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5th FUND SEEKS 7,000 GIFTS 


Urge Family 
Attendance 
At Deans Day 

Reduced costs, gre<at©r em.pha- 
sis on family problems and free 
axJmdssion of teen-age alumni 
ehi'ldren are among t(he innova¬ 
tions scheduled for the tenth 
annual Deans’ Day, Saturday, 
February 11. 

Registration, reduced this year 
to $2.00 per person, is still open 
to alumni for this popular annual 
event. Those desiring to attend 
are urged to complete the form 
at the bottom of this article on 
page two. 

“We have attempted to make 
Deans’ Day more o-f a family 
event this year and to make it 
more attractive by eliminating 
the cost of a formal luncheon,” 
said Randolph I. Thornton ’28, 
chairman of the committee. “In 
addition, we have scheduled 
tours of the campus in which 
alumni can view the many 
chip'nges which have occurred 
over the past few years.” 

The Day’s events will begin 
with registration (and coffee) in 
John Jay Lobby at 10 A.M. The 
first session, beginning at 10:30, 
will offer graduates and their 
wives or guests a choice among 
five leading members of the fac¬ 
ulty. Professor Quentin Ander¬ 
son, ’37, for five years director 
of the Columbia College Collo¬ 
quium, whose book of critic'ism on 
Henry James will be published 
in the spring, will talk on “A 
Scholar’s Adventure,” Mrs. Ann 
Carey, wife of Professor Robert 
Carey and currently assistant 
professor of education at Dan- 
biiry State Teachers College, will 
lead a discussion on “issues in 
the Education of Your Young 
Children.” 

At the same time, Bruno Fu- 
n^o, assistant dean of the 
School of Architecture, will dis¬ 
cuss “How to Survive Suburban 
Living;” Donald W. O’Connell 
’3.7, assistant dean of the Fac¬ 
ulty of Business and a member 
of the editorial board of the New 
York Herald Tribune, will speak 
on “Under-developed Nations: 
The Case Against Capitalist Or¬ 
thodoxy”; and Professor Ernest 
J. Simmons, senior staff member 
of the Russian Institute and a 
leading authority on Russia and 
Russian literature, will discuss 
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Four representatives of the Department of Physical Education survey a section of Morningside 
Park which, within the year, will be converted into an athletic field, providing baseball, football 
and soccer facilities. Left to right: Ralph J. Furey ’28, Director of Athletics and Physical Educa¬ 
tion; Dr. L. Carroll Adams, head of the Physical E ducation Division; Donald Scott, in charge of 
intramural athletics; and Leslie S. Thompson, Assistant to the Director. 

A “long-time Columbia dream” — outdoor facilities adjacent to the campus for 
undergraduate physical education, athletics and recreation — is to become a reality. Ralph 
J. Furey ’28, Director of Athletics and Physical Education, has announced that the 
University will build, staff and operate an athletic field and administration building on a 
three and a half acre tractt~~ 


between West 110th and 
113th Street in Morningside 
Park. 

The Department of Physi¬ 
cal Education will also make 
the facilities the center of or¬ 
ganized athletic and recrea¬ 
tional programs for teen¬ 
agers of the community —^ a 
program which Mr. Furey de¬ 
scribed as “pioneering in 
scope and representing a ma¬ 
jor step forw^ard in Columbia- 
community relations which 
may well be adapted by other 
educational institutions ” 
Further comment on the pro¬ 
gram came from Dr. John A. 
Krout, Vice President and Pro- 
vast of the University, who said 
that it will give Columbia “new 
and effective opportunities to 
contribute to the health of the 
entire community served by the 
park.” 


Morningside Park is bounded 
by Manhattan Avenue on the 
e<.st and Morningside Drive on 
the west. The athletic field, 
which will provide two softball 
diamonds, three touch football 
fields and a soccer field, is con¬ 
siderably larger than the section 
of South Field used for athletic 
purposes prior to construction of 
Butler Library. 

Construction on the recreation 
site is scheduled to begin in the 
spring and the entire project 
should be completed late this 
year. 

The project was first an¬ 
nounced publicly on December 
30 by Park Commissioner Robert 
Moses and Manhattan Borough 
President Hulan E. Jack, follow¬ 
ing approval by the Board of 
Estimate and endorsement by 
Mayor Robert Wagner. The Park 
Department will maintain the 
athletic field and building and 
also operate a comfort station. 

Mr. Fur y said that Columbia 
has been granted exclusive fran¬ 
chise of the area Monday through 
Friday during the academic year. 
On weekends, and during the 


summer months the Physical 
Education Department will pro¬ 
vide supervised play for the 
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The 5th Annual Columbia 
College Fund has established 
a campaign goal of 7,000 con¬ 
tributions, totaling “in excess 
of $300,000,” according to its 
new general chairman, Dr. 
Gilbert Darlington, Class of 
1912. The Fund will be 
launched on February 8th. 

Last year the Fund, under 
the chairmanship of Frank S. 
Hogan ’24, achieved a record 
high of 6,004 gifts totaling 
$345,644.17, meeting its parti¬ 
cipation goal, and surpassing 
the $275,000 goal by $70,000. 

Dr, Darlington, clergyman 
and treasurer of the Ameri¬ 
can Bible Society, has been 
named to fill the post left va¬ 
cant by the -death on Decem¬ 
ber 20th of his brother, the 
Rev. Henry Darlington, Class 
of 1910, who had undertaken 
the organization of the 5th 
Fund in October. 

Five Month Campaign 

Dr. Darlington said that the 
1956 campaign for funds for 
scholarships and other phases 
of the Columbia program will 
be conducted for a five-month 
period ending June 30, thus fol¬ 
lowing the pattern set by the 
4th Fund. 

In accepting the chairman¬ 
ship, Dr. Darlington declared. “I 
look forward to carrying out the 
responsibilities of the task to 
which my brother had devoted 
himself. I shall do everything 
possible to help achieve College 
Fund objectives, in which I be¬ 
lieve so strongly, and ask all 
alumni to join with me in fur¬ 
ther extending the gains which 
Frank. Hogan and his commit¬ 
tees realized last year.” 

Dr. Darlington has announced 
the appointment of Theodore C. 
Oarfiel ’24, realtor, as chairman 
of the executive committee, suc¬ 
ceeding Arthur V. Smith ’31. Mr, 
Garfiel had previously served as 
a group chairman. 

To mark the commencement 
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Making excellent use of the 5th Annual College Fund “con- ^ 
ference table” are, left to right, Joseph D, Coffee Jr., ’41, Director 
of the Fund; Dr. Gilbert Darlington ’12, General Chairman; and 
Theodore C. Garfiel ’24, Chairman of the Executive Committee. 


A Dream Fulfilled 

New Athletic Field Planned 


Set New 
Goal For 
’56 Drive 


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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


February, 1956 


Columbia Today 


February 1956 


PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI 
AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 
FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS 


EDITOR 
Jerry Miller 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Hugh J. Kelly ’26, Chairman 

Charles A. Wagner *23 Joseph D. Coffee, Jr,, ’41 

Alfred D, Walling ’24 J. Robert Cherneff ’42 

Thomas M. Jones ’37 George L. McKay, Jr. ’48 

Herbert C. Rosenthal ’38 Gene R. Hawes ’49 


OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Wayne Van 
Orman ’28; Vice President, Aaron W. Berg ’24; Secretary, John 
S, Henry ’30; Treasurer, Berton J. Delmhorst ’29. 


Deans ^ Day Program 


(Continued from Page 1) 

“A Soviet Daniel Oome to Judg¬ 
ment.” 

The second session at 11:30 
o’clock offers alumni their choice 
of anoither five experts, includ¬ 
ing Professor Richard Hofstad- 
ter, co-author of leading works 
on academic freedom and other 
current problems, to speak on 
“Intellectuals and Anti-Intellec¬ 
tuals in America.” 

At the same time, William J. 
Mitchell ’30, professor of music, 
w; ■ discuss “Tradition and Style 
in Music;” Mario G. Salvador!, 
professor of civil engineering 
and expert in higher mathe- 
m tics, will talk on “Why Do We 
Hate to Study Mathematics;” 
Fritz R. Stern ’46, assistant pro¬ 
fessor of history and visiting 
professor at the Free Univer¬ 
sity in Berlin in the summer of 
1954, will discuss “The Fruits of 
Defeat — Germany’s Post - war 
Trend,” and Everard M. Upjohn, 
professor of fine arts and former 
lecturer at the Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum of Art, will speak on 
“Houses Men (and Women) 
Have Lived In.” 

Luncheon will be informal, 
with alumni and their parties 
invited to the John Jay cafe¬ 
teria, or to visit neighboring 
restaurants. Entertainment dur¬ 
ing the luncheon hour will be 
provided in John Jay Lounge by 
the Glee Club. 

The afternoon session, starting 
at 2 o’clock, offers the third 


choice from among five faculty 
members. 

Charles O. CJole Jr., ’43, assist¬ 
ant dean of the College who has 
recertly completed an exhaus¬ 
tive study of talented high 
school graduates of 1956, will 
discuss “CJollege for Whom? Col¬ 
lege- for What?” and Polykarp 
Kusch, Nobel Prize winner last 
year in physics, will speak on 
“’The Role of Science in Our So¬ 
ciety.” Professor Robert Gordis, 
ore of the nation’s leading 
scholars on the Jewish religion 
and former president of the 
Synagogue Council of America, 
will talk on “Has Religion Been 
an Obstacle to Human Progress?” 

Comipleting the roster will be 
Professor Lionel Trilling ’25, 
scholar, author and essayist who 
recently received the Great 
Teacher Award from the Society 
of Older Graduates, on “The 
Novel Alive or Dead,” and Pro¬ 
fessor Charles Wogley ’36, who 
has spent fifteen years studying 
Brazil’s people and their way of 
life, speaking on “An Anthropol- 
ogL^ Looks at Inter-American 
Relations.” 

Following greetings at 3:10 
P.M. from Deans liawrence H. 
Chamberlain and Nicholas McD. 
McKnight, Gilbert Highet wiH 
address all alumni on “Univer¬ 
sity Eccentrics.” Chief book 
critic for Harper’s Magazine, 
Professor Highet conducts a pop¬ 
ular weekly radio talk on litera¬ 
ture and is a member of the 
Book-of-the-Month-Club jury. 


MAIL TODAY to Deans Day Committee, 101 Hamilton Hall, 
Columbia College, New York 27, New York. 

Please enter my reservation for Deans’ Day, February 11, 
1956, at $2.00 per person. (No charge for your teen-age 
children) 

My check is enclosed for $. (make payable to College 

Alumni Assn.). Cost of complete program including discus¬ 
sions, dance, tour and cocktail party. 


Name .•..Class. 

Address .. 

Please Make Necessary Address or Class Changes. 

My choice of two morning and one afternoon discussion 
periods are indicated below. (If you will be accompanied by 
your wife, and/or children, please indicate choices for her or 
them too. Where more than one person will attend the dis¬ 
cussion period, mark the box with the appropriate number.) 


My choice for 10:30 period is: 

□ Professor Anderson 

□ Mrs. Ann Carey 

□ Professor E\inaro 


My choice for 11:35 period is: ■ 

□ Professor Hofstadter * 

□ Professor Mitchell | 

□ Professor Stern i 


Name Five 


Sites For 


Reunions 

Five sites, both on and off the 
Columbia campus, have been 
recommended as locations “most 
appropriate” for alumni re¬ 
unions. 

In a report to the Society of 
Class Presidents, its newly 
formed Ck>mmittee on Reunion 
Locations named the five as Ar- 
d n House, the new Alumni Wing 
of the E’ield House at Baker 
Field, the campus residence 
halls. Camp Columbia and the 
Columbia University Club. Chair¬ 
man of the committee is Joseph 
D. Coffee, Jr. ’41 who added that 
inquiries from interested classes 
should be directed to the Society 
of Class Presidents at 101 Hamil¬ 
ton Hall, Columbia College, New 
York 27, N. Y. 

The Committee on Reunion 
Locations is one of five recently 
formed to assist the Society’s 
executive committee in “carry¬ 
ing out the aims and responsibil¬ 
ities” of the organization, ac¬ 
cording to its president, Robert 
S. Curtiss 27. 

The Committee on Class Acti¬ 
vation, whose chairman is Ar¬ 
thur V. Smith ’31, will seek to 
revitalize classes weak in organ¬ 
ization and activity. 

'The Committee on Class Serv¬ 
ices, under the chairmanship of 
Mark Kaplan ’51, has as its first 
assignment the problem of im¬ 
proving facilities within the Col¬ 
lege and University for record 
keeping and communications. 

The Committee on Constitu¬ 
tion and By-Laws, whose chair¬ 
man is GeraJd Tonachel ’23 is 
reviewing the Society’s Constitu¬ 
tions and various Class Consti¬ 
tutions for improvement in func¬ 
tions and clarifying responsibili¬ 
ties. 

The Committee on Class Spon¬ 
sors, whose chairman is Arthur 
Jansen ’25, will arrange for the 
appointment and functioning of 
undergraduate class sponsors. 


Wins Award 



Lionel Trilling *25 


The Society of Older Grad¬ 
uates presented a Great Teacher 
Award on January 11th to Dr. 
Lionel Trilling *25, Professor of 
English. 

The presentation was made at 
the Society’s forty-sixth annual 
dinner in the Columbia Club. Dr. 


□ Dean O’Connell □ Professor Salvador! 

□ Professor Simmons □ Professor Upjohn 

My choice for the 2:00 period is; 

□ Dean Cole 

□ Professor Kusch 

□ Professor Gordis 

□ Professor Trilling 

□ Professor Wagley 

We expect that.persons will ba.ke advantage of the 

invitation to tour the campus. 

We expect that.persons will have lunch in John Jay 

J □, nearby restaurants □. 


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John A. Krout, vice president 
and provost of the University, 
delivered the principal address. 
Professor Trilling was described 
as “a distinguished scholar in 
English literature, a gifted 
author, an inspiring teacher.” 

The Society is composed of 
graduates of the College and the 
School of Engineering who re¬ 
ceived their degrees at least 
thirty years ago. 

A similar Award was pre¬ 
sented to Jewell M. Garrelts, 
bridge engineer and Renwick 
Professor of (Jivlll Engineering. 


From the Committees 


BULLETINS 

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Fadiman ’25 to M, C, Hamilton Dinner 

Clifton Fadiman *25 will be the Master of Ceremonies at the 
Hamilton Day Dinner to be held on April 4th in the Grand Baii- 
room of the Waldorf Astoria, according to Dr. Frederick Ellison 
Lane ’28, Chairman. The entertainment, a one-hour musical 
pr(^am planned by the Hamilton Medal recipients, Messrs. 
Rodgers ’23 and Hammerstein ’16, and financed by a special Fund 
for Musical Entertainment, will feature guest artists and a 26- 
piece orchestra. Program arrangements are being handled by Vice 
Chairman Howard E. Reinheimer ’17, ’19 LLB. Dr. Lane said that 
special efforts are being made to provide seating arrangements 
for the younger classes, and for a representative number of under¬ 
graduates. . . . Preceding the dinner, there will be a general 
reception for the guests of honor at 6:30 P.M. 


HAMILTON 
MEDAL: In¬ 
scribed on the 
reverse side of 
the Medal is the 
citation “Dis¬ 
tinguished Son 
of Columbia 
College.” This 
year two such 
“S o n s’* have 
been named 
as recipients — 
Richard Rodgers 
*23 and Owar 
Hammerstein II 
’16. 


Dues Paying Members Top 4,700 Mark 

Memibershlp in the Association for the year ending June 30 
passed the 4,700 mark on December 30, Membership Chairman 
Ernest de la Ossa ’37 has announced. He said the total is “run¬ 
ning well ahead of last year's record on this date”, and urged all 
alumni who have not paid dues since July 1 of last year to bring 
their membership up-to-date. 

Faculty Tea Marks Anniversary 

The Association celetoraited the 140th anniversary of its found¬ 
ing with a reception for the (College faculty in the rotunda of 
Low Memorial Library. It was the first affair of its kind ever 
sponsored by the Association. Among the guests were Deans 
Lawrence H. Chamberlain and Nicholas McD. McKnight *21. Dean 
Emeritus Harry J. Carman, University Chaplain John Krumm, and 
a large turnout of faculty membens—rai^ng from department 
heads to instructors—and their wives, os well as key alumni and 
others. The affair was arranged by Richmond B. Williams '25. 
chairman of the Program Commltt^. 

Alumni Promote Columbia at ‘College Nights’ 

Secondary Schools committeemen are continuing their “am¬ 
bassadorial” activities at high school “College Nights” according 
to Chairman John C. Thomas, Jr. ’48. Latest schools checked off 
on their itinerary: Forest Hills, Jamaica, Rockville Centre. Rosdyn 
and South Huntington high schools In New York, and Bernards, 
Curtis, Kearny and Westwood high schools in New Jersey. 

Keep Eye on Educators Attending Forum 

Principals and guidance officers who attended the two-day 
Forum of Secondary School Representatives on campus last No¬ 
vember are not being neglected. Professor Dwight C. Miner ’26, 
chairman of the Forum Subcommittee said that active “fol¬ 
low-up” is being planned. His group will visit the educators on 
home grounds occasionally, thus keeping the latter “ever re¬ 
mindful of Columbia”. 

New Chairman Sets Religion Committee Goals 

An ambitious schedule this year has been blueprinted by the 
Campus Religious Affairs Committee. Chairman Daniel Feldman 
’34, who succeeded Raymond Patouillet ’38. has announced these 
objectives: activation of a senior or graduate student fellowship 
for interfaith work at Earl Hall; alumni sponsorship of a lecture 
series on religious affairs at the University: involvement of Earl 
Hall in the 1957 Dean’s Day program; arid greater alumni par¬ 
ticipation in services at St. Paul’s Chapel during Homecoming. 

Seek to Link Regional Members with Alumni Clubs 

Plans are afoot to integrate the Regional Program Subcom¬ 
mittee’s activities with the Affiliated Columbia Clubs. In this re¬ 
gard, Chairman Arthur Jansen ’25, notes that nine of the tv^lve 
newly appointed regional members of the Standing Committee 
are either officers or members of a local Alumni Club, Seven of 
the regional members are also participating in the Alumni Field 
Representatives program sponsored by the Dean’s Office, which 
seeks to attract qualified secondary school students to Coltambia. 
. . . Mr. Jansen adds that the regional members, who represent 
forty-five states, are being encouraged to attend the Alexander 
Hamilton Dinner on April 4th. 

A Merry Christmas for Undergraduates 

In a letter to local Alumni Clubs across the country, the 
Undergraduate Affairs Committee suggested the Clubs invite Col¬ 
lege undergraduates who live in their communities to attend 
Christmas functions. (Committee chairman Roger Olson ’51, is con¬ 
fident this resulted in added cheer for many a student home for 
the holidays , . . Mr. Olson also reports that student reaction to 
the freshriian vocational orientation lecture series on December 
6, 13 and 20 is being appraised. Questionnaires were distributed 
to the group, fotlowiog the lectures which featured experts in 
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February, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page J 


All Alumni Welcome 
At Placement Bureau 

By FOREST R. LOMBAER *35 
Chadrman, Vocational Service Commattee 
of the Alumni Association 

If you’re a Ckilumbia College grad who didn’t go on to 
professional or graduate school, you probably used the Uni¬ 
versity Placement Bureau (which until 1947 was known as 
the Appointments Office) during your Senior year to help 
you in finding your first job after graduation. And if you 
did go on to a higher degree, chances are you used the 
special services of the Bureau for placement in your chosen 
field when you finished your training. 

You may not be _ aware,-- 


though, of the service the Bu¬ 
reau supplies to alumni, no mat¬ 
ter how long away from the 
campus, who are seeking new 
oipportunities. The Placement 
Bureau welcomes inquiries from 
alumni about openings which 
may be on their lists, and also 
encourages alumni who are em¬ 
ployers to seek executives 
through the Bureau’s facilities. 
Frequently they ean match a 
good candidate with a good op¬ 
portunity, all within the Colum¬ 
bia College family. 

Sam Beach, Director of the 
Placement Bureau, which is now 
located in new quarters on 
“Deans Row” at 407 W. 117th 
Street, reports that the demand 
for liberal arts graduates has 
been higher in 1955 than ever 
before. He says the interest of 
the business world in the AB 
graduate has has been increasing 
faster than is the case with Uni¬ 
versity graduates in general. 
Employment managers are in 
fact now practicing what their 
Board Chairmen have been 
preaching in commencement ad- 


Demand Is Higher 
Since 1953, Sam reports, the 
number of companies recruiting 
Liberal Arts graduates on the 
CJolumbia campus has increased 
nearly 100 per cent. All of these 
companies offered multiple em¬ 
ployment opportunities, some¬ 
times numbering in the hun¬ 
dreds; and most presented a 
variety of types of positions. 
Over the same period there was 


an increase of only 16 per cent 
in the total number of com¬ 
panies interviewing all types of 
graduates. A part of this greater 
interest in the College men may 
be the result of special efforts 
made by the Placement Bureau 
in recent years on behalf of the 
College graduates. At the same 
time, this increased effort of 
the Bureau cannot explain com¬ 
pletely the sharp increase in de¬ 
mand in the past three years 
—the facts of business life are 
changing, and there is a real 
place for the liberal arts “gen¬ 
eralist.” 

Faculty Advisers 

An important part of the 
Placement Bureau’s program of 
assisting College Seniors is close 
coordination with the Faculty 
Advisory Program of the College. 
The Placement Bureau adds its 
knowledge of the job market 
and the demands of employers 
to the combined judgment of 
the facolty advisers and the 
Dean’s Office, analyzing individ¬ 
ual situations and assisting each 
man to make the best use of 
his training and interests. 

Since nearly three-quarters of 
a typical Collie graduating 
class continues its education in 
graduate or professional schools, 
there are never more than 150 
Seniors available to the job mar¬ 
ket. For these men it is possible 
to operate a highly individual¬ 
ized placement program as one 
link in the chain of services of 
the College and University to 
alumni and industry. 


Krout Cites Ford 
Gift to Education 



speaking at the Almnni Fed¬ 
eration Holiday Luncheon on 
December 29th, Dr. John A. 
Krout, vice president and pro¬ 
vost of the University, cited the 
“wisdom, imagination and vis¬ 
ion” of the Ford Foundation in 
awarding to higher education 
the largest single gift in the 
history of private philanthropy. 

Columbia will receive—as its 
share of the sum of $260,000,000 
going to 615 independent col¬ 
leges and uni¬ 
versities — two 
grant® totaling 
$3,115,500, one 
an “e n d o w- 
ment grant” of 
$2,077,000, the 
other an “ac¬ 
complishment 
grant” in the 
amount of 
$1,038,500. 

Dr. Krout __ 

told an audi- wfiisajj. p 
ence of several William c. Pels 

hundred alumni, representing 
the various University units, 
that Oolumbda “applauds the 
decision of the Foundation to 
emphasize the place of the in¬ 
dependent liberal arts college in 
our educational system.” 

“Columbia applauds too the 
Foundation’s asserting anew our 
own belief that the position of 
the teacher in America is of 
central importance in facing 
our national problems and re¬ 
sponsibilities,” Dr. Krout said. 

A key figure in the allocation 
of the Ford grants is an alumnus 
of Columbia College. He is Wil¬ 
liam C. Fels ’37, executive sec¬ 
retary of the Foundation’s Col¬ 
lege Grants Advisory Committee. 
The Committee was set up origi¬ 
nally according to Mr. Fels, to 
administer a $50,000,000 alloca¬ 
tion for “improvement of facul¬ 
ty compensation in undergradu¬ 


ate liberal arts colleges and 
universities.” 

The endowment grant to 
Columbia, as with all recipient 
institutions, is equivalent to the 
1954-55 faculty payroll for full¬ 
time teachers of candidates for 
the bachelors’ degrees in the 
arts and sciences. The sum is 
to be invested for ten years, 
with income, not the principal, 
being used to raise faculty sal¬ 
aries. The Foundation estimates 
that the income alone will make 
possible an average salary in¬ 
crease of four percent. 

The additional “accomplish¬ 
ment grant” to Columbia was 
one of 126 awarded to institu¬ 
tions which, according to the 
Foundation, had “made out¬ 
standing efforts throughout the 
period since World War II to 
raise the economic level of their 
teachers and to recognize in 
other ways the central impor¬ 
tance of the faculty in the 
educational process.” Of this 
money, both capital and income 
may be used, and for either 
salaries or other pressing needs. 
It is estimated that the “ac¬ 
complishment "rant” would 
make possible another two- 
percent salary increase for full¬ 
time faculty. 

The Ford Foundation stipu¬ 
lates that apportionment of the 
award among teachers is left 
“entirely to the discretion of 
the institution.” 

The $260,000,000 grant is part 
of an unprecedented sum of 
$500,000,000 made by the Found¬ 
ation to 4,157 colleges, universi¬ 
ties, voluntary non-profit hos¬ 
pitals and privately supported 
medical schools in the U.S. In¬ 
cluded is a grant of $592,000 to 
Barnard College, and a sub- 
.stantial sum to Columbia’s Col¬ 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. 


Announce Oriental Course 

Deans Lawrence H. Chamberlain and Nicholas McD. McKnight have announced the 
first major extension in Columbia’s pioneer program of general education. In their an¬ 
nual report for the academic year ending June 30, 1955, they said an Oriental studies pro¬ 
gram has been developed to parallel the humanities and contemporary civilization courses 
in which Western civilization is studied. 

In other sections of the report^—— . ' ■ - - - - - 

the Deans: 

Announced continuation of an 
experimental “Seminar in 
Teaching Problems” to counter¬ 
act the “adverse effects” of in¬ 
creasing demands on the time of 
t: e College faculty. 

Predicted that ultimately one 
out of seventy doctors in the 
country will be a Columbia Col¬ 
lege graduate, attesting to the 
success of pre-medical guidance, 
and the excellence of the College 
program of education. 

Revealed results of a survey 
conducted among freshmen on 
principal reasons why they came 
to Columbia, which show that 
130 out of 285 responding were 
influenced by alumni (relatives 
and others, half and half). 

Cited the impressive record of 
the flfty-one students who par¬ 
ticipated in the Early Admission 
to College experiment, assuring 
^ntinuation of the program of 
including in successive entering 
classes “small groups of superior 
youths who have not completed 
the full course in secondary 
school.” 

Reaffirmed their faith in the 
“flexibility” of the College pro¬ 
gram of admission and gradua¬ 
tion, which “symbolizes Colum¬ 
bia’s belief in the individuality 
of her students and in the im¬ 
portance of recognizing the spe¬ 
cial abilities, interests and needs 
of each man.” 

Expressed “pride and grati¬ 
tude” at the diversity of alumni 
a^Wvities, lauding the notable 
achievements of the Association, 

Columbia College Council, and 
Columbia College Fund. 

Began in ’48 

The Oriental studies program, 
which began with an Oriental 
coloquium in 1948, now contairi!5 
elective courses in contemporary 
civilization, the humanities, re¬ 
ligion, history and certain lan¬ 
guages. At present there are 
about fifty students enrolled in 
the courses, with a dozen spe¬ 
cializing in the field. 

The report cited two basic 
needs: (1) developing funda¬ 
mental materials in the litera¬ 
ture and culture of the Orient 
suitable for use in undergraduate 
courses, and (2) incorporating 
these materials in courses for 
the average college students. 

Materials have been tested in 
actual classroom use, and the re¬ 
port notes that the “time is now 
approaching when the first vol¬ 
ume of materials will be ready 
for publication and available for 
wider use—a first step toward 
our goal,” 



Deans Nicholas McD. McKnight ’21 and Lawrence H. Chamber¬ 
lain pose against the familiar backdrop of Hamilton Hall and 
the Van Am Quad. 


In paying tribute to those as¬ 
sociated with the venture, the 
Deans singled out Professor Wil¬ 
liam T. de Bary ’41 as being 
“truly the architect and master 
builder of the program”. 

‘Pressures From Without* 

In alluding to the importance 
of good teaching, the report de¬ 
clared that “pressures from 
without” affect virtually every 
member of the College staff be¬ 
cause of his inability to live on 
his teaching salary. The neces¬ 
sity for part-time work, often 
quite unrelated to teaching, 
threatens the “closely knit unit” 
of the academic community, in 
the opinion of the Deans. 

To lessen the adverse effect 
upon the quality of teaching, the 
Seminar in Teaching Problems 
was launched in 1954, under the 
direction of Justus Buchler, pro¬ 
fessor of philosophy, and Assist¬ 
ant Dean Charles C. Cole Jr., ’43. 
The initial group, limited to full¬ 
time instructors in the social 
sciences and humanities, met bi¬ 
weekly, with much time devoted 
to teaching theory and practice. 

The Deans declared that the 
results of the first year have 
“been such as to warrant its 
continuation on approximately 
the same scale as last year.” 

Elsewhere in the report, the 
Deans said that between 125 and 
160 students from the College 
apply annually to medical 
schools, with an average of 77 
per cent gaining admission. They 


attributed the acceptance record 
to the quality of the students 
and the excellence of their col¬ 
legiate education, as well os to 
the effectiveness of the advisers. 

In the latter regard, they cited 
the evaluation of each year’s 
group of applicants as a process 
“carefully refined and developed 
over the past twenty years,” and 
looked upon as a “model by 
many who have made studies of 
pre-medical education.” 

The purpose of the freshman 
survey, according to the Deans, 
was to “see ourselves as others 
see us.” These questions were 
asked: (1) what was the princi¬ 
pal reason v hy you came to 
Columbia? (2) what in your ex¬ 
perience so far has (a) pleased 
you most and (b) disappointed 
you? Replies were received from 
285 freshmen; of this total, 134 
said they came because they had 
read about the College, 130 be¬ 
cause of alumni influence, and 
99 at the suggestion of guidance 
officers. 

They Like Faculty 

Ninety freshmen named tlie 
quality of the faculty as Uie 
principal reason for selecting 
Columbia as first choice; 71 were 
attracted by the balance be¬ 
tween studies and extra-curricu¬ 
lar life; 68 felt that Columbia 
offered the best preparations for 
a particular vocation, 29 spe¬ 
cifying medicine; and 55 cited 
the combination of a college in a 
metropolitan university. 

The number of students 
“pleased” with Columbia exceed 
those “disappointed” by two to 
one. Ninety-two were “pleased 
most by the quality of the fac¬ 
ulty, 55 by the intellectual tone 
and liberal arts emphasis, 44 by 
the curriculum in general, and 
43 by particular courses.” Extra¬ 
curricular, social and athletic 
opportunities were viewed fav¬ 
orably by 156 students. 

Reasons for dissatisfaction in¬ 
cluded lock of diversity, express¬ 
ed by 35 students; lack of col¬ 
lege spirit, 35 students; excessive 
emphasis on grades, 28. Thirty- 
five students criticized particu¬ 
lar courses, and a small number 
of students were dissatisfied with 
the test and grading system, 
heavy reading assignments and 
dining hall prices. 

The Early Admission to Col¬ 
lege experiment involves the ad¬ 
mission of sixteen-year olds 
who have not finished second¬ 
ary school, according to the 
Deans, who added that they 
were basing their observations 
of the original group admitted 
in 1951 on a report prepared by 
Professor Quentin Anderson ’37. 

The report, commissioned by 
the Fund for the Advancement York. 


of Education, reveals that ol- 
tihough the record of comple¬ 
tion for the group (80 per cent 
were graduated) is about equal 
to the College norm, the gradu¬ 
ating students achieved records 
considerably above statistical 
expectancies, and “far above 
those for the whole senior class.” 
The group also made an im¬ 
pressive record in extra-curri¬ 
cular achievements. 

Although cautioning against 
premature judgments, the Deans 
felt the results of the Ander¬ 
son report seemed to indicate 
“that a good many youngsters 
with superior mental ability can 
do first-rate college work with¬ 
out having . finished a high 
school course.” They also observ¬ 
ed that the “early adjustment 
problems of such students are 
likely to be greater than those 
of students who follow the or¬ 
thodox pattern.” 

In conclusion the Deans de¬ 
clared that it is important in 
the national interest, that means 
be developed of identifying gift¬ 
ed young boys and girls in the 
secondary schools who are ca¬ 
pable of undertaking “early ad¬ 
mission.” 

Cite Alumni Activities 

Calling alumni activities a 
"source of gratification,” the 
Deans said that the Alumni As- 
ciation and its Standing Com¬ 
mittee, has enjoyed a year of 
notable achievements. Especial 
mention was made of As.«?ociation 
President Wayne Van Orman ’28. 
and vice president Aaron w! 
Berg ’24. 

Cited, too, was the Columbia 
College Council, under the lead¬ 
ership of Winston Paul ’09, which 
is engaged in studies “important 
to the long-range welfare of th« 
College.” 

The report also acknowledge! 
the signal contribution of alum¬ 
ni wives, through the medium of 
the Women’s Committee under 
the chairmanship of Mrs.Thomas 
W. Ohrystie. This Committee ar¬ 
ranged the annual Town Hall 
C9ncert of the Glee Club, and 
aided the College scholarship 
fund through their participation 
in the operation of Everyb^y’s 
Thrift Shop. 

Tribute was also paid in the 
annual report to the Society of 
Class Presidents, of which Rob¬ 
ert S. Curtiss ’27 is president, 
which the Deans described as a 
“natural outgrowth of the stead¬ 
ily increasing importance that 
College alumni classes have 
achieved in the last few years.” 

Copies of the annual report of 
the deans may be obtained by 
writing to the Editor, Columbia 
College Today, Box 575, 4 West 
43rd Street, New York 36, Nerv* 





















Page 4 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Febrbar/, 1956 


Know Them? 


Can you recognize these four 
distinguished alumni as they ap¬ 
peared in “Columbian” the year 
they were graduated from the 
College? Check your guesses 
against the answers on Page 5. 



1913. Class swimming team, 
varsity swimming squad; Var¬ 
sity Show Chorus; Golf Asso¬ 
ciation; A. A. 



1921. Captain, Varsity Debat¬ 
ing Team; Philolexian; winner 
of Ackerman-Cowles Oratori¬ 
cal Contest; Delta Sigma Rho. 



1930. Orchestra Concert - Mas¬ 
ter; Chamber Music Society; 
University String Quartet; 
Jester; Kings Crown; Insignia. 



1942. Intramural Medal; Silver 
Crown; Gold Crown; Jester 
Editor; Review; Varsity Show. 


5th College Fund 
Sets New Goals 


(Continued from Page 1) 
of the 5th Fund, Dr. Darlington 
has announced a February 8th 
meeting, at 5:00 P.M. in the 
Butler Room of the Columbia 
University Club, of Fund com¬ 
mitteemen representing all of 
the alumni classes. Guest speak¬ 
ers will include University Presi¬ 
dent Grayson Kirk and Dean 
Lawrence H. Chamberlain. 

A high point of the affair will 
be the formal presentation by 
President Kirk of bronze Colum¬ 
bia Lions for outstanding serv¬ 
ice to the Fund. Following this 
ceremony, Dean Chambenain 
will present to committeemen 
who served the College Fund for 
three years a newly designed 
Dean’s Award for Alumni Service. 
(See “Awards” story elsewhere 
on this page). 

The New Chairman 

The new general chairman at¬ 
tended the General Theological 
and Union Seminaries, following 
graduation from the College, and 
was ordained to the ministry 
of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in 1915. He received his 
M.A. from Columbia in 1917, his 
Ph.D in 1920, and a Doctor of 
Divinity from Dickinson College 
in 1945. 

A Lieutenant Commander of 
the Chaplain Corps, New York 
Naval Militia, Dr. Darlington is 
also chairman of the Commis¬ 
sion on Annuities, Federal Coun¬ 
cil of Churches. He is president 
of the Astor Place Real Estate 
Company, and past president 
and chairman of the board of 
the Harbor State Bank. His club 
affiliations include the St. Nich¬ 
olas Society, Pilgrims of U.S., 
Union League Club and Uni¬ 
versity Club. He is married and 
has one daughter. 

Executive chairman Ted 
Garnel has held many alumni 
posts, including current mem¬ 
bership on the standing commit¬ 
tee of the Association. He is 
secretary of the Class of 1924, 
and last year was chairman of 
the executive committee which 


Alumni To 
Get Fund 


Citations 

Seven alumni have been 
named to receive bronze Colum¬ 
bia Lions for their “achievement 
and service to the 4th Annual 
Columbia College Fund.” 

President Grayson Kirk will 
present thi awards in a cere¬ 
mony climaxing the February 
8th meeting in the Columbia 
University Club of 5th College 
Fund committeemen. The occa¬ 
sion marks the launching of the 
1956 campaign, under the chair- 
rv.anev.ir% rkf Fir oilbftrt Darling- 


ton ’12. 

Will Give Service Awards 
Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain 
will present a newly designed 
Dean s Award for Alumni Service 
to alumni who have served the 
College Fund for three years, 
with a minimum of one year as 
class chairman or member of the 
executive committee. The Award 
is in the form of a lapel pin 
with a gold lion mounted on a 
light blue base. 

Committeemen of the 4th Fund 
receiving the Columbia Lion are: 
Frank S. Hogan ’24, general 


chairman. 

Arthur V. Smith ’31, executive 


chairman, 

William B. Sanford ’30, group 
chairman (1926-30), whos group 
showed greatest percentage im¬ 
provement in amount and num¬ 
ber of contributors. 

Also the following class chair¬ 
men: 

Howard Falberg ’54, whose 
class lead in total number of 
gifts contributed. 

Harold T. Muller ’24, whose 
class lead in total amount of 
gifts. 

Thomas L. Chrystie ’55, whose 
class achieved greatest percent¬ 
age of participation 

Joseph W. Burns ’29, whose 
class showed the greatest per¬ 
centage improvement in amount 
and number contributors. 


brought into being the Society 
of C.lass Presidents, A trustee of 
Tempie Beth Eiohim in Brook¬ 
lyn, Mr, Garfiel is also a mem¬ 
ber of the Grand Jury Associa¬ 
tion of New York County. He is 
married, and has one daughter. 

Members of the 5th Collego 
Fund executive committee a?c, 
in addition to Mr. Gariiel: J. 
Robert Cherneff ’42, account ex¬ 
ecutive with Robinson-Hanna- 
gan Associates, publicity chair¬ 
man; Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41, 
director of the Columbia College 
Development Program and di¬ 
rector of the Fund; Reginald G. 
Damerell ’43, creatii^e staff o^” 
Ted Fates & Co, adve.rtising, 
chairman of planning commit¬ 
tee 

Also, Arthur Jansen ’25 mem¬ 
ber. of the stock exchange firm 
of W. E. Burnect & Company, 
chairman for regional commit¬ 
tees; Dr. Oscar J. Chase, den¬ 
tist, chairman of the Parents 
Committee; Louis C. Owens, Jr., 
’20, vice-president of the Bank 
of New York, chairman of foun¬ 
dations committee. 

Represent Classes 

Other members of the execu¬ 
tive committee are the class 
group chairmen, each of whom 
represent a number of classes, 
as follows: The Honorable 
George R. Beach ’95, president 
of the Provident Institution for 
Savings in Jersey City, 1878- 
1900; Ronald F. Riblet ’05, civic 
leader of Fanwood, N. J., 1901- 
05; Virginius Victor Zipris ’10, 
attorney, 1906-10; Richard C. 
Klugescheid ’ll, former vice- 
president of Kennecott Copper 
Corporation, 1911-15; Charles A. 
Hammarstrom ’17, account ex¬ 
ecutive, Keystone Broadcasting 
System, 1916-20. 

Also, Shepard L. Alexander ’21, 
member of the stock exchange 
firm of Hamershlag Borg & Com¬ 
pany, 1921-25; Arden H. Rath- 
kopf, ’26, attorney, 1926-30; Irv¬ 
ing H. DuFine ’31, president of 
DuFine Kaufman, Inc., advertis¬ 
ing, 1931-35; Nelson Buhler ’36, 
partner in law firm of Buhler, 
King & Buhler, 1936-40; R. 
Semmes Clarke ’41, associated 
with the chemical firm of Hoff- 
mann-LaRoche, 1941-45; Shel¬ 
don Levy ’48, Assistant District 
Attorney of New York County, 
1946-50; Lewis Robins ’53, print¬ 
ing consultant, 1951-55. 


More Gifts 
For 4th Fund 

The 4th Annual Columbia 
College Fund has achieved its 
participation goal of 6,000 con¬ 
tributors. Twenty-eight addi¬ 
tional gifts to the 1956 cam¬ 
paign, received since the annual 
report was published in Decem¬ 
ber, have boosted the grand 
total to 6,004 contributions. 

The dollar total has increased 
to $345,644.17, more than $70,000 
over the dollar goal set by the 
Fund, 

The additional contributors 
are: Henry J. Farrell ’13, Albert 
C. Rothwell ’14, A. Williams 
Lienau ’20, James C, Anders ’22, 
Nathaniel H, Mandelker ’23, Ir¬ 
vine J. Shubert ’23, Martin F. 
Stein ’24 Alexander H. Fishkoff 
’26, Milton B. Seasonwein ’26, 
Clarence K. Conard ’28, Hilliard 
M. Shair ’28, Alan F. Perl ’29, 
Herbert Greenberg ’34, Ernest 
G. Larson ’34, R. L. MacDowell 
’35, Eugene A, Mechler ’35. 

Also, Robert E. Nickerson ’39, 
Merle E, Severy ’42, Harold J. 
Wehmann ’42, C. Donald Kuntze 
’44, Harvey Winston ’46, Martin 
Meyer ’55, and “Columbia par¬ 
ents” Mrs. Nathan L. Gilbert, Dr. 
Samuel Gross, Peter M. Herford, 
Mrs. George E. Sokolsky, Frank 
F. Guthery, 

There was one anonymous 
gift. 


CORRECTION 
The headline in our De¬ 
cember issue “Twenty-Five 
Alumni Sons in Class of ’59” 
should read “Twenty-Sir, etc.” 
Omitted erroneously: John L. 
Erlich ’59, whose father is 
John J. Erlich ’24. 


ROAR LION ROAR 


One of President Eisenhower’s first official acts upon resuming 
a full work load in the White House was to recall to duty his 
former appointment secretary Bernard H. Shanley ’25. Mr. Shan- 
ley, a prominent New Jersey attorney, had resigned in November 
to “resolve some pressing personal problems.” 


Last June the appointment of Ernest de la Ossa ’JI, as assist¬ 
ant to the president of W. R. Grace & Oo. was recorded in this 
column. Mr. de la Ossa has since earned another stripe. He is 
now vice-president of the Latin American Division of the Com- 
pany. , * * 

A top post in the New York City administration has gone to 
Dr. John J. Theobold ’25, president of Queens College. He has been 
named Deputy Mayor by Mayor Robert Wagner, 
the appointment being effective January 1. The 
Board of Higher Education has granted Dr. 

Theobold a year’s leave of absence to accept the 
call to City Hall. Dr. Theobold is one of the 
few educators who combined the jobs of college 
president and track coach. When Queens Col- ^ - t 

lege needed such a coach a few years ago, he 
drew on his own undergraduate experiences as 
captain of Columbia’s varsity track team, and 
winner of the metropolitan mile, and volun¬ 
teered his coaching services to the Queens team. 

* * * 

Donold B. Tansill ’19, president of M. Low-_ _ _ ^ 

enstein & Sons, Inc., largest domestic producer jo^n Theobold 
of printed cotton textiles, has also been named 
president of Pacific Mills Fabrics. Inc. The latter is a new sub¬ 
sidiary of Lowenstein, comprising all selling and merchandising 
operations of Pacific Mills. 



The election of Robert Nias West ’20. as a director of the 
Seaboard Oil Company has been announced. Mr. West is a mem¬ 
ber of the law firm of Shearman & Sterling & Wright. 


Douglas W. Coster ’42, with the State Department for four 
years, has joined the Foreign Service. His assignment: the Coun¬ 
sel General’s Office in Naples. Italy. 


David Ostrinsky ’22, will have his first one-man show of 
paintings in this country froim February 13 to February 25, at the 
Panoras Gallery, 62 West 56 Street, Manhattan. Primarily a 
painter of nature, Mr. Ostrinsky’s works have been exhibited in 
France, He studied art under the G.I. Bill at Columbia Fine Arts 
Department — twenty-three years after graduating from the 
College. 

4> * * 

Frank H. Bgidi ’40, formerly an account executive with Hicks 
& Greist, Inc., advertising, has joined the New York sales staff 
of Wilding Picture Productions, Inc. 


The clothing concern of Max Udell Sons & Co.. Inc., now 
boasts the youngest president in its history. He is Milton Kamen 
’40, formerly the firm’s vice president of sales and advertising. 


Henry Darlington, Jr. ’49, has announced the establishment 
of the investment firm of Hill. Darlington & Co., a member of the 
New York and American Stock Exchanges. 


Formerly assistant director of the Placement Bureau of 
Columbia University Walter D, Smith ’47. has been appointed 
administrative assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School of 
Business. 

♦ « ♦ 

For twenty-seven years Coach Larry Tiihonen ’25. has guided 
the destiny of the Lawrenceville (New Jersey) School football 
team. But next season Coach Tiihonen turns the reins over to 
Princeton man Ken Keuffel, in order to devote full time as 
athletic director to supervising Lawrenceville’s program and 
“keeping the athletic plant going full blast.” 

* * 

Alexander P. Chopin ’32, has been named chairman of the 
New York Shipping Association. A well known figure in New York 
shipping circles, Mr, Chopin was a guest speaker last year at the 
Industrial Relations Round Table of the Graduate School off 
Business. * * * 

American Reform Judaism’s “man of the year” for 1955 was 
Frank L. Weil ’15. A member of the law firm of Weil. Gotehal & 
Manges, and vice president of Congregation 
Emanu-El, Mr. Weil was guest of honor at a 
December dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria given 
by the Greater New York campaign for American 
Reform Judaism . . . Earlier in the vear Mr. Wei! 
and his wife had been selected “Mr and Mrs. 
New York” by the United Hospital Fund. 


James B. Welles, Jr. ’39, has become a mem¬ 
ber of the law firm of Angulo, Cooney, Marsh & 
Ouchterloney. Formerly a member of the Co¬ 
lumbia College Council. Mr. Welles is president 
of his class, and chairman of the Awards Cewn- 
Frank Weil mittee of the Alumni Association. 



Gordon T. Wallis ’40, formerly an assistant vice-president off 
the Irving Trust Company, has been promoted to vice-president 
in charge of the pension and profit-sharing activity of the per¬ 
sonal trust division. 


New Play Area 


(Continued from Page 1) 
neighborhood teen-agers. Mem¬ 
bers of the coaching staff will 
conduct organized competition, 
supplemented by frequent sports 
clinics held by College coaches 
and outstanding leaders of ama¬ 
teur and professional sports. 

Columbia’s physical education 
program includes prescribed 
work of three hours a week for 
freshmen and sophomores and 


an additional year of recrea¬ 
tional activity when the student 
chooses the intra-mural sport he 
wishes. The program also in¬ 
cludes voluntary participation in 
class, fraternity, and in other 
group and individual games. 

No intercollegiate competition 
will be held on the new field 
except an occasional track con¬ 
test on the board track during 
the winter season. 































February, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 5 


The Ivy League Colleges 


By HENRY MORTON ROBINSON 
’23C, M.A. ’24 

{Here is the first installment 
of Mr. Robinson’s controversial 
article on the Ivy League, re¬ 
printed from the November, 1955, 
issue of “Holiday Magazine.” Mr. 
Robinson is the author- of the 
best-selling novels “The Cardi¬ 
nal” and “The Great Snow,” and 
a frequent contributor to na¬ 
tional periodicals.) 

Gold and precious stones 
couldn’t induce me to speak 
slightingly of Amherst, Bowdoin, 
Colgate or a whole alphabet of 
liberal-arts colleges that turn 
out splendid facsimiles of the 
Ivy League product. Nor can I 
bring myself to say uncharitable 
things atoout those education¬ 
al rabbit-warrens known as 
State Universities, whose in¬ 
mates. I hear from reliable 
sources, gradually learn the use 
of commas and can be trained 
to perform simple feats of logic 
connected with chain-store 
management, ethical embalm¬ 
ing and other disciplines much 
revered by the Amercan demos. 
All of which—in a society that 
exalts the drum majorette 
above Minerva—should be re¬ 
garded. I suppose, as sheer gain, 
“a triumph of mind over smat- 
ter.” as Irwin Edman used to 
say. 

Rfegrettably. however, these 
folkish activities have nothing 
to do with education as con¬ 
ceived by Ivy League colleges. 
Despite leveling influences that 
would “democratize” the B. A. 
degree—that is, bring it down 
to the level of a vaccination 
certificate—the Ivy colleges 
cling to the somewhat mystical 
notion that candidate for the 
900-year-old degree of Bacea- 
laureus in Artibus shall be, 
among other things, a person 
of marked intellectual promise. 
They hold further that he shall 
be capable of achieving a rigor¬ 
ous kind of excellence, not 
limited to the mind, manners— 
or even muscles—but penetrat¬ 
ing into the very marrow and 
matrix of life itself. 

THE HARVARD VIEW 

Dean McGeorge Bundy of 
Harvard states the case for all 
the Ivy League colleges when he 
says: “Harvard exists for the 
student who wants to become a 
liberally educated man. It is not 
the place for a person who is 
interested only in preparing as 
fast as possible for business or a 
Specialized occupation such as 
agriculture, journalism, or ac¬ 
counting. It is a college for those 
who feel the need for a broad 
development of their powers, for 
a greater understanding of their 
world, and for an enriched cul¬ 
tural life.” 

These patrician ideas some¬ 
times baffle, irk, and infuriate 
the denizens of Outer Medio¬ 
crity. But that’s the Ivy League 
System, men. and if you want a 
glimpse of the system in action, 
read on. 

Gossip, that malicious crone 
who gets about on the Canard 
Line, tells her listeners that the 
Ivy League is a self-esteeming 
coterie of eight Eastern colleges 
bound together by secret coven¬ 
ant^ inscribed on tablets of 
bronze. The arithmetic here is 
fine. There are indeed eight 
colleges in the Ivy group: Har¬ 
vard. Yale, the University of 
Pennsylvania. Princeton, Co¬ 
lumbia, Dartmouth. Brown, and 
—in Morris Bishop’s plaintive 
phrase—“perhaps Cornell.” In¬ 
tensive digging has failed to 
turn UP any bronze tablets: and 
the only existing covenant, 
secret or otherwise, is an ath¬ 
letic code designed to keep foot¬ 
ball players simon pure on the 
gridiron and wide awake in the 
classroom. 

Despite basic similarities 
(which I’ll describe later) it 
would be a mistake to suppose 
that Ivy League colleges or the 
men they produce are cut out 
from the same bolt of cloth. 
There’s a woof of difference be¬ 
tween Hanover flannel and Nas- 


Reprinted by special permission 
from HOLIDAY, copyright 1955, 
by the Curtis Publishing Com¬ 
pany. 


About This Article 


It is likely that readers are still penning irate replies to Henry 
Morton Robinson*s tender paean to the Ivy League zvhich burst 
like nuclear fission in the November issue of **Holiday Magazine.’* 
It is just as likely that the author sits im¬ 
placably in the eye of the flash, cushioned from 
shock waves by an inviolate sense of tradition, 
and of what he thinks meaningful in contem¬ 
porary' life. 

We seek not to add fuel to the controversy. 
Yet we consider it only good sportsmanship to 
share zvith all alumni the provocative nature of 
Mr. Robinson’s thesis. We take delight, there¬ 
fore, in presenting in tzvo installments his full- 
color portrait, modestly titled “The Natural 
Superiority of Ivy League Colleges,** as reveal¬ 
ing of the gentleman who wielded the brush as it is of the subject 
he paints so lovingly. 



sau tweed. The tailoring dif¬ 
fers too: Columbia’s metro¬ 
politan drape is distinguishable 
at a glance from Brown’s more 
parochial cuts. Before this Sar¬ 
tor Resartus metaphor gets out 
of control, let me wind it up 
with the moral tale of the neck¬ 
tie maker Who tried to popularize 
an Ivy League tie. His basic 
premises were sound enough: 
there is always a brisk, demand 
for old-school ties, and the Ivy 
colleges are certainly old. There¬ 
fore (reasoned t^e necktie 
maker) a terrific market awaited 
the four-in-hand item he had in 
mind. But, like a lot of other 
people, he failed to realize that 
it would be easier to design a 
single plaid for all the kilts in 
Scotland than unite Ivy League 
clans under the aegis of a 
standardized cravat. 

What then, is the tie that 
binds these colleges in common 
cause against the barbarian? 
Personal observation leads me 
to believe that they all suffer 
from an identical form of para¬ 
noia. They imagine, each and 
severally, that they are the 
special custodians of a sweet, 
sharp, salty, priceless and quite 
generally neglected tradition of 
humane learning that ante¬ 
dates the pneumatic tire by 
many years. History supports 
this stewardly illusion, which 
began to take shape shortly 
after the incident at Plymouth 
Rock. 

COLONIAL SEEDBEDS 

When Ohioago was “a place 
of wild onions” (that’s what 
it means in Ojibway), the 
Harvard elm had been shelter¬ 
ing scholarship for more than 
two hundred years. While the 
natives of Detroit were trading 
bearskins with the aborigines, 
sheepskins embossed with 
classical Latin were being 
handed out at Yale (1701). Co¬ 
lumbia (1754), Pennsylvania 
(1740), and Dartmouth (1769). 
In these tiny colonial seedbeds 
a few scholars starved and 
struggled to keep alive a cc^dus 
of learning that might other¬ 
wise have perished. Whole cen¬ 
turies had to pass before this 
culture could be transplanted 
to regions west of Harvard 
Square. Exactly what happened 
to it after crossing the Alle¬ 
ghenies is still a matter of con¬ 
jecture. All we know is that 
When a young man wants a su¬ 
perlative education, he usually 
comes East to get it. 

Personally I wouldn’t enjoy 
serving on any admissions 
board that screens Ivy League 
candidates. This task of selec¬ 
tion becomes, as Dean Cham¬ 
berlain of Columbia says, “in- 
creeisingly formidable every 
year.” The statistics alone are 
frightening: of the 400.000 male 
students who besieged the na¬ 
tion’s academic gates this fall. 
Ivy League colleges had room 
for only 7500—or less than two 
percent There’s no difficulty in 
choosing the obviously superior 
applicant, the standout who 
would make a welcome addition 
to any freshman class. The real 
agony occurs when a director 


of admissions must make a de¬ 
cision involving four or five 
candidates of nearly equal 
merit. 

