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University of Rochester
Winter 1986-87

G.S.M.’s New Identity

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Now It’s the Simon School

The Review welcomes lettersfrom readers and will use
as many of them as space permits. Letters may be
editedfor brevity and clarity.

The Other Side of the Window 5
Radio station WRUR

The School at Society Corner

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Congratulations on your compelling, sensi­
tive—yes, magnificent photograph —on the
cover of the Fall 1986 Rochester Review. The pho­
tograph exudes compassion and tenderness as
well as bringing to focus what Tolstoy believed
to be the keystone of Christianity—the brother­
hood of man.
A medal should be pinned on the photogra­
pher for one of the most remarkable photo­
graphs of my lifetime.
Jack Grossfield ’31
Silver Spring, Maryland
A medal has been duly affixed to the shirtfront ofJeff
Goldberg Rochester Review staffphotographer. We
liked the photo, too —Editor.

Teaching in the segregated South

When Pain Does Not Sleep

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New treatments for chronic pain

The First Hundred Tears

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Centenarian George Abbott ’ll
Departm ents

Rochester in Review
Alumni Gazette
Alumnotes
UR Where You Are
In Memoriam
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page 19, collection of Mamie Garvin Fields;
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page 28, Kelly Burgess; page 29, Melissa
Knapp; page 39, courtesy of Daniel Schapiro;
page 48, Carol L. Newsom; all others,
Rochester Review staffphotos.
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above such petty considerations as the sex or
race of the caretaker. Eliminating discrimination
in this realm is just one more step in the direc­
tion of eliminating discrimination in general.
Thanks, Jim, and “Jess,” wherever you are!
Joan Goodman Ganz ’73
Albany

Jim Murphy and friends
Jim Murphy, RN
I was truly delighted to find your article on
Jim Murphy, RN in the Fall 1986 issue. I wish
all the best to this man who so eloquently rep­
resents the ideals of his profession.
I feel connected to this story, in a way. When
I entered the labor room at Strong Memorial
Hospital on January 10, 1977, the smiling and
enthusiastic nurse who greeted me had a curly
blond beard. “Jess” explained to us, as he deftly
carried out his duties, that his real name was
Bob, but they had nicknamed him to differen­
tiate him from the other Bob who worked there.
Though my husband and I may have registered
surprise upon meeting him, it was simultaneous
with approval, as his professionalism and warm
concern reassured us.
The labor/birth experience is the most mem­
orable one for most women, as much for its
difficulty as for its miraculous result. I commend
Jim Murphy for exemplifying the importance
of quality care and considerate human contact

On the cover: That’s WRUR-FMprogram
directorJacqueline Volin, a senior psych major
from East Hills, New York, hanging out at the
window that most station regulars usefor access
and egress. Why? It’sjust what you do, that’s
all. Behind her is DJ Kevin Tyle. The cover il­
lustration is a collaboration between Rochester
Review staffphotographerJeff Goldberg and
staff artist Sean McCormack.

Tourette’s
I found it a heartening coincidence that I
received my Rochester Review [Fall 1986], con­
taining the article on Tourette’s Syndrome, the
same day “St. Elsewhere” televised its show por­
traying a Tourette’s victim, tics, swears, and all.
I have known at least three people with Tour­
ette’s, one a severe case, and they were the
kindest of men. Tourette’s is a fascinating illness,
both in its deeply evolutionary roots, and from
the philosophical postulate that, if cursing is a
biologically isolated phenomenon, then perhaps
other antisocial behavior is as well.
As an epileptic, I welcome Tourette’s sufferers
into the family of illness gaining recognition,
comprehension, and self-understanding.
Wes Kobylak ’71
Tuscarora, New York
While it is fascinating and gratifying to
discover that the brain of a dead victim of
Tourette’s lacked the neurotransmitter dynorphin, I shudder at the idea to subject living
sufferers to the invasive procedure of “drawing
fluid from around their spinal cords” in order
to confirm this finding.
To discover whether or not a disease is heredi­
tary, is caused by a specific gene, is characterized
by a special configuration of neurotransmitters,
etc., is an interesting but purely academic
endeavor.
There is a much safer way in which to help
the unfortunate sufferers of Tourette’s and many
another affliction. The method was devised by
Samuel Hahnemann almost two hundred years
ago and when applied accurately, can alleviate and
often cure people with such disorders without
using the invasive measures for preliminary
research and risking the harmful side effects of

most experimental drugs. I am referring to
homeopathy.
For the homeopath, Stephen Braun’s state­
ment that “in the absence of a clear under­
standing of the cause of Tourette’s Syndrome, a
cure for the disease is impossible” is simply not
true. Some persons afflicted with Tourette’s may
be incurable, but many others are not. Homeo­
paths do not care to know the disease, but they
must know the individual person’s sufferings in
detail, since it is by matching the totality of a
person’s symptoms to a medicinal substance
that they find the appropriate remedy or reme­
dies. In truly holistic fashion, the homeopath
treats the patient, not the disease.
Hela Michot-Dietrich ’60G
Binghamton, New York
Gathering at the River
I read with interest your article on President
de Kiewiet [Summer 1986] and found I liked
him better in the author’s eyes then I ever did
through my own. As students from Prince
Street, I doubt if we knew of his interest in
bringing us to the “River Rat” campus. He was
away so much we never even caught a glimpse. ,
What a pity we could not meet his family and
hear his thoughts.
I am baffled by Ms. Brayer’s statement “by
1956 there was no dean of women” and further
no mention of Dean [Margaret] Habein, our
female representative, after whom the Susan B.
Anthony dormitories were affectionately called
“the Habein Hilton.”
As members of the last class of Princesses
from Prince Street, some of my classmates and
I still retain a nostalgia for our Cutler Union.
I’m glad I was able to taste of life in college
from both sides of the cup. The only victims I
see were the demise of K-scope (Kaleidoscope)
and Q-Club (Quilting), the “sexist” musicals
each campus put on each year.
Thank you for the insights into the personal
side of a man we never really knew.
Judith Frank Pearson ’58
Naples, Florida
You are right to be baffled. There was indeed a dean
of women until Ruth Merrill, as Habein’s successor,
retired severalyears after the move to the River Cam­
pus —Editor.
Pranks
In response to Mary Canavan’s request for
tales of college pranks for inclusion in her book:
In 1965 Tiernan dorm was a freshman men’s
dorm. Back then there was one telephone per
hall, and each room had a combination speaker/
microphone above the door. This was used for
communication with the University switchboard
so you could be informed in your room that a
phone call was coming. We thought these things
were something out of 1984.
Across the hall from me lived A1 Choate, my
partner in many crimes. On down the hall on
Choate’s side lived our long-suffering hall ad­
viser. A little investigation while the adviser was
out allowed us to determine which pair of wires
—of the many passing behind Choate’s squawkbox on their way to the other rooms down his
side of the hall —led to the adviser’s room.
We then set up the mark. A very official­
looking ditto was prepared, run off, and placed
under the adviser’s door: He had been chosen
to participate in a campus experiment to see if
people would benefit from a mixture of rock
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From
The President
Dennis O’Brien

Divestiture: Irony and Dilemma
At the inauguration of the new
president of Yale, I found myself in
the procession next to a veteran uni­
versity president whom I have known
for many years. Up ahead mounted
policemen were forcing back masked
demonstrators protesting Yale’s hold­
ings in USX and the fact that Cyrus
Vance, a member of the Yale Corpora­
tion, sits on the boards of several cor­
porations on the divestiture list. My
colleague remarked that it was ironic
that Mr. Vance, one of the rare polit­
ical figures to resign high office on
a matter of principle, should be the
focus of special attack. In his inaug­
ural address, Benno Schmidt spoke
at length on the subject of academic
freedom but ended by reflecting on
his own times as an undergraduate.
Quoting T. S. Eliot, he said that he
had the experience but missed the
meaning. A return to his alma mater
was a rare privilege to seek the mean­
ing. The chants and drumming of the
demonstrators filtered into the hall as
the audience applauded the president’s
sentiments.
The issue of apartheid/divestiture
and the universities is one in which
ironies abound, in which principled
action is often difficult and where
there is much experience but obscure
meaning. The University of Rochester
now faces a new aspect on the divesti­
ture issue. The University’s basic fac­
tual situation on divestiture has been
that we own no stocks in large compa­
nies, and it is only the large companies
that have investments in South Africa.
Rochester has been defacto “neutral.”
We have no extended ideological state­
ment that would restrict investments,
but in fact we do not at this time in­
vest in the disputed area. Starting last
spring, however, it was clear that facts
could change. The University made a
long-range decision to invest in large
corporations, and so exposure to the

divestiture controversy becomes pos­
sible. In the light of this possibility a
special committee of the trustees was
established to examine the ethical pa­
rameters of investing, and reported to
the Board in the fall*
I have argued that in political and
ethical controversies universities are
“conscientious noncombatants.” The
university exists as an arena for de­
bate and dispute on the most difficult
and passionate issues, but it refrains
as far as possible from taking stated
official positions. The self-restraint of
the university is a luxury denied to
public authorities and moral agencies
like churches and other ideological
organizations. State and church exist
to act and exhort, and they often must
act though the arguments are unclear
and unfinished. The university contin­
ues the debate.
The university is entitled to retain
a position as a conscientious noncom(continued on page 38)

*Pointing out that “any review o f ethical deci­
sions in regard to the University’s portfolio could
not be fixed once and fo r all, ’’the Special Com­
mittee on Investing and Ethical Standards recom­
mended that the president appoint a committee of
trustees, faculty, and students to conduct an an­
nual review o f the University’s portfolio. This
committee would be charged with seeking out and
bringing to the attention o f the Investment Com­
mittee, fo r immediate review and serious consid­
eration, its recommended action concerning “any
company in the portfolio that had flagrantly and
persistently violated the general ethical principles. ”
“Basically, ” the committee’s report continued,
“we recommend the University insist, in choosing
companies for investment, on the same [high]
ethical standards it has chosen fo r itself. . . .
“Although what we are recommending would
be harder to apply than a simple blanket rule,
and although our way w ill not fin d agreement
everywhere on our campus, we believe it is in
keeping with the University’s ethical standards
and our determination to maintain an open
forum. ”

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G.S.M .’s New Identity:
JNow i t s th e ¡Sim on ¡School

W I L L I A M

E.

SIMON

GRADUATE SCHOOL

OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Eponym: Former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon with President O’Brien at a press conference introducing the new designation.

Pronouncing it “a time for new ventures,” the
Graduate School of Management on November 6
took on a new identity and a new mission. As the
William E. Simon Graduate School of Business
Administration—renamed for the former Secre­
tary of the Treasury—the school has embarked on
a ten-year development plan, to be supported by
$30 m illion in new endowment funds.
This “entrepreneurial move” is another step
forward in Rochester’s bid for a place, within the
next five years, among the top one percent of the
nation’s universities.

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hey unveiled the gleaming new eight-foot-long bronze
nameplate. They introduced the crisp new Simon
School logo —and broke out the “first-edition” Simon

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School T-shirts displaying it. There was a luncheon meeting
of the new high-calibre advisory committee drawn from
leading business, financial, and nonprofit enterprises.
There was a student-faculty convocation, and an evening
reception and dinner. And capping the day-long festivities,
President O’Brien read aloud the resolution passed by the
Board of Trustees that made it all official.
It was November 6, 1986, and the William E. Simon
Graduate School of Business Administration had ceremoni­
ously embarked on its new identity and its new future.
The renaming is part of an overall strategy to move
Rochester’s twenty-eight-year-old business school from its
current leading position to a place among the half-dozen
foremost graduate business programs in the nation. A tenyear development plan and $30 million in new endowment
will support that goal.
At the time of the rededication, the Simon School had
already achieved $21 million toward the $30 million goal.
Included in that sum is $15 million that William Simon

Headquarters: Dean Paul W. MacAvoy backed by Dewey Hall, home
of the Simon School. MacAvoy had this to say of the new association
with Simon: “He’s a path-breaking entrepreneur and this is an entre­
preneurial venture.” Dewey Hall was itself named for the proponent
of an earlier entrepreneurial venture —Chester Dewey, a member of
the University’s original faculty who in 1845 had first proposed the
establishment of an institution of higher learning in Rochester.

raised through his own contributions and through support
from organizations with which he is associated.
“William Simon is the embodiment of what our newly
named school will stand for,” says Simon School dean Paul

A firm foundation
Founded in 1958, the University’s graduate business
school is still considered a “young school.” But it has
already become known for instilling in its graduates
a particularly solid grounding in business problem­
solving. Simon School students receive a firm founda­
tion in economics and in the quantitative methods they
need for analysis in today’s business environment —as
William Simon says, “a useful way to think about the
real world.”
Some illustrations of the status the school has already
achieved are these:
• Three top academic journals are edited by Simon
faculty: the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Jour­
nal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Monetary
Economics. The 1984 Social Science Citation Index rates
each of these as top among those in its area of speciali­
zation —accounting, finance, and macroeconomics.
• A study of 106 economics departments has ranked
the economists at the school seventh in the number of
citations other economists have made of their work, and
second in the quality and the number of papers the
faculty has published.
• Major business-related publications have also been
recognizing the school’s growing stature: Writing in
Fortune, guest columnist Joel Stern, a prominent busi­
ness analyst, named the school one of the four best in
the nation. Business Week cited a survey of corporate
executives that ranked it in the top twenty nationwide.
• The school’s information systems program has
been recognized as among the best there is. In 1985,

W. MacAvoy, who describes him as an intelligent and crea­
tive risk-taker who relies on an understanding of economics
as the basis for creative decision-making. “We, in turn,”
MacAvoy adds, “are one of the few business schools to em­
phasize economics as the foundation for all of our courses
in the functional fields of management.”
{The New York Times, in its story on the renaming,
phrased it this way: “Rochester is ranked second only to
the University of Chicago as a center for its free market
economic philosophy, with an emphasis on deregulation
and monetarism.”)
A former Secretary of the Treasury and a notably suc­
cessful entrepreneur, Simon has been described as “an
innovator—with a firm grasp on the economic rights and
opportunities that secure a free society. ”
He is currently chairman of the board of Wesray Corpo­
ration, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey. He has
used Wesray as a vehicle to acquire undervalued assets,
many of which have then been turned into highly profitable
investments. (Three of the best known are Gibson Greeting
Cards, Wilson Sporting Goods, and Avis Corporation.)
n recent months he has worked with the school in form­
ing its new Executive Advisory Committee, which in­
cludes, in addition to Simon, and among other interna­
tionally known business and governmental figures: Henry
Kissinger, former Secretary of State; David T. Kearns ’52,
chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation;

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the school received a $2-million grant from the IBM
Corporation for education and research in this area.
It was one of only thirteen grants awarded among the
200 schools participating in the competition.
Among the faculty who bring recognition to Roch­
ester are Karl Brunner, an internationally respected
monetary authority; George Benston, an expert on
financial institutions; Ross Watts and Jerold Zimmer­
man, who have co-developed the positive theory of
accounting; and Michael C. Jensen, director of the
school’s Managerial Economics Research Center and
founder of the Journal of Financial Economics.
Paul W. MacAvoy, dean of the school, is an authority
on the consequences of governmental regulation of bus­
iness. He was a distinguished professor at Yale and
M IT before joining Rochester as dean in 1983. Under
his direction the school has begun new programs in
manufacturing management and information-system
economics and has embarked on joint international
efforts with Erasmus University in the Netherlands and
Keio University in Japan.
The Simon School graduates some 150 M.B.A.’s a
year. Its Executive Development Program for managers
who study part time is one of the first of its kind any­
where; its widely recognized Ph.D. program prepares
graduates who teach in other leading business schools
throughout the country.
As Dean MacAvoy puts it: “Management education
here is already among the most challenging. With
William Simon as role model, the challenge to excel
will be even greater.”

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The Simon’s Simon
“From my earliest years,” writes William E. Simon,
the eponym of the University’s newly named Simon
School of Business Administration, “I was convinced
that the secret to true independence was to create sig­
nificant wealth. And I wanted to be truly independent.
“During my college days, my views on wealth were
further shaped by the writings of Andrew Carnegie.
He made an indelible impression on me when he wrote
that ‘if you create wealth, you are basically a trustee of
that wealth. It must be given, along with your own time
and effort, for the betterment of the community. ’
“In my judgment, there can be no more worthwhile
venture than a school whose graduates have the skills to
pursue economic opportunity in a new spirit of free
enterprise.”
William Simon has demonstrated his own spirit of
free enterprise in a financial career that began in 1952,
when he joined Union Securities fresh out of Lafayette
College with an undergraduate degree in business and
law. Only five years later he was vice president of
Weeden & Company.
Now chairman of the board of Wesray Corporation,
a leveraged buyout concern that has met with spectacu­
lar success, Simon has in the intervening years served
in many high-ranking posts —in both the private sector
and in government.

T. Boone Pickens, general partner, Mesa Limited Partner­
ship; Sir Ian MacGregor of Lazard Brothers & Co., Ltd.,
former chairman of Britain’s National Coal Board; Alex­
ander M. Haig, Jr., president of Worldwide Associates, Inc.
(and another former Secretary of State and also former
White House chief of staff).
Principal objectives of the ten-year development program
are the establishment of a number of new “named” profes­
sorships as a way of attracting preeminent senior scholars;
creation of new fellowships for outstanding junior faculty
and students; and the addition of an adjunct faculty made
up of leading business executives who can bring to the
school their real-world experience in successful manage­
ment. The school also plans to initiate two pioneering jour­
nals: one on manufacturing management and the other on
the management of information systems —two areas in
which the school is well prepared to speak authoritatively.
he Simon School dean became acquainted with
William Simon during the Ford Administration:
MacAvoy served on the Council of Economic Advisers
when Simon was Secretary of the Treasury. Simon notes
that his own involvement with the school was “a growing
and natural process, over a number of years.”
“My most recent association grew out of my experience
with, and regard for, Dean MacAvoy,” he says. “But my
respect for the University of Rochester goes back a number
of years to when W. Allen Wallis, now Under Secretary of
State, was chancellor there.

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Before going to Washington in the 1970s, he spent
some time on Wall Street, as head of the government
and municipal securities departments at Salomon
Brothers, where he was also one of seven partners on
the firm’s executive committee.
He was called to Washington as Deputy Secretary of
the Treasury in 1973 and later that same year became
the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office. In
1974 he was appointed the sixty-third Secretary of the
Treasury and held that cabinet post for three years. He
was also designated chairman of the East-West Trade
Board.
More recently, the energetic Mr. Simon has chaired
President Reagan’s Productivity Commission and is
now a member of his Economic Policy Advisory Board.
For over twenty years he has been a member of the
U.S. Olympic Committee, including a term as its pres­
ident during the 1984 Olympics. Now he chairs the
board of trustees of the newly created U.S. Olympic
Foundation and is involved in numerous other busi­
ness, public service, and charitable activities. Among
these numerous other pursuits is authorship: He has
written two best-selling books, A Time for Truth and
A Time for Action.

Big bill: Back in the seventies, a River Campus graffito artist repro­
duced a large economy-size dollar bill in the tunnel under the quad­
rangle. When the then Secretary of the Treasury, in the person of
William Simon, paid a subsequent visit to Rochester, he was invited
to add a touch of authenticity by affixing a genuine signature —an
invitation he accepted with both alacrity and agility.

“Gradually, I grew to know more about the University’s
business school, and I came to recognize this school as one
of the few in the country—maybe the only one —truly com­
mitted to fostering the kind of creative risk-taking in busi­
ness that I believe our nation sorely needs.” ■

The O ther Side of the Window
By Denise Bolger Kovnat

Radio station WRUR
broadcasts twenty hours a day,
365 days a year—on a relatively
modest signal of 1,000 watts.
But its real power lies in the ex­
traordinary affection Rochester
students, past and present, hold
for it.
f you’re really a WRUR insider,
the standard way to enter the
studio is through the window and
across the couch. Make a more
conventional entrance and you’re
not cool. (Even UPS drops its
packages through the window.)
Step down from the couch
and you’re in the FM control
room. From there you might
make your way through the
record collection, the AM
control room, and the
transmitter room to hang
out in what is loosely des­
ignated as “the lounge.”
The lounge mainly
consists of couches and
chairs sprinkled at odd
angles, oozing wads of
extruded padding in
an aroma of dank
and mold. You can
(vaguely) identify
the styles as colo­
nial or Queen
Anne or contem­
porary, but they
all exhibit what one
DJ calls “a SaturdayNight-Live quality.” (“Jacquard?” says
a student. “Is that what it is? I thought
it was just ugly.”)
“Nobody knows where that stuff
comes from,” admits station adviser
(and director of student activities)
Rob Rouzer ’72, whose WRUR affili­
ation goes back to his undergraduate
days.
But the furnishings are part of the

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WRUR Station
manager Charlie
Henneman ’87, a political science
major from Princeton, New Jersey,
inches down a shoulder-wide aisle in the station’s
record library. The archive is crammed floor to ceiling
with an eye-popping collection of rock, jazz, folk, gospel, blues,
and classical albums.

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Krupsak ’53. She went on to become
New York State’s lieutenant governor.)
They say that WRUR gets in your
blood, and probably into your genes
too, and they tell about people work­
ing at the station whose parents used
to work there when they were students.
And then they point to Tara Santmire
hen you compare the furni­
’88, whose parents —Toni (Engst ’60,
ture with the broadcast
equipment, you can see where the’68G, ’70G) and Charles Santmire
’62 —actually met at the station.
priorities lie. The AM mixing console
Those who really know and love the
is brand new; the AM broadcast con­
station
call it “RUR”—which stands
sole is a still serviceable six years old.
for,
as
well
as anyone can discern,
The up-to-date tape machines allow
“Radio
University
of Rochester.”
some remarkably sensitive editing.
RUR
broadcasts
from
the basement
From board to transmitter, the related
of
Todd
Union
at
least
twenty hours
processing equipment, with lights and
a
day,
365
days
a
year,
at 88.5 on
dials that glow in high-tech reds,
the
FM
dial
—
as
it
has
for twenty
greens, and yellows, is less than three
years.
If
you
live
in
a
dorm
on the
years old. And there are various stateRiver
Campus,
you
can
hear
the
of-the-art signal-processing toys, in­
station’s AM counterpart at 640.
cluding an “Optimod” that, says chief
WRUR-AM is even older. It has been
engineer Dan Luna ’87, is “the best
on the air, through the electrical wir­
there is.” The only thing that isn’t new
ing system, since 1948.
is the transmitter, which Luna charac­
WRUR-FM has a relatively modest
terizes as “antiquated, but functional.”
signal
of 1,000 watts (to give you a
And then there’s the record collec­
comparison,
some larger metropolitan
tion. WRUR has an impressive ar­
commercial
stations
broadcast at
chive of rock, jazz, folk, gospel, blues,
20,000 to 50,000 watts). This lack of
and classical —compressed neatly into
signal power is compounded by the
packed rows filling a twelve-by-twelve
placement
of the antenna on top of
room.
low-lying
Todd
Union.
“You go in there and you see ten
But WRUR’s real power lies in the
thousand records and your eyes just
affection that students, past and pres­
sort of pop out of your head,” says
ent,
feel for it.
Victor Frank ’79, former FM program
“I
have nothing but fond memories
director and now an associate pro­
of the place,” says Vic Frank. “When
ducer for CBS Sports in New York.
I’m back in Rochester I never go by
The station is a haven for music
without stopping in.
lovers, budding disc jockeys, journalist
“It was something about the cama­
types, electronics jocks, and general
raderie. It was something about pull­
hangers-on.
ing off a show. But mostly it was the
Stories of life at WRUR resound
people: technoids with screwdrivers
and reverberate into legend. There
hanging
out of their pockets, guys
was the time, they tell, when Yoko
who came in wasted but would put
Ono sent a personal check for $1,000
a show together.”
after a disc jockey wrote her a letter
FM program director and disc
asking for a contribution.
jockey
Jacqueline Volin ’87 beams and
It is told that an entire football
says, “Just walking by Todd and see­
game was once broadcast with the
ing the antenna gives me a good
transmitter on “off.” (More recently,
feeling.
someone kibitzing with a disc jockey
“It’s an outlet. A release. For the
in the FM control room threw the
disc jockeys, it’s a release to take your
station off the air by leaning back
backpack and throw it in a corner and
comfortably—on the transmitter.)
go completely wild for a few hours.
There’s a story that the first woman
ever elected to state-wide office in New It’s kind of a cathartic thing. And it’s
social. We get together, we do stupid
York got her start in public life work­
things, we act immature, we have
ing at the station. (That’s Mary Anne
fun.”
She tells about the medical student/
disc jockey, Kevin Hirsch ’86M,

WRUR mystique. Jacqueline Volin
’87, FM program director and disc
jockey, says, “It’s like your old teddy
bear that’s so beat up nobody even
knows it’s a teddy bear, but you love
it. It’s so comfortable, it’s home.”

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known as “Trim Hunter” (a name
borrowed from the movie 48 Hours),
who was famed for a game called
“Message in the Music.” Callers were
supposed to guess a person, place, or
thing hinted at in a song title. The
first caller with the right answer won
a prize, an album or a ticket to some
event. Anyone who called in after that
got what Hunter called “intellectual
satisfaction.”
“Everyone loved him,” says Volin.
“He’s now working at a hospital in
San Diego. We hear from him every
once in a while.”
College radio stations tend to at­
tract “incredible loyalty,” says Jeff
Tellis, president of the Intercollegiate
Broadcasting System, the organization
that serves as the clearinghouse for in­
formation on college stations nation­
wide.
“Those who choose to go into cam­
pus radio—whether or not they ulti­
mately choose radio as a career —
benefit in so many ways, both person­
ally and professionally. The radio
station is unique among college or­
ganizations, because people will live
there. ”
(In at least one way, it really is like
home. A sign-up sheet in the FM con­
trol room states emphatically: “All
FM DJs must sign up for Tuesday
clean-up shift. Every Tuesday night
from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. is station
clean-up time. RS. Don’t blow it off.”
It was Monday night, and no one had
signed up.)
n estimated 150 students are
members of WRUR, making it
one of the largest organizations on
campus in terms of student participa­
tion.
Like many commercial radio sta­
tions, WRUR has a station manager,
program directors and engineers for
both FM and AM, a business manager,
a promotions director, a news director,
a special programming director, a
production engineer, a sports director,
a public-service announcement/opera­
tions director, an AM advertising and
sales director, and an administrative
assistant. Station members elect an
executive board, which in turn ap­
points a governing board to oversee
day-to-day activities.
The station is non-profit, with a
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Music director Paul Iverson 88, a cognitive science major
from Fayetteville, New York, pauses by the “antiquated but
functional” transmitter, the only piece of broadcast equip­
ment that isn’t virtually brand new.

DJ Fred C. Holtz ’88, an English major from
Birmingham, Michigan, can be found
daily at the FM broadcast
console serving up a
tasty “Folk
Lunch.”

In contrast to the no-nonsense decor of the
control room, the WRUR business office
abounds with character. Progressive-rock
DJ Jen Semo, a junior from Syracuse,
finds a temporary perch on the desk.

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Rochester Broadcasting Corporation
—an organization that hasn’t met in
years, according to associate dean of
students Bill Spelman.
“There haven’t been any issues,” he
explains. “If somebody had to get that
board together for a legal reason, I
think they’d scramble.” Spelman adds
that most student organizations on
campus are similar in their absence of
faculty involvement, a carry-over from
the late 1960s.
Autonomy is one of WRUR’s great­
est strengths, according to many ob­
servers. Students are left pretty much
to their own devices in running the
station, and, while the University pays
the rent and utilities, WRUR is other­
wise funded totally by the Students’
Association. That means students
make all the decisions on how to
spend the budget.
t some $40,000 annually,
WRUR’s budget is the largest of
any student activity, surpassing even
that of the Wilson Commons Program
Board. Much of the money goes to
fund the Associated Press wire service
and to cover equipment depreciation
costs. (“Do the couches come under
depreciation?” one student asks with a
grin. “Yes, they’re fully depreciated,”
answers chief engineer Dan Luna.)
“You’re the captain of the ship,
basically,” says former station man­
ager Ted Vaczy ’80, now a senior
programmer-analyst for the Univer­
sity. “You’re choosing your course and
that’s what makes it so special. You’ll
hear, ‘Ted Vaczy, this was your mis­
take,’ or ‘Ted Vaczy, that was great!’
Autonomy is a priceless attribute of
the facility.”
Says Rouzer, “A lot of it simply has
to do with the degree of commitment,
the level of responsibility and account­
ability—and that develops a really
strong sense of ownership. Most
students don’t react that way over the
board plan, or their residence hall, or
even their academic program.”
That sense of ownership was almost
lost in 1979 when WXXI-FM, the
Rochester area’s public radio station,
sought another frequency to expand
its programming and attempted to
join forces with WRUR.
It wasn’t all W XXI’s doing. Stu­
dents at that time were looking to in­
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and turned to WXXI-FM to help
secure a spot for the antenna on
higher ground off-campus. WXXIFM responded —reasonably enough —
with a quid pro quo.
The students broadcast their re­
sponse, loud and clear: The station
was their own, and they wanted it to
stay that way.
Commenting on this story, Inter­
collegiate Broadcasting System pres­
ident Tellis says, “I’m absolutely a
believer in student staffing. At NPR
stations where students are only al­
lowed to load tape machines or some­
thing, they don’t get anything out of
it. These agreements are made with
the best of intentions, but it just
doesn’t work.”
The list of WRUR alumni who
graduated to careers in communica­
tions testifies to the benefits of auton­
omy. To name a few: Vic Frank, the
CBS sports producer; John Walsh ’79,
chief engineer at Rochester’s CBS-TV
affiliate; Steve Alperin ’83 and current
student Rob Stephenson, both techni­
cians at Walsh’s station; Lenny Bart
’80, a research analyst for Paramount
Pictures in Los Angeles; and Steve
Katz ’79, former WRUR news direc­
tor, now with the London bureau of
the Associated Press. Another, Chris
Shirer ’82, described by one station
member as “the last of WRUR’s great
special-programming directors,” is
reported to be working in radio in
Pittsburgh. And there are others.
Frank of CBS says, “Because you
run the station —and students really
do run the station—you get good
hands-on experience, better than what
you’d get from just taking a course.”
Rouzer summarizes, “It’s there to
educate, like every other aspect of the
University.”
But a WRUR education doesn’t
stop at professional training. Students
can learn something about public
speaking, or management and fi­
nance, or creativity, or music —or
themselves.
Ted Vaczy tells this story:
“I started school as a very intro­
verted person, and ended up the
general manager of a station with
150 people working there. It was a
business; we had a budget; I dealt
with University administrators and
served on an advisory committee to
President Sproull. It brought me out
of my shell.”

