New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AIR SPACE Cbaimzrzn-Lieutenant Colonel Arthur F. Nicholson. I joined the Air Force Qthen Army Air Corpsj from my native state of Indiana in November, 1942, and a year and a half later was flying combat missions over Europe in a B-17 Flying Fortress. One of the flights I remember best was my D-Day bombing mission. My group had targets behind the landing beaches and I had a birdseye view of the invasion forces on Normandy beachhead. Another memorable flight was a shuttle mission to Russia. The mission to Russia was con- ceived to enable my B-17 group to bomb important targets too deep in Germany to enable the aircraft to return to England without refueling. Because of battle damage to my own B-17, I spent three weeks in Russia and had an opportunity to watch Russians and the Russian Air Force in action. Prior to my assignment to New York University's Air Force ROTC, I was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Cali- fornia, as the Base Transportation Oflicer. Though I was pri' marily concerned with supporting the ballistic missile program there, I managed to get involved in some unusual jobs in my transportation work. One such job calculated to make the life of a Transportation Olllcer anything but dull was the moving intact of a huge F-102 Delta Dart Fighter plane, which was incapable of flight, but which could not be dis- mantled, from the base to Santa Maria, California. 25 miles away, for display in the town square. I had a lengthy session with the California Highway Patrol, the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce, and 'other interested agencies to work out a plan to tow the aircraft on the highway. The plane was so large that the telephone company had to move telephone lines. the power company had to raise their power lines, highway maintenance crews had to cut brush and move rocks, and the State Police had to reroute traffic. Arroriaie Professor-Major George F. Drury. Arrirffzzzf Proferror-Captain Bruce Peterson. BIOLOGY Cbfzirfmzn-Professor H. Clark Dalton. Interest in the living things of the world seems to be built into every growing child. Some of us never get over it and become biologists. In my own case enthusiasm for animals and plants was nourished primarily by an encouraging grandfather, whose avocation was natural science, and by summers spent at the seashore, where exploration of the beaches brought daily contacts with the life of marine organisms in fascinating variety, More formal training in school and college left me with the impression that biologists have more fun than anybody. an opinion which I would change on maturer reflection only to the extent of rephrasing to say that for me biology is more fun than anything. lwfy hrst faculty appointment after finishing the doctorate was interrupted by an invitation from the Draft Board to spend one year in military training. Five years and a world war later I resumed an academic career, having meanwhile met a host of vivid characters and engaged in a number of improb- able and somewhat biological pursuits ranging from the operation of a VD prophylactic station in the mayor's office of a New England town to commanding a cooks and bakers school in the jungle of New Guinea. The potentialities for growth and development are to me the most intriguing and the most puzzling aspect of living systems. viewed in the span of a lifetime or in the scale of evolutionary progress. My research interest concerns the action of genes in controlling developmental processes leading to hereditary patterns of pigmentation in salamanders. Recognition of developmental potentials is at the bottom of my enthusiasm for teaching and my conhdence in the abilities of students. Proferrorr-Richard P. Hall, Charles H. Willey. A5- rnciale Pl'0f6,l'J'01'-OffO M. Helf. Arrirfzzzzf Pr0fe,rr0rr- Helene N. Guttman, Douglas B. Webster. ., aw, www-A .413 i inn-ma

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PHILIP PRICE Director of Slzzdem' Aftiritief University Heights JANE SHIPTON Afsismmf Director, Student Activities University Heights ASHLEY T. DAY Librarian University College of Arts and Science HANs E. HOPE Assistant Director, Student Activities University Heights ROBERT LESUEUR Libmripzn College of Engineering

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CHEMISTRY Cbnirnmn-Professor Thomas W. Davis. Like everyone else, I am fortunate to be living in the period of the most rapid growth of science and in the period of the greatest accomplishments of science, Among all the sciences, chemistry is marked by the complexity of the phenomena with which it deals and the profundity of the changes that give rise to these phenomena. In a sense, then, chemistry is the first of the sciences. During its existence of thirteen decades, New York University has been constantly concerned not only with the task of helping students to understand the existing store of scientific knowledge but also with the need to extend that store. Beginning with john W. Draper, the University's hrst professor of physics and chemistry and the first president of the American Chemical Society, an unbroken succession of faculty members has maintained and strengthened the University's ac- tive role as a source of new chemical knowledge. During the past forty years, I have been privileged to witness these things at lirst hand and in a small measure to be part of them. The rise of physical chemistry, the rejuvenation of organic chemistry, the availability of a startling array of instruments, many of them undreamed 'of forty years ago, have changed our science most notably. Changed too is the relationship of science to the non-academic world. Chemical companies are among the largest and most important in the country. Even banks take names that suggest a kinship to science. Governments have become interested in science in a major way and now more scientists are employed by governments than by any other agency. The national government, furthermore, has come to be an essential source of funds to support research in the universities who have found the costs otherwise soaring far beyond their ability to contrive. Despite the great changes, the purpose of science re- mains the same, viz., to understand more thoroughly the nature of the world and thereby, the better to understand ourselves. To witness these things and to be involved in them even in a slight way has been the chief feature of my life. Professors-Kurt M. Mislow, john E. Ricci, H. Austin Taylor. Armrinle P1'0fe5.r01'r-S. Carlton Dickerman, Edward Durham, joseph D. Gettler, Edwin S. Camp- bell, Henry M. Hellman, james N. Sarmousakis. Amin?- cznzf Professor-David I. Schuster. InJ1f1'nct0rJ-Ricliard Narvaez, Frances Yablonsky. CLASSICS Cfariirznmz-Professor Richard M. Haywood. I was born and grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, and went to Dartmouth in the class of 1926, the first college class which was chosen by the consideration of personal and other factors in addition to scholarship, the method which is now the usual one. I took my Ph.D. at johns Hopkins in Latin with Tenney Frank, a man who liked to combine historical studies with his literary studies. Not only did I write a historical dissertation, on the elder Scipio Africanus, but I also was invited to join the group of scholars who produced An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome. In the first six years of my teaching at johns Hopkins, I wrote my section of the work, on the economic life of Roman Africa. Since then Roman Africa has been one of my steady interests, and I have written articles and reviewed books on the subject. In 1939-40, I had a Guggenheim Fellow- ship for further work on Africa and my family and I had gotten as far as Switzerland when the war broke out, my younger daughter was born in Zurich that October. In 1950, Washington Square College offered me an appoint- ment, and in 1952 I came to the Heights. This is a good place for a scholar and teacher and writer, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my work. The Mylh of Ronzeft Fall came out in 1958, a volume on the Near East and Greece is in process of publication, and the companion volume on Rome will soon be ready, During 1960-61 I had the Research Fulbright for Italy and made progress in Rome on a study of the Senate in the late Roman Republic and on an attempt to describe the city of Rome around 100 A.D. as a working social organism, a pair of enterprises which will take a little time, especially with the chairmanship of the Heights depart- ment and the post of adviser to the graduate students. Teach- ing and scholarship, with a little administrative work for duty's sake, is a good Way to live. Afyinfnzzf Profeffor-Charles W. Dumnore. Inm'nrt0r- Rita Fleischer.