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The  Alumnu 


University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 
Volume  I,  Number  1   October/November  1970 


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The  Alumnus 

October/November  1970 

Volume  1,  Number  1 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

Evan  V.  Johnston  '50,  Executive  Vice-President 

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illustrations: 

Richard  Wilkie,  p.  2; 

Joseph  Johnson  '63,  pp.  5,  6,  9,  10; 

Thomas  O.  Leavitt  '71,  p.  18  (right); 

Index,  p.  18  (top  left) 


In  This  Issue 

Page  2 

John  Foster,  James  Allen  and  Joseph 
Johnson  examine  different  aspects  of 
international  agriculture  and  the 
difficulties  of  exporting  Western 
technology  and  technicians  to 
underdeveloped  countries.  Dr.  Foster  is 
director  of  the  Center  for  International 
Agricultural  Studies  at  UMass.  Mr.  Allen, 
now  the  Director  of  Alumni  Affairs, 
returned  from  the  Peace  Corps  in  1967. 
Mr.  Johnson  is  on  assignment  in 
Indonesia  for  Pratt  &  Whitney  Aircraft. 

Page  12 

The  events  of  May  1970  will  surely  have 
impact  on  universities  in  this  decade,  and 
understanding  what  happened  during  the 
student  strike  is  a  first  step  in 
understanding  what  lies  ahead.  After  the 
dust  had  settled,  we  asked  Putnam 
Barber,  an  instructor  in  sociology,  and 
John  Fenton,  a  professor  in  the 
government  department,  "What  did  it 
mean?"  Their  answers  are  presented  here. 

Page  20 

Vic  Fusia,  when  confronted  with  a  female 
editor  intent  on  learning  about  UMass 
football,  responded  to  the  challenge.  This 
interview  proves  that  the  head  football 
coach  possesses  the  same  perseverence 
and  courage  he  demands  from  his  boys. 


Departments: 

On  Campus     page  24 
Club  Calendar     page  28 
The  Classes  Report     page  29 
Letters     inside  back  cover 


"Hey,  that's  not  bad— for  an  alumni  magazine." 

Intelligent  articles,  dramatic  photographs,  a  sophisticated  layout 
might  prompt  this  statement.  But  don't  say  it.  Don't  even  think 
it. 

"That's  not  bad"  isn't  good  enough.  Because  UMass  is  certainly 
a  far  cry  from  "not  bad/'  and  the  alumni  magazine  is  no  less 
than  a  projection  of  the  University.  That  is  why  The  Alumnus 
has  been  improved.  We  shall  now  have  more  of  an  opportunity 
to  suggest  the  style,  the  scope,  and  the  excitement  of  this 
institution. 

The  appearance  of  this  magazine,  we  feel,  has  style,  scope, 
and  excitement  worthy  of  the  University.  For  this  we  thank 
Richard  Hendel,  the  designer  who  created  our  new  look.  His 
work  for  the  University  of  Massachusetts  Press  has  received 
a  good  deal  of  professional  recognition:  Native  and  Naturalized 
Plants  of  Nantucket  and  Figures  of  Dead  Men  by  Leonard  Baskin 
won  awards  at  the  New  England  Book  Show;  in  1968,  the 
Association  of  American  University  Presses  chose  Figures  as 
one  of  the  twenty-five  best  books,  and  the  American  Institute 
of  Graphic  Arts  chose  Frederick  Law  Olmsted,  Sr.:  Founder  of 
Landscape  Architecture  in  America  as  one  of  the  fifty  best  books. 

For  The  Alumnus,  Mr.  Hendel  created  an  unusual  but  flexible 
format  based  on  a  design  system  developed  by  the  Swiss. 
Illustrations  and  text  work  within  a  grid.  This  means  that,  in 
the  future,  the  magazine  will  more  or  less  design  itself. 
Richard  Hendel  has  supervised  the  layout  of  this  first  issue, 
however,  and  we  can  only  hope  that  the  content  will  live  up 
to  the  dramatic  format  he  has  provided. 

Katie  S.  Gillmor 


2  The  Alumnus 

Against 
Hunger 


Against  Hunger 


The  University  and  a  number 
of  her  graduates  have  been 
fighting  the  threat  of  famine 
around  the  world,  as  illustrated 
in  the  following  three 
articles. 


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UMass 
Confronts  an 
International 
Problem 

John  H.  Foster 

Food  production  must 
double  by  the  year  2000  just  to 
keep  pace  with  population 
growth. 


Against  Hunger 

The  challenge  faced  by  the  world's 
farmers  is  extraordinary.  Food  production 
must  double  in  the  next  thirty  years  to 
simply  keep  up  with  population  growth. 

The  population  of  the  world  is 
increasing  at  the  rate  of  about  75  million 
people  per  year,  (this  is  a  population 
growth  of  about  190,000  per  day). 
Because  of  improved  public  health  and 
death  rates,  a  high  proportion  of  this 
increase  is  occurring  in  parts  of  the  world 
where  average  incomes  are  under  $200 
per  capita  per  year,  as  compared  with  the 
United  States  figure  of  over  $3,000. 

The  population  growth  is  expected  to 
continue  for  at  least  the  next  thirty  years 
when  the  total  number  of  people  will  be 
close  to  doubling  the  3.5  billion  people 
alive  today.  This  only  suggests  one  aspect 
of  the  demand  being  made  on  our 
agricultural  capacities.  About  two-thirds 
of  the  present  world  population  needs 
larger  and  more  nutritious  diets  if  they 
are  to  avoid  the  mental  and  physical 
disabilities  which  result  from  poor  diets. 
The  sum  of  the  food  needs  of  the 
increased  population  and  of  improved 
diets  approximates  a  tripling  of  total  food 
production  in  thirty  years. 

During  the  last  two  decades,  many 
countries  have  achieved  more  rapid 
increases  in  food  production  than  have 
ever  been  achieved  by  farmers  in  the 
United  States,  where  the  annual  rate  of 
increase  has  been  1.8  per  cent.  Several 
low  income  countries  have  achieved  a  3 
per  cent  rate,  and  a  few,  such  as  Mexico, 
have  had  as  high  as  a  6  per  cent  rate.  Sev- 
eral nations  have  had  such  breakthroughs 
in  production  in  the  past  two  years  that 
some  are  talking  about  the  "Green 
Revolution." 

However,  for  the  world  as  a  whole 
and  in  most  specific  cases,  the  Green 
Revolution  has  only  been  able  to  keep  up 
with  population  increases.  There  has  been 
no  excess  of  food  for  the  improvement  of 


John  H.  Foster 

diets.  The  average  person  in  a  low  income 
country  eats  the  same  miserable  fare  he 
did  twenty  years  ago.  Although  rates  of 
food  production  have  not  fallen  behind 
rates  of  population  growth,  this  only 
means  that,  like  Alice  in  Through  the 
Looking  Glass,  we  have  been  running  as 
fast  as  we  can  to  stay  in  the  same  place. 

I  do  not  totally  share  the  pessimism  of 
the  many  careful  observers  who  think 
that  widespread  famine  in  the  relatively 
near  future  is  quite  probable.  I  do  not 
believe  this  to  be  inevitable.  Achieving 
adequate  diets  for  a  doubled  population 
in  the  year  2000  is  a  technological 
possibility.  The  Food  and  Agricultural 
Organization  of  the  United  Nations  has 
estimated  that  the  job  can  be  done  up  to 
1985  with  an  expenditure  of  about  $6 
billion  per  year.  This  is  about  the  same 
amount  that  the  United  States  has  been 
spending  on  space  exploration  and  a 
fraction  of  our  expenditure  on  the  Viet 
Nam  war.  To  date,  however,  the  nations 
of  the  world  have  not  been  willing  to  use 
this  level  of  expenditure  to  win  the  War 
on  Hunger. 

The  University  of  Massachusetts  was 
the  first  United  States  institution  to 
become  involved  in  international  efforts 
to  eliminate  hunger.  In  1878,  the 
president  of  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
College,  W.  S.  Clark,  went  to  northern 
Japan  to  start  Hokkaido  Agricultural 
College.  The  University  has  maintained 
this  relationship  and,  in  addition,  under 
contract  with  the  U.S.  Agency  for 
International  Development,  we  are  now 
helping  to  develop  the  Bunda  College  of 
Agriculture  in  Malawi,  Central  Africa. 

About  two  years  ago,  UMass 
established  the  Center  for  International 
Agricultural  Studies  to  coordinate  and 
add  to  these  activities.  Since  then,  a 
pregraduation  Peace  Corps  Training 
Program  for  University  students  in 
agriculture  and  graduate  curricula  in 


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Against  Hunger 


John  H.  Foster 


international  agriculture  developed. 

These  curricula  will  prepare  students 
for  careers  in  worldwide  food  production 
and  distribution  programs.  Students 
major  in  one  of  the  professional 
agricultural  disciplines  offered  by  the 
College  of  Agriculture,  taking  all  courses 
necessary  for  technical  proficiency  in 
their  chosen  field.  This  education  is 
supplemented  by  social  science  courses 
available  through  other  University 
departments.  Exposure  to  such  disciplines 
as  economics,  politics  and  anthropology 
help  the  student  prepare  to  effectively  use 
his  professional  knowledge  in  other 
natural  and  cultural  environments.  In 
addition  to  formal  course  work, 
supervised  overseas  experience  is 
required.  We  also  hope  to  make  use  of 
students  and  faculty  from  other  countries 
to  improve  the  training  obtained  in 
Amherst. 

The  UMass  program  differs  from  some 
similar  programs  at  other  institutions 
which  train  students  as  "international 
agriculturists"  or  generalists  with  broad 
knowledge  of  overseas  culture  and  agri- 
culture but  with  no  specific  professional 
agricultural  skill.  It  is  our  belief  that 
major  contributions  to  agricultural  devel- 
opment will  be  made  by  individuals  who 
can  do  a  specific  professional  job  in 
agronomy,  animal  science,  or  other  areas, 
just  as  has  been  the  case  in  the  United 
States.  But  we  supplement  professional 
training  with  knowledge  of  relevant  social 
sciences. 

Aid  programs  can  only  be  successful  if 
there  is  real  communication  so  that  new 
techniques  are  assimilated  into  local 
cultures.  UMass  graduates  are  trained  to 
understand  and  work  with  people,  not 
intimidate  them.  We  are  trying  to  prevent 
the  tragedy  of  highly-trained  American 
personnel  imposing  modern  techniques 
on  primitive  cultures  with  the  injunction: 


"This  is  the  right  way  to  do  it— this  is  how 
we  do  it  in  the  U.S.A." 

The  undergraduate  program  in 
international  agriculture,  using  existing 
courses  and  the  Peace  Corps  for  overseas 
experience,  is  now  in  operation. 
Unfortunately,  the  graduate  program  has 
not  been  activated  because  money  is  not 
available  to  cover  student  support,  travel 
and  research  costs. 

The  University's  current  role  in 
worldwide  efforts  to  increase  food 
production  is  directed  primarily  toward 
training  students  for  careers  in  relevant 
fields.  As  part  of  the  graduate  program, 
applied  research  will  seek  solutions  to 
production  and  distribution  problems  in 
low  income  countries.  In  addition,  we 
hope  to  continue  to  contribute  to  the 
founding  and  development  of  institutions 
in  these  countries  and  to  make  use  of 
students  and  faculty  from  other  countries 
in  our  programs  in  Amherst. 


Newly  planted  rice  covers  the  Indonesian 
landscape,  the  form  of  paddy  and  waterway 
continued  from  one  generation  to  the  next. 


5  The  Alumnus 


Against  Hunger 


John  H.  Foster 


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6  The  Alumnus 


Against  Hunger 


John  H.  Foster 


A  farmer  works  his  land  with  the  aid  of  a  water 
buffalo.  These  docile  animals  are  still  the  prime 
movers  in  the  ricebowl,  but  other,  equally 
ancient  patterns  are  changing  in  order  to 
accommodate  Western  technology. 


7  The  Alumnus 


Wheat  in 
Tanzania 

James  H.  Allen  '66 

Doing  for  Tanzania  what 
Tanzania  thought  was  best  for 
herself. 


Against  Hunger 

"We  must  take  our  traditional  system, 
correct  its  shortcomings,  and  adapt  to  its 
service  the  things  we  can  learn  from  the 
technologically  developed  societies  of 
other  countries."  President  Julius  K. 
Nyerere  of  the  United  Republic  of 
Tanzania  made  this  statement  in  his 
thesis  on  Socialism  and  Rural  Development. 
I  spent  two  years  in  his  country  with  the 
Peace  Corps  as  an  agricultural  and  food 
economist  on  the  planning  unit  of  the 
Ministry  of  Land,  Settlement,  and  Water 
Development,  and  during  this  time  I  was 
guided  by  President  Nyerere's  principles. 
The  application  of  this  attitude  is 
exemplified  in  a  wheat  scheme  I 
developed  towards  the  end  of  my  stay. 
The  project  owed  its  success  to  the 
guidelines  implicit  in  Nyerere's 
philosophy.  Moreover,  we  accomplished 
our  goal  in  spite  of  the  Peace  Corps  rather 
than  because  of  it. 

In  the  spring  of  1967  the  Tanzanian 
government  set  as  one  of  its  goals  to 
become  self-sufficient  in  the  production 
of  wheat.  Much  of  Tanzania  is  made  up 
of  upland  plateaus  which  are  ideally 
suited  to  wheat  cultivation.  These 
excellent  agricultural  areas,  however,  had 
never  been  fully  utilized.  They  were 
almost  completely  lacking  in 
infrastructure,  the  term  we  used  to  define 
necessary  support  facilities  such  as  an 
adequate  transportation  system,  proper 
marketing  channels  and  a  reliable  source 
of  water.  One  potentially  productive  area 
was  located  in  southwest  Tanzania,  7,000 
feet  above  Lake  Tanganyeka.  Because  this 
area  was  not  serviced  by  any  all-weather 
roads,  and  the  nearest  railway  was  160 
miles  away,  virtually  no  development  had 
taken  place.  The  Tanzanian  government, 
against  the  advice  of  most  of  its  Western 
advisors,  decided  to  institute  a  crash 
development  program  in  this  area.  After 
much  buck-passing,  I  was  given  the  task 
of  developing  the  economic  evaluation  for 


James  H.  Allen 

a  10,000  acre  State  Farm  with  the  initial 
development  of  2,000  acres. 

Before  the  project  landed  in  my  lap,  an 
Egyptian,  a  Turk  and  a  Britisher  had 
refused  to  handle  it.  According  to 
Western  standards,  it  was  not  a  viable 
proposition.  The  Western  advisors  who 
had  analyzed  it  earlier  felt  that  before 
development  took  place  the  roads  should 
be  built,  the  soils  should  all  be  tested  and 
mapped  and  that  three-year  test  plots 
should  be  run  to  determine  the  best 
wheat  varieties  to  be  used.  Their 
recommendations  were  that  the  project 
should  not  be  started  for  at  least  five 
years. 

Initially,  I  accepted  their  rationale. 
After  all,  I  had  a  good  Western  economic 
upbringing  and  by  my  preconditioned 
standards  these  advisors  made  good 
sense.  But  I  was  allowing  myself  to  fall 
into  the  trap  of  wanting  to  do  what  I 
thought  was  best  for  Tanzania,  not  what 
Tanzania  thought  was  best  for  herself. 
Actually,  this  was  a  double  trap.  The 
second  pitfall  occurs  when  Americans  and 
other  Westerners  want  to  do  things  the 
"American  Way."  I  continually  heard  the 
old  adage,  "We  did  it  this  way  and  it 
worked  for  us,  so  it  will  work  for  them." 
Instead  of  trying  to  develop  the  best  of 
both  societies,  the  tendency  was  to  try  to 
transplant  a  system  from  one  society  to 
another. 

The  Tanzanian  government  had  cogent 
reasons  why  this  project  had  to  begin 
now,  not  five  years  from  now.  This 
particular  area  of  Tanzania  had  always 
been  regarded  as  an  area  of  great 
agricultural  potential.  The  climate  was 
good  and  the  rainfall  at  forty  inches  per 
year  was  adequate.  The  soils  were  also 
generally  good,  although  somewhat  sandy 
in  places.  The  colonial  rulers  had  always 
admitted  the  need  to  develop  the  roads 
and  other  facilities  in  the  area  so  that 
agriculture  could  develop  in  turn,  but 


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Against  Hunger 


James  H.  Allen 


money  was  never  available.  Conse- 
quently, an  area  with  one  of  the  highest 
agricultural  potentials  in  Tanzania  had 
a  population  which  had,  by  far,  the 
lowest  per  capita  income  in  the  country. 
When  the  Western  advisors  rejected  this 
project,  they  used  the  same  rationale  as 
the  colonial  rulers:  i.e.  develop  the 
infrastructure  first,  then  run  agricultural 
tests,  then  start  the  first  scheme. 

The  Tanzanian  government  in  effect 
said,  "We've  heard  enough  of  this 
foolishness.  We  are  importing  more  and 
more  wheat  at  greatly  increasing  costs  to 
us.  We  must  take  some  financial  risks  if 
we  are  going  to  change  this  trend  and 
become  self-sufficient  in  wheat 
production.  The  way  to  break  this 
nondevelopment  cycle  is  to  develop  the 
agriculture  and  the  infrastructure 
simultaneously."  On  these  grounds  the 
decision  was  made  in  early  August  1967 
to  go  ahead  with  the  development  of  the 
wheat  scheme.  The  first  crop  had  to  be 
planted  in  January  1968.  This  meant  that 
2,000  acres  had  to  be  plowed  and 
prepared  before  the  short  rains  began  in 
late  October/early  November.  Once  the 
rains  began  the  soil  would  be  too  wet  to 
work  and  the  tractors  could  not  plow. 

My  plan  was  submitted  and  approved 
in  late  August  and  soil  preparations 
began  the  first  week  in  September.  Eight 
tractors  were  employed  for  sixteen  hours 
a  day  using  drivers  on  two  eight-hour 
shifts.  The  tractors  were  equipped  with 
headlights  for  night  plowing.  The  2,000 
acres  were  successfully  prepared  before 
the  short  rains  set  in,  and  in  January  1968, 
after  the  rains  had  ended,  the  first  crop 
was  sown.  Out  of  the  2,000  acres 
prepared,  1,700  were  seeded  to  wheat. 
When  the  rains  came,  it  was  realized  that 
300  acres  were  in  a  low  area;  they  became 
waterlogged  and  were  of  no  use  for  wheat 
cultivation.  Later  on  this  land  could 
probably  be  reclaimed  by  installation  of 


a  proper  drainage  system,  but  this  was  a 
worry  for  the  future  not  the  present. 

This  scheme  was  designated  as  a  State 
Farm,  but  it  was  not  to  be  a  permanent 
acquisition  of  the  state  as  in  the  classical 
Soviet  concept.  A  total  of  10,000  acres 
would  be  developed  in  2,000  acre 
increments,  and  local  people  would  be 
hired  as  laborers  on  this  initial  farm. 
When  they  had  been  sufficiently  trained 
in  modern  agricultural  techniques,  the 
land  would  be  turned  over  to  them  to 
farm  communally  on  a  cooperative  basis. 
A  new  group  of  laborers  would  be  hired 
to  develop  the  next  2,000  acres. 
Eventually  the  government  would  pull 
out  of  the  scheme  entirely  and  the  land 
would  be  farmed  cooperatively  by  the 
local  farmers. 

When  I  started  to  work  on  this  project 
my  Peace  Corps  director  tried  to  talk  me 
out  of  it.  My  fellow  Peace  Corpsmen 
thought  it  was  a  big  joke.  After  all,  all 
the  Western  advisors  they  knew  were 
against  the  project.  My  colleagues  felt 
that  it  was  doomed  to  failure  from  the  be- 
ginning, and  I  was  only  hurting  myself 
and  the  Peace  Corps  by  going  along  with 
the  wishes  of  the  Tanzanian  government. 
They  felt  that  I  was  not  being  true  to  my 
professional  standards  and  that  I  was  sell- 
ing out  to  appease  the  Tanzanians. 

But  I  considered  myself  a  Tanzanian 
civil  servant  and  my  official  status 
confirmed  this.  My  loyalties  were  to  the 
Tanzanian  government  and  not  to  the 
United  States  government.  The  Peace 
Corpsmen  never  could  accept  the  fact  that 
my  professional  standards  dictated  my 
actions.  If  the  Tanzanians  wanted  to  try 
something  risky  it  was  the  chance  they 
had  to  take  to  try  and  get  ahead.  If  the 
project  failed  and  I  failed  with  it  that  was 
the  chance  I  had  to  take. 

When  I  drew  up  the  plans  for  the  initial 
development,  which  called  for  an 
investment  of  $250,000  to  develop  2,000 


acres,  I  cautioned  the  government  that, 
with  an  ambitious  project  of  this  sort, 
they  might  have  to  anticipate  taking 
losses  or  only  breaking  even  the  first  few 
years  until  an  efficient  supportive 
infrastructure  was  fully  established. 
Quoting  from  my  project  analysis  I 
stated: 

"It  will  be  seen  that  even  at  seven  bags 
per  acre  we  should  be  able  to  at  least 
cover  our  recurrent  costs  in  the  first  year. 
It  must  be  accepted  that  there  will 
probably  be  inefficiencies  in  our  first 
couple  of  years  of  operation,  so  if  we  are 
able  to  recover  our  recurrent  costs  we  are 
in  a  pretty  good  position." 

Just  prior  to  my  leaving  Tanzania  the 
first  crop  was  harvested.  The  average 
yield  was  almost  eight-and-a-half  bags 
per  acre,  enough  to  cover  recurrent  and 
capital  costs.  And  if  the  Tanzanian 
government  had  followed  the  advice  of 
most  of  the  Western  advisors,  they  would 
still  be  waiting  for  their  first  crop. 


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Against  Hunger 


James  H.  Allen 


10  The  Alumnus 


Against  Hunger 


Joseph  S.  Johnson 


Rice  in 
Indonesia 

Joseph  S.  Johnson  '63 

Fighting  the  ravages  of  the 
stem  borer  in  the  land  of 
wall-to-wall  people. 


' 


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Against  Hunger 


Joseph  S.  Johnson 


"Would  you  be  interested  in 
Indonesia.  .  .?" 

As  a  field  representative  for  Pratt  & 
Whitney  Aircraft,  I  had  just  completed  a 
year's  assignment  with  Air  Vietnam  in 
Saigon  when  I  received  a  cable  proposing 
a  change  of  scene.  And  so  I  find  myself 
in  Indonesia,  the  land  of  wall-to-wall 
people  and  coast-to-coast  rice. 

My  job  here  is  to  help  the  rice  grow 
tall  and  straight,  fighting  the  ravages  of 
the  stem  borer,  the  larva  of  a  moth  that 
infests  the  whole  of  the  ricebowl  of 
Southeast  Asia.  If  the  stem  borer  is  the 
villain,  the  heroes  in  this  epic  struggle  are 
the  "Ag  Pilots"  who  fly  unwieldy  aircraft 
across  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  acres 
of  trackless  rice  paddies.  The  work  is  not 
without  hazard;  here  in  Djakarta,  in 
simple  ceremonies  at  their  respective 
embassies,  we  have  laid  three  pilots  to 
rest  in  as  many  months. 

My  assignment  is  to  monitor  the 
condition  and  performance  of  the  new 
PT6  free-turbine  engine  with  a  view  to 
further  adaptation  and  development.  No 
laboratory  could  duplicate  the  rigours  of 
the  agricultural  environment,  where  the 
engine  is  exposed  to  temperature,  salt 
water,  corrosive  chemicals,  sand,  volcanic 
ash,  and  the  imponderables  of 
mishandling  by  unskilled  labor.  Happily, 
we  have  had  no  in-flight  failures  to  date. 

Since  the  dosage  and  particle  size  of  the 
atomized  chemical  is  very  critical,  and 
since  it  is  sprayed  neat  at  a  fantastic 
unit-cost,  it  is  necessary  to  use  the  most 
sophisticated  methods  of  precision 
navigation  available.  We  use  a  system 
similar  to  LORAN,  a  two-station  system 
yielding  a  parabolic  line  of  position, 
rather  than  a  three-station  system 
yielding  a  point-fix. 

Two  stations  are  set  up  about  thirty 
miles  apart,  located  so  that  the  straighter 
portions  of  the  parabolas  lie  along  the 
fields  to  be  sprayed.  The  stations  are 


locked  in  electrical  phase  and  a  spray-lane 
width  of  eighty  meters  is  established  by 
increments  of  radio  wave  length  along  a 
line  between  the  stations.  The  computer 
aboard  the  aircraft  interprets  the 
difference  in  phase  depending  on  the 
relative  location  of  the  aircraft  with 
respect  to  the  stations.  By  placing  himself 
on  the  proper  lane  of  phase-count  from 
an  arbitrarily  established  ground 
reference,  and  by  centering  with  the  aid 
of  a  null-needle  instrument,  the  pilot  can 
cruise  fifteen  to  twenty  miles  across  the 
paddy  with  lateral  accuracy  one  meter 
either  side  of  true. 

I  went  along  once  for  an  engine 
performance  check,  flying  in  a  machine 
that  is  a  cross  between  a  Mack  truck  and 
a  Sherman  tank,  with  wings.  While 
strapping  myself  in  beside  the  pilot,  one 
of  the  technicians  handed  me  a 
screwdriver  and  gave  me  a  five-minute 
course  in  "how  to  lock-in  the  phase."  This 
was  in  case  the  radio  got  the  electrical 
hickups. 

We  soon  identified  our  starting  point 
visually.  Then  we  flew  over  a  familiar 
road  intersection  and  punched  a  button, 
zeroing  our  lane  counter.  We  could  now 
fly  across  the  lanes  with  the  counter 
spinning  until  we  came  close  to  the  last 
lane  sprayed.  Then  we  turned  toward  the 
field  and  the  counter  showed  that  we 
were  within  the  correct  lane.  The  pilot 
cursed  and  kicked  the  rudder  as  the  fine 
course  needle  centered  in  its  dial.  About 
this  time  we  crossed  the  last  of  the  tall 
palms  and  pushed  the  nose  down  to  the 
rice  and  hit  the  spray  switch.  We  were 
in. 

Birds,  rocks  and  perspiration  are  the 
biggest  problems  at  twenty  feet  and  90 
mph.  We  fought  to  keep  the  running 
sweat  out  of  our  eyes  in  order  to  see.  We 
waved  at  the  natives  and  hoped  that  the 
occasional  rock  lobbed  in  our  direction 
didn't  hit  anything  critical.  The  major 


hazard,  though,  is  birds  of  medium 
weight  (16  to  24  oz.)  which,  contrary  to 
theory,  are  not  always  agile  or  alert 
enough  to  stay  out  of  the  way.  It  is  best 
to  retreat  behind  the  instrument  panel 
when  getting  among  them.  Luckily,  large 
fowl  do  not  rise  quickly  enough  to  be  a 
problem,  and  the  little  birds  do  not  fly 
high  enough  as  they  scatter. 

Kampongs,  or  villages,  are  marked  by 
clumps  of  palms  and  covies  of  kites  with 
an  aviation-minded  kid  at  the  other  end 
of  every  string.  It  is  a  happy  thing  to  see 
their  upturned  faces  and  the  wild 
exuberance  of  the  many  who  wave  as  we 
fly  overhead. 

The  free  Asian  has  realized  that  he 
cannot  hope  to  battle  the  Communist 
with  arms.  He  is  betting  his  life  on 
economic  planning  and  reform,  and 
rehabilitation  of  his  people.  Our  flight 
across  the  rice  is  a  counter-revolutionary 
mission.  The  rice  has  been  sprayed  and 
harvested  for  two  seasons  now,  and  the 
crop  is  good.  But  the  farmers  are  reluctant 
to  pay  their  extra  rice  tax,  and  the 
government  trembles.  As  the  thrown 
rocks  would  indicate,  enemies  as  well  as 
friends  watch  the  ag  pilots'  patterned 
flights. 


Facing  page:  The  spray  aircraft  (top),  "rugged 
as  a  manhole  cover, "  may  nevertheless  come  to 
a  messy  end.  The  wrecked  plane  (middle) 
suffered  an  emergency  landing  after  the  airframe 
safety  system  (bottom)  failed  in  the  "armed" 
position. 


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A  Positive 
View  of 
the  Strike 

Putnam  Barber 

Each  person  had  to  decide  on 
his  own  response  to  the  strike, 
not  whether  there  should  be 
a  strike  at  all. 


Positive  View  of  Strike 

Full  summer  came  late  to  Amherst.  When 
it  came,  it  brought  its  powerful  seasonal 
symbolism  of  growth  and  hope  all  the 
more  powerfully,  promised  by  sun  and 
green  and  short  skirts  and  engagement 
rings  and  couples  on  the  grass  by  the 
pond.  In  any  other  year,  students  would 
have  been  out  in  the  warmth  and  the  sun, 
publicly  in  defiance  of  term  papers, 
reading  lists  and  finals;  faculty  and  staff 
would  be  finishing  up,  looking 
ahead— thinking  of  trout  streams,  unread 
manuscripts,  peace  and  quiet  in  the  lab. 

This  year,  however,  seasonal  routines 
were  interrupted,  their  importance 
diminished  in  contrast  to  war,  to  national 
policy  and  politics,  to  repression  and 
rumors  of  repression,  and  tearing  through 
flesh,  smashing  through  bone,  the  terror 
of  Ohio  and  of  Mississippi.  It  was  May 
1970.  The  University  was  "on  strike." 

At  the  University,  the  strike  meant  that 
large  numbers  of  people  connected  with 
UMass  had  decided  to  do  something 
different  and  extraordinary  with  their 
time.  Those  who  had  been  in  New  Haven 
over  the  May  2  weekend  brought  back 
the  idea  of  a  nationwide  campus  strike  in 
support  of  the  Black  Panthers  and  in 
opposition  to  the  war.  News  of  the  strike 
spread  through  the  news  media  and 
contacts  on  other  campuses,  gathering 
supporters  who  had  not  been  in  New 
Haven  but  who  saw  a  strike  as  a  way  to 
express  their  fear  and  outrage.  Those  who 
became  involved  with  the  idea  early  on 
communicated  their  urgency  and 
commitment  to  many  who  felt  sympathy 
for  the  goals  but  hesitation  about  the 
means.  Others,  less  sympathetic  or  more 
hesitant,  found  themselves  arguing 
against  the  strike,  trying  to  continue  the 
semester  with  as  little  alteration  as 
possible.  And  there  were  some  who  were 
openly  hostile  to  the  goals  of  the  strike 
and  attempted  to  prevent  expression  of 
political  positions  which  interfered  with 


Putnam  Barber 

regular  University  activities. 

Incidentally,  most  observers  on  campus 
agree  that  there  was  no  possibility  of 
"preventing"  or  "stopping"  the  strike  by 
official  action.  Force  could  have  closed  the 
University.  Most  of  the  students  would 
have  gone  home.  The  price  would  have 
been  high— courses  not  completed, 
graduation  postponed.  The  benefits  are 
obscure. 

The  use  of  force,  however,  was  never 
really  an  issue.  No  one  seriously 
considered  closing  the  University. 
Instead,  University  assemblies  and 
officials  took  action  which  gave  partial  or 
wholehearted  endorsement  to  the  strike 
and  thus  reinforced  the  feeling  that 
extraordinary  events  were  inescapable. 
But  the  student  senate,  alone,  could  not 
have  created  (or  prevented)  the  strike; 
neither  could  the  faculty  senate  nor  the 
Chancellor  nor  the  strike  steering 
committee.  The  events  of  May  were 
possible  (and  inescapable)  because  they 
grew  out  of  the  hopes  and  fears  of  so 
many  people.  People  who,  if  they  did  not 
actively  propose  extraordinary  action, 
joined  it  when  it  occurred. 

This  massive  support  for  action  made 
the  strike  a  "thing"  with  which  we  had 
to  deal.  It  was  not  a  possibility  which  we 
might  argue  about  and  reflect  on.  Nor  was 
it  a  proposal  which  could  be  referred  to 
a  committee.  Each  member  of  the 
University  community  had  to  decide  what 
his  personal  response  to  the  strike  was, 
not  whether  or  not  there  should  be  a 
strike  at  all. 

Clearly,  an  individual's  response  to  the 
strike  would  be  inescapably  related  to 
what  he  believed  about  the  state  of  our 
society  and  the  wisdom  and  honor  of  its 
leaders.  I,  for  one,  had  little  difficulty 
accepting  the  aims  of  the  strike  as  goals 
for  personal  and  collective  action.  Ending 
the  war,  reducing  injustice,  political 
suppression  and  racism,  and  preserving 


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Putnam  Barber 


the  independent  purposes  of  universities 
are,  in  fact,  hard  goals  to  oppose. 

I  am  convinced  that  representative 
democracy  under  the  Constitution  is  the 
only  form  of  government  that  can  warrant 
the  allegiance  of  self-respecting  men.  And 
if  such  a  government  is  to  work,  its 
citizens  have  the  duty  to  inform  their 
representatives  not  only  through 
elections,  but  through  the  constitutionally 
sanctioned  vehicles  of  speech,  assembly 
and  petition.  Men  in  academic  life  have 
long  lulled  themselves  with  the  idea  that 
strict  neutrality  is  required  of  them.  They 
have  neglected  the  possibility  that  such 
neutrality,  as  it  has  been  practiced, 
favors  the  rich,  the  powerful,  and  the 
established  in  a  way  inconsistent  with 
the  University's  image  of  itself  as  an 
open  forum  of  free  enquiry. 

In  times  of  national  crisis,  business  as 
usual  must  give  way  to  permit  the 
exercise  of  the  duties  of  citizens,  at  least 
as  much  to  oppose  a  war  as  to  prosecute 
one.  (And  prosecuting  the  war  has 
certainly  disrupted  things— consider  just 
the  draft.  Anyone  who  argues  that, 
because  the  draft  has  existed  for  more 
than  two  decades,  it  does  not  disrupt  the 
normal  course  of  the  lives  of  individuals 
and  the  business  of  institutions  is  simply 
foolish.) 

It  was  appropriate  that  academic 
routines  should  be  suspended  at  UMass 
to  discuss  the  issues  of  war,  injustice  and 
racism  among  ourselves,  and  to  permit 
members  of  the  University  community  to 
respond  as  citizens.  To  the  extent  that 
such  a  suspension  of  normal  routine 
required  official  action  by  participants  in 
University  governance,  it  would  have 
been  disastrous,  and  irresponsible,  if  such 
action  had  been  avoided  simply  because 
the  strike  was  "political." 

There  are  things  which  men  who 
believe  in  democracy  do,  whatever  their 
other  responsibilities  and  duties,  even  if 


doing  them  allows  the  likes  of  William 
F.  Buckley,  Jr.  to  chuckle  at  their 
"failure"— as  he  did  when  he  noted  that 
the  Gallup  poll's  measure  of  support  for 
the  President's  action  in  Cambodia  grew 
in  concert  with  the  prominence  of  campus 
opposition.  (Do  Americans  really  want  to 
kill  Cambodians  to  prove  they  don't  like 
students?  I  can't  believe  it.  Buckley  seems 
to  rejoice  in  it.  Lord  save  him.  Lord  save 
us  if  he's  right.) 

I  have  indicated  that  thousands  of 
people  in  Amherst  felt  compelled  to  take 
some  expressive  action,  but  this  is  not  to 
say  we  always  acted  in  concert.  There 
was,  of  course,  a  strike  steering  commit- 
tee which  handled  many  administrative 
details  by  setting  up  an  efficient  and  re- 
markably hard-working  series  of  commit- 
tees. And  neither  the  faculty  senate  nor 
the  student  senate  abdicated  their  respon- 
sibilities for  University  government  in 
their  appropriate  areas  of  concern. 

On  the  whole,  though,  the  strike  was 
a  matter  of  individual  response.  Consider, 
for  example,  the  events  at  Dickinson  Hall, 
site  of  the  R.O.T.C.  offices.  There  was  a 
rumor  that  the  building  was  going  to  be 
firebombed.  An  announcement  that 
marshals  were  needed  was  made  on 
WMUA  and  the  public  address  system  in 
the  Student  Union.  Thirty  or  more  people 
showed  up— at  midnight,  when  the 
temperature  outside  Dickinson  could  not 
have  been  more  than  50°.  Those  who 
were  inexperienced  agreed  to  leave.  The 
others  stayed  through  that  night  and  the 
next,  protecting  the  building  and  the 
janitors  and  campus  policemen  who 
worked  there  at  night.  Their  watch  was 
uneventful. 

Individuals  took  the  iniative  in  other 
situations  too.  One  day,  an  out-of-town 
policeman,  out  of  uniform  and  apparently 
off  duty,  was  discovered  sitting  in  his 
cruiser  by  the  campus  pond,  staring  at 
groups  of  students  with  his  hand  resting 


on  the  stock  of  the  shotgun  by  his  side. 
When  asked  his  reason  for  being  present 
on  the  campus,  he  would  answer  only 
"police  business."  Those  present 
recognized  the  danger  of  the  situation  and 
responded  accordingly.  One  student  kept 
a  crowd  from  forming,  another  argued 
with  the  officer,  a  third  sought  the 
assistance  of  campus  police,  while  a 
fourth  noted  the  license  number  of  the 
car  and  asked  the  officer's  name.  After 
several  minutes  of  anxiety  and  hostility, 
the  officer  departed.  (Inquiry  at  the  city 
hall  of  the  town  from  which  he  came 
brought  only  the  reply  that  they  were 
sure  he  knew  his  business.) 

