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The Ultimate
Liberal-Arts Major?

Page 3. Now they’re
home to the book
and the byte.

Page 14. A surprising number
o f students have found it
in religion and classics.

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Cover Story:

The President’s Physicist
Page 24. White House
science adviser
D. Allan Bromley ’52.

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Editor
The Review welcomes lettersfrom readers
and will print as many o f them as space
permits. Letters may be edited fo r brevity
and clarity. Unsigned letters cannot be used,
but names o f the writers may be withheld
on request.

‘Oh, That Dandelion Yellow’

I enjoyed all the contents of the Summer
Review, but especially enjoyed “Fanfare for
the Common Plant,” Denise Bolger Kovnat’s lyrical piece on dandelions. Tb read it
was pure delight and wistful nostalgia. I
was glad to hear that a few blossoms have
managed to invade the elegance of the
River Campus. They were so at home on
the modest Prince Street Campus that was
my academic home for four magic years.
I had forgotten about “Azariah Boody’s
cows,” but found myself singing along
through the two verses —for the first time
in sixty-two years. What a good song!
If I had the space to produce and store
it, I would love to test the recipe for dan­
delion wine. I wouldn’t mind trying a sip.
Evelyn Beyer ’29
Fryeburg, Maine

The Return of Class Notes
Looking forward to seeing Class Notes
back in your enjoyable publication—per­
haps with even more emphasis and an ex­
panded section. It really is of great interest
to me and all alumni I know.
Christopher Case ’83
Mt. Kisco, New York
They’re ba-aa-ack! See page 52 in the
new “Alumni Review” section—Editor.

‘The Idea of a University’
and Undergraduate Education
The summer issue of Rochester Review
is excellent—bright, sparkling, interesting.
I particularly like the pieces by and about
Christopher Lasch and that on “The Idea
of a University,” though I don’t have the
same enthusiasm for Bloom and Bennett
as the writer seems to.
McCrea Hazlett
Rochester
Thomas Fitzpatrick, in his article, “The
Idea of a University.” neglects to mention
so much as the existence of the Commission
on Curriculum which struggled valiantly
with the issues addressed in the article.
This was a commission of very distin­
guished faculty members and administra­
tors, who spent many hours hammering
out a view of what could be special about
the undergraduate curriculum at the Uni­
versity of Rochester. One need not be per­
suaded by the report (though the presi­
dent’s task force seems to have found
nothing better to say), but one surely
ought mention it, if only out of respect
for the efforts of its members.
Henry E. Kyburg
Rochester
Rochester Review is happy to acknowl­
edge the work o f last year’s Commission
on Curriculum, part o f the ongoing exami­
nation o f undergraduate education at the
University. Among the commission’s rec­
ommendations, as reported in an earlier
issue o f the magazine, were these: greater
involvement o f graduate students in under­
graduate teaching; adoption o f a four-year,
college-wide program fo r ensuring writing
competence; and broadening o f the range
o f courses students must take before de­
claring a major—Editor.
Being only one hundred years old (on
August 8, 1990), I fail to see why, on that
large and beautiful campus, any change
should be made in undergraduate educa­
tion.
I have attended Columbia University in
New York, the University of California at

Memo to Our Readers:
Introducing a New Combo
If you thought your Rochester Review
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this time, you’re right. It is heftier—and
not only in physical weight—with the
inclusion of a new section, “Alumni
Review,” beginning on page 45.
This new section is your Alumni As­
sociation newsmagazine, containing in
a new format all the best of the former
alumni newspaper, Rochester ’91. Here
is where you’ll find an account of
Alumni Association events and other
enterprises, reports on and from alumni
volunteers, and—yes, most definitely—
all the news that we can pack into the
“Class Notes” from your friends and
fellow grads.
You will also find a few new features,
including a “Books & Recordings” de­
partment that highlights the wealth of
enlightening and entertaining produc­
tions of our alumni, faculty, and staff.
Combining the two publications will
save the University a tidy sum of money
and will give you a single source for all
your University news. Happily for the
expanded Review, Denise Bolger Kovnat, who has been editor of the alumni
newspaper and also assistant editor of
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We hope you will enjoy the new com­
bination, which—after a few adjust­
ments to the schedule—will be coming
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mented in the fall by your copy of the
University’s Annual Report.
In the meantime, we’re always ready
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—“Meliora” isn’t our watchword for
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have to offer. Please write!
Margaret Bond
Editor, Rochester Review

Berkeley, and the University of Southern
California at Los Angeles, where I also
taught from 1928 to 1958.
The teaching staff at the University of
Rochester in 1918 to 1924 compared favor­
ably with all of them.
Diana W. Anderson ’24
Manhattan Beach, California
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C O M S A T ’s P resid en t a n d C E O

Libraries: They’re Not What They
Used to Be-They’re All That and More

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by Thomas Fitzpatrick
Ever since University librarian Otis Robinson invented
the hole in the catalog card, Rochester’s libraries have
been technologically on the move.

Seeking a Healing Verse

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by Sebby Wilson Jacobson
Rochester Review

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“What makes a poem are the words you put together
and the words you take away,” says Todd Beers, a
Rochester poet who brings his brightly painted
“poetry chips” to hospitalized youngsters.

The Ultimate Liberal-Arts Major?

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by Thomas Fitzpatrick
Taken all in all, there may be no other department
in the country quite like Rochester’s Religion and
Classics.

Speaking Louder Than Words

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by Jan Fitzpatrick
Roommates: Some roommate matches seem made in
heaven. At the other extrem e-the Roommate from
Hell. What can make the difference sometimes is how
well roomies read each other’s body language.

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Zurev, Chemical & Engineering News',
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courtesy of the subjects; all others, Roch­
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The President’s Physicist

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by Tom Rickey
Sure, D. Allan Bromley ’52G is a highly placed
government official who has friends in high places,
but that’s not the only reason people listen to him.

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A Category Mistake
The philosopher Gilbert Ryle
describes someone touring a university
and trying to figure out what it is. He
is shown the library and laboratories,
sees “students” and “faculty” wander­
ing about. Still, he wonders where and
what is “the university.” Then he is
taken to the financial office and is
shown the budget books; here is the
whole business (literally) organized
and displayed. “Ah, there is the uni­
versity!” he proclaims. Obviously our
university tourist has made a mistake—
a mistake which Ryle calls a category
mistake.
A category mistake is not a simple
hunk o f misinformation—mistaking a
lion for a leopard; it is mistaking the
lion for the key o f G sharp. I mention
this type of profound mistake because
it seems to me that universities are
undergoing some sort of category
shift—at least in the minds of public
policy makers if not the public itself.
I cite two recent activities on the na­
tional scene: investigation of abuse in
federal research funds and antitrust
charges from the Justice Department
against some universities for price
fixing.
Stanford University has been the
special target o f Congressional inquiry
regarding “indirect costs.” When re­
search projects are funded a certain
proportion o f the funds goes to cover
institutional administrative and infra­
structure costs that benefit and support
research. These are called “indirect
costs. ” Indirect costs are, obviously, not
direct costs—costs o f activities exclu­
sively related to the research. One can
directly charge salaries, equipment,
etc., but it is difficult to determine the

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contribution of campus security, the
library, snowplowing, and the presi­
dent’s office. These latter are indirect
costs and are negotiated with the fed­
eral agency through some reasonable
formula. Some university activities are
not at all related to research activities,
e.g., the travel budget for the football
team, and are simply eliminated from
the indirect cost base. In the case of
Stanford it appears that some items
that could just as well have been ex­
cluded entirely slipped into the base
calculation. (“Slipped in” is the most
plausible explanation. Rochester has
some 10,000 separate accounting lines;
I assume Stanford must have many
more. It is all too likely that lines 4,456
and 8,329 could just as well have been
eliminated.)
In the second instance, the Justice
Department brought suit against MIT
and eight Ivy League institutions for
“price fixing. ” For some twenty years
or so, the Ivies, along with a large col­
lection o f eastern private colleges, have
participated in the so-called “Overlap
Group.” The Overlap Group would
meet annually to review the financial
needs o f students who had received
overlapping acceptances in the range
o f institutions. On the basis o f the
meetings, rough agreement on the
level o f financial need was established.
The Attorney General claimed that
this was “a collegiate cartel” that pre­
vented students and parents from
shopping for low-price tuition. The
Ivies signed a consent decree that they
would cease and desist; M IT did not.
Although Rochester has never been a
part o f the Overlap process, I think
M IT was correct.
What disturbs me is an underlying
assumption about the institution of
higher education which seems to moti­
vate the various charges.

Let me take indirect cost first. That
there are indirect costs for university
research at all is a thoroughly modern
phenomenon. Until World War II
there was virtually no federal research
money for universities. Wartime need
for advanced technology created the
federal R&D contract at university
sites. After the war, under the leader­
ship of Dr. Vannevar Bush, a philo­
sophical underpinning was created for
continued funding. The federal gov­
ernment and the research universities
would become partners in developing a
basic research structure for the nation.
A by-product o f partnership was that
university research would be fully
funded by the government. It need not
have developed thus. The government
might well have created its own basic
research facilities (as it has in the na­
tional weapons laboratories), but it
was decided that basic research in uni­
versities fulfilled the proper national
interest. (One reason: Research in uni­
versities links Ph.D. training with ad­
vanced research in a manner that an
independent lab could not achieve.)
Partnership is a powerful notion.
Somewhere in the 1980s, the govern­
ment began to recast its relation to
universities in strict economic terms.
Just as the university tourist makes a
category mistake when assuming that
the real nature of the university is laid
out fully in the financial statements, so
OMB and other economic types came
to see the relation o f the government
and the research universities as essen­
tially economic. Instead o f partners in
building a national research base, uni­
versities became vendors o f research
services. Partners and vendors are
not the same. Most o f us think o f our
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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

They’re Not What They Used to Be

By Thomas Fitzpatrick

“ I just can’t do any real work with a jacket on,” says University librarian Jim Wyatt, who
presides over a system of seven libraries containing some 2.7 million volumes, upwards of
16,000 periodicals, and a dazzling array of state-of-the-art technology to render it all both
manageable and accessible.

The morning routine o f one legen­
dary librarian at the Women’s College
fifty years ago, it is said, was precise
and inflexible. Clad in black silk, pincenez perched on her aristocratic nose,
she would swan in on the dot, check
the vial o f rubbing alcohol that was
meant to disinfect the mouthpiece of
the library telephone after every call,
then gather her cowed student assist­
ants around her. Their set task, to be
repeated on the half-hour, was to patrol
the Browsing Room and other places
harboring the temptation o f comforta­
ble chairs, and rouse snoozing students.
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Contrast that with
the beginning of
James F. Wyatt’s
day. “The first thing
I do every morn­
ing,” says the Uni­
versity’s director o f libraries, “is check
my electronic mail. ”
University libraries are very different
places nowadays, and so are librarians.
Wyatt is a thoroughgoing, up-to-date
professional, or perhaps one should say
that he is “on-line” and “databased,”
for he is able to speak computerese
with any keyboard maven, and under­
stands full well the technology that is
changing his profession every year.
Yet he goes about his business with
an easy nonchalance and courtliness,
the product o f his Virginia heritage,
oxford cloth button-down shirt open at
the collar, rep tie loosened, shirt-sleeves
rolled up. His coat is usually on a hook
in back of his office door.
“I just can’t do any real work with a
jacket on,” he says. And that statement
is an emblem of the modern library.
Although clearly there were exceptions,
college librarians once seemed to pre­
side over their holdings, quick to pro­
tect and defend, not only pages and
book spines but the very marble floors
and oaken tables, from behavior that
smacked o f the unruly or boorish.
“Quiet, please,” and the disapproving
glance were the order of the day.
Now Rush Rhees and the six other
libraries on the River Campus, at the
Eastman School, the Medical Center,
and the Memorial Art Gallery are work­
places. Students spend much more of
their time in libraries than they do in
classrooms and labs, and when they
are in Rush Rhees or one o f its col­
laterals, they are usually hunched over
a keyboard in CLARC, the Computing
Library and Resources Center, batting
out a term paper; or doing a CornSearch on an assigned topic; or putting
Chester, the computer-based on-line
catalog, through its paces.
Librarians are no longer just pre­
servers o f the best that was written and
thought in the past, but experts in the
transmission o f information. Speed,
efficiency, and electronic know-how are
the demands from students and schol­
ars now, and libraries must not only
keep pace with the current technology
but anticipate the next revolution. The

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Librarians may be bibliophiles, but these days they’re computer mavens, too. Along with the
books, the libraries are home to a couple of hundred computers and terminals.

age o f telecommunication is just about
here, and Wyatt and his associates are
gearing up for it.
But they must run as fast as they
can to keep up. Wyatt tells the story of
a workman installing a couple o f new
computer workstations in Rush Rhees.
No sooner did he have the first one
plugged in and running than a waiting
student grabbed a chair and began to
tap away. After a while, the student
looked up, took notice o f the observing
Wyatt, and asked, “When can I have
something like this in my dorm room?”
Well, as a matter o f fact, the technol­
ogy is available now to fulfill that stu­
dent’s impatient wish. It is possible to
connect every student residence, each
faculty office, all laboratories, and
every other educational space with the
complex computer system that is the
library of today. The will is certainly
there. Wyatt sees the library as “an
institution within the institution” of
the University. Its goals run parallel
to those o f the entire educational con­
struct that is Rochester, but in many
ways the library is in the vanguard.

The most startling advances in ap­
plied science are found in the area of
communication, and the library is the
first organization on a college campus
to become aware of how important
they are, or soon will be. But the will
to advance is always circumscribed by
finance. These technological innova­
tions are crushingly expensive.
Early in 1991, the library received a
$100,000 grant from the Gladys Brooks
Foundation to install a network so that
database materials could be read by
many users at the same time, from any
one o f several terminals in Rush Rhees.
Sometime this fall, up to a hundred
students and scholars at the library
terminals will be able, for example, to
simultaneously access the same com­
puter disk called “PsychLIT,” which is
a listing o f abstracts in the field o f psy­
chology. No lines, no waiting —every­
body pleased with this bit o f progress.
But to achieve it, even such a sizable
chunk as $100,000 had to be supple­
mented by other funds from the Uni­
versity budget.
Money considerations impinge on
the library in ways completely divorced
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four staff positions had to be eliminat­
ed in a budget squeeze, which means
four fewer highly trained people there
to help students and faculty on their
scholarly quests. The library employs
over 300 students on a part-time basis,
so it took a direct hit when Congress
recently approved an increase in the
minimum wage.
The undergraduate student associa­
tion recently campaigned for the library
to be open twenty-four hours a day to
accommodate students who whether
through inclination or necessity want­
ed to have access to the terminals late
at night. Wyatt and his staff negotiated
with the students in good faith, and a
schedule for more open-ended hours
was agreed to. The student association
at one time considered releasing its own
funds to keep the library open, but in
the end the library itself absorbed the
$24,000 cost. Now, on the average, the
libraries are open over one hundred
hours a week.
The University library has been
receptive to change since Otis H.
Robinson, Class o f 1861, took charge
o f its holdings in 1868. He managed
the library for twenty-one years and
devised his own cataloging method
well in advance o f the Dewey Decimal
System that came along in 1876.
Robinson attained truly heroic status
in library lore, however, because o f an­
other invention. He was the first, as far
as anyone knows, to punch holes in
catalog cards and run a wire (and later
a rod) through them, to prevent the
cards from being jumbled out of se­
quence in the catalog drawer.
That was hightech enough for
libraries of Rob­
inson’s day, and
with a few minor
exceptions, col­
lege libraries
remained un­
changed for nearly a century. If a stu­
dent checked out a copy o f The Great
G atsby from Rush Rhees in 1931, and
somehow forgot to return it for thirty
years, the miscreant would have re­
turned to find very little altered in the
library’s way o f doing business. Micro­
film, microfiche, and such, would be
new, and the staff would no longer
take tea every afternoon at four, but
aside from these, it would be as if the
absent-minded student had never left.

Computers changed all that quickly
and dramatically. University libraries
have been radically transformed, and
at Rochester most of this progress has
taken place since 1985. The card cat­
alogs and Robinson’s rods and holes
were carted off to the side, and the
Chester computers largely took their
place.
Not only can one look up library
material using the classic “author/title
and subject” classification, but if the
student can only remember a key word,
a complete search of all the holdings
in all the libraries will ensue, and pro­
duce a list on the screen. With the help
of a librarian, and a minimal fee, a
student can use ComSearch to print
out a list of primary and secondary
sources, and often whole texts o f arti­
cles and the like, by simply tapping in
the title o f a research topic. Rugged
individualists can easily learn another

“ Chester,” the on-line catalog, backed up by
the traditional card-catalog file.

system called U-Search, and do the job
themselves.
Responsible for a great deal o f the
escalating costs to the University li­
brary system is the proliferation of
scholarly journals. As academic and
research disciplines continue to split
off into more and more specialized
study, journals catering to these kinds
o f research multiply, and their cost to
the library soars. Moreover, for other
reasons, the average subscription rate
for scientific and medical journals, says
Wyatt, increased by 300 percent in the
eighties, and shows no sign o f leveling
off. Libraries cannot continue to buy
every serial publication that comes
along, and must now look to elimi­
nating some of the ones they currently
purchase.
The solution: computerized networks
among far-flung university libraries,
which allow librarians to scan catalog

For Your Information:
2.7 Million Volumes
The library’s first book, purchased
shortly after Rochester opened its doors
in 1850, was, prosaically enough, a twovolume copy of Julius Weisbach’s Prin­
ciples o f the Mechanics o f Machinery
and Engineering. Its two-millionth,
bought in 1982, was a rare 1557 edition
of The Workes o f Sir Thomas More.
Today, the University’s ever-growing
collection holds some 2.7 million vol­
umes, placing Rochester forty-first
among all libraries in the United States
and Canada—including the Library of
Congress—in total volumes held.
The library’s first home, along with
the rest of the fledgling University, was
the United States Hotel in downtown
Rochester. From there it moved in 1861
to Anderson Hall on the Prince Street
Campus (occupying a thirty- by fortyfoot room on the ground floor) and
then in 1877 to its own fireproof build­
ing, Sibley Hall, also at Prince Street.
When the men moved to the River
Campus in 1930, the main library went
with them. Sibley library was renovated
to serve as the women’s library, with
holdings that grew to some 100,000
volumes by the time the women moved
to the River Campus in 1955.
Today, what was the University’s li­
brary, singular, is now “the University
of Rochester Libraries,” with these com­
ponents:
The River Campus Libraries -holding
approximately two million volumes —
which include Rush Rhees Library, the
Physics-Optics-Astronomy Library,
the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Library, and the Carlson Library for
science and engineering.
The Edward G. Miner Library at the Med­
ical Center, holding 220,000 volumes.
The Sibley Music Library of the East­
man School of Music, one of the fore­
most music-research libraries in the
world, holding more than a half million
scores, books, periodicals, sound record­
ings, photographs, memorabilia, and
other items.
The Charlotte Whitney Allen Library,

part of the Memorial Art Gallery,
which holds more than 20,000 volumes.
All of the University libraries are
open to visitors, and borrowing privi­
leges at most of them are extended to
Rochester alumni.

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records from all over the country to
locate items for scholars. Rochester be­
longs to a number o f these networks,
o f which the most important is RLIN,
the Research Libraries Information
Network. RLIN’s membership includes
the libraries at Yale, Stanford, Prince­
ton, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins.

Central to the River Campus, Rush Rhees
Library is a natural gathering place, as at
the 1947 poetry reading in the Welles-Brown
Room (above). The room-named for its
donors, Francis Welles, Class of 1875, and
Charles Brown, 1879-retain s its original
comfy elegance, thanks to a recent careful
restoration (below).

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Wyatt takes special
pride that Rochester’s
research librarians are
at the top o f the RLIN
list in the quickness
and thoroughness of
their responses to other
members’ requests.
However, a price must be paid for pro­
fessional attention to detail and a swift
hand on the fax machine—the better
Rochester performs, the more requests

Wyatt’s staff gets, and the more costly
membership becomes in terms o f staff
time allotted. But Rochester’s librarians
do not skimp when it comes to service,
and only a small part of their efforts in
that regard is reserved for scholars at
outlying colleges.
One o f Wyatt’s favorite books is
longshoreman-philosopher Eric
Hoffer’s The True Believer, because he
feels that “no professional group has
more true believers than the corps of
librarians. ” Even in the old days —
when librarians tended to be a more
forbidding lot, and not to put too fine
a point on it, included among their
ranks more than their proper share of
nags and Felix Unger-type fussbudgets
—many an alum can recall that there
was at least one time when a librarian,
convinced that a student really wanted
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just there to lie about and clutter the
place up, responded by blooming into
helpfulness and tolerance. Today that
response is much more the rule than
the exception.
Arleen Somer­
ville, the librarian
at Carlson, a
135,000-volume
science library,
strives to promote
what she calls a
“branch-library
closeness” between the users and the
staff. At first glance, the building itself
would seem to work against intimacy.
A multi-storied appendage o f the
Computer Studies Building, Carlson
is all glass and polymers, functional
and clean-lined, devoid o f architectural
embellishment.
Once a patron settles in, however, it
is immediately clear that the place was
built with human beings in mind. When
architects were drawing up plans for
the library, which in 1987 merged the
engineering library with the original
Carlson holdings in biology, chemistry,
computer science, mathematics, and
statistics, Somerville herself, her staff,
and students and faculty were consulted
as to its configurations. The result is
that Carlson is a very comfortable
building. The carrels, computer work­
stations, and other accoutrements are
as efficient as the orderly regimentation
o f books and journals, but it is the
glory o f Carlson that chairs and read­
ing sofas were designed by someone
who had considered human anatomy.
“Students practically live here,” says
Somerville, and considering that 45
percent o f undergraduates are counted
among the patrons o f Carlson (and
its science-oriented sisters, the PhysicsOptics-Astronomy Library in the
Bausch & Lomb Building, and the
Laser Lab Library out on East River
Road), that’s a sizable extended family
to serve.
And “service” is the watchword for
the science-library staff. “We take it as
given that the needs o f students and
faculty are not a nuisance to be put up
with —on the contrary their needs are
our reason for existing. We get to know
them as individuals, we respond to their
suggestions for improvement.

“Carlson is a library for users,”
Somerville says. “It is not a library for
librarians.” The scientists and engineers
who make up Somerville’s clientele,
whether they be budding professionals
or fully grown, need their information
quickly and often, and like Alice’s
White Rabbit, often cannot pause to
say “Hello-Goodbye.”
There is an unmarked doorway on
the first floor o f Hutchison Hall,
which houses the geology, biology, and
chemistry labs, that opens up onto a
corridor leading directly to Carlson.
Scientists are forever ducking down
that hallway, to emerge among the
library stacks, not having to waste a
moment even putting on an overcoat
and galoshes against a Rochester
winter.
They demand efficiency and helpful­
ness from the library staff, and they
seem to get it. At any rate, according
to Somerville, they return from sabbat­
icals at MIT and Cal Tech sending up
orisons o f gratitude to be once again
under the Carlson wing, back where a
librarian is a friend.
A friendly openness seems to be a
consistent trait o f University librari­
ans, from Wyatt in his second-floor
office just off the oak-paneled Great

“ Students practically live here,” they say of
the new Carlson science library-just as they
did fifty-odd years ago in the then new Rush
Rhees Library. The difference is now students
c an -an d d o -liv e there practically twenty-four
hours a day.

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

$tplatt0ns fflr t|e itbrarg.
Rules were strict in the old days. Here’s a sampling o f nineteenth-century
regulations fo r use o f the University library.

Assistant librarian for fifty years, Herman K.
Phinney was said to know every book in the
collection, and to have read most of them.

During term-time, the Library
will be open for taking out and
returning books, on Saturdays from 10
to 12 o’clock, A.M.; and for consulta­
tion, on every other secular day from 2
to 3 o’clock, P.M.

No Student shall take any
book from the shelves, except
at such times as may be fixed by the
Librarian, on consultation with the
President; public notice of which shall
be posted in the Library.

The Librarian, or an assistant,
shall be present, and shall see
that the rules of the Library are strictly
observed.

A Student may take two
volumes at a time from the
Library, and retain them two weeks; and
at the end o f that time may take the two
volumes again, if they are not wanted
by others.

All books returned are to be
left on the Librarian’s table,
and by him placed on the shelves.
Sibley library was touted as the first fireproof
structure in the city when it went up on the
Prince Street Campus in the 1870s.

All persons shall remove their
hats on entering the Library,
and refrain from loud conversation and
all unnecessary noise while they remain.
Inasmuch as the Librarian is
held specially responsible for
the safekeeping of the books, &c. be­
longing to the Library, no person except
the Janitor shall be allowed to enter it,
unaccompanied by him or his assistant.

With the opening of the new campus in 1930,
Sibley Hall was refurbished in a “ most ade­
quate and attractive condition” for the use
of women students, the Review reported.

8

Hall, to Shirley Ricker, the reference
librarian who more often than not is
the freshman’s first acquaintance at
Rush Rhees. And a nice introduction
it is. Ricker is in charge o f orienting
new students to the library, explaining
the myriad functions of the computers
at their disposal, and most important,
convincing neophytes that the library
o f the present—and yet to com e—is
what they call “user-friendly.”
And that could describe Ricker’s
own manner. Eager to teach, always
smiling tolerantly no matter how ab­
surd the question, she is Rush Rhees’s
best advertisement that the warmth of
the libraries of the past is still part of

A Student who is to remain in
town during a short vacation,
may take two volumes for the vacation,
by making a special request of the
Librarian, but shall return them on the
first day of the succeeding term.
No person shall carry a book
belonging to the Library out
of town, without special permission
from the President.

the fabric of the nineties. Attitudes like
Ricker’s, Wyatt believes, are absolutely
critical to the functioning of a library
system that, first and foremost, aids
undergraduates. “We have a relation­
ship with students that is very different
from that o f other adult professionals
on campus,” he says. “We employ
hundreds o f students yearly and we re­
spect their work—we couldn’t function
without them. We get to know them
very personally.
“And we see other students when per­
haps they are at their most vulnerable.
They ask our assistance when they are
at the first step in learning —namely,
they don’t know something, but wish,
sometimes desperately, to know it.

Rochester Review/Fall 1991
They have to feel free enough to ask
us the so-called ‘stupid’ questions,
without the fear o f being swatted down
verbally. I think our staff succeeds in
maintaining that kind o f relaxed and
open atmosphere.”
In fact, the
atmosphere at
the library is
so pleasant that
it sometimes
works against
the staff. They
must share
space in Rush Rhees with some aca­
demic departments, which are very
pleased to remain under the dome.
Film Studies and the Religion and
Classics department occupy a portion
o f the fourth floor, while a great deal
o f the third is taken up by the history
department.
“They are the bane o f our existence,”
says Vicki Burns, the peppery head of
the Management Library, tongue only
half in cheek. The Management Li­
brary is also on the third floor, and in
supporting the ever-growing courses
and research o f the Simon School and
the economics department, Burns can­
not help but cast an envious eye at the
space taken up by historians. Current­
ly popular at the University is the ed­
ucational device called by the Simon
School “cohort learning,” by other
departments “cadre study. ” More and
more class papers and other projects
are being assigned to groups o f stu­
dents rather than to individuals, and
students who work together must, as
a matter o f course, go to the library
together.
Already Burns has had to slap up
partitions on the third floor to take
care o f the Simon cohorts, and Wyatt
is looking around for space to provide
for conference rooms. But the last time
Wyatt suggested that perhaps the his­
tory department might like to move to
different, more modern quarters, an up­
roar ensued. Just for making the mod­
est proposal that the library would like
to use more o f its own building, Wyatt
was called, by one hot-and-bothered
professor, “our resident fascist.”
Wyatt can now grin, if a tad ruefully,
at that memory. In a way, it was a com­
pliment. Who, once ensconced in Rush
Rhees, would really want to leave? The
most modern computer equipment is

In the end, books and the reading of them
(and, yes, a forgivable snooze among them)
are what the library is all about-as true today
(above) as it was twenty years ago (left), or a
hundred years before that.

at your disposal, and if Wyatt and his
staff are fortunate at budget time, the
next ten years will bring a communica­
tions revolution to your office door. To
assist and supplement your studies you
have a dedicated staff whose research
skills are state of the art. Perhaps best
o f all, you have the ambience o f Rush
Rhees, which Wyatt is determined will
not be altered.
Past and future coexist here very
well. Minerva’s owls still perch wisely
at the base of the dome that caps mod­
ernity within. The talismanic names of
Voltaire, Jefferson, Carlyle, and Faraday
are still carved into the paneling o f the
periodical reading room. Computers
may hum just beyond the entrance
turnstile, but to get to them, you still

walk on marble floors, past portraits
o f Erato, Clio, Terpsichore, and the
rest o f the muses.
And if the twenty-first century weighs
on you a bit heavily from time to time,
the Welles-Brown Room is still just off
the main entrance. Settle into an arm­
chair, gaze at the stained glass window
in the alcove, think about the meaning
o f it all. Or just stare off into the mid­
dle distance and give the brain a rest.
And if your head should nod, rest
assured no squad of sleep police will
nudge you to consciousness. In the
modern University library, dozing —at
least from time to time —is permitted.
Thomas Fitzpatrick is an authority on the
library-user’s viewpoint. His editor believes
he was born in one.
The spot illustrations accompanying
this article are renderings o f Rush Rhees
Library’s interior ornamentation.

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There are times
the best medicine is
a poem, especially
when it is one that
you have made
yourself. A new
program a t Strong
Memorial Hospital
helps children express
their feelings through
the language o f verse.

Budding poet Jeff
Moore with Greg
McQuide ’91

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

By Sebby Wilson Jacobson
hristopher Boswell’s friend
died about fifteen minutes ago
in a room just down the hall
at Strong Memorial Hospital.
Now Chris can find no words
to write on the blank white paper set
before him.
Todd Beers has brought him some
words, snatches o f poems, songs,
and conversations scrawled on small
squares o f paint-splashed illustration
board. Out of Beers’s shabby green
canvas bag they come tumbling, like
magic beans guaranteed to grow any­
where.
“These are poetry chips,” says
Beers, spreading them out on the table.
“You can add to them, change them,
do anything you want to them. What
makes a poem is the words you put to­
gether and the words you take away.”
In contrast to the white-garbed hos­
pital staff, the Rochester poet wears
a brown leather vest and boots, blue
jeans, brimmed felt hat, and a green
corduroy jacket as soft and rumply
as his voice. “Let’s write about today,
how we feel. You’ll always remember
this day. This will be a nice way to
remember it.”
Chris, 11, turns over a few chips,
looking for words that matter. The
body of his 5-year-old friend still lies
in a bed not far from this cheerful
meeting room where perpetually grin­
ning cartoon children stare down from
the walls. He cannot understand why
the doctors couldn’t make his friend
breathe again. Somber Christopher,
hunched over the table, thin shoulder
blades jutting like wings beneath his
bright yellow T-shirt, does not want to
write about his friend.
So he chooses words like “oldest
woman” and “birds fly,” later adding
his own “oxygen” and “comfort.” As

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Chris searches through the chips, Beers
talks about how a poem should be sim­
ple, truthful, and come back to the be­
ginning.
In comes a nurse, wheeling a metal
stand with an upside-down bag o f clear
liquid. “I need to hook him up.”
Chris holds out his thin right arm
and, as the nurse inserts the intrave­
nous needle, continues to flip word
chips. When she’s finished, he loops the
IV tube around his hand, beside the
yellow pencil, and begins writing. Now
and then his IV machine beeps and he
gets up, adjusts it, and goes back to
writing.
“Jeff!” he shouts as a stocky, tawnyhaired boy bursts in, sits down at the
table, and starts talking with Beers and
poking through the colorful poetry
chips.
“I’m done,” says Chris, handing his
poem to Beers. Slowly, as if tasting
each word, Beers reads it aloud:
On a gray day
the sun moves
around the oldest
woman.
Years pass
and the woman
wonders when
will birds
stop flying
in this universe.
Through the wind
air gives off
oxygen.
The woman
and the birds
depend on
each other
for comfort.
Beers taps the paper. “When my
friend writes a good poem, I say, ‘This
dog hunts.’ ” Chris grins.