For others, WRUR is just plain
fun.
Says Jacqueline Volin, “One perfect
mix [playing music for a show] is all
you need. In the biz we call it ‘The
Perfect Segue.’
“There are times when you cue a
record so that one song begins just as
another ends —and it shoots you right
up to the top of the transmitter.”
On this particular evening, Volin
has a show from nine p.m. to mid­
night. The clock blinks the countdown
from 8:59, and progressive rock plays
from the speakers overhead.
She introduces her show in a smoky
alto and spins a song called “The
Living Kind” by the group Ups and
Downs. As she runs back and forth to
the record files, she shrugs and says,
“This is going to be one of those
nights where I wing it. I sat in the
Commons from eleven to four work­
ing on a paper. ”
A call comes in.
“RUR.... Sure.... What can I play
for you —Swamp Thing or Mad
Jack?”
Various unidentified people roam
around on various unidentified mis­
sions. At one point, five people crowd
the small room.
“The only reason I took a nine-totwelve show is to keep people from
hanging out in the studio,” she jokes.

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he truth is, the station comes
alive at night. Rob Rouzer re­
calls, from his student days at WRUR,
“one Sunday night from midnight till

three:
“We’d go from classical to John
Cage to Stéphane Grapelli to Frank
Zappa to the Beach Boys and then
we’d do giveaways and we’d get mil­
lions of calls.”
WRUR’s programming is as diverse
as the mix Rouzer describes. Jazz is
featured on weekday mornings, fol­
lowed by a session of folk music and,
on Fridays, “The Jewish Sound.”
Weekday afternoons and evenings
are devoted to what is called “Radio
One”: sounds of rock groups on the
cutting edge of musical trends.
Weekends begin with “Rejuvena­
tion,” a musical-history trip through
the forties, fifties, and sixties —fol­
lowed by a “Blacks and Blues” show
Friday evening—and are largely com­
posed of classical programming along

with gospel, Latin, jazz, and black
classical music. News and special pro­
gramming such as call-in shows and
broadcasts of major University events
round out the FM schedule.
The AM side of the station, which
broadcasts to residence halls only and
serves more as a training ground, pro­
grams mostly “mainstream” rock and
top-forty hits.
WRUR’s slogan is “The Trend Set­
ter,” and FM’s “Radio One” show is
the place where it earns the title. In
fact, the station is well known for its
early spotting of musical trends —to
the extent that four members were in­
vited recently to address the topic at
the annual convention of the College
Media Journal, a New York City
publication.
olin attributes the quality of
“Radio One” to WRUR’s
“wonderful importing service, the
Lakeshore Record Exchange,” in
nearby Charlotte. The service under­
writes “Radio One” by providing
records each week in exchange for a
mention on the show. Lakeshore,
along with albums provided by all the
major record companies, has made it
possible for the station to feature
musicians like the Police, Talking
Heads, the Eurythmics, the GoGos,
R.E.M., and Elvis Costello long before
they became big on commercial radio.
(All major record labels provide new
releases free to college stations, be­
cause these stations serve as ports of
entry for many new groups.)
As Volin says, “College radio is the
groundbreaker for a lot of new bands.
If they make it on college radio, a lot
of commercial stations will listen and
look at the playlists. That’s where col­
lege stations have their underground
appeal.”
WRUR’s “underground” appeal
extends beyond the campus to the
Rochester community at large. De­
pending on the radio receiver and the
nearby terrain, many Rochesterians
can —and do —pick it up. (Certain
anonymous, slightly weird fans like
“A1 the Foot Man” and “Uncle
Scrooge” call and write letters
constantly.)
Moreover, community volunteers
are heavily involved as disc jockeys
year-round and fill in during breaks

and in the summer (to satisfy FCC
requirements for continuous programming).
“RUR is really a part of the radio
market in Rochester. In retrospect, I
find that’s valuable,” says sports pro­
ducer and RUR alum Vic Frank.
Valuable to the students as a learn­
ing tool —but valuable also to the
community for its programming.
John Andres, a teacher in a nearby
school district who has been a volun­
teer at WRUR on and off since 1972,
says: “There are eighteen FM stations
in this market. WRUR is one of only
two that program classical music, and
one of only a few that program pro­
gressive rock and folk.”
Tellis of the Intercollegiate Broad­
casting System puts it this way: “Col­
lege radio provides an alternative kind
of programming not found in com­
mercial or even public radio. Nobody
else is really recognizing the needs of
that particular listener.”
Because WRUR is viewed at the
University as a community station,
increasing the broadcasting power and
thus increasing the potential audience
is a long-term goal, Rouzer says. A
move was made in 1970, after the ex­
isting transmitter was purchased, to
broadcast at the full capacity of 20,000
watts. But the signal interfered, spec­
tacularly, with chemistry research proj­
ects going on next door in Lattimore
Hall. “Needles were jumping off
meters all over the place,” recalls one
fascinated observer. Wattage was sum­
marily decreased to the present 1,000.
Another effort was begun around
1979, at the time when public radio
station WXXI approached the Uni­
versity, but plans were again scuttled.
Rouzer is optimistic about the most
recent effort. “I’ve been working on
this for about three years now, and
I’ve been through a lot of hoops on it.
I think things will fall into place this
time.”
What’s involved, in addition to
finding an off-campus location for the
transmitter, he says, is sifting through
government regulations and require­
ments. For various reasons, the FCC,
the FAA, and the FDA all must ap­
prove increased wattage and the relo­
cation of the transmitter. After that,
the state dormitory authority has to
give its approval. And then the station
must refine its sound, says Jacqueline
Volin, “to give a more professional
aspect” to the station.

nd money must be found as
well. Rouzer estimates that the
improvements will cost $75,000 to
$100,000. And judging from WRUR’s
annual budget, that expense would
have to be amortized over a number
of years.
Financial concerns aside, the im­
portant question is whether WRUR
will still be the same free-spirited op­
eration with a broadcast signal twenty
times more powerful than it is now.
Some observers fear the University
would want more control.
Ted Vaczy comments, “If the cost of
20,000 watts is the loss of autonomy,
I’d say it isn’t worth it. That would
spoil the whole environment.”
He characterizes that environment
as “a bunch of people doing the best
they can with the equipment they’ve
got to try and produce something for
the community and at the same time
learn for themselves what it is to run
a radio station.”
A radio station that includes thou­
sands of records packed in a very
small space, a basement-full of rav­
aged furniture, state-of-the-art broad­
casting equipment, and some of the
most enthusiastic and loyal personnel
you’ll find anywhere—working free-ofcharge. A radio station that undergoes
almost a complete staff turnover every
four years and yet still retains a thread
of continuity and a sense of responsi­
bility to the community at large.
A radio station that you enter
through the window and leave with
the words, “This is WRUR signing

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off. ”

A radio station that, if you’re like
some people, you never really leave
behind. ■
Denise Bolger Kovnat communicates with the
University community through the pages of its
weekly house organ, Currents, which she edits.

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The School at Society C om er
By Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields

Mamie Fields in her classroom, circa 1935. At first she taught a hundred children in that one room, without an assistant.

In the 1920s, a black
wom an who wanted to teach
in the city schools of segre­
gated C harleston, South
C arolina, had to be a “m aiden
lady.” So M am ie Garvin
Fields, m arried and the mother
o f two young sons, took a job
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Island, three (frequently long)
m iles outside the city.
T his chapter in her life is
taken from a rem arkable piece
of oral history, Lemon Swamp
and Other Places, a collabora­
tion betw een M am ie Fields
and her granddaughter K aren,
director of the U n iversity’s
new Frederick Douglass
Institute.

y first year on James Island, I
had to wait on the corner of
President Street for Reverend Ball’s
“bus,” rain or shine. The second year
I moved up in the world and got a car.
Bob and I hardly got through say­
ing that we must think about how
to buy one when we had luck. Sister
Ruth’s husband, Edward Collins,
came over one afternoon to tell us
that a white woman’s car was for sale

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because she had put it up gambling
in a card game and lost. “You can get
that car for $150 from a certain Miz
Pinckney, Bob.” “Great day!” said Bob.
“We’ll get it.” He went right out with
Eddie, and the two of them came back
riding in our black T Model Ford, a
get-out-and-get-under Ford that you
crank.
He called us to the door when he
got back by pushing on that old-time
Ford horn: gonkle-gonkle-gonkle! Oh, the
boys ran out and fell in love with the
car right there and then. While they
were falling in love, I was taking a
long look. I had two weeks left before
school opening to learn to drive.
Bob said, “Get in, and I’ll show
you.” The seats put you right up
straight and close to a great big wheel,
which was hard for me to turn. I had
to push it around a little with one
hand, hold it, push some more with
the other hand, hold that. Then, be­
ing short, I sat low in the seat, reach­
ing up to do all of that. “Oh, Bob,
I’m not going to be able to drive this
thing in time!” So after that first
lesson, Bob decided to get me a pro­
fessional driving instructor.
/ e got our neighbor, Joseph
Gathers, who was the chauf­
feur to a family that lived on the Bat­
tery. A professional driver, he taught
the girls in some of our aristocratic
families to drive. Oh, wasn’t Mr.
Gathers tickled pink to be teaching a
black woman, for once. He showed me
how to crank and how to “get under.”
(You had to know about various ad­
justments, since we didn’t have service
stations everywhere.)
Along with the mechanical lessons,
I got the practice. We went up the
road to Sans Souci Street, way back
to the end where nobody was living
then. And Mr. Gathers would carry
me around and around (a-jerk and
a-jerk). Oh, my, I had a time. But Mr.
Gathers never seemed to change from
being happy to teach me. I soon got
to the place where I could control the
car pretty well —except for the narrow
turns. (Those I never could manage.
I used to go gonkle-gonkle for Rob and
Alfred to take my car into the drive­
way. That’s how they learned to drive.)
Anyhow, we held off the test until
the last minute before I had to start
school.

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Well, when I walked in the bureau
on St. Phillips Street with Mr.
Gathers, the officer smiled to beat the
band. “Joe, I see you brought one of
your girls today!” He didn’t know that
he soon wouldn’t be smiling so wide.
But he got in and off we went, every­
thing just fine until Calhoun Street,
the man still happy to have me. But I
had to turn into Calhoun, so I turned
into Calhoun, and the next thing I
knew, flip-flap, I saw this sailor jump
back —I mean, jump back brisk—and
then of course I didn’t see him because
I was on down Calhoun, and so scared
to death until I didn’t look at him or
the officer, who took in air.
Um\ Done flunked the test! The cop
wasn’t grinning anymore when he got
out and went to his table. The poor
sailor probably was still out there
wondering who was that black woman
carrying that white man down the
avenue.
Mr. Gathers didn’t say or look a
word, although he said to me later on,
“Miss Mamie, you sure turned on the
fast side.” However, the officer said
only one sentence, “You’d better take
care of this car well. ” And he handed
me my permit. Goodness! I was ready
for James Island, after all.
So was Fannie Greenwood [a teacher
in one of the other schools on James
Island], who got a big Pierce Arrow
that same summer. Now the two of
us could carry the teachers to school
until more learned to drive. But —
wouldn’t you know it —the heaviest
rains came that fall, and your car
couldn’t get you to school; you needed
a boat as well.
We were riding along when, all of
a sudden, I had to stop, because the
road turned into a “lake. ” While we
thought about what to do next, here
came some boys rowing over to us
in “battoes,” the little flat boats that
many people kept.
Now, you know what’s next as much
as we did: We were supposed to get in
those little boats. But goodness, those
battoes hardly seemed big enough to
carry the boys who were rowing.
“/ got to get on that?” we each said,
looking at the battoe, our own feet,
and then out to judge how deep the
“lake” was. Well, at some time you
just have to stop looking at doing
what you don’t want and go ahead
with it.
So we went ahead and oh, my, such
a puffing and blowing that morning,

while the ladies struggled to get on the
battoes. I said “on. ” You had to put
your surer foot forward and step down
on it. If you tried to step in it, from the
side anywhere, then you were liable
to push the little boat right out from
under you!
So each one let the boy try to hold
the boat still with his pole in one hand,
and take the lady’s hand in the other.
Now, on her side, the lady tried to
give the boy one hand, but she tried to
keep her dress over her knees and her
hat on her head with the other. Oh,
we had a time. The God’s-eye view of
that must have been something; the
Lord saw a sight.
n hurricane and high-tide days,
we walked the rest of the way to
school, after crossing the “lake.” So,
leaving Charleston, we got to our
neighborhoods on James Island by
car, by bridge, by battoe, and on foot.
James Island was only three miles
from Charleston. But Society Corner
sometimes was far, far away.
Society Corner was far away, and
it soon was full. Before long we had
another teacher, Thelma Simmons,
and three separate departments —first
and second grades in the cottage,
third and fourth in Thelma’s side of
the school, fifth, sixth, and seventh in
my side. Having seven grades and a
school with three teachers was high
class in the county. They had no high
school. Even in the city, a Negro child
who finished eighth grade had all the
“higher education” that most Negroes
could get. Seventh grade in the coun­
try was so good until we made a cer­
emony and gave the children little
certificates that I ordered from the
Jenkins Orphanage printing shop.
My graduates on James Island trea­
sured those.
Most of the children didn’t get that
far because they stopped school in
order to work. Many never came at
all. No matter how big the classes got,
the teachers in the county would go
out to find the school-age children
who never came. By surveying those
who did Come, we knew to go direct to
the family and ask in particular about
“Rosa,” say, or about “Leon.” Often
their answer was “I will send Rosa,
but Leon, ee ain’t ’got no shoe,” or “ee
ain’t got no shut.” And many is the
time we had to go back to one of the

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churches, the City Federation, or just
to our friends, and ask the people to
donate clothes.
Sometimes we got new clothes,
sometimes second-hand things. In a
way, one was as good as the other, if
it let a boy or girl learn to read and
write. But in another way, it wasn’t.
Something I hated on the island was
the way some white people used to sell
cast-offs to poor Negro families. The
ladies of Burn Church used to gather
together all kinds of junk—the old
pair of pointed-toe shoes, the ragged
overalls, even the nightshirt —and
then call the black people over one
day to buy. I think that if a Christian
has rummage, he will give it to those
in need; he will not take the little
money the needy have in return for
it. But that’s one method they had of
raising money.
White people had so many ways to
degrade the Negro. I always tried to
oppose that. All the teachers had a
hard time, as it was, to make each
child understand that he was somebody.
I’ll never forget one day that the chil­
dren came running back from the
yard into school. One little boy ran
up front. “Miz Fields, THATBOYOVERTHEREHECUSSMEBLACK.” “Say what?” Some were
holding onto another little boy
behind. “He cuss me black, Miz
Fields.” “Cuss? Nobody can cuss you
black. You are black.” What did I say!
Every bit of the pushing and moving
stopped, the children all ears. “And
I am black.” Silence. “Black isn’t a
cuss. You can’t fight over that.”

By that time, the child in front had
stopped crying and was one of those
telling the story back to me. “Now
you all go on back out there and tell
anybody that they cannot ‘cuss you
black.’ You are black and glad of it.”
I smiled a whole lot when the chil­
dren in the civil rights movement
brought out the saying “Black is
beautiful!” I could remember when
plenty of people couldn’t say it to save
their life.
At the same time my own son Rob
was thinking about high school, I had
boys on James Island big enough for
high school but actually in the pri­
mary grades. Knowing that it wasn’t
their fault didn’t stop them from being
embarrassed to attend school with
the little ones. But they were eager to
learn if I would teach them apart.
At first we had special classes on
our own. Then, as state superinten­
dent of adult education, Mrs. Willie
Lou Gray was responsible for our be­
ing paid to teach in the evenings. A
dedicated woman, she went on in her
retirement to found her “Opportunity
School” for illiterate migrant workers,
nearby where she lives in Columbia.
Anyway, when we got the classes set
up, many of the parents came. I even
taught a grandparent in my night
class, a Mrs. Burden. I want to tell
you about her.
If ever somebody tried hard in
school, that somebody was Mrs. Bur­
den. She struggled over to class on her
cane. She would turn the paper this
way and that, trying to see. I had to
take her off separate from the others,
to find a way that she could hold the
pencil. Mrs. Burden progressed very
hen I got the children to remem­
slowly. But, glad for a grandmother
ber all the beautiful things that
are black, starting with black satin in the class, I paid no attention to the
people who said, “Why you bother
and black crepe, which they all knew.
with
that old lady?” And she told
Besides that, I had read a book that
anybody
who asked her why she both­
the children liked, about “Black Beau­
ered
at
her
age, “Never mind.” She
ty. ” “And I remember how you liked
kept
on
coming
and would bring the
that horse. ” We talked about all the
teacher
more
eggs
than the law allows.
wonderful things the horse was able to
She
had
her
reason
for bothering at
do. I let the children tell me what they
her age: “Miz Fields,” she said to me
remembered. “And didn’t all the peo­
one evening, “I want to sign my name.”
ple around admire Black Beauty,
Her husband died in the Civil War
when they found out all about him?”
and left her a pension, but to get it,
she had to go before the white folks.
“When I go for my money, Miz
Fields, I don’t want to put no cross.
I want to put down my right name. ”

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Black people in South Carolina
thought a lot of their right name.
White people did too, in their way,
because they made up their mind to
call you anything else but that —first
names, nicknames, names that had
nothing to do with you. That custom
was even in the newspapers. For ex­
ample, they would call the white
person “Mrs. Sarah Jones,” while you
were “Sally Jones” or just “Sally.” It
made me so mad until I wrote once to
tell the editors to leave my name off
anything they wanted to report about
me. If they couldn’t put it down right,
then just report what I did; don’t call
me anything. I really blessed them
out.
o, when Mrs. Burden told me
that she didn’t want to put herself
down as “X ,” she and I understood
one another. The day Mrs. Burden
could go to that office and write “Mrs.
Samuel Burden,” she almost didn’t
need her walking stick.
One of my PTA parents fixed up
the name of her son, permanently.
She told me, “Miz Fields, no white
man gon’ call my son nothin’ but
Mister. They got to mister my boy.
I done named him that. ” She put
“Mister Samuel Roper” down on his
birth certificate. Mrs. Roper and
Mrs. Burden meant business, as I did,
about fighting those ways the white
people had to fool themselves and us
that slavery wasn’t over yet. We did
our best to teach proud ways to the
children.
But oh, my, how I had to fight with
some of the people on James Island.
Many parents used to teach the chil­
dren to lower their eyes if an adult
spoke to them, or even if they passed
an adult while walking. That was
“good manners” and “respect,” you
see. Lower your eyes to the superior
person. And when you talk to the
superior, then bow and scrape your
foot back. Say “yes, sir,” and “yes,
ma’am.” Curtsy and shuffle and hang
your head. If they came to the desk to
ask for something, they would shuffle
to beg my pardon.
Oh, I threatened the children that I
would punish them. “You must not do
that!” Well, their mother told them to
do it. “Mind, I am going to tell your
mother too. She had to do it, but you
don’t have to do it. ” Half the time they

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At the groundbreaking of the Mamie Garvin Fields Day Care Center, 1979. Well known in
South Carolina for her lifelong service as a religious and civic activist, Mamie Fields was
named the state’s Senior Citizen of the Year in 1971.

would come back with “Yes, ma’am,”
and I had to start all over again, “Say,
‘Yes, Mrs. Fields.’ Don’t ma’am me!”
My point always was that the “good
manners” of some black people didn’t
help their black child to “come up in
the world.” Those manners kept us
“in our place.” They conditioned us
in Old South ways. So the next thing
you know, that black child is grown
up and calling white people “sir” and
“ma’am ” And we had a hundred ways

of “sir-ing” and “ma’am-ing.” For
example, many teachers would say,
“Don’t bother the white people to get
necessities for your school.” Afraid,
you see.
My attitude was “He’s a man and
speaks English. I will ask him.” So the
other teachers would send me to see
Mr. Welch [the school trustee] in his
office. I became the spokesman.
I must tell you about his “office” in

order for you to see the white side of
black people’s “sir” and “ma’am.” At
first he had a little office, where we
would conduct his business. His wife
would sometimes sit there too, al­
though way off. But when he built his
new house, he didn’t build an office
for us to sit down in. We had to stand
under his carport, rain or shine.
Whatever papers we had to look at,
spread those across the hood of my
car, our “desk.”
Since all along Mrs. Welch acted
more Rebel than her husband, I got
the idea that maybe she had some­
thing to do with moving the “calnty”
business out of doors. I would stand
on one side of the car and tell Mr.
Welch, for example, “We are invited
to Columbia, and we want to take
twenty children from each school.”
As it turned out, he said, “Why yes,
Fields, and you can use the busses.”
He often agreed to do little things for
the schools.
He also took to calling me “Head
Teacher,” most of the time, in place of
“Fields.” As a matter of fact, he start­
ed to tell me one day how I needn’t
have that “foreigner” Alice LaSaine
over me, supervising; how she came
from somewhere but, now, I was a
Charlestonian. Now, of course, I knew
enough not to borrow that type of
trouble by paying any attention, and
I was not interested in driving round
and round through the country.
The peculiar part was that he would
talk like that although Mrs. LaSaine
did everything she could in the Old
South, “good manners” way. The
teachers mustn’t ring the doorbell to
the trustee’s house, according to her.
We must stand at a distance and
call out. And, when we got our cars,
“Don’t drive right up to Mr. Welch’s
house.”
But every month we had to go over
there for him to sign our pay vouchers
for us to take them downtown after­
wards and sign for our $50. No, we
didn’t have to drive, she told us. “You
have to get along with white people.
The women don’t like to have all the
cars going up and down here. ” Some­
body said, “You mean we have to walk
up the road?” That’s what she meant.
I tell you, some of our own people
were drawbacks!
Anyhow, it wasn’t in me to do what
she said. “Now, Mrs. 'LaSaine, that

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A fruitful collaboration
“Lemon Swamp” writes Karen
Fields in her introduction to the
book she and her grandmother
have together produced, “does
not claim to be objective. It has
the viewpoint of a woman who set
out for her first one-room school
in 1909, who joined a national
women’s organization in 1916,
who became active in Charleston’s
affairs in the 1920s, and who still
counts herself a responsible mem­
ber of her community. It is a sub­
jective, personal account of life
and work in South Carolina from
1888 to now.”
Eighteen eighty-eight was the
year of Mamie Garvin’s birth, in
Charleston, South Carolina, to a
prominent middle-class family in
which personal accomplishment
and service to the community
were the expected virtues. They
were descendants of Thomas
Middleton, an intellectually gifted
and highly educated slave who
had learned Hebrew and Greek
from his master’s sons when they
took him to Oxford University
as their valet. Middleton passed
on his learning to his children,
who then taught others on the
plantation.
Mamie Garvin grew up not
among house servants or share­
croppers but among artisans and
professionals. She in turn passed
on the family love of learning,
and its standards of pride and
pluck, during her many years as
a schoolteacher and later as a
worker for civic causes in the
Charleston area.

man knows that we couldn’t come all
the way over here from Charleston on
foot. I will never do it.” Here comes
Alice LaSaine right back, “Mind,
Mamie, next thing you know you will
have no job.” I said, “May be. But I
shall not do it. ”
I drove right up the driveway and
rang his bell. He had the time to

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As she ap­
proached her
eightieth birth­
day, Mamie
Garvin, now
Mamie Fields,
presented her
granddau ghters
with a collection
Karen Fields
of her early memories of everyday
life in turn-of-the-century Charles­
ton: “a big, red folder marked
with the words ‘Letters to My
Three Granddaughters,”’ recalls
one of those granddaughters,
Karen Fields, at that time a grad­
uate student on her way to be­
coming a highly respected author­
ity on religious and social change
in Africa.
It was from those letters, as
inspiration and nucleus, that
Mamie and Karen Fields drew
in collaborating on their book,
Lemon Swamp and Other Places:
A Carolina Memoir (Free Press): at
first recording their conversations
about it during holiday reunions,
later expanding these occasional
conversations to frequent latenight telephone question-andanswer sessions, eventually pro­
ducing a remarkable oral history
recreating the social landscape
of Mamie’s youth in the segrega­
tionist South.
“In 1978,” Karen Fields writes
in her introduction, “Grand­
mother Fields came north to work
on Lemon Swamp. We worked all
that summer at my apartment in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, each
of us at her own desk in my study.

answer and start with the business
before the other women came strug­
gling up in the dust, perspiring. They
had just walked a quarter of a mile at
Alice LaSaine’s say-so. Too stupid! But
it went on like that every month.
I always thought that it must appear
strange, but Mr. Welch never asked
why we paraded up that way. Maybe
he knew. ■

I transcribed the tapes we already
had and made new ones. Grand­
mother read and corrected the
transcripts, adding the recollec­
tions that popped into her mind
as she read. We spent mornings
and early afternoons grinding
away at our interviews. We both
had a sense of urgency. Grand­
mother said, with characteristic
understatement, ‘I won’t always
have my faculties.’ She turned
ninety that summer.”
The book was published in 1985
to welcoming reviews (“narrated
in her own snappy, intelligent
voice [this] is the high-spirited
memoir of . . . a character of
special grace,” said the New York
Times', “a lovely book, filled with
life, laughter, and self-respect,”
decreed the Washington Post).
Simultaneously with its publi­
cation, Karen Fields left Brandeis
University (where she had been
an associate professor) to come to
Rochester as professor of religious
and classical studies and as first
director of the as-yet embryonic
Frederick Douglass Institute for
African and African-American
Studies. That institute, which
sponsors programs of teaching
and research at the undergradu­
ate and graduate levels, formally
opened in the fall of 1986.
Grandmother Fields still lives
in Charleston, in the same house
where she was born. She will
reach her one hundredth birthday
next year.

Reprinted with permission of The Free Press,
a Division of Macmillan, Inc. from Lemon
Swamp and Other Places by M amie Garvin
Fields with Karen Fields. Copyright © by
M amie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields. This
title is available in paperback format at $8.95.

W hen Pain Does Not Sleep
By Stephen Braun

Wired to fight migraine: Biofeedback device helps patients monitor and control such things as blood pressure and heart rate.

Though it is not usually
thought of as a major medical
problem, chronic pain—the
pain that does not go away—is
both widespread and extremely
difficult to treat. Here is how
a new facility at the Medical
Center is dealing with this all
too common affliction.
t started with a crate of apples.
Roger bent over, grabbed the
bottom of the crate and lifted. The
crate rose slightly, but then Roger felt
something give in the small of his
back and he let the crate drop with a
thud. His back started to throb, and
hot sparks of pain began shooting
down his legs and back up again. He
had really done it this time.
A week of rest and mild pain killers
didn’t help. He couldn’t get comforta­
ble in bed and his sleep was fitful. He
asked his doctor for a stronger pain
killer. The new drug helped, but it
wore off a few hours after he took it.

I

A cycle of pain, interspersed with ever
stronger doses of drugs, began. In the
meantime, Roger was losing money
from missed work. Confined to his
home all day, he grew restless and irri­
table. Strains developed in his family
life. And still the misery did not sub­
side.
He graduated to the strongest pain
killers —narcotic analgesics —and
became both physically and psycho­
logically dependent on them.
Roger had become a victim of what
is called chronic pain syndrome, a
constellation of problems revolving
around a hurt that doesn’t go away.
Roger is not a real person, but what
happened to him is only too real, for
too many people. In this country
alone, some 27 million victims suffer
from chronic pain, and they spend
about $60 billion annually on diagno­
sis and treatment. Roger’s problem —
lower back pain —alone accounts for
more than 90 million workdays lost
every year and for one-third of all the
dollars expended on workers’ compen­
sation.
But as Roger’s story illustrates,
unrelenting pain often produces other

problems, ranging from psychological
difficulties to drug addiction. Recogni­
tion of this multi-faceted nature of
chronic pain has resulted in the crea­
tion, by the Departments of Anesthe­
siology and Psychiatry, of the Univer­
sity’s new Pain Treatment Center.
Here, at a single location, people like
Roger can find help for their prob­
lems.
“We can address the medical and the
psychological aspects of pain and offer
treatments that focus on both areas,”
says Michael Feuerstein, associate
professor of psychiatry and anesthesi­
ology, and the center’s director.
Though it is not usually thought of
as a major medical problem, persist­
ent pain is both widespread and diffi­
cult to treat.
“The management of chronic pain
is one of the most unrewarding tasks
of the physician,” says Hugo Koch of
the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. “For the most part,
diagnosis of chronic pain has been
linked to impairments that offer little

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or no hope of complete cure. Unable
to consummate the healing function,
physicians are denied their deepest
professional satisfaction.”
Despite the difficulty of the task,
however, the past two decades have
brought considerable progress. Treat­
ment in multidisciplinary centers like
Rochester’s appears to be particularly
effective. A review of fifty-six former
patients at a similar facility at the
University of Nebraska found that
these patients were now experiencing
significantly less pain—while resorting
to less medication, spending less time
in the hospital, and undergoing fewer
surgical procedures. Although some
pain might still persist, 75 percent of
them no longer even found it neces­
sary to consult a physician about it.
The Rochester Pain Treatment
Center expects similar encouraging
results. Its twelve-member staff—
prepared to deal with pain from many
disciplines —encompasses experts in
anesthesiology, physical therapy, or­
thopedic surgery, dentistry, behavioral
medicine, and nursing.
Here’s how the process works. Sup­
pose our friend Roger, the apple-lifter,
seeks help at the Rochester pain cen­
ter. Once he’s been accepted for treat­
ment, Roger undergoes a three-hour
medical and psychological evaluation.
An anesthesiologist and a psychologist
review his medical and psychological
history and, together with the treat­
ment team, synthesize the information
that has been gathered. They then
design and embark on a program
that has been tailored specifically to
Roger’s needs, coming at them in a
number of different ways.
Roger’s back pain is one of the most
common of the disorders patients
bring to the Rochester center. Others
are headaches, dental or facial pains
(including TMJ syndrome), and the
pain that results from arthritis or
cancer.
If the problem is relatively simple,
like migraine headaches, the center
develops a schedule of treatments that
make use of such techniques as stress
management, relaxation training,
hypnosis, and biofeedback—all of
which have proven helpful.
Patients with more complex prob­
lems (for instance Roger’s particular
agony that begins in his back and
radiates down his leg) may also re­

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Relief in hand: A TENS unit fits in the pocket, offers big relief. The two small pads adhere to
the skin, delivering weak electrical pulses that excite the nerves sending pain messages to the
brain. The overstimulated nerves shut down the transmission of pain signals, bringing relief to
the patient.

quire physical therapy backed up by
low doses of antidepressants, used for
pain management, not depression.