These  two  incidents  suggest  the  general 
atmosphere  of  good  will  and  cooperation 
with  which  people  greeted  the  on-campus 
events  of  the  strike.  There  were,  of 
course,  moments  of  bad  feeling— some 
teachers  felt  their  effectiveness  was 
undermined  by  the  hurried  creation  of 
new  grading  regulations,  and  there  were 
hints  of  the  initial  stages  of  power 
struggles  within  the  steering  committee 
before  the  end  of  the  semester.  And,  of 
course,  the  major  events  (such  as  rallies, 
mass  meetings,  workshops,  committee 
sessions)  were  not  spontaneous  but 
depended  on  careful  coordination  by  the 
steering  committee  and  the  marshals.  But 
the  essence  of  the  strike  was  still  in  the 
individual  response,  the  individual  ges- 
ture. 

In  the  end,  though,  I  could  relate 
incidents  involving  individual 
actions— spontaneous  or  coordinated— all 
day  and  still  not  get  into  the  serious 
question  about  University  policy  which 
the  strike  raised.  What  I  have  said  so  far 
relates  only  indirectly  to  this  issue. 

I  have  said  that  last  spring  the 
University  as  such  had  no  choice  about 
getting  involved.  On  the  Amherst 
campus,  as  on  many  across  the  country, 
the  strike  simply  was  (labor  reporters 


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Positive  View  of  Strike 


Putnam  Barber 


might  have  called  it  a  wildcat  strike).  The 
question  then  was  what  to  do  about  it. 
I  have  argued  that  what  I  did,  and  what 
large  numbers  of  others  did,  was  required 
of  us  by  our  belief  in  representative 
democracy  and  our  duties  as  citizens.  But 
I  have  avoided  the  question  of  the  future; 
this  gives  no  answer  to  whether  or  not 
the  University  should  encourage  or 
discourage  the  political  activities  of  its 
members. 

Traditionally,  it  has  been  held  that 
politics  had  no  business  on  campuses. 
The  state  of  California  went  so  far  as  to 
forbid  political  activities  on  the  campuses 
of  state-supported  schools— a  rule  which 
may  be  given  some  of  the  credit  for 
creating  the  first  Berkeley  uprisings.  (It 
appears  that  such  repressive  action  can 
sometimes  be  as  unwise  as  it  is 
unconstitutional.)  Nevertheless,  it  seems 
only  prudent  that  the  enormous  resources 
of  the  university  should  not  themselves 
be  committed  to  direct  political  action  the 
way  they  are,  say,  to  library  construction. 
I  think,  however,  that  the  basic  idea  of 
the  California  law  is  wrong;  universities 
should  actually  go  much  further  than  they 
have  in  the  past  to  encourage  the  political 
activities  of  their  members.  After  all, 
university  men  and  women  are  in  a 
position  to  bring  critical  intelligence  and 
informed  opinion  to  the  political  arena. 
Things  are  certainly  in  a  bad  enough  mess 
now.  It  seems  clear  that  critical 
intelligence  and  informed  opinion  have 
been  in  short  supply.  And,  to  answer  an 
all-too-frequent  complaint,  if  students 
(and  their  teachers)  often  seem  naive 
when  they  get  into  politics,  it  need  only 
be  pointed  out  that  the  opposite  of 
naivete  is  experience. 

Some  might  point  to  the  events  of  last 
spring  and  say  that  the  University  has 
more  important  things  to  do  than  to  get 
involved  in  politics.  Look,  they  would  say, 
at  the  ambiguous  outcome  the  strike 


achieved  at  the  price  of  so  great  a 
disruption  of  normal  academic  business. 
The  world  wasn't  saved  by  the  strike; 
students  and  teachers  should  stick  to  their 
business. 

I  have  to  agree  that  the  world  wasn't 
saved  by  the  strike.  That's  a  good  deal 
to  expect.  On  the  other  hand,  the  strike 
did  accomplish  some  things.  Newspapers 
discovered  that  they  can  offend  Mr. 
Agnew  and  survive.  The  President 
discovered  that  he  could  not,  with  the 
same  impunity,  offend  the  electorate.  A 
lot  of  congressmen  and  senators,  not  to 
mention  mayors,  city  councilmen,  and 
college  presidents,  found  it  necessary  to 
reexamine  their  accustomed  compromises 
of  principle  with  what  will  look  good, 
justice  with  who  holds  the  high  cards.  If 
compromise  is  abandoned  in  favor  of 
conviction,  I  am  convinced  that  the  war 
will  end  sooner,  justice  will  be  more 
easily  obtained,  and  the  high  purposes  of 
the  university  will  be  given  greater  weight 
both  on  and  off  campus.  That  isn't  much, 
I  agree,  but  it's  something. 


Pickets  and  painted  fists  adorned  Herter  Hall 
and  other  campus  buildings  in  May,  but  by 
June  the  physical  traces  of  the  strike  had 
disappeared. 


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Positive  View  of  Strike 


Putnam  Barber 


16  The  Alumnus 


A  Critical 
Approach  to 
the  Strike 


John  H.  Fenton 


'Conventional  wisdom 
concerning  student  activists  is 
way  wide  of  the  mark/ 


Critical  Approach  to  Strike 

For  the  past  three  years,  my  public 
opinion  and  political  behavior  classes 
have  probed  student  opinion  on  student 
power  and  more  recently  on  new  left, 
women's  liberation,  and  black  power 
issues.  My  conclusion  from  the  data  is 
that  the  conventional  wisdom  concerning 
student  activists  is  way  wide  of  the  mark, 
i.e.,  that  they  are  excellent  students  and 
are  "turned  off"  by  the  society  because 
the  nation's  institutions  do  not  measure 
up  to  their  "high  ideals." 

My  data  clearly  indicate  that  this 
romantic  vision  of  activists  is  nonsense. 
Most  of  the  activists  are  not  very  different 
from  their  fellows.  That  is,  they  are  very 
ordinary  human  beings  with  all  the  faults 
and  virtues  inherent  in  the  human  and 
student  condition.  Mainly,  most  of  them 
are  not  terribly  bright  and  are  very  young 
and  very  innocent  and  in  some  cases  very 
foolish  and  very  lazy.  Like  most  of  us, 
they  prefer  diversion  over  instruction  and 
will  extend  themselves  without  limit  to 
avoid  work.  And  they  have  been 
eminently  successful  in  securing 
diversion  and  avoiding  instruction  or 
work  through  "relevant"  workshops  and 
"relevant"  courses  and  "relevant" 
moratoria  and  "relevant"  strikes  without 
relevant  ends. 

Consider  just  two  facts. 

Fact  number  one:  The  variable  most 
closely  related  to  student  positions  on 
student  power  is  attitudes  toward  the  sale 
and  use  of  marijuana.  Student  power 
supporters  generally  like  marijuana.  The 
students  opposed  to  student  power' 
oppose  marijuana  also. 

Remarkably  enough,  statistical  analysis 
indicates  that  marijuana  advocacy  plays  a 
more  important  part  in  determining 
attitudes  on  student  power  than  any  of 
66  other  variables,  including  such  items 
as  church  membership,  family 
relationships,  and  a  variety  of  ideological 
positions.  It  is  as  though  the  variable  most 


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closely  related  to  liberal-conservative 
divisions  in  the  United  States  Senate 
were  attitudes  toward  dry  martinis. 

Fact  number  two:  The  single 
identifiable  accomplishment  of  the 
strikers  was  a  new  grade  policy.  The 
rather  eccentric  grading  system  which 
finally  emerged  from  bargaining  sessions 
between  a  student  strike  committee  and 
representatives  of  the  faculty  and 
administration  superseded  both  the 
established  grading  system  and  the 
guidelines  dated  May  7,  1970,  and 
partially  superseded  memorandum 
number  16,  dated  May  12,  1970,  entitled 
"New  Grading  Policy  for  Spring  Term 
1970."  I  am  still  confused  about  the 
precise  terms  of  the  policy.  However,  as 
applied  by  most  faculty  the  policy 
provided  students  with  the  options  of 
taking  their  mid-term  letter  grade  as  their 
final  course  grade  or  a  grade  of  "pass" 
based  upon  their  mid-term  grade,  or  they 
could  drop  the  course.  On  the  other  hand, 
if  students  wished,  they  could  opt  for  an 
"incomplete"  in  the  course  with  the  hope 
of  improving  their  grades  by  taking  the 
final  examination  in  the  fall  of  1970. 
Absolutely  intransigent  students  were 
permitted  to  complete  their  term  papers 
and  take  the  regularly  scheduled 
examinations.  So  closed  the  crusade 
against  a  corrupt  and  hypocritical  society. 

Now  let  us  turn  to  the  strike  and  the 
reaction  of  the  faculty  to  the  events 
accompanying  it.  President  Nathan  Pusey 
of  Harvard  University  likened  the  tactics 
of  the  activists  on  the  campuses  to  the 
"Big  Lie"  techniques  of  the  fascists  of 
yesteryear.  During  the  student  strike  the 
parallel  became  apparent  to  hundreds  of 
University  of  Massachusetts  faculty 
members.  Some  275  of  them  joined  the 
Faculty  Group  for  Academic  Freedom  and 
signed  a  statement  entitled,  "For 
Education— Against  a  Political 
University."  The  statement  questioned, 


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"the  wisdom  of  relaxing  normal  academic 
routine  in  support  of  a  political  strike," 
and  deplored  both  "the  fact  that  the 
Faculty  Senate  has  again  seen  fit  to  take 
a  collective  stand  on  a  disputed  political 
question/'  and  "the  atmosphere  of 
rampant  emotionalism  and  instances  of 
intimidation  .  .  .  that  have  cast  serious 
doubt  on  the  possibility  of  free  and 
rational  deliberation." 

Several  rejoinders  to  the  statement  by 
the  Faculty  Group  for  Academic  Freedom 
have  been  circulated  on  the  campus. 
Typically,  they  deny  that  anyone  was 
intimidated  by  the  radicals;  they  deny  any 
threat  to  academic  freedom  by  the 
radicals;  they  deny  that  violence  was 
threatened  by  the  radicals.  One  professor 
distributed  a  letter  in  which  he  asked, 
"Who  is  threatened  with  violence?  Who 
is  intimidated?  Are  the  strikers  going  to 
come  in  and  beat  up  the  faculty  senators? 
One  would  think  so  to  see  and  hear  the 
enraged  refusals  to  be  'intimidated'  by 
'threats  of  violence.'  But  this  satisfying 
self-congratulatory  sense  of  bravery  can 
be  enjoyed  in  perfect  safety,  because  no 
one  is  going  to  hurt  the  faculty  senators. 
Their  sense  of  security  is  threatened,  but 
their  precious  hides  [my  italics]  are  not 
threatened." 

It  is  also  true  that  faculty  members 
were  never  physically  threatened  by  Joe 
McCarthy  and  his  adherents.  McCarthy 
never  "beat  up"  faculty  members. 
McCarthy,  too,  denied  "intimidation." 
According  to  McCarthy,  'Teople  who  did 
not  like  America  could  take  their  precious 
hides  to  Russia." 

It  almost  seems  a  waste  of  time  to 
catalogue  the  instances  of  intimidation  at 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  during 
the  strike  because  they  were  so  numerous 
and  obvious  to  those  of  us  on  the  scene. 
However,  the  vintage  1970  big  and  little 
lies  must  be  as  clearly  labeled  as  were 
those  of  the  vintage  fifties,  even  (or 


especially)  when  well-liked  and  respected 
colleagues  become  intoxicated  by  them. 

First,  the  symbols  surrounding  the 
strike  were  intended  to  intimidate, 
ranging  from  the  red  and  black  clenched 
fists  that  were  painted  on  the  doors  and 
walls  of  buildings  to  the  signs  carried  by 
pickets  elegantly  commanding  faculty 
and  students  to  "Get  Your  Asses  Out  of 
Classes!" 

Second,  the  classes  of  at  least  three 
professors  were  disrupted  by  militants. 

Third,  the  grade  policy  negotiations 
with  the  strike  committee  were  conducted 
under  the  shadow  of  warnings  of 
violence.  For  example,  one  student 
warned  in  all  seriousness  that  she  would 
be  killed  by  her  fellows  if  she  failed  to 
negotiate  a  grade  policy  to  their  liking. 
There  were  also  threats  without  number 
of  destruction  to  buildings  and  offices. 
Faculty  who  participated  in  the 
negotiations  stated  to  me  that  the  only 
reason  that  the  grade  policy  was  approved 
was  out  of  fear— fear  of  violent 
consequences  if  they  failed  to  act. 

Fourth,  students  in  my  public  opinion 
class  were  afraid  to  attend  class  because 
it  was  held  in  the  R.O.T.C.  building.  We 
decided  to  hold  the  classes  as  scheduled. 
The  first  topic  when  we  met  was 
contingency  plans  in  the  event  of  violent 
disruption. 

Fifth,  an  "underground"  whispering 
campaign  was  directed  against  faculty 
members  who  opposed  the  strike.  They 
were  accused  of  racism  and  identified  as 
fascists.  For  example,  one  faculty 
member's  daughter  reprimanded  him  in 
tears  for  referring  to  the  strikers  as 
"nigger  lovers."  This  piece  of  scurrilous 
and  erroneous  intelligence  had  been 
relayed  to  her  by  a  fellow  student. 
"Fascist"  was  scrawled  on  another's  office 
door.  A  committee  was  formed  to  combat 
"Fascist  Professors  on  the  Campus." 

Yet  two  of  the  six  members  of  the 


executive  committee  of  the  Faculty  Group 
for  Academic  Freedom  are  active  mem- 
bers of  the  American  Civil  Liberties  Union 
and  were,  until  recently,  the  targets  of 
the  radical  right  because  of  their  long 
record  of  militant  defense  of  freedom  to 
dissent.  Perhaps  the  lesson  to  be  learned 
is  that  the  friend  of  freedom  is  not  to  be 
identified  by  reason  of  his  opposition  to 
the  radical  right  of  yesteryear.  Just  as 
clearly,  no  one  should  conclude  that  all 
opponents  of  today's  leftist  totalitarians 
are  dependable  friends  of  freedom.  The 
"true  believers"  of  both  sides  are  all  too 
ready  to  interpret  error  as  sin  and  to 
condemn  the  wicked  to  eternal  perdition. 

The  hope  of  the  future  resides  in  men 
who  fight  for  freedom  whether  the  threat 
emanates  from  left  or  right.  Their 
commitment  is  to  the  search  for  and 
dissemination  of  knowledge.  Their 
enemies  are  those  who  are  using  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  to  prepare 
missionaries  to  go  out  into  the  greater 
society  and  bring  light  to  the  heathen  on 
Viet  Nam,  the  Black  Panthers,  and  on 
other  political  issues. 

In  conclusion,  let  us  consider  the 
nonradical  flesh-and-blood  student  and 
faculty  member  who  supported  the  strike. 
If  the  leftist's  stereotypes  of  them  are 
mistaken,  the  rightist  stereotypes  are 
equally  distant  from  reality.  True,  like 
thee  and  me  they  can  be  hypocritical, 
foolish,  lazy,  self-serving,  and  can  be  led 
astray  by  big  and  little  lies.  But  like  those 
of  us  who  oppose  them  they  can  at  the 
very  same  time  be  motivated  by  the 
noblest  ideals.  Consider  the  following 
paragraphs  from  a  letter  a  student  named 
Pat  Hannigan  sent  to  me: 

"Any  attempt  at  perpetuating  a 
democracy  in  which  a  substantial 
proportion  (possibly  even  the  majority)  of 
the  youth  feel  left  out,  unrepresented,  and 
frustrated,  seems  to  me  to  be  doomed  to 
failure  in  the  long  run.  This  strike 


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capitalizes  on  that  frustration  and  puts  it 
to  what  I  sincerely  hope  will  be 
constructive  action.  The  level  of  political 
awareness  of  my  peers  has  risen 
incredibly  within  the  last  week.  I  cannot 
help  but  think  that  is  good.  I  guess  what 
I'm  saying  is  that  I  don't  believe  in  the 
ivory  tower  concept  of  a  university,  where 
dispassionate  discussion  of  events  and 
concepts  takes  place,  with  the  hope  that 
"truth"  will  emerge.  Maybe  I'm  too 
young.  But  I  believe  that  any  person,  in 
this  most  idealistic  phase  of  life  who  can 
go  through  four  years  of  learning  about 
human  misery,  betrayal  and  ignominy 
(along  with  human  nobility  and  strength) 
without  becoming  aroused  and 
righteously  angry  enough  to  try  to  do 
something  to  stop  it,  is  inhuman.  I  don't 
know  how  effective  this  strike  will  be;  but 
I  know  how  ineffective  NOT  striking 
would  be.  I'm  sure  you  don't  agree  with 
my  stand,  Mr.  Fenton,  but  I'm  just  as  sure 
you  understand  it. 

"I  would  like  to  take  the  grade  I  had 
in  the  course  as  of  May  4.  Bob  Goldstein 
and  I  are  working  on  our  group  paper  and 
will  get  it  to  you  one  way  or  another. 
Thank  you  very  much  for  everything." 

Who  could  fail  to  love  this  student  and 
the  thousands  like  her?  But,  equally,  who 
can  fail  to  love  the  nonconformist  student 
who  supports  R.O.T.C.,  supports 
President  Nixon  and  Vice  President 
Agnew,  and  opposes  the  strike?  They  are 
both  pivotal  parts  of  the  "open  academy," 
an  exciting  place  in  which  to  grow 
intellectually. 

The  1970  tragedy  at  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  is  that  the  open  academy 
is  under  attack  from  within.  The  liberal 
left  has  long  dominated  the  University, 
but  an  atmosphere  of  tolerance  and 
mutual  respect  for  opposing  viewpoints 
was  maintained.  Unfortunately,  in  1970 
numbers  of  faculty  and  students  are 
substituting  a  dull  and  sterile  left-wing 


orthodoxy  for  the  stimulating  give  and 
take  of  the  "open  academy."  Conservative 
and  moderate  faculty  and  students  are 
dismissed  as  "fascists."  Speakers  ranging 
from  Senator  Strom  Thurmond  on  the 
right  to  Hubert  Humphrey  in  the  political 
middle  are  silenced  by  the  left  "true 
believers." 

The  alternatives  are  clear.  The  lines  are 
drawn  and  the  battle  is  joined.  Some  of 
us  prefer  the  open  academy.  Others 
prefer  the  leftist  missionary  school 
format.  The  outcome  is  in  doubt. 


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The  Coach 
Emphasizes 
Winning 

Katie  S.  Gillmor 

An  interview  with  Head 
Football  Coach  Victor  H. 
Fusia 


Coach  Emphasizes  Winning 

coach  fusia:  In  coaching,  as  in  teaching, 
you've  got  to  give  before  you  can  receive. 
Our  job  as  coaches  is  to  add  to  the  total 
development  of  the  student-athlete.  I'm 
not  equating  what  we  do  on  the  gridiron 
or  the  practice  field  with  what  happens 
in  the  library  or  the  philosophy  class,  but 
I  do  think  there  is  something  special  we 
can  give  a  boy. 

Our  philosophy  is  to  teach  the  football 
player  how  to  win,  and  how  to  accept 
victory  generously.  At  the  same  time,  we 
have  to  teach  him  how  to  lose  and  to  lose 
ungrudgingly.  But  the  emphasis  is  always 
on  winning. 

alumnus:  Until  the  year  before  last,  you 
didn't  have  to  worry  about  losing. 
coach  fusia:  True.  I  had  never  before 
experienced  a  season  as  horrendous  as  the 
1968  season.  I  didn't  know  how  to  handle 
it,  and  I  think  the  boys  did  a  better  job 
than  I. 

We  may  say  that  it's  how  you  play  the 
game,  but  it  isn't.  You  go  out  there  to 
win.  The  purpose  of  the  game  is  to  win, 
and  you  destroy  the  game  if  you  dilute 
the  purpose.  Some  people  think  that  this 
great  desire  to  win  is  an  unfortunate 
attitude  typical  of  American  sports.  But, 
why  is  it  bad?  Education  is  supposed  to 
prepare  a  young  man  for  life.  Life  is 
competition.  Success  in  life  goes  only  to 
the  man  who  competes  successfully,  be 
he  a  lawyer  who  wins  law  cases  or  a 
salesman  who  sells  goods.  A  successful 
executive  is  the  man  who  can  make 
money  and  stay  out  of  bankruptcy.  There 
is  little  reward  for  the  loser,  no  matter 
who  or  what  he  is.  So,  as  far  as  I'm 
concerned,  there's  nothing  wrong  with 
this  will  to  win. 

alumnus:  And  how  do  you  shape  a  team 
into  a  winning  unit? 

coach  fusia:  In  UMass  football,  we  have 
tried  to  teach  that  which  we  know,  not 
what  somebody  else  knows.  We  spend  a 
great  deal  of  time  in  evaluating  execution 


Katie  S.  Gillmor 

versus  techniques.  We  try  not  to  be  all 
show  and  no  go.  Execution  gets  T.D.'s, 
and  execution  stops  the  opponents  from 
making  T.D.'s.  We  believe  in  repetition 
in  our  preparation,  and  we  teach 
something  and  repeat  it  so  many  times 
that  it  becomes  a  reflex.  We  have  to  make 
the  student-athlete  believe  in  what  we  are 
teaching  them,  what  we  feel  and  what  we 
know. 

Our  football  is  based  on  positive, 
old-fashioned  truths.  We  don't  waste  any 
time  in  doing  something  we  can't  achieve. 
Running,  blocking,  and  tackling  are  basic 
to  our  game.  We  try  to  adapt  our  present 
systems  of  offense  and  defense  to  the 
type  of  skills  we  have  on  hand.  Countless 
hours  are  spent  evaluating  our  personnel. 
We  can't  rely  solely  on  trial  and 
error— that  takes  too  much  time.  So  we 
have  a  battery  of  tests  to  help  us  plan 
efficiently.  For  instance,  we  may  be  the 
only  school  in  America  that  uses  a  field 
vision  test.  Visual  acuity  varies  with  each 
individual  and  can  have  a  very  definite 
influence  on  performance.  An  optometrist 
checks  our  boys  for  vertical  and  lateral 
vision,  which  can  be  unrelated  to  good  or 
bad  eyesight.  One  eye  is  always  a  little 
stronger  than  the  other  in  relation  to 
width  of  sight.  If  a  boy's  left  eye  is  a  little 
weaker  than  his  right,  we  will  make  sure 
he  is  placed  on  the  left  side  of  the  line 
if  he  is  a  member  of  our  defensive  unit, 
and  the  same  thing  goes  offensively.  If  he 
is  a  receiver,  we  will  make  sure  he  is 
catching  the  ball  from  the  proper  angle. 
alumnus:  You  need  a  computer  to  figure 
it  all  out. 

coach  fusia:  And  we  use  a  computer  in 
our  breakdown  of  opponents  and  in  the 
breakdown  of  our  own  offense  and 
defense.  We  are  always  working  on  error 
reduction. 

alumnus:  It  would  seem  that  this 
approach  works  quite  well.  Your  fans  are 
very  happy  with  it. 


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Katie  S.  Gillmor 


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Katie  S.  Gillmor 


coach  fusia:  Yes.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  a 
few  years  ago,  when  I  had  to  decide 
whether  or  not  to  stay  at  UMass,  an 
important  factor  in  my  decision  to  stay 
was  the  support  we  get  from  the  students 
and  alumni.  This  is  a  very  healthy  student 
body— maybe  the  best  in  the  country. 
Sure,  we  have  a  few  flare-ups  here  and 
there;  but,  on  the  whole,  the  student  body 
is  a  fine  one.  They  are  very  responsive 
and  they  believe  in  the  sports  end  of 
things. 

As  for  the  alumni,  no  matter  what  we 
have  asked  them  to  do,  they've  tried  to 
do  their  best.  They  are  behind  us  one 
hundred  per  cent.  Unfortunately,  alumni 
only  play  a  small  part  in  the  recruiting 
of  prospective  student-athletes.  They  are 
willing  to  help  in  any  way  possible,  but 
most  of  them  don't  know  how  to  hard  sell 
the  prospects.  But  we  have  received  some 
major  assistance  from  some  alumni, 
which  has  helped  tremendously. 
alumnus:  You  mentioned  recruiting.  How 
does  it  work  and  how  crucial  is  it? 
coach  fusia:  Football  success  really 
depends  on  recruiting.  Of  course, 
coaching  has  a  part  to  play  too,  but  you 
might  say  that  recruiting  is  coaching. 

We  recruit  actively  in  Massachusetts, 
Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jersey, 
Pennsylvania  and  Maine,  and  in  the  prep 
schools  in  Maine  and  New  Hampshire. 
We  cover  Maryland,  the  District  of 
Columbia,  and  Virginia  by 
correspondence  only.  We  visit  a  total  of 
456  high  schools  annually— each  coach 
has  been  averaging  75  high  schools  a  year. 

Through  all  sources,  we  receive  about 
1,200  names,  and  we  hope  to  arrive  at  a 
final  list  of  125  prospects.  Many  factors 
are  considered  in  picking  that  final  list. 
We  look  at  the  total  player:  his  age,  size, 
intelligence,  neuro-muscular  reactions, 
and  that  wonderful  thing  called  desire. 
We  eliminate  boys  because  of  their  size, 
lack  of  ability  or  speed,  low  pain 


tolerance,  bad  grades,  or  poor  character. 
The  final  125  are  quality  athletes. 

The  student-athlete  we  try  to  attract 
has  got  to  meet  our  admissions  standards 
and  he  has  got  to  be  able  to  do  the  work 
academically.  He  has  got  to  be  the  type  of 
athlete  who  can  beat  our  best  opponents 
and  he  has  got  to  qualify  as  a  man.  Boys 
like  this  are  rare.  There  are  a  lot  of  highly 
skilled  athletes  at  the  secondary  level,  but 
not  all  of  them  are  going  to  fill  the  bill. 
alumnus:  What  do  you  mean  by  "qualify 
as  a  man"? 

coach  fusia:  I  think  this  is  a  question  of 
character,  moral  fiber.  We  don't  want  to 
get  the  boy  here  who  is  capable  of 
swimming  in  dangerous  water  or  who  has 
created  waves  in  the  past.  To  determine 
this,  you  have  got  to  have  home 
visitations— you  know  darn  well  that  the 
boy,  in  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  is  going  to 
be  just  like  the  parents. 

We  check  out  a  boy  as  thoroughly  as 
possible  to  determine  his  character.  We 
visit  the  local  hangouts,  the  gasoline 
stations,  the  law  enforcement  people  in 
town.  We  check  the  prospect  against 
opponents  he  has  played  and  with  other 
high  school  coaches.  We  can  still  make 
a  mistake,  but  not  often.  We  work  on  the 
reduction  of  error  here  as  in  almost 
everything  we  do. 

Usually  about  75%  of  the  athletes  on 
our  final  list  are  admitted  to  the 
University.  But  the  competition  is  keener 
than  ever  for  the  boy  who  has  what  we 
want.  We  haven't  been  able  to  actually 
enroll  enough  of  the  "tenderloin"— the 
multiple  applicant.  This  past  year  we  lost 
about  twenty-five  of  our  top  choices  to 
such  schools  as  Boston  College,  Army, 
Penn  State,  Holy  Cross  and  Syracuse. 

And  it  isn't  because  we  haven't  tried. 
My  secretary  has  typed  1,625  letters,  an 
average  of  13  letters  a  prospect.  We  have 
made  1,375  phone  calls,  an  average  of  11 
per  prospect.  We  have  visited  the  homes 


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Coach  Emphasizes  Winning 


Katie  S.  Gillmor 


of  these  athletes  on  375  occasions,  an 
average  of  3  home  visits  a  prospect.  We 
made  375  school  visits;  again,  an  average 
of  3  per  prospect. 

Now,  why  aren't  we  getting  enough  of 
the  tenderloin?  The  reasons  given  by  last 
year's  top  prospects  for  not  accepting 
Massachusetts  indicate  the  problems  are 
money  and  prestige.  One  boy  turned  us 
down  because  we  don't  give  the  N.C.A.A. 
grant,  which  is  books,  tuition  fees,  room 
and  board,  and  $15  a  month.  Now,  I  don't 
believe  in  the  $15  a  month.  But  I  do  think 
that,  whether  a  student  is  a  football  player 
or  a  member  of  the  band  or  the  debating 
team,  if  he  is  capable  of  doing  our  work 
and  qualifies  as  a  gentleman  or  as  a  lady 
and  can  contribute,  then  he  should 
receive  some  compensation  or  aid. 

Many  of  our  prospects  look  down  on 
playing  in  the  Yankee  Conference.  This 
might  be  the  big  factor  in  their  not 
coming. 

alumnus:  Are  you  dissatisfied  with  the 
Yankee  Conference? 
coach  fusia:  Yes.  Everything  is  equal  as 
far  as  the  Yankee  Conference  goes,  but 
most  of  our  schedule  is  out  of  the 
Conference.  The  YanCon  system  is  just 
not  realistic  in  terms  of  such  opponents 
as  Boston  College  and  Holy  Cross, 
Buffalo,  Dartmouth  and  Harvard. 

Numbers  hurt  us.  For  years  we  were 
only  allowed  twenty  scholarships  for  the 
entire  athletic  program.  Things  are  a  little 
better  now  since  the  rule  was  changed  to 
allow  twenty  scholarships  distributed 
between  basketball  and  football.  And 
formerly,  if  somebody  dropped  out  of 
school,  we  had  a  rule  that  we  could  not 
replace  him.  As  of  a  year  ago,  we  are 
allowed  to  make  replacements. 

UMass  may  be  acclaimed  nationally, 
but  much  of  our  athletics,  football  in 
particular,  has  been  held  back.  It  seems 
to  me  that  we  should  establish  a  system 
or  formula  to  upgrade  the  quality  of  play 


within  the  Conference.  We  need  to  place 
the  University  in  a  more  competitive 
position  with  out  natural  in-state 
opponents,  and  all  opponents  that  are  on 
future  schedules.  I'm  not  thinking  in 
terms  of  being  on  par  nationally,  but  I  do 
think  that  we  have  potential  and  should 
have  a  system  that  would  make  us  very 
respectable  throughout  the  East. 

alumnus:  What  teams  would  you  like  to 
be  able  to  compete  with? 
coach  fusia:  Any  of  the  Ivy  group— not 
only  Brown  and  Columbia,  but 
Dartmouth,  Colgate,  Rutgers,  and  the 
service  academies.  I  don't  think  that  a 
New  England  school  can  compete  with 
the  Penn  States  and  the  Pitts  and  the 
Syracuses,  although  we  might  in  a  given 
year.  In  1963  and  1964  we  could  have 
competed  with  those  clubs  and  maybe 
licked  them  on  a  given  Saturday.  But  we 
never  had  enough  depth  here  to  play  the 
likes  of  Penn  State  Saturday  after 

Saturday. 

We  get  good  athletes  here,  but  we 
would  almost  have  to  double  our  program 
to  compete.  Take  the  team  this  year.  We 
have  one  good  offensive  unit  and  one 
good  defensive  unit.  Football  is  a  violent, 
very  physical  game.  Somebody  is  going 
to  get  hit;  when  you  get  hit,  you  are  going 
to  get  hurt.  The  team  needs  back-up  men. 
If  your  back-up  is  almost  comparable  to 
the  first  line  man,  then  you  have  depth. 
alumnus:  And  yet  we've  done  well  even 
without  depth. 

coach  fusia:  Yes.  On  the  whole,  the  ball 
has  bounced  extremely  well  for  us.  We've 
had  some  good  boys  and  I've  always  been 
fortunate  in  having  a  very  capable  staff. 
I  think  this  is  the  best  group  of  coaches 
that  I  have  ever  seen  at  one  school.  They 
are  all  very  knowledgeable.  The 
student-athlete  is  the  person  on  their 
minds  first— that  and  winning— but  the 
two  things  go  together.  These  coaches 
seem  to  have  a  wholesome  philosophy  in 


their  approach  to  the  sport  and  in  their 
respect  for  the  boys  they  handle. 

Speaking  of  philosophy,  there  are 
many  dimensions  in  football  that  very 
few  people  know  about.  For  instance, 
we  set  up  a  list  of  "Football  Command- 
ments." It  may  sound  like  a  lot  of 
rah-rah,  but  we  believe  in  them.  We 
tell  the  boys,  "If  you're  going  to  wear  the 
Redman  uniform,  don't  just  take  this  as 
a  first-day  gospel  reading  and  then  forget 
it.  Do  it  day  in  and  day  out."  The  first 
commandment  is  to  go  to  church.  The 
second  is  to  study  hard  because  we  are 
here  primarily  for  an  education.  The  third 
is  to  accept  your  teammates'  personality 
and  heritage.  The  fourth  is  loyalty  to  the 
school,  your  squad,  and,  above  all, 
yourself.  Finally,  hit  like  hell. 


Schedule 

FOOTBALL 

October  24  Connecticut  (Homecoming) 
October  31  at  Vermont 
November  7  at  Holy  Cross 
November  14  New  Hampshire 
November  21  Boston  Col 


For  the  sixth  consecutive  year,  Ted  Peene 
is  doing  the  play-by-play  broadcast  of 
Redmen  football  on  WTTT.  BiU  Carty, 
former  tight  end  and  now  a  student  coach 
under  Vic  Fusia,  is  working  with  him. 

BASKETBALL 
December  1  St.  Anselm's 
December  5  at  Vermont 
December  10  at  Rhode  Island 
December  12  New  Hampshire 
December  15  at  Connecticut 
December  18  American  International 
December  22  Hofstra 

December  28-December  30  Hall  of  Fame 
Tournament  in  Springfield 


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On  Campus 

Three's  a  crowd 

Triples  are  an  all-too-common 
phenomenon  this  fall  as  students  face  a 
housing  shortage  both  on  and  off  campus. 
Cramped  quarters  were  inevitable 
because  of  the  union  strike  last  April, 
which  delayed  the  opening  of  a  new 
dormitory  complex  slated  to  house  over 
1,000  students,  and  also  because  of  lenient 
policies  instituted  last  May.  The  grading 
guidelines  adopted  during  the  student 
strike  allow  students  who  had  marginal 
grades  to  enroll  again  this  year.  Housing 
and  enrollment  projections  for  1970-71, 
however,  were  predicated  on  an  estimated 
550  students  flunking  out  in  1969-70. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  summer,  there 
were  about  1,500  triples  possible  in  the 
fall.  Extraordinary  measures  were  taken 
to  reduce  this  number.  Letters  were 
sent  to  freshmen  urging  them  to  vol- 
untarily triple;  350  agreed  to  do  so. 
Upperclassmen  were  also  asked  to  triple, 
and  20  out  of  12,000  volunteered. 
Students  choosing  to  triple  receive  a  30% 
reduction  in  room  rent. 

Other  policies  were  instituted  to 
encourage  off  campus  arrangements. 
Letters  were  sent  to  students  living  within 
commuting  distance  asking  them  to 
withdraw  from  campus  housing  for  the 
first  semester.  Upperclassmen  were  urged 
to  consider  boarding  at  fraternities  and 
sororities;  in  turn,  the  fraternities  and 
sororities  were  urged  to  fill  empty  beds 
with  nonaffiliated  students.  Permission 
was  granted  for  juniors  and  seniors  to  live 
off  campus,  but  many  of  them  have  been 
unable  to  find  apartments. 

A  particularly  effective  measure  to 
reduce  tripling  was  the  institution  of  an 
advance  deposit  to  reserve  rooms  in 
dormitories.  Some  500  students  did  not 
reserve  rooms. 

These  new  housing  measures  have  had 
an  effect,  although  the  problem  is  far 


from  being  solved.  As  the  fall  semester 
approached,  the  Housing  Office 
estimated  that  there  would  be,  at  most, 
500  triples.  Such  crowded  conditions  are 
not  new  to  the  Amherst  campus,  of 
course;  there  were  300  triples  officially 
listed  last  year.  However,  that  figure  is 
deceptive— many  of  the  300  triples  were 
peopled  by  "ghosts"  who  never 
registered.  Unfortunately,  there  is  nothing 
ephemeral  about  three  in  a  room  this 
year. 

R.O.T.C.  Status 

At  its  April  meeting,  the  board  of  trustees 
voted  to  authorize  the  administration  to 
notify  the  Defense  Department  that  the 
University  wishes  to  renegotiate  its 
R.O.T.C.  contracts. 

In  June,  the  board  approved  four 
additional  recommendations  of  the 
faculty  senate:  that  the  academic  rank  of 
Lecturer  ordinarily  be  conferred  upon 
officer  personnel  appointed  to  the 
Departments  of  Military  and  Air  Science, 
except  that  the  rank  of  Professor  shall  be 
conferred  on  the  Senior  Officer;  that 
courses  with  substantial  "academic  area" 
content  be  offered  by  the  appropriate 
academic  departments  and  taught  by  the 
regular  faculty  (with  academic  credit  and 
an  enrollment  open  to  non-R.OT.C. 
students);  that  courses  of  indoctrination, 
and/or  drill,  and/or  training  in  military 
skills  be  taught  by  military  personnel  and 
carry  no  academic  credit;  and  that  the 
administration  be  authorized  to  claim  full 
Federal  funding  for  the  R.O.T.C. 
program. 

Amendments  to  the  motion  were 
proposed  by  Maj.  Gen.  John  J.  Maginnis 
'18  and  passed  by  the  board.  Referring  to 
the  courses  described  in  the  second  and 
third  parts  of  the  original  motion,  the  first 
amendment  added  the  following  words: 
"These  courses  would  be  offered  by  the 


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members  of  the  Division  of  Military  and 
Air  Science  supplemented  by  cooperating 
faculty  members  of  other  departments  or 
appropriate  disciplines.  Academic  credit 
will  be  granted  on  the  same  basis  and 
criteria  as  applied  to  all  courses 
University-wide."  The  second  amendment 
permits  the  continuation  of  the  present 
four-year  and  two-year  options.  The 
faculty  senate  had  recommended  only  the 
two-year  program  with  the  added 
obligation  of  an  extra  summer  camp. 

The  Vanishing  Elm 

There  are  thousands  of  dead  trees  in  neat 
rows  at  the  University's  research  nursery. 
They  are  young  elms  which  researchers 
from  the  UMass  Shade  Tree  Laboratories 
have  deliberately  inoculated  with  Dutch 
elm  disease  fungus  in  efforts  to  find  a 
disease-resistant  strain  of  elm. 