Later, sitting on the edge o f the
hospital bed he’s occupied for the past
four weeks and is scheduled to occupy
for two weeks more, Chris tells a visi­
tor, “I never wrote poetry before. It’s
fun, thinking about things. It gives me
somethin’ to do. ”
hen he’s not working on
poetry with Beers on
Wednesday and Friday
mornings, Chris sleeps,
watches TV, plays games
with his roommate, Jeff; visits his
mother downstairs where she works
in the cafeteria; and four times a day
gets hooked up to the IV filled with
“medicine to get the bacteria out of
my blood.”
“When something happens —like
today he died and stuff—I write poems
to keep my mind off it.
“I don’t write about the hospital —
that’s gloomy. I like to write about fun
things.
“Now I got the hang o f it, I think I
could write a poem any time. ”
Todd Beers, 29, has been writing,
making art, and teaching poetry for
years. In February, the Palmyra, New
York, native took his skills to Strong’s
pediatric ward, through a program
developed by the community agency
Writers & Books, where he is educa­
tional director.
The seed for the Strong Writers Pro­
gram was planted about two years ago
at a teachers’ workshop presented by
Writers & Books executive director Joe
Flaherty and writer Laurie Mercer.
One o f the teachers shared writings
and drawings her 8-year-old daughter
had done before she died.
“She talked about how important
it made her daughter feel, that even
though she was going to die, there was

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

‘To Diminish
the Sick-Child Role’
“Children who are well go to school,
and after school they enjoy recreation—
so we offer our patients those same
things here with us,” says Bonnie
Anderson, ah in-hospital teacher at
Strong Children’s Medical Center, the
pediatric arm of the University Medical
Center.
Along with the Strong Writers Pro­
gram that provides a creative outlet for
its patients, SCMC also runs a Pediatric
School Program and a Child Life Pro­
gram to address their other “nonmedical
needs.” Because SCMC serves an elevencounty area and has 152 beds that are
almost always full, these two programs
require a full-time staff of five, a parttime assistant, and a substantial cadre
of tutors and trained volunteers.
The school program helps hospital­
ized youngsters keep up with their class­
mates. “We want to normalize their days
as much as possible, to diminish the
sick-child role,” says Anderson. Children
hospitalized on a short-term basis —up
to two to three weeks—get lessons from
Anderson, who has a background in ele­
mentary education, of from volunteer
certified teachers. Patients staying longer
than three weeks are assigned tutors who
are paid for by the child’s school district.
“Part of my job is monitoring our five
volunteers,” says Anderson. “Each gets
a list of which patients need help today,
along with what grades they’re in and
whether they have any special needs or
any emotional problems to deal with in
addition to their school work.”
The Child Life Program concerns
itself with playtime—with the kind of
therapeutic recreation that helps build
healthy self-esteem and tempers the anx­
ieties that come with hospitalization.
Trained staff members working with
infants use music and colorful toys to
stimulate their mental development;
children from 18 months to 10 years
enjoy the attentions of a child-life spe­
cialist and a well-stocked playroom (re­
plete, among other things, with child­
proof medical instruments, to reduce
their fears about the technology all
around them). For teenagers, there’s a
teen-life specialist and a newly reno­
vated rec room.
It’s all designed to address, as they
say at the Medical Center, the “psycho­
social needs” of young patients. And
for some of them, apparently, it’s pure
poetry.

“I showed it to her, typed up,” Beers
recalls. “She was so pumped up!”
ut Beers often encounters
tough times on Strong’s
fourth floor: discovering a
budding poet has been dis­
charged, or has died; having
a student get wheeled away for surgery
just as she’s beginning to write about
her fear of it.
“Early on, the diagnosis was a great
Chris Boswell pauses for thought after making
concern of mine because I thought it
his selection from Todd Beers’s “poetry chips.”
would help me relate to them,” says
Beers. “I wanted to know how critical
a part o f her mind that was still active
someone was. But then I realized I had
and wanted to communicate,” recalls
to be the same person all the time any­
Flaherty. “We decided it would be
way. So at this point, I don’t even ask.”
great if we could get a program going
When he arrives at Strong, he gets
that would serve people like that, peo­
a list of potential poetry students from
ple o f all ages who are ill.”
Bonnie Anderson, pediatric in-hospital
When Flaherty and Mercer learned
teacher, who keeps track o f who’s un­
o f just such a program at St. Mary’s
der sedation, who’s in surgery or in
Hospital for Children in Queens, they
physical therapy.
took their proposal to Strong Memo­
“I say to the kids, ‘I’m not asking
rial, and the Friends o f Strong Office
you to work with him. I’m only asking
agreed to coordinate it. Rochester
you to meet him,’ ” says Anderson.
Community Savings Bank gave them
“They’ve all ended up working with
funding to get started; Genesee Cellu­
him.
lar One Co. donated a fax machine
“It’s wonderful to see the kids go
and a cellular phone to aid the flow
back
to their rooms thrilled with what
o f poetry between poet-teachers and
they wrote,” or to see their work pub­
patients.
lished in the hospital’s Strong on K ids
Two Rochester students, both in­
newsletter. This summer Beers is pub­
terns at Writers & Books, signed up to
lishing a book o f poetry by all the pa­
help the program: Gregory McQuide
tients in the Strong Writers Program.
’91, an English major who graduated
“He’s able to help people find tal­
in June, has been working with two
ent they didn’t know they had,” says
adult patients who have AIDS. Class­
Anderson.
mate Kristin Fitzpatrick has been
Beers’s self-assessment is more
working with geriatric patients.
modest. “I have a big advantage: They
Beers prefers to work with kids. “I
know I’m not going to stick them with
think children’s poetry is the best—the
most truthful, magical poetry,” he says. a needle. And they don’t have to pre­
And the poetry by children at Strong tend everything is OK.
Jeff Moore’s eyes are red and his
is full o f surprises. He recalls visiting a
voice is husky. The 13-year-old had
congenitally brain-damaged 13-yearonce shared a hospital room with the
old whose favorite activity was watch­
child who died this morning. He
ing “The Price Is Right.” “I got her to
doesn’t want to write about his friend,
write about [game-show host] Bob
but he does want to work with Beers.
Barker,” says Beers, reciting the poem:
“The other day I asked you to write
some big fat lies,” says Beers. “Today,
My name is Bob Barker.
let’s try to find some kind o f truth in
I make $6 a year
the work.”
and take six baths a day.
Jeff flips through the poetry chips,
My favorite food is hotdogs.
overturns “angel” and tosses it aside.
Once I appeared on
“I don’t want it,” he mutters. “It’s not
“The Brady Bunch”
the right day to have that word.”
and sang “Pretty Woman.”
He assembles some squares, ponders
Sometimes I sing alot.
them, and writes a few lines. “This one
At night I clap my hands
stinks!”
until I can’t fake it
anymore.

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991
“None o f them stink,” says intern
McQuide, who’s stopped by with a
fresh batch of poems from a patient.
“Well, it’s not a dog that hunts, ”
Jeff mutters and continues writing.
A few minutes later he hands the
paper to Beers. “Read it out loud.”
Beers reads:
Swimming alone
I think to myself,
what if I sink
like a quarter
in a glass of water.
By chance I should float
along like a cloud
through the wind.
My skin shrivels
like a prune.
I don’t know where that came from,”
Jeff boasts. “Dang!”

The View from the Waiting Room
Poems from Waiting Room, an anthology of verse by hospitalized youngsters, aged
7 to 14, in the Strong Writers Program:
The Life of a Boy

I live in a box.
I eat bark for dinner.
I am the strangest man in the world.
I never take a shower.
I am married to a cat.
1 purr for her.
My pet elephant has an earring.
I have no hair anywhere on my body.
Life is great.
I am an Amerks hockey star.
I have 2.347 black dogs that all have
the same name.
When I ring the bell I have
a kitchen full.
Jeff Moore

At night
my eyes
are stars
that don’t
f
a
1
1
when I
close them
all I see
is what
I want
to.
Michelle
Crawford

Waiting

Here, sitting in the dark,
voices appear
without any faces.
In the back of my mind
even when I sleep,
I remember each voice,
but it’s a deep fog
and I can’t see
what’s on the other side.
In the morning
this dense mist remains.
It separates me
from the truth.
Jamel Dhaiti

eff’s physician, Dr. John
McBride ’74R, director of
Hush
Here
Strong’s Cystic Fibrosis Cen­
but
the
Moon
is
fun
just
before dark
I’m
a
child
ter, says, “With Jeff and with
the
world
spins
to
sit
on.
in
a
circle
all our patients, being in the
into blackness
hospital is a difficult time because going through space. When I grow up
and I breathe
I walk through water I want to be the Sun.
they’re under the weather and have a
its silence
with my shoes off.
Forrest Corwin
lot o f time with little to do.
“The writing program not only helps
Robin Fisher
The Earth is clean,
them fill the time but helps them deal
in a creative way with being in the hos­
Beneath the ice
She knew the child who died on this
pital and being sick—and deal with is­
forever
sues that have nothing to do with being gray and rainy morning.
my white bones
“I feel like I want to get something
sick, like growing up, taking responsi­
whisper the truth
down about the way I feel today,” says
bility for themselves, independence
about innocent milk.
the 16-year-old, who does not wish to
from their parents.”
be identified. “I feel like, you know,
Back in his room, Jeff learns that
I remember silence
when a flower gets rained on and tech­
he’ll be discharged as soon as the pa­
by itself
nically it’s good for the flower, but it
perwork is done. Although he’s happy
but
weighs the petals down and makes it
to go home, \\e says he’ll miss working
I hear you
droop.”
with Beers. “Actually, that’s the fun­
with this memory.
She sighs. “But I don’t want to use
nest part about being here. I never liked
flowers and rain. That’s too simple.”
poetry. I hated it in school —it was so
“It helped me to do it here,” she says,
Beers says, softly, “The hardest thing
boring. Todd makes it interesting. He’s
“because I had so much to write about
to write about in a poem is love and
energetic.”
and I didn’t know where to start. ”
death. . . . ”
“That’s all he talks about,” Jeff’s
Beers scoops his poetry chips into
“And pain,” she inserts.
mother, Robbie Moore, says about
his canvas bag, then carefully tucks
They talk about pain and the ability
Beers’s writing program.
her poem into his battered leather
of poetry to unmask it.
Jeff says he’ll continue writing po­
briefcase to type up and bring back
“You have to be willing to do what
etry after he leaves. In fact he’s already
next time.
the poem tells you,” says Beers. “If
started a new one that begins, “Life is
you don’t act on it, it’s a waste. Maybe
like a roller coaster. . . . ”
that’s too heavy for today.”
Another patient. Fluid thick and
Reprinted with permission o f the Times“Not today,” she whispers. “Noth­
pale as cream flows from an udder-like
Union, Rochester, New York, 1991.
ing’s too deep for today. ”
bag through a clear plastic tube into
As she sifts through the bright po­
her nose. She’s been losing weight
etry chips, they talk about the dead
again. Anorexia, which brought her
child and they write. By the time Beers
here weeks ago, will keep her here
leaves, she has a poem:
longer.

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

By Thomas Fitzpatrick

It’s a story they still love to tell up on
the fourth floor of Rush Rhees Library,
where the Department o f Religion and
Classics is quartered.
Nearly twenty years ago, at a faculty
meeting of the College o f Arts and Sci­
ence, one o f the items on the agenda
called for approval of an addition to
the humanities curriculum, something
called “religious studies.” For nearly a
decade undergraduates had been peti­
tioning the University for such a pro­
gram, and after some discussion, it
looked as if the approval was forth­
com ing—as indeed it was—but not be­
fore one senior faculty member blurted
out what some o f his more diplomatic
fellows were only thinking: “If we’re
going to teach religion here, what’s
next? Witchcraft?”
William Green can laugh at that
wisecrack now as he recalls the tenu­
ous beginnings o f what has become
one o f the fastest-growing humanities
departments at Rochester. But back
then, the future department chair
was only the shavetail instructor that
philosopher Harmon Holcomb had
brought to the River Campus to help
develop a fledgling religion program.
He could only grin and bear it when
his academic field was winged by pot­
shots like the one from the faculty­
meeting floor.
Now the grin is unforced. It flashes
out easily, just ahead o f an ironic
chuckle. The study o f religion, its
feathers hardly ruffled by professorial
zingers, has soared beyond anybody’s
expectations —except, that is, for
Green’s. From the first he seemed to
see with perfect clarity that he had a
rare opportunity at Rochester. Here
and there he was faced by individual

At
asecular university
like Rochester, one
would expect the
study o f religion to
occupy ju st a tiny
alcove—a haven fo r
the mildly eccentric,
the quietly odd, the
quirkily pious. Guess
again.

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skeptics, but on the whole, Green says,
“the University and its faculty were
open to this new enterprise and they
helped it grow. Students wanted to
study religion, and that was a good
enough reason to give it a try. This
place is not stodgy.”
Eager students and a willing school
—cornerstones solid enough to build

You don’t so much
major in religion and
classics as you sign up
for a four-year seminar
that continues in and
out of the classroom,
over dinner at Danforth,
between innings at the
annual faculty-student
softball game.
a program upon, and maybe sufficient
unto a future day and grander plans.
But in the beginning it was Green,
Holcomb, and philosopher-of-religion
Edward Wierenga, plus the invalu­
able contributions o f such as Rabbi
Abraham Karp, later the first (and
now emeritus) Bernstein Professor of
Judaic Studies, and o f anthropologist
Grace Harris. A number o f these pro­
fessors had dual appointments with
departments in other disciplines, and
in fact, “doubling” is how programs
like these are put together.
A professor of history, for example,
might have a twin appointment in the

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

Brimming classrooms: Courses like Emil
Homerin’s Islam and the Third World attract
SRO registration. Along with the multicultural
exposure, his students get rigorous training in
English composition.

Russian Studies Program and teach
courses that overlap both fields. Such
programs do not offer “majors,” per se,
but usually what is called a “certificate”
—a kind o f academic asterisk to a stu­
dent’s major field of concentration.
Certificate programs are also very at­
tractive to students who choose to con­
coct their own majors, and great leeway
is given at Rochester to those who wish
to opt for that alternative. Some certif­
icate programs are content to remain
in that form; some must hold to that
status simply because their specialized
area attracts a limited number o f stu­
dents. A very few others are ripe for ex­
pansion into full-fledged departments.
Conventional wisdom would seem to
exclude the study o f religion from that
last category. After all, we are supposed
to live in a secular age in which religion
cuts no ice at all, except for the seem­
ingly intractable conflicts of far-off
India, the Middle East, or Northern

Ireland, or as the source of occasional
televangelistic follies at home.
American Youth is generally thought
o f as being Huck Finn at heart —a raft
going nowhere in particular always pref­
erable to Sunday School sermons on
“Moses and the Bulrushers.” Huck
took “no stock in dead people,” and
neither does the Modern Student, we
are often told. Consumed with career­
ist notions, today’s student looks to
the university to provide professional
training and a passport to prosperity.
In contrast, one seeks in vain through
the want ads for a headline that
screams, “Students o f Religion: Op­

portunities Unlimited at the Gizmotic
Institute.”
The issue o f practical relevance
aside, the study of religion as an aca­
demic subject in the American uni­
versity has had to grapple with the
negative attitudes o f other academic
professionals. More than one profes­
sor, one suspects, has muttered “witch­
craft” in religion’s direction, or curtly
dismissed it as “the Department of
Mumbo-Jumbo.” According to one
critical stance, a university is a temple
o f rationality; its educational model is
scientific —and that applies to the hu­
manities as well. How does one study
scientifically something that, in some
traditions at least, has “irrationality”
—that is, faith —at its core? Moreover,
the separation o f church and state
means that religion must justify its
existence in secular academe in a way
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With all of these factors to contend
with, one would expect religion to oc­
cupy just a tiny alcove at a major secu­
lar university like Rochester, to survive
as a haven for the mildly eccentric, the
quietly odd, the quirkily pious. Guess
again.
In 1991, just eight years after a new
department was formed by yoking a
trio o f professors o f religious studies
with a few faculty members who had
been teaching Greek, Latin, and He­
brew over with the foreign-language
people, the growth index in Religion
and Classics is nearly off the chart.
From fewer than ten majors in 1983,
the department now boasts nearly
ninety. Add to that a slew of students
who have chosen religion or classics as
a minor, and reckon in a growing num­
ber who wander over to the department
for one or more elective courses. This
is a significant chunk o f the student
body, and more, the making o f monu­
mental traffic jams on fourth-floor
Rush Rhees.
Best to avoid these corridors at mid­
day when Religion and Classics is flush
with office hours. Or else be prepared
to step gingerly over outstretched stu­
dent limbs and maneuver around clots
o f queuing undergraduates. If you have
an appointment with Green, resign

Bringing the ancient
world to life-religion
and classics have that
motive in common,
which eased the uniting
of the two disciplines in
the first place.
yourself to an SRO situation. There are
five chairs in the vestibule-workroom
outside his office, and students have
long since claimed them.
The students come to jawbone, con­
fab, discuss their own essays and those
o f other students, or just yak about in­
tellectual issues great and small. You
don’t so much major in R&C as you
sign up for a four-year seminar that

Founding chair William Green: “The University
and its faculty were open to this new enter­
prise. And students wanted to study religion —
reason enough to give it a try.”

continues in and out o f the classroom,
over dinner at Danforth, between in­
nings at the annual faculty-student
softball game.
Assistant Professor J. Andrew Over­
man, who teaches courses in ancient
Judaism and Christianity, was hired
by Green just over a year ago. He
remembers vividly this remark from
the chair: “Your first job here is to love
your students.” Translated into action,
“love” means constant accessibility to
students, and a willingness to give each
of them the personal attention that is
usually the stock in trade o f the small
liberal-arts college. It also means gen­
erous office hours and a heavy invest­
ment in time and energy on the part
of the faculty. (The real demon for toil
in this regard is Asian-religion expert
Douglas Brooks: “I’ve seen him up
here as late as ten or eleven at night,
talking to students,” said one gradu­
ating senior.)
And very little of all this conferring
is taken up by pastoral work, personal
problem-solving, and the like—though
parents who send their sons and daugh­
ters off to college are glad to know that
if their children have some difficulties,
there are faculty who will lend an ear
and a hand. Collaboration between
students and faculty is fundamental
to the educational philosophy of the
department.
Part o f the reason comes from the
tradition of the discipline. “Judaism,
for example,” says Green, “has always

strongly recommended that the Talmud
be studied in pairs and groups as a
guard against error and oddity. There’s
something to that.”
The department is also committed
to the notion that some of the best
education takes place when students
collaborate to help each other learn.
Group projects are common, and expe­
rience shows, according to Green, that
“students working together expect —
and extract—a great deal from one
another because they invest in one an­
other’s success.” Students are not just
encouraged “to participate in class
discussion,” as the pedagogical cliché
goes; they are absolutely required to
do so.
Green himself sets a collegial ex­
ample. “He is completely comfortable
with those long silences that occur
when a student struggles to make a
point and winds up choking on his or
her words,” says senior Judy Robinson.
“Bill just says calmly, ‘That’s all right.
Take your time. Put it in your own
terms,’ and most of the time the stu­
dent will break through and say some­
thing interesting.”
This kind of classroom experience,
she thinks, tends to boost the morale
o f the insecure and even make them
fearless. “When a student says some­
thing in class, respect is shown. After
a while you’re no longer afraid of
making a mistake, or o f having a pro­
fessor disagree with you. And when
your four years have passed, you
emerge more confident and more artic­
ulate,” Robinson says.
“This model o f collaboration won’t
work unless there is collaboration at
the faculty level,” Overman says. “We
have to set the tone.” Many courses are
team-taught, and every effort is made
to avoid an Alphonse-Gaston act of
excessive deference, one professor to
another. In Theories o f Religion, a re­
quired seminar for juniors, for exam­
ple, dialectic sparks fly, and they are
fanned by the practice among various
departmental faculty o f dropping in for
a session or two to add to the intellec­
tual combustion.
The catalog description o f that
course (“an investigation o f important
methodological contributions to the
critical study o f religion”) doesn’t
exactly make the blood race. But the
reality is different, what with a pickup
debating society—drawn from among
department members Green, sociol-

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ogist-of-religion Karen Fields (who
also heads the University’s Frederick
Douglass Institute for African and
African-American Studies), Brooks,
Overman, Wierenga, and Islamacist
Emil Homerin —letting their academic
hair down in animated discussion, and
relaxed and very verbal students put­
ting hard questions and scoring theo­
retical points. Forget any image o f reli­
gion students poring over sacred texts

Forget any image of
religion students poring
over sacred texts in
hushed confines
smelling of musty
bindings and furniture
polish. Religion is
studied here with noisy
enthusiasm.
in hushed confines smelling o f musty
bindings and furniture polish. Religion
is studied here with noisy enthusiasm.
Even the solitary craft o f writing is
approached from the group-workshop
angle. The point man for the depart­
ment’s program for improving stu­
dent writing is Homerin, whose idea
is a variant o f “write what you know.”
He and the department also under­
stand that what we call “writing” is,
in fact, rewriting. The finished prose
piece is the result o f drafts and re­
visions, tinkering with phrases, sweat­
ing out the selection of the right verbs
and nouns. Undergraduates in many
institutions rarely experience this
process, since the truth is that the
first draft o f a term paper is most
often the one handed in to meet a
teacher’s deadline. It comes back
with marginal comments, a grade
tacked to the bottom, and is usually
filed away while the student gets on
to the next assignment.
Homerin thinks there ought to be
some classes where a student gets more
than one shot at the target. Under his
scheme, the work o f writing a critical
essay is divided up among groups of
three: one student to write the essay

and two others to do critiques—in
writing, as required, and frequently
(although not required) also in ani­
mated and protracted out-of-class
discussion. The writer then reworks
the paper and hands in the annotated
draft along with the rewrite. All three
students are graded for their contribu­
tions to the piece. Rerun this process
through as many as three critical es­
says per semester and, Homerin be­
lieves, a student has a real chance at
rapid improvement in prose style. And,
it should be underscored, this takes
place not in a writing class, but in
courses like History o f Islam or
Muhammad and the Qur’an.
Willingness to try innovative learn­
ing techniques has marked R&C since
its reformulation as a department in

1983. In starting up virtually from
scratch, Green had an opportunity de­
nied most new departmental chairs,
whose yen for experiment must be ac­
commodated to decades o f custom
and tradition. It was bold enough on
Green’s part to push for the establish­
ment o f religion as an academic disci­
pline at Rochester. It was more daring
to merge religion and classics —a com­
bination virtually unprecedented in
American higher education.
He could have stopped there, but
Green was alert to the different ways
the nation’s research universities had
been trying out in order to refocus on
the freshman through senior years. If
it is possible to find and keep a faculty
equally devoted to scholarship and to

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Collaboration: Asian-religion expert Douglas Brooks, for one, is famous for the long hours he
devotes to talking things over with students.

undergraduate education, as Rochester
believes, why not test that proposition
in a department that was still develop­
ing its own model o f what it wanted
to become? That’s what occurred to
Green. Rochester allowed him to call
his own play, and he decided not to
punt.
Green’s recent hires in religion—
Brooks in Asian religions, Overman in
Judaism and Christianity, the Islamacist Homerin—were all the academic
equivalent of first-round draft choices.
Extremely able, they bought into
Green’s vision and opted for Roches­
ter’s Religion and Classics. They want­
ed to teach undergraduates, and once
on campus did so with a flair—Brooks
himself has won two teaching awards
since arriving in 1987. They wanted to
pursue research, and their vita sheets
are testimony to vigorous and produc­
tive scholarship. Their talents have also
put them in the way o f research fellow­
ships, which allow them to pack off to
the global sources o f their scholarship
—Brooks to India and the Far East,
Homerin to Egypt, Overman to Israel.
These summer research excursions
all funnel knowledge back to under­
graduates in River Campus class­
rooms, but none more so than Over­
man’s. Next summer some students
will be embarking with him. Through
Overman’s efforts, the University has
been granted the opportunity to spon­

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sor the initial archaeological excava­
tion o f the Galilean town o f Jotopata,
the site of first-century A.D. Jewish
resistance to Roman Imperial rule. If
current fund-raising efforts are success­
ful, students and other members of
both the University and city commu­
nities (including o f course alumni)
will be able to travel to what has been
called the “Masada o f the North,” and
participate in an archaeological dig
that could have a profound bearing on
studies in Biblical and Jewish history.
It is already enriching the R&C cur­
riculum. This past summer Overman,
who has been named executive director
of the Jotopata excavation, offered a
course in Archaeology and the Bible:
Sites and History of the Land o f Israel.
The Jotopata dig will aid the depart­
ment in achieving one o f its stated ob­
jectives—“bringing the ancient world
to life. ” Religion and classics have that
motive in common, which eased the
uniting o f the two disciplines in the
first place. The skeptic might wonder,
of course, if the Modern Student really
wants the world of the Greeks and
Romans brought back or is content to
leave it interred, along with its suppos­
edly “dead” languages.
Once again conventional wisdom
has it wrong. The number o f classics
majors increases every semester, and
they reflect some intriguing choices on
the part o f undergraduates. There is
the student aiming for medical school
who nonetheless is majoring in Greek.

Economics, physics, and philosophy
students are doubling up in Latin.
Hard times became the lot o f these
languages during the past two decades.
They seemed to be hopelessly out of
step when students demanded contem­
porary “relevance” from their college
education, and later, their declining
enrollments made them meat for the
grinders turned by cost-conscious ad­
ministrators.
While classics was being dismantled
on the college level, secondary schools
were noticing an upswing o f interest
among high-school students. How
come? For one thing, educators had
discovered that a good grounding in
Latin could be a boost to SAT scores
as well as offering a head start in the
acquisition o f contemporary languages.
Study o f that supposedly dead lan­
guage is now so popular that there is
an acute shortage of teachers nation­
wide. So many Amarillo and Corpus
Christi high schoolers want to read
Virgil and Horace nowadays that Texas
educators figure they need thirty new
Latin teachers each year for the next
ten years to respond to the demand.
Bringing classics over to share the
spotlight with religion has put Roches­
ter in a favorable position for respond­
ing to the surprising revival o f interest.
Classics now has a local habitation
and a name on campus, and seems to
be better off for it. Religion benefits
from the close relationship with Greek
and Latin (and the course o f instruction
in Hebrew offered by Ruth Kessler),
because it gives students the language
tools they need to examine ancient
scriptures and texts.
Arabic is now joining Greek, Latin,
and Hebrew in Religion and Classics.
Thanks to a Fulbright award, this aca­
demic year Egyptian scholar Hassan
El-Banna Ezz El-Din, a specialist in
Arabic language and literature, will
help Homerin create one o f New York

Family style: Professor Overman (right) winds
up his summer course with an informal at-home
gathering for students and their families.

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State’s few thorough-going programs
in Arabic, both ancient and modern.
Reading courses in the Qur’an and
other Islamic texts are planned to be­
gin next year.
But it is not through language skills
alone that classics makes its contribu-

From Confucius and
Zen to the Homeric
hero, from archaeology
in Israel to Islamic
mysticism, from Plato’s
Phaedrus to Aquinas’s
Summa, the student
has a wide range of
choices to consider.
tion. To his students and to his col­
leagues, Plato-scholar Alfred Geier
puts the value of his subject plainly: “I
study this stuff because I am not wise.
I want to be wise.” To staff the classics
side o f his department, Green looked
for candidates with similar curiosities
and with wide-ranging abilities. He
wanted young classicists whose interest
was not merely philological but inclu­
sive o f culture and social history.
He found two o f them in Latinist
Kathryn Argetsinger and Hellenist
Deborah Lyons. Their approach to
classics is inherently interdisciplinary,
searching out connections among the
literary, historical, and philosophical
aspects o f past traditions. However,
the tag “past” may be more than a
little misleading. Students in Lyons’s
course in Sexuality and Gender in
Classical Antiquity found ancient po­
etry and prose speaking so directly to
their personal lives that they were con­
stantly tempted to tangent off into dis­
cussions o f the structure of American
society or a boyfriend-girlfriend setto o f the week before. “Often I had
to insist that we get back to the text.
Sappho’s poetry is relevant, all right,
but it is also beautiful. ”
Of Argetsinger and Lyons, as well as
Homerin, Brooks, and Overman, Green
says that he recruited each of them for
the department because “they are com­

mitted to teaching, and their scholar­
ship is marked by great breadth as well
as great expertise.”
Green sets a formidable example for
each o f those attributes. Academic dis­
tinction attached to his career early
on, and today his studies o f Judaism
rank him high in his profession—
earlier this year Rochester recognized
his achievement by naming him succes­
sor to Karp as incumbent o f the Bern­
stein Chair of Judaic Studies, the de­
partment’s first endowed professorship,
established in 1974. (Now R&C is
about to add a second “named” pro­
fessorship, the John Henry Newman
Professorship in Roman Catholic

On site: Overman (right) with colleague
Douglas Edwards of the University of Puget
Sound. They will lead the dig at Jotopata in
which students and alumni will participate.

Studies, recently endowed by anony­
mous donors. It is one o f the very few
such positions in a secular university.)
Green is regarded as being in the
vanguard o f the academic study of re­
ligion in this country, a view that was
confirmed by his appointment in 1984
as editor o f the Journal o f the A m eri­
can A cadem y o f Religion. Green has
turned that publication, which has the
University o f Rochester as its home
base, into what has been called “the
world’s leading scholarly medium in
religion.” He is also on the board of
the Association of American Colleges,
an organization whose business it is to
think long and hard —and if possible,
in an original manner—about the ad­
vancement o f liberal education.

At Rochester, this has obviously
been Green’s business. Taken all in all,
there is no academic program in this
country quite like Rochester’s Religion
and Classics department. To be sure,
its faculty attract students because
they teach vigorously, with great style,
and are willing to go the extra mile for
them. But these students must also be
lured by rigor, for from them much is
demanded in R&C classrooms —good
writing, the reading o f lengthy and dif­
ficult texts, imaginative and creative
thought, and even strict adherence to
proper footnoting and pagination rules.
Overman thinks that “Religion and
Classics is really the quintessential
liberal-arts major,” and there is some­
thing to that. From Confucius and Zen
to the Homeric hero, from archaeology
in Israel to Islamic mysticism, from
Plato’s Phaedrus to Aquinas’s Sum m a,
the student has a wide range of choices
and world-views to consider, multiple
approaches to the development of cul­
tures and civilizations to ponder. A
Religion and Classics undergraduate
can make a start at being learned, cos­
mopolitan—and perhaps even tolerant.
But first such a student must insist
upon the right to a college education
that is not primarily vocational, that is
about learning how to learn. It takes a
special breed o f student to even begin
such a major. Boldness is required, a
willingness to go against the grain, to
dare to be different.
According to Judy Robinson, “We
go home at vacation and tell our old
friends that we’re religion majors.
They immediately get very solemn
and ask which clergy we are joining.”
Robinson intends to travel and write.
Senior Ann Scura says that many of
her relatives regard her major “as pretty
close to basket-weaving courses.” Cap­
ping a distinguished undergraduate ca­
reer, she intends to go on to graduate
school in social psychology. Junior
Drew Maywar says that he came to
Rochester to study optical engineering,
“but I decided I needed an additional
major to complement it—something
more practical. I chose religion.”
A new definition o f practicality is
obviously in the works under the dome
o f Rush Rhees.
Thomas Fitzpatrick wrote about “The
Idea o f a University” in the last issue o f
Rochester Review.
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Than W ords
By Jan Fitzpatrick

H ow to get along
with your
The best way, say
these researchers who
studied fifty pairs o f
Rochester roommates,
is to read the other
person’s mind—not
ju st his or her lips.

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p

ome roommate matches
seem made in heaven,
maturing into durable
friendships that can last
a lifetime. At the other
extreme? The Roommate from
Whether or not roomies hit it off
depends on many things, but apparent­
ly one o f them is how well each room­
mate “decodes” nonverbal behavior, in
the parlance of contemporary psychol­
ogists. (We’re talking about what your
mother would have called “mind read­
ing.”)
So say Rochester psychologists
Holley S. Hodgins and Miron Zuckerman, who studied more than fifty
roommate pairs housed on the River
Campus, and published their findings
in a recent issue o f the Journal o f
N onverbal Behavior.
Hodgins, a doctoral student in psy­
chology, admits to a longstanding fas­
cination with that rich realm o f com­

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munication which consists o f reading
between the lines o f spoken words.
Those adept at this kind o f interchange
are keen observers who watch for cues
in how long the other person’s gaze
Hell.
meets their own; they listen for a lilt
or a drop in the voice; they note hesi­
tation when the conversational partner
responds a nanosecond or two later
than expected.
Such unspoken communication can
be hard to measure, and thus many
earlier studies of nonverbal language
have been conducted in lab settings.
Hodgins and psychology professor
Zuckerman wanted to know more
about how virtuoso detectors and
their less sensitive counterparts get
along in the real world. College room­
mates made ideal test subjects: In a
campus setting, they’re in plentiful
supply.
“We thought it would be revealing to
test the connection between each room­
mate’s ability to pick up on nonverbal
cues and the way they rated their inter­
actions with each other,” says Hodgins.

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Wanted: Non-Smoker, Loves Loud Rock
(Preferably at 3 a m .), No Reptiles

You might say that Hodgins and
Zuckerman had a hunch (or, in the
lingo of research journals, a “working
hypothesis”) that this sense of nuance
would turn out to matter a lot in mea­
suring how the students felt about in­
teractions with their roommates. And
so, after the data were analyzed, it did.
To find out, they tested not only
each subject’s ability to assess non­
verbal behavior, but had each of them
record in a diary every sustained in­
teraction —conversation, shared TVwatching, tennis match —lasting ten
or more minutes, and had them char­
acterize its degree of “disclosure,”
“support,” and “involvement.”
he study found that when
both roommates were sharp
observers, their relation­
ship thrived. Whether male
or female, those were the
pairs who reported more revealing in­
terchanges, who felt more trust and

How are freshman roommates
matched these days?
Randomly by computer, according
to sex. And also based on a few pref­
erences they’ve checked off on their
housing applications: smoking or non­
smoking, preferred dorm type (coed,
single sex, or suites), and a new cate­
gory known as a “recreational chemicalfree” environment—basically, a room
free of cigarettes, alcohol, and anything
stronger than No-Doz.
“The computer tries to match people
as well as possible by their preferences
in those areas,” explains Logan Hazen,
director of residential life on the River
Campus. “But the selection is blind to
everything else—race, religion, socio­
economic status, everything —therefore,
it’s just the luck of the computer. ”
If roommates don’t hit it off early on,
their student resident advisor (the “RA,”
one of whom is on every floor) will en­
courage them to give it a few weeks. If
they continue to have problems, it’s the
RA’s job to help remedy the situation —
by talking to the pair, encouraging com­
munication, working out a compromise,
whatever.
If that doesn’t work, then the resident
director (a full-time staffer who lives in
each building) or area director (a pro­
fessional who lives outside the building)
steps in. These people might refer the
disputatious duo to the University’s
counseling center or the academic ad­
vising office—or even to a sympathetic
faculty member.
(Occasionally, roommate blow-ups
go all the way to the All-Campus Judi­
cial Council, the River Campus court of
last resort. A few worst-case scenarios:
students who leave obscene messages
on the phone, to turn off a job-seeking
roommate’s potential employers; room­
mates who change the phone password
so that their other halves can’t get mes­
sages; others who take their roommate’s
clothes or steal food. “We have all sorts
of gory war stories about what goes on,”
says Hazen with a world-weary sigh.)
If, after counseling, the two still
don’t get along, it’s probably time for
a change.
“We have the most liberal roomchange policy in the world,’’ says Hazen.

