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

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Cbnirmafz-Associate Professor Daniel E. Quilty. A resident of Yonkers, I graduated from NYU in the Class of 1949. I served two and one half years with the Navy in the Pacific area during World Wzir II. I was a member of the NYU basketball team for three years, a team which played in three straight National Invitation Tournaments. Immediately after graduating NYU, I was appointed director of intramurals and instructor in the Department of Physical Education at University Heights. I later took over the duties of freshman basketball coach and assistant varsity basketball coach for a period of seven years. Eventually, I became chairman of the required physical edu- cation program at the Heights. I revamped the entire program, building it up to the extent where I now consider it one of the finest in any institution of higher learning, My objective in the program is to give the students exposure to dif- ferent sports which they can incorporate in some way into their later lives. I feel that it makes more well-rounded citizens out 'of them, in addition to improving their physical condition. Arroriate Professor-Salvatore F. Variello, flriirfmzf Profermrr-Esther V. Foley, joseph F. Healey, Lucio A. Rossini. I72J'f7'ZI6l'07'J'-DOI'19.lCl A. Newbery, Mayer Rossabi, Franklin I. Russell, Margaret E. Schlichting, Arthur Loche, Jerold Monkofsky. PHYSICS C bfzirnmzz-Professor Sidney Borowitz. Becoming a professor has satisfied a childhood ambition of mine, Becoming a professor of physics is a goal that I have had since high school days. The route which I took in attain- ing these goals, however, has been a circuitous one. I was born in New York City in 1918. Having completed my elementary school and high school education in the New York City schools, I entered the City College of New York in 1933 and obtained a B.S, degree from that institution in 1937. Since I could not obtain any support to go on for graduate work, I took advantage of the night school arrangement in the Graduate School of New York University to study while working as a statistical clerk in a wholesale fur establishment in New York City. In 1939 I had completed the course work for a Master's degree. At that time I decided to go to the University of California in Berkeley, The attraction at that institution was Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was part of one of the best departments of theoretical physics in the country. I was forced to return to the East for personal rea- sons in 1940 and had to abandon my studies. From 1940 through the war years I was employed first by the U. S. Gov- ernment as a glassmaker and junior physicist. Later I moved to Western Electric Company first as a junior engineer and then a section chief in engineering at the Kearny Works. In 1946, I became a production manager for a small instrument firm in New York City, and shortly thereafter went into business for myself as a publisher of a magazine called Public Domain. This magazine gave a summary of all patents which were ex- pired during the years in which it was published. The business was unsuccessful. A chance encounter with Professor Hamer- mesh of New York University while my business was about to be liquidated brought me back as an instructor of Physics at New York University in the fall of 1946, During the next two years I was an instructor and a student, and obtained my Ph.D. from New York University in 1948. From 1948 to 1950 I was an instructor of physics at Harvard University. In 1950, I returned to the University Heights Campus as an Assistant Professor of Physics. I have been associated with New York University ever since. In 1957 I moved to the Washington Square Physics Department of New York University and also to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in an admin- istrative capacity. In 19-61 I returned to the University Heights campus as Chairman of the Physics Department. Pmferyorr-Benjamin Beclerson, George E. Hudson, Serge A. Korff. Armriate Profefmf'-Lawrence A. Born- stein. Airiilam' P1'0f6JJ01'I-TCfSUC Arase, Kurt Haller, Harry H. Nickle, Kenneth K. Rubin, I22lrzzci011r-Ed- ward Pollack, Thomas E. Suttles, Edward Robinson, judae Schwartz.

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MUSIC Cfmirmmz-Associate Professor Harold I-Ieeremans. Born in Bristol, England, I soon decided to avoid work if possible. Seizing upon music as the most playful way of divert- ing oneself through life, I studied the piano: then, to increase my statistical chances, the violin and organ, singing in a boy choir for cash on the side. Upon leaving school, I practiced until I was 16, when I entered the profession as a violonist in a movie theater. jobs in legitimate theaters. cafes. a zoo, and symphony and concert performances, followed. Because of an increasingly aggravating situation across the English Channel, a pressing invitation to join the British army was accepted. The news of this apparently travelled swiftly, for the overseas argument was won before I had a chance to make a point or two. As an infantryman, I joined an army concert party in Cologne, Germany, this was my most active service. Returning to England in 1920, I emigrated to Canada. In Canada, I broadened my experiences by playing piano in a stock company orchestra, organ in a movie theater, and con- ducting vaudeville. Emigrating to the United States in 1923 I acquired the right to vote-usually on the losing side. In 1924, I was organist of the Rivoli and Rialto Theaters, Times Square, New York, In 1931, the time had come to close my education. Taking the easier way, I joined the faculty of the University of Washington, Seattle, as teacher of organ and music history, An invitation to join the faculty of New York University in 1936 projected me into the hustle, tussle, and bustle of the life of a musician who becomes mixed up with the local artistic machinery. As National President of the Amer- ican Guild of Organists, I fly away from it all upon occasion to tell local chapters and national gatherings how pleased I am to be with them. My hobby is resting-a commodity peculiar in that its rarity is dependent upon its expense. Profefror-Alfred Greenfield. Adjmzrf Arrirlmzl Pro- ferror-Stephen lay. PHILOSOPHY Clmirnzmz-Professor Harmon M. Chapman. Although there is no record of it, my birth took place shortly after the turn of the century. According to one account, the notorious james brothers burned the local courthouse where some official records of their misdeeds were held. There is no evidence that they had further designs against me, or my nativity. But others did. I was submitted to an upbringing which has left a permanent stamp on my character and on such other parts of me as were susceptible to formative influ- ences. Several schools in as many parts of the country suffered my presence and labored diligently at my improving. Their efforts were only moderately successful. yet sufficient to gain me admission to college, Fortunately, at this time college ad- mission did not require much more than a declaration of intent and the ability to pay fees. My college career began rather spectacularly. for other than academic reasons, at Annapolis, was resumed at Ohio Stateg was later transferred to the Uni- versity of Oregon: and then came to a head at Harvard University. This was followed by three important events: two and one-half years of study abroad, and the great depression, and my marriage to a lovely little English teacher at Wellesley. In 1934, NYU, in a moment of despair, sought my services as a teacher of philosophy, confident no doubt that so many institu- tions of higher learning must have left some deposit. The next fifteen years were the happiest of my life. Indigent though they were. they brought me four priceless blessings: three chil- children and the opportunity to teach. This idyllic period expired with the close of the war. The specter of committees then reared its ugly head: it stalked me, laid siege to my time, and ravished my energies. It also taught me two salutary lessons: to regard retirement as a release from bondage and to avoid speaking of oneself at any cost-someone may be looking for a chairman. A.r.ri.mmf Proferfor-Raziel Abelson. I125Ir11cfor.r-Phe- roze Wadia, Stanley Malinovich. .