The  elm  disease,  first  discovered  in 
Holland  in  1919,  spread  to  this  country 
by  1930.  An  estimated  400,000  trees  are 
killed  each  year  in  the  U.S.  by  the  fungus, 
which  chokes  the  vascular  system.  The 
fungus  is  transmitted  by  the  elm  bark 
beetle,  which  chooses  diseased  elm  trees 
as  the  place  to  lay  its  eggs.  The  beetles 
hatch  in  the  spring  loaded  with  fungus 
spores  which  are  passed  to  healthy  elms 
as  the  insects  feed  on  the  tender  new 
bark.  Spread  of  the  fungus  can  kill  a  tree 
in  one  season  or,  in  the  case  of  older  trees, 
in  several  years. 

In  its  search  for  a  disease-resistant 
strain,  the  UMass  Shade  Tree  Lab  is 
working  with  foreign  varieties  as  well  as 
local  strains  and  has  research  plots  of 
Siberian  elms,  Buisman  elms,  Carpathian 
elms  and  others.  The  fungus  is  given  to 
a  whole  crop  of  young  elms  and  the  two 
per  cent  or  less  that  show  resistance  are 
crossed  with  resistant  strains  from 
'    previous  years. 

The  process  starts  with  elm  seed, 


gathered  in  early  summer  and  sent  to  the 
Atomic  Energy  Commission's 
Brookhaven  National  Laboratory  on  Long 
Island.  There  the  seed  is  treated  with 
thermal  neutrons  in  order  to  change  the 
genetic  makeup  of  the  seed  chromosomes 
and  possibly  produce  mutants  resistant  to 
disease.  So  far,  however,  no  clearly 
resistant  mutants  have  resulted. 

The  seeds,  back  from  Brookhaven,  are 
set  out  in  greenhouses  over  the  winter. 
The  young  elms  are  then  transplanted  to 
the  research  nursery  at  the  west  end  of 
the  Amherst  main  campus  and  at  the 
UMass  nursery  in  Belchertown  where 
they  are  left  to  grow  for  up  to  five  years, 
awaiting  their  date  with  the  Dutch  elm 
fungus.  In  all,  the  lab  has  some  9,500  elms 
growing  in  Amherst  and  Belchertown. 

According  to  the  Lab's  director, 
Malcolm  A.  McKenzie,  what  may  seem 
to  be  a  resistant  tendency  in  a  tree  often 
turns  out  to  be  only  the  natural  resistance 
of  a  young  tree  growing  rapidly.  Dr. 
McKenzie  admitted,  "We've  done  a  lot  of 
work  without  too  much  to  show  in  the 
way  of  results." 

Despite  scientific  efforts  at  UMass  and 
elsewhere,  Shade  Tree  Laboratory  staff 
member,  Dr.  Francis  W.  Holmes,  predicts 
that  it  will  be  well  into  the  1980s  and 
1990s  before  resistant  varieties  are 
available  in  quantity. 

Black  Studies 

An  Afro- American  studies  department 
designed  to  offer  an  undergraduate  major 
in  Afro- American  studies  and  courses  in 
black  humanities  for  nonmajors  is  part  of 
the  curriculum  this  fall.  Named  for  the 
noted  black  scholar  W.E.B.  DuBois,  the 
department  was  created  following  many 
months  of  planning  by  a  faculty-student 
University  Committee  on  Black  Studies 
working  with  the  University 
administration. 


The  plans  call  for  a  fully-staffed 
department  to  be  in  operation  by  the  fall 
of  1972  with  a  full  time  faculty  of  twenty, 
a  director,  an  administrative  staff  and  a 
library  collection  in  Afro- American 
studies.  The  department  will  offer  a  series 
of  course  sequences  in  various  disciplines 
which  will,  in  combination,  present  the 
social,  cultural  and  political  history  of  the 
Afro- American  people  in  a 
comprehensive  and  structurally 
integrated  manner.  Disciplines  involved 
will  be  African  languages,  literature, 
history,  anthropology,  political  science, 
economics,  psychology,  music  and  fine 
arts. 

The  Afro-American  studies  major  will 
be  recommended,  according  to  the 
committee,  "only  to  students  intent  on  a 
career  in  teaching  or  advanced 
scholarship  in  Afro-American  studies  in 
one  of  the  relevant  professional 
disciplines."  For  nonmajors,  the  general 
introductory  courses  in  the  department 
will  be  the  black  humanities  sequence. 

The  committee  has  suggested  general 
principles  for  the  Afro- American  studies 
department.  One  is  that  it  will  be 
interdisciplinary,  crossing  traditional 
boundaries  in  areas  relevant  to  black 
experience,  and  that  it  will  be 
international  in  scope.  Another  aim  is  that 
the  department  emphasize  independent 
research  and  nontraditional  work-study 
programs  in  the  black  community.  Two 
other  essential  principles  are  continued 
negotiations  for  a  Five  College  Black 
Studies  Department  with  neighboring 
Amherst,  Hampshire,  Mount  Holyoke 
and  Smith  Colleges,  and  the  development 
of  a  Black  Cultural  Center  at  UMass. 
According  to  the  committee,  the 
department  is  designed  "to  move  into  the 
existing  vacuum  and  become  a  focus  for 
the  expression  of  black  academic  and 
cultural  concerns." 

Until  the  department  is  fully 


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operational  and  staffed,  an  interim 
director  will  head  the  program,  recruit 
faculty  and  work  on  the  establishment  of 
the  Black  Cultural  Center.  The  director 
will  be  assisted  by  interim  staff  members 
recruited  from  the  present  UMass  faculty. 
The  cultural  center,  particularly  through 
films  and  lectures,  will  complement  the 
limited  academic  programs  at  the  initial 
stages  of  the  department's  development. 

Grants  for  Education 
and  History 

The  U.S.  Office  of  Education  awarded  a 
$130,000  contract  to  the  University's 
School  of  Education  to  analyze  data 
received  from  a  survey  of  compensatory 
education  in  the  nation.  The  1970  Survey 
of  Compensatory  Education,  which  was 
conducted  by  the  Office  of  Education, 
produced  a  considerable  amount  of  data 
on  federally  supported  projects  which 
help  disadvantaged  children  adjust  to 
school.  The  UMass  team  will  analyze  the 
elementary  school  information  to  help 
ascertain  the  success  of  these  programs. 
In  a  year  noted  for  a  general  scarcity 
of  academic  grants,  six  historians  at  the 
University  have  won  awards.  R.  Dean 
Ware,  associate  professor,  has  obtained  a 
Fulbright  grant  to  lecture  and  pursue 
research  in  medieval  English  history  at 
Trinity  College  in  Dublin  during  the 
coming  academic  year.  Professor  Lewis 
Hanke,  who  received  a  Humanities 
Council  grant  for  the  same  period,  will 
work  in  Spain  and  elsewhere  on  a  history 
of  the  Spanish  viceroys  of  the  New 
World.  A  Guggenheim  Fellowship,  one  of 
the  very  few  given  this  year  to  historians 
in  the  U.S.,  was  awarded  to  Professor 
Vincent  Ilardi  who  will  spend  half  of  the 
coming  year  in  Europe  and  half  in  the 
U.S.,  working  on  a  book  on  Renaissance 
diplomacy.  Professor  Louis  Greenbaum, 
awarded  one  of  the  few  National  Institute 


of  Health  grants  ever  presented  to  a 
nonscientist,  will  work  in  Paris  on  a 
biography  of  the  French  chemist 
Lavoisier.  Assistant  professor  Robert 
Jones  has  begun  work  on  a  book  on  the 
18th  century  Russian  nobility  under  an 
American  Philosophical  Society  grant. 
Joseph  Hernon,  an  associate  professor, 
has  been  awarded  a  visiting  lectureship 
at  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  for  the  coming 
academic  year.  He  will  also  work  under 
an  American  Philosophical  Society  grant 
on  a  book  on  19th  century  British  rule 
in  Ireland. 

Trustee  Action 

Two  controversial  items  appeared  on  the 
agenda  of  the  August  meeting  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  One  was  the  use  of 
student  activity  tax  funds;  "social  action 
programs"  sponsored  by  the  student 
senate  had  been  in  question.  Although 
the  budget  allocated  by  the  student  senate 
and  the  student  tax  of  $36.50  per  student 
was  approved,  the  trustees  announced 
that  they  would  set  guidelines  in  the 
future.  This  policy  would  be,  "that  funds 
for  student  activities  collected  by  charges 
authorized  by  the  board  of  trustees  be 
expended  for  the  support  of  activities  on 
or  closely  related  to  the  campus  for  which 
the  charge  is  made  and  that  no  such  funds 
be  applied  to  donations  of  any  kind  to 
individuals  or  groups  or  organizations  for 
activities  off  such  campus  or  for  the 
support  of  programs  conducted  off  such 
campus,  or  be  applied  to  support  the 
candidacy  of  individuals  seeking  public 
office." 

The  second  controversial  item  brought 
before  the  board  was  the  Princeton  Plan, 
an  autumnal  political  recess  which  several 
colleges  and  universities  are  considering. 
The  board  rejected  a  proposal  passed  by 
the  faculty  senate  which  would  have 
closed  the  University  for  two  weeks 


before  the  November  elections.  Instead, 
an  alternative  arrangement  proposed  by 
Chancellor  Tippo  was  adopted.  Although 
UMass  will  remain  open,  students  who 
wish  to  work  for  candidates  may  notify 
their  teachers  to  that  effect  and  make  up 
any  work  they  missed. 

Nursing  Dean  Retires 

Mary  A.  Maher,  Dean  of  the  School  of 
Nursing  since  the  School  was  established 
in  1953,  retires  this  month.  The  board  of 
trustees  has  named  her  Dean  Emeritus, 
and  her  colleagues  and  friends  have 
established  a  scholarship  fund  in  her 
honor. 

The  School  of  Nursing  had  four 
teachers  and  twelve  students  when  Miss 
Maher  assumed  her  responsibilities  as  its 
first  Dean.  Seventeen  years  later,  there 
are  37  members  of  the  faculty  and  325 
students.  Under  her  leadership,  331 
students  have  been  awarded  bachelor's 
degrees  in  nursing.  Aside  from  the 
undergraduate  program,  which  was 
accredited  by  the  National  League  for 
Nursing  in  1960,  the  School  also  offers 
a  four-semester  master's  degree  program 
in  nursing  administration. 

Alumni  who  wish  to  support  the 
scholarship  fund  should  make  checks 
payable  to  "Trustees,  University  of 
Massachusetts,  Mary  A.  Maher 
Scholarship  Fund."  Contributions  should 
be  sent  to:  School  of  Nursing,  University 
of  Massachusetts,  Western  Massachusetts 
Public  Health  Center,  Amherst  01002. 

Nominations  Needed 

Each  year  the  Associate  Alumni,  through 
its  Alumni  Honorary  Degrees  and 
Awards  Committee,  selects  individuals 
who  deserve  recognition.  These  alumni 
become  candidates  for  honorary  degrees 
given  by  the  University  or  awards  for 


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distinguished  service  which  the  alumni 
association  distributes  annually.  Alumnus 
readers  are  invited  to  submit  names  of 
fellow  graduates  who  might  qualify  for 
these  honors.  Criteria  are  as  follows: 

Candidates  for  honorary  degrees  must 
be  alumni  of  great  distinction.  The  board 
of  trustees  grants  only  a  limited  number 
of  these  degrees,  and  the  trustees  look  for 
intellectual  attainment  of  the  highest 
order  in  a  candidate's  field,  outstanding 
achievement  of  which  the  University 
would  wish  to  indicate  its  approval,  and 
a  candidate's  extraordinary  contribution 
to  the  well-being  of  the  University  or  the 
Commonwealth. 

These  criteria  also  apply  to  the  three 
Awards  for  Distinguished  Service  made 
each  year  by  the  alumni  association. 
These  awards  are  in  recognition  of  public 
service,  professional  service,  and  service 
to  the  University. 

Candidates'  names  should  be 
submitted  to  the  Alumni  Honorary 
Degrees  and  Awards  Committee  through 
its  chairman,  Maida  Riggs.  Miss  Riggs 
may  be  reached  at  the  Department  of 
Women's  Physical  Education  at  the 
University.  Suggestions  may  also  be  sent 
to  Evan  Johnston  at  the  alumni  office. 

A  University  Bookcase 

Economics  of  Dissent,  written  by  Ben  B. 
Seligman  and  published  by  Quadrangle 
Books,  has  been  named  one  of  the  most 
outstanding  academic  books  reviewed  last 
year  by  "Choice,"  the  official  publication 
of  the  Association  of  College  and 
Research  Libraries.  Dr.  Seligman  is 
director  of  the  Labor  Relations  and 
Research  Center  at  the  University. 

Professor  Stephen  B.  Oates  of  the 
history  department  recently  published 
two  books:  To  Purge  This  Land  With  Blood: 
A  Biography  of  ]ohn  Brown  which, 
according  to  a  review  in  'Tublisher's 


Weekly,"  draws  a  parallel  "between  the 
tragedy  of  John  Brown  and  the  passionate 
militancy  of  the  Black  Panther  movement 
today;"  and  Visions  of  Glory:  Texans  on  the 
Southwestern  Frontier.  The  author  says,  "In 
some  ways,  Visions  of  Glory  is  an  anti-war 
book,  not  because  it  is  a  polemic  against 
violence,  but  because  it  narrates  the 
evidence  of  the  violent  and  savage  stain 
in  our  frontier."  Harper  and  Row 
published  To  Purge  This  Land  With  Blood 
and  the  University  of  Oklahoma  Press 
published  Visions  of  Glory. 

The  chairman  of  the  department  of 
hotel  and  restaurant  administration, 
Donald  E.  Lundberg,  has  written  The  Hotel 
and  Restaurant  Business  and  co-authored 
Understanding  Cooking.  Both  books  were 
published  recently,  the  former  by 
Institutions  Magazine  and  the  latter  by 
Edward  Arnold  Publishers,  Ltd. 

Talleyrand:  Statesman-Priest  by  Louis  S. 
Greenbaum  has  been  published  by  the 
Catholic  University  of  America  Press.  Dr. 
Greenbaum,  a  professor  of  history, 
revises  the  generally  accepted  cynical 
view  of  Talleyrand's  ministry  in  the 
direction  of  courage,  sincerity  and 
industry. 

Another  contribution  from  the 
University's  history  department  is  The 
High  Middle  Ages:  814-1300,  published  by 
Prentice-Hall.  The  book  was  edited  by 
Archibald  R.  Lewis  who  asserts,  'The 
High  Middle  Ages  were  not  the  era  of 
illiteracy,  religious  fanaticism  and  feudal 
rivalries  that  modern  historians  so  often 
paint." 

And  From  the  UMass  Press 

The  fall  catalog  is  now  available  and 
UMass  professors  have  contributed 
several  of  the  new  titles  listed.  Among 
them  are:  John  A.  Brentlinger,  a 
philosophy  professor  who  has  edited  The 
Symposium  of  Plato,  a  new  translation  by 


Suzy  Q  Groden;  Donald  Junkins  '53,  a 
poet  and  the  director  of  the  University's 
M.F.A.  program  in  English,  who 
composed  And  Sandpipers  She  Said; 
Lawrence  Foster,  an  assistant  professor 
of  philosophy,  and  the  late  J.  W. 
Swanson,  editors  of  Experience  and  Theory, 
a  collection  of  seven  essays  by 
outstanding  contemporary  philosophers; 
John  C.  Weston,  an  English  professor, 
who  has  edited  a  new  edition  of  A  Drunk 
Man  Looks  at  the  Thistle  by  Hugh 
MacDiarmid;  B.  F.  Wilson,  a  professor  of 
forestry,  who  wrote  The  Growing  Tree;  and 
Robert  A.  Hart  of  the  history  department 
who  edited  Military  Government  journal; 
Normandy  to  Berlin  by  Major  General  John 
J.  Maginnis  '18. 

Those  interested  in  obtaining  a  copy  of 
the  fall  catalog  should  write  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  Press  in 
Munson  Hall. 


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dub 
Calendar 


James  H.  Allen  '66 

Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


Club  Calendar 

We  were  promised  "an  old  fashioned 
clambake,  cooked  over  hot  rocks  coated 
with  seaweed."  This  was  too  good  to 
miss.  So  on  Sunday,  August  2, 1  found 
myself  in  Orleans  on  Cape  Cod  where  the 
Hotel  and  Restaurant  Administration 
Alumni  Club  held  its  annual  summer 
meeting.  Ken  Mayo  '67,  the  host,  was 
joined  by  over  sixty  fellow  H.  and  R. 
majors.  The  day's  events  included  rides 
over  Nauset  Beach,  swimming,  croquet, 
tennis  and,  of  course,  the  clambake. 

As  summer's  heat  passed  and  the  crisp, 
clear  days  and  nights  of  fall  came  upon 
us,  football  replaced  clambakes  as  the 
focal  point  of  the  club  program.  The 
Varsity  M  Club  has  been  sponsoring 
some  fine  sports-related  activities.  Not 
least  among  them  was  the  Varsity  M  Beer 
Tent  at  Homecoming.  One  dollar  for  all 
the  beer  you  can  drink— we're  looking 
forward  to  Homecoming  '71  already. 

A  series  of  Varsity  M  Football 
Luncheons  began  September  16.  These 
are  held  Wednesdays  at  12:15  at  the 
Newman  Center;  they  cost  $1.50  and  will 
continue  throughout  the  football  season. 

Homecoming  will  be  thoroughly 
reported  on  in  the  December  Alumnus.  In 
the  meantime,  however,  we'de  like  to 
thank  the  members  of  the  Northampton 
Alumni  Club  for  their  fine  job  as  hosts 
of  the  Hutch  Inn  faculty/alumni  Dinner 
and  Dixieland. 

The  Redmen  play  Holy  Cross  at 
Worcester  on  November  7,  and  Bob  '55 
and  Mary  Lee  Boyle  Pelosky  '56,  with  the 
help  of  other  Worcester  area  alumni,  will 
host  a  cocktail  party.  This  will  be  held 
immediately  after  the  game,  at  Nick's 
Grill  on  Boylston  Street  in  Worcester. 
(Take  the  Worcester  Expressway  (Route 
290)  north  to  the  Gold  Star  Boulevard 
exit.  Take  the  first  left  turn  off  Gold  Star 
Boulevard.  When  you  reach  Boylston 
Street,  turn  left.  Travel  for  about  one 
quarter  mile  and  Nick's  will  be  on  the 


James  H.  Allen 

right-hand  side  of  the  street.) 

Our  last  football  game  of  the  year  will 
be  against  Boston  College  at  Amherst  on 
November  21.  A  cocktail  party  and  buffet 
will  be  held  in  the  new  Murray  D.  Lincoln 
Campus  Center  after  the  game.  Coach  Vic 
Fusia  will  be  guest  of  honor,  and  we  look 
forward  to  hearing  him  discuss  highlights 
of  the  completed  season  and  his  plans  for 
the  future.  The  Berkshire  Club,  which  is 
sponsoring  this  buffet,  extends  an 
invitation  to  all  interested  alumni. 

And  to  top  off  what  will  surely  be  a 
great  season,  the  Greater  Boston  Alumni 
Club  will  hold  its  Annual  Sports  Banquet 
on  Friday,  December  4.  This  year  the 
banquet  will  move  from  the  Waltham 
Field  Station  to  the  congenial  atmosphere 
of  the  Peter  Stuyvesant  Restaurant  at 
Anthony's  Pier  4.  Stan  Barron  '51  is  the 
chairman  of  the  event.  For  additional 
information,  please  write  to  me  at  the 
alumni  office. 


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Report 


1936 

Patrick  J.  Fitzgerald,  professor  and 
chairman  of  the  department  of  pathology 
at  the  State  University  of  New  York, 
Downstate  Medical  College,  has  been 
elected  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Council  of  the  Council  of  Academic 
Societies,  Association  of  American 
Medical  Colleges.  Dr.  Fitzgerald  is  a 
former  president  of  the  American 
Association  of  Pathologists  and 
Bacteriologists  and  has  represented  that 
organization  in  the  Council  of  Academic 
Societies  for  the  past  three  years. 

The  Forties 

Hazel  Burick  Cunninghis  '47  is  a 

part-time  substitute  teacher. 
BioDiagnostics,  Inc.,  a  recently  organized 
specialty  clinical  products  company  in 
Pasadena,  announced  the  appointment  of 
M.  Keith  Nadel  '49  as  its  president  and 
chief  executive  officer.  Dr.  Nadel 
formerly  held  the  position  of  manager  of 
the  chemistry  division  in  Xerox's 
discontinued  Medical  Diagnostics 
Organization. 

1950 

Everett  G.  Downing,  head  of  the  social 
studies  department  at  Sharon  High 
School,  will  exchange  places  with  a 
teacher  at  the  Trinity  School  in  Surrey, 
England  for  the  coming  academic  year 
under  the  auspices  of  the  1961 
Fulbright-Hays  Act. 


The  Classes  Report 

1951 

Roderick  G.  Bell  is  assistant  manager  of 
accounting  for  the  New  York  Life 
Insurance  Company.  Jeremiah  T. 
Herlihy,  who  is  presently  with  Sandusky 
Foundry  and  Machine  in  Sandusky,  Ohio, 
has  been  elected  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Chemists. 


1952 

A.  John  Raffin  has  joined  the  Providence 
advertising  firm  of  Creamer,  Trowbridge, 
Case  &  Basford,  Inc.,  as  a  vice-president 
of  account  group  administration. 

1953 

Three  books  by  Dr.  Francis  S.  Galasso, 

chief  of  material  synthesis  at  the  United 
Aircraft  Research  Laboratories  in  East 
Hartford,  have  been  published  recently. 
They  are:  Structure,  Properties  and  Prepara- 
tion ofPerovskite  Type  Compounds;  Structure 
and  Properties  of  Inorganic  Solids;  and  High 
Modulus  Fibers  and  Composites.  The  Mass- 
achusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany named  John  C.  Howard  assistant 
director  of  group  insurance  underwriting 
in  the  group  life  and  health  underwrit- 
ing department.  A  veteran  of  the  U.S. 
Navy  and  a  recipient  of  an  LL.B.  degree 
from  Western  New  England  College  in 
1964,  Mr.  Howard  is  vice-chairman  of  the 
Wilbraham  Democratic  Town  Committee 
and  a  member  of  the  Wilbraham  Com- 
munications Committee.  The  Acting 
Chairman  of  Home  Economics  Education 
at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island,  Patricia 
Smith  Kelly  received  her  Ph.D.  degree 
from  Ohio  State  University  in  1969.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Donald  I.  Morey  announced  the 
birth  of  Claudia  Linda,  born  January  13, 
1970. 


1955 

Arnold  E.  Grade  was  recently  promoted 
to  associate  professor  of  English  at  the 
State  University  College,  Brockport,  New 
York.  New  Hampshire's  Child:  The  Derry 
Journals  of  Lesley  Frost,  which  Dr.  Grade 
co-edited  with  Lawrance  Thompson,  has 
been  named  one  of  the  Fifty  Books  of  the 
Year  by  the  American  Institute  of  Graphic 
Arts;  he  has  just  completed  another  vol- 
ume, A  Coming  Out  of  Stars:  Robert  Frost 
as  Teacher.  William  W.  Shrader,  a  prin- 
cipal engineer  in  Raytheon's  Equipment 
Division  Laboratory  in  Wayland,  wrote 
the  chapter  on  moving  target  indication 
radar  in  a  new  survey  of  the  radar  field 
entitled  Radar  Handbook.  Mr.  Shrader 
earned  an  M.S.E.E.  degree  at  Northeast- 
ern University  and  is  a  senior  member  of 
the  Institute  of  Electrical  and  Electronic 
Engineers. 

1957 

Lee  H.  Hall,  assistant  director  of  group 
claims  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  in  Springfield,  is 
married  to  the  former  Carol  Green  '56. 
A  member  of  the  Bar  in  Massachusetts 
and  Pennsylvania,  Z.  Edward  Heller  is 
associated  with  the  law  firm  of  Wisler, 
Pearlstine,  Talone  &  Gerber  in 
Norristown,  Pennsylvania.  A  registered 
representative  of  the  National  Association 
of  Security  Dealers,  Joseph  M.  Kmetz,  Jr. 
has  been  promoted  from  analyst  to 
manager  in  the  pension  trust 
administration  and  underwriting 
department  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company.  The 
achievements  of  David  S.  Liederman,  who 
is  serving  his  first  term  as  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives,  were  recognized  by  the 
National  Association  of  Social  Workers 
when  he  was  selected  "Social  Worker  of 


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the  Year"  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Eastern  Massachusetts  Chapter. 
Representative  Liederman  is  also  an 
assistant  professor,  lecturing  in  urban 
problems,  at  Boston  University.  G. 
Catherine  O'Connor  Turner  is  a  teacher 
at  South  Hadley  High  School. 

1959 

William  E.  Donohue,  who  is  married  to 
the  former  Sara  Varanka,  is  a  marketing 
specialist  with  G.E.  The  Massachusetts 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  named 
Roger  F.  Sugrue  assistant  director  of 
group  pension  policyholder  service  in  the 
group  pension  administration 
department.  The  fifth  children's  book 
written  by  John  F.  Waters,  The  Crab  From 
Yesterday,  has  been  selected  by  the  Junior 
Literary  Guild.  Aaron  and  Shirley  Soko- 
letsky  White  have  two  daughters:  Ga- 
brielle,  born  in  1966,  and  Jocelyn,  born 
in  1968. 

1960 

James  and  Brenda  Brizzolari  Cooley  '61 

announced  the  birth  of  their  second  child, 
Andrew  Ericson,  born  February  15, 1970. 
The  New  England  Regional  Commission 
has  appointed  Charles  C.  Crevo,  the 
chairman  of  the  Division  of  Inventory  and 
Forecasting  of  the  Institute  of  Traffic 
Engineers,  as  the  executive  director  of  the 
Northern  New  England  East-West 
Highway  Study.  Mr.  Crevo  will 
coordinate  and  supervise  all  phases  of  the 
investigation  into  the  economic 
development  potentials  of  an  east-west 
highway  linking  Maine,  New  Hampshire 
and  Vermont.  A  registered  professional 
engineer,  he  has  served  as  chief 
transportation  planner  for  Rhode  Island 
and  spent  four  years  with  the  Connecticut 
Highway  Department.  Leonard  and 
Elaine  Borash  Galane  announced  the 


birth  of  their  second  child,  Darcy  Lynn, 
born  April  26, 1969.  Katherine  L.  Grover 
is  in  St.  Thomas,  Virgin  Islands,  teaching 
fourth  grade  and  running  journeys  by 
Grover,"  a  travel  consultant  firm.  A.T.&T. 
employs  Richard  F.  Lipman  as  a  staff 
engineer-instructor.  Arthur  and  Frances 
Gravalese  Phillips  have  announced  the 
birth  of  their  third  child,  Thomas  Paul, 
born  June  21, 1970. 

1961 

Cornelius  J.  Coleman,  former  chief  of  the 
Office  Collection  Force  of  the  Internal 
Revenue  Service  in  Boston,  has  been 
assigned  as  assistant  district  director  in 
Omaha.  Mr.  Coleman  received  his  LL.B. 
degree  from  the  University  of 
Connecticut  in  1967  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bar. 

1962 

Donald  and  Deborah  Read  Aikman  have 
two  children,  six-year-old  Douglas  and 
four-year-old  Dawn.  A  supervising  nurse 
at  the  Fort  Logan  Mental  Health  Center 
in  Colorado,  Lesley  Smith  married 
Thomas  P.  Branch  on  January  25,  1969. 
Joseph  W.  Lipchitz  received  a  Ph.D.  in 
history  from  Case  Western  Reserve 
University  last  June.  Jason  Roderick  was 
born  December  31, 1969  to  Joseph  and 
Mary  Nickerson  Pan.  The  College  of 
Medicine  at  the  Milton  S.  Hershey 
Medical  Center  of  Pennsylvania  State 
University  announced  the  promotion  of 
Steven  J.  Smith  from  instructor  to 
assistant  professor.  The  American 
Telephone  Company  in  New  York  City 
employs  Doris  E.  Woodworth  as  a  staff 
statistician. 

1963 

Bradley  S.  Bowden,  former  assistant 


professor  of  biology  at  Bridgewater  State 
College,  has  been  appointed  an  instructor 
of  biology  at  Alfred  University.  The 
Massachusetts  General  Life  Insurance 
Company  promoted  Eliot  Lappen  to 
associate  manager.  Lehigh  University 
awarded  a  Ph.D.  in  applied  mechanics  to 
Robert  B.  Leonesio. 

1964 

Mark  I.  Cheren  is  a  student  in  the  UMass 
School  of  Education.  Donald  E.  Magee, 
who  is  in  Arizona  with  the  National  Park 
Service,  is  married  to  Linda  Kimball. 
Karen  Elizabeth  was  born  July  12, 1970 
to  Frederick  (S)  and  Diane  Woodard 
McClure.  Edward  and  Susan  Glickman 
Salamoff  '65  have  announced  the  birth  of 
Adam  Lee,  born  April  11, 1970.  Dr. 
Salamoff  recently  received  his  D.M.D. 
degree  from  the  Tufts  University  School 
of  Dental  Medicine;  he  is  now  a  captain 
in  the  Army. 

1965 

The  assistant  supervisor  in  the  home 
office  of  the  Aetna  Insurance  Company, 
Charles  H.  Comey  III  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Cathleen  A.  Janes,  have  a 
two-year-old  daughter  named  Robin. 
Iowa  State  University  awarded  a  Ph.D.  to 
Blanche  Marie  Cournoyer.  Jack  K. 
Kooyoomjian,  who  received  his  M.S.  in 
management  engineering  from  Rensselaer 
Polytechnic  Institute,  is  a  candidate  for  the 
Ph.D.  degree  in  bio-environmental 
engineering.  Dawn  Perry  L'Heureux  is 
teaching  at  Chester  State  College  in 
Pennsylvania.  A  speech  and  dramatics 
teacher  in  the  Hays  school  system  in 
Kansas,  Marjory  F.  Leavitt  '69  is  married 
to  William  C.  Segal.  Carole  L.  Sherman, 
a  fifth  grade  teacher,  is  married  to 
Raymond  Whinnem.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter 
C.  Witherell  have  a  daughter,  Tina,  born 


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March  13,  1968.  Mr.  Witherell  resigned 
his  commission  in  the  U.S.  Public  Health 
Service  in  1968  and  entered  graduate 
school  at  the  University  of  California  at 
Davis  that  same  year.  Last  March,  he  was 
awarded  an  M.S.  in  entomology  and  is 
currently  working  toward  his  doctorate. 

1966 

East  Tennessee  State  University 
appointed  Victor  Hugo  Ascolillo  as  an 
instructor  in  political  science.  Mr. 
Ascolillo  has  a  master's  from  the 
University  of  South  Carolina;  for  the  last 
two  years,  he  has  been  research  assistant 
for  the  Bureau  of  Governmental  Research 
and  Services  in  South  Carolina.  George 
P.  Banks,  clinical  and  research  associate 
at  the  American  International  College 
Center  for  Human  Relations  and 
Community  Affairs,  has  been  fulfilling 
his  R.O.T.C.  commission  as  a  special 
consultant  to  the  Interservice  Committee 
on  Racial  Relations  and  Education.  A 
recipient  of  a  master's  in  counseling  from 
Harvard  and  a  doctorate  in  education 
from  the  State  University  of  New  York, 
Dr.  Banks  has  also  served  as  an  assistant 
professor  of  psychology  at  A.I.C.  Katelyn 
Elizabeth  was  born  March  23,  1970  to 
Frank  and  Linda  White  Corbett.  The 
College  Sports  Information  Directors  of 
America  have  awarded  Howard  M.  Davis 
his  second-straight  national  award  of 
excellence;  his  winter  and  spring  sports 
brochures  were  judged  "Best  in  the 
Nation"  in  the  College  Division.  Doris 
Mogel,  a  teacher  at  the  Norfolk  Central 
School,  is  married  to  Donald  S.  Epstein. 
A  technical  editor  with  the  Hewlett- 
Packard  Company  of  Cupertino,  California, 
Janet  E.  Greene  returned  to  Stanford 
University  last  summer  to  complete  her 
master's  degree.  The  Pennsylvania  State 
University  awarded  an  MA.  in  speech  to 
Roderick  P.  Hart.  Donald  C.  Johnson  and 


Ronald  E.  Pearson  received  M.S.  degrees 
from  Iowa  State  University  last  May.  A 
trust  officer  with  the  Berkshire  Bank  and 
Trust  Company  of  Pittsfield,  R.  Richard 
Wilson  is  married  to  Susan  Roberta 
Gustafson  '68. 

1967 

Larry  G.  Benedict  is  married  to  Susan 
McGuinn  '69 ,  a  teacher  in  the  Amherst 
school  system.  Richard  C.  Berry,  a  recent 
recipient  of  a  Ph.D.  in  speech  science 
from  the  University  of  Illinois,  has 
accepted  the  position  of  Assistant 
Professor  of  Special  Education  at 
Northeastern  University.  Villanova 
University  awarded  a  J.D.  degree  to 
Thomas  M.  Fraticelli;  he  had  been  a  third 
year  representative  to  the  Student  Bar 
Association  and  alumni  editor  of  the 
Villanova  Docket.  Richard  E.  Lewis  is  a 
teacher  and  coach  in  the  Marlboro  school 
system.  Ralph  and  Janet  Charles  Loomis 
announced  the  birth  of  Trevor  Michael, 
born  March  16,  1970.  Linda  Mae  Martin, 
a  programmer  analyst  for  the  Xerox 
Corporation  in  Waltham,  is  married  to 
Thomas  F.  McLaughlin.  Iowa  State 
University  awarded  a  Ph.D.  to  Robert  J. 
Oliveira  (G)  last  May.  Fredrick  and 
Suzanne  Boivin  Sadow  announced  the 
birth  of  Philip  Samuel,  born  July  2, 1970; 
the  couple  are  in  Panama  City  where 
Capt.  Sadow  is  stationed  at  Tyndall  A.F.B. 
A  family  counseling  caseworker  for  the 
Monroe  County  Department  of  Social 
Services  in  Rochester,  Sandra  L. 
Egoodkin  is  married  to  Arnold  D. 
Shuman  (G),  a  graduate  student  at  the 
Institute  of  Optics,  University  of 
Rochester.  Cortland  College  awarded  an 
M.S.  in  elementary  education  to  Barbara 
Rayner  Wood. 


1968 

Sgt.  Douglas  F.  Bidwell  is  assistant  to  the 
archivist  in  the  library  of  the  U.S.A.F. 
Academy  in  Colorado.  Harold  J.  Cohen, 
who  has  completed  his  second  year  of 
dental  school  at  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  is  married  to  Linda  S. 
Cohn.  Ronald  S.  Frankenfield,  and  Janet 
L.  Laird  are  married;  he  is  in  combustion 
engineering  and  she  is  a  substitute 
teacher.  An  English  teacher  at  Sage  Park 
Junior  High  in  Connecticut,  Carol 
Megizsky  married  William  J.  Gammell. 
David  L.  Knowlton,  a  member  of  the 
dean's  staff  at  Trinity  College,  is  married 
to  Carol  M.  Larocque  '69,  a  librarian  at 
the  Connecticut  State  Library.  A  speech 
therapist  at  the  Austin  Elementary 
School,  Leona  J.  Boisvert  is  married  to 
Edward  J.  Krall.  Shelley  R.  Forbess,  an 
elementary  school  teacher,  is  married  to 
James  D.  Marek.  Claire  M.  Dolan  and 
Francis  B.  Markey  are  married;  Mrs. 
Markey  completed  her  graduate  studies 
at  the  University  of  Vermont  and  is  now 
a  speech  therapist.  Robert  F.  Rainville,  Jr. 
is  married  to  Nancy  Jean  Salo  '69;  he  is 
a  development  engineer  for  Eastman 
Kodak,  and  she  is  a  secretary  at  the 
University  of  Rochester  Medical  Center. 
The  University  of  Redlands  awarded  an 
MA.  to  Donald  E.  Regan  last  July. 
Denise  DeLeeuw,  who  is  teaching  high 
school  English  in  West  Hartford,  is 
married  to  Rex  J.  Snodgrass.  An 
elementary  school  teacher  in  Haverhill, 
Susan  E.  Ellis  '67  is  married  to  Dennis 
M.  Spurling.  Beverly  Tuber  is  an 
employment  counselor  with  the 
Connecticut  State  Employment  Agency. 
Paul  A.  Weber  and  Elizabeth  J.  Dadoly 
'67  are  married;  he  is  a  second  year  law 
student  at  Suffolk  University  and  she  is 
a  teacher  in  Lynn. 