Let’s suppose that they 
have all passed their aptitude 
and achievement tests with ex¬ 
cellent marks. Their geographic, 
racial and religious distribution 
(all very important) follow the 
prescribed graph, and search¬ 
ing personal interviews disclose 
in each case a youngster of 
high potential promise. Glow¬ 
ing letters of recommendation 
from secondary-school head¬ 
masters testify to their oharac- 
ter, qualities of leadership and 
past performance. It’s an 
agonizing business, but when 
the ordeal of sifting, weighing 
and comparing is over, three or 
four boys must be turned down 
in favor of the lucky candi¬ 
date who is accepted. 

UNDERGOING SCRUTINY 

This heartbreaking process, 
accepted in the past as part 
and parcel of Ivy practice, is 
now undergoing severe scrutiny 
by its own people. President 
Dodds of Princeton admits, with 
his customary candor, that he is 
finding it harder each year to 
justify “the exclusion of many 
qualified students who seek the 
kind of educational experience 
we offer.” A possible remedy, he 
suggests, lies in a program of ex¬ 
pansion that will accommodate 
“a more sizable number of stu¬ 
dents.” But Dodds and other 
Ivy League educators fear that 
such expansion would entail the 
“real risk of a deteriorating 
scholastic performance.” It’s 
this frank insistence on aca¬ 
demic quality as opposed to 
assemblv-line production—that 
exposes Ivy League deans, dons, 
and directors of admissions to 
charges of snobbery and elitism. 

If there’s one thing that 
Americans won’t tolerate, it’s 
in intellectual aristocracy. Why 
this intolerance should be so 
widespread and virulent is be¬ 
yond my comprehension. Judg¬ 
ing from Army intelligence tests 
and the entrance requirements 
in effect at most state univer¬ 
sities, I see no immediate dan¬ 
ger of a sudden cultural upris¬ 
ing in this country. But the un- 
anointed majority seems to 
think otherwise. Hence the 
popular demand that a college 
education should be made 
“more democratic” — i.e.. re¬ 
duced to the level of a tele¬ 
vision quiz program. 

Some months ago Professor 
Douglas Bush of Harvard caused 
quite a flurry by taking issue 
with this shoddy concept of 
higher education. In a Ne York 
Times article entitled Education 
For All Is Education For None, 
Professor Bush made the deli¬ 
cate point that higher learning 
for masses—however fine as a 
political theory—^was a shock¬ 
ing failure in actual practice. 
Herd culture, said Bush, was 
threatening the existence of 
whatever intellectual enlight¬ 
enment we possess. 

Dozens of professorlings west 
of the Monongahela took pen 
in hand to defend lower educa¬ 
tional standards as the main 


prop of democracy. “Equal op- | 
ix)rtunity for all,” they cried, 
>hen proceeded to belabor Pro¬ 
fessor Bush as a “Piltdown pe¬ 
dagogue.” “a champion of elit¬ 
ism” and, naturally, an “intel¬ 
lectual snob.” 

Come now. gentlemen, can 
such abuse be justified? No one 
accuses Casey Stengel of being 
snobbish when he refuses to 
clutter up his Yankee infield 
with stumblebums. And would 
anyone dream of calling Terry 
Brennan “undemocratic” be¬ 
cause he selects an elite of 
brawn for his Notre Dame 
squad? I suggest that the ex¬ 
ponents of cut-rate college 
standards are holding the 
wrong end of the stick. 

Keen competition, and empha¬ 
sis on proficiency are, and al-. 
ways have been, the only guar¬ 
antees of superiority in Big 
League baseball, Big Ten foot¬ 
ball, or Ivy League education. 
Candidates for admission to 
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Co¬ 
lumbia and the others are strict¬ 
ly out of bounds if they claim 
exemption from the competitive 
struggle that goes relentlessly 
forward in every other phase of’ 
our national life. 

REGIONAL FLAVOR 

The men who guide these in¬ 
stitutions of higher learning 
need no tutoring in the subject 
of democracy. They know from 
experience that the best cider 
is made from a mixed crush of 
apples, and they rejoice accord¬ 
ingly when they discover a pip¬ 
pin from Hayfork High School, 
North Padlock Prep, or anyplace 
else that will add a regional 
fiavor to the Groton-Lawrence- 
ville-Andover mixture. Nor do 
these orchard keepers wait for 
the product to drop in their 
laps; they assist its discovery 
and growth with scores of re¬ 
gional scholarships and quick 
encouragement to all prospec¬ 
tive students of real quality. 

One week after a freshman 
enters an Ivy League college he 
wishes that he had enrolled at 
Dropsie, Muhlenberg, Gpnzaga, 
or some other place where the 
going isn’t so rough. For the 
first few months he feels like 
a man standing under an ava¬ 
lanche. The required reading 
ranges from 300 to 400 pages a 
day—everyday—and not ran¬ 
dom gulpings or dilettante pap, 
either. 

Although Ivy League cur¬ 
ricula differ widely, both in 
emphasis and subject matter, 
the basic materials are as care¬ 
fully selected and integrated as 
the works of an expensive 
watch. Take, for example, the 
famous Contemporary Civiliza¬ 


tion course at Columbia—a 
“must” for every underclass¬ 
man. The CC course is a two- 
vear survey of man’s ascent 
from anthropoid simplicity to 
his present state of H-bomb dis¬ 
may. The better to understand 
this triumphal progress. CC stu¬ 
dents are required to march at 
the rate of twenty parasangs a 
day (Xenophon did it) across 
a mounitainous terrain of his¬ 
tory, literature, science and phi¬ 
losophy. When I first took the 
course in 1920 it seemed incon¬ 
ceivable that any freshman 
should ever survive its rigors. 
Yet when my son took the same 
course in 1950 it had become, 
after a dozen revisions, immeas¬ 
urably more difficult and com¬ 
prehensive, 

THE ‘CC WARS’ 

As one of the oldest living 
survivors of the CC wars, I can 
assure you this course alone will 
forever guard a man against the 
short view and the terror of 
dark places. Having seen 
twenty-two previous civiliza¬ 
tions rise and fall, the CC vet¬ 
eran is able to set day-to-day 
events in a fairly sound frame 
of reference. The world doesn’t 
fall apart, for instance, when 
his football team takes a 59-6 
trouncing from Army. “Vive le 
sport!” he exclaims, and goe.s 
about the business of. living. 

Whether in CC or the General 
Studies program at Harvard, 
the classes are small (usually 
eight students to one instruc¬ 
tor), the tempo of the discussion 
is brisk, and there is no infal¬ 
lible side of the desk. On the 
other hand, there’s no escape 
from the instructor’s probing- 
questions, and damned little 
leniency anywhere. 

But now an amazing thing 
happens— only two per cent of 
students are flunked out! Quite 
a contrast to the forty per cent 
of first-year failures in state 
colleges. Here is where the Ivy 
League policy of careful selec- 
ti’On pays dividends to the stu¬ 
dents. Ninety per cent of the 
entering class will go on—with 
the aid of alert and sympathe¬ 
tic faculty advisors—to take the 
cherished degree of B.A. No. 
“take” isn’t the word. They’li 
earn it, and not all the frustra¬ 
tions and compromises of later 
life will have any power to tar¬ 
nish the prize that they have 
won. 

At this point I must pause to 
consider the possible effect of 
my remarks upon the loyal sons 
of Turpentine Tech and Moline 
Subnormal. 

Continued in the next issue of 
Columbia College Today 


Here Are The Answers 


Know Them! 



1913, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. 
Mr. Sulzberger is the publisher 
of the New 
York Times. A 
University 
Trustee, he 
was chairman 
0 f Columbia’s 
B i c e n tennial 
Central Com¬ 
mittee in 1954. 
He is also a 
trustee of the 
New York 
F o u n d a tion, 

gation Emanu-El, Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, and the Grant 
Monument Association. 



Archie O. Dawsoti. 

for thirty- 
years— he was 
senior partner 
of the firm of 
Dorr, Hand &c 
Dawson — the 
Hon. Archie 
Dawson b e - 
came a Judge 
of the United 
States District 
C o u r t for the 
Southern Dis¬ 
trict in 1954. 
occasions as 
Moreland Commissioner by ap¬ 
pointment of the Governor of 
New York. 



1930. Milton Katims. Mr. Ka- 
tims is conductor and musical 
director of the 
Seattle S y m- 
phony Orches¬ 
tra. Long as¬ 
sociated with 
Maestro T o s- 
canini, he con- 
ducted the 
NBC s y m- 
phony in more 
than 52 na¬ 
tionwide 
broadcasts. He 
the symphony 
orchestras of major cities in 
Ame ica and Europe, and this 
year will conduct in Houston. 



1942. Gerald Green, By the 
time the NDC-TV program “To¬ 
day” flashes on 
home screens 
early every 
morning, M r. 
Green has al¬ 
ready put in a 
good day’s 
work. He Is 
the program’s 
producer. For¬ 
merly he was 
its managing 
editor. Before 
vas with Inter¬ 
national News Service, first as 
Cable Editor and then as Night 
Editor, He joined NBC in 1950. 























Page 6 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


February, 1956 


News from The 
Alumni Classes 


Below is pertinent data on (1) 
Class Scholarship students spon¬ 
sored through the Columbia Col¬ 
lege Fund, (2) Endowed Boom 
Scholars, and (3) Class Endowed 
Scholars. Also, where reported to 
the Editor, you will find news of 
class activities. 


1878-99 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Martin A. Arkowitz ’56, Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y. Science, plans to teach 
matlh. “B+” average. Freshman 
fencing, Jester. Beta Sigma Rho. 

James J. Curry ’58, Andover, 
Maes. Humanities, “B+” average. 
Varsity wrestling, King’s Men, 
Players. Delta Psi. 

Alfred S. Eichner ’58, Wash¬ 
ing, D. C., Pre-law, “B” average. 
Spectator, Tau Epklon Phi. 

Robert F. Pettit ’59, North 
Bellmore, N. Y. Pre-engineering. 
Freshman cross country. High 
school: freshman class presi¬ 
dent, varsity track. 

Endowed Room Scholars: 

1884 Jerome W. Breslow ’56, 
Bloomfield, N. J. Pre-law, “B” 
average. President of Players, 
varsity fencing. Alpha Epsilon 
Pi. 

1892 Franklin A. Thomas ’56, 
Brooklyn, N. Y, Liberal Arts, 
“B—” average. Varsity basket¬ 
ball captain, Nacoms, Air Force 
R.O.T.C. Elected by his class to 
this award. 

Class Endowed Scholars: 

1896 Charles L. Nations Jr. ’56, 
North Little Rock, Ark. In En¬ 
gineering School, “B” average. 
Varsity football, baseball, 
Nacoms. Sigma Chi. 

1899 Henry Lew ’56, Baltimore, 
Md. Pure Science, “B+” average. 
Camera Club, Debate Council, 
WKCR. 

1900 


COass Endowed Scholar: Ranny 
S. Kimball ’56, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, Pre - architecture, “B+” 
average. Van Am Society presi¬ 
dent in junior year. Alpha Delta 
Phi president, polumbian, 
Nacoms. 

1901 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Paul 
I. Bartholet ’56, N.Y.C. Business, 
“B—” averE^e. Varsity tennis 
captain. 

1902 

College, Engineering and 
Architecture 

Class Endowed Scholar: Rich¬ 
ard T, Lacoss ’59, G-ardner, Mass. 
Pre-engineering High School: 
varsity football, honor society, 
newspaper, debating dub. 


1903 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Paul 
G. Albertson ’59, Lombard, Illi¬ 
nois. Psychology. High school: 
goif team, active in class affairs, 
honor student. 


1904 

The annual Class Dinner is 
predicted lor March ’56. Details 
later. Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes 
has been appointed to the Class 
Executive Committee. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

John R. Allen ’59, Royalton, 
Minn. Pre-engineering. Fresh¬ 
man cross-country. Hi^ School: 
newspaper editor, Student Coun¬ 
cil, varsity football, cross country 
and track squad. 

Aldo C. Bordogna ’57, Union 
City, N. J, Pre-engineering, “C+” 
average. Varsity Crew. 

Martin F. Gardner ’57, Newton 
Centre, Mass. Pre-engineering, 
“B+” average. Glee Club, Chapel 
Choir, Pre-engineering Society. 

Class Endowed Scholar: George 
Drskow ’57, Philadelphia, Pa. 
P e-teaching, “B+” average. Glee 
Club, Spectator. 

Robert Dale Ensor ’57, Dayton, 
Ohio. Pre-med., “B—” average. 
Blue Key Society, Sigma Chi. 

1905 

College, Engineering and 
Architecture 

Twenty-two members attended 
the informal Class Luncheon in 
the Columbia Club, December 27. 
The next big event: The Alex¬ 
ander Hamilton Dinner, Wal¬ 
dorf-Astoria, April 4. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Paul 
B. Kantor *59, Silver luring, Md. 


Physics. High school: newspaper 
and yearbook staff, debating so¬ 
ciety, chess club. 

1906 

College, Science and 
Architecture 

The 50th Reunion will be held 
at Arden House, June 1, 2, 3. De¬ 
tails later. . . . Monthly Lunch¬ 
eons are held in the Columbia 
University Club on the first 
Wednesday of each month, Oc¬ 
tober through May. 

1907 

Class Endowed Scholar; Wil¬ 
liam F. Claire ’58, Northam^pton, 
Mass. Government, “C+” aver- 
a.gr-. Freshman basketball and 
baseball. Sigma Ohi. 

1908 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Nich¬ 
olas J. Christos ’57 Belleville, 
N. J. Pre-med., "B—” average. 
Pre-Med. Society, Varsity Crew. 
Delta PM. 

Endowed Room Scholar: Jonas 
Schultz ’56, Brooklyn N. Y. 
Physics, “A” average. Elected to 
Phi Beta Kappa. Editor-in-chief 
of Spectator, Nacoms. 

1909 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Rus¬ 
sell E. Raymond ’57, Manhattan 
Beach, California. Plans to teach, 
“P—” average. University Or¬ 
chestra and Band. 

1910 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Rand Carter ’59, Corpus Chris- 
ti, Texas. Music. Columbia Play¬ 
ers. High school; Student Coun¬ 
cil, dramatic club. 

Robert E. Long ’56, Fulton, 
N. Y. Journalism, “B” average. 
Columbia Review staff. 

Solomon E. Robinson III ’56, 
Fort Worth, Texas. Pre-law, 
“B+’’ average. Spectator, Social 
Science Jo^l^nal, Pre-Law So¬ 
ciety. 

1911 

The 45th Reunion is planned 
for Arden House next May. De¬ 
tails later. 

Endowed Room Scholar: 
George Stassa ’56, Forest Hills, 
N. Y. Pre-med., “B+” average. 
Student director of *54 Fresh¬ 
man Week, chairman of Student 
Board Medical Plan. Freshman 
track, football and basketball, 
Jester, Van Am Society, 
Sachems. Student host for 
Forum on Democracy. Alpha 
Delta Phi. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Ira 


We Record... 

. . . with a deep sense of our loss 
—and with a sincere expression 
of ^mpathy to e«ich of their 
families—the deaths of the fol¬ 
lowing sons of Columbia College: 

Reginald W. Pressprich, Class 
of 1897. 

Montgomery Schuyler, Class 
of 1899. 

Charles J. Ogden, Class of 
1900. 

Walden Pell, Class of 1902. 

Robert M. Richter, Class of 

1906. 

Charles B. Spencer, Class of 

1907. 

Henry C. McLean, Class of 

1909. 

Henry Darlington, Class of 

1910. 

Israel S. Chipkin, Class of 
1913. 

Maurice L. Blaustein, Class 
of 1915. 

George W. Dickie, Class of 
1917. 

Walter S. Robinson, Class of 
1919. 

Winfield S. S. Hartmann, 
Class of 1922. 

H, Randolph Halsey, Class of 
1924. 

Donald Trevisano, Class of 
1953. 

This is not intended to repre¬ 
sent a complete record. The 
names are those that have been 
brought to the attention of the 
Eiitor. 


Carlin ’58, Plymouth, Mass. Pre¬ 
law, “B—” average. Freshman 
track. Crown and Anchor Soci¬ 
ety, Pre-Law Society. Zeta Beta 
Tau. 

1912 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund; 

Tracy Herrick ’56, Lakewood, 
Ohio. Pre-law, “B F” average. 
Freshman debating team. Debate 
Council. Freshman and sopho¬ 
more track manager, Pre-Law 
Society, Social Science Journal. 

Peter K. Kadzielewski ’59, 
N, Y. C. Pre law. High school: 
class vice-president, newspaper 
staff. Was graduated cum laude. 

1913 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Robert B. Alter ’57, Albany, 
N. Y. English, “A—” average. On 
Deans’ List every term. Varsity 
track. 

Willard D. Cramer ’59, Livonia, 
Michigan. Pre - architectmre. 
High school: dramatic society, 
orchestra radio club. 

Anthony J. O’Keefe ’59, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. Pre-med. High 
school: varsity basketball, base¬ 
ball; dramatic society. 

Robert Steinfeld ’56, Wee- 
hawken. N. J. Pre-med., “B—” 
average. Varsity tennis, Ted 
Kramer Society, Pre-Med So¬ 
ciety. Tau Epsilon Phi. 

Class Endowed Scholar: Wil¬ 
liam E. Temple ’56, Ridgewood, 
N. J. Pre-med., “B+” average. 
Varsity Crew. Pre-Med Society, 
Psi Upsilon. 

1914 

Some thirty members attended 
the Christmas Luncheon in the 
Columbia Club on December 21. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Austin G. Angeleberger ’57, 
Frederick, Md. Pre-Theology, 
“B—” average. President of Blue 
Key Society, varsity baseball, 
Sigma Chi. 

Bryan L. Isacks ’58, New Or¬ 
leans, La. Physics, “B” average. 
Freshman swimming. Beta 
Tlieta Phi. 

Endowed Class Scholar; Al¬ 
bert E. Helms ’59, Indianapolis, 
Indiana. Pre-law. High school; 
president of Student Council, 
R.O.T.C. student officer, junior 
class president, Glee Club. 

1915 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Robert H. Bockman ’59, Long 
Beach, Oalif. Liberal Arts. Out 
for Spectator, freshman crew. 
High school: managing editor of 
paper, varsity baseball. 

Marvin Feldman ’57, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Chemistry, “A—” average. 
Spectator. 

Gordon B. Fulcher ’58, Sharon, 
Connecticut. Pre-med., “A—” 
average. Pre-Med, Society, Co¬ 
lumbian, WKCR. Delta Phi. 

John K. George ’57, Ogdens- 
burg, N. Y. Pre-enMneering, 
“B—” average. Varsity track, 
Social Affairs Committee, Class 
Steering Committee. Phi Kappa 
Psi. 

Edwin B. Weinberger ’59, Phil¬ 
adelphia, Pa. Plans to teach 
Ei^lish. Candidate for Jester. 
High school: newspaper staff, 
cross country team. 

Class endowed scholar: Larry 
W. McCormick ’59, Toledo, OMo. 
Pre-med. Freshman basketball. 
High school: senior class vice- 
president, varsity basketball. 

1916 

The Class is planning a 40th 
Anniversary Reunion at Arden 
House in late May or early June. 
Details later. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through th'' College Fund: 

Alexios E. Kikkinopoulos ’58, 
Spetsai, Greece. Pre-engineer¬ 
ing, “B” average. Brought to this 
country by the Anglo American 
Hellenic Bureau of Education. 
Desires to become a mechanical 
engineer and return to help in 
Greece’s reconstruction. 

Alvin I. Thaler ’59, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Mathematics. High school; 
president of Hi-Y yearbook edi¬ 
tor, National Honor Society. 

Endowed Room Scholar: 
Charles H. Brown ’56, Hacken¬ 
sack, N. J. Pre-dental, “C+” 
average. No. 1 nitc^’er on varsity 
baseball squad. Beta Theta Pi. 

Class Endowed Scholar: Jo¬ 
seph T. Hervatic ’58, La Salle, 
Illinois. Pre-engineering, “B—” 
average. Freshman baseball, var¬ 
sity football. Alpha Epsilon Phi. 


1917 

Members of ’17 College, Jour¬ 
nalism and Engineering held 
first annual December dinner on 
Tuesday, December 6, at Univer¬ 
sity Club. Guest speaker was M. 
Stanley Rukeyser ’17J, feature 
writer on economics and finance. 
His subject: "Are Stocks a Short 
Sale in the Coming Election 
Year?” Guest of honor was Ar¬ 
thur Bank ’56 who occupies the 
’17 Room in Hartley Hall. Thir¬ 
ty-three members were present 
for the "biggest showing in 
years.” 

In preparation for its 40th Re¬ 
union year the Class plans to 
make a feature of attendance at 
Dean’s Day, February 11; to hold 
a Spring Dinner and a cocktail 
party. Details on last two events 
will be announced later. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

George M. Atkinson ’57, Hous¬ 
ton, Texas. Pre-law, "B—” aver¬ 
age. Debate Council, Sigma Nu. 

Steven E. Paul ’58, Toms River, 
N. J. Pre-journalism, "B+” aver¬ 
age. Marching Band, Concert 
Band, Orchesl^ and Chamber 
Music Society. Columbian, Co¬ 
lumbia Players. 

Jan A. Well, ’56, N. Y. C. Eng¬ 
lish, "B” average. Columbia 
Players. 

Endowed Room Scholar: Ar¬ 
thur Bank ’56, Bronx, N. Y. Pre- 
med, "B+” average. Spectator 
sports editor, varsity wrestling 
team manager. 

1918 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Bruce Howard ’58, Danielson, 
Conn. Liberal Arts, "C+” aver¬ 
age. Freshman foc^ball, wrest¬ 
ling. Sigma Chi. 

John Mathews ’57, Cambridge, 
Mass. Pre - journalism, "B—” 
average. Newman Club. Spec¬ 
tator. 

1919 

COoss Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Edward M. Dwyer ’67, Ply- 
month, Pa. Pre-med., ‘‘B+” aver¬ 
age. Varsity basketball. Alpha 
Sdgma Phi. 

Gerald G. Griffin ’57, York- 
town Heights, N. Y. Plans to 
teach. "C-t-” average. Sigma CM. 

Joel S. Karliner ’58, UMon City, 
N. J. Pre-med., “A—” average. 
Debate Council, Columbda Play¬ 
ers, freshman tennis team man¬ 
ager. Tau Epsilon Phi. 

John Koser ’57, Towanda, Pa. 
Liberal Arts, "B—” average. 
Camera dub, Band, Dormitory 
OcKuncdl. 

William F. Moylan ’58, Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. English, "B—” aver¬ 
age. Freshman and lightweight 
football, freshman baseball. Sig¬ 
ma Alpha Epsilon. 

Carmelo Pino ’56, Washington, 
D. C. Music, "B+” average. Pres¬ 
ident of Dormitory Council. 
Newman Club, Nacoms. Sigma 
CM. 

Richard S. Radkoski ’58, 
Youngstown, Ohio. Pre - med., 
"C+” average. Freshman foot¬ 
ball, WKCR staff. Sigma Alpha 
Epsilon. 

1926 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: Fred¬ 
erick J. Mitchell ’58, Bessemer, 
Alabama. Pre-engineering, "B” 
average. Glee Club. 

Henry D. Shapiro ’58, N. Y. C. 
Liberal Arts, “B” average. Fresh¬ 
man fencing, Jester, WKCR 
technical staff. Van Am Society. 
Zeta Beta T?u. 

Endowed Room Scholar: Ste¬ 
phen E. Ronai ’57, N. Y. C. Pre¬ 
journalism, “B+” averse. Fresh¬ 
man olass representative to Stu¬ 
dent Board; student coordinator 
for Freshman Week; Van Am 
Society. Elected by his class to 
this aw:.rd. 

1921 

Gary A. Fetters ’59, Scotts- 
blufl, Neb. Pre - architecture. 
High School: Student Council, 
Yearbook editor. National Honor 
Society. 

James R. Kniskern ’69, Cobles- 
kill, N. Y. Pre-engineering. High 
school: Yearbook nev.'spaper, 
varsity track and soccer. 

Paul Rapport ’59, St. Albans, 
N. Y. Pre-engineering. WKCR 
staff. High school: vice presi¬ 
dent of Student Council. 

Arthur D. Roberts ’57, Indian¬ 
apolis, Ind. Business, “C+” aver¬ 
age. Sophomore Class Steering 
Committee, Blue Key Society, 
Players, Sigma Nu. 


Irwin Sharkansky ’58, Fall 
River, Mass. Pre-med., "B+” 
average. Pre-med. Society, So¬ 
cial Affairs Committee, Concert 
and Marching Band. 

Douglas T. Troop ’58, Towson, 
Md. Pre-engineering, “B+” aver¬ 
age. Glee Club, AFH.O.T.C. drill 
team. Alpha Delta Phi. 

Virgil H. White ’59, GreenviHe, 
S. C. liberal arts. High school; 
honor graduate, class officer. 
School Senate. 

Class Endowed Scholar: Claude 
C. Benham ’56, Portsmouth, Va. 
Pre-med., “C+” average. Varsity 
baseball, football. 

1922 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Michael J. Beato ’58, Seaford, 
N. Y. Pre-engineering, "C” aver¬ 
age. Lightweight football, var¬ 
sity wrestling. A.F.R.O.T.C., Drill 
Team. Sigma Alpha Epsilon. 

. George W. Danner ’58, Young- 
wood, Pa. Pre-engineering, “B—” 
average. Varsity football. 

David W. Kinne ’57, Amityville, 
N. Y. Pre-med., "C+” average. 
Varsity wrestling. Beta Theta 
Pi. 

Class Endowed Scholars; 
Edward I. Hciser ’57, Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. Liberal Arts, "B” 
average. Varsity Swimming, Blue 
Key Society. Sigma Chi. 

William W. Garretson *56, 
Soarsdale, N. Y. Geolcgy, "B” 
average. Varsity baseball. Sigma 
Chi. 

Martin L. Teiger ’53, Brooklsm, 
N. Y. Pre-med., "A—” average. 
Chess team. His father is Joseph 
* 22 . 

1923 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund; 

John Breeskin ’57, Forest HiUs, 
N. Y. Liberal Arts ,“B—” average. 
Freshman basketball, basebMl, 
varsity football, Alpha Sigma 
PM. 

David Chancer *59, Glovers- 
ville, N. Y. Chemistry. High 
school: Student Council, basket¬ 
ball team. 

Frederic D. Galt *58, Seattle, 
Washington. Pre-engineering, 
"B” average. Orchestra. 

Elmer T. Henkel ’58, Toledo, 
Ohio. Pre-ei^ineering, "B” aver¬ 
age. University Orchestra, fresh¬ 
man basketball. Sigma Alpha 
Bpsiion. 

Jinuny Lee Kier ’58, Toledo, 
OMo. Pre-med, "B” average. 
Freshman Steering Committee, 
Blue Key Society, Cross country 
track. Sigma Nu. 

Stanley M. Klein ’56, Bronx, 
N. Y. Pre-law, "B—” average. 
Basketball. 

1924 

A special table is reserved for 
the Class Luncheons in the But¬ 
ler Room of the Columbia UM- 
versity Club, first Tuesday of 
each month, 12:30 P.M. No reser¬ 
vations needed. Regular menu, 
no extra charge. Open to all ’24 
men (members and non-mem¬ 
bers of Club). 

A very successful Cocktail 
Party was held on Tuesday, De¬ 
cember 6 in the Rainbow Room 
atop Rockefeller Center. Chair¬ 
man of the Party Oommittee was 
Harold Bloomer, with Wilbur 
Marshall and Herrick Field as¬ 
sisting. 

Extemporaneous entertainment 
was provided by Mrs. Bronson 
Alexander who sang popular 
airs, and Mrs. Rpj Parke, an 
operatic and concert sirwer of 
note, who sang several dferatic 
arias. Piano accompaniment was 
by Mrs. Beril EJdelman. 

Class Scholars sponsored by 
the College Fund: 

Garrett W. DeGroff ’56, Am¬ 
sterdam, N. Y. Liberal Arts, "B+” 
average. Spectator, J. V. basket¬ 
ball. 

Arthur E. Held ’58, N. Y. C. 
Pre-med, "C” average. Contract 

R. O.T.C. student. 

Barry B. Lutender ’58, South- 
ville, Mass. Pre-engineering "B+” 
average. Glee Club, Blue Key So¬ 
ciety, freshman baseball. 

Donald S. Manes ’68, Little 
Rock, Ark. Pre-Theology, “B” 
average. Freshman crew, varsity 
football. Sigma OM. 

James A. Margolis ’58, Tea- 
neck, N. J. Business, "B” aver¬ 
age. Freshman fencing. Players, 
WKCR. 

Olass Endowed Scholar: Peter 

S. Marthakis ’59, Salt Lake City, 
Utah. Pre-law. High school: 
president of student body, 
R.O.T.C. commander; vice presi¬ 
dent of Men’s Association. 
















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Endowed Room Scholar: Car- 
melo Pino '56, Washington, D. C. 
Music, “B+" overage. President 
oif Dormitory Cormcil, Newman 
C^ub, Nacoms, Sigma Chi. 

19S5 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the OoHege Fund: 

David M. Bloom '57, N. Y. C. 
Liberal Arts, "A—” average. Uni¬ 
versity Orchestra, Chamber Mu¬ 
sic Society. 

David Fink '57, Little Rock, 
Ark. Pre-med, “B” average. Glee 
Chib, Varsity fencing. Van Am 
Society. Zeta Beta Tau. 

Ferdinand Leacock, Jr. '56, 
N. Y. C. Transfer student, Har¬ 
rison College, Bridgetown, Bar¬ 
bados, British West Indies. Pre- 
med, “B—” average. Pre-Medkal 
Society, WKCR, NA.A.C.P. 

Eari L. McFarland '58, Alexan¬ 
dria, Va. Geology, “A—” average. 
Freshman swiinming, tennis. 

Richard Steinfeld '56, Wehaw- 
ken, N. J. Pre-dental, “B+” aver¬ 
age. Ted Kramer Society, varsity 
tennis, Social Affairs Committee, 
Tau Epsilon Phi. 

Frederick J. Trost, Jr. 59, Levit- 
town. Pa. Pre-engineering. 
Freshman swimming team. High 
school: varsity swimming. Press 
dub. His father is Frederick, Sr. 
*25. 

Donald E. Wilson '58, Atlanta, 
Ga, Physics, “C+” average. Van 
Am Society, Kings Men, Chess 
Clrtb. 

Leo Zickler '58, Indianapolis, 
Ind. Business, “B—” average. 
Bkie Key Society, Sigma Nu. 

Class Endowed Scholar: Rob¬ 
ert K. Sprower, 59, N. Y. C. Pre¬ 
engineering, High school: leader 
of Arista, dramatics. His father 
is Frank E. '25. 

1926 

dass Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Donald Cohen '57, N. Y. C. 
Pre-engineering, “B” average. 
Pre-Engineering Society, JestCT, 
Undergrad’’ate Chemical Soci¬ 
ety, Student Board Committee. 

Fred J. Graham '57, Danville, 
Ind. Freshman basketball, J. V. 
basketball, host for Student For¬ 
um on Democracy, Sigma Chi. 

David B. Smith '59, Hyde Park, 
N. Y. Pre-engineering. High 
school; representative to Stu¬ 
dent Council, yearbook. Glee 
dub, Debating Club. 

1927 

A meeting of Class Officers 
was held on December 13 to re¬ 
ceive reports on Class Scholar¬ 
ship Students and to schedule a 
Class mailing to request dues. 
Also discuss^: plans for an¬ 
nouncing a Spring Dinner, and 
early planning for 30th Reunion 
in *57. The Class Historian, Phil 
Humphrey, is blueprinting a 
poiblication. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Richard H. Bal^lor '58, New 
Rochelle, Y. Pre-law, “B—" 
average. Freshman wrestling, 
Zeta Beta Tau. 

Roy A. Robson '58, Kingsville, 
Texas. Pre-medical, “C+” aver¬ 
age. WKCR, Pre-Medical Society, 
Beta Theta Pi. 

Class Endowed Scholars: 
Spencer F. August '58, Dayton, 
Ohio. Pre-med, “B—” average. 
Blue Key Society, Sigma Chi. 

William P. Vann '58, Belton, 
Texas. P*re - engineering, “B” 
average. Varsity football. Van 
Am Society, Sigma Nil 

1928 

The Annual Class Dinner will 
be held in the Men’s Faculty 
Club on February 24 at 7:00 PJd. 
(Cocktails at six). The Class 
Plaque for Outstanding Achieve¬ 
ment will be awarded to member 
Joseph F. Finnegan, Director, 
Federal Mediation and Concilia¬ 
tion Service. The princip^ 
speaker will be Dr. Courtney 
Brown, Dean of the Graduate 
School of Business and vice 
president of the University for 
Business Affairs. Dinner chair¬ 
man is Jerry Brody. 

A very successful Christmas 
Luncheon was held on December 
19 . . . Be sure to reserve the 
Saturday before Memorial Day 
for the Annual Class Field Day. 
Co-chairmen for the event are 
Tom Kerrigan and Julian Alkoff. 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Robert E. Milburn '56, Augusta, 
Ga. Now in School of Architec¬ 
ture on professional option, 
A—” average. Freshman and 
J.V. lightweight crew, secretary 
of Rowing Club, Glee Club, 
Chamber Music Society. 


Jame: L. Mooney '56, San 
Diego, California. Liberal Arts, 
“C-b” average. Varsity football. 
Sigma Cftii, Nacoms. (Also En¬ 
dowed Room Scholar.) 

Morton H. Zisk '59, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Pre-law. High school: class 
president, varsity basketball. 

1929 

Class Scholar sponsored 
throi^ the College Fund: 

Ronald J. Christ '58, Fort Lee, 
N. J. Plans to teach, “B” average. 

Pobert D. Williamson '58, 
Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Liberal 
Arts, “C+” average. Freshman 
crew. Alpha Delta Phi. 

1930 

An informal Class Luncheon is 
held on the third Thursday of 
each month in the Main Dining 
Rfom of the Columbia Club, 
12:30 P.M. All are welcome to 
join the group. 

Class Scholars supported 
throuarh the College Fund: 

GeuTgc Dargo '57, Brooklyn, 
• N. Y. Pre-law, “B+” average. 
FYeshman swimming team. Mid¬ 
shipman’s Association, N.R.O.T.C. 

James M. Linebarger ’56, Mid¬ 
land, Texas. Pre-law, “B+” aver¬ 
age. Sigma C3hi. 

1931 

In lieu of the special (Hass 
Fund customarily raised by the 
25th Year Class, ’31 this year is 
concentrating on making its 
contributions t. the 5th Annual 
Columbia College Fund the larg¬ 
est of any alumni class, both in 
dollars and in number of con¬ 
tributors. 

Members are urged not only 
to increase the amounts given 
individually to previous Funds, 
but also to join ’31’s “$100-plus 
Club,” according to Bernard K. 
Hanneken, Class Fund Chair¬ 
man, and Peter T. Kourides, 
Vice Chairman. The only require¬ 
ment for admission to this 
“club” is a contribution or pledge 
of $100 or more to the 5th An¬ 
nual Fund. The number of $100- 
plus contributors has grown with 
each annual Fund drive, and for 
this special anniversary year the 
Class “club” hopes to increase 
its membership spectacularly. 

Special celebrations to note 
’ 3 1 ’ s twenty-fifth annivers€iry 
are being planned: A large Class 
turnout is expected back on 
campus on Dean’s Day, Febru¬ 
ary 11, and also at the Alexander 
Hamilton Dinner honoring 
Rodgens and Hammerstein. In 
early May, a repeat of last year’s 
successful “Wives-Too” dinner 
will be held in New York. 

In early June the Class will 
hold its twenty-fifth year re¬ 
union week-end at a resort 
nearby. Committees to formalize 
plans for the latter two events 
are being selected now by Arthur 
V. Smith, Class President, and 
detailed announcements will be 
made shortly. 

(Hass Scholars supported 
through the College Fund: 

George M, Ganzle '58, Milford, 
Cenn. Pre-engineering, “C+” av¬ 
erage. Pre-Efigineering Society, 
freshman wrestling, varsity foot¬ 
ball. Father is Carl M. ’31. 

Walter E. Reichel 58, Short 
Hills, N. J, Pre-med, “B+” aver¬ 
age. Pre-Medical Society. 

George Stassa '56, Forest Hills, 
N. Y. Pre-med, “B+” average. 
Student director of ’54 Freshman 
Week. Chairman of Student 
Board. Medical Plan. Freshman 
track, football, basketball. Jester, 
Van Am Society, Sachems, Alpha 
Delta Phi. 

1932 

Cfiass Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Alan M Stevens '56, N. Y. C. 
Language, “A—” average. Study¬ 
ing Russian, Greek, German and 
French. Linguistics Society. 

Steven C. Van Voorhees '59, 
Orlando, Florida. Pre-law. Fresh¬ 
man football, WKCR. High 
school: president of Student 
Council, varsity track. His father 
is Stuart C. ‘32. 

1933 

Class Scholar sponsojed 
through the College Fund: 

Dale C. Baxter ’58, Blackfoot, 
Idaho. Pre-law, “B” average. 
Blue Key Society, Debate Coun¬ 
cil. Sigma Chi. 

1934 

Monthly Luncheons are held 
at the Coll .nbia University Club 
on the second Wednesday of 
each month. 

Committees being set up in¬ 
clude College Fund, Class As¬ 
sociation Membership, Home- 
coming. Annual Program 
and “Thirty Forum.” (Plans 
are underway to revive “Thirty 


Forum,” originally issued in 
1949.) 

Approximately fifty members 
have returned a questionnaire 
providing an outline of their 
activities since graduation. Other 
members are urged to return 
theirs! 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

David M. Clark ’59, Cheyenne, 
Wyo. Physics major. Freshman 
wrestling. High school: Student 
Council newspaper staff, varsity 
wrestling. 

1935 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

William G. Nevel ’59, Walden, 
N. Y. Pre-med. High school: Stu¬ 
dent Government, Band and 
Chorus. His father is William 

B. ’35. 

1936 

Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Bernard H. Feldman '59, 
Omaha, Nebraska. Pre-med. 
Candidate for Spectator. High 
school: Business manager of 
newspaper, Debate Council, 
yearbook staff. 

Frank R. Muri '59, Framing¬ 
ham, Mass. Pre-engineering. 
'Freshman football. High school: 
president of Student Council, 
varsity football, newspaper staff. 

1937 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund; 

Theodore C. Foxworthy '59, 
Indianapolis, Indiana. Pre-med. 
High school; president of Stu¬ 
dent Council, president of senior 
class, commanding officer of Lo¬ 
cal R.O.T.C. 

1938 

Writes Class President Millard 

C. Faught: 

“The Class believes in using 
a good formula, once developed; 
and in ’56 it plans to follow a 
couple of gastronomically suc¬ 
cessful formulae developed in 
the past, to wit: 

“A spring picnic! Following 
last April’s precedent, the Class 
will gather again this Spring 
(probably in May, but date to be 
fixed after report from (Hass 
Groimd Hog Committee) for 
another picnic at Faught’s one- 
horse ranch in Yale Farms (of 
all places), Greenwich, Connect¬ 
icut, for the ’56 Annual Class 
Picnic. All wives, girl friends, 
siblings and relatives are invited. 

*‘B eef steak Dinner \ Again 
this year ’36 will continue its 
aio' famous and fattening tradi¬ 
tion of an all-you-can-eat beef¬ 
steak dinner in the Boathouse. 
This is a stag affair, but with 
stag prices being what they are, 
we will probably again serve 
cow, and maybe a little bull. 
Date will be sometime in June. 

“Class Directory! Along with 
the seed oatalc^es ’38 has just 
made a year-end mailing of the 
second edition of its precedent¬ 
setting Class Directory.” 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Walter L. Faust '56, Little 
Rock, Ark. Physics, "A—” aver¬ 
age. Sigma Chi. 

1939 

A Class Luncheon was held in 
the Oolu 'jbia Club on December 
14th with seventeen members 
attending. 

Maxwell Ohlman is chairman 
of a (committee to arrange a 
suitable ’56 Stpring Reunion. He 
would appreciate ideas, sugges¬ 
tions or the like. Contact him 
at 7 Dicks Lane, Rosyln, N. Y. 
ROsIyn 3-0526 or at Edwards & 
Hanly, 100 N. Franklin Street, 
Hempstead, N. Y., IVanhoe 9- 
2400. 

’ One hundred and fifty-five 
members responded to a ques¬ 
tionnaire which forms the basis 
for the first Biographical Direc¬ 
tory recently mailed to the Class. 
If you did not receive your copy, 
and wish one, write to Joe Loeb, 
Jr. Cohn & Co., 1 Wall Street, 
N. Y. C., who collaborated with 
Cliff Ramsdell on the project. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Joe P. Poe '58, Little Rock, 
Ark. Liberal Arts, “B” average. 
Glee Club. 

1940 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund:Max 
Eliason '56, Logan, Utah. Pre¬ 
law, “A—” average. Chairman of 
S'udent Board; president of 
Blue Key Society In junior years; 
executive comimitteeman of Pre- 
Law Society In sophomore year; 
Freshman Deate team; Nacoms, 
Sigma (Hii. 


1941 

Edward Weinberg has been ap¬ 
pointed chairman of the Class 
Nominating Committee, whose 
task it is to name a slate of new 
officers and executive committee 
to date from the 15th Anniver¬ 
sary. . . . Dont forget the 15th 
Reunion, May 26, in the new 
Alumni Wing of the Field House. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the Oodlege Fund; Den¬ 
nis P. MulUns '59, St. Albans, W. 
Va. Liberal Arts major. Candi¬ 
date for Spectator. High school: 
Student Council, National Honor 
Society. 

1942 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Ken¬ 
neth P. Scheffel '59, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. History major; wants to 
teach social science. High school: 
was graduated first in his class, 
class valedictorian, Hi-Y Club, 
Band. 

1943 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund; Saul 
D. Gonson '58, Buf falo, N. Y. Pre¬ 
law . “B+” average. President of 
f reshman and sophomore classes, 
Glee Club, Tau Epsilon Phi. 

1944 

Class has finally launched its 
newsletter that brought in warm 
responses from Brooklyn, Bos¬ 
ton, Tokyo and Kabul. ’44 is go¬ 
ing ahead with preliminary 
plans for a scholarship program, 
and for a dinner in New York 
in April or May. With class offi¬ 
cers scattered, it has been tough 
going to revive ’44, but the reac¬ 
tion thus far has been quite 
encouraging. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
Jonathan Myer '56, Flushing, 
N. Y. Liberal Arts, “B” average. 
Captain, University Rifle Team; 
2nd Lt. AFROTC; vice president, 
AFROTC CJodet Assn.; Seixas 
Menorah. 

1945 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
George A. Omura '58, N. Y. C. 
Pre-med., “A—” average Cox¬ 
swain, freshman crew. 

1946 

The returns of a lOth anniver¬ 
sary class Poll were very gratify¬ 
ing. Strong interest was shown 
in our scheduled Anniversary 
Dinner and attendance by our 
out-of-town members should be 
healthy. The dinner will be held 
on Friday, February 10, at the 
ColumMa University Club at 
7:30; the bar opens at 6:30. Prof. 
Dwight Miner ’25C will be our 
guest speaker. For reservations 
call Harry Coleman at UN 5- 
4000, ext. 811. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
Richard D. Gooder '56, Cincin¬ 
nati, Ohio. Liberal arts, “B+” 
average. Columbia Players, 
WKCR staff, Alpha Delta Phi. 

1947 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
Louis L. Hoynes '57, Indianapolis, 
Ind. Pre - law, “B+” average. 
Blue Key Society, NROTC, Sigma 
Nu. 

1948 

Class Schol ars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 

Lionel Grossbard '57, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Pre-med., “A—” average. 
Columbian Jester, Seixas Society. 

Louis F. Savelli '57, Wilkes 
Barre, Pa. Pre - engineering, 
“B—” average. Lightweight foot¬ 
ball, Newman Club, Sigma Chi. 

1949 

The Class had its monthly 
cocktail party in the Men’s Grill 
on January lOth, and plans an¬ 
other there on February 7th, 
starting at 5:30 p.m. 

Class elections were held at the 
CJolumbda Club on Tuesday, De¬ 
cember 6, 1965. Voting was done 
in person, and through absentee 
ballots mailed to all class mem¬ 
bers. The results were as fol¬ 
lows: President, Etonald A. Por¬ 
ter; 1st Vice President, Peter A. 
Reynolds; 2nd Vice President, 
Edward S. Rimer; Treasurer, 
Richard D. Kandel; Secretary, 
Robert S. Denzau. 

The following oomimittee ap¬ 
pointments were made: Chair¬ 
man, 5th Fund Drive, Peter A. 
Reynolds; Hamilton Dinner, Ed¬ 
ward S. Rimer; Class Organiza¬ 
tion, Walter Shipman; Finance, 
Richard Kandel; Class Constitu¬ 
tion, Edward Rimer, Joe Levie, 
Jack Turvey, Walter Shipman. 


Class Scholars sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
Jose E. Iglesias '59, N. Y. C. Pre¬ 
engineering. No. one man on 
freshman cross country team. 
High school: Senior Council, 
track, class officer. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through College Fund: Thomas 
J. Sobchack '59, Allentown, Pa. 
English major candidate for 
WKCR and Players, 

1950 

A 'Ulass Stag Party—^Beer and/ 
0 Steaks—^is planned for March, 
1^, at which time ’50 will elect 
its class officers and reorganize 
the Class Steering Committee, 

Writes (Hass President Jack 
Noonan; 

“Alumni spirit, while not ram¬ 
pant, is picking up, 

“The torrential rains washed 
out any plans of revivifying 
Class spirit on Homecoming 
Day, and your prexy was left 
with some 35 or 40 Reunion 
Beanies which he had hoped 
would mark the Fifth Reunion 
of the (Hass, 

“The Class Boat Ride to West 
Point the following week was 
wonderful for the large handful 
that attended.” 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: Ward 
Armstrong '57, (McVeigh-Buch- 
mann Scholarship) Ogden, Utah. 
Liberal Arts, C+; Varsity swim 
team. Blue Key Society; Beta 
Theta Pi. 

1951 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the Collie Fund: David 
E. Brown '58, Paterson, N. J, 
Pre-theology, “B—” average. 
Marching Band, University Con¬ 
cert Band, French Club. 

1952 

’52ers attended the Homecom¬ 
ing Cocktail Party held last Oc- 
toer in the Men’s Faculty Club, 
and have turned out for the in¬ 
formal meetings of the newly 
formed Early 50’s Luncheon 
Group each month. 

Class Scholar sponsored 
throoigh the College Fund: Jer¬ 
ome Stein' 57, Newark, N. J. 
Math major, “B+” average. 
Seixa^. Society, rifle team. 


1953 

Ol£^ president David Nass has 
appoint^ Gedale Horowitz as 
vice chairman of the Class Fund 
Committee. Lewis Robins will 
again serve as Class Chairman 
for the Fund. He took over the 
post last year, succeeding Bart 
Saimders who was ’54 chairman. 
Appointed to the Fund Execu¬ 
tive Committee are John Wuor- 
inen Jr., George Lowry and Mirek 
Stevenson. A meeting of the en¬ 
tire Class Fund Committee will 
be held on February 16 at the 
home of Chairman Robins, 15 
Washington Place, Manhattan. 

Class Schol ar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
through the College Fund; Mi¬ 
chael C. Chapman ’57, (Ben Fow, 
Jr. Scholarship).Sherborn.Mass. 
Liberal Arts, “B+” average. 
Varsity swimming team. 

1954 

Writes Class Secretary Bernd 
Brecher: 

“The First Annual Dues Cam¬ 
paign s now under way and 
men of ’54 who have not yet paid 
their one dollar dues may send 
them to Bernd Brecher. P8cS 
Development, 4 West 43rd Street, 
New York 36, N. Y. They can 
also send personal news and the 
like for the next Newsletter. 
Class membership cards for the 
current year are now in the mail 
to all ’54 graduates.” 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the C''liege Fund: 
Laurence R. Lewis '59, Andover, 
Mass. English major. High 
school: Varsity cross country, 
Glee Club, representative to Stu¬ 
dent Congress. 

1955 

Class Scholar sponsored 
through the College Fund: 
Robert E. Haynie *59, Baltimore, 
Md. Pre-med. High school: Var¬ 
sity track, yearbook, marching 
band. 


ATTEND 

“EARLY FIFTIES” LUNCHEON, 
FIRST THURSDAY 
OF EACH MONTH, 12-2 P. M., 
MEN'S GRILL, COLUMBIA CLUB 
























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COLUMB^A COLLEGE TODAY 


February, 1956 


!§lportsi Outlook Itriglit 


By HOWARD LEVINE 
Director of Sports Information 

At the mid-year, examination-period break Columbia’s winter 
sport picture was brig-ht. With most of the sports at, near or just- 
past the halfway mark, two varsities had excellent records. Two 
others, with the team marks not t 


good, had individuals whose ac- 
comiplisihments in the first two 
months of the season were high¬ 
ly illustrious. 

The basketball team of coach 
Lou Rossini and the National 
Collegiate championsihip fencing 
sguad of coach Irv DeKoff were 
speeding along smoothly, as ex¬ 
pected. The five posted a 10-3 
mark with one more than half of 
its 24 games played. One of the 
three losses was a one-pointer. 
Most important, however, was 
the 4-0 Ivy League leading rec¬ 
ord. The swordsmen were un- 
l^ten in four dual meets, in- 
c«tding one Ivy test. 

In swimming, under coach 
Dock Steadman for the first sea¬ 
son, the record was only 3-4, but 
there was nothing wrong with 
the record of captain Dave Orrik 
in the sprints. In vurestling, Dick 
Waite’s men came close every 
Saturday but posted only a 2-4 
won-lost mark. However, little 
John Buchanan and big Dale 
Granger were causing stirs on 
Morningside with their fine 
showings. 

Whale dynamic little Chet 
Forte was the figure in the spot¬ 
light for the quintet, the Lion 
success was a team effort. With 
special defenses rigged against 
the high - scoring 5-foot 9-inch 
Hackensack, N. J., flash captain 
Frank Thomas, Herb Kutlow, 
Bob Lehner and Ted Dwyer 
came through like champions 
and the Lions kept winning. 
When the special defenses were 
abandoned. Forte blossomed 
again with new scoring records. 
The opposition was damned if it 
did and damned if it didn’t, so 
Columbia defeated Penn, Cornell 
and Yale twice. In the second 


victory over Yale a new scoring 
record was posted when Colum¬ 
bia scored 102 points. 

The fencers, led by a strong 
sabre squad, defeated C.C.N.Y., 
Brooklyn, Harvard and N.Y.U. 
The sabremen, with captain 
Marv Stein and Gerry Kaufman 
showing the way, have won 28 
out of 36 bouts. Epee, too, had 
a winning record (22-14), but 
the foil team betrayed a weak 
spot in the dam, winning only 
14 while losing 22. But who can 
quarrel with an unbeaten record. 

Speaking of unbeaten records 
brings swimming captain Dave 
Orrik to mind. The 21 -year-old 
New Yorker has won seven of 
seven 100 -yard free style events, 
including tough races against 
league foes Navy, Cornell and 
Dartmouth. Orrik, whose older 
brother Fred also swam for Co¬ 
lumbia, is flirting with Gene 
Rogers’ 100-yard Columbia rec¬ 
ord of :52.2. He turned in a 
:53.5 against Navy. 

Another undefeated Lion is 
matman John Buchanan. A little 
man in the current Lion line of 
Benham and Forte, the 23-year- 
old Blmont, N. Y., 123-pounder, 
has won six bouts this season. 
He has scored three falls for a 
total of 24 team points. Also 
shining for the scra;ppy wrest¬ 
lers, who have come close in 
every meet, is 177-pounder Dale 
Granger. Another Long Islander 
(he’s from Valley Stream), 
Granger, has a 4-2 record. He 
has scored a pair of falls. 
Buchanan is a junior and 
Granger a senior. 

So all in all midway through 
the season the picture is fairly 
bright. With action resuming in 
earnest on Feb. 4, the Lion hopes 
are high. 


The Lion Salutes... 

One of the most active of all alumni in the athletic picture on 
Morningside Heights is Harold A. (Chuck) Rousselot ’29. Here are 
some, only some, of his Columbia-connected alumni activities: 

President, Varsity “C” Club, 

1947-51. Mem^ber, Football Ad- ' 

Tisory Committee, 1947-50. Life 
Trusitee, Columbia University 
Rowing Club. Chairman, Uni¬ 
versity Committee on Athletics, 

1951, Permanent President, Class 
of 1929. Former member of the 
Columbia College Council. Treas¬ 
urer, Alumni Federation, 1940- 
42. Chairman, Fall Alumni Re¬ 
union, 1949. Vice President and 
Chairman of the Standing Com¬ 
mittee of the Association of 
Alumni of Columbia College. 

Governor, Columbia University 
Club. 

The list is extensive and goes 
on for many more entries. But 
the point is established. One 
notable reward he has received 
is the Alumni Medal for con¬ 
spicuous service. 

Now for some of the back¬ 
ground. Chuck’s biggest loves in 
athletics are rowing and foot¬ 
ball, but he was also a member 
of the freshman swimming team 
at Morningside. Matter of fact, 
he started with swimming (at 
Evander Childs High School he 
held the interscholastic 50-yard 



Harold A. Rousselot ’29 


backstroke record for a week). 
He turned to lightweight crew 
as a sophomore and made the 
varsity boat, rowing at No. 7, and 
v,as a member of the boat that 
went to Enr'land to compete in 
the Henley and Marlow Regattas. 
That crew won the Marlow (hav¬ 
ing to take three races in one 
day) and went to the semi¬ 
finals of the Henley. 

In 1928 he was varsity football 
manager. He won three varsity 
letters in crew and one in foot¬ 
ball. In non-athletic undergrad¬ 
uate activities he was president 
of the freshman class, chairman 
of the Student Board and mem¬ 
ber of Van Am and Blue Key. 