“While many cancers are still in­
curable, there has been encouraging
progress in managing the pain associ­
ated with terminal malignancies,” says
Jaimala
Thanik, assistant professor of
ne frequently used tool for both
anesthesiology
and the center’s medi­
diagnosis and treatment is the
cal
director.
“Options
for treatment
nerve block—anesthetic and anti-in­
include low doses of opioid drugs ap­
flammatory medications that are in­
plied directly to receptor sites in the
jected along pain pathways. By selec­
brain or the spinal cord, and the selec­
tively anesthetizing discrete nerve
tive destruction of pain fibers.”
bundles, it is possible to ascertain the
One of the more interesting devices
avenues along which a pain travels.
the
center uses is called a TENS unit
The patient’s response to the nerve
(short
for “transcutaneous electrical
block helps pinpoint the injury and
nerve
stimulation”).
TENS units are
provides clues to the effectiveness of a
basically
a
pair
of
electrode
pads,
series of repeated blocks.
wired
to
a
battery
pack,
that
can be
“With longstanding chronic pain,
attached
to
the
skin.
The
TENS
pads
neural pathways are disrupted and
produce
weak
electrical
pulses
that
ex­
‘short circuits’ may trigger pain spon­
cite
the
nerves
regulating
pain.
This
taneously,” says Richard Patt, a senior
causes them to act like a gate, block­
instructor in anesthesiology at the
ing messages headed for the brain.
center. “Nerve blocks can often pro­
The
units are small enough to fit on
vide relief that far exceeds the dura­
a
belt
or in a pocket and, Feuerstein
tion of drugs and allows nerve path­
says, provide certain patients with
ways to re-establish themselves in a
significant relief.
more orderly and healthy pattern. ”
Research into the nature of pain is
The pain that accompanies cancer
producing
valuable new approaches
is another example of the more com­
to
its
evaluation
and management.
plex problems presented by patients at
the center.

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Charting the course: Sensory charts show
correlations between muscle patterns and
the underlying pattern of pain-conducting
nerves. The chart helps pinpoint placement
of a TENS unit for maximum effect.

Feuerstein, Thanik, and other special­
ists at the center are actively involved
in this research.
Feuerstein, for instance, is a leading
expert on chronic pain, and he has
devoted much of his time to studying
the psychological factors involved in it.
He says it’s clear that the mind plays
an important role in the experience of
pain, but the complexity of the inter­
action makes it hard to form definitive
conclusions.
He has concentrated on recurrent
or episodic disorders (such as mi­
graine headaches and abdominal
pain) as well as on more persistent
problems (such as low back pain).
In the course of this study, Feuer­
stein has examined the influence of
home and work environments on pa­
tients suffering from chronic low back
pain. His research suggests that peo­
ple who claim “my family is a pain”
may not be hyperbolizing all that
much: There are specific ways in
which family members relate to each
other that can be linked to heightened
pain, he says. He has found, for ex­
ample, that increased conflict within
the family has been associated with
increased pain on the part of the pa­
tient. And he has observed that a high
degree of independence among family
members can also be linked to more
intense pain —suggesting that pain
may play a role as a means of attract­
ing attention in a very busy, indepen­
dent family.
He’s also investigating ways of
subduing pain without using drugs.
Stress-management techniques and
hypnosis are two measures that have

been proven effective in reducing cer­
tain types of pain for certain patients,
he says.
Another drug-free technique is
called visualization therapy: Patients
create a mental picture of their pain,
seeing it as a spiked ball, for instance.
Then they mentally manipulate the
picture to reduce the pain, envisioning
the spikes as softening, melting, or
disappearing.
But no single treatment —including
drugs —is effective for all types of pain
in all patients.
“Effective pain management re­
quires the input of many health-care
professionals,” Thanik says.
This multidisciplinary approach
is difficult to administer, Feuerstein
admits, requiring the smooth integra­

tion of a number of professionals, and
close communication among them, fa­
mily members, insurance companies,
employers —and patients. It all re­
quires a substantial amount of time
and effort.
But, Feuerstein says, “We’re com­
mitted.”
And what about Roger, our fic­
tional friend? He’s doing very well,
thanks, back at work and much more
comfortable. But he lets the apples fall
where they may. ■
Stephen Braun, who has been contributing
science-related articles to Rochester Review
over the last two years, is the recent winner of a
yearlong Macy Fellowship in Science Broadcast
Journalism at station W G B H in Boston.

What is pain?
In remote Indian villages, an
annual ceremony is undertaken in
which two steel hooks are thrust
into the lower back of a chosen
“celebrant.” The celebrant is then
hoisted by ropes attached to the
hooks and wheeled about from
village to village on a pole extend­
ing from a crude cart. Through­
out this procedure, the celebrant
smiles and displays no sign of
anguish.
Clearly, pain is not as straight­
forward as is commonly thought.
It can apparently be shut off —or
intensified —by one’s mental state.
A more common example of this
phenomenon can be seen in pro­
fessional football players who, in
the excitement of a game, may be
unaware of even serious injuries
such as a dislocated shoulder.
A precise explanation of these
situations is still not possible. But
a current model of pain does ex­
plain, in general terms, both why
we jerk our hand away from a hot
stove and why the Indian cele­
brant feels no pain.
Pain appears to be the result
of an extremely complex set of
chemical and electrical inter­
actions. It starts with an event
such as a cut, burn, or strain that
damages body cells. The cells re­
lease enzymes that, in turn, acti­
vate substances which bind to spe­
cial nerve fibers whose sole job

is to convey pain messages.
The pain nerves fire, and the
impulses travel through a region
of the spinal cord called substantia
gelatinosa. This region and other
areas of the nervous system act
as chemical gates for the pain im­
pulse. Electrochemical messages
from the brain can cause the gate
to shut, blocking the pain —or
they may open the gate, allowing
the impulse to travel up the spinal
cord to the brain, where it is ex­
perienced. (This theory is thus
called the Gate Control Theory
of pain.) In the case of the Indian
celebrant, the intense emotion
and ecstasy of the event probably
produce brain substances that
block the pain impulses coming
from his impaled back.
A wide range of substances is
likely to be involved in the open­
ing or closing of these gates, in­
cluding chemicals that closely
resemble morphine and other opi­
ates. These chemicals are collec­
tively called endorphins and are
produced naturally in our bodies.
Much research is now under way
to learn more about endorphins
and how their levels can be influ­
enced by factors like stress, exer­
cise, and depression. Such re­
search lies at the base of clinical
applications providing relief to
patients in pain.

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On June 25, George Abbott
’l l , legendary playwright, pro­
ducer, and play doctor, w ill
observe his one hundredth
birthday. Here’s what The New
York Times had to say when
he was about to turn a mere
ninety-nine.

1923,
1930,
1936,
1942,
1948,
1954,
1962,
1969,
1983.

eorge Abbott opened on Broad­
way in 1913, 1916, 1918, 1920,
1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928,
1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935,
1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941,
1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947,
1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953,
1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961,
1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968,
1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, and

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He did it before and now, at ninetynine, he’s getting ready to do it again.
The man who is known to just
about everyone in the theater as Mr.
Abbott will celebrate his ninety-ninth
birthday Wednesday. Three weeks
later he will fly to Los Angeles to
direct Natalia Makarova once again
in On Your Toes, a show he wrote when
he was only forty-nine.
This year, at ninety-eight, he wrote
an entirely new play and rewrote one
of his old ones. The new play is about
Count Dracula, has the working title
of Irwin, and calls for a rock music
score. The old one is a reworking of
Broadway, his first big hit, which he
is turning into a new-wave musical.
“What do you think of Speakeasy for
a title?” he asks.
And who will direct it? Mr. Abbott,
of course.

This is the same Mr. Abbott who
opened on Broadway in 1913 as an
actor and stayed on to become a
Broadway legend as Mr. Abbott the
playwright, Mr. Abbott the producer,
Mr. Abbott the director, and Mr.
Abbott the play doctor.
There is also Mr. Abbott the pro­
fessor. At a luncheon given last month
in honor of Mr. Abbott by the New
Dramatists Guild, Richard Adler, who
was a young, untried composer when
he was given a chance in 1954 to do
Pajama Game, paid a tribute to what he
called the “George Abbott University.”
Among the graduates —the beneficia­
ries of what Abbott himself calls his
“Pygmalion complex”—were Paul
Muni, Jose Ferrer, Shirley MacLaine,
Butterfly McQueen, Jean Stapleton,

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Carol Burnett, Harold Prince, Jerome
Robbins, Bob Fosse, Garson Kanin,
Betty Comden, Adolf Green, Steven
Sondheim, and a musician then un­
known to Broadway by the name of
Leonard Bernstein, to say nothing of
dozens of other Equity-minimum
players who got their first big break
in an Abbott show.
Just to mention some few Abbott
successes is to write a virtual history
of Broadway in the last century—
Jumbo, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes,
Where’s Charley?, Call Me Madam,
Wonderful Town, Pajama Game, On Your
Toes, Damn Yankees, Fiorello, A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
It’s a history George Abbott is work­
ing to repeat.
omerset Maugham once said,
“Old age is ready to undertake
tasks that youth shirked because they
would take too long.” He could have
been talking about George Abbott,
who did his most recent writing at his
home in Miami —between rounds of
golf. “Lousy golf. Nine holes from the
ladies’ tee, at the moment,” he says.
And he swims quite a bit to exercise
a hip made stiff from surgery. He uses
a cane. “It’s a wonderful defense. You
never have to get up or be polite and
people don’t bump into you.” Never­
theless, he still dances —he’s famous
for his rumba, his tango, and a mean
mambo and meringue —“but I have
to be careful not to lose my balance. ”
When George Abbott walks, he bends
his head forward as if he’s bucking a
strong wind, and seems to will his
six-foot two-inch frame to follow. But
when he talks about doing a modern
Evita-Yike. musical with a rock score,
a visitor is struck by his flexibility.
“Well,” he says, “I hope my mind isn’t
as ossified as my body.”
Retirement is not something he
thinks about. “I mean, I’ve had a lot
of chances where it felt awfully good
to sit in an easy chair, not to have to
do anything,” he says. “But I’d hate
not to have a job of some kind. I hate
all those soupy titles they give old peo­
ple. You know—‘senior citizens’ and
all that stuff.”
He may not see himself as a senior
citizen, but he is a great-grandfather
of what he calls “two little bitsies —
three and one, I guess.” Does he get a
kick out of the children? “No!” He
does get a kick out of being married,

George Abbott at work last September directing a rehearsal of his Damn Yankees at the Paper
Mill Playhouse in Newark. “I like to work,” he says. “It’s fun.”

though. “I’m enjoying my life quite
completely. I never liked marriage so
much,” he says. Actually, he’s a newly­
wed. He married his third wife, Joy
Valderrama, three years ago when he
was only ninety-six. She was fifty and
they’d known each other for twentyfive years. “She’s a woman totally
devoid of pettiness. Isn’t that wonder­
ful?” he says, with not a little amaze­
ment. Harold Prince, the producer
and director who is an Abbott pro­
tégé, calls her life-giving. “She’s the
biggest ‘upper’ you could meet.”
Prince went to see Abbott for the
first time thirty-eight years ago to
ask for a job. “I had a notion that
he looked like Billy Rose. Then he
walked into the office and he was Gary
Cooper. He always walked tall and
talked straight.” They have pretty
much relied on each other ever since.
When Abbott sent his two new scripts
to Prince from Florida this year he
allowed that “the odds against a
ninety-eight-year-old man writing
a hit are pretty long. ” Abbott is a
master of bringing his fantasies to the
stage, but he is a realist too. “What I
think Hal would like to have said was,
‘needs work.’ When people don’t come
out with extravagant praise, you have
to assume that they’re hiding some­
thing.”
What Prince did say, in fact, is that
the plays are “quite good.” But ever

since he came to Broadway, Abbott
was never afraid of failure, and he’s
had his share of them, as an actor,
as a producer, and as a director.
It’s inevitable for a man who’s done
123 shows to have a failure here or
there. “I forget them quickly, on pur­
pose,” he says. And he has no quarrel
with the critics, either. “The critics .
have great power,” he once wrote.
“They can destroy a play. But in my
opinion the plays they destroy usually
deserve it.”
e also says he’s always tried not
to get too elated about success.
Except, perhaps, for Broadway, which
remains special because it was his first
smash hit, in 1926. “I knew it was a
sensation, and I was perfectly sure I’d
never have a big hit again like that as
long as I lived.” George Abbott lived
to win the Pulitzer Prize, six Tony
Awards, the Kennedy Center lifetime
achievement award, two honorary
doctorates (one of them from Roches­
ter, on the fiftieth anniversary of his
graduation), and virtually every theat­
rical medal ever struck.
Now he’s reviving Broadway with no
intention of making his first big hit his
last. “It’s about a club where they had
a line of girls and the booze came in
teacups,” he says. “The play,” he says,
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a traditional musical, where you have
a scene and then a song. But the idea
of doing it like Evita, where the char­
acters sang the words, allows you to
sing your story, as it were.”
Prince says an Abbott show is very
identifiable —for its clarity, brevity,
pacing, and honesty. “One of George’s
favorite words” —Prince is virtually
the only person on Broadway who
calls him “George”—“is ‘peppy.’ Pep is
what he brings to a show. ” What is
the Abbott touch? To George Abbott
it’s “like any good conversation, you
keep to the point so the play’s not
filled with lapses that mean nothing.”
Usually, Abbott says, there’s only one
thing he brings to a show. “I make
them say their final syllables.” Now
that his hearing is not what it used
to be, he will be listening even harder
for those final syllables. “The demands
he makes on projection are something
else,” Prince says.
Abbott notes the changes in the
theater over the decades without a
great deal of hand-wringing. “What’s
bad for the theater is that the cost of
it has made us build bigger theaters,
and the bigger theaters have made us
put in hearing aids for the public, and
hearing aids have distorted the speech
somewhat. And so we’re having to
change the nature of our shows to fit
a money situation.” Intimate theater
is still possible, he says, but not on
Broadway. “Off Broadway and the
regional theater, of course, are alive
and experimental.” He directed his
first Off Broadway play two years ago,
with a new young playwright and a
young director. He was able to end
any debate about how to proceed with
two words, “Trust me. ” They did.

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Among the directors in today’s
theater, Abbott likes Mike Nichols.
“You know how you can tell a good
director?” he asks. “How good is the
butler? You know what I mean? If the
small parts are good, the director is
good. If the main part’s good, maybe
it’s the actor, maybe it’s not the di­
rector. ”
Abbott is sitting in his small office
near Radio City, which is unadorned
with theater memorabilia except for
several volumes of the Best Plays of
years gone by, an unused Fiorello ash­
tray (no one dares smoke in his pres­
ence) and a drawing of Lillian Gish,
an old friend. He’s wearing an Ultra­
suede sport jacket, blue shirt, and
navy-and-red striped tie, a change
from the almost formal dark suit and
tie he always wore when he was direc­
ting that made him look more like a
stern Puritan preacher than a Broad­
way showman. “Styles have changed,”
he says. “Now people come to the
is preference is for actors who
theater and sit in the front row in
are young, even unknown.
their undershirts, trying to look like
“Besides saving money it saves wearDon Johnson.”
and tear on the nervous system,” he
On this particular day he’s talking
once said. “I think subconsciously he
quite a lot for a man who never uses
must know that years and years of
two words when one will do. Prince
working with people who are young
remembers asking Abbott to look
has kept him young,” says Harold
in on West Side Story, in Washington
Prince. “He’s wise enough to know
before it was brought to New York,
there is something he can give them
hoping for some suggestions. At
that they can probably not get from a
the end of the play, he says, Abbott
lot of people. And at the same time
jumped up and said, “I’ve got to catch
they can give him something, which
my plane.” Prince followed behind
is a sense of contemporaneity, some
him and finally got up the nerve to
sense of the present.”
ask whether there was anything he
should do to fix the show. “Leave it
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In fact, he says he doesn’t remem­
ber any actors ever being difficult with
him. “I’ve never had quarrels with ac­
tors,” he says. “They know I’m going
to make them better, and that’s what
they want to be. When actors throw
tantrums and show so-called temper­
ament, it’s because they know things
are going wrong and they don’t know
how to correct it so they kick around
like a child.”
He has an explanation for why so
many terrible shows get to Broadway.
“You’re close to it and you cannot see
its faults. Time and again you’ll see
something not going very well and
you tell yourself the out-of-town au­
diences don’t understand it. Just wait
till you get to New York.” He says,
“You fall in love with it and you’re
fickle afterwards. Once it’s over you
don’t ever want to see it again.”
ast month he had advice for the
New Dramatists: “If you want
to be adored by your peers and have
standing ovations wherever you go,
then just live to be over ninety.” But
how to live to be over ninety? He
drinks very little, eats lightly, and says
he has always gotten a certain amount
of exercise.
“A lot of it is in not being too sub­
jective, in not taking yourself too seri­
ously. If a show fails, it fails. There’s
no sense in going to the wailing wall
and hitting yourself on the head,” he
says. “I don’t get tense much about
anything. I think it’s very good for you
not to be sour inside about people and
things.”
And how to live to be over ninety
with continuing creativity? “Well,” he
says, “I enjoy my work so much that
I’m never bored. If I have to wait for
something, I can think about some
show I’m working on. I think, ‘Why
doesn’t some character do something
different?’ It’s fun to work. It’s a
shame to be paid for it!” ■

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1. Student: Abbott in the 1911 Interpres. Fifty years later he was invited back again for an
honorary L.H.D. 2. Broadway actor: In 1923 he was a card-playing cowboy in something
called Zander the Great. 3. Leading man: This was 1924, the year before his first broadway
hit as a playwright. 4. Dancer: Abbott shows a thing or two to Pat Stanley, starring in his
1954 hit, The Pajama Game. 5. Director: Kibitzing with Elsa Lanchester and Loring Smith
in A Soft Touch.

time. But I have a terrible memory for
people’s names, just awful. I always
had that but now it’s senility, I think. ”
There’s a favorite story around Broad­
way that when an actor once asked,
“What’s my motivation?” George
Abbott shot back: “Your job.” Maybe
it’s his memory, but he now says that’s
a myth. “I never said anything like
that. I’m very tactful with actors. I’m
truthful, I mean, I say, ‘It’s no good,’
but I don’t make fun of them.” It is no
myth that he has no patience for the
“method” actor—“He has struggled
successfully at such difficult tasks as
pretending
that he is a tree in full
bbott can remember some of his
bloom
but
has
never learned to say a
plays, line by line. “I’ll tell you
final‘t,’”
he
says.
what memory is,” he says. “There’s a

drove away Prince said he could hear
Abbott saying to himself, “Well,
George Abbott, you fixed that one. ”
Another time Prince asked Abbott
to look at Cabaret in preview in
New York. Again he trailed after the
famous play doctor as he left the
theater. “You want to know what I
think?” Abbott asked. “Yes, yes,”
Prince replied. “Two acts,” Abbott
said as he walked down the street,
leaving Prince looking at his disap­
pearing figure and saying “But how?”
Cabaret—in two acts—was a hit.

Copyright,©!9 8 6 by The New York Times
Company. Reprinted by permission.

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little ‘microcoscrome’ in your head
that registers everything. If you think
long enough, you’ll remember it. You
have to whirl it around for a long
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in Review
H ouse calls
Can ringing telephones, blaring
stereos, curious housemates, or atten­
tion-seeking animals disrupt a class?
According to participants in the first
four “residential courses” offered at
the University, the answer is a resound­
ing No. Instead of sitting in classrooms
on Wednesday afternoons (that’s the
new University Day, when regularly
scheduled classes are suspended in
favor of less structured activities),
these stay-at-home students receive
weekly house calls from their instruc­
tors.
On a typical Wednesday afternoon
in the living room of the Theta Chi
house, Provost Brian Thompson pre­
sides over his class in “phenomenolog­
ical optics,” serenely overlooking the
dog, the traffic of nonparticipating
house members, and a peripheral dis­
cussion about new curtains, as he
demonstrates the refraction and reflec­
tion of light with the help of an over­
head projector and a spoon stolen
from the kitchen.
When President O’Brien began his
classes at the Psi Upsilon house, it was
still being renovated. Amid the drill­
ing, the dust, the two-by-fours, and the
stereo accompaniment, a group of six­
teen housemates gathered with the pres­
ident to study existential philosophy.
In another house, the corner library
has been converted into a cramped
but cozy meeting place. McCrea Hazlett, professor of English, appeared
unruffled by the presence of soda pop
cans, a number of pairs of bare feet,
and some smoldering cigarettes as he
ushered his students into the art of
public speaking (presumably, when it’s
the real thing, to be executed with
somewhat more formal footgear).
These “at-home” courses are open
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area of special interest to them. The
brothers of Delta Sigma Phi, for in­
stance, have been taking a course in
American Sign Language, a topic of
immediate interest to them because
they recently formed a chapter at the
National Technical Institute for the
Deaf at RIT. As part of the course
content, their instructor, Pat DeCaro
of the Graduate School of Education
and Human Development, has been
teaching them how to sign —as well as
sing—their fraternity songs.
Students seem to enjoy the informal
classes. For one thing, says Psi Upsilon
president Barry Rubio, “We already
know each other well and aren’t going
to judge anybody or laugh or anything
if somebody happens to misspeak.”
His residential course in philosophy,
he says, is “something to share, an in­
tellectual discussion between friends.”
And, he points out, students are much
more likely than otherwise to turn up
for a class held in their own home —
for one simple reason: “We’re already
here. ”

M ellon grant
The new “residential courses” (see
“House calls” above) are among the
newly implemented recommendations
of the Committee on University Goals
that have earned the University a
$675,000 grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
The grant is intended, said the
foundation, “to encourage imaginative
reconsideration of graduate and under­
graduate teaching; . . . to stir new
perceptions . . . within or across fields;
and to foster the healthy ordering or
reordering of . . . groupings of knowl­
edge. ”
As we hope most of you already
know, other major new programs be­
ginning during this academic year, in
addition to the residential courses, in­
clude these:
• University Day, which frees up
Wednesday afternoons for special lec­
tures, seminars, and other out-of-class
activities.
• The Rochester Conference, which
by the time you read this will already
have happened for the first time (and
you’ll be hearing a great deal more
about that).
• “Take Five,” which allows selected
undergraduates to take a fifth year of
tuition-free study in order to broaden
their liberal-arts education.

Inauguration
Appropriately enough for an
educator and administrator whose
career has revolved around the
study of computer systems, the
inauguration of engineering dean
Bruce Wesley Arden centered on
the symbiosis of computers and
engineering, over the past forty
years and on into the future.
Arden’s investiture on Novem­
ber 12 was marked by a daylong
symposium participated in by
computer experts from both aca­
deme and government and by
the presentation of two honorary
degrees: to Donald Ervin Knuth,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Com­
puter Science at Stanford, preem­
inent since the earliest days of
computer science in the develop­
ment of its theoretical founda­
tions, and to Erich Bloch, director
of the National Science Founda­
tion, who is credited with a key
role in the development of the
supercomputer.
The newly installed dean of
the College of Engineering and
Applied Science came to Roches­
ter from Princeton, where he was
Doty Professor of Engineering;
previously he had been chairman
of the computer and communi­
cation sciences department at
Michigan.

• The establishment of University
centers to offer interdisciplinary
studies either within a single school or
college or across two or more of them
(for instance, there is now a newly

Among the Schmitts’ other endeav­
ors is their support, beginning in 1971,
of a triennial series of international
symposia on brain research, held pre­
viously in places like Tokyo, Munich,
and Wurzburg (at this last conference,
Schmitt, who always attends, not sur­
prisingly, got a particularly warm wel­
come). The next one, beginning on
June 30, will be held in Rochester.
Mr. Schmitt, as usual, will be there.

Lost world

Playing up a Sturm
Gathered around a poster announcing their upcoming performance in Mannheim, West
Germany, Eastman Philharmonia conductor David EiFron (left) and student orchestra
members Marcio Botelho, Peter Seidenberg, and Catherine Wendtland take five during
their busy two-week concert tour of Germany with celebrated pianist Shura Cherkassky.
“German audiences are more reserved than Rochester’s but the ice always breaks when
we play the William Tell Overture's ‘Lone Ranger’ theme,” reported graduate student Mar­
cia Bauman. “By the end of the concerts we get stomping feet and rhythmic clapping,
and sometimes as many as seven curtain calls.” The critics stomped their feet more than a
little, too: “Under Effron’s direction, the Dvorak shimmered multi-colored like a bright
Eastman Kodak photo,” wrote the Nuemberger Nachrichtiger Zeitung.

created Center for Biomedical Ultra­
sound involving both engineering and
medical faculty).
Also new is a plan to remove fresh­
man grades from the student tran­
scripts that are released off-campus, in
order to encourage first-year students
to experiment more freely with the
first courses of their college careers.

“L oaned” m oney
“It’s not really yours, you know. It’s
loaned to you,” Kilian J. Schmitt once
told a reporter. He was referring to
material wealth and specifically to
what he acknowledged to be the “ton
of money” he has earned from the
parking-lot business, which he hap­
pened into in the 1930s, well before
parking spaces became more precious
than gold.
Latest in the long string of generous
dispositions Schmitt has made of his

“loaned” money is an endowed pro­
fessorship at the medical school: the
Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt
Chair in Neurobiology and Anatomy,
supported by a $1.5 million gift from
the Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt
Foundation. It is expected that the ap­
pointment of an outstanding research­
er to the new chair will follow shortly.
Schmitt—who in 1925, at the age
of 19, borrowed $220 to emigrate to
Rochester from a farm near Wurz­
burg, Germany—has long been an ac­
tive worker for international coopera­
tion, particularly between his native
and adopted countries. Twenty-five
years after his arrival in America, he
initiated an exchange program be­
tween the universities of Wurzburg and
Rochester, and soon after that inaugu­
rated a sister-city relationship between
the two cities.

Basing their belief on what is
known about the solar system, scien­
tists have long accepted the theory
that planets circling stars other than
our own sun are probably a very com­
mon occurrence in the universe. But
because planets are small, dark, and
distant, their detection is extraordi­
narily difficult.
So it was enough to turn astrono­
mers starry-eyed when University of
Arizona researchers reported the dis­
covery of a planet orbiting a nearby
star. Through that discovery, the
probability appeared to become estab­
lished fact.
But more recent findings by a team
of Rochester astronomers have now
returned the theory to the realm of
speculation.
Two years ago the Arizona team
reported finding a “planet” revolving
around a star called Van Biesbroeck 8.
The object was estimated to be very
large —several dozen times larger than
Jupiter —and very hot, about 2,000
degrees Fahrenheit. Because of these
characteristics, the found object was
dubbed a “brown dwarf’ star, and
controversy developed about whether
or not it should more properly be
called a planet.
But now the very existence of the
object is in serious doubt.
When William Forrest, assistant
professor of astronomy at Rochester,
tried to confirm the initial report, he
couldn’t find any trace of the new
planet. (Forrest’s research, which he
conducted with colleagues Mark A.
Shure, a Rochester graduate student,
and Michael F. Skrutskie, a Cornell
grad student, is detailed in a paper
published in Astrophysics Journal Letters.)
The Arizona research used a so­
phisticated, but indirect, process that
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celestial objects, but in this case the
data appear to have been misleading.
Forrest’s team used a more direct
approach in their attempt to confirm
the initial observation: an extremely
sensitive infrared detector mounted
on a large (three-meter) telescope at
the NASA facility on Mauna Kea
in Hawaii, one of the best locations
in the world for good astronomical
“seeing” because of its height (about
14,000 feet) and generally calm condi­
tions.
If the brown dwarf existed, it should
have shown up very clearly in the in­
frared images. It didn’t. “We’ve been
pretty careful in our analysis, and
we’ve thought long and hard about
any problems with our conclusion,”
Forrest says. “We can think of none.
The object is just not there.” Which is
not to say that Forrest doesn’t believe
such objects exist; they just haven’t
been found yet.

Science and by members of the pub­
lishing industry and family and other
friends of the late Janet Kafka, an
editor at Doubleday who died in 1975.

D e K iew iet scholarships
Two South African refugee students
are expected at Rochester next fall,
thanks to a student-initiated scholar­
ship fund.
Named after the University’s fifth

president —a native of South Africa
who gained international recognition
for his writings critical of its racial
policies —the Cornelis de Kiewiet
African Scholarship Fund has been ini­
tiated by a group of Rochester under­
graduates. They have been working,
says spokesman David Nohara ’89, “to
provide financial support to qualified
South African students who have fled
their country because of political

K afka P rize
The “whole new world” created by
science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le
Guin in her novel Always Coming Home
(Harper & Row, 1985) has won her
the University’s most recent Janet
Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by
an American Woman.
“In a decade of Kafka winners and
contenders, we’ve not had a work
quite like Always Coming Home,” says
Robert G. Koch ’45, chairman of the
selection committee. “In it, Le Guin
creates a whole new world.”
A novel about a people called The
Kesh, who live in the distant future,
the book is accompanied by a tape
cassette of original Kesh love songs,
rituals, and poetry.
“Across the abyss of time from this
possible future,” says Koch, “Le Guin
brings to life our descendants, often
still riddled by our careless violence
against nature and ourselves, in a
book that is fascinating, demanding,
and finally satisfying.
Le Guin joins Anne Tyler, Toni
Morrison, Judith Guest, Mary Gor­
don, Mary Lee Settle, and Jessamyn
West among those who have received
the $1,000 prize since it was estab­
lished in 1976 as the only known prize
for a novel by an American woman.
Given by the Department of English
and its annual Writers Workshop, the
prize comes from an endowment es­
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The uncrushables
How much weight can a structure made out of a few pieces of paper withstand? More than
you’d think, depending on the way they’re put together. Junior Ted Ruppel’s pyramid, for in­
stance (on which he’s doing a little last-minute adjusting, above, with encouragement from
sophomore Steve Thurston), was made out of 89 flimsy sheets of three-hole notebook paper.
But the structure, Ruppel’s entry in this year’s paper-structure design contest, stood up to
208 pounds of pressure before beginning to give way. Ruppel’s trick was to roll the sheets of
notebook paper into 2,135 small cylinders. Then, as a kind of lagniappe, he added three paper
sculptures of owls (modeled after those on Rush Rhees Library) at the corners. How come?
“The owls happened at about 3:30 a.m. the night before the contest. I was all done and I had
three sheets of paper left over.” Those three extra sheets may have helped Ruppel cop a first
place in the contest —for “aesthetics.” He was beat out for first in “strength” by a no-nonsense
100-sheet single cylinder.