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PSYCHOLOGY Cbazirmmz-Professor Robert E. Silverman. I am a behaviorist. I am not sure how I developed that viewpoint, but I feel that it may he related to the rewards and punishments I received while an undergraduate student at Brown University and as a graduate student at Indiana University. Whatever the reasons, I would not have it any other way. I chose to study psychology because I was intrigued by the opportunities to work in a held that was challenging and underdeveloped. While I started with an interest in clinical psychology fa sheepish admissionj, I insist that this was because I did not know any better at the time. Perhaps this is a rationalization for the circuitous route I have followed in becoming an experimental psychologist. Perhaps I have repressed the four years I spent as a clinical psychologist in a Veterans Administration Hospital. four years which have provided me with interesting anecdotal material which I freely employ in my classes. My interest in the experimental psychology of learning spills over into my function as a teacher. I enjoy teaching, or as I prefer to put it- arranging the conditions for learning. I see the role of the professor as one of stimulating students to study and to think. Probably my own reinforcement history has shaped these attitudes, but I am virtually convinced that the University is primarily a place to provoke the intellect and to shape intellectual behavior. I would not be surprised to discover that my students believe I have strong convictions, for I feel that a professor should have a point of view and be willing to express it. My own point of view allows little sympathy for the tender-minded approaches to the study of psychology. I even claim to be a tough-minded parent, but I must admit to discovering that my two children fages 10 and SQ can be even tougher-minded. They somehow fail to acknowledge Conly as children canj that their father is a behavioral expert, Perhaps I can have the last word on that, for I might say they have been conditioned to be that way. Proferror-Howard H. Kendler. Auofinfe Pr0fe.rr0r- Michael R. D'Amato. Arrirfrzzzi Profarror'-Plailip G. Zimbardo. Adjznzrf Arrirfmzi P1'0fe.r.f0r-Rita Rudel. Ifzitzwrforr-Alfred Cohn, Charles Greenbaum. ROMANCE AND SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE Cfafzifwzazfz-Richarcl A. Parker. During my 33 years of teaching at New York University, I have frequently been asked by students how I, with such a typical Anglo-Saxon name as Parker fmuch more suitable for an English butlerj, came to be a Professor of French. It's a fair questiong and now on the eve of retirement, I feel the urge to offer an explanation. In the hrst place, the name Parker is not Anglo-Saxon, but Norman-French: and bearers of it are to be found among the companions of William, Duke of Normandy, in his plun- dering expedition of 1066. It seems likely that an early mem- ber of the clan was the keeper of some nobleman's deer-park, since the family coat-of-arms contains deer upon it. Obviously I was following an old family tradition when I concentrated on French at the undergraduate and graduate level in the johns Hopkins University. Actually my undergraduate major was English, but I was gradually attracted from it to French literature by what seemed to me to be the superior qualities of intellectuality, critical spirit, psychological insight, and sophistication of French prose. However, I still prefer English poetry for its lyrical spirit and the wondrous melodic form of its versilication. As in the case of most peoples choice of a career, mine would seem to have been directed by a sort of inevitability. I slipped easily into what was almost a prepared niche. When still a senior. I was picked to be an assistant in French at johns Hopkins. Once in the graduate school, I won a fellow- ship Cfellowships were much scarcer in those days than nowj. and shortly afterward was appointed instructor. Already as an undergraduate, I had started to write book reviews for the weekly literary section of a local newspaper. and I had the difficult decision of renouncing a journalistic career for that of a professor. I have never regretted the choice and have found my greatest joy in the daily contact with burgeoning young mindsg and my literary flair has been cultivated too by the publication of three books ftwo more are in preparationj and of many articles and reviews of learned books. PI'0f6.i'.l'0I'lJOZ1ClL1lf1 Casalduero. Afmrinfe Proferrorr- Georges I, Brachfeld, Humberto Pinera, Alice M. Pol- lin, Floyd Zulli, lr. Arrirlfml Proferrorr-Bernard Garniez, Aldona Slepetys. I11.rf1'1zrl0r.r-Robert Donn, Margaret L. Eberbach, Zora R. Essman, Raquel Kersten, Amado Ricon, Richard L. Tedeschi.