32  The  Alumnus 


The  Classes  Report 


1969 

Margaret  A.  Leonard  and  William  F. 
Burke  are  married;  she  is  teaching  and  he 
is  in  the  Army.  Beverly  Ann  Carlson 
married  John  P.  Cyr  '71;  she  is  teaching 
in  Amherst.  A  programmer  for  the  Trav- 
eler's Insurance  Company,  Corine  E. 
Gagnon  is  married  to  Edward  Crossmon. 
The  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  Springfield  employs  Leo 
Charles  Dolan  as  a  real  estate  investment 
analyst.  2/Lt.  Paul  R.  Donovan  is  married 
to  Nancy  L.  Tully  '68,  an  elementary 
school  teacher.  Jeannette  Benet  Gunner 
is  a  graduate  student  in  the  UMass  sociol- 
ogy department.  Formerly  a  speech  thera- 
pist in  the  Framingham  public  schools, 
Linda  Vieira  Huston  has  begun  graduate 
study  at  Boston  University  on  a  Fellow- 
ship in  Education  of  the  Deaf.  Susan  A. 
Lancaster  earned  her  flight  wings  from 
TWA's  Flight  Hostess  Academy.  A  com- 
puter programmer  for  A.T.&T.,  Sharon  L. 
Kramer  married  Jerry  Malkin.  Patricia 
McGuire,  a  tax  inspector  for  the  Internal 
Revenue  Service,  is  married  to  Robert 
McGahan,  Jr.  An  entertainer  at  the  Im- 
proper Bostonian,  John  L.  Morgan  is  mar- 
ried to  Linda  A.  Saraceno  '67.  Janice  L. 
Tower,  a  teacher,  married  John  C.  Robin- 
son. Another  teacher,  Kathleen  C.  Con- 
don, is  married  to  Kenneth  E.  Smith. 
James  S.  Sweeney  is  teaching.  An  ele- 
mentary school  teacher,  Nancy  L.  Berg- 
man married  Kenneth  Temkin.  David  B. 
Williams  is  a  doctor  at  Kaiser  Hospital 
in  San  Francisco.  Christine  King  '68  and 
Edward  J.  Wojnar  are  married;  she  is  an 
I.B.M.  writer  and  he  is  a  systems  pro- 
grammer. 


1970 

Robert  L.  Bergeron  married  Linda  J. 
Rivera  '69,  a  teacher.  John  (G)  and  Norma 
Jeanne  Bears  Collins  '67  announced  the 


birth  of  Michael  Benjamin,  born  July  15. 
They  are  at  UMass  where  he  is  a  doctoral 
student  in  the  School  of  Business  and  she 
is  a  head  of  residence.  Michael  Faherty, 
a  crew  coach,  married  Denise  J.  Gelinas 
'69,  a  graduate  student  at  the  University. 
The  Plastic  Coating  Corporation  of 
Holyoke  announced  the  appointment  of 
John  C.  Kuzeja  as  research  chemist  in  the 
company's  research  division.  Mr.  Kuzeja 
is  married  to  Marcella  Erush  '68.  Antonio 
R.  Pavao  (G)  and  Diana  Theohlis  '67  are 
married;  he  is  teaching  music  at  the  Dan- 
ville Junior  High. 

Marriages 

Dorothy  McKenna  '55  to  John  E.  Kehoe. 
Norma  Taylor  '55  to  Donald  B.  Farnham. 
Dorothy  M.  Soja  '62  to  Ramon  M. 
Barnes.  Jean  F.  Bruen  '63  to  Paul  D. 
Moriarty.  Soesmono  Kartono  '63  to 
Sandra  L.  Cray  '69.  Robert  A.  LeFrancois 
'63  to  Martha  Lee  McQueston  '69.  Susan 
Lemanis  '63  to  Mr.  Wolf.  Jacqueline  A. 
Quinzio  '63  to  Parvis  Amirhor.  Jean  A. 
Roanowicz  '63  to  John  F.  Lacey.  Grace  M. 
Dunn  '64  to  John  E.  Plunkett.  Margot 
Atwater  '66  to  Walter  A.  Pottenger.  James 
L.  Collins  '66  to  Roma  M.  McSweeney 
'69.  Paul  R.  Conlin,  Jr.  '66  (G)  to  Jeffrey 
S.  Lesser  '65.  Gayle  R.  Fishman  '66  to 
Gerald  Winokur.  Linda  S.  Shapiro  '66  to 
Arnold  Tarmy.  Carol  Ann  Kozlowski  '67 
to  Paul  R.  O'Neill.  Richard  M.  Delaney 
'68  to  Betsy  Hawken,  June  27, 1970.  John 
B.  Gumula  '68  to  Nancy  A.  Maginness 
'68.  Diane  E.  Petersen  '67  to  John  S. 
Hines  '68.  Eileen  M.  Kallio  '68  to  John 
F.  Daley.  Ruth  Stiles  Rollason  '68  to 
Robert  R.  Inhoff.  Robert  Y.  Southard  '68 
to  Michaelene  Padykula  '68.  Gerald  F. 
Wood  '68  to  Barbara  J.  Rayner  '67.  Ruth 
E.  Aronson  '69  to  Jon  K.  Berenson. 
Margaret  L.  Franson  '69  to  Christopher 
McGahan.  Candace  Gare  '69  to  Wayne 
Beliveau.  John  D.  Grazia  '69  to  Carolyn 


J.  Methe  '69.  Patricia  C.  Hatfield  '69  to 
Lonnie  Brunini.  Erik  E.  Poison  '69  to 
Marilyn  J.  MacGregor  '68.  Mary  F. 
Procak  '69  to  Edmund  G.  Noyes,  Jr.  Janet 
B.  Sodaitis  '69  to  Eugene  Westbrooks. 
Barbara  E.  Towner  '69  to  Stephen  C. 
Massey.  Robert  F.  Underwood  '69  to 
Cheryl  S.  Decker  '69.  Ross  P.  Jones  '70 
to  Linda  Perlstein  '66.  Richard  L. 
Matthews  '70  to  Jacqueline  A.  LeBeau 
'68. 

Obituaries 

Allyn  P.  Bursley  '11  died  July  9, 1970 
after  a  short  illness.  Holding  degrees  in 
landscape  architecture  and  civil 
engineering,  Mr.  Bursley  joined  the 
National  Park  Service  in  Richmond, 
Virginia,  in  1934  and  retired  in  1960  as 
regional  chief  of  recreational  resource 
planning.  C.  G.  Mackintosh  '21  wrote  us 
to  say:  "I  used  to  work  with  him  in  the 
National  Park  Service  and  have  seen  him 
every  two  months  since  1935.  God  never 
made  a  finer  man."  Mr.  Bursley  is 
survived  by  his  wife  and  daughter. 

Matthew  J.  Murdock  '22  died  May  7, 
1970.  He  had  been  a  manufacturer's 
representative  in  the  ice  cream  business. 

Dr.  R.  Gordon  Murch  '28,  D.V.M.,  died 
July  1,  1970.  He  was  a  veterinarian  in 
Everett  and  Chelsea  for  many  years.  His 
wife,  two  children  and  two  brothers 
survive  him. 

William  S.  Addelson  '68  died  July  8, 
1970. 

Walter  W.  Chase  '69  died  in  Viet  Nam. 


Letters 


Samuel  B.  Samuels  '25,  whose  death 
last  year  was  announced  in  a  one-line 
obit,  in  the  June /July  1970  issue  of  The 
Massachusetts  Alumnus,  was  an  exceptional 
man  and  athlete. 

In  a  sport  in  which  height  is  essential, 
Sammy  Samuels,  who  was  barely  five  and 
one  half  feet  tall,  captained  a  winning 
Massachusetts  basketball  team  and  was 
named  All  New  England  forward. 

This  quiet,  unassuming  man  from  the 
Bronx  became  a  campus  name  a  few  days 
after  arriving  as  a  freshman  in  the  fall  of 
1921.  It  was  customary  in  those  days,  in 
the  opening  days  of  the  new  college  year, 
for  sophomores  to  show  their  superior 
skills  by  taking  on  freshmen  in  a  number 
of  athletic  contests,  including  boxing. 
Freshman  Charley  McGeoch,  in  charge  of 
picking  boxers  to  represent  the  class  in 
a  series  of  three-round  bouts,  astutely 
chose  the  smallest  man  in  the  class  for 
one  of  the  bouts.  But  few  were  prepared 
to  see  Sammy  step  in  the  ring  to  face  an 
opponent  who  towered  over  him.  Despite 
the  comical  disparity  in  height  and  reach, 
Sammy  won  the  match  handily.  Winner 
and  loser  became  lifelong  friends. 

One  of  my  warmest  memories  of 
Sammy  was  his  deep  devotion  to  his 
family.  Every  day,  in  every  term  of  his 
four  years  on  campus,  Sammy  never 
failed  to  write  his  folks  back  home.  The 
messages  were  always  on  plain  penny 
postcards,  but  he  never  forgot. 

Emil  Corwin  '25 

As  a  parent  and  concerned  alumna,  may 
I  express  thanks  for  the  recently  received 
alumni  magazine.  Many  of  the  issues 
which  were  upsetting  to  alumna  such  as 
I  were  clarified  in  excellent  articles. 

Catherine  Hickey  Handy  '53 


I  am  assuming  that  your  organization 
condones  the  takeover  of  your  building 
by  "so  called"  students  and  apparently 
endorses  the  nondirective  actions  of  the 
University  administration. 

If  your  association  does  not  take  a  firm 
stand  to  record  your  disapproval  of  these 
actions,  then  it  will  only  indicate  to  me 
that  the  University  and  the  Alumni 
Association  are  not  worthy  of  their  status 
and  any  support,  financial  or  otherwise, 
should  not  be  expected  from  the  alumni. 

The  reputation  and  trust  that  the 
alumni  have  had  in  the  University  as  a 
worthy  place  for  education  has  been 
seriously  hurt  and  any  hesitation  to 
correct  the  situation  only  fuels  the  fire  of 
distrust. 

Tom  S.  Hamilton,  Jr.  '62 

We  enjoy  your  magazine  immensely.  It 
keeps  us  in  touch  with  a  seemingly  ever 
growing  and  ever  more  sophisticated  and 
relevant  university. 

Carole  Sulborski  Bailey  '60 


Where  are  you  going? 
What  are  you  doing? 
What  are  you  thinking? 

Please  keep  in  touch.  We  print  all  the 
class  notes  we  receive  and  look  forward 
to  printing  letters  to  the  editor.  We  must, 
however,  reserve  the  right  to  shorten  or 
edit  information  for  publication  whenever 
necessary.  Please  send  address  changes 
and  other  correspondence  to  Katie  S. 
Gillmor,  Associate  Alumni,  University  of 
Massachusetts. 


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this  opportunity,  the  University  must 
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And  financial  support  from  private 
sources  makes  this  possible.  Support 
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The  Alumnus 


University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 
Volume  i,  Number  2     December/January  1971 


The  Alumnus 

December/January  1971 

Volume  1,  Number  2 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

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CREDITS : 

Tracie  Rozhon,  p.  9 

Richard  Shanor,  "Warming  Up  the  Arts,"  p.  12. 

The  Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian, 

pp.  15,16,19,20. 

Everett  Kosarick  '50,  p.  25. 


In  This  Issue 


The  Cover 

Most  everyone  spent  an  unusual  amount 
of  time  outdoors  this  semester,  thanks  to 
the  mild  weather.  Thirty  marble  benches, 
the  donation  of  the  Class  of  1921,  added 
to  the  general  comfort. 

Page  2 

Walker  Gibson,  professor  of  English, 
discusses  the  origins,  structure,  and 
philosophy  of  the  University's  new 
Program  in  General  Rhetoric  which 
he  directs. 


Page  8 

The  School  of  Business  Administration 
is  working  closely  with  Springfield  in 
attempts  to  ease  problems  in  that  city. 
The  authors,  Arthur  Elkins  '57,  an 
associate  professor  of  management, 
and  Robert  McGarrah,  a  professor  of 
management,  have  published  a  similar 
account  of  their  activities  in  Industry 
magazine. 

Page  15 

" probably  the  finest  athlete  ever  to 

attend  the  University  of  Massachusetts." 
That's  Julius  Erving,  according  to  Peter 
Pascarelli,  Editor  in  Chief  of  the 
Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian  and  the 
author  of  this  article. 


Departments: 

On  Campus,  page  11 
From  the  Sidelines,  page  19 
Comment,  page  24 
Club  Calendar,  page  24 
The  Classes  Report,  page  26 


After  twelve  years  of  working,  planning  and  dreaming,  there 
is  a  fifth  college  in  the  Valley.  Hampshire  College  is  finally 
more  than  a  refurbished  farmhouse,  more  than  the  mud  and 
machines  of  a  construction  site.  It  is  now  a  functioning  insti- 
tution of  higher  learning,  with  268  students,  about  fifty  full 
and  part-time  teachers,  and  five  completed  or  nearly- 
completed  buildings. 

What  the  college  will  become  is,  inevitably,  an  open  ques- 
tion. In  the  words  of  Hampshire's  president,  Franklin  Patter- 
son, "Institutions,  like  people,  define  themselves  by  their  acts. 
Hampshire  is  defining  itself  in  two  ways:  first,  as  an  under- 
graduate institution  creatively  responsive  to  the  human  needs 
of  a  new  generation  of  young  men  and  women,  who  are  its 
students,  and  second  as  an  innovative  force  in  higher  educa- 
tion generally." 

Certainly,  Hampshire  should  be  an  innovative  force  among 
the  Connecticut  Valley's  four  original  cooperating  schools: 
Amherst,  Mount  Holyoke  and  Smith  Colleges  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Massachusetts.  These  institutions  have  nurtured  the  idea 
of  a  fifth  college  since  1958  and  now,  through  the  Five  Colleges, 
Inc.,  they  have  an  opportunity  to  be  challenged  and  inspired 
by  their  brain  child. 


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Words  &  the  World 


Walker  Gibson 


Words  & 
the  World 

Walker  Gibson 


The  new  Program  in  General 
Rhetoric  is  designed  to  involve 
students  in  the  excitement  of 
human  communication. 


Most  people  would  probably  agree  that 
their  freshman  courses  in  English  and 
Speech  were  pretty  bad.  The  conven- 
tional review  of  grammar,  the  weekly 
"theme"  or  five-minute  speech  on  an 
assigned  "topic"  often  remote  from  the 
student's  experience,  the  "library  paper" 
— none  of  these  has  seemed  to  involve 
young  people  very  much  in  the  excite- 
ment of  human  communication.  Indeed 
there  is  some  educational  research  pur- 
porting to  show  that  students  who  have 
taken  no  systematic  study  of  composition 
in  college  at  all  write  no  worse  than  their 
classmates  who  have  undergone  the  cus- 
tomary writing  course.  There  are  those 
who  believe  that  we  learn  to  write  the 
way  we  learn  to  talk,  by  doing  what 
comes  naturally.  And  as  if  this  were  not 
enough,  there  is  the  current  feeling  that 
students  should  choose  and  control  their 
own  educational  programs,  with  the  re- 
sult that  "core  requirements"  of  all  kinds, 
including  Freshman  English  and  Speech, 
are  under  suspicion. 

These  hard-headed  attacks  have  pro- 
duced considerable  disarray  in  the  con- 
duct of  standard  introductory  courses. 
For  example,  the  professional  organiza- 
tion most  closely  concerned  with  the 
teaching  of  freshman  writing — the  Con- 
ference on  College  Composition  and 
Communication — is  now  reconsidering 
its  entire  role,  to  the  point  of  wondering 
whether  it  has  a  role.  Some  institutions 
have  dropped  required  work  in  com- 
munication altogether.  Several  English 
departments  have  turned  their  introduc- 
tory offerings  into  literary  studies,  where 
almost  every  English  teacher  feels  more 
competent  and  comfortable  anyway. 
Others  have  introduced  wide-open  elec- 
tives,  on  the  persuasive  argument  that 
the  student  of  the  seventies  is  best  served 
when  he  is  "doing  his  own  thing."  One 
positive  consequence  of  all  this  uproar  is 
that  committed  teachers  of  English  and 


Speech  must  once  again  redefine  their 
function,  for  a  fresh  situation. 

At  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
such  redefining  began  a  couple  of  years 
ago  with  the  appointment  of  a  College 
Committee  on  Rhetoric  to  reconsider  the 
current  core  requirement  in  Speech  and 
English.  This  group,  composed  of  pro- 
fessors from  both  departments,  was  able 
to  discuss  both  oral  and  written  language 
simultaneously.  The  problem  we  ex- 
pressed was  not  so  much  "How  to  write 
a  better  history  paper"  or  "How  to  plan 
a  five-minute  address,"  but  rather  a  more 
essential  question:  "How  do  people 
communicate,  with  words  or  with  other 
symbolic  expression?"  We  live,  as  every- 
one knows,  in  a  world  where  information 
comes  to  us  in  a  bewildering  variety  of 
ways.  To  use  the  fashionable  term,  it  is  a 
world  of  media,  and  we  do  not  need  to  be 
devoted  acolytes  of  Marshall  McLuhan 
to  agree  that  the  written  or  printed  word 
is  in  competition  nowadays  with  several 
other  means  of  expression.  The  written 
language  is  far  from  dead,  of  course, 
but  an  education  that  sees  printed  ma- 
terial as  everlastingly  primary  and  cen- 
tral in  the  life  of  the  future  would  be 
misleading  its  students.  In  a  Speech- 
English  partnership,  we  have  the  oppor- 
tunity to  suggest  some  kind  of  balance 
between  the  written  language  and  other 
ways  of  reaching  people. 

Our  Program  in  General  Rhetoric  at 
Massachusetts,  just  getting  under  way 
this  fall,  is  committed  to  the  proposi- 
tion that  its  students  have  and  will  have 
choices  among  competing  media  of  ex- 
pression, and,  within  each  medium, 
choices  of  approaches  and  styles.  Our 
Rhetoric  Committee  agreed,  with  per- 
haps astonishing  amiability,  that  the 
general  question  of  individual  choice  in 
communication  should  be  central  to  our 
program. 

The  necessity  of  individual  choice  in 


3  The  Alumnus 


Words  &  the  World 


Walker  Gibson 


our  uses  of  language  does  not  in  itself 
provide  much  of  a  syllabus  for  a  course, 
or  a  program.  How  does  one  go  about 
making  responsible  choices?  How  can 
one  become  more  alert  to  the  choices  of 
others?  What  steps,  in  writing  and  speak- 
ing, can  we  propose  for  our  freshmen 
so  that  they  can  become  more  adaptable 
and  responsive  in  their  own  choice  of 
language,  and  more  perceptive  and  dis- 
criminating as  consumers  of  the  language 
around  them? 

Actually  the  freshman  just  entering 
college  is  in  a  good  position  to  respond  to 
questions  about  change  and  choice  in  his 
own  life.  He  is  thrust  into  a  new  environ- 
ment, he  is  confronted  with  new  faces 
from  many  places,  and  he  is  reacting  as 
best  he  can  to  a  whole  melange  of  new 
experience.  His  behavior  during  this 
period,  and  his  observations  of  the  beha- 
vior of  others,  can  provide  some  "topics" 
for  opening  assignments : 

Think  of  a  time  in  the  past  few  days 
when  someone  said  something  you  liked, 
something  that  was  fust  right  for  the  cir- 
cumstances, and  explain  what  was  right 
about  what  the  person  said. 

Think  of  time  in  the  past  few  days 
when  someone  said  the  wrong  thing. 
What  were  the  circumstances ;  what  was 
wrong  about  what  was  said? 

Think  of  a  time  in  recent  days  when 
you  changed  your  mind  about  somebody. 
Describe  the  circumstances  and  behavior 
that  gave  you  your  first  impression,  and 
the  circumstances  and  behavior  that 
caused  you  to  change  your  mind.  (Don't 
neglect  the  verbal  behavior.)  Do  you  find 
your  first  impressions  are  generally  re- 
liable, or  not? 

Assignments  like  these  provide  some 
opening  gambits  in  the  course  we  call 
Rhetoric  ioo,  Language  and  Writing. 
An  alternative  first  semester  course, 
Rhetoric  no,  Language  and  Speaking, 


"Sticks  and  stones  may  break  my  bones,  but 
rhetoric  will  never  hurt  me." 


Drawing  by  D.  Reilly  ©  1970,  The  New  Yorker  Magazine,  Inc. 


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considers  the  student's  oral  communica- 
tion while  giving  the  same  attention  to 
change  and  choice.  In  such  assignments, 
whether  answered  in  a  written  page  or 
two  or  in  a  class  discussion,  we  can  begin 
to  suggest  what  we  mean  by  "Good  Eng- 
lish." Many  of  our  students  believe  that 
Good  English  is  what  so  many  of  their 
elders  have  said  it  was — something  fro- 
zen, formal,  and  literary.  We  argue  in- 
stead that  Good  English  is  a  question  of 
what  you  are  trying  to  do,  when  and 
where.  It  is  a  constantly  fluctuating  disci- 
pline, constantly  changing  with  new 
circumstances  and  audiences,  the  time  of 


'The  great  danger  of  language, 
for  users  and  consumers  alike, 
is  the  illusion  that  .  .  .  when  we 
push  words  around  we  are 
pushing  the  world  around.' 


year  and  the  time  of  day — and  to  recog- 
nize this  elementary  fact  can  be  a  heady 
discovery  for  freshmen,  as  it  would  be 
for  most  adults.  To  further  recognize  that 
one  has  considerable  individual  power 
over  one's  response  to  these  new  circum- 
stances can  be  a  beginning  of  freedom. 

But  there  is  also  responsibility,  and 
there  is  complication.  Not  all  the  situa- 
tions in  life  are  quite  like  meeting  one's 
fellow-freshmen  in  college.  So  we  can  go 
on  to  ask,  in  various  examples,  how  pro- 
fessional writers  and  speakers  go  about 
making  "a  good  impression."  And  we 
introduce,  as  they  are  needed,  such  rhe- 
torical concepts  as  may  help  to  make 
discriminations  among  styles  of  expres- 
sion: syntax  and  word-choice,  tone  and 
attitude,  and  perhaps  even  a  little  old- 
fashioned  grammar. 

Like  all  teachers,  we  are  interested  in 
our  students'  "discovering  themselves." 
Who  are  you  anyway?  This  question  of 
personal  identity  is  a  gnawing  one  for  an 
eighteen-year-old,  as  it  is  for  us  all,  and 
no  course  in  rhetoric  or  anything  else  is 
going  to  answer  it  finally.  But  our  rela- 
tively small  classes  do  provide  an  im- 
portant laboratory,  for  the  student  who 
cares,  to  try  out  new  voices  and  new 
roles.  To  suggest  that  the  student  is  only 
as  he  expresses  himself  may  be  a  drastic 
way  of  putting  it.  But  certainly  he  has 
some  control  over  his  choices  of  expres- 
sion, and  he  can  learn  how  to  improve  the 
range  of  his  choice.  We  are  teachers  of 
rhetoric,  not  psychiatrists,  but  we  are 
conscious  that  there  is  therapeutic  value 
in  increasing  a  young  person's  flexibility 
of  action  through  language. 

Flexibility,  however,  is  nothing  with- 
out modesty.  There  is  a  real  sense  in 
which  nobody  knows  what  he  is  talking 
about,  and  that  goes  for  this  article  as 
well.  The  great  danger  of  language,  for 
users  and  consumers  alike,  is  the  illusion 
that  words  are  true  equivalents  for  the 


world  outside,  that  when  we  push  words 
around  we  are  pushing  the  world  around. 
A  half  truth  at  best.  One  of  the  responsi- 
bilities of  our  rhetoric  program  will  be  to 
remind  our  students  that  words  are  man- 
made  abstractions.  We  will  encourage 
suspicion  of  know-it-all  voices,  student 
voices  and  professional  ones,  by  no 
means  ignoring  political  ones — voices 
that  assume  a  one-f  or-one  relation  be- 
tween word  and  thing. 

For  this  purpose,  there  may  be  no 
better  device  than  some  attention  to 
metaphor.  Most  of  our  language  is  meta- 
phorical, and  most  successful  communi- 
cation works  through  analogies.  That 
student  is  saved — and  the  reader  will 
note  my  evangelical  language — that  stu- 
dent is  saved  who  can  become  sensitive 
and  resourceful  with  metaphor,  his  own 
and  others.  We  are  barraged  with  meta- 
phor, from  the  decline  and  fall  of  Rome 
to  the  Iron  Curtain  and  the  generation 
gap.  (Is  there  a  generation  gap?  Where 
do  you  see  it?  What  is  the  evidence  that 
it's  new?  In  what  way  is  it  like  a  real 
"gap,"  in  what  way  unlike?) 

We  will  encourage  students  to  chal- 
lenge the  metaphors  in  their  lives,  or  at 
least  to  recognize  that  they  are  meta- 
phors. More  difficult,  if  even  more  worth 
doing,  is  to  encourage  them  to  invent 
metaphors  of  their  own.  Our  ideal  rhet- 
oric student  creates  the  most  exuberant 
metaphors  while  modestly  conscious  as 
he  does  so  of  the  limits  of  their  meaning. 
In  this  way,  metaphor  blends  with  irony. 

But  for  most  of  our  students,  no  doubt, 
the  experience  in  the  General  Rhetoric 
Program  will  be  more  pedestrian,  and  it 
will  vary  considerably  according  to  the 
options  he  selects,  the  teacher  he  happens 
to  draw,  and  his  own  readiness  for  ar- 
ticulate action.  The  general  attitudes  and 
prejudices  I  have  been  expressing  are 
relevant,  more  or  less,  to  all  courses  in 
the  program,  but  particularly  to  Rhetoric 


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100  (Language  and  Writing)  and  no 
(Language  and  Speaking).  The  Univer- 
sity's requirement  now  reads  that  every 
student  must  take  one  of  these  two 
courses,  and  one  additional  course  in  the 
program.  (We  retain  the  six-hour  re- 
quirement, though  it  need  not  be  com- 
pleted till  sophomore  year.  Various 
possibilities  for  exemption  and  advanced 
placement  remain  available  for  students 
who  come  to  us  with  truly  superior  prep- 
aration.) For  his  second  course  in  rhetoric, 
the  student  has  a  choice  among  several 
options,  all  concerned  in  some  detail  with 
a  particular  medium  of  language.  Five 
such  options  in  various  areas  of  discourse 
are  now  available,  and  we  have  been 
vigorously  planning  new  ones — one  on 
the  rhetoric  of  film,  one  on  "Black  Rheto- 
ric," one  on  the  media  generally,  one  on 
particular  works  of  art  as  expressed  via 
different  media.  The  student  will  con- 
tinue to  write  and  to  speak  in  all  these 
alternative  courses,  but  his  attention  will 
be  directed  less  toward  the  varieties  of 
his  own  voices  and  those  immediately 
around  him  and  more  toward  the  public 
and  professional  voices  of  his  world. 

The  rhetoric  program  is  a  large  opera- 
tion, serving  an  entering  class  of  some 
thirty-six  hundred  students.  Like  many 
universities  with  active  graduate  depart- 
ments, we  employ,  as  teachers  of  fresh- 
men, scores  of  graduate  students  who 
work  half-time  for  a  degree  and  half- 
time  in  their  freshman  classrooms.  Their 
schizoid  situation  is  acknowledged  to  be 
difficult;  somehow  they  have  to  play 
off  the  demands  of  their  own  students 
against  the  demands  of  their  graduate 
professors,  and  all  this  on  a  decidedly 
spartan  level  of  income.  It  is  astonishing 
that  our  Teaching  Assistants  (as  we  call 
them)  have  performed  as  well  as  they 
have.  They  have  a  lot  going  for  them,  in 
their  youth  and  enthusiasm,  their  com- 
mitment to  their  job,  their  willingness  to 


work  hard.  But  they  suffer  serious  han- 
dicaps, not  only  because  they  are  in- 
experienced as  teachers,  but  because  they 
lack  the  kind  of  knowledge  and  back- 
ground desirable  for  teaching  oral  and 
written  composition.  Their  traditional 
graduate  courses,  for  all  their  erudition, 
simply  do  not  address  themselves  to  the 
problems  of  the  freshman  class.  Most  of 
our  beginning  t.a.'s  do  not  know  very 
much  about  contemporary  attitudes  to- 
ward usage,  for  example,  or  about  the 
teaching  of  metaphor,  or  about  what  is 
called  "the  dynamics  of  the  small  dis- 
cussion." How  can  we  better  prepare 
these  young  scholars  as  effective  college 
teachers,  not  only  for  the  sake  of  their 
students  here,  but  for  the  sake  of  their 
own  future  careers? 

One  answer  is  a  new  "training  pro- 
gram" for  inexperienced  t.a.'s.  We  are 
now  dividing  our  beginning  teachers  into 
small  groups  associated  with  a  full-time 
staff  member.  These  groups  meet  weekly 
to  consider  on-going  problems  of  the 
course,  and  they  exchange  classroom  vis- 
its both  ways — the  junior  people  attend 
occasional  freshman  classes  of  their 
senior,  and  the  senior  returns  the  com- 
pliment. At  the  very  least,  we  expect 
some  continuing  dialogue  on  the  various 
ways  of  presenting  language  in  practical 
ways  to  freshmen. 

A  second  help  we  are  providing  is  a 
pair  of  graduate  courses  devoted  to  theo- 
retical and  pedagogical  aspects  of  our 
discipline.  New  t.a.'s  in  English  must 
now  take  a  year-long  three-credit  course 
called  Studies  in  Rhetoric  and  Prose  Style 
(which  I  teach  myself),  while  t.a.'s  in 
Speech  take  a  parallel  course,  Seminar  in 
Speech  Pedagogy,  offered  by  Professor 
Karl  Wallace,  associate  director  of  the 
program. 

The  University  as  a  whole  is  also  be- 
ginning to  assume  new  responsibility  in 
this  area  of  preparing  college  teachers. 


This  fall,  for  the  first  time,  the  Graduate 
School  is  offering  a  series  of  seminars 
and  discussions  for  the  t.a.'s  in  all  de- 
partments, with  a  view  toward  improving 
their  teaching  generally. 

No  one  knows,  of  course,  whether  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  is  making 
the  right  response  to  the  current  chaos 
and  gloom  in  the  teaching  of  introduc- 
tory college  communication.  (Hampshire 
College,  our  new  neighbor,  is  demanding 
of  all  its  students  just  one  required  course 
— a  course  in  computers.)  Nor  can  we 
claim  that  our  proposals  are  altogether 
new — administratively,  at  least,  the 
University  of  Iowa,  among  others,  has 
had  a  similarly  interdepartmental  pro- 
gram in  rhetoric  for  years.  For  better  or 
worse,  we  are  adopting  an  affirmative 
stance  rather  than  a  negative  one.  We  do 
believe  that  we  have  something  to  say 
to  almost  all  college  students  about  the 
nature  of  language  and  about  their  own 
uses  of  language.  We  have  not  turned 
Freshman  English  into  a  standard  course 
in  literature,  nor  Freshman  Speech  into 
a  quiz  show  or  debating  society.  Though 
we  have  introduced  options  and  choices, 
we  have  not  surrendered  the  six-credit 
requirement.  And  like  all  decisions,  these 
may  be  ill-advised.  But  whatever  failures 
may  ensue  from  them  will  not  come  about 
through  lack  of  positive  effort. 

We  can  succeed  if  we  can  convince 
students  that  a  study  of  language  has 
something  to  do  with  life.  We  can  do  this 
if  we  can  dramatize  for  them  something 
of  the  joy  of  using  words  with  courage, 
with  discrimination,  and  with  respect. 
There  is  the  joy  of  self-definition  in  flex- 
ible control  of  language  at  various  levels. 
There  is  the  joy  of  playing  with  metaphor 
and  with  irony.  There  is  even  joy  in 
recognizing  that  our  language — "a  mo- 
mentary stay  against  confusion" — is  the 
principal  tool  we  have  to  connect  our- 
selves with  one  another. 


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Homecoming  '70 


Homecoming  '70 

The  Redmen  tied  the  Huskies  at 
21  all,  and  thousands  of  alumni 
were  there  to  cheer  UMass  on. 


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8  The  Alumnus 


S.B.A.  &  Urban  Quality 


Elkins  &  McGarrah 


S.B.A.  and 
the  Challenge 
of  Urban  Quality 

Arthur  Elkins  '57  & 
Robert  McGarrah 

Can  the  University  offer 
anything  practical  to  help 
solve  a  city's  problems? 


Increasingly,  whether  by  design  or 
circumstance,  American  business  firms 
are.becoming  involved  in  the  problems 
and  challenges  of  urban  and  environ- 
mental quality.  And  increasingly  the 
lines  distinguishing  business  adminis- 
tration from  administration  of  govern- 
ment, schools,  or  health  delivery  systems 
are  becoming  blurred.  Thus,  it  is  not  un- 
usual to  find  schools  of  business  admin- 
istration all  over  the  country  becoming 
deeply  involved  in  urban  affairs,  and 
business  school  faculty  and  students 
designing,  administering  and  conducting 
training,  social  improvement,  and  eco- 
nomic development  programs  within 
central  city  cores. 

Such  is  the  case  with  the  University's 
School  of  Business  Administration. 
Through  its  Center  for  Business  and 
Economic  Research  (ceber),  UMass  fac- 
ulty and  students  are  working  in  a  variety 
of  ways  with  the  Greater  Springfield 
community  to  activate  more  effective 
and  cooperative  programs  by  business, 
industry  and  government.  For  examples, 
ceber  has  sponsored  a  series  of  seminars 
on  urban  problems,  developed  and  con- 
ducted a  40-week  managerial  training 
program  for  residents  of  the  Springfield 
core  city  area,  participated  in  the  revision 
and  submission  of  a  Model  Cities  grant 
application,  and,  if  the  funds  are  granted 
by  the  Department  of  Housing  and 
Urban  Development,  will  be  responsible 
for  the  economic  development  programs 
in  the  Model  Neighborhood  Area.  In 
addition,  the  School  has  proposed  a 
Master's  Program  in  Urban  Studies, 
whose  courses  will  include  practical  field 
experience  with  urban  problems. 

The  seminar  program  (developed  by 
ceber's  director,  Dr.  McGarrah)  centered 
initially  on  urban  problems  in  general, 
and  then  later  zeroed  in  on  Springfield. 
Although  troubled  with  many  of  the  typ- 


ical problems  and  seemingly  inevitable 
conflicts  of  American  cities,  Springfield 
is  making  substantial  and  imaginative 
strides  toward  solutions  of  its  problems. 

The  seminars'  leaders  included  aca- 
demicians from  the  University's  large 
reservoir  of  talent  in  urban  planning, 
economics,  administration,  regional 
planning,  political  science  and  environ- 
mental sciences.  Among  community  and 
professional  leaders  were  Springfield 
Mayor  Frank  H.  Freedman;  directors  of 
Model  Cities  agencies,  community  action 
programs,  urban  redevelopment  author- 
ities, and  Chambers  of  Commerce  from 
Greater  Springfield  and  Holyoke;  and 
officials  from  Federal  and  state  govern- 
ment agencies. 

The  seminar  program  drew  not  only 
business  students  and  faculty,  but  par- 
ticipants from  a  cross-section  of  the 
University.  And  discussions  were  quite 
candid.  As  one  student  participant  put  it, 
"We've  had  some  interesting  gloves-off 
exchanges  on  all  kinds  of  urban  problems 
ranging  from  race  and  housing  to  educa- 
tion and  employment." 

A  faculty  participant  assessed  the  real 
problem  as  "whether  the  University  can 
offer  anything  practical  to  help  solve 
urban  problems."  Evidently,  one  of  the 
University's  "publics"  thinks  it  can,  but 
not  by  the  way  of  the  past.  Mayor  Freed- 
man challenged  the  University  to  become 
totally  involved  in  a  regional  solution  of 
problems  rather  than  "come  in  from  the 
suburbs,  tell  us  what  we  must  do  to 
solve  our  problems,  and  then  return  to 
suburbia." 

From  March  1969  until  February  1970, 
faculty  and  graduate  students  of  the 
School  of  Business  Administration  de- 
signed and  conducted  a  40-week,  man- 
agerial and  entrepreneurial  training 
course  called  the  Business  Employment 
Skills  Training  Program  (best).  Partici- 


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pants  in  the  course  were  selected  from 
promising  personnel  serving  on  the  staff 
of  Springfield's  Community  Action  and 
Concentrated  Employment  Programs. 
Under  the  direction  of  Associate  Pro- 
fessor Stephen  R.  Michael,  fifteen  UMass 
faculty  members  offered  instruction  de- 
signed to  be  roughly  equivalent  to  college 
level  courses  in  management,  accounting, 
finance,  personnel  management,  organ- 
ization, business  law,  and  labor  relations. 
In  addition,  University  faculty  worked 
with  the  Greater  Springfield  Chamber  of 
Commerce  to  arrange  for  placement 
interviews  and  job  orientation  sessions. 


Tangible  results  are  already  apparent. 
Three  participants  have  secured  new 
positions  and  two  are  continuing  their 
management  education  at  American 
International  College  in  Springfield. 

More  recently,  ceber  has  been  involved 
with  the  Springfield  Model  Cities  Agency 
and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  on  prob- 
lems of  economic  development  in  the 
Model  Neighborhood  area;  Dr.  Elkins  is 
the  head  of  these  efforts. 

Working  with  the  Model  Cities  staff, 
ceber  was  assigned  the  responsibilities 
for  revising  and  rewriting  the  sections  of 


Springfield's  Model  Cities  grant  applica- 
tion dealing  with  economic  development. 
The  new  proposal  includes  programs — 
some  of  which  are  unique — designed  to 
improve  economic  opportunities  and  en- 
hance economic  welfare  within  the  Model 
Neighborhood  Area.  Business  feasibility 
studies,  managerial  training  and  devel- 
opment, a  consumer  "dollar  stretcher" 
newsletter,  and  credit  and  rent  counsel- 
ing are  among  the  proposed  services. 
ceber's  role  is  more  than  to  assist  in 
preparing  the  proposal,  however.  When 
federal  funds  are  released  by  the  Depart- 
ment of  Housing  and  Urban  Develop- 


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Elkins  &  MaGarrah 


The  'agri-business-university 
complex'  has  been  immensely 
successful.  Can  an  urban- 
industrial-university  complex 
succeed  as  well? 


ment,  ceber  expects  to  assume,  under 
contract,  responsibilities  for  economic 
development  in  the  Model  Neighborhood 
Area.  Business  School  faculty  and  stu- 
dents will  then  begin  the  work  of  help- 
ing to  organize  two  corporations:  one, 
profit  oriented,  for  business  creation  and 
development,  managerial  training,  and 
business  consultation;  and  the  other  not 
for  profit,  for  consumer  and  creditor 
counseling  services.  Coordinating  with 
the  Model  City  Agency  and  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  ceber  will  also  render  tech- 
nical and  consultative  services  during 
the  first  year  of  operation  of  the  two 
corporations. 

ceber's  administration  and  control  of 
both  corporations  will  gradually  diminish 
as  resident  staff  members  gain  the  train- 
ing and  on-the-job  experiences  in  fulfill- 
ing their  responsibilities.  Expectations 
are  that  both  corporations  should  be 
administratively  self-supporting  as  they 
begin  their  second  year  of  operations. 