Views from recent visitors

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize-winner,
in a lecture sponsored by the Jewish
Students’ Union: “For eighteen or nine­
teen centuries, Jewish history followed
a parallel or conflictual path with world
history. No longer. . . . Now, one can
no longer say it’s only Jews or Jewish
suffering. What happens to Jews has an
effect on all people. . . . We are all pris­
oners trying to find freedom by setting
other prisoners free.”

harassment and the denial of educa­
tional opportunities under apartheid.”
The effort began a year ago with a
group of undergraduates in the Prot­
estant Chapel Community who were
looking for ways to address the prob­
lem of apartheid. They have since
gained support from a variety of other
student and community groups, in­
cluding a number of fraternities and
residence halls.
So far the scholarship committee
has secured a $20,000 endowment,
largely from the de Kiewiet family, to
help provide room and board; Univer­
sity tuition waivers; and additional
financial support from the PhelpsStokes Fund, which is administering
the scholarships jointly with the
University.
Among further fund-raising efforts,
the student committee is working on a
referendum (scheduled for early Feb­
ruary) which asks undergraduates to
vote on allocating a dollar apiece from
their student activity fee. Yes, indeed,
this is an “activity,” said one propo­
nent, Andy Fisk ’87. “It’s an activity
in that it will add to student diversity. ”
The de Kiewiet Scholarship com­
mittee “is not a political group,” Fisk
adds. “We’re concerned with educating
for the advancement of knowledge. ”

The Rev. Charles E. Curran, outspoken
theologian censured by the Vatican for
his dissenting views on social issues, in
the 1986 John Henry Newman Lecture:
“There should always be a tension . . .
between past and present in the church.
. . . I am convinced that in the long
term the Catholic Church has the
theory to deal with these tensions crea­
tively, but we urgently need appro­
priate structures to overcome the stri­
dent, destructive, and negative aspects
of these tensions at the present time.

David Broder, national political colum­
nist, in the fifth annual Cameros lecture:
“An open and candid government may
or may not produce just policies, but a
secretive and isolated government is al­
most bound to produce injustices and
illegalities. . . . If you can’t make a
[public] case for [a policy], then don’t
pursue it because that policy will fail. It
can’t be sustained without a consenting
public opinion.”

Super net

A cheer

The University is a participant in
the nation’s first supercomputer net­
work, linking computers at New York
industries and universities with each
other and with supercomputers na­
tionwide.
The network, known by the acro­
nym NYSERNet (for New York State
Education and Research Network),
is chaired by Richard Mandelbaum,
who is also the University’s vice pro­
vost for computing. Rochester is one
of six New \brk State universities to
be connected in the initial linking (the
others are Cornell, Columbia, RPI,
NYU, and SUNY Stony Brook).
Eventually fourteen universities in the
state will participate in the network.
NYSERNet, which went on line in
January, gives users instant access to
vast databases and allows for the trans­
mission of a wide range of images
across the state. Physicians, for in­
stance, can use the network to trans­
mit X-ray images to specialists in
other cities for immediate diagnosis.
Business people can access university
research libraries, and scientists and
engineers at universities and corporate
research centers can tap into super­
computers from remote terminals.

O f the thirty-five Fulbright awards
given nationally to U.S. graduate stu­
dents for study abroad during 198687 in the fields of music and music
history, five went to Eastman School
students. They are Laura Buch, who
proposed to study in Italy; David
Chalmers, France; Anne-Marie
Reynolds, Denmark; Diane Schuhmann, West Germany; and Mary
Skaggs, Austria. No other institution
was represented by more than two
Fulbright winners in music.

Newsclips
Readers of national publications, as
well as of scientific and professional
journals, regularly come across refer­
ences to the scholarly activities —and
professional judgments —of people at
the University. Following is a cross
section of some of those you might
have seen within recent months:
■ Scientific American: In what might
be considered a journalistic hat trick,
Rochester researchers scored three
times in the December issue —in stories
on the development of a technique for
strengthening the glass used in lasers
(enabling lasers to be run at a signifi­
cantly greater power than is now pos­
sible and having applications in such
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ocular surgery, and micro-chip fabri­
cation), the discovery that a new
“planet” may not exist after all (see
“Lost World” on page 23), and the
development of a wide-angle optical
system that takes its cue from the
compound eyes of insects (see “Bug
E y e s Rochester Review, Fall 1986).
I London Times: “Neural implants
are one of the new hopes for treating
sufferers of degenerative brain condi­
tions, but they pose an ethical dilemma
to American researchers,” says the
Times. In their work with experimental
animals, scientists have been success­
fully injecting cells from early embryos
into the brains of diseased animals to
perform the function the damaged
brains have lost —a procedure “clearly
beyond the pale for humans.”
Quoting a report in the respected
journal Science, the Times suggests
that Don Marshall Gash, associate pro­
fessor of neurobiology and anatomy,
may have come up with an ethically
acceptable alternative. Rather than
working with embryonic tissue, Gash
and his colleagues have been working
with human tumor cells that have
been chemically treated, apparently
successfully, to prevent them from
multiplying. Gash now plans to ex­
plore the influence of the injected cells
on various brain diseases.
I Associated Press: What limits are
placed on school officials in conduct­
ing searches of students suspected of
crimes?
Tyll van Geel, professor of educa­
tion, says the Supreme Court’s 1985
decision in a major student-search
case generated considerable confusion
about aspects not addressed by the
court. “In New York vs. T.L.O., the
court upheld the constitutionality of a
school search when the search itself,
and the scope of the search, are justi­
fied,” van Geel is quoted as saying.
But, says van Geel, that still leaves
unresolved such issues as the legality
of mass locker searches, the use of
metal detectors, and the admissibility,
as evidence, of contraband seized in
an illegal search.
I Fortune: The Catholic bishops and
their critics are both wrong in their
arguments about the morality of the
marketplace, writes President O’Brien
in an “Other Voices” feature in Fortune.
Referring to the U.S. Catholic Bishops’
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Camera-ready
The camera crew on the football field during this fall’s Reunion-Homecoming Weekend was
shooting footage for a new recruiting film for prospective River Campus undergraduates. The
new production, to replace the award-winning “Meliora” film of several years ago, will be ready
to begin making the rounds in early summer. It is being shot by Seven Seas Cinema, the same
outfit that produced the earlier film.

Teaching and the U.S. Economy
(criticizing capitalism for failing to
meet the needs of the poor) O’Brien
points out that “dialogue between
theologians and economists may be as
nonsensical as a musical critique of the
Dow Jones industrials.” The reason?
“Biblical writings are rooted in a set of
social and moral assumptions that, in

the context of today’s society, are preeconomic. . . . The biblical world is
nomadic and pastoral; the dominant
value structure is familial. The value
system of family pastoralism simply
does not recognize any of the topics
covered by Paul Samuelson, Robert
Barro, or even Karl Marx. Looked at
from a biblical standpoint, modern
economic structures appear radically

flawed —not because the Bible has a
better sense of economics, but because
it has virtually no sense of economics
whatsoever. ”
■ Wall Street Journal: Why do we
feel guilty tipping the waiter less than
15 percent —even in a restaurant we
don’t ever expect to eat in again? In
an op-ed piece on the motivation be­
hind relatively small acts of altruism,
assistant professor of political science
Russell D. Roberts suggests that the
guilt comes from social pressure, in
this instance because tipping is per­
ceived as the “right” thing to do.
“The beauty of social pressure,”
Roberts concludes, “is that it allows us
to use cheap forms of moral suasion
—the raised eyebrow or the friendly
word —as a substitute for more expen­
sive and onerous forms of influence,
such as jail sentences and violence.
When the genteel methods of persua­
sion are sufficient, instead of more
coercive alternatives, the world is
more pleasant and civilized.”
I Philadelphia Inquirer: The prob­
lem with medicine, according to
George L. Engel, professor emeritus
of psychiatry and medicine, is that it
has historically been so hung up on
being scientific that it has dismissed
the importance of being human —and
has been negligent in training physi­
cians to be as tuned in to people as
they are to disease.
Engel’s views form the basis for a
Sunday feature in the Inquirer, which
quotes him as saying, “The patient
comes to the physician for help be­
cause he is experiencing something
that is strange, different, unusual or
alarming and which he does not under­
stand . . . but which he believes —or
hopes —the doctor does understand
and does know how to handle. The
largest part of what is disturbing for
the patient is known only to himself
. . . and will remain so unless and
until communicated.”
Engel’s prescription for strengthen­
ing the ability of physicians to relate
to patients: programs such as the one
he instituted at Rochester forty years
ago that gives students and residents
formal training in this area. Years
later, when Engel followed up with
questionnaires sent to Rochester grad­
uates, he found that they believed
their psychosocial training had served
them well. When Engel asked how
long it took graduates of other med
schools to catch up, “they were vir­

D ebatable point
“You have a mind as sharp as a razor and just as narrow.” “By the look of your face, you
don’t know what a razor is.”
Oxford University student Simon Stevens (left above) and Frank Luntz (a Yank at
Oxford arguing on the Rochester team, at right), were participating in an Oxford-style
debate in Wilson Commons. Examining the question “Should the United States have
bombed Libya?” the encounter featured all the usual appurtenances of the traditional
Oxford Union debates, including black-tie garb for the principals, provocative exchanges
among the debaters, and enthusiastic heckling from the 300 spectators in Wilson Commons.
(“Would the honorable gentleman please sit down?” “Oh, I’m not so honorable. . . .”)
When it was all over, the Brits (arguing against) had won, by a show of hands in the au­
dience, ninety-three to eighty-seven. Freshman Seth Levine, organizer of the month-old
Rochester debate team, wasn’t at all disheartened by the narrow defeat. “I think the de­
bate was splendid, or as the English would say, ‘It was magnificent.’ ”

tually unanimous in their response:
‘Never,’” reported the Inquirer.
M Time: “The joyous, freewheeling
eclecticism [of] American music is
flourishing more strongly than ever,”
writes Time critic Michael Walsh ’71E.
Among the “challenging releases” he
cites in support of his thesis is one of
the Eastman School’s latest recordings.
The album, “Victor Herbert: The
American Girl” (Arabesque), features
soprano Teresa Ringholz ’81E, ’83GE
with the school’s Eastman-Dryden
Orchestra, Donald Hunsberger con­
ducting. “Hunsberger leads crisp,
snappy performances of several rous­
ing marches and show tunes,” declares
Walsh.
I Journal of the American Medical
Association: The virus that causes
AIDS can directly infect the brain and
cause depression and dementia, report
Rochester investigators who have been
working with researchers at the Na­
tional Cancer Institute. Two studies,
one done in Rochester and one done
at NCI, suggest an association be­
tween the AIDS virus in the brain and

so-called “scavenger” cells (known as
monocyte-macrophages). According to
Thomas A. Eskin, associate professor
of neuropathology and neurology, co­
author of one of the studies, it is possi­
ble that these scavenger cells, which
collect impurities in the blood and
body tissue, may have carried the
virus to the brain or been attracted to
the brain tissue by AIDS viruses al­
ready there. The studies could provide
useful clues as to how the virus spreads
and how it can be combated.
■ Financial World: What lies ahead
for Wall Street as it heads toward the
year 2000? Among the experts Finan­
cial World consulted was Paul W.
MacAvoy, dean of the William E.
Simon Graduate School of Business
Administration. Along with some
predictions about regulatory agencies
losing control “because of the ability
of very smart people to invent around
them,” MacAvoy had this to say about
the future of financial education: “I
am a bit worried about what the qual­
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universities will be at the turn of the
century, if a large portion of young
people who would have made the
grade-A professor level retire, instead,
at age thirty-five to farms in Vermont
after having made $30 million on Wall
Street.”
■ M iami Herald: “In this league,
they might call a huddle the Circle of
Logical Positivists,” writes Howard
Cosell in a “Sports Forum” article
about the formation of the University
Athletic Association. The UAA, of
course, is the association Rochester
formed last summer with seven other
academically oriented (“prestigious” is
the way Cosell phrased it) Division III
schools: Carnegie Mellon, Case West­
ern Reserve, University of Chicago,
Emory, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and
Washington University in St. Louis.
The UAA’s “main percept,” writes
Cosell, “is that the function of an
athletic program is to complement a
university’s primary reason for exis­
tence—to educate.” He adds, “The
UAA is one of the first real glimmers
of hope to emerge in the world of edu­
cation and sports in many decades.”
Attention, readers: The Office of Uni­
versity Public Relations is asking its net­
work of alumni readersfor their help in
compiling clippings of published references to
the University, itsfaculty members, and its
alumni. When you come across such items,
if you would take a minute to clip out the
article, identify it with the source and date of
publication, and send it along to the
Review (108 Administration Building
University of Rochester, Rochester, New
York 14627), the office would be grateful. A
number ofyou didjust that after our last re­
quest, and we thankyou all.

Sports
Smash season
Measure it any way you want. By
almost any yardstick, the fall of ’86 re­
sulted in the most successful autumn
campaign Rochester varsity teams
have enjoyed at any time during the
last ten years.
Here’s what happened: The 10sport Yellowjacket teams together
posted an enviable 86-43-4 composite
slate (that’s a 66.2 percent winning
mark); captured 10 team titles in tour­
nament or invitational competition;
and sent nine squads to participate in
post-season play (including a best-ever
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Women’s soccer: USA Num ber 1
When the Yellowjackets beat Plymouth State (New Hampshire) 1-0 in the finals of the first-ever
NCAA Division III national championships in women’s soccer, they brought home the Univer­
sity’s first-ever national championship in varsity sports. They also brought back home with
them an All-American first-team selection: co-captain Maria Budihas, above, senior economics
major and a second lieutenant in the Army ROTC.

NCAA’s Division III National Cham­
pionships).
In the process, the ’Jackets smashed
any number of individual and team
records, and a goodly group of them
earned well-deserved recognition on
the All-Tournament, All-Star, AllState, and All-American levels.
But the crowning achievement was
that of the women’s soccer team. It
captured the first national team title
in more than a century of Yellowjacket
athletics by winning the 1986 Division
III National Championship Tourna­
ment.

Details on these and other achieve­
ments are as follows:
B Women’s soccer: On the way to their na­
tional crown with a final 14-2-2 slate (which
also included the UR Flower City Invitational
title), head coach Terry Gurnett’s pitchwomen
used a school-record nine shutouts to outscore
their opposition 36-12. Ranked Number Three
in the NCAA Division III National Poll on
entering NCAA post-season play, Rochester
defeated Smith College 3-1 in the Regional
Final, and then at the Final Four stopped UCSan Diego 2-0 in the semifinals and Plymouth
State 1-0 in the title match.
Freshman forward Martha Winter led the
UR attack with nine goals and three assists,
followed by freshman forward Lisa Caraccilo

The big rush: Senior tailback Sam Guerrieri
finished his distinguished career as the
Yellowjackets’ all-time rushing leader with
a grand total of 2,319 yards.
(5 goals and 3 assists), and junior midfielder
Mary Knoll (3 goals and 4 assists). Junior
Doreen Byers (0.59 goals-against average) and
freshman JoAnn Johnston (0.15 GAA) split
playing time in the Yellowjackets nets. They
received superb defensive support from backs
Cheryl Cole (graduate student), Maria Budihas
(senior), Jill McCabe (junior), and Liz Breyton
(senior), as well as midfielders Jill Decker
(sophomore) and Darlene Elia (junior).
At the NCAA Final Four, Winter received
the Outstanding Offensive Player Award and
was joined on the All-Tournament Team by
Knoll, Budihas, and Byers. During the regular
season, Knoll was selected the MVP of the UR
Flower City Invitational and a member of the
Cortland State Dragon Cup All-Tourney Team.
Among other honors, the NCAA Division III
All-Northeast Team (New York, New Jersey,
Delaware) listed Knoll and Budihas as First
Team picks, while the Brighton-Pittsford Post
selected Knoll its Local College Player of the
Year and Gurnett its Local College Coach
of the \fear —along with Winter, Caraccilo,
Decker, Knoll, Cole, Budihas, McCabe, and
Byers as First Team All-Stars.
I Men’s soccer: Under the direction of head
coach George Perry, the Yellowjacket squad
reached the finals of the NCAA Division III
New York State Regional Tournament, and
along the way they set a school record for most
wins in a season with a final 15-4-0 mark. By
outscoring its opposition 38-21 (with the help
of a school-record nine shutouts), Rochester
advanced to NCAA post-season play for the
first time in the sport’s 53-year UR history and
ended up fourth in the New York State Division
III Coaches Poll and 18th in the Final NCAA
Division III National Coaches Poll.
Pacing the Yellowjacket offense were senior
midfielder Gisli Hjalmtysson (12 goals and
5 assists), sophomore forward Peter Sciandra
(9 goals and 3 assists), senior Mike Cosentino
(4 goals and 5 assists), senior midfielder Chris
Boehning (4 goals and 4 assists), and sophomore
forward Mark Bianchi (4 goals and 4 assists).
Junior goalie Dave Vaccaro started all 19 matches
in the Rochester nets, earning all nine shutouts
with a solid 1.05 goals-against average. Senior
David Ehrlich, junior Jack Blake, and junior

Scott Lawlor finished the season as the Yellow­
jackets’ outstanding backs, with Ehrlich receiv­
ing the Best Defensive Player Award at the
Flower City Invitational.
I Women’s volleyball: Head coach Bob Brewington’s Yellowjackets earned a berth in the
NCAA’s Division III National Championship
Tournament for the first time in the history of
the sport on the River Campus. The ’Jackets
posted a 36-14 record, which included the
championship of the Brockport State Invita­
tional, second place at the Albany State and
Rochester invitationals, third place at the
16-team NYSWCAA Division III State Tour­
nament, and a trip to the NCAA Division III
Midwest Regional, where they lost in the First
Round to M IT in the fifth and deciding game.
Senior Renee Schmitt was elected to a spot
on the All-State Tournament Team. Her class­
mate, English-major Karen Price (GPA 3.37)
was named to the District I (College Division)
Academic All-American Volleyball Team.
B Men’s cross-country: Under the direction of
head coach Tim Hale, this squad finished 4-3
in dual meets, placed fourth out of 19 teams at
the New York State Collegiate Track & Field
Association Championships, and fifth at the
18-team NCAA Division III New York State
Regional.
Senior Tom Tuori won individual titles at the
129-runner LeMoyne Invitational and the 122runner NCAA New York State Regional, and
earned All-American honors at the NCAA
Division III National Championships (by plac­
ing sixth in the 179-runner field with a time of
27:31 over the snow-covered 8,000-meter course
at Fredonia State).
B Women’s cross-country: Head coach Jac­
queline Blackett’s ’Jackets compiled a perfect
3-0 dual-meet mark, took first place at the
Allegheny and Rochester invitationals, finished
second at the New York State WCAA Division
III State Meet, and placed third at the NCAA
Division III New York State Regional.
Sophomore Carolyn Misch won individual
titles at the Allegheny, LeMoyne, Geneseo, and
Rochester invitationals, the NYSWCAA Divi­
sion III State Meet, and the NCAA Division
III New York State Qualifier. At the NCAA
Division III National Championships, she
became Rochester’s first cross-country AllAmerican by placing 14th in the 115-runner
field with a time of 20:29 over the 5,000-meter
course at snowy Fredonia.
B Men’s tennis: Under the direction of head
coach Pete Lyman, the team was 3-0 in dual
matches, won the team title at the 16-team
SUNY Albany Great Dane Invitational, and
placed fourth out of 24 squads at the EC AC
Division II-III North Championships.
At the Great Dane Invitational, junior
Joachim (Number 1), senior Mark Frisk
(Number Two), junior Mark Lowitz (Num­
ber 5), and freshman Bob Hession (Number
Six) won singles titles (with Hammer and Frisk
taking the first doubles crown and the duo of
senior Eric Lipton and freshman Scott Milener
winning at third doubles). Lipton and Hession
combined to take the second doubles compe­
tition at the ECAC Championships, while
Hammer reached the finals of the ITCA Rolex
Singles Championships (Eastern Regional Col­
lege Division).
B Field hockey: Head coach Jane Possee’s
squad compiled an 8-6-1 record that included
a fifth place (Consolation draw winner) at the

New York State WCAA Division III Cham­
pionships. Rochester outscored its foes 25-13
with a staunch defense that posted six shutouts
by junior goalie Jean Cardinale. Placing 10th in
the Final NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Re­
gional Rankings, the Yellowjackets were led in
scoring by sophomore forward Paula D’A mbra
(12 goals and 2 assists) and junior forward Kate
McNenny (2 goals and 6 assists).
B Men’s golf: The Yellowjacket linksters cap­
tured first-place honors at the Buffalo State
Classic, Northwest Classic, and ECAC Division
I-III Northern Qualifier, achieved a secondplace finish at the Norstar Bank Classic and at
the Cornell Invitational, and finished 12th at
the ECAC Division I-III Championships.
Heading coach Don Smith’s squad was senior
Greg Perry, who averaged a snappy 75.6 strokes
per 18 holes (and took individual titles in four
consecutive tournaments and a fifth-place finish
in the 115-player ECAC Championships). Next
behind him in stroke average were sophomore
Dave Weiss (78.7) and freshman Eric Snyder
(79.9).
B Women’s tennis: Head coach Joyce Wong’s
team fared only 2-7 in dual matches, but showed
season-long improvement by winning the
Brockport State Invitational and placing 11th
at the New York State WCAA Division III
Championships. Performing at third singles,
sophomore Marcy Isaacs enjoyed a perfect 7-0
dual-meet record, and at the State Tournament
combined with senior Ellen Loebl to reach the
semifinals of the third doubles competition.
Freshman Gina Parlato also achieved a winning
(5-4) dual-meet mark at her number five
singles post, while junior Kim Lupton (4-5 in
duals) advanced to the quarterfinals of the
State Tournament number four singles flight.
B Football: The Yellowjackets beat the College
of Wooster 16-3 and tied at St. Lawrence 20-20
to finish with a 1-7-1 slate under head coach
Ray Tellier.
Tailback Sam Guerrieri contributed a superb
senior season —averaging 92.9 yards per game
rushing, catching 23 passes for 255 yards, and
scoring 10 touchdowns. Guerrieri finished his
career as Rochester’s all-time leading rusher
(2,319 yards) and placed second in rushing at­
tempts (560), touchdowns (33), and scoring
(198 points).
Among other team distinctions:
Junior wide-receiver Ben Rizzo, Rochester’s
leading receiver (25 catches for 307 yards),
achieved a single-game school-record with 13
receptions at St. Lawrence. Sophomore placekicker Andy Milne tied the UR one-game mark
for most field goals (with three at Wooster) and
set a new single-season mark for field goals
(with eight).
Sophomore linebacker Gary Ciarleglio (81
solos and 70 assists) and junior linebacker Pete
Elliott (72 solos and 57 assists) were the Yellow­
jackets’ leading tacklers. Wide-receiver Tom
Sheehan established Yellowjacket freshman
records for most catches (22) and yards receiv­
ing (266) and paced the squad in returns, both
kick-off (26.8 yard average) and punt (10.1 yard
average).
Freshman quarterback Jim Polcyn started
the final four games (UR was 1-2-1 in that
stretch) with 68 completions in 124 attempts
(54.8 percent) for 814 yards and three touch­
downs. Senior offensive guard John Schnell was
elected to the 1986 District I College Division
Academic All-American Football Team with a
3.68 GPA as a biology major.

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Alumni Gazette

HEradicator: Smallpox, the deadly
disease that gets its name from the
scarring pustules it forms on a victim’s
body, became in 1980 the first disease
officially declared eradicated from the
earth. And for his leading role in that
monumental achievement, Donald A.
Henderson ’54M has been named
winner of the first annual Charles A.
Dana Award for Pioneering Achieve­
ment in Health.
Henderson was chief of the World
Health Organization from 1967 to
1977, and during that time he led a
team of hundreds of thousands of ad­
visers, health-care providers, and vol­
unteers on a global campaign to eradi­
cate smallpox. During his first year,
smallpox affected nearly fifteen mil­
lion people and killed two million in
forty-three countries. By the end of
Henderson’s term in 1977, a man in
Somalia became ill with what proved
to be the last case.
Now professor of health policy and
management and dean of the School
of Hygiene and Public Health at
Johns Hopkins University, Henderson
is developing strategies to eradicate
both poliomyelitis and measles by the
end of this century.
“After so many years and so many
cases, it is all but impossible to com­
prehend that smallpox now exists only
in glass vials in two laboratories,” says
Henderson.
I Presidents’ president: When the
Chronicle of Higher Education published
the names of the “100 Most Effective
College Presidents,” Paula Pimlott
Brownlee ’64F, president of Hollins
College, was prominently listed.
Compilers of the list (from a survey
of almost 500 college presidents,
higher-education officials, and scholars
of college presidencies) found that the
effective college president is “a strong,
risk-taking loner with a dream.”

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■Trustee: And cheers also for
Annette Cunningham James ’62GN,
who has been elected to the board of
trustees of her alma mater, AldersonBroaddus College in Philippi, West
Virginia. James earned her B.S. in
nursing at Alderson-Broaddus and
later returned there as instructor in
nursing. An independent nurse, she
works also as a representative for IDSAmerican Express financial services.

■Gardening guru: The usual back­
yard accessories of the ordinary sub­
urban home —a swimming pool, a
patio, a barbecue, a bug zapper —do
not clutter the grounds of Jeff Ball ’61,
on his quiet, tree-lined street in
Springfield, Pennsylvania.
Instead, occupying his backyard is
an extensive garden of his own design,
a veritable vegetable machine out of
which have come many pounds of pro­
duce and the fodder for Ball’s popular
books, The Self-Sufficient Suburban Gar­
den and The 60-Minute Garden (Rodale).
A self-professed “suburban guru,”
Ball says his unique time- and spaceefficient gardening techniques are the
key to a healthier life through selfsufficiency. His own “suburban home­
stead” is his best endorsement —a
small garden that grows several hun­
dred pounds of produce a year (with
minimal work), two beehives that pro­
duce 200 pounds of honey a year, a
solar greenhouse that provides heat
and an indoor garden space, and a

root cellar capable of storing a
bumper crop of veggies.
Ball has just published a third book,
The 60-Minute Flower Garden (Rodale);
produced a series of twelve one-hour
videos, Yardening with Jeff Ball (Kartes);
and written a home-computer pro­
gram for vegetable gardeners
(Rodale). A fourth book and a second
computer program are taking root.
All of this is a dramatic shift in life­
style for Ball, whose previous highpressure job as deputy secretary of
welfare for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania took a toll on his health
and family life. Where once he was
responsible for a $300 million budget
and a 170-member staff, he says now
he watches over “a quarter acre and
two cats.”
■Sanctuary: We go now from Jeffrey
Ball ’61 to Jeffrey Bell ’64, a physician
and a key member of Congregation
Beth Israel in Media, Pennsylvania,
which last year became one of only a
handful of Jewish groups in the coun­
try to give sanctuary to political
refugees.
Sanctuary is an action more usually
associated with Christianity. “But,”
says Bell, “these people are seeking
asylum from political persecution, just
as the Jews were during World War II.
I and the members of my congrega­
tion felt a strong kinship with them.”
Bell, with help from Beth Israel,
last summer opened his home to
“Lucio,” a union activist from El
Salvador, and his family.
“It was, at first, a purely political
act, but having Lucio and his family
stay with us was an invaluable experi­
ence for me and my family,” says Bell.
“It was incredible hearing Lucio’s
story first-hand —about how his broth­
er and cousin were tortured and killed
by Salvadoran government troups,
about how he lived in internal exile
for fear of being executed for demon­
strating against his government.”
“The U.S. government wants to de­
port those like Lucio as economic,
rather than political, refugees,” notes
Bell, “but our danger in harboring
him in our home paled in comparison
to what he and his family had gone
through.”
Bell’s congregation eventually
helped Lucio and his family escape to
Canada, where they now have legal
status. Their brief stay with Bell made

a lasting impression, he says. “We are
truly brothers. We spoke of politics, of
raising children, shared the tension of
living in hiding,” he says. “Lucio is
safe now, but it’s been hard on him.
He still has a dream, though, of living
with his family, in peace, in El
Salvador. ”
■ O f mice and man: Mice and peo­
ple have had a long and checkered
relationship. Here’s one for the good
side. Mary Lou Oster-Granite ’69
and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine have
developed in mice the first animal
model for Down’s Syndrome, making
a significant step toward understand­
ing the disorder that is the most com­
mon form of mental retardation in
humans.
Down’s Syndrome, also known as
Trisomy 21, occurs when a person has
an extra copy of one of his or her nor­
mal complement of twenty-three pairs
of chromosomes. “Mice are one of the
few animals that naturally produce
offspring with extra chromosomes, but
as in humans, the majority of those
offspring die before birth,” explains
Oster-Granite. “What we’ve done is
take cells from these fragile mouse
embryos and fuse them with normal
mouse embryos to produce offspring
that survive long enough to be
studied.”
These surviving mice display many
of the symptoms common to Down’s
Syndrome —facial disfiguration, heart
disease, mental retardation, and pre­
mature senility and death. And al­
though mice and humans have differ­
ent numbers of chromosomes, many
of their genetic sequences are the
same, making them useful in studying
human illness.
“These mice give us, for the first
time, a chance to study closely and
understand fully the mechanism of the
disorder,” says Oster-Granite, associ­
ate professor of physiology and of
neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, whose
own research concerns how the brain
of a trisomy victim organizes itself.
“Whereas we may need twenty to
thirty years for a lifespan study of a
person with Down’s, we can do more
research and gather more information
with a mouse, whose lifespan is only
three to four years,” she says.