Since graduation he has been 
in the brokerage business. He 
started with Orvis Brothers and 
Comipany in 1929 and was made 
managing partner in 1951'. Re¬ 
cently he changed his associa¬ 
tion to Francis I. duPont, where 
he is general and managing 
partner. He is a member of the 
Board of Governors of the Amer¬ 
ican Stock Exchange and the 
Commodity Exchange. 

During World War II, Chuck 
served in the Army Air Force for 
three years and ten months 
achieving the rank of lieutenant 
colonel. He is married, to the 
former Elsie Muller. They live 
in Manhattan and their 21-year- 
old son Anthony attends Colum¬ 
bia, a member of the Class of 
1957. 

To Chuck Rousselot, a Lion 
Salute for years of devoted 
service. 



Photos by Weinstein 

FLYING LIONS: The Columbia basketball aces soar high in the Lions’ 73-67 Ivy League victory 
over Cornell. From the left, Herb Kutlow, Chet Forte and Bob Lehner fly goalward. 


MORE SPORTS 

With this issue, COLUMBIA 
COLLEGE TODAY introduces 
expandedsports coverage 
under the aegis of Howard 
Levine, Director of Sports In¬ 
formation. Mr. Levine wel- 
ocmes all alumni suggestions 
for feature articles. 


Highlights of Lion History: 

The First Yale Game 


Here is the first newspaper ac¬ 
count of a Columbia football 
game. It is actually the fourth 
Lion game. Columbia played 
Rutgers in 1870 and twice in 1872 
prior to this reported meeting 
with Yale in 1872. 

Special Dispatch to the New York Times 

New Haven, Nov. 16 — The 
match game of football which 
Yale challenged Columbia to 
play, came off this afternoon at 
Hamilton Park. The Columbia 
men arrived, some of them on 
this morning’s boat, and some of 
them on the eleven o’clock train. 
They were a splendid looking set 
of men, in good spirits, and so 
confident of winning that their 
backers bet on them freely, and 
even offered odds as great as five 
to two. The game was to be 
played with a rubber ball, best 
five goals out of nine', and in 
case of darkness coming on, the 
side ahead at that time was to 
be declared the winner. 

Game was to have been called 
at 21/2 P M., but with the usual 
unavoidable delay, it did not 
really begin until about 2%. As 
the men stood at their positions 
before the ball was canted for 
the first time the difference be¬ 
tween them was very noticeable. 

Yale Men ‘Small’ 

Columbia’s champions were 
large, heavy and solid, while the 
Yale men were small and seem¬ 
ed chosen for activity and speed. 
They were, too, differently ar¬ 
ranged. Columbia had two men 
near the goal posts, and the 
others were scattered carelessly 
about the field, but the Yale 
men were placed with almost 
mathematical precision. At the 
goal posts were the two “keep¬ 
ers” and on their right and left 
two side men. At a considerable 
distance from and in front of 
the goal were the middle-men. 
eight in number, and arranged 
like a crescent, with its horns 
resting on either side of the 
field. In the centre of the cres¬ 
cent were the six “rushers” who 
were to follow the ball wherever 
it went, and who, as they were 
to do the hard fighting, were the 
heaviest men on the Yale side. 
Two “peanutters,” who were to 
keep ahead of the ball, and* 
when it came near the goal to 
drive it over, completed the 
number. 

To look at the men and the 
disposition of them it seemed as 
though Columbia would play the 
hardest and most energetic 
game, and that if Yale beat it 
could only be by force of stra¬ 
tegy. 

Platt opened the game for 
Yale by a rousing cant which 
carried it over half the field. 
Then the Columbia men got it, 
and with a rush carried it ahead, 
until it seemed as though by 
force of weight and numbers 
they would carry it straight 
through the goal. And they did 
get it clear up to the posts but 
here one of the keepers made a 
very pretty stop and sent it to 
one of the middle men. He 
passed it to a second, and he to 
a third who kicked it, not down 
but across the field where stood 


another ready to receive it and 
carry it still further. 

All was done so quickly that 
before Columbia men really per¬ 
ceived it, the ball had been kick¬ 
ed, not through, but around 
them, and the goal was won by 
Yale in fifteen minutes. The Co¬ 
lumbia men now prepared for 
work, determined not to be fool¬ 
ed so again, while Yale felt that 
to win the second goal was for 
her to win the game. 

The second goal was almost a 
repetition of the first, in all but 
time. The ball was first taken 


by Columbia, and rushed to the 
posts. There it was taken by 
Yale, and by skillful playing 
taken to the other end of ttie 
field, but Columbia was on the 
look out this time, and sent it 
back again, and so the ball wav¬ 
ered back and forth several 
times until in an hour to a min¬ 
ute, Yale won the second goal. 

Still Columbia made a noble 
rally and fought fiercely. For 
three-quarters of an hour did 
the ball hover about their goal, 
and was only kept from going 
through by almost super-human 
exertions on their part, Moore, 
especially, of Columbia, covering 
himself with glory. But fate was 
against them, and Yale won the 
third goal and the game, in 
fifty-one minutes. 


COMPOSITE VARSITY SCHEDULE 

Date. Events Opponent Location 

Feb. 

4—Basketball .*Princeton . 

Swimming .*Princeton . 

Wtestling .* Harvard . 

Fencing .*Yale . 

8 — Fencing .. Yeshiva . 

Swimming .. N.Y.U. 

9— Basketball ..♦Dartmouth 

11—Basketball .*Harvard . 

Wrestling .*YaJe . 

Fencing . Navy . 


15—Fencing . Rutgers 

Swimming .*Yale . 

Track .Polar Bear . 

17— Basketball .*Brown . 

18— Basketball .* Dartmouth 

Wrestling . Navy . 

Fencing . *Penn . 

Swimming . Rutgers . 

21—Basketball ..*Harvard .. 

Track . Rutgers . 

25—Basketball .* Cornell . 

Wrestling .* Cornell . 

Fencing .*Cornell . 

Swimming . *Army . 

'Track .I.C.4A.. 

29—Basketball .Fordham ... 

Mar. 



9:00 


4:00 


2;C0 


2:00 


7:30 


4:00 


9:00 


8:30 


3:00 


2:30 

..Away 

3:30 


7:30 


8:00 

..Lawrence- 

ville. 

N. Y. 


8:30 


9:00 


3:30 


2:30 

..Home 

4:00 

..Home 

9:00 


2:00 


8:15 


3:00 


2:30 


4:00 

..N. Y. C. 



9:00 


7:30 


9:00 


3:30 


8:00 

..Ithaca 


..Awav 

8:00 


3—Basketball .*Penn . 

Wrestling ..*Penn . 

Swimming .*Harvard . 

Track .Heptagonals ... 

7—Basketball . *Princeton . 

9 —Fencing . . . I.F.A. Championships, N. Y. C. 

Wrestlino- ! ... Eastern Championship.s. Lehigh 

10—Basketball ..*Brown .Home 9:00 

Swimming .*Penn .Awav 3:30 

Fencing .. I.F.A. Championships. N. Y. C. 

Swimming . Eastern Championships, Lehigh 

17 —Swimming . Eastern Championships. Cornell 

Track . Dartmouth Away 1:30 

* League Contest. 


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Columbia rafege Today 

PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 

VOLUME III ^ new YORK, N.Y. NUMBER 2 


FACULTY SALARIES RAISED 


Fund Shows Gains 


4,000 Gifts to Go 



Dr. Gilbert Darlington ’12, right, general chairman of the 5th 
Annual Columbia College Fund, turns over his personal con¬ 
tribution to classmate, and fund chairman for 1912, Albert L. 
Siff. The gift, made in memory of his brother, the late Rev. 
Henry Darlington ’10, equals the full cost of tuition in the College. 


As the 5th Annual Columbia College Fund entered the 
final two months of its campaign. General Chairman Gilbert 
Darlington ’12, in an interim report announced “substantial 


gains” in alumni participation/ 
Dr. Darlington said that as of 
May 5th, a total of 2,890 gifts, 
amounting to $121,186.59 had 
been received, including 135 
gifts from parents and 
friends. 

The current fund, which 
ends June 30th, has a goal of 
7,000 contributions totaling 
“in excess of $300,000.” Last 
year the fund achieved a 
record high of 6,004 gifts 
amounting to $345,644.17. 

Urges Alumni Support 

To meet the goal. Dr. Darling¬ 
ton urged alumni who have not 
yet given to “join classmates in 
providing needed funds for 
scholarship aid and other 
phases of the College program.” 
In particular, he called on those 
who had supported the fund 
in previous years to continue 
their participation. 

“Annual giving, in whatever 
amount the alumnus feels he 
can and should contribute, is 
basic to success,” declared the 
general chairman. Underscoring 
the vital nature of the appeal, 
Dr. Darlington noted that as a 
result of last year’s campaign, 
117 students in the College have 
been awarded partial aid schol¬ 
arships. 

The general chairman cited 
as one of the most “gratifying 
and dramatic devlopments” this 
year the 90.5 per cent participa- 

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Association 
Membership 
Sets Record 

Membership in the Alumni As¬ 
sociation has reached an all- 
time peak, according to Ernest 
De La Ossa ’37, chairman of the 
Membership Committee. Mr. De 
La Ossa announced on May 1 
that 6,007 alumni are current 
dues paying members, compared 
with a grand total last year of 
5,239 members. The final total 
for the year ending June 30th 
will be even higher, Mr. De La 
Ossa declared. 

Expressing gratification at the 
results to date, Mr. De La Ossa 
pointed up the growth of the 
association by noting that mem¬ 
bership had increased nearly 
100 per cent in the past three 
years. 

Association President Wayne 
Van Orman ’28, commenting on 
the new high in membership, 
termed it “heartening evidence 
of ever broadening alumni in¬ 
terest in College affairs.” 

Predicting even greater growth 
in the future, Mr. Van Orman 
urged that more alumni partic¬ 
ipate directly in Columbia ac¬ 
tivities. He said that inquiries 
may be addressed to the Alumni 
Association at 101 Hamilton 
Hall, Columbia College, New 
[York 27, New York. 


A Statement by 
Dean Chamberlain 

Recently three important developments have occurred 
at Columbia; a gift of $3,100,000 from the Ford Foundation; 
a ten per cent salary increase, effective July 1, 1956; a tuition 
increase of approximately twenty per cent to go into effect 
in September, 1956. Alumni will wish to know the relation¬ 
ship of these changes and 
their effect upon Columbia 
College. 

In the past decade Columbia 
salaries, which have increased 
about twelve per cent, have 
not kept pace with living 
costs. More serious, however, 

Columbia salaries have not 
kept pace with those of many 
other universities. From a 
position of leadership in aca¬ 
demic salaries Columbia has 
slipped back or has been over¬ 
taken by a number of insti¬ 
tutions. This has been a Lawrence H. Chamberlain 
source of concern to all of us. We could not forget that 
Columbia’s rise to eminence as one of the world’s great 
universities occurred during the period when its salary scale 
was second to none. 

The Ford gift will provide additional income of approxi¬ 
mately $150,000 a year. By itself this amount could not 
provide a substantial increase in faculty pay but coupled 
with the tuition increase it has made possible a ten per 
cent increase which represents an important first step to¬ 
ward regaining for Columbia a place among the leaders in 
the salary scale of their faculties. 



Increase Is 
Effective 
On July 1 

Columbia teacheis, frop), 
full-time instructors to pro¬ 
fessors, will receive salary in¬ 
creases of ten per cent 
“across the board,” with ad¬ 
ditional “appropriate adjust¬ 
ments for merit” in many 
cases, it has been announced 
by University President 
Grayson Kirk. The general 
increase will affect those 
whose salaries are less than 
$12,000. The merit increases 
will apply to selected teachers 
in all the academic grades. 

This action, effective July 
1, 1956, has been made pos¬ 
sible by the “magnificent” 
gift of $3,100,000 to Colum¬ 
bia by the Ford Foundation, 
plus an increase in tuition 
fees next autumn from $25 to 
$30 a point. Columbia will use 
the earned income on the 
gift, which has been invested 
—adding to that sum the 
amount realized by the tui¬ 
tion increase—to support the 
faculty raise, according to 
the president. 

“The Ford gift alone, or the 


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Rodgers and Hammerstein and their latest Broadway production were recalled nostalgically at 
the Alexander Hamilton Dinner in April. Pictured here are some of the leading participants in 
the evening’s gala program. Seated is Hamilton Medal recipient, Richard Rodgers ’23. Standing, 
1 to r: Dr. Frederick Ellison Lane ’28; Wayne Van Orman ’28; Oscar Hammerstein ’16, Hamilton 
Medal co-recipient; Clifton Fadiman ’25; William T. Taylor ’21; and Herman Axelrod '/X 
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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


MAY, 1956 


Columbia Today 


May 1956 


PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI 
AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 
FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS 


EDITOR 
Jerrj Miller 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Hus:h J. Kelly ’26. Chairman 

Charles A. Wagner *23 Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41 

Alfred D. Walling ’24 J. Robert Cherneff ’42 

Thomas M. Jones ’37 George L. McKay, Jr. ’48 

Herbert C. Rosenthal ’38 Gene R. Hawes ’49 


OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Wayne Van 
Orman ’28; Vice President, Aaron W. Berg ’24; Secretary, John 
S. Heru’y ’30; Treasurer, Berton J. E>elmhorst ’29. 


DeanChamberlain 

V (Continued from Page 1) 

All of us can find reason for encouragement in the fact 
that the teachers’ burden has been eased this way. 

What will be the effect of the tuition increase upon our 
student body? For those who might be forced to leave the 
College because of the tuition increase, adequate provision 
has been made for financial assistance. Others will, I believe, 
meet the additional cost because they will recognize the ne¬ 
cessity of solving the faculty salary problem at Columbia. 

Will the increase mean the.loss of important ground 
that we have gained through the Columbia College Fund? 
It will not—^for three reasons: 

1. A substantial portion of the tuition increase will be 
turned back to the College for scholarship assistance. These 
funds will enable us to adjust existing and new scholarship 
grants so that neither our present scholarship program nor 
that planned for the years immediately ahead will be 
jeopardized. 

2. We are steadily improving our administration of 
scholarship grants so as to maximize the help we can pro¬ 
vide with a given amount of funds. No individual should 
receive more than he needs while another worthy student 
receives nothing or too little. Through the aid of the College 
Scholarship Service we can now determine more accurately 
than ever before a student’s actual financial need. This will 
enable us in many instances to reduce the amount of a 
scholarship grant without imposing hardship. More indi¬ 
viduals will thus be assisted with a given amount of money. 
Dollar stretching of this sort is necessary if we are to dis¬ 
charge our responsibility to our students, our alumni and 
to Columbia. 

3. Increasingly, we think of financial assistance in broad¬ 
er terms than outright grants alone. In many instances we 
believe that a judicious combination of part time job, loan 
and outright grant provides the best financial program for 
a student. Loans are not popular but when included as an 
integral part of a comprehensive plan for financing a college 
course a reasonable loan can have educational as well as 
financial value. Columbia College does not wish to “buy” 
students nor does it believe that any student should be given 
a “free ride.” 

We want to select our students exclusively on the basis 
of ability and promise without considering financial need. 
Only in this way can we subordinate minor considerations 
to major ones. Once the young man is admitted we turn to 
the practical question of finances. We try to see how the 
boy, his parents and Columbia College can pool their re¬ 
sources and work out a plan that will see him through his 
four college years. 


A Message From the Secretary 

Members are urged to attend the annual meeting of the 
Association of the Alumni of Columbia College in the Colum¬ 
bia University Club, 4 West 43rd Street, New York City, on 
Monday, May 21 at 5:30 p.m. Officers and members of the 
Standing Committee will be elected, and such other regular 
business as shall come before the meeting will be transacted. 

The customary reports of the officers will be given. It is 
expected that following the meeting many of those present 
will remain for cocktails and dinner. 

John S. Henry ’30 
Secretary 


The ‘New’ Earl Hall 


By DANIEL FELDMAN ’34 
and 

RAYMOND PATOUILLET ’38 

“Erected for the Students 
That Religion and Learnin; 
May Go Hand in Hand and 
Character Grow with Knowl¬ 
edge.” These words, inscribed 
over its entrance, eloquently 
describe the purpose of Earl 
Hall. 

Columbia students of today 
find in Earl Hall a place to 
explore basic values and de¬ 
velop spiritual maturity. Aid¬ 
ing in this important en¬ 
deavor are the Chaplain, As 
sistant Chaplain, and nine 
counselors representing four 
major religious traditions: 
Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, 
Roman Catholic, and Protes¬ 
tant. These eleven men have 
offices in Earl Hall. 

The New Look 

If you enter Earl Hall from 
the campus side and go up the 
long steps to the second floor 
you are impressed with the 
fresh paint and new look (new 
furniture and drapes, new tile 
flooring of the main lounge). 
Miss Elizabeth C. Holly, the Ex¬ 
ecutive Secretary of Earl Hall, 
whose desk is immediately to 
the left of the entrance way, 
greets you and makes you feel 
at home. 

The Chaplain, Rev. John M. 
Krumm, is no longer on the 
third floor as were his dis¬ 
tinguished predecessors Rev. 
Raymond C. Knox, Rev. Stephen 
F. Bayne, Jr., and Rev. James 
A. Pike. Chaplain Krumm’s of¬ 
fice is the sole office on the 
second floor. The rest of the 
floor contains three meeting 
rooms for student use, and the 
kitchen, modern and equipped 
to serve up to 65 for a dinner. 

The main meeting room is 


Messrs. Feldman and Patouil- 
let are, respectively, chairman 
and past chairman of the 
association’s Campus Religious 
Activities Sub-Committee. 


decorated and furnished with 
Venetian blinds, wall to wall 
drapes, indirect lighting and 
new furniture in tasteful neutral 
shades, and this room, as well 
as the counselors’ suites are 
places where students like to 
meet. 

The stairway leading from the 
lounge down to the first floor 
is only one of three approaches 
to the suites of the religious 
counselors and the Assistant 
Chaplain. The counselors x;- 
cupy the space formerly held 



Rev. John M. Krumm 

by the medical offices which 
have been removed to St. Luke’s 
Hospital. A new campus en¬ 
trance has been made on the 
south side of the building to 
supplement the Broadway cam¬ 
pus entrance to Earl Hall. 

Rabbi Is id or B. Hoffman, 
Counselor to Jewish Students, is 
the dean of the staff, having 
been at Earl Hall for over 20 
years. He is a member of the 
class of 1920 of the College. The 
Eastern Orthodox advisors are 
the Very Rev. Georges Florovsky 
and Rev. John Psillas. While 
provision for a Jewish, Roman 
Catholic, and Protestant coun¬ 
selor was made in 1925, the 
Eastern Orthodox Advisership 
was created in 1950. 

Father John K. Daly is Coun¬ 
selor to Roman Catholic Stu¬ 
dents, and Father Benjamin 
Nunez, Associate Counselor. 
Father Nunez’s particular in¬ 
terest is the Spanish speaking 



Roman Catholic student com¬ 
munity who have formed the 
Latin-American Newman Club. 

Across the hall are the offices 
of the Associate Counselors to 
Protestant Students, Rev. J. 
Gordon Chamberlin, Rev. Don¬ 
ald W. Herb, Advisor to Luther¬ 
an Students and Rev. John W. 
Pyle, Advisor to Episcopal Stu¬ 
dents. Rev. Eugene Goepchius, 
Assistant Chaplain, shares an 
office with Rev. Pyle and serves 
as Advisor to the Interfaith 
Council. 

Volunteers Needed 

Counselors conduct discussion 
groups in the dormitories and 
call upon individual students. 
They conduct retreats or fresh- 
! man weekend programs away 
I from the campus, 
j The Sub-Committee on Cam¬ 
pus Religious Activities of the 
I Alumni Association is actively 
concerned with Earl Hall, and 
its influence on the college 
commmunity. The main purpose 
of the Sub-Committee is to keep 
the alumni, through the Stand¬ 
ing Committee, informed of 
campus religious activity and to 
encourage alumni participation 
and support of its activity. 

The Sub-Committee welcome.s 
the aid of interested alumni of 
Columbia College and invites 
such alumni to serve on it. The 
Chaplain and his staff would be 
delighted in obtaining individual 
alumni interest and aid in areas 
of special interest. 

The remodeling job of Elarl 
Hall, so well begun and ad¬ 
vanced through a grant from 
Jacob R. Shiff Foundation and 
a gift from the Lutheran 
Church is still far from com¬ 
plete. The auditorium, for ex¬ 
ample, needs new flooring, a 
new lighting system, a curtain 
for the stage, a movie projector 
and a grand piano. An upright 
piano and tile covering for the 
campus level floor are also 
needed. 

If you wish to participate 
in the program through a 
financial contribution, a check 
made out to the Earl Hall In¬ 
terfaith Committee and sent* to 
Chaplain John M. Krumm at 
Earl Hall would certainly be 
welcome. 

While many of the needs 
mentioned above are of a ma¬ 
terial nature, meeting them will 
help the Earl Hall staff to bet¬ 
ter meet the spiritual needs of 
Columbia students as well as to 
more richly fulfill the hope of 
the inscription over Earl Hall. 


RECOGNITIOIS FOR FUND SFRVICF 

Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain, right, presents to Theodore C. 
Garfiel ’24 the Dean’s Award for Alumni Service. Mr. Garfiel 
is chairman of the executive committee of the 5th College 
Fund. The award — a lapel pin bearing a gold Columbia Lion 
set on a blue bar — is given to alumni who have served the 
College Fund for three years, with a minimum of one year as 
a class chairman or member of the executive committee. This 
year’s presentations took place at the “kick-off” meeting of 
the 5th Fuad in the Columbia University Club in February. 


ColumbiaBand 
Goes on Tour 

Concerts in two New York 
suburban communities were 
given this month by the Colum¬ 
bia University Band. The con¬ 
certs mark the first time in re¬ 
cent years that the Band has 
scheduled out-of-town appear¬ 
ances as a feature of its regular 
spring series. 

The inaugural concert was 
held early this month at the 
Westchester Women’s Club in 
Mount Vernon, under the aus¬ 
pices of the Church of the Good 
Shepherd. The Band also has 
appeared at the Leonia (New 
Jersey) High School. 

In addition, the Band has 
held regular Friday afternoon 
on-campus programs, including 
concerts on the Low Library 
plaza, and the Barnard lawn. 

The University Band is com¬ 
prised almost exclusively of un¬ 
dergraduates. Its director is 
Hunter N. Wiley. Co-managers 
are Jerome H. Freidenreich ’57 
and Sheldon Hendler ’57. 





























MAY, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Peg* 3 


Report Cites Need 
For More Scholarships 

In a 400-page report, commissioned by the College En¬ 
trance Examination Board, Assistant Dean Charles C. Cole, 


Jr. ’43, has proposed two steps to draw into colleges 200,000 
outstanding high school grad 


uates “lost” to higher educa¬ 
tion each year. Entitled “En¬ 
couraging Scientific Talent”, 
the report, to be published by 
the College Entrance Exam¬ 
ination Board this spring, 
recommended 100,000 addi¬ 
tional scholarships for im¬ 
mediate conservation of the 
nation’s intellectual resources 
at the 18-year-old level. 

Need Guidance Program 
In addition, there is urgent 


talented high school graduates 
of 1955. A random sample of 
32,750 graduates, or 2.6 per cent 
of the public school seniors in 
the nation, was used, and these 
were given an aptitude test. 
Then, questionnaires were as¬ 
signed to be filled out by the 
top 30 per cent on the test. 

From the questionnaires came 
confirmation of the theory that 
interest in college is greater 
among students from profes¬ 
sional groups than from farm 
and labor classes, and that 
there is a direct relationship be¬ 
tween interest in college and in¬ 


need for a revitalized program tellectual ability. The survey 
of guidance to insure that an- ‘^Iso indicated that interest in 
other 100,000 high school grad- > college is closely related to par- 
uates of superior ability acquire ; eutal income, parents education,, 
^ the desire for j the academic plans of the re- 
ii; advanced edu- spondent’s “best friend” among 
i cation which’ tiis classmates, and, significant- 
they now lack, I ly. the extent of high school 

t o ' g'^idance. 



: according 
; the report. 

The report 
formed the 
j basis for Dean 
Cole’s address 
' at Deans’ Day 
Charles Cole, Jr. in February, 
entitled “College for Whom? 
College for What?” He also 
cited the report in a recent talk 
CMi trends in the college popula¬ 
tion before the Standing Com¬ 
mittee of the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion. 

Insufficient financial backing 
and lack of “college going” mo¬ 
tivation are given by tlhe report 
as the chief causes why each 
year some 200,000 American high 
school graduates in the upper 
30 per cent bracket of ability 
are lost to the colleges. In an 
interview, Dean Cole declared 
that these thousands of stu¬ 
dents who stop at the high 
school level represent “a serious 


‘Motivate to College’ 

The report concludes that the 
big challenge in utilization of 
our intellectual resources lies in 
! the area of “motivating to col- 
1 lege” bright youngsters who 
now, for economic, sociological, 
psychological or parental rea¬ 
sons, have never seriously con¬ 
sidered higher education or a 
professional career. 

Among recommendations of 
the report is the inauguration 
of motivation experiments in 
high schools to determine why 
able students fail to go on to 
college; and in the colleges, to 
discover reasons for the failures 
in motivation which cause 
bright undergraduates to drop 
out before graduation. Another 
suggestion is that small high 
schools pool resources with their 
neighboring institutions in order 
to provide enriched curricula for 
iall students and especially 


loss of intellectual resources | ^ ^ ^ 

that is all the more ironic in I>ean Cole asserted that the 
the face of current and future ^ higher education of these 
bulging enrollments.” ability you»g persons is 

To reach his findings, Dean'serious in the light of the cur- 
Cole engaged the Educational i rent shortage of adequately 
Testing Service to do research trained i>ersonnel at a time when 
cm the vocational aspirations j our way of life is becoming in- 
and college financial plans of creasingly complex. 


^Enchanted Evening^ 

In an affair that skillfully blended the spotlight of Broadw^ay with the tradition of 
alma mater, Columbia last month honored tyvo of its famous alumni. The occasion w’as the 
1956 Alexander Hamilton Dinner on April 4 th in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Those hon¬ 
ored were Richard Rodgers ’23 and Oscar Hammerstein ’16, who received that night the 
College’s highest award, the Alexander Hamilton medal. The bronze medal is awarded 


annually by the Alumni Association to an alumnus or faculty member for “distinguished 
service and accomplishment in * ^ 
any field of human endeavor.” 

Two medals representing the 
same award were struck for this 
year’s winning pair. 

From the moment a 26-piece 
orchestra struck up the March¬ 
ing Song to the final benedic¬ 
tion, the evening was a kaleide- 
scope of songs, laughter, nos¬ 
talgia and moving tribute. The 
nearly 900 alumni and guests 
attending heard the songwriang 
team lauded by University Pres¬ 
ident Grayson Kirk, and other 
friends and associates. They 
heard fellow alumni recall days 
of yore on the campus. And 
throughout the evening they 
heard the melodies of Dick 
Rodgers and the lyrics of “Oc” i 
Hammerstein — from Varsity 
Show to “Pipe Dream” — per¬ 
formed by Broadway entertain¬ 
ers. 

President’s Tribute 



Joseph L. Mankiewicz ’28 traces the fabulous career of the team 
of Rodgers and Hammerstein from “Oklahoma” to “Pipe 
Dream”. Mr. Mankiewicz, Academy Award winning producer- 
director-writer, was one of an illustrious group of alumni who 
spoke in tribute to the two giants of the American musical 
theatre at the Alexander Hamilton Dinner. 


On the dias was an assemblage 
of previous Medal recipients, 
including Dean Emeritus Harry 
J. Carman, Dr. Calton J. H. 
Hayes ’04, Major General Wil¬ 
liam J. Donovan ’05, and Frank 
S. Hogan ’24, as well as univer¬ 
sity and college officials. 

President Kirk, introduced to 
the audience by Dinner Chair¬ 
man Frederick Ellison Lane ’28, 
declared that the musical team 
“have very richly earned the 
right to join the small but dis¬ 
tinguished group who proceed 
them as medal recipients.” 

Observing that the pair have 
“lifted the hearts of millions,” 
Dr. Kirk went on to say: “These 
two men may not realize it, but 
they know more than many a 
learned doctor about the cure 
for the tension of our times.” 
He added that their work was 
“discriminating and in good 
taste,” and demonstrated that 
good entertainment “does not 
need to be stuffy any more than 
it needs to be shoddy or vulgar.” 

Clifton Fadiman, ’25, critic, 


essayist and television person¬ 
ality, served as master of cere- 
monies for a ninety-minute 
salute to Rodgers and Hammer- 
stein, “From Morningside to 
Bali Hai.” The songs included 
the lyrics written by the late 
Lorenz M. Hart ’18. He and Mr. 
Rodgers had made their debut 
in the 1920 Varsity Show “Fly 
With Me.” 

Early phases of the medalists’ 
careers were discussed by Her¬ 
man Axelrod ’15, who collabor¬ 
ated with Mr. Hammerstein on 
the 1917 Varsity Show “Home 
James,” and by Frederick D. 
Lascoff ’21, a member of the 
cast of “Fly With Me.” 

Milestones in the collabora¬ 
tion of Rodgers and Hammer¬ 
stein were recounted by Howard 
Dietz ’17 and Joseph L. Man¬ 
kiewicz ’28. 


eminence in their chosen field- 
men of Columbia.” 

Upon the presentation of the 
Alexander Hamilton Medal by 
Mr. Van Orman, the two re¬ 
cipients each spoke briefly but 
warmly of their association with 
Columbia. Mr. Hammerstein ae- 
scpibed as a red letter day the 
time that Professor Carl Van 
Doren implied that he ought to 
be a writer instead of a lawyer. 

Mr. Rodgers reminisced about 
the 1920 Varsity Show, which 
played for a week in the Aster 
Hotel. He declared that he 
learned more in that week about 
the tools of his trade, than he 
ever could ^have learned at any 
other school. 

“Columbia gave me a happy 
life,” said Mr. Rodgers, and then 
added with pointed good humor, 
“just as happy as Oscar’s.” 



^FORVM ON democracy: in action 


Secondary school students from fifteen states are briefed on activities on the trading floor of the 
New York Stock Exchange. The day’s tour of Wall Street was part of the eighth annual Forum 
on Democracy in February, a three day program of lectures, symposiums and tours, jointly 
sponsored by the Alumni Association and the Dean’s Office. Another highlight of the day was a 
luncheon meeting in the Downtown Athletic Club, hosted by Roscoe C. Ingalls, ’12. Mr. Ingalls 
has underwritten many of the forums. 


‘The Note of Columbia’ 

A tribute by Herman Wouk 
’34, author, was read by Alumni 
Association President Wayne 
Van Orman ’28. Mr. Wouk, who 
could not be present, spoke 
glowingly of the College, de¬ 
scribing the school as "uniquely 
saturated with the sounds and 
the sights, the rhythms and the 
values, of civilization as it ac¬ 
tually exists today.” He cited 
to advantage its location in New 
York City, observing that “the 
best things of the moment were 
outside the rectangle of Colum¬ 
bia; the best thing of all human 
history and thought were inside 
the rectangle.” 

Turning to Rodgers and Ham¬ 
merstein, Mr. Wouk in his trib¬ 
ute declared that “a peculiarly 
civilized note, the note of Co¬ 
lumbia, has informed their 
work.” He went on to say: 
“Broadway canniness, in these 
men, has been enriched and cor¬ 
rected by a certain depth and 
range of interest ... In this 
they have not been so much 
sophisticated, as wise; not so 
much clever, as civilized.” 

Mr. Wouk concluded: “For 
this unique quality in the wond-. 
erful body of work of Rodgers 
and Hammerstein, their alma 
mater, Columbia College, can 
justly claim them as her own. 
And so tonight the Alexander 
Hamilton Award goes to exactly 
the kind of men for whom it 
was desi^inated; men of the first 


New Aid For 
Undergrads 

Dean Lawrence H. Chamber- 
lain announced this month the 
establishment of the Mrs. Rich¬ 
ard Steinschneider Scholarship 
Fund. Mrs. Steinschneider’s hus¬ 
band is a member of the class 
of 1919. 

The Dean said that endow- 
.ment income will be realized 
from two gifts totaling $15,120, 
contributed jointly by Mr. and 
Mrs. Steinschneider to the Col¬ 
lege Fund in 1954 and 1955. The 
gifts were credited to Mr. Stein- 
schneider’s class. 

The income will support an 
annual scholarship for a “de¬ 
serving student who cannot 
through his own resources meet 
the full cost of his under¬ 
graduate education,” according 
to the Dean. He added that at 
the “express wish” of Mr. and 
Mrs. Steinschneider, primary 
consideration will be given to 
students who do not necessarily 
have the “highest scholarship or 
leadership records, but show 
promise of future improvement 
and usefulness.” 

Mr. Steinschneider, a member 
of Sigma Nu, rowed Junior Var¬ 
sity and Varsity. He is affiliated 
with C. C. Yegan ’26, as a finan¬ 
cial consultant on automobile 
financing to banks. y 


















Page 4 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


MAY, 1956 


The Ivy League Colleges 


By 

HKNKY MORTON ROBINSON 
’23C, M.A. ’24 

(Here is the second install¬ 
ment of Mr. Robinson’s article 
on the Ivy League, reprinted 
by special permission from 
HOLIDAY, copyright 1955, by 
the Curtis Publishing Company.) 


At this point I must pause to 
consider the possible effect of 
my remarks upon the loyal sons 
of Turpentine Tech and Moline 
Subnormal. 


Experience vyarns me that 
these gentlemen will spray 
some mean letters in my di¬ 
rection. Here’s how a couple 
of them will run: “Your article 
was mighty saddening to one 
like me who missed schooling in 
the Ivy League, I almost cried 
out loud while driving my Cadil¬ 
lac to the bank.’’ Or again: 
“Happened to read your article 
while waiting for a shave at our 
local tonsorial parlor. You 
make a lot of fancy statements 
about the superiority of the 
Ivy League but you don’t back 
them up with concrete proofs.’’ 

JVY LEAGUE ENDOWMENTS 


I had hoped to avoid this em¬ 
barrassing matter of “concrete 
proofs” because it may suggest 
a purse-proud emphasis on 
handsome architecture and 
huge endowments. It would be 
absurd, of course, to speak of 
any college as wealthy; the 
Augustan era of great benefac¬ 
tors — Harkness, Flagler and 
leaker—is forever fled, and all 
privately endowed colleges are 
relatively poor. But in the mat¬ 
ter of material resources the 
Ivy League colleges have been 
comparatively fortunate. 

Harvard has an endowment of 
$220,000,000: Yale $130,000,000; 
and Columbia $113,000,000. 
Princeton struggles along with 
$61,000,000; Cornell with $52,- 
000,000; Pennsylvania with 
$44,000,000; while Dartmouth 
and Brown must make ends 
meet with $34,000,000 and $29,- 
000.000 respectively. By con¬ 
trast, consider the financial 
plight of Guildford (N. C.) with 
an endowment of slightly over 
$1,000,000. But even Guildford 
is relatively affluent; of the two 
thousand senior colleges in the 
United States, approximately 


About This Article 

In the first instaUment, zi>hich appeared in our February issue. 
Henry Morton Robinson observed modestly that “ivhen a young 
man 'wants a superlative education he usually comes Fast to get it.” 

Ignoring seismograph warnings across the Alle- 
ghanies, the author plunged on to defend higher 
educational standards—as opposed to lowering 
the gates—with eloquent fervor. 

"Keen competition and emphasis on profici¬ 
ency,” he declaimed, "are, and always haz e been 
the guarantees of superiority in Pig League 
baseball, Big Ten football, or Izy League edu¬ 
cation.” 

Mr. Robinson did rejoice for “the pippins 
from Hayfork High" who add a regional flavor 
to the student body, observing that every en¬ 
couragement—including scores of regional scholarships — is c.r- 
tended to quality students from hither and yon. And he noted 
with pride that despite the “instructor’s probing questions, and 
damned little leniency anywheref’ only tzvo per cent of the stu¬ 
dents flunk out. Here is zvhere the Ivy League policy of careful 
selection pays dividends, Mr. Robinson concludes. 



M. Robinson , 


eighteen hundred are obliged to 
count their blessings in nickels 
and dimes. 

The Ivy colleges, with re¬ 
sources totaling $700,000,000, at¬ 
tract the best teachers and 
maintain huge libraries and 
guperb physical plants. Viewed 
merely as pieces of real estate, 
Harvard, Yale, Columbia and 
Princeton are. each in its own 
way, eye-satisfying develop¬ 
ments — handsome academic 
landscapes fitted with acces¬ 
sories that don’t come cheaply. 
Small wonder that the visitor 
from Turpentine Tech hugs the 
illusion that the Ivy League 
colleges are tenanted solely by 
the sons of millionaires. 

The actual facts reveal that 
nearly half of all Ivy League 
undergraduates either hold 
part-time .iobs or receive finan¬ 
cial aid through loans and 
scholarships. With such assist¬ 
ance to offer young men who 
can meet the ru.gged entrance 
requirements the Ivy group ex¬ 
ercises a virtual monopoly over 
the too ten per cent of secon¬ 
dary-school graduates. How 
could it be otherwise? Would 
any brilliant young man yolun- 
‘ tarily exile himself to a four- 


I year at Wofford or Idaho State, 
if he could win a scholarship at 
Darthmouth or Cornell? Anyone 
seeking a reason for Ivy League 
superiority will find part of his 
answer in the quality of schol¬ 
arship students recruited from 
the nation’s most promising 
material. 

Among the special advantages 
of an Ivy League education is 
the unpurchasable element of 
academic freedom. ’Iliis free¬ 
dom has two ma.ior aspects: it 
protects the institution itself 
against outside interference or 
control, and defends in fiercely 
militant fashion the scholar’s 
traditional right to free inquiry 
and independent expression. 
The first of these freedoms is 
based in this country on the 
famous Dartmouth College case 
argued by Daniel Webster be¬ 
fore the Superior Court in 1818. 
Two years previously, the New 
Hampshire State legislature 
had voted to change the name 
of the college, seize its physical 
plant and appoint a new board 
of trustees. Webster, a loyal 
Dartmouth alumnus as well as 
the greatest constitutional law¬ 
yer of his time, fought these in¬ 


Faculty Salaries Go Up July 1 


(Continued from Page 1) 
tuition rise along, would not 
have sufficed,” Dr. Kirk explain¬ 
ed. ‘Together they assure a re¬ 
sult which will provide for the 
continuation, and enhancement, 
of the most important value 
this, or any university, can pos¬ 
sess — distinguished teaching.” 

Dr. Kirk added that an appro¬ 
priate increase will be made in 
scholarship funds available to 
qualified students requiring fi¬ 
nancial aid because of the tui¬ 
tion rise. 

Faculty Lauds Grant 

Faculty reaction to the an¬ 
nouncement of the salary in¬ 
crease was enthusiastic. In the 
college, Professor Charles W. 
Everett, chairman of the Eng¬ 
lish Department, termed it “a 
real morale booster,” adding 
that “we can now face the fu¬ 
ture with optimism.” Lauding 
the “imagination, dramatic im¬ 
pact and sense of urgent con¬ 
cern” reflected in the adminis¬ 
tration’s action, the professor 
asserted that the increase “gives 
us hope that we can hold on to 
the younger scholars.” 

In this regard. Professor Ever¬ 
ett noted that since the war “it 
has been getting harder and 
harder bo keep good men in the 
college.” 

“For example, since 1947 there 
has been a twenty-five per cent 
loss of professional strength in 
the English Department,” the 
v*>rofessor declared. “Family cir- 
“cumstances were so pressing 


that some of our younger schol- | 
ars have been forced to move to 
institutions in tlrose areas where 
the cost of living is lower.” 

Observing that "our younger 
men are the pool from which 
our future leading scholars can 
be drawn,” Bernard W. Wishy 
’48, instructor in History, pointed 
out, “The Ford grant increases 
the college’s ability to benefit 
from their experience and their 
future.” 

Mr. Wishy continued: "It 
means, in effect, that our invest¬ 
ment in them and ttreir stake 
in us can now be spent at home, 
rather than in the evangelizing 
work for the Columbia idea that, 
in the past, too many of them 
have had to accept at institu¬ 
tions with higher salaries and 
lower costs.” 

Plays Vital Role 

Henry F. Graff, Associate Pro¬ 
fessor of History, appraising the 
Ford grant in relation bo the 
future of higher education, de¬ 
clared that “the gift comes as 
a significant recognition that 
private, high-quality education 
must continue to play an indis¬ 
pensable part in American life. 

"For college teachers every¬ 
where it is a token assurance 
that they will not suffer econo¬ 
mically merely because they fol¬ 
low a profession they enjoy, and 
would follow anyway regardless 
of the emolument,” Professor 
Graff concluded. 

With the “across the board” 
increases, full professors will re¬ 
ceive $ 10,000 to $18,000 for the 
academic year; associate profes¬ 
sors $6,500 to $10,000; assistant 


professors $5,000 to $6,500, and 
instructors $4,000 to $5,000. 

The action. Dr, Kirk explain¬ 
ed, applies to units of the Uni¬ 
versity Corporation. Teachers 
College, Barnard, the New York 
School of Social Work, and the 
College of Pharmacy are not 
members of the Corporation, al¬ 
though affiliated. 

"An analysis of cost of living 
figures in this region, and of 
tuition fees in other universities, 
has shown that the salary in¬ 
creases are fully warranted and 
that Columbia«has been lower 
than most of our sister institu¬ 
tions in the matter of charges,” 
Dr. Kirk said. 

Tuition Raise 

The tuition will increase to 
$900 annually. This plus $68 in 
fees will be the total expense to 
a Columbia student carrying a 
full program of fifteen points a 
semester. Dr. Kirk declared that 
“while our faculty salaries now 
place us in favorable position 
with respect to sister institu¬ 
tions, our tuition continues 
somewhat below that of a num¬ 
ber of comparable institutions.” 
He added that the average Co¬ 
lumbia student will now bear 
about 51 per cent of the cost of 
his education. The remaining 
49 per cent is being derived from 
endowment income and gifts. 

The president emphasized that 
increased allocation of funds 
has been provided for scholar- 
ships, adding that "inde¬ 
pendent higher education must 
continue such aid to the highly 
qualified young person who 
needs it.” 


trusions all the way up to the 
Supreme Court. 

In his summation before that 
august body. Webster pointed 
out that if state legislatures, or 
any other kind of pressure 
group, could, tinker with a col¬ 
lege charter, higher learning in 
the United States would be at 
the mercy of cranks and 
meddlers of every description. 

The Supreme Court agreed 
and handed down the historic 
decision that guarantees the in¬ 
violability of charters of private 
colleges. Today, no outside 
group or individual—however 
powerful or well-meaning—can 
dictate policy to an Ivy League 
president or board of trustees. 
It would be easier, I think, to 
blast the hinges off Fort Knox 
than to bully Grayson Kirk of 
Coumbia. Henry Wriston of 
Brown ( sizice this article was 
written Dr. Wriston has retired 
as president of Broicm) or their 
opposite numbers at the other 
Ivy League colleges. These men 
believe that their contract with 
society obliges them to resist—on 
moral, intellectual and constitu¬ 
tional grounds—any invasion of 
the university’s right to manage 
Its internal affairs. 

HARVARD’S POSITION 

This position was grimly 
tested during the recent show¬ 
down between Harvard’s Presi¬ 
dent Pusey and Sen. Joseph 
McCarthy. Late in 1953 Mc¬ 
Carthy discovered that a for¬ 
mer communist. Associate Pro- 
fesor Wendell H. Furry, was 
teaching physics at Harvard. 
At one point in his testimony 
b mre the McCarthy Committee, 
Furry pleaded the Fifth Amend¬ 
ment. although he had long 
since broken with communism 
and had made his position clear 
both to his colleagues and the 
Harvard Corporation. 

But this intramural settle¬ 
ment of the affair didn’t satisfy 
McCarthy. On November 6. 1953, 
he sent a telegram to President 
Pusey asking what action the 
university intended to take. i 

Pusey wired back that every¬ 
thing was under control at 
Cambridge, that Harvard had 
conducted its own research into 
Furry’s background and was 
content that Furry was not a 
spy nor presently a communist 
and that he had not attempted 
to indoctrinate his students. Hi.? 
telegram contained some simple j 
sentences indicating Harvard’s; 
awareness that academic and 
personal freedom are rather 
more difficult and important 
matters than the senator seem¬ 
ed to think them: 

Harvard is unalterahly 
opposed to Communism. It is 
dedicated to free inquiry by 
free men ... We deplore the 
use of the Fifth Amendment 
... But do not regard the use of 
this constitutional safeguard 
as a confession of guilt. 

(Note: Shortly after this, Furry waived 
reliance on the Fifth Amendment) 

Now deeply hurt by Harvard’s 
lack of concern about her own 
safety and its fusty old atti¬ 
tude toward the Constitution, 
McCarthy telegraphed: 

. . . Harvard will learn how 
reprehensible and unamerican 
the mothers and fathers of 
America consider this atti¬ 
tude . . . 

Something had to give way— 
and it wasn’t Pusey. At a time 
when Pentagon brass was shiv¬ 


ering like the tin jingles on a 
gypsy’s tambourine. Pusey 
neither ducked nor cowered. 
Quietly he repeated the gist of 
his first telegram. “. . . . I am 
content.” he finishecl coolly, “to 
stand on Harvard’s record . . .” 

At this writing. Harvard’s rec¬ 
ord still stands intact. Wendell 
H. Furry still holds his billet in 
the Physics Department. The 
mothers and fathers of Amer¬ 
ica confidently continue to pack 
their sons off to Cambridge, and 
everyone—including Marquette’s 
distinguished alumnus—seems to 
have caught Pusey’s point, i.e.: 
tliat Harvard is quite able to run 
its own show and, in fact, in¬ 
sists upon doing so. 

It would be fatuous to claim 
that academic freedom was in¬ 
vented—or is now monopolized— 
by Ivy League colleges. It is as 
old as Salamanca or Gottingen; 
theoretically it is the animating 
principle of colleges everywhere. 
Yet one of the tragedies of our 
time is the reluctance of many 
scholars to assert their heredi¬ 
tary independence of thought 
and speech. 

This timidity is understand¬ 
able, perhaps in those “de¬ 
nominational” s c h o ol s whose 
faculty members are expected to 
sneeze in unison whenever the 
prebendary takes snuff. And one 
can almost sympathize with the 
plight of teachers in state-con¬ 
trolled institutions where county 
politicians “vote the school 
money.” Caution is the watch¬ 
word in such places; any depar¬ 
ture from orthodoxy—in curri¬ 
culum, teaching methods, pub¬ 
lished findings, even in person¬ 
al reading matter—may cost a 
faculty member his job. 

FREEDOM OF INQUIRY 

The Ivy League scholar Is 
happily exempt from these 
frightening pressures. He speaks 
out and fears no one. He knows, 
moreover, that his president and 
board of trustees will back him 
up—even though they may not 
agree with his opinions. Such 
was the case when the late Prof. 
Charles A. Beard of Columbia 
published his epochal paper The 
Economic Interpretation of the 
U. S. Constitution. Screams of 
anguish arose from a press and 
public shocked by Beard’s thesis 
that motives of personal profit 
(rather than twenty-four-karat 
idealism) had swayed our 
•Founding Fathers. For a time, 
i Beard’s name was anathema; 
jingo patriots demanded his 
head on a platter. 

And what happened? President 
Butler of Columbia (who didn’t 
particularly like Beard or his 
teachings) yielded not one six¬ 
teenth of an inch in defending 
the historian’s right to 
state the facts as he saw them, 
Butler knew, as every college 
president knows that a scholar’s 
findings may be challenged or 
refuted—but if they are sup¬ 
pressed, the spirit of free in¬ 
quiry dies, and the university 
becomes a darkened temple, the 
haunt of stuffed owls. So Beard 
kept his job, and lived to see 
h i s “economic interpretation” 
accepted by scholars everywhere. 

Mr. Robinson's article will be 
concluded in the next issue of 
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MAY, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 5 


Record Alumni Attendance 


At Intellectual ^Field^ Day 

From Richard Hofstadter’s prediiction that anti-intellectualism has “passed its crest” 
to Nobel Prize winner Polykarp Kusch's ))elief that science will help to unite all men, the 
cross current of scholarly opinion at Dean’s Day in February provided a dazzling- display 
of intellectual fireworks. Some 600 alumni and their guests—a record crowd—flocked to 
classrooms and lecture halls on the campus for the all-day event sponsored by the Alumni 



The excitement of “a scholar’s adventure” is transmitted to a 
Deans’ Day audience by Associate Professor of English Quentin 
Anderson ’37. Professor Anderson was one of sixteen College 
faculty members who participated in a timely and provocative 
program on a wide range of subjects. 


Association, It was the tenth' 
such affair, with increased em¬ 
phasis this year on family at¬ 
tendance. 

Sixteen College faculty mem¬ 
bers participated in the stim 
ulating program. Topics, and 
viewpoints, ranged far and wide 
over the fields of economics, 
politics, foreign affairs, arts and 
letters, and the tribulations of 
suburban living and child rear¬ 
ing. 

Not everything was in the in¬ 
tellectual vein. There was a 
coffee hour in the morning, and 
luncheon was an informal af¬ 
fair with visitors scattering to 
John Jay cafeteria or neighbor¬ 
hood restaurants. At the after¬ 
noon’s close, alumni, their fam¬ 
ilies and friends danced and 
talked at a reception for the 
College Deans in John Jay Hall. 

In one of the best attended 
addresses of the day History 
Professor Richard Hofstadter 
cited the parodox of intellec¬ 
tuals being discredited by the 
populistic ideology they them¬ 
selves helped to propagate. Anti- 
intellectualism, declared the 
professor, is as fully a part of 
the country’s populist inheri¬ 
tance as it is of the business 
inheritance. 

Asks for Freedom 

Terming it ironic that the 
intellectual should be resented 
precisely because he is needed. 
Professor Hofstadter observed 
that the common man resorts to 
experts because of the complex¬ 
ity of modern life, granting 
them great advisory power in 
business, industry and govern¬ 
ment. Then, added the professor 
wryly, the common man turns 
around and blames the expert 
for this state of affairs. 

“What the intellectuals need 
above everything else,” he de- 
declared, “is to be free to go on 
with their work, without being 
forced to spend their time wor¬ 
rying about how they can de¬ 
fend the very conditions of theii- 
existence and sources of sup¬ 
port.” 

Through Polykarp Kusch’s ad¬ 
dress on the role of science ran 
a strong thread of romanticism. 
He called science the principal 
creative impulse of the age, pur¬ 
sued with the same fundamental 
purpose as the arts, Stating that 
science itself is beyond good or 


evil, the distinguished professor 
of physics and winner of the 
Nobel Prize last year, observed 
that if society uses the power 
of science for evil ends, the 
fault is ■ not with science but 
with the social structure- 

In a realistic appraisal of 
under-developed nations, Don¬ 
ald W. O’Connell ’37, assistant 
dean of the Graduate School of 
Business, said that these eco¬ 
nomies are reluctant to accept 
capitalist orthodoxy. Under-de¬ 
veloped in technology, work and 
management skills, they fear 
that industrialization with re¬ 
sultant competitive trade with 
the U. S. and Europe would be 
^’suicidaL” according to the 
Dean. 

Describing them as “economies 
in transition,” Dean O’Connell 
declared that these nations pre- 
f e r discriminatory economic 
treatment of industries, defend 
inflationary fiscal policies, and 
are sensitive to America’s criti¬ 
cism of expropriation and na¬ 
tionalization of private proper¬ 


ties. He added that in many 
cases, however, these are stop 
gap policies between economic 
primitivity and maturity. 

A renewal of interest in re¬ 
ligion was described by Rabbi 
Robert Gordis, who remarked 
that religious thought is “in¬ 
tellectually respectable for the 
first time in this century.” De¬ 
fining religion as both a body 
of ideas and institutions. Rabbi 
Gordis — who is adjunct pro¬ 
fessor of religion and former 
president of the Synagogue 
Council of America—called upon 
the individual to place the ideals 
above the vested interests of 
the institution to which he be¬ 
longs. Religion should be an 
influence, not a power, he de¬ 
clared. 

Other Ideas Expounded 

Other provocative ideas were 
presented to the alumni audi¬ 
ence by Fritz R. Stern, assistant 
professor of history, who traced 
Germany’s post - war recovery, 
and said that its defeat has 
given West Germany an eco¬ 
nomic and political stability 
never before enjoyed. Charles 
Wagley, Professor of Anthropol¬ 
ogy, declared that an under¬ 
standing of Latin American 
values and culture is funda¬ 
mental to proper interpretation 
of their internal affairs. 

Gathering in full force in Low 
Memorial Library for the con¬ 
clusion of the faculty program, 
the guests were greeted by Dr. 
Gilbert Highet, Anthon Profes¬ 
sor of Latin Language and T^it- 
erature, and Deans Lawrence H. 
Chamberlain and Nicholas McD. 
McKnight. As if to underscore 
the stimulating commentary 
provided by faculty members 
throughout the day, Dr. Highet 
observed that “bold and uncon¬ 
ventional teachers are often 
more effective than mild and 
gentle ones.” 

Chairman of the I>eans Day 
Committee was Randolph I. 
Thornton ’28. "Vice chairman in 
charge of Faculty Participation 
was Professor Peter M. Riccio 
’ 21 . 



Typifying the family spirit at Dean’s Day were the Delmhorsts: 
(1. to r.), son, Arthur; Mrs. Berton J. Delmhorst; Mr. Delmhorst 
’29C, treasurer of the Alumni Association; and son, George. 


ROAR LION ROAR 


From Washington comes word of the resignation of Chinese 
Ambassador V. K. Wellington Koo ’09. Dr. Koo first came to the 
nation’s capitol as his country’s minister in 1916. He is one of the 
three living members of the drafting commission of the old 
League of Nations covenant, and one of the drafters of the U.N. 
charter. 