During  the  past  summer,  ceber  con- 
tracted with  the  Springfield  Chamber 
of  Commerce  to  study  basic  economic, 
social,  and  cultural  conditions  of  Spring- 
field relative  to  the  needs  of  various 
desirable  industries.  The  study  team 
(Professors  Elkins  and  James  Wiek  of 
the  School  of  Business  Administration, 
and  Arthur  Wright  and  James  Kane  of 
the  Department  of  Economics)  completed 
its  report  in  September  with  various  rec- 
ommendations for  Springfield's  economic 
growth  and  development.  The  report 
now  forms  a  base  for  an  intensive  and 
vigorous  industrial  location  campaign 
being  undertaken  by  Springfield's  city 
government,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and 
various  development  agencies. 

ceber  has  also  been  attempting  to  organ- 
ize urban  extension  services  by  Business 
School  faculty  and  qualified  students. 


These  services  are  intended  to  become  an 
integral  part  of  a  new  master's  degree 
program  in  urban  and  regional  adminis- 
tration recently  proposed  by  the  Business 
School  faculty. 

By  acting  independently  and  by  se- 
curing and  encouraging  effective  com- 
mitments by  business  and  government 
agencies  to  tackle  urban  and  environ- 
mental quality  problems,  UMass  faculty 
and  students  hope  to  provide  organized, 
self-financed,  field  services  to  the  sur- 
rounding communities.  These  service 
activities  could  also  be  useful  in  develop- 
ing and  testing  concepts  emanating  from 
research  programs  on  the  campus  in 
Amherst. 

In  this  extension  process,  ceber  aims 
to  assist  business  in  more  effectively 
utilizing  human  resources  and  in  devel- 
oping and  serving  customers  more  effi- 
ciently. In  addition,  the  services  will  aid 
government  in  reducing  its  welfare  rolls 
and  serving  its  constituent-taxpayers 
more  effectively. 

Over  a  hundred  years  ago,  UMass  fac- 
ulty, along  with  those  of  other  land-grant 
institutions,  began  to  provide  extension, 
education,  and  consulting  services  in 
agriculture.  These  services  contributed 
to  the  formation  of  what  today  is  often 
called  the  "agri-business-university  com- 
plex." This  "complex"  was  immensely 
successful  in  boosting  food  and  fiber 
output  per  manhour  and  it  demonstrated 
that  cooperation  among  various  public 
and  private  agencies  could  achieve  sub- 
stantial and  beneficial  results. 

So  it  is  quite  natural  that  UMass  Busi- 
ness School  faculty  and  students  be  at 
work  in  the  cities,  trying  to  catalyze 
the  formation  of  an  urban-industrial- 
university  complex,  with  the  expectation 
that  similar  substantial  results  will 
follow. 


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On  Campus 

Two  Convocations 

The  following  are  excerpts  from 
Chancellor  Tippo's  remarks  at  the 
Opening  and  Freshman  Convocations 
in  September: 

We  will  be  subject  to  repressive  legisla- 
tion and  serious  budget  cuts,  even  warn- 
ings of  withdrawal  of  complete  state 
support,  if  we  have  any  more  building 
takeovers,  if  we  have  any  more  inter- 
ference with  free  speech  and  free  move- 
ment including  attendance  at  class,  if  we 
have  continued  defacing  of  buildings 
and  damage  to  buildings,  if  we  continue 
to  have  strikes  and  other  interruptions  of 
academic  work,  and  if  we  do  not  keep 
the  campus  open  for  those  who  come 
here  for  the  serious  purposes  of  study 
and  teaching.  Certainly  you  have  to  be  a 
moron  to  think  that  the  taxpayers  of  this 
state  will  continue  to  appropriate  large 
sums  of  money,  money  which  is  desper- 
ately needed  for  other  purposes,  if  the 
University  does  not  stay  open  to  provide 
the  education  for  which  the  money  is 
voted.  It  is  my  sober  judgment  that  this 
University  cannot  long  survive  unless 
we  take  immediate  steps  to  put  our  house 
in  order. 

I  hope  that  I  never  live  to  see  the  day 
when  we  have  to  bring  in  the  police  to 
quell  a  disturbance.  I  assure  you  before 
we  take  that  last  unfortunate  step  there 
will  be  full  consultation  with  student 
leaders,  the  Faculty  Senate  Emergency 
Committee  which  is  set  up  for  precisely 
such  purposes,  and  appropriate  adminis- 
trators. But  surely  any  thinking  person 
must  realize  that  if  we  do  not  bring  in  the 
police  in  the  event  of  a  serious  disturb- 
ance, the  matter  will  be  taken  out  of  our 
hands.  This  may  lead  to  tragedy  as  it  has 
on  other  campuses. 


It  is  University  policy  to  sponsor  and 
encourage  research  which  enhances  the 
educational  program  of  the  University — 
the  training  of  students,  undergraduate 
and  graduate.  Our  decision  whether  to 
undertake  a  particular  piece  of  research 
must  be  based  on  professional  evaluation 
of  the  soundness  of  the  project  and  the 
scientific  and  scholarly  value  of  the  pro- 
posed study.  These  judgments  must  be 
made  by  peer  groups  of  qualified  and  ex- 
perienced scientists  and  scholars.  In  each 
case  we  must  ask,  are  we  the  appropriate 
agency  to  do  the  research?  Can  it  be  done 
better  here,  or  somewhere  else?  Just  as 
we  have  freedom  of  speech,  we  must  have 
freedom  of  research,  freedom  of  scholar- 
ship, and  freedom  of  inquiry. 

Freedom  of  speech  is  a  cardinal  prin- 
ciple of  the  institution  known  as  a  uni- 
versity. Universities  have  fought  for 
centuries  to  acquire,  to  protect,  and  to 
foster  freedom  of  speech.  We  cannot  give 
up  this  right.  We  intend  to  follow  the 
recommendations  of  the  Faculty  Senate 
report  in  dealing  with  episodes  similar  to 
the  disgraceful  Humphrey  affair  of  last 
year:  warning  by  responsible  University 
administrators,  prompt  disciplinary  ac- 
tion, and  provision  for  opposition  spokes- 
men to  present  their  views  following  the 
presentation  by  a  controversial  speaker. 

Perpetrators  of  bomb  threats  and  de- 
facers  of  buildings  have  no  place  in  a 
university  community  and  must  be  sepa- 
rated from  the  institution. 

Ecology,  like  charity,  begins  at  home. 
In  addition  to  enunciating  lofty  prin- 
ciples and  in  addition  to  criticizing  the 
actions  of  other  people  and  other  groups, 
let  us  practice  good  ecology  on  our  own 
campus  by  not  littering  papers,  beer  cans 
and  other  refuse;  by  placing  signs,  no- 
tices and  posters  on  bulletin  boards;  by 
respecting  lawns,  flower  beds  and  shrub- 
bery; and  by  not  adding  to  the  pollution 
of  the  campus  pond. 


I  now  turn  to  a  consideration  of  the 
central  purposes  of  the  University — 
learning  and  teaching.  We  must  give 
greater  emphasis  to  our  responsibilities  of 
teaching.  Students  demand  it,  taxpayers 
and  legislators  demand  it,  the  logic  of 
the  times  demand  it.  We  must  put  our 
house  in  order  lest  we  have  imposed  on 
us  from  outside  severe,  rigid,  and  educa- 
tionally unsound  restrictions. 

I  think  also  that  we  must  all  rearrange 
our  academic  priorities  so  that  we  may 
increase  our  informal  contacts  with  stu- 
dents in  residential  colleges,  dormitories, 
lounges,  coffee  shops,  at  home  and  wher- 
ever good  conversation  is  promoted. 
I  ask  that  every  faculty  member  see  to  it 
that  this  year  he  comes  to  know  well  at 
least  fifteen  students.  After  all,  we  do 
have  a  15  to  1  faculty-student  ratio.  Let 
us  give  real  human  meaning  and  signifi- 
cance to  this  ratio.  If  we  all  do  this  well, 
all  1300  members  of  the  faculty,  I  am 
sure  we  will  go  far  in  understanding  our 
students  better,  in  alleviating  the  alleged 
alienation  and  dehumanization  of  a  large 
institution,  in  enhancing  our  teaching, 
and  in  improving  our  educational  en- 
deavors in  general. 

It  is  well  to  remind  ourselves  of  the 
kind  of  institution  we  are.  This  is  a  uni- 
versity. We  must  remember  its  roles  and 
its  legitimate  functions,  which  are  learn- 
ing by  both  students  and  faculty,  teach- 
ing, seeking  new  knowledge  and  new 
understandings  in  order  to  teach  more 
effectively,  and  passing  on  this  knowl- 
edge and  these  understandings,  not  only 
to  resident  students  but  to  society — in 
other  words,  public  service.  In  a  univer- 
sity there  are  all  sorts  of  ideas,  there  are 
all  kinds  of  concepts  and  theories,  every 
conceivable  shade  of  thought.  I  am  sure 
that  you  will  find  this  bewildering.  It  is 
well  to  know  that  there  are  people  who 
are  going  to  try  to  reach  you,  people  who 


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are  going  to  try  to  persuade  you,  people 
who  are  going  to  try  to  convert  you. 
There  are  even  a  few,  a  very  few — some 
not  even  connected  with  the  University, 
for  we  too  have  our  hangers-on — whose 
motives  are  suspect,  who  seek  to  destroy 
the  University  and  to  destroy  our  society. 
So  I  would  be  suspicious  of  anyone  ad- 
vocating violence,  I  would  be  suspicious 
of  anyone  suggesting  interfering  with 
the  rights  of  others,  whether  of  speech, 
free  passage,  or  attendance  at  class,  I 
would  be  suspicious  of  anyone  sowing 
seeds  of  distrust,  and  I  would  be  suspi- 
cious of  anyone  seeking  to  divide,  to  turn 
one  part  of  the  University  against  an- 
other. I  ask  you  to  think  for  yourself,  to 
get  the  facts.  Don't  believe  in  rumors 
and  gossip.  Don't  follow  the  crowd. 
Don't  stampede.  You  should  examine  all 
ideas  and  propositions  critically,  adopt 
the  "I'm  from  Missouri"  skepticism.  Be 
tough  minded.  Make  'em  prove  it ! 

And  may  I  remind  you  of  a  few  other 
responsibilities.  You  are  one  of  3,600 
fortunate  enough  to  be  chosen  from 
18,000  admission  applicants.  Many  did 
not  make  it  and  of  these,  many  would 
give  their  eyeteeth  to  have  been  selected. 
Naturally  they  are  critical  of  those  who 
made  it,  especially  of  those  who  abuse 
their  opportunities.  Some  who  were  not 
chosen  had  to  go  to  Vietnam.  Some  who 
were  not  chosen  could  not  come  because 
they  are  so  impoverished  they  could  not 
afford  to  come.  Some  who  were  not  cho- 
sen were  educationally  disadvantaged 
and  they  could  not  qualify.  All  this  places 
a  special  obligation  on  you  to  use  your 
time  and  your  opportunity  effectively; 
if  not,  clearly  you  should  leave  and  give 
someone  else  the  chance.  You  owe  an 
obligation  to  your  parents  who  contrib- 
ute one  thousand,  two  thousand,  or  more 
dollars.  You  owe  an  obligation  to  the 
State  of  Massachusetts  which  appropri- 
ates annually  at  least  two  thousand  dol- 


lars for  every  student  on  the  campus,  in 
addition  to  building  costs.  Certainly  in 
these  days  of  high  taxation  and  desper- 
ate need  for  money  for  welfare,  lower 
schools,  pollution  and  transportation — 
the  State  will  not  long  continue  this  sup- 
port if  you  do  not  use  your  time  effec- 
tively, if  you  do  not  go  to  classes. 

Finally,  I  remind  you  again  that  this  is 
an  academic  institution,  an  intellectual 
institution,  a  place  for  ideas,  thought, 
learning,  teaching.  And  therefore  we 
serve  best  by  doing  those  things  we  can 
do  well — teaching  and  learning.  We 
cannot  solve  all  the  problems  of  mankind 
alone.  We  can,  of  course,  contribute  by 
analysis,  by  study,  by  research.  But  there 
are  political  institutions,  the  state  legis- 
latures and  the  Congress,  where  policies 
are  set  and  laws  enacted.  I  suggest  you  do 
yourself  a  disservice  if  you  do  not  take 
full  advantage  of  the  University  as  an 
academic,  an  educational  institution — 
as  a  place  primarily  for  study,  work  and 
thought.  There  is  a  place  for  fun  and 
games,  for  extracurricular  activities,  but 
the  main  business  of  the  University  is 
education.  If  you  do  not  take  full  ad- 
vantage of  the  real  purposes  of  the  Uni- 
versity, you  shortchange  your  parents, 
you  shortchange  your  State  and,  above 
all,  you  shortchange  yourself. 

These  are  grim,  tragic  days,  full  of 
problems — war,  violence,  pollution,  rac- 
ism, poverty,  just  to  mention  a  few.  We 
need  mutual  understanding.  Fundamen- 
tally we  are  all  here  for  the  same  basic 
goals — the  students  to  learn,  the  faculty 
to  teach,  the  administration  to  facilitate 
both  learning  and  teaching.  I  hope  we  can 
approach  our  common  tasks  with  mutual 
understanding,  mutual  trust  and  mutual 
respect. 


Warming  Up  the  Arts 

Terry  Schwarz  thinks  of  his  job  as  the 
University's  concert  manager  as  more 
than  just  building  an  audience.  "I'm 
trying  to  get  away  from  the  stiff,  formal, 
Victorian  approach  to  the  arts,"  he  ex- 
plained. "I'm  trying  to  warm  the  process 
up,  break  down  some  of  the  formalities 
and  give  students  and  others  a  chance  to 
meet  the  artists  off  the  stage." 

The  result  this  year  is  that  a  number  of 
artists  brought  to  the  Amherst  campus 
by  Schwarz  and  the  UMass  Fine  Arts 
Council  are  giving  concerts  in  classroom 
buildings  as  well  as  in  Bowker  Audito- 
rium, and  they  are  meeting  students 
and  others  in  their  audience  in  master 
classes,  workshops,  seminars  and  in- 
formal gatherings. 

For  example,  the  Gary  Burton  Quartet 
and  Dizzy  Gillespie,  featured  in  February 
and  April  respectively,  will  participate 
in  informal  workshop-seminars  in  resi- 
dence halls.  The  Alvin  Ailey  American 
Dance  Theatre  will  spend  three  days  in 
residence  in  March  as  part  of  the  1970 
Massachusetts  Dance  Residency  Project 
supported  by  the  Council  on  Arts  and 
Humanities  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  and  the  National  Endow- 
ment for  the  Arts.  Open  rehearsals, 
workshops  and  seminars  will  mark  the 
one  week  residency  in  February  of  Joseph 
Chaikin's  noted  experimental  group, 
The  Open  Theatre. 

Pianist  Byron  Janis,  the  Goldovsky 
Grand  Opera  Theatre,  the  Boston  Phil- 
harmonia,  the  Tel  Aviv  String  Quartet, 
and  the  Borodin  String  Quartet  will  also 
be  on  campus.  These  events  are  part  of  a 
Fine  Arts  calendar  that  is  the  largest  ever. 
UMass  music  department  concerts  and 
recitals,  performances  by  campus  theatre 
groups,  and  art  exhibits  are  among  other 
events  listed. 

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faculty  members  and  five  undergradu- 
ates. Financial  support  comes  from  a  $6 
per  year  Fine  Arts  fee  that  all  students 
pay  and  from  ticket  sale  income.  The 
whole  effort  gets  a  major  boost  from  the 
Concert  Association,  a  group  of  twenty- 
five  students  who  help  in  all  phases  of 
the  program. 

Last  season,  for  the  first  time,  a  calen- 
dar of  forty  major  professional  events 
were  presented.  "We  started  with  a  com- 
pletely new  concept,"  Schwarz  said.  "We 
decided  to  structure  the  whole  season  in 
advance,  to  broaden  the  variety  and  to 
include  all  the  arts."  Student  response  to 
the  program  has  been  good,  particularly 
in  the  areas  of  modern  dance,  theatre  and 
popular  music.  Every  modern  dance 
event  was  sold  out  last  year  and  most  of 
the  tickets  went  to  students. 

The  present  focus  of  the  Fine  Arts 
Council's  audience  building  and  program 
expansion  is  the  Fine  Arts  Center.  Con- 
struction on  it  is  scheduled  to  start  this 
year.  The  center  will  have  studios,  re- 
hearsal rooms  and  classrooms  for  fine 
arts  students,  a  number  of  recital  halls, 
theatres,  and  a  2200-seat  air  conditioned 
concert  hall.  The  architects  are  Kevin 
Roche  and  John  Dinkeloo,  designers  of 
the  Vivian  Beaumont  Theatre  at  New 
York's  Lincoln  Center.  It  should  be  a 
superb  hall,  according  to  Schwarz.  He 
added,  "I  hope  plans  are  initiated  now 
for  a  year-long  celebration  of  interna- 
tional interest  to  mark  the  opening  of 
the  Center  in  1974." 

Distinguished  Teachers 

The  1970  Distinguished  Teacher  Awards 
were  presented  to  Richard  F.  Garber, 
Cadwell  L.  Ray,  and  William  J.  Wilson. 
Mr.  Garber,  an  associate  professor  of 
physical  education  and  the  varsity  la- 
crosse coach,  joined  the  faculty  in  1953. 
Dr.  Ray,  an  assistant  professor  of  eco- 


nomics, has  done  research  and  published 
articles  on  state  and  local  finance.  Dr. 
Wilson,  an  associate  professor  of  sociol- 
ogy, has  lectured  and  written  extensively 
on  the  black  protest  movement  and  other 
aspects  of  racism  in  America.  He  was  a 
prime  mover  in  the  founding  of  ccebs, 
the  Committee  for  the  Collegiate  Educa- 
tion of  Black  Students. 

The  awards,  which  carry  a  $1,000 
stipend,  have  been  given  each  year  since 
1962  for  "manifest  excellence  in  the  art 
of  teaching  and  outstanding  devotion  to 
the  cause  of  education."  Selection  is  by 
an  all-University  committee. 

Waffle,  Anyone? 

"Waffle"  has  nothing  to  do  with  maple 
syrup  and  Sunday  morning  breakfast. 
It  is  a  nickname  for  the  new  Murray  D. 
Lincoln  Campus  Center,  inspired  by  the 
building's  patterned  facade.  When  the 
building  first  opened  this  fall,  ads  in  the 
Collegian  wished  the  world  "Waffleluck" 
and  events  like  "Awful  Waffle  Week" 
were  promoted  in  order  to  help  the  stu- 
dents feel  at  home  in  this  very  imposing 
structure. 

Designed  by  the  firm  of  Marcel  Breuer 
and  Herbert  Beckhard,  and  built  by  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  Building 
Authority,  the  Center  is  a  conference, 
continuing  education  and  student  activi- 
ties facility.  The  eleven  story  building 
has  an  attached  900-car  parking  garage. 
There  are  220  overnight  accommodations 
for  those  attending  conferences  and  for 
other  guests  of  the  University,  confer- 
ence and  seminar  rooms  for  1,500  people, 
dining  facilities  (including  a  Top  of  the 
Campus  Restaurant),  a  ballroom,  a  book- 
store, and  meeting  rooms  and  offices  for 
student  activities. 

Alumni  may  wish  to  take  advantage 
of  the  Center's  services.  The  costs  of 
overnight  accommodations  are  $14  for  a 


single  and  $18  for  a  double,  plus  tax. 
There  is  a  $3  charge  for  children  sleeping 
on  a  rollaway  cot,  and  no  charge  for  roll- 
away  cribs.  The  restaurant  facilities  in- 
clude a  cafeteria,  where  dinners  cost 
$1.90  and  up,  and  dining  room  service 
where  dinner  would  be  $3.75  and  up. 
Cocktails  are  served  on  the  eleventh  floor 
of  the  Center,  at  Top  of  the  Campus, 
Inc.,  a  nonprofit  corporation  which  holds 
an  alcoholic  Club  license.  This  means 
that  alcoholic  beverages  may  be  sold  only 
to  members  and  their  guests.  The  cost  of 
membership  is  $1  a  year,  which  covers 
the  expense  of  a  photo  identification  card. 
Inquiries  about  the  Center  may  be  di- 
rected to  the  alumni  office. 

The  Campus  Center  looms  behind  the 
Student  Union,  its  huge  stone  terrace 
and  nine  story  tower  creating  a  monu- 
mental impression.  It  is  made  of  concrete, 
some  of  it  precast  and  some  cast  on  the 
site.  Many  of  its  walls  are  covered  with 
cork  or  fabric;  its  floors  are  either  stone 
or  carpeted  in  warm  colors.  The  furnish- 
ing, a  mixtue  of  materials  and  textures 
including  stainless  steel-and-leather 
chairs,  ash  couches  and  Minnesota  gran- 
ite tables,  were  chosen  by  a  committee 
of  students  in  consultation  with  the 
architects. 

The  total  cost  of  the  project,  an  esti- 
mated $20.5  million  which  includes  $15 
million  for  the  Center,  $4.5  million  for 
the  garage,  and  $1  million  remaining  to 
be  paid  on  the  debt  service  for  the  Stu- 
dent Union,  will  be  self-amortizing.  A 
projected  annual  expense  of  $2.2  million, 
including  debt  service,  will  also  have  to 
be  met.  Income  to  cover  these  figures  will 
be  realized  through  student  fees,  hotel 
and  garage  revenues,  the  book  store, 
food  services,  a  $3  charge  per  conferee 
earmarked  for  the  debt  service,  and  re- 
serves accumulated  from  student  fees  in 
previous  years.  Because  those  reserves 
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it  is  possible  that  the  student  fee  may 
have  to  be  increased  both  next  year  and 
the  year  after.  Undergraduates  now  pay 
a  Student  Union  fee  of  $48  (raised  this 
year  from  $30),  and  graduate  students 
pay  $38. 

An  Outward  Face  for  Education 

"Federal  Income  Tax  Procedure"  and 
"Psychology  of  Adolescence"  are  two  of 
the  nine  courses  available  in  Springfield 
this  semester  through  the  University's 
new  Division  of  Continuing  Education. 
High  school  graduates  or  those  who  have 
a  certificate  of  General  Educational  De- 
velopment are  entitled  to  enroll,  and 
courses  usually  meet  one  night  a  week. 
Classes  are  also  taught  in  Greenfield, 
Holyoke,  and  Pittsfield,  in  cooperation 
with  the  community  colleges  in  those 
cities.  Approximately  half  of  the  61- 
course  curriculum  is  scheduled  in 
Amherst. 

"The  Division  of  Continuing  Educa- 
tion," in  the  words  of  its  director,  Wil- 
liam C.  Venman,  "is  a  self-supporting 
program  responsible  for  providing 
university-level  educational  opportunity 
at  the  lowest  possible  cost."  The  fee  for 
a  three-credit  course  offered  on  the  Am- 
herst campus  is  $75,  in  addition  to  a  $5 
registration  fee  and,  for  certain  courses, 
a  laboratory  fee.  Three-credit  courses 
offered  outside  of  Amherst  cost  $84  in 
addition  to  the  registration  and  labora- 
tory fees. 

Dr.  Venman  believes  in  the  state  uni- 
versity's responsibility  for  public  service 
education.  In  his  view,  UMass  should 
broaden  its  impact  by  serving  all  the 
people,  not  just  those  aged  18  to  22. 

"We  are  the  Janus  standing  at  the  door 
of  the  academic  community.  We've  al- 
ways looked  inward;  now  we  are  devel- 
oping an  outward  face  for  education." 
The  outward  face  Dr.  Venman  is  foster- 


ing includes  a  year-round  program  of 
conferences  and  institutes,  besides  regu- 
lar course  offerings.  Noncredit  special 
programs  are  mounted  for  professional 
groups,  such  as  electron  microscopists 
and  labor  unions. 

Degree-oriented  programs  are  de- 
signed to  serve  various  constituencies. 
Potential  students  include  those  who 
never  had  an  opportunity  to  go  to  college 
and  those  whose  college  careers  were 
interrupted.  Individuals  who  have  earned 
degrees  may  also  choose  to  enroll,  espe- 
cially those  who  are  in  fields  where  the 
"knowledge  explosion"  makes  retraining 
imperative.  Continuing  Education  may 
also  provide  opportunities  for  people  to 
train  for  alternative  careers,  or  it  may 
simply  be  a  constructive  use  of  leisure 
time.  According  to  Dr.  Venman,  both 
credit  and  noncredit  offerings  are  "de- 
signed to  keep  people  socially 
productive." 

Teaching  T.A.'s 
How  to  Teach 

A  voluntary  teaching  improvement  pro- 
gram for  the  University's  750  graduate 
student  teaching  assistants  has  been  ini- 
tiated this  year.  It  is  hoped  that  this  pro- 
gram will  significantly  affect  the  quality 
of  instruction  at  the  introductory  level, 
where  teaching  assistants  shoulder  much 
of  the  load. 

M.  H.  Appley,  Dean  of  the  Graduate 
School,  explained,  "Since  the  introduc- 
tory courses  taken  by  the  incoming 
freshman  significantly  influence  his  re- 
maining college  experience  and  future 
career,  we  have  become  increasingly 
concerned  about  improving  the  quality  of 
instruction  at  the  introductory  level." 

The  major  elements  of  the  program 
are  a  two-day  preclass  orientation  ses- 
sion, a  handbook,  a  teaching  improve- 
ment laboratory  with  a  library  and  video 


tape  equipment,  and  a  series  of  evening 
seminars  on  teaching.  Two  experienced 
teaching  assistants,  Sandra  H.  Hartzog 
in  botany  and  William  DeLamarter  in 
psychology,  are  responsible  for  the 
teaching  improvement  program.  Faculty 
supervisors  of  teaching  assistants  in  the 
major  instructional  departments  are  also 
cooperating. 

Future  plans  include  the  development 
of  an  "externship  program"  with  the 
community  colleges.  As  proposed,  the 
program  would  permit  a  graduate  stu- 
dent from  UMass  to  spend  a  semester  or 
a  year  at  a  community  college  gaining 
practical  teaching  experience.  In  ex- 
change, a  faculty  member  from  that  col- 
lege would  come  to  the  University  for 
education  leave  to  do  graduate  study 
or  research. 


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Julius  Erving 


Peter  Pascarelli 


Julius  Erving 
Sparks  Basketball 
Revival  at  UMass 

Peter  Pascarelli 


Last  year,  as  a 
sophomore,  he  led 
UMass  to  its  greatest 
hoop  season  ever. 


16  The  Alumnus  J"lius  Erving 

Julius  Erving  lives  in  a  typical  dorm,  with 
its  typical  noise  and  typical  overcrowd- 
ing. And  when  you  enter  the  15th  floor 
room  in  Kennedy  Tower,  there  is  little 
tangible  evidence  that  this  is  the  campus 
home  of  the  greatest  basketball  player 
and,  probably,  the  finest  athlete  ever  to 
attend  the  University  of  Massachusetts. 
Instead,  the  most  obvious  things  in  the 
room  are  a  constant  stream  of  friends 
and  a  bookcase  dominated  by  marketing 
textbooks. 

The  twenty-year-old  Erving  shattered 
virtually  every  UMass  single-season 
basketball  record  as  a  sophomore  last 
year.  He  led  UMass  to  its  greatest  hoop 
season  and  a  berth  in  the  National  Invi- 
tational Tournament  at  Madison  Square 
Garden.  Erving  was  selected  to  the  All 
Yankee  Conference  team,  was  named 
New  England  Player  of  the  Year,  All  East 
Sophomore  of  the  Year  and  Honorable 
Mention  All  American,  and  was  second 
in  the  country  in  rebounds.  During  the 
summer,  he  capped  this  phenomenal  year 
by  leading  the  United  States  national 
team  to  a  successful  tour  of  Russia  and 
Eastern  Europe. 

Despite  his  awesome  basketball 
achievements  and  campus-wide  attention 
(even  adulation),  Erving  has  matured 
into  a  dedicated  yet  friendly  young  black. 
His  apparent  unconcern  with  publicity 
and  fame  are  linked  to  a  close  family 
which  he  refers  to  repeatedly  in  conver- 
sation. He  points  to  the  family  influence 
as  his  single  most  important  motivating 
factor. 

Erving  was  born  in  East  Meadow,  New 
York,  and  grew  up  in  the  neighboring 
Long  Island  community  of  Hempstead. 
His  mother  and  father  were  separated  in 
1953  and  Julius  admits  those  early  years 
were  hard.  "We  lived  in  a  project,"  he 
told  The  Alumnus,  "and  it  wasn't  the 
greatest  life.  We  were  on  welfare,  and 
my  mother  had  to  care  for  three  of  us :  my 


Peter  Pascarelli 


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Julius  Erving 


Peter  Pascarelli 


older  sister,  my  younger  brother,  andme." 

In  1963  his  father  died,  and  his  mother 
remarried  later  in  the  year.  The  family 
then  moved  to  Roosevelt,  another  Long 
Island  city,  where  they  lived  in  "finally 
our  own  home."  He  was  then  a  freshman 
in  high  school. 

It  was  in  Roosevelt  that  Erving  began 
to  play  sports  with  intensity.  He  played 
football  and  baseball,  but  basketball  was 
always  his  main  interest.  And  at  Roose- 
velt High,  he  played  basketball  under  a 
coach  named  Ray  Wilson,  now  a  UMass 
assistant. 

Wilson  said  of  Erving  then,  "He  was 
well  coordinated,  even  in  the  9th  grade. 
The  only  reservation  I  had  then  about  his 
basketball  ability  was  his  size.  Jules  was 
only  5'10  as  a  sophomore.  But  he  had 
those  big  hands  which  showed  he  would 
grow,  and  sure  enough  he  was  6'3  when 
he  graduated  and  is  almost  66  now." 

Wilson  was  similarly  impressed  by 
Erving's  character:  "His  family  is  great 
and  is  the  reason  that  he  hasn't  been 
affected  adversely  by  success.  They  al- 
ways took  an  interest  in  him." 

His  high  school  teams  were  good  ones, 
but  never  got  farther  than  the  county 
playoffs.  That  was  in  Erving's  junior 
year,  when  his  Roosevelt  team  was  elim- 
inated by  Sewanak  High  School  and  the 
star  performance  of  Rick  Vogeley,  now 
a  teammate  of  Erving's. 

When  the  decision  for  college  came, 
Julius  narrowed  the  choice  to  St.  John's, 
the  New  York  City  basketball  power, 
and  UMass.  He  chose  the  larger  UMass 
after  several  visits  to  campus.  His  rea- 
sons were  simple.  Said  Erving,  "I  liked 
the  campus  itself  very  much,  the  aca- 
demic reputation  here  is  excellent  out-of- 
state  and,  while  the  basketball  program 
was  rising,  I  would  have  a  good  chance 
of  starting  as  a  sophomore.  Plus  the  fact 
that  basketball  did  not  come  before  your 
academics." 


The  chance  to  make  a  choice  of  where 
to  go  to  college  was  a  unique  one  for  any- 
one in  the  Erving  family.  He  is  the  first 
member  of  his  family  to  go  to  college 
and  this  fact  has  a  great  effect  on  him. 

Erving  talks  at  length  about  his  college 
opportunity.  He  told  us,  "You  know,  the 
pressure  of  basketball,  and  the  pressure 
of  living  up  to  last  year,  doesn't  really 
bother  me.  The  greatest  pressure  of  any 
kind  I  feel  is  from  this  chance  of  being 
the  first  in  my  family  to  go  to  college. 
They  have  their  eyes  on  me,  and  I'm 
conscious  of  the  fact  that  if  I  go  astray 
or  do  something  to  waste  this  opportun- 
ity, I'm  going  to  be  letting  down  a  lot  of 
people  who  are  counting  on  me." 

This,  along  with  the  sudden  and  tragic 
death  of  his  younger  brother  three  years 
ago,  motivates  him  more  than  any  bas- 
ketball success.  He  is  still  hesitant  to  talk 
about  his  brother,  who  was  sixteen  when 
he  died.  Julius  will  say,  "His  death  is  on 
my  mind  a  lot.  You  know,  we're  a  close 
family,  and  my  mother  worked  a  long 
time  for  the  house  we  live  in.  Then,  after 
we  moved  in,  I  went  to  college,  my  sister 
got  married,  and  my  brother  passed  away 
— leaving  my  mother  without  her  kids. 
I  think  about  this  a  lot  and  I  guess  I  push 
a  little  harder  because  of  it." 

The  pressure  from  his  family  to  suc- 
ceed has  kept  Erving  from  getting  in- 
volved with  anything  besides  basketball 
and  his  academic  work.  As  an  aware 
black  student,  he  sometimes  regrets  this. 
"I'd  like  to  get  involved  in  things,"  he 
explained,  "but  academics  and  basketball 
are  first  and  everything  else  is  after. 
People  sometimes  try  to  persuade  me  to 
do  this  or  that,  but  I'm  my  own  indi- 
vidual. If  I  have  time  after  playing  ball 
and  my  school  work,  then  I  will  get  into 
something  else." 

Being  not  only  a  black  student  at  pre- 
dominantly white  UMass,  but  also  the 
most  well  known  black,  isn't  a  problem 


for  Julius.  "I  don't  detect  any  resentment. 
I  have  my  own  black  friends  who  support 
me  and  no  one  should  mind  that." 

Instead  of  being  resented  by  white 
students,  Erving  is  adulated.  At  home 
games,  the  biggest  roar  of  the  night  is 
always  for  his  patented  two-hand-over- 
the-head  dunk  shot  in  warm  ups.  And 
when  he  was  a  freshman,  the  crowd  sang 
"Happy  Birthday"  before  a  game  that 
was  played  on  his  nineteenth  birthday. 
If  you  go  to  Boyden  gym  any  afternoon, 
you'll  see  people  in  pick  up  games,  yelling 
"watch  my  'Julius'  move." 

He  sees  a  time  in  the  near  future  when 
he  won't  be  the  only  black  player  on  the 
team,  as  is  the  case  now.  "Mainly," 
Erving  said,  "I  think  it's  hard  to  recruit 
a  black  player  who  has  the  necessary 
educational  background  to  be  accepted 
at  UMass.  But  the  recruiting  system  here 
has  improved,  education  for  black  high 
school  students  is  improving,  and  I'm 
sure  we  will  have  top  black  players  com- 
ing here  to  help  the  program." 

Like  everyone  else  at  the  University, 
Julius's  academic  work  was  disrupted  by 
the  spring  student  strike.  Erving  is  blunt 
about  the  strike.  "I  wasn't  for  it.  Every- 
one just  jumped  on  the  bandwagon. 
Among  the  three  aims  was  the  one  about 
releasing  all  political  prisoners,  including 
the  Black  Panthers.  I  think  this  was  just 
a  slick  move  to  get  black  students  in- 
volved and  I  resented  that.  And  I  don't 
think  that  all  prisoners  deserve  to  be 
released." 

He  also  commented  on  the  Panthers  by 
saying,  "I  don't  really  have  enough  in- 
formation to  have  a  definite  opinion 
on  the  Panthers.  But  I  do  feel  that  a 
lot  of  blacks  are  falsely  militant  on  the 
surface." 

Erving  had  an  experience  not  many 
twenty-year-old  college  students  get 
when  he  traveled  to  Russia  and  parts  of 
Eastern  Europe  this  summer  with  the 


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Julius  Erving 


Peter  Pascarelli 


U.  S.  national  team.  It  was  his  biggest 
thrill. 

"I've  had  a  lot  of  good  times  and  high- 
lights in  my  life,  like  the  n.i.t.  game,  but 
that  trip  was  a  once  in  a  lifetime  oppor- 
tunity. Though  it's  an  obvious  thing  to 
say,  the  differences  between  here  and 
there  are  still  striking.  The  facilities  like 
living,  transportation,  food,  and  water 
can't  compare.  We  had  the  opportunity 
to  meet  many  people,  though.  Moscow 
wasn't  very  friendly  and  no  one  spoke 
English.  But  in  Estonia  and  Finland  espe- 
cially, people  went  out  of  their  way  to 
talk  with  us,  show  us  around,  and  trade 
things." 

Playing  on  sub-par  European  courts  ag- 
gravated an  old  back  injury  that  cleared 
up  in  time  to  begin  preseason  practice  in 
October.  This  is  a  season  that  Julius 
looked  forward  to. 

"Our  schedule  is  not  that  tough,  and 
out  of  our  26  games  we  should  win  23 
outright.  The  personnel  is  just  as  good  or 
even  better  than  last  year,  and  that  isn't 
taking  away  anything  from  the  seniors 
who  left  because  we'll  miss  them  for 
sure.  But  the  development  of  last  year's 
lettermen  and  the  players  from  the  fresh- 
man team  make  us  a  good  basketball 
team. 

"I  know  a  lot  is  being  expected  of  me 
and  of  the  team,  but  that  shouldn't  bother 
us.  Once  on  the  court,  any  pressure  that 
may  have  been  created  has  to  stop." 

Like  anyone  else  involved  in  UMass 
sports,  Erving  is  not  exactly  enchanted 
with  the  Yankee  Conference.  But  ration- 
alizing the  situation,  Erving  reasoned, 
"I  probably  would  like  to  see  us  an  inde- 
pendent, but  realistically  we  are  com- 
mitted to  the  Conference  right  now,  not 
only  in  basketball  but  in  other  sports. 
So  if  we  have  to  stick  with  it,  we'll  just 
have  to  make  the  best  of  it.  And  it's  good 
to  have  something  to  strive  for  like  a 
Conference  championship,  especially 


after  being  stripped  of  it  a  year  ago."* 

With  two  more  collegiate  years  left, 
Erving  is  definitely  aiming  for  a  pro  ca- 
reer. His  coach  Jack  Leaman  assessed  his 
chances.  "Julius  Erving  will  not  be  a  good 
pro,  he  will  be  a  great  pro,"  exclaimed 
Leaman.  "He  has  everything  the  pros 
look  for  in  a  basketball  player:  size, 
speed,  agility,  shooting  ability,  desire, 
and  a  fine  mind.  If  he's  not  a  first  round 
pick  in  the  pro  draft,  then  I  don't  know 
what  basketball  is  all  about. 