Time cover story. Leibner came away
with a hefty commission and the con­
tract coup of his career.
Because of major belt-tightening at
the big networks, Leibner’s business
isn’t booming as loud as it used to.
Still he has faith that the pendulum
will swing again in favor of his clients.
Besides, anyone who can talk like this
to a network executive, is a survivor:
“I should only deal with you in the
afternoon! You’re too petulant in the
morning! Tell me, is it your kid, your
dog, or your wife who drives you
crazy?”

■ “Call my agent” : He rubs elbows
with the big guys in broadcast jour­
nalism. Get Dan Rather on the
phone? Sure, they’re great friends.
How about the crew at 60 Minutes? No
problem. The president of CBS News?
He’s on the line. Truth is, although
you’ve never seen him on the evening
news, Richard Leibner ’59 carries a
lot of weight in the news business.
Leibner is an agent —in many peo­
ple’s eyes the agent —for broadcast
journalists. His company, N. S. Bienstock, Inc., represents more than 300
anchors, directors, reporters, and pro­
ducers for local and national news
programs, earning it the nickname
“the General Motors” of agencies.
Almost daily, Leibner negotiates
salaries and contracts on behalf of his
clients with some of the biggest news
organizations in the world.
Leibner’s trademark bulldozer style
is rooted in his belief that his clients
are always getting paid less than they
deserve. Combine that with his pen­
chant for off-color remarks (“Richard
always calls with the day’s crudest,
funniest joke,” says client Diane
Sawyer), his sometimes brutal hones­
ty, and his intense loyalty to and pro­
tectiveness of his clients (“If any of us
ever got in trouble, Richard would be
there,” says Morley Safer), and you’ve
got a formidable ally come contractrenewal time. The formula works:
Leibner was the strategist who negoti­
ated Dan Rather’s five-year contract to
replace Walter Cronkite as the anchor
for the CBS Evening News, earning
Rather eight million dollars and a

■Laurels: In the Spring 1985 issue of
Rochester Review, we told you about
Bruce M. Lansdale ’46 and his work
as director of the American Farm
School in Salonika, Greece, which
teaches young Greeks modern agricul­
tural techniques. Now the Greek gov­
ernment has seen fit to recognize
Lansdale’s achievements with Greece’s
highest decoration awarded to private
foreign citizens.
Minister of Northern Greece Yannis
Papadopoulos, at a ceremony attended
by U.S. Ambassador Robert V.
Keeley, cited Lansdale for outstanding
contributions to rural development.
Five graduates of the farm school were
also recognized for their contributions
to the development of agriculture in
Greece.
A Rochester native, Lansdale grew
up in Greece while his father served as
general secretary of the YMCA. Since
leaving the University, Lansdale and
his wife, Tad (Elizabeth) Krihak
Lansdale ’47, have spent nearly forty
years building the farm school into a
respected vocational school and an
important cultural-exchange opportu­
nity for Greeks and Americans.
—Shinji Morokuma

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Alumnotes

some few judges, are rarely even mentioned.
. . . Dr. Forbes’ book has neither of these fail­
ings.” For more on the book, see the “News­
makers” in the Spring ’86 issue of Rochester
Review.
1935
Ernest L. Aponte was honored by the Roches­
ter Section of the American Chemical Society
for 50 years of membership. He retired from
Eastman Kodak Co. in 1975.
1937
50th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7

RC —River Campus colleges
G —Graduate degree, River Campus
colleges
M —M.D. degree
G M —Graduate degree, M edicine and
Dentistry
R —Medical residency
F
—Fellowship, M edicine and Dentistry
E —Eastman School o f Music
GE —Graduate degree, Eastman
N —School of Nursing
G N —Graduate degree, Nursing
FN —Fellowship, School of Nursing
U —University College
G U —Graduate degree, University
College

River Campus
1929
Eleanor Otto, one of our distinguished alumni
poets, has added to her already impressive list
of accomplishments. Last summer she was elect­
ed to a two-year term as national president of
Composers, Authors and Artists of America,
Inc., which she previously served as New York
City Chapter president and assistant editor of
the group’s magazine. The 9th World Congress
of Poets, held in Taiwan, honored Otto by pub­
lishing a number of her works in its souvenir
journal.
1931
Arthur P. Reed, Jr., retired copy and news edi­
tor at The New York Times, is the author of the
lead article (on arms control) and several other
stories in the 1986 Information Please Almanac. He
is also the author of several biographical articles
in the new reference work American Reformers.
If you’re planning to look him up in the book,
Reed’s initials appear following his work (Clara
Barton and Anthony Comstock among his sub­
jects), but the Wilson Co. accidentally dropped
his name from the list of contributors. “They
did apologize, promising an errata slip and
amends in the next edition,” reports Reed.
1933
The New EnglandJournal of Medicine, in its
Oct. 23 issue, published a review by William J.
Curran of Harvard Medical School of Surgeons
at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878, by
Thomas Rogers Forbes ’38GM. In it, Curran
writes, “Medical-history books often suffer
from a common fault: they are frequently little
more than a stringing together of short biogra­
phies of great figures in medical science and a
detailing of the contributions of those pioneers
and discoverers. . . . Legal history has the op­
posite failing: the names of lawyers, except

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1938
Jean Obdyke Kinney has been awarded her
second Bachelor of Arts degree. This latest
degree, in women’s studies, is from the Univer­
sity of Maryland of College Park. . . . “Who says
the ‘old boys’look back?”write Roy and Edith
Chapman Wemett. “We’re looking forward to
many years in the new home we just had built. ”
Their new home is in Nokomis, Fla. —their
summer residence is in Canandaigua, N.Y.
1940
Hamilton Mabie has just published the fourth
edition of his book, Mechanisms and Dynamics of
Machinery (John Wiley & Sons). Professor of
mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, he
and his wife, Margaret (Sallie) Willers Mabie
’38, live in Blacksburg, Va.
1942
45th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1943
Virginia Dwyer, who retired last year as senior
vice president-finance of AT&T, has been elected
to the board of directors of The Southern Com­
pany, a major utilities firm in the South.
1944
Erwin Klingsberg G has been delivering in­
vited lectures before the American Chemical
Society and the American Institute of Chemists
on the subject of his recent age-discrimination
lawsuit against the American Cyanamid Co.,
which was settled out of court for a six-figure
sum. . . . Donald B. Miller’s newest book,
Managing Professionals in Research and Development
(Jossey-Bass), is a practical guide for improving
productivity and organizational effectiveness
among technical professionals. The book, he
writes, is a natural outgrowth of his manage­
ment-consulting business in Saratoga, Calif.,
which he started in 1978.
1946
Josephine Kelly Craytor U, ’60G is the new
president of the Friends of Strong Memorial
Hospital, a group dedicated to raising funds
and promoting community interest in the hos­
pital. Professor emeritus of nursing at the
University, Craytor most recently served the
Friends of Strong as member-at-large of its
board. . . . Robert E. Curtis ’47G, superinten­
dent of schools in Gettysburg, Pa., will retire
in June after 40 years in the education field.
1947
40th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1948
Fred J. Paulus ’50G, who retired from Superior
Oil Co. in 1985 after Mobil took over the com­
pany, worked as a consultant for Petrofina Oil
until last summer. He reports that his daughter,
Susan, was married in Houston last August. . . .

Gerald R. Rising ’51G has been named SUNY
Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY
Buffalo.
1949
Muriel “Nicky” Nixon Canfield ’65G has sent
us news of her husband, Delos Lincoln Canfield, who had a long and distinguished teach­
ing career at Rochester (and who was Muriel’s
Spanish professor in 1945). He was selected
“Man of the Year” by the American Association
of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, in
Madrid. He is director, and professor of Span­
ish linguistics, for Southern Illinois University’s
Spanish Elderhostels program in Oaxaca, Mex­
ico, and its “SIU in Spain” program in Pam­
plona, Spain. Nicky is associate director and
professor of Spanish linguistics in both pro­
grams. She also served as linguistic assistant for
the third and fourth editions of Canfield’s Uni­
versity of Chicago Spanish Dictionary. . . . Joseph
G. Liska is a sales associate in the New Canaan,
Conn., office of Weichert Realtors.
1950
Ethel Adler Kowal ’60G has been re-elected
school board president of the Town of Brighton
School District in suburban Rochester. Past
president of the Jewish Community Center,
she is currently director of development for the
J.C.C. . . . William E. Sweetman is president
of the Eagle Signal group of companies in
Austin, Tex., and lives in nearby Georgetown.
1951
Donald C. Wobser is coauthor of an article
on “Thermal Stability of Ethylene at Elevated
Pressures,” published in the October 1986 issue
of Plant/Operations Progress. He is principal engi­
neer in the System Safety Skill Center of cen­
tral engineering at Union Carbide.
1952
35th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1953
William F. “Fran” Brennan has been promoted
to senior vice president, corporate strategic
planning and development, at Union Mutual
Life Insurance Co. in Portland, Me.
1954
Roy W. Jacobus has been elected vice president
of The MITRE Corp. in its Bedford (Mass.)
C31 Division. M ITRE serves as technical ad­
visor and system engineer for the Air Force’s
Electronic Systems Division as well as for other
branches of the Department of Defense and
civilian agencies.
1955
Robert L. Stern ’56GE, ’62GE received a
1986-87 award from the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP),
in recognition of works he has composed and
performed. This is the seventh ASCAP award
for Stern, who is professor of music at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. . . .
Nathaniel Wisch has been appointed director
of medical oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital and
associate clinical professor of medicine at the
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He is also serv­
ing Mt. Sinai as president of its alumni associa­
tion.
1956
The Press and the Presidency (Oxford University
Press), by Sarah Miles Watts and John Tebbel,
(River Campus continued on page 34)

1986 River Campus Reunion
They got together to meet and eat at class reunion
luncheons and dinners, hear from the experts at the
Reunion Forum, meet with the president and provost,
waltz at the Viennese Ball, cheer at the football game,
take in the Prince Street co-op reunion, the sorority
brunch, the Graduate School of Education alumni day
events, and much more.
Along with everything else on that memorable
October weekend, members of the milestone Fiftieth,
Thirty-fifth, Twenty-fifth, and Tenth-year reunion classes
celebrated the culmination of their class-gift projects,
demonstrating that these enterprises are not only alive
and well —they’re positively flourishing.
Some details on the class projects:
1936: Reunion co-chairs Dick Edgerton and Rhea
White and class gift co-chairs Harriet Tatelbaum and
Pete Tierney happily report that their class has exceeded
its $100,000 goal by $1,200 to date. As a result, the first
recipients of the Fiftieth Reunion Scholarships for Upperclass Undergraduates will receive the initial awards
this fall.
1951: The 1986 Thirty-fifth reunion class has set a
goal of a $100,000 gift by its Fortieth reunion in 1991,
and is already at the $40,575 mark. Objective: establish­
ment of the Alexander-Spurrier Scholarships for River
Campus undergraduates. As alumni of the forties and
fifties need not be told, the scholarships are named in
honor of the two legendary phys ed professors of that
era —Lou Alexander, Sr. and Merle Spurrier. Co-chairing the fund-raising effort are Jim Atwater and Lois
(“Inky”) Watts.
1961: Setting a record for the amount of money

pledged in a single year in honor of a Twenty-fifth re­
union, the Class of ’61 (a number of whom are pictured
in the photo above), has pledged $62,250 to date toward
its year-end goal of $100,000. The gift: support of the
newly established “SummerReach” program that offers
full-time summer jobs to qualified undergraduates
through a national network of alumni job-development
volunteers. Reunion chairman was C. William Brown;
gift chairman is James D. Murray.
1976: This class, too, set a new mark —in this case for
the amount of money pledged in honor of a Tenth-year
reunion ($18,000 to date toward a year-end goal of
$25,000). Objective: a revolving loan fund for the “Reach
for Rochester” program, permitting undergraduate en­
trepreneurs to borrow seed money to start their own oncampus businesses. Gift chairman is Joseph Ruh, Jr.

Attention:

1987 reunion classes

Members of the classes o f ’37, ’42, ’47, ’52, ’57, ’62,
’67, ’72, ’77, and ’82: All kinds of classy events are
being planned for your reunion in the spring this year
(a switch from the fall dates of previous years).
River Campus and Nursing: No matter what we told
you before, the reunion dates are now firmly placed
on Thursday, June 4, through Sunday, June 7.
Medical School: Your reunion is May 22-24.
Eastman School: The next triennial Eastman School
reunion is scheduled for 1988.

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Addendum:
Report on G iving
The following names were in­
advertently omitted or listed in­
correctly in the Report on Giving
in the Fall 1986 issue of Rochester
Review.
Presidents Society
Dr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Stabins
Mr. Wallace R. Gray
Rochester Fellows
Dr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Horner
Associates
Dr. Matthew Cohen
Drs. George & Susan
Dersnah Fee
Dr. Helen Kingsbury
Mrs. Alyce Vanderlinde
Mr. Ronald & Dr. Nancy Stillwell
Whipple Society
Dr. Robert Hoekelman
One Hundred Club
Mr. Howard B. Stiles

River Campus (from page 32)
won the Frank Luther Mott Award for Excel­
lence in Research from the University of Mis­
souri. We told you about her book, which de­
tails the history of the relationship between the
media and the presidency, in the Winter
issue of the Review. Watts is professor of journal­
ism at SUNY Geneseo.
1957
30th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1958
Art ’60M and Judith Frank Pearson report
that Robert R. Morley ’60M and Earl Cline
’60M were among the guests at their daughter’s
wedding in the Thousand Islands last July.
The Pearsons had been “dabbling in the Bed&-Breakfast business” at their home in Cape
Vincent, N.Y., but have since moved to Naples,
Fla., leaving Art’s ob-gyn practice behind.
1959
John R. Lanz G, senior vice president and
senior financial officer of Utica Mutual Insur­
ance Co. and treasurer of all Utica Mutualowned subsidiaries, was elected director of the
Northeast Region of the Society of Chartered
Property and Casualty Underwriters. . . . Bill
Stanley reports that he’s joined Hazeltine Corp.
as vice president-quality assurance. He’s living
in Northport, N.Y.
1960
Gail Harkness ’61N, ’63GN was appointed
dean ad interim of the Boston University School
of Nursing. . . . The Hyam Plutzik Memorial
Poetry Series at the University has been greatly
strengthened through a generous gift from
Alan Hilfiker. A member of the Trustees’
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and maintains a scholarly interest in the life
and work of another Rochester poet, Adelaide
Crapsey. Hilfiker is a lawyer with the Rochester
firm of Harter, Secrest, and Emery at its
Naples, Fla., office. . . . Anne C. Loveland is
the author of the book, Lillian Smith: A Southerner
Confronting the South, published by Louisiana
State University Press.
1961
Terence Parsons, professor of philosphy at UC
Irvine, has been named dean of the college’s
School of Humanities. A UCI faculty member
since 1979, he served as acting dean during
the 1985-86 academic year. . . . Michael
Stemerman has been awarded the Herman
Tarnower Research Prize by the American
Heart Association, Westchester-Putnam (N.Y.)
affiliate. Professor of medicine and head of
atherosclerosis research, lipid clinics, and labo­
ratory at New York Medical College, Stemer­
man earned the award for his outstanding
research in atherosclerosis.
1962
25th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Donald Alhart has joined the executive staff of
Fidelity Investments of Boston. . . . James A.
Merkle, vice president and general manager at
Allied Film & Video in Detroit, has been named
a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers. He was cited for playing
“an important role in the recent expansion of
Allied to one of the major film and video service
facilities in the country.” . . . Vincent J. Russo
was presented the Meritorious Civilian Service
Award, the highest award bestowed upon civil­
ians by the commander of the Air Force Systems
Command. This is the second such award for
Russo, who is special assistant to the director of
the Aero Propulsion Laboratory of the Aero­
nautical Systems Division. He was recognized
for distinguished performance when temporari­
ly assigned as Materials and Productivity Panel
Chairman for Air Force Project Forecast II.
. . . John H. Stoupe G is editor of Drama in the
Renaissance: Comparative and Critical Essays, pub­
lished by AMS Press, New York.
1963
Michael F. Armstrong has been elected presi­
dent of SHARE, Inc., an international, non­
profit industry organization of IBM complex
systems users. He is director of research and
systems support at Ryder System, Inc. of
Miami, the parent organization to a group of
companies providing highway transportation,
aviation, and insurance-management services.
. . . Lois Christianson Giess ’63N has been
elected to a seat on the Rochester City Council.
. . . Peter A. Keller was appointed by Governor
Bob Graham to the Florida State Board of
Dentistry. He plans to serve a four-year term
while maintaining his private practice in Holly­
wood, Fla. . . . A. John Popp is now chairman
of the Department of Surgery at the Albany
(N.Y.) Medical Center. . . . “Fundamentalism,
Modernism and the Maritime Baptists in the
1920s and 1930s” was the subject of the W.
Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture at the
University of New Brunswick at Fredricton,
given by George Rawlyk G, ’66G, professor of
history at Queen’s University and one of the
foremost historians of the Maritime Provinces.
1964
Norman J. Bloch G, ’66G, associate professor
of mathematics and computer science at SUNY
Brockport, has written a new college text, Abstract

Algebra with Applications, published recently by
Prentice-Hall, Inc. . . . Since becoming pro­
fessor of law at Wake Forest University School
of Law, Arthur R. Gaudio has published a new
book, Real Estate Brokerage Law in the U.S. (West
Publishing Co.) . . . Bette Gross Hirsch, head
of French at Cabrillo College in Aptos, Calif.,
has been appointed a member of the Foreign
Language advisory Committee of the College
Board for the 1986-87 academic year. . . .
Marcia Scott Howden was visiting assistant
professor of modern languages last semester at
Denison University in Granville, Ohio. . . .
Joan Kaegi-Johnson is administrator and
caretaker of the community church house in
Ottenbach, Switzerland, where she lives with
her two daughters, Kathrin (15) and Claudia
(11). . . . John H. Seinfeld received the 1986
William H. Walker Award from the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. Louis E. Nohl
Professor and executive officer for chemical
engineering at the California Institute of Tech­
nology, Seinfeld was cited for his “pioneering
contributions to research and education in the
field of air pollution and aerosols” and his work
in developing computer models capable of assess­
ing the effect of emission changes on air quality.
. . . Joan Dina Bertinelli Tobey earned her
master’s degree in education from Converse
College in Spartanburg, S.C. . . . Will Wright
G is associate professor of sociology at the
University of Southern Colorado.
1966
Barry G. Cohen reports that he was appointed
assistant vice president for finance at Montclair
State College in Upper Montclair, NJ1967
20th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Michael Feldberg G, ’70G has been named a
partner in Ethical Marketing Strategies, a man­
agement consulting firm that provides market­
ing advice to some of New England’s top pro­
fessional service organizations. . . . June Baker
Higgins ’67G, acting associate vice president
for academic affairs at Central Connecticut
State University, won that university’s Distin­
guished Service Award for 1986. . . . Michael
E. Rick U was named president and chief exec­
utive officer of M&R Electronics, Inc., a Roch­
ester firm that designs and manufactures microprocessor-based motion and process controls
for industrial applications. He’s also finishing
his M.B.A. in the Executive Development Pro­
gram at the University’s newly named William
E. Simon Graduate School of Business' Admin­
istration.
1968
Norman Bowie G is visiting professor of
management/marketing at the University
of Scranton, Pa. . . . Diane Joy Gillman
Charney says she is still teaching French at
Yale University and Choate Rosemary Hall,
where she is the adviser to international stu­
dents. She is also on the board of the Center for
Independent Study, an interdisciplinary group
of scholars and artists, based in New Haven,
Conn. She writes also that her poem, “Dick
Cavett Interviews Eudora Welty,” was pub­
lished in the May ’86 issue of The Bear Swamp
Review. . . . Sue Carol (Suki) Hanfling, a
clinical social worker at McLean Hospital, Bel­
mont, Mass., was promoted to administrative
supervisor at the hospital’s adult outpatient
clinic. In May, she received an award given an­
nually to “the social worker at McLean who has

made the greatest contribution to social work
practice.” President of the Field Faculty Associ­
ation at Smith College School for Social Work,
Hanfling is writing a paper with members of
the Institute for the Study of Clinical Supervi­
sion at the Simmons College School for Social
Work. In addition to teaching, consulting,
supervising, and doing therapy, she presented a
paper (in French) on “Psychoeducational Ap­
proach to Working with Families of Schizo­
phrenics” at a hospital in Paris. She reports that
she is living in Cambridge, Mass., has a “little
sister” (a 10-year-old Puerto Rican girl whom
she sees regularly), and is pursuing her interests
in photography and swing dance. . . . Philip
L. Kumler G, professor of chemistry at SUNY
Fredonia, received the Chancellor’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching. . . . Kathleen Hughes
Wright earned her Ph.D. in anthropology last
December from Syracuse University. . . .
Married: Kathleen Hughes and Herbert
Wright in July 1985. . . . Born: to Alan and
Judith Wagner DeCew ’70, a son, Jeffrey
Robert, on July 2.
1969
Congratulations to Donna Gindes, who re­
peated her performance of 1985 by taking top
honors in the 1986 Mental Health Media
Awards, sponsored by the National Mental
Health Association. For the second year in a
row, the newspaper she edits, The Reporter, took
the first place gold award in the nondaily news­
paper category. Gindes is director of commu­
nications at the Norfolk Mental Health Asso­
ciation in Norwood, Mass. . . . Kenneth I.
Gluckman is the author of an article on “Plain
English in Amateur Sporting Activity ‘Waivers,’”
published in the October issue of the Michigan
BarJournal. . . . Ronald J. Paprocki ’86G has
been named University director of budgets and

financial planning at Rochester. Since 1983, he
has been assistant dean for administration and
director of college budgets and planning for the
College of Arts and Science. He also served for
a year as acting vice provost for computing.
. . . Rooms Overhead (alice james books) is the
newest collection of poetry by Betsy Sholl G.
The book, in which she explores “the war be­
tween the generations, the sexes, past and
present,” has been acclaimed as “studded with
talent and awareness.” Sholl lives with her
family in Portland, Me., and teaches at the
University of Southern Maine. . . . Married:
Richard B. Kladstrup U and Mary Ellen
Wilmot on Sept. 6, in Pittsford, N.Y.
1970
Joseph A. Adler is assistant professor of religion
and East Asian languages and cultures at the
University of Southern California. . . . Air
Force Brig. Gen, John M. Davey G has been
installed as commander of the Tactical Air
Command’s 26th Air Division in Riverside,
Calif. Davey previously served as commander
of the Tactical Air Command’s 832nd Air Divi­
sion at Luke AFB, Ariz. . . . Darcey Poole G
was appointed associate for career planning
and advisement at SUNY Brockport. She pre­
viously served Brockport as an admissions
counselor. . . . Born: to Gerald M. and
Barbara Kruger Katz ’73, a son, David
Russell, on Feb. 17, 1986.
1971
Anders Henriksson’s collection of amusing ex­
cerpts from papers submitted by college fresh­
men has been reprinted in the Winter ’86 issue
of Wilson Quarterly. “A History of the Past: ‘Life
Reeked with Joy’” was originally published in
the Spring ’83 issue of WQ. Since then, the
editor notes, the article has become the jour­

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nal’s most widely reprinted piece, appearing in
Reader’s Digest, the Boston Globe, and the Chicago
Sun-Times, among others. The olfactory refer­
ence in the title comes from one student’s as­
sessment of 14th-century Europe: “The Middle
Ages slimpared to a halt. The renasence bolted
in from the blue. Life reeked with joy.” Henriksson is now assistant professor of history at
Shepherd College. . . . Martha Hollander
Marsh is the new president and chief executive
officer of the Matthew Thornton Health Plan
in Nashua, N.H. . . . Anne Crichton Ptak has
been appointed supervisor and clinical coordi­
nator for Cancer Chemotherapy in the phar­
macy department of Buffalo General Hospital.
. . . Harriet Shakofsky Wall G has been pro­
moted to professor of psychology at the Uni­
versity of Michigan-Flint. Winner of the 1986
Distinguished Faculty Member award from the
Michigan Association of Governing Boards,
Wall is highly regarded for her abilities as a
teacher and researcher. . . . Married: Anne
Crichton and John Ptak on July 19, in Buffalo.
. . . Born: to William S. and Renee Bergmann
Andrews, a son, Benjamin Seth, on June 20.
1972
15th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Brother Lawrence A. Killelea G is principal
of the Bergen Catholic High School in Franklin
Lakes, N.J. . . . Martin Leonard is business
unit manager of waste treatment systems at the
Duriron Co. in Angola, N.Y. . . . Eleanor Vogt
Long writes that she, her husband, Navy Lt.
Comdr. Stephen T. Long, and their four chil­
dren are moving to Colorado Springs. “Previ­
ous homes have ranged from Guam to Maine
to Maryland to California,” she reports.
“Maybe the roots will have a chance to grow
in Colorado!” . . . Chuck Trowbridge G, vice
president and general manager of the Copy
Products Division of Eastman Kodak Co.,
served as grand marshal for the Kodak Copier
500 auto race at Watkins Glen International
Speedway. . . . Born: to Howard (Buzz)
Ballinger and Margaret Rinkovsky, a son,
Taylor Ballinger, in July.
1973
Alan B. Bernstein earned his M.P.H. from
UC Berkeley School of Public Health and is
currently medical director of the Cumberland
Neighborhood Family Care Center in Brooklyn.
He’s been elected to the board of directors of
the Public Health Association of New York City
and named a fellow of the American Academy
of Pediatrics and the American College of Pre­
ventive Medicine. . . . Marvin Bram G, pro­
fessor of history at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., is now Donald R.
Harter Professor of Humanities and the Social
Sciences there. The senior faculty fellowship is
awarded to a professor who has the capability
of doing significant scholarly work. . . . Amy
Ehrlich Charney is a psychotherapist in West
Hartford, Conn. Her husband, Richard, is
a partner in the firm of Raphael & Charney
Architects. She reports that they have “two in­
credible children,” Erica Lauren (4) and Aron
Daniel (2), and that everyone is thriving and
well. . . . Alan M. Cohen earned a promotion
at Peat Marwick, the international public ac­
counting firm. He works in the firm’s manage­
ment consulting department of the Stamford,
Conn., office. . . . Rev. Keith M. Dewey G is
now pastor of the Falconer (N.Y.) First United
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Methodist Church. . . . Jon Forbes G was
named president of SimuFlite, a division of the
Singer Co. . . . Raymond V. Malpocher GU,
’77G is vice president of the Organec Insulator
Division of Lopp Insulators. . . . Jay B.
Rappaport G earned a promotion to technical
manager at DuPont and is living in Geneva,
Switzerland. . . . Barry S. Spector has become
counsel to the Washington, D.C., office of the
law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
. . . Nancy Olsen Spokowski serves as vice
president of ComFed Realty Credit Co., Inc.,
a commercial real estate lender. . . . Dana
W. Zucker is clerk of Belknap County (N.H.)
Superior Court. . . . Born: to Tony and Liz
Elias Chifari, a son, Andrew Michael, on
Sept. 29, in Miami, Fla.
1974
E. Ralph Aldous and Eleftheria BernidakiAldous ’76G are living in Omaha, Neb., with
their son, Alexandras Ralph (born in 1980),
and daughter, Ariadne Evelyn (born in 1986).
Ralph works for the management of Mutual
of Omaha and Eleftheria teaches classics at
Creighton University after earning her Ph.D.
in classics from Johns Hopkins University. . . .
Elizabeth B. Frey U, ’82GU is a senior pro­
gram director in training and professional de­
velopment in the College of Continuing Educa­
tion at Rochester Institute of Technology. . . .
Athanasios I. Liapis G, professor of chemical
engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla,
was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture
and conduct research at the Technical Uni­
versity of Munich. . . . Born: to Henry M.
Friedman and Nancy B. Lewis, a daughter,
Rachel Leah, on Aug. 23. . . . to Richard J.
and Constance Asher Hipolit, a son, John
Andrew, on May 2. . . . to Willard Johnson, a
son, Willard James Johnson, on Aug. 18.
1975
The University’s Strong Children’s Medical
Center (SCMC), to recognize and encourage
continuing and outstanding service, has estab­
lished the Diane R. Doniger Miracle Worker
Award, in honor of the immediate past chair­
person of the SCMC Advisory Board. The first
of these awards was given last fall to Howard
Moscowitz, a member of the advisory board
who began as a SCMC volunteer to “repay a
debt” for the health of his youngest son, who
was treated for a malignant brain tumor at
SCMC. . . . Edward Thomas Farrell earned
his M.P.A. from SUNY Albany and now
directs a research unit of the New York State
Department of Social Services in Albany. His
unit evaluates alternative plans for providing
health care to Medicaid recipients. . . . Edwin
Ginsberg is a periodontist practicing in Great
Neck, N.Y. . . . Frederick J. Klauser was
promoted to major in the U.S. Marine Corps.
He is assistant officer in charge of NAMTRAGRUDET, NAS Lemoore. . . . Mary Anne
Martley is program manager for graphics
systems development in the Military and Data
Systems Operations unit of General Electric
Co., in Springfield, Va. She reports that she’s
also working away at an M.B.A. at Marymount
University in Arlington. . . . Frederick
Ognibene is a member of the Critical Care
Medicine Department at the National Insti­
tutes of Health, where he completed a senior
staff fellowship in critical-care medicine. As we
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a paper at the 1986 International Conference
on AIDS, in Paris, and was senior author of
an original scientific article published in the
New EnglandJournal of Medicine. . . . George
Vorhauer, Jr. G was elected national vice presi­
dent of the American Society for Quality Con­
trol. He is a technical associate in the Customer
Quality Assurance Department of Eastman
Kodak Co. . . . Married: Edward Thomas
Farrell and Susan Perkins on July 28, 1984.
. . . Born: to Susan Perkins and Edward
Thomas Farrell, a son, Liam Daniel, on
March 30. . . . to Sheryl and Edwin Ginsberg,
a daughter, Nicole Elaine. . . . to Joy and
Bennett Reiser, a daughter, Davielle Susan,
on Oct. 9, 1985.
1976
After earning his M.S.P.H. from the University
of Miami, Warren Abrahams joined the Na­
tional Sanitation Foundation as regional rep­
resentative in Atlanta, Ga. . . . Frances
Weinstock Cullen is director of the Georgia
State University Art Gallery. Among the ex­
hibits she worked on last year was one titled
“Visual Arts: The Southeast 1986,” a showcase
of some of the finest works by artists from the
southeastern United States. . . . Kathleen M.
Farrell is visiting adjunct professor of geology
at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
. . . Steven D. Levine has been elected county
judge in Dade County, Fla. . . . After earning
his Ph.D. at Rochester, Andreas Papapavlou
G, ’79G reports that he taught in the TEFL

Graduate Program at the American University
in Cairo. He then went to King Faisal Universi­
ty in Saudi Arabia, where he was instrumental
in starting a graduate program. Since Septem­
ber 1985, he has been associate professor of
psycholinguistics at the United Arab Emirates
University. “As far as I know,” he writes, “I’m
the only Rochester graduate to teach in these
three institutions.” . . . Frank Pipp is an assist­
ant vice president at First Wisconsin National
Bank of Milwaukee. He and his wife, Mary
Marjenka-Pipp, are the proud parents of Jacob
Matthew (born Sept. 4, 1986) and Rachel Anne
(born Dec. 13, 1984). . . . After Rochester, Jane
Lefkowitz Schlesinger earned her M.B.A. at
Northeastern University and is now doing finan­
cial analysis at a computer-services company.
She and her husband of four years, David, and
their young son, Scott, are living in Milford,
Mass. . . . Married: Sarah Sheard and John F.
McCarthy in July 1985. . . . Garrett J. Verdone
and Gloria Kret on Sept. 14, 1985. . . . Born:
to Stephen Elgert and Ann Hoey ’77, a
daughter, Caitlin Hoey Elgert, on Mar. 1. . . .
to Kathleen M. Farrell and Steve Christo, a
daughter, Demetria Costandia Christo, on Oct.
15, 1983. . . . to Richard and Millie Sapier
Jasper, a son, Robert Michael, on May 26. . . .
to Richard L. Klein, a daughter, Lauren
Michelle, on Feb. 24, 1986. . . . to Howard and
Janis Halpern Kritzer, a son, Daniel Seth
Kritzer, on July 6. . . . to James and Ellen
Darman Weiss, a son, Benjamin Marc, on
June 26.