“Old sprinters never really stop running,” 
observed The New York Times recently. The case 
in point: Lieut. Col. Benjamin W. Johnson ’37, 
who in his senior year ran the sixty-meter in¬ 
door dash in 6.6 seconds—a mark standing today. 
Col. Johnson has just been named deputy chief 
of the Freight Traffic Division at the Brooklyn 
Army Terminal. He will help supervise the move¬ 
ment of millions of tons of cargo dispatched 
each year through the Port of New York to 
American defense forces all over the world, 


Ben Johnson '37 



The man responsible for the Economic Report of the Presi¬ 
dent, which went to Congress in January, is Dr. Arthur F. Burns 
’25. His official title: chairman of the Council of Economic 
Advisers. 


Paul Governali ’43—one of Columbia’s all-time great football 

players-has been named football coach and assistant athletic 

director at San Diego State College, San Diego, Cal. Since 1949, 
Governali has been Lion backfield coach. While playing for the 
varsity in 1941-43, he compiled an outstanding record as the 
country’s top passer. 


Hermann J, Muller ’10, now on the faculty of Indiana Univer¬ 
sity, has been elected president of the American Humanist Associ¬ 
ation. Dr. Muller is a Nobel prize winner in genetics. 


A new program to stimulate public thinking on issues affect¬ 
ing United States action in world affairs is being launched by 
the Foreign Policy Association. Among those helping to develop 
the program nationally: Lester Markel ’14, Sunday Editor of The 
New York Times. The association is a nonprofit and nonpartisan 
organization founded to “alert and inform the American people 
on foreign affairs.” 

The election of George T. Hammond ’28 as president, Carl 
Byoir & Associates, public relations, has been announced. Mr. 
Hammond was formerly executive vice president of the company. 


For the next eighteen months or so, mail for George Adams 
’23 will be forwarded from Washington, D.C. to La Paz, Bolivia. 
Dr. Adams, who is medical director of the Division of Interna¬ 
tional Health, U.S. Public Health Service, is on special assignment 
as chief of the Division of Health and Sanitation, U.S. Operations 
Mission to Bolivia. 

A long-time staff member of the American Bankers A.ssocia- 
tion retired in January. He is Thomas B. Paton’ 11, ’13L, the 
Association’s assistant general counsel, with 37 years service. 


Donald L. Reynolds ’33, 35J, has been appointed editor-in- 
chief of the “Industrial Bulletin,” monthly news magazine of the 
New York State Department of Labor, 

The general chairman of the 1966 fund appeal of the Fed¬ 
eration of Protestant Welfare Agencies is Donald B. Tansill ’19, 
Mr, Tansill is president of M. Lowenstein & Sons, Inc., textiles. 


Two top posts at the United States Hoffman Machinery Cor¬ 
poration are now held by Hyman Marcus ’32. Elected chairman 
recently, Mr. Marcus will continue to serve as president of the 
widely diversified firm, which manufactures everything from 
cleaning and pressing equipment to guided missiles. A former 
mathematics teacher, Mr. Marcus hurried through the College so 
quickly that he received his degree at the age of 18. 

* « * 

Nationally known experts are tackling the growing challenge 
of corporation retirement programs and costs under the aegis of 
the newly formed Retirement Council. President of the Council 
is Millard C. “Tex” Faught ’38 who heads up The Faught Com¬ 
pany, Inc., management consultants. Dr. Faught is also president 
of his class. 

4: « « 

The International Cooperation Administra¬ 
tion has announced the appointment of Peter 
Grimm ’ll as director of its operations mission to 
Italy. Mr. Grimm is chairman of the board of 
the New York real estate firm of William A. 
White & Sons. He is president of the Columbia 
Associates, and a member of the Columbia Col¬ 
lege Council. 

Murray I. Gurfein ’26, a New York attorney 
and civic leader, has been elected president of 
Peter Grimm '11 United Hias Service, the Jewish international 
migration agency. Long active in Jewish communal activities, Mr. 
Gurfein served as chief assistant to former Gov. Thomas E. 
Dewey, when the latter was District Attorney. 

The financial community took note in March of the listing 
of Argus Cameras, Inc. on the Big Board. President of the Michi¬ 
gan firm is Robert E. Lewis ’29. 

John Gassner ’24, critic, teacher and anthologist, has been 
named first Sterling Professor of Play writing at Yale School of 
Drama. Dr, Gassner has been conducting advanced playwriting 
courses at Columbia. 

0 * * 

Lawrence A. Wien ’25, New York attorney, is serving as na¬ 
tional chairman of the Louis Brandeis centennial fund at Brandeis 
University in Waltham, Mass. 























COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


MAY, 1956 


Page 6 


Know Them? 

Can you recogrnize these four 
distinguished alumni as they 
appeared in “Columbian” the 
year they were graduated from 
the College? Check your 
guesses against the answers 
on page 7. 


News From the Alumni Classes 



1911. Vice-president, junior 
class. Class football squad and 
hockey team. Kings Crown, 
Rowing Club and Track 
Association. 



1920. Glee Club; chairman, 
Soph Song Committee. Leader 
in junior year. Member of 
Soph Triumph Committee. 



1905 

The Class sponsored a table 
for undergraduates at the Alex¬ 
ander Hamilton Dinner on April 
4. 

On Commencement Day, Tues¬ 
day, June 5, a Reunion will be 
held in the Older Graduates 
Room in Hamilton Hall on the 
campus, followed by the Com¬ 
mencement Day Luncheon at 
12:00. At 6:30 that evening a 
Class dinner will be held in the 
Columbia University Club, 4 
West 43rd Street. 

Last Fall members received 
reprints of Alumni Secretary 
j Watkin’s page in the “Alumni 
News” entitled “The Golden 
Boys.” The article described the 
50th Golden Reunion in 1955. 
Class President “Mit” Cornell re¬ 
ports that it “created great in¬ 
terest and appreciation.” 

1911 

The Spring Reunion will be 
held at Arden House, Harriman, 
New York, on the weekend be¬ 
ginning Friday, May 25. Cock¬ 
tails will be served at 6:00 P.M. 
on Friday, dinner at 7:00. The 
ladies will have a get acquaint¬ 
ed party that evening, while the 
Class holds its business meeting 
and elects officers for next five 
years. 

On Saturday there will be golf, 
tennis, swimming, fishing, and 
games. Saturday night will fea¬ 
ture cocktails, dinner, toasts, 
singing, etc. Religious services 
will be conducted Sunday morn¬ 
ing by a classmate, the Rev. 
Raymond Brock. 

1915 

The 41st Annual Dinner of the 
Class was held on April 2&th in 
the Columbia University Club. 

1916 

Class President Harold S. Hut¬ 
ton writes: 

“In the last issue of “Columbia 
College Today” it was announc¬ 
ed that the Class was planning 
a 40th Anniversary Reunion at 
Arden House. Definite arrange 
ments have been made for June 
1, 2, 3, but the site has been 
changed to Shawnee Inn, Shaw 
nee on Delaware, Pa. A Class 
survey indicated the latter was 
convenient to the largest num¬ 
ber. 

1921 

The 35th Class Reunion was 
held at Shawnee on Delaware 
Pa., May 4-6. 

1922 

The annual Class Dinner was 
held in the Columbia Univer¬ 
sity Club on April l^th. Guest 
speaker was Marcus Nadler ’22 
Bus., noted economist. 


1926. Manager of the freshman 
tennis team. Member of the 
Delta Phi fraternity. Archi¬ 
tecture ma.ior. 



1939. Managing editor of Spec¬ 
tator. Editorial staff of Jester. 
Gold Crown, Silver Crown. 
Varsity show publicity staff. 


1923 

The annual Class Dinner was 
held on Tuesday, May 8th, in 
the Columbia University Club. 
Chairman of the affair was 
“Sheriff” Joseph P. Brennan. 

The traditional award to a 
“distinguished classmate” was 
made at the Dinner. This year 
the recipient was Paul E. 
Lockwood, vice president of 
Schenley Industries, and form¬ 
er deputy commissioner of the 
New York State Public Service 
Commission. 

All classmates are invited to 
‘sit in” at the Monthly Lunch¬ 
eon Table in the Columbia Uni¬ 
versity Club, first Tuesday of the 
month, 12:30 P.M. Next meeting, 
June 5. 

1924 

The annual Class Dinner will 
be held on Wednesday, May 23. 
Dinner chairman is Horatio A. 
C. “Bill” Paige. 

A Class Newsletter is to be 
published, with A1 Walling serv¬ 
ing as its editor. Look for it 
soon! . . . Harold T. Muller is 
serving as Class Chairman for 
the 5th College Fund. Ben Edel- 
man is Vice Chairman. 

Class luncheons are being held 


in the Butler Room of the Co¬ 
lumbia University Club, first 
Tuesday of each month, 12:15 
P.M. Among those present at 
February and March luncheons 
were Dave Ackerman, Aaron 
Berg, Charles Crawford, Ward 
Cunningham, Ambrose Day, Ben 
Edelman, Abner Feinberg, Ted 
Garfiel, Bill Kopper, Harold Mul¬ 
ler, Dr. Jack Murphy, Bill Page, 
Joe Spiselman, Bill Taft and 
Otto W. Whitelock. 

1927 

The Annual Class Dinner was 
held on April 23 in the Colum¬ 
bia University Club. Guests at 
the affair were the two Class 
Endowed Scholars, Spencer F. 
August ’58, and William P. Vann 
’58. Class President Robert Cur¬ 
tiss discussed activities of the 
Society of Class Presidents, and 
the Alumni Association. 

Class Treasurer Herbert J. Ja¬ 
cobi has sent out a request for 
prompt payment of Class dues 
Harold L. McGuire, Chair¬ 
man of the Class Scholarship 
Committee, will report on each 
undergraduate who is benefiting 
from Class contributions to the 
Scholarship Fund, and the Col¬ 
lege Fund. 

Class Historian Philip Hum¬ 
phrey is proceeding with the 
compilation of a History, to be 
completed for the 30th Reunion 
in 1957. 

1928 

At the Class Dinner on Febru¬ 
ary 24, the following officers 
were elected: Frank H. Bowles, 
president; Egbert van Delden, 
vice president; Edward Holt, 
secretary; Jerry Brody, assistant 
secretary; Herbert Hutner, treas¬ 
urer; Dick Goetze, assistant 
treasurer . . . Tom Kerrigan and 
Jules Alkoff have been named 
Spring Reunion co-chairmen. 
Phil Liflander is Class Dinner 
Committee chairman. 

The Spring Reunion has been 
expanded to include ’29ers. It 
will be held on Friday, May 
25th, in the new Alumni Wing 
at Baker Field. Afternoon activ¬ 
ities will commence at 4:00, with 
Class Dinner to follow. Friendly 
rivalry will determine which 
class will receive credit for do¬ 
nating the kitchen in the Alum 
ni Wing of the Field House, and 
which the Ladies Re-st Room. 

1929 

A joint Spring Reunion of ’28 
and ’29 has been scheduled for 
Friday, May 25th, in the new 
Alumni Wing at Baker Field. 
Commencing at 4:00 P.M., after¬ 
noon activities will be followed 
by the Class Dinner. It is the 
first such affair to be sponsored 
jointly by the two Classes. Full 
details are being announced by 
Berton Delmhorst, chairman. 


1931 


The 25th Year Class is cele 
brating its anniversary with an 
impressive increase in contrib- 
tions to the College Fund, thanks 
in large part to growing mem¬ 
bership in its special anniver¬ 
sary “lOO-plus Club.” 

The only admission require¬ 
ment to ‘31’s club is a dona¬ 
tion or pledge of $100 or more 
to this year’s Fund. Where such 
a contribution is “too rich,” the 
Committee is urging classmates 
to donate $25 more than they 
did to any previous Fund. The 
target is to make ’31 the top 
class, both in dollars and donors. 

The biggest turnout since 
graduation is expected, too, at 
’3rs Twenty-Fifth Reunion 
scheduled for the weekend Of 
June 8rl0 at luxurious Guerney’s 
Inn, at Montauk, L.I., overlook¬ 
ing the ocean. The Class has 
reserved the entire hotel for its 
reunion which will be stag. 

Fishing, swimming, sailing, 
golf and tennis will be available 
A banner cocktail party and 
special souvenirs are planned. 
Class President Arthur V. Smith, 
chairman of the Reunion Com¬ 
mittee, urges classmates to 
make early reseiwations. His ad¬ 
dress: 60 East 42nd Street, New 
York 17, N.Y. 

1934 

Now being planned is the 
Spring Dinner at the Columbia 
Club on June 8th. Last year, 
better than 40 members of the 
class met for their annual 
“check-up” on each other. This 
year, indications are that an¬ 
other 40 will be present. 

The monthly luncheon round¬ 
table sessions in the Columbia 
University Club (second Wed¬ 
nesday of each month) regularly 
attract about a dozen members, 
some coming in from Connecti¬ 
cut, Long Island, New Jersey and 
Westchester. Bob Pitkin has vol¬ 
unteered to prepare brief reports 
of sessions, for distribution to 
members who canoiot attend. 

Bills for $2.00 a year Class dues 
have been mailed out. Members 
are urged to take advantage of 
the special offer of three years 
dues for $5.00. 

Dr. Daniel Feldman and John 
Grady are Class Co-Chairmen 
for the 5th College Fund. 

A gathering of Nassau County 
’34ers’ was held in the Roslyn, 
L.I. home of Bob Breitbart on 
April 14th. 


affair, complete with !K>fiball 


1938 

The annual “Beefstteak Din¬ 
ner” was held on April 5th at 
the new Alumni Wing of the 
Field House at Baker Field. As 
usual it drew classmates from 
all over the country. 

The Spring Picnic—a family 


game, fishing, horseback riding 
and cliff climbing—will take 
place on Saturday, May 26th, 
beginning at 11:00 A.M. Tlie site: 
Tex Faught’s ran-oh, Yale Farms, 
Greenwich, Conn, 

1941 

The Class Nominating Com¬ 
mittee met on March 1 in the 
Columbia University Club, un¬ 
der the chairmanship of Edward 
H. Weinberg. The following slate 
of nominees was unanimously 
chosen for a five-year term to 
begin at the 15th Anniversary 
Reunion, May 26th: For Presi¬ 
dent, Semmes Clarke; for Vice 
President, Arthur Weinstock; for 
Secretary, Douglas Gruber; for 
Treasurer, Fred Abdoo. 

The following nominees were 
selected for th*e Executive Com¬ 
mittee; Dr. August De Augusti- 
nis. Dr. Hugh Barber, Prof. Tlie- 
odore De Bary, Stanley Bedford, 
John T. Beaudouin, Joseph D. 
Coffee, Jr., Willis “Chips” 
Hughes, Charles Hurd, Jeffrey 
Jennings, Edward Malloy, John 
Mullins, Warren McGregor, Ro¬ 
bert T. Quittmeyer, Henry Til- 
den, Philip Van Kirk and Ed¬ 
ward H. Weinberg. 

The slate will be presented to 
the Class for approval at the 
15th Anniversary Reunion, May 
26, in the new Alumni Wing of 
the Field House at Baker Field. 

Jack Beaudouin has prepared 
a Class Questionnaire now on 
its way to each member. Answers 
will be tabulated and presented 
at the 15th Reunion . . . Bob 
Quittmeyer, 15th Reunion Chair¬ 
man, has sent reunion details 
to entire Class. Be sure to let 
him know soon that you and 
guest will attend. The affair is 
bound to be “great fun,” and 
should be the start of making 
’41 “a truly active Class.” 

1946 

Thirty nine classmates attend¬ 
ed the 10th Reunion Dinner in 
the Columbia University Club on 
February 10th, Guest of honor 
was Dean Nicholas McKnight 
who reminisced about the war 
years of the College, and the 
current scene. 

Class officers were elected for 
a five-year term, as follows; 
President, Bernard Sunshine; 
Vice Presidents, William Kane- 
hann, John A. Murphy, I. Meyer 
Pincus, Stewart Scheuer; Secre¬ 
tary, Harry Coleman; Treasurer, 
Donald Summa. 

A Class Newsletter reporting 
the results of the 10th Anniver¬ 
sary Questionnaire will be in 
the mails by the end of May. 


1948 

The Annual Spring Reunion 
will be held In the Alumni Wing 


(Continued on Page 7) 



Meeting Called to Order. 


On the first Thursday of every month 
the “Early Fifties Luncheon Club”— 
composed of alumni in the classes of ’50 through ’55—meets informally in the Columbia Univer¬ 
sity Club. Shown above are some of the members present at a recent luncheon. Left to right: 
Jay Sparkes ’53, George Lowry ’53, Mirek J. Stevenson ’53, Lewis Robins ’53, Lawrence Kobrin 
’54, Donald McDonough ’55, Peter Chase ’55, Donn Coffee ’55, Bernd Brecher ’54, ’55J, and James 
Phillips ’53. 






























MAY, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 7 


Thomas Witter Chrystie 

Because of the great esteem in which Thomas Witter Chrystie, 
class of 1924, was held, and in recognition of the tremendous 
contribution he made to Columbia and the community, it is 
1 deemed appropriate to reprint herewith the text 
I of a resolution adopted by the Standing Com- 
I mittee of the Alumni Association at its meeting 
i of March 22. Mr. Chrystie died on February 21 
I f at the age of 53. 

“RESOLVED that the Standing Committee 
i: of the Association of the Alumni of Columbia 
1: College, in lasting and fond memory of THOMAS 
I WITTER CHRYSTIE, 24C, ’26L, here records the 
i feeling of deep sorrow and loss which his death 
j has caused. 

__ “THOMAS CHRYSTIE, son and descendant 

of Columbia men, steeped in the law and love of Columbia gave 
unsparingly of his energy, of his time, of himself in winning his 
Varsity C, as a President of his class, as President of. the Alumni 
Association, as a Treasurer of the Columbia Law School Associa¬ 
tion, as a Secretary of the Columbia University Club, as a Chair¬ 
man of the Columbia College Council and as an Alumni Trustee 
of the University and as ever a protagonist for whatever was best 
for Columbia College. 

“Though our sorrow at his death will not leave us soon, we 
are encouraged that from the strong and lasting influence of his 
wisdom and of his life on the councils of our college and 
university that only advancement and good will result.** 


3th Fund Reports Progress 



Alumni Classes 


(Continued from Page 6) 

of the Field House at Baker Field 
on Saturday, May 19th. Details 
in the Class Newsletter. 

The Luncheon Club meets on 
the first Tuesday of each month. 
Recent luncheons have been 
held at 12:15 at the Brass Rail 
Restaurant, 100 Park Avenue. 
Meet at the bar. For infori.aa- 
tion on future get-togethers, 
phone George McKay at AX 7- 
6634. 

1949 

Class Luncheons are held on 
the first Tuesday of each month 
at 12:15 P.M. in the Columbia 
University Club. 

The Executive Committee is 
developing plans for the annual 
Class Dinner to be held in June. 
Classmates interr sted in helping 
to plan the affair should con¬ 
tact Donald Porter, B.B.D.O., 
383 Madison Avenue, New York 
17, N.Y. 

1951 

The Executive Committee an¬ 
nounces that the 5th Class Re¬ 
union will be held in the new 
Alumni Wing of the Field House 
at Baker Field on Saturday, 
June 2. The pix^ram includes a 
pay-as-you-drink cocktail party, 
dinner, dancing to the music of 
an excellent orchestra, songs by 
the Blue Notes, an accordionist, 
and no speakers. The Commit' 
tee requests that all classmates 
plan now to attend tliis gala 
party with wife or best girl, and 
renew old friendships. 

Because there are no cooking 
facilities in the Field House, the 
dinner will be catered. For this 
reason the Committee must 
know in advance the numsber of 


dinners to be served. Rush re¬ 
servation blank that you re¬ 
ceived with your class letter to 
Samuel B. Haines, Room 101 
Hamilton Hall, Columbia Col¬ 
lege. Make check payable to 
“Columbia College Class of 
1951.” 

1952 

A Stag Dinner is scheduled 
for Thursday, May 24, in the 
Varsity C Room of the Columbia 
University Club. Cocktails will 
be served at 6:00 P.M.; dinner 
at 6:30. 

’52ers are urged to return the 
biographical postcard, and also 
remit their $2.00 class dues with 
their general contribution to 
the 5th College Fund ... Be 
sure to attend the Early Fifties 
Bail on Saturday, June 9, in the 
new Alumni Wing of the Field 
House at Baker Field. (See de 
tails elsewhere on this page). 

Inquiries concerning the Class 
Dinner, or any aspect of Class 
affairs, may be made at the ’52 
Office, c/o Frank Walwer, 101 
Hamilton Hall, UN 5-4000, Ex¬ 
tension 809. 

1954 

The latest Class Newsletter 
will be the “biggest yet,” reiwrts 
Class Secretary Bernd Breoher 
. . . Bernd also advises that re¬ 
sponse to the Class dues cam¬ 
paign is “overwhelming.” 

The Early Fifties Luncheon 
Club is growing in popularity. It 
meets the first Thursday of ea'Oh 
month, 12-2 P.M., in the Butler 
Room of the Columbia Univer¬ 
sity Club ... An outgrowth of 
the Club is the Early Fifties Ball 
planned for Saturday, June 9, 
in the new Alumni Wing of the' 
Field House at Baker Field, (see 
details elsewhere on this page). 


(Continued from Page 1) 

tion in the fund achieved by 
the present senior class during 
a two-week campaign on camp¬ 
us. In a letter commending the 
'56 class chairman, Richard 
Capen, Dr. Darlington asserted 
that “we alumni will have to set 
our goals higher than we have 
in the past if we are to main¬ 
tain any sort of face with the 
new alumni.” 

The Class of 1956 has set an 
excellent example for us to fol¬ 
low,” he said, adding, “I con¬ 
gratulate the senior class officers 
and captains, whose voluntary 
work in organizing the cam¬ 
paign . . . made it possible for 
the class to show such magni¬ 
ficent results.” 

Dr. Darlington pointed up the 
significant increase in partici¬ 
pation achieved by each suc¬ 
ceeding senior class, since the 
inception of a student drive in 
1954. At that time, the senior 
class, under chairman Howard 
Falberg, realized over 60 per 
cent participation on campus. 
Last year the class of ’55 fund 
chairman, Thomas L. Chrystie 


Presidents’ Annual Meeting 

The Society of Class Presidents will hold its second annual 
dinner meeting on September 26th in the new Alumni Wing of 
the Field House at Baker Field. The announcement was made by 
Robert S. Curtiss, ’27, the Society’s president, who said that a 
feature of the meeting will be election and installation of officers 
lor the coming year. 

Mr. Curtiss also announced that the Society made substantial 
progress during the past year in increasing alumni participation 
in College affairs. He said that “further recommendations for 
advancing our objectives will be forthcoming at the annual 
meeting.” 

Dr. Millard C. Faught, president of ’38, was named by Mr. 
Curtiss, as chairman of the committee on arrangements for the 
annual meeting. Other class presidents named to the committee 
were Professor John W. Balquist ’32, Joseph T. Carty ’43 and 
Donald A. Porter ’49. 

The Society of Class Presidents was founded in 1954 to stim¬ 
ulate alumni class activity, and provide a meeting ground for 
tlie exchange of ideas between the classes. Theodore C. Garfiel 
’24 served as chairman of its executive committee. Mr. Curtiss 
was installed as the first president of the Society at the 1955 
annual meeting, along with Harold A. Rousselot ’29 as vice presi¬ 
dent, and John F. Steeves ’48 as secretary treasurer. 


WeRecord... 

. . . with a deep sense of our 
loss—and with a sincere expres¬ 
sion of sympathy to each of 
their families—the deaths of the 
following sons of Columbia Col¬ 
lege: 

Henry E. Crampton, Class of 
1893. 

Gustavus T. Kirby, Class of 
1895. 

Charles W. Ogden, Class of 
1895. 

John F. B. Mitchell, Class of 
1898. 

Charles C. Lieb, Class of 
1902. 

Kenneth M. Simpson, Class 
of 1903. 

James H. Quinn, Class of 

1904. 

Harrison Deyo, Class of 1905. 
Frank S. Pettigrew, Class of 

1905. 

A. Broderick Cohen, Class 
of 1907. 

Morton F. Stern, Class of 
1907. 

Mortimer I. Bloom, Class of 
1909. 

Clare E, Nighman, Class of 
1909. 

Campbell W. Steward, Class 
of 1909. 

Ward B. Belknap, Class of 
1911. 

G. Forrest Butterworth, 
Class of 1913. 

Herman Goodman, Class of 
1915. 

Alfred A. Halden, Class of 
1915. 

G. Walter Zahn, Class of 
1915. 

Emanuel M. Abrahamson, Class 
of 1917. 

Harry H. Canterbury, Class 
of 1917. 

Kwang Kwong, Class of 1919. 
Louis Bromfield, Class of 
1920. 

Floyd D. Browm, Class of 
1920. 

George M. Glassgold, Class 
of 1921. 

A. George Stern, Class of 

1923. 

Thomas Witter Chrystie, 
Class of 1924. 

Orin S. Gamble, Class of 

1924. 

Andrew J. Ronay, Class of 
1927. 

Richard A. Madden, Class of 
1929. 

George L. Baxter, Class of 
1932. 

Donald G. Cormack, Class of 
1937. 

This is not intended to repre 
sent a complete record. The 
names are those that have been 
brought to the attention of the 
Editor. 


and his “captains” secured gifts 
from more than 82 per cent of 
their classmates. 

The response from alumni in-' 
vited to serve as regional rep¬ 
resentatives for the current 
fund was described by Regional 
Committee chairman, Arthur 
Jansen ’25 as “extremely en¬ 
couraging,” Mr, Jansen reported 
that there have been nearly one 
hundred acceptances from Co¬ 
lumbia men in forty-three com¬ 
munities, including Los Angeles, 
Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, 
to name a few. 

As regional representatives, 
the men are contacting fellow 
alumni in their respective areas, 
thus introducing for the first 
time In fund history “personal 
follow-up on a national basis,” 
according to Mr. Jansen. 

In an amusing sidelight, Mr. 
Jansen revealed that an invita¬ 
tion for regional service ad¬ 
dressed to an alumnus in Con¬ 
necticut brought an acceptance 
postmarked “Heidelberg, Ger¬ 
many.” The Connecticut man 
explained that he would be in 
Germany for a year, but in¬ 
tended to write to fellow alumni 
in his home community, inas¬ 
much as “a communication 
from a regional chairman 4,000 
miles away may make more of 
an impact than a visit from 
someone in the same town.” 

The 5th College Fund got 


under way on February 8th with 
a meeting and buffet supper 
attended by nearly 400 commit¬ 
teemen. Master of ceremonies 
for the affair was Theodore C. 
Garfiel ’24, chairman of the 
fund’s executive committee, who 
introduced the guest speakers. 

Frank S, Hogan ’24, general 
chairman of the 4th fund, spoke 
briefly, pledging support to this 
year’s campaign. 

Dean Lawrence H. Chamber- 
lain, in an appraisal of Colum¬ 
bia’s undergraduate program, 
asserted that out of each year’s 
applicants the College selects 
650 of the best young men, re¬ 
gardless of financial resources. 
In providing scholarship as¬ 
sistance, no student is awarded 
“a dollar more than he needs,” 
the dean declared. 

Other speakers were Dr. Darl¬ 
ington, University President 
Grayson Kirk, Dr. Wilson Comp¬ 
ton, president of the Council for 
Financial Aid to Education, and 
Dale C. Baxter ’58, a College 
Fund scholar. 

Columbia Lion awards for out¬ 
standing service to the fund 
were presented by President 
Kirk to Mr. Hogan, Arthur V. 
Smith ’31,'Harold T. Muller ’24, 
Joseph W. Burns ’29, William B. 
Sanford ’30, Alfred J. Barabas 
’36, Howard Falberg ’54, and 
Thomas L. Chrystie ’55. 


50"s Club Sponsors Dance 

Alumni of classes of ’50 through ’55—and their guests—are 
invited to attend the Early Fifties Ball on Saturday evening, 
June 9, from 9:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. The affair, sponsored by the 
newly organized Early Fifties Luncheon Club, will be held In 
the new Alumni Wing of the Field House at Baker Field. Limited 
to 100 couples, plus invited guests such as deans and Alumni 
Association officers, the cost is $5.00 per couple. Dress is informal. 

The evening will include dancing to an orchestra, a pro¬ 
fessional floor show, and midnight supper (5-course Chinese 
buffet). Set-ups will be provided. Reservations must be made 
early. Make check payable to “Early ’50’s Luncheon Club,” and 
mail to the Club, c/o 101 Hamilton Hall, Columbia College, New 
York 27, New York. For further information, contact Frank Walwer, 
101 Hamilton, UN 5-4000, ext 809, or Bernd Brecher, P & S De¬ 
velopment, 4 West 43rd Street, PE 6-7559. 

Members of the Committee for the Ball are: Frank Walwer 
’52, Arrangements; Bernd Brecher ’54, Publicity, Buffet and En¬ 
tertainment; Lewis Robins ’53, Finances and Music; Richard 
Houghton ’51, George Lowry ’53 and Donn Coffee ’55. 


Know Them? 

Here are the names of the distinguished Columbians whose 
photographs appear on Page 6. 

1911. Richard C. Klugescheid. 

Retired vice president and gen- 
' "' eral counsel 

' for the Kenne- 
cott Copper 
Corporation in 
New York City. 

Member of the 
Un iversity 
Club, Boulder 
Brook Club, 

American 
Yacht Club, 

__and the Society 

of Older Graduates of Columbia 
University. Class group chairman 
and member of the executive 
committee of the 5th Annual 
Columbia College Fund. 



1926. Morris K e t c h u m, Jr. 
Architect, partner in the New 
York firm of 
Ketchum, Gina 
and Sharp. 
Member of the 
faculty of the 
graduate 
school of 
architecture of 
Pratt Institute. 
Member of the 
Architect u r a 1 
League of New 
York, Beaux Arts Institute of 
Design, New York Building Con¬ 
gress. Author of “Shops and 
Stores”, contributor to national 
magazines. 



1920. Richard L. Simon. Book 
publisher, co-founder (in 1924) 
and partner 
with Max Lin¬ 
coln Schuster 
17J of Simon & 
Schuster. 
Chairman o f 
the board of 
the Council on 
Books in War¬ 
time. Author 
of “Miniature 

_ Photography— 

From One Amateur to Another”, 
published in 1937. Member of the 
Dutch Treat Club, and the Ar¬ 
tists and Writers Golf Associa¬ 
tion. 



1939. Clifford H. Ramsdell. Di¬ 
rector of Advertising of the New 
York Central 
System. F o r - 
merly a senior 
editor of Tide 
magazine, edi¬ 
tor of Railway 
Progress mag¬ 
azine, and sec¬ 
retary -treas - 
urer of the 
Federation for 
______ _Railway Prog¬ 

ress. Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Columbia Uni¬ 
versity Club, and of the execu¬ 
tive council of the American 
Church Union. 


























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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


MAY, 1956 


Two VarsityTeams 
Improve Records 

By HOWARD LEVINE 
Director of Sports Information 


With the spring athletic season about halfway com¬ 
pleted, two Lion varsities among the five competing have 
already improved on last year’s record. The other three 
squads—the heavyweight and lightweight crew and the 
the track team—are experiencing tough sledding. 


In baseball, things started' 
much as they finished in 
1955. The squad posted a 3-12 
mark last spring and lost its 
last six games. This year 
started with only one victory 
and one tie in the first six 
games. Then, with the hitters 
beginning to unload and the 
pitching continuing strong, 
the nine put together a three 
game winning streak (still 
going at this writing) for a 
4-4-1 record with nine games 
left. 

Coach John Balquist’s mound 
staff appears the team’s strong- 
point. Captain Charlie Brown, 
sophomore lefthander Warren 
Smith and senior Jim Williams 
form the starting corps. 

The other team to show an 
improved record and the only 
team better than .500, is coach 
Archie Oldham’s tennis team. 
The racquet men have won four 
and lost two. 

Things are not as bright for 
Walt Raney’s oarsmen. They 


have been caught in the middle 
of the upsurge of two of the 
country’s most surprising and 
most outstanding crews. With 
Pennsylvania figured as the top 
crew in the area and slated as 
competition for the green, 
i sophomore-loaded Lions in both 
I opening races, the Childs and 
j Blackwell Cups, things did not 
I look too promising. Then Prince¬ 
ton, in the first race, and Yale, 
in the second, proceeded to 
amaze the experts and fans alike 
with sensational victories. 

The lightweight varsity was 
expected to be a fairly strong 
boat this season with consider¬ 
able help from the freshman 
eight which last year went unde¬ 
feated until the finals of the 
Sprint Championships. However, 
the boat has been disappointing 
while dropping a race to Prince¬ 
ton and then trailing both Penn¬ 
sylvania and Yale. They should 
improve and do better before the 
I season ends. 

[ The track team also has not 
shown much sparkle. The rec¬ 
ord thus far shows only a loss 
' to Princeton and unrenumera- 
tive performance in the Penn 
Relays. 


The Lion Salutes... 



Rudolph L. “Pop” Von Bernuth ’04, left, as he appeared in 
1951 at a dinner in his honor, following retirement after twenty- 
six years as chairman of the University Committee on Athletics. 
University President Grayson Kirk is presenting Mr. Von Ber¬ 
nuth with a Columbia Lion “in recognition of his faithful 
service.” 


In the summer of 1951 Rudolph L. (Pop) von Bernuth, 
’04C, ’05AM, ’06L, retired after 26 years as chairman of the 
University Committee on Athletics. His activities in support 
of Columbia athletics since then has continued at only a 


slightly curtailed pace. 

As an undergraduate back 
near the turn of the century. 
Pop played hockey for four 
years, threw the hammer for 
the same length of time, played 
soccer for a year and rowed No. 
6 on the varsity heavyweight 
crew. This amazing amount of 
athletic activity earned him 
ten Varsity “C” awards. 

Non-athleticaliy, he was vice- 
president of his class, won gen¬ 
eral honors as a sophomore and 
received his AB degree in three 
years, earning a Phi Beta Kappa 
key en route. 

With such an outstanding un¬ 
dergraduate record it is amazing 
but true to say that his alumni 
activities are still more impres¬ 


sive. He was a member of the 
group that founded the Athletic 
Association and from 1923 to 
1951 he was a member of the 
important University Committee 
on Athletics, most of those years 
acting as chairman. He currently 
is also a member of the Crew 
Alumni Advisory Committee. He 
was the third recipient of the 
annual Alumni Athletic Award, 
in 1943. 

Hockey was the sport Pop car¬ 
ried over from college and for 
eighteen years he played with 
amateur sextets, first with the 
Wanderers Hockey Club, then 
with the old St. Nicholas Hockey 
Club, as a goalie and defense 
man. He also is a former tennis 
player of note. 



j • * 1/16 1 Presentation of special awards 

Will Special Awards. 

of the 35th annual Varsity “C” Club Banquet in April. In addition, Varsity “C” awards went to 
152 Columbians in twelve sports. Shown above are six of the special award winners, 1 to r: Charles 
Nations ’56, Class of 1913 Football Cup; William Zboray ’56, Cross Country Award; Frank Thomas 
’56, Basketball Award; Harry Scott ’56, Gus Peterson (wrestling) Trophy; Kirby Warren ’56, Edward 
T. Kennedy (swimming) Prize; and David Befeler ’55, The Varsity “C” W’atch. 


Highlights of Lion History: 

’29 Poughkeepsie Victory 


This is the second in a series • 
of highpoints in Columbia’s ath- [ 
letic history. This story of the i 
stirring victory at Poughkeepsie j 
in 1929 was written by W. O. 
McGeehan and appeared in the j 
‘New York Herald Tribune’’ on 
June 25, 1929. 

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., 
June 24. — Columbia’s 1929 
crew won the right today to 
be rated among the great 
crews of all time. In the 
steaming Stygian shadows 
that fell on a choppy Hudson 
long after sundown the Co¬ 
lumbia crew, rowing a steady 
and rhythmic stroke flitted 
by the finish line two and a 
half lengths ahead of the 
crew of the University of 
'W^ashington. 

All of the rest were flcun¬ 
dering behind somewhere in 
the hazy shadows. Foui’ of 
them floundered long before 
bridge was reached. The 
great California crew, which 
numbered among its oarsmen 
seven of the men who won 
the Olympic race last year, 
never was better than sixth, 
and at the end was among the 
crews swamped in the wake 
of the victorious Columbians. 

The Columbia crew set its own 
pace and they rowed by them¬ 
selves in the sixth lane. For 
nearly two miles it looked as 
though the race was between 
Washington and the Navy. The 
men from Puget Sound, seven 
of them husky sophomores, 
rowed with great power and 
steadiness. At the two-mile mark 
they caught the Navy, which was 
setting the early pace. 

It was a heady, beautiful race 
that the Columbians made. At 
the start the Navy crew, trained 
and coached by the elder Glen 


don, set the pace, with the 
Pennsylvanians clinging to one 
side and the stubborn young 
men from Washington hanging 
on one flank. They were waiting 
for that wonder crew from Cali¬ 
fornia to make their bid but 
somehow there was no spirit in 
the aggregation that broke all 
records for the Hudson course 
last year. They seemed to be 
spent before they could get 
started. They were trailing Cor¬ 
nell by a quarter of a length. 

The Navy set a furious pace 
with the Washingtonians hang¬ 
ing on, but before the two-mile 
mark was reached, the middies 
seemed to wilt in the steaming 
air, and Washington took the 
lead. Then it was seen that the 
race was between Columbia and 
Washington. 

They neared the railroad 
bridge where all of the long 
races on the Hudson are decided. 
Columbia was coming up stead¬ 
ily. The dip of the oars was 
beautifully synchronized and 
the oars of the Washington shell 
were splashing badly. They had 
given too much crude power to 
the fight and they were fairly 
well spent. Columbia moved on 
steadily so far out in its lane 
that the watchers on the obser¬ 
vation train could hardly make 
out the outline in the shadows. 

Below the bridge, with the fin¬ 
ish line one mile of murky water 


to go, the Columbians sped up 
their stroke steadily. 

The Navy, after being winded 
at the two-mile mark, picked up 
and finished somewhere behind 
the fighting crews, the wonder¬ 
ful Columbia crew and the bat¬ 
tling crew from Washington. 
The Pennsylvania crew, rowing 
in the smoother inner lane, 
which started out as though 
for exercise, finished fourth. 

At the finish the Columbians 
paused for just a few seconds. 
Not a man seemed weary from 
the terrific pace though the 
boiling watchers in the observa¬ 
tion train were gasping. They 
did not hesitate even to toss the 
coxswain overboard, not just 
then. 

They had business on hand, 
the business of collecting sev¬ 
enty-two shirts, for the Colum¬ 
bians bet shirt to shirt against 
all of the other eight crews. 
They rowed back up the river 
collecting the jerseys of the 
eight vanquished crews. 

They had their race planned. 
They had the power, the stam¬ 
ina and speed. They had the 
tempo and the rhythm. Nothing 
ruffled them at any part of the 
race. They were in their home 
waters and they were fit. 

They could have duplicated the 
feat of the California crew of 
last year. They could have out- 
rowed anything human. 


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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 


VOLUME III 


JUNE, 1956, NEW YORK, N.Y. 




NUMBER 3 


NEW CITIZENSHIP CENTER 
WIU BE BDILT ON CAMPUS 


Graduation 
Busy Day For 
Alumni Too 

Commencement Day activi¬ 
ties on June 5th featured 
three College events of sig¬ 
nificance to new and “vet¬ 
eran” alumni alike. First of 
all, over 600 members of the 
Class of 1956 joined the ranks 
of Columbia graduates, while 
five college “veterans” were 
cited by the Alumna Fed¬ 
eration of Columbia U n i - 
versity for “conspicuous Co¬ 
lumbia service.” In addition, 
Albert G. Redpath, ’18, was 
elected to succeed George V. 
Cooper, ’17, as president of 
the Alumni Federation at its 
annual meeting. 

The five college alumni re¬ 
ceiving medals for conspicuous 
service to Columbia were Win¬ 
ston Paul, ’09; Virginius V. Zip- 
ris, ’10; Harold B. Davidson, ’17; 
Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, ’19; 
and Wayne Van Orman, ’28. 

Winston Paul, recognized in 
his citation as “one of the Uni¬ 
versity’s finest ambassador’s,” 
has taken part in a wide range 
of College activities including 
the Chairmanship of the Colum¬ 
bia College Council, as member 
of the Standing Committee of 
the College Association and as 
an active participant in estab- 
(Continued on Page 9) 


Class of ’56 
Now Alumni 

The Columbia College Class of 
1956 has just started its first 
alumni year. The transition took 
place on June 5th when more 
than 600 Seniors assembled with 
graduates of the University’s 
other Schools in front of Low 
Library to participate in Colum¬ 
bia’s 202nd Commencement ex¬ 
ercises. 

The day concluded a packed 
week of pre-graduation pn-epar- 
ations and events leading up to 
the traditional Class Day on 
June 4th, a Senior Class Day 
which has been observed an¬ 
nually since 1865. Class Day 
found Van Am Quadrangle 
filled to capacity with the upper¬ 
classmen, their parents, friends 
and memibers of the faculty to 
do honor to members of the 
graduating class, and to make 
awards to those, who are most 
outstanding. 

(Continued on Page 9) 



Here, on the northeast comer of 114th Street and Broadway, will rise a “dream come true”— 
the long awaited Columbia College Citizenship Center. The tennis courts, and the old Gate¬ 
keeper’s Lodge shown above, will be razed to make way for the student center named in memory 
of Ferris Booth ’24. Architects are now engaged in planning its construction. 


5th Fund Continues to Gain 


The 5th College Fund is running “substantially ahead” of last year at this time in 
number of donors, according to General Chairman, Dr. Gilbert Darlington ’12. Dr. Darling¬ 
ton said that as of June 15th, a total of 5,245 gifts amounting to $186,269.34 had been re¬ 


ceived. This included, he said,<^ 
some 568 gifts from the class of 
1956, representing a record 92 
per cent participation achieved 
by the seniors while still on 
campus. 

Last year on the same date, 
the 4bh College PYind had re¬ 
ceived 4,680 gifts amounting to 
$225,586. Final totals, as an¬ 
nounced in the annual report, 
were 6,004 gifts in the amount of 
$345,644.17. General chairman 
of the 1955 Fund was Frank S. 
Hogan ’24. 

Noting that fifty per cent of 
all gifts to last year’s Fund were 
contributed in the final weeks 
of the campaign. Dr. Darlington 
expressed confidence that the 
established goals would be 
reached. The Fund this year 
seeks 7,000 contributions totaling 
“in excess of $300,000.” 

“If every alumnus who has 
contributed to earlier Funds con¬ 
tinues his support, attainment 


of our goals will be assured,” Dr. 
Darlington declared. He a n - 
nounced that he is mailing a 
general appeal this month to all 
alumni who have not yet co^n- 
tributed. 

In this connection, the gen¬ 
eral chairman pointed out that 
although the Fund ends offi¬ 
cially on June 30th, gifts re¬ 
ceived by September 15th will be 
credited to the current cam¬ 
paign, and donors’ names will be 
included in the annual report. 

The College Fund currently 
supports 117 students on partial 
scholarsihips in the College, as 
well as aiding other phases of 
the Columbia program. Observ¬ 
ing that scholarship aid is nec¬ 
essary to attract to Columbia 
outstanding students who could 
not otherwise afford to attend. 
Dr. Darlington said that the 
Fund seeks to help the College 
establish a permanent scholar¬ 


ship program for at least 25 per 
cent of the student body. 

Twenty-three per cent of the 
College’s student body now re¬ 
ceive scholarship aid, he re¬ 
ported, but added that 131 
scholarships are foundation, 
labor and industry sponsored, 
and, therefore, “not necessarily 
permanent in nature.” 

The general chairman’s own 
contribution to the Fund—both 
in terms of his personal gifts, 
and his leadership — were cited 
this month by Dean Lawrence 
H. Chamberlain, who, in a letter 
to Dr. Darlington, said in part: 
“You are giving to this year’s 
Fund personal leadership and 
moral and spiritual support 
which in its ramifying effects is 
having greater significance than 
your own substantial contribu¬ 
tions.” 

The dean concluded: “We are 
(Continued on Page 4) 


Large Gift 
For Booth 
Memorial 

A student center for the 
College — Columbia’s “cher¬ 
ished dream” — is going up 
on Morningside Heights. It 
will be named Ferris Booth 
Hall, the Columbia College 
Citizenship Center. 

Announcement of the long 
needed addition to the campus 
was made on Class Day, 
June 4, by Dean Lawrence H. 
Chamberlain who said that 
Columbia has received a 
$1,000,000 gift from Mr. and 
Mrs. Willis H. Booth of New 
York to be applied toward 
construction of the center. 
Mr. and Mrs. Booth donated 
the gift in memory of their 
son, J’erris Booth, class of 
1924, who died in August of 
last year at the age of fifty- 
two. 

The “magnificent’ Booth fam¬ 
ily gift brings the total of funds 
in hand for the student center 
to $2,400,000. Previous supporters 
include the late Norvin H. Green, 
class of 1919, who made two sub¬ 
stantial gifts, one of which is 
in memory of his grandfather, 
Abram S. Hewitt, a former 
mayor of New York City and a 
member of the class of 1842. 

Other major donors include 
the Jacob R. Schiff Charitable 
Trust, M. Hartley Dodge ’03, 
(Continued on Page 4) 

Booth Active 
College Man 

When Ferris Booth, class of 
’24, was a senior, the Columbian 
said of him: “The best chairman 
of Student Board we have ever 
known, he is always ready to 
assume responsibility. He has 
the capacity for working inces¬ 
santly. He has won the respect 
of the members of the Faculty 
and the admiration of his class¬ 
mates because of >^is ability as 
a leader in campus affairs.” 

These qualities of leadership 
exemplified Mr. Booth through¬ 
out his lifetime. They are quali¬ 
ties which the new Columbia 
CtMege Citizenship Center, to be 
named Ferris Booth Hall in his 
memory will seek to stimulate 
in Columbia students. 

In addition to has Student 
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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


JliNE, 1954 


Pag® 2 



Meet the officers of the Alumni Association for the year 1956-57; 1 to r, Randolph I. Thornton 
’28, vice president, and vice chairman of the St mding Committee; Aaron W. Berg’24,’27L, presi¬ 
dent, and chairman of the Standing Committee; Robert E. Friou, ’38, ’40L, secretary; Berton J, 
Oelmhorst ’29, re-elected treasurer. 

Aaron W. Berg ^24 Elected 
President of Association 

In an inaugural address last month marking his election as president of the Alumni 
Association, Aaron W. Berg ’24, ’27L called for a “strengthening of alumni areas of ac¬ 
tivity.” Mr. Berg, speaking before nearly one hundred members at the annual meeting on 
May 21 in the Columbia University Club, said that the association must expand its under¬ 
graduate program, stimulate regional activities, and emphasize its liaison with such affili¬ 
ated groups as the Society of^'-—-—-— 

Class Preoidentfi. 


Profiles of New Alumni 
Officers and Members 
Of Standing Committee 


Mr. Berg, who succeeds Wayne 
Van Ormaji ’28, also was re¬ 
elected chairman of the Stand¬ 
ing Committee of the associa¬ 
tion. 

Other officers elected at the 
annual meeting were Randolph 
I, Thornton ’28 as vice president, 
succeeding Mr. Berg, and Robert 
E, Priou ’38, ’40!L os secretary, 
suooeeding John S. Henry ’30. 
Berton J. Delmhorst ’29 was re¬ 
elected treasurer. Mr. Thornton 
will serve in addition as vice 
chairman of the Standiing Com¬ 
mittee. 

New Members Elected 

Another higthlight was the 
election of new members of the 
Standing Committee. Robert S. 
Breitbart ’34, ’36iL was elected 
for a two-year term to replace 
Mr. Friou. Named for three-year 
terms were James Lee Anderson 
’24, ’26L; the Hon. Phillip B. 
Thurston ’27, ’30L; Thomas E. 
Monaghan ’31, ’33L; and D. John 
Heymain ’47. Memibers whose 
terms expired this year are 
Theodore C. Garfiel ’24, Mr. 
Thornton, John W. Wheeler ’36 
and Frank E. Karelsen III ’47. 

Regional members of the 
Standing Committee elected for 
one-year terms are Donald L. 
Harbaugh ’22 of Cleveland, Ohio; 
William E. Collin ’24 of Los An¬ 
geles, Calif.; Leon Slhiman ’24 of 
Indianapolis, Ind.; and William 
N. Kanehann, Jr. ’46 of Allen¬ 
town, Pa. 

Regional members elected for 
two-year terms are Philip B. 
Hoimes ’26 of Amherst, New 
Hampshire; Edwin E. Dunaway 
’36 of Little Rock, Ark; Walter 
R. Roath ’38 of Dallas, Texas; 
and Howard N. West ’40 of San 
Francisco, Calif. 

Regional momhers elected for 
three-year terms are B. Frank¬ 
lin Hearn, Jr. ’25 of Baltimore, 
Md.; George F. Jenkins ’28 of 
Charleston, West Virginia, com¬ 
mittee vice chairman; Alan L. 
Oornlck ’35 of Dearborn, Michi¬ 
gan; and Robert Berne ’38 of 
Denver, Colorado. 

Elected as representatives on 
the board of directors of the 
Alumni Federation for the ensu¬ 


ing year were Walter R. Mohr 
'13, Mr. Garfiel, and Mr. Henry. 

Earlier in the meeting, Mr. 
Berg had submitted hds 1955-56 
ann'ual report of the Standing 
Committee, citing in particular 
the “outstanding aooomplish- 
ments’’ of his predecessor who 
had served two consecutive one- 
year terms as president. Later 
he presented Mr. Van Orman 
with a bronze Columbia Lion for 
his “discerning judgment, devo¬ 
tion and achievement in office.’’ 

In addition, Mr. Mohr, repre¬ 
senting the Standing Committee, 
gave the retiring president a 
sterling silver plate, bearing the 
signature of each committee 
member as well as the inscrip¬ 
tion “In remembrance of a 
happy association in service to 
Columbia College.’’ 

Membership Up 
In his report, Mr. Berg noted 
with “gratification’’ that as¬ 
sociation membership has nearly 
doubled in the past three years, 
reaching an all-time high this 
year of over 6,000 alumni. 

Mr. Berg then reviewed the 
accomplishments of each sub¬ 
committee and special commit¬ 
tee. In this connection he an¬ 
nounced that the Women’s Com¬ 
mittee, through its participa¬ 
tion in Everybody’s Thrift Shop, 
had raised $4,300 in two years 
for the Columbia College Schol¬ 
arship Fund. 

The association conunittees 
for 1955-56 and their chairmen, 
were: 

Auditing, John W. Fiske, Jr. 29. 
Alumni Class Sponsors, Arthur 
Jansen ’25. 

Awards, James B. Welles, Jr. ’39. 
Campus Religious Activities, 
Daniel Feldman ’34, succeeding 
Raymond Patouillet '38. 

Class Organization, Theodore C. 
Garfiel ’24. 

Deans’ Day, Randolph I. Thorn¬ 
ton ’28. 

Fall Homecoming, Edward N. 
Costikyan ’47. 

Finance, Berton J. Delmhorst, 29. 
Forum of Secondary School 
Representatives, Dwight C. 
Miner ’26. 

Hamilton Bicentennial, James 
Madison Blackwell ’14. 


Hamilton Dinner, Frederick Elli¬ 
son Lane ’28. 

Historian, Richmond B. Wil¬ 
liams ’25, 

Investments, Harold A. Rousse- 
lot ’29. 

Membership, Ernest de la 
Ossa, ’37. 

Nominating, Joseph D. Coffee, 
Jr. ’41. 

Program, Mr. Williams. 

Publications, Hugh J. Kelly ’26. 

Publicity, Herbert C. Rosen¬ 
thal ’38. 

Regional, Mr. Jansen. 

Secondary Schools, John C. 
Thomas, Jr. ’48. 

Undergraduate Affairs, Roger 
Olson ’51, succeeding Frank 
E. Karelsen IH ’47. 

Vocational Service, Forest R. 

I Lombaer ’35. 

Women’s, Mrs, Frederick vP. 

i Bryan, succeeding Mrs, Thomas 
Witter Chrystie. 


(Here are brief biographical 
sketches of the new officers, and 
members of the Standing Com¬ 
mittee, of the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion for the year 1956-57:) 

Aaron W. Berg ’24, ’27L 
A New York attorney, Mr. Berg 
is honorary director of the Jew¬ 
ish Vacation Association, and 
holds membership in the New 
Jersey State Guard and the 
United States Coast Guard Re¬ 
serve. He was president of tae 
class of ’24 for ten years and 
a recipient of the “1924 Award” 
Long active in alumni affairs, 
Mr. Berg was awarded the Al¬ 
umni Medal for Distinguished 
Service to Columbia in 1949, and 
the Columbia Bicentennial Med¬ 
al in 1954. Last year he served 
as association vice-pres i d e n t 
and chairman of the Standing 
Committee. 

Randolph I. Thornton ’28 
Mr. Thornton is assistant man¬ 
ager of the Washington Square 
branch of the First National 
City Bank of New York. A mem¬ 
ber of the association’s Standing 
Committee since 1953, and past 
president of the Columbia Alum¬ 
ni Club of Bergen County, Mr. 
Thornton wsis chairman of the 
1966 Deans’ Day Committee. 

Robert S. Friou ’38, ’40L 
Mr. Friou is head of the tax 
staff of the law firm of Chad- 
bourne, Parke, Whiteside, Wolff, 
and Brophy. He is advisor to the 
chairman of the New Jersey Re¬ 
gional Mayor’s Committee for 
the Port of New York District, 
a member of the Zoning Adj ust- 
ment Board of Hackensack, New 
Jersey, and a lecturer at the 
Practicing Law Institute of New 
York. Last year he served as 
vice-chairman of the associa¬ 
tion’s Forum of Secondary 
Schools ‘Representatives Com¬ 
mittee. 

Berton J. Delmhorst ’29 
A partner In the investment 
firm of Whitehouse and Com¬ 
pany, Mr. Delmhorst has been 
secretary of his class since 1929, 
and chairman of the King’s 
Crown Advisory Committee since 
1945. He is a recipient of the 
Columbia Alumni Medal. 