"Julius  is  one  of  the  finest  players  ever 
in  New  England.  He's  one  of  the  best 
I've  ever  seen.  He's  worked  hard  to  get 
where  he  is  today  and  has  been  able  to 
handle  any  situation.  And  he's  such  a 
great  team  player  that  there's  no  resent- 
ment from  the  rest  of  the  team.  He  has  a 
strong  supporting  cast,  but  sometimes 
they  are  in  awe  of  him.  Besides,  if  there 
was  resentment,  they  wouldn't  have 
elected  him  co-captain." 

Though  coming  from  a  school  and  area 
not  traditionally  known  for  basketball, 
Erving  ranks  high  in  preseason  All  Amer- 
ican picks.  The  most  notable  of  these  was 
a  second  team  selection  to  the  Sports 
Magazine  preseason  team. 

This  attention,  in  the  end,  doesn't  faze 
Erving.  "I  hope  to  be  a  pro  basketball 
player,"  he  asserted.  "If  I  make  All 
American,  fine,  but  pros  take  others  be- 
sides All  Americans.  But  my  main  ob- 
jective is  to  help  the  team.  If  we're  good, 
we'll  be  noticed.  And  if  things  don't  work 
with  the  pros,  I'll  have  the  educational 
background  with  my  marketing  major  to 
get  into  business  and  make  a  good 
living." 

If  you've  ever  seen  Erving  play  basket- 
ball, you  get  the  idea  he'll  be  earning  that 
living  on  a  basketball  court.  Whenever 
pro  scouts  or  basketball  experts  see  him 

*UMass  was  stripped  of  its  Yankee  Conference 
titles  a  year  ago,  as  part  of  a  Conference 
penalty  for  an  ineligibility  case. 


perform,  they  don't  forget  him.  Boston 
Celtic  immortal  Red  Auerbach  calls  him 
"just  a  fantastically  exciting  player." 
New  York  writers,  always  critical  of 
visiting  players,  when  witnessing  a  typi- 
cally overpowering  Erving  performance 
against  Fordham  that  included  37  points 
and  20  rebounds,  raved  that  he  was  the 
best  player  to  play  in  New  York  that 
collegiate  season. 

Julius  Erving  has  made  home  basket- 
ball games  the  place  to  be  on  campus. 
Lines  form  outside  cramped  Curry  Hicks 
Cage  hours  before  gametime.  He  has 
made  UMass  basketball  one  of  the  few 
unifying  elements  on  the  sprawling 
campus.  For  example,  many  high-ranked 
University  administrators  credit  the  bas- 
ketball team's  home  stretch  run  for  the 
n.i.t.  berth  to  be  a  major  factor  in  cooling 
a  tense  and  dangerous  situation  follow- 
ing the  Mills  House  takeover. 

And,  though  he  won't  admit  it,  the 
strong  and  intelligent  black  kid,  who  is 
driven  to  success  by  respect  for  a  strong 
mother  and  a  lost  brother,  is  a  celebrity 
to  many  detached  and  cynical  students 
at  this  impersonal  University. 

And  when  Julius  Erving  leads  the  New 
England  basketball  champions  onto  the 
Curry  Hicks  Cage  floor,  he  becomes  the 
most  important  person  on  the  campus. 


19  The  Alumnus 


From  the  Sidelines 


Richard  Bresciani 


From 

the  Sidelines 

Richard  L.  Bresciani  '60 

Assistant  Sports  Information  Director 


It  wasn't  too  long  ago  that  the  winter 
sports  season  usually  presented  a  picture 
as  dreary  as  last  week's  soot-covered 
snow.  However,  the  scene  is  different 
now.  It  breathes  optimism  where  pessi- 
mism and  failure  once  abounded. 

Last  winter  UMass  varsity  teams 
compiled  a  50-33  record  after  a  53-39 
mark  in  1968-69.  For  two  years,  just 
about  every  varsity  team  has  improved 
its  record. 

Interest  in  basketball  at  UMass  has 
reached  an  all-time  high.  Coach  Jack 
Leaman's  varsity  finished  first  in  the 
Yankee  Conference  for  the  third  straight 
-  year,  and  the  team  has  43  wins  in  the 
last  60  games.  Leaman  won  New  Eng- 
land Coach  of  the  Year  honors,  while  the 
Redmen  were  crowned  New  England 
Champions.  They  competed  in  the  Na- 
tional Invitational  Tournament  at  New 
York's  Madison  Square  Garden  and 
dropped  a  last-minute  62-55  decision  to 
eventual  champ  Marquette. 

Sparked  by  brilliant  6'6  Julius  Erving, 
UMass  should  again  be  a  contender  for 
Conference  and  New  England  honors. 
Erving  scored  643  points  with  522  re- 
bounds and  was  selected  All  Conference, 
All  New  England,  All  East  Sophomore 
of  the  Year  and  All  American  Honorable 
Mention.  During  the  summer  he  was  the 
leading  scorer  and  rebounder  on  the  U.S. 
Olympic  Development  Team  that  had 
a  1.0-3  record  against  some  of  Europe's 
best  teams. 

Erving  will  be  joined  by  returning 
starters  5'n  John  Betancourt  and  6'y  Ken 


Mathias.  Juniors  Mike  Pagliara,  5*10, 
Rich  Vogeley,  6'$,  and  Chris  Coffin,  6*5, 
have  fine  potential;  6'9  Tom  Austin  and 
6'S  Charlie  Peters  are  sophomores  who 
should  help.  The  team  will  be  bolstered 
when  6'5  Tom  McLaughlin,  a  transfer 
from  Tennessee  where  he  was  the  top 
f  rosh  scorer,  becomes  eligible  the  sec- 
ond semester. 

Last  winter,  refurbished  Curry  Hicks 
Cage  continually  overflowed  its  4200- 
seat  capacity  as  Erving  and  sharpshoot- 
ing  Ray  Ellerbrook  led  the  Redmen  to 
an  18-7  record.  Leaman  has  to  replace 
Ellerbrook,  plus  three  other  valuable  sen- 
iors, but  feels  the  material  is  available. 

The  hockey  revival  continued  under 
Coach  Jack  Canniff .  The  Redmen  fin- 
ished 10-8,  a  new  win  record  and  the  first 
winning  season  since  1960-61.  Canniff 
has  two  good  frosh  squads  and,  with  16 
returning  lettermen,  the  UMass  skaters 
could  be  in  contention  for  their  first 
Eastern  Collegiate  Athletic  Conference 
Division  II  tourney. 

High  scorer  Jack  Edwards,  15  goals 
and  12  assists,  scrappy  center  Dennis 
Grabowski,  and  solid  defenseman  Bob 
Bartholomew  are  three  juniors  who  lead 
the  returnees.  The  goal  situation  finds 
juniors  Pat  Flaherty  and  Bruce  Craw- 
ford being  pushed  by  sophomores  Peter 
Erikson  and  John  Kiah. 

UMass  has  added  Providence,  North- 
eastern and  Boston  State  to  what  looks 
like  its  toughest  hockey  schedule.  It  will 
take  rapid  development  by  such  sopho- 
mores as  Don  Riley  and  Canadian  scor- 
ing flash  Pat  Keenan  to  keep  UMass 
moving  up  the  hockey  ladder. 

As  wrestling  coach  Homer  Barr  states, 
"This  is  the  year  to  put  it  together." 
Barr  has  molded  UMass  into  a  New  Eng- 
land wrestling  power.  The  grapplers 
were  9-6  two  years  ago  and  fashioned  a 
16-4  record  with  a  second  in  the  N.E. 
tourney  last  winter.  This  year  UMass 


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From  the  Sidelines 


Richard  Bresciani 


will  face  strong  New  England  teams  but 
Barr  feels  he  has  more  depth  than  ever, 
with  quality  performers  available  in  all 
weight  classes.  Seven  returnees  placed  in 
the  New  England  tourney  last  winter  and 
junior  Sheldon  Goldberg  and  senior  Tom 
Young  won  individual  titles  at  134  and 
167-lbs.  respectively.  Goldberg  had  a 
12-2-3  record  as  a  sophomore  and  Young 
has  a  two-year  mark  of  22-5-2.  George 
Zguris,  N.E.  190-lb.  champ  in  1969  and 
runnerup  last  year,  will  get  competition 
from  Ed  Carlsson,  who  won  the  N.E. 
frosh  title  last  winter.  Nick  DiDomenico, 
24-11,  Dave  Reynolds,  15-4,  Bruce  Buck- 
bee,  12-1,  and  Tom  Andrewes,  18-3-1, 
are  other  veterans  with  good  records. 

Another  optimistic  outlook  comes 
from  gymnastics  coach  Erik  Kjeldsen.  "If 
commitment  to  excellence  can  be  added 
to  the  talent  and  experience  on  hand, 
this  year's  squad  will  provide  a  formid- 
able challenge  for  any  team  in  the  East." 
Kjeldsen  has  10  returning  lettermen  plus 
some  good  sophomores  from  the  second- 
straight  undefeated  freshman  team.  The 
gymnasts  were  5-3  last  winter  and  fin- 
ished fourth  in  the  tough  Eastern  League 
behind  Springfield,  Penn  State  and 
Temple. 

Co-Captains  Scott  Stover  and  Tony 
Vacca  and  senior  Norm  Vexler  are  key 
point-producers.  Stover,  a  senior,  excels 
on  the  high  bar  and  in  the  vaulting 
events.  Vacca,  a  junior,  has  developed 
rapidly  in  the  all-around  competition, 
while  Vexler  is  good  in  every  event  with 
outstanding  potential  on  the  side  horse 
and  rings. 

UMass  will  host  the  Eastern  Inter- 
collegiate Championship  Meet  in  the 
Boyden  Building,  March  11-13,  to  climax 
the  season. 

Coach  Ken  O'Brien  '63  has  been  pa- 
tiently building  a  strong  track  team.  In- 
juries crippled  the  Redmen  last  year,  and 
they  were  edged  out  by  Connecticut  for 


the  Indoor  Championship  after  winning 
the  year  before. 

O'Brien  points  to  a  good  senior  group 
plus  promising  sophomores  that  should 
provide  a  well-balanced  team.  The  jump- 
ing events  were  the  strongest  for  UMass 
and  should  be  solid  again,  led  by  senior 
Cal  Carpenter,  three-time  Conference 
high  jump  champion,  and  senior  Dave 
Canterbury  in  the  long  and  triple  jumps. 
Senior  Ed  Arcaro  was  the  top  point-man 
last  year  and  set  UMass  records  in  the 
shot-put  and  discus  and  was  nationally 
ranked  in  the  hammer  event.  Add  sopho- 
more Peter  Natti,  a  four-event  performer 
who  was  top  frosh  scorer,  and  the  Red- 
men  have  possibly  their  best  weight 
team. 

Speed  usually  is  the  biggest  Redmen 
asset.  Seniors  Walt  Mayo,  Conference 
dash  champ  who  was  second  in  the  New 
England  60-yard  dash,  and  Gerry  Spell- 
man,  UMass  record  holder  in  the  120 
high  hurdles  and  440  intermediates,  and 
junior  Jim  Graves  head  a  fine  contingent. 
David  Evans,  in  the  middle  distance 
events,  and  senior  Ron  Wayne,  Confer- 
ence two-mile  champion,  are  other  valu- 
able performers. 

The  ski  team,  coached  by  Bill  Mac- 
Connell  '43,  recaptured  the  New  Eng- 
land League  title  it  won  in  1968  after  fin- 
ishing second  in  1969.  MacConnell  lost 
just  one  senior,  Jim  Garstang,  the  finest 
Redmen  skier  in  recent  years.  Four  good 
sophomores  join  veterans  Ted  Martin, 
Jim  Lattimer  and  John  Gray  to  provide 
the  most  quality  MacConnell's  had. 

On  the  other  hand,  depth  is  again  a 
problem  for  swimming  coach  Joe  Rogers. 
Last  year's  1-8  record  was  the  worst  in 
over  a  decade,  and  Rogers  hopes  that 
freshmen  can  provide  some  depth.  Sen- 
iors Ed  Jazab,  Maurice  Lynch,  and 
Dennis  Moulton  will  have  to  carry  the 
load,  but  the  Redmen  will  be  weak  in 
the  sprint  events. 


UMass  is  allowed  to  use  freshmen  in 
all  varsity  sports  except  football,  basket- 
ball and  hockey,  a  rule  that  has  been  in 
effect  nationally  the  past  two  years. 
Thus,  some  of  the  winter  teams  may  get 
the  benefit  from  frosh  who  show  quick 
development.  UMass  will  use  j.v.  teams 
in  place  of  the  frosh  squads,  except  in 
the  three  sports  that  don't  qualify. 


21  The  Alumnus 


'Black  &  White'  Reviewed 


Phyllis  McGrath 


'Black  &  White' 
Reviewed 

Phyllis  Scher  McGrath  '59 

"Something  for  everyone 
but  certainly  not  a 
compromise." 


Fritz  Ellert  is  a  teacher  of  German,  Sid- 
ney Kaplan  teaches  English — two  fine 
professors  who,  working  with  others, 
founded  the  Massachusetts  Review,  a 
quarterly  journal  equal  to  the  best  on  the 
contemporary  scene.  In  the  sixties,  MR 
quietly  gained  acclaim  from  an  ever- 
widening  audience  and  was  recognized 
as  one  of  the  outstanding  literary  jour- 
nals in  America. 

MR  has  been  around  for  over  a  decade 
now,  and  in  that  time  it  has  covered  a 
tremendous  range  of  subject  matter  and 
literary  form.  Recently,  the  decision  was 
made  to  take  a  selection  of  those  pieces 
which  dealt  with  the  Negro  and  the 
Negro  in  America,  and  publish  them  in 
a  separate  volume  as  an  anniversary 
edition.  Thus  was  born  Black  &  White  in 
American  Culture.  Having  read  the  book, 
I  can  only  hope  that  the  editors  will 
someday  choose  to  anthologize  all  of  the 
writings  on  other  subjects. 

For  Black  &  White  in  American  Cul- 
ture is  one  of  the  finest  books  to  appear 
in  a  very  overcrowded  marketplace  in 
quite  some  time.  It  is  a  deep  and  thought- 
ful anthology,  masterfully  constructed. 
It  is  brilliant  enough  to  stimulate  the 
essay-saturated  "expert"  yet  it  retains  its 
readability  for  the  UMass  alumnus  per- 
haps a  bit  rusty  in  this  particular  field. 
Something  for  everyone,  but  certainly 


not  a  compromise.  To  quote  the  New 
York  Times  Book  Review, "...  a  rare 
anthology  and  a  rare  book." 

Black  and  White  in  American  Culture 
is  an  anthology  of  forty-one  pearls,  black 
and  white — written  by  male  and  female, 
famous  and  not-so-famous,  UMass- 
affiliated  and  non-UMass-affiliated.  A 
beautiful  opening  story  by  Mike  Thel- 
well,  one  of  the  best  of  the  new  writers 
and  a  real  "catch"  for  the  faculty,  is 
"Bright  an'  Mownin'  Star."  This  story 
sets  the  scene — the  poverty,  the  supersti- 
tion, and  the  unconquerable  human  urge 
toward  freedom,  not  to  be  beaten  down. 
As  the  "hero"  of  the  tale  is  seen  walking 
down  the  highway  and  out  of  the  Delta, 
so  too  Black  &  White  in  American  Cul- 
ture begins  with  extensive  discussion  of 
the  South,  where  the  "movement"  of 
necessity  had  its  roots,  and  comes  alive 
as  it  moves  up  and  out,  to  an  in-depth 
analysis  of  black  thought,  black  history, 
black  culture. 

One  of  the  most  sensitive  stories  in 
the  anthology  is  "Bye  Lena"  by  Charlotte 
Painter.  It  is  of  special  interest  to  this 
reader  that  the  contributions  of  all  but 
one  of  the  sprinkling  of  female  writers 
are  in  the  realm  of  fiction.  Interesting. 
Once  again  the  ladies  have  had  to  prove 
themselves  with  the  only  weapon  that 
can  resist  competition — creative  talent. 
Black  women.  White  women.  It's  the 
same  battle. 

Miss  Painter's  short  story  succinctly 
bares  the  thinking  of  the  Southern  white 
woman  and  the  Southern  black  woman 
and,  with  razor  skill,  captures  the  total 
lack  of  understanding  of  the  blacks  by 
the  white  "gentry."  Tom  Cade's  "Missis- 
sippi Ham  Rider"  is  a  modern  story,  and  it 
comes  along  later  in  the  section  devoted 
to  blues  and  jazz.  This  story  portrays 
the  real,  everyday  grimy  life  of  a  one- 
time big  name  country  folk  singer,  and 
the  subtlety  of  the  motives  and  thinking 


of  seemingly  simple  people. 

A  well-remembered  name  from  UMass, 
Doris  Abramson,  is  represented  in  the 
anthology  by  an  excellent  dissertation  on 
contemporary  Negro  playwrights.  Miss 
Abramson  has  proven  herself  to  her  local 
peers,  including  the  editors,  and  now  re- 
ceives the  professional  recognition  she 
has  earned. 

Here  too  is  Louis  Ruchames,  formerly 
Rabbi  at  UMass/Amherst  and  now  pro- 
fessor of  history  and  chairman  of  his 
department  at  UMass/Boston.  A  first- 
rate  historian,  his  name  has  been  appear- 
ing frequently  on  the  academic  scene 
and  in  the  publishing  world.  Two  of  his 
works  are  included  in  this  anthology, 
one  an  extremely  informative  study  of 
Charles  Sumner,  and  the  other  a  brief 
but  interesting  piece  on  John  Brown,  Jr. 

One  item  in  the  book  which,  while 
relevant,  does  not  meet  the  high  literary 
quality  of  the  other  works,  is  the  short 
poem  by  Andrew  Goodman,  the  young 
civil  rights  worker  who  lost  his  life  in 
Mississippi.  The  poem,  a  parody  of  A.  E. 
Housman,  was  completed  for  a  college 
assignment,  and  was  included  in  the 
anthology  in  recognition  of  Goodman's 
martyrdom.  On  that  basis,  the  reader 
is  asked  to  accept  it. 

The  reader  stands  to  learn  a  great  deal 
from  Black  &  White  in  American  Cul- 
ture, and  quite  painlessly  at  that.  Learn 
about  Thoreau.  Learn  about  Sumner. 
Taste  some  of  the  early  writings  of 
W.E.B.  DuBois.  And  in  the  package,  get 
a  terrific  lesson  on  the  roots  and  com- 
position of  jazz. 

Accolades  must  go  to  the  editors,  Jules 
Chametzky  and  Sidney  Kaplan,  for  their 
organization  of  the  book.  The  forty-one 
selections  are  divided  into  six  groupings, 
beginning  with  "The  Movement"  and 
"A  Legacy  of  Creative  Protest,"  then  on 
to  selections  on  blues  and  jazz,  black  art, 
black  literature,  and  closing  with  "The 


22  The  Alumnus 


'Black  &  White'  Reviewed 


Phyllis  McGrath 


Blacky  White 
eylmerican  Culture 

An  Anthology  from   The  Massachusetts  Review 


New  African  Humanism."  That  last  sec- 
tion includes  the  famous  essay  "Black 
Orpheus"  by  Jean-Paul  Sartre,  which 
has  not  previously  been  available  in 
English. 

"Black  Orpheus"  was  originally  writ- 
ten as  the  preface  to  an  anthology  of 
African  and  West  Indian  poetry  and, 
when  read  simply  as  such,  the  discussion 
on  black  poetry  is  beautiful.  What  a  de- 
lightful opportunity  to  learn  of  new  poets 
unpublished  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic 
and  to  enjoy  a  brief  sampling  of  their 
work.  But  the  poetic  discussion  is  not 
the  purpose  of  the  preface,  nor  is  it  the 
reason  for  the  essay's  inclusion  in  this 
anthology.  In  the  essay,  M.  Sartre  puts 
forth  his  now-famous  theory  on  Negri- 
tude,  a  concept  new  to  many  of  us.  The 
discussion  and  presentation  are  interest- 
ing, but  his  conclusions  are  debatable.  He 
ties  his  theory  into  his  all-abiding  belief 
in  Communism  and  blames  every  one 
of  the  world's  ills  on  his  arch-rival, 
Capitalism. 

Sartre's  essay  is  followed  immedi- 
ately by  an  excellent  rebuttal,  and  one 
breathes  a  sigh  of  relief. 

There  is  so  much  in  this  collection. 
Mike  Thelwell's  denunciation  of  William 
Styron's  Nat  Turner,  for  example.  Thel- 
well's complaint  is  the  same  one  others 
have  voiced  in  response  to  other  "white" 
interpretations  of  history.  It  is  regret- 
table, but  a  rebuttal  rarely  gets  the  airing 
and  the  publicity  the  original  received. 
Even  when  the  entire  black  community 
responds.  And  even  when  the  response 
is  as  well  researched  as  Mr.  Thelwell's. 

Unfortunately,  Styron's  work  is  the 
only  knowledge  many  Americans,  black 
and  white,  have  regarding  slave  revolts. 
Most  of  us  assume  that  large-scale  re- 
volts were  not  attempted  because  of  the 
total  futility  of  such  actions.  Not  so. 
Black  &  White  in  American  Culture  pro- 
vides us  with  good  detail  of  another 


revolt,  this  one  aboard  a  slave  ship,  the 
Amistad.  Sidney  Kaplan  has  assembled 
a  collection  of  pencil  portraits  of  the 
major  participants  in  the  revolt  and  the 
complete  text  of  an  1840  publication  de- 
tailing the  incident.  This  fascinating 
tract  will  be  incorporated  in  a  full-scale 
documentary  history  of  the  Amistad  re- 
volt, which  Mr.  Kaplan  is  preparing  for 
publication  by  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts Press.  "The  fame  of  the  mutiny 
on  the  Amistad  is  apt  to  obscure  the  fact 
that  it  was  but  one  of  hundreds,  perhaps 
thousands  of  black  mutinies  .  .  .  that 
occurred  during  four  centuries  of  the 
slave  trade."  So  states  Kaplan,  who  then 
goes  on  to  furnish  thumbnail  descrip- 
tions of  a  number  of  other  documented 
incidents. 

One  could  go  on  and  describe  each 
and  every  essay,  the  photographs,  the 
poetry.  But  suffice  it  to  say  that  this  is  an 
extremely  readable  yet  scholarly  book. 
It  is  a  real  find  for  the  overworked  reader 
satiated  with  race  relations  literature, 
and  a  particular  treat  to  discover  that  it 
is  a  product  of  the  University  (and  pub- 
lished by  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts Press.). 

The  University  can  point  to  this  one 
with  pride,  and  each  of  us  can  enjoy  the 
reflected  glory  of  the  professional  and 
literary  competence  which  is  achieving 
its  just  recognition. 


23  The  Alumnus 


Journey  to  Majorca 


Journey 
to  Majorca 

It  has  been  called  "The  Golden  Island" 
and  "The  Pearl  of  the  Mediterranean" — 
and  members  of  the  University  of  Mass- 
achusetts Associate  Alumni  and  their 
immediate  families  will  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  learn  why  this  spring.  Jim 
Allen,  the  Director  of  Alumni  Affairs, 
working  with  aits,  Inc.,  a  Boston-based 
national  tour  operator,  has  arranged  a 
"Majorcan  Carnival."  For  just  $299  plus 


10%  tax  and  services,  alumni  may  visit 
the  sunny  island  of  Majorca  on  a  fully- 
escorted  eight-day  tour  leaving  April 
17  from  Bradley  Field. 

Vacationers  will  be  provided  round 
trip  jet  flights  with  food  and  beverages 
served  aloft,  a  spacious  room  at  one  of 
the  island's  most  deluxe  hotels,  full 
American  breakfasts,  gourmet  dinners 
each  evening,  and  the  services  of  a  host 
escort  and  aits  hospitality  desk  at  each 
hotel.  The  tour  is  unregimented — no  ef- 
fervescent "leader"  will  shout  "Every- 
one into  the  pool."  But  if  you  do  wish  to 
go  swimming,  you'll  be  happy  to  learn 


that  the  average  temperature  in  Majorca 
in  April  is  72°. 

A  mailing  providing  further  informa- 
tion about  the  Majorcan  Carnival  will 
be  sent  in  January. 


24  The  Alumnus 


Comment/Club  Calendar 


Johnston/ Allen 


Comment 

Evan  V.  Johnston  '50 

Executive  Vice  President 

In  traveling  to  alumni  club  functions 
this  fall,  it  has  become  more  and  more 
apparent  to  me  that  many  alumni  do  not 
have  a  clear  picture  of  what  is  going  on 
on  campus.  Believe  me,  the  truth  is  far 
from  what  you  read  in  the  papers  and 
from  what  you  hear  by  way  of  rumor.  It 
is  true  that  there  are  dissident  groups, 
but  95%  of  the  students  are  not  inter- 
ested in  disruptions  and  have  expressed 
their  distaste  for  them. 

Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo  '32  made 
important  convocation  addresses,  ex- 
cerpts from  which  you  will  find  else- 
where in  this  Alumnus.  He  has  restated 
our  purposes,  has  said  what  can  and  can- 
not be  tolerated,  and  has  vowed  that  this 
institution  will  not  tolerate  any  irrespon- 
sible actions,  such  as  we  saw  here  last 
spring.  We  have  been  told  by  experts 
that  this  is  probably  the  best  statement 
any  college  leader  made  on  campus  prob- 
lems last  fall. 

We  look  forward  to  a  year  of  renewed 
dedication  to  this  institution  and  to  the 
University  system  under  the  direction  of 
our  dynamic  new  president,  Dr.  Robert 
C.  Wood.  He  is  building  into  his  staff 
people  with  experience,  enthusiasm,  and 
wisdom.  This  bodes  well  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  system,  as  well  as  for  your 
campus  in  Amherst. 

To  facilitate  this  development,  the 
alumni  office  will  be  publishing  a  com- 
plete directory  of  alumni.  The  informa- 
tion, (graduate's  address,  class,  and 
married  status),  will  be  as  accurate  as  our 
records  can  provide.  Each  alumnus  will 
be  listed  alphabetically,  geographically, 
and  by  class.  These  directories  will  be 
particularly  useful  for  class  agents  and 


fraternal  organization.  They  will  be 
available,  to  alumni,  for  $5. 

Club  Calendar 


James  H.  Allen  '66 

Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 

Alumni  activities  are  picking  up  steam. 
It  all  started  early  in  the  fall,  on  Septem- 
ber 19,  when  alumni  clubs  from  Spring- 
field and  Holyoke  jointly  sponsored  a 
very  successful  dinner  at  Vincent's  Steak 
House  in  West  Springfield.  It  was  the 
first  public  appearance  in  Western 
Massachusetts  for  Dr.  Robert  C.  Wood 
as  the  UMass  president,  and  over  one 
hundred  alumni  and  friends  of  the  Uni- 
versity were  in  attendance. 

Two  alumni  events  were  held  on  Sat- 
urday, September  26.  Fifty  alumni  met 
at  the  home  of  Bob  Pollack  '54,  president 
of  the  Greater  Delaware  Valley  Club, 
for  a  "Pizza  and  Beer  Party."  Evan  John- 
son '50  and  Jack  Leaman,  the  basketball 
coach,  traveled  from  Amherst  with  the 
film  of  our  n.i.t.  game. 

Four  hundred  miles  away,  fifty  alumni, 
including  Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo  '32, 
attended  a  cocktail  party  and  buffet  at 
the  House  of  the  Seven  Gables  in  Hart- 
ford, Vermont.  This  followed  our  foot- 
ball game  with  Dartmouth,  and  the  only 
flaw  was  that  we  lost  the  game.  Special 
thanks  go  to  Lou  and  Ena  Tunberg 
Paradysz  '63  for  their  hospitality. 

The  week  following  the  Dartmouth 
game  was  hectic,  with  a  four  day  swing 
through  upstate  New  York.  Thursday 
evening  found  me  in  Albany  at  a  reorgan- 
ization meeting  of  the  Tri-City  Alumni 
Club.  On  Friday,  I  was  with  a  group  of 
alumni  from  the  Geneva/Rochester  area 
showing  the  University  film  "A  Giant 
Step."  For  those  of  you  who  missed  the 
program,  we  are  planning  another  get- 


together  next  October.  George  Slate  '21 
deserves  a  big  thanks  for  his  help  in 
making  this  event  a  success. 

On  Saturday,  following  the  UMass/ 
Buffalo  football  game,  a  group  of  us 
gathered  at  the  Sign  of  the  Steer  restau- 
rant. Brian  Fry  '65  was  responsible  for 
setting  up  this  function,  and  the  steak 
was  great.  Brian :  I'll  trust  your  choice  of 
restaurants  anytime. 

On  October  5  the  Greater  Northamp- 
ton Club  held  a  reorganization  meeting 
under  the  guidance  of  John  Skibiski,  Jr. 
'54  and  Bob  Foote  '62.  Chancellor  Tippo, 
the  guest  of  honor,  answered  questions 
about  the  role  of  UMass  as  an  educational 
institution. 

The  Class  of  1913  luncheon,  held 
October  14  at  the  Old  Mill  in  West- 
minster, was  an  extremely  successful 
reunion.  Of  42  of  us  in  attendance,  35 
were  either  classmates  or  their  wives. 
These  alumni  all  started  at  Mass.  Aggie 
over  60  years  ago,  when  there  were  only 
750  students  on  the  campus.  The  campus 
has  changed  greatly,  but  their  ties  with 
the  University  grow  stronger,  not 
weaker.  Allister  MacDougall  '13  keeps 
his  classmates  well  informed  and  runs 
these  twice-yearly  class  functions. 

Homecoming,  October  24,  saw  UMass 
fight  UConn  to  a  tie.  Many  of  the  alumni 
who  returned  to  watch  the  game  also 
found  time  to  attend  the  Annual  Meet- 
ing. Business  transacted  there  included 
the  election  of  three  new  board  members 
(Don  Moriarty  '60,  Bob  Perriello  '37, 
and  Marylee  Boyle  Pelosky  '56)  and  three 
regional  vice-presidents  (Bill  Less  '51  for 
Eastern  Mass.,  Stan  Chiz  '50  for  Western 
Mass.,  and  Tony  Chambers  '54  for  New 
York.)  It  was  announced  that  Janice 
Wroblewski  '68,  Sam  Lussier  '63,  and 
Janet  Gorman  Murphy  '58  had  won  the 
mail  ballot.  The  association's  officers  were 
reconfirmed,  with  the  addition  of  Hal 
Fienman  '50  as  Second  Vice-President. 


25  The  Alumnus 


At  the  Springfield  Dinner 


Slade/Wood 


President  Robert  C.  Wood  (right)  chats 
with  alumni  at  a  dinner  the  Pioneer 
Valley  Club  sponsored  last  September. 


At  the  Springfield  Dinner 

Introductory  remarks 
by  Sanford  Slade  '58 

Alumni  are  a  source  of  funds  and  re- 
cruiters for  an  educational  institution. 
But  might  they  not  also  be  a  source  of 
ideas? 

We  live  at  a  time  when  students  feel 
they  have  a  right  to  influence  the  course 
of  national  and  campus  events.  Perhaps, 
as  alumni  and  as  citizens,  we  should  also 
feel  that  we  have  a  right,  even  an  obliga- 
tion, to  put  forward  our  views. 

I  don't  see  the  alumni  association 
manning  the  barricades  or  challenging 
the  University  administration.  I  do  see 
it  as  a  select  body  whose  involvement  in 
the  affairs  of  our  Alma  Mater  might  gen- 
erate an  influence  for  balance.  Inspired 
by  the  presently  unfashionable  values 
developed  in  our  undergraduate  years, 
we  might  be  a  still,  small  voice  in  the 
background,  our  involvement  tempered 
by  experience  and  our  minds  open  to  the 
issues  which  are  of  such  concern  today. 

In  these  dramatic  times,  current  events 
seem  to  be  reaching  out  to  those  of  us 
who  should  be  involved.  Perhaps  this 
association  can  begin  to  reach  back. 


Excerpts  from  the  speech 
by  Robert  C.  Wood 

It  is  a  brutal  intellectual  exercise  to  com- 
pare 1970  to  the  1960's.  Ten  years  ago, 
our  concerns  were  the  silence  of  the 
younger  generation,  not  its  radicalism; 
the  fertility  of  our  women,  not  their 
militancy;  the  nonviolence  of  Martin 
Luther  King,  not  the  anger  of  the  Black 
Panthers.  It  is  now  three  major  assassi- 
nations, 142  major  riots,  and  30,000,000 
additional  firearms  later. 

The  statistics  are  grim.  Nevertheless, 
I  am  persuaded  that  the  foundations  of 
our  society  have  endured.  And,  although 
this  is  a  time  of  academic  crisis,  univer- 
sities are  still  at  the  center  of  American 
society.  I  believe  the  power  of  knowledge 
continues  to  be  recognized  as  useful, 
necessary  and  benign. 

My  general  optimism  applies  partic- 
ularly to  this  school.  The  University  of 
Massachusetts  is  in  a  situation  of  special 
grace,  thanks  to  the  commitment  of  re- 
sources and  a  condition  of  autonomy 
achieved  during  John  Lederle's  presi- 
dency. Nevertheless,  we  must  move 
rapidly  to  strengthen  our  position. 

The  creation  of  new  constituencies  of 
support  is  essential.  In  a  word,  develop- 


ment. But,  clearly,  this  must  go  beyond 
the  traditional  interpretation  of  develop- 
ment as  a  euphemism  for  fund  raising. 
Development  is  the  fostering  of  commit- 
ment to  the  University  in  a  wide  variety 
of  program  areas.  And  the  role  of  alumni 
is  essential  in  this. 

I  am  particularly  interested  in  working 
with  you,  the  alumni,  and  helping  you 
work  for  your  University.  We  must 
create  new  opportunities  for  you  to  make 
significant  personal  contributions  to  the 
growth  of  UMass,  so  that  your  influence 
may  be  effective  in  interpreting  our  mis- 
sion and  in  widening  our  opportunities 
for  service. 


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The  Twenties 

A  civic  leader  in  Sunderland,  Clarence  F. 
Clark  '22  was  elected  chairman  of  the 
Greenfield  Community  College  Advisory 
Board;  Mr.  Clark  owns  farms  in  Sunder- 
land and  Laredo,  Texas.  The  American 
Society  of  Planning  Officials  elected  John 
W.  Hyde  '25  to  honorary  life  member- 
ship; Mr.  Hyde  has  been  the  director  of 
the  graduate  planning  program  at  the 
University  of  Michigan  for  twenty-three 
years.  Dr.  Maxwell  H.  Goldberg  '28,  a 
Danf  orth  Lecturer,  spoke  at  Quincy  Col- 
lege on  September  10, 1970.  His  topic 
was  "Values  and  Environments  in  the 
Technetronic  Age"  and  Leslie  "Squash" 
McEwen  '28,  who  was  in  the  audience, 
writes :  "In  addition  to  hearing  his  inter- 
esting talk,  we  had  time  to  see  the  his- 
torical and  beautiful  city  of  Quincy — 
plus  renewing  an  old  friendship." 


1938 

Norman  P.  Blake  is  senior  vice-president 
— traffic  and  sales  for  Pan  American 
World  Airways,  Inc.  The  former  Dean 
of  Students  at  Briarcliff  College,  Doris 
Jenkins  French  has  joined  the  staff  of 
Susquehanna  University  as  coordinator 
of  residence  affairs. 


The  Forties 

Frank  and  Louise  Bowman  Wing  '40  are 

public  school  teachers  in  Illinois;  she  is 
teaching  elementary  school,  and  he  is  a 
high  school  science  teacher.  Elizabeth 
"Betty"  Bascom  Lovely  '41  writes:  "I'm 
still  teaching  kindergarten  and  enjoying 
it  more  each  year.  I  finished  up  my  mas- 
ter's degree  this  summer — three  hard 

years  besides  my  regular  job Florida's 

fabulous !  I  wouldn't  live  anywhere  else." 
The  Hartford  Electric  Light  Company 


promoted  George  W.  Litchfield  '42  to  the 

position  of  Manager  of  Real  Estate.  San 
Francisco  State  College  awarded  Barbara 
Butement  Newcomb  '42  an  m.a.  in  educa- 
tion, special  interest  in  nursery  school. 
The  Rev.  Elinor  G.  Galusha  '48,  chair- 
man of  the  youth  ministry  planning  team 
and  editor  of  youth  publications  for  the 
Board  of  Homeland  Ministries  of  the 
United  Church  of  Christ,  has  become  as- 
sociate regional  secretary  for  the  Pacific 
area  of  the  denomination's  Board  for 
World  Ministries.  Briarcliff  College  ap- 
pointed Dr.  Walter  Chizinsky  '49  as 
Dean  of  Faculty.  Dr.  Chizinsky,  who  will 
continue  to  teach  biology  part-time,  is  a 
three-time  recipient  of  the  National  Sci- 
ence Foundation  grant  for  Summer  Insti- 
tutes; in  1969  he  was  a  Shell  Merit  Fellow 
at  Stanford  University. 


1950 

Glassboro  State  College  awarded  Bar- 
bara Lawrence  Bremner  a  master's  in 
reading  education.  Paul  G.  Hussey,  can- 
didate for  the  master's  in  education  at 
Boston  State  College,  is  teaching  ac- 
counting and  business  administration  at 
Grahm  Junior  College.  Allan  L.  Pitcher 
is  with  a.i.d.  in  Lagos,  Nigeria. 