“ It’s an administrative nightmare, but
you could probably still change your
roommate during spring finals week. ”
If roommates do split up, heaven for­
bid they turn around and room with a
best friend.
“I think the old saying applies —
you might love somebody but you
wouldn’t necessarily be able to live with
them,” observes Resident Director Peg
Herrmann ’87.
“Sometimes two students hit it off
and do everything together, so they
become roommates. And then in the
middle of the year they start having
problems—but they don’t say anything
about it, because they don’t want to
hurt the friendship.”
Says Hazen, “We tell people, ‘Don’t
sign up with your best friend.’ There’s
a big difference between spending all
your free time together doing pleasur­
able things and spending all your time
together. It’s best to have a life aside
from each other. ”
Generally speaking, what makes for
optimum rooming rapport?
“Where the two like each other—for
example, they might talk together a lot
while they’re in their room—but usually
where they each have different circles of
friends,” says Herrmann. “Otherwise
it’s too intense.”
Also, she says, it’s good for room­
mates to have “mutual respect” for each
other. “Often, the best roommates have
worked out a system for study habits,
for going to sleep, for leaving messages
on the phone.”
For better or for worse, she says, stu­
dents learn a lot from these out-of-class
experiences.
“What we really try to get them to
learn is how to live with different people
and how to communicate with them.
In any event, I think they do learn: if
not necessarily how to live better with
someone else—then at least to recognize
what their own faults and strengths are.”
Perhaps communicated by the everlovin’ roomie.
Denise Boiger Kovnat

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support in each other’s company.
They were more tuned in to each
other, sometimes in surprising ways.
Take the guys, for example. Con­
ventional wisdom has it that real men
don’t share feelings. Guys talk about
sports, politics, the stock market, or
almost anything but matters of the
heart. But apparently, these highdecoding males bust the stereotype.
Hodgins and Zuckerman’s data found
unusually high ratings for emotional
sharing among these male pairs. Ap­
parently if you put a couple o f these
fellows in the same room, soon they’ll
be baring their souls to each other!
nd what about the non­
verbally savvy females?
While “emotional shar­
ing” did take place, these
pairs rated roommate in­
teractions relatively high in
ence” that one roomie might have on
the other. Hmmm. Sounds like the
stuff of “male bonding” rituals,
whether they’re played out for fun
(“Whaddya say to doing Europe to­
gether next summer?”) or profit (“Hey,

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“Words are only a small part of the way we
communicate,” says grad-student researcher
the
“influ­
Holley
Hodgins (above), who based her studies
on Rochester roomies.

y’know, we should start our own com­
pany together! ”).
Though Hodgins hadn’t expected
these results, she finds a certain logic
in them. “Perhaps people o f either sex
who are good at picking up on things
like a tone o f voice —or a facial expres­
sion, or body posture —may also be
more aware o f sex-role pressures in

our society and may reject them. Or,
perhaps they ‘hear’ and respond to a
wider spectrum of the messages people
give off—not just those that are consis­
tent with what society expects from a
male or a female, but the inconsistent
ones, too.
“For example, a male who fits the
stereotype misses the cue from a con­
versational partner that signals read­
iness to talk about something really
personal, and he steers the conversa­
tion in a different direction. But the
sensitive male picks up on the cue,
and, by responding appropriately, en­
courages sharing. On the other hand,
the sensitive female may have a better
sense than most o f her sisters of how
her own initiative and power can influ­
ence the outcome of an interaction.”
Like other careful investigators,
Hodgins adds this caveat: “However
intriguing, this is an explanation we
came up with after the fact. Before we

Calling Rochester Roomies

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you have a tale you’d like to share
about your undergraduate roommate,
we’d like to hear from you. In a future
issue we’ll print as many o f them as we
can (please keep ’em short) and will
protect your anonymity if you request
it. Write to Rochester Review, University
o f Rochester, 108 Administration Bldg.,
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Detecting the Detectors
How do psychologists measure that
realm of slanted truth where poets dwell,
where the smallest sigh can seem louder

;ithah^!hout^

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Hodgins and Zuckerman used a video­
tape called the “Interpersonal Perception
Task” that presents twenty-eight slices
of life. Although the people in the tape
were aware of being videotaped, they
didn’t pose the situations represented —
whatever was going on was happening

for real.
Students being rated on their nonver­
bal decoding skills watched the tape
and had to guess the correct answers to
questions for which there were no verbal
clues.
For example, one scene shows two men
who have just finished a racquetball
game. The men talk about the game
without saying who won. The test-taker
has to deduce the victor.
In another scene, two adults, married
to each other in real life, are interacting
with two children. One youngster be­
longs to them; the other is someone1
else’s child. In their conversation, there
are no explicit references such as one
child calling the woman “mom” or one
of the parents saying something that
would be a powerful clue, talking about
the youngster’s babyhood, for instance.
The test-taker has to decide which child
belongs to the couple, basing the deci­
sion on watching things like gestures,
body movement, and paralanguage (i.e.
vocal qualities like loudness and tempo).
Individuals who give more correct an­
swers than chance alone would predict
are the shrewd decoders.
They’d probably make the best room­
mates, friends, or main squeezes. But
watch out: If you were telling a lie,
they’d be the ones to guess your dirty
secret.

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could give much weight to it, someone
would have to test that hypothesis in a
new study to see if it held up.”
aturally, not all of the
pairs in this study were
composed o f two part­
ners equally equipped
with quiveringly sensitive
antennae adept at reading
cues. Hodgins and Zuckerman looked
at high-low and low-low pairs as well.
What they found out was that when
you have one or two low-scoring
roomies in the equation, less heavyduty soul-baring went on.
In unevenly matched pairs, the study
found, the partner on the low side of
the scale got the better end o f the rela­
tionship. “The less sensitive roommate
rated the quality o f interaction higher
than his more sensitive counterpart, ”
said Hodgins. Or, to put it less clini­
cally, the roommate with the delicate
antenna intuited the clod’s moods and
finessed appropriate responses. The
clod, however, couldn’t return the favor.
Hodgins and Zuckerman’s study
adds a few more squares o f color to an
emerging mosaic o f work in the area
o f nonverbal communication. Other
studies have found, for example, that
popular children are better decoders
than social rejects; that husbands and
wives who “read” their spouses accu­

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rately harbor fewer marital complaints
than those who don’t; and that people
who score high on one kind of non­
verbal test also report having more
friends. One study found that physi­
cians who scored well as nonverbal
communicators were thought by pa­
tients to be more caring and sensitive
than the low scorers, and better at
nonverbal
listening and explaining as well.
“Words are only a small part of
the way people communicate, ” says
Hodgins, addressing her interviewer
with a glance so piercing it practically
ripples with nonverbal energy. “The
tools psychologists use to analyze what
happens are clumsy. And yet, even
these crude measures confirm that a
gift for detecting these tiny clues that
register at the edge o f consciousness
can have profound consequences in
life.”
That gift might just make the dif­
ference between happiness or misery in
marriage, or in how many warm friend­
ships one can count in life.
Jan Fitzpatrick says that she’s always gotten
along well with her roommate, but admits
she couldn’t detect which one was the ex­
pert decoder.

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

By Tom Rickey

D. Allan Bromley
’52G, a highly
respected,
to
line scientist, appears
well on his way to
becoming equally
respected as President
Bush’s science adviser
— thanks in some
measure to a
catastrophe that befell
Rochester’s physics
department some
fo rty years ago.

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ure, D. Allan Bromley ’52G is a highly
placed government official who has
friends —President Bush, for instance —
in even higher places. But that’s not
the only reason people listen to him,
according to his former colleagues at
Rochester, where he was a graduate
student and later a faculty member in
the early 1950s.
The president’s science adviser, says
professor of physics Harry Gove, “al­
ways knows what he is talking about,
and he makes it clear that he knows
what he is talking about. Allan speaks
very authoritatively. Even if he didn’t
know what he was talking about,”
Gove muses, “it would seem like he
did.” But that’s OK, he adds. “On
most questions he is probably right.”
Certainly the urbane and unflap­
pable Bromley—he of the unvaryingly
“no-nonsense bow ties, dark suits, and
precise enunciations,” as a reporter
has described him —has the credentials
to indicate that on most questions he
is indeed probably right. A worldrenowned, top-of-the-line physicist, he
has earned the designation o f “father”
o f modern heavy-ion science, one of
the major areas o f nuclear science.
Past president o f the world’s biggest
science organization, the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, he is a veteran o f sciencepolicy circles in Washington and abroad
as (among other assignments) a mem­
ber of the White House Science Coun­
cil throughout the Reagan Administra­
tion and as a former member o f the
National Science Board.
And on the Yale campus, where he is
on leave as Henry Ford II Professor of
Physics and founding director o f the

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A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Labo­
ratory, Bromley is celebrated as one of
that school’s ablest and most popular
teachers. “He is an imposing figure,”
observed a Yale colleague, Tom Applequist, predicting further successes at
the time Bromley’s current appoint­
ment was announced in 1989. “He’s a
showman as well as a serious worldclass scientist. His lectures have pizzazz.
That will be useful in Washington.”
Articulate and authoritative de­
meanor, impeccable credentials, and
podium pizzazz—it would appear they
have all turned out to be eminently

N.„

years into the job, Bromley
has earned high marks
from both scientists and
politicians.

useful in Washington, where Bromley
is reported to be raising to new heights
o f visibility and credibility the role of
White House science adviser, or, as the
post is officially labeled, assistant to the
president for science and technology.
Science and technology in this in­
stance can be construed to cover “a
variety of topics,” as Bromley sees it,
“spanning the entire range o f federal
activity.”
“We get the problems,” he explains,
“that can’t be resolved somewhere else

down in the structure o f the federal
government. We get the ones that boil
up to the presidential level. And that
spans the entire range —from health­
care delivery to the space station to in­
ternational relations to industrial pol­
icy, technology policy, and so on. . . . ”
Now two years into the job, he has
earned high marks from both scien­
tists and politicians. In fact, he has
remained so free o f criticism that a
C hem ical & Engineering N ew s report­
er writing a cover story on him sug­
gested that Bromley might be the
nation’s first “Teflon science adviser.”
“He may also be the best prepared
science adviser ever to take the office,”
the writer concluded.
He is a “scientist’s scientist,” con­
firms John Huizenga, a nuclear chem­
ist at Rochester who has known him
for many years. A pioneer investigator
into the secrets of the atom, Bromley
is internationally recognized for his
use o f heavy ions (atoms stripped o f
electrons) to carry out trailblazing
studies on the dynamics and structure
o f matter. Fellow scientists credit him
with playing a major role in the de­
velopment o f accelerators, detection
systems, and computer-based dataacquisition and analysis systems.
But —as Bromley told a lecture au­
dience during a recent River Campus
visit—had it not been for a combina­
tion o f otherwise unfortunate circum­
stances, his foray into the arcane world
of nuclear physics might never have
happened.
A native of an isolated community
some 150 miles west of Ottawa (“Look­
ing due north of our living room, the
only evidence o f civilization between
us and the North Pole was an aban-

Bromley: Articulate and authoritative demeanor,
impeccable credentials, and podium pizzazz.

doned mining railway”), Bromley ar­
rived at Rochester in 1949. His objec­
tive: graduate study with what was
at the time the world’s most eminent
cosmic-ray group. The honors grad
from Queen’s University in Kingston
recalls turning down a fellowship from
Oxford to work with the Rochester sci­
entists.
That’s when fate stepped in. More
or less simultaneously with Bromley’s
arrival, the head o f the cosmic-ray
group died of a heart attack. Almost
immediately afterward the other half
o f the renowned team opted for a job
in India. Cosmic rays faded from the
Rochester scene.
“What the hell do I do now?”
Bromley recalls asking the then head

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

Getting Ready lor a New Millennium
“Basic research is the foundation
of everything else we do in science and
technology,” presidential science adviser
D. Allan Bromley ’52G assured a Rochester
audience during a brief visit last spring to
the River Campus.
“One of the absolutely fundamental be­
liefs I have, one that is shared by most of
my colleagues, is that the individual inves­
tigators working in the nation’s research
universities are the heart and backbone of
our strength,” he added.
While on campus to deliver a public lec­
ture, tour facilities, and visit old friends
and colleagues, the ever-articulate Bromley
was called upon to express his views on
everything from whether the United States
is losing its competitive edge (“I think a lot
of that talk has been ill-informed”) to
global warming (“It’s a serious problem
that we don’t understand . . . which sug­
gests we’ve got a little work to do”) to—
unsurprising in a university setting —the
Bush administration’s stance on funding
basic research.
Here are some excerpts from a few of the
things he had to say:
On Preparing for the Year 2000

“I think the most important thing I can
say is that as we approach a very important
psychological milestone, namely, the begin­
ning of a new millennium, we have the op- j
portunity for an entire regrowth of the vig­
or and national leadership that in the past
have characterized this nation.
“But that’s not going to happen without
the participation of more of our citizens
than is happening at the moment.”
On Education in Science and Technology

“Science teaching is in real crisis. We’re
perpetrating a fraud on our children. For
the first time in the history of this nation
our children and grandchildren are getting
a poorer education than we received. That’s
something that we can’t possibly live with
in the long term.
“At the college level, since we’re the only
developed nation that doesn’t have any
standards for what constitutes a college
education, we have peaks of excellence that
are vastly ahead of world standards, and
we have a vast swamp of mediocrity that
defies description. But on average, we’re
competitive with everybody else..

“At the graduate level, we still set the
style and pace for everywhere else. Grad­
uate education is our most important
export.
“The real problem starts way back in
pre-school and grade school. In contrast to
most other professions, scientists, mathe­
maticians, and engineers make their career
decisions by their junior year in high school
or before, and if we’vè lost them by then,
there’s not much we can do later on.
“So the crunch is at the elementaryschool level, where the problem is that
a large fraction of the teachers who are al­
legedly teaching science and mathematics
have no training in either. These teachers
are either two pages ahead of the students
or two pages behind.
“Before we proclaim that our kids
are just dumb, we should give them a
fighting chance. Education is one of the
fields in this nation where the technology
stalled about 1850 and has not moved
since. Simply reflect for a moment on the
fact that we still turn the kids loose for two
months each summer to pick potatoes.
“It’s also true that we are woefully be­
hind the rest of the developed world in the
participation of both women and minori­
ties in matters of science, mathematics,
technology, and engineering. That again is
something we can’t afford, because over 70
percent of the people who are going to be
entering the work force between now and
the year 2000 will be women and minority
group members, and if they’re not interest­
ed in technical matters we as a society will
definitely suffer.
“A committee I put together has come
up with its first series of recommendations.
This year the focus is on the improvement
of the qualifications of teachers in elemen­
tary schools.
“Next year we’re going to focus on some­
thing that I’ve always felt was the forgotten
middle of education: the technician, the
person with the bachelor’s degree who
learns how to do some things superbly. In
other societies these people are given lots
of recognition, prestige, and substantial
reward, financial and otherwise. Here, we
tend to treat them as if they had either
fallen or been kicked off the academic lad­
der prematurely. This is something we can­
not tolerate. We’re going to have a trernen-

“Individual investigators working in the nation’s
research universities are the heart and back­
bone of our strength,” Bromley told his Uni­
versity audience.

dous shortage of these people. They’re the
ones who are going to keep our hightechnology society running.”
On Funding University Research

“That is one of the best investments our
taxpayers can make, with enormous pay­
back. It’s given us, without question, the
world’s strongest science and technology
enterprise.
“There’s no funding ‘crisis’ in basic
science.
“Each year we try to balance federal sup­
port that will allow the nation’s scientists,
mathematicians, arid engineers to do what
they want to do today, against investing in
the facilities that will take these same peo­
ple to where the frontiers of their fields will
be five to ten years from now. I certainly
will admit that over the last couple of years
the balance has tended to shift to invest­
ment in the future, but in the latest budget
we’ve made a determined effort to redress
what was something of an imbalance.
“However, having said that, I haVe to
emphasize that we will never completely re-

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

move all the pain in the science community
because, in a sense we are victims of our
own success. The tremendous successes in
science and technology in the last decades
have created so many wonderful opportu­
nities that there are more and more people
competing for the funds to address these
opportunities.
“There is a fundamental demographic
fact that you have to bear in mind: Eightyseven percent of all the scientists and engi­
neers who have ever lived are alive today
and writing proposals —and less than 5
percent of the all-time taxpayers. There’s
a dichotomy there that obviously presents
very real problems. ”
On Big Science Versus Little Science

“We have a whole series of mega­
projects. There’s the SSC, the supercon­
ducting supercollider; there’s the mapping
of the human genome, the advanced neu­
tron source for Oak Ridge, the national
photon source at Argonne —a whole series

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“I think it’s very important to keep in
mind that the general discussion of big sci­
ence versus little science misses much of
the point because at many of these large
facilities, the work is being done by indi­
vidual professors working with a postdoc
and a few graduate students. This is cer­
tainly true of the large telescopes. And in
the human genome project, for example,
there’s no one large group anywhere—it’s
spread out among universities across this
nation and increasingly across the world.
The SSC is perhaps the extreme example
where casts of hundreds are required be­
cause it’s so complicated technologically
that in order to make everything work at
once you need a lot of people and a lot of
special talents.
“ But for the great majority of the large
projects there’s no clear distinction be­
tween big and small science, and what we
need is a decent balance.
“I have said that we went a little over­
board toward the large projects in the last
couple of years, and we’ve tried to redress
that in this most recent budget by empha­
sizing individual-investigator funding. We
will never satisfy all the individual investigators because the more funding that goes
into that area, the more new, young folk
are produced, and the more proposals
we’re going to get.
“And that’s fine, as long as we maintain
a focus on excellence. And that we will.”

o f the physics department, George
Collins. In answer, Collins pointed
him toward the basement of Bausch &
Lomb Hall and a small, superannuated
cyclotron stored there. Designed and
built in the mid-thirties by another
great Rochester physicist, Sidney
Barnes, the machine had enjoyed a dis­
tinguished past as one o f the world’s
first cyclic particle accelerators. But
technology had marched on, and the

■ h a t’s when
fate stepped in. More or
less simultaneously with
Bromley’s arrival, cosmic
rays faded from the
Rochester scene.

small accelerator was superseded by
the University’s bigger, newer machine
constructed, to much fanfare, as the
world’s first large post-war cyclotron.
“Why don’t you try your hand at re­
building the small cyclotron?” Collins
suggested.
Bromley and a group of his fellow
grad students agreed to tackle the
project—which they accomplished
with unlooked-for success: Some forty
years later, the rebuilt machine is still
smashing atoms, at India’s Punjab
University. Professor Harry Fulbright
says it may well be the world’s oldest
still-functioning cyclotron.
The project gave the world much
more than a useful recycled cyclotron.
It turned Bromley on to a career in
nuclear physics.
After earning his Ph.D. under Ful­
bright in 1952, he went on to originate
the concept for a powerful successor to
the cyclotrons, the 190-ton MP tandem
Van de Graaff particle accelerator—
known as “the Emperor” for short.
The University’s Nuclear Structure
Research Laboratory houses one o f the
world’s five Emperors. Another, since a
1987 upgrade the most powerful o f the
lot, is at Yale, where Bromley joined the

faculty in 1960. It is said that Bromley’s
lab there has produced more Ph.D.s in
experimental nuclear physics than any
other facility worldwide.
His achievements as a physicist have
earned him, among other laurels, ten
honorary degrees from universities
around the world. Why then the shift
from successful scientist to policy­
maker?
“It happened to me rather imper­
ceptibly,” he replies with the precise
speech that still carries traces o f his
Canadian origin. Back in the early
sixties, he was asked by Robley Evans
to succeed him as chairman o f the Na­
tional Research Council’s Committee
on Nuclear Science.
“I really didn’t know what it was all
about, but since Robley Evans was a
great man in physics whose textbooks
I had used for years, I was greatly hon­
ored by the request and said of course
I would do it. That was my first real
contact with the U.S. public-policy
enterprise. ”
Since then he has been tapped again
and again to fill all sorts o f official
Washington-type posts and other
major-league assignments. In addition
to his presidency of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, Bromley has headed the Inter­
national Union o f Pure and Applied
Physics and chaired the National Acad­
emy o f Sciences’ Physics Survey Com­
mittee (this last charged with plotting
the course o f physics over the succeed­
ing decade). During his years on the
White House Science Council, when
he acted as a kind o f minister without
portfolio for the White House and
State Department in negotiating sci­
ence and technology exchanges with
Brazil, India, and the U.S.S.R., he also
became the principal generator o f a
number o f influential reports.
“I’ve always been amazed at his
ability to sit on a committee and then,
after everything has been through a
long hassle, he will come up with a
lucid paragraph that summarizes the
situation very well,” says Rochester’s
Huizenga, who has served on commit­
tees with Bromley. “He has a fantastic
faculty of coming straight out with a
long document that’s reasonably cor­
rect the first time around. I don’t know
anyone comparable to him in that re­
spect.”

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991
There’s no question that for the
oft-published Bromley (he has edited
eighteen books and written more than
450 scientific papers) his ability as a
writer and synthesizer is one o f the
skills that have helped propel him to
high office. If sometimes this verbal
fluency produces what one observer
has referred to as “cumulus clouds of
phraseology to make a simple point”
—not to worry. It’s just an outbreak of
that Bromley exactitude which drives
him to pile up an abundance of words
to particularize what he has to say.
In his recent talk at the University
Bromley hinted at the origin o f an­
other ability that may have helped his
rise: expertise in budget-scrounging.
Back when he was working on the old
cyclotron, the allocated funds amount­
ed to, he recalled with his usual pre­
cision, something like $19.72. “This
was,” he told his audience, “quite
frankly a good thing. The experience
I got groveling and begging for money

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■ ■ llan always
knows what he is talking
about, and he makes it
clear that he knows what
he is talking about. Even
if he didn’t know what he
was talking about, it would
seem like he did.”

to make that project work has been
extraordinarily useful ever since.”
O f course, another attribute that
certainly didn’t hurt Bromley is his
longstanding friendship with Bush.
They are, incidentally, both Yalies.
Bush got his Yale degree by the usual
route. Bromley received his more or
less by fiat. According to what a writer
for Physics Today refers to as “Yale’s
quaint custom,” the physicist was re­
quired to have a Yale degree in order to

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join its faculty. “So,” reports Physics
Today, “without any classwork or the­
sis, he was unceremoniously awarded
an M.A. diploma by Yale and thus
‘licensed’ to teach.”
When Bromley’s Yale lab was up­
graded a few years back, Bromley per­
suaded Bush, then vice president, to
speak at the event. As a Bush support­
er during the 1988 election campaign,
Bromley is reported to have helped
draft the candidate’s major speech on
science.
Bromley enjoys closer contact with
the president than any previous science
adviser. In fact, in the White House
pecking order, Bush raised Bromley’s
post so that now the science adviser is
just below cabinet level and holds a
rank equal to the national security
adviser. Along with a regular seat at
cabinet meetings, this automatically
also gives Bromley a voice on the Do­
mestic Policy Council, the Economic
Policy Council, and the Space Council.
If the number o f initials associated
with your position is any indication o f
clout, then Bromley’s voice counts for
a lot. As presidential science adviser
he is also director of the Office o f Sci­
ence & Technology Policy (OSTP),
chairman o f the President’s Council o f
Advisers for Science and Technology
(PCAST), and chairman o f the Federal
Coordinating Council for Science, En­
gineering & Technology (FCCSET).
Though the titles are weighted with
typical Washington-style bureaucracy,
they do offer Bromley ample opportu­
nity to advance his agenda.
After two years in that city, Wash­
ington bureaucratese filters into the
words he uses to describe his goals
there: “One o f the most important
things we’re trying to do, from my
point o f view, is to establish mecha­
nisms, structures, procedures, that,
if they really are good for the nation,
will remain in place after I’m gone.
Building infrastructure, building
bridges with the Congress, with other
parts of the administration that had
been neglected in the past—that’s
important.”
Bromley already is credited with
persuading the Bush administration to
examine technology issues more seri­
ously; his office has produced the firstever statement o f a national technology
policy, as well as a list o f technologies
it deems critical to the future of the
United States. And he has a bigger say

than usual in the federal budget, work­
ing together with the White House
Office o f Management and Budget to
allocate funds for science projects.
Bromley takes pride also in more
mundane, but perhaps more significant,
accomplishments. While past Science
advisers have had trouble even trying
to assemble a full staff, the current in-

II
Itf s a show­
man as well as a serious
world-class scientist. His
lectures have pizzazz.
That can be useful in
Washington.”

cumbent has complete confidence in
the “remarkably able group o f people”
he has successfully recruited. He also
expresses satisfaction with the “calibra­
tion and validation” the Bush adminis­
tration is receiving from the private
sector. “PCAST members meet direct­
ly with the president,” giving him “di­
rect, straight-from-the-shoulder advice
from some very distinguished private
sector people,” he says.
Though the nation’s capital is a
world apart from the ivied walls of
Yale, colleagues past and present never
had a doubt that Bromley could hack it
in Washington.
Says fellow-Canadian Gove, whose
friendship with Bromley goes back
to a period in the 1950s when he was
Bromley’s boss at Chalk River, On­
tario, home to Canada’s laboratory for
atomic research: “He was obviously an
enormously competent and inventive
scientist, but o f course there are lots of
those. You could tell he was slated for
something better than Yale—though
God knows being a professor at Yale is
not a bad position!”
Science writer in the Office o f University
Public Relations, Rickey most recently ap­
peared in Rochester Review covering the
accomplishments o f the Robot Vision
Lab’s Rochester Robot.

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

Rochester

IN REVIEW

Oh, the joy of it: Anthropology/history major Alexandra Sharnoff and neuroscience major Angela
Tong breaking out in an impromptu buck and wing following last May’s Commencement. In all,
1,141 bachelor’s degrees, 965 master’s, and 303 doctorates were awarded that day. Two weeks
later, at a separate ceremony, the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
awarded another 344 degrees (plus an honorary doctorate to Japanese entrepreneur Kanichi
Nichimoto), bringing the 1991 total of new Rochester alumni to 2,753.

141st Commencement
At the 141st Commencement in
May, Secretary o f Education Lamar
Alexander exhorted 2,409 graduates in
Fauver Stadium both to continue their
own intellectual development and to
work on local levels to improve public
education.
In his address he applauded them
“for taking those steps necessary to
reach your own potential. That is the
only way that America itself will reach
its own potential.”
While conceding that “more and
more people are uneasy about our
educational results in America,” he
stressed that “we already have the
finest system of colleges and univer­
sities in the world, and they are the
surest way for America to move from
the back to the front o f the line.”
Alexander—former governor o f
Tennessee and president o f the Uni­
versity o f Tennessee when President
Bush named him education secretary
in December 1990—received an hon­
orary doctorate at the ceremony, as
did former diplomat Sol Linowitz and
immunologists Phillippa Marrack and
John Kappler.
Also honored—as recipients o f the
Hutchison Medal, the highest honor
the University reserves for alumni —
were Florence Cawthorne Ladd ’58G,
director o f the Mary Ingraham Bunt­
ing Institute at Radcliffe College, and
Bernard Harleston ’55G, president
o f the City College o f CUNY, who
were, as it happens, students together
at Howard University and later at
Rochester’s psychology department
before going their separate ways into
academic administration.
Teaching awards went to Ashok
Das, associate professor o f physics,
and Jean Johnson, a professor at
the School o f Nursing. Das, whose
classroom performance was ranked
“A + + + ” by at least one enthusiastic
student, received the Edward Peck
Curtis Award for Excellence in Under­
graduate Teaching. Johnson, who has
established a track record for the ex­
cellent guidance given her graduate
students, received the University
Graduate Teaching Award.

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

Before Nintendo

Graduating from the University,
magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa,
with a 3.74 average is a worthy achieve­
ment for any mortal. But doing so as a
36-year-old husband and father o f two
who came late to college life —after
working for fourteen years in the shoe
shops and mills of backwoods Maine
—seems virtually Olympian.
To everyone but Terry Hemingway,
that is, who tends to downplay his
academic accomplishments. “I have
a major advantage over kids nowa­
days,” he jokes. “I was raised before
Nintendo.”
Hemingway—as readers of Rochester
Review (Fall 1988) may recall—came
to Rochester from Bryant Pond, Maine,
where he shared a mobile home with
his wife, Wanda, and two young sons.
One day in his doctor’s office, Heming­
way and Dr. Michael LaCombe ’64
delved into politics (“I found myself
rapidly outflanked,” LaCombe re­
called) and then literature, Milton,
Spenser, and the like. An avowedly
compulsive reader (“I’m the kind of
guy who picks up cornflakes boxes and
reads the ingredients”), Hemingway
stunned LaCombe with his knowledge
o f the classics (and, possibly, also of
cornflakes components).
“To meet someone living in the
backwoods o f Maine, a mill worker

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at $4.50 an hour, with a high-school
education, reading Tolstoy and Dos­
toevsky for fun, has cast a new light
on my Robert Ludlum education,”
LaCombe wrote afterwards. He
stepped in as Hemingway’s mentor,
determined to secure for him a “firstclass university education. ”
After contacting Rochester’s director
o f admissions, LaCombe drove Hem­
ingway and his wife all the way to the
River Campus for an interview, taking
them farther away from Bryant Pond
than they had ever been before. Hem­
ingway was admitted soon after, with
a waiver o f most of the formal re­
quirements and a financial-aid package
hefty enough to justify packing a
U-Haul and moving his family to a
University-owned townhouse.
Now that the first leg o f his journey
is complete, where is he off to next? He
plans to wait a year before beginning
law school (Harvard is his first choice).
His aim: a career, possibly in the fed­
eral government, specializing in busi­
ness or international law.

Task Force Reports on
Undergraduate Education
How can undergraduate education
at Rochester best be improved? As
readers o f recent issues o f Rochester
Review are aware, discussion on that
question has been and remains a con­
tinuing saga on the River Campus.
The latest chapter has been pro­
duced by a River Campus task force
that was assembled last spring, in the
words of Provost Brian Thompson,
“to propose and evaluate various
methods o f providing an even more
distinctive, effective, and integrated set
of undergraduate educational experi­
ences for our students.”
Under the leadership of Professor
David Weimer of the political science
department, the committee o f students,
faculty, and administrators has now
made its report. “Following speedy but
appropriate consultation with faculty
and students, we will aim for imple­
mentation o f the best ideas, wherever
possible, at the start o f 1992-93,”
Thompson said.
Among the committee’s proposals
under review are these:
Expanding the successful “Take
Five” Program, which currently allows
a few select students to take a fifth

year o f courses, tuition free: The task
force proposes that “Take Five” be
made generally available to all students
in good standing. Undergraduates who
participate in the program use the fifth
year to sample a range o f courses that
the requirements for their majors pre­
vent them from taking in their first
four years.
Encouraging undergraduates to
work closely with faculty to design
individualized curricula: Current dis­
tribution and language requirements,
for example, could be replaced by for­
mal agreements to pursue personally
designed, coherent programs o f study.
Increasing opportunities for under­
graduates to reap the benefits o f pur­
suing a college education in a univer­
sity environment: These opportunities
might include expanding the Univer­
sity’s “3-2” programs (which allow un­
dergraduates to earn both a bachelor’s
and a master’s degree in five years) and
promoting special interdepartmental
majors that fall outside the boundaries
o f traditional fields.
Encouraging learning outside the
classroom: This could be done, for
example, through such measures as
improvement and expansion o f the
Freshman Ventures programs (in which
groups of students study together in
coordinated courses) and strengthen­
ing internship programs to help connect
students to the Rochester community.
Fostering “an ethos o f service” by
promoting community service to both
the university and city communities:
“Properly structured projects could be
considered for academic credit,” the
committee suggests.

Chewing over the Decision
The political behavior o f someone
who “buys into” a public-interest
group like Common Cause is like the
economic behavior o f someone who
buys a brand-name box o f cereal for
the first time, says Lawrence Rothenberg, assistant professor o f political
science. Just as a consumer doesn’t
usually spend a lot o f time researching
the merits o f a box o f Wheaties before
deciding to buy it, so too a political
consumer probably won’t thoroughly
investigate a group before joining it.
“People join organizations the way
they buy commodities, not because
o f unique political behavior,” he says.

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

It’s His Fault

When geologist Kenneth Ridgway
goes off on his summer research out­
ings, he doesn’t worry much about
earthquakes, rock slides, and volcanic
eruptions —he’s too busy dodging
hormone-crazed caribou on the prowl
for a mate or roaming grizzlies on the
prowl for dinner.
Ridgway’s research—studying a ma­
jor fault that is responsible for many of
the biggest earthquakes that occur in
western North America—takes him for
two or three months every summer to
the remote Yukon Territory of N orth­
west Canada. There, until the chopper
returns to gather him up again after a
ten- to fifteen-day stretch, he is left
alone in a geologist’s dream: a corner
of the world practically unexamined by

scientists and untouched by humans.
The area Ridgway roams—the Denali
fault system—has the highest concentra­
tion of grizzly bears in Canada. He usu­
ally sees five or six grizzlies per summer,
and has managed to emerge unscathed
from each encounter. Since guns are
banned in Canada’s national parks, he
is usually armed only with a small can
of bear spray and a large portion of
common bear sense.