James Lee Anderson ’24, ’26L 
Mr. Anderson Is Under Sheriff, 
in Charge, Kings County Di¬ 


vision, Office of the Sheriff of 
the City of New York, Vice 
president of the Brooklyn Sun¬ 
day School Union, he is chair¬ 
man of the Leadership Educa¬ 
tion Committee of the Protestant 
Council, Brooklyn Division. He 
is treasurer of the class of *24 
and was a member of its 30th 
Anniversary Committee. For two 
years Mr. Anderson served as 
class organization chairman of 
the College Fund. 

The Hon. Phillip B. Thurston 
’27, ’30L 

Judge Thurston was appointed 
justice of the Domestic Relations 
Court in 1954 for a new ten- 
year term. A member of the law 
committee of the Board of Jus¬ 
tices, he is chairman of the 
Knickerbocker District, and 
member of the executive board, 
of the Manhattan Council of the 
Boy Scouts. He is president of 
the Barrett House of the Flor¬ 
ence Crittenton League, Inc., 
and chairman of the executive 
committee of the Uptown 
Branch of the Y.M.C.A. Last 
year Judge Thurston served as 
a member of the College Alumni 
Association’s subcommittee on 
Undergraduate Affairs. 

Thomas E. Monaghan ’31, ’33L 

Associate General Counsel for 
the Standard Oil Company of 
New Jersey, Mr. Monaghan is, in 
addition, a director of the Esso 
Export Corporation. He is a 
member of the Committee on 
Post-Admission Legal Education 
and Section on Corporate Law 
Departments of the New York 
City Bar Association. 

Robert S. Breitbart ’34, ’36L 
Mr. Breitbart is an attorney, 
specializing in Insurance and 
real estate. In this connection 
he is currently Assistant Profes¬ 
sor of Insurance at Pace College. 
He is vice-president of the class 
of ’34. 

D, John Heyman ’47 
Associate director of the Home 
Advisory Council, Mr. Heyman is 
secretary and a trustee of the 
New York Foundation. He is on 
the board of directors of the 
Urban League of Greater New 
York, American Korean Founda¬ 
tion, the National Scholarship 
and Service Fund for Negro Stu¬ 
dents, and the Jewish Family 
Service. 



The new members of the association’s Standing Committee get acquainted. Left to right: the 
Hon. Phillip B. Thurston ’27, ’30L; Thomas £. Monaghan ’31, 33L; Robert S. Breitbart ’34, ’36L; 
D. John Heyman ’47; and James L. Anderson ’24, ’26L. Mr. Breitbart was elected for a two year 
term to replace Robert E. Friou ’38, ’40L, the new association secretary. The others have been 
elected fw three year terms. 

























JUNE, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


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Taylor Named New Council Head 


William T. Taylor ’21, 23L, 
has been elected chairman of 
the Columbia College Council 
for one year commencing July 
1. He succeeds Winston Paul 
*09, who completed this 
month his second consecutive 
one-year term as chaiiman. 

The a n n 0 u n c ement was 
made by Dean Lawrence H. 
Chamberlain, following the 
annual meeting in the Uni¬ 
versity Club, 1 West 54th 
Street, on June 14th. The 
Council, composed of thirty 
members appointed by the 
president of the university, 
serves the president and trus¬ 
tees as advisers on the af¬ 
fairs of Columbia College. 

The dean also announced the 
election of Benjamin J. Butten- 
■wieser ’19 as vice-chairman, suc¬ 
ceeding Roscoe C. Ingalls ’12. 
Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41 was re¬ 
elected secretary. 

Mr. Taylor — an ex officio 
member, following a three-year 
term from 1951 to 1964—was one 
of eight new appointees to a 
three-year term on the Council. 
The others are Lester D. Egbert 
’14, Oscar Hammerstein II ’16, 
Wayne Van Orman ’28, Harold 
A. Rousselot ’29, Arthur V. Smith 
*31, Frederick E. Hasler and 
Rowland H. George. Professor 
Justus Buchler has been elected 
by the faculty to a three-year 
term as their representative. 

In addition, Frank H. Bowles 
*28, and Leonard T. Scully ’32 
have been named to two-year 
terms on the Council. 

Terms Expire 

Members of the Council whose 
three-year terms expire this 
month, >n addition to Mr. Paul, 
and Mr. Ingalls, are Edwin C. 
Vogel ’04, George W. Jaques ’08, 
'lOL, George V. Cooper ’17, Ar¬ 
nold T. Koch ’21, ’23L, Ralph T. 
Heymsfeld ’27, ’29L, Samuel R. 
Walker ’29, and Professor 
Charles WT Everett, representing 
the faculty. 

The other members of the 
Council are Ely Jacques Kahn 
’03, Edward H. Green ’05, Dr. 
Frank D. Fackenthal ’06, Ward 
Melville ’09, Edgar A. B. Spencer 
’13, Robert W. Milbank ’14, Paul 
H. Klingenstein ’15, ’17L, W. 
Barrett Brown ’19, Lawrence R. 
Condon ’21, ’22L, Robert M. 

Lovell ’23, Professor Dwight C. 
Miner ’26, representing the fac¬ 
ulty, and Gavin K. MacBain ’32. 

Ex officio members are Deans 
Lawrence H. Chamberlain and 
Nicholas McD. McKnight ’21; Dr. 
Gilbert Darlington ’12, general 
chairman of the 5th Annual Col¬ 
lege Fund; Aaron W. Berg ’24, 
’27L, president of the Alumni 
Association, and Randolph I. 
Thornton ’28, vice-president; 
and Mr. Coffee. 

Brief biographical sketches of 


the officers, and new members 
follow; 

William T. Taylor ’21, ’23L 
Mr. Taylor is 
vice -president 
and director of 
the B a n k e rs 
Trust C om- 
pany. A mem¬ 
ber of the 
board of man¬ 
agers, and ex¬ 
ecutive c o m- 
mittee, of the 
Adams Express 
Comp any, he 
is, in addition, a director of the 
American International Corp., 
Adams Land and Development 
Corp., American Land and De¬ 
velopment Corp., ACF Indus¬ 
tries, Inc., and the First National 
Bank in Greenwich, Connecticut. 
He is on the board of trustees 
of the Basic Research Corpora¬ 
tion. 

As chairman of the Columbia 
College Citizenship Center Fi¬ 
nance Committee, Mr. Taylor 
has played a key role in the 
planning and development of 
the proposed student center 
project which culminated this 
month in public announcement 
of the program. 

Benjamin J. Buitenwieser ’19 

A li m i t e d 
partner of 
Kuhn Loeb and 
Company, in- 
vestment 
b a n k e rs, Mr. 

But tenwieser 
is former U. S. 

Assistant High 
C o mmissioner 
for Germany. 

On the advis¬ 
ory board of 
the Title Guarantee and Trust 
Company, he is a director of the 
Benrus Watch Company, the 
American Lead Pencil Company, 
and United Artists Theatre Cir¬ 
cuit, Inc. He is, in addition, a 
trustee of the Federation of Jew¬ 
ish Philanthropies. 

Mr. Buttenwieser was an ex 
officio member in 1953, while 
serving as general chairman of 
the 3rd Annual College Fund. His 
son, Peter, is a member of the 
class of 19'59. 

Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41 
Mr. Coffee 
has been Di¬ 
rector of De- 
V e lopment of 
Columbia Col¬ 
lege for the 
past ten years, 
and rece n 11 y 
was elected 
pres ident of 
the Columbia 
University 
Club. He 
served as president of his class 
for fifteen years, retiring from 
office last month. 





Watt Named New Life 


Trustee of University 

Robert W. Watt ’16, president of the Seaboard Surety Com¬ 
pany, has been elected a Life Trustee of Columbia University. The 
announcement of his election was made in May by Maurice T. 


Moore, chairman of the Univer- ^ 
sity’s Trustees. 

Mr. Watt, who has been an 
Alumni Trustee since 1950, has 
served for the past year as vice- 
chairman of the board. The 
Trustees, twenty-four in number, 
are made up of eighteen life 
members and six members who 
officially represent the alumni. 

In the college, Mr. Watt was 
president of his class and a star 
second baseman and captain of 
the championship ’16 varsity 
baseball team, one of the great¬ 
est in Columbia’s history. 

Mr. Watt enlisted in the Army 


Air Force in World War I and 
served as a pilot in France. 
Shortly after returning to civil¬ 
ian life, he was named graduate 
manager of athletics at Colum¬ 
bia. 

Long active in University and 
alumni affairs Mr. Watt is a for¬ 
mer member of the Columbia 
College Council. He is a member 
of the University Committee on 
Athletics, and previously served 
as a member of the executive 
committee of the Alumni Fed¬ 
eration, and the Standing Com¬ 
mittee of the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion. 


Lester D. Egbert ’14 

President of 
Brown, Crosby 
& Co m p a n y, 
Inc., insurance, 
Mr. Egbert is 
also a director 
of the E.U.C. 
Corp oration, 
and a member 
and past pres¬ 
ident of the 
Insurance So¬ 
ciety of New 
York. In addition, he is a mem¬ 
ber of the National Association 
of Insurance Brokers, and the 
Academy of Political Science. 

Mr. Egbert is a Life 'Trustee of 
Columbia University. He is a for¬ 
mer president of the Alumni 
Association, and of the Alumni 
Federation. He served a prior 
three-year term on the Council 
from 1951 to 1954. 


Oscar Hammerstein II ’16 
Mr. H a m- 
m e r s t e i n— 
e s p ecially in 
c o 1 laboration 
with Richard 
Rod gers ’23— 
has made his- 
t o r y in the 
American mu¬ 
sical theatre. 

H e wrote the 
book and lyrics 
for “O k 1 a- 
homa,” “South Pacific,” “The 
King and I,” “Pipe Dream,” and 
other musicals. A director of the 
Fund for the Republic, Mr. Ham¬ 
merstein is president of the 
Dramatists Guild of the Authors 
League of America. In April of 
this year, he and Mr. Rodgers 
received the Alumni Association’s 
Alexander Hamilton Medal. 





P’rank H. Bowles ’28 


Formerly Di¬ 
rector of Ad- 
missions of 
Columbia Uni- 
V e r s i ty, Mr. 
Bowles is now 
director of the 
College En¬ 
trance Exam¬ 
ination Board. 
He has served 
as a consultant 
to the Fund for 
the Advancement of Education, 
and is a director of the National 
Scholarship Service. 




Wayne Van Orman ’28 

Mr. Van Or¬ 
man, a New 
York attorney, 
has just com¬ 
pleted his sec- 
o n d consecu¬ 
tive one - year 
term as presi¬ 
de n t of the 
Alumni Asso¬ 
ciation. Chair- 
m a n of the 
Committee on 
Insurance Law of the Associa¬ 
tion of the Bar of New York 
City, Mr. Van Orman is chair¬ 
man of the Insurance Law Sec¬ 
tion, and member of the execu¬ 
tive committee of the New York 
State Bar Association. His son, 
Peter is a member of the class 
of ’56. 


paigns, Mr. Smith is the new 
vice president of the Alumni 
Federation. 

Leonard T. Scully ’32 

Mr. Scully is 
vice president 
of the U. S. 
Trust Com¬ 
pany of New 
York. Secre- 
t a r y of the 
Peabody Home 
he is, in ad¬ 
dition, a di¬ 
rector of the 
Madison 
Square Boys’ Club, and a mem¬ 
ber of the Legal Aid committee 
of the New York City Bar As¬ 
sociation. He is a member of the 
American Bar Association. 




Harold A. Rousselot ’29 
A general 

and managing ^ 

partner of the 
i n V e s tment ^ 
firm of Francis « 

I. DuPont and 

R o u s s elot is W 

chairman of 

the University V , 

Committee on 
Athletics and ^ 
a past presi- mmsm 

dent of the Varsity “C” Club. 
He has served as vice president 
of the Alumni Association, and 
as treasurer of the Alumni Fed¬ 
eration. He is permanent presi¬ 
dent of his class and a former 
governor of the Columbia Uni¬ 
versity Club. His son, Anthony, 
is a member of the class of ’57. 

Mr. Rousselot served a prior 
three-year term on the Council 


Mr. Scully is secretary of the 
Varsity “C” Club, a governor and 
past treasurer of the Columbia 
University Club, and a member 
of the Columbia College Com¬ 
mittee on Wills. 

Rowland H. George 
A gradu ate 
of the Univer¬ 
sity of Chicago 
in 19 16, Mr. 

George is a 
partner in the 
i n V e s t m ent 
banking firm 
of Wood, 

Strut hers & 

Company, and 
a governor of 
the New York 
Stock Exchange. He was the or¬ 
ganizer and first president of 
the United Medical Service (Blue 
Shield Plan) of New York, and 
is a director of leading corpora¬ 
tions. 


from 1951 to 1954. 


fVederick E. Hasler 



Arthur V. Smith ’31 


Mr. Smith 
is a member of 
the New York 
1 a w firm of 
Curtis, Morris 
and Safford. 
He is president 
of his class, 
and former 
pres ident of 
the Columbia 
Univer sity 
Club. Execu¬ 
tive chairman of both the 3rd 
and 4th College Fund cam¬ 



Educated in 
private schools 
in England, 
Mr. Hasler re¬ 
ceived an hon- 
0 r a r y M.A., 
from Bowdoin 
College. He is 
c h a i rman of 
the advi s o r y 
board of the 30 
Broad Street 
Branch of the 
Chemical Bank and Trust Com¬ 
pany, and holds directorates in 
a number of other corporations, 
societies and associations. 


FUND ^ THERMOMETER ’ GOING UP. UP! 



When this picture was taken, the 5th College Fund “thermometer” for the class of ’56 had al¬ 
ready reached 92 (per cent of participation, that is). The class conducted a two-week campaign 
on campus, coming up with the highest participation of any class in the history of the Fund. 
Pointing out the good news to members of the ’56 Fund committee is chairman Richard Capen. 
Others, left to right, Victw Levin, Robert Erickson, Louis Cornell, Ranch Kimball, Morton Damesek. 















Page 4 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


JUNE, 1956 


College Citizenship Center 


(Continued from Pag^e 1) 
Miss Lois Curtis Law, and Mr. 
and Mrs. Roscoe C. Inigalls of 
Pelham, New York. Mr. Irtgalls 
is a member of the class of 1912. 

The four-story building will 
replace the tennis courts and the 
old Gatekeepers Lodge on the 
northeast corner of 114th Street 
and Broadway, between Butler 
Library and Furnald Hall. Total 
cost of the bulding, and endow¬ 
ment of a unique program of 
undergraduate citizenship edu¬ 
cation, is $4,000,006, according 
to the dean. 

Dean Chamberlain added that 
the College hopes to have details 
of the new center’s design ready 
in the fall, and to begin v/ork 
late tills year or early in 1957. 

Mr. Booth is a retired vice 
president of the Guar-anty Trust 
Company, His son, Fenis Booth, 
was chairman of the board of 
student representatives as an 
undergraduate. 

The elder Mr. Booth, his wife, 
and Mrs. Ferris Booth, their 
daughter-in-law, met with Dr. 
Grayson Kirk last month in the 
President’s House at 60 Morn- 
ingside Drive to present the gift 
for the center. Present at the 
informal ceremony were William 
T. Taylor, ’21, vice president and 
director of Bankers Trust Com¬ 
pany, and chairman of the Citi¬ 
zenship Center Finance Commit¬ 
tee, Deans Chamberlain and 
Nicholas McD. McKnight. stu¬ 
dent leaders, and other Univer¬ 
sity and College officials. 

Copies of a special edition of 
"Spectator,” carrying details of 
the new project, were distributed 
to the Class Day audience. 

In his Class Day address in 
Van Am Quadrangle, Dean 
Chamberlain outlined t4ie fcwisic 
aims of the center program. 

"The center,” he declared, 
“will embody a new concept in 
undergraduate higher education 
in that it will serve as the ‘capi- 
tol’ of the forthcoming Citizen¬ 
ship Training program of the 
College. Administration, student 
leadem, and professional staff 
are now involved in laying the 
‘groundwork’ for the Citizenship 
Training program, which will 
engage each undergraduate in 
some of the fundamental and 
practical aspects of citizenship. 

“The pioposed program has as 
its purpose the elimination of 


the common attitude of the un¬ 
dergraduate that he should Iso¬ 
late himself from the affairs of 
his community while attending 
college. In a program devised 
and administered by themselves, 
our students will have a chance 
to develop the habits of good 
citizenship in the affairs of the 
college community and their own 
liome community.” 

The dean went on to say; “The 
planning groups now meeting on 
this question expect tliat by the 
time tile building is completed 
their citizenship training pro¬ 
gram will have been worked out 
In close association with the ad¬ 
ministrators and trustee groups 
of many philanthropic, social 
service, and p>olHlcal agencies of 
the greater New York commu¬ 
nity.” 

The center will also contain 
many of the recreational and 
dining facilities common bo a 
student union building. Dean 
(Jhamberlain said. Included will 
be the offices of all the non- 
athletic extra-curricular activi¬ 
ties, he added, as well as lounges, 
dining facilities, and new quar¬ 
ters for the traditional “Lion’s 
Den.” Ollier facilities will in¬ 
clude bowling alleys and a rifle 
range. 

Spectator’s special edition on 
Class Day carried an exclusive 
advance story on the Citizenship 
Center. The news was not re¬ 
leased to the general press until 
after Dean Chamberlain’s an¬ 
nouncement. In an article. Spec¬ 
tator traced the long history of 
the planning of the Center, not¬ 
ing that interest in Uie project 
“has been estpecially strong in 
the past ten years.” The article 
pointed out that originally the 
building was to have been erected 
on South Field, forming a fourth 
side for the Quadrangle. 

During these early years of 
planning, according to Specta¬ 
tor, many student activities ran 
affairs to raise funds for the 
proposed center. Pamphratria 
donated over $1,006 to the fund 
from the proceeds of the 1040 
Spring carnival. 

Spectator, in an editorial en¬ 
titled “‘The ‘Whole Man’ Re¬ 
visited,” summarized the sig¬ 
nificance of the Citizenship Cen¬ 
ter on the student body, .saying 
in part: 

“Today’s college student, and 


the Columbia student in par¬ 
ticular, is faced with a most per¬ 
plexing contradiction. On the 
one hand, he is preparing for 
entrance into a woivld of grow¬ 
ing perplexity, in which he must 
find his niche, however small 
and specalized it may be. On the 
other hand, he is urged to par¬ 
take of a variety of extra-aca¬ 
demic endeavors in order to 
avoid development of a worm’s 
eye view of life. 

“The contradiction may be re¬ 
solved, of course. The happy 
medium between the scholastic 
rigours and the extra-curricular 
responsibilities has undoubtedly 
been encooirged by the proposed 
Citizenship Center and Citizen¬ 
ship Training Program.” 


Other Donors 
To the Center 

A major supporter of the Co¬ 
lumbia College Citizenship Cen¬ 
ter and its endowment fund was 
the late Norvin H. Green, class 
of 1919, who made two gifts. Mr, 
Green, who died on April 11, 
1955, was a director of tlie In¬ 
ternational Business Machines 
Corp., and president of Nor- 
green Associates, Inc. 

The Columbia College Council, 
of which Mr. Green was a mem¬ 
ber, adopted a resolution upon 
his death, which affirmed that 
the College had “lost one of its 
most devoted sons,” 

Miss Lois Curtis Low of New 
York is another major donor. A 
niece of the late Seth Low, for¬ 
mer president of Columbia and 
mayor of New York, she has 
made two gifts in his memory. 

In addition, gifts were made 
by M. Hartley Dodge ’03^ and Mr. 
and Mrs. Roscoe C. Ingalls of 
Pelham, New York. Mr. Dodge 
is past director of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society of the 
United States. A trustee of the 
University for forty-nine years, 
he has been clerk of the brus- 
teeis since 1923. 

Mr. Ingalls, a member of the 
class of 1912, is senior partner 
in the investment firm of In¬ 
galls and Snyder. He served last 
year as vice chairman of the 
Columbia College Council. 


The Face On 
Timers Cover 

The face of a distinguished 
Columbian—Jacques Barzun ’27 
— graced the cover of Time 
magazine in Its June 11th issue. 
Dr. Barzun, dean of Graduate 
Faculties of the University, was 
the focus of a lengthy appraisal 
of the American intellectual. 

Also cited in the article was 
scholar, author and essayist 
Lionel Trilling ’25^ who is de¬ 
scribed as one of a large num¬ 
ber of intellectuals for whom 
“the one standard with a truly 
universal appeal, is not any 
school of thought, but America 
herself”. 

Commenting that “few men 
have been more eloquent on the 
subject of America than Jacques 
Barzun,” the article harked back 
to the “golden age on Morning- 
side Heights” w'hich profoundly 
influenced young Jacques—the 
age of Carlton J. H. Hayes, 
F.J.E. Woodbridge, John Erskine 
and John Dewey. 

Widely noted as a scholar, 
teacher and author, Professor 
Barzun was appointed to his 
present post at the University 
last October. 


Prize Goes to 
New Program 

Columbia (College’s ninety- 
ninth recipient of the Alumni 
Prize — Victor Levin ’56 — has 
demonstrated h i s appreciation 
by donating the $50 stipend ac¬ 
companying the prize to the 
Citizenship Center program. 

This was disclosed in a recent 
letter from Dean Lawrence H. 
Chamberlain to Alumni As¬ 
sociation president, Aaron W. 
Berg, ’24, ’27L. Identifying young 
Levin as the student who con¬ 
ceived and organized the first 
College Community Help Day, in 
which the freshman class par¬ 
ticipated last fall, the dean went 
on to say: 

“This fine demonstration of 
social responsibility of being a 
contributor as well as a sales¬ 
man, and a producer as well as 
a consumer, exemplifies in a 
striking manner the objectives 
of the citizenship program in 
which we have such high hopes.” 

Young Levin received the 
Alumni Prize, which included a 
Columbia Lion as well as the 
fifty dollar award, as the senior 
“who is adjudged by his class¬ 
mates to be the most faithful 
and deserving student of the 
graduating class.” 


Ferris Booth 

(Continued from Page 1) 
Board activities, Mr. Booth was 
a manager of the Varsity Crew, 
and member of Psi Upsilon fra¬ 
ternity. Following his gradua¬ 
tion, he went on to become a 
successful investment counselor, 
but never lost his interest in Co¬ 
lumbia affairs. 

Mr. Booth’s own donations to 
Columbia already memorialize 
that interest. He contributed 
gifts aggregating more than 
$100,000, which made possible 
the varsity football locker room 
in the Field House at Baker 
Field, and the Trophy Room in 
the Field House’s new Alumni 
Wing. 


GencraVs Son Enrolls 
Arthur MacArthur, son of 
General of the Army Douglas 
MacArthur, will not follow in 
the foosteps of his father to 
West Point. He will take up 
studies at Columbia College this 
fall, and will probably join an 
R.O.T.C. unit. 



Two weeks before the Class Day announcement of the $l-million gift for the new Citizenship 
Center, the benefactor, Willis Booth paid an informal visit to the home of President Grayson 
Kirk. He was accompanied by his wife, and late son’s widow. The above picture was taken in Dr. 
Kirk’s library. Back row, 1 to r, Dr. Kirk; Mr. Booth; and William T. Taylor ’21, ’23L, chairman 
of the center’s finance committee. Seated, 1 to r,Mrs. Willis Booth, and Mrs. Ferris Booth. 


We Record.. 

. . . with a deep sense of our loss 
—and with a sincere expression 
of sympathy to each of their 
families—the deaths of the fol¬ 
lowing sons of Columbia College: 

John C. Baker, Class of 1364. 

James H. McLean, Class of 
1904. 

Ralph Morgan, Class of 1904. 

Julius F. Krolifiefer, Class 
of 1913. 

Orlando D’Amato, Class of 
1914. 

Paul Koch, Class of 1914. 

George Macy, Class of 1921. 

Henry F. Praus, Class of 1925. 

Walter G. Crump, Jr., Class 
of 1924. 

Eugene H. Jaegg, Class of 
1924. 

Howard Allison, Jr., Class of 
1929. 

Edward McD. Mangan, Class 
of 1945. 

This is not intended te repre¬ 
sent a complete record. The 
names are those that have 
been brought to the attention 
of the Editor. 


College Fund 

(Continued from Page 1) 

grateful to you, and we are In¬ 
spired to increase our own ef¬ 
forts by the example tha't you 
are setting for us.” 

Dr. Darlington had made two 
gifts in memory of his brother, 
the late Rev. Henry Darlington, 
class of 1910, who had accepted 
the post of general chairman of 
the 5th Fund shortly before his 
death last December. Each gift 
will support a scholarship in the 
College for one year. 

In carrying on for his brother, 
Dr. Darlington had pledged him¬ 
self to “do everything possible 
to help achieve College Fund ob¬ 
jectives, in which I believe »o 
strongly, and ask all alumni to 
join with me in further extend¬ 
ing the gains which Frank 
Hogan and his committee real¬ 
ized last year.” 

During the five years of the 
College Fund’s life, consistent 
progress has been shown each 
year In both the number of 
donors and the total amounts 
of contributions. Prior to 1951 
when the First Fund was 
launched, a total of 1,560 donors 
had averaged $37,500 over a ten- 
year period to the same causes 
the Columbia Fund now serves. 

In 1951, the First Fund 
brought $136,700 from 3,395 con¬ 
tributors. The following year, 
3,775 participants donated a 
total of $180,309. Further prog¬ 
ress was made in 1954 when 
gifts amounting to $252,021 were 
received from 4,675 participants 
in the drive. 

Considering the comparative 
“youth” of the Columbia Fund 
as matched with sister Ivy 
League Colleges (Princeton’s, 16 
years old; Yale’s, 66 years of 
age; and Dartmouth’s in her 
41st year)—all with steady rec¬ 
ords of consistent growth), pros¬ 
pects for Columbia Fund’s fu¬ 
ture give evidence of eventually 
paralleling the standards set by 
the sister colleges. 


Reception Planned ^ 

On July 31st of this year a 
beloved member of the Co¬ 
lumbia community, Miss Mary 
A. Wegener, Associate Direc¬ 
tor of the Placement Bureau, 
will retire after thirty-sis 
years of service and influence 
on thousands of alumni. 

A reception in her honor 
will be held on July 31st, from 
4 to 6 P.M., in the Men’s Fac¬ 
ulty Club. Alumni are invited 
to attend, and messages ad¬ 
dressed to Miss Wegener at 
that time will be appropriate. 































JUNE, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 5 



Herman Wouk Pays Glowing Tribute 
To ‘Peaceful Oasis’ on Morningside 


Ai the Alexander Hamilton Dinner in April, Wayne Van 
Orman ’28 read a statement especialhj written for the 
occasion by Herman Wouk ’ 34 . Mr. Wouk is the author 
of ‘"The Caine Mutiny* and “Marjorie Morningstar.** 
The statement was a tribute both to the two recipients 
of the 1956 Hamilton Medal, Richard Rodgers ’23 and 
Oscar Hammerstein H ’ 16 , and to the college that “can 
jusdtj claim them as her own.** Following is the com¬ 
plete text of Mr. Wouk's remarks. 

Any husband is forgiven for believing his 
wife is the finest woman in the world. And any 
alumnus will probably be forgiven for thinking 
his alma mater is the best college in the world. 

Few of us Columbians would maintain in cold 
blood, in an open discussion, that there is no 
better school anywhere. We have more pressing 
matters to argue about. But in our hearts most 
of us hold, I am sure, a sense of great privilege 
in having spent our college years on Morningside 
Heights. We can hardly believe that we could 
have made a happier choice. 

Now why is this so? 

Some schools have considerable social chic, 
and a special few have something like intellectual 
chic. Columbia is a distinguished school, but I 
would not call it chic. Some have campuses of 
rare beauty: the campus of Columbia is pleasant, 
but not beautiful. Some schools have massively 
successful football teams. Columbia’s teams do 
not answer to this description. Some schools are 
placed in spacious towns, full of quiet charming 
homes and soft green lawns. Columbia is cramped 
in the middle of a small island full of craggy 
buildings, wild noise, and insane running-about. 

What, then, is there to love about Columbia? 

The first course I attended at Columbia—the 
first day, the first hour of my freshman year— 
was called contemporary civilization. At the time 
this name was just a label, a label that soon 
came to have unpleasant connotations of long 
assignments and heavy going. No doubt the name, 


if it is still used, has the same connotations today 
for the freshmen of the class of 1959 (the class 
of 1959, boys . . . God help us all). But we are 
far from our freshmen days. And all of us, more 
or less, are living still on the transfusion that 
Columbia gave us of contemporary civilkation. 

For the secret of Columbia, I suggest, is that 
it is so uniquely saturated with the sounds and 
the sights, the rhythms and the values, of civil¬ 
ization as it actually exists today. 

Within the rectilinear boundaries of 114th 
Street and 120th Street, of Broadway and Morn- 
angside Drive, there is a peaceful oasis—I had 
almost said a hallowed oasis—of the life of the 
mind, defiantly independent of the surrounding 
market place racket of Manhattan. There is quiet 
here, and space, and charm, and pleasant green 
vistas—in the realm of lasting things. Here in 
this concourse of red-and-gray buildings, Kant 
is no mere name, Marx no mere bogey, Shakes¬ 
peare no mere idol to be nodded to and otherwise 
ignored. And the nucleus of the atom is no mere 
vague nightmare. At Columbia these things are 
life itself. 

I do not want to overstate the case. When 
raccoon coats were the fashion, there were rac¬ 
coon coats at Columbia; and whatever the cur¬ 
rent collegiate foolishness may be, there is plenty 
of it on the Van Am Quadrangle, you may be 
sure. The wonderful thing about Columbia is that 
there is also the life of the mind at its highest 
current mark for those who want it—and that 
so many students do want it. 

What makes a good wife precious to a happy 
husband, I suppose, is that she brings out the 
best in him, makes him desire to be his best self; 
while she herself is yet deliciously human, and 
wants him to be human too. That is what Colum¬ 
bia is like. I do not remember it as an arty or 
austere or pretentious place. You could be a rattle¬ 
brained hip-flask fool if you wished, and sneak 
through four years with low grades. But you 
would have to sneak, for that was not a smart 


or brave pattern at Columbia, but a jejune one. 
If you dreamed of distinction or achievement you 
were at the right address. Tasks measured to 
your capacity, or urging you to enlarge your ca¬ 
pacity, were everywhere, in the curriculum or in 
the extra-curricular activities. Men of the first 
rank in intellectual pursuits were there to chal¬ 
lenge and to guide you. The air was alive with 
discovery, with the vibrations ©f intelligence. 

It was too rich a diet, too fast a pace, for 
most young men to keep up with all the year long. 
There was the recurring urge to say the hell 
with it, and go off for a few beers, or better yet 
to find a girl and go out somewhere. And that 
was when Columbia shone. For at hand, as a 
quick change from the world of timeless values 
and hard intellectual work, was the wonderland 
of cynical, sophisticated, up-to-the-second New 
York. You could plunge in half an hour from 
Thorsten Veblen to Ethel Merman, from the in¬ 
tegral calculus to Jascha Heifetz or Louis Arm¬ 
strong. ’The limits were solely economic. 

A college boy’s purse is usually lean But who 
of us does not remember balcony seats with a 
lovely girl at a hypnotic play or concert? You 
could have your beer in Greenwich Village for 
very little money, if you wished, and see sights 
and hear talk that were a second education. 
If you and your girl liked art, you could go and 
look at the finest paintings in the new world. 
The best things of the moment were outside the 
rectangle of Columbia. The best things of all 
human history and thought Avere inside the rec¬ 
tangle. If only you had the sense, you could 
spend four years in an unforgettable exciting and 
improving altei'nation between two realms of 
magic. 

Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers 
were formed in this way. God gave them their 
unusual talents, to be sure, and it was their will 
to workmanship that made them masters in the 
field of popular entertainment. 

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JUNE, 


CbLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 



ANCHORS AWEIGH: Thomas Comstock ’56 proudly shows Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain his 
new commission as ensign in the United States Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.« 



“PRIZE” STUDENTS; On the left, Dean Nicholas McD McKnight ’21 presents to Max D. Eliason 
’56 of Logan, Utah, on Class Day the Charles A. Bjorkwall Memorial Prize for “unselfish service 
to the College Community.” On the right, Aaron W. Berg ’24, ’27L presents to Dale T. Granger ’56 
of Valley Stream, New York, a Columbia Lion for being adjudged “outstanding for qualities of 
mind, character, and service to the CoHege.” 



FOR “CONSPICIOUS ALUMNI SERVICE”: Pictured here are seven of the ten 1956 Alumni Medal¬ 
ists honored by the Alumni Federation. Left to right: Wayne Van Orman ’28, Gilbert Goold ’26B, 
Marshall L. Page ’35GS, W’illiam P. Kirk ’07E, Virginius V. Zipris ’IOC, ’12L, Harold B. Davidson 
17C, ’21P&S, and Benjamin J. Buttenwieser ’79. Not shown: Winston Paul ’09, Frank A. Ayer’HE, 
and Lewis Nathan Brown, ’14PhG, ’15 PharD. 


“Tomorrow’s the Future Sti 



TRADITIONAL PRELUDE: More than 600 seniors gather on the 
day preceding Commencement for the intimate Class Day exer¬ 
cises. Here they listen to Dean of Students Nicholas McD Mc- 


THE DAY toward which over 
600 young men in the above 
picture began working and 
planning four years ago la^st 
September. Whether they now 
are “pre-med”, “pre-law”, “pre- 
undecided”, or “post-graduate”, 
and wherever they may have 
come from, they have realized 
one mutual objective—a Colum¬ 
bia Coliege education. This is 
THE DAY. 

It arrived at the more recent 
culmination of a fuli week of 
Senior activities which had lit- 
tie to do with the Problems of 
Contemporary Civilization or the 
final results of any elective ex¬ 
ams. On Thursday, May 31st, the 
Senior Dinner was held in John 
Jay with guest speakers Presi¬ 
dent Kirk, Deans Chamberlain 
and McKnight and Professor 
Moses Hadas providing informal 
remarks and reminiscences of 
their own graduations. 

The next evening was Class 
Night — a party with dates, 
dancing and refreshments and 
pre-Ciass Day “awards” by Se¬ 
niors to classmates who expect 
to enter Law or Med School. 

On Saturday it rained—and 
on Saturday was the Senior 
Picnic at Nevis Estate, Irving- 
ton-on-the-Hudson. Rain w no 


‘ . . . . This 

rain, the Seniors took their 
dates up the Hudson for an 
outdoor barbecue. The spirit of 
the all day occasion remained 
undampened through the last 
dance that night around eleven. 

Sunday brought the tradition¬ 
al Baccalaureate Services in St. 
Paul’s Chapel where the Uni¬ 
versity Chaplain. Rev. John M. 



PROUD MOMENT: Justice of the 
Harlan, receives the honorary 6 
Columbia 














COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 7 


11 ... . 



Knigiht at the start of the program, which included talks by 
Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain and President Grayson Kirk 
and the awarding of prizes to outstanding graduates. 


is Today!” 

Krumm, told the graduates that 
“a liberal education is not in¬ 
tended primarily to prepare for 
some specific vocation of life 
work but for the great vocation 
of being a free and responsible 
person pwirticipating in life fully 
and richly and significantly.” 
Following the services, the 
campus was dotted with ’56 men 



i Supreme Court, John Marshall 
legree of Doctor of Laws from 
UniversH y. 


in oap-and gown making the 
“grand tour” with proud par¬ 
ents and guests in tow. 

Since Class Day, Monday, 
June 4th, is the College’s own 
traditional occasion for honor¬ 
ing its own, it provided a color¬ 
ful preview in Van Am Quad 
for THE DAY on which the Col¬ 
lege Seniors assemble with the 
new graduates of all the Univer¬ 
sity Schools on Low Library 
Plaza. An account of the cere¬ 
monies will be found on Page 1 
—they were followed by a cock¬ 
tail party at the Faculty Club 
for parents, guests of the Se¬ 
niors, members of the faculty 
and their wives. 

At 9:00 P.M. Monday night, 
the formal Senior Prom in John 
Jay Hall climaxed the week’s 
social activities. 

Then came Tuesday and Com¬ 
mencement. It, too, was followed 
by a reception in John J’ay 
where more than 1000 parents 
and guests were received by the 
Deans and members of the fac¬ 
ulty. 

It was a day which will be 
long remembered by 600 young 
men—who, as newly graduated 
Columbia College men, also beai 
in mind “Tomorrow’s the future 
still ...” 



PRESIDENTS CONVENE: The Anniversary Class presidents meet with Dr. Grayson Kirk prior to 
Commencement exercises. Left to right, Bernard Sunshine '46; James V. Cuff ’56; George G. 
Moore, Jr. ’06, 50th Reunion Fund chairman; Arthur V. Smith ’31; Joseph N. Murray ’ll; Wil¬ 
liam Redfield Porter ’06; Harold S. Hutton ’16; Shenard L. Alexander ’21; Robert W. Rowen ’26; 
Joseph D. Coffee, Jr. ’41; and Alfred J. Barabas ’36. 



EXCHANGE CONGRATULATIONS: Roscoe C. Ingalls ’12, left, who has been nominated to 
serve as an Alumni Trustee, chats with Dr. Frederick Ellison Lane ’28, ’32P&S at the Alumni Fed¬ 
eration Luncheon. Dr. Lane is the 


new recording secretary of the Federation 



COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS: With solemn dignity Commencement exercises get underway. 












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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


JUNE. \956 


Education: A Cultural Crossroads 


by DR. GRAYSON KIRK 
(The following article is re¬ 
printed by special permission 
from The New York Times.) 

"We shall, I hope, be able to re¬ 
sist the temptation to acclaim 
New York City as the most im¬ 
portant of the nation’s centers 
ot education, using mere size as 
a criterion. It is true, of course, 
that our great group of schools, 
colleges and universities, public 
and private, independent and 
church-related, is the largest 
boasted by any city in America 
or, indeed, the world. 

I am interested but not over¬ 
whelmed when it is pointed out 
to me that during the 1954-55 
academic year there were more 
students engaged in study in 
higher education in New York 
City proper — suburbs are ex¬ 
cluded — than there were in all 
of France, or in all of Italy, 
and more than twice as many 
as in all of Canada. There were 
176,741 students at work in our 
forty-two institutions of higher 
learning within New York City’s 
five boroughs during the last 
academic year. Of these schools, 
thirty-nine, I believe, grant at 
least the bachelor’s degree. 

Numbers, I am sure we will 
agree, are less important than 
standards; size less significant 
than quality. It must be obvious 
that scholarly standards will 
vary among more than forty 
institutions ranging widely in 
their objectives, their methods, 
their facilities and resources, as 
well as student bodies. I believe, 
however, that on a basis of 
scholarly standards, physical fa¬ 
cilities and, very importantly, 
the setting with which they are 
favored. New York City’s insti¬ 
tutions of higher learning, com¬ 
plemented as they are by unique 
off-campus cultural aids—great 
libraries, museums and collec¬ 
tions of art—give our metropolis 
fair claim to title as the nation’s 
most influential educational 
center. 

A CITY OF CONTRAST 

New York has been for the 
past half-century — certainly 
since World War I — the most 
advantageous setting for uni¬ 
versity study our modern world 
has known. 

New York, more than any 
other urban center in America 
or in the world, is a city of con¬ 
trast and, in a sense, of intellec¬ 
tual conflict. The city did not 
need the United Nations to make 
it a crossroads of the world. No¬ 
where else will one find in close 
proximity the representatives of 
so many cultures, so many dif¬ 
ferent nation origins, so many 
varying philosophies. Here, in 
almost complete cross-section, 
are representations of virtually 
every social, racial and economic 
problem America knows in addi¬ 
tion to others imknown else¬ 
where in our land. 

This city and its colleges and 
universities are not for the 
scholar who would be sheltered. 
Here the questing student can¬ 
not help being a part of the 
cosm(H)olitan scene to the de- 
gr-ee that his intellectual curi¬ 
osity warrants. Whether he wills 
H or not, it is impossible for him 
to be insulated from the activity 
around him. For the university 
which, by definition, seeks the 
"universal ” in truth and learn¬ 
ing, the metropolis provides a 
unique setting. Though this has 
been true in past decades, it will 
become more and more a vital 
fact in the years we approach. 

Here the “winds of doctrine’’ 
blow strong. They blow in all 
directions, including the left and 
right. The pressure group, care¬ 
less of objectivity and seeking 
to convince with only flimsy pre¬ 
tense to truth, is often with us. 
But there is stimulation and 
testing in it all. The problems a j 
university faces in New York. | 



City — and they are many, of 
course—should in the long view 
be considered as assets and as 
opportunities rather than prob¬ 
lems. 

What does all this mean to a 
student who attends a college or 
university in New York? Perhaps 
he attends a large private uni 
versity, periiaps one of the city 
supported colleges which com 
bine to form one of the nation’s 
most notable public higher edu¬ 
cation projects. Perhaps he is at 
one of the smaller institutions, 
independent, church-related, or 
public. In more or less degi'ee 
he will feel the c on f 1 i c t i n g 
“winds of doctrine,’’ and he will 
be a stronger and more truly 
educated citizen of this or an¬ 
other country as a result. 

The young man or woman 
from Asia or from Europe or 
from America’s South or West 
or Brooklyn or Manhattan, who 
hears in class discussion the 
opinions of representatives of 
other cultures and other areas 
is enriched as a result. The 
opinions and interpretations he 
will hear may be new to him, 
and perhaps disquieting. Educa¬ 
tion, in its very essence, must 
be disquieting. 

THE CORE OF EDUCATION 

I prize the fact that at the end 
of an hour in a Columbia Col¬ 
lege classroom one finds a half- 
dozen or more students clus¬ 
tered about the instructor and 
loath to leave as they defend a 
point—or attack one—which has 
caused siharp discussion during 
the preceding hour in economics, 
or history, or contemporary civi¬ 
lization. Intellectual excitement 
should be at the core of educa¬ 
tion at the college and univer¬ 
sity level. If one is to have that 
anywhere, one should have it 
in the New Y«rfc City setting. 

It was intellectual excitement, 
nurtiwed in the New York atmos¬ 
phere, which caused John Ers- 
kine and colleagues who im¬ 
mediately followed him to bring 
into being the Columbia Col¬ 
lege plan of General Education 
in the Nineteen Twenties on 
Momingside. The impact of that 
plan on liberal arts education 
in this country has been a sig¬ 
nificant one. 

I had no wish to be counted 
a light-hearted optimist. In a 
day of new and bewildering na¬ 
tional and world problems, we 
begin only now to explore many 


, Seeks the ‘Universal’ in Truth and Learning” 


vital areas virtually uncharted . to which have come represen- 


before. I believe, however, that 
here in this city of infinite va¬ 
riety we possess a breadth of 
understanding of human prob¬ 
lems and relationships and a 
will to solve them at least equal 
to, and perhaps greater than, 
is the case of any other com¬ 
munity. 

Go to the files of our news¬ 
papers of only ten years ago and 
from that vantage point view 
our New York City of today. It 
will be clear, I believe, that we 
have pressed forward painstak¬ 
ingly after each defeat to statke 
out progress which, perhaps not 
obvious from day to day, may 
be clearly measured as a mile¬ 
stone. Our educational institu 


tions, whose curricula differ and i ting group. Because in large 

>17 43 r O TVl Si T k* P H fl r5\ 


tatives of so many races and 
cultures, and because through 
New York Harbor there passes 
an important part of the world’s 
commerce, it would be surprising 
if large numbers of students 
from abroad had not made our 
colleges and universities their 
goals. They come for cultural, 
technical and professional en¬ 
richment. In turn they add 
greatly to our cultural resources. 

At Columbia almost 10 per 
cent of our student registration 
is made up of young people 
from abroad. At New York Uni¬ 
versity, at Fordham, and at 
others of our institutions, the 
foreign students have been for 
years a populous and stimula- 
'art 


whose standards vary, have 
played a major role in their con¬ 
tribution to the uniquely vigor¬ 
ous and professional life of a 
community unlike any other in 
the world. 

Because ours is a port of entry 


A stronger and more truly educated citizen” 


they were marked first as 
leader.s in their homelands, else 
they might not have had the op¬ 
portunity to come, they have 
provided fully their share of in¬ 
tellectual leadership. The for¬ 
eign students have often come 
with mixed feelings, not know¬ 
ing exactly what to expect. Al¬ 
most without exception they 
have learned they are welcome. 
New hOTizons have been opened 
to them, and new opportunities. 


STIRRED BY IDEAS 


Many have gone into educa¬ 
tion upon return, stirred by the 
ideas and personality of a 
great teacher here. Others have 
learned that American industry 
and business organizations with 
foreign operations often find it 
advantageous to have as junior 
executives in their overseas proj¬ 
ects young men who are natives 
of the country in question, but 
who have had university train¬ 
ing here in American business 
methods. 

In New York City we illustrate 
w'ell America’s historic partner¬ 
ship of public and private higher 
education, a dual system which 
virtually every other country In 
the world has reason to envy. 
It is a partnership which recog¬ 
nizes on one hand the right and 
responsibility of the state to 
train its young people for use¬ 
ful lives and, on the other hand, 
the equal right, indeed the re¬ 
sponsibility, of the private in¬ 
stitution to do likewise, but in 
a setting free of governmental 
restraint. 

The private institution dating 
back to early colonial times, 
was the forerunner, a typical 


product of the American pioneer 
in his new-found freedom. In 
research and in eagerness and 
ability to discover new paths to 
knowledge, that spirit has con¬ 
tinued to be highly important 
in private education, to the 
great benefit of all American 
education. New York, like the 
nation, is incomparably richer 
in the presence of both private 
and public higher education 
than would be the case if all 
were private or all tax-sup¬ 
ported. 

Our New York system of mu¬ 
nicipal colleges bulks large in 
enrollment, of course. But more 
important is the fact, disclosed 
from time to time by surveys, 
that our municipal colleges of 
the City of New York send out 
in large numbers young men and 
women who do distinguished 
work in many disciplines and in 
all parts of the country. A con¬ 
siderable share of the impact 
of New York as a educational 
center is due to the achieve¬ 
ments of men and women whose 
studies were carried on at City 
College, Hunter College, Brook¬ 
lyn College and (Queens College. 

THE FREE WORLD OVER 

Meanwhile, other New Yorkers 
come to our privately supported 
institutions to join classmates 
from every state in the Union 
and from virtually every country 
in the free world. The young 
people who come from the forty- 
eight states play their role in 
helping to make New York a 
center of learning and to ex- 
t e n d its influence nationally. 
They come for undergraduate 
studies, for graduate work at 
all levels, or for professional 
training in medicine, law, busi¬ 
ness, journalism, architecture; 
or maybe for drama, or painting 
and. sculpture, or for music. 

Their work completed, they re¬ 
turn to their home state knowl¬ 
edgeable American citizens well 
acquainted with an important 
community and a phase of our 
national life they might not 
otherwise have known. 

THE ADVANTAGES 

Why do they come? Aside 
from the aspects of New York 
which I have mentioned and 
about the benefits of which 
there is no doubt in my mind, 
do we offer them educational 
facilities which other leading 
American educational c e n t e r s 
cannot? 

I shan’t attempt to answer. 
There is no answer. 

I would say, however, that 
the opportunity New York makes 
possible for observation of an 
infinite number of human ac¬ 
tivities provides unparalleled ad¬ 
vantages. For the student of art, 
the museums and collections 
provide the works of the mas¬ 
ters, not reproductions of them, 
in a satisfying number of cases. 
For the student of education, 
our public and private schools 
run the whole gamut of elemen¬ 
tary and secondary education 
for the Teachers College student 
in teacher preparatixm. 

The theological seminary finds 
here one of the richest of fields 
for study. New York’s aware¬ 
ness of the importance of na¬ 
tional and international prob¬ 
lems has brought into being the 
American Assembly at Columbia, 
the recent Gould House at New 
York University, and a number 
of “area institutes” in which 
studies are conducted on stra¬ 
tegic portions of the world. 

Linked to the awareness of the 
New Yorker as an individual and 
to his intellectual curiosity is 
the thrilling story of adult edu¬ 
cation which has lighted hun¬ 
dreds of classrooms formerly 
dark after dusk. Adult educa¬ 
tion, of course has not been 
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JliN€, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 9 


Graduation 
A Busy Day 

(Continued from Page 1) 
lining Columbia’s new' Citiaen- 
ship Center. 

Virgtnius V, Zipris received 
his award with the commenda¬ 
tion that “few have labored more 
oonacieivtiously, consistently, ef¬ 
fectively, and selflessly in the 
interests of the College, enlarg¬ 
ing, each successive year, his 
area of activity.” 

Harold B. Davidson has “al¬ 
ways been generally responsive 
to calls for service ki the alum¬ 
ni area. He has been particu¬ 
larly successful in employing a 
personalized approach to others 
with the happy result that a 
growing number . . . have been 
persuaded to serve and sup¬ 
port. . . 

Benjamin J. Buttenwieser has 
accepted and admirably fulfilled 
posts of high responsibility. 
These have included gei>eral 
chairmanship of the 4th Annual 
Columbia College Fund and 
chairmanship of the Committee 
on Education of the Columbia 
College Council. Those respon¬ 
sible ftw the leadership of his 
Class, of which he has been an 
officer and one of its most dis¬ 
tinguished members, attest glad¬ 
ly to the record of his uninter¬ 
rupted interest and support of 
its affairs since graduation.” 

Wayne Van Orman, “as a 
mem^r of the College Council, 
and in the Association which he 
has brilliantly served as a mem¬ 
ber of the Standing Committee; 
as Chairman of Deans’ Day, 
and during the past two years. 
President of the Association . . . 
a truly dedicated alumnus whose 
belief in the function and pres¬ 
tige of Columbia College has in¬ 
spired not only Officers and 
Faculty of the School, but an 
increasing company of alumni 
who have been persuaded 
through his example to partici¬ 
pation in the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion’s excellent program in be¬ 
half of the College.” 

Albert Redpath, the Alumni 
Federation’s new president, is a 
partner in the investment brok¬ 
erage firm of Auchincloss, Par¬ 
ker and Redpath. 

The newly elected vice presi¬ 
dent, Arthur V. Smith, '31, is a 
member of the law firm of Cur¬ 
tis, Morris and Stafford. Dr. 
Frederick E. Lane, ’28, ’32 P&S, 
was elected secretary-treasurer. 

On the morning of the Com¬ 
mencement Day, twelve Presi¬ 
dents of alumni classes called 
upon President Kirk with anni¬ 
versary gifts from their respec¬ 
tive classes. The total of these 
class gifts was over $297,000. 
The classes represented were 
'01, '06, '11, '16, '21. '26, '31, 
'36. ’41, '46, '51, and '56. 


Dr. Kirk 

(Continued from Page 8) 
limited to the lecture halls of 
Columbia, New York University, 
Fordham, the New School, 
Cooper Union, the municipal 
colleges and others. The libra¬ 
ries, the museums, the concert 
balls, the lecture platforms, the 
community centers—these and 
many other agencies—join to 
make New York City indeed a 
great campus for the adult per¬ 
son who would learn. 

But it is upon the college and 
university, large or small, that 
the re.sponsibility for intellectual 
leadership and influence must 
rest. I hope that New York City 
will draw more and more upon 
the institutions of higher learn¬ 
ing for the leadership they can 
provide. Because New York City 
is an important center of so 
many activities national in 
scope and vital in importance, 
the responsibility is not a light 
one. 


Class of ’56 
Now Alumni 

(Continued from Page 1) 

Following the processional en¬ 
trance of the Seniors, the Salut¬ 
atory address was made by David 
E. Wolf of Seattle, Washington. 
Then Dean of Students Nicholas 
McD McKnight and Aaron W. 
Berg, '24, '27L president of the 
Association of Alumni of Ck)lum- 
bia College, awarded prizes to 
the Seniors who have distin¬ 
guished themselves as under¬ 
graduates. 

Among the award winners was 
Victor Levin of Flushing, New 
York, who received the Alumni 
Prize of $50 and a bronze Co¬ 
lumbia Lion for being adjudged 
“the most faithful and deserv¬ 
ing student of the graduating 
class.” 

Dale T. Granger of Valley 
Stream, New York, received the 
Alumni Leadership Award of a 
Lion for being voted “outstand¬ 
ing for qualities of mind, char¬ 
acter, and service to the College.” 
The award is made each year to 
a Senior living within a 75-mile 
radius of the campus. 

Newton Frohlich of Chevy 
Chase, Maryland, was given the 
Alumni Relations Award for “do¬ 
ing the most to develop the in¬ 
terest of his Class in and foster 
relationship with the College 
Alumni Association to the end 
of its continuing activity in the 
affairs of Columbia College.” 

Dean McKnight presented the 
Richard H. Fox Memorial Prize 
to Milburn D. Smith, Jr., of Fort 
Plain, New York, for the Senior 
who, “in the judgment of the 
advisory committee of King’s 
Crown, through his participa¬ 
tion in non-athletic activities, 
has shown for Columbia College 
the greatest interest and help¬ 
fulness.” 

The Edward Sutliff Brainard 
Memorial Prize went to Class 
Valedictorian Jonas Schultz, 
Brooklyn, New Yewk, who was 
considered by his classniates as 
“most worthy of distinction on 
the ground of his qualities of 
mind and character.” 

Senior Class President James 
Vincent Cuff, Buffalo, New York, 
received the Charles M. Rolker, 
Jr., Prize for having proved, in 
the judgment of his classmates 
that he was “most worthy of 
special distinction as an under¬ 
graduate student either because 
of his industry and success as a 
scholar or because of his pre¬ 
eminence in athletic sports or 
any combination of these.” 

Speaking briefly of the sen¬ 
iors’ future, the Dean declared: 

“ . . . You may feel that your 
time is so limited that all of it 
must go to yourself, your family 
and your business. But if you do 
this you are consuming social 
capital without replacing it and 
it will not be long until bank¬ 
ruptcy sets in . . . You cannot 
live wholly unto yourself with¬ 
out unbalancing your own per¬ 
sonality; your scale of values 
and your sense of fulfillment.” 


Name New 
Offieers In 
9 Classes 

(Below are results of College 
class elections held since Janu¬ 
ary 1st of this year.) 

1911 

Joseph N. Murray, President. 
Richard C. Klugescheid, Vice- 
President. 