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1977
Joel Blatt G, associate professor of European
history at the University of Connecticut, Stam­
ford Campus, has helped put together a fest­
schrift honoring A. William Salomone, Wilson
Professor Emeritus of European History at
Rochester. The book, Studies in Modern Italian
Historyfrom the Risorgimento to the Republic (Peter
Lang), includes papers given by a number of
American and Italian scholars (including some
of Salomone’s former students) at a 1983 con­
ference on “Reappraisals in Modern Italian
History and Culture in Honor of A. William
Salomone,” held at the Italian Cultural Insti­
tute and Columbia University. Members of the
conference committee, among them Blatt and
Paul Devendittis ’72G, traveled to Rochester
last October to present the first copy to
Salomone, who remains active as one of the
world’s foremost scholars and teachers of Italian
and modern European history. . . . Anthony F.
Caccamo is a copywriter at ICE Communica­
tions, Inc., a marketing communications agency
in Rochester. . . . Michael Frey is an alcohol­
ism counselor at the Alcoholism Treatment
Facility of Rochester. . . . Douglas McNutt is
a senior-citizens’ attorney at Mid-Minnesota
Legal Assistance in St. Cloud, Minn. . . . Walt
Milowic has been promoted to lieutenant com­
mander in the U.S. Navy. He reports that he’ll
be stationed in the Philippines for the next two
years —he invites any alums in the area to drop
by. . . . Joan Perl-Gray earned her M.B.A.
from the University of Pittsburgh and is a hos­
pital administrator at Presbyterian University
Hospital. . . . Thomas H. Reed G is regional
manager, Eastman Kodak Credit Corp., in
New York City. . . . Born: to Alan and Debbie
Ehrlich Brush, a daughter, Carly Talia, on
Apr. 22. . . . to Cyma and John Kline, a
daughter, Jessica Michelle, on Aug. 12. . . . to
Cindy Rizzo and Margaret Bleichman, a son,
Jonah Samuel Rizzo-Bleichman, on Aug. 2.
1978
While continuing work on his doctorate at the
University of Pennsylvania, Barry H. Bergen
is in a one-year position as lecturer in history at
the University of North Carolina at Wilming­
ton. He had a review essay on “Primary Educa­
tion in Third Republic France: Recent French
Works” published in the Summer 1986 issue of
the History of Education Quarterly. . . . Kudos to
Leslie B. Dunner, who won third prize in the
2nd International Competition for Orchestra
Conductors “Arturo Toscanini” held in Parma,
Italy. He was the first American to place in the
competition. Since then, Dunner was guest
conductor with the Dance Theater of Harlem
for performances in St. Louis, and he has been
invited to conduct in Europe next season. He is
assistant professor of music at Carleton College,
Northfield, Minn. . . . Jay A. Fradkin has
been elected a partner in Jennings, Strauss and
Salmon, an 80-attorney law firm in Phoenix,
Ariz. . . . A rather cryptic message accom­
panied the announcement by Mark ’79G and
Heather Guyer Garrison of the birth of their
first child, Christopher Walter, on Nov. 8. It
reads: “lb Holly 1—Does this call for a basket­
ball?” This one’s thrown us for a hoop. . . . For
Alan Klein, getting a law degree was like, well,
pulling teeth. While maintaining his pediatric
dentistry practice in Grand Blanc, Mich., Klein
earned his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley
Law School in Lansing. He now hopes to help
doctors in his area avoid legal problems with

their practices. . . . Arthur H. Knapp married
Cindy L. Adams on Sept. 13, with Richard
Antonelli serving as best man. The couple lives
in Watertown, N.Y. . . . Joel S. Lind is now
assistant vice president/radio for Price Com­
munications Corp., a public company in New
York City that owns 18 radio stations through­
out the country. . . . Tom Maloney ’84U earned
his second master’s degree, an M.S. in econom­
ics from the London School of Economics, and
has recently entered the doctoral program in
British and Irish economic history at the Uni­
versity of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s also been
preparing a series of lectures, based on his thesis
dealing with measuring the social depth of de­
mand in Edwardian Britain, for the Bishopsgate
Institute in London.
1979
Millie C. Astin earned her master of divinity
degree in August from Fuller Theological Sem­
inary. . . . Navy Lt. Comdr. Brian E. Bennett
is serving with the commander, Carrier Group
Four, Norfolk, Va. . . . Robert W. Bly is co­
author of two new books: Out On Your Own:
From Corporate to Self-Employment, published in
October by John Wiley & Sons; and Information
Hotline, to be published in 1987 by New Ameri­
can Library. The author of 14 books, Bly reports
that he’s working on two more titles: Making
Money with Direct Mail, to be published by AsherGallant Press; and How to Make $100,000 a Year
Writing: Secrets of a Successful Freelancer, by Dodd,
Mead. Both will be published in 1988. . . .
Edward Goldstein ’84M is a full-time emer­
gency physician at Canton-Potsdam (N.Y.)
Hospital. . . . Air Force Gapt. Glen A. Green
has entered a two-year fellowship in neonatolo­
gy at the University of Virginia Hospital at
Charlottesville. . . . Howard S. Lazarus, a
first-year resident at the Cleveland Clinic Foun­
dation, plans to begin a residency in ophthal­
mology in July at the Bethesda Eye Institute in
St. Louis. His new wife, Ora Frankel, will be a
fellow in child psychology at Washington Uni­
versity. . . . Amy Lefkowitz has been promoted
to vice president for planning and project devel­
opment at White Plains Hospital Medical Cen­
ter. . . Gregory B. White reports that he’s
been elected to a one-year term as president of
the 10,000-member graduate students associa­
tion at UCLA, where hopes to finish his Ph.D.
in mathematics by June 1988. . . .Joseph
White, who is working on his doctorate in con­
ducting at the University of Washington, is the
new conductor of the Rainier Symphony in
Kent, Wash. . . . Married: Jeffery Hayes and
Hollie Hurd ’82 on Aug. 23, in Alexandria
Bay, N.Y. . . . Howard S. Lazarus and Ora
Frankel in June. . . . Born: to Debbie and
Brian E. Bennett, a son, Brandon Leigh,
on Oct. 31. . . . to Judith C. Hastings and
Leonard H. Singer, a son, Daniel Rockford
Singer, on May 1. . . . to Mark and Lisa
Piccoli Hickey, a son, John Louis, on Oct. 12.
. . . to Patricia and John Wolber, a daughter,
Kathryn Bernice, on June 4.
1980
Capt. Fred H. Brown, chief of the mental
health service of the U.S. Army Medical De­
partment Activity, has been decorated with the
Army Achievement Medal in West Berlin. . . .
Anne Bowman Bussard G now has two sons,
Jason Alexander (born Aug. 20) and Matthew
Ernest (age 414). • • • Christopher DeVoe G
was promoted to executive vice president and

manager of research for Capital Strategy
Group Ltd. in Syracuse. He is responsible for
portfolio management and investment research.
. . . Elizabeth Snyder Las is working as the
safety manager at Soft America, Inc. in Val­
dosta, Ga. . . . Mitchell Lee has changed his
name to Mitchell Littman. He is an associate
of the law firm of Gusme, Kaplan & Bruno in
New York City. . . . Peter Mintz and his wife,
Etta Eskridge ’81, have moved to New Jersey,
where Etta is an American Cancer Society PostDoctoral Fellow in Molecular Biology at Prince­
ton University. She earned her Ph.D. in anatomy
and structural biology from Albert Einstein
College of Medicine last June. . . . After finish­
ing his M.B.A. at the University of Illinois at
Chicago and starting work with 3M Co. in St.
Paul, Minn., Wesley Sly and his wife, Dianne
Wilier ’82N, have moved to Austin, Tex., where
Wes does market research for 3M’s telecommu­
nications division. Dianne earned her M.S. in
public health nursing (with training as a family
nurse practitioner) from U of I and now works
as a nurse practitioner at Pharmaco Dynamics
Research, a pharmaceutical research company.
. . . Lt. Sara Zak has been assigned to the U.S.
Naval Facility, in Brawdy, Wales, for a two-year
tour of duty. . . . Married: Richard F. Koestner
and Julia Anne Schottmiller on July 12, in
Rochester. . . . Wesley Sly and Dianne Wilier
’82N in March 1985, in Oak Park, 111. . . .
Elizabeth Snyder and Allen Las on Nov. 2, in
Valdosta, Ga. . . . Born: to Linda and Jonathan
Norris, a son, Adam Daniel, on Nov. 11, in
Chestnut Hill, Mass. . . . to William F. and
Joyce Wundrow Weir, a daughter, Caitlin
Patricia, on Jan. 27, 1986.
1981
Leon H. Clary G, senior vice president for
technical services at Sear-Brown Associates,
PC., was elected president of the Association
of Northeast Boards of Land Surveyors. . . .
Mary A. Covey U earned her M.S.S.W. last
June from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Social Work. She is working at
the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center at Ft.
Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville.
. . . Gary H. Goldman is a resident in obstet­
rics and gynecology at the New York HospitalCornell Medical Center. “I regret missing the
5-year reunion,” he writes, “but I was on call
(for a change!)” . . . Richard ’82 and Madonna
Fuhr Hjulstrom and their two daughters have
moved into a “big old Victorian home” in
Kingston, N.Y. “We are very happy—and very,
very, tired,” they write. . . . Lt. Carl R. Jones
is working with the Chief of Naval Education
and Training, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.
. . . Peter (Kaz) and Alison (Shmal) Britt
Kaczmarek ’84 write: “Thanks to all our
friends for making our wedding the best party
we’ve ever been to. The Barbados trip was
great! We’re back in Cleveland now.” . . . Navy
Lt. Jon C. King finished his tour with Patrol
Squadron 10 in Brunswick, Me., where he was
mission commander and tactical coordinator
for Combat Air Crew 3. He is presently assigned
to Recruiting Area 5 at Great Lakes, 111., as the
marketing support officer. His wife, Cynthia J.
Anastas ’86M is a resident in anesthesiology at
Northwestern University Medical Center in
Chicago. . . . Rani Kulik is working for MTV
Networks, Inc. in New York City, doing mar­
keting research for Nickelodeon, the children’s
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batant within an assumption of demo­
cratic institutions. I make a sharp dis­
tinction between the stance of “the
conscientious noncombatant” and the
“Weltfremdheit” of which the German
professoriate were so proud and which
earned them deserved condemnation
during the Nazi period. American
universities should be places engaged
in political analysis and debate. The
practical world is not inferior and dis­
tant. A free university in a totalitarian
regime, however, has an entirely differ­
ent role to play from the contemporary
American university’s. Under totali­
tarian circumstances, the university
must become a combatant for free in­
stitutions; the university should act,
as far as possible, as an ideological
and political agent for direct change.
The position of the conscientious
noncombatant is a deep moral posi­
tion for universities; it is also a status
deeply threatened in our century of
overbearing ideology. World War II
and the Vietnam War strained and
shattered the notion that there were
noncombatants in war. Civilian popu­
lations in central Europe and villages
in the rice paddies become military
targets as much as army camps and
fortifications. Radical critics of the
Vietnam War often accepted the to­
talizing ideology of their opponents
when they proclaimed the simple slo­
gan: If you are not part of the solu­
tion, you are part of the problem.
Right-wing critics make their attack
on noncombatant status when they
suggest that universities should en­
force various preferred ethical posi­
tions. In President Schmidt’s words in
his inaugural, the right believes that
universities should be “the ideological
nannies” of the young.
On the matter of divestiture: Cer­
tainly this is a moral and political
issue, and as such it should be ana­
lyzed, discussed, and debated in earn­
est on this campus. But it seems
equally clear that divestiture is an
issue, not a transcendent solution.
Divestiture is a strategy, a means to a
moral end: the abolition of apartheid.
Like most strategies it is debatable
and that debate has come to no con­
sensus solution. The Secretary of
State has appointed a ten-member
select commission to advise him on
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—a member who is one of this Ad­
ministration’s most persistent critics.
Having just returned from six weeks
in South Africa, he described the
situation as appalling and the pros­
pects as bleak. “No matter what, it will
be twenty years of Lebanon” was his
summative judgment. He found the
black leaders generally uninterested in
divestiture —they wanted “selective di­
vestment,” i.e., the total withdrawal of
American companies from the area. If
that were the consensus solution, one
could argue that academic institutions
should buy stocks in companies doing
business in South Africa in order to
use shareholder rights to change com­
pany policy. And, of course, it is clear
that no consensus exists on withdrawal
versus divestiture. Conscientious ar­
guments can be put forward that eco­
nomic development is the best and
only way to break apartheid and that
the alternative is “twenty years of
Lebanon.”
If the University, as it changes its
investment portfolio, wishes to acquire
stocks on “the divestiture list” what
should be its position? I doubt that
simple neutrality will do. The purest
position would be to act in the best
economic interest of the University—
and that must remain the basic posi­
tion of financial trust if not the only
principle in the field. There may be
some investments of high profitability
that the University should avoid be­
cause the business is directly exploita­
tive. It may exploit its workers or its
consumers.
The banners that lined the Yale
inaugural parade urged Yale to stop
“investing in apartheid.” “Investing in
apartheid” is a phrase of interpreta­
tion. Let us suppose that the Univer­
sity were to buy Westinghouse stock, a
major exporting company with world­
wide interests, would we then be in­
vesting in apartheid because of Westinghouse’s South African operations?
If a minor fraction of a business is in­
volved in a disputed area does that
color the entire enterprise? And what
if Westinghouse —and many other
companies —hold the deep conviction
that their presence in South Africa,
their labor policies, and their inter­
vention with the political leaders in
Pretoria are constructive forces lead­
ing to the destruction of apartheid?
To be sure, they may be incorrect in
projecting the course of events —but
are the divestiture or divestment pro­
ponents any more sure that their strat­

egy will eradicate apartheid? Reason­
able doubts apply to any future for
South Africa.
There is a special obligation, I be­
lieve, for companies that choose to
operate in areas of the globe where
fundamental human rights are sys­
tematically in jeopardy. I am not
enough of a Marxist to believe that
mere economic events determine his­
toric change. Self-conscious political
acts are also important. Companies
need to make clear their own inner
determination to equal treatment and
they should act publicly, as far as pos­
sible, to change laws and institutions
that deny human rights. No company,
I assume, would trade with Arab na­
tions if the price was the exclusion of
Jews from its employee group. In the
case of South Africa, the Sullivan
principles, which have been widely ac­
cepted by the United States corporate
community, are a recognition of the
special responsibility of companies
operating under repressive regimes.
Even then, the situation remains one
of tension and complex moral judg­
ment. Is the presence really effective?
Does mere presence lend more sup­
port to the legitimacy of the regime
than internal company policies can
reasonably countermand? There are
no easy answers to those questions —
and I have no reason to believe uni­
versities have any special capacity for
giving the definitive answers.
As we processed down Grove Street
past the chanting demonstrators with
their banners and miniature coffins, I
intermittently exchanged these opin­
ions with my presidential companion.
He told me that his university was in
the process of divesting and he urged
me to avoid the issue. His own view
and that of his trustees was that the
divestiture was futile and its propo­
nents had no clear ideas about the
future for South Africa and its op­
pressed blacks. But, on sheer prag­
matic grounds his university could
not be so deeply and continuously
diverted from its primary responsibil­
ity by the agitations of divestiture. “I
spent 30 percent of my time on this
issue. I simply cannot afford to do
that,” he concluded as we passed into
the caverns of Woolsey Hall.
If there is a consensus among uni­
versity presidents —for what that may
be worth —I believe it is that of my
colleague.
Dennis O’Brien

and is working at Citibank, N.A., in the student
loan division. . . . Married: Victor Druziako
and Melanie A. Capriotti on Aug. 16, in Phil­
adelphia. . . . Randy S. Kornfeld and Paul
Marber on Aug. 18, 1985. . . . Bonnie
Mackay and Norbert Blam in September. . . .
Diane Rappaport and Karl Nelson on Sept. 6,
in Darien, Conn.

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cable channel. She and her new husband, Mark
Fogel, are living in New Haven, Conn., where
he is doing his residency in pediatrics at Yale
University. . . . Lorrie Walsh Modica earned
her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Syracuse
University College of Law and works for the
law firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Fowler,
Randall & Wilson in Rochester. . . . Kellie A.
Sheldon ’86G earned her M.S.Ed. in counsel­
ing from Rochester’s Graduate School of
Education and Human Development and is
working as a career counselor in the Career
Services and Placement Center at the Univer­
sity. . . . William Spohn ’86G earned his M.S.
in mechanical engineering from Rochester and
is now a manufacturing engineer with Fisher
Scientific Instrument Division in Indiana, Pa.
. . . Walter R. Wolf is staff podiatrist at the
Family Care Medical Center in Springfield,
Mass. . . . Married: Peter Kaczmarek and
Alison Britt ’84 on June 28. . . . Rani Kulik
and Mark Fogel in May 1986. . . . Lorrie A.
Walsh and Steven V. Modica on Aug. 31, in
Rochester. . . . Born: to Richard ’82 and
Madonna Fuhr Hjulstrom, a daughter,
Meghann Kate, on Aug. 6.
1982
5th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Laura Bigaouette attended the National
Leadership Training School of Phi Sigma
Sigma, which she serves as chair of the sorori­
ty’s National Networking Program. Founder of
the Rochester chapter, she now works for New
York Telephone Co. . . . Carrington Waddell
Ewell received his M.F.A. in theater arts from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni­
versity serving internships at the New York
City Opera and the Chicago Lyric Opera along
the way. He is now assistant to the director of
the Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit. Sandy
Wood served as best man at Ewell’s wedding to
Catharine Foster Moyer last summer, attended
by a number of classmates from Rochester. . . .
Keith James Ferro earned his D.D.M. from
Boston University School of Graduate Dentis­
try and is serving his residency at Forsyth Den­
tal Center in Boston. . . . Meredith Fine also
attended the National Leadership Training

School of Phi Sigma Sigma, which she serves
as director of alumnae. Fine was the Rochester
chapter’s first president and is now a reporter
for the local newspaper in Manchester, N.H.
. . . Neil Halin reports “I’m surviving my in­
ternship at Metropolitan Hospital (in Philadel­
phia) as well as moving to a new apartment.”
. . . Sanford Levy graduated from SUNY
Buffalo School of Medicine last May and is do­
ing his internal-medicine residency at Millard
Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo. . . . Bonnie
Mackay is working as a chemical engineer for
IBM in Endicott, N.Y. . . . Newlyweds Randy
S. Kornfeld and Paul Marber both graduated
from Boston University School of Law and are
now licensed to practice law in New York and
New Jersey. . . . Navy Lt. John F. Murphy is
a P-3C instructor pilot with VP-49. He and
his wife, Pam Clift Murphy ’83, a teacher and
consultant on early childhood education, live
in Jacksonville, Fla. . . . Brian Palmateer has
opened a second branch of his management de­
velopment and training firm, The Enterprise
Advantage, in Scranton, Pa. . . . Mary Burke
Pasinski earned her M.D. from Harvard Med­
ical School and is in a neurology residency in
the Longwood Program at Beth Israel, Brig­
ham and Women’s, and Children’s hospitals in
Boston. During medical school, Pasinski did
clinical work at the U.S. Public Health Hospital
on the Zuni (N.M.) Indian Reservation and
worked also at the German Benedictine Mis­
sion Hospital in Ndanda, Tanzania. . . . By
vocation, Timothy Reed ’85G is a design engi­
neer at Ball Aerospace Systems Division in
Boulder, Colo. By avocation, he is a man of the
stage. Last summer he made his directorial
debut with a production by The Upstart Crow
Theatre Company of John Millington Synge’s
Riders to the Sea. At last word, Reed was being
seen by Boulder drama buffs as the lieutenant
in George Bernard Shaw’s The Man of Destiny.
. . . A seasonal account of Paula Rendino’s ac­
tivities: she had a painting exhibit last spring,
got engaged to Josh Zaentz last summer, and
began work on a film in Paris last fall. . . . Joe
Russo has begun his studies in the doctoral pro­
gram in clinical psychology at the University
of Denver. . . . Lisa A. Sadinsky earned her
M.B.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology

1983
Patti A. Adams successfully completed the
rigorous series of examinations required of as­
sociates of the Society of Actuaries. She is an
actuarial associate with Banner Life Insurance
Co. in Rockville, Md. May your root beer be
forever foamy. . . . Navy Lt. Mitch Almeter
participated in the first three-submarine surfac­
ing at the North Pole, aboard the attack subma­
rine U.S.S. Archerfish. . . . Betsy Braund Boyd
is now a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and is sta­
tioned with her husband, Marine Capt. Joe
Boyd, with the Navy Security Group Activity
in Panama. They report that their house (with
guest room) overlooks Saturn Lake, and that
friends contemplating a far-Southern winter
vacation are welcome —especially those willing
to help clear the jungle trail to the lake. . . .
Rose-Marie Chierici G has been appointed
visiting lecturer in anthropology at Hobart and
William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. An
instructor at Rochester last summer, she has
served as a consultant to the Geneseo Migrant
Center since 1983. . . . Brendan Delay grad­
uated from Case Western Reserve University
School of Law and has taken the Ohio Bar Ex­
amination. He reports that the Irish Embassy
has informed him that he is an official citizen
of the Republic of Ireland. “Say hello to Kathy
Cook and Jon Frost of the Class o f’82,” he
writes. . . . Lauren S. Feldman is an account
executive at WQBK radio in Albany, N.Y. . . .
Newlyweds Lesley Simon and Sal Greco write
that they are living in Westfield, N.J. Lesley
works as an analyst at the Young & Rubicam
advertising agency and is pursuing her M.B.A.
part time at NYU. Sal recently earned his
M.B.A. from Boston’s Northeastern University,
where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.
He is now an analyst with Drexel Burnham
Lambert, the investment banking firm. . . .
Cheryl Langlois was promoted to lieutenant,
junior grade, in the U.S. Navy. She serves with
Oceanographic Development Squadron Eight,
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. . . .
David M. Rodgers is an M.B.A. candidate at
Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. His
new fiancee, Joanne Copeland ’84N, is work­
ing at Strong Memorial Hospital while earning
a master’s degree at Rochester. They’ve planned
their wedding for August. . . Susan D. Smith
G will assume the newly created position of di­
rector of development and communications at
the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester. She
previously was assistant to the director for pub­
lic affairs at the University’s Cancer Center.
. . . Beth Solomon completed her M.S.W. in
clinical social work at Simmons College and is
working as a medical/surgical social worker at
Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston.
. . . Gary Stockman is an account executive at
Sapher & Associates, a full-service advertising,
public relations, and marketing communica­
tions firm in Rochester. . . . Meryl Sugar
graduated magna cum laude from Case West­
ern Reserve University School of Law and is an
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assistant district attorney at the D.A.’s office of
Bronx County. . . . Messina Kelly Walkling
is a computer-systems analyst at the Naval
Weapons Center, China Lake, Calif. . . .
Married: Jill Bachmann and Bruce Cheriff on
Sept. 21. . . . Sal Greco and Lesley Simon on
Oct. 11. . . . Messina Kelly and Victor Walkling
on May 31, in Ridgecrest, Calif. . . . Ilene M.
Weinstein and Scott M. Weinfeld on Nov. 1,
in New York City.
1984
Ens. David M. Bond, serving aboard the USS
Arthur W. Radford, invites Boston alumni to a
party celebrating his expected promotion to
lieutenant, junior grade, on Apr. 4. The party
begins at eight at Houlihan’s. . . . James
Chenault is now a reporter for the VirginiaLeader, based in Pearisburg, Va. . . . Harriet
Chenkin is a chemical-dependency counselor
at Park Ridge Chemical Dependency in Roch­
ester. She works in the Teen Intensive Outpa­
tient Program with adolescents who are ad­
dicts, and “I love what I do!” she writes. . . .
Maciej J. Ciesielski G was appointed assistant
professor of computer science at the University
of Lowell, Mass. . . . Perry J. Cook has been
promoted to lieutenant, junior grade, in the
U.S. Navy. He is serving as auxiliaries officer
aboard the U.S.S. Canisteo, homeported in Nor­
folk, Va. . . . “After a two-month search, I re­
ceived a job offer from Fidelity, Inc. to work in
their Mutual Fund Investors Service Depart­
ment,” reports Andrew S. Gordon. “Say hello
to Phi Sig Sig’s Amy, Ellen, Fran, and Sharon
and to Theta Chi’s Bill, Brian, Joe, Pete, and
Ted.” . . . Mike Ludwig and Donna Collins
’83N are newly engaged and recently settled in
Chicago, where Donna is working at Michael
Reese Hospital and Mike is attending the
University of Chicago Business School. . . .
Martha McChesney G is vice president, gov­
ernment banking, at the Citizens and Southern
National Bank in Atlanta. . . . Mark D.
Moskowitz ’85G has passed the C.P.A. exam
and is now an accountant with Grant Thorn­
ton. . . . Jeff Welch and Mary Sue Walsh ’85
married last summer and moved into their new
home outside of Dallas. Jeff is an optical design
engineer at Texas Instruments, and Mary Sue
is an actuarial analyst at Towers, Perrin,
Forster, & Crosby, a management consulting
firm. . . . Married: Robert Scott McAlpine
and Patricia Susan Graves on Aug. 23, in Roch­
ester. . . . David J. Medvedeff and Joanne E.
Carl on Oct. 10, in Rochester. . . .Jeff Welch
and Mary Sue Walsh ’85 on June 14.
1985
Suzanne Finley is in her first year of the Uni­
versity of Pennsylvania’s Ph.D. program in
English. . . . Irvin A. Halman G has joined
the Overseas Management Co. as general man­
ager of Leasing de Panama. He was previously
assistant to the president in Industria Nacional
de Artefactos, S.A. in Panama City and a prod­
uct specialist with Eastman Kodak in Roches­
ter. . . . Michael Kaplan is a design engineer
at Ball Aerospace Corp. in Boulder, Colo.,
along with several other Rochester graduates.
. . . Ens. William J. Snyder has earned his
“Wings of Gold” and has been designated a
naval aviator. . . . Married: Matt O’Connell
and Jacqui Goldberg N on Aug. 24.

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Ertugrul Berkcan G is an electrical engineer
in the Research and Development Center of
General Electric Co. in Schenectady, N.Y. . . .
Marie Connolly G has been elected an assist­
ant vice president at Chase Lincoln First Bank.
. . . Larry Cooperman, currently exiled to
Berkeley, Calif., writes “Although I am many
miles away from Rochester, the Review makes
me feel closer to home. Thanks for making it
possible.” No sweat. . . . Rebecca Federman is
pursuing a master’s degree in industrial labor
relations at Cornell University. . . . Elizabeth
C. McDonald has begun first-year studies at
The Dickinson School of Law. . . . Saxophonist
Marc K. Pekowsky has been awarded a schol­
arship from the Berklee College of Music in
Boston. . . . Married: James E. Fowler G and
Elizabeth Kuhn on Aug. 9, in Rochester. . . .
Thomas Strasenburgh G and Jean Marie
Komendera on Sept. 5, in Birmingham, Mich.

Eastman School of Music
1931
O ur congratulations to Victoria Franzen
Crandall, who received the Legacy Award from
the State of Maine for a lifetime of service to the
cultural life of the state. In addition to founding
the Brunswick Music Theater in 1959 (which
she continues to serve), she helped launch eight
music and theater companies in Maine and
elsewhere in New England. Her own perform­
ing career took her across the United States
and Europe.
1940
Helen J. King ’41GE, professor emeritus at
the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam,
reports that now that she’s retired she can de­
vote more time to playing and teaching pipe
organ. She’s also found time to make a record­
ing, “Lyrical Music for Saxophone and Piano,”
with James Stoltie on the Richmond Label.
1941
Conductor A. Clyde Roller returned to the
University of Texas Music Department in Austin
as senior lecturer for the 1986-87 school year.
He is also conducting the U T Symphony O r­
chestra and teaching graduate conducting.
Since leaving UT six years ago, Roller has con­
ducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
in concerts, recordings, and TV performances;
the Oklahoma Symphony as principal guest
conductor; the Arkansas Symphony in Little
Rock and on tour; the Arkansas Opera in two
operas; the Corpus Christi Symphony; and the
Inland-Empire Symphony in California; as well
as ensembles at many All-State and educational
meetings like the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. . . . William H. Schempf
GE, ’60GE is now director of music at the New
York Military Academy. Schempf is a retired
colonel in the U.S. Army and former director of
music and leader of the band at the U.S. Mili­
tary Academy.
1945
“My life has taken a new direction,” writes
Madeline Bramer Ingram. “Concern for the
future of the planet took us to the Soviet Union
last year on a ‘people-to-people’ trip, which in­
cluded visits to many Soviet homes. I am now
studying Russian and will lead another such
group to the U.S.S.R. in the fall o f’87.” She re­
ports also that she keeps up with her music by
playing harpsichord at the Carmel (Calif.) Bach
Festival every summer.