1951 

Caroline  and  James  M.  Shevis  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Andrew  Allan,  born 
August  25, 1970. 

1952 

Aetna  Life  &  Casualty  promoted  Varnum 
J.  Abbott,  Jr.  to  associate  actuary,  group 
division,  in  Hartford;  Mr.  Abbott  is 
married  to  the  former  Joan  Lundberg. 
Norman  and  Mildred  VanerPol  Petti- 
paw  '53  are  in  Taipei,  Taiwan  with  their 


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four  children;  Mr.  Pettipaw  has  been 
Agricultural  Attache  to  the  Republic  of 
China  since  October  1968.  The  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany promoted  Eunice  Diamond  Powers 
from  job  analyst  to  personnel  assistant  in 
the  personnel  department.  The  Travelers 
Insurance  Companies  in  Hartford  ap- 
pointed Richard  C.  Reeves  secretary  in 
the  government  affairs  division  of  the 
casualty-property  department. 

1953 

William  E.  Egan  is  a  senior  underwriter 
with  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  In- 
surance Company  in  Springfield.  Maj. 
Victor  H.  Marcotte,  the  former  staff 
health  services  administrator  in  the  office 
of  the  surgeon  general  at  Air  Force  head- 
quarters in  Washington,  D.C.,  was 
awarded  the  Meritorious  Service  Medal 
in  Thailand. 


1954 

Maj.  Wayne  M.  Marcotte  is  with  the 
Air  Force  in  Hawaii. 


1955 

Dr.  Harrison  F.  Aldrich  is  practicing 
medicine  in  Unity,  Maine,  and  is  vice- 
chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
United  College.  Patricia  Duffy  Murphy 
is  a  substitute  teacher  in  Virginia.  The 
Air  Medal  was  awarded  to  Maj.  William 
E.  Todt  in  Viet  Nam  for  air  action  in 
Southeast  Asia. 


1956 

Dolloff  F.  Bishop,  chief  of  the  Federal 
Water  Quality  Administration's  pilot 
plant  program  in  Washington,  D.C.,  ad- 
dressed one  of  the  sessions  of  the  Water 


Pollution  Control  Federation  Week  held 
in  Boston  last  October.  The  Meritorious 
Service  Medal  was  awarded  to  Maj. 
James  L.  Coughlin  for  his  service  with 
the  U.S.  Army  Advisory  Group  in  Korea. 
Robert  W.  Tuthill  has  returned  to  UMass 
as  an  assistant  professor  in  the  depart- 
ment of  public  health;  he  recently  re- 
ceived his  doctorate  in  epidemiology 
from  the  University  of  North  Carolina. 


1957 

The  Milton  Bradley  Company  of  East 
Longmeadow  elected  George  R.  Dito- 
massi,  Jr.  as  a  division  vice-president  in 
charge  of  Lisbeth  Whiting  Company, 
Inc.  Francis  M.  Dowd  has  been  promoted 
from  operation  manager,  discrete  de- 
vices, to  manager  of  Raytheon  Com- 
pany's semiconductor  division  in  Moun- 
tain View,  California.  Boston  Gas  pro- 
moted Paul  H.  McGuinness  to  general 
sales  manager;  he  is  married  to  the  for- 
mer Doris  Joy  '56.  Leonard  and  Lorraine 
"Pepper"  Ducharme  Rand  are  both 
teaching  graduate  courses  in  guidance 
and  counseling  at  Ohio  University;  the 
couple  have  two  girls,  age  10  and  4. 


1958 

William  W.  Barnard,  a  former  research 
assistant  in  internal  medicine  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  is  associate  dean  of 
academic  affairs  at  Ohio  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity. The  Massachusetts  Division  of 
Fisheries  and  Game  promoted  Warren 
W.  Blandin  to  chief  of  wildlife  research; 
he  is  married  to  the  former  Joan  Nelson. 
Lewis  B.  Green,  joined  the  Chicopee 
Manufacturing  Company,  the  textile 
affiliate  of  Johnson  &  Johnson,  as  direc- 
tor of  women  fabrics  research  at  the 
Chicopee  Falls  plant.  The  executive 
officer  in  the  mobility  training  depart- 


ment at  the  Army  Ordinance  Center  and 
School  in  Maryland,  Maj.  Howard  F. 
King,  Jr.  recently  returned  from  Viet 
Nam.  Ann  Louise  Tracy  is  a  reading  im- 
provement specialist  in  California. 


1959 

Maj.  Paul  A.  Barden,  u.s.a.f.,  a  Viet  Nam 
veteran,  is  attending  the  Armed  Forces 
Staff  College  in  Norfolk.  Aetna  Life 
&  Casualty  named  Russell  D.  Burton 
an  administrative  assistant  in  the  Los 
Angeles  casualty  and  surety  division 
office.  William  J.  Connors,  attorney  for 
the  Massachusetts  Department  of  Youth 
Service,  the  state  juvenile  correction 
agency,  is  a  part-time  Criminal  Justice 
Fellow  at  the  Center  for  Criminal  Justice 
at  Harvard  University  Law  School.  Don- 
ald V.  Marchese,  as  the  purchasing  man- 
ager at  the  Hampstead  plant  of  the  Black 
&  Decker  Manufacturing  Company,  is 
responsible  for  purchasing  raw  and  as- 
sembly materials  and  for  expediting 
plant  traffic.  Julius  and  Merle  Horenstein 
Miller  '61  have  announced  the  birth  of 
their  third  child,  Shari  Ann;  Mr.  Miller 
is  the  director  of  product  management 
for  the  Continental  Coffee  Company, 
Food  Manufacturing  Division  in  Chi- 
cago. The  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  promoted  Charles 
H.  Paradis  to  programming  analyst  in 
the  electronic  data  processing  depart- 
ment. Alan  and  Judith  Ellison  Riley  '60 
announced  the  birth  of  Todd  Andrew, 
born  August  10, 1970;  Mr.  Riley  is  a 
TV  news  editor-producer  with  whdh 
in  Boston.  The  IBM  Corporation  pro- 
moted David  W.  Watson  to  staff  engi- 
neer at  the  systems  development  labora- 
tory in  Kingston,  New  York.  Carol  Sac- 
cocia  Wood  is  a  grants  management 
officer  for  h.e.w.  National  Institute  of 
Health  in  Maryland. 


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1960 

John  J.  Lynch  is  a  sales  manager  for 
Honeywell,  Inc.  in  California.  Richard  P. 
Rita  Personnel  System  appointed  E.  H. 
Margolin  as  Vice  President  of  Western 
Operations.  Edwin  D.  Tomkiewicz  is  a 
mechanical  engineer  with  General 
Electric. 

1961 

The  Foxboro  Company  promoted  John 
Corsi,  Jr.  to  manager  of  the  U.S.  markets 
and  engineering  services  department. 
The  United  Fruit  Company  appointed 
Karnig  Kurkjian,  Jr.  as  senior  product 
manager  for  the  industrial  and  institu- 
tional division  of  Chiquita  Brands,  Inc. 
John  Wendell  Long,  former  specialist  in 
Russian  history  at  the  Manhattan  School 
of  Music,  is  an  assistant  professor  of 
history  at  Rider  College.  The  American 
Catholic  Relief  Services  appointed  James 
J.  Mohan  to  overseas  duty  as  a  program 
assistant  in  Paraguay.  During  a  four  year 
association  with  the  Peace  Corps,  Mr. 
Mohan  had  held  positions  in  Thailand, 
Boston  and  Hawaii.  Dr.  Francis  L.  San- 
domierski  (G)  has  left  the  University  of 
Wisconsin  to  become  an  associate  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  at  Kent  State  Uni- 
versity. Richard  A.  Wilgoren  is  teaching 
in  the  Lexington  public  schools. 

1962 

Dr.  Mary  Louise  Allessio,  is  an  assistant 
professor  of  biology  at  Rider  College; 
she  had  formerly  been  at  Rutgers  Uni- 
versity-Newark where  she  was  voted  the 
outstanding  teacher  of  the  year  for  1970. 
Patricia  Louise  was  born  January  6, 1970 
to  Henry  and  Linda  Achenbach  Hannon. 
An  assistant  professor  of  history  at 
Lowell  Technological  Institute,  Joseph 
W.  Lipchitz  received  his  Ph.D.  from  Case 


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Western  Reserve  last  June.  He  is  married 
to  the  former  Martha  S.  Crane  who  is 
practicing  in  Tewksbury  having  received 
her  m.d.  degree  from  The  Johns  Hopkins 
University  School  of  Medicine  in  1966. 
The  city  manager  of  Auburn,  Maine, 
Bernard  J.  Murphy,  Jr.,  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Marjorie  St.  Aubin,  have  three 
children :  Kevin  Bernard,  born  in  April 
1964;  Anne  Elizabeth,  born  in  January 
1966;  and  Sean  David,  born  in  August 
1968.  The  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company  named  Arthur  J. 
Stevens  employment  manager  in  the  per- 
sonnel department. 

1963 

Bradley  S.  Bowden,  an  assistant  profes- 
sor at  Alfred  University's  department  of 
biology,  married  Joan  M.  Rigney  on 
June  21, 1969.  U.S.  Congressman  Hast- 
ings Keith  (R-Mass)  appointed  Francis  I. 
Broadhurst  as  his  press  assistant.  An 
m.b.a.  candidate  at  Babson  College,  Dian 
M.  Crocker  is  an  instructor  in  data  proc- 
essing at  Grahm  Junior  College.  Capt. 
Paul  Cwiklik  is  in  San  Antonio  as  the 
education  and  training  staff  officer  at  the 
u.s.a.f.  Officer  Training  School  there. 
Capt.  Cwiklik  and  his  wife  Maureen 
have  three  children:  four-year-old  Mark 
Edward,  two-year-old  Elizabeth,  and 
Michelle  Lynn,  born  July  29,  1970. 
Richard  E.  Gloth,  who  recently  received 
his  Ph.D.  from  UMass,  is  a  senior  re- 
search chemist  with  Goodyear  Tire  & 
Rubber  Company  in  Akron;  he  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Rena  Vengrow  '66,  have 
announced  the  birth  of  James  Lawrence, 
born  June  3, 1970.  Dr.  Ann  Gustin  is  a 
special  lecturer  in  psychology  on  the 
Regina  campus  of  the  University  of  Sas- 
katchewan in  Canada.  Capt.  William  J. 
Kincaid,  u.s.a.f.,  is  a  B-52  navigator- 
bombardier.  Last  June,  Rutgers  awarded 
the  degree  of  Master's  in  City  and  Re- 


gional Planning  to  Bruce  B.  McCracken; 

Mr.  McCracken  is  married  to  the  former 
Ann  Burns.  Dr.  Charles  H.  Nelson  is  an 

assistant  professor  of  biology  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee;  his  wife  is  the 
former  Elaine  Stribley  '66.  The  former 
assistant  counsel  and  assistant  secretary 
for  the  Federal  Reserve  Bank  of  Boston, 
Stephen  A.  Swartz  has  been  elected  as- 
sistant secretary  of  Charter  New  York 
Corporation. 

1964 

The  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  named  William  E.  Car- 
ruth  agency  assistant  in  the  agency 
information  development  department; 
the  company  promoted  John  M.  Don- 
asky,  Jr.  to  group  pension  consultant  in 
the  Cleveland  group  office.  Charles  and 
Anne  Kundzicz  Harrison  have  two  chil- 
dren, Jennifer  Anne  and  Christopher 
Brett;  Mr.  Harrison,  who  holds  a  Ph.D. 
in  mechanical  engineering  from  r.p.i.,  is 
participating  in  a  general  management 
training  program  for  General  Electric  in 
New  York.  Kathryn  Anne  was  born  Au- 
gust 20, 1970  to  Kenneth  and  Ruth  Ryer 
Hedberg.  Boston  University  awarded  a 
Master's  in  Education  in  secondary  read- 
ing education  to  Beverly  Cohen  Kaplan. 
Rosemary  Seward  Loveday  is  a  financial 
planner  for  Palmer,  Pollacchi  in  Boston; 
the  Lovedays  have  a  three-year-old  son, 
Eric.  C.  C.  and  Edna  Beighley  Mitchell 
are  in  Oxford,  Ohio  where  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Miami  University  faculty 
and  she  is  the  assistant  dietitian  for  the 
Miami  University  Food  Services.  Ivan  G. 
Most  has  accepted  a  position  as  heat  ex- 
changer engineer  in  General  Electric's 
heat  transfer  products  business  section; 
he  and  his  wife,  the  former  Sue  Shein- 
wald,  have  three  children.  Air  Force 
Capt.  Richard  F.  Phillips  is  part  of  an 
F-4  Phantom  crew  flying  close  air  sup- 


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port  missions  out  of  Phu  Cat  Air  Base. 
An  education  and  training  staff  officer, 
l/Lt.  Richard  P.  Sibley,  Jr.  graduated 
from  the  Air  University's  Squadron 
Officer  School  at  Maxwell  a.f.b. 

1965 

Bruce  A.  Baumann  has  been  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  U.S. 
Navy  and  is  stationed  at  Pearl  Harbor. 
Dr.  Ronald  O.  Berger  is  a  physician  with 
the  U.S.  Public  Health  Service  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Pamela  Beth  was  born  July 
28, 1970  to  Neil  and  Ritchie  Weinberg 
Blatte;  the  couple  also  has  a  two-year- 
old  son,  Eric  Paul.  Thomas  E.  Clark  is  a 
special  education  teacher  at  the  Residen- 
tial Treatment  Center  for  Emotionally 
Disturbed  Boys  in  Colorado.  Barry  Cop- 
pinger  spent  last  year  in  Tulelake,  Cali- 
fornia teaching  seventh  and  eighth  grade 
English  and  social  studies  at  Newell 
School ;  he  and  his  wife,  the  former  Mary 
Hutchinson,  have  two  children:  Brendan, 
born  December  1, 1968,  and  Erika,  born 
August  17, 1970.  John  W.  Francisco  is 
on  the  staff  of  the  Wayne  State  Uni- 
versity College  of  Medicine,  where  he 
teaches  and  consults  with  pediatric  resi- 
dents; Mr.  Francisco  married  Linda 
Rosenberg  on  August  9, 1970. 
Edward  W.  Hanson,  who  completed  an 
m.b.a.  program  at  Texas  Christian  Uni- 
versity last  May,  is  working  as  a  member 
of  the  Humble  Oil  and  Refining  Com- 
pany's exploration  and  production  audit 
staff;  Mr.  Hanson  is  married  to  the 
former  Faith  Henry.  Purdue  University 
awarded  a  Ph.D.  in  industrial  psychology 
to  Richard  J.  Klimoski  last  August;  Mr. 
Klimoski  is  an  assistant  professor  of 
psychology  at  Ohio  State  University. 
Carlton  and  Janice  Harty  Lanou  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Karen  Leslie,  born 
January  27, 1970.  The  director  at  the 
North  Central  Arkansas  Mental  Health 


Clinic,  Willard  E.  Millis,  Jr.  is  completing 
his  dissertation  for  the  Ph.D.  in  clinical 
psychology  at  the  University  of  Arkan- 
sas. Murty  S.  Parupudi  (G)  is  working 
for  the  Radio  Corporation  of  America. 
Capt.  Thomas  J.  Rissmiller  is  an  aircraft 
commander  with  the  916th  Air  Refueling 
Squadron.  The  Santa  Fe  Legislative  Coun- 
cil employs  Kathleen  C.  Wessman  as  a 
secretary.  An  employee  of  the  State  of 
New  York  Farm  Employment  Service, 
Delos  Whitman  and  his  wife  Jeanette 
have  three  children.  Ronald  F.  Wiberg,  a 
Viet  Nam  veteran,  is  director  of  Student 
Financial  Aid  and  Veterans  Affairs  at 
Massasoit  Community  College  in  West 
Bridgewater  and  Duxbury. 

1966 

Victor  Hugo  Ascolillo  has  been  pro- 
moted to  assistant  professor  at  East 
Tennessee  State  University.  Paul  Barents 
is  real  estate  manager  for  Gino's,  Inc.  in 
Barrington,  New  Jersey.  He  is  studying 
for  a  master's  in  public  administration 
at  Temple  University;  his  wife,  the  for- 
mer Kathy  Schlothan  '67,  is  also  working 
for  a  master's  degree,  in  education,  while 
teaching  school.  A  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Vermont  Air  National  Guard,  Roger 
L.  Crouse  is  employed  by  IBM  in  Essex 
Junction,  Vermont  as  a  senior  associate 
systems  analyst.  Richard  and  Judith  Dar- 
ling Cunniff  announced  the  birth  of  An- 
drew William,  bom  July  24, 1970,  and 
the  adoption  of  Richard  Michael,  born 
January  17, 1970.  A  high  school  English 
teacher  in  West  Covina,  California, 
Susan  B.  Eustace  is  married  to  Richard 
Johnson.  A  missile  safety  officer,  Capt. 
Paul  J.  Ferenz  is  a  graduate  of  the  Air 
University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at 
Maxwell  a.f.b.  Peter  J.  Hopkins  spent 
two  years  in  the  Peace  Corps  and  then 
two  years  at  the  Cornell  Business  School. 
Having  received  his  m.b.a.  last  June,  he 


is  supervisor-organization  development 
with  Western  Union  in  New  York  City. 
u.s.a.f.  l/Lt.  Joseph  F.  Keady,  Jr.  is  a 
finance  officer  stationed  in  Thailand;  he 
is  married  to  the  former  Jane  Meagher 
'67.  After  spending  two  years  in  Europe, 
Gretchen  Snook  is  starting  her  second 
year  as  a  teacher  of  emotionally  dis- 
turbed children  in  Montreal;  she  married 
Patrick  Alain  Martin  in  Paris  on  June 
22, 1969.  A  reading  specialist  in  the 
Deer  Park  public  schools  in  New  York, 
Christine  R.  Slifka  (G)  married  Gary 
Sirota  on  August  17, 1969. 

1967 

Air  Force  Lt.  Paul  A.  Amundsen  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  last 
June.  A  teacher  in  Colorado,  Mary-Alice 
Astaldi  married  Alan  Stewart  on  Feb- 
ruary 28, 1970.  The  University  of  New 
Hampshire  awarded  a  Master  of  Educa- 
tion in  Counseling  degree  to  Robin  J. 
Avery,  who  is  pursuing  further  graduate 
study  at  u.n.h.  on  an  assistantship.  The 
Air  Force  presented  Capt.  Raymond  M. 
Bennert  with  his  second  through  tenth 
awards  of  the  Air  Medal  for  air  action 
while  he  was  stationed  in  Thailand.  Kelly 
Lynn  was  born  December  26, 1969  to 
Harry  and  Nancy  Reed  Bovio.  Phillip  G. 
Collins  (G),  an  elementary  school  coun- 
selor with  the  Meriden,  Connecticut, 
school  system,  has  been  appointed  di- 
rector of  the  Meriden  n.a.a.c.p.-y.m.c.a. 
Tutorial  Program.  Keith  R.  Ferland  (G) 
is  in  the  math  department  at  Plymouth 
State  College.  The  Horticultural  Re- 
search Institute  of  Ontario  employs  Dr. 
Tibor  Fuleki  (G)  as  a  research  scientist. 
Bonnie-Lynne  and  Peter  Gavrillen  have 
a  daughter,  Jennif  er-Susanne.  Joel  M. 
Hartstone  is  in  Hartford  as  a  member  of 
the  Aetna  Life  &  Casualty  law  depart- 
ment and  his  wife,  the  former  Ellen 
"Penni"  Dorris,  is  teaching  third  grade 


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in  Newington,  Connecticut;  last  May, 
Mr.  Hartstone  graduated  from  the  Cor- 
nell University  Law  School.  W.  Robert 
Keating  is  the  program  development 
specialist  in  the  environmental  program 
office  of  the  New  England  Regional 
Commission.  Jeffrey  James  was  born 
April  29, 1970  to  Walter  and  Diane 
Tourville  Kwolek.  After  two  years  as  a 
personnel  sergeant  in  Oakland,  Richard 
A.  Lasher  is  in  Boston  working  in  the 
marketing  department  of  Humble  Oil  & 
Refining  Company.  K.  Robert  Malone 
has  been  appointed  Accountant  of  the 
College  at  Hampshire  College.  Carol  E. 
Marcus  is  an  English  instructor  at  Bos- 
ton's Grahm  Junior  College.  A  senior 
navigator  and  a  Viet  Nam  veteran, 
u.s.a.f.  Maj.  Robert  R.  Reining,  Jr.  (G) 
is  attending  the  Armed  Forces  Staff  Col- 
lege at  Norfolk.  Elinor  J.  Scott  is  a  nurse 
at  the  U.S.  Public  Health  Service  Hos- 
pital in  San  Francisco.  A  transportation 
officer,  u.s.a.f.  l/Lt.  Robert  P.  Shaugh- 
nessy,  Jr.  is  stationed  in  Viet  Nam.  Ron- 
ald and  Maureen  Farley  Sroczynski  '68 
have  a  son,  Michael  Eric,  born  in  Sep- 
tember 1969;  Mr.  Sroczynski  is  teaching 
school  in  Rehoboth  while  working  on 
his  master's  in  guidance  at  Bridgewater 
State  College. 

1968 

Ronald  and  Ellen  Burke  Cappetelli  have 
a  daughter,  Gina,  born  in  February  1970. 
Donald  T.  Carlson  has  returned  after 
fourteen  months  in  Viet  Nam  and  is  now 
working  in  Connecticut.  Robert  and  Joan 
Foley  Carlson  have  a  son,  Michael,  born 
in  December  1969.  The  chief  dietitian  at 
Griffin  Hospital  in  Derby,  Connecticut, 
Janet  E.  Caroprese  married  Raymond 
Milici  on  October  17, 1970.  Last  June, 
Rutgers  awarded  an  m.b.a.  to  Kenneth 
L.  Chute.  Plymouth  State  College  ap- 
pointed Normand  H.  Cote  (G)  as  an  as- 


sistant professor  of  mathematics.  Robert 
H.  Darling,  Jr.  is  the  executive  director 
of  the  Merit  International  Corporation 
in  Tokyo.  Linda  Dunay  is  banquet  man- 
ager at  Valle's  Steak  House  in  Spring- 
field. Sharon  Eisenhaure  Fiedler  is  an 
elementary  teacher  at  the  Machon  School 
in  Swampscott.  A  third  year  law  student 
at  Northwestern  University,  Steven  B. 
Horenstein  married  Linda  G.  Stefin,  who 
is  teaching  second  grade  in  LaGrange, 
Illinois.  John  P.  Kenney  is  in  Okinawa 
doing  intelligence  work  for  the  Army. 
Case  Western  Reserve  University 
awarded  a  master's  in  sociology  to  Bar- 
bara E.  Leary.  A  third  class  petty  officer 
in  the  U.S.  Navy,  Dennis  M.  McKinstry 
married  Carol  J.  Neilson  '69  on  July  18, 
1970;  Mrs.  McKinstry  is  teaching  second 
grade  in  Beeville,  Texas,  where  her  hus- 
band is  stationed,  u.s.a.f.  2/Lt.  Michael 
H.  Murray  is  a  navigator  with  the  Tac- 
tical Air  Command.  Michael  and  Elaine 
Corsi  Rakouskas  '68  announced  the  birth 
of  Michael,  Jr.,  born  July  2, 1970 ;  Mr. 
Rakouskas  finished  active  duty  in  the 
U.S.  Navy  last  July,  and  he  is  now  work- 
ing on  a  master's  in  public  adminis- 
tration at  Cornell  University.  Carol 
Henning  Tordoff  is  teaching  mathemat- 
ics at  Northampton  Junior  High  School; 
her  husband,  Donald  Tordoff  '65S,  is  a 
transfer  student  at  UMass. 

1969 

Susan  J.  Aldrich  is  a  medical  staff  nurse 
at  the  University  of  California  Hospital 
in  San  Francisco.  A  fashion  merchandis- 
ing instructor  at  Northampton  Junior 
College,  Lydia  C.  Battista  married  Rich- 
ard Setterlund  '72  on  August  17, 1969. 
A  social  worker  trainee  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, Penny  E.  Bearse  is  married  to 
Benjamin  F.  Barnes  III  '64S.  Arthur  R. 
Bourgeois  (G)  is  an  instructor  of  phys- 
ical education  at  Plymouth  State  College. 


A  teacher  at  Belknap  College,  Susan  G. 
Carey  is  married  to  Wayne  Duckworth, 
who  is  an  attendant  at  the  Laconia  State 
School.  Peter  J.  Ferioli  is  in  Korea  with 
the  U.S.  Army.  The  secretary  to  the 
president  of  Teachers  College  at  Colum- 
bia University,  Nancy  C.  Griffith  is 
working  for  her  master's  in  English  at 
Columbia.  2/Lt.  Durrell  H.  Johnson,  Jr., 
a  communications  officer  stationed  at 
Andrews  a.f.b.,  married  Mary  Ellen  Mac- 
kenzie '68  on  October  12, 1968.  Atlas 
Chemical  Industries,  Inc.  employs  Peter 
L.  LaMontagne  as  an  application  engi- 
neer in  the  pollution  control  venture  de- 
partment. Airman  Michael  V.  Leonesio 
is  being  trained  as  a  medical  services 
specialist.  A  social  worker  for  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Department  of  Welfare, 
Deborah  R.  Lipman  married  Alan  J. 
Slobodnik  on  June  29, 1969.  IBM  Cor- 
poration announced  the  promotion  of 
Edward  M.  Mackie  to  associate  engineer 
in  the  Kingston,  New  York,  systems  de- 
velopment laboratory.  Thomas  Mason  is 
a  teacher  in  the  Uxbridge  schools.  The 
u.s.a.f.  Outstanding  Unit  Award  was 
presented  to  the  3535th  Navigator  Train- 
ing Wing  to  which  2/Lt.  Myles  J.  Mc- 
Ternan,  Jr.  belongs.  Cathy  D.  Nutter  is 
working  for  the  National  Institute  of 
Health  in  Bethesda.  A  second  lieutenant 
in  the  Air  Force,  Edward  R.  Pellegri,  Jr. 
is  receiving  pilot  training.  Lt.  Robert 
Singleton  is  the  claims  officer  in  the  real 
estate  branch  of  the  Walla  Walla  Wash- 
ington District  Corps  of  Engineers  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Joyce  Harvey,  is 
director  of  public  relations  and  publica- 
tions at  Walla  Walla  Community  Col- 
lege. A  physical  education  teacher,  Paula 
M.  Smith  married  Francis  Larrivee  '67S 
on  July  12, 1969.  Ronald  L.  Stevens,  a 
teacher  at  Hull  High  School,  is  married 
to  Marion  L.  Balbach  '68.  A  personnel 
assistant  for  the  Bank  of  California, 
Marcia  M.  Taylor  married  James  R. 


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Cavanagh  on  June  14, 1969.  u.s.a.f.  Air- 
man Stephen  F.  Taylor  is  receiving  train- 
ing in  accounting  and  finance. 

1970 

Kenneth  P.  Barclay  (G)  has  been  ap- 
pointed business  manager  at  Haley  & 
Aldrich,  Inc.  of  Cambridge,  a  consulting 
soil  engineering  firm.  The  Eastern  Pub- 
lic Radio  Network  named  Brian  Benlif  er 
as  its  network  coordinator;  a  former  staff 
member  of  wfcr,  Mr.  Benlif  er  had  pro- 
duced "Underground  Press  Review"  and 
"Countdown  to  Death." 

Marriages 

Bettina  Hollis  Powell  '53  to  John  Hane- 
man,  Jr.,  July  1970.  Michael  L.  Ferber 
'56  to  Carolyn  Avila  Quinn,  August  22, 
1970.  Judith  A.  Goodell  '62  to  David  A. 
Rock,  October  12, 1968.  Marianne  B. 
Cyran  '63  to  Philip  Young,  July  11, 1970. 
Dorothy  E.  Barnes  '64  to  Theodore  R. 
Northrop,  September  5, 1970.  Linda 
Myers  '64  to  David  Heller,  June  22, 

1968.  Sylvia  J.  Piantoni  '64  to  Laurence 
Adams.  Vera  P.  Crowell  '65  to  James  L. 
Robichaud,  February  17, 1968.  Roberta 
L.  Oaks  '65  to  Kenneth  E.  George.  Judith 
Stevens  '65  to  Kent  D.  Johnson,  Decem- 
ber 23, 1967.  Carol  Ann  Viens  '65  to 
Jeffrey  K.  Abrams,  June  29, 1970.  Carol 
E.  Atwood  '66  to  James  Forsythe,  Jan- 
uary 18, 1969.  Diane  C.  DelGenio  '66  to 
Robert  D.  Goode.  Aris  G.  Kalpakgian  '66 
to  Nancy  E.  Hoyer.  Dennis  Lunsford  '66 
to  Lorraine  A.  Niemyski  '66,  May  31, 

1969.  Susan  R.  Bailey  '67  to  David  W. 
Tubbs.  James  H.  Faler  '67  to  Bonnie  L. 
Cooper  '68,  June  30,  1968.  Janis  A. 
Farren  '67  to  Harold  W.  Attridge,  Jr. 
Barbara  L.  Fultz  '67  to  Donald  Strom, 
June  28, 1969.  Richard  B.  Jacobs  '67  to 
Ilene  J.  Brenner  '69.  Donna  J.  Leach  '67 
to  David  Gibbs.  Joan  P.  Paksarian  '67  to 


Larry  Kerpelman.  Nancy  E.  Smale  '67  to 
John  F.  Kennedy,  September  1967.  Jose- 
phine B.  Cohn  '68  to  Johnathan  Kendall. 
Elizabeth  B.  Ely  '68G  to  R.  S.  Potter. 
Sherry  A.  Gilman  '68  to  Raymond 
Spaulding.  James  E.  Girotti  '68  to  Linda 
S.  McDonough  '68.  Judith  A.  Holloway 
'66  to  Nelson  Horn  '68.  Mary- Justine 
Lanyon  '68  to  Catello  Battinelli.  David  J. 
Waltzman  '68  to  Susan  W.  Snell  '69, 
June  1969.  Alvin  Ross  Anderson  '69  to 
Donna  J.  Frew  '69.  David  L.  Barclay  '69 
to  Anne  Pazurchek  '69,  August  29, 1970. 
Charles  L.  Flink  '69  to  Susan  C.  Broder- 
ick  '68,  August  16, 1970.  Susan  A. 
Kaplan  '69  to  William  Checchi,  Novem- 
ber 1969.  Martin  J.  Tabasky  '69  to  Char- 
lene  E.  Peters  '71,  May  20, 1970. 


Obituaries 

Dr.  Marcus  T.  Smulyan  '09  died  Feb- 
ruary 7, 1970.  Dr.  Smulyan  was  an  ento- 
mologist and  a  resident  of  Melrose  for 
several  years. 

Henry  L.  Holland  '12  died  July  22, 1970. 
He  retired  in  1961  as  an  analytical  chem- 
ist with  the  American  Agricultural 
Chemical  Company,  Carteret,  where  he 
was  employed  forty-six  years.  His  wife 
and  four  daughters  survive  him. 

Robert  B.  Gibbs,  who  attended  m.a.c. 
with  the  Class  of  '15,  died  June  11, 1970. 

Alfred  "Allie"  Emerson  Wilkins  '15  died 
September  5, 1970.  A  retired  dock  super- 
intendent for  Revere  Sugar  Refinery,  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Revere  Quarter 
Century  Club,  the  American  Legion,  and 
the  Bear  Hill  Golf  Club.  His  wife,  a 
daughter,  a  sister  and  three  grandchil- 
dren survive  him. 

Carlton  M.  Gunn  '16  died  September  17, 
1970,  after  a  short  illness.  A  life-long 
resident  of  Sunderland  where  he  main- 


tained a  large  herd  of  Holstein  cattle,  he 
was  active  in  civic  affairs  and  served  as 
town  moderator  and  chairman  of  the  fin- 
ance committee.  He  was  also  a  post- 
master of  the  Sunderland  Grange.  Mr. 
Gunn  is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
two  sons. 

H.  Gleason  Mattoon  '16  died  August 
31, 1970.  Devoting  himself  to  abori- 
culture,  he  was  editor  of  "Horticultural 
Magazine"  and  was  the  author  of  many 
books  and  articles.  After  his  retirement, 
he  continued  to  write  a  syndicated  col- 
umn on  gardening  published  in  a  num- 
ber of  newspapers,  including  the  Boston 
Herald.  His  two  sons  survive  him. 

H.  Prescott  Boyce  '17  died  September  4, 
1970  at  the  age  of  77.  A  leader  in  Wake- 
field social  and  civic  activities  for  almost 
half  a  century,  he  had  retired  in  1958 
after  having  served  as  head  of  the  ac- 
counting department  of  Brown  Brothers 
Harriman  &  Company,  a  private  Boston 
banking  firm.  A  Mason  and  Past  Master 
of  Gold  Rule  Lodge,  a.f.  &  a.m.,  he  had 
been  honored  by  two  testimonial  din- 
ners in  Wakefield :  the  first,  in  1934,  as 
retiring  president  of  the  "9.29ers";  the 
second,  in  1960,  for  his  church,  y.m.c.a., 
and  other  activities.  A  stamp  collector, 
he  was  a  member  of  several  philatelic 
societies.  Mr.  Boyce  had  been  honorary 
chairman  of  the  East  Middlesex  Associa- 
tion for  Retarded  Children  fund  drive. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  two  daugh- 
ters, a  brother,  five  grandchildren,  and 
a  great  grandchild. 

Brooks  F.  Jakeman  '20  died  June  12, 1970. 
He  had  been  Northeast  District  Man- 
ager for  the  Cherry  Burrell  Corporation 
for  over  thirty-five  years  and,  in  1955, 
was  named  an  honorary  member  of  the 
University's  Dairy  Club.  His  wife,  two 
sons,  a  brother  and  two  sisters  survive 
him. 


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John  B.  Faneuf  '23  died  May  30, 1970 
in  Guayaquil,  Ecuador.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife. 

Raymond  H.  Otto  '26  died  this  fall  in 
Northampton.  Head  of  the  University's 
department  of  landscape  architecture  for 
thirty-one  years,  he  retired  in  1969. 
During  his  chairmanship,  the  depart- 
ment became  accredited  by  the  American 
Society  of  Landscape  Architects.  Pro- 
fessor Otto  introduced  city  planning  on 
the  University  campus,  and  he  was  chair- 
man of  the  campus  planning  board  and 
a  member  of  the  Amherst  planning  board 
for  several  years.  Former  Governor 
Volpe  appointed  him  to  the  State  Board 
of  Registration  of  Landscape  Architec- 
ture, and  he  had  recently  received  a  cita- 
tion from  Governor  Sargent  for  his  work 
with  students.  He  was  a  registered  land- 
scape architect  in  Connecticut,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Society  of  Landscape 
Architects,  and  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Civic  and  Planning  Association. 
His  wife,  a  son  and  a  sister  survive  him. 

Robert  B.  Tucker  '31  died  May  7, 1970. 

Isaac  M.  Arenberg  '36  died  April  25, 
1970  of  a  heart  attack.  He  had  operated 
one  of  the  largest  school  bus  systems  in 
southeastern  Massachusetts,  as  well  as 
the  family  cranberry  bogs  in  Rochester. 
He  is  survived  by  three  daughters  and 
a  granddaughter. 

John  L.  McConchie  '36  died  September 
13, 1970  at  the  age  of  62.  Illness  forced 
his  retirement  as  president  of  the  Kendall 
Company  last  April,  after  thirty-four 
years  with  the  firm.  He  had  been  elected 
president  of  the  health  products  com- 
pany in  1968,  and  was  named  chief  exec- 
utive officer  in  April  1969.  An  accom- 
plished public  speaker,  Mr.  McConchie 
lectured  and  wrote  on  marketing  topics. 
He  had  been  president  of  his  class  at  the 
Harvard  Business  School's  Advanced 


Management  Program,  and  a  member 
of  the  UMass  Associate  Alumni  board  of 
directors.  Until  his  illness,  he  had  been  a 
member  of  the  board  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Boston,  had  served  on  the 
executive  committee  of  the  National  As- 
sociation of  Finishers  of  Textile  Fabrics, 
and  on  the  General  Arbitration  Council 
of  the  Textile  Industry.  His  wife,  three 
sons,  and  three  grandchildren  survive 
him. 

Harold  A.  Midgley,  Jr.  '36  died  May 
26,1970. 

Urbano  C.  Pozzani  '43  died  July  8, 1970 
of  a  heart  attack.  He  had  received  an 
m.s.  in  biochemistry  from  m.s.c.  in  1945, 
and  then  went  to  the  University  of  Ro- 
chester to  work  on  the  Manhattan  Proj- 
ect. In  1946  he  joined  the  staff  of  the 
Mellon  Institute  in  Pittsburgh  as  a  toxi- 
cologist,  working  under  one  of  Union 
Carbide's  Chemical  Hygiene  Fellow- 
ships. He  rose  to  the  rank  of  Senior  Fel- 
low, and  was  a  member  of  Sigma  Xi,  the 
American  Chemical  Society,  the  Pitts- 
burgh Chemist  Club,  the  Society  of 
Toxicology,  and  other  professional 
organizations.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Marguerite  Merritt  '45,  three  daughters, 
two  grandchildren,  his  father,  and  a 
sister. 

John  Henry  Phillips  Rodda  III  '51  died 
February  8, 1970. 

Emily  Wheeler  Harland  '52,  died  Sep- 
tember 3, 1970  in  a  car  accident.  The 
daughter  of  a  one-time  UMass  faculty 
member,  she  is  survived  by  her  parents, 
her  husband,  five  children  and  a  brother. 