Donald V. Lowe, Vice-President. 
Sidney L. Wise, Vice-President. 
Wayne D. Heydecker, Secretary. 
George L. Peters, Treasurer. 

1916 

Samuel Spingarn, President, 
Felix E. Wormser, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. 

John D. Craven, Secretary .. .. 
Nicholas Bucci, Treasurer, 

1921 

Shepard L. Alexander, President. 
Thomas O’G. FitzGibbon, Vice- 
President. 

John H. Cowie, Secretary. 
Addison B. Bingham, Treasurer 

1928 

Frank H. Bowles, President. 
Egbert H. van Delden, Vice- 
President. 

Edward R. Holt. Secretary. 
Jerome Brody, Assistant Secre¬ 
tary. 

Herbert L. Hunter, Treasurer. 
Richard Goetze, Assistant Treas¬ 
urer. 

1936 

Alfred J. Barabas, President. 
Paul J. MacCutcheon, Vice-Pres¬ 
ident. 

Theodore R. Finder, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. 

Albert F. Bower, Vice-President 
John W. Wheeler, Vice-President 
Arnold A. Saltsman. Secretary. 
Johr R. Raben, Treasurer. 

1941 

R Semmes Clarke, President. 
Arthur S. Weinstock, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. 

Douglas L. Gruber, Secretary 
Frederick F. Abdoo, Treasurer. 

1912 

William R. Carey, President. 
Victor J. Zaro, Vice-President 
Edv.’ard N. Caulfield, Regional 
Vice-President. . . 

Edward C Kalaidjian, Secretary- 
Treasurer. 

1946 

Bernard Sunshine, President. 
William Kanehann, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent. 

John A. Murphy, Vice-President. 
I. Meyer Pincus, Vice-President. 
Stewa.'-l H. Scheuer, Vice-Presi- 
deni 

Henry S. Coleman, Secretary. 
Don J Summa, Treasurer. 

1950 

John W. Noonan, President. 
Marjo A. Palmieri, 1st Vice-Pres¬ 
ident. 

Johr: C. Dimmick, 2nd Vice-Pres¬ 
ident. 

Alois E’. Schmitt, Jr., Secretary. 
Helge R. Hukari, Treasurer. 


Herman Wouk Tribute 


(Continued from Page 5) 

But I am not afraid to say 
that a pecularly civilized note, 
the note of Columbia, has in¬ 
formed their work. They have 
generally been ahead of the 
trend, or have started new 
trends. Nobody has exceeded 
them in sophistication, where 
dophistication was a virtue. But 
the great danger of the sophis¬ 
ticate is that he may become 
precious, repetitious, and at 
last trivial, Rodgers and Ham- 
merstein have had their fail¬ 
ures: but these have always 
been experiments, ventures into 
new ideas, Broadway canniness, 
in these men, has been enriched 


and corrected by a certain 
depth and range of interest, by 
an ability to think in new ways 
and try new things, and also by 
an ability to revive classic forms 
and themes. In this they have 
been not so much sophisticated, 
as wise: not so much clever, 
as civilized. 

For this unique quality in the 
wonderful body of work ot Rodg¬ 
ers and Hammerstein, their al 
ma mater, Columbia College, can 
justly claim them as her own. 
And so tonight the Alexander 
Hamilton award goes to exactly 
the kind of men for whom it 
was designed: men of the first 
eminence In their chosen field 
men of Columbia. 


ROAR LION ROAR 



Both the new vice-chairman of the Columbia College Ccwncil, 
Benjamin J, Buttenwieser '19, and his predecessor, Roscoe C. In¬ 
galls '12, were named to corporate directorships this spring. In 
April, Mr. Ingalls, senior partner in the investment firm of Ingalts 
and Snyder, was elected a director of the Riegel Paper Corporation, 
Last month, Mr. Buttenwieser, a lindled p 'o^rnt 

banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, was elected a director 
of the American Lead Pencil Company. 

Chief Judge William Bondy '90, of the United States DLstriefc 
Court for the Southern District of New York, has submitted his 
resignation to the White House. Appointed by President Harding, 
Judge Bondy has been a member of the court for thirty-three years. 

• • • 

J. Howard Carlson '21, has been named a 
general partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & 

Company, which does a big stock brokerage 
and underwriting business in addition to gen¬ 
eral investment banking. Mr. Carlson will have 
charge of the syndicating of the firm’s under¬ 
writing commitments. He had been in the 
syndicating department of Halsey, Stuart & 

Company since his graduation from the 
College. 

* • • J.H. Carlson’21 

Joseph D, Coffee, Jr., '41, Director of Development of Columbia 
College, has been elected president of the Columbia University 
Club for 1956-57. He succeeds Frederick G. Atkinson '26, a vice 
IM’esidcnt of R. H. Macy Sc Company. Also elected was Peter W. 
Quinn ’22L, attorney, as vice president; John J. Decring *37, a 
}tartner in the pubhe act hunting fin-’ of r ; Com¬ 

pany, as treasurer; and Edward S. Rimer, Jr., '49, attorney, as 
secretary. • ♦ • 

Effective May 1, Robert E, Hollingsworth '39, became assistant 

general manager for administration of the Atomic Energy Com¬ 
mission. * * * 

For the third successive year Peter I. B. Lavan '15, has been 
anpoiiited national chairman of the Unitarian Service Committee. 
Mr. Lavan is senior partner in the law firm of Stroock & Lavan. 
Recently, he was elected a director of the National Republican Club. 

Br. Harold Korn ’01, historian, publicist and lecturer, was 
honored this .spring by the New York Lodge of B’itai B’rith for 
“his outstanding contribution to the advancement of our d.'mo- 
cratic heritage.” The citation ceremony took place at a Joint 
Defense Appeal breakfast at the Hotel Piaza. 

♦ ♦ ♦ 

Daniel J. Riesner ’25, has been re-elected president of the 
National Republican Club, marking his third term in office. 

Johfi D. Schmidt ’35, of Logansport, Indiana, has been 
elected vice-president of the Indiana Life Underwriters Associatien. 

♦ ♦ ♦ 

A trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital In New 
York since 1941, Joseph Klingenstein ’ll, has 
been elected its fifteenth president. Mr. Kling¬ 
enstein, senior partner in the investment bank¬ 
ing firm of Wertheim & Company, is a mem¬ 
ber of the executive committee of the Federa¬ 
tion of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, 
and on the e.\ecutlve board of the American 
Jewish Committee. 

J. Klingstein ’ll • * * 

Robert T. Quittmeyer '41, has joined the law department of 
the American Sugar Refining Company. He served as chairman 
of the 15th Reunion for '41 held in May at Baker Field. 

Allen H. Toby '35, has been elected treasurer of the West¬ 
chester chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public 
Accountants. 

Silas M. R. Giddings ’30, has been elected president of the 
board of directors of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital. Mr. 
Giddings is a member of the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, 
Putnam and Roberts. 



Columbia Today 


PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI 
AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 
FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS 


EDITOR 
Jerry Miller 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Hugh J. Kelly ‘26. Chairman 

Charles A. Wagner *23 Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41 

Alfred D. Walling ’24 J. Robert Cherneff ’42 

Thomas M. Jones *37 George L. McKay. Jr. '48 

Herbert C. Rosenthal ’38 Gene R. Hawes ’49 


OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Aaron W. 
Berg '24, ’27L; Vice President, Randolph I. Thornton '28; 
Secretary, Robert S. Friou ’38, ’40L; Treasurer, Berton J. 
Delmhorst '29. 


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Page 10 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


JUNE, 1956 




The Year in Review 


CLASS PRESIDENTS’ DINNER; More than 150 class officers and 
guests, attended the first annual meeting of the Society of Class 
Presidents last September. Shown above: Robert S. Curtiss ’27 
(left), president of his class and first president of the Society; 
and class president Ray N. Spooner ’15. 


ALEXANDER HAMILTON DINNER: Wayne Van Orman ’28, left, 
presents to Richard Rodgers ’23 and Oscar Hamerstein II ’16, 
two medals representing the 1956 Alexander Hamilton Medal 
award. The ceremony was a highpoint of the Hamilton Din¬ 
ner in April. 


More alumni participated in Coltege affairs in 
1955-56 than in any recent year in Columbians 
history. Pictured here is a sampling of the 
diverse activities on the alumni calendar. 


HOMECOMING: Rain dampened, but did not extinguish the festive spirit of the eighth annual 
Homecoming Reunion at Baker Field last October. Nearly 1,000 hardy alumni, their families and 
friends took part in the activities, highlighted by the presentation of the 15th Annual Alumni 
Athletic Award to Major General William J. Donovan ’0.5. 


DEAN’S DAY: Professor Quentin Anderson ’37, shown above, was 
one of sixteen College faculty members participating in the 
tenth annual Dean’s Day program in February. Some 600 alumni 
and guests flocked to the campus for the stimulating all-day 
event. 



ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL MEETING: Nearly one hundred association members turned out for 
the annual meeting in May at the Columbia University Club. Activities of the subcommittees dur¬ 
ing the past year were reviewed, and future association objectives cited. New Officers, and mem¬ 
bers of the Standing Committee, were elected and installed. Shown above addressing the group 
is retiring president Wayne Van Orman ’28. (See Story on Page 2.) 


CLASS DINNERS: Honoring distinguished classmates is tradi¬ 
tional with such classes as ’24, which each year at its class din¬ 
ner presents the ”1924 Award.” Pictured here is Thomas L. 
Ohrystie ’55, accepting in the name of his late father, Thomas 
Witter Chrystie, the ’24 Award, given posthumously to Mr. 
Chrystie at the class dinner in May. Making the presentation is 
a previous recipient. Dr. Henry I. Fineberg. Looking on are 
Frank S. Hogan (left), and class president, Charles W. Crawford. 



AVOMEN’S COMMITTEE: Among the varied activities of the Wo¬ 
men’s Committee was sponsorship in May of a reception for Col¬ 
lege parents who had contributed to the 4th Annual Columbia 
College Fund. Pictured here are, 1 to r, committee chairman, Mrs. 
Frederick vP. Bryan; Dr. Oscar Chase, parents chairman for the 
Fund, which eo-sponsored the affair; and Mrs. Frank S. Hogan, 
vice-chairman of the committee. 















JUN€, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 11 


The Ivy League Colleges 


By 

HENRY MORTON ROBINSON 
’23C, M. A. '24 

The afcmospihere of intellec¬ 
tual courage that prevails at 
Ivy colleges is the breath of life 
to the student body. Socially 
and politically, Ivy League men 
can be fairly described as lib¬ 
erals. Unlike their brethren .at 
European universities, they 
aren’t given to rioting in the 
public squares (except in cele¬ 
bration of springtime and 
youth) and I can’t conceive of 
a Hasty Pudding man hurling 
cobblestones, or even epithets, 
at the existing government. 
Their independence takes the 
shelter form of making intelli¬ 
gent decisions as to what they 
shall think, say and do as re¬ 
sponsible individuals. Naturally 
a great deal of whey has to be 
squeezed out of them in the 
process, but the final result is 
fairly close to the ideal that 
Andrew White, co-founder of 
Cornell, had in mind when he 
said: “I propose to raise up a 
generation of students who will 
disagree with me, and I propose 
further to give them very poor 
marks if they don’t.” 

THE TRUE GOAL 

Ivy League students some¬ 
times find it hard to disagree 
with their teachers—not because 
the students lack courage, but 
because (and this is difficult for 
authoritarian minds to grasp) 
Ivy League teachers seldom take 
a dogmatic stand. CJolumbia’s 
Mark Van Doren, for instance, 
probably knows as much about 
Shakespeare as any man living, 
but he declines to pontificate ; 
on the subject. Students who 
expect to hear ultimate certain¬ 
ties in his classes had better 
take themselves off to another 
shop. Van Doren would probably 
admit that his philosophy of 
suspended judgment stems from 
Montaigne’s “Que sais-je?”—a 
question that underlies all Ivy 
League think\ng. Teachers and 
students alike realize that the 
door must be kept open for 
further evidence, and that the 
constant search for fresh evi¬ 
dence is the true goal of educa- ! 
tion. 


‘OPERATION THINK’ 

It has always seemed strange 
to me that this quest for the 
ever evolving, many-faceted 
thing called truth should be 
regarded in some quarters as 
an undesirable activity. I was 
particularly disturbed by an in¬ 
cident that occured last year at 
West Point. The U. S. Military 
Academy debating team was 
preparing to meet all comers 
on the question—then being 
mooted in Ivy League circles as 
elsewhere—Resolved: that the 
United States should extend 
diplomatic recognition to Com¬ 
munist China. 

On the eve of battle, so to 
speak, the West Point debaters 
received orders from G.H.Q. to 
suspend “Operation Think.” Evi¬ 
dently the high command feared 
that it was unwise—unsafe per¬ 
haps—for future generations to 
delve into the pros and cons of 
a problem that must eventually 
be faced and decided by every¬ 
one. No such fears disturbed the 
debaters from Brown. A naughty 
humor inspired them to send 
the following telegram to the 
West Pointers: 

Since you’re not allowed to 
debate the question of Red 
China’s recognition, we chal¬ 
lenge you to debate the rea¬ 
sons why you’re not allowed to 
debate it. 

Reprinted by special permission 
from HOLIDAY, copyright 1955, 
by the Curtis Publishing Com¬ 
pany. 




, con Hill dinner table. The only 
I drawback from the Harvard 
j point of view is the danger of 
running into husky skiers from 
Dartmouth, or worshipful ad¬ 
mirers of that quick Brown fox, 
S. o. Perelman, whose writings 
are shelved in the John Hay li¬ 
brary between “Pequot” and 
“Petrondus.” 


Weekends, in the Ivy League, 
can be as educational (in the 
largest sense) as any weekday 
lectures. Southbound trains from 
New Haven debouch hourly into 
New York’s Grand Ontral, car¬ 
rying the spiritual descendants 
of Dink Stover and Frank Mer- 
riwell. Merely by crossing Van¬ 
derbilt Avenue they reach the 
Yale club, take a quick shower, 
and after consulting little black 
books, disperse in quest of the 
finer things that New York of¬ 
fers in abundance. It begins to 
appear, however, that these 
junkets are due for serious cur¬ 
tailment. Yale’s Committee on 
General Education, headed by 
Pres. A. Whitney Griswold, now 
propvoses to stiffen undergradu¬ 
ate courses at the expense of 
athletics, extracurricular activ¬ 
ities, and the three-day week¬ 
end—^which, according to the 
committee, “involves serious 
conflicts with important educa¬ 
tional goals.” 


FRANKLIN'S MEMO 


“The door must be kept open . 


Now do you understand why I i and limitations of his environ- 
bless the liberal breeze that j ment. 


blows through Ivy League halls? 

Contrast this refreshing atmo¬ 
sphere with the smog that hangs 
over many state universities, 
where legislative committees are 
forever prying into text books in 
search of an unorthodox para¬ 
graph. In these shadow zones of 
culture, luckless chancellors can 
be twitched onfto the carpet by 
veterans’ groups or self-appoint¬ 
ed censors and inquisitors. 

More terrifying yet are the 
laws that require many state 
universities to accept all comers 
who have completed high school 
with a C average. A secret form 
of revenge is practiced by out¬ 
raged teachers. Forty per cent 
of the entering class is flunked 
out during the freshman year 
to make room for the galloping 
herd of new arrivals. 

Meanwhile the democratic il¬ 
lusion has been preserved. 
Everyone can say that he or she 
has gone to State U. The heart 
of the country is sound, even 
though that forgotten organ 
(the brain, remember?) is hol- 
lower than the bass drum at a 
Cotton Bowl game. 

There remain to be considered 
a few small, privately endowed 
colleges of good fame and 
modest resources—I think of 
Hamilton, Haverford, Oberlin, 
Beloit, De Pauw and members 
of the “Little Ivy League”— 
which play an important role in 
the scheme of higher education. 
I readily admit the advantages 
enjoyed by members of these 
provincial academies. But in my 
opinion, these advantages are 
outweighed by definite limita¬ 
tions, though these perhaps are 
not noticeable daring the first 
two years. 

Many small colleges adequate¬ 
ly satisfy the intellectual hun¬ 
ger of freshmen and sopho¬ 
mores. But all too often, symp¬ 
toms of scholastic malnutrition 
begin to appear among the up¬ 
perclassmen. The undeniable 
fact is that the superior student 
at a small college eventually be¬ 
comes bored by the morvotony 


This slow starvation can’t pos¬ 
sibly happen to an Ivy League 
upperclassman. These colleges 
are part of a university, which 
by definition is a seat of ad¬ 
vanced study and learning. The 
resources of graduate faculties, 
tremendous libraries and distin- 
guislhed scholars are at the un¬ 
dergraduate’s command. He 
may, at will, wade into the un¬ 
plumbed sea of learning that 
surrounds him. Columbia, for 
example, has instituted a whole 
new Upper College program de¬ 
signed to challenge the matur¬ 
ing energy of students. 

The second advantage is one 
often overlooked: the proximity 
of most Ivy colleges to large 
cities. Old Ben Franklin observ¬ 
ed that large cities were the 
natural habitat of inquiring 
minds. 

As Ivy League men can tes¬ 
tify, Poor Richard never said a 
wiser thing in his life. If bored 
in Cambridge, Harvard students 
can ferry themselves across the 
placid Charles River to the 
Parker House, Locke-Ober’s 
Scollay Square. Jaded brain cells 
can be recharged at the Shera- 
ton-Plaza, Fenway Park, Vincent 
Club affairs, or even at a Bea- 


Old Almanacker Franklin had 
a real stroke of inspiration when 
he penned a memo entitled 
Proposals Relating To The Edu¬ 
cation Of Youth In Pensilvania. 
Whether his spelling was poor, 
or merely phonetic, is of little 
moment. His proposals led to the 
founding of the Charity School 
at Fourth and Arch streets in 
the heart of old Philadelphia— 
an institution that later became 
the University of Pennsylvania. 
In spite of its name, the U. of 
P. is not a State school, but a 
privately endowed seat of high¬ 
er learning now located on the 
banks of the Schuylkill in West 
Philadelphia 

By far the largest of the Ivy 
League colleges, the University 
of Pennsylvania has a full-time 
enrollment of 4900 students. 
Both the university and the 
college, under the leadership of 
Dr, Gaylord P. Harnwell, j^ay 
a pre-eminent role in American 
cultural life. 

And now—"perhaps Cornell.’ 
There is no earthly reason why 
I should be especially fond of 
this place; indeed my under 
graduate years were spent in 
fear and trembling at its name. 
Hopefully I helped string “Beat 
Cornell” streamers across 116th 
Street, then dejectedly helped 
take them down again after the 
annual autumn butchery. But 
mingled with my physical fear 
was a kind of intellectual dis¬ 
dain for the Cornell bruisers. I 
tabbed them as agricultural stu¬ 
dents — hay-kickers, apple- 
knockers—and on one occasion 
flung my contempt in their faces 


The Last Word 

This is the final instaUment of Henry Morton Robinson’s tender 
pitean to the Ivy League. In Part I, Mr. Robinson extoUs such virtues 
of Ivy League education as careful screening of students, keen oom- 
and emphasis on proficiency. 

In Part II Mr. Robinson scoffs at the myth that 
Ivy League colleges are tenanted solely by the 
^ sons of millionaires. Noting that luilf of her under- 

^ graduates tvork, receive loans or scholarships—with 
ass/sfunce resulting in virtual monopoly over 
gtfjjjjk ’ the top ten per cent of secondary school students— 

Mr. Robinson attributes Ivy League superiority, at 
part, to the quality of her scholarship stu- 
from across the nation. 

Tfte author then proceeds to take up the cudgel 
H. M. Robinson academic freedom, which /*e claims as a tradi¬ 
tional right—lovingly nurtured, and fiercely defended—of Ivy League 
scholars. It would be easier, he thinks, to “blast the hinges off ¥jrt 
Knox than to bully Grayson Kirk of Columbia, et ah’* 


by wearing brown shoes at a 
black-tie affair that was held in 
the Cornell Phi Psi house—just 
to show them. Pitiful! 

Contrition, envy and respect 
are today my principal emotions 
about the youngest and in some 
ways most progressive of the 
Ivy League group. I’m contrite 
because I underestimated (or 
was ignorant of) the traditions 
and achievements of this great 
school. I envy the scenic gran¬ 
deur and spaciousness of the 
campus perched above Cayuga’s 
waters. And belatedly I have 
to recognize the unique contri¬ 
butions that Ezra Cornell and 
Andrew D. White made to high¬ 
er education when they founded 
their college in 1865. It was a 
time of stagnation, of adherence 
to out worn philosophies of edu¬ 
cation. White broke all the 
academic bric-a-brac in sight, 
threw away the book and pro¬ 
duced a system combining the 
best features of classic and 
democratic culture, including 
girls. 

COSMOPOLITAN, FRIENDLY 

I propose to let one of (Cor¬ 
nell’s distinguished sons describe 
the place in his own language. 
E. B. White (no relation to 
Andrew), in his charming essay 
I’d Send My Son to Cornell, af¬ 
firms his faith as follows: 

“Cornell is not only big and 
high, it is cosmopolitan and 
friendly; and it is an infinitely 
various place. Its students do 
not run to type. On the Campus 
are found both sexes, all colors, 
all beliefs — from the most con¬ 
servative fraternity sophomore 
with Republican tendencies and 
a contempt for the irregular, to 
the bloody-eyed anarchist who 
wants to tear the vines right off 
the buildings. 

“My son will probably be a 
Christian, five feet nine; but he 
will make a great many friends 
in Ithaca who do not conform to 
that amazing standard. When 
I was there I knew two men 
from Hawaii, a girl from Johan¬ 
nesburg, a Cuban, a Turk, an 
Englishman from India, a Negro 
from New York, two farmers, 
three Swedes, a Quaker, five 
Southerners, a reindeer butcher, 
a second lieutenant, a Christian 
Scientist, a retired dancer, a 
motorcyclist, a man who had 
known Theda Bara, three 
gnomes, and a lutist. That’s not 
counting the general run of 
broad-jumpers, second tenors, 
and veterinarians who make up 
the great body of the under¬ 
graduates, the same as in any 
school,” 

LIVINGSTON’S TOP FLOOR 

To which I can only add: stet, 
and thanks, E. B. w., for per¬ 
mission to quote. I never knew 
any gnomes or reindeer butchers 
at Columbia, but during my 
senior year on Morningside I 
holed up in an 8x12 cell on the 
top floor of Livingston —a region 
dedicated to simple living and 
high thinking. The adjoining 
cell was occupied by James 
Warner Bellah, who could fence 
like D'Artagnan and write (for 
my money) better than Scott 
Fitzgerald. We were both racing 
for the Alfred Knopf Prize—the 
publication of a first novel by a 
Columbia senior. Beliah won by 
a bodkin’s breadth, but made 
a characteidstic beau geste by 
financing my poetry magazine 
Contemporary Verse with h i s 
advance royalties. 

Across the corridor was a 
double suite that housed a con¬ 
cert-grand Steinway and its 
owner, A1 Fried, who could si¬ 
multaneously play Bach, four 
games of chess and tutor me in 
trigonometry — a notably weak 
link In my chain of Universal 
Knowledge. Among the chess 
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Page 12 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


JUNE, 1^5^ 


^56 Baseball Team 


Makes Mistory^ 

By HOWARD LEVINE 
Director of Sports Information 

The long, varied Columbia athletic year which began 
weakly last fall roared to an exciting close with baseball’s 
“garrison finish” this spring. While the Intercollegiate Row¬ 
ing Association Regatta at Syracuse on June 16 remains, 
all the sweat suits and gear are packed away for another 


summer and the 1955-56 cam¬ 
paign is history. 

And history is what the 1956 
baseball team wrote in its stir¬ 
ring season recently completed. 
The team, coached by Jbhn Bal- 
quist and led admirably by cap¬ 
tain Charlie Brown, roared down 
the home stretch like Nashua. 
Its 11-5-1 record gave Columbia 
its best diamond season since 
1933. The team finished third 
io the Eastern Intercollegiate 
League, a great improvement 
over 1955’s last place tie. 

They d-id it dramatdcally, too. 
After the first six games were 
played, following a rainy spring, 
the record showed one victory, 
one tie and four losses. Then 
things began to jell. The hitters 
caught up with the pitchers, who 
had been doing fine all along, 
and the Lions won four straight. 
They dropped a one-run game 
in the bottom of the nkutih and 
then won their last six. Ten vic¬ 
tories out of the last eleven 
games. 

Those triumphs toward the 
end of the season, the six in 
twelve days, were extremely im¬ 
portant in the league race, too. 
The Lions knocked Princeton out 
of a chance to win the title 
outright and then eliminated 
both Cornell and Army. 

Important Wins 

The wonderful season was a 
true team effort. The pitching 
was shared almost equally by 
captain Brown, Jim Williams 
and Warren Smith, Brown had 
a 4-2-1 record, fanned 67 in 60 
innings, and permitted only 2.72 
earned runs a game. Williams 
won three of four decisions and 
had an earned run average of 
2.64. Smith, a sophomore left¬ 
hander, won four and lost two 
and had a 3.54 ERA. Brown and 
Williams have graduated. 

Junior Bob Lehner led the hit¬ 
ters with a .312 mark and sopho¬ 
more Joe Hervatic was the only 
other regular over .300. He hit 
.310. But junior Dave O’Brien, 
senior Charlie Orace, juniors 
Jim Abrams, Gary Angleberger 
and captain-elect Claude Ben- 
ham, and senior Charlie Nations 
all contributed timely hits and 
smooth fielding to the season’s 
effort. 

One other spring varsity had 
an outstanding season. Coach 


Archie Oldham’s tennis team 
notched Columbia’s first win¬ 
ning season since 1948 with an 
8-5 record. Captain Paul Bar- 
tholet’s leadership and play were 
instrumental as was the fine 
playing of brother Chauncey, 
Dick Standel, and John Suarez, 
all seniors. Sophomores Leon 
Levy and captain-elect Earl Mc¬ 
Farland and juniors Ed Cobb 
and Erik Eybye were also impor¬ 
tant factors. 

Neither of Columbia’s varsity 
crews managed a victory during 
the season and the track team, 
hurt by injuries, had a poor sea¬ 
son. In the case of the light¬ 
weight freshmen and the track 
cubs, however, things were con¬ 
siderably better, boding well for 
the future. 

Other Teams 

A brief review of the other 
seasons might be valuable at 
this time. While the nine’s cam¬ 
paign was outstanding, the 
laurels for the most successful 
Columbia varsity of the year 
must once again go to Irv De- 
Koff’s fencing team. The swords¬ 
men swept undefeated through 
eleven dual meets, won the first 
Ivy Ohampionshdp, and missed 
the Eastern and National oham- 
pionships by a total of three 
bouts. 

The basketball team also did 
well during the winter despite 
the unfortunate loss of Chet 
Forte at mid-season due to aca¬ 
demic problems They had a 
15-9 record and wound up a 
game out of first in the Ivy 
League, tied for second with 
Penn. The swimmers had a good 
season although winning only 
six of sixteen meets and again a 
strong club squad presages even 
greater improvements next year. 
The wrestlers were hurt. by ill¬ 
ness and injury and had a weak 
campaign. 

The fall was the worst season 
of all for athletic Lions. Beside 
the second successive poor var¬ 
sity football season, the cross¬ 
country squad and lightweight 
grid varsities also were sub-par. 

In general, the freshman pic¬ 
ture was bright. In almost every 
case—even in sports which had 
good seasons — next year looks 
like a good one for Columbia 
athletics. 


Letters 


South Gate, Calif. 
To the Editor: 

I recently received my first 
copy of Columbia College Today. 
The College must be doing all 
right today if it can publish a 
paper like that! Congratula¬ 
tions! And keep the Lion Roar¬ 
ing! We try to do so out here. 
In 1929 I helped with others 
when Ike Love joy came out to 
start the Los Angeles Alumni 
Club, and I was its President 
when our football team won 7-0 
in the Rose Bowl over Stanford 
on January 1, 1934. Look up the 
wonderful account of the game 
Ike wrote in the Alumni News 
and publish some of it under 
“Highlights of Lion History.” 
That game, followed by the Vic¬ 
tory Banquet in the Biltmore 


Hotel, was the Highlight and 
Biggest Thrill of my life! 

Our Club is still going strong— 
we had our best party ever, at 
Ciro’s, on May 13th with an at¬ 
tendance of 203 and on June 
23rd will hold an Ivy League 
Field Day in combination with 
Pennsylvania and Cornell. I en¬ 
close a list of our Committees 
for 1956. The Executive Commit¬ 
tee held a luncheon-meeting last 
Saturday at the Hollywood- 
Roosevelt Hotel. I have checked 
the names of those who showed 
up. We are a loyal, enthusiastic 
group. 

More power to you! I was a 
managing editor of Spectator, 
and an editor of the Columbia 
Law Review in my day. 

John Boyce-Smith, 

’01, ’04 L, ’02 A.M., ’05 L.L.M. 



Welcome Home! 


His team-mates mill around outfielder Charles Grace ’56 after his fifth-inning home run put 
Columbia in the lead 5-4 over Princeton in their league game of May 15th. Columbia went on to 

win 8-4. 


The Ivy League Colleges 


(Continued from Page 11) 
players was a fellow named Mor¬ 
timer Adler, best known at the 
time for his psychological exper¬ 
iments involving a mouse, a 
Barnard girl and a galvanometer 
(details on request). In the late 
’20’s Adler skipped west, taking 
with him the Hundred Great 
Books program, originated by 
John Erskine but now the offi¬ 
cial property of the University of 
Chicago. 

Other comers-and-goers on the 
tenth floor of Livingston were 
Clifton Fadiman and Corey 
Ford—then green in reputation 
but ripening fast. Lionel Trilling, 
later to gain fame as “the per¬ 
fect don,” would drop in with 
a copy of Sainte-Beuve tucked 
under his arm. And am I likely 
to forget Marcus Goodrich, 
whose novel Delilah ranks be¬ 
side that other Columbia-sprung 
sea tale. The Caine Munity? 

INTELLECTUAL HELIUM 

The rubbing together of 
the highly-charged personalities 
generated a special kind of in¬ 
tellectual helium that threaten¬ 
ed at times to blast the cornices 
off Livingston. I recall one par¬ 
ticularly gaseous session that 
was interrupted by a musitached 
intruder who opened the door 
and asked if anyone had a copy 
of Wigmore on Evidence. The 
intruder was a law student, by 
the name of Tom Dewey, who 
later did a long stretch in a 
state institution at Albany. 

Every Ivy Leaguer is entitled 
to at least one perfect recollec¬ 
tion. Mine came when I was 
holding the Proudfit Fellowship 
in Letters (that’s really the 
name.) It seems that a bunch 
of non - Proudfit chaps — inclu¬ 
ding Lou Gehrig and our-All- 
American half-back, Wally Kop- 
pisch—had neglected to spend 
enough time in reading Beowulf, 
The Canterbury Tales, Spenser’s 
Faery Queene and Malory’s fan¬ 
ciful account of life at the court 
of King Arthur. On the night 
before final exams I admitted 
fifteen selected laggards (at a 


dollar a head) into my Proudfit 
diggings, and after gazing into 
my crystal ball, prophesied the 
questions that would be asked 
on the morrow. I then provided 
suitable answer s—s u i t a b 1 e 
enough, that is, to pull fourteen 
of my customers through with 
a creditable C. 

Paunchy strangers still stop 
me on the street, wring my 
hand in gratitude, and say that 
I gave them the best dollar’s 
worth of educat.ion they ever 
got. 

Well, that just about winds up 
my remarks on the superiority 
of Ivy League men. I’m not sure 
that I’ve convinced the jury of 
my cool detachment and utter 
lack of special pleading. Quite 
possibly the trustees of Lake 
Forest (Ill.) will change their 
minds about offering me that 
honorary LLD; and perhaps 
Baylor won’t invite me to deliver 
its baccalaurate address next 
year. These are risks that I’m 
quite willing to take. For even 
if a few readers have detected 
some seriousness in my plea for 
higher standards of college edu¬ 


cation, I shall be content. 

Make no mistake about it, 
my friends. The Levellers are 
gathering in great strength, and 
the Day of Rabblement is near¬ 
er than you think. In the in¬ 
tellectual Armageddon now 
looming over America, the ene¬ 
mies of higher education will 
attempt to destroy ail cultural 
standards but their own; and 
if they succeed our final state 
of mediocrity will be infinitely 
worse than anything that has 
yet been seen. 

The outright collapse of Ivy 
League ideals is not likely to 
happen overnight; and I am 
enough of an optimist to hope 
that it may never happen at all. 
But it will be a sad day for our 
democracy when and if some 
prancing drum majorette leads 
a commencement procession of 
gowned Harvard, Columbia or 
Cornell scholars toward that 
final indignity—^the conferring 
of meaningless B. A. degrees on 
students who couldn’t possibly 
have earned them under the 
present high standards of Ivy 
League education. 


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PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI AND THE DEAN OF COLU1VIBIA COLLEGE 


VOLUME HI 


NOVEMBER, 1956, NEW YORK, N. Y. 




NUMBER 4 


Legend of a Coach 


President Kirk Will Receive 





1957 Hamilton Medal Award 


Columbia University President Grayson Kirk has been selected as the recipient of 


On September 18, Columbia 
and Lou Little jointly announced 
tihat the veteran football coach 
would retire from the Morning- 
side college at the conclusion of 
this academic year. This started 
a chain-reaction which is still 
going and which surely won’t 
stop until next June, if then. 

The administration, faculty, 
alumni, undergraduates, news¬ 
papermen, and many others, 
have contributed well merited 
praise to Coliunbia Lou. Here are 
a very few of the comments. 
Throug^h them one can get a 
picture of the high esteem in 
which Lou Little is held by j 
everyone who has come into 
contact with him. | 

President Grayson Kirk: I 

“Mr. Little perhaps by now 
grows a bit weary of reminders 
that this is his final season of 
coaching at Columbia and of 
the regret so many feel on this 
account. It is wholly fitting, 
however, that the occasion of 
the last home game should call 
for a final expression because 
Mr. Little, in his place on the 
sideline fronting the Columbia 
bench, seems almost as much a 
part of the scene as the hills in 
the background and the bridge 
that spans the river. 

“Not alone for his skills and 
leadership in football has Lou 
Little earned the respect and 
thanks of our Columbia com¬ 
munity. His has been a splendid 
influence on the campus as well 
as on the field, out of season as 
well as during the football 
weeks. The standards he has set 
have been high. He will be often 
in our minds as future elevens 


Lou Little 


of Columbia College take the 
field because he has become in 
his twenty-seven years of serv¬ 
ice an integral part of the Co¬ 
lumbia tradition.” 

Dean Lawrence Chamberlain: 

“Much has been said and 
written about Lou Little’s unique 
position in American college 
football. He has been acclaimed 
as a shrewd strategist, a clever 
tactician, an astute psychologist; 
all of these things are un¬ 
doubtedly true. It has also been 
reported that unlike other 
coaches at major institutions his 
tenure was assured no matter 
whether he won or lost; this is 
also probably true. But these 
statements do not tell the whole 
story. 

(Continued on Page 12) 


the 1957 Alexander Hamilton Medal, it was announced on November 8 by Aaron W. Berg, 
’24, ’27L, president of the College Alumni Association. Mr. Berg also announced that the 
dinner marking the presentation will be held for the first time at the University, in the 

Rotunda of Low Memorial Li¬ 
brary. The dinner will take place 
on April 4. 

“Our alumni believe that the 
Rotunda, in past years so often 
the setting of stately academic 
convocations honoring noted 
guests of Columbia from many 
countries, provides an appropri¬ 
ate setting indeed for the oc¬ 
casion at which we wish to 
honor our president,” said Mr. 
Berg. 

The Hamilton Medal, the Col¬ 
lege’s highest alumni award, is 
presented annually by the 
Alumni Association to a fellow 
alumnus or a member of the 
College faculty “for distinguished 
service in any field of human 
endeavor.” 

The award and the dinner will 
mark a major event in Colum¬ 
bia’s observance of the 200th 
anniversary year of Hamilton’s 
birth. Hamilton entered King’s 
College in 1774 but left his 
studies to join General Wash¬ 
ington’s army at the outbreak 
of the War for Independence. He 
received the honorary degree of 
A.M. from Columbia College in 
1788 at the first post-war Com¬ 
mencement of his newly named 
alma mater. 


Class Society 
Holds Annual 
‘Get Together’ 

A gala turn-out of alumni 
class officers and guests as¬ 
sured the success of the second 
annual meeting of the Society 
of Class Presidents in Septem¬ 
ber. More than 150 Columbians 
gathered in convivial fashion in 
the Alumni Wing of the Field 
House at Baker Field to renew 
acquaintances, elect new offi¬ 
cers, conduct other appropriate 
business, and hear a stirring 
address on the subject of 
humanism by the Vice-President 
and Provost of the University, 
Dr. John A. Krout. 

Named as the second president 
of the year-old Society was Har- 
o’d A. Rousselot ’29, general 
partner of the New York invest¬ 
ment firm of Francis I. DuPont 
and Company, who last year 
served as the Society’s vice- 
president. He succeeds Robert S. 
Curtiss ’27, Director of the De¬ 
partment of Real Estate for the 
Port of New York Authority. 

Succeeding Mr. Rousselot as 
vice-president is William B. 
Sanford ’30, president of William 

(Continued on Page 2) 


Break Ground for Clubhouse 


Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain breaks ground for the new 
athletic clubhouse going up in Morningside Park. Looking on 
are Charles H. Starke of the New York City Department of 
Parks, center, and Directed- of Athletics, Ralph J. Furey ’28. 


As Columbia and community 
representatives looked on, Dean 
Lawrence H. Chamberlain wield¬ 
ed the first shovelful of earth 
on November 5 to break ground 
for an athletic clubhouse in 
Morningside Park. 

The two-story clubhouse will 
house the offices of members of 
the Department of Physical Ed¬ 
ucation and director of activi¬ 
ties for the field. 

Ralph J. Furey ’28, Director of 
Athletics and Physical Educa¬ 
tion, announced that the club¬ 
house is expected to be finished 
by March 1, with physical edu¬ 
cation classes commencing there 
a month later. The entire proj¬ 
ect—which also includes an al¬ 
most completed athletic field—is 
under Mr. Furey’s direction, and 
represents fulfillment of a “long¬ 
time Columbia dream.” 

The field and soon-to-rise club¬ 
house are on a three and a half 
acre tract between 110th and 
113th street in Morningside 
Park. The Park is bounded by 
Manhattan Avenue on the east 
and Morningside Drive on the 
West. In addition to two softball 
diamonds, the field will provide 
three touch football fields and 
a soccer field. It is considerably 
larger than the section of South 
Field used for athletic purposes 

(Continued on Page 11) 


Dr. Grayson Kirk 


Fund Report 

With gifts still coming in, 
the 5th Annual Columbia Col¬ 
lege Fund total has reached 
$371,799.51 from 6,464 donors 
—setting a new record both in 
dollars and participation. 

The announcement was made 
on November 5 by General 
Chairman Gilbert H. Darling¬ 
ton ’12, who said that the 
total represented contributions 
received to that date. Dr. 
Darlington expressed “heart¬ 
felt gratitude to all who have 
helped to sustain the Fund’s 
steady growth and vigor 
through the five years of its 
existence.” 

Last year, under the chair¬ 
manship of Frank S. Hogan 
’24, the Fund raised 6,004 gifts 
amounting to $345,644.17. 

Coming in the next issue 
of “Columbia College Today” 
will be the annual report of 
the 5th Fund, including the 
honor roll of donors, class 
totals, the names of students 
with class sponsored scholar¬ 
ships, as well as announce¬ 
ments of “major importance” 
relating to the 1957 Fund 
campaign. 


Plans Are Afoot 
For ^57 Deans Day 

Deans’ Day, 1957, is already 
taking shape, according to Beril 
Edelman ’24, newly named chair¬ 
man of the Deans’ Day commit¬ 
tee. Mr. Edelman reported that 
a preliminary meeting of the 
committee was held in October 
to launch the planning phase 
of the popular annual event 
which last year attracted a rec¬ 
ord 600 alumni and guests. 

The affair, scheduled for Sat¬ 
urday, February 16, will mark 
the eleventh all-day program 
devoted to the presentation to 
alumni of faculty viewpoints on 
major intellectual issues. Com¬ 
menting on the plans now being 
formulated, Mr. Edelman pre- 

(Continued on Page llj 


On College Faculty 

Dr. Kirk, by virtue of his of¬ 
fice, is a member of the faculty 
of the College. His first teaching 
on the Morningside campus was 
in the faculty of the College 
when he came to Columbia in 
1940 as Associate Professor in 
the Department of Public Law 
and Government. 

Dr. Kirk was graduated from 
Miami University in Ohio in 
1924 and received the M.A. from 
Clark University in 1925 and the 
Ph. D. from the University of 
Wisconsin in 1930. 

He taught at Wisconsin from 
1929 to 1940. During World War 
II, he headed the Security Sec¬ 
tion of the Department of State’s 
Political Studies Division. He was 
a member of the United States 
delegations at the Dumbarton 
Oaks Conversations in 1944 and 
at the San Francisco Conference 
which launched the United Na¬ 
tions in 1945. 

“It is indeed a cause of satis¬ 
faction to Columbia College 
alumni that we have this oppor¬ 
tunity to honor the president 
of the College and the Uni¬ 
versity,” said Mr. Berg. 

(Continued on Page 8) 


FEATURE INDEX 

Page 

Around the Quad . 9 

Arts and the Columbia 

Man . 8 

Athletics . 12 

College for Whom? College 

for What? . 4 

Know Them? . 10-11 

I News From the Alumni 

j Classes . 9-11 

j Obituaries . 9 

j Photo Essays . 6-7 

I Roar Lion Roar . 8 

I The Open Door . 2 


Friends Say ‘>So Long Lou ’ 


With Stream of Tributes 


































Page 2 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEMBER, 1956 



The Open Door 


Ivy Group Agreement 

By NICHOLAS McD McKNIGHT 
" Dean of Students, Columbia College 


It is hard to realize that the Ivy Group 
Agreement has been in effect for ten years. It 
is equally hard to realize the extent to which 
the eight “Ivies” have pooled their athletic ac¬ 
tivities and interests in that ten year period. 
The Agreement at first involved only the 
policies and conditions under which inter¬ 
collegiate football was to be conducted and 
there was no stipulation that any of the mem¬ 
bers of the group should play any of the 
others. Now, in 1956, our pact has been ex¬ 
tended to include all sports and we have 
round robin league competition in everything 
including football. These are things which old- 
timers like the writer never expected would 
come about — although we are mighty glad 
that they have. They are good for American 
athletics, they are good for all eight of us in 
the Ivy Group, they are good for the young 
men who are involved. 

The purpose of the original Agreement, ac¬ 
cording to the presidents, was to reaffirm as 
a group an “intention of continuing intercol¬ 
legiate football in such a way as to maintain 
the value of the game while keeping it in fit¬ 
ting proportion to the main purposes of 
academic life.” They went on to say that the 
players should be “truly representative of the 
student body and not composed of a group of 
special recruited and trained athletes,” that 
they should be “permitted to enjoy the game as 
participants in a form of recreational competi¬ 
tion rather than as performers in a type of 
public spectacle,” and that “in the total life 
of the campus, emphasis upon intercollegiate 
competition must be brought into harmony 
with the essential purposes of the institution.” 
These were not new ideas or practices but it 
was not until 1945 that they became a common 
platform. 

Its Aims Achieved 

It seems to this observer that in the ten 
years of the Ivy Group’s life its aims have been 
admirably attained, in football and in the 
other sports. At the beginning there were many 
critics and scoffers who labelled the Ivy colleges 
snobs or hypocrites, but, as one calamity after 
another has shaken college athletics in recent 
years, almost all save the most professional- 
minded have come to recognize the Ivy Group 
as an exemplar of sound and properly pro¬ 
portioned college sports, a model for at least 
the privately supported institutions of the 
country. 

It would not be true to say that the Ivy 
code is an attempt to “de-emphasize” athletics. 
On the contrary every one of the eight institu¬ 
tions does its best to field good teams whicli 
will give rugged competition to the others. But 
it is competition based on honest standards of 
amateurism and on sound educational princi¬ 
ples. The rules which we follow relate to a 
variety of important matters, such as stand¬ 
ards for eligibility and for financial assistance, 
length of sports seasons, sharp restrictions 


upon out-of-season practice and post-season 
contests, and limitations upon the outside ac¬ 
tivities of our coaches. None of the rules should 
deny to any of the Ivy institutions a fair share 
of strong and successful teams. Ivy teams in 
general have attained good competitive records. 
They suffer, perhaps, by unthoughtful com¬ 
parison with those institutions where, in the 
illusion that national athletic fame is as good 
as, if not better than, academic distinction, 
athletics have been made a separate and dis¬ 
tinct activity, virtually unrelated to the edu¬ 
cational program. 

“Wise and Flexible Administration” 

It is interesting that, although there are 
many rules, there is no provision for “enforce¬ 
ment machinery” in the Agreement. Each in¬ 
stitution is its own supervisor. The original 
document expressed the view that “wise and 
flexible administration in the setting of mu¬ 
tual respect and good faith . . . should produce 
results of great benefit to the game as well as 
to the institutions participating.” This expecta¬ 
tion has been truly realized. There have been 
very few infractions of either the letter or the 
spirit of the rules, and these have been dealt 
with promptly and honestly by the institutions 
concerned. We have made the “Honor System” 
work. 

Maintain the Values of Sport 
There is a latent danger in the intimacy of 
the Ivy Group relationship which happily has 
not materialized. It is that the satisfactions 
and conveniences derived from the close as¬ 
sociations of round robin league competition^ 
might lead to extreme withdrawal from ath¬ 
letic relations with other non-Ivy institutions 
and from the affairs of regional and national 
groups. Such developments would be most un¬ 
fortunate. Each of us has traditional rivalries 
outside the Ivy Group which we should con¬ 
tinue to enjoy. But more important than this, 
our group of universities has the obligation, as 
well as the opportunity, to contribute strong 
leadership on a national basis towards the gen¬ 
eral acceptance of the high principles of inter¬ 
collegiate athletic competition for which our 
group publicly stands, and towards the adop¬ 
tion of policies and attitudes which will make 
those principles a reality. 

Our eight universities have prestige and in¬ 
fluence in athletic affairs, regionally and 
nationally, just as we have in basic edu¬ 
cational and cultural matters. Evidence of 
this is abundant. Were we, however, to 
withdraw into the self-satisfied content¬ 
ments of a small enclave our influence would 
quickly melt away. America is like that. Rather, 
we should make use of all the channels and 
associations open to us to join with other in¬ 
stitutions all over the country in the effort, as 
the Presidents’ Agreement puts it, to “maintain 
the values of sport in the service of higher 
education,” 



Harold A. Rousselot ’29, newly elected president of the Society of 
Class Presidents, makes his acceptance speech. Looking on are 
Dean of Students Nicholas McD McKnight ’21, left, and John F, 
Steeves ’48, who was re-elected secretary-treasurer. In the 
background is Mr. Rousselot’s predecessor, Robert S. Curtiss ’27. 

Society of Class Presidents 
Holds Its Annual Meeting 

dent of the University in charge 
of Business Affairs and Dean of 
the Grad-uate School of Busi¬ 
ness; Dr. Levering Tyson, 
’11A.M., Assistant to the Presi¬ 
dent in charge of Alumni Rela¬ 
tions; William T. Taylor ’21, 23L, 
Chairman of the Columbia Col¬ 
lege Council; Deans Lawrence H. 
Chamberlain and Nicholas McD. 
McKnight, and officers of the 
Alumni Association. 

Mr. Curtiss, the outgoing pres¬ 
ident, submitted his annual re¬ 
port, citing the continuing 
pr<^r€ss of the Society in 
strengthening class organiza¬ 
tion as well as effecting greater 
liaison with the Alumni Associa¬ 
tion. He then presented to New¬ 
ton Frohlich, president of the 
Class of 1956, a gavel as an ex¬ 
pression of welcome into the 
ranks, of the Society. 


(Continued from Page 1) 

B. Sanford and Company, dis¬ 
tributors of industrial equip¬ 
ment. John F. Steeves ’48, as¬ 
sistant to the executive vice- 
president of McCann-Erickson, 
Inc., advertising agency, was re¬ 
elected secretary-treasurer. 

Serving with these officers will 
b the following members of the 
Society’s Executive Committee; 
James L. Robinson ’04, Walter 
R. Mohr ’13, Ray N. Spooner 
’15E, Gerard Tonachel ’23, 
Charles W. Crawford ’24, Robert 
Rowen ’26, Robert S. Curtiss ’27, 
Alfred J. Barabas ’36, Millard C. 
Faught ’38, James B. Welles Jr. 
’39, Donald A. Porter ’49 and 
Mark Kaplan ’51. 

Millard C. “Tex” Faught ’38, 
toastmaster, evoked laughter and 
applause from the audience with 
frequent sallies of wit as he in- 
troduced the distinguished 
guests on the dias. 

Among the guests were: Dr. 
Courtney C. Brown, Vice-Presi- 


Three Appointed to New University Posts 


Three major administrative 
appointments—all newly created 
posts in the University — have 
been announced in the past few 
months by President Grayson 
Kirk. 

In June, Dr. Levering Tyson, 
’ll M.A., former college president 
and university administrator, 
was named Assistant to the 
President in charge of Alumni 
Relations. Dr. Tyson took up his 
duties on July 2. Last month, 
William C. Fels, ’37, was ap¬ 
pointed Associate Provost of the 
University, and John M. Mullins, 
’41, named Director of the Bud¬ 
get. They began their new work 
immediately. 

Mr. Fels has been Associate i 
Director of the College Entrance 
Examination Board. Mr. Mullins 
has been Registrar of the Uni¬ 
versity since 1952. 

Dr. Tyson, whose B.A. was 
earned at Gettysburg College, 
also holds the honorary Doctor 
of Laws conferred by Columbia 
in 1954. He was one of the 
founders of the University’s 
Alumni Federation and served 
. as Alumni Secretary and editor 
'*’of the Alumni News before going 



John M. Mullins ’41 


William C. Fels 


Dr. Levering Tyson ’ll M.A. 


on to become president of Muh¬ 
lenberg College, and later presi¬ 
dent of the Free Europe Univer¬ 
sity in Exile at Strasbourg, 
France. 

Mr. Fels, who also holds the 
Master of Arts degree from 
Columbia, was on leave from the 
College Board during 1955-56 
serving as Executive Secretary 


of the Ford Foundation’s College 
Grants Program. 

At the College Board, which 
serves nearly 200 educational in¬ 
stitutions, Mr. Fels organized the 
College Scholarship Service and 
has been consultant to the Fund 
for the Advancement of Educa¬ 
tion, the University of Puerto 
Rico and other institutions. 


Mr. Mullins will serve as a 
principal assistant to Dr. John 
A. Krout, Vice-President and 
Provost of the University. He 
joined the University staff in 
1946, after more than four years 
of Navy service in World War II 
as a lieutenant commander with 
the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance. 


Adopt Constitution 

The revised constitution, as 
prepared by Mr. Tonachel, chair¬ 
man of the Committee on Con¬ 
stitution and By-Laws, was 
adopted by the Society members. 
Adopted too was a resolution 
calling for presidents to secure 
from their classes agreement to 
cooperate with the Society in 
carryii^ out its purposes. 

The president of the Alumni 
Association, Aaron W. Berg ’24, 
27L, spoke briefly, noting that 
the “keystone of success is 
measured by the vitality and the 
interest of each of the individ¬ 
ual alumni classes.” 

The principal address of the 
evening was given by Dr. Krout 
who discussed ways and means 
of “preserving the uniqueness of 
the human spirit,” a problem 
which he termed the “most per¬ 
plexing of our time.” 

Declaring that human prog¬ 
ress, even in a world emphasiz¬ 
ing collective action, comes from 
the “man who has ideas, who is 
not afraid of broad new con¬ 
cepts,” Dr. Krout added em¬ 
phatically “Put your money on 
the uncommitted investigator.” 

The liberal arts college, he 
told his listeners, can still en¬ 
courage the human spirit by 
developing in the individual “un¬ 
quenchable curiosity, courage, 
and devotion to a cause greater 
than oneself.” Alumni service to 
Columbia, Dr. Krout concluded, 
constitutes just such a cause. 


















































NOVEMBER, 1956 


COLUMBIA C61LEGE TODAY 


Page 3 


Report Cites Vital Role 
Of Liberal Arts Training 


Training in the liberal arts is 
essential to achievement of top 
management positions in busi¬ 
ness and industry, Mary A. We¬ 
gener, former Associate Director 
of Placement, declared in a 
“final” placement report in July 
to the Deans of the College. 

Miss Wegener retired from her 
post on August 1 after 36 years 
of Columbia service and influ¬ 
ence on thousands of alumni. 
Commenting on her “devoted ef¬ 
forts and lasting contributions 
to the establishment of a 
uniquely successful placement 
pattern,” Director of Placement 
Samuel H. Beach *39 expressed 
the belief that no Columbia em¬ 
ployee has had “more contact 
with as many alumni throug-h 
the years as our beloved Mary 
Wegener.” 

The repoirt. Miss Wegener’s 
last official one for the Univer¬ 
sity, contains basic placement 
statistics on the College Class 
of 1956. Although she ascribes 


the increase in opportunities for 
liberal arts graduates in part to 
continuing high prosperity, Miss 
Wegener cites as a more funda¬ 
mental aspect greater appre¬ 
ciation by industry of the role 
of the liberal arts. 

“There has certainly developed 
awareness,” Miss Wegener de¬ 
clared, “of the essentiality of a 
broad liberal training to qualify 
a man for future high executive 
or management posts, whatever 
subsequent specialized training 
he may require. This point of 
view is not new to responsible 
educational faculties.” 

Following Miss Wegener’s re¬ 
tirement, Mr. Beach announced 
realignment of administrative 
responsibility in the bureau. 
John A. Bornemann ’48, for¬ 
merly Assistant to the Secretary 
of the University, has been 
named Assistant Director and 
will be in charge of College 
placement. 