“One key to dealing with grizzlies is

Ridgway’s intrepidity has not been

to take on their traits,” he says. “When
one grizzly meets another grizzly, they
stand up and turn from side to side.
This is known as ‘profiling’: Each wants
the other bear to see just how big it is.
You need to ‘profile,’ and you need to
talk in a strong, bold voice.”
Ridgway is familiar with the bears’
signs of aggression (hair standing on
end, for one) and feeding habits (favor­
ite spots include the sunny sides of hills
and recent landslides). If he must go
into brush-covered areas, he waits until
August, when he knows where the bears
will be: off near the rivers feeding on
the salmon swimming upstream.
Less dangerous than grizzlies, but
rather more alarming, are the caribou

without result. Recognized for the excel­
lence of his work, he recently received
an $18,000 fellowship from the Ford
Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Pro­

during mating season. When the
brush is high and a male caribou hears
Ridgway approaching, the animal can
(and usually does) assume that the
geologist is another caribou: either a
male, a competitor to be driven away,
or his real quarry, a female.
“The caribou usually stop within
about ten feet, but it’s pretty scary to
be confronted with such a large beast,
filled with hormones, charging at you
through the bush,” he says.

gram for Minorities, one of only twenty
winners across the nation to receive the
grant intended to help students com­
plete their Ph.D. dissertations.
He and his adviser, Professor Peter
Decelles of the Department of Geolog­
ical Sciences in the College of Arts and
Science, have already come up with some
conclusions. They have determined that
the giant St. Elias Mountains, whose
peaks reach up to nineteen thousand
feet, started rising some thirty to forty
million years ago as a result of a stillactive fault.
Ridgway attributes his love and re­
spect for nature to his American Indian
heritage. He grew up near Alloway, New

Jersey, in an area where about 1,400 Del­
aware Indians like himself live. “The
American Indian identity is closely linked
to the Mother Earth,” says Ridgway.
“Studying the geologic history of the
Earth allows me to be continually mes­
merized by the beauty of the Earth’s
processes and to retain that part of my
heritage.”

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991

New Trustees Join
University Board
Three alumni have joined the
University’s Board o f Trustees: Myra
Gelband ’71, o f Rowayton, Connecti­
cut, a senior editor at Sports Illustrated;
Joseph P. Mack ’55, o f Livingston,
New Jersey, chairman and CEO of
Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising; and
Graham W. Smith ’53, of Orchard
Park, New York, a partner in the law
firm o f Smith, Pedersen & Smith.
All three are former members —and
Mack a former chair—o f the Trustees’
Council, the senior governing board of
the Alumni Association.
After graduating
with a double major
in biology and En­
glish, Gelband began
as a reporter at S I
and has been a senior editor for the last
ten years, planning
event coverage and commissioning fea­
tures for the nation’s most influential
sports weekly.
Now CEO o f the
country’s second
largest advertising
agency, Mack began
his advertising career
in 1959 as a manage­
ment trainee at
Dancer Fitzgerald
Sample and was president at the time
o f its acquisition by Saatchi in 1986.
Over the years, the one-time English
major has worked on such accounts
as Procter & Gamble, General Mills,
Sara Lee, and Burger King. He played
a pivotal role in the merger of S&S
Compton with DFS in 1987.
Smith, another
Rochester English
major, has been as­
sociated with his law
firm since his gradu­
ation with a law de­
gree from the Uni­
versity o f Virginia
in 1958. He is also president o f the
George G. Smith and Elizabeth G.
Smith Foundation, Inc., known
primarily for its support o f higher
education, museums, and the arts of
Western New York.

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Welcoming committee: The 1,100 members of the Class of ’95 (River Campus and School of Nurs­
ing) got a welcoming hand this summer from the student orientation crew, Adriana Garcia ’92,
Dwayne Grannum ’93, Julie Miller ’92, Joseph Sargent ’92, and Julie Horelick ’92. For the sixth
consecutive year the new class was selected from the largest applicant pool ever, numbering this
time more than 7,400 students. The most popular prospective majors: biology, political science,
mechanical engineering, psychology, and the 3-2 program in business administration.

Educating Teachers
To increase the number o f college
graduates who choose teaching as a
career, the Graduate School o f Edu­
cation and Human Development has
established an innovative master’s
degree program.
Designed for people with a bache­
lor’s degree in the liberal arts, the new
program offers a unique approach: Its
students work in the classroom from
the outset, so they can combine theory
and practice throughout their training.
As they encounter problems in the
classroom, they can address them in
their weekly seminar classes by dis­
cussing how the theories they are
studying may apply. Traditionally,
such programs begin with courses on
fundamental teaching methods, only
later followed by a period o f student
teaching.
“This new approach reflects current
thinking about how we should be edu­
cating teachers so they can meet the
challenge o f reshaping our schools,”
says Professor Marjorie Siegel, who,
with Professor David Hursh, helped
design the program.
“To be effective, teachers need both
a solid foundation in an academic dis­
cipline and a thorough understanding

o f how teaching methods relate to
theory and classroom practice,” adds
Hursh. “This program captures all
o f these elements and weaves them to­
gether to constantly reinforce sound
teaching principles.
“The object is to graduate students
who are reflective practitioners.”

New Hope for Premature Babies
Among premature babies, under­
developed lungs pose a major threat to
survival. A three-year study led by Dr.
James Kendig, associate professor of
pediatrics at the School o f Medicine
and Dentistry, shows that more of
these babies can be saved if they re­
ceive a lung-coating therapy immedi­
ately after birth.
The treatment: administering a
lubricant-like film called a “surfactant”
that coats the baby’s air sacs and pre­
vents their collapse.
The study involved nearly 500 ba­
bies at New York State medical
centers, in Rochester, Albany, and Val­
halla. Kendig and his colleagues found
that, o f babies less than twenty-six
weeks old, 75 percent who received im­
mediate therapy survived, compared
with only 54 percent o f those who
received therapy later on.

Rochester Review/Fall 1991

Look, Ma, Eight Hands!

g

?

“I may be on a roll. This is the first
time I’ve tried something as exotic as
this for a faculty recital. It should be
a hoot.”
That’s pianist Rebecca Penneys talk­
ing about her upcoming concert last
spring in the Eastman School’s Kilbourn Hall.
It sounded normal enough when
you first read the proposed program —
“Hand Progressions: Music for One
Piano, Zero to Eight Hands.” Then
it hits you. Four people on one key­
board? Zero hands tickling the ivo­
ries? How’s she going to do that?
Well, you’ve got to hand it to her.
She did it and it was a hoot.
In a feat o f inventive programming
and with several o f her Eastman col­
leagues lending a hand or two, the
award-winning pianist/professor put
together an evening o f music that did
indeed run the promised gamut of
works written for hands numbering
from zero to eight—starting with John
Cage’s notorious “Four Minutes and
Thirty-Three Seconds” (four minutes
and thirty-three seconds of dead silence
on the part o f the performer, punctu­
ated by whatever restless noises the
audience may make while waiting for
the piece to be over with) and ending
seventeen pieces later with Paulina
Oliveros’s eight-handed “Gathering
Together” (which turned out to be a
bit o f a crowd scene: “You can barely
get eight hands on a piano,” acknowl­
edges Penneys).
In between, Penneys easily kept her
audience from sitting on their own
hands by the use o f such props as a
toy piano, handcuffs, and an attentionarresting pistol shot.
As a bonus, the overflow crowd also
got to hear two world premieres. In the
absence o f an appropriate short work
for one hand, Penneys commissioned a
piece from Eastman composer Sydney
Hodkinson (“Minnie Rag: Krazy Kwilt
for Minnie Mouse’s Birthday”). An­
other Eastman composer, David Liptak, came up with the first-ever piece
written for one piano, seven hands
(“Piano Roll Blues,” featuring singlehanded interpolations by a guest artist
seated on a fancy bench behind the
trio at the concert grand).

“It’s a tradition for Eastman faculty
members to do a recital once a year,”
Penneys says. “And this time I just
thought I’d try something different.”
Or, as four other engaging showmen
used to say, “And now for something
completely different. ”

The eight hands rehearsing for the “Hand
Progressions” concert belong to (from left)
Eastman faculty members Rebecca Penneys,
Anton Nel, Nelita True, and Tony Caramia.

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Fuel for African Villages

NEWSCLIPS

fr o m th e national m edia

A sam pling o f w hat th ey’re saying
abou t th e U niversity arid its p e o p le in
national an d in ternational publications.
Dazzling debut: The Ying String
Quartet—made up of four siblings from
Winnetka, Illinois, who study at the
Eastman School with the famed Cleve­
land Q uartet—made its New York City
debut in May at Lincoln Center’s Alice

monitoring, the National Institutes of
Health has recommended that home
monitors be used only in certain in­
stances, such as when an infant has al­
ready experienced a life-threatening epi­
sode. But, warns Brooks, “only about 7
percent of all SIDS victims experience a
warning episode. ”
Humans imitate apes: A recent study
has shown that three factors can help
reduce “child abuse” in female pri­
mates: livable quarters, good (mother­
ing) role models, and the availability
of other females to help raise the
young. In an article on the study, US.
News & World Report cites a Rochester
program for human mothers (designed
by Professor of Adolescent Medicine
David Olds) that draws from the same
principles: “Nurses cultivated warm
relationships with new mothers by regu­
larly visiting them in their homes . . .
showed new mothers how to play with

and talk to a child, much as older pri­
mates demonstrate mothering skills . . .
[and] encouraged close friends and rela­
tives to assist.”
From Henry James to classified ads:

Hilly Hall. According to The New York
Times, “The Yings play with exception­
al unity, and they seem to have chosen
their program with that strength in
mind. The Bartók Fourth Quartet, with
its pizzicato fourth movement, and the
Debussy Quartet in G minor, with its
exotic shimmer, can mercilessly expose
imprecise attacks and poorly coordi­
nated dynamics. These performances
were thoroughly prepared, wonderfully
precise in matters of ensemble and col­
oration and full of felicitous phrasing
details.”
The ethics of surrogacy: Surrogacy for
pay—the controversial practice involv­
ing an arrangement between a birth
mother who agrees to conceive and bear
a child and a couple who commissions
her “ services” —is unethical, says phi­
losophy professor Michele MoodyAdams. In an article published in Pub­
lic A ffairs Quarterly, Moody-Adams
maintains that paid surrogacy is tanta­
mount to baby selling and that society
comes dangerously close to treating
surrogate birth mothers like slaves:
Infants at risk: Dr. John Brooks, pro­
fessor of pediatrics, told Parenting
magazine that about $150 million has
been spent in the past ten years on
monitoring babies thought to be at
risk for SIDS (sudden infant death
syndrome). Because of the high cost of

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That’s what students in Professor Con­
stance Penley’s freshman English class
read. Penley, an advocate of the emerg­
ing—but not yet clearly defined —field
of “cultural studies” believes that litera­
ture classes should include both popular
and classic works. She told the Chicago
Tribune she became interested in the
field “because it represented a union of
my interests in feminist theory, film, and
psychoanalysis.” In the same Tribune
article, Lawrence Grossberg, a professor
at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, cites Rochester (along
with Duke and the University of Cali­
fornia at Santa Cruz) “as the places one
thinks of when one thinks of cultural
studies.”
Among the best in business: The Con­
sortium for Graduate Study in Manage­
m en t-m ad e up of 200 corporations
and nine graduate business schools—
awards some 150 scholarships a year to
promising minority business students.
The Southeast M issourian cites IBM,
General Motors, and Citicorp as the
type of companies that belong to the
consortium and proclaims that “the
schools, including the University of
Michigan, New York University, and
William E. Simon School at the Univer­
sity of Rochester, are also among the
best in the country.” Earlier in the year,
US. News & World Report in its annual
survey again ranked the Simon School
as one of the nation’s top twenty-five
business schools.

A group o f Rochester researchers
has taken another step forward in an
effort to help underdeveloped African
countries find new energy sources
while saving their imperiled forests.
They recently reached an agreement
with the government o f Mozambique
to go forward with a pilot project,
contingent upon additional fund­
raising efforts.
The AHEAD (Access to Hydrocar­
bon Energy for African Development)
Project aims to provide clean-burning
natural gas and oil to African villagers
who have had to rely on firewood for
fuel. The plan: to develop shallow oil
and gas fields that have been discovered
and abandoned by major oil companies
after they found the fields too small to
produce fuel for export. AHEAD will
help African workers learn how to
tap these resources by employing the
scaled-down technology used by inde­
pendent oil companies in the mid­
continental United States.
“An ideal pilot site has been iden­
tified, although we don’t have a time­
table yet for actually starting work, ”
says project head Ben Ebenhack. A
research associate at the University’s
Frederick Douglass Institute for Afri­
can and African-American Studies,
Ebenhack is president of the indepen­
dent, nonprofit AHEAD Energy Corp.
Researchers at the Frederick Doug­
lass Institute established the AHEAD
Project three years ago as a result of
their twin interests in promoting eco­
nomic development in sub-Saharan
Africa and in protecting the environ­
ment. Many countries in that part of
the world have been depleting their
forests as people cut down trees to burn
for fuel. Ethiopia alone consumes more
than 30 billion pounds o f wood, or 15
million trees, Ebenhack says.
The first Africans to work on the
project and to benefit from it will be
villagers who live near a gas field ad­
joining the villages o f Vilankulo and
Inhassoro, located about halfway up
the length o f the country. Workers will
pipe fuel from the well —primarily nat­
ural gas —into individual homes or
turn it into a liquid that can be bottled
and sold inexpensively for use in gas­
burning stoves.
A welcome byproduct o f the enter­
prise probably will be water, which is

Rochester Review/Fall 1991
almost always present in gas and oil
reservoirs.
Once developed, the wells should be­
gin paying for themselves through the
sale o f fuels to local users, Ebenhack
predicts.

‘Dear Rochester’
“You have not only been a founda­
tional building block in my life, but
you are roots and heritage to me! ”
Judith Sutton Drake ’64
“When I left New York City and
relocated in Rochester, I discovered the
University. I have always been grateful
and have tried to give back some of
what it gave to me. ”
Herbert Brauer ’47
“I think I appreciate the University
more now than I did then. Even a dec­
ade after graduation, colleagues and
prospective employers, hearing that
I went to Rochester, nod knowingly
and say, ‘Good school.’ ”
Steve Katz ’79
It’s always nice to get fan mail —
even if we did come right out and ask
for it.
Back in the spring, as the University
kicked off the Campaign for the ’90s,
we invited a few o f our alumni to write
us letters describing what their Roches­
ter education has meant to them. They
responded with dozens of testimonials
—some humorous, others sentimental,
still others analytical, but all, at bot­
tom, heartfelt.
Many o f the letters made their way
into our “Dear Rochester” display: an
enormous “billboard” o f memories
and memorabilia that served as the
centerpiece for the campaign kickoff
on May 23. Still others were quoted in
the multimedia show that concluded
the event.
The campaign continues, as does
our need for mail. So we’re inviting
yo u to pen a letter telling us what your
Rochester education has meant to you.
We’ll run excerpts from your responses
in “Alumni Review” (see the story on
page 48 in this issue) and in upcoming
literature for the campaign.
Please send your letter to: “Dear
Rochester,” Office of Public Relations,
University o f Rochester, 107 Admin­
istration Building, Rochester, NY
14627-0033.
Write soon!

Learning to Floss
in Four Languages
The dominant morning sounds from
the second-floor women’s bathroom in
the Susan B. Anthony residence halls
—showers running, doors swinging
open and shut, blow-dryers roaring —
are typical of any University dormitory.
But your ear soon detects that the
chatter is not like that elsewhere. Here
voices waft through the steamy air carry­
ing conversational exchanges in Rus­
sian, French, German, and Spanish.
This bathroom, as it happens, is the
linguistic melting pot for four of An­
thony’s “special interest” floors—in
this instance the four foreign-language
living centers.
For some sixty-five Rochester under­
graduates, most o f whom are native
Anglophones, polyglot bathing is part
o f daily living on these halls, where, by
agreement, the speaking o f English is
verboten.
“The foreign-language floors show
students that language is not just some­
thing to be studied in a classroom but
something that’s a basic part o f every­
day life,” says Anne Lutkus, language
coordinator in the College o f Arts and
Science’s Department o f Foreign Lan­
guages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
She cites the time a young Soviet
came to Strong Memorial Hospital for
treatment, and the Russian-language
floor provided interpreting and trans­
lating services for the patient’s family
and the medical team that treated her.
“That was a good opportunity for us
to help out and put our Russian to real
use,” affirms Russian-floor resident
Gene Kissin ’93.
“The students living here get a cul­
tural experience we can’t give them in
the classroom,” says Lutkus. “They
plan and partake in a variety o f special
events —from films to talks by outside
speakers to ethnic meals —all conduct­
ed in their adopted language.”
As a result, on a given evening you
might find German-floor residents
scanning the Bonn newspapers and
discussing the problems o f unification,
Russian-floor students reading folk
tales o f the steppes and the tundra,
and Spanish-floor people taking time
off from more serious pursuits to en­
tertain themselves at a game o f Trivial
Perseguida.

Parlez-vous: Language-floor residents Robin
Lynn Sandler ’92, graduate student Montserrat
Sanz, and Gene Kissin ’93.

To ease communication, each floor
is assigned a “proficient speaker” who
is thoroughly at home in that group’s
language. Such a one is Robin Lynn
Sandler ’92, who intends to become a
French professor someday and in the
meantime is getting plenty o f practice.
“It’s what I want to do for a living,”
she says, “so it’s a great opportunity. ”
Unlike the already-fluent Sandler,
many o f her hallmates have had little
previous exposure to the the Gallic
tongue. Michelle Moser ’92 for exam­
ple, is studying German, not French,
in her classes. “When I first came to
this floor, I wasn’t at all confident in
speaking French, but now I do it all
the time,” she says, admitting to hav­
ing once found herself rattling away in
French during a non-French-speaking
class.
Graduate student Montserrat Sanz,
the Spanish floor’s proficient speaker,
points out that many students think of
living on the foreign-language floors as
an intermediary step between staying
home and living abroad. They get lots
of exposure without ever leaving home
base.
“We’re always practicing,” says Sanz
—even, she admits, through a mouth­
ful of toothpaste.

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SPORTS
Determination
“Look at Rochester! Look at Roch­
ester g o ! ” The rumbling from the side­
lines at last fall’s UAA Men’s CrossCountry Championships swelled to a
reverberating roar as the wall o f run­
ners in blue and gold swept by.
“That sound carried each one o f
us,” recalls Joe Mello ’93, the first
Yellowjacket to cross the finish line
ahead o f all runners on competing
squads. Within seconds, four more
Jackets piled in behind him, clinching
a league victory for the team and
catapulting Rochester to a historic
first; never before has any school cap­
tured the UAA Championships by
sweeping first through fifth place.
True to his belief that running is
a team sport, Mello, an engineering
major who’s also the squad captain,
insists, “I’m more proud of the team’s
victory than I am of my own. Any one
o f us could have crossed that line first. ”
Despite his modesty, Mello’s first-place
finish is also a personal triumph —con­
sidering that his doctors once wondered
whether he’d ever run again.
On a summer day midway through
his collegiate career Mello and his bi­
cycle came a cropper in a serious acci­
dent that badly injured his Achilles
tendon. Under doctor’s orders he trad­
ed in his running shoes for the wet-vest
that would keep him afloat while he
spent hundreds o f hours “running” in
the deep water of the Zornow Center
diving pool. “I felt more like a fish
than a roadrunner that year,” he says.
“But at least I was able to keep in
shape while I healed.”
As Yellowjacket coach Tim Hale
points out, “All distance runners have
to deal with aches and pains. If you
train, you’re almost always on the verge
o f injury.” But though Mello had al­
ready incurred, and survived, his share
o f runner’s ailments, surmounting the
severed tendon called for a whole new
level o f determination.

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Blue-and-gold wall: Yellowjacket runners Jim Dunlop, Joe Mello, and Chris Reed

Mello explains his drive to overcome
that setback by citing the powerful feel­
ings o f control, independence, and ela­
tion that he experiences in competition.
“I just couldn’t imagine never feeling
that thrill again. I knew I had to get
better, no matter what.”
But Mello didn’t just get better, he
got better. In addition to the victory
at the UAA Championships he also
earned his first All-American honor
last fall at the NCAA Division III
Championships, where he placed
twenty-second in a field o f 182 run­
ners. There the team took fourth place,
finishing in the top ten for the third
straight year.
Now in his fifth year at Rochester
(he’s taking an additional year of
study, and since he sat out the year he
was injured he’s still eligible to com­
pete), Captain Mello has high hopes
for his team: “There’s no way we’re
going to Nationals and not win that
thing!”

Third Annual B & L Regatta
Rowers from Harvard, Princeton,
Yale, Brown, Penn, Cornell, and Syra­
cuse, as well as athletes from twenty to
thirty other schools, will ply the waters
o f the Genesee at the third annual
Bausch & Lomb Invitational Regatta
on Sunday, October 13. The regatta
is a highlight o f the UR Spectacular
weekend (see page 55), which will also
encompass, among other attractions,
Saturday night’s Homecoming football
game against UAA rival Carnegie
Mellon.
Thousands o f spectators are expected
to pack the riverbanks to watch this
year’s rowing competition, which will
feature three-mile distance races in the
morning and 1,500-meter head-racing
sprints in the afternoon.
The success o f Rochester’s rowers
last spring —the men’s varsity lightweight-eight boat won the national
championship at the Dad Vail Regatta
in Philadelphia and took fourth place
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ship at Syracuse —is cause for antici­
pating some fierce competition from
the Yellowjackets in their home waters.
“Rochester crews haven’t gotten
the notice yet that they deserve; ” says
Coach Will Scoggins, “but that’s going
to change. What Rochester did in these
events can be compared to going up
against Notre Dame in football, or
UNLV in basketball. They showed they
could compete against schools with a
hundred years of tradition and all the
money in the world. Their tenacity dem­
onstrates what the sport is all about.”
Despite heavy rains leading up to
last October’s regatta, upwards o f
15,000 people flocked to the soggy
banks o f the Genesee to watch more
than 700 rowers from twenty-three
northeastern and midwestern schools
and rowing clubs.

Spring Sports Wrap-Up
Baseball (26-9)
Tom Havens ’91 led the Yellowjackets in twelve categories and set
school records for home runs, runs
batted in, total bases, batting average,
and slugging percentage. He amassed
60 hits in 111 at-bats for a .541 batting
average; scored 44 runs and drove in
54; hit 12 doubles, 5 triples, and 12
home runs; and maintained a slugging
percentage o f 1.063. In the field his
performance was perfect, with 81 putouts and 4 assists.
With the graduating senior’s help, a
solid Yellowjacket squad won nine of
its final ten games, including doubleheader sweeps of RIT, RPI, Union,
and Hartwick. As a team, the Jackets
batted .376 and averaged over 8 runs a
game.
In addition to earning First Team
All-America honors from the Amer­
ican Baseball Coaches Association
(ABCA), Havens was selected Player
o f the Year by the Eastern Collegiate
Athletic Conference (ECAC).
Among other laurels garnered by the
diamond men were these:
Havens and teammate Jim Ritzel
’93 were named First Team All-ECAC
picks and elected to the ABCA AllEast First Team. Shortstop Fred
Falkowski ’91 was named to the
ABCA’s Second Team. Outfielders
Bob Hartz ’90, Steve Marshall ’92,
and first baseman Chuck A lf ’92 were
picked as honorable mention choices.
Pitchers Marc Firnstein ’92 and
Mark Boule ’92 were named to the

Matt Jackson: Piling up a four-year total of 204 career points

Academic All-District Team by the
College Sports Information Directors
Association in District One.
Topping it all off, Havens, Ritzel,
Marshall, and Hartz were chosen for
two post-season all-star teams. In May
they played in an Upstate vs. Downstate game at Yankee Stadium and
then competed for New York State
against the New Jersey collegians in a
game at Columbia University.

Outdoor Track and Field
(Men’s 12-20; Women’s 5-0)
Jim Dunlop ’92 earned two AllAmerica honors at the NCAA Out­
door Track and Field Championships,
finishing fifth in the 10,000-meter run
and seventh in the 5,000-meter run.
Dunlop had also finished third overall
in the NCAA Cross Country Champi­
onships in November and fifth in the
5,000-meter run at the NCAA Indoor
Track and Field Championships in
March, thus becoming the first man to
earn four All-America honors in one
season at Rochester.

Lance Holbert: All-American Scholar

points. He and his teammates broke a
single-season record with six victories,
surpassing the 1987 season finish of
5-8.

Tennis (Men’s 6-11; Women’s 4-1)
Sal Mauro ’91 and David Beck ’92
were named Volvo/ITCA Scholar
Athletes by the Intercollegiate Tennis
Coaches Association.

Lacrosse (Men’s 6-8; Women’s 6-9)
The women’s team won four o f its
last six games and ended the year on a
high note, with a three-game winning
streak.
Meanwhile, on the men’s squad,
attackman Matt Jackson ’91 was pil­
ing up a four-year total o f 204 career

Golf (1-0)
Joe Tomasso ’94 received AllAmerica recognition for his perform­
ance during the season. Going into
the Nationals he had the team’s lowest
stroke average: 78.1. Rochester made
its tenth straight appearance in the
national tournament, finishing seven­
teenth in a field of twenty-two.
Lance Holbert ’91 was named an
All-American Scholar by the Golf
Coaches Association of America.

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‘I Write to You for Advise’

R flP U E Q T E D

Emancipation Day in South Carolina: The color sergeant of the First South Carolina Volunteers
addresses the regiment after receiving the Stars and Stripes, January 1,1 86 3.

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“Mr president,” wrote Annie Davis,
a northern Maryland slave who in 1864
decided to take it to the top by addressing
the Lincoln White House directly:
“It is my Desire to be free, to go to see
my people on the eastern shore, my mis­
tress wont let me[.] you will please let
me know if we are free, and what i can do.
I write to you for advise, please send me
word this week, or as soon as possible and
oblidge. ”
Davis’s plea is one of the mass of docu­
ments —letters, affidavits, records of court­
room testimony—that historian Leslie
Rowland ’70G, ’91G and her colleagues in
a groundbreaking research project at the
University of Maryland have unearthed
from the U.S. National Archives. Now in
its fifteenth year, the study is bringing to
light the words of thousands of ordinary
men and women —liberated slaves and
defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civil­
ians, common folk and the elite, Northern­
ers and Southerners—who witnessed and
participated in the destruction of slavery
and the drama of emancipation.
Publishing as the Freedmen and South­
ern Society Project, the Maryland group
has so far released three volumes in its
award-winning series Freedom: A Docu­
mentary History o f Emancipation, 18611867. A fourth is scheduled for publication
early next year.
The project, which Rowland takes over
this fall as director, can in a way trace its
origins to her own research interests as a
Rochester graduate student.
“I went to Rochester to study with the
historian Herbert Gutman,” she recalls.
“He had pioneered what came to be called
the ‘New Labor History,’ focusing on ordi­
nary workers and their communities, as
contrasted with labor unions, labor leaders,
and institutions.
“I decided I wanted to pursue this new
type of history by examining the first gen­
eration of ex-slaves. With people in this
generation, you can see the culture and
beliefs they held as slaves, as well as their
changing ideals as free men and women.
You can look backward and forward at the
same time. It was a moment when a new
world was in the making. ”
Fascinated with the kinds of records
that he, Rowland, and some of her fellow
graduate students began turning up at
the National Archives, Gutman interested
prize-winning historian Ira Berlin in using
the archive records to write a documen­
tary history of emancipation. The result,
Rowland says, was the Freedmen and
Southern Society Project, which Berlin
took a leading role in founding and subse­
quently served as senior editor for its first
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Eventually the project will have published
some 3,000 documents culled from an orig­
inal selection of 50,000 records —a number
that represents about 2 percent of the mass
of papers the researchers combed through.
“People are impressed by the number of
letters we’ve found by slaves and ex-slaves,”
Rowland says. “They ask, ‘How can there
be so many letters written by people who
weren’t allowed to read and write?’ It turns
out that there were more slaves who had
bits and pieces of literacy than we’d previ­
ously thought.”
She adds, “Many documents by people
who are only semi-literate are actually very
literary. They were written by people who
were the products of an oral culture, people
clearly familiar with the words of the King
James Bible. There are marvelous turns of
phrase. You can see the influence of African
storytelling. In terms of content, the quality
is far more literary than what I get from
my students today.”
Each volume in the Freedmen and
Southern Society Project is introduced by
a lengthy interpretive essay written by the
project editors. But, admits Rowland,
“there are some things we could never say
as well as the documents say directly. Many
documents are more moving and revealing
than any passage we could write.”
Case in point, an 1862 letter from an
escaped Maryland slave:
“My Dear Wife[,] it is with grate joy I
take this time to let you know Whare I
am[.] i am now in Safety in the 14th Regi­
ment of Brooklyn[.] this Day i can Address
you thank god as a free man[.] I had a little
truble in giting away But as the lord led the
Children of Isrel to the land of Canon So
he led me to a land Whare fredom Will rain
in spite of earth and hell[.] Dear you must
make your Self content I am free from al
the Slavers Lash[.]”

Debt and Taxes
Your government pays you to go into
debt, Joseph Isenbergh ’67G tells U.S. tax­
payers. The current tax system favors the
debtor at every turn, Isenbergh’s argument
goes, with the result that Americans are
now saving their money at the lowest rate
of any time in peacetime history.
“Both consumers and investors gain
from pursuing their objectives with bor­
rowed funds rather than their own equity,”
declares this law professor at the Univer­
sity of Chicago.

To make his point, he cites the “ 1.7 vaca­
tion” example:
“In a tax-free world, a person with
$1,000 could use that money immediately
to go on vacation. If the person could also
buy a 71/2-year bond at 10 percent, provid­
ing a $2,000 return at maturity, the avail­
able choices in a tax-free world include one
vacation today, or $2,000 —the equivalent
of two vacations —in IVi years. (In this
example, there is no inflation.)
“But consider how that decision changes
if there is a 30 percent income tax. Now
the interest income from the bond shrinks
from $1,000 to $700. The decision has be­
come one vacation now or 1.7 vacations
in 7 Vi years. The value of the bond as an
instrument of future consumption is sig­
nificantly reduced by the income tax. This
reduction is known as the ‘second tax on
saving. ’ ”
Isenbergh aired his views most recently
in an article in the Tax Law Review in
which he also proposed his solution: To
improve the savings rate, and, thus, the
economy, the government should abandon
its present income-tax system and adopt a
combination of a 25 percent VAT (valueadded tax on consumption), supplemented
by a tax on increases in individual net
worth.
Value-added taxes —familiar to travelers
in foreign countries, where they have long
been common —are similar to sales taxes;
they are imposed as a percentage of the
price at points of turnover of goods and
services. The difference is that a VAT is col­
lected by sellers over the entire production
process. The burden is passed on in stages
until it ultimately rests on the consumer.
In Isenbergh’s proposal, two things
would preserve an element of progressive­
ness at both the lower and upper ends of
the scale of wealth: The government would
refund part of the value-added taxes paid
by low-income families, and levy an addi­
tional tax on annual increases in net worth
above a certain threshold.
A VAT in place of the tried-and-true,
“American way” income tax—isn’t that
pretty radical? “I’m not just a voice in the
wilderness,” Isenbergh replies. “Right now
there is a consensus among academics and
economists that a consumption-based tax
is best.”
He is less optimistic about acceptance
from politicians. Although a VAT would
help improve the economy over the long
run, in the short run it could deepen reces­
sion because people would tend to spend
less on consumer goods, Isenbergh says.
“In the end, however, the politics of eat­
ing your seed corn is self-limiting. Even­
tually the politicians will have to face up
to the long-term costs of their short-term
actions.”

Being a Cop and Reading History
What does the study of Tudor England
have to do with “being a cop and arrest­
ing narcos”? Not much, concedes David
Luitweiler ’74.

But, says New York State’s newly ap­
pointed Number 2 policeman, his under­
graduate experience as a Phi Beta Kappa
history major did a lot for the personal
side of his life. When you’re in a business
where, as he puts it, “you don’t see society
at its best,” it’s a welcome break to be able
on the side to read up on something long
ago and far away—say the reign of Henry
VIII—which he still does, he says, “as my
hobby.”
Already a cop when he enrolled at the
University (he joined the State Troopers in
1962 right out of high school), Luitweiler
knew even then that being a policeman
would be his lifetime profession. In fact he
didn’t even resign his post to go to school.
Instead, throughout his college career he
was a police officer by day, student by night.
He recently moved to his new job as dep­
uty superintendent of the 4,100-member
New York State Police after twenty years as
a colonel in charge of plain-clothes crimi­
nal investigations. “My basic expertise is in
organized crime, narcotics, and homicides,”
he says. As such, he has, for instance, super­
vised state police involvement in the arrest,
conviction, and imprisonment of the Roch­
ester organized-crime hierarchy as well as
the “Cali Investigation” of narcotics in
New York City, which so far has netted 130
defendants, 6 tons of cocaine, and $24 mil­
lion in cash.
“Local police often call in the state police
for undercover work,” explains Luitweiler,
“because local officers are often known on
the street, but state police can blend in.”
“There’s no doubt about it, when you’re
a police officer, you see the bad side of
human nature,” says Luitweiler. As he has
moved up the police hierarchy, he has be­
come further removed from “the criminal
element. ” Even so, he still derives satis­
faction from what he considers a police
officer’s main responsibility: “If you’re tak­
ing people who are doing harm to others off
the streets, you’re contributing to society.”
At the same time, says this policemancum-humanist, “you have to retain your
empathy for people. You have to remember
that not everyone who gets into trouble is a
bad person.”