Burton Scholarships
Like many others of her gener­
ation, the late Mildred R. Burton
’25, ’34G never had the chance to
study abroad. But, as a one-time
high-school language teacher, she
well recognized the value of such
an opportunity. And before she
died last August 25 she made ar­
rangements to offer that opportu­
nity to Rochester students of suc­
ceeding generations.
Thanks to her generosity, the
University has established two
new scholarship programs: the
Mildred R. Burton Travel Fellow­
ship to be awarded a student
(preferably a woman, according
to her request) for an indepen­
dently designed travel/ study
project, and a second group of
scholarships for study in summer
language programs.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Rochester, she taught languages
in Upstate New York high schools
before joining the Eastman
School as a staff member in 1948.
Eastman Theatre-goers will per­
haps best remember her in her
avocational role as an usher in the
theater’s mezzanine section —a
role she filled with warmth and
graciousness for many years.

1946
Violinist and teacher Anastasia Jempelis
’48GE has been named “Musician of the Year”
by the Rochester chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon,
the international music fraternity. Former concertmaster of the Rochester Chamber Orches­
tra and a member of the Rochester Philhar­
monic Orchestra, Jempelis is director of the
Suzuki method teaching program for children
at the Eastman School.
1949
In addition to winning her 25th consecutive
ASCAP award, Emma Lou Diemer ’59GE was
selected one of 20 American composers whose
works are featured in the American Guild of Or­
ganists Anthology of American Organ Music (Oxford
University Press), celebrating the 90th anniver­
sary of the AGO. Among her premieres in 1986
were Lute Songs on Renaissance Poetry at the Cali­
fornia Professional Music Teachers Association
Convention; Church Rock at the National City
Christian Church in Washington, D.C.; and
three works for chorus and organ, based on the
Psalms, at Duke University Chapel. Diemer
was guest composer at the Rocky Mountain
Contemporary Music Festival at Colorado
State University. She also served as guest com­
poser, pianist, and organist at a gala “Festival

of Music” featuring her works, presented by the
Lompoc (Calif.) Music Association and the
Santa Barbara Arts Commission. . . . Clarence
Hickey is currently the oldest competitive tri­
athlete (at age 61) in Georgia. Not only is he
one of the oldest competitors around, he’s also
one of the best, as evidenced by his victory in
the men’s 60 + group of the Georgia Triathlon
Series Championship. You may have seen his
picture in the “Face in the Crowd” section of
Sports Illustrated last October.
1951
Golden Crest Records will soon release a disc/
cassette containing three works by Richard
Willis GE, ’65GE: Petition and Thanks, for
chorus, narrator, and wind ensemble; Sonants,
for small wind ensemble; and Epode, for wind
ensemble. His The Lord Reigneth, for chorus,
organ, and brass, won second place in a compe­
tition sponsored by the Presbyterian Metropol­
itan Ministries of Omaha and was performed
there last October. Willis has completed a new
work for saxophone quartet, Tetralogue, and a
number of his works have been performed
throughout the country.
1953
Richard Stephan GE won the 1986 Composi­
tion Contest of the National School Orchestra
Association with his work, Fanfare and Frippery, a
piece he wrote specifically for string orchestras
at the junior-high-school level. He is professor
of music at the Crane School of Music, SUNY
Potsdam.
1954
The Festival Chamber Players, founded by
pianist and artistic director Arno Drucker
’66GE, completed its ninth season of summer
concerts at Towson State University and the
Baltimore Museum of Art. Made up primarily
of members of the Baltimore Symphony O r­
chestra, with guest performers such as soprano
Ruth Landes Drucker ’55GE and the prize­
winning Bowdoin Trio, the Festival Chamber
Players this summer performed a number of
Baltimore premieres and infrequently-heard
works. Now an established part of the summer
cultural scene in Baltimore, their six concerts
(doubled from previous years) attracted more
than 1,200 people last summer, and reached
countless more through broadcasts over Balti­
more public radio.
1956
Conductor, composer, and author Donn
Laurence Mills GE has been named chairman
of the Department of Music at Chapman Col­
lege in Orange, Calif. For the past 13 years,
Mills has been director of research and devel­
opment for the Yamaha Music Foundation
in America, and director also of the Yamaha
Music Education Center. He is also music di­
rector and conductor of the Capistrano Valley
Symphony and the Pasadena Youth Symphony.
. . . Composer George Walker GE and his nu­
merous musical accomplishments were featured
in z, special article in The Washington Post’s Oct.
15 issue. Walker’s In Praise of Folly was the open­
ing piece of the National Symphony Orchestra
concert the following night.
1957
Among the musical activities of composer
Sydney Hodkinson ’58GE are a number of
publications (including two operas and works
for five trombones, four tubas, string trio,

and solo piano) and a commission from West
Virginia Wesleyan College for a cantata for
soloists, chorus, and chamber orchestra, com­
memorating the 95th anniversary of the college.
The Eastman School was the site of the pre­
mieres of his The Steps of Time (by Musica Nova)
and An Ellington Songbook (by the Eastman
Brass), with Saint Carmen of the Main scheduled
to debut in late March in Banff, Alberta. His
works have been performed during the past
year in Louisville, Dallas, and Seoul, South
Korea, with more scheduled for St. Louis,
Pittsburgh, and Windsor, Ontario.
1958
Soprano Helen Bovbjerg Niedung ’59GE, a
member of the voice faculty at Edison Com­
munity College in Ft. Myers, Fla., returned to
Europe last summer to give six concerts: two
concerts of “Music of the Baroque Masters”
with harpsichord and cello, and a performance
of Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten with chorus, cham­
ber orchestra, and solo quartet in Stuttgart,
West Germany; and three sacred concerts with
organ in churches in Ravensburg and Hannover,
West Germany, and in Trieste, Italy.
1960
Ray Luke GE is composer and artistic director
of Sinfonia of Mid-America, a new chamber or­
chestra at Oklahoma City University. Oct. 17,
the day of the orchestra’s opening concert, was
declared “Ray Luke Day” by order of Oklaho­
ma Governor George Nigh. Dave Vanderkooi
’52E, ’53GE, first chair cellist with the Oklaho­
ma City Symphony (now the Oklahoma Sym­
phony Orchestra), returned from his post at
Vanderbilt University to play just that night.
1961
James Miltenberger GE, ’65GE received a
$2,500 Outstanding Teacher Award from West
Virginia University, one of six selected from a
faculty of over 900. Having toured Japan in
1985 as featured piano soloist with Percussion
’80, Miltenberger last year completed his sec­
ond tour of Europe with his jazz quartet, per­
forming programs of classical and jazz music.
1962
Pianist Gary Kirkpatrick last fall opened the
15th season of the Midday Artists Series at
William Paterson College. A member of the
music faculty at the college, he is also a mem­
ber of the internationally acclaimed Verdehr
Trio. Incidentally, we’re able to report this news
thanks to Nellie C. Douglas ’35E, who attend­
ed Kirkpatrick’s concert (“fantastically good —
just brilliant!” she writes).
1963
Clifford E. Spohr GE performed the Sinfonia
Concertante, for contrabass and viola, with violist
Ellen Rose and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra
at Grayson County Junior College in Sherman,
Tex. They performed the same program later
at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Spohr is principal bass of the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra.
1964
As a member of the Kennedy Center Orches­
tra, Donald V. King ’65GE participated last
November in the world premiere of Gian Carlo
Menotti’s opera Goya. He also performed in
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, conducted
by Mistislov Rostropovich. . . . Harry Max
reports that he’s just finished arranging and

producing Not Just Clowning Around, an innova­
tive children’s record album featuring his wife
Sari Max as Princess Pricilla.
1965
A. Laurence Lyon GE was one of 12 college
music teachers selected nationally to attend last
summer’s eight-week NEH seminar “Three
Masterworks of Early Twentieth-Century
Music,” directed at Yale University by author
and music theorist Allen Forte. Cynthia Jo
Folio ’79GE, ’85GE and Joel Phillips ’82GE
joined Lyon at the seminar. Lyon was again
awarded a standard music award from ASCAP
for published works, performances, and record­
ings during the past year. . . . Last November,
pianist Robert Silverman GE, ’70GE made his
third concert tour of the Soviet Union, which
included recitals in Leningrad, Kiev, and Mos­
cow as well as a performance of Beethoven’s
Third Piano Concerto with the Kishenev Sym­
phony Orchestra. Silverman plans to broadcast
a performance on the BBC in England and give
the first American performance of Jacques
Hetu’s Piano Sonata, which Silverman premiered
earlier last year. He was to tour with the Calgary
Philharmonic Orchestra in January and record
the Hetu sonata and Brahms’s Fantasies, Op. 116,
for CBC’s Radio Canada International label in
March.
1966
Clarinetist Michael Webster ’67GE, ’75GE
participated in the “Vienna: 1900” celebration
at the. New York Museum of Modern Art. He
joined Lucy Shelton, Felix Galimir, Sharon
Robinson, Carol Wincenc, and Joseph Kalichstein in a performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot
Lunaire. Merkin Hall was the site of a recital
he gave last spring, which Will Crutchfield of
The New York Times called “an intense, meticu­
lous performance that matched the exploratory
wonder of the music itself.” Principal clarinetist
of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Web­
ster performed at Chamber Music West in San
Francisco, at Chamber Music Northwest in
Portland, Ore., and at the International Clari­
net Society Conference in Seattle.
1968
Horace R. Carney, Jr. GE is now minister of
music and coordinator of cultured affairs at the
Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Ala. . . . We’re happy to report a couple of ap­
pointments for Anthony A. Pasquale: He has
been named clarinetist with the Moran Quintet,
the woodwind-quintet-in-residence at the Uni­
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, and appointed
principal clarinet of the Lincoln Symphony O r­
chestra. . . . Daria Semegen, associate profes­
sor of music and director of the electronic
music studios at SUNY Stony Brook, was
awarded a 1987 McKim commission from the
Library of Congress. The first woman to earn a
McKim commission, she will compose a work
for the Theater Chamber Players of Kennedy
Center. The Players performed Semegen’s Jeux
last December at the Library of Congress as
part of a series on American women composers.
1969
In addition to teaching in the Brighton Central
School District for the last six years, Roger
Lentz ’78GE has signed publishing contracts
for his choral music with Columbia Pictures/
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Studio PR, Plymouth Music, Somerset Press,
Heritage Press, and Beckenhorst Press. An ar­
ranger and orchestrator, he reports that he’s
finishing his sixth album and working on sev­
eral larger works, including a chamber opera,
a youth musical, and a full musical for mature
voices. . . . Jeffrey Stokes ’74GE has been
named to a seven-year term as dean of music at
the University of Western Ontario. A double
bass player, he previously served the school as
professor of music history and director of grad­
uate studies in music. . . . Steve Wasson ’71GE
has become an associate member of the Dayton,
Ohio, chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild.
He reports also that he’s cut all professional ties
with his record company, Addison Records In­
ternational.

1975
Diana Mittler Battipaglia CE has been ap­
pointed associate professor of music and choral
director at Lehman College of the City Univer­
sity of New York. She was formerly choral di­
rector and assistant principal in charge of music
at Bayside High School in Queens. Active as a
pianist, Battipaglia is codirector and pianist of
the Con Brio Ensemble, now in its eighth year.
1977
Stephen Allen has been appointed to the music
faculty at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. . . .
Paul C. Phillips GE was selected conductor of
the Manchester (Conn.) Symphony Orchestra
and Chorale. At the time of his appointment
last summer, he was a faculty member of the
University of Connecticut and conductor of the
school’s symphony. . . . Born: to Cheryl Cornell
and Chris Gibson GE, a son, David Christopher,
on Oct. 27, 1985.
1979
Susan Freier GE reports that she’s still teach­
ing at Indiana University at South Bend. The
Chester Quartet (comprising Freier, Nicolas
Danielson, Ronald Gorevic, and Thomas
Rosenberg ’80 GE) was in residence at Texas
Christian University and the Garth Newel
Music Center in Hot Springs, Va., and was
also the first quartet-in-residence at the na­
tional Suzuki Workshop in Fort Worth, Tex.
The quartet has performed with pianists Ruth
Laredo and Steven DeGroote and has sched­
uled concerts in Los Angeles, Portland, Ore.,
Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York City,
Indianapolis, and Fort Worth, among others.

1972
Among Ted Piltzecker’s gigs last year were a
performance at the Aspen Music Festival, a
tour of the Northwest including Idaho, Alberta,
British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory, and
a live recording session for the Vancouver Re­
cital Society, to be broadcast throughout Canada
by the Canadian Broadcasting Company. He
also saw the New York premiere, at “The Field”
in SoHo, of his Odyssey for two pianos and two
percussionists. National mallet instrument
chairman of the National Association of Jazz
Educators, “TP” was a featured clinician (along
with Michael Udow) at the Percussive Arts So­
ciety National Convention in Washington, D.C.,
last November. He is coauthor of a book on
Master Technique Buildersfor Vibraphone and Ma­
rimba (published by Belwin Mills last spring)
and author of an article on “Your Own Best
Teacher” in the November ’86 issue of Percussive
Notes.
1973
Kenneth W. Megan, Jr. has been appointed
assistant director of the U.S. Coast Guard Band.
. . . Born: to Kenneth W. Megan, Jr. and
Anne Greenwood Megan, a son, Kenneth W.
Megan III, on Apr. 1.
1974
Oboist Dorothy L. Darlington of “The Presi­
dent’s Own” U.S. Marine Band, participated in
the band’s annual tour last fall, performing in
Alabama, Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Louisiana, and Mississippi. While the 50-piece
tour band made the rounds, the remaining 90
members stayed in Washington for its official
mission of providing musical support for the
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Pianist Ann Margaret Lamoureux presented
successful solo recitals at Trinity Church in
Newport, R.I., the First Unitarian Church in
New Bedford, Mass., and for the Evergreen
Lecture Series at the George Sherman Union
of Boston University. She’s also performed with
Russian pianist Diana Smirnov of Rhode Island
at the Boston University Concert Hall. . . .
Mark Lusk ’83GE, assistant professor of lower
brass at Pennsylvania State University, is a
member of the new Penn State Brass, a trio
made up of members of the brass faculty from
Penn State’s School of Music. . . . Nicole
Philibosian made her debut at the New York
City Opera as the Countess in The Marriage of S
Figaro.
1982
David Savige is playing second bassoon with
the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra.
1983
Raphael Bundage GE was named director
of the Nashville Symphony Chorus. He also
serves as director of choral activities and assist­
ant professor of music at Middle Tennessee
State University. . . . Among the recent pre­
mieres of works by Stephen J. Rush GE, ’85GE
are the concerto Song of Gideon, for alto trom­
bone, performed by Paul Hunt at Bowling
Green University; Call to God, for organ, in
England, Belgium, and Germany by Bruce
Doornbos; and Pensées I I in New York City, the
Netherlands, Germany, and Austria by pianist
Peter Amstutz.
1985
James Hudson Bearden, Jr. earned his master’s
degree in music from Northwestern University.
.. . Clair Rozier GE has been appointed assistant

professor of music at the University of North
Carolina-Wilmington. . . . Jon Rumney is sec­
ond violin of the Montani String Quartet, se­
lected as the new resident string quartet of the
Charleston (W.Va.) Symphony Orchestra. . . .
Donald Sloan GE won the second annual
Emerging Composers Competition of Syra­
cuse’s Society for New Music. His winning
work, Five Flights of Fancy for flute and clarinet,
earned him $300 and a performance in the
society’s spring concert series. He is adjunct
professor of composition at SUNY Bingham­
ton. . . . Clarinetist Nathan Williams GE has
joined the Visiting Artists program at Surry
Community College in Dobson, N.C., where he
serves the community-at-large through recitals,
lectures, and demonstrations.
1986
Gerard Floriano is serving as interim coordi­
nator of the choral activities in the music depart­
ment at Memphis (Tenn.) State University.

Medicine and Dentistry
1937
50th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
1942
45th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
O ur hearty congratulations to John Lambooy
GM, who was selected the “Maryland Chemist
of the \fear” for 1986. A former faculty member
in physiological chemistry and physiology at
Rochester, he served as the first dean for grad­
uate studies and research at the University of
Maryland at Baltimore and chairman of bio­
chemistry in Maryland’s School of Dentistry.
1947
40th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
1952
35th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
1957
30th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
C. McCollister Evarts M, ’64R, Dorris H.
Carlson Professor and chairman of the Depart­
ment of Orthopaedics, and vice president of
development, at the University’s Medical Cen­
ter, has resigned to become senior vice presi­
dent for health affairs at the Pennsylvania State
University and dean of the College of Medicine
at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in
Hershey, Pa. Robert J. Joynt, vice provost for
health affairs and dean of the School of Medi­
cine and Dentistry, said “We’ll miss Dr. Evarts,
but we’ll also take considerable pride in know­
ing that one of our own has been selected for
such a prominent and nationally recognized
position.”
1960
Maj. Earl C. Cline M has completed the U.S.
Air Force military indoctrination for medical
service officers, at Sheppard AFB, Tex. He
and Bob Morley M were among the guests at
the wedding of Kim Pearson, daughter of Art
M and Judith Frank Pearson ’58RC, in the
Thousand Islands last July. The Pearsons, who
are “dabbling in bed & breakfast” at their home
in Cape Vincent, N.Y., have moved to Naples,
Fla., leaving behind Art’s ob/gyn practice in
Oneida, N.Y.
1962
25th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24

Old photos anyone?
The sphinxes on the steps of the old
Prince Street Library. Your roommate
throwing snowballs in front of Helen
Wood Hall. The Eastman Theatre when
it still had its marquee. Hi-jinks on the
Fraternity Quad.
Those are the kinds of memories that
are stored away in old photo albums or in
dusty boxes under the eaves in the attic.
And those are the kinds of memories that
the University Library’s special collections
department is trying to retrieve.
If you have a collection of old photos
of any of the University’s campuses, stu­
dents, or faculty—particularly of the preWorld War II variety—the library would
be grateful to receive them. Just send
them do Rochester Review, 108 Adminis­
tration Building, University of Rochester,
Rochester, New York 14627, and we’ll
pass them along. And thank you mightily
for the contribution to our collective
memory bank.

1967
20th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
A. David Froehlich M, ’72R is a member of
the general surgery staff at Holy Spirit Hospital
in Dillsburg, Pa.
1968
Guy M. Esposito M, ’73R practices orthopae­
dic surgery with Orthopaedic and Trauma Sur­
geons, PA, in Dover, N.H. He’s been elected to
serve as New Hampshire’s representative to the
Board of Councilors of the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
1969
Anesthesiologist Daniel W. Lang M is medical
director of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Surgical
Center. He was previously attending anesthesi­
ologist at Andover (Mass.) Surgical Day Care
Clinic.
1970
Samuel S. Ciccio R, executive dean and chief
operations officer at Albany Medical College,
received the Silver Beaver Award, the highest
distinction given by the National Council of
Boy Scouts of America to volunteer leaders of
local councils. Ciccio was recognized for his
10 years of support and leadership in the Gov­
ernor Clinton Council, encompassing Albany,
Rensselaer, and Columbia counties in New
York.
1972
15th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
1974
Robert W. Hogan M has been appointed to the
editorial board of Cyberlog, the journal of applied
medical software. . . . Donald G. Puro M,
’75GM, ’75R has won the $45,000 William and
Mary Greve International Research Scholars
Award from Research to Prevent Blindness, the
world’s leading voluntary organization support­
ing eye research. Associate professor of ophthal­
mology and of physiology and biophysics at the
University of Miami School of Medicine, and
a member of the faculty of the Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute, Puro was cited for his work in

retinal disease. . . . Robert S. Witte M has
been elected a fellow of the American College
of Physicians. He is a specialist in cancer and
internal medicine, practicing at the Gundersen
Clinic in La Crosse, Wis.
1975
William Craig-Kuhn M, ’79R is on the emer­
gency room staff at Soldiers and Sailors Memo­
rial Hospital in Penn Yan, N.Y.
1976
Orthopaedic surgeon Manhal Ghama R has
been appointed to the associate medical staff
of Alliance (Ohio) Community Hospital. . . .
Morris Wortman M, ’80R spoke on “Infertil­
ity: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?”
at Highland Hospital in Rochester. His talk
was part of a series of lectures sponsored by the
Women’s HealthSource of Highland Hospital
on topics of special interest to women. Wortman was chief of obstetrics and gynecology at
the Genesee Valley Group Health Association
and is now in private practice.
1977
10th Class Reunion, May 22, 23 & 24
Ophthalmologist Gregory G. Gensheimer M
was elected to a four-year term on the Bath
(Me.) Board of Education. . . . Gill M. TaylorTyree, Sr. M joined the department of radiolo­
gy at Gettysburg (Pa.) Hospital. He previously
served as head of radiology at the U.S. Naval
Hospital in Lemoore, Calif.
1978
Andrew G. Roth M, ’83R is now practicing at
Berkshire Plastic Associates in Pittsfield, Mass.
1979
Daniel T. Dempsey M is assistant professor of
surgery at Temple University School of Medi­
cine. . . . Wai Hung Lee M has been elected
to fellowship in the American College of Cardi­
ology. He is in private practice in Elkhart, Ind.
. . . Lome E. Weeks III M has established his
practice in association with Asheville (N.C.)
Orthopaedic Associates. He practices general
orthopaedics with special interest in arthros­
copy and sports medicine.
1981
Steven C. Blasdell M, ’86R has joined Ports­
mouth (Va.) Orthopaedic Associates, Inc., “for
the practice of total joint replacement and gen­
eral orthopaedics.” . . . David B. Nash com­
pleted the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Clinical Scholar’s Program last June and
earned his M.B.A. (in health policy) from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl­
vania. He now serves as deputy editor of the
Annals of Internal Medicine and as clinical assist­
ant professor of medicine at the Philadelphia
VA Medical Center. He reports that he won
the L. Van Seawell Prize for the best article in
Healthcare Financial Management last April. Nash’s
wife, Esther J. Nash, is associate chief of medi­
cine at the Albert Einstein Southern Division
in Philadelphia. . . . Ethan A. Tarasov M now
works in the Department of Radiology at St.
Francis Medical Center in Trenton, N.J.
1982
Marie Frankel R, a plastic and reconstructive
surgeon, spoke on “More than Skin Deep:
Plastic Surgery and Body Contouring” at High­
land Hospital in Rochester. Hers was one of a
series of lectures, sponsored by the Women’s
HealthSource at Highland, on topics of special
interest to women. Frankel is on the medical
staff at Highland.

School of Nursing
1937
50th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1942
45th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1944
Sister Paul Marie Dougherty has been certi­
fied by the Library of Congress as a Braille
transcriber and now works for the National Li­
brary Service for the Blind and Visually Hand­
icapped. “It is a stimulating and challenging
labor of love, typing English into Braille on a
six-key Brailler,” she writes. “The Association
for the Blind (in Rochester) can use many more
Braillists, especially for all kinds of textbooks
for high school and college students.”
1946
Margaret Smith Taylor retired after 20 years
on the nursing faculty of Fitchburg (Mass.)
State College. Professor of nursing at her re­
tirement, she reports that she plans to do some
writing and research while enjoying living on
Cape Cod.
1947
40th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1948
Betty Palmgren Deffenbaugh ’58U has retired
after 38 years of nursing at Strong Memorial
Hospital. She served most recently as assistant
director of nursing practice.
1952
35th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1957
30th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1962
25th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1967
20th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
1972
15th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Marcia Schirer Mullen is elementary school
nurse for grades K-6 in the Windham, Me.,
school system. She had been assistant professor
of nursing at St. Joseph’s College. . . . Born:
to Daniel and Jan-Louise Cooper Leonard,
a son, Michael Cooper Leonard, on July 14.
1975
Army Maj. David Bolesh, chief nurse and
chief, plans, operations, and training at the
93rd Evacuation Hospital, presented a study
on “Testicular Self-Examination Practice
Related to Knowledge, Locus of Control,
and the Health Belief Model” at the Phyllis
J. Verhonick Nursing Research Course in
Washington, D.C.
1977
10th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Katherine Kendall has been appointed clinical
manager/nurse practitioner in the Employee
Health Service at Salem (Mass.) Hospital. . . .
Married: Joanne Jocelyn VanDeValk and
Hugh Charles Digby on Aug. 31, in Rochester.
. . . Born: to Katie Hoy Johnson, a son,
Willard James, on Aug. 18.
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U R W here You Are
R e g io n a l A c tiv itie s R e p o rt

Applejackets (New York City)
Contact: Mary Beth Egan ’82
(212) 286-2639 (days)
On January 3 the New York Connection pro­
gram once again brought large numbers of
alumni and students together to “connect” on
career explorations, job searches, and general
survival techniques for big-city living. And our
Boar’s Head Brunch a few weeks later was rem­
iniscent of a good old UR tradition. Naturally,
we ate everything but the boar’s head.
The Steering Committee has been newly
restructured for various^ lines of activity. Good
people are in place, but there is always room
for additional ideas and enthusiasm. Call us if
you would like to participate as a mover and
shaker.
The idea of a Business Exchange has been
discussed. It could provide for a network
among metropolitan area alumni for advertis­
ing services or discounts, announcing perform­
ances or exhibitions; or other connections
of mutual benefit. Call Rich Waldor, (201)
963-8350, if you have services or discounts to
offer or would like to help in further develop­
ment of this idea.
Arizona Alumni Club (Phoenix)
Contact: Diane McCarthy ’67
(602) 991-7919
On Friday, February 20, our AZ Alumni
Club is featuring UR professor of political
science Peter Regenstreif, who is discussing
with us “The Distortion of Politics Through the
Mass Media. ” We will celebrate the advance
of spring on April 4 with a golf-softball-eating
outing at Paradise Valley Park. Appropriate
sporting equipment or simply an appetite and
thirst will qualify for attendance. On April
25-26 we are cosponsoring the Western States
Reunion in Palm Springs, together with the
alumni groups in Denver, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco. It’s an easy shot for Arizonans,
so we’re hoping for good representation.
Phoenix is a growing area and so are we.
We’re looking particularly for additional partic­
ipants in recruiting and career networking. If
you’re not on our list, call Diane and join up.
Bay Area (San Francisco)
Contact: Andrea LoPinto ’80
(415) 752-9302 (evenings)
O ur second dinner program at the Culinary
Academy, on October 3, was another sellout ex­
travaganza. We have thus instituted it as an an­
nual fall tradition. We also printed and mailed
our second area UR Alumni Directory. Non­
members can acquire one for the wee price of
dues, which then makes you a member. Call
Andrea if you feel that such a connection will
relieve the anxiety pangs of being left out.