Where Is He Now ? . - 

HARRY JAMES CARMAA 



Dean Emeritus Carman poses beside a life-size bust of himself, 
presented to Columbia by the New York Adult Education Council. 
It now stands in the College Study of Butler Library. 


If Harry James Carman has 
made any concession to age—he 
will be 73 in January—it is not 
apparent to friends and asso¬ 
ciates. The beloved dean emeri¬ 
tus of Columbia College main¬ 
tains a vigorous schedule, and 
youthful outlook, that render 
archiac in the case of this dis¬ 
tinguished scholar the popular 
conception of retirement. 

Dr. Carman has just been 
named chairman of the board 
of directors of the Manhattan- 
ville Community Centers, suc¬ 
ceeding in this ^st Dr. John A. 
Krout, vice-president and prov¬ 
ost of the University. 

A member of the New York 
State Mediation Board until 
last year, he has added to 
his many contributions to man¬ 
agement-labor relations current 
service as Educational Consul¬ 
tant to the Joint Industry Board 
of the Electrical Industry of New 
York. 

Except for a short lapse dur¬ 
ing the term of Vincent Impel- 
literi as Mayor of New York, 
Dr. Carman has been on 
the Board of Higher Education 
since 1938. His restoration to the 
post in 1954 evoked widespread 
acclaim, including this edi¬ 
torial comment from The New 
York Times: “Restoring him 
now strengthens the board far 
beyond the mathematics of 
merely adding a good man to 
the 21-member body. The dean 
emeritus brings with him a life¬ 
time of experience with educa¬ 
tional problems as well as 
qualities of great integrity.” 


Dr. Carman is a member of 
the Mayor’s Advisory Committee 
on Education, and chairman of 
the board of the National Schol¬ 
arship Fund and Service for 
Negro Students. Chairman of 
the Humanities Division of the 
John Hay Whitney Foundation, 
he is in addition chairman of 
the trustees of Bard College. 

During the election campaign 
Dr. Carman served as co-chair¬ 
man, with actress Helen Hayes, 
of the Committee on Arts and 
Sciences for Eisenhower. 

As a national authority on 
agricultural history, it is only 
appropriate that one of Dr. Car¬ 
man’s chief interests is his dairy 
farm upstate, which overlooks 
the site of the Revolutionary 
War battleground at Saratoga. 
Maintaining a herd of cows, and 
cultivating corn and alfalfa 
crops, provides a relaxing if 
hardly restful respite from his 
tireless round of activities. 

Three years ago. Dr. Carman 
married the former Margaret M. 
Cascadden in a simple ceremony 
performed by the Reverend 
George B. Ford in the Corpus 
Ghristi Roman Catholic Church. 

In the days when Dr. Carman 
was being voted the Most Popu¬ 
lar Professor in the annual 
Senior Poll (seven years in a 
row) he could often be seen 
playing softball with the stu¬ 
dents on South Field. Though 
he no longer plays the game, 
Harry Carman can still out-walk 
most people on a jaunt across 
the campus. 


Two Alumni Named as Trustees 


The election in September of 
Roscoe C. Ingalls ’12 and Wil¬ 
liam T. Taylor ’21, ’23L as Alum¬ 
ni Trustees of Columbia Univer¬ 
sity brings to twenty-three the ■ 
present number of Trustees. 1 
The University Trustees num¬ 
ber twenty-four, si:: of them 
Alumni Trustees. As yet un¬ 
named is the successor to 
Thomas J. Watson, who died last 
June. I 

Mr. Ingalls is the senior part- | 
ner of Ingalls and Snyder, in- ‘ 
vestment and securities firm. 
Mr. Taylor is vice-president and 
director of Bankers Trust Com¬ 
pany. They were confirmed by ! 
the Trustees as the fifty-third 
and fifty-fourth Alumni Trus- ' 
tee respectively, following nom¬ 
ination by delegates representing 
twelve alumni associations and 
four alumni clubs. 



William T. Taylor ’21 


Roscoe C. Ingalls ’12 


Mr. Ingalls will serve the tra¬ 
ditional six-year term. Mr. Tay¬ 
lor will serve until 1960, filling 
the unexpired term of Thomas 
Witter Chrystie ’24, who died in 
February of this year. 

Active Alumni 

Currently president of the 
Columbia Associates, Mr. Ingalls 
was vice chairman last year of 
the Columbia College Council, 
completing his three-year mem¬ 
bership on the Council in June. 
In the same month Mr. Taylor 
was elected chairman of the 
Council for a one-year term. 

In addition, Mr. Taylor, as 
chairman of the Columbia Col- 
leze Citizenship Center Finance 
Committee, has played a key role 
in the planning and develop¬ 
ment of the projected student 
center, culminating in public an¬ 
nouncement of the prc^ram at 
the 1956 Class Day exercises. 

Chairman of the| University 
Trustees is Maurice T. Moore 
’16 AM, ’2aL. Robert W. Watt ’16 
is vice chairman ,and M. Hart¬ 
ley Dodge ’03, Clerk of the 
Trustees. 

University Trustees 


Brophy, Barringer and Brooks. 

George L. Harrison, former 
chairman of the board. New 
York Life Insurance Company. 

Arthur H. Sulzberger ’13, pub¬ 
lisher and president. The New 
York Times. 

Adrian M. Massie, chairman of 
the board, New York Trust Com¬ 
pany. 

Frank D. Fackenthal ’06, pres¬ 
ident of the Columbia Univer¬ 
sity Press. 

Walter D. Fletcher ’18, 22L, 
partner of law firm of Davis, 
Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland, and 
Kiendl. 

Douglas M. Black ’16,18L, pres¬ 
ident of Doubleday and Com¬ 
pany, Inc. 

William S. Paley, chairman of 
the board, Columbia Broadcast- 
ii g System, Inc. 

Dr. John J. H. Keating ’17P&S 
(1951-57), Director of Medicine, 
St. Luke’s Hospital. 

The Rev. John Heuss, Jr., Rec¬ 
tor of Trinity Church. 

Vermont Hatch ’16L (1952-58), 
partner of law firm of White 
and Case. 


I Dr. Grayson Kirk, president of 
Columbia University. 

Felix Wormser ’16E (1953-59), 
Assistant Secretary of the In¬ 
terior, Washington, D. C. 

Lester D. Egbert ’14, president 
of Brown Crosby and Company, 
Inc., insurance. 

Maurice T. Moore ’16AM, ’20L 
(Chairman of the Trustees), 
partner of law firm of Cravath, 
Swaine and Moore. 

Henry W. Proffitt ’19, ’22L, 
(1955-61), partner of law firm of 
Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, Craw¬ 
ley and Wood. 

William A. M. Burden, partner 
of William A. M. Burden & Com¬ 
pany, aviation consultants, for¬ 
merly Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Air. 

Robert W. Watt ’16 (Vice 
Ci*airman of the Trustees), 
president of Seaboard Surety 
Company. 

Roscoe C. Ingalls ’12 (1956-62), 
senior partner of the investment 
firm of Ingalls and Snyder. 

William T. Taylor ’21, 23L 
(1956-60)., vice-president and di¬ 
rector of Bankers Trust Com¬ 
pany. 


Following are the Trustees of 
the University, listed by seniority 
with dates indicating term as 
Alumni Trustee: 

M. Hartley Dodge ’03 (Clerk of 
the Trustees), honorary chair¬ 
man of the board, Remington 
Arms Company. 

George E. Warren ’03, banker; 
director of numerous coimpanies. 

Thomas I. Parkinson, former 
chairman of the board. Equitable 
Life Assurance Society. 

John G. Jackson ’01, -OJL, part¬ 
ner of law firm of Jackson, Nash, 


WKCR-FM Is 
Newest in City 

W K C R-F M became tibe 
newest radio station on the 
local airwaves last month. 
One of the very few educa¬ 
tional FM stations in the 
Metropolitan area to be op¬ 
erated entirely by under¬ 
graduates and managed by a 
student board of directors, 
the ten-watt FM extension of 
WKCR is capable of reaching 
Northern New Jersey and 
parts of Brooklyn, Queens and 
the Bronx. 

The station, located in 
Hamilton Hall Annex, oper¬ 
ates on a frequency of 89.9 
megacycles. Opening day cere¬ 
monies on October 8 featured 
short messages by University 
President Grayson Kirk, the 
Deans of the College, and 
other officials. 

WKCR was founded sixteen 
years ago by a group of stu¬ 
dents, and has since expand¬ 
ed its original facilities to 
three studios, each with its 
own control room. Most of 
the equipment was built by 
the staff of the Radio Club, 
which now numbers more 
than 200 members. 


‘Blue Chips’ Lively Group In 
Variety of Campus Affairs 


By RICHARD L. CLEW ’53 
Assistant Secretary of 
the Alumni Association 

Miles Lourie ’51, chairman of 
I the Secondary Schools Commit- 
I tee of the Alumni Association, 
I recently sent a questionnaire to 
all alumni in the ’30’s classes 
I requesting information about 
' sons of pre-college age. Response 
indicated these men have sired 
a great potential of future Co¬ 
lumbia men. 

What happens when a chip 
off the old block becomes an 
undergraduate is illustrated by 
a partial list of “blue chips” 
and their current activities: 

Anthony V. Barber, Jr., ’57 
(Anthony Sr., ’27) was chairman 
of last year’s Homecoming Ball. 

Charles A. Swenson ’58 (Ar¬ 
thur ’29) is a member of the 
Van Am Society. 

Donald E. Olarick ’57 (Joseph 
’21) is secretary-treasurer of the 
Senior Class and a representa¬ 
tive to the University Student 
Council. 

James Dealy ’57 (James ’23) 
is president of Alpha Delta Phi, 
a member of the Senior Society 
of Nacoms and on Varsity light¬ 
weight crew. 

Robert Eckert ’58 (Herman 
’27) is on Varsity heavyweight 
crew. 

James P. Furey ’58 (Ralph ’28) 
iis on the football squad. 

I Benjamin Nachamie ’57. 
(Irving ’23) is on the lightweight 
:rew. 

Lee Plein ’57 (Leo ’19) is a 
member of the Blue Key Society 
and the Senior Society of 
I Sachems. 

I James Campell Rice III ’57 


(James ’29) sings with the Glee 
Club. 

Martin Stein ’58 (Martin ’24) 
is a Glee Club member. 

Philip Strenger ’58 (George 
’28) is on the Rifle Team. 

Peter Van Orman ’57 (Wayne 
’28) was last year’s manager of 
Varsity Crew. 

Anthony Rousselot ’57 (Harold 
’29) is on lightweight crew, sec¬ 
retary of Pamphratria, and a 
member of the Senior Society of 
Nacoms, 

William Sanford ’59 (William 
’30) is on Varsity Crew. 

Frederick Trost ’59 (Frederick 
’25) is on the Varsity swimming 
team. 

Arthur Wood, Jr., ’59 (Arthur 
’33) is a Blue Key Probate. 


A Postscript 

Forty-four Columbia Uni¬ 
versity alumni were engaged 
in political contests in the New 
York metropolitan area, ac¬ 
cording to the University News 
Office. 

The News Office reports that 
there were seventeen candi¬ 
dates for public office in Man¬ 
hattan, six in the Bronx, thir¬ 
teen in Brooklyn, and eight 
in Queens. 

In two Manhattan and 
Brooklyn districts Columbia 
lAen opposed each other for 
Congressional and State Sen¬ 
atorial seats. 

The next issue of COLUM¬ 
BIA COLLEGE TODAY wiU 
feature a report on the suc¬ 
cessful College candidates. 































Page 4 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEMBER, 1956 


College for Whom? College for What? 


By CHARLES C. COLE, JR. ’43 

Assistant Dean of Columbia 
College 

As college doors reopen this 
fall a larger number of persons 
and a larger percentage of col¬ 
lege-age youth will be seeking 
higher education than ever be¬ 
fore in our history. The B.A., once 
a degree few could hope to 
achieve, is now the normal ex¬ 
pectation of many high school 
graduates in the United States. 

In 1900 only 237,000 persons 
were enrolled in institutions of 
higher learning in this country. 
In 1920 less than 600,000 were 
enrolled. In 1940 the figure was 
IV 2 million, 2.2 million in 1950. 
This year over three million stu¬ 
dents are attending college and 
universities. While only 4 per 
cent of the college age group at¬ 
tended colleges and universities 
in 1900, 11 per cent did so by 
1926, 13 per cent by 1936 and 18 
per cent by 1946. This year, it is 
estimated, the number attending 
institutions of high learning will 
be equal to approximately one- 
third of the college-age popula¬ 
tion. 

Enrollment figures are ex¬ 
pected to double in the next fif¬ 
teen to twenty years. By 1970 if 
the current rate of college-going 
continues to remain the same 
there will be at least 5 million 
persons attending college classes 
throughout the nation. However, 
the proportion of our youth 
seeking a higher education is 
expected to continue to increase 
in the years ahead and conse¬ 
quently there may be as many 
as 61/2 million college students by 
that year. Figure I contains 
some projections of college en¬ 
rollments. 

Distribution of Ability 

Rising college enrollment fig¬ 
ures can obscure two important 
facts, however. These are pointed 
up by the series of curves con¬ 
tained in Figure II which were 
drawn recently by the Commis¬ 
sion on Human Resources and 
Advanced Training and which 
describe the distribution of abil¬ 
ity among the college-age popu¬ 
lation, among high school grad¬ 
uates, among college entrants 
and among college graduates. 

The first is that some persons 
are going to college (not Colum¬ 
bia College, of course) who pre¬ 
sumably haven’t the ability to 
go. 

The second fact is illustrated 
by the shaded area in the chart, 
namely that while our class¬ 
rooms are bulging there are 
many young persons with obvi¬ 
ous ability who just are not in 
college. 

In 1955, in the National Study 
of High School Students and 
Their Plans, a project under¬ 
taken for the College Board and 
financed by the National Sci¬ 
ence Foundation, we are able to 
attempt an estimate of the size 
of that group. Each year about 
100,000 high school graduates 
with good college ability fail to 
attend college for financial rea- 

About the Author 

Assistant Dean of Columbia 
College since 1949, Charles C. 
Cole, Jr. ’43 has become increas- 
, ingly identified 
with the prob¬ 
lem of conserv- 
™ ing America’s 
intellectual re¬ 
sources at the 
1 8 - y e a r old 
level. Dr. Cole 
I recently com¬ 
pleted an ex¬ 
haustive study 
—sponsored by 
the National 
Science Foundation—of the l^ss 
to higher education of talented 
high school graduates. His find¬ 
ings are contained in a newly 
published volume “Encouraging 
Scientific Talent” (College En¬ 
trance Examination Board, 
$3.50), and form the basis for 
^this article. 




sons and another 100,000 lack 
the interest to continue their 
education. Apparently 3 out of 
every 10 individuals with the 
intellectual capacities to rival 
our most brilliant professors, our 
most productive inventors, fail 
to attend college. 

The loss to higher education 
and to society of these high abil¬ 
ity young persons is serious in 
the light of the current short¬ 
ages in certain specialized fields 
such as science and engineering 
and in view of our comi>etition 
with the Soviet Union. But apart 
from that, we should be con¬ 
cerned with this loss simply in 
order to conserve our intellectual 
resources. 

A salvaging operation is 
needed so that we may utilize 
our intellectual resources to the 
fullest. 

College for whom?—The na¬ 
tion would benefit greatly if 
those 100,000 with high ability 
and interest in college but with 
inadequate financial resources 
to go, could be salvaged for 
higher education. As the “tidal 
wave” of enrollment hits the 
colleges the loss of talent to 
higher education, to the special¬ 
ized professions and to society 
at large is all the more likely 
to be overlooked. 

Meaning of the B.A. 

Who goes or does not go to 
college, however, is only half of 
the question. What should a 
college education be? What 
should it be for? Should a BA 
merely stand for bank account 
or professional union card? Does 
the American boy and girl go to 
college simply to learn how to 
earn a living? 

Here, of course, it is well to 
bear in mind the great heteroge¬ 
neity in higher education. Hap¬ 
pily there ’s a difference be¬ 
tween the curriculum of say, 
Columbia, and a barber college. 
We have a diverse variety of 
types and sizes. Answering col¬ 
lege for what for one person 
does not answer it for all. 

But the majority of the Amer¬ 
ican public seem to answer it in 
terms of an intensified vocation- 
alism. There has been a rash 
of “occupational training sub¬ 
jects” in college and universities 
as these institutions have yielded 
to the needs and/or whims of 
the market place. Colleges face 
the danger of following the sec¬ 
ondary schools in modifying 
their curriculum to provide every 
student with a vocationally- 
cx'ented outlook. In 1910, 85 per 
cent of those graduating took 
the B.A. degree. In 1950, it has 
been estimated 60 per cent of all 
graduates were specialists with 
few or no liberal arts courses in 
their programs. 

Emphasis on Vocationalism 

Indeed, the emphasis in the 
high school and college student 
on vocationalism is quite mark¬ 
ed. In the National Study of 
High School Students and Their 
Plan,.., 40 per cent of the boys 
and 30 per cent of the girls in¬ 
dicated that their reason for 
going to college was that a de¬ 
gree was needed for the work 
they intended to do. Today’s 
high school graduate seems will¬ 
ing to sell a college education 
short, accepting merely training 
and not education. 

Columbia College alumni do 
not have difficulty in answering 
the question “College for What?” 
The liberal arts foundation of 
Columbia’s program is suffici¬ 
ently known to enable her sons 
to come forth with the answer. 

But in these days of inten¬ 
sified vocationalism it is well to 
reiterate a fundamental proposi¬ 
tion, that a liberal arts educa¬ 
tion is a practical education. 
This can be illustrated by the 
relatively low percentages of 
paduates who enter the fields 
in which they majored. Or it 
can be clearly borne out by the 
demands of industrial recruiters 
for persons who have more than 
the minimum training for their 
job, who can think, deeply and 


wisely, who have intellectual 
integrity, who can express their 
thoughts clearly and well. It was 
John Stuart Mill who declared, 
“Men are men before they are 
lawyers or physicians or manu¬ 
facturers; and if you make them 
capable and sensible men they 
will make themselves capable 
and sensible lawyers or physi¬ 
cians.” 

There is a special reason for 
emphasizing the liberal arts in 
these times. We have ample evi¬ 
dence of the current shortages 
in science and engineering. But 
we must give concern to the 
future shortages beyond those in 
science and engineering. We can 
measure today only that which 
is measurable. We can identify 
only those needs which we now 
think of as identifiable. Before 
the discovery of radar, for in¬ 
stance, there was little informa¬ 
tion on our future need for radar 
technicians. 

Changes are going on in our 
economy, fundamental inven¬ 
tions are about to be made 
which will produce all down the 
line new demands for trained 
persons in many fields of spe¬ 
cialized endeavor. Perhaps a 
decade from now our compelling 
shortage will be of persons who 
span the scientific and non-sci- 
entific areas, who hold man and 
machine together, who can 
function at a high level of tech¬ 
nical development, yet move 
with ease among the masses of 
men. 

The Art of Living 

This is one of the reasons why 
a liberal arts undergraduate 
preparation is so important. Col¬ 
leges today must produce men 
and women who can think effec¬ 
tively and creatively, who are 
not simply narrow specialists, 
who are prepared for the art of 
living, as well as for the art of 
making a living. Despite the in¬ 
crease in the number of “occu¬ 
pational training subjects” in 
the curriculum, despite the in¬ 
creased emphasis among stu¬ 
dents on vocationalism, it is es¬ 
sential that the liberal arts col¬ 
lege maintain its emphasis and 
defend its philosophy of educa¬ 
tion. 

What of the future? We are 
likely to see a continuing pres¬ 
sure on colleges for admission 
because of increasing desire by 
more persons to secure the B.A. 
degree, continuing pressure on 
colleges to mold their curriculum 
in conformity to the vocational 
and social demands of the com¬ 
munity, continuing pressure to 
maintain teaching standards and 
continuing financial pressure, 
particularly on private colleges, 
to make ends meet in the face 
of rising costs. 

At Columbia College all these 
pressures will probably be felt. 
However, the College’s liberal 
arts tradition provides it with a 
built-in stabilizer. 

Higher education today is like 
a great ship on a tempestuous 
sea sailing an uncharted course 
into a storm. On the surface it 
is majestic, mammoth in size, 
impressive in scope and outline. 
Up on the deck and at the con¬ 
trols are some of the greatest 
minds in our history. In its 
many lecture halls, and class- 


PROJECTED ENROLLMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION 

MILLION 









50 of age 
% group 







/ 



40 of age 
% group 

MILLION 




A 


y 



31 of age 
% group 





/ 






2 ^ 

MILLION™ 






























1955 57 ’59 ’61 '63 ’65 ’67 ’69 ’71 


IDISTRIBUTIONS OF ABILITY OF A CURRENT AGE GROUP 
,AND OF THOSE REACHING DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL LEVELS 


SOURCE: 

COMMISSION ON HUMAN 
RESOURCES AND 
ADVANCED TRAINING 



rooms over three million pas¬ 
sengers are being led on a great 
intellectual adventure. 

Up on deck, working individ¬ 
ually and collectively, thousands 
of scholars, with all the genius 
and inspiration and knowledge 
and insight at their command, 
are pushing back the frontiers 
of knowledge, and discovering 
the secrets of the universe and 
are teaching to the next gen¬ 
eration the essential facts and 
interpretations on which they 
will base their actions and at¬ 
titudes. And everywhere on the 
ship, it seems, bold new experi¬ 
ments are being tried, new 
methods of teaching and learn¬ 
ing employed, new approaches 
to new and old problems anal¬ 
yzed and adopted. 

But go down into the hold of 
this vast ship and what do you 
find? A creaking structure sad¬ 
ly in need repairs. Cabins, 
boiler rooms and equipment in¬ 
adequate to meet the task. A 


crew too small in size, and in 
some cases insufficiently trained, 
to handle the multitudinous 
tasks with which it is faced. 
Through overcrowding, financial 
neglect, deteriorating morale the 
vessel that is higher education 
seems to be weakening. 

Is this the condition in which 
to meet the “tidal wave” that 
will engulf higher education in 
the years to come? Pessimists 
may see no way out. But we still 
have some time to repair the 
neglect of the past. By taking 
decisive meEisurec to increase the 
financial strength of our col¬ 
leges, to improve the status and 
remuneration to the teaching 
profession, thereby attracting to 
it the many able recruits that 
are needed and by exerting every 
effort to conserve the liberal 
arts tradition we can face the 
future with the confidence that 
higher education will continue 
to play a dynamic role in Amer¬ 
ican society. 


Promote 15 Alumni on Faculty 


Fifteen College alumni were 
among the 138 members of the 
Faculty of Columbia University 
advanced in rank on July 1 of 
this year. Announcement of the 
faculty promotions was made by 
Dr. John A. Krout, Vice Presi¬ 
dent and Provost of the Univer¬ 
sity. 

Appointed full professor from 
associate professor were: Charles 
Frankel ’37, Professor of Philos¬ 
ophy; and Herbert H. Kellogg 
’41, Professor of Mineral En¬ 
gineering. 


Promoted to associate profes¬ 
sor from assistant professor 
were: Charles K. Friedberg ’26, 
Associate Clinical Professor of 
Medicine; Edward S. LeComte 
’39, Associate Professor of Eng¬ 
lish; Frank G. Lier ’35, Associate 
Professor of Botany; Herbert C. 
Maier ’29, Associate Clinical 
Professor of Surgery; Julian M. 
Miller ’49, Associate Professor of 
Chemistry; John H. Mundy ’40, 
Associate Professor of History. 

Also, Solomon Silver ’25, As¬ 
sociate Clinical Professor of 
Medicine; Richard Skalak ’43, 
Associate Professor of Civil En¬ 


gineering; Uriel Weinreich ’48, 
Associate Professor of Linguis¬ 
tics and Yiddish Studies on the 
Atran Chair. 

Appointed to assistant profes¬ 
sor from their previous assign¬ 
ments as associate, research as¬ 
sociate, lecturer or instructor 
were: Edward A. Bantel ’50, As¬ 
sistant Professor of Health Edu¬ 
cation; E. Michael Bluestone ’13, 
Assistant Professor of Adminis¬ 
trative Medicine; Paul Brazeau 
’50, Assistant Professor of Phar¬ 
macology; and James P. Shen- 
ton ’49, Assistant Professor of 
History. 


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NOVEMBER, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 5 


Fellowships Awarded to 3 
Outstanding College Grads 


Three outstanding College 
alumni have been named recipi¬ 
ents of fellowship awards for 
graduate study here and abroad. 

In July Michael Paul Goldman 
*56 of New York City, and Robert 
Guy Lang *55 of Eugene. Oregon, 
were awarded the 1956 Kellett 
Fellowships—among the highest 
given by the College—for two 
years of study at Cambridge and 
Oxford Universities respectively. 
Announcement of the award was 
made by College Dean of Stu¬ 
dents Nicholas McD. McKnight 
’ 21 . 

Last month the Dean of the 
Graduate School of Journalism, 
Edward W. Barrett, announced 
that the Grantland Rice Fellow¬ 
ship in Journalism for 1956 has 
gone to Howard Melvin Tuck- 
ner ’56 of the Bronx, Given for 
a year’s study at the Graduate 
School, the Fellowship carries a 
grant of $1,500 from the New 
York Community Trust. 

The Kellett Fellowships have 
a stipend of $2,200 for each year 
of study and are awarded an¬ 
nually by the University Trus¬ 


tees to the two Columbia College 
graduates “who have shown ex¬ 
ceptional proficiency in the 
study of the humanities” while 
at the College. 

Mr. Goldman will specialize in 
English and Comparative Litera¬ 
ture at Clare College, Cam¬ 
bridge. He entered Columbia 
with both a New York State and 
a Pulitzer Scholarship, and won 
election to Phi Beta Kappa in 
his junior year. Mr. Lang will 
attend Oriel College, Oxford, 
where he will investigate the 
development of imperial policy 
in the 17th Century. A National 
Scholarship recipient at Colum¬ 
bia, he is a member of Phi Beta 
Kappa, and currently at Prince¬ 
ton on a Woodrow Wilson Fel¬ 
lowship. 

The Grantland Rice Fellow¬ 
ship Fund of $50,000 was estab¬ 
lished by a group of the late 
Mr. Rice’s friends in 1951. Mr. 
Tuckner, a Navy veteran, is a 
full-time sports reporter for The 
New York Times in addition to 
being a student at the Graduate 
School of Journalism. 


Association Turns Spotlight 
On Committee Achievements 


Enthusiastic accounts of the 
College Alumni Association’s 
history, achievements, aims and 
goals, marked the October 
dinner meeting of the organiza¬ 
tion’s Standing Committee. More 
than fifty members and their 
guests — including representa¬ 
tives of the various subcommit¬ 
tees of the Standing Committee 
—gathered in the newly refur¬ 
bished Butler Room of the Co¬ 
lumbia University Club to hear 
representative College leaders 
spotlight the many aspects of 
alumni affairs. 

Present too were a dozen wive" 
of committeemen, as well as th< 
chairman of the Women’s Com 
mittee of the Association, Mrs. 
Frederick vP. Bryan. 

Speakers included Dean Law¬ 
rence H. Chamberlain; associa¬ 
tion president Aaron W. Berg, 
’24, ’27L; vice-president Ran¬ 
dolph I. Thornton, ’26; past 
president Wayne Van Orman, 
’28; and Mrs. Bryan. 

New Members Approved 

The resignation of two Stand¬ 
ing Committee members—Walter 
R. Mohr ’13 and Herbert C. Ros¬ 
enthal ’38—due to the press of 
other commitments was noted 
with “deep regret” by Mr. Berg. 
The nominations of Theodore C. 
Garfiel *24 to succeed Mr. Mohr 
for a two-year unexpired term, 
and of Robert L. Graham n ’19 
to complete Mr. Rosenthal’s un¬ 
expired one-year term were ap¬ 
proved unanimously by the 
Standing Committee. 

In his welcoming address, Mr. 
Berg reported that there are ap¬ 
proximately 180 alumni working 
for the association, 100 of whom 
are subcommittee members. Re¬ 
minding the audience that asso¬ 
ciation membership last year 
topped a record 6,000—nearly 
double the total of three years 
earlier — Mr. Berg announced 
that as of October 15 there are 
"already 4,288 paid up members 
for the current year, a most en¬ 
couraging figure.” 

Vice-President Thornton de¬ 
fined the role of the association, 
citing the addition of twelve 
regional members to the Stand¬ 
ing Committee as “a forward 
looking step which has added a 
new dimension national in char¬ 
acter.” 

Praise Committees 

Mr. Thornton praised the | 
growing number of “active and 
vigorous” subcommittees, with¬ 
out which, he said, the real 
work of the association could not 
be done. In this connection he 
classified the committees in 



Aaron W. Berg ’24 


three categories: (1) those 
which serve to develop a more 
active alumni body; (2) those 
which directly serve the College; 
and (3) those which concern 
themselves with management 
and internal functioning of the 
association. 

“Splendid as our progress has 
been,” Mr. Thornton concluded, 
“we must face the fact that 
roughly two thirds of our grad¬ 
uates take no part in our pro¬ 
gram. This describes the task 
before us, and the challenge we 
must meet.” 

Mr. Van Orman, who served 
two consecutive terms as presi¬ 
dent, declared that the College 
Alximni Association is not only 
the second oldest in the United 
States, but “easily the most dis¬ 
tinguished.” 

Observing that many colleges 
are “alumni ridden,” Mr. Van 
Orman stated that alumni serv¬ 
ice at Columbia has never been 
prompted by a “desire for either 
personal gain or control of the 
College.” 

Dean Chamberlain, in a brief 
address, concurred with Mr. Van 
Orman, observing that in his six 
years in office he had never seen 
an alumnus motivated by any¬ 
thing but unselfish service. 

In her report on the principal 
project of the Women’s Com¬ 
mittee, Everybody’s Thrift Shop, 
Mrs. Bryan noted that $2,000 was 
raised through this agency for 
the Columbia Scholarship Fund 
last year. / 

“Today,” she declared, “in the 
first of three allocations from 
the Thrift Shop, we already have 
$2,500.” 

Everybody’s Thrift Shop, Inc., 
located at 922 Third Avenue in 
New York City, solicits such 
articles as old clothes and small 



The Columbia experience, its traditions, loyalties and challenges, begin for the incoming fresh¬ 
men. Here a group ponder the new vistas already opening for them. Left to right: Jerry 
Wohlberg, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Chris Roberts, Chicago, Ill.; Caudio Marzollo, New York City; 
Joseph Rubin, Liberty, N. Y., and Art Kerr, Yonkers, N. Y. 

Class of ‘60 Widely Diversified Group 


From the son of a world fa¬ 
mous military figure to a de¬ 
scendant of the first student to 
enter Kings College, the 650 
members of the Freshman Class 
represent a striking range of 
personalities, interests and 
achievements. 

In the words of Associate Di¬ 
rector of Admissions Bernard P. 
Ireland ’31 the Class of ’60 con¬ 
tains “budding scientists, musi¬ 
cal geniuses, sons of famous 
fathers, gifted boys of a wide 
range of specialized accom¬ 
plishments ranging from her- 
petolc^ical research to polar ex¬ 
ploration.” 

From 35 States 

Geographically, the Freshman 
Class — hailing from 35 states, 
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and a dozen 
foreign countries—“comes near¬ 
er than any year since 1948 to 
achieving the balance Columbia 
seeks,” according to Mr. Ireland. 
Twenty-five per cent of the stu¬ 
dents, he said, are from a fifty 
mile radius of New York City, 
and thirty per cent from more 
distant points, an increase over 
last year of five per cent and 
two per cent respectively. Con¬ 
versely, the number from New 
York City has dropped to 45 per 
cent of the student body, a five 
per cent decline from 1955. 

Appraising the professional 
plans of the Class of ’60, Mr. 
Ireland reported increasing em¬ 


phasis on the natural and pure 
sciences. Last year 145 fresh- 
iren were pre-engineering; this 
year, 165. Increases were noted 
too in the number of students 
designating interest in business, 
architecture and theology. 

Pre-law students have dropped 
sharply from 99 last year to 68. 
The number of pre-medical stu¬ 
dents remains unchanged, as 
does the total of candidates for 
teaching and journalism. 

Summing up, Mr. Ireland de¬ 
clared that approximately 492 
freshmen are “straight liberal 
arts students or headed toward 
professional schools which re¬ 
quire for admission not less than 
three years of study in the lib¬ 
eral arts and sciences.” 

Alumni Sons 

Thirty-six freshmen are sons 
of Columbia College alumni, ten 
more than last year. A unique 
“alumni son” is William Bennet 
Verplank, valedictorian of Ohe- 
halis (Washington) High School, 
who in coming to Columbia fol¬ 
lows a family tradition which is 
200 years old and goes back to 
his collateral ancestor Samuel 
Verplanck—the very first stu¬ 
dent to enter and graduate from 
Kings College. Between Samuel 
in 1758 and William’s older 
brother, David, who was grad¬ 
uated in 1956, no fewer than 
eighteen of the same family tree 
have earned Columbia degrees. 

Other illustrious names are 
sprinkled through the Class of 
1960. Freshman Arthur Mac- 


Arthur’s arrival on campus 
came just eleven years and one 
month after his father boarded 
the battleship Missouri to bring 
World War II to a close. Young 
MacArthur will share freshman 
experiences with Thomas Mc- 
Kinlay Kantor, son of the Pulit¬ 
zer Prize winning novelist. 

Representative of the large 
number of out-of-town fresh¬ 
men is Harrison Hankins of 
North Little Rock, Arkansas, one 
of three Columbia students from 
that southern city. Young Han¬ 
kins was president of his high 
school senior class, a member of 
the National Honor Society. Key 
Club, Tri-Chem Society, and an 
outstanding football player. 
Holder of a General Motors 
scholarship, he plans to study 
engineering. 

Out-of-Towners 

Peter Goulazian of Fort Lee, 
New Jersey, is one of nineteen 
freshmen from more than a 
dozen communities in New Jer¬ 
sey’s Bergen County. In high 
school, young Goulazian was 
captain of the footbal ' team, 
played baseball and was a mem¬ 
ber of the track team, student 
government and the National 
Honor Society. He is a pre-med¬ 
ical student. 

There are substantial fresh¬ 
man delegations from such dis¬ 
tant cities as Salt Lake Cfity (five 
students), Denver (five), Chi¬ 
cago (three), Indianapolis (six), 
Cleveland (six), and Honolulu, 
•flawaii (four). 


items of furniture for resale 
purposes. 

Following these reports, a gen¬ 
eral discussion was initiated by 
Mr. Berg, with informal state¬ 
ments by other alumni leaders 
in the audience. 

Those speaking included Mr. 
Garfiel who, in his capacity as 
executive chairman of the 5th 
Annual Columbia College Fund, 
said that future Fund success 
depends primarily on “strong 
leadership and strong classes”; 
Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., ’41, the 
College’s Director of Develop¬ 
ment, who described the total 
momentum of the alumni pic¬ 
ture in the last five years, and 
predicted an equally eventful fu¬ 
ture; and Professor Dwight C. 
Miner ’26 who outlined the 
Forum of Secondary Schools 
program for acquainting guid¬ 
ance counselors, principals and 
headmasters with Columbia. 


New Secretary Named 

Richard L. Clew ’53 has been 
named Assistant Secretary of 
the Alumni Association, suc¬ 
ceeding Frank K. Walwer ’53. 
Mr. Walwer entered the army 
this fall, following graduation 
from Columbia Law School. 

Inquiries concerning a s - 
sociation affairs may be ad¬ 
dressed to Mr. Clew at 101 
Hamilton Hall, Columbia Col¬ 
lege, New York 27, New York. 


Thirty-Six Freshmen In 
Dads ^Footsteps at Columbia 


Thirty-six freshmen are fol¬ 
lowing in the footsteps of their 
fathers at Columbia, ten more 
than last year, according to Ber¬ 
nard P. Ireland ’31, Associate 
Director of Admissions. 

The fathers span thirty alum¬ 
ni classes from 1906 to 1935, with 
more in 1929—there are five— 
than in any other alumni class. 

Typical of the alumni sons in 
the Class of 1960 is Newell G. 
Wilder, Jr. of Cooperstown, New 
York, whose father (Class of ’34) 
was the famed center of Colum¬ 
bia’s Rose Bowl team. Others: 
Arthur McGill Delmhorst of 
Brooklyn, whose father. Alumni 
Association treasurer Berton J. 
Delmhorst ’29, was editor-in- 
chief of Spectator; John A. Tris- 
ka of Chicago, whose father, Al¬ 
fred A. Triska ’31, won his 
Varsity C in football and crew. 

Following are the names of 
the alumni sons, and their 
fathers; 

Robert A. Abel (Harold A. 
’26); Geoffrey H. Basson (Milton 
B. ’29); Robert Berne (Gustave 
M. ’22); Hugh E. Boyer (Carl B. 
’28); Scott J. Bryer (Joseph J. 
’35); James B. Collins (Edward 
H. ’21); John W. Cunningham, 


Jr. (John W. ’24); Arthur McGill 
Delmhorst (Berton J. ’29); Shep¬ 
ard Ellenberg (Samuel L. ’25). 

Also, David Freundlich (Irwin 
’29); Peter Glassgold (George M. 
’21); Henry S. Gleisten, Jr. 
(Henry S. ’30); Robert Graham 
III (Robert, Jr. ’19); Hillel D. 
Halkin (Abraham S. ’24); Ste¬ 
phen J. Halpern (Maurice ’27); 
Carlos L. Henriquez III (Carlos, 
Jr. ’26); August P. Knatz, Jr. 
(August P. ’27); William H. Lane, 
III (William H., Jr. ’31); John 
P. Mansour (Salem G. ’29): Lau- 
rans A. Mendelson (Samuel ’06); 
Douglas P. Morris (Walter B. 
’20); Francis J. Murray. Jr. 
(Francis J, ’32); James T. O’¬ 
Reilly (George T. ’35). 

Also, Carlos E.Otalvaro (Noe); 
John B. Pegram (William B. 
’32); Henry F. Praus, Jr. (Henry 
F. ’23); Harvey A. Sage (Lester 
’31); Henry Schoenfeld (William 
’28); Peter W. Schweitzer (Wil¬ 
liam P. ’21); Jay E. Silverman 
(Isadore ’25); Frederick W. 
Squires (Warren M. ’22); John 
A. Triska (Alfred A. ’31); How¬ 
ard A. Tuwiner (Sidney B. ’31); 
Newell G. Wilder, Jr. (Newell G. 
’34); Paul M. Wolsk (Samxiel 
’25); and Jonathan E. Zakary' 
(Frank A. ’29), 

























COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEM 


Pag9 6 





Dean of Students Nicholas McD McKnight 
’21 chats informally with a contingent of 
freshmen from Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Left to right: Charles Bentley, Ronald 
E. Larsen, and John G. Horne. In all, 
there are five students from that western 
metropolis in the Class of 1960. 


When You’re Mai 

Freshman Week 

The fusing of many individuals and small groupj 
hailing from 35 states, 12 foreign countries, and ove 
200 different preparatory and high schools, into a unite 
college class with traditions and loyalties in commor 
is one of the aims of Columbia College’s Freshman Wee 
program. 

From the moment of their arrival on campus, th 
freshmen moved as a class through the activities d< 
signed by faculty and upperclassmen to acquaint ther 
with the curriculum, history and traditions of Columbia 

Freshman Week commenced on September 16 wit 
the Deans’ Reception for the Class of 1960 and parents 
Other high points: “Help Day,” a day designated fo 
community service at nearby welfare institutions, rc 
placing the traditional hazing; tours of New York City’ 
financial district and the United Nations; King’s Crow 
Activities Night, which introduced freshmen to extra 
curricular activities on campus; and the Class of ’6 
Dinner at which students were guests of the Dean an 
Board of Student Representatives. 

The Freshman Week program ended with the be 
ginning of classes on September 27. At that time th 
“Frosh” stopped hearing about college life and begai 
to experience it for themselves. 



Three of the freshmen who participated in “Commu¬ 
nity Help Day”—a substitute for the traditional class 
hazing—are shown here at the Manhattan Commu¬ 
nity Center. They are Norman Fine, mixing the paint, 
and Bruce Bank, left, and Robert Hirsch, at work in 
the lounge. 


King’s Crown Activities Night, held in 
John Jay Hall, serves as the annual in¬ 
troduction of freshmen to extra-curricu¬ 
lar projects cm campus. Shown here are 
three men of *60 entertaining their 
fellows with “Alma Mater”. 


Dean Lawrence H. Chamberlain and freshman Lewis H 
Jr. hold a campus confab. Young Bridges is one of 1 
folk, Virginia, students among the 650 freshmen wl 
classes at Columbia in September. In all, 35 st 
represented in the Class of ’60. 


















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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 7 



. . . And then youHl wish you were back again to sing her marching song,’^’ 


rching for Columbia 

Alumni Homecoming Reunion 

s. The weather followed the rulebooks for the ninth 

er annual Homecoming Reunion at Baker Field on Satur- 
id day, October 20. It was mild and clear, the sun beaming 
n, benignly on the 2,800 alumni, their families and friends, 
;k who took part in the gala festivities preceeding the 
Columbia-Yale football game. 

le The principal event of the morning was the presen- 

e- tation of the 16th Annual Alumni Athletic Award to 
m Harold A. “Chuck” Rousselot ’29 as an “alumnus who 
a. has distinguished himself in Columbia’s athletic history 
h and who has maintained a strong interest in the Col- 
s. lege’s athletic program since graduation.” Mr. Rousselot, 
>r as an undergraduate, won three varsity letters in crew 
e- and one in football. The Award—a silver loving cup— 
’s was presented to Mr. Rousselot by James Campbell ’30, 
n chairman of the Football Advisory Committee, 
a- For the third consecutive year the Homecoming Day 
;0 Flag for the largest attendance by any class went to 
id 1931, whose president is Arthur V. Smith. Well over 
one hundred ’31’ers turned out. The Class of 1957 won 
e- the award for the largest undergraduate attendance, 
le Homecoming is a joint alumni-undergraduate event, 

n sponsored by the Alumni Federation in cooperation with 
the Van Am and Blue Key Societies. 



A traditional undergraduate rivalry is revived some thirty-odd years later when a few 1925’ers hold “hostage” 
Aaron W. Berg ’24 (fourth from left). Clutching Mr. Berg firmly is Frederick vP. Bryan ’25. Looking on 
approvingly, from left to right, in front, are: Jerome Lang, ’25, Joseph Lillard ’25, Edward Wallace ’25, Mr. 
Berg, and Thomas V. Barber ’25. In the back row, in addition to Judge Bryan, are William Morris (wear¬ 
ing dark glasses), and Colonel Richard Gimball, both guests of Mr. Barber’s. 




1. Bridges, 
two Nor- 
hio began 
tates are 


James Campbell ’30 (left), chairman of the Football Advisory Com¬ 
mittee, congratulates Alumni Athletic Award recipient Harold A. 
“Chuck” Rousselot ’29. The Award has been given each year since 
1940 to a Columbia man who has distinguished himself, as under¬ 
graduate and alumnus, in the College’s athletic program. Seated 
at left is Gavin K. MacBain ’32, Reunion Committee chairman. 


Evidence of the bright, cloudless sky over Baker Field on Alumni Home¬ 
coming Day is manifest in the sun glasses worn by three participants in 
the festivities. Behind the glasses are James F. Sheridan ’31, left, who 
played varsity football as an undergraduate; William F. Sanford, Jr. ’59, 
who is following in the footsteps of his father, William B., class president, 
(on the right) as a member of the varsity crew. 











COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEMBER, 1956 


Page 8 


ROAR LION ROAR 


The Senate has approved the appointment of Frederick vP. 
Bryan ’25, ’28L as a judge of the United States Court for the 
Southern District of New York. A distinguished trial lawyer, as 
well as active participant in community activities, Mr. Bryan has 
been for the past three years counsel to the Temporary Commis¬ 
sion on the Courts. Long active in Columbia affairs, Judge Bryan 
served four terms as president of the Alumni Federation. 

Directors of the Standard Oil Company of 
New Jersey have announced the appointment of 
Thomas E. Monaghan ’31 ’33L as general coun¬ 
sel, effective November 1. He has been associate 
general counsel. At the College Alumni Associa¬ 
tion’s annual meeting last May, Mr. Monaghan 
was elected a new member of the Standing 
Committee for a three-year term. 

T. Monaghan ’31 * * • 

The New York Times did a profile recently on Charles J. 
Mylod '25, describing him as the man assigned to the “biggest 
face lifting job ever attempted in Brooklyn—which includes a 
new home stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers.” This was in refer¬ 
ence to his appointment last July as chairman of the New Brook¬ 
lyn Sports Center Authority. The Authority, established by the 
State Legislature, will carry out a civic improvement program 
in “Dodgertown”. Mr. Mylod is the president of the Gk)elet Realty 
Company, vice president and treasurer of the R. W. Goelet Estate, 
Inc., and a governor of the Real Estate Board of New York. 

* * * 

Herbert L. Matthews ’22 was one of five journalists honored 
last month by Columbia University for efforts toward the “ad¬ 
vancement of international friendship in the Americas.” At a 
special convocation Mr. Matthews and his confreres received from 
President Grayson Kirk on behalf of the Trustees the eighteenth 
annual Maria Moors Cabot gold Medals. Mr. Matthews is an edi¬ 
torial board member of The New York Times, a publication with 
which he has been associated since his graduation from the 
College. 

« « * 

Eugene T. (Gene) Rossides '49, ’52L recently was named as¬ 
sistant state attorney general, and assigned to the Securities 
Bureau of the Attorney General’s office. Back in '47, star quarter¬ 
back Rossides and pass catching end Bill Swiacki ’48 formed the 
unbeatable gridiron combination that snapped Army’s 32-game 
winning streak. 

* * • 

Ward Melville ’09, formerly president of the 
Melville Shoe Corporation, has become chairman 
of the board. Mr. Melville is a member of the 
Columbia College Council. In addition, he is a 
former Alumni Trustee, and past secretary of 
the Columbia University Club. Recently Mr. 

Melville donated land to found a new state col¬ 
lege at Stonybrook, Long Island. 

• * * W. Melville ’09 

Sundays are busy days for Gerald Green ’42 who has taken 
the production reins on NBC-TV’s weekly ‘“Wide Wide World” 
series. In the past Mr. Green has been an inveterate early riser 
as producer of the morning television program “Today.” 




Robert S. Curtiss ’27 is serving this year as president of the 
Real Estate Board of New York, Inc. He was formerly vice presi¬ 
dent. Heading up an organization is hardly a new experience for 
Mr. Curtiss, who is director of the Department of Real Estate for 
the Port of New York Authority, and president of the New York 
Y.M.C.A. He is permanent president of his class, and past presi¬ 
dent of the College’s Society of Class Presidents. Two years ago, 
Mr. Curtiss was chairman of the Deans’ Day committee. 

* * 

The new president of the Bergen Mall (New Jersey) shopping 
center is Arthur C. Hallan ’23. Mr. Hallan is secretary-treasurer 
of Allied Stores Corporation, which owns and operates Bergen 
Mall. He will direct all promotional and selling operations in con¬ 
nection with the renting of retail space in the vast shopping center. 
* * * 

Donald D. Seligman ’42 has been named vice 
president and general manager of Delman Retail 
for Delman, Inc., well known Fifth Avenue shoe 
firm with agencies in principal cities. He was 
formerly women’s shoe buyer for Lord & Taylor, 
Saks 34th Street, and McCreery. 

Harry C. Meeker ’34, formerly associated with 
the Columbia College Development Program, has 
joined the staff of the Health Insurance Insti¬ 
tute. The Institute is the public relations arm for 
D. Seligman ’42 an association of health insurance companies. 
* « « 

From Irving H. DuFine ’31 comes word that the advertising 
and public relations agency of DuFine-Kaufman, Inc., is now 
DuFine & Company, Inc. Mr, DuFine, president of the new firm, 
also announced expansion of the agency’s marketing service. A 
group chairman of the Columbia College Fund for the past several 
years, Mr. DuFine is secretary of his class and a member of Phi 
Sigma Delta. 





The Creative Seed 

It would take an indefatigable research 
team, patiently burrowing through publishers’ 
titles, book reviews, slick weeklies and esoteric 
quarterlies from cover to cover, to draw up a 
complete roster of Columbia College Men of 
Letters. In the words of Dean Lawrence Cham¬ 
berlain: “The number of College men who dis¬ 
tinguish themselves in the field of letters is 
nothing short of amazing.” 

Columbia, it would appear, has been uniquely 
effective in nurturing the artistic seed, giving 
rise to the provocative query: “What is the 
alchemy that transforms callow student to 
mature artist?” One significant answer has 
been provided by alumnus-literator Allan 
Temko ’47, author of an extraordinary new 
work “Notre Dame of Paris” (Viking, $6.50). 
Writing to a University official recently,'Tem¬ 
ko made these observations: 

**. . . Columbia is surely the single major 
source of whatever virtues ‘Notre Dame’ may 
possess as a history of art. It was at Columbia 
that I first became aware of this inseparable 
relationship between society and art; and only 
at Columbia, I believe, could I have been 
taught the intricacies of that relationship — 
in an atmosphere splendidly free of dogmatism 
—by men such as Professors Gutmann, Edman, 
Van Doren, Krutch, et al. 

“A man whose wisdom I treasured . . . was 
Harry Dick. By main force, in the face of de¬ 
termined resistance on my part, he showed me 
how to read John Milton and how to quote him 
on page 120 of my book. Although I battled 
incessantly with Raymond Weaver, and never 
carried my point, it was he who first men¬ 
tioned to me the name of Eleanor of Aquitaine 
. . . and who . . . read the companion passages 
from Dante and Chaucer (page 155 of ‘Notre 
Dame’) so movingly that I can hear his singu¬ 
lar cadences still. 

“My book is crammed with Columbia —to 
an extent that can be appreciated, I suppose, 
only by men who were on campus at the same 
time I was ... I have gone into this detail be¬ 
cause, if Columbia has produced an unusually 
large number of writers, I am convinced that 
this phenomenon is far from accidental.” 

Mr. Temko modestly omits mention of the 
fact that “Notre Dame of Paris” has been 
hailed joyously by the critics. The New York 
Herald Tribune called it "one of the most im¬ 
portant and natural contributions to the litera¬ 
ture of the Middle Ages produced in this 
generation.” 

The care and feeding of the aspiring artist 
is a delicate process. Columbia’s successful 
formula invites further comment, forthcoming 
in later columns. 

An Artist I^ost 

In the death this fall of John Treville La- 
touche, Class of 1937, the legitimate theatre lost 
one of its most sensitive and gifted young lyric¬ 
ists. Mr. Latouche’s satirical musical “The 
Golden Apple” received hosannas as a new art 
form — received, in fact, the New York Drama 
Critics Award as the best musical of the 1953- 
54 Broadway season. 


Actually more a poet than a lyricist, his 
cantata “Ballad Jor Americans” is a modern 
classic, characterized by many as a “pamphlet 
for democracy.” He will be long remembered 
for the book and lyrics of “Beggars Holiday,” 
“Cabin in the Sky,” and “Banjo Eyes.” 

Two incoming Broadway productions bear 
Latouche’s poetic imprint. One, perhaps his 
most ambitious undertaking, is a folk opera 
written in collaboration with Professor Douglas 
Moore of Columbia. Called “The Ballad of 
Baby Doe,” it was commissioned by the Kous- 
sevitsky Music Foundation in honor of Co¬ 
lumbia’s Bicentennial and premiered last sum¬ 
mer at the famed Central City Opera House in 
Colorado. 

At the time of his death Latouche was 
working on the lyrics for the musical version 
of Voltaire’s “Candide.” 

His success marked fulfillment of early 
promise. Latouche won the grand prize in a 
short story contest at the age of 14. He was 
awarded a scholarship to Columbia, and in his 
freshman year distinguished himself by twice 
winning an award for poetry and prose. In his 
sophomore year he wrote the book, lyrics and 
music for the varsity show. It was then that 
Latouche embraced an all too brief career, but 
one magnificently enriching the American mu¬ 
sical theatre. 

A Few Recent Titles by 
College Alumni and Faculty 

ENCOURAGING SCIENTIFIC TALENT, by 
Charles C. Cole, Jr. ’43, Assistant Dean of 
Columbia College {College Entrance Exami¬ 
nation Board, $3.^0.) An extensive report on 
the problem of conserving the nation s in¬ 
tellectual resources. 

THE ENERGIES OF ART: Studies of Authors 
Classic and Modern, by Jacques Barzun ’27, 
Dean of Graduate Faculties (Harper, $5). 
Fourteen essays covering a wide range of 
topics in cultural history. 

THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN, by Charles 
Frankel ’37, Professor of Philosphy (Harper, 
$3.50). An expression of faith in the liberal 
tradition. 

KING OF PARIS, by Guy Endore ’23 (Simon 
and Schuster, $4). A fascinating biographical 
novel about Alexandre Dumas. Book-of-the 
Month Club selection. 

HOW TO GAIN SECURITY AND FINANCIAL 
INDEPENDENCE, by Ira U. Cobleigh ’23 
(Hawthorn, $4.95). A program for personal 
pi-osperity. 

PERSONAL INFLUENCE, by EUhu Katz ’48 
(Free Press, $6.) A study of the role played 
by people in the flow of mass communica¬ 
tions. 

NIXON, by Ralph de Toledano ’38 (Holt, $3). A 
political biography of the Vice President. 
NEW FOUND WORLD: How North America Was 
Discovered and Explored, by Harold Lamb, 
’15 (Doubleday, $5.75). Absorbing accounts 
of the men who found and made known the 
New World. 


Grayson Kirk 


Program for Corporate Aid 
To Educational Institutions 


(Continued from Page 1) 

Mr. Berg also announced that 
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, ’13, 
president and publisher of The 
New York Times, will be chair¬ 
man of the dinner, with Lester 
D. Egbert, ’14, and Dr. Frederick 
Ellison Lane, ’28 ’32 P&S, co¬ 
executive chairmen. 

Previous recipients of the medal 
have been the late Dr. Nicho¬ 
las Murray Butler ’82, Colum¬ 
bia’s 12th president; Dr. Frank 
D. Fackenthal ’06, former acting 
president of the University; V. K. 
Wellington Koo ’09, former 
Chinese ambassador to the 
United States; Major General 
William J. Donovan ’05, World 
War II head of the Office of 
Strategic Services. 