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Dealing with Ambiguity
Ann Hurlbut Prentice ’54 is into informa­
tion these days. More precisely, information
science.
But if you ask the newly elected president
of the American Society for Information
Science just how to describe her field, she
can’t tell you.
“If you want to start a good argument,
just ask that question, and you’ll get fifty
different definitions, all with their own
champions,” she admits. “Because the
profession is moving and growing so fast,
the definition you fight for this year just
won’t work next year. Information science
is not the place to be if you can’t deal with
ambiguity. ”
Her profession, it turns out, incorporates
elements from numerous other fields, in­
cluding library science, business, and com­
puter science. “What divides people is that
some of them are interested in technology,
some in theory, and the largest percentage
are interested simply in how to manage in­
formation.”
And just what does “managing informa­
tion” entail? Prentice explains by describing
her current responsibilities at the University
of South Florida, where as associate vice
president she oversees the relationships
among all the school’s libraries, works with
the computing center, and acts as liaison,
among other areas, between the provost
and the university press. “I work with all
these groups so they can work together to
provide the resources we need to support
teaching and research —and so no one is
more unhappy than anyone else,” she adds
wryly.
Prescott recently enlarged her purview
when she took on the presidency of the
American Society for Information Science,
which claims about 4,000 members world­
wide at universities, libraries, museums,
and a wide variety of businesses, research
laboratories, nonprofits, and other service
agencies, including, for example, the infor­
mation specialist responsible for designing
and maintaining a database for all the nu­
clear waste in this country.
Lest anyone think that she and her col­
leagues lead quiet lives, hidden away in
ivory towers, Prentice talks about national
and even global issues that confront these
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A couple of years ago, when the FBI
stirred up a national controversy by investi­
gating whether or not suspicious “foreign­
ers” were using U.S. libraries, Prentice and
other members of the American Library
Association’s Intellectual Freedom Com­
mittee protested. “This was when the FBI
was going around to libraries and asking
their staffs whether people with funny
names and accents were coming in and
asking for materials on U.S. technology.
I’m sure there’s a sheet on me now at the
FBI, although none of us knows for sure —
the FBI won’t tell us,” Prentice says.
“The lesson I learned is that we may not
be as free as we think we are. A situation
like this makes you aware of what it means
to have freedoms and rights and of the fact
that you absolutely have to protect them.”
Prentice also points out that “informa­
tion is a have and have-not issue. It’s a
commodity. Poor countries don’t have
access to the information they need to
build businesses and universities and col­
leges. How should affluent countries share
what they know with the countries who
need this information?
“On the other side of the coin, why
should developed nations spend millions of
dollars to develop information that every­
body else gains access to for free? We need
to figure out who owns information and
what its value is. ”
Prentice ultimately comes down on the
side of providing information to those who
need it: “A free society can’t function with­
out free access to information.”

Master of the Haus
After every opening night at the English
National Opera, General Director Peter
Jonas ’77E goes home and, literally and
operatically, weeps with relief.
“I dread first nights,” he laments. “I am
responsible for what happens, and I have
to sit in my seat and I can’t do anything.
In an opera, a hundred thousand things
can go wrong, and my love for the company
is so deep that I feel pain when someone
makes the slightest mistake. Then there is
the fear that the audience, which, in some
simplistic way, is always right, might not
like it! ”
Such fervor is characteristic of the man
who, according to the London Times, is

“widely credited with revitalising British
opera. ”
Since moving to ENO in 1985, Jonas has
managed to attract new, younger audiences
to the Coliseum (the company’s theater off
Trafalgar Square), eclipsing the ENO’S more
staid rival, the Royal Opera. One of the
reasons may be that the ENO has cham­
pioned what its press agents call “populist
opera”: All productions are in English, and
the Coliseum is one of the few opera houses
in the world where you can walk in off the
street and get a ticket for that night’s per­
formance. The New York Times of British
journalism, The Guardian, recently labeled
the ENO “the most consistently innovative”
of all British opera companies, largely
thanks to the “gloriously uncompromising”
efforts of Jonas and his music and produc­
tion directors.
With such achievements on his resume,
Jonas was recently wooed and won by the
Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In Sep­
tember 1993 he assumes the post of intendant, one of the dozen or so top jobs in
the opera world.
“It was the result of a massive selling job
on the part of the Bavarian government,”
he says. “But at first I didn’t even think they
were serious. The Bavarian State Opera is
one of the finest symbols of what opera
means; it’s a very, very great company. ”
Once in Munich, he won’t have to con­
tend with the shortages of funds that pe­
rennially plague the ENO. “The Bavarian
State Opera is sustained 80 percent by
government funding; ours is only 47 to
48 percent,” he says.
Which may give him some much-needed
security as he goes about, in his words,
“giving the audience something in a per­
formance that they did not expect when
they bought their tickets.” At ENO, that
has meant creating a Tosca set in Fascist
Italy, a Mafia Rigoletto, and a Romanian
Macbeth modeled on the rise and fall of
the Ceausescus. The 1990-91 season was
a much-trumpeted —and ultimately well
received —selection of operas introduced
to the stage in the twentieth century.
Such gambles do, indeed, make for
opening-night jitters. And Jonas plans to
continue taking risks in his new job.
“In Munich, I’ll be responsible for the
work of 2,000 people; here it’s 800. On
opening night, the efforts of all your em­
ployees are on the line. For the person who
leads the company, that’s extreme pressure. ”
In any event, he says appassionato, “I f
you believe that opera is intended to actu­
ally say something about the society that
we live in, if you believe that opera por­
trays aspects of life which cannot be put
into words, //you firmly believe that art
is the blessing and definition of existence,
then opening nights will always be a tre­
mendously emotional experience.”

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Rolling Sculpture
“Classic automobiles are standards by
which to measure other members of their
species. [They are] poems rather than icons
. . . their own reason for being.”
The author of the above words, Richard
Hawes ’49, has been enamored of classic
automobiles since he was a kid tagging
along with his dad while the elder Hawes
was out inspecting cars for his insurance
business. Young Richard also studied his
father’s rate books, which described all
makes of American cars —from Auburns to
Buicks to Hudsons. Early on he determined
that Auburns—with their bright paint jobs
and flashy fenders—were his favorites.
“You can’t imagine the joy my buddies
and I felt when we’d spot an Auburn,” says
Hawes. “We’d go crazy! Those cars have an
emotional appeal that lasts a lifetime.”
Indeed. Since 1972, Hawes has been a
hyperactive member of the 1,700-member
Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Club, based in
Indiana at the former site of the Auburn
Automobile Co.’s offices and factory. He
says he should have been a charter mem­
ber, but the advertisement for the club’s
start-up in 1952 went down the incinerator
with his cherished collection of car maga­
zines when his wife threw them out during
his graduate-student days at the University
of Pennsylvania. Her declaration: “Richard,
if you continue poring over those maga­
zines, you will never finish your disserta­
tion.”
Hawes did finish his dissertation and
subsequently led a productive career as
professor of English (he’s now retired) at
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. But his
passion for cars, especially the three makes
—Auburns, Cords, and Duesenbergs —
produced from 1903 to 1937 by the Auburn
Automobile Co. never waned. Twenty years
after the mass incineration —and by sheer
chance while driving through the state to
visit his brother—he saw a billboard adver­
tising an event sponsored by the Indianabased ACD Club (“for those who have
never relished the commonplace”). First
things first, he put off the visit and joined
up “that very day.”
With his encyclopedic knowledge of the
cars, Hawes is now the club’s unofficial his­
torian. He knows everything from when
the first Auburn was made (1903) to when
Errett Lobban Cord joined the Auburn Au­
tomobile Co. (1926) to how many Duesenberg J Models (“the greatest car ever built”)
rolled off the assembly line (under 500).

He claims his interest in the cars is
“purely academic.” It’s their looks, not
their engineering. “I’ve gone from literary
scholar to automotive historian, but when
it comes to the actual mechanics of the
cars, I know very little. There’s no way I
could actually restore a car. ” There’s also
no way he could afford a vintage Auburn,
Cord, or Duesenberg, he says, explaining
that a fully restored Duesenberg J Model
goes for $1 million or more.
So what kind of car does he drive?
“A 1988, five-litre, Mustang LX coupe.”
How does it compare to his dream cars?
“It’s a great car, and I love it. But frankly,
very few cars made after World War II
excite me.”

Triple Crown
If her nursing professors back in 1982
hadn’t been quite so concerned about her
academic progress, Joan Alley-Smith ’84N
probably wouldn’t be where she is today:
among the front ranks of professional
woman triathletes, who swim, run, and
cycle —all in the same grueling event. So
notable is her surge to the top that the May
1991 edition of Triathlete Magazine singled
her out as one of the country’s most prom­
ising competitors.
But her success in the triple-barreled
sport began, the way she tells it, as “a big
accident.”
During her sophomore year, AlleySmith’s teachers suggested —as professors
do from time to time—that her grades
might improve if she spent more time in

the library and less in the pool. Reluctantly,
the award-winning Yellowjacket quit the
swim team —and then, with no prior expe­
rience, signed on for track instead. “I fig­
ured they told me to stop swimming, but
they didn’t tell me not to run.” The rest is
a slice of athletic history.
During her junior year this swimmerturned-runner set a school track record,
as yet unbroken, and won All-American
honors in the 10,000-meter outdoor run,
with a time of 36:31.1. She also set school
records in the 5,000-meter outdoor and the
3,000-meter indoor runs. Meanwhile her
scholastic performance perked up, and once
again in the good graces of her instructors,
she returned to the swim team as a senior.
That season she added to her laurels by
earning All-American honors in the 400meter individual medley.
About the athletic/academic comeback
of her collegiate days Alley-Smith says,
“I believe that when you really want to do
something you make it happen.” She’s con­
tinued to live by that principle as a full-time
triathlete.
“There have been a few times when I had
no money and could barely buy groceries,
but I’ve always made it,” says Alley-Smith,
who earns her living largely from the prize
money she wins in competition.
Some days she works out three times a
day—a five-hour bike ride (there being no
Yellowjacket cycling varsity, she had to pick
up this sport on her own), a one-and-ahalf-hour swim workout, and an hour-long
run. Between May and September she com­
petes in anywhere from ten to fifteen races.
Isn’t all this nonstop activity, well,
strenuous?
Not at all, asserts the indefatigable
Alley-Smith. Perhaps for your ordinary
sofa vegetable, but “once you’re in shape
it’s really no different from doing each
event solo.”
Contributed by Nancy Barre, Kathleen
Ferguson Chapman, Denise Bolger Kovnat,
and Wendy Levin

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Rochester Review/Fall 1991
Learning to Legislate: The Senate Education of
Arlen Specter by Richard Fenno. CQ Press,

$27.95 (hardcover), $18.95 (paperback).
In his latest volume, Congressional ex­
pert Fenno, professor of political science in
the College of Arts and Science, focuses on
how a beginning senator learns to navigate
the legislative process. Earlier this year CQ
Press also published Fenno’s The Emer­
gence o f a Senate Leader: Pete Domenici
and the Reagan Budget.

Recent releases by alumni,
faculty, and staff

in yuppie Seaside Harbor, New York, who
turns out to have been running a stockmarket scam.

BOOKS

Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England:
A Cultural Poetics by Bruce Smith ’71G, ’73G.

Arrogance by Joanna Scott. Linden Press,

University of Chicago Press.
Smith is a professor of English at
Georgetown University. This is his second
published book.

Simon & Schuster.
The third novel by this critically
acclaimed novelist who is assistant pro­
fessor of English in the College of Arts
and Science. A fictional account of the life
of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon
Schiele, the book has already won three
awards.
Beavers: Water, Wildlife and History by Earl
Hilfiker ’25. 198 pp., color and b. w. photos.
Available from the author, $26.95 per copy
($28.70 in N.Y. State), 284 Somershire
Drive, Rochester, NY 14617.
Illustrated with photographs taken by
the author throughout his long career as
a nature photographer, the book explores
in great detail the world of the beavers
(sometimes referred to as “engineers in fur
coats”) and traces their history from the
time of their first discovery by European
explorers in North America.

Iconographie and Comparative Studies in
Medieval Drama edited by John Stroupe

’62G. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute
Publications.
The Jazz Poetry Anthology edited by Sascha
Feinstein ’85 and Yusef Komunyakaa.
256 pp. Indiana University Press.
Says Dizzy Gillespie: “In the course of
the history of jazz, there have been only
a few articles that get to the core of the
meaning of jazz. These poems hit it right
on the head, and the book is certainly
essential for anyone who is interested in
our music.”

’89G. Story Line Press.
Mason was named co-winner of the
Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize for this
volume, his first full-length collection of
poems. The author’s work appears regu­
larly in such periodicals as The Hudson
Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, and
The American Scholar.

Maximizing Third-Party Reimbursement in Your
Mental Health Practice by Richard Small ’71.

128 pp. Pennsylvania Psychological Asso­
ciation, $32.70.
Small is also the coauthor of Insurance
Reimbursement for Pennsylvania Psychol­
ogists, 80 pp., Pennsylvania Psychological
Association, $10, members; $20, non­
members.
The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to
Global Tourism by Eric Leed ’72. 328 pp.

Music of the Middle Ages: Style and Structure

Coronary Angioplasty (second edition) by
David Clark ’65M. Wiley-Liss, Inc.
The author is a physician specialist in
cardiology at Stanford University School
of Medicine.

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Man Ray: American Artist by Neil Baldwin
’69. Da Capo, $16.95 (paperback).
“Perhaps the greatest achievement of
this fine, richly illustrated biography is that
it humanizes the daunting artist who has
come to be known as the ‘Dada of us all,’ ”
Robin Lippincott wrote in The New York
Times Book Review when this volume was
issued in hardcover in 1989.

New York: Basic Books, $24.95.
Columnist Helen Bevington wrote in
The New York Times: “a historian’s ac­
count, wonderfully rich in material, of
travel through the ages, exploring the
nature of the journey and the ways in
which the mind of the traveler is trans­
formed by what it encounters.” Leed is an
associate professor of history at Florida
International University.

The Buried Houses by David Mason ’86G,

False Faces by Seth Margolis ’76.
St. Martin’s Press, $18.95.
Publishers Weekly calls this mystery “a
hip and urbane debut work.” It has to do
with a beautiful and enigmatic weekender

Loren Eiseley: A Modern Ishmael by Peter
Heidtmann ’59. Archon Books, $25.
On the twentieth-century American
prose-poet, nature-writer, and cult figure,
who, according to writer Annie Dillard,
“restored the essay’s place in imaginative
literature.” Heidtmann is professor of
English at Ohio University.

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and Music of the Middle Ages: An Anthology
for Performance and Study by David Wilson
’55GE. MacMillan & Co.
A faculty member (music history) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Wilson also assisted in the production of
Recordings to Accompany Music in the
Middle Ages, which features original tran­
scripts from the anthology. He was recently
awarded the Certificate of Merit by the
Cultural Federation of Nova Scotia for his
work in early music.

Rochester Review/Fall 1991
One Hundred Years at Hull-House edited by
Allen Davis ’54G and Mary Lynn McCree
Bryan. 320 pp. illus., b. w. photos. Indiana
University Press, $49.95 (hardcover);
$24.95 (paperback).
Since its founding on the west side of
Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen
Starr, Hull-House has become the most fa­
mous social settlement in the United States.
The author of this history is professor of
history and director of the Center for Pub­
lic History at Temple University.

RECOMMENDED
READING
selected by faculty

Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson. Pan
Books, 1983.
“These are the memoirs of three
women who were part of the fifties beat
generation. We know about the lives of
the men in that crowd-Jack Kerouac,
Allen Ginsberg, and others - but not the
women. Now they’re writing their own
memoirs. These books offer a new slant
on that piece of history. ”
Midstream by Le Anne Schreiber.

A Policy Calculated to Benefit China: The
United States and the China Arms Embargo,
1919-1929 by Stephen Valone ’84G, ’89G.

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., $42.65.
An analysis of the embargo imposed by
the United States and other countries on
shipments of arms and ammunition to
China. The author is an assistant professor
of history at St. John Fisher College.
Proceedings in Parliament, 1626: Volume One:
House of Lords edited by William Bidwell

’77G and Maija Jansson. 640 pp. Yale
University Press.
An account of impeachment proceedings
brought by parliamentarians against George
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, an important
minister of the king who was charged with
thirteen counts of corruption, addressing
basic issues of governmental and adminis­
trative responsibility. Bidwell is recording
secretary of Yale University.
The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social
Influence by Michael Leippe ’74. McGraw

Hill, Inc., 1991.
The Seacoast of New Hampshire: A Visual
History by Bruce Ingmire ’69 and Robert

Gilmore. Donning Company.
Selling Your Services: Proven Strategies for
Getting Clients to Hire You or Your Firm by

Bob Bly ’79. Henry Holt & Co.
This is his eighteenth book. His nine­
teenth, The Elements o f Business Writing,
was published by MacMillan in August.
True Nutrition, True Fitness by Jerrold Winter

’59. 416 pp. Humana Press, $19.95.
A professor of pharmacology and thera­
peutics at the School of Medicine and Bio­
medical Sciences at SUNY Buffalo, the
author asks and answers questions like,
“Is the oat bran craze justified?” “Is sugar
really a poison?” And “Can we really pre­
vent heart attacks/strokes/osteoporosis/
cancer by diet and exercise?”
The Underwater Naturalist: A Layman^ Guide
to the Vibrant World Beneath the Sea by

David Bulloch ’62G. 256 pp., illus. maps.
Lyons & Burford, $24.95.
A guide to the beautiful and bizarre in
costal marine life, suitable for snorklers
and beach vacationers on the east and west
coasts of North America.

Janet Wolff, professor of art history and
comparative literature, College of Arts and
Science

The founder and former director of
the Centre for Cultural Studies at the
University of Leeds, Wolff is the director
of Rochester’s; new graduate program in
comparative arts. Since leaving her hâ­
tive England in 1988 she has held visit­
ing appointments at several American
and Canadian Universities,
“Recently I’ve been enjoying a num­
ber of books that give an account of
how people experience their own cul­
tures,” says Wolff, whose academic spe­
cialty is the sociology of art and cultur­
al studies. “I like to read memoirs and
novels that do a good job of giving the
flavor of the historical period they’re set
in. They make for very good reading.”
A few of her recommendations:
How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie
Jones. E. P. Dutton, 1990.
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady.
William Morrow & Co., 1990.

RECORDINGS
Diamond Symphony No. 3, Romeo and Juliet,
Kaddish, and Psalm and Diamond Elegy and
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe. Delos.

Two discs featuring works of David
Diamond ’37E.
Jan DeGaetani in Concert, Vol. 2, featuring

songs of Brahms and Schumann. Bridge.
Recorded by the late Jan DeGaetani,
Eastman School professor of voice, at the
Aspen Music Festival in July 1983.
The Making of a Medium: Vol. 1, works of
Mozart, Hovhaness, Frescobaldi, Pasatieri,
and Bartók; Vol. 2, works of Vanhal, Rorem,
David, Musgrave, and Liszt. Crystal
Records.
Recorded by The Verdehr Trio, Gary
Kirkpatrick ’61E, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr
’58GE, ’64GE, and Walter Verdehr.

Penguin, 1990.
“A real-life account of the relation­
ship between a middle-aged woman and
her mother. Set in upstate New York
and Minnesota, it offers great insight in­
to the lives of contemporary American
women.”
Landscape for a Good Woman by Carolyn
Steedman. Virago, 1986.
“I’ve read this book a few times. It’s
all about Steedman’s life growing up in
England in the fifties. She uses her own
life as a means of explaining her gener­
ation. It’s much more than just a linear
narrative.”
Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley,
Seeker & Warburg, 1990.
“A novel that traces the lifelong re­
lationship of a German woman and a
British man, from 1918 to the 1980s.
The characters’ personal experiences are
woven into historical and cultural devel­
opments of the twentieth century. It’s
extremely compelling. You can’t help
but get involved with the characters, ”

Portfolio, five compositions by Cynthia
Folio. Nebula.
Cynthia Folio ’79GE is associate pro­
fessor of theory at Temple University.
The Rachmaninoff Vespers, Mstislav

Rostropovich conducting. Erato.
Recorded by Gene Tucker ’69E.
Sno’ Peas, the Phil Markowitz Trio fea­
turing Eddie Gomez and A1 Foster. Ken
Music.
Other recent recordings by Phil
Markowitz ’74E include: The Art o f the
Big Band, featuring Bob Mintzer (D.M.P.
Records); Bop Boy, featuring Marvin
Stamm (Musicmaster); a tribute record to
Chet Baker (C.C.B. Records); and, with
Michael Davis ’83E, Heroes, featuring the
Yellowjackets and Eddie Daniels (Voss
Records).

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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
N.Y., CEO of Tribeca Corp., a
real estate firm.
Gail Wright Sirmans ’72 of Mount
Vernon, N.Y., an attorney with
Pace University School of Law.
ast spring, six Roch­
Joseph Willett ’75G of Ridge­
ester alumni joined
wood, N.J., senior vice presi­
the Trustees’ Council, dent and treasurer, Merrill
the advisory group
Lynch & Co.
_ _ _ representing the Uni­
versity’s 70,000 alumni.

INTRODUCING OUR
NEW TRUSTEES’
COUNCIL MEMBERS

L

HERE’S YOUR NEW
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
‘SUPPORT TEAM’

Birnbaum

Pagar

Leibner

Willett

The new members are:
Joel Beckman ’76 of Scarsdale,
N.Y., an attorney and vice presi­
dent of Goldman, Sachs, and
Co.
Ricki Korey Birnbaum ’86G of
Pittsford, N.Y., a private educa­
tional consultant and director
of the Center for Learning and
Program Planning.
Richard Leibner ’59 of New York,
N.Y., president of N. S. Bienstock, Inc., an agency represent­
ing television and radio news­
casters.
Gary Pagar ’78 of New York,

In keeping with Rochester’s
motto, Meliora (“better things,”
as you know), your Alumni As­
sociation continues to work on
better ways to serve you.
In the months to come, our
alumni volunteers will be work­
ing closely with Kitty McCarthy
of the Office of Admissions,
who is the new director of the
Volunteer Admissions Network
(VAN), dedicated to recruiting
new students to the University.
Alumni who volunteer in the
Career Cooperative and Career
Connections programs will be
working with Emily Newton,
the new director of the Center
for Work and Career Develop­
ment.
Other appointments of inter­
est to alumni: Wayne Locust,
formerly associate director of
admissions, is now director of
admissions for the River Cam­
pus and the School of Nursing.
(Locust succeeds B. Ann Hines
Wright ’63, ’66G, 77G, now
dean of enrollment at Smith
College.) Ryan Williams, for­
mer assistant director of finan­
cial aid, becomes director of
financial aid for the River Cam­

WHEN YOU SUPPORT THE ANNUAL FUND, YOU SUPPORT STUDENTS LIKE
THESE The smiling undergraduates pictured above-Jennifer LaGuardia ’93,
Michael Eiffert ’93, and Jose Garcia ’9 3 -a r e among the 325 Alumni Scholars cur­
rently studying at Rochester. The scholarship program is funded, in part, through
your gifts to the Annual Fund, a critical source of financial aid dollars and a cen­
tral component of the Campaign for the ’90s. Alumni Scholarships are awarded for
need as well as merit and provide for students’ tuition, room, and board -in some
cases, by as much as 100 percent.

pus and the School of Nursing.
And Kathy Kurz, former direc­
tor of financial aid, assumes the
new position of executive direc­
tor for planning, systems, and
resource management in the
Division of Enrollment, Place­
ment, and Alumni Affairs.
New to the Alumni Associa­
tion staff are Lisa Hardy Norwood
’86 and Thomas Farrell ’88, both
of whom are program managers
in the area of Class Programs —
special class activities, reunions,
and fundraising, to name a few.
Synthia Wayne is our new pro­
gram manager for alumni serv­
ices.
We’re also looking to Richard
Aslin, the new dean of the Col­
lege of Arts and Science, to help

the Alumni Association to in­
volve more faculty in alumni
programs across the nation.
“A Rochester education
doesn’t end with Commence­
ment,” says Aslin. “It should
be part of a lifelong relation­
ship with the University.
“In short, we hope to provide
opportunities for greater alum­
ni involvement with their alma
mater—and in that way offer
‘added value’ to the University’s
programs.”
For information on how you
might involve Rochester faculty
in programs sponsored by your
alumni group, call the Alumni
Association at (800) 333-0175
or (716) 275-8928.

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From
BRUCE M O SES‘55
President, Alumni Association

As the new president of
the Alumni Association, I’d
like to formally welcome our
newest members, the Class
of ’91.
We’ll be looking to you for

leadership, energy, and ideas,
now and in the years to
come. In return for your in­
volvement, you’ll become
part of a vital communitycomprising some 9,400 stu­
dents and their parents,
1,000 faculty, and 70,000
alumni (not to mention sev­
eral thousand staff)—whose
influence extends across the
country and around the
world.
Applause for Alumni Review

As you’ve noticed, your
alumni newspaper—formerly
known as Rochester ’97—has
merged with R ochester Re­
view. This new section,
known as A lum n i Review,
contains Alumni Association
news, issues, and trends, as
well as Class Notes, just as
Rochester ’91 did. We have a
new design that’s fresh and
upbeat, and we’ve placed
alumni news right where it
ought to be, as part of the
University’s flagship publica­
tion, R ochester Review. The
result, I believe, is a better
magazine, one that carries a
great deal more information
of interest to alumni. I ap­
plaud the change and hope
that you enjoy reading the
entire publication.
Kudos to reunion classes

Finally, I want to com­
mend all our reunion classes

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for a terrific program and an
outstanding gift effort, par­
ticularly the “Jubilee” years
of ’66 and ’41. For its “Schol­
ars Fund,” the Class of 1966
gave the University more
than $360,000; the Annual
Fund portion of its reunion
class gift amounted to
$153,398. The Class of 1941
hit an all-time record for re­
union class giving at Roches­
ter, becoming the first class
to give $1 million to the Uni­
versity.
As class gift co-chairs,
Hetty Jean Barth Crapsey ’41
and Wayne Norton ’41 “put
their whole heart and soul
into the campaign,” accord­
ing to Mary Jo Ferr of the
Alumni Association. The
class gift will go to under­
graduates to support curric­
ulum enrichment, scholar­
ships, education in general,
and a host of related needs.
The gift comes at a criti­
cal time for the University,
when faculty, students, and
staff are taking another look
at undergraduate education,
with the aim of improving
what is already an excellent
environment for learning.
Wayne Norton speaks elo­
quently on the subject. “It’s
our conviction that an edu­
cated populace can solve the
problems of the world. So
we’re focusing on programs
which broaden students’ un­
derstanding of their world —
to make such programs avail­
able to a larger number of
undergraduates.”
Norton, Crapsey, and
their classmates have set an
example for all of us, by tar­
geting their energy where it’s
needed most. I commend
them and urge other classes
to emulate their fine work.

ANNOUNCING THE
CENTER FOR WORK
AND CAREER
DEVELOPMENT

A MESSAGE TO THE
CLASS OF ’91:
WELCOME TO THE
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

The University has a new
division —the Center for Work
and Career Development—de­
voted to helping students and
alumni as they seek jobs and
build their careers.
The center, directed by Emily
Newton, is the result of a “mer­
ger” between the Office of Stu­
dent Employment and the Ca­
reer Services and Placement
Center. The center’s major
activities:
Reach for Rochester, a pro­
gram offering meaningful, well­
paying jobs to undergraduates.
The program includes “SummerReach,” which provides
students with jobs across the
country during the summer,
and “Reach Experienceships,”
which provide jobs during the
academic year. Scholarships are
also available to students with
jobs in community service. A
note to all alumni: Your in­
volvement is crucial to the suc­
cess of all Reach for Rochester
programs, since they rely on a
network of alumni in offices
across the country to help find
jobs for students.

Joseph Mack ’55, former
president of the Alumni As­
sociation, offered these words
to the Class of ’91 during Com­
mencement exercises last May.
“As president of the Alumni
Association, I am pleased to
welcome you as our newest
members. Today you join a
group of some 70,000 interest­
ing and diverse alumni, many
of whom are active and vigor­
ous in their support of the Uni­
versity. As the liaison between
the University and its former
students, your Alumni Associa­
tion encourages your enduring
involvement in the life of your
alma mater. We, your fellow
alumni, first say thank you
for choosing the University of
Rochester. By your very pres­
ence you have made this a bet­
ter place. A special thanks to
those of you who have excelled
academically—your achieve­
ments have enhanced the value
of all of our degrees.
“As alumni, you and I have
chosen to establish a lifelong
relationship with our Univer­
sity, for we are inextricably
linked in our futures. We alum­
ni are indeed the ambassadors,
the lifelong trustees, the makers
and the keepers of the Universi­
ty’s traditions. ”

The Goldberg Career Library

is an “information center” for
all students and alumni who are
seeking jobs or planning their
careers. The library holds some
1,000 books as well as pamph­
lets, videotapes, computerassisted career-guidance pro­
grams, and an impressive array
of files on individual employers
across the country.
The Rochester Career Coopera­
tive is an alliance of alumni

volunteers nationwide who are
ready and willing to share ad­
vice and expertise on their par­
ticular careers with students
and alumni who are seeking
or thinking of changing jobs.
The center offers career coun­
seling for students and alumni,
including help in identifying
skills and interests, strategies
for seeking jobs, and “entrees”
with potential employers.
If you have any questions
on the center or want to get
involved, please call Emily
Newton at (716) 275-2138.

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For details, call the Alumni
Association at (800) 3330175 or (716) 275-3684.
October

11-12 —Rochester: Medical
school reunion
11-13 —Rochester: UR
Spectacular
12 —Rochester: Football v.
Carnegie Mellon
13 —Rochester: Bausch &
Lomb Regatta
15-28 —Danube: Alumni
tour
18 —Rochester: Soccer v.
Chicago
20 —Rochester: Soccer v.
Washington
25-26 —New York: Volley­
ball championships at NYU
26 —Pittsburgh: Cross
country championships
at Carnegie Mellon
November

1-3 —Rochester: Parents’
Weekend
30-Dec. 7 —Colonial South:
Alumni tour
December

6 —Boston: Basketball v.
Brandeis
8 —Pittsburgh: Basketball v.
Carnegie Mellon
January

6-16—Costa Rica: Alumni
tour
10 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Washington
12 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Chicago
24 —New York: Basketball v.
NYU
26 —Cleveland: Basketball v.
Case Western Reserve
31 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Brandeis
February

THE PRESIDENT’S REUNION COUNCIL In town last April to plan for Reunion ’92 were members of this year’s President’s
Reunion Council: (front row, left to right) John Zabrodsky III ’82, Fred Infantino 7 0 , Gretchen Padgett Taylor 7 7 , 79E ,
Michael Fisher ’87, ’89G, Grace Simonetti ’57; (second row) Robert Osieski 7 7 , 78G , George Warren Cobb ’57, Morton
Bittker ’57, William McQuilkin ’62, 77G , Scott Bullock 7 7 ; (third row) Catherine Travis 7 2 , Susan Quick Rice ’67, Michelle
Kaplan Bass ’82, Myron Beal ’42, Margaret Barry Cozzens ’62; (fourth row) S. Zane Burday ’57, ’61M, Jeanine Khoury ’82,
Harry Miller 7 7 , Jane Stellwagen ’47, ’58G, Richard Rasmussen 7 2 , 79G ; (fifth row) William Bristol ’67, Alison Fry Stewart
’42, Mary Dalton Morgan ’47, Frank Okey ’42; (sixth row) Amy Goldstein ’87, Marilyn Kehrig Nahabetian ’52, Carol Farnum
Gavett ’47, Margaret Greene Kindig ’47; (top row) President O’Brien, Basil Michel ’57, ’60G, Kevin Kelly ’85, (woman directly
below Kelly) Karen Kochanski ’82, Harriet Wing Sacks ’62, Jean Mack-Fogg ’82N, ’88GN.