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In the spring (May, most likely) we will be
planning a Dinner Cruise on San Francisco
Bay. Members will get mailings. On April
25-26 we are involved with three other UR
alumni associations in sponsoring the Western
States Reunion in Palm Springs.
Our Steering Committee is currently looking
for grads to serve as connectors for the Sacra­
mento, Davis, and San Jose areas. Anyone thus
interested, please give Andrea a call.
Boston Meliora Club
Contact: Bob Glowacky ’84
(617) 734-0841 (evenings)
We’re still reeling from the good time at the
Head of the Charles (over 100 on hand) and
from cheering the Yellowjackets to victory in
three out of four games at the M.I.T. Tourna­
ment. O ur B.M.C. Alumni Directory is pro­
duced and distributed and is already proving
useful. If you aren’t a member and want one,
simply join up. (Call Bob and send in dues —
$10, or $15 for an alumni couple.) Future plans
include a winter cross-country ski outing, a
brunch prior to the Eastman Wind Ensemble
—Wynton Marsalis concert in March at Sym­
phony Hall, and a Fine Arts Museurti visit and
reception in the spring.
Colorado University of Rochester Club
(Denver)
Contact: Andrew Eiseman ’79
(303) 832-5827
An adventurous band of Rochester grads
gathered on December 12 at the Denver Center
Theatre Co. to view the theater’s biggest hit ever,
South Pacific. Preceded by sumptuous desserts in
the Lunt-Fontanne Room at the center, the eve­
ning brought people together from throughout
the area. Once again, Rochester people showed
their love of the arts (and a good time).
These sorts of social events, coupled with the
activities supporting the University’s admis­
sions, development, and career programs are
what the Colorado University of Rochester
Club is all about. If you would like to join in
the fun and help UR at the same time, please
contact Robin Pack at (303) 850-9738. Our circle
is ever-widening. Be a part of the excitement!
Delaware Valley (Philadelphia)
Contact: John Doyle ’81
(609) 757-7135 (days)
Activities galore! The Phonathon in October
was phun. At the Frostbite Regatta, November
21-23, we not only cheered for the UR Crews
(M&F), we housed all forty of ’em in boat units
of fours and eights. With such support and in­
spiration, they went home with lots of ribbons
and hardware. Recruiters had an organizational
and pep-talk meeting with UR’s Tom Shea on
November 25.
O ur splendid group gathering for the Nut­
cracker at the Academy of Music on December

17 was preceded by festive friendliness at the
Hershey Hotel.
We are looking forward to our session with
Jeff Roberts ’68 (of the Morris Arboretum) who is
bringing us the inside word and pictures from
China following his month-long visit, hosted by
the Chinese government, with a group of pro­
fessional horticulturists. We are also looking
toward another good time with the UR Crews
in May at the Dad Vail. Join up —help us make
a Rochester splash in the Delaware Valley.
(Hey, we beat Kodak to the area.)
Niagara Frontier (Buffalo)
Contact: Clare Hoar ’75
(716) 883-1664 (evenings)
At this writing a February program is in the
works. Members by now should have received
announcements by mail. The Steering Com­
mittee is meeting regularly, lining up leaders
for specific activities and setting up long-range
plans. Joe Kubarek ’79 (716) 662-3790 (evenings)
is heading up the program group. If you have
ideas, give him a call. Recruiting continues to
be an important activity. Alumni are now being
connected with individual schools in their area
both to reduce work load and increase effective­
ness in contacts. In the coming months a career
networking plan will be addressed. If you are
not yet a member, call Clare or Joe and get
connected with UR people in our area.
Rochester
Contact: Alumni Office
(716) 275-3684 (days)
If you used to play basketball for Rochester
and want to repeat your days of glory, there
may be yet time for you to get in on the annual
alumni basketball game preceding the varsity
game against the U.S. Merchant Marine on
February 21.
Somewhat less active events coming up in­
clude the Wednesday Evening Lectures on
March 18 (with the newly inaugurated Bruce
W. Arden, dean of the College of Engineering
and Applied Science) and April 15 (with Me­
morial Art Gallery director Grant Holcomb);

School of Nursing (from page 43)
1979
Sharon Levitt Berman earned her M.S.N.
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984
and has since been serving as a pediatric nurse
practitioner, currently in Reading, Pa. . . .
Kathleen Collison Wilkinson GN is super­
visor of nurses for the Cape May County (N.J.)
Health Department. . . . Married: Sharon
Levitt and Ron Berman on Apr. 20.

the Continuing Connection Happy Hour for
Rochester Area Alumni at El Torito Restaurant
on April 23; and, on April 25, the ever-blooming
Dandelion Day. All Rochester area alumni are
cordially invited to participate in these events.
Southern California (Los Angeles)
Contact: Harry DeLigter ’72
(213) 450-5324 (days)
On December 4 our dinner at the University
Club featured two UR alumni visiting from
Washington (D.C.). Cosmo DiMaggio ’80, ’82G,
from the Congressional Research Service in the
Library of Congress, and Bonita Smith Dombey
’79, from the Congressional Budget Office,
spoke to us about the Strategic Defense Initia­
tive (Star Wars). We also published our first,
and very usable, local UR Alumni Directory.
Members get them free. So, the price of dues
will get you a copy. We are looking forward
eagerly to a repeat (and expansion) of our All
California Reunion of last year. This time it
will be a Western States Reunion (bringing
alumni from the Denver and Phoenix Asso­
ciations, and from Utah, Nevada, and New
Mexico). It will be in Palm Springs April
25-26. Watch your mail.
South Florida (Miami)
Contact: Rick and Fran Katz ’72
(305) 661-1342
Recruiting activity is increasing. Numbers of
alumni interviewing prospective students are
growing, as are numbers of applicants from the
area, but more are needed. If you would like to
help insure a more diverse, as well as able, stu­
dent body at Rochester, please join in. We’re
looking forward to a program on February 16
on the North side of Miami with a “classic”
silent film documenting the building of the
River Campus, and another classic, John
Braund, bringing us a UR update.
Tampa Bay
Contact: Merilyn Burke ’69
(813) 962-4421
Rochester activities are growing in the Tampa
Bay area. As of this writing, we are looking for­
ward to a reception with President O’Brien on
Sunday, February 15, at Bill and Ann Neuman’s
home. John Braund, from the Alumni Office, is
also to be on hand. As noted in the mailer sent

In September a couple of dozen representa­
tives of our far-flung area associations met in
Rochester for an Alumni Leadership Workshop.
The Review’s photographer caught up with the
group on the steps between the library and
Douglass to record the occasion. Owners of the
happy faces that greeted him are as follows:
1. Harry DeLigter ’72, Los Angeles; 2.
Sharon Cole ’59, Boston; 3. Frank Tallarida
’53, San Francisco; 4. Norma Cohen ’62, Los
Angeles; 5. Andrea LoPinto ’80, San Francisco;
6. Merilyn Burke ’69, Tampa; 7. Lynne
Blanchard ’73, Buffalo; 8. Michael Cole ’59,
Boston; 9. Jamie Wood ’84, Boston; 10. Robert
Glowacky ’84, Boston; 11. Betty Ann Tichenor
’59, Denver; 12. Arnold Fink ’63, New York;
13. Diane McCarthy ’67, ’72G, Phoenix; 14.
Gerard W. Smith ’83, Washington; 15. Andrea
Girard ’83, Philadelphia; 16. Mary Beth Egan
’82, New York; 17. Jean Smith ’78, New York;
18. Neil Ende ’77, Washington; 19. Cosmo
DiMaggio ’80, Washington; 20. Andrea Bourquin ’77N, Washington; 21. Clare Haar ’75,
Buffalo; 22. Andrew Eiseman ’78, Denver; 23.
John E. Doyle ’80, Philadelphia; 24. Marjorie
Little ’82, Philadelphia.
to all alumni in the area, a meeting will be held
at Merilyn Burke’s home on Thursday, March 5,
to discuss the formation of a UR Tampa Bay
Alumni Association. It can be a simple struc­
ture but could also provide for local initiative
and independence, and it can enhance recruit­
ing of good students and establishing a greater
University of Rochester presence “down here.”
Questions? Ideas? Didn’t get the mailer? Call
Merilyn!
Washington, D.C.
Contact: Neil Ende ’77
(202) 955-6300 (days)
Our Redskins Brunch (at a tavern with a
large screen) was small in number but high in
fun. In the winter we are looking to “outings”
to Caps and Bullets games, and a ski trip is in
thinking stages at this writing. We’re planning
gatherings in connection with Eastman con­
certs at the Kennedy Center in March —the
16th with the Chorale, and the 18th with the
Wind Ensemble and Wynton Marsalis. Watch
for a Virginia winery visit in the spring.
If you are not on our list for notices, call Neil
and join up. And, if you like direct action, stop
in at a monthly Steering Committee meeting at
the Tiber Creek Tavern.

1980
Suzanne G. Maithel finished her M.S. in family
nursing at SUNY Binghamton in 1984 and is
an ANA certified family nurse practitioner. She
serves as nurse manager of Stony Creek Medi­
cal Center and Hamtramck Health Center, di­
visions of Horizon Health Systems in Detroit.
1981
Martha I. Castillejo was awarded a full schol­
arship to Colgate Rochester Divinity/St. Ber­
nard’s Institute to earn a master’s degree in
theology. During the school year, she says, she
does private-duty nursing in the Rochester
area; summers she does missionary work in
South America. . . . Deanna Dawson Bruen
GN was appointed assistant professor of nurs­
ing at Cazenovia (N.Y.) College.
1982
5th Class Reunion, June 4, 5, 6, & 7
Pamela P. Jones GN, assistant professor of
nursing at Alfred University, has been selected
for inclusion in the forthcoming issues of Who’s
Who in the East and Who’s Who in American Nurs­
ing. . . . Dianne Wilier finished her M.S. in
public-health nursing, with training as a family
nurse practitioner, at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. Her thesis was on “Health-Protective
Behavior of Hispanic Women. ” Her husband,
Wesley Sly ’80RC, finished his M.B.A. at U of
I and began work at 3M Co. in St. Paul, Minn.
They have since moved to Austin, Tex., where
Dianne works as a nurse practitioner at Pharmaco Dynamics Research, a pharmaceutical re­
search firm, and where Wes does market re­
search for 3M’s telecommunications division.
. . . Married: Janice E. Kagan and Ernst V.
Omri on Nov. 29, in Rochester. . . . Dianne
Wilier and Wesley Sly ’80RC in March 1985.
. . . Kathleen Mancini and James H. Moore
on Aug. 30, in Rochester.
1983
Donna Collins and her fiancé, Mike Ludwig
’83RC, have moved to Chicago, where Donna is
working at Michael Reese Hospital and Mike is
attending the University of Chicago Business
School.
1984
Married: Valerie L. Brizendine and James R.
Butterfield on Sept. 5. . . . Julia Anne Schottmiller and Richard F. Koestner ’80RC on July
12, in Rochester.
1985
Married: Jacqui Goldberg and Matt O’Connell
’85RC on Aug. 24.
1986
Married: Diane M. Tacito and Brian R. John­
son on Sept. 6, in Rochester.

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O bituaries

In M em oriam

Blanche Williams Moot ’14 (Cuba, N.Y.) on
Oct. 7.
Alethea Keys Perry ’15 (Salem, Ore.) on
Aug. 25.
Edward J. Hammele ’16 (Pittsford, N.Y.) on
Aug. 26.
Ruth M. Christler ’19 (Rochester) on Oct. 9.
Helen Milby Latham ’20 (Pittsford, N.Y.) on
Sept. 21.
Sarah Saxton Slocum ’20 (Lake Placid, Fla.)
on Aug. 1.
Emily Otto Trimby ’20 (Rochester) on
Sept. 16.
Dwight E. Lee ’21, ’22G (Worcester, Mass.) on
Oct. 20.
Earl A. Uebel ’21 (Rochester) on Aug. 12.
Rev. Herbert Baird ’22 (New Wilmington, Pa.)
on Oct. 6.
Maurice Davidson ’22 (Rochester) on Aug. 22.
Mildred R. Burton ’25, ’34G (Rochester) on
Aug. 25.
Agnes McGrath Halligan ’25E (Depew, N.Y.)
on Aug. 23.
King Kellogg ’26 (Arlington, Va.) on Sept. 24.
Janet Sprague Williams ’26 (Wellesley, Mass.)
on Sept. 2.
Allen I. McHose ’27E, ’29GE (Naples, N.Y.)
on Sept. 14.
Bernice Franke McKay ’27 (Wells, Somerset,
England) on June 24.
Edward Payson Smith, Jr. ’27 (Penn Yan,
N.Y.) on Aug. 31.
Francis LeRoy Fennel ’28 (Wilmington, Del.)
on Aug. 26.
Mildred Lee Stewart ’28 (Buffalo, N.Y.) on
Sept. 29.
Hunter Johnson ’29E (Benson, N.C.) on
May 28.
Frank Leach ’29, ’38G (Sun City, Ariz.) on
June 1, 1985.
Francis V. Oderkirk ’29 (Victor, N.Y.) on
Sept. 19.
Anne E. Chadwick Pouliot ’29N (Lakemont,
N.Y.) on Sept. 23.
Ruth Young Bentley ’30 (Rochester) on
Sept. 15.
Evelyn McEwen Hooper Wilder ’30 (Mystic,
Conn.) on Mar. 29.
Mary Ford Crozier ’32 (Rochester) on
Sept. 30.
Mildred Augustine Fotch ’32, ’48G (Roches­
ter) on Oct. 2.
Hermann R. Maier ’32E (Hope, N J.) on
Aug. 7.
Philip Hawley Reed ’32 (Rochester) on
Sept. 4.
Joseph D’Errico ’33R (New Smyrna Beach,
Fla.) on Aug. 28.
Molly B. Taylor ’34 (Rochester) on Sept. 3.
Philip K. Gilman, Jr. ’35M (Watsonville,
Calif.) on Sept. 25.

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William L. Dorr ’36M (Auburn, N.Y.) on
Aug. 27.
Virginia C. Ester ’36 (Rochester) on Sept. 8.
Samuel Burnett Foster ’36 (Venice, Fla.) on
Sept. 28.
Willard C. Smith ’36 (Salem, S.C.) on Oct. 11.
Ellenmae Viergiver ’36, ’41GM (Rochester) on
Aug. 26.
Merle Campbell Montgomery ’37GE, ’48GE
(Chantilly, Va.) on Aug. 25.
Thomas Gibson Payne ’37, ’39G (Eugene,
Ore.) on Sept. 27.
Ruth Wilner Orchin ’38 (Cincinnati, Ohio) on
Aug. 11.
Edward G. Tones ’40M (Molokai, Hawaii) on
Sept. 14.
Thomas Henry Mercer ’40 (River Forest, 111.)
on July 2.
M. Alvaretta Wheeler Blair ’41 (Columbia,
Md.) on Sept. 10.
William E. Butler ’41GE (Marion, Mass.) on
Jan. 15.
J. Kenneth Munson ’41GE, ’53GE (Canton,
N.Y.) on July 21.
David Blanchet ’43M (Denver, Colo.) on
Aug. 18.
Jean P. Davis ’45R (Westfield, Wis.) on Oct. 2.
Paul Harder ’45GE (Turlock, Calif.) in August.
William G. Young ’47G (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
on Aug. 15.
John L. Chapin ’50GM (Silver Spring, Md.)
on Oct. 23.
Charlotte Lindquist Coapman ’51N (Brockport, N.Y.) on Aug. 27.
Lloyd Burlingham ’52 (Perry, N.Y.) on
Aug. 10.
Maurice F. Sammons ’52U (Rochester) on
Aug. 7.
Hugh B. Montgomery ’53 (Bailey, Colo.) on
July 3.
Lois Root Harner ’57 (Centerville, Ohio) on
Oct. 10.
William H. Baader ’58GU (Naples, N.Y.) on
Aug. 12.
Allan P. Lehl ’58GE, ’64GE (Des Moines,
Iowa) on June 11.
William C. Hutchinson ’60 (Fishers, N.Y.) on
Oct. 15.
Katherine Poncavage Clark ’62N, ’77GN
(Rochester) on Aug. 14.
Edward V. Fiorillo ’65 (Auburn, N.Y.) on
Aug. 21.
Thomas A. Masters ’65 (Rochester) on
Aug. 12.
John J. Stuart ’68GM, ’71M (Pfafftown, N.C.)
on Aug. 24.
John L. Debes III ’71U, ’73G (Macedon, N.Y.)
on Oct. 12.
Lois M. Rosenthal ’75 (Watertown, Mass.) on
July 13.
Jeffrey S. Osgood ’81G (New Fairfield, Conn.)
on Oct. 13.
Brian Arthur Crist ’85 (Goshen, N.Y.) on
Sept. 12.

■ Allen I. McHose ’27E, ’29GE, one of this
country’s best-known American music theo­
rists, died September 14. He was a retired
associate director of the Eastman School.
“Allen McHose began his work here as a
student and served the school in a variety of
capacities right up until the day he died,” said
Eastman director Robert Freeman.
When he came to Eastman as a student,
McHose was already launched on a career
teaching science at Lehigh University. His plan
then was to learn enough at the school so he
could return to Lehigh and help develop
Lehigh’s choir. But he never left Eastman, earn­
ing two degrees and then joining the faculty of
the music theory department, which he chaired
for thirty-one years. When he retired from that
post in 1962, he spent the next five years as
associate director of the school.
McHose was an authority on the composi­
tional techniques of the eighteenth century,
and, says Freeman, “he dominated theory pedagogy during the thirties, forties, and fifties.”
Equally important, he adds, “He was a very
warmhearted and jovial person who was as
positive about life as anybody I think I’ve ever
known.”
H Educator and composer Merle Montgomery
’37GE, ’48GE, past president of the important
and influential National Federation of Music
Clubs, died August 25 in Chantilly, Virginia.
Born into a pioneer family on an Oklahoma
farm, she graduated from her high school at
age fourteen, its youngest-ever graduate. M ar­
ried directly after graduation from the Univer­
sity of Oklahoma, she was widowed after five
years and returned to her studies. She earned
her graduate degrees from the Eastman School,
where she taught for two years, developing a
course in music theory for children. Also along
the way she studied in Paris with Isidor Phillipp
and Nadia Boulanger.
Among other accomplishments during her
long and distinguished career, she was the au­
thor of four sets of Music Theory Papers (Carl
Fischer), compiler and editor of two volumes of
the New Scribner Music Library, and composer
of thirty-six published compositions.
An honorary member of the University’s
Trustees’ Council, she was in 1964 awarded a
University Citation to Alumni for distinguished
service.

H appy return
Hunter Johnson ’29E writes from Ben­
son, North Carolina, that he is “alive and
well, and happily retired,” in contradic­
tion to the notice carried in the In Memo­
riam section of the Fall Rochester Review.
The misinformation forwarded to the
Review, he reports, resulted from “a bi­
zarre media mixup when another person
in this area, with the same name as mine,
died last spring.”
The distinguished career from which
Johnson, a composer, is happily retired
includes teaching at Cornell, Michigan,
Manitoba, Illinois, and Texas; compo­
sition of the scores for three Martha
Graham ballets; and the award of the Prix
de Rome in 1933 and Guggenheim Fellow­
ships in 1941 and 1954.

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A lum ni Travel

University of Rochester Alumni Tours are planned
with two primary objectives: educational enrichment
and the establishment of closer ties among alumni and
between alumni and the University. Destinations are
selectedfor their historic, cultural, geographic, and nat­
ural resources, andfor the opportunities they providefor
understanding other peoples: their histories, their poli­
tics, their values, and the roles they play in current
world affairs. Programs are designed to provide worryfree basics such as transportation, transfers, accommo­
dations, some meals, baggage handling and profession­
al guides, and still allowfor personal exploration of in­
dividual interests. Escorts, drawn from the University
faculty and staff, provide special services andfeatures
that add both personal and educational enrichment.
All members of the University community are eligi­
ble to participate in these tours. Non-associated rela­
tives andfriends are welcome as space permits. Those
—other than spouses, dependent children, or parents of
alumni—who have no direct connection with the Uni­
versity will be requested to make a tax-deductible dona­
tion of $50 to the University.
Caribbean-Panama Canal Cruise —February
15-22
From Montego Bay to Grand Cayman, Car­
tagena, Aruba, and transit of Gatun Locks into
Gatun Lake in Panama, with lectures on his­
tory and building of the Canal. Special rates for
3rd and 4th in room. Optional 3 additional
days in Montego Bay February 12-15. (Roches­
ter families and teachers take note: This is
winter school-break period.) $1,195—$1,800
range, depending upon room choice. Free air
from NYC and other major terminals; $65
from Rochester and other intermediate points;
$90 from west coast.
Australia-New Zealand —March 12-28
Cairns (Great Barrier Reef), Brisbane,
Melbourne, Sydney/Auckland, and Christ­
church. Pre-Fiji and post-Hawaii options.
Many inclusions, including full breakfasts daily
and 9 dinners. Sane pacing for long trip. $3,250
from Los Angeles. Lowest connecting fares
available from Rochester and other points.

South America —April 8-21
Montevideo (Uruguay, the Riviera of South
America), Buenos Aires (capital of Argentina),
Iguassu Falls, and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Cosmopolitan cities, breathtaking sights,
deluxe accommodations, full breakfasts daily,
4 dinners, and 1 lunch included, as well as half­
day guided sightseeing in each city. Easter in
Rio. $2,465 from NYC; group arrangements
from Rochester; comparable West Coast depar­
ture and return available.
Alaska, Land and Sea—July 11-23
Seven-night cruise from Vancouver that is
different. In addition to Ketchikan, Juneau,
and Skagway, cruise Endicott Arm, Yakutat
Bay (Hubbard Glacier), and College Fjord
(Columbia Glacier) to Whittier. Rail and
motorcoach to Anchorage (1 night), private
railcar on Midnight Sun Express to Denali
Park (1 night) to see Mt. McKinley, grizzlies,
caribou, sheep, moose, beavers, etc., riverboat
cruise on Tanana River, and Fairbanks (2
nights). All sightseeing included. $2,500-3,600
from —and return to —Seattle. Lowest promo­
tional fare connections from home cities.
Great River Cruise, Pacific Northwest —
September 7-15
Round trip from Portland. Follow the trail
of Lewis and Clark for 465 miles aboard the
“Great Rivers Explorer” on the Willamette,
Columbia, and Snake Rivers. Cruise into
history and experience gorges, river towns, and
the tgiritories of miners, merchants, trappers,
and gold prospectors. Visit Astoria, Fort Clat­
sop, Bonneville Dam and Lock, Nez Perce and
Sacajawea Parks, Fort Walla Walla, and other
notable sites. Ride a jet boat into Hell’s Can­
yon. Will not require physical prowess. $1,545
from Portland; $1,895 from Rochester.

and classical music piped over the communica­
tion system during the evening hours.
The sting consisted of classical music coming
from Choate’s stereo record player and rock
music from a local broadcast coming through
Choate’s stereo’s microphone —both passed
through Choate’s amplifier and then applied
simultaneously to the wires of our adviser’s
speaker. Of course, it was a few hours past eve­
ning, but we were true to our word to supply a
mixture of rock and classical music.
The results of the survey were received in
about thirty seconds when the adviser ran into
the hall in his underwear shouting, “Choate!
Kinsland!” Advisers were sharp at Rochester,
their deductive reasoning quick and accurate.
Gary L. Kinsland ’69, ’71G, ’74G
Lafayette, Louisiana
Avoiding a dormitory search for hot plates
(and to conceal various and sundry illicit mate­
rial), I invited a group of friends to the room
and had everybody lie around naked, calmly
reading.
The investigator left rather promptly mutter­
ing, “There’s girls in there” and missed the
refrigerator and the twenty-foot long curtain
from the MDC on the ceiling.
E.Z.[?] ’73
Brooklyn [?]
We don’t normally print unsigned communications
but we were so taken with the naked hutzpah of E.Z.’s
friends that we are making an exception. (At least we
think the scrawled initials read “E.Z. ” The postmark
is clearly Brooklyn. The only other clue to our corre­
spondent’s identity is the “frilled dogwinkle”postage
stamp) —Editor.

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Our part-time home. Year-round swim­
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snorkeling, beaches. Grobman ’41G, ’44G,
507 North 13th St., Apt. 301, St. Louis,
Mo. (314) 241-9177.
Nantucket Island, Mass. Rent our beau­
tiful fully equipped, three-bedroom, twobath home in 1987. Private tennis courts,
ocean views, walk to beaches. Steve
Godwin ’84G, (716) 442-6165.
Rate: 75 cents a word. Post Office box num­
bers and hyphenated words count as two words.
Street numbers, telephone numbers, and state ab­
breviations count as one word. No chargefor zip
code or class numerals.
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Forfurther information or detailed mailers (as they
become available) on any of the trips announced, con­
tact John Braund, Alumni Office, University of
Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, (716)
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A lu m n i G o v e rn a n c e
By Gerry Katz ’70, Chairman, Trustees’ Council

How You Are Represented
Alumni take note: We may have
helped save our Alma Mater’s name,
but a great many other things about
its organization are fair game for
change.
Take alumni governance, for in­
stance. The last major restructuring
was put into place in 1964, and in the
past few months members of the vari­
ous alumni governing bodies have
been reviewing everything about it.
Where something is working, we’re
going to keep it. But where there’s an
opportunity to do things better, we’re
going to change it.
The challenge is simple to state but
difficult to overcome. The University of
Rochester currently has 60,000 living
alumni. They represent eight colleges
and eighty classes, and are scattered
all over the world. The problem is that
only about a thousand of these alumni
are truly active in supporting and pro­
moting the University in some way
beyond a financial contribution.
Our objective over the next three
years is to quadruple that number. So
the question is how to get more and
more alumni involved in the recruit­
ment of new students, in the place­
ment of our present students in both
summer and permanent jobs, and in
the furthering of our public relations
efforts —and having some fun doing it.
What we are now putting into place
is a new structure that replaces some
of the existing alumni councils, com­
mittees, and boards with new organi­
zations that put a greater emphasis on
specific activities such as recruitment,
placement, and local alumni associa­
tions. While all of the ink is not yet
dry, our current thinking goes some­
thing like this:
Last summer we decided that the
Trustees’ Council, established in the
1960s as the senior advisory board to
the University’s Board of Trustees,
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governing body of the Alumni Asso­
ciation. This step has since been ap­
proved by the Board of Trustees.
The Trustees’ Council consists of
thirty-one alumni who meet three
times a year in conjunction with meet­
ings of the trustees. Its members are
chosen from a variety of sources (more
about that later).
The Trustees’ Council works through
standing committees that address
alumni relations, annual giving, en­
rollment, and public relations. It also
recommends candidates for the series
of honors that the University bestows
on its most dedicated and accomplished
faculty and alumni. Council members
also serve on the Board of Trustees’
visiting committees that annually re­
view each of the colleges and in addi­
tion examine several special topics in
greater detail.
Membership on the Trustees’ Coun­
cil is both an honor and a responsibility.
Members are chosen for their knowl­
edge and leadership potential on be­
half of the University and typically
serve for six years. Some have come
up through the ranks in serving the
University over a long period, and
some have been less closely associated
but have indicated a desire and an
ability to served in the future. A good
example of this latter type of appoint­
ment would be that of Ed Colodny
’48, the chairman and CEO of USAir,
who came onto the Trustees’ Council,
then moved on to the Board of Trust­
ees, and now serves as its chairman.
Each year, the Trustees’ Council
elects one present or former member
to serve a six-year term on the Board
of Trustees. This insures that the
board will always include at least six
alumni, although the reality is that
at present twenty of our forty active
board members are graduates of the
University.
Ultimately, it is the Trustees’ Coun­
cil’s responsibility to become as knowl­
edgeable about the University as pos­
sible, for it provides the reservoir of

highly qualified individuals who will
represent the alumni on the board.
This function has worked well for
many years now, and there’s little in
it that we wish to change.
The area in which we think the
greatest opportunity may lie is in the
grass roots organization that underlies
the Trustees’ Council. For many years
there have existed “constituent coun­
cils” that represent the alumni of cer­
tain colleges within the University
and elect one of their members to
the Trustees’ Council. The Eastman
School, medical school, and School of
Nursing will continue to be repre­
sented by such councils.
The big change is going to be in the
creation of formal “activities boards”
which will also elect members to the
Trustees’ Council. These boards will
be charged with helping the Univer­
sity with certain basic undertakings.
We are currently in the process of
structuring several new organizations
which need to be called to your atten­
tion:
• Volunteer Admissions Network
(VAN). The admission office is imple­
menting a vastly expanded network of
alumni to actively recruit prospective
Rochester students in their local high
schools. There are literally hundreds
of alumni signed up for this activity
already, but we have nowhere near
achieved the hundred percent cover­
age of local schools that we need.
• REACH board. This enterprise
combines financial assistance and
work experience by helping students
locate part-time and summer jobs that
go beyond routine expectations for
“temporary help” and instead relate
to their ultimate career goals. Alumni
make their contributions by helping
to develop opportunities in their own
firms and in others that they may
know of.
• Career Co-op. This is a network
of alumni who can assist students in
placement in permanent jobs as well
as summer employment. Some other
schools already have this kind of net­
working, and we need to catch up. A
fully developed career network could
be a primary selling point in attracting
freshman and transfer students.
• Area associations. There are
about ten cities around the country in
which our alumni population exceeds
2,000. And yet, believe it or not, we
have local alumni clubs in only a few
of these. The biggest irony is that we

don’t have one in Rochester! The
alumni relations office is hard at work
remedying this situation, and the re­
sults have already been dramatic. The
area associations oversee local volun­
teer activities for each of the above ac­
tivities as well as the Alumni Annual
Giving phonathon. Most important,
they sponsor the social programs that
have always provided the setting for
Rochester graduates to renew old
friendships and acquaintances.
The bottom line is this: Like a rail­
road train, your Alma Mater is on a
roll, and we need a couple of thousand
more of you to get on board! There
are several dozen handles for you to
grab onto, but they all require that
you help to push the train along.
If you loved Rochester when you
were a student as much as I did, write
to Jim Armstrong, director of alumni
relations, and tell him how you’d like
to help. He’ll send your name along
to the appropriate University staff
member who oversees that activity. I
promise you, the rewards will be a lot
greater than your investment in time
and effort. Meliora.

Ibur alumni representatives
Trustees’ Council members for 1986-87
Gerald M. Katz 70, senior vice president,
Information Resources, Inc., Waltham,
Mass., chairman
Carl AngelofF’53, partner, Edwards and
Angell, Palm Beach, Fla.
Margaret E. Ashida 78, branch finance
manager, Rolm, An IBM Company,
Torrance, Calif.
Holly G. Atkinson, M.D. 78M , Bridgewater,
Conn.
Gertrude A. Bales, M.D. ’52M, Veterans Ad­
ministration, Medical Center, Canandaieua,
N.Y.
Alan R. Batkin ’66, Shearson Lehman
Brothers, Inc., New York
Elizabeth B. Buccheri ’66E, 79GE, North
Park College, Chicago
Lettie M. Burgett, M.D. 71, Cigna/Ross Loos
Medical Group, Torrance, Calif.
Josephine Craytor ’46U, ’60G, Rochester
Jeanne Sullivan Cushman ’63, San Marino,
Calif.
Suzanne F. Eichhorn, Ph.D. ’57, Washington,
D.C.
Peter D. Furth 76, vice president, Louis
Furth, Inc., Maspeth, N.Y.
Terry Giles ’64, ’66G, executive vice president
and director, First Commercial Savings and
Loan, Phoenix
Karen Noble Hanson 70, vice president,
Genesee Management, Inc., Rochester
Charles F. Harrington ’47, attorney-partner,
Harrington and Klaasesz, Buffalo

Alan F. Hilfiker ’60, partner, Harter Secrest
and Emery, Naples, Fla.
Marc A. Hoberman 70, assistant dean for stu­
dent activities, School of Law, George Mason
University, Arlington, Va.
Ronald Homer 71, Boston Bank of Commerce,
Boston
Lewis A. Kaplan ’66, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison, New York
Ronald B. Knight ’61, vice president, finance,
Informations Systems Division, Xerox,
Sunnyvale, Calif.
Arnold L. Lisio, M.D. ’56, ’61M, New York
Marian Todd Lovejoy ’64, ’68G, West
Southport, Maine
Joseph P. Mack ’55, president, DFS Dorland
Worldwide, New York
Russell J. Mandrino ’66, Chase Lincoln First
Bank, NA, Rochester
Louis T. Montulli ’62, Boeing Military
Airplane Co., Wichita, Kans.
Bruce H. Moses ’55, president and chief
executive officer, Uarco Incorporated,
Barrington, 111.
C. Woodrow Rea, Jr. 70, general partner, New
Enterprise Associates, Menlo Park, Calif.
Leslie D. Simon ’62, vice president, IBM
Corporation, Armonk, N.Y.
Deborah Kates Smith ’68, vice president,
personnel, Xerox Corporation, Rochester
Graham Wood Smith ’53, partner, Smith,
Pedersen & Smith, Orchard Park, N.Y.
Mary-Frances Winter 73, ’82G, The Winters
Group, Rochester

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