '24, Pacific, George L. Hoxie '92. The three directors-at-large are: Mary H. Don- lon '20, Herbert R. Johnston '17, Russell N. Chase '22, The fhocers are: President, Dr. Winslow, Vice-Presidents, Mr. Gard- ner and Mr. Fulton, Treasurer, Archie C. Burnett '90, Secretary, Foster M. Coffin '12. THE ALUMNI REPRESENTA- TIVE AND DIRECTOR OF WILLARD STRAIGHT HALL The central office of the alumni is that of the Alumni Representative. This offdce was created by the Board of Trustees of the University at the request of the Alumni Corporation, the Association of Class Secretaries, and the Cornellian Council. The Alumni Representative is appointed by the Board of Trustees upon the nomination of the Presidents of these three organizations. He is responsi- ble to a committee composed of three representatives of the alumni organi- zations and two members of theBoard of Trustees. His primary duty is the development of the relations between the University and its alumni. Foster M. Coffin '12 has been Alumni Representative since the office was created in 1920. Associated with the office is the Alumni Field Secre- tary, whose principal duty it is to keep in active communication with the local clubs. Ray S. Ashbery '25 has held the position since September 1930. In this position, he has ad- dressed more than one hundred alumni meetings. Ever since the student union at Cornell opened its doors, in 1925, the direction of its manifold activities has also been in charge of Mr. Coffin '12. No institution on the Cornell campus has so completely become a part of the lives of Cornell students as has Willard Straight Hall, a magnificent structure which memorializes a great Cornellian. It is a tribute to the administrative ability of Foster Coffin that Willard Straight Hall has achieved such conspicuous success in the nine years of its existence. The reason for this is that Mr. Coffin has prob- ably the widest contacts with the alumni and students of any man on the campus. In addition to being director of Willard Straight Hall, he is the alumni representative of the University, the secretary of the- Alumni Corporation, and the secre- tary of the Association of Class Secretaries. He filled for the first time the new office of Alumni Representative which was created in 1920, and has been at Cornell since then, gaining in usefulness, in popularity, and in the esteem of thousands of new and old alumni, undergraduates, faculty, members of the administration, and members of the trustees.

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' . . . . administration . - - THE PROV OST Dr. Albert Russell Mann, Provost of Cornell University, was born at Hawkins, Pa., in 1880, and graduated from Cornell with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1904. I-Ie is a Master of Arts of the University of Chicago and has received honorary doctorates from Syracuse University and Rhode Island State College. The duties of the Provost of the University, which more nearly fall in the classification of a hard working Vice-President, permit Provost Mann to relieve President Farrand of his many weighty problems. For in- stance, he assists President Farrand, although the latter has primary responsibility, in 'such matters as assembling the budget data of the University, a duty which requires interviews with all the deans and heads of the administrative depart- ments. Dr. Mann was Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University from 1916 to 1931, when he was appointed Provost ofthe University, and was also Dean of the College of Home Economics after it was founded in 1925. Before his election to the deanship of the College of Agriculture, he served successively as secretary to Dr. L. H. Bailey in the preparation of the Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, registrar of the college and editor of its publications, and professor of rural social organization. The International Education Board, in 1924, commissioned Dean Mann to conduct an investigation of agricultural education in Europe. With leave of absence from the University he spent the next two years in directing a survey of eco- nomic and educational conditions in most of the European countries. As a result of that work he has re- ceived decorations from several governments, including those of Czechoslovakia, Finland, and Bel- gium. More recently Provost Mann has been V ice-President of the Academy for the Advancement of Science, in charge of the section on agriculture. He also holds the distinguished posi- tion of University Member of the Farm Foundation, organized by the late Alexander Legge for the study and solution of many problems af- fecting the welfare of farming and the rural population. He is also a member of the Country Life Com- mission and of the Council of Land Grant Colleges. 18 DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY Dr. Cornelius Betten, who took his Ph.D. degree at Cornell in 1906, is Cornellfs Dean of the University Faculty. In this role, Dean Betten supplements his duties as Dean of Resident Instruction of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. He presides at all meetings of the University Faculty and serves as chairman of the Committee on Stu- dent Conduct. The faculty of Cornell University has long been noted for its thorough independence. One of the great advantages of being a member of the faculty of such a liberal institu- tion as Cornell, is that members of the instruction staff have almost complete autonomy over their own activities. Dr. Betten, as Dean of the Faculty, is the guardian of these precious rights. Dean Betten has had an interest- ing career. He was born on Novem- ber 13, 1877 in the Dutch settlement in northwestern Ohio, where his parents were pioneers. The parents, first home was a sod hut. Persever- ance brought success to these hardy pioneers, and their son, Cornelius, was given the advantage of iine educational opportunities. Gradua- ting from Lake Forest College, Illi- nois in 1900, Dean Betten carrie to Cornell for graduate work in en- tomology under the late Professor Comstock. He took his Ph.D. de- gree in 1906, returning to Lake Forest College as professor of biology. There he was associated with Professor J. G. Needham and Dr. R. P. Sibley, both of whom are now prominent members of the Cornell Faculty. In 1915 Dr. Bet- ten was appointed Secretary of the College of Agriculture at Cornell, and he became Director of Resident Instruction in 1920. On two differ- ent occasions he served as acting dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. Though Dr. Betten's many duties have prevented him from following his life-long in- terest in entornology, he has found time to complete a report on an order of insects, which will be pub- lished shortly through the New York State Museum. As Dean of the University Faculty, Dr. Betten has maintained his deep interest in the broader educational policies affecting the entire Uni- versity, and he uses his talent to keep academic life at Cornell on a high plane. REGISTRAR AND DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Since 1928 Cornell has had a di- rector of admissions. Dr. Eugene F. Bradford, who held a similar position at Syracuse University, was the man who was first named to this new office. Prior to 1928 each college of the University handled its own admissions. This created a confus- ing situation, especially during the years when it was necessary to limit the enrollment of the University. Realizing that the business of ad- mitting students was a specialized activity, the Board of Trustees created the office of Director of Admissions. After looking over a large field, the authorities chose Dr. Bradford. On the death of Davy Hoy in 1931 the duties of Registrar were added to those of Dr. Bradford in connection with admissions. He is not interested solely in the technical details connected with these two important offices. He is more con- cerned with the human equation. He is striving constantly to improve the quality of the applicants of the University, and has been a leader in advocating changes in the require- ments for admission, so that they will conform to the changing educational methods of the schools which pre- pare men and women for college. As a scholar, as a professor, and as an administrator, Dr. Bradford brings to his combined duties at Cornell, qualities and abilities which are being reflected in the successful conduct Inf his work. COMPT ROLLER The watch-dog of Corne-ll's finances is Comptroller Charles D. Bostwiek. The scope of his activi- ties can be judged from the fact that Cornell's endowment is over 28,000,000 dollars. This sum is invested in a wide range of securities, including stocks, bonds, mortgages and other forms of income-producing certificates. The job of achieving a proper balance between the various types of investments and of the supervision of the entire portfolio rests with the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees, with Mr. Bostwiek actively in charge. In these days of precarious invest- ments and of greatly curtailed busi- ness activity it is a real tribute to Mr. Bostwiek that Cornel1's assets hold up so we1l.- Even last year, despite the bank holiday and the