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Cavalier  Corp.  /  Central  &  South  West  Corp.  /  Cerro  Corp.  /  Champion  Papers  Inc.  /  Chase  Manhattan  Bank,  N.A.  /  Chemical  Bank  of  N.Y.  Trust  Co.  /  Chemical  Construction  Corp.  / 
Chicago  Pneumatic  Tool  Co.  /  Chrysler  Corp.  /  Cities  Service  Co.  /  Citizens  &  Southern  National  Bank  /  Clark  Equipment  Co.  /  Cleveland-Cliffs  Iron  Co.  /  Cleveland  Electric 
Illuminating  Co.  /  Cleveland  Inst,  of  Electronics  /  James  B.  Clow  &  Sons,  Inc.  /  Coats  &  Clark  Inc.  /  Colonial  Parking,  Inc.  /  Columbia  Gas  System,  Inc.  /  Columbian  Carbon  Co.  / 
Columbus  Mutual  Ins.  Co.  /  Combustion  Engineering,  Inc.  /  Commercial  Solvents  Corp.  /  Conn.  Light  &  Power  Co.  /  Consolidated  Coal  Co.  /  Consumers  Power  Co.  /  Container  Corp.  of 
America  /  Continental  Can  Co.,  Inc.  /  Continental  Ins.  Cos.  /  Continental  Oil  Co.  /  Cook  Foundation,  Conn.  /  Cooper  Industries,  Inc.  /  Copley  Press  Inc.  /  Copolymer  Rubber  &  Chemical 
Corp.  /  Corn  Products  Co.  /  Corning  Glass  Works  /  Crouse-Hinds  Co.  /  Cutler-Hammer  Inc.  /  Dayton  Malleable  Iron  Co.  /  Denver  U.S.  National  Bank  /  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  Co.  / 
Diamond  Shamrock  Corp.  /  A.  B.  Dick  Co.  /  Dickson  Electronics  Corp.  /  Difco  Laboratories  /  Dow  Badische  Co.  /  Dow  Chemical  Co.  /  Dow  Corning  Corp.  /  Draper  Corp.  /  Dresser 
Industries,  Inc.  /  Wilbur  B.  Driver  Co.  /  Dun  &  Bradstreet  Group  Cos.  /  Eastern  Gas  &  Fuel  Associates  /  Eaton-Dikeman  Co.  /  Eaton  Yale  &  Towne,  Inc.  /  Ebasco  Services,  Inc.  /  Electric 
Bond  &  Share  Co.  /  Electric  Storage  Battery  Co.  /  Emery  Industries,  Inc.  /  Ensign-Bickford  Co.  /  Equitable  of  Iowa  /  Esso  Education  Foundation  /  Ex-Cell-O  Corp.  /  Federal-Mogul  Corp.  / 
Federated  Dept.  Stores,  Inc.  /  Ferro  Corp.  /  Firemen's  Mutual  Ins.  Co.  /  Firestone  Tire  &  Rubber  Co.  /  First  &  Merchants  National  Bank  /  First  National  Bank  of  Hawaii  /  The  First  New 
Haven  National  Bank  /  First  National  Bank  of  Oregon  /  First  Penn.  Banking  and  Trust  Co.  /  Fluor  Corp.  /  Ford  Motor  Co.  /  Ford  Motor  Co.  of  Canada,  Ltd.  /  Forty-Eight  Insulations,  Inc.  / 
Foster  Wheeler  Corp.  /  Frank  W.  Egan  &  Company  /  E  &  J  Gallo  Winery  /  Gardner-Denver  Co.  /  The  Gates  Rubber  Company  /  General  Atronics  Corp.  /  General  Electric  Co.  /  General 
Foods  Corp.  /  General  Foods  Limited  /  General  Learning  Corp.  /  General  Mills,  Inc.  /  General  Public  Utilities  Corp.  /  General  Telephone  &  Electronics  Corp.  /  General  Tire  &  Rubber 
Corp.  /  M.  A.  Gesner  of  Illinois,  Inc.  /  Getty  Oil  Co.  /  Gibbs  &  Hill,  Inc.  /  Gillette  Co.  /  Ginn  &  Co.  /  Girard  Tnist  Bank  /  B.  F.  Goodrich  Co.  /  W.  T.  Grant  Co.  /  Great  Northern  Paper  Co. 
/  Griswold-Eshleman  Co.  /  Gulf  Oil  Corp.  /  Gulf  States  Utilities  Co.  /  Halliburton  Co.  /  Hamilton  Watch  Co.  /  Harris  Trust  and  Savings  Bank  /  Harris-Intertype  Corp.  /  Harsco  Corp.  / 
Hartford  Electric  Light  Co.  /  Hartford  Insurance  Group  /  Hawaiian  Telephone  Co.  /  Hayes-Albion  Corp.  /  Hercules  Incorporated  /  Hershey  Foods  Corp.  /  Hewlett-Packard  Co.  / 
Honeywell,  Inc.  /  Hooker  Chemical  Corp.  /  Hoover  Co.  /  J.  M.  Huber  Corp.  /  Hughes  Aircraft  /  Humble  Oil  &  Refining  Co.  /  Illinois  Tool  Works,  Inc.  /  Ingersoll-Rand  Co.  / 
Interchemical  Corp.  /  International  Bus.  Machines  Corp.  /  International  Salt  Co.  /  International  Tel.  &  Tel.  Corp.  /  Interpace  Corp.  /  Irwin  Management  Company,  Inc.  /  Itek  Corp.  / 
Jefferson  Mills,  Inc.  /  Jefferson  Standard  Broadcasting  Co.  /  Jefferson  Standard  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Jewel  Companies,  Inc.  /  John  Hancock  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Johnson  &  Johnson  /  S.  C. 
Johnson  &  Son,  Inc.  /  Jones  &  Laughlin  Steel  Corp.  /  Kaiser  Steel  Corp.  /  Kendall  Co.  /  Kerite  Co.  /  Kern  County  Land  Co.  /  Kersting,  Brown  &  Co.  Inc.  /  Walter  Kidde  &  Co.  /  Walter 
Kidde  Constructors  /  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Co.,,  Inc.  /  Kimblerly-Clark  Corp.  /  Kingsbury  Machine  Tool  Corp.  /  Kiplinger  Association,  Inc.  /  Knox  Gelatine,  Inc.  /  Koehring  Co.  /  The 
Koppers  Found.  /  Lamson  &  Sessions  Co.  /  Lawyers  Co-operative  Publishing  Co.  /  Lehigh  Portland. Cement  Co.  /  Lever  Brothers  Co.  /  Line  Material  Industries  /  Lorillard  Corp.  /  Loyal 
Protective  Life  Ins.  /  Lubrizol  Corp.  /  Ludlow  Corp.  /  Lummus  Co,  /  M  &  T  Chemicals  Inc.  /  MacLean-Fogg  Lock  Nut  Co.  /  Mallinckrodt  Chemical  Works  /  P.  R.  Mallory  &  Co.,  Inc.  / 
Manufacturers  Hanover  Trust  Co.  /  Manufacturers  Mutual  Fire  Ins.  Co.  /  Marathon  Oil  Co.  /  Marine  Corp.  /  Martha  Washington  Kitchens  /  Martin  Marietta  Corp.  /  Mass.  Mutual  Life 
Ins.  /  Matalene  Surgical  Instruments  Co.,  Inc.  /  Maytag  Co.  /  McCormick  &  Co.,  Inc.  /  McGraw  Edison  Power  Systems  Div.  /  McGraw-Hill,  Inc.  /  Mellon  Nat.  Bank  &  Trust  Co.  /  Merck  & 
Co.,  Inc.  /  Metropolitan  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Mettler  Instrument  Corp.  /  Middlesex  Mutual  Assurance  Co.  /  Midland-Ross  Corp.  /  Miehle-Goss-Dexter,  Inc.  /  Mobil  Oil  Corp.  /  Mohasco 
Industries,  Inc.  /  Monticello  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Moog,  Inc.  /  Morgan  Construction  Co.  /  Morgan  Guaranty  Trust  Co.  /  Motorola  Inc.  /  Munsingwear,  Inc.  /  Mutual  Boiler  &  Machinery  Ins.  Co. 
/  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.  of  N.Y.  /  Mutual  of  Omaha-United  of  Omaha  /  National  Biscuit  Co.  /  National  Cash  Register  Co.  /  National  Distillers  &  Chemical  Corp.  /  National  Lead  Co.  / 
National  Steel  Corp.  /  Natural  Gas  Pipeline  Co.  of  America  /  New  England  Gas/Electric  Assoc.  Sys.  /  New  England  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Newhall  Land  and  Farming  Co.  /  New  York 
Times  /  The  New  Yorker  Magazine,  Inc.  /  North  American  Car  Corp.  /  Northeast  Utilities  Service  Co.  /  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Northwestern  National  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  W.  W. 
Norton  &  Company,  Inc.  /  Norton  Co.,  Mass.  /  John  Nuveen  &  Co.,  Inc.  /  Oklahoma  Gas  &  Electric  Co.  /  Olin  Mathieson  Chemical  Corp.  /  Oneida  Ltd.  /  Owens-Corning  Fiberglas  Corp. 
/  Parker-Hannifin  Corp.  /  Paul  Revere  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Pennsylvania  Power  &  Light  Co.  /  Penton  Publishing  Found.  /  Petro-Tex  Chemicals  Corp.  /  Phelps  Dodge  Corp.  /  Philip  Morris,  Inc. 
/  Phillips  Petroleum  Co.  /  Pickands  Mather  &  Co.  /  Pillsbury  Co.,  Minn.  /  Pilot  Life  Ins.  Co.  /  Pitney-Bowes,  Inc.  /  Pittsburgh  Nat.  Bank  /  Pittsburgh  Plate  Glass  Co.  /  Plainfield  Cytology 
Laboratory,  Inc.  /  Polaroid  Corp.  /  Preformed  Line  Products  Co.  /  Price  Waterhouse  &  Co.  /  Provident  Life  and  Accident  Ins.  /  Provident  National  Bank  /  Prudential  Ins.  Co.  of  America  / 
Putnam  Managment  Co.,  Inc.  /  Quaker  Chemical  Corp.  /  The  Quaker  Oats  Co.  /  Ralston  Purina  Co.  /  Reader's  Digest  /  Rex  Chainbelt,  Inc.  /  R.  J.  Reynolds  Foods,  Inc.  /  R.  J.  Reynolds 
Tobacco  Co.  /  Riegel  Paper  Corp.  /  Riegel  Textile  Corp.  /  Rio  Algom  Mines  Ltd.  /  Rochester  Germicide  Co.  /  Rockefeller  Brothers  Fund,  Inc.  /  Rockefeller  Family  &  Associates  /  Martha 
Baird  Rockefeller  Fund  for  Music,  Inc.  /  Rockwell  Manufacturing  Co.  /  Rockwell-Standard  Corp.  /  Rodman  Training  Center,  Inc.  /  Rohm  &  Haas  Co.  /  Rust  Engineering  Co.  /  SCM  Corp. 
/  SKF  Industries  /  Sadtler  Research  Laboratories,  Inc.  /  St.  Regis  Paper  Co.  /  Sanders  Associates,  Inc.  /  Schering  Corp.  /  Scott  Paper  Co.  /  Joseph  E.  Seagram  &  Sons,  Inc.  /  Sealright  Co., 
Inc.  /  Security  Van  Lines,  Inc.  /  Seton  Leather  Co.  /  Sherwin-Williams  Co.  /  Shulton,  Inc.  /  Signode  Corp.  /  Simmons  Co.,  N.Y.  /  Sinclair-Koppers  Co.  /  Sinclair  Oil  Corp.  /  Singer  Co.  / 
Smith  Kline  &  French  Laboratories  /  Smith-Lee  Co.,  Inc.  N.Y.  /  Sperry  &  Hutchinson  Co.  /  Spruce  Falls  Power  &  Paper  Co.,  Ltd.  /  Stackpole  Carbon  Co.  /  Standard  Oil  Co.  (Ind.)  / 
Standard  Oil  Co.  (N.J.)  /  Standard  Oil  Co.  (Ohio)  /  Standard  Pressed  Steel  Co.  /  The  Stanley  Works  /  Stauffer  Chemical  Co.  /  Sterling  Drug  Inc.  /  J.  P.  Stevens  &  Co.,  Inc.  /  Stone  & 
Webster,  Inc.  /  Suburban  Propane  Gas  Corp.  /  Sunray  DX  Oil  Co.  /  W.  H.  Sweney  &  Co.  /  Sylvania  Electric  Products,  Inc.  /  Taylor  Corp.  /  Tektronix,  Inc.  /  C.  Tennant,  Sons  &  Co.  of 
N.Y.  /  Tenneco,  Inc.  /  Texas  Eastern  Transmission  Corp.  /  Textile  Machine  Works  /  Textron  Inc.  /  J.  Walter  Thomson  Co.  /  J.  T.  Thorpe  Co.  /  Time,  Inc.  /  Times  Publishing  Co.  & 
Congressional  Quarterly,  Inc.  /  Towers,  Perrin,  Forster  &  Crosby,  Inc.  /  Towmotor  Corp.  /  Trans-World  Airlines  /  Travelers  Ins.  Cos.  /  Turner  Construction  Co.  /  Union  Electric  Co.  / 
Union  Oil  Co.  of  California  /  Uniroyal,  Inc.  /  United  Aircraft  Corp.  /  United-Carr  Inc.  /  United  Fruit  Co.  Found.,  Inc.  /  United  Illuminating  Co.  /  United  Life  and  Accident  Ins.  Co.  / 
United  States  Trust  Co.  of  N.Y.  /  Upjohn  Co.  /  Varian  Associates  /  Victaulic  Co.  of  America  /  Vulcan  Materials  Co.  /  Wallace-Murray  Corp.  /  Wallace-Murray  Found.  /  Wallace  & 
Tiernan  Inc.  /  Wallingford  Steel  Co.  /  Warner-Lambert  Pharmaceutical  Co.  /  Warner  &  Swasey  Co.  /  Washington  Nat.  Ins.  Co.  /  Watkins-Johnson  Co.  /  C.  J.  Webb,  II  /  Welch  Foods,  Inc. 
/  Western  Publishing  Co.  /  Westinghouse  Air  Brake  Co.  /  Westinghouse  Electric  Corp.  /  Whirlpool  Corp.  /  White  Motor  Corp.  /  John  Wiley  &  Sons,  Inc.  /  Williams  &  Co.,  Penn.  / 
Winn-Dixie  Stores,  Inc.  /  Wolverine  World  Wide,  Inc.  /  Wyandotte  Chemicals  Corp.  /  Xerox  Corp. 


Campus  Calendar 

Concerts  and  Theatre 

Varsity  Sports 

WRESTLING: 

Lasalle  String  Quartet,  December  9 

basketball: 

vs.  Harvard,  December  16 

Dave  von  Ronk,  December  12 

vs.  New  Hampshire,  December  12 

vs.  Springfield,  February  2 

Symphony  Orchestra,  December  16 

vs.  A. I.C.,  December  18 

GYMNASTICS: 

"The  Clouds,"  December  16-19 

vs.  Hof  stra,  December  22 

vs.  Army,  December  19 
vs.  Syracuse,  January  29 

Christmas  Concert,  December  20 

vs.  Fordham,  January  27 

Roister  Doisters,  February  3-6 

vs.  Northeastern,  January  30 

vs.  Springfield,  February  12 

Faculty  Recital,  February  7 

Boston  Philharmonia,  February  9  &  10 

vs.  Iona,  February  4 
vs.  Vermont,  February  6 

vs.  Temple,  February  27 

Tel  Aviv  String  Quartet,  February  17 

vs.  Boston  College,  February  9 

HOCKEY : 

The  Open  Theatre,  February  18-20 

vs.  Connecticut,  February  13 

vs.  Middlebury,  December  11 

Faculty  Recital,  February  24 

vs.  Rhode  Island,  February  19 

vs.  A. I.C.,  December  15 

Gary  Burton  Quartet,  February  26  &  27 

vs.  Maine,  February  20    . 
vs.  Syracuse,  February  22 

vs.  Norwich,  December  18 
vs.  Connecticut,  February  10 

Herter  Gallery  Exhibits 

Early  American  Art,  December 

vs.  Amherst,  February  17 
vs.  Boston  State,  February  20 

Leonardo  da  Vinci,  January 

Acquisitions  1969-70,  February 

The  Alumnus 


University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 
Volume  II,  Number  1      February/March  1071 


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The  Alumnus 

February/March  1971 

Volume  II,  Number  1 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

Evan  V.  Johnston  '50,  Executive  Vice-President 

Photographs  courtesy  of 

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In  This  Issue 

The  Cover 

Larry  Frates,  a  master's  degree  candidate  in 
the  School  of  Education,  drew  this  composite 
of  President  Wood's  investiture.  Larry's 
drawings  also  appear  on  pages  11  and  19. 

Tradition  will  not  Suffice 

In  an  austere  ceremony  on  December  9,  Robert 
Coldwell  Wood  officially  became  the  Univer- 
sity's seventeenth  president.  In  his  speech, 
reprinted  on  page  3,  he  delineates  his  plans 
for  the  future. 

A  Day  in  the  Life 

Dwight  Allen,  the  dynamic  Dean  of  the  School 
of  Education,  was  shadowed  one  day,  and  the 
results  are  recounted  on  page  9.  Unfortunately, 
the  reporter  was  unable  to  match  Allen's 
stamina,  so  this  chronicle  only  follows  his 
activities  from  6  a.m.  to  6  P.M. 

The  City/The  Arts 

The  work  of  two  of  the  School  of  Education's 
Centers  are  presented:  "In  the  Heart  of  the 
Inner  City,"  (a  program  of  the  Center  for 
Urban  Education),  on  page  15;  and  "Fostering 
Learning  Through  the  Arts,"  (an  overview  of 
the  Center  for  the  Study  of  Aesthetics  in 
Education),  on  page  18. 

Letters     page  1 

On  Campus     page  20 

A  Rink  would  be  Icing     page  24 

From  the  Sidelines     page  26 

Comment  on  the  Conference     page  27 

Club  Calendar     page  27 

The  Classes  Report     page  29 


Letters 


Kudos 

I  just  wanted  you  to  know  the  new  format  for 
The  Alumnus  is  really  fine.  Congratulations! 

Robert  cope,  Assistant  Professor  of 

Higher  Education 

University  of  Washington 

I've  nothing  but  the  highest  praise  for  the  new 
look  and  wish  you  the  best  of  luck  in  soliciting 
good  copy.  I  get  two  other  good  alumni  maga- 
zines— The  Johns  Hopkins  Magazine  and  the 
Columbia  University  Forum.  Hopkins  is  begin- 
ning to  charge  subscriptions  and  the  Forum  is 
going  out  of  business  unless  some  fairy  god- 
fathers come  to  its  rescue.  So  your  thrust  into 
quality  brings  with  it  some  risks.  I  also  get  the 
Ohio  State  magazine  which  is  big  and  fat  and 
ought  to  be  much  better.  But  to  get  it  you've 
got  to  contribute  and  thus  mark  yourself  as  a 
paid  in  full  member  of  the  alumni  association. 

WIL  LEPKOWSKI  '56 

McGraw-Hill  Publications 
Washington  News  Bureau 

"Hey,  that's  pretty  damn  good — for  any 
magazine!" 

Congratulations  on  another  milestone  for 
The  Alumnus — it  must  certainly  rank  now  as 
one  of  the  top  alumni  magazines  in  the  nation. 
(The  only  reason  I  don't  say  the  top  is  so  you'll 
still  have  something  to  strive  for.)  You  have 
certainly  captured  the  style,  scope  and  excite- 
ment that  befit  the  University. 

RAYMOND  G.   HEWITT  '66 

Director  of  Research 
New  England  Board 
of  Higher  Education 

I  want  to  express  my  appreciation  for  the 
attractive  "clothing"  in  which  my  article  was 
clothed  in  the  October/November  issue  of  The 
Alumnus.  In  fact,  the  entire  magazine  begs 
j   to  be  read  because  of  the  way  it  is  put  together. 
Congratulations  on  this  new  and  useful 
effort. 

john  foster,  Director 

Center  for  International 

Agricultural  Studies 


May  I  take  just  a  moment  of  your  time  to 
compliment  you  and  Mr.  Hendel  on  an 
extraordinary  first  effort  in  terms  of  the  new 
Alumnus.  Since  I  did  my  graduate  work  at 
Yale,  I  also  receive  the  Yale  Alumnus  and  I 
must  say  that  in  one  leap  you  have  equalled 
their  very  fine  efforts. 

THOMAS    KERRIGAN    '65 

Assistant  to  the  Director 
Brooklyn  Academy  of  Music 

It  Stinks 

In  my  class  of  1924  was  a  John  Fenton.  Is  he 
the  author  of  the  article  in  the  October/ 
November  Alumnus,  his  son,  or  no  relation? 
His  article  and  one  on  Vic  Fusia  were  good; 
the  rest  of  the  issue  stinks. 

E.  G.  GOLDSMITH  '24 

Fort  Myers,  Florida 
Ed.  The  John  Fenton  who  wrote  a  "A  Critical 
Approach  to  the  Strike"  is  not  a  UMass 
alumnus. 

More  Gown  than  Town 

Just  received  the  October/November  issue  of 
The  Alumnus.  Congratulations!  The  new 
format  is  great.  It  is  easy  to  read,  and  the 
photographs  and  articles  about  our  fellow 
alumni  and  their  activities  in  the  world  are 
most  commendable.  I  always  enjoy  reading 
about  campus  life,  too.  Scenes  of  campus 
buildings  and  students  reflect  our  changing 
world.  Since  I  grew  up  in  Amherst,  between 
1917  and  1935,  the  "town  and  gown"  history 
has  really  changed.  My  home  was  at  Anoatok 
Jersey  Farm  which  is  now  to  become  a  new 
"Country  Club"  in  South  Amherst.  Now  with 
the  third  college  being  built  just  to  the  south, 
it  looks  as  if  the  "Gown"  has  taken  over 
the  Town! 

GEORGE  WALKER  SIMMONS,  JR.    '35 

Chief,  Planning  and  Codes  Section 

H.U.D., 

San  Antonio,  Texas 

The  Spirit  of  Gene,  Not  Joe 

As  a  faculty  member  and  an  alumnus,  I  feel  it 
my  duty  to  comment  on  the  two  accounts  in 
the  October/November  Alumnus  of  the  "strike" 
last  May.  Because  of  Mr.  Barber's  low-key 
approach,  readers  without  first  hand  knowledge 
may  be  more  impressed  by  Mr.  Fenton's  pic- 
turesque account  of  the  University  being 
assaulted  by  an  incendiary  mob  of  students, 


before  whom  the  administration  and  the  faculty 
senate  are  crouching  in  craven  surrender, 
despite  the  ringing  exhortation  of  those  who 
would  have  preferred  to  defy  the  rabble  and 
if  necessary  endure  martyrdom  in  defense 
of  an  ikon  that  they  have  chosen  to  label 
"academic  freedom." 

Obviously  Mr.  Fenton  and  I  have  different 
ideas  about  the  relation  between  a  university 
and  the  society  of  which  it  is  a  part.  My  con- 
cern here,  however  is  with  facts;  for  the 
outlines  of  the  real  situation  on  the  UMass 
campus  in  May  of  1970  are  all  but  indiscernible 
beneath  the  heavy  emotional  overlay  of 
Mr.  Fenton's  picture. 

Perhaps  the  upsetting  incidents  that  Mr. 
Fenton  heard  about  (and  7  did  not),  and  which 
he  recounts  with  evident  relish,  actually  did 
occur.  Among  nineteen  thousand  students,  it 
would  be  surprising  if  there  were  not  a  dozen 
or  two  whose  emotional  stability  was  shattered 
by  the  invasion  of  Cambodia  and  the  killing  of 
students  at  Kent  and  Jackson.  And  it  is  cer- 
tainly true,  in  my  judgment,  that  one  or  two 
situations  on  this  campus  might  have  led  to 
violence  if  the  administration,  supported  by  the 
faculty  senate  and  by  the  students  and  faculty 
on  the  strike  steering  committee,  had  been 
less  cool-headed  in  handling  them. 

But  the  fact  remains  that  there  was  no 
physical  violence  and  no  deliberate  destruction 
of  property.  (Painting  of  symbols  and  slogans 
on  buildings  ceased  when  students  realized  the 
cost  of  removing  them.)  The  majority  of  stu- 
dents devoted  themselves  with  intense  serious- 
ness to  the  "workshops"  on  current  social  and 
political  issues  that  largely  replaced  regular 
classes  during  the  last  few  days  of  the  semester. 
The  spirit  of  McCarthyism  did  indeed  reign 
on  campus — but  it  was  the  spirit  of  Gene  and 
not  of  Joe. 

These  are  the  facts,  and  I  urge  UMass  alumni 
to  face  them  with  hope  and  not  with  fear. 
I  also  urge  them  to  listen  to  the  voice  of  reason, 
as  it  is  heard  in  Mr.  Barber's  essay,  and  to 
reject  the  rhetoric  of  unreason,  whether  it 
comes  from  the  right,  from  the  left,  or  from 
Mr.  Fenton. 

ELLSWORTH  BARNARD   '28 

Professor  of  English 
University  of  Massachusetts 

The  Avowed  Purpose 

The  new  Alumnus  has  just  arrived  and  upon 
reading  it,  I  have  a  few  comments  that  I  wish 


to  pass  on  to  you.  The  effort  to  improve  the 
magazine  is  the  most  commendable  single 
proposition  in  a  long  time  and  congratulations 
to  you  and  your  staff. 

The  content,  while  excellent  as  individual 
effort,  strikes  me  in  this  fashion— I  really  care 
about  what  is  new  at  the  U.  of  Mass.  in  terms 
of  new  or  old  everything.  It's  really  a  city  of 
19,000  people  and  cities  of  19,000  people  have 
enough  news  to  fill  a  daily  paper  let  alone  a 
periodical.  Therefore,  information  or  articles 
about  hunger,  rice  in  Indonesia  and  dreadful 
pictures  of  youngsters  starving  aren't  needed  in 
an  alumni  magazine.  I  get  it  night  and  day  on 
television,  radio,  etc.,  etc.  Please  restrict  the 
many  excellent  topics  to  those  relating  to  the 
University.  There  is  plenty  there:  pictures,  new 
professors,  curriculum,  social  activities,  indi- 
vidual meritorious  efforts,  etc. 

Most  important,  however,  to  me  and  to  most 
alumni,  is  information  about  classmates,  what 
are  they  doing,  where  are  they.  We  must  have 
many  extraordinary  achievements  by  our 
alumni  that  are  being  kept  a  secret,  while  other 
colleges  are  daily  advising  the  world  and 
extolling  the  virtues  of  their  own. 

The  Alumnus  would  better  serve  the  alumni 
by  devoting  twelve  additional  pages  to  alumni 
notes  or  the  like,  rather  than  to  international 
problems  of  the  world,  which  while  noble,  is  not 
the  avowed  purpose  of  an  alumni  magazine. 

HENRY  L.  SHENSKY  '50 

Windsor,  Connecticut 

The  editor's  reply: 

Your  letter  touched  on  a  basic  philosophical 
question:  "The  avowed  purpose  of  an  alumni 
magazine."  My  ideas  are  evolving,  and  I  don't 
want  to  suggest  that  the  content  of  The 
Alumnus  will  continue  to  occasionally  range 
far  afield,  but  at  this  point  I  would  disagree 
with  you.  An  alumni  magazine  is  more  than  a 
window  on  the  University  and  more  than  a 
vehicle  for  keeping  alumni  informed  about 
their  classmates'  activities.  Both  these  functions 
are  essential,  of  course,  but  the  magazine  has 
a  further  responsibility.  In  my  opinion,  it  ought 
to  also  be  a  source  of  intellectual  stimulation 
for  its  readers,  a  continuation  of  their  univer- 
sity experience. 

I  do  agree  with  you  that  the  most  important 
part  of  the  magazine  is  "The  Classes  Report." 
We  have  always  printed  every  smidgen  of 
class  notes  that  come  our  way,  and  we  hope 
that  the  magazine's  new  format  will  entice 
people  to  keep  us  better  informed. 


Tackling  Problems 

I  have  noticed  with  great  interest  and  appre- 
ciation that  each  issue  of  The  Alumnus  tackles 
in  depth  and  with  objectivity  a  current  social 
problem  in  our  society.  The  October/November 
1970  issue  is  superb. 

ALLAN  R.  WALKER 

Director  of  Alumni  Relations 
American  International  College 

Responding  to  Change 

With  the  arrival  of  each  Alumnus  I  mean  to 
write  to  register  my  support  for  the  con- 
structive steps  which  the  University  is  taking 
towards  making  an  education  at  UMass  a 
stimulating  experience.  The  University,  in  con- 
trast to  many  others,  seems  to  be  responding 
quite  appropriately  to  the  cries  for  change.  I 
only  regret  that  during  my  days  in  Amherst 
I   tolerated   academic  and  administrative 
bureaucracy  without  complaint. 

WILLARD  E.    MILLIS,  JR.  '65 
Newport,  Arkansas 

Convenience  Over  Style 

Congratulations.  You  have  made  The  Alumnus 
a  wholly  new,  interesting  and  attractive  maga- 
zine. The  unique  format  will,  as  you  noted, 
provide  great  flexibility. 

Sincerely,  I  wish  you  success  in  getting 
more  news  of  former  students,  be  they  gradu- 
ates or  nongraduates. 

May  I  remind  you  that  some  of  us  have  short 
memories  and  for  us  it  would  be  more  con- 
venient if  a  footnote  for  each  article  told  of  the 
author  and  not  make  us  turn  back  to  the  inside 
of  the  front  cover.  Yes,  I  know  this  would 
mess  up  the  general  format,  but  which  is  more 
important,  "style"  or  "reader's  convenience"? 
e.  j.  rowell  '24 
Kennebunkport,  Maine 

Setting  the  Record  Straight 

In  the  recent  past,  a  number  of  people  have 
taken  the  Yankee  Conference  Formula  to  task 
as  limiting  the  quality  of  our  football  program. 
Let's  set  the  record  straight!  At  this  time,  the 
Formula  serves  as  a  philosophical  boundary 
condition  but  does  not,  in  practice,  limit  our 
financial  aid  program.  During  the  1969-70 
academic  year,  for  instance,  we  were  able  to 
finance  only  85%  of  the  financial  aid  in  football 
and  basketball  that  the  Formula  permits. 


To  finance  our  assistance  programs,  we  rely 
on  a  subsidy  from  (1)  the  vending  machine 
program,  and  (2)  gate  receipts  and  guarantees 
from  athletic  contests.  The  former  is  a  fixed 
amount,  and  the  latter  has  been  decreasing. 
Alumni  and  friends  can  help  us  improve  the 
quality  of  all  areas  of  intercollegiate  athletics 
by  increasing  support  through:  attendance  at 
games,  both  home  and  away;  and  designating 
that  contributions  to  the  Associate  Alumni 
be  used  specifically  for  financial  assistance 
to  athletes. 

Today  we  need  more  money — not  a  more 
liberal  Formula. 

GEORGE  R.  RICHASON,  JR.  'j7 

Chairman,  University 
Athletic  Council 

In  Memorlam  Fund 

You  and  your  readers  might  be  interested  to 
know  that  the  Otto  family  established  the 
Raymond  H.  Otto  Library  Fund  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Landscape  Architecture  in  memory 
of  Ray. 

As  one  who  worked  with  Ray  for  many 
years,  I  can  think  of  no  finer  tribute  to  a  man 
who  gave  so  freely  of  himself  to  both  his 
students  and  his  job. 

PAUL  N.  PROCOPIO 

Acting  Head,  Department  of 
Landscape  Architecture 


Where  are  you  going? 
What  are  you  doing? 
What  are  you  thinking? 

Please  keep  in  touch.  We  print  all  the  class 
notes  we  receive  and  many  letters  to  the  editor. 
We  must,  however,  reserve  the  right  to  shorten 
or  edit  information  for  publication  whenever 
necessary.  Please  send  address  changes  and 
other  correspondence  to  Mrs.  Katie  Gillmor, 
Editor,  The  Alumnus,  Associate  Alumni, 
University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst  01002. 


Tradition  Will 
Not  Suffice 


"How  do  we  build  the  public 
university  of  the  future,  not  the 
public  university  of  the  50s?" 


Pomp  and  circumstance,  both  the  trappings 
and  the  tune,  were  absent  from  the  investi- 
;  ture  of  Dr.  Robert  Coldwell  Wood  as  the 
seventeenth  president  of  the  University 
of  Massachusetts.   At   10:45  A-M-   on 
December  9,  seventeen  men  in  academic 
robes  filed  onto  a  stage  in  a  Boston  hotel 
ballroom.  The  small  orchestra,  which  had 
been  entertaining  the  hundreds  of  patiently 
waiting  students,  faculty,  legislators  and 
alumni,  was  silent.  There  was  momentary 
confusion — seventeen  armchairs  had  been 
arranged  in  such  a  tight  semi-circle  that  it 
was  impossible  for  the  men  to  get  from 
behind  the  chairs,  where  the  seating  order 
was  indicated,  into  the  center  of  the  stage 
to  take  their  seats.  The  difficulty  was  over- 
come, and  the  brief  ceremony  began.  The 
Star  Spangled  Banner  was  followed  by  an 
address  by  Governor  Francis  Sargent.  Then 
President  Wood  spoke  to  the  audience: 

We  are  together  today  for  purposes  of 
continuity,  commitment,  and  celebration. 

We  affirm  the  continuity  of  three  tradi- 
tions: a  tradition  of  scholarship  that  goes 
back  seven  centuries  to  the  medieval  uni- 
versity; a  tradition  of  public  education  that 
was  written  into  the  constitution  of  Massa- 
chusetts in  1780;  and  a  tradition  of  service 
that  was  central  to  the  origins  of  this 
University  in  1863. 

These  traditions  are  our  strength  and 
salvation.  And  it  is  deeply  in  my  nature  to 
preserve  and  cherish  them. 

In  this  time,  however,  preservation  is  not 


the  only  task  and  tradition  does  not  suffice. 
Indeed,  it  is  open  season  on  established 
mores,  and  the  sacred  cows  of  the  campus — 
including  university  presidents — are  being 
served  up  regularly  for  lunch.  Higher  edu- 
cation is  being  asked  to  defend  its  processes, 
its  standards,  its  entire  rationale. 

Combatting   the  educational  establish- 
ment can  be  a  healthy  exercise,  so  long  as 
the  weapons  are  those  appropriate  to  an 
academic  community.  Recent  changes  in 
UMass  campus  life  and  governance  are — 
in  the  main — entirely  sensible  and  prob- 
ably overdue. 

But  most  of  the  changes  that  have  re- 
sulted from  the  turmoil  and  agitation  of  the 
past  few  years — not  only  at  this  University 
but  across  the  country — are  largely  marginal 
and  incremental :  a  pass  fail  option,  a  few 
urban  courses,  a  black  studies  program. 

I  think,  and  the  trustees  think,  the  time 
has  come  to  undertake  more  systematic 
changes.  How  do  we  build  the  public  uni- 
versity of  the  future  and  not  the  public 
university  of  the  50s?  What  should  the 
future  university  teach?  How  should  we 
organize  the  university  and  its  resources? 
What  should  it  look  like? 

These  are  the  questions  that  intrigue  and 
trouble  me,  the  trustees,  the  chancellors 
and  the  deans.  Each  month  we  are  asked  to 
review  the  plans  for  another  carefully 
designed  building — representing  a  major 
capital  investment,  based  on  certain  educa- 
tional premises,  but  destined  to  be  part  of 
our  scene  for  50  years  or  more.  Next  spring 
we  will  be  asked  to  act  on  tenure  for  faculty 
members  who  will  still  be  teaching  in  the 
year  2000  and  whose  students  will  be 
running  this  state  well  beyond  that. 

If  we  don't  try  consciously  to  shape  the 
University's  future,  the  pressures  of  growth 
will  shape  it  for  us.  And  we  will  replicate 
the  past. 

It  is  my  conviction  that  new  patterns, 
new  models  must  be  found  for  University 
education  in  the  Commonwealth.  Our 
liberal  arts  education  derives  from  the  days 
of  Cardinal  Newman  and  the  idea  of  train- 
ing for  a  leisure  class.  The  language  re- 
quirement— recently  under  siege  on  the 


Boston  campus — can  be  seen  as  a  remnant 
of  the  conviction  that  no  gentleman  should 
be  ignorant  of  Latin  and  Greek.  Similarly, 
our  sometime  preoccupation  with  graduate 
students  and  graduate  schools  comes  from 
a  venerable  tradition  of  scholarly  elitism 
that  is  now  in  sharp  collision  with  the  harsh 
facts  of  supply  and  demand. 

Despite  our  107  years,  this  is  a  youthful 
University;  the  Medical  School  is  training 
its  first  16  doctors;  the  ground — or  the 
compacted  trash  if  you  will — has  just  been 
broken  at  the  Boston  campus;  Amherst  is 
growing  like  an  adolescent.  And  I  am  the 
first  president  of  the  University  since  the 
establishment  of  the  three  campus  system 
with  responsibility  for  development  and 
management  on  a  university-wide  basis. 

We  can  understand,  withstand  and  profit 
from  an  identity  crisis. 

With  the  support  and  encouragement  of 
the  trustees,  I  propose  to  structure  a  serious 
effort  to  discover  what  the  future  University 
of  Massachusetts  can  and  should  be.  To 
begin  this  process,  the  trustees  will  be  meet- 
ing informally  toward  the  end  of  this  month 
— at  some  cost  to  their  holiday  plans — for 
a   two-day  policy  review  that  will  go 
on   continually. 

As  a  major  source  of  help,  perspective 
and  guidance  in  our  endeavors,  I  am  today 
appointing  a  President's  Committee  on  the 
Future  University  under  the  chairmanship 
of  Vernon  Alden,  chairman  of  the  board  of 
the  Boston  Company,  and  distinguished 
former  president  of   Ohio   University. 
Mr.  Alden  and