7 —Rochester: Basketball v.
NYU
9 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Emory
13-15—Atlanta: Swimming
championships at Emory
14 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Johns Hopkins
16 —Rochester: Basketball v.
Carnegie Mellon
21 —Chicago: Basketball v.
Chicago
23 —St. Louis: Basketball v.
Washington
29 —Atlanta: Basketball v.
Emory

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other eastern cities. And the
group is releasing a new record­
ing, Catch the Buzz.
According to Yellowjackets
business manager Dan Hershey
At UR Spectacular on October 12
’92, the CD includes some tra­
he Yellowjackets —
ditional Yellowjacket songs —
Rochester’s men’s
Blue M o o n and Just a G igolo —
a cappella singing
as well as A h Woe, A h M e,
group —celebrate
Z o m b ie Jam boree (originally
_ _ _ _ _ their 35th anniver­
done by the New York City
sary this year. To mark this mile­ group, Rockappella), Seven
stone, they’re holding a YellowB ridges R oad, the Beatles’
jacket reunion on the River
B lackbird and H ard D a y ’s
Campus on Saturday, Oct. 12
N igh t, the Eagles’ Take I t Easy,
(during Homecoming and UR
James Taylor’s O nly O ne and
Spectacular). For more infor­
Walk D ow n th at L onesom e
mation, call the Alumni Asso­
R oad, Tin Soldier, Huey Lewis’s
ciation at (800) 333-0175 (in the J acob’s L adder and N aturally,
Rochester area, it’s 275-3684).
Slap th at Bass, the traditional
Yellowjacket alumni are cor­
Twinkle, Twinkle, L ittle Star
dially invited to come and sing
(arranged by Yellowjackets
along on some of the old favor­ director Larry Loh ’92), and
ites at a concert starring the
K iss the G irl (from The L ittle
current Yellowjackets along
M erm aid).
with the women’s a cappella
The recording is available on
group, Vocal Point. The time:
CD for $15 and on cassette for
just after Saturday night’s
$10 (includes postage and han­
football game against Carnegie
dling). Make checks payable to
Mellon. The place: the May
University of Rochester Yellow­
Room in Wilson Commons.
jackets; profits go to support
A to u r-a n d a new CD
the group. For details, write:
Other 35th anniversary
River Campus Music Program,
events: a winter tour for the
207 Todd Union, University of
current group, taking them to
Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627alumni clubs in Philadelphia,
0052. Or call the music pro­
Washington, D.C., Atlanta,
gram office at (716) 275-2828.
Tampa, and Orlando, among

COME HARMONIZE
AT A YELLOWJACKET
REUNION

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The Yellowjackets, as they appear on the cover of their recent recording, “ Catch
the Buzz.” Pictured in the “Sitting Tree” on the eastern riverbank in Genesee Val­
ley Park (left to right): Larry Loh ’92, director; Brian Hoffman ’91, business man­
ager; James Gebhardt ’92, business manager; Dwayne Grannum ’93; Kenneth
Marshall ’94; Benjamin Kozower ’93; Dean Byler ’93; Christopher O’Rourke ’91;
Daniel Hershey ’92, ’92E, business manager; and Aron Cogswell ’92.

Dear
ROCHESTER
“The men and women
who entered the University
in the fall of 1946 were a di­
verse lot. We were older than
freshmen were before or af­
ter us. But we all knew why
we were at the University
and worked at it, guided by
a faculty that warmed to our
eagerness to learn. I shall al­
ways be grateful to these men
and women who cared about
my future.
“For many years after
leaving the University, I
sounded like Arthur May,
my professor of history. His
wry humor, his precise tim­
ing, and his balanced view
of past and present all be­
came a part of what I am
now.”
This letter from William
Gamble ’50, executive vice
president of Educational
Services Institute and a
member of our Trustees’

Council, is one of the many
“Dear Rochester” letters
we’ve received in recent
months. The reason for the
fan mail: At the start of the
Campaign for the ’90s last
May, we asked a few of our
alumni to write and tell us
what their Rochester educa­
tion has meant to them. We
featured many of their
responses at the kickoff
event and will continue to
publish them throughout the
campaign.
We’d love to hear fr o m as
m any alum ni as po ssib le (w e
w elcom e interesting anec­
d o te s as w ell as quick, handscraw led notes). P lease send
your letter to “D ear Roches­
ter, ” Office o f P ublic Rela­
tions, U niversity o f Roches­
ter, 107 A dm inistration
Building, Rochester, N Y
14627-0033. Thanks!

ATTENTION:
YOUNG ALUMNI

M.B.A. REUNION ’91 The Simon
School held its second annual M.B.A.
reunion last June on the River Campus,
with some 500 alumni, family, and
friends attending. Among the events:
a “Faculty Forum,” campus tours, and
graduation ceremonies for the Class of
1991. Pictured above at a picnic lunch
on the Eastman Quadrangle (left to
right): Association Dean for Academic
Affairs Ronald Hansen and Timothy
McKinney ’91G.

The Alumni Association re­
cently initiated a “Young Alumni
Program” for the current senior
class and the 10 most recent
graduating classes. The aim
of the program: to keep young
alumni involved, informed, and
in touch with the University
through events, communica­
tions, and a special sliding scale
for gift recognition.
Beginning this year, gifts to
the Annual Fund from recent
graduates —members of the
classes of 1982 through 1992 —
will earn special recognition in
Rochester’s Presidents Societies
(our honorary societies for an­
nual giving).
Now, the m inim um m em ber­
ship levels required f o r you n g
alum ni will be calculated this
way: (Regular society g ift level)
x (10°/o) x (num ber o f years
since graduation).

For details, contact Eric
Rausch at (800) 333-0175 or
(716) 275-8912.

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ALUMNI CLUBS ACROSS THE NATION
ADVISORY BOARD
CHAIR:
Andrea Bourquin Ryan 77N
(202) 544-5824

LOS ANGELES
Norma Winer Cohen ’62
(213) 385-3402

NEW YORK CITY
ATLANTA
Jerry Gardner ’58, ’65G
(404) 873-6208

Amy Goldstein ’87
(212) 339-8711

PHILADELPHIA
BOSTON
Jamie Wood ’84
(617) 628-2760

John Doyle ’81
(609) 541-0325

PHOENIX
BUFFALO
Clare Haar ’75
(716) 883-1664

Carl Mangine ’70
(602) 244-7047

PITTSBURGH
CHICAGO
Ann Erickson ’83
(312) 993-4628

DALLAS/FORT WORTH
Craig Evans ’77
(214) 745-4630

DENVER
Betty Ann Friday Tichenor ’59
(303) 757-6238

FAIRFIELD COUNTY,
CONN.
Kevin Feeney ’74, 75G
(203) 966-5175

FORT MYERS, FLA.
Judith Frank Pearson ’58
(813) 936-8297

HARTFORD
Heidi Wolthausen, ’90
(203) 636-7566

Jeff Campbell ’79
(412) 422-0131
Dawne Sepanski Hickton ’79
(412) 433-2967

ROCHESTER
Louis Kinsella ’81
(716) 482-2069

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ALUMNI HELP THE
ADMISSIONS OFFICE
AVOID ‘SUMMER MELT’
Those who work in college
admissions know all too well
the phenomenon called “sum­
mer melt”: the loss each sum­
mer of some students who had
accepted offers of admission to
the freshman class.
“There’s attrition for any
number of factors,” says Debra
Salmon, director of alumni pro­
grams. “So we’ve set up a series
of receptions for members of
the Class of ’95, sponsored by
alumni groups in some of our
key markets. We invite these in­
coming freshmen and their par­
ents along with local alumni
and current students from the
area.
“We welcome them to the
University on behalf of the
Alumni Association, offer them
information on the University
and their class, and answer
some of the basic questions
parents and students have. The
point is to make them feel a
part of the University family

before they even arrive on
campus.”
Last summer, receptions were
held in Albany, Boston, Buf­
falo, Chicago, Cleveland, Fairfield County (Conn.), Hartford,
Manhattan, Philadelphia, Roch­
ester, Queens, Short Hills (N.J.),
Syracuse, and Washington, D.C.
In the past, alumni groups
traditionally sponsored “sendoff picnics” for freshmen at the
end of the summer. In contrast,
last summer was the first time
such events happened earlier
and on a larger scale. Any
members of the Class of 1995
who weren’t invited to an area
gathering received a phone call
from a Rochester student or a
VAN volunteer living in their
region.
The results so far? “The
numbers are up from last year,”
says Salmon. “There was still
some attrition, but this year,
more students who said they
were joining the Class of ’95
did join the class. That’s a big
help to our admissions effort. ”

SAN DIEGO
Thomas Stohl ’80
(619) 466-7333

SAN FRANCISCO
Andrea LoPinto ’80
(415) 752-9302
Frank Tallarida ’53
(415) 883-6321

TUCSON
Harrison Jones ’64
(602) 742-4001

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Gerard Smith ’83G
(301) 757-4941

In July, members of the Class of ’95 who live in the Rochester area were treated
to a family picnic welcoming them to the University. Pictured above at the picnic
(left to right): Liana Tarantino ’95, J. Tarantino, Jeff Barbato 7 8 , Sandy Tarantino,
and Gina Tarantino.

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PICTURES FROM REUNION ’91
For the River Campus and the School of Nursing
Some 1,000 alumni—plus
children, spouses, and friends
—flocked to the River Campus
in June for Reunion ’91: a
weekend full of tours, talks,
dining and dancing, softball,
walks, and other good times
with old friends. The Class of
’46 cruised the Erie Canal while
’66 boated on Lake Ontario;
Sports Illustrated photographer

Bill Eppridge gave alumni his
“Perspective on History,” cover­
ing everything from the Viet­
nam War to the presidential
campaign of Bobby Kennedy
to the Olympics; President
O’Brien delivered his traditional
“State of the University” ad­
dress. Here are a few photos
from the festivities.

MILLER’S COURT Arthur Miller ’55, Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard
Law School, gave the reunion “Lecture of Distinction.” Miller is law commentator
for Good Morning America and hosts his own weekly television show, Miller’s
Court, in Boston.
5TH AND 50TH Matthew Kaplan ’86 and George Mullen ’41, a trustee of the Uni­
versity, at the class processional around the Eastman Quadrangle.

SPIRIT OF ’66 Members of the Class of ’6 6 - pictured above (left to right), com­
mittee chairs Sandra Didenko Varney ’66, Kay Carroll ’66, and Robert Varney ’66
together with President O’B rien-gave the University a gift of more than $153,000.

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THE STING REUNION COMMITTEE Photographed at the all-alumni processional
and dinner on Friday were Gordon McDougall, executive director of the Alumni
Association (second from right) and members of STING (Students Together In
Networking Graduates, left to right) Leigh Schroeder ’92, Laura Miller ’92, Cassie
Fenton ’94, Jennifer Smrstik ’94, and Jackie Cohen ’92.

FACULTY LECTURER Peter Regenstreif (left), professor of political science, gave
a talk on “Politics and the Mass Media.”

10 YEARS LATER

COMRADES-IN-ARMS
Camaione Price ’86.

Kathy Bocchiaro ’86 (left) arm in arm with friend Laura

David Hasenauer ’81, a graduate of the Institute of Optics.

’86 ON PARADE Members of the Class of ’86 in high spirits during the alumni
processional on Friday night.

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RIVER CAMPUS

SLATER SOCIETY

P0ST-50TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

’28

Virginia Whipple Boyd w rites
from L om b ard , 111., “ I have fo n d
m em o r ie s o f m y years at R och ester.”

’29

In M arch Eleanor Otto read a
p o e m sh e h a d p en n ed , “ F aith A fter
V ie tn a m ,” at a S h elley S o c ie ty o f
N e w York con feren ce.

’30

Frederick Conner w as in d u c t­

ed as an h o n o ra ry m em b er o f the
U n iv ersity o f F lo r id a ch ap ter o f
P h i B eta K appa. O ver th e years
h e h as served in a ca d em ic a d m in is­
trative p o sitio n s an d as an E n g lish
p ro fe sso r at three universities.

says sh e ’s th e bird bander, h e ’s the
bird recorder. . . . Arthur Reed, a re­
tired new s an d c o p y ed itor o n th e
New York Times w h o started h is
jo u r n a listic life o n th e R och ester
Democrat & Chronicle, h as recently
w ritten several p ieces fo r th e new
e d itio n o f th e Information Please

Almanac. . . .

’31

A. Marguerite Heydweiller
Baumgartner reports th a t sh e an d
her h u sb a n d , F red, h ave m o v ed to
a new h o u se ju st tw o d o o r s aw ay
from her o ld e st s o n ’s h o m e . T h ey
are still a ctiv e bird w atchers; sh e

Alan Wile has
b een n a m e d N a s ­
sau C o u n ty S e n ­
io r C itizen o f th e
Year for 1991. H e
w as se lected by a
p an el o f ju d g e s
c o m p o se d o f
Wd6
representatives
from th e n etw ork o f agen cies serv­
in g th e eld erly an d th e C o u n ty ’s
S en ior C itizen A d v iso r y C o u n cil.
W ile v o lu n teers h is tim e to term i­
n a lly ill p a tie n ts an d their fa m ilies
at H o sp ic e C are o f L on g Islan d , Inc.

’32
’33

60TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

In June, a stu d y n a m e d in
m em o r y o f Thomas R. Forbes ’37G
w as d ed icated at th e Yale m ed ical
s c h o o l’s h isto ry library. . . . In th e
p a st year Max Kaplan retired from
private practice in o p h th a lm o lo g y
a n d celeb rated tw o m ileston es: his
80th b irth d ay an d his 50th w ed d in g
ann iversary w ith his w ife, E th el.
H e h o ld s clin ica l fa cu lty a p p o in t­
m e n ts at th e U n iversity o f C o lo r a d o
H e a lth S cien ces C enter, p lays ten nis
three tim e s a w eek , an d is learn in g
to u se h is com p uter, h e w rites.

’35

IN ROCHESTER’S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME Pictured above, left to right: Roy
Roberts ’40, Allen Brewer ’40, and Nelson ( “Bud” ) Spies ’3 8 - a l l hoopsters on
Lou Alexander’s famed varsity basktball team of 1 9 3 7 -3 8 -a n d their respective
basketball photos from the 1939 Interpres. The group held a reunion last winter in
Florida, where they talked a lot about basketball.
According to Spies, ‘1938 was the first year they eliminated the center jump.
Before then, you came back to the center and started over again after each point
was scored. That’s why in those days scores like 35 to 32 or even 28 to 25 were
not uncommon. That was also the year when the one-handed jump shot began;
before that, there was only a two-handed set shot.”
Roberts, now retired in Florida, had been in the race-track business in Califor­
nia; Brewer, now retired, owned Brewer and Newell Printing in Rochester; Spies is
a former Kodak executive.

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William Walzer ’37G w rites
th a t in 1991 h e celebrated th e 50th
an n iversary o f his grad u a tio n from
R och ester C o lg a te S em in ary an d o f
his o r d in a tio n as a M e th o d ist m in is­
ter. H e is n o w retired after 35 years
w ith th e staff o f th e N a tio n a l C o u n ­
cil o f C h u rch es. H e an d his w ife,
D orothy, are m em b ers o f th e U n ite d
C h ristian P arish o f R eston , Va.

’37 55TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7
’40 Wilbur Wright received the
S U N Y G e n e se o F o u n d a tio n ’s M eri­
to rio u s S ervice A w ard for 1991 in
r e c o g n itio n o f h is o u tsta n d in g p ro­

fe ssio n a l ach ievem en t an d d istin ­
g u ish ed service to th e co m m u n ity
an d th e college.

’42
’43

50TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Robert Pekarsky h as b een
a p p o in te d lecturer at th e M t. S in ai
S c h o o l o f M ed icin e an d clin ical
a ssista n t in th e d ep artm en t o f d e n ­
tistry at M o u n t S in ai H o sp ita l. H e
w as a lso elected a m em b er o f the
B oard o f T rustees, N ew York S o c i­
ety for th e D e a f.

’44

Joseph Lipper w as a p p o in ted
by th e gov ern o r to a three-year term
as a p u b lic m em b er o f th e S tate o f
C a lifo rn ia B oard o f G overnors.

’47

45TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Jean Conner Ferris w as h o n o red for
g iv in g m ore th a n 2 0 years o f service
to th e P rim ary M en tal H e a lth P ro j­
ect in M o n r o e C ou n ty. T h e program
pairs elem en tar y sc h o o l children
w h o are h avin g sc h o o l ad ju stm en t
p rob lem s w ith train ed a id es w h o give
th e m th e sp ec ial a tten tio n they n eed .

Attention, Navy
V-12 veterans:
Celebrate the program’s 50th
anniversary in fall 1993

If you’re one of the more
than 1,000 sailors and ma­
rines who attended Roches­
ter while the Navy V-12 Pro­
gram was on campus —from
July 1, 1943 through June
30, 1946—you’re invited to
join navy and marine World
War II veterans from 131
other colleges and universi­
ties for the 50th anniversary
celebration of Navy V-12 at
Norfolk, Va., on November
3-6, 1993.
If you’re interested, write
Capt. Robert L. Jones, USN
(Ret.), Navy V-12 National
Committee, c/o U.S. Navy
Memorial Foundation, Ar­
lington, VA 22209-8728. The
phone number is (703) 7348510.

Alumni Review/Fall 1991
Kenneth Button ’52G w as

aw arded th e Infrared a n d M illim eter
W ave P rize by the In tern a tio n a l S o ­
cie ty o f O p tica l E n g in eerin g for his
p io n e e r in g research co n trib u tio n s.
. . . Barbara Walter w as h o n o red as a
1990 Y W C A W om an o f D istin c tio n
in th e ca teg o ry o f A rts a n d C o m ­
m u n ic a tio n , in R acine, W is.

’51

W. Bromley Clarke ’62G , ’68G

h a s retired as v ice president o f re­
search a n d d ev elo p m en t at a J o h n ­
so n & J o h n so n com p any. P art-tim e
c o n su ltin g , travel, and g o lf n o w
o c c u p y m o st o f his tim e, h e says.
M ea n w h ile, h e reports, Jean Foster
Clarke ’52 is in v o lv ed in Jazzercize.
. . . Stuart Daniels w rites th a t his C D
recordin g o f p ia n o m u sic by C h o p in ,
L iszt, a n d Ravel w ill b e p u b lish ed
s o o n by B & M records, a n A u stra­
lia n record lab el.

’52

40TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

A fte r 33 years w ith I.B .M ., Lois
Debes is n o w retired an d “ en jo y in g
a ll th e ad v a n ta g es o f liv in g in
B ou ld er, C o lo .”

’56

Marvin Gettner reports tha t
h e h as a new jo b in th e o ffice o f th e
su p erc o n d u ctin g super co llid er at
th e U .S. D ep a rtm e n t o f E n ergy in
W a sh in g to n , D.C.

’57

35TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

In A u g u st Charles Achilles ’62G , ’67G
le ft his p o st as d ep a rtm en t chair and
returned to b ein g a professor. H e
sp en t so m e o f his sum m er v a ca tio n
at S en eca Lake, in G en eva, N.Y. . . .
Robert Potter ’57G , ’60G has fo rm ed
th e D a lla s-b a sed R . J. P o tter C o m ­
pany, w h ich sp ecia lizes in d ev elo p in g
b u sin ess o p p o rtu n ities in tech n ica l
fields.

QUOTED
In Newsweek’s “Overheard” column, George Abbott ’ll
described his plan to write “Abbott’s 10 Tidy Tips for
Longevity.” Quipped the 104-year-old Broadway producer
and playwright, speaking at a Broadway benefit: “A lot
of people want to get old. Friends ask me about my diet.
Strangers come up and want a tip on how to do it. I was
thinking of writing a little pamphlet. I thought this could
be a very substantial article. There would be a chapter
about how to get out of a chair. . .

HONORED
Esther Conwell Roth berg ’44G, one of only two women to

have been elected to both the National Academy of Engi­
neering and the National Academy of Sciences, has been
awarded in addition the Xerox President’s Award for out­
standing achievement.. . . Kinley Brauer ’57, professor of
history and former director of the Center for Austrian
Studies at the University of Minnesota, received The
Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic
of Austria. . . . As guest chaplain for the day, Barbara
Trombley St. Andrews ’66, ’67G was invited to offer the
opening prayer in the House of Representatives when
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited Congress last
spring. On a normal working day, St. Andrews is director
of medicine and philosophy at California Pacific Medical
Center. . . . Elizabeth MacNeil ’85GE is recipient of a 1991
Rome Prize for study in post-classical humanistic studies
at the American Academy in Rome. . . . Wayne Aponte ’90
has been awarded a scholarship to intern in Asia as part
of a program of the Henry Luce Foundation to enlarge
young Americans’ cultural awareness. A reporter at The
Wall Street Journal, Aponte plans to work on an Englishlanguage newspaper in either Bangkok or Hong Kong.

MOVING UP
George Ward ’65, formerly deputy chief of mission at the

’59

Daniel Botkin w o n th e 1991
M itch ell In tern a tio n a l P rize for
S u sta in a b le D ev elo p m en t. . . . Karl
Nelson m a n a g e s b u sin ess d ev e lo p ­
m en t fo r th e hea lthca re d iv isio n
o f Turner C o n str u c tio n C o. H e
w as recently recertified as a fellow
m em b er o f th e A m erica n C o lleg e
o f H ea lth ca re E xecu tives.

’60

Mary Ann Langr Blanchet, v ice
p resid en t and gen eral m anager o f
R ealty U .S .A ., w rites th a t sh e w as
n a m e d realtor o f th e year by th e
S a ra to g a C o u n ty A s so c ia tio n o f
R ealtors.

’62

Class ACTS

30TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Liz Geigle Ball retired as a h ig h -sc h o o l
tea ch er a n d is w o rk in g as a h o rticu l­
tural w riter an d p h o to g ra p h er w ith
her h u sb a n d , Jeff Ball ’61, w h o a p ­
pears m o n th ly o n N B C Today Show

U.S. Embassy in Bonn, has been promoted to career min­
ister, the highest career position available in the State De­
partment without presidential appointment. . . . John
Zabriskie, Jr. ‘66G was recently elected senior vice presi­
dent of Merck & Co., Inc., the world’s largest pharma­
ceutical company.

MEANWHILE IN ACADEMIA
A fair number of Rochester alums have recently acceded
to high-level posts in academic administration. Among
them: Anthony Tartaglia ’58M, dean of Albany Medical
College. . . . Edward Hayes ’63, vice president for research
at The Ohio State University. . . . Leonard Strickman ’63,
dean of the school of law at the University of Arkansas.
. . . Judy Kerman ’67, dean of arts and behavioral sciences
at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. . . . Bruce
Selleck ’73G, ’75G, dean of faculty and provost at Colgate
University. . . . John Stevens ’73E, director of the Univer­
sity of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.

as a gard en in g expert. Together they
have w ritten a b o o k o n p lan t an d
yard care for n on gard en ers, Yardening, w h ich w ill b e p u b lish ed by
M a cM illa n th is fall. . . . Bruce
Connolly, director o f th e S ch o les
L ibrary for C eram ics at A lfr e d U n i­
versity, received a 20-year service
aw ard from th e s c h o o l in February.

’63

B. Ann Hines Wright ’66G ,
’77G , form er director o f a d m issio n s
at th e U n iversity, h as b een a p p o in t­
ed d ea n o f en ro llm en t at S m ith
C ollege.

’64

Richard Cavagnol h as form ed
a new com p an y, T ech n o lo g y A p p li­
c a tio n s G rou p , Inc., in Troy, M ich .
H e is president a n d ch air o f th e
b oard o f directors for th e com p any,
w h ich sp ecializes in d evelop in g
train in g an d ed u c a tio n p rogram s o n
interactive vid eo d isc.

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Anthony Bovenzi w rites that
h e m arried E liza b eth L a P ia n a on
A ug. 18, 1990. . . . L ast year John
Dickerson le ft h is p o sitio n at B ristolM yers S q u ib b an d started a fin a n ­
cial c o n su lta n cy for sm all an d
m ed iu m sized co m p a n ie s w ith in ­
tern ation al interests.

’66

Walter Salerno w rites that
h e’s b ack in th e R och ester area an d
th at h e ’d en jo y h earin g from fellow
a lu m n i.

’67

25TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Race Bergman G,
’74G , p rofessor
o f elem en tary
an d sp ec ial e d u ­
ca tio n at M id d le
T ennessee State
U niversity, w as
o n e o f the
s c h o o l’s three
fa cu lty m em bers
se lected as o u tsta n d in g teach er o f
th e year. . . . In A p ril William Bristol,
M o n ro e C o u n ty cou rt ju d ge, w as
aw arded th e R och ester C h am ber
o f C om m er ce C ivic A w ard for G o v ­
ern m en t. . . . Daniel Grossberg G is
an a sso cia te p rofessor in the Ju d aic
stu d ies d ep artm en t an d director o f
th e H ebrew d ep artm en t at S U N Y
A lb an y. . . . Robert Lewy reports
th at h e w as p ro m o ted to sen ior v.p.
for m ed ica l affairs at C o lu m b ia
P resbyterian M ed ica l C enter in N ew
York. . . . Dan Morrisey w ork s as a
region al system s en gin eer at A m d a h l
C orp. in W ash in gton , D .C . . . .
Lowell Patric ’68G h as b een elected
president o f R och ester C o m m u n ity
S avin gs B an k .

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Alumni Review/Fall 1991

RIVER CAMPUS, cont.

’68 Leslie Merchant

tea ch es eigh th
grad e a t th e W o o d m ere M id d le
S c h o o l in H ew lett, N.Y. H er b io g ­
raphy a p p ears in th e first a n n u al
e d itio n o f Who’s Who Among

American Teachers.

’69

David Adler, c h ie f o f th e d i­
v isio n o f a d u lt p sy ch ia try at N ew
E n g la n d M ed ica l C enter H o sp ita l
in B o s to n , w as recently p ro m o ted
to p ro fe sso r o f p sych iatry at Tufts
U n iv ersity S c h o o l o f M ed icin e. . . .
Barbara Boychuk Cantalupo earn ed a
P h .D . in E n g lish from S U N Y B u f­
fa lo in 1988 an d is n o w an a ssista n t
p r o fesso r o f E n g lish at P en n State
U n iversity. In 1988 sh e w as rem ar­
ried, to C h arles C a n ta lu p o . T h ey
h ad a daughter, A lisia K iah , in
1989. S h e h a s tw o o th e r children,
C h risto p h er and E liza b eth . . . . In
Jan u ary Edmund Grant o p en ed a law

Do you remember
Professor
Sherman Hawkins?

Sherman Hawkins, a pro­
fessor of English at Roches­
ter from 1965 to 1971, retired
last spring from Wesleyan
University. “I know that his
tenure at Rochester was an
important time in his life.
He met his wife, Anne Mitch­
ell Hawkins ’67’, ’70G, ’78G,
there, and that certainly
changed his life,” writes
friend Doris Hallie. If you’re
a former student (or col­
league), you’re cordially in­
vited to contribute any brief
reminiscences, characteristic
quotes, or revealing (but not
too revealing!) anecdotes for
a special scrapbook of mem­
orabilia which friends have
put together for him. Please
send a note to: Professor
and Mrs. Philip Hallie, 137
Highland Ave., Middletown,
CT 06457.

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office in L ex in g to n , M ass. T h e prac­
tice e m p h a sizes la n d use, b u sin ess,
fa m ily estate law, a n d civil litig a tio n .
. . . Bruce Ingmire w rites th a t he
earn ed a m aster’s degree in early
A m erica n histo ry from th e U n iver­
sity o f N ew H am psh ire. . . . Vivien
Sugar, fo rm erly a m ark etin g c o o rd i­
n a to r w ith H aw ker S id d eley Pow er
E n g in eerin g , h as jo in e d Jacob s
E n g in eerin g G rou p as sales c o o r d i­
nator.

’ 7 0 Carey Delcau a n d h is w ife,
R oxan n e, a n n o u n c e th e b irth o f
their se c o n d so n , M ich ael A sher, on
A pr. 11. T h eir first so n , C la y to n ,
w as b o rn o n Jan. 2 8 , 1988. . . . Paul
Boehm w as n a m ed v ice president o f
en v iro n m en t, h ea lth , an d sa fety at
A rth u r D. Little, Inc., in C am bridge,
M a ss. . . . Cynthia Rauker Rigby
w rites th a t sh e ’s co m p le te d a resi­
d en cy in O B /G Y N a n d th a t sh e’s
n o w w o rk in g in th e six-m em b er
practice, L o u isv ille (Ky.) P h ysician s
for W om en , Inc.
’ 7 1 Ella Funk Cleveland ’7 2 G is
an eva lu a to r at th e U.S. G en eral A c ­
c o u n tin g O ffice a n d David Cleveland
is a sta ff a tto rn ey a t a W ash in gton ,
D .C ., la w d ep a rtm en t. . . . Mark
Gottsegen w rites th a t h e m arried
E m ilie H a m lo w o n D ec. 31, 1989.
H is b o o k o n p a in tin g m aterials is
d u e to b e p u b lish ed n ext spring.
. . . Bob Rouse w as p ro m o ted to v ice
p resid en t o f o p era tio n s fo r M .C .I.
in th e te le c o m m u n ic a tio n s field. H e
liv es in T eaneck, N .J ., an d w ork s in
M a n h a tta n . . . . Donna Tennant
w rites th a t sh e ’s co n tin u in g her c a ­
reer as a n u n p u b lish e d n ovelist.
’7 2

20TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Diane Anderson is a clerk at th e
office o f h ea rin g s a n d ap p eals, an
office o f th e S o c ia l Secu rity A d m in ­
istra tio n , in S an A n to n io , Tex. . . .
Thomas Bonfiglio is a tenured p r o fe s­
sor o f G erm a n at th e U n iversity o f
R ich m o n d . . . . Stephen Hagar has
b een n a m e d v ice president fo r op er­
a tio n s a t L in c o ln In d u strial U .S .A .,
in St. L o u is, M o . . . . Stuart Pack,
form erly a partner w ith S h erm an &
H ow ard, h a s b e c o m e a sh arehold er
in th e firm o f C o x , B u ch an an &
P ack, P.C., in D e n v e r .. . . Carol Petty
a n n o u n c es th e birth o f her so n ,
J o h n R oss, an d Rochelle Robbins an d
D o n a ld Steinbrecher a n n o u n c e th e
birth o f their se co n d so n , G r e g o r y —
b o th b o rn o n S ep t. 3, 1990. . . .
G u itarist John Teleska ’72, ’82G is
c o -h o st o f “ F lo u r C ity H o u r ,” a
m o nth ly , h o u r-lo n g radio program
o f live m u sic an d story-tellin g by
R och ester-area artists, o n W X X IF M . . . . Catherine Travis h as c o ­
fo u n d e d T h e L eadership C om p any,
she w rites, in k eep in g w ith her b e ­
lie f th a t resp o n sib le lead ersh ip is
critical to a n y in stitu tio n ’s su ccess.

’73

Helen Lekisch Bartos an d her

h u sb an d , C hris, a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their tw in girls, L aura A n n an d
A lis o n L eigh, o n D ec. 14, 1990.
T h ey jo in 4-year-old Jessica. . . .
Malcolm Clark reports th at h e o w n s
McTech A sso c ia te s, a sy stem s e n g i­
n eerin g firm in th e S an F ran cisco
B ay area th at p rovid es d e sig n and
te c h n ica l su p p o rt services for the
m u sic, recordin g, film , an d v id e o
in d u stries. T h e co m p a n y p rovid ed
en g in eerin g su p p o rt in th e p o st­
p r o d u c tio n stages o f The God­
father, Part III. In 1988 h e m arried
C aro ly n Y oung. . . . Mark Cohen
a n n o u n c e s h is m arriage to P aula
H u b b s in 1988 an d th e birth o f
their daughter, C h else a H a n n a , o n
M ar. 4, 1990, in N a sh u a , N .H . . . .
Wendy Kahn w as rem arried in M ay
1989. S h e an d her h u sb an d , D en n is
P ow ell, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
d aughter, Jennifer, o n Feb. 13, 1990.
W endy recently b eg a n a n ew jo b
in a private p ed iatric p ractice in
P ou gh k eep sie, N.Y. . . . Stephanie
Brown Raskulinecz an d her h u sb an d ,
G eorge, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
daughter, M ad elin e, o n M ar. 11,
1990. . . . Stuart Sanderson a n ­
n o u n ces h is m arriage to th e form er
Jan ice D y k stra o n O ct. 7, 1989, an d
th e birth o f their daughter, J essica
L ouise, o n S ep t. 11, 1990. Stu art
jo in e d th e A m erica n M in in g C o n ­
gress in 1988 as a sen ior c o u n se l for
c o a l regu latory an d legislative issu es.
. . . Anita Schubert has b een n am ed
m u sic director an d ca n tor o f A d a t
S h a lo m R e c o n stru ctio n ist C o n g r e ­
g a tio n in B e th e sd a an d can tor o f
B eth S h a lo m C o n g reg a tio n in
C o lu m b ia , M d .

’74

Elizabeth Almeyda ’78 M and
her h u sb a n d , G eorge D ig ia c in to ,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their d a u g h ­
ter, A lexan d ra E liza b eth D ig ia cin to ,
o n D ec. 9, 1990. . . . Tina Fisher an d
her h u sb an d , D a v id L ath am , a n ­
n o u n ce th e birth o f S co tt R uffner
L ath am , o n Ju n e 9, 1990. . . .
Elizabeth Frey ’82G is a train in g a d ­
m inistrator at E .N .I ., a d iv isio n o f
A ste c A m erica , Inc., in R ochester.
. . . P ain tin gs by Barbara Fox ’76G ,
w h o ’s a p ro fesso r o f fine arts at th e
N a tio n a l T echnical In stitu te for th e
D e a f at R och ester In stitu te o f Tech­
n o lo g y , w ere exh ib ited at several
w estern N ew York galleries last
spring.