Also, Dr. Harry J. Carman, 
Dean Emeritus of Columbia 
College; Dr. Carlton J. H. Hayes 
’04, Seth Low Professor Emeritus 
of History; Mr. Sulzberger; 
Frank S. Hogan ’24, district at¬ 
torney of New York County; the 
late Frederick Coykendall, Class 
of 1895, former Chairman of the 
University Trustees; M. Hartley 
Dodge ’03, Clerk of the Trustees; 
and, in 1955, as co-recipients, 
Richard Rodgers and Oscar 
Hammerstein, II, of the classes 
of 1923 and 1916, respectively. 


Columbia University, in con¬ 
junction with six other privately 
endowed universities, has adopt¬ 
ed an eight-point set of prin¬ 
ciples to serve as guides in seek¬ 
ing financial support from cor¬ 
porations. 

The principles stress unre¬ 
stricted gifts that impose no 
hidden costs, that guarantee the 
advancement of learning 
through independent teaching 
and research, and are not tied 
to advertising programs. 

The statement was signed by 
Columbia president Grayson 
Kirk, and by the presidents of 
Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, 
Stanford, Yale, and the Univer¬ 
sity of Chicago. 

Citing gifts from corporations 
to education as “a new depar¬ 
ture,” the seven presidents de¬ 
clare that these contributions 
“have only just begun to create 
precedents, and still largely lack 
traditions and guiding princi¬ 
ples.” 

The statement of principles 
purported only to state the po¬ 
sition of the seven universities 
and to serve as their own guide 
in seeking corporation gifts, 
without necessarily reflecting 


the policy of the entire field of 
higher education. 

The eight points on which the 
educators concurred are: 

1. Colleges and universities have 
a deep obligation to society. 

2. They have an obligation to 
give to corporation executives 
an adequate understanding of 
their nature, purposes and 
internal operations. 

3. The form of corporate giving 
most useful to the college or 
university is unrestricted gifts. 

4. Gifts for special projects 
should not impose a hidden 
cost upon the institution. 

5. Corporation gifts for any pur¬ 
pose other than the advance¬ 
ment of learning through 
independent teaching and re¬ 
search should not be accepted; 

6. Scholarship programs can be 
operated more effectively by 
universities and colleges than 
by corporations themselves. 

7. Gifts of equipment are most 
welcome but should not be 
tied to advertising programs. 

8. Corporations deserve, and 
should receive, appropriate 
and public acknowledgement 
of their support from the 
beneficiary institutions. 

























NOVEMBER, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 9 


Around fhe (^uod 

By ERWIN GLIKES ’59 and HENRY EBEL '59 



TRADITION HOLDS: The Soph-Frosh Rush was revamped 
this year. The greased-pole event was “de-emphasized;” 
it could no longer decide the entire Rush. And a skit com¬ 
petition was added. The Freshmen stood a better chance of 
winning than at any time in the Rush’s 84-year history, 
and, to top it all off, they outnumbered the Sophomores 
7-to-l at Baker Field, the scene of the athletic com¬ 
petitions. The box score: 

Event ’60 '59 

Songfest . 5 5 

Tug of War . 10 • 

Push-Ball . 10 0 

Greased Pole . 0 25 

Skits . 0 1* 

Totals . 25 40 

The old greased pole just wouldn’t be de-emphasized! 

* * * 

BIGGEST MOMENT OF THE YEAR DEPT.: There were 
two minutes and fifty-eight seconds to go in the fourth 
game of the season—Columbia vs. Harvard. The score: 
20-19, Harvard leading, the game apparently bogged down 
on Columbia’s 31-yard line. Gloom and doom reigned su¬ 
preme in the ranks of the Lion rooters. The Band filed 
silently down to the field to watch; the cheerleaders were 
silent; the spectators tense. The Harvard benches were 
jubilant. Only the impossible could save the Lions now. 
And then the impossible happened! Spraker had the ball 
and, with not a man in front of him, he set off for the 
Baker Field scoreboard. There was a moment of stunned 
silence, and then the stands came alive as thousands of 
roaring, cheering, screaming fans leaped to their feet. 
Students, alumni, fathers of students, mothers of students, 
hot-dog venders,—all joined in an earth-shaking chorus of 
very sudden and very unexpected victory. The cheering 
went on and on. 

* * * 

THE FIRST HURRAH: In a move that provoked a mix¬ 
ture of amused surprise and serious thought around the 
campus, the Managing Board of the Columbia Spectator, 
in a series of editorials, came out in favor of Dean of the 
College Lawrence H. Chamberlain to fill the seat left va¬ 
cant by the retirement of New York’s Senator Herbert H. 
Lehman. The Dean said thank you, but no. . . . 


Columbia Stfege Today 


November 1956 


PUBLISHED BV THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI 
AND THE DEAN OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE 
FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS 


EDITOR 
Jerry Miller 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Hug^h J. Kelly *26. Chairman 

Charles A. Wagner *23 Joseph D. Coffee, Jr., '41 

Alfred D. Walling *24 J. Robert Cherneff ’42 

Thomas M. Jones ’37 George L. McKay, Jr. ’48 

Herbert C. Rosenthal ’38 Gene R. Hawes ’49 


OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION: President, Aaron W. 
Berg ’24, ’27L: Vice President, Randolph I. Thornton ’28; 
Secretary, Robert S. Friou ’38, ’40L: Treasurer, Berton J. 
Delmhorst ’29. 


Nev/s From the Alumni Classes 


1905 

College, Engineering and 
Architecture 

The Fifty-first Reunion edi¬ 
tion of “1905 This Way” was 
mailed to 138 members in Sep- 
t e m b e r. Containing nineteen 
pages of class news—including 
“personals” on over 35 per cent 
of the mailing list—it also 
featured two pages of pictures 
of the proposed East Campus 
development. Editor of “1905 
This Way,” and Chairman of 
Publications, is Henry C. Haas. 

The newsletter describes the 
various affairs during the cur¬ 
rent academic year at which 
members were present, including 
the informal ’05 Luncheon, So¬ 
ciety of Older Graduates Annual 
Dinner, the Alexander Hamilton 
Dinner, ’05 Annual Dinner on 
Commencement Day, etc., and 
expresses hope for a big Class 
turnout at the Alumni Home¬ 
coming Reunion on October 13. 

Also reported is the Class gift 
total—$1,505—contributed to the 
5th Annual Columbia College 
Fund. Ronald Riblet was Class 
Chairman for the Fund, and 
served too as a Class Group 
Chairman representing ’01 
through ’06. 

“1905 This Way” records the 
passing of fourteen members 
last year. 

In a separate report, Mr. Haas 
describes the 51st Annual Re¬ 
union on Commencement Day, 
as follows: 

“The 50th Reunion of 1905 last 
year was immense, outstanding 
in the attendance at four loca¬ 
tions and in the size of the gift 
presented to the University at 
Commencement. It was to be ex¬ 
pected that the 51st would be 
smaller and it was. But a fair 
gathering of the old faithful was 
present at two events, both on 
June 5th, the Alumni Luncheon 
in John Jay Hall and the 1905 
Class Dinner at the Columbia 
University Club in the evening. 
Weekend golf, quoits, darts, the 
Cuthell Cup ceremonial appar¬ 
ently renounced forever—and no 
ladies! The big dinner still there 
and moved to the Club. 

“Thirteen of us were at the 
Alumni Luncheon—Guy Bates, 
Milton L. Cornell, the Rev. James 
P. Gillespie, Edward H. Green, 
Henry C. Haas, Harold Harper, 
Meyer S. Harrison, Benjamin M. 
Kaye, Ronald F. Riblet, Thomas 
W. Rochester, Nicholas J. Trom- 
I>en, Louis B. Vreeland and An¬ 
drew Walz. There we were all 
quiet listeners. 

“Nineteen of us were at the 
1905 evening dinner. There we 
were all vocal, no cheering as of 
old, but, on the invitation of 
President Cornell, each man 
made a speech well justifying 
his continued existence among 
the highly expectant and hope¬ 
ful gathering of human souls 


John L. Bogert, 
Oldest Graduate 

Columbia College’s oldest grad¬ 
uate — John Lawrence Bogert, 
Class of 1878—died on August 11 
in Southampton, Long Island. 
His age was 97. 

A naval architect and marine 
engineer, Mr. Bogert was asso¬ 
ciate editor of The Marine Jour¬ 
nal and holder of forty United 
States patents. Its was Mr. Bo- 
gert’s contention that he had 
suggested the idea of aircraft 
carriers as anti-submarine de¬ 
vices. No action was ever taken 
by the Navy on this claim. 

Born in Flushing, Long Island, 
ir 1858, Mr. Bogert was a de¬ 
scendant of some of the earliest 
Dutch settlers in New York. 
Until recently he swam daily 
during the summer and sang 
with the New York Oratorio So¬ 
ciety in winter. 

Survivors included a son, three 
daughters, 14 grandchildren, and 
17 great grandchildren. 


still quite safely moving about 
on this planet of ours. 

“Here are the loyal nineteen 
—Guy Bates, Milton L. Cornell, 
Henry S. Doty, Joseph J. Frank, 
Henry C. Haas, Harold Harper, 
Meyer S. Harrison, Benjamin M. 
Kaye, Henry J. Nurick, Ronald 
F. Riblet, Thomas W. Rochester, 
Henry Schwed, Dr. Grennelle B. 
Tompkins, James A. Taylor, 
Nicholas J. Trompen, Conrad 
Trubenbach, Louis B. Vreeland, 
Bleecker L. Wheeler and Russell 
H. Willis. Others were expected 
here and at the luncheon but 
last minute developments ap¬ 
parently prevented attendance. 
And, of course, illness and dis¬ 
tance held many away. 

“A novelty at our dinner was 
the reading of a new poem by 
each of two of our best poets, 
still in production—its a gift and 
a habit—our lesser poets are all 
resting on the laurels gained in 
the book published last year, 
“Poems of the Fiftieth Reunion 
—Columbia Class of 1905.” Joe 
Frank delivered his with dra¬ 
matic intonation and with the 
hirsute adornment (though not 
the costume) that lent glamor 
to Shakespeare and other famed 
savants of old. 

“Ben Kaye, a playwright no 
less, depended entirely on the 
power of his words. At the end 
Ben gave generously of his time 
to describe in interesting and 
vivid manner his recent trip 
around the world, seeing more 
in a short time with the aid of 
modern planes than a dozen 
Magellans in sailing vessels. We 
broke away about 10.30 to 11.00. 

“What next year for the 52nd? 
We’ll be still older and, let us 
hope, only slightly fewer. It’s 
darkest just before dawn in 
world affairs and we want to see 
that dawn of a new era for man¬ 
kind.” 

1906 

Class activity at Commence¬ 
ment Day last June 5 was re¬ 
ported in the Class of ’OS’s news¬ 


letter “1905 This Way,” as fol¬ 
lows: 

“Ted Prentis ’06, well known 
to 1905, and sitting among 18 
on the dais, was awarded the 
honorary degree of Doctor of 
Science. We found that 1906, 
under the leadership of their 
president. Bill Porter, made a 
very good showing for their Fif¬ 
tieth in attendance at Arden 
House and in fund collection. 
They gave $50,000 to establish 
the Class of 1906 — Frank D. 
Fackenthal Scholarship Fund. 

“The date T906’ is on the cor¬ 
nerstone of Arden House. The 
1906 50th attendance there was 
only one less than the big at¬ 
tendance we had there for our 
50th.” 

1911 

From Class Secretary Wayne 
D. Heydecker comes this de¬ 
scription of the 45th Class Re¬ 
union at Arden House: 

“As a prelude to its 45th Re¬ 
union at Arden House May 25- 
27 seventeen drenched but loyal 
1911 men plus ten or more wives 
and other relatives sat through 
the downpour at the Columbia- 
Harvard football game last Oc¬ 
tober 15th (1955). It proved to 
be an endurance contest for the 
spectators and “murder in the 
mud” for the team, but the 
“girls” proved durable, and not¬ 
withstanding the weather and 
the score, our Reunion group 
had a good time. Those present 
with wives included Frank Ayer, 
Albert Mendelsohn, Tom Paton 
and Joe Murray. 

“Others were Bob Briggs and 
daughter, Phil Braender and son 
and several guests. Peter Grimm, 
daughter and son-in-law, Don¬ 
ald Kirk and son from Axis, 
Alabama. Don won the prize for 
coming the longest distance. 
Stags included Rev. Ray Brock, 
Max Brownell, Charlie Kandell, 
Sidney Wise, Louis Schlicting, 
Wayne Heydecker, Wells Riley, 
(Continued on Page 10) 


We Record 

. . . With a deep sense of 

our loss—and with a sincere 

expression of sympathy to each of their families—the deaths 

of the following sons of Columbia College: 

JOHN L. BOGERT 

MORTIMER DANZER 

Class of 1878 

Class of 1923 

VICTOR ELTING 

ADOLPH ROZENOER 

Class of 1891 

Class of 1923 

HENRY B. MITCHELL 

WILLIAM W. TROY 

Class of 1895 

Class of 1923 

WILLIAM MILWITZKY 

JOSEPH ACKER 

Class of 1896 

Class of 1924 

FRANK V. GOODMAN 

JOHN A. McNULTY 

Class of 1903 

Class of 1924 

CHARLES H. FOUNTAIN 

THOMAC C. FRY 

Class of 1904 

Class of 1925 

PHELAN BEALE 

WILLIAM G. OSSMAN 

Class of 1905 

Class of 1925 

JAMES P. GILLESPIE 

DAVID FINDLING 

Class of 1905 

Class of 1929 

BELMONT CORN 

AVA C. SMITH 

Class of 1906 

Class of 1929 

ARTHUR W. SELIGMANN 

CLARENCE SCHWERIN, JR. 

Class of 1908 

Class of 1930 

RAYMOND S. VAN HOUTEN 

MAURICE F. MONAHAN 

Class of 1908 

Class of 1931 

EDWARD S. DEEVEY 

JAMES F. O’DONNELL 

Class of 1909 

Class of 1932 

CHARLES H. NAMMACK 

EARL C. MAST 

Class of 1909 

Class of 1934 

SAMUEL iELINKOFF 

ONNI LAW 

Class of 1910 

Class of 1936 

SAMUEL J. LEVINSON 

JOHN T. LATOUCHE 

Class of 1911 

Class of 1937 

G. FORREST BUTTERWORTH 

FRANK H. EGIDI 

Class of 1913 

Class of 1940 

ERNEST A. BARTH 

THEODORE G. BRANFMAN 

Class of 1914 

Class of 1943 

THOMAS J. NOLAN 

NORRIS MATTHEWS 

Class of 1916 

Class of 1944 

THOMAS J. MINTURN 

HENRY r. TILLEY 

Class of 1917 

Class of 1945 

EUGENE DAVIDOFF 

PHILIP SOLOMON 

Class of 1921 

Class of 1954 

ARTHUR L. WALKER, JR. 

WILLIAM EDGERTON 

Class of 1921 

Class of 1955 

This is not intended to represent a complete record. The 

names are those that have been brought to the attention 
of the Editor. 



































Page 10 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEMBER, 1956 


Know Them? 


Can you recognize these four 
disriiiguished alumni — all in 
the news recently — as they 
appeared in “Columbian” the 
year they were graduated 
from the College? See opposite 
page for answers. 



1926. Phi Beta Kappa; Man¬ 
ager, Cane Sprees; 1926 Bas¬ 
ketball; Freshman Dinner Fi¬ 
nance Committee; Junior Din¬ 
ner Committee; Phi Sigma 
Delta. 



1927 Assistant Managing Edi¬ 
tor, Columbian; Publicity 
Manager, Instrumental Club; 
Business Manager, Spectator; 
Phi Sigma Kappa; Alpha 
Kappa Psi. 



1931. Secretary, Pre-Law As¬ 
sociation; Hellenic Society; 
Spectator; Pi Nu Epsilon Xi. 



1934. Business Manager, Spec¬ 
tator; Senior Class Finance 
Committee; Dean’s Drag Pub¬ 
licity Committee; Blue Book; 
1848 Society; Beta Sigma Rho. 


Alumni News 

(Continued from Page 9) 
Sam McKeown and Leonard 

“At the three-day Reunion at 
Arden House the last week end 
in May the weather was fine on 
Friday and Saturday and nobody 
cared when it rained on Sunday. 
Thirty-seven men and twenty- 
seven wives had a royal good 
time. Its a safe bet that there 
will be a good attendance for 
the party planned for 1957. 

“Present with wives were 
Frank Ayer, Bill Demarest, Paul 
Deschere, Buddy Edison, Harry 
Englander, Fred Frambach, Sam 
Gerstein, Isador Haber, Bill 
Hastings, Wayne Heydecker, Ar¬ 
thur Holman, A1 Jaros, Charlie 
Kandel, Dick Kinsman, Don 
Lowe, Lawrence Mayers, Sam 
McKeown, A1 Mendelsohn, Emil 
Meyer, Joe Murray, Tom Paton, 
Rev. Neely Ross, Louis Schlicht- 
ing. Dr. Harold Tooker, Walter 
Weis and Sidney Wise. The stag 
contingent included Phil Braen- 
der and Bob Briggs who proved 
themselves to be good fishermen, 
Rev. Ray Brock, Charlie Faas, 
Leon Jeanneret, Don Kirk, Dick 
Klugescheid, Jack Lovejoy, Ken 
McIntyre, Charlie Meisel, Dick 
Patterson. 

“At the Class meeting Friday 
night Joe Murray was reelected 
President, Don Lowe, Sidney 
Wise and Dick Klugescheid were 
elected Vice-Presidents, Wayne 
D. Heydecker, Secretary, and 
George Peters, Treasurer. The 
Class voted $5,000 out of its 
treasury as a gift to the General 
Fund of the University, bringing 
the total contributed by 1911 
class members during the last 
five years up to nearly $129,000, 
believed to be a record total. 

“At the Class Dinner Satur¬ 
day night Rev. Ray Brock, as 
Toastmaster, presented awards 
to the following: For most de¬ 
scendants attending Columbia, 
Sidney Wise, three sons; second 
Rev. Neely Ross, two sons. Both 
winners are sons of Columbia 
fathers. For greatest distance 
travelled to Reunion four Co¬ 
lumbia plates, A1 Mendelsohn, 
Mexico; second, Don Kirk, Ala¬ 
bama, two Columbia plates. 
Other awards of desk barometers 
for service rendered to the class 
and to Columbia, Joe Murray, 
George Peters, Dick Klugescheid 
and Sidney Wise. Door prizes— 
Doc. Tooker, Mrs. Murray and 
Mrs. Kinsman. 

“After the Dinner Ken McIn¬ 
tyre showed colored movies of 
the 25th, 35th and 40th Reunions 
and gave a travelogue with 
splendid colored movies of two 
trips he and his wife had taken 
in recent years through Scotland 
and Switzerland. The movies 
were followed by a songfest 
which included two songs writ¬ 
ten for the occasion, a “1911 
Marching Song” by Wayne Hey¬ 
decker to the tunc of “The Cais¬ 
sons Go Rolling Along” and one 
“To 1911” by Mrs. Paul Deschere 
to the tune of “When I Was a 
Lad” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s 
“Pinafore.” Wayne Heydecker 
also wrote the Reunion poem 
“To the Future.” 

“Sunday morning the entire 
crowd turned out for services in 
the Chapel conducted by Rev. 
Ray Brock with the assistance 
of Dick Klugescheid and Isador 
Haber. Afterwards the Execu¬ 
tive Committee of the Class offi¬ 
cers met to plan the 1957 Re¬ 
union and the rest packed up, 
then all gathered for luncheon 
and agreed it was the best Re¬ 
union in our long series. A 
smaller group of the Class were 
present at the Alumni luncheon 
on June 5th to see Frank Ayer 
receive his Alumni Medal, and 
then attended the commence¬ 
ment ceremonies.” 


1914 

College, Engineering and 
Architecture 

Fra-Sk W. Demuth, Class Sec¬ 
retary, provides the following 
summary of the Annual Week¬ 
end Reunion (Thursday, June 
7 through Monday, June 11): 

“Thursday: Gathering at offi¬ 
cial headquarters. Ocean Bay 
Apartments, Westhampton 
Beach, Long Island. Cocktails 
and dinner at “Leisure Hour,” a 
private club at nearby Remsen- 
berg. 

“Friday: Golfing at West¬ 
hampton Country Club, Sailing 
on Quantuck Bay in boats of 
Classmates Milbank and Roth- 
well. Luncheon for the men at 
the Patio Restaurant. Lunch¬ 
eon for wives of classmates at 
“Scotch Mist,” Southampton. 
Cocktails and dinner at Class¬ 
mate Hearn’s summer home at 
New Suffolk. 

“Saturday: Golfing and sail¬ 
ing as on Friday. Luncheon for 
the men at the Patio and for the 
ladies at Classmate Sengstaken’s 
summer home on Shelter Island. 
Cocktails at Classmate Roth- 
well’s home on Quantuck Bay, 
Westhampton Beach. Dinner in 
private room at Henry Perkins 
Hotel in Riverhead, followed by 
square dancing with professional 
caller. 

“Sunday: Golfing at West¬ 
hampton Country Club. Outdoor 
steak roast at President A1 
Nolte’s summer home in Laurel. 
Bridge in evening at Ocean Bay 
Apartments. 

“Total attendance of Class¬ 
mates and wives: 45.” 

1923 

The Class has resumed its 
schedule of monthly luncheons. 
They will be held on the first 
Tuesday of each month at 12:30 
p.m. in the Columbia University 
Club. Classmates are urged to 
notify “Chip” Healy, Class Sec¬ 
retary, of intention to attend. 
He may be reached at UNiversity 
5-4000, Extension 2337. 

Being published “from time to 
time” is a four-page newsletter 
entitled “Columbia College ’23 
Today.” It is under the editor¬ 
ship of Aaron Fishman, who is 
also responsible for the widely 
acclaimed “30 th Anniversary 
Columbian.” The latest issue— 
the Homecoming Reunion edi¬ 
tion—contains a group of excel¬ 
lent photo^aphs taken at the 
Class Reunion Dinner last May 
at which Paul Lockwood received 
the annual Class Award. 

Other features of the news¬ 
letter include “Moments to Re¬ 
member” Class Notes, a round¬ 
up report on the Class by Presi¬ 
dent Gerard Tonachel, and an 
“In Memoriari” column for two 
classmates—Adolph C. Rozenoer 
and Dr. Mortimer Danzer. 

The newsletter also an¬ 
nounced: publication of Ira Cob- 
leigh’s new book “How to Gain 
Security and Financial Inde- 
pence” (Hawthorn Books, Inc.); 
the election of Arthur H. 
Schwartz, C, ’26L, as vice-presi¬ 
dent of the New York County 
Lawyers Association; and the 
appointment of Mac Lovell as 
director and counsel of the In¬ 
dustrial Textiles Council. 

1924 

From Theodore G. “Ted” Gar- 
fiel comes news that classmates 
Paul Shaw and CSbarles Craw¬ 
ford have recently become 
grandfathers. He also reports 
that David Ackermann was mar¬ 
ried in September to Miss Helen 
Peterzell. 

1927 

Class President Robert S. Cur¬ 
tiss—who last June was elected 
president of the New York Real 
Estate Board—reports the fol¬ 
lowing: 

“Donald E. Johnston, Chair¬ 
man of our 30th Reunion Com¬ 
mittee, is making preliminary 
plans to be presented to the 
Class for approval. Phil Humph¬ 
rey is in the process of prepar¬ 
ing a Class History which will 


be distributed at the time of the 
Reunion.'’ 

Leo Brown served as 

on the Alumni 
Homecoming Reunion Com¬ 
mittee. 

Dan Hanley is with the Amer¬ 
ican Embassy in Saigan, Viet¬ 
nam, and expects to be there for 
another year. Here are some in¬ 
teresting excerpts from a recent 
letter of his to a classmate: 

“. . . My special assignment 
is that of a Field Representa¬ 
tive, I have 4 Provinces assigned 
to me and in the French days 
I would have been classified as 
a Commissioner or the like but 
today almost everything is still 
anti-French so my title is a 
little different. 

“. . . I am located in the Town 
of Tay Ninh formerly, until a 
few weeks ago, the stronghold 
of the last strong religious sect 
to hold out named Cao Dai. I 
was present during all the heavy 
going and it seemed never to 
end but the chap Diem is no 
push over and has done a really 
good job. ... I have a Field 
Office with full staff, cars. Jeeps, 
Guest House and two-way radio 
connection with Saigon only 100 
kilometers away. . . . My area 
comprises about l/8th of the 
country but 1/4 of the popula¬ 
tion and 40 per cent of the ref- 
I’gees who came down from the 
North. . . . 

“. . . We get to places like 
Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, 
AnkorVat, also went to Djar- 
karta and Bali last Xmas. There 
is a nice small golf course and 
12 months of summer each 
year, so we are looking forward 
to a real white winter before 
long. . . , Regards. . . . (to) all 
the members of ’27.” 

Dan Hanley’s address is: 
USOM Saigon, Box S, APO 74, 
San Francisco, California. 

1928 

Frank H. Bowles received an 
Honorary Doctor of Laws last 
June from Providence College, 
which is operated by the Domin¬ 
ican Fathers. He also spoke at 
the commencement exercises, 
urging emphasis on the worth 
of liberal education. 

The wedding of Brian B. 
Mannix and Estelle Gerek took 
place in August at St. Patrick’s 
Cathedral in New York City. 

19.30 

Class President William B. 
Sanford writes that an informal 
luncheon gathering of the Class 
is held on the third Thursday 
of each month in the newly- 
refurbished Butler Room of the 
Columbia University Club. No 
advance reservation is necessary. 

1931 

Bernard J. Hanneken has for¬ 
warded a dynamic report on 
Class activities. Here’s the text: 

“With its winning of the larg- 
est-attendance award at the 
Homecoming Reunion football 
game, 1931 hung up a triple 
double-play to cap its twenty- 
fifth year celebration. For this 
was the third year in a row that 
’31 has captured this honor, and' 


the third time that its attend¬ 
ance was oyej one hundred 
slrnng. 

“Moreover, it was the third 
big event of the Class’ anniver¬ 
sary year. First it was the im¬ 
mensely successful 25th Reunion 
weekend in June at Montauk, 
Long Island, attended by ap¬ 
proximately forty men. 

“Among those present were 
Ray Appelgate, Bob Bonynge, 
Stan Brams, Ed Camson, Russ 
Childs, Hal Colvin, Bernie Dou- 
gall, Irving DuFine, Ed Everard, 
Vince Furno, Irving Ginsberg, 
Max Goldfrank, Larry Greene, 
Barney Hanneken, Howard 
Hovey, George Johnson, Dick 
Jones, Bob Kleefeld, Peter Kou- 
rides, Harry Lebow, Charlie 
Metzner, Tom Monaghan, Ernie 
Preate, Tom Reilly, Ernie Rossi, 
Lester Sage, Jim Siheridan, Art 
Smith, Joe Stanczyck, Rollo 
Steenland, Tom Sweeney, Lester 
Taggart, Ed Thomas, Ray Vav- 
rina, Dick Wilhelm, and Don 
Williamson. 

“The second big event was the 
outstanding increase in both 
the number of Class contributors 
and size of donations, to the 5th 
Columbia College Fund. As of 
this writing, 162 men of ’31 had 
contributed a total of $6,268.50 
to the Fund, for an average gift 
of over $38 per man. This was 
well over a hundred per cent 
increase over the preceding year. 
(Bernard J. Hanneken is Class 
Chairman, and Peter T. Kourides 
Vice Chairman for the Fund). 
There were 27 gifts of $100 or 
more; more new contributors 
than in any previous year; and 
more class members who in¬ 
creased their gifts than ever be¬ 
fore. 

Nearly $100 of unexpected 
contributions received for Class 
credit came from Harold Colvin 
who generously donated his 
commissions for making the 
25th Reunion arrangements for 
1931 at Montauk, Long Island. 
Classmate Colvin owns a travel 
agency in New York, Not only 
did he get a wonderful “deal” 
for the Class Reunion, but his 
generosity made it possible for 
the pleasure enjoyed to help 
the Fund. 

“Sparkplugs of the successful 
Homecoming Reunion Class 
Party were Chairman Irving H. 
DuFine and President Arthur V. 
Smith, assisted by Edward K. 
Everard, and backstopped by 
their respective wives. This year, 
for the first time, the Class com¬ 
bined its now traditional post¬ 
game cocktail party with a buf¬ 
fet supper in the Alumni Wing 
of the Field House. Dean and 
Mrs. Lawrence H. Chamberlain 
were special guests. 

“Noteworthy, too, is the size¬ 
able contingent of second-gen¬ 
eration Columbians whom 1931 
has entered in Alma Mater. This 
year there are four more Class 
sons in the College; they include 
William H. Lane m, Harvey A. 
Sage; John A. Triska, and How¬ 
ard W. Tuwiner. 

“Informal lunches for the 
Class are held regularly on the 

(Continued on Page 11) 


Columbia Luncheon Clubs in Full Swing 

A new activity has appeared on the Columbia Alumni 
scene—Luncheon Clubs. Featuring good food, good company 
and an utter lack of speeches and fund-raising, three of 
these groups will be in full-swing on the island of Man¬ 
hattan by the end of November. Alumni in large numbers 
have flocked to the meetings of the Downtown Columbians 
(held on the last Tuesday of each month at the Seaman’s 
Church Institute, 25 South St., at 12:15) and the Early 
Fifties (held on the first Thursday of each month at the 
Columbia Club, between 12 and 2). 

On November 29th, the Midtown Columbians will be 
founded at the Columbia Club, with subsequent meetings 
to be held on the last Thursday of each month. A by¬ 
product of these luncheon clubs is a set of directories of 
Columbians known to be working in the Downtown and 
.Midtown Areas. 

These lists can be obtained by writing “The Alumni 
Luncheons Committee, 101 Hamilton Hall, Columbia Uni¬ 
versity, New York 27, N. Y. Alumni interested in start¬ 
ing up luncheon clubs in their areas should contact the 
committee at the above address. 

Ted Bronstein ’54 

















NOVEMBER, 1956 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


Page 11 


Alumni News 

(Continued from Page 10) 

third Monday of every month 
at the Columbia University Club. 
President Art Smith reminds 
Classmates that no special in¬ 
vitations are issued; everyone is 
welcome at the *31 table.” 

1932 

Alumni Class President, Prof. 
John Balquist, appointed John 
L. McDowell General Chairman 
of our Class 25th Anniversary 
Reunion. “Mac” called a com¬ 
mittee meeting which met Sept. 
20th at The Columbia Univer¬ 
sity Club. Here’s his report of 
the proceedings: 

“A Columbia University Class 
of 1932 Flag was presented to 
President Johnny Balquist. The 
flag was a gift of a classmate, 
who wishes to remain anon¬ 
ymous. This is our class salute 
to Lou Little’s last year as Coach 
on Morningside. The nineteen 
members of the Committee that 
were present got to work forti¬ 
fied with cocktails (another an¬ 
onymous gift) and agreed to 
hold our 25th Anniversary Re¬ 
union at The Arden House, Har- 
riman, N. Y., the week-end of 
May 24, 25, and 26, 1957. Already 
Class Treasurer Robert Simons, 
CPA, has reservation checks for 
26. It looks like we’re off to a 
good and early start, 

“The Committee appointed the 
following working committees: 

Entertainment: Arnold Auer¬ 
bach, Lem Jones, George Brit¬ 
ton. 

Class Gift: Gavin MacBain, 
Ed Edling, Len Scully. 

Out-of-Town Chairmen: Fred¬ 
erick Gardner for CJonnecticut; 
Dr. Benne S. Herbert for Upstate 
New York; Stephen H. Fletcher 
for the Washington, D. C. area; 
Ed Haines, Bob Caldwell and Gil 
Southwick for New Jersey. 

Finance; Bob Simmons, Bill 
Bloor. 

“The General Committee re¬ 
sponse to Arden House for our 
meeting place was heartwarm¬ 
ing. Federal Judge (Larry) 
Walsh related some interesting 
aspects of a case presently be¬ 
fore him involving international 
law of the high seas. Parnell J. T. 
Callahan told some uproariously 
amusing tales of his electioneer¬ 
ing as Republican candidate for 
the State Assemblyman, 12th 
District (Riverdale). George 
Britton changed the pace with 
a tale involving him and an 
absent-minded stage hand out 
in the Midwest. Alfred E. San- 
t a n g e 1 o also electioneers as 
Democratic candidate for Con¬ 
gress from the 18th Congres¬ 
sional District (N.Y.), but A1 
couldn’t make our meeting. 
Johnny Balquist related annec- 
dotes of his Columbia ball club 
and their improvement through 
last Spring. They placed third 
in the Ivy League. 

“Most of the Committee stayed 
on for supper. The Committee 
promises to write soon to all 
classmates in detail about our 
Arden House meeting May 24, 25, 
26, 1957. All Classmates are in¬ 
vited to write General Chair¬ 
man John L. McDowell, 60 East 
42nd Street, New York 17, N.Y.” 

1938 

This past summer farm edi¬ 
tors and economists from across 
the cou''try heard an address 
by Herbert C. Rosenthal, direc¬ 
tor of Graphics Institute, on the 
topic, “Visualizing Ideas.” The 
occasion was the 40th annual 
Convention of the American As¬ 
sociation of Agricultural College 
Editors, at Pennsylvania State 
University. 


1941 

R. Semmes Clarke, Class Presi¬ 
dent, reports the following: 

“The Class held its 15th re¬ 
union on May 26 in the Alumni 
Wing of the Field House at Baker 
Field. Commemorating the first 


major reunion since graduation 
the occasion was enlivened by 
the attendance of wives and 
lady friends with the result that 
a wonderful time was had by 
all. The total number present 
was about 75. 

“Cocktails preceeded the de¬ 
licious beef steak dinner, with 
dancing closing out the evening. 
Professor Bob Carey, an honor¬ 
ary member of the Class was a 
most welcome guest. 

“Highlights of the evening 
were Jack Beaudouin’s enter¬ 
taining summary of the Class 
questionnaire. Chairman Bob 
Quittmeyer’s presentation on be¬ 
half of the Class of an attrac¬ 
tive clock to retiring Class presi¬ 
dent, Joe Coffee, and the elec¬ 
tion of new Class officers for a 
five-year term, in the persons of 
Semmes Clarke, President; Ar¬ 
thur Weinstock, Vice-President; 
Doug Gruber, Secretary, and 
Fred Abdoo, Treasurer.” 

1942 

The new Class President, Wil¬ 
liam R. Carey, announces that 
’42 is “looking forward to the 
15th Reunion which is projected 
for Arden House in the Spring.” 

He adds: “Class members and 
their wives are invited, and 
will be advised of the particulars 
by George Laboda, Chairman, in 
our next Class newsletter.” 

Hanan C. Selvin, C, ’56 Ph.D., 
has been appointed assistant 
professor of sociology and social 
institutions. University of Cali¬ 
fornia, Berkeley. He taught in 
the graduate department of so¬ 
ciology at Columbia. Mr. Selvin’s 
wife, Rhoda, gave birth to their 
first child, Barbara Joan, on 
June 21. Their home address is 
89 Arden Road, Berkeley 4, Cali¬ 
fornia. 

Donald J. Lunghino, C, ’48L, 
joined Lever Brothers Company 
last March as assistant general 
counsel. He was formerly with 
the law firm of Davis, Polk, 
W a r d w e 11, Sunderland and 
Kiendl. 

1943 

Joseph T. Carty, Class Presi¬ 
dent, has been named electric 
typewriter sales manager in the 
downtown Chicago office of In¬ 
ternational Business Machines 
Corporation. His business ad¬ 


dress is 618 South Michigan Ave¬ 
nue, Chicago 5, Illinois. 

1948 

Richard C. Howard, C, ’49 AM, 
has won a Ford Foundation fel¬ 
lowship to spend the current 
academic year in Formosa study¬ 
ing advanced courses in Chinese 
culture and languages. The 
award was announced last June 
by Cornell University, which ad¬ 
ministers the program. 

19.">0 

A cocktail party and buffet 
supper took place at the Gould 
boathouse. Baker Field, follow¬ 
ing the Columbia-Army game on | 
October 27. j 

A newsletter from Secretary 
A1 Schmitt goes out this month, 
but here’s an advance item: 

“Mario Palmieri and his new 
bride, Trudy, are neighbors of 
Class President Jack Noonan 
and his wife, Ann, at Forest Hill 
Manor, Bloomfield, New Jersey. 
They arrived just in time to 
toast the arrival on September 
16 of Jack’s bouncing baby boy, 
weight 8 pounds 9 ounces, height 
21 inches — Lou Little, please 
note! Jack hopes he’ll be Class 
of 1968 at dear old Kings! Name: 
John Desmond Noonan.” 

19.') 1 

The Fifth Reunion Dinner 
Dance was held at the Field 
House at Baker Field on June 3. 
About thirty couples attended. 
Mark N. Kaplan, Class Presi¬ 
dent, notes that more were ex¬ 
pected, but “heavy downpour 
reduced the anticipated turn¬ 
out.” 

“All who came had a fine 
time,” he adds. 

President Kaplan also for¬ 
warded advance notice of the 
Annual Christmas Cocktail Party, 
which he said will be held at • 
the Columbia University Club 
on a Saturday afternoon in De¬ 
cember. Details to follow. In 
addition, he reports the follow¬ 
ing: 

“Courtney Crawford, Class Sec¬ 
retary, married on ‘Bastile Day’ 
in Ithaca, New York. . . . Wil¬ 
lard and Roberta Block — he’s 
Class Co-chairman of the Col¬ 
lege Fund — had their first 
child, a daughter, in May . . . 
Don Holden is married and do- 


L. I. Alumni Organize To 
Foster Columbia Spirit 


Long Islanders now have their 
own regional alumni organiza¬ 
tion, which was formally launch¬ 
ed in Manh asset at a meeting of 
over 200 alumni at the Strath¬ 
more - Vanderbilt Country Club 
on the evening of October 19. 

Columbia Alumni of Long Is¬ 
land, Inc., has three main pur¬ 
poses: to get those Long Island 
residents together who have 
Columbia as a common interest; 
acquaint qualified secondary 
school students and their faculty 
advisors with the advantages 
offered by Columbia; and raise 
funds for scholarships and other 
needs. 

Officers pro tern, pending elec¬ 
tions in January are: Dr. Martin 
F. Stein ’24, president; Dr. Fred¬ 
erick Ellison Lane, ’28, ’32 P&S, 
vice-president; John J. Rathe- 
macher, ’31, secretary; and Carl 
P. Rathemacher ’26, treasurer. 
Other appointments: Vincent 
Balletta, Jr., ’48, chairman of 
the program committee; Arthur 
Jansen ’25, chairman in charge 
of College relations; and George 
J. Conway ’28, chairman of the 
nominating committee. Messrs. 
Balletta and Conway, along with 
Frederick W. Wulfing ’15, com¬ 
prise the Legal Committee. 

Guest speakers at the October 
meeting were Dr. Levering Ty¬ 
son, Assistant to the President 
of the University in charge of 
Alumni Relations; Morris W. 
Watkins ’24. Executive Secretary 
of the Alumni Federation; Dale 


Baxter ’58 sophomore of Black- 
foot, Idaho; and Martin Stein, 
Jr., ’58, son of the temporary 
president of the Long Island 
group. 

Enthusiasm for the formation 
of a Long Island alumni organ¬ 
ization was engendered by the 
rousing success of a College 
Glee Club concert at Manhasset 
High School last May. More 
than 650 Long Islanders at- 
tended the affair. 


Clubhouse 

(Continued from Page 1) 
prior to construction of Butler 
Library. 

Mr. Furey said that Columbia 
will use the field during the 
week; on weekends, and in the 
summer, the Physical Education 
Department will provide super¬ 
vised play for neighborhood 
teen-agers. 

In this connection Mr. Furey 
stated: “We are delighted that 
at last we have provided Colum¬ 
bia students with a play area 
adjacent to the campus. We are 
also quite pleased that the new 
facilities will give us an oppor¬ 
tunity to render a service to the 
community in which Columbia 
is located.” 

Mr. Furey added that the pro¬ 
posed program “pioneers a new 
area in university-community 
relations,” and predicted that it 
would be widely copied through¬ 
out the country. 


Know Them? 


Here are the names of the distinguished Columbians whose 
photographs appear on Page 10 


1926. Dr. William M. Hitzig. In¬ 
ternist, and Assistant Clinical 
P r o f e s sor of 
M e d i c i ne at 
C o 1 u m b i a’s 
College of 
Physicians and 
S u r geons, Dr. 
Hitzig is the 
man largely 
responsible for 
“crystallizing” 
a unique pro¬ 
gram of medi¬ 
cal treatment of Japanese atom 
bomb victims. Last year twenty- 
five Hiroshima girls were flown 
to this country for treatment. 
Dr. Hitzig has just left for the 
Far East to examine more vic¬ 
tims, and arrange for continuing- 
care on Japanese soil. 



1931. Peter T. Kourides. Mr. 
Kourides was recently elected 
Supreme Vice- 
P r e s i dent of 
The Order of 
Ahepa at its 
3 0th national 
con V e ntion. 
The organiza¬ 
tion is a fra¬ 
ternal order of 
Americans of 
Hellenic an¬ 
cestry, with 
375 chapters. A partner in the 
New York law firm of Conforti, 
Seward, Raphael & Kourides, 
Mr. Kourides is general counsel 
for the Greek Archdiocese in the 
United States and American 
Counsel for the Ecumenical 
Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey. 




1927. William E. Petersen. As¬ 
sociated with the Irving Trust 
Company since 
1928, Mr. Pe¬ 
tersen was re¬ 
cently named 
to head the 
c ompany’s 
bra nch office 
division. He 
was form e r 1 y 
vice - presi¬ 
dent in charge 
of Irving’s 
Empire State office. A lieutenant 
in the United States Naval Re¬ 
serve in World War II. Mr. 
Peterson is a member of the New 
York Credit and Financial Man¬ 
agement Association, Fifth Ave¬ 
nue Association, and various 
other societies. 


ing public relations work for 
Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial De¬ 
signer.” 


1953 


1934. William W. Golub. Mr. 
Golub, who is a partner in the 
New York law 
firm of Mc- 
Goldrick, Dan- 
nett, Horowitz 
& Golub, has 
just been 
named special 
counsel to rep¬ 
resent W e s t- 
chester County 
in its fight to 
defeat new 
rate schedules of the New York 
Central Railroad. In 1948, Mr. 
Golub was a Hoover Commission 
consultant. He is a former coun¬ 
sel to the Long Island Transit 
Authority and now is counsel 
to resident directors of the Long 
Island Railroad. 



The class dues “pay for the 
newsletter, reunion dinners and 
parties, various postage charges, 
and other expenses.” Send the 
dues to Mr. Brecher. 


Laurence G. Levenson has an¬ 
nounced the opening of his law 
office at 132 Nassau Street, New 
York City. The telephone num¬ 
ber is REctor 2-5680. Friends and 
classmates are “invited to drop 
in.” 

1954 

The annual Yule Cocktail 
Party will be held on Thursday, 
December 27 from 8 to 11:30 
P.M. in the Butler Room of the 
Columbia University Club. As in 
the past, the affair is “stag or 
drag.” Further details will be 
forwarded to members shortly. 

The third Annual Reunion 
Dinner had the “best turn out 
ever,” according to Class Sec¬ 
retary Bernd Brecher, who re¬ 
ported over sixty present. Pro¬ 
ceeding the dinner there was a 
joint cocktail party with ’55. 

Volume Four, Number Two, of 
the “Bicentennial Class News¬ 
letter” was mailed to members 
in September. Enclosed was a 
Class membership card. The 
newsletter urged remittance of 
$1 class dues, noting in an edi¬ 
torial that the dollar from each 
member “means life or death to 
the class as a going concern.” 


The newsletter also reported 
that the Early Fifties Ball on 
j June 9 was a “huge success,” 
I with over 200 attending, and 
■ predicted that it would become 
‘ an annual affair. The Early Fif¬ 
ties Luncheon Club, sponsor of 
the Ball, meets for lunch on the 
first Thursday of each month in 
the Columbia University Club. 

Noted “With deepest regret” in 
the newsletter is the death on 
August 1 of classmate Philip 
Solomon. 

i Classmates are urged to write 
to the newsletter editor, Bernd 
’Brecher, and provide him with 
'“Facts on File on Fifty Four.” 

I Mr. Brecher, who is also ’55J, 
I has been appointed Director of 
[ Alumni Affairs at Columbia’s 
i College of Physicians and Sur- 
' geons, 630 West 168th Street, 
I New York 32, N.Y. He heads a 
^ new office which directs the 
alumni magazine, supervises all 
alumni activities and will or¬ 
ganize national alumni clubs. 

I Ted Bronstein has been named 
^ a registered representative i n 
jthe research department of the 
investment firm of L. F. Roths- 
I child & Company, 120 Broadway, 
-New York. N. Y. 


Deans’ Day Committee 


(Continued from Page 1) 

dieted that Deans’ Day ’57 would 
be the “best ever.” 

Mr. Edelman also announced 
the appointment of Robert L. 
Carey, Professor of Economics, 
as vice-chairman in charge of 
Faculty Participation. Assisting 
Professor Carey is Victor G. 
Rosenbloom ’45. 

Sub-committee chairmen were 
named as follows: Richard Mill¬ 
er ’49, Publicity; Herbert J. 
Rohrbach, Jr. ’50, Mailing and 
Printing; Bernard W. Wishy ’48, 
Faculty and Student Contacts; 
Robert S. Breitbart ’34, Facilities 
and Equipment; Frederic S. Ber¬ 


man ’49, Alumni Contacts; Peter 
Ross ’54, Thornley B. Wood, Jr, 
’42, and Jay J. Joseph ’55, 
Luncheon Arrangements; Milton 
L. Fleiss ’28, Reception Arrange¬ 
ments; and Mr. Joseph, Fi¬ 
nances. 

Information regarding the 
1957 Deans’ Day program may 
be obtained by writing to Mr. 
Edelman, care of the Alumni 
Association office, 101 Hamilton 
Hall, Columbia College, New 
York 27, New York; or by con¬ 
tacting Richard L. Clew ’53, As¬ 
sistant Secretary, of the asso¬ 
ciation at UNiversity 5-4000, 
extension 809. 








































Page 12 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 


NOVEMBER, 1956 



COLUMBIA SCORES: In a three-part sequence 
picture, Columbia’s second touchdown against 
Harvard is shown. In the first picture, Claude 
Benham (35) has lateraled to Ed Spraker 
(28) as they turn the Crimson right end from the 
Harvard 13 yard line. Now Benham throws a per¬ 
fect block on Harvard’s Matt Botsford, the last 


remaining opposition. Spraker is over and the 
referee signals touchdown, Columbia. This tied the 
score at 13-aIl. Columbia went on to win, 26-20, 
on a 69-yard scoring pass from Benham to Sprak¬ 
er, of course, with three minutes remaining. The 
victory ended an 11-game Lion losing streak. Two 
weeks later, following a loss to Army, the Lions 


had their second victory of the season when they 
upset Cornell, 25-19. Coupled with a strong, al¬ 
though losing effort, against Yale and ah early- 
season loss to Brown, the Lion campaign shows 
considerable improvement over recent seasons. The 
Cornell contest marked the last home game for 
nine members. 


‘So Long Lou’, Say Friends in Glowing Tributes 


(Continued from Page 1) 

“The striking thing about the 
Columbia-Lou Little relationship 
is its wholly unplanned evolu¬ 
tionary character. When he 
came he was not signed to a 
lifetime contract. Neither he nor 
anyone else assumed that he 
was going to establish a record 
for tenure—a football coach who 
would serve under four presi¬ 
dents of the University. Lou has 
remained because he has com¬ 
bined better than any other 
coach could four important qual¬ 
ities: acknowledged eminence 
among his professional peers, 
friendly acceptance as a col¬ 
league by the faculty, affection¬ 
ate gratitude from his players, 
past and present, and respectful 
regard from the press. 

“Anyone who knows Lou rec¬ 
ognizes that football has always 
held a very important place in 


I glad to enter into another quar- i 
I ter century alliance if we can | 
j find another man like Lou 
! Little.” 

i 

Dean Nicholas McD 
iMcKnight ’21: 

I “Everybody who knows Lou 
well knows what an interesting 
and many-sided person he is. ^ 
j One side of him which has al- , 
ways seemed to me to exceed; 
' even his technical genius is his | 
I moral influence upon those with = 
! whom he comes into association. I 
This is something that a dean | 
is quick to notice and to admire. 

“We all know the stories of 
how Lou make% everyone on the 
squad go to church, watches 
I their personal appearance like 
I a mother when they go on trips, 

' inspires so many of his players 
to careers in the learned pro- 
' fessions, and once scolded an 


A Toast to Lou Little 

“A Toast To Lou Little” is the theme of what 
should be the biggest and best athletic dinner ever held 
at Columbia. It is the testimonial dinner to Columbia’s 
I^u Little who will retire at the end of this academic 
year. 

Here are all the details: 

DATE: Thursday, December 20 
TIME: Reception—6 p.m. 

Dinner—7 p.m. 

PLACE: .John Jay Hall 
PRICE: $7.50 

The theme of the dinner will be carried out in a 
series of short “toasts” to the coach from outstanding 
personalities in many different fields. Lou, of course, 
will be the principal speaker. Thornley B. Wood, Jr., ’42 
is the Dinner Committee Chairman. 

Reservations muy be made by writing Lou Little 
Dinner Committee, Room 401 .John Jay Hall, Columbia 
University, New York 27, N. Y. 


his life. Yet it is a measure of 
his true greatness that he has 
steadfastly refused to treat col¬ 
lege football as an end in itself. 
Rather, he has looked upon it 
as a means of furthering the 
educational objectives of his in¬ 
stitution, attempting always to 
win as many games as material, 
opportunity and conditions per¬ 
mitted. 

“Through twenty-seven years 
Ck)lumbia has been happy with 
Lou Little’s philosophy and be¬ 
havior. We will be fortunate and 


“A student” for getting a B. 
These and all the other com¬ 
panion stories are in a sense 
the surface indications of that 
strong bed rock which is Lou’s 
own moral character and integ¬ 
rity. He is one of the truly good 
men of our time, who by his in¬ 
terest in his fellow men and his 
loyalty and affection for his 
friends, and especially for his 
football comrades in arms, has 
inspired a great many to be the 
best men that they had it in 
themselves to be.” 


Paul Governali ’43: 

“It is difficult to imagine Col¬ 
umbia football without . Lou — 
the two seem synonymous, some¬ 
how. His contributions to the 
game of football surely make 
him one of the all time greats. 

“It is equally difficult to im¬ 
agine my life since 1939 without 
him. Lou coached me as an un¬ 
dergraduate, and years later of¬ 
fered me my first job in foot¬ 
ball coaching. I am grateful to 
him for the influence he has 
had on my football growth and, 
more important, on my personal 
development. 

“I’m glad our paths crossed. 
I shall always remember him 
with pride and affection.” 

Neil McLellan ’57 
Sports Editor, Spectator: 

“The name Mr. Lou Little 
means so much to so many peo¬ 
ple—memories of great teams, 
memories of great players, per¬ 
sonal anecdotes—that it is al- 
nvost impossible to say those 
things which I think we all feel 
about the man who has had his 
office down the hall for so many 
years. 

“To me, Mr. Little does not 
represent victorious fodtball rec¬ 
ords; in my short tenure here, 
Columbia has won less than 10 
games. Rather Mr. Little has 
been the man who most gra¬ 
ciously invited me to Camp Co¬ 
lumbia this fall for the whole 
stay, if I so chose; he is the 
man who made sure that I was 


taken care of when I got there; 
he is the man who made It 
possible for me to get an inside 
look at a Football Coach—his 
private life—when he allowed 
me to take some pictures in his 
apartment for an issue of the 
paper. 

“He is the man who is always 
ready to help, not only his foot¬ 
ball players, but anyone who 
goes to him. He has always 
been ready to answer my some¬ 
times surface questions. And he 
has . alwayg done it with that 
smile which caricaturists have' 
been trying to capture over the 
years.” 

Red Smith 

N. Y. Herald Tribune, 

Sept. 19, 1956 

“When they say ‘Columbia’s 
best teachers’ educators are not 
referring to Lou’s gift for in¬ 
ducting the young into the 
mysteries of the belly series. 
They are thinking, rather, of 
the goals Lou always had in 
mind when he said, ‘I want men 
who will knock the other fellow’s 
brains out, then help him up 
and brush him off.’ 


Wrong Address? 

If your name and address, 
as it appears on the label be¬ 
low, is incorrect in any way, 
please indicate the correction 
on the label and mail it to 
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY, 
Box 575, 4 West 43rd Street, 
New York 36, New York. 


“They are thinking of what a 
kid had in mind as he pulled 
off his padded playsuit after the 
final game of his senior year. 
He would never play college 
football again. Showered and 
dressed for the street, he walked 
over to offer his hand to the 
coach. ‘Thank you, Mr. Little,’ 
he said, ‘for teaching me so 
much more than football.’ 

“Sports pages and alumni, as 
a rule, rank football coaches 
according to the number of 
games their teams win, a mean¬ 
ingless'criterion. A far more ac¬ 
curate measure would be pro¬ 
vided if one could count the 
hundreds of young men from 
Columbia and other colleges, 
amateurs and professionals and 
boys who never played any 
game, former proteges of Lou 
Little and strangers to him, who 
have written or called on him 
over the years seeking his help 
in the business of living. 

“Not even Lou can measure the 
influence he has exerted through 
his ‘Squad Letter,’ which he 
writes every six weeks and has 
mimeographed and mailed to 
the hundreds who played foot¬ 
ball for Columbia since he took 
charge in 1930. 

“To be a taskmaster who can 
lead and a martinet who in¬ 
spires loyalty rather than a re¬ 
sentment, that is a rare art. 
‘Listen, you guys,’ Lou has told 
his players, ‘I don’t want you 
ever to call anybody a guy.’ Say 
‘man’ or ‘fellow.’” 


COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY 
Box 575, 

4 West 43rd Street 
New York 36, N. Y. 


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