’75

Mark Doehnert is a registered
p ro fe ssio n a l m ech a n ica l en gin eer in
the S tate o f C a lifo rn ia . H e w ork s
at M are Islan d N aval Shipyard in
V allejo. . . . Andrew Garber m arried
S u za n n e G rill o n A pr. 21, 1991, at
the R ain b ow R o o m in N e w York
City. . . . Bennett Keiser ’75 a n ­
n o u n ces th e birth o f his third ch ild ,
M ich ael S ton e. . . . David Pfeiffer G

received th e 1991 R ec o g n itio n A w ard
for R esearch from th e S c h o o l o f
M a n a g em en t at S u ffolk U niversity,
w here h e is a p ro fesso r o f p u b lic
m a n a g e m en t. . . . Patricia Flynn
Soltys ’86G an d her h u sb a n d , B ob,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their so n ,
A n d rew F ly n n , o n M ar. 12. T h ey
report th at th e y’re active in the
W ash in gton , D .C ., area alu m n i
a s s o c ia t io n .. . . Charles Thrower
a n n o u n c e s th e birth o f his so n ,
A lex a n d er H a rtm a n , o n Jan. 11.

’76

James Callahan an d h is w ife,
C h arlotte, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
their daughter, M ea g a n P atricia, on
A pr. 9. H e is director o f th e general
practice resid en cy program at the
W est L os A n g e le s VA m ed ica l ce n ­
ter. . . . Jeffrey Elmer m arried Sharon
S eifritz o n A p ril 13. . . . Robert
Evangelisti w rites th a t h e ’s returned
to th e M id w est, w here h e is m a n a g ­
er o f en viron m en tal co m p lia n c e for
O u tb oard M arin e C orp . in W auke­
gan , 111. . . . Jerome Hanss reports,
“ P u lse rate 4 4 an d still ru n n in g !”
. . . Joan Bernstein Harris an d her
h u sb an d , T om , a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their first ch ild , L in d say R ose,
on M ar. 5. . . . In O ctob er 1990
Stephen Howe m oved from th e U.S.
g e o lo g ic a l survey in M e n lo Park,
C a lif., to th e d ep artm en t o f g e o lo ­
g y at th e U n iv ersity o f V erm ont in
B u rlin gton . H e ’s a research g e o lo ­
g ist d ev elo p in g m in e ra lo g ic a l, fluid
in c lu sio n , an d stab le iso to p e g e o ­
ch em istry lab oratories for th e d e­
p artm en t. . . . Bruce Kulp h as b een
p ro m o ted to region al vice president
o f S p ectru m O ffice P ro d u c ts, Inc.,
in R ochester. . . . Seth Margolis and
Carole Zelner a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
their daughter, M aggie, o n Ju ly 12,
1990. . . . Myra Rubin ’7 6 a n n o u n c es
th e birth o f her so n , Z ach ary Jam es
Bailey, o n Jan 30. S h e an d her h u s­
b a n d , R o n B ailey, have their ow n
co m p u ter co n su ltin g b u sin ess,
M .R .R .B . A sso c ia te s. . . . Abby
Levine Saxon an d her h u sb an d , Jam es
S axon , a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
so n , Tyler Jam es, o n A pr. 7. A b b y
is a p ro fesso r o f d an ce at N ew York
U niversity, w here sh e sp ec ia lize s in
ja zz. . . . Gary Stewart retired as
sh eriff o f O n ta r io C ou n ty, N.Y.

’77

15TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Jeanne Andersen ’78G an d Jim
B roeker a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
so n , A n d rew Jam es Broeker, o n
Jan. 4. . . . Jill Cohen is a partner in
a N ew York law firm . . . . Thomas
Crimando G, ’84G , a lecturer in the
d ep artm en t o f h isto ry at S U N Y
B r o ck p ort, reports that his review o f
F rances Yates’s The French Acade­
mies o f the Sixteenth Century w as
p u b lish ed in The Historian (A u ­
tu m n 1 9 9 0 ) .. . . Jane Hussar Dunn
a n n o u n c e s th e birth o f her so n ,
H arrison R eed, o n Jan. 27, 1990.

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Katherine Bleyl is a sso cia te

director o f d ia g n o stic im a g ery w ith
S terling R esearch G roup, a d iv isio n
o f E a stm a n K odak C om p any. . . .
Yvonne Cort reports tha t sh e ’s b een
liv in g in C h e lm sfo r d —a sh o rt train
rid e from L o n d o n — for m o re than
three years. S h e an d her h u sb a n d ,
D e n n is C o h n , an E n g lish m a n , a n ­
n o u n c e th e birth o f their daughter,
B ronw en R o sa lia , o n N o v . 2 , 1990.
Y von n e w rites, “ I’d lo v e to h ear from
an y o f m y o ld frien d s w h en they
p a ss th r o u g h E n g la n d . Ju st pick
up th e p h o n e; I’m the o n ly ‘C o r t’
in th e b o o k .” . . . Jim Feldman and
Ellen Kaufman Feldman a n n o u n c e the
b irth o f their so n , Steven G regory,
o n S ep t. 16, 1990, in W ash in gton ,
D .C . . . . In M arch Marjorie Segal
Gorman w as a p p o in ted v ice president
o f T h e T iern ey G roup, a m arketing
a n d co m m u n ic a tio n s co n su ltin g
firm in P h ila d elp h ia . . . . Robert
Herbstman ’82M h a s o p e n e d an
o ffice fo r th e practice o f c o sm etic
an d reco n stru ctiv e p la stic surgery,
h a n d , a n d m icrosurgery in E ast
B r u n sw ick , N .J. . . . Carol Small
Jimenez a n d her h u sb a n d , D a v id ,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their se co n d
d aughter, C laire, o n O ct. 12, 1990.
C arol is an a tto rn ey fo r th e M ed i­
care A d v o c a c y P ro ject, Inc., in L os
A n g e le s, w here sh e ’s w o rk in g o n

law reform litig a tio n an d lob b yin g.
. . . Douglas Laub has b een n am ed
a sso c ia te director o f p la n n e d g ivin g
fo r th e C ity o f N e w H o p e N a tio n a l
M ed ica l C e n te r / B eck m an R esearch
Institu te, in L o s A n g eles. . . . Jane
Lemiszko an d her h u sb an d Lou Smith
’76 a n n o u n c e the birth o f their first
ch ild , A lis o n J o rd an n a M arlene, on
A u g . 6, 1990. . . . Michael Messing
a n d Carol Rimm Messing a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their third ch ild , P en in a
M a ik a , o n D ec. 21. M ich ael is a fe l­
lo w in C T an d M R I at N orth w estern
U n iv ersity in E v a n ston , 111. . . .
Maureen Picard Robins a n d her h u s­
b a n d , W ayne, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
their daughter, E lizab eth H aley, on
D ec. 10, 1 9 9 0 . . . . Steve Rowland
a n d Ellen Phelps Rowland ’79 an d
their three children, J o h n , W illia m ,
and M argaret, have m oved b ack to
V irginia B ea ch , w here Steve is exec­
utive officer o f th e U .S.S. Shreveport.
. . . Paul Saner G an d Sandra Tischler
Saner ’77, ’7 8 G a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, Jen n ifer L aura,
on A pr. 18. . . . Arnold (“Jeff”)
Schuetz m arried N ita B eck o n M ay
2 6 . . . . Anne Kamin Shelmerdine is
a clin ica l so c ia l w orker d o in g o u t­
p a tie n t p sych o th erap y in th e B o sto n
area. S h e h as a 6-year-old daughter,
Sara, a n d a 3-year-old so n , D a n iel.

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. . . Jim Lavin reports th a t h e ’s left
his jo b o f five a n d a h a lf years to
esta b lish ed a p rivate practice in
c lin ica l so c ia l w ork in Sch au m b u rg,
111., a suburb o f C h ica g o . H e w rites,
“ I’m exp erien cin g a w o n d ro u s c o m ­
b in a tio n o f ab ject terror an d th rill­
in g e x c item en t!” . . . James McVeigh
G w as a p p o in ted president an d c h ie f
ex ecu tiv e officer o f A M T X , Inc., a
su b sid ia ry o f X erox C orp . in C a n ­
a n d a ig u a , N.Y. . . . Elise Kleinman
Weingarten an d Harvey Weingarten ’76
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their se co n d
ch ild , B e n ja m in M ich a el, o n Apr.
17, 1990.

And UR invited!
October 11-13 on the River Campus
Friday, October 11
4 p.m. —Women’s soccer v. St. Lawrence
7 p.m. —Men’s soccer v. Clarkson
9 p.m. —Pep rally and bonfire
10 p.m. —Homecoming party with Nik and the Nice Guys
Saturday, October 12
11 a.m. —Lecture by Nursing Dean Sheila Ryan
12:30 p.m. —Alumni Recognition Luncheon
2:30 p.m. —Alumni Soccer Game
4:30 p.m. —Homecoming parade and tailgate picnic
7 p.m. —Football v. Carnegie Mellon
Sunday, October 13
Bausch & Lomb Invitational Regatta
For details, call (800) 333-0175 or (716) 275-3684.
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Michael Benjamin ’80G reports

th a t h e ’s b een p ro m o ted to gen eral
c o u n se l o f M ed itru st, a N ew York
S to c k E x c h a n g e-listed co m p a n y
tha t pro v id es fin a n cin g fo r h ealth
care fa cilities n a tion w id e. H e has
tw o ch ild ren , A n n e an d E dw ard.
. . . Maureen Hopke Christmas an d
her h u sb a n d , D ave, a n n o u n c e the
birth o f their so n , T h o m a s E dw ard,
o n Jan. 26. H e jo in e d his 3-year-old
brother, A ndrew . . . . Jim Clarke
’8 8 G is sales a n d m arketing m a n a g ­
er for R a d io n ic, Inc. H e ’s th e father
o f tw o to d d lers, b o th b oys. . . . Greta
Williams Davis an d Jonathan Davis ’78
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f th eir third

TOGETHER IN SIENA, ITALY In October 1990 these members of the Class of
7 9 enjoyed a reunion in northern Italy: (left to right) Kathleen Carey, Andrew
Eiseman, David Skolkin, Mary Jane Riley, Joan Falkenberg, and David Weiner.
Rile, who sent us the picture, lives in Italy, where she teaches drawing and
photography.

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A S S O C I A T I O N

ch ild , B rian F ischer, o n Feb. 12.
A fter 11 years w ith D u P o n t, G reta
is n o w a p rocess en gin eer w ith the
recently form ed D u P o n t M erck
p h arm a c eu tica l com p any. . . . Pedro
Fierro h as m oved to T am pa, F la.,
w here h e’s b een n am ed office d iv i­
sio n m an ager for h y d ro g eo lo g y at
G eragh ty an d M iller, Inc. T h e m ove
ca u se d h im to give up his n ew ly w on
p o sitio n o n th e G rand Islan d , N.Y.,
s c h o o l b oard . H e and his w ife,
C andy, have three children, S c o tt,
A m a n d a , an d T im . . . . Mark Gabrellian (see ’84R C ). . . . Sue Gelman
Ginsburg ’80G an d her h u sb an d ,
Roy, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
se co n d so n , Jerem y M atthew , o n
M ar. 26. S u e is vice president for
G rou p O n e C o m m u n ic a tio n s in
M in n ea p o lis. . . . Steven Gochman
an d Lisa Sarnoff Gochman ’80
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their so n ,
Jordan M atth ew , o n O ct. 30, 1990.
. . . Steve Katz ’79 (see ’8 9 R C )____
Valerie Leeds w rites th at she is cu ra­
tor o f 19th-cen tu ry A m erica n art
at th e O r la n d o M u se u m o f A rt. . . .
John McNeill ’79G , ’81G is c a m p u s
p astor at th e U n ite d M in istry o f
In d ia n a U n iversity o f P en n sylvan ia.

H e ’s a lso an assistan t p ro fesso r o f
p h ilo so p h y an d religion at th e
sc h o o l. . . . Jonathan Pachter an d his
w ife, W endy, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
their first ch ild , B arbara D an ielle,
o n Jan. 13. J o n a th a n w as recently
p r o m o te d to a sso cia te p rin cip al sc i­
e n tist at S c h erin g -P lo u g h R esearch
in B lo o m fie ld , N .J. . . Richard
Pfisterer ’80G , a se n io r research sc i­
e n tist at B reault R esearch O rgan i­
z a tio n in T ucson, A riz., m arried
D o n a ta L uberski o n Feb. 3. . . . T h e
n am e o f Amy Pearlman Savitt’s new
dau gh ter w as sp elled in correctly in
the last e d itio n o f C la ssN o te s. It is
N atan ya B eck a. . . . Kathy Doherty
Schmid an d Mark Schmid ’78 a n ­
n o u n c e th e birth o f their tw ins,
Kevin a n d S teph an ie, o n D ec. 28,
1990. T h ey jo in C arolyn , 7, an d
Robby, 4. M ark is a se n io r staff
m em b er at Joh n s H o p k in s A p p lied
P hysics L ab oratory an d K athy is a
licen se d p sy c h o lo g ist. . . . Marie
Schmitz reports th at sh e ’s w ork in g
in th e m a th an d en gin eerin g c o m ­
puter lab at E rie C o m m u n ity C o l­
le g e ’s C ity C am p u s. . . . Mark Segal
an d Evelyn Arias Segal a n n o u n c e the
birth o f their daughter, R ebecca

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Alumni Review/Fall 1991

RIVER CAMPUS, cont.
C laire, o n M ar. 28, 1990. E velyn
received a P h . D. in c lin ica l p sy c h o l­
o g y fro m N o rth w estern U n iv ersity
la st June. . . . Laurie Newell Sparks
an d her h u sb a n d , Harry, a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their daughter, E m ily
S arah , o n A u g . 3, 1990. . . . Ken
Troger m arried his w ife, Julie, o n
J u ly 4, 1983. T h ey live in S w a m psc o tt, M a ss., w ith their tw o c h il­
dren, A m a n d a Sue, b o rn N o v . 11,
1987, a n d J o sh u a A d a m , b o rn
Ju n e 4, 1990. In 1985 K en earn ed a
m a ster’s d egree in m e ch a n ica l e n g i­
n eerin g from M.I.T. H e m a n a g e s an
e n g in eerin g se c tio n a t U .S.C .I. . . .
Charles Wong h a s o p en ed an office
fo r th e practice o f g a str o en tero lo g y
at th e S en eca F alls (N.Y.) H ea lth
C enter.
o u John Ayres is in private
p ractice in o rth o p a e d ic surgery in
B r a d e n to n , F la. A t la st report his
w ife, D eb , w as ex p ectin g a b a b y in
June. . . . Susan Morris Felley a n ­
n o u n c e s th e birth o f her se c o n d
c h ild , M a d elein e A lex a n d ra , o n
D ec. 6, 1990. . . . Gail Bartels Kelley
a n d her h u sb a n d , N a v y C m dr.
W illia m Kelley, a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, Kerry June, o n
N ov. 22 , 1990. T h ey live in C h esa ­
p eake, Va., w here B ill is a resident
in p a th o lo g y a t P o r tsm o u th N aval
H o sp ita l. . . . Bruce Levy is pra ctic­
in g n eu ro lo g y as an a ssista n t pro­
fe sso r at th e U n iv ersity o f Texas
M ed ica l S c h o o l in H o u sto n . H e
w rites, “ I’d like to say h e llo to all
m y lo n g lo st fr ie n d s.” . . . David
Meister ’81G an d his w ife, D ebra,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their se c o n d
c h ild , J a so n R oss, o n D ec. 14, 1990.
. . . Lisa Silverman Paris a n d her h u s­
b a n d , H o w a rd , a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their first ch ild , A lliso n Joy, o n
M ar. 16, 1990. T h ey live in W a sh in g ­
to n , D .C ., w here L isa a n d H ow ard
practice law. . . . Richard Ross w rites
th a t h e ’s a partner in th e law firm
o f C h a ttm a n , G arfield, F ried lan d er
& P au l, in C levelan d . H e a n d his
w ife, Fran G o te , a n n o u n c e th e ar­
rival o f their first ch ild , H a n n a h ,
o n N ov . 3, 1990. . . . Jennifer Repko
Steffy a n d her h u sb a n d , D a v id , an­
n o u n c e th e birth o f their daughter,
A m a n d a C laire, o n N ov. 14, 1990.

’81

Craig Bartner m arried
S te p h a n ie L am b ert o n D ec. 1, 1990.
T h ey live in N ew York C ity. . . .
Nancy Chalfin-Rooks an d her h u sb a n d ,
A lla n R o o k s, celebrated th e first
b irth d a y o f their so n , B radley N eil,
o n O ct. 7, 1990. T h ey live in the
C h ic a g o area, w here N a n c y w ork s
part tim e as an a c c o u n t su p erv iso r
at A rth u r W ilk C o m m u n ic a tio n s.
. . . Judi Elovitz Dyer a n d her h u s­
b a n d , R ick , a n n o u n c e th e birth o f

dandelion Days

Send in the clowns
These three happy fellas appeared in the 1982 Interpres,
in a photo spread on the fall 1981 Halloween party. Can
anybody help us unmask them? (Better yet, can we hear
from the masked men themselves?) Please write to: Edi­
tor, Alumni Review, 103 Administration Building, Uni­
versity of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0033.

Saddle shoes and letter sweaters
The photo we ran in the April issue of Rochester ’91—
of Doris Erskine Hoot ’40 and Fred Martin ’40, ’43M brought us more responses than we’ve received for any
photo, ever. A few dozen alumni wrote or called (includ­
ing Doris Hoot herself, who arrived at work one morning
at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, N.Y., to
find the photo displayed prominently on the bulletin
board) to set us straight on just who these two people are.
“You must be putting us on,” wrote Vernon Davis ’40,
’42G. “Doesn’t everybody recognize two of the best
known and most widely admired members of the Class of
1940?” . . . “If my guess is correct,” wrote Vay Stonebraker
’41, “it’s pretty good for somebody who has trouble with
what day it is, or ‘who’s on first!” . . . “Their smiles make
the picture for me,” commented Edgar Barnes, Jr. ’52. . . .
“I first dated Doris Erskine our sophomore year at col­
lege,” Bob Edgerton ’40 told us in a phone call. “Before her
husband did, I might add.” (Her husband is William Hoot
’40.) . . . “Incidentally, she still looks as pretty,” said Edith
Domine Barclay ’40. . . . “I have to think lots of us remem­
ber who they are,” wrote Charles Caccamise, Jr. ’41, ’44M.
“P.S. If we are still living!” . . . And finally, Blair Hellebush
’42 reminded us, “Back in those days, some of us, occa­
sionally, even wore ties and coats to class!” Imagine.

their so n , E ric W illia m Dyer, on
Ju n e 17, 1990. H e jo in s h is sisters,
L eah an d E la n a . . . . Aleta Freeman
’87G is finan ce m an ager for D isn ey
P ress, a new b o o k -p u b lish in g v en ­
ture in N ew York City. . . . Lori
Smith Gleason a n n o u n c e s th e birth
o f her se c o n d ch ild , B rendan
M ich a el, o n Jan. 16. S h e an d her
fa m ily have recently m oved to a
n ew h o u se in Park R idge, N .J. . . .
Michael Kaner an d h is w ife, Barbara,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their so n ,
M ax S teven, o n Jan. 18. M ich a el is
p racticin g general d en tistry in Trevose, P a., an d B arbara is o n m ater­
n ity leave from her p o st as a ssistan t
d istrict attorn ey in B u ck s C ou n ty.
. . . Timothy Lang an d Annabelle
Barnett Lang ’8 2 N a n n o u n c e the
birth o f their so n , B rian A rthur,
o n Ju n e 15, 1990. T im c o m p leted
a P h .D . in an a to m y at L o u isia n a
S tate U n iv ersity in July 1990.
A n n a b e lle is an o n c o lo g y research
nurse at O ch sn er F o u n d a tio n H o s p i­
tal in N ew O rlean s. . . . David Monde
m arried M arie Rexer o f H u n tin g to n ,
N.Y., in Sep tem b er 1990. T h ey live
in A tla n ta , G a., w here D a v id is a
litig a tio n a sso cia te in th e office o f
Jon es, D ay, R eavis, & P ogu e, and
M arie is president o f R exnerP arkes, a w o m e n ’s clo th in g store.
. . . James O’Connell an d LuAnn
Sgrecci ’84, ’87G w rite th at Jim
grad u ated w ith a B.S. in nursing
from th e U n iversity o f C o n n ecticu t
in M ay 1990 an d p a ssed the state
lic en sin g b oard s in Septem ber. H e
w ork s as a registered nurse at the
U n iv ersity o f C o n n e c tic u t H ealth
C enter. L u A n n an d Jim h ad a
daughter, Tabitha, in July 1990.
L u A n n left her jo b w ith Trinity
C o lle g e to b e a fu ll-tim e m o m . . . .
Dimistri Pyrros w rites th at h e ’ll b e at
B o sto n U n iv ersity H e a lth C lin ic an d
C h ild ren ’s H o sp ita l in 1993. . . .
Jill Mestel Rauch reports th at she
an d her h u sb an d , R on , have m oved
from L os A n g e le s to S an A n to n io .
Jill is a staff p sy c h o lo g ist at the
A u d ie L . M u rp h y V A M C , w here
sh e ad m in isters th e p sy c h o so c ia l re­
h a b ilita tio n program in th e spinal
cord in ju ry center. S h e w rote that
sh e ’s exp ectin g th eir first ch ild th is
fall. . . . Deborah Rivkin Rovner an d
her h u sb a n d , Steven, a n n o u n c e the
birth o f their so n , A n d rew N a th a n ,
o n D ec. 9, 1990. . . . Michael Siani
an d Diane Heinze b o u g h t a h o u se
togeth er in O a k la n d , C a lif., last
sum m er. M ik e b eca m e th e father o f
a n in e -m o n th o ld cat th e day they
m oved in , th e y report. . . . William
Taylor is a full partner in a p ed iatric
practice in Salibury, M d . H e and
h is w ife, S u za n n e Taylor, a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their fo u r th ch ild ,
R ach el E liza b eth . . . . Dwayne Turner
an d Kim Buster Turner a n n o u n c e the
birth o f their first ch ild , K yndal Lynn
Turner, o n A pr. 7, 1990. D w ayn e
an d K im are in p rivate d en tal prac-

Alumni Review/Fall 1991
. . . Laura Shactman m arried W ade
G o ld m a n o n M a y 28, 1989. S h e is
a n a tto rn ey for L iberty M u tu a l in
B o sto n . . . . In 1990, Darren Shapiro
w rites, sh e g o t m arried, b o u g h t a
c o n d o in M a n h a ttan , w as a p p o in t­
ed co rp o ra te sa les m anager for S in ­
clair B ro a d ca st G roup, an d turned
30. . . . Danny Stein reported that
h e w as m arried, w ith a ch ild o n the
way. H e stu d ied n eu ro lo g y at the
C lev ela n d C lin ic an d w ill b e start­
ing a fello w sh ip at N .I .H . . . . Eric
Stevens ’86G an d C h ristin a S u tto n
S teven s celebrated their se c o n d
w ed d in g anniversary in th e m atern i­
ty w ard o f S trong M em orial H o s p i­
tal. T h eir daughter, E lizab eth Sara,
w as b o rn th e fo llo w in g day, O ct.
24, 1990. . . . Arminda Youse-Warde
’83G w rites, “ W e b o u g h t ou r first
h o m e w h ich n eed s q u ite a b it o f
w ork . D o n ’t p la n to v isit for a year! ”

The Turners

’82

10TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Lee Allard G (see ’8 1 E ) .. . . Michelle
Kaplan Bass m arried J o el B ass in
O cto b er 1988. T h ey h a d a so n , Jared
B e n ja m in , o n S ep t. 10, 1990. . . .

Cynthia (“ Cyndy”) Smith Berryman
a n d her h u sb a n d , D a v id , a n n o u n c e
th e b irth o f their fo u rth ch ild ,
G eoffrey R obert P roctor, o n Mar. 24.
H e w as w e lco m ed h o m e by three
very h a p p y sisters, Tiffany, M ich a ela ,
an d C ortney. T h ey live in A v o n , N.Y.
. . . Anne Eisenberg has a fu ll-tim e
a ssista n tsh ip w ith the M em p h is State
U n iv ersity D ep a rtm e n t o f S o c io lo g y ,
w h ere sh e ’s c o m p letin g her m a ster’s
degree. S h e ’s p la n n in g to co n tin u e
o n fo r a P h .D . “ so m ew h ere w here
th ere’s sn o w .” . . . Tony Fama m arried
L ydia E n o c h s o n July 7, 1990. H e
is c o m p le tin g his se c o n d year at
H arvard L aw S c h o o l. . . . Jeff Knakal
a n d h is w ife, T heresa, a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their daughter, C erise
R eb ecca, o n Jan. 30. . . . Richard
Lawrence m arried C y n th ia A vok
L aw ren ce in N o v em b er 1989. H e ’s
a p ro ject en g in eer w ith th e V ehicle
G ro u p at S .E .A ., Inc., in C o lu m b u s,
O h i o . . . . Jeff Lyness ’86M an d Diane
Holland ’8 7 G N are m arried an d have
tw o so n s. J eff is a fa cu lty m em ber
in geria tric m e d icin e a t R ochester.
. . . Marion Rothbart Newbold m arried
M ic h a e l N e w b o ld o n O ct. 6, 1990.
S h e ’s g iv en up a private law practice
to w ork as a ssista n t director o f a d ­
m issio n s at W id en er U n iv ersity
S c h o o l o f Law. . . . In January
Gilbert Perez o p en ed a law office in
R ochester. . . . Mike (“ Spanky”)
Rosato ’8 9 G (see ’8 4 N ) . . . . Joe Russo
w ro te th a t h e w as finish ing his c lin i­
cal p sy c h o lo g y in tern sh ip at E rie
C o u n ty M ed ica l C enter in B uffalo.

’83

Ellen Greenberg Baum has
b een m arried for tw o an d a h a lf
years. S h e a n d her h u sb an d , B ryan,
have a W i -year-old s o n . . . . Deborah
Paone Brooks an d her h u sb an d , M ark,
a n n o u n c e th e arrival o f th eir first
ch ild , M ich elle Y vonne, o n A pr. 18.
. . . Joseph Cangemi an d his w ife,
K im , a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
so n , N ic h o la s J o se p h , o n M ar. 23.
. . . Elizabeth Cowan m arried Brian
K elley o n Ju n e 1 in O rchard Park,
N.Y. T h ey liv e in E ast A urora, N.Y.
. . . Dorie Braitman Jennings an d
D a v id J en n in g s a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, E liza b eth Eve, on
D ec. 2 0 , 1989. . . . Jeffrey Kranis is
in private practice in gen eral d e n tis­
try in E liza b eth , N .J. H e w ill m arry
L isa L a lu m ia th is Septem ber. . . .
Audrey Forner-McGuinness reports
th a t sh e m arried her A u stralian
h u sb a n d , D a v id , o n Jan. 4. S h e is
assista n t v ice president o f th e lever­
a g ed ca p ita l grou p at C itib a n k in
Sydney. A udrey se n d s b elated c o n ­
g ra tu la tio n s to Nancy Robinson Cantor
a n d Dan Cantor ’81 o n th e birth o f
their new est ch ild . . . . Laura Scanlan
McBride an d her h u sb an d , Barry,
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their d a u g h ­
ter, A ly ss a M ich ele, o n M arch 11
1989. L aura is a c o n ta m in a tio n c o n ­
trol en g in eer fo r N u p ro C o., in W il­
lou gh by, O h io . . . . John McKeegan
m arried S u e E sterm an o n S ep t. 9,
1990. John Swanson ’83 an d Matt
Goldstein ’84 w ere g r o o m sm en . . . .
Mark Mozeson ’85G and Mariko Sakita
Mozeson a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
so n , E van M ich a el, o n M ay 17. . . .
Richard Weaver G is an a d ju n ct le c ­
turer in crim inal ju stic e at S U N Y
B ro ck p o rt. L ast sp rin g h e d id three
w eek s’ a ctiv e d u ty w ith th e N a v y
In vestigative Service an d N a v y
S .E .A .L .S . in S a n F rancisco. . . .
In J u ly Nicholas Zabara G jo in e d the
m e ch a n ica l en g in eerin g fa cu lty o f
C o rn ell U niversity.

’84

Helene Solnick Brower an d Vic
Brower ’83 a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
th eir so n , M ich ael D o m in ic Brower,
o n Jan. 22. . . . Kevin Choi earn ed a
D .M .D . from H arvard in 1989 and
fin ish ed his residency th e fo llo w in g
year at B righ am & W om en ’s H o s p i­
tal in B o sto n . H e ’s co m p le tin g sp e­
c ia lty train in g at A lb ert E in stein
M ed ica l C enter in P h ila d elp h ia .
. . . Lisa Cohen an d her h u sb an d ,
Neil Halin ’82, have b een liv in g in
C h icago, w here h e c o m p leted his
r a d io lo g y resid en cy at O lym p ia
F ie ld s H o sp ita l an d she w as the
clin ical c o o r d in a to r for th e p h ysical
therapy d ep artm en t at O ak Forest
H o sp ita l. In Ju n e they m oved to
th e B o s to n area. . . . Mark Phillip
Douglass m arried M ich ele H e n ­
d rick son o n M ar. 1. L ast M ay they
b o th grad u ated from Joh n M arshall
Law S c h o o l in C h icago. . . . Leah
Finkel is fin ish in g her in tern sh ip in
internal m e d icin e at M o u n t Sin ai
H o sp ita l in N ew York City. . . .
Daniel Goldstone recently m arried
P am ela Sm olar. H e ’s a n a ttorn ey in
B o sto n . H e w rites, “ H ey Y ellowja ck ets [he’s referring to th e sin gin g
g ro u p ], le t’s get to g eth er for a har­
m o n io u s re u n io n !” [For details on a

Yellowjackets reunion, see page 48.]
. . . Bill Hayes h as sp en t th e p ast year
stu d y in g in te rn a tio n a l an d E u ro­
p ea n C o m m u n ity law at th e L o n d o n
S c h o o l o f E c o n o m ics. H e reports
th at Bob Glowacky ’85 is d o in g w ell
in B o s to n , th at Anne Sturtz is w ork ­
in g as an attorn ey in C o lu m b u s,
O h io , an d th at Greg Michael ’85,
’89 G M , ’90G M is livin g in L o n d o n .
. . . Tracy Long Horan m arried
E dw ard H o ra n o n A ug. 11, 1990, in
M assen a, N.Y. . . . Lisa Mazure and
E ric G o o d iso n a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, Sara, o n M a y 28,
1990. L isa is tak in g tim e o ff from her
jo b as assistan t d istrict a ttorn ey to
b e a fu ll-tim e m o m . . . . Ani Nazerian
an d Mark Gabrellian ’79 w ere m arried
in N ew York C ity in O ctob er 1990.
A n i earn ed an M .B .A . from G eorge
W ash in gton U n iv ersity an d is w ork ­
in g as a finan cial a n alyst at th e O f­
fice o f T h rift S u p erv isio n in W ash­
in g to n , D.C. M ark is an attorn ey
w ith th e Federal D e p o s it Insurance
C o r p o r a tio n . . . . Steven Meyers
earn ed a P h .D . in physics from the
U n iv ersity o f Texas at A u stin in
1990. . . . Nancy Niemi Peckman an d
David Peckman ’83 a n n o u n c e the
b irth o f their third ch ild , A n n a
C arolin e, o n Apr. 11. . . . Sandra
Schiff m arried D avid W olick i on
A pr. 13. . . . Karen Kaplan Weissman
’86G m arried M ich ael W eissm an
in A u g u st 1989. S h e is an assistan t
b an k m anager w ith S eco n d N a tio n ­
al in B altim ore.

’85

Jill Canin earn ed an M .D .
from th e U n iv ersity o f V erm ont and
is startin g a surgery resid en cy at
M t. S in ai M e d i­
cal C en ter in
N ew York City.

. . . Lancelot
Drummond ’85G

Drummond

h as b een a p ­
p o in te d general
m anager o f den­
tal p ro d u cts for
E a stm a n K odak

C om p any, in R ochester. . . . Thomas
Graham a n n o u n c e s th e birth o f his
first ch ild , N o la n T h o m a s, o n July
19, 1990. L ast N ov em b er T h o m a s
an d his w ife, D o n n a , m o v ed from
N ew York C ity to Syracuse, w here
he to o k a jo b as regu latory c o m p li­
an ce sp ec ia list at U n ity M u tu a l L ife
Insurance C om p any. H e w rites,
“ H eartiest c o n g ra tu la tio n s to
Howard Raphan o n his new p o o l
h a ll!” . . . Virginia Hampton m arried
Barry W iesem a n in A u g u st 1990.
Donna Treadwell w as in th e bridal
party. O ther alu m n i at th e w ed d in g
in clu d ed Sue Anderson O’Brien N ,
’8 9 G N an d Tim O’Brien ’89M , Bella
Tongson, Cathy Stone, an d Barry
Sugarman. V irgin ia is w o rk in g o n
a d octo ra te in p sy c h o lo g y at th e
U n iv ersity o f P en n sylvan ia. . . .

Hecht

Liza Hecht has
jo in e d the
B rid gep ort,
C o n n ., law firm
o f P u llm a n &
C o m ley as an
asso cia te. She
p ractices general
co rp orate law,
fo c u sin g o n em -

p lo y ee b en efits,
. Richard Marvin
c o m p leted a m aster’s degree in g e o l­
o g y at P en n sylvan ia S tate U n iversity
in 1989. S in ce then h e’s lived in
C h in a , w here h e ta u g h t g e o lo g y
an d E n g lish at th e C h en gd u C o lleg e
o f G eo lo g y , an d traveled to T h a i­
la n d , M alaysia, In d ia, an d N ep a l.
P resen tly h e ’s a h yd rologist w ith
D u n n G eoscien ce, an en viron m en tal
co n su ltin g firm in Parsippany, N .J.
. . . Larry Sternbane earn ed a
m aster’s degree in co m p u ter scien ce
from R ensselaer P o ly tech n ic In sti­
tute. H e ’s a co m p u ter system s e n g i­
neer at E lectric B o a t in G roton ,
C o n n . . . . Sharon Hibbard Stokes
m arried R obert Fraser S tok es on
A u g. 18, 1989. T h ey have lived in
S an D ie g o sin ce their w ed d in g, and
S h aron h as b e c o m e licen se d to
practice d en tistry in C a lifo rn ia . . . .
Jordan Stone a n n o u n c e s his e n g a g e ­
m en t to Sarah Lederberg, a grad ­
u ate stu d en t in th e atrical d esign
at B randeis U niversity. . . . Linda
Wojciechowski m arried G regory
K in d e in Septem ber. S h e ’s p u rsu in g
a career in opera.

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CLASS NOTES

tice together. . . . Donald Wilson w as
p ro m o ted to p rin cip al a n d v ice
p resid en t o f D e c isio n F o cu s, Inc., in
L o s A lto s, C a lif. . . . Jim Zavislan
’88G an d Jeanette Dabinett Zavislan
’83 , ’87G a n n o u n c e th e birth o f
their daughter, K atrina A la n e, o n
M ar. 15.

CLASS NOTES

Alumni Review/Fall 1991

RIVER CAMPUS, cont.

’86

Bob Connolly gra d u a ted from
m ed ic a l s c h o o l at R och ester a n d is
d o in g a resid en cy in in tern a l m e d i­
c in e at C edars S in ai M ed ica l C enter
in L os A n g e l e s .. . . Edie Davidson
is e n g a g ed to m arry M ark E p stein
o n O ct. 13. S h e ’s a private a n d c o r­
p o rate career c o n su lta n t, liv in g in
H o b o k e n , N .J. . . . Scott Davidson
h a s le ft en g in eerin g a n d is en terin g
N e w York U n iv ersity ’s d o cto ra l
program in so c ia l-p e r so n a lity p sy ­
c h o lo g y th is fa ll. . . . Harriette Feier
grad u a ted from B u ffalo M ed ica l
S c h o o l in M a y 1990. A first-year
resid en t a t C h ild ren ’s H o sp ita l in
B u ffalo, sh e ’s p la n n in g to sp ec ia lize
in p ed ia trics. . . . Dawn Magaletta
FitzGerald a n d John FitzGerald ’87 a n ­
n o u n c e th e birth o f their so n , R yan
A n th o n y , o n Jan. 15. . . . Jocelyn Go
is a sy stem s a n a ly st w ith M a ssa c h u ­
se tts M u tu a l in Sp rin gfield . . . .
Geoff Gold grad u ated fro m B o a lt
H a ll S c h o o l o f L aw at th e U n iv er­
sity o f C a lifo r n ia , Berkeley, in M ay
1989. H e ’s an atto rn ey a t B robeck ,
P hleger, a n d H a rriso n , in San F ran­
c isco . . . . David Grebber m arried
E lissa K aye in N ew Ybrk o n Apr.
28. Rhonda Adleman Magier, Emily
Swartz, a n d David Bronstein ’83
a tten d ed th e w ed d in g . . . . Ingrid
Cruse Helmer ’8 7 G m arried Karl
Helmer ’87G , ’91G. S h e graduated
from S U N Y B u ffalo S c h o o l o f
M ed ic in e a n d is d o in g a resid en cy
in p ed ia tr ic s at S trong M em o ria l
H o sp ita l. . . . Paul Hillman is a n a s­
sista n t sta ff ju d g e a d v o ca te w ith the
rank o f 1st lieu te n a n t in th e U .S.
A ir Force. H e m arried A n ja B o o d
in February. . . . Christina Makowski
Jacobs w as elected to A lp h a O m eg a
H o n o r M ed ica l S o ciety la st fall.
S h e grad u ated fro m N ew York U n i­
versity S c h o o l o f M ed icin e in M ay
an d is d o in g a resid en cy in ra d io l­
o g y at S trong M em o ria l H o sp ita l.
. . . Christopher Keuker gra d u a ted
from S U N Y S yracu se M ed ica l
S c h o o l in M ay a n d is n o w d o in g a
p ed iatr ic resid en cy at B row n U n i­
versity. . . . Beth Onufrak is w o rk in g
o n her P h .D . in clin ica l ch ild p sy ­
c h o lo g y . T h is fa ll she b eg in s a
o n e-yea r in tern sh ip at th e M ed ica l
U n iv ersity o f S o u th C a ro lin a , in
C h a rlesto n . . . . Jeffrey Rhodes is
b e g in n in g a surgery resid en cy at
M ilto n S. H ersh ey (P a.) M ed ica l
C enter. . . . Gabrielle Roth g raduated
from la w sc h o o l a n d is clerk in g for
a ju d g e o n th e D istrict o f C o lo m b ia
C o u rt o f A p p e a ls. S h e w ill b e jo in ­
in g th e law firm o f D ick stein , S h a ­
piro, & M o rin th is fall. . . . Salvatore
Sanfilippo earn ed a J.D. fro m S U N Y
B u ffalo a n d w as a d m itted to p rac­
tic e in N ew York w h en h e p a ssed
th e B ar E x a m in July 1989. . . .
Robert Sheldrick a n n o u n c e s th a t h e’s
b e c o m e a p o e t, h avin g p u b lish ed

58

Thanks

toYOU

Rochester’s Alumni Volunteers

David Allyn ’31 for
organizing and im­
plementing the first
60th reunion in the
University’s history.

Ricki Korey Birnbaum
’86G for your leader­
ship on the Trustees’
Visiting Committee
and your development
work for the Graduate
School of Education
and Human Develop­
ment.

Cynthia Allen Hart
’46N, ’70, ’76G, ’86G
for your support of
the students, alumni,
staff, and programs
of the School of
Nursing.

Lisa Hardy Norwood ’86 and Karen Keel
Richardson ’83GN for your efforts, on behalf of
black and Hispanic alumni, in recruiting VAN
volunteers.

Kim DioDate Shamah
’86 for your outstand­
ing support, includ­
ing promotion and job
development, of Summer Reach.

John Frazer ’35,
’39M for spearhead­
ing the Medical
Alumni Council’s
annual giving efforts
at the School of Med­
icine and Dentistry.

And a special thank-you to:
Jacqueline Cratin Smith ’85E, Chelsea
Tipton II ’86E, Sharon Bonneau ’87E, Emily
Mitchell Soloff ’75E, Andrew Peruzzini ’76E,
Marlene Witnauer ’77E, Michael Leavitt ’65E,
’69GE, Craig Wright ’66E, Paula Goldin Roth­
man ’67E, Cosmo Lionti ’55E, Robert Zale
56E, ’60GE, Daniel Stolper ’57E, ’58GE,
Lester Remsen ’40E, Dorothy Spencer Remsen
’41E, and Zena Gemmalo Baranowski ’42E for
your work as class organizers for Reunion ’91
for the Eastman School of Music.

p o etry in The Norm (th e U n iver­
sity ’s h u m o r m a g a zin e) an d in a
n ew sletter ca lled Friendly Focus.
. . . Glenn Stambo grad u ated from
th e H a h n e m a n n U n iv ersity S c h o o l
o f M ed icin e in M ay. H e ’s d o in g
a n in tern sh ip at th e U n iv ersity o f
C o n n e c tic u t S c h o o l o f M ed icin e in
F a rm in g to n . . . . Kathy Young m ar-

ried Steve S p an d orfer o n N ov. 24,
1990. T h ey live in V irgin ia B each .

’87

5TH REUNION, JUNE 4 -7

Lorie Baker m arried Jesse W ijn tjes
o n A u g. 24. S h e w as recently p ro­
m o te d to se n io r statistical a n alyst at
th e A m erica n P etroleu m In stitu te in
W ash in gton , D .C . . . . Jack Callaway

G , ’90G is a n assistan t p ro fesso r
o f g e o lo g y an d b io lo g y at L aredo
(Tex.) Ju n ior C o lle g e an d L aredo
S tate U niversity. H e is co n tin u in g
research o n extin ct m arin e reptiles,
th e b asis o f his research at R ochester.
. . . Eric Carlson earn ed a m aster’s
d egree in en gin eerin g at N o rth
C a ro lin a S tate U niversity. H e is a
te c h n ica l su p p o rt en gin eer at A sp e n
T e ch n o lo g y in C am b ridge, M ass.
. . . Bob Cutting an d Cheryl Wilson
Cutting a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
so n , A ndrew , o n O ct. 10, 1990. . . .
Atul Gupta grad u ated from m ed ical
sc h o o l in M ay an d h as started a
general surgery resid en cy in B uffalo.
. . . Ashley Johnson an d h is w ife,
Jo n i, a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their
daughter, Jen n ifer A shley, o n Apr.
24. H e is a p roject m an ager at a
n aval o rd n an ce sta tio n in In d ian
H e a d , M d . . . . David Levine earned
a m aster’s degree in system s e n g i­
n eerin g from B o sto n U n iv ersity in
M ay. H e ’s w o rk in g as an en gin eer
fo r S p ectro sp in A G . in Z urich,
S w itz erlan d . . . . Daniel Luongo and
his w ife, C ecilia , a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their se co n d ch ild , C h ristop h er
S h a u n , o n Jan. 18. . . . Emily
Macdonald m arried D a v id H a n sen
o n M a y 18, in G len co e, 111. S h e is
w ork in g o n a m aster’s d egree in ed u ­
c a tio n at N a tio n a l-L o u is U n iversity
in E v a n sto n . . . . Lisa Valenzuela
Moore earn ed a m aster’s degree in
sc h o o l p sy c h o lo g y from R.I.T. in
M ay. In S ep tem b er 1988 sh e m arried
M ark M oore. T h ey live in F airport,
N.Y. . . . Jilda Nettleton is atten d in g
grad u ate sc h o o l in p h ysics at the
U n iv ersity o f W ash in gton . . . . Steve
Neuberger grad u ated from E m o ry
U n iv ersity S c h o o l o f M ed icin e in
M ay. . . . Kimberly Paffendorf m ar­
ried T h o m a s H ardardt in A u gu st.
. . . Connie Ihlenburg-Perry an d Kevin
Perry w ere m arried on A u g. 19, 1990.
K evin is fin ish in g his d o cto ra te in
c lin ica l p sy c h o lo g y at N orth w estern
U niversity. C o n n ie is fin ish in g her
d o cto ra te in p h ilo so p h y through
S U N Y B uffalo. S h e ’s a clin ica l eth ics
fello w at L oyola U n iversity C h ic a g o ’s
Stritch S c h o o l o f M ed icin e. . . .
Rebecca Finkel Rubeor finish ed m e d i­
cal sc h o o l an d is d o in g an o b /g y n
resid en cy at St. B arnab es H o sp ita l
in L iv in g sto n , N .J. Bernie Rubeor
’85, ’91G is a fin an cial a n alyst at
M erck in W ood b rid ge, N .J. . . .
Danyll Schaal an d Mark Lockett ’84,
w h o say th e y m et at a R och ester
a lu m n i h ap p y hour, w ere m arried
in M ay. . . . N. Alex Shah has b een
a ssig n e d to th e in v estig a tio n se ctio n
o f th e M arylan d S tate P o lic e in
W estm inster. . . . Amylyn Silbert is
en gaged to m arry R ichard B lake
n ext Septem ber. . . . Seth Stier is
w o rk in g for Investors B an k & Trust
in B o s to n . H e w rites th at h e recently
“ h ad a b la s t” at an ’87 T h eta C hi
c la ss w eek en d . . . . Laurie Simmons
Sutherland ’87G an d her h u sb an d ,
M ark , a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their

Alumni Review/Fall 1991

’88

Mindi Barth grad u ated from
th e U n iv ersity o f M ich ig a n w ith a
m a ster’s d egree in h igh er e d u ca tio n
a d m in istra tio n . S h e se n d s co n g ra t­
u la tio n s to Deborah Szyfer o n her
m a ster’s degree in city a n d region al
p la n n in g fro m C o rn ell, a n d to Craig
Mondshein ’89G o n h is en g a g em en t.
. . . Joseph Bayer h eld a su m m er as­
so c ia te p o sitio n w ith th e co rp orate
leg a l d ep a rtm en t o f M em o rex C o r­
p o r a tio n . . . . Christina Behrmann
h as co m p le te d a m a ster’s degree in
m u seu m stu d ies at N ew York U n i­
versity. S h e is a ssistan t director o f
th e N ew York C ity Fire M u se u m .
. . . Shankar Das reports th a t he g o t
m arried o n A u g. 18, 1990. H e ’s a
m ed ica l stu d en t at E astern V irginia
M ed ica l C o lle g e in N o r fo lk . . . .
Michael Frankel G has fo u n d e d
T eram etrics in A n n A rbor, M ich .
T h e co m p a n y serves th e m icrow ave
electro n ics in d u stry by providing
c o m p o n e n ts and sy stem s for m e a ­
su rin g electrical sig n a ls w ith tera­
h ertz b a n d w id th . . . . Jon Hollowell
h a s co m p le te d h is final term o f
stu d ies for a m aster’s degree at the
L o n d o n S c h o o l o f E c o n o m ic s an d
P o litic a l S cien ce. . . . Nancy (“ Kaz”)
Kaczynski is a sen io r research a s s o ­
cia te at th e U n iv ersity o f P ittsb u rgh .
S h e w rites, “ It’s ju st so m e th in g else
to keep m e b u sy as I finish m y d is­
se rta tio n an d try to m a tch w its w ith
m y 2-y ea r-o ld s o n .” . . . Roger Osmun
h a s ea rn ed a m aster’s degree in c lin ­
ica l p sy c h o lo g y from T em ple U n i­
versity. H e ’s c o n tin u in g his stu d ies
fo r a P h .D . . . . Robin Rowland and
Stuart Zak ’89 w ere m arried o n A ug.
3. . . . Andrew Zack is an ed ito r for
th e B erkley P ub lish in g G ro u p in
M a n h a tta n .

’89

Steve Arkowitz w rites tha t
h e ’s g o tte n a private in v estig a to r’s
licen se in V erm on t, th a t h e w as
m arried la st sum m er, an d th a t his
se c o n d ch ild w as b orn in N o v em b er
1990. . . . Diane Hertz Asson an d
Drew Asson w ere m arried o n July 21,
1990, at th e In terfaith C h a p el. T h ey
liv e in Silver S pring, M d . S h e is a
cu sto m e r service a ssistan t at X erox,
C o rp ., a n d h e is a co m p u ter sc ien ­
tist w ith th e D ep a rtm e n t o f D e ­
fen se. Ivan Bella, Clark Gable, Donna
Polk, Wendy Meyers, Sue Kervin, Kate
Eggleston ’88, a n d Trade Carvelli ’88

atten d ed their w ed d in g. . . . Irene
Kukurudza Bayer ’8 9G an d her h u s­
b a n d , B ryan, a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, L yndsy Irene, o n
Feb. 8 . . . . Jeannine Donato is w ork ­
in g in th e sa les a n d m ark etin g d e­
p a rtm en t o f the A sso c ia te d P ress in
W ash in gton , D.C. S h e w rites that
sh e ’s b u m p ed in to Steve Katz ’79,
w h o ’s a lso w o rk in g there. . . . Joan
Fischer received a m aster’s degree in
new spap er jo u r n a lism at N.Y.U. in
D ecem ber. S h e ’s a staff reporter o n
th e Daily Journal in E liza b eth , N .J.
. . . Stephen Kalenakis a d ev e lo p ­
m en ta l en g in eer in op tic al-lase r
p h y sics w ith H ew lett-P ack ard C o.
in S a n ta C lara, C alif. . . . Robert
Misita, Jr. w rites th a t h e’s w ork in g
o n a P h .D . in m a n a g e m en t scien ce
at th e U n iv ersity o f M arylan d . . . .
Mark Nunge is a m ed ica l stu d en t at
W ash in g to n U n iv ersity in St. L ouis.
. . . Diane Perna is a system s an alyst
a t E a stm a n K odak C om p any. . . .
Andrew Renalds ea rn ed a m aster’s
d egree in n u clear en gin eerin g at th e
G eo rg ia In stitu te o f T ech nology.
H e ’s w o rk in g fu ll tim e tow ard a
P h .D . in p la sm a physics. . . . Kim
Seid man h as b een p ro m o ted to
a ssista n t ed itor at G. P. P u tn a m ’s
S o n s in N e w York City. . . . Erin
Trombino h as earn ed a m aster’s d e­
gree in h ea lth care a d m in istration
from C o rn ell U n iv ersity an d has
taken an a d m in istrative fellow sh ip
a t G eisin g er M ed ical C en ter in
D a n v ille, P a. She w rites, “ H a p p y
1st anniversary to Kirsten Van Ostrand
’89 an d Lee Wagmeister ’88 o n June
17, 1991.”

’90

Janet Buonomo is startin g at
B o s to n U n iv ersity S c h o o l o f Law
th is fa ll. . . . Yvonne Chao is w ork in g
a t th e N a v a l R esearch L ab oratory
in W ash in g to n , D .C .. . . Thomas
Culver is w o rk in g as a n en gin eer for
I-Tech in L ex in g to n , M a ss. . . . Julia
Doran is stu d y in g for a m aster’s d e ­
gree in Ita lia n R en aissan ce art at
Sy ra cu se U niversity. A m a jo rity o f
her stu d ies w ill take p la ce in F lo r­
en ce, Italy. . . . Rick Harrison is a
leg a l assista n t at th e law firm o f
W h ite & C a se in N ew York City.
. . . Bobby Hession w as in vited to
U b ersee, G erm any, to p lay th e
E u ro p ea n p r o fessio n a l ten n is cir­
cu it. H e ’s ta k in g a th ree-m on th
leave from his jo b w ith th e Su th er­
la n d G roup, a R och ester-b ased
m ark etin g c o n su ltin g firm , in order
to go . . . . In A u g u st Adam Konowe
earn ed a m a ster’s degree in pu b lic
co m m u n ic a tio n from th e A m erican
U niversity. . . . Gary Kramer w orks
at P rin c eto n U n iv ersity P ress. . . .
Jennifer LeBlanc is a g e o lo g ist w ith
W ood w ard -C lyde C o n su lta n ts, an
en v iro n m en ta l c o n su ltin g firm in
S o lo n , O h i o . . . . Adam Silverstein is
a research assista n t at P en n State
U niversity.

EASTMAN SCHOOL
OF MUSIC
POST-50TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

’30

Charles Douglas an d Buena
Dougherty Douglas celeb rated their
61st w ed d in g anniversary in A u gu st
1990. T h ey still p lay p ia n o d u ets
togeth er, in their h o m e to w n o f
C o lu m b ia , C alif.

m in g h a m , M ich . H e w rites th at h e’s
m o v in g to th e n orth ern part o f th e
state to e n jo y m ore leisu rely ways.
. . . Robert Restemyer ’50G E retired
la st M ay, b e c o m in g a sso c ia te p ro fes­
sor em eritu s at S o u th e a st M issou ri
S tate U niversity, C a p e G irardeau,
after 25 years o f tea ch in g tru m p et,
h o rn , an d theory. H e ’s taken a p o s i­
tio n as c h ie f ed itor o f T.J. M u sic
P u b lic a tio n s in th e sa m e area.

’50

Joseph Jenkins ’51G E sen d s
in a ch eery rep ort, “ I c o n tin u e to be
q u ite b u sy an d creative. ”

’40 ’41 ’42
50TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13
’44

Helen Renwick Shearer has
retired as a d ata p ro cesso r for
C o n co rd M ed ical G roup. S h e ’ll
co n tin u e her variou s volu n teer
activ ities, esp e cia lly her w ork as
church librarian at S p rin gville
U .M .C . S h e w rites, “ M y ap p ren tice­
sh ip years at S ib ley M u sic L ibrary
w ith R uth W atanabe bring m e m o ­
ries o f h ap p y tim e s .”

’48

In M ay, S o n a tin e for C lari­
n et an d P ia n o by Mary Jeanne van
Appledorn ’50G E , ’66G E had its
E u ro p ea n prem iere at th e Seventh
In tern a tio n a l C on gress o n W om en
in M u sic, in U trecht.

’49

C o n certo in O n e M ovem en t
fo r M arim b a by Emma Lou Diemer
’59G E w as prem iered by th e B ay
A rea W om en ’s P h ilh a r m o n ic at
M ills C o lle g e in O a k la n d , C alif.
T h e co n c e r to w as c o m m issio n e d for
th e 10th anniversary se a so n o f the
o r c h e s tr a .. . . D. Kent McDonald
’52G E h as retired after 41 years
as o rgan ist an d ch oirm aster at
St. Jam es E p isc o p a l C h u rch in Bir­

’51

In A p ril “ E p ig ra m s” by

Richard Willis G E , ‘6 5 G E w as per­
fo rm e d by th e F lo r id a S tate U n i­
versity brass q u in tet at th e Festival
o f N e w M usic. In M arch h is “ E v o ­
c a tio n ” w as p erfo rm ed by the
U n iv ersity o f H o u sto n S y m p h o n y
O rchestra at the F estival o f Texas
C om p o sers.

’53

O ver th e p ast five years,
in a d d itio n to servin g as program
ch airm an for th e N a tio n a l F lu te
A s so c ia tio n 1988 co n v e n tio n , an d
p articip a tin g in th e a ss o c ia tio n ’s
d e le g a tio n to C h in a in 1987, Gretel
Shanely ’55G E h as relocated to T id iou te, P a., w here sh e h as o p e n e d a
b ed an d b reak fast ch am b er-m u sic
retreat. S h e w rites, “ C o m e see u s ! ”

’54

Norma Edworthy Gillespie is a
fin an cial ad m in istrator fo r H o n e y ­
w ell D e fe n se A v io n ics S ystem s
D iv isio n . S h e’s a lso a so lo is t w ith
a large church ch o ir th a t perform s
everyth in g from cla ssica l m u sic to
b road w ay m u sicals.

\
ncr

AMONG THE BAY AREA CHAMBER STRINGS Last February, after a concert of the
Bay Area Chamber Strings in Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Fla., these Eastman
alumni posed for the camera: (left to right) principal violist Cecil Carter ’35E, con­
ductor and violin soloist Eden Vaning-Rosen GE, violinist Joanne Patton Steubing
’48E, and concertmistress Mozelle Sawyer Bell ’48E. Writes Bell, “Not in the pic­
ture is a member of the audience, Phyllis Kroemer Henderson ’49. We invite other
Eastman string players to join us, and other University of Rochester alumni to
come to our concerts.”

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CLASS NOTES

first ch ild , G regory R obert, o n O ct.
3, 1990. In J u ly 1990 th e y m o v ed
from L o s A n g e le s to N a p erv ille, 111.
. . . Myra Vaninwegen ’87 is a grad­
u a te stu d en t in c o m p u ter sc ien ce at
th e U n iv ersity o f P en n sy lv a n ia . . . .
Evan Vapnek received a n M .D . from
S U N Y H e a lth S cien ce C en ter at
B r o o k ly n a n d has started a residen­
cy in surgery at th e U n iv ersity o f
C a lifo r n ia , S a n F rancisco.

CLASS NOTES

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EASTMAN, cont.
55 5
’5 6
35TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13
’5 7

35TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

“A L ittle Travelin’ M u sic ” by Sydney
Hodkinson ’5 8 G E w as p rem iered th is
m o n th by th e R och ester P h ilh a r m o n ­
ic O rchestra. T h e w ork h a d b een
c o m m is sio n e d by th e C itizen s for
Q u a lity P h ilh a rm o n ic.

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Helen Bovbjerg Niedung ’5 9 G E

a n d her daughter, K on stan ze, recent­
ly p resen ted their first jo in t co n cert,
“A V ocal M o s a ic .”

6 1 In th e p a st year Gary Kirk­
patrick, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr ’58G E ,
’6 4 G E , a n d E lsa ’s h u sb a n d , W alter
Verdehr, w h o c o m p rise th e Verdehr
Trio, have toured th e S o v iet U n io n ,
K orea, E urope, a n d th e U n ite d
S tates. A t their a n n u a l Tully H a ll
recital th e y gave N e w York pre­
m ieres o f w o rk s th e tr io c o m m is­
sio n e d from G u n th er S chuller, P aul
C h ih ara , W ill A veritt, G e G an -ru,
a n d T om as M arco. T h e trio recently
released a new recording (see “ B o o k s
a n d R e co r d in g s,” p. 42).

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Inspired by his m em o r ie s o f
Y u gosla v ia a n d Ita ly d u rin g W orld
W ar II, Carlo Pinto G E h as c o m p o se d
“ U n R a c c o n to d el T em po d i G u erra”
(A War Tale), w h ich w as c o m m is­
sio n e d b y th e A m h erst S a x o p h o n e
Q u artet.

’ 6 3 Richard Merrell G E h as retired
as ch air o f th e m u sic e d u c a tio n
d ep a rtm en t o f W est C hester (Pa.)
U n iv ersity S c h o o l o f M u sic. H e is
n o w ex ecu tiv e director o f th e N a ­
tio n a l M u sic C lin ic sp o n so r e d by
E d u c a tio n a l P rogram s.
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25TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

Laura Mann ’7 2 G E received a sta n d ­
in g o v a tio n a t th e K en n ed y C enter
C o n cert H a ll in W a sh in g to n , D.C .,
fo r an ap p ea ra n ce as s o lo is t w ith
th e R ic h m o n d S y m p h o n y O rchestra.
S h e is o n th e v o ic e fa cu lty at A n n e
A r u n d e l C o lle g e in A n n a p o lis , M d.

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In O cto b er a n d N o v em b er Joyce
Castle G E w ill p erfo rm in Die Soldaten a n d Brigadoon w ith th e N ew
York C ity O p era. In D ecem b er, sh e’ll
p erform in P u c c in i’s II Trittico w ith
th e D a lla s O pera, a n d th e n in J a n ­
u ary sh e ’ll p erfo rm th e Ballad o f
Baby Doe w ith th e S ea ttle O pera.

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25TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

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P ercu ssio n ist Steve Gadd,
w h o ’s m a d e recordin gs w ith P aul
M cC artney, Frank Sin atra, M ich ael
J a ck so n , S teely D a n , a n d Barbara
S treisan d , is to u r in g w ith P aul
S im o n o n his “ B o r n at th e R igh t
T im e ” tour. G a d d h as w ork ed w ith
S im o n o n a n d o f f fo r th e p a st 17
years. . . . In A p ril 1990 Karen
Hagberg G E , ’7 6 G E grad u ated from
th e p ia n o program at th e Talent
E d u c a tio n In stitu te in M a tsu m o to ,
Ja p a n . S h e co n tin u e s to live there,
w h ere sh e ’s co m p le tin g a b o o k o n
th e tea ch in g s o f H a ru k o K atoaka.
In Ja n u a ry sh e p la n s to return to
R o ch ester to direct a p rivate p ia n o
s t u d i o . . . . L ast M a y Terry Rhodes
G E p erfo rm ed a n d ta u gh t m aster
c la sses o n 2 0 th -cen tu ry A m erica n
v o c a l m u sic in B elize. In Ju ly sh e
co n c e r tiz e d in n o rth e a stern Italy
a n d a t th e M o za rteu m F estival in
Salzburg, A u stria. T h is fall sh e ’s
lea d in g a U n iv ersity o f N o r th C aro­
lin a a lu m n i to u r as th e cu ltural en ­
rich m en t lecturer. S h e’s an a ssistan t
p ro fesso r in th e m u sic d ep artm en t
at U N C , C h a p el H ill, w h ere she
tea ch es v o ic e a n d directs th e op era
program .

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Elizabeth Taylor Ghirin m arried

A ld o G h irin in Sep tem b er 1987. In
A p r il 1989 they h a d a ch ild , O rion .
S h e w ork ed for a year as execu tive
m u sic director o f B a n ch etto M u sicale, B o s to n ’s b a ro q u e orchestra,
an d w as, at la st w ord, in b etw een
jo b s.

’ 7 3 Sandy Dackow ’7 7 G E , ’87G E
recently co n d u c te d the T ennessee
A ll-S ta te O rchestra in N a sh v ille, as
w ell as festiv a ls in O n tario, K ansas,
A lb a n y , a n d P en n sy lv a n ia. A fa c u l­
ty m em b er a t B randeis U niversity,
sh e received th e 1990 A S C A P award
fo r her orch estral a rrangem ents.
’ 7 4 Dorothy Darlington m arried
T im o th y Baker o n J u ly 15 in W ash­
in g to n , D .C . S h e w as in vited to
p erfo rm as a g u est artist w ith the
C o lu m b ia R iver M u sic F estival for
five a ll-M o za rt p rogram s in June.
. . . Warren Kurau w rites th a t h e
presen ted a prem iere p erfo rm a n c e
w ith th e G ib b s C h a m ber O rchestra
o f a recen tly restored v ersio n o f
M o z a r t’s R o n d o fo r H o r n a n d O r­
ch estra , K. 371. T h e p erform an ce,
w h ic h to o k p la ce in K ilb o u r n H a ll,
in c lu d e d 6 0 a d d itio n a l m easu res
p rev io u sly u n k n o w n b u t recently
red iscovered by E a stm a n p ro fesso r
Marie Rolf ’7 7 G E . . . . William Runyan
’7 4 G E , ’8 3 G E , c o n d u c to r an d m u sic
director for th e O p e n S tage O pera
o f C o lo r a d o an d a ssista n t d ean o f
th e C o lle g e o f A rts, H u m a n ities,
a n d S o cia l S cien ces at C o lo r a d o
S ta te U niversity, w as recently
aw arded th e s c h o o l’s E x c elle n c e in
T eaching in th e A rts prize.

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15TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

Leslie Hicken received a D .M .E . from
In d ia n a U niversity, B lo o m in g to n ,
a n d is n o w a p r o fesso r an d director
o f b a n d s at Y ou n gstow n (O h io )
S tate U n iv ersity ’s D a n a S c h o o l o f
M usic. . . . Mark Mordue reports
th a t a fter 15 years as a tu b ist w ith
th e O k la h o m a S y m p h o n y h e sp en t
1989 an d 1990 stu d yin g at R ou b aix
C on servatory, in F rance. H e w as a
tu b ist w ith th e B o is e (Id a h o ) P h il­
h a r m o n ic fo r th e 1990-91 se a so n .
T h is fa ll h e w ill b eg in as a graduate
a ssista n t in a m aster’s program at
th e U n iv ersity o f A k ro n .

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15TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

Steve Rehbein p resen ted a research
paper, “ T h e Im p ro v isa tio n a l S tyle
o f M ilt J a c k so n ,” at th e In tern a­
tio n a l A s so c ia tio n o f J azz E d u cators
C o n feren ce in W ash in gton , D.C.
A s president o f th e P ercu ssive A rts
S o c ie ty in N eb rask a, h e h o ste d th e
N eb rask a D a y o f P ercu ssion an d
p resen ted a clin ic o n “ T h e C o n te m ­
p o rary V ib ra p h o n e from a n Im p rov­
isa tio n a l an d T ech n o lo g ica l P ersp ec­
tiv e .”

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S tate U niversity, w here h e teach es
v io lin a n d v io la . H e is p resid en t­
elect o f th e Id a h o S tring Teachers
A s so c ia tio n .

’ 8 2 Jeffrey Johnson G E an d
Janice Kellam Johnson ’84E , ’86G E
a n n o u n c e th e birth o f their d a u g h ­
ter, M argaret E llen , o n A u g. 20,
1990. J eff is p rin cip al b a ss o f th e
S a n A n to n io (Tex.) S y m p h o n y
O rchestra.

’8 3 Diane Groves Bishop m arried
J o h n B ish o p o n O ct. 14, 1990. J o h n
is a stage h a n d an d p resid en t o f
I.A .T .S.E . L ocal #631. D ia n e has
b een p rin cip al b a ss o o n ist o f th e
F lo r id a S y m p h o n y O rchestra in
O r la n d o sin ce 1984. S h e gave a re­
cital in Jan u ary 1990 w ith p ian ist
John Crawley ’82 a n d o b o ist Janet
M ascaro. C raw ley is m u sic director
o f th e First P resb yterian C h u rch o f
L ake P la c id , F la. . . . In D ecem b er
1990 Bradley Ellingboe G E , ’84G E
m a d e a d eb u t p e rfo rm a n c e w ith th e
T ok yo S y m p h o n y O rchestra as b ass
so lo is t in M o z a r t’s Requiem.

15TH REUNION, OCT. 11-13

Diane Green Dabczynski a n d Andrew
Dabczynski ’7 6 E a n n o u n c e th e birth
o f their daughter, E liza b eth H e le n ,
o n O ct. 2 6 , 1989.

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7 9 Robert Jesselson G E recently
c o m p le te d a D .M .A . at R utgers
U n iversity. . . . Ginny Karel Womack
a n d her h u sb a n d , M ark , a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their daughter, Ju lie
A n n e , o n N ov. 2 5 , 1990. G in n y is
a m em b er o f th e In d ia n a p o lis
C h am b er O rchestra a n d M ark runs
h is o w n v io lin -m a k in g b u sin ess.
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Kathleen Orr Hacker ’82G E

a n d her h u sb a n d , Jerry, a n n o u n c e
th e birth o f their daughter, M a d e ­
lein e C laire. K athleen is a n a ss o c i­
ate in stru ctor o f v o ic e at In d ia n a
U n iv e r s ity .. . . Virginia Perry Lamb
’82G E an d Christopher Lamb ’81E
a n n o u n c e th e b irth o f their so n ,
C asey R yan, o n A pr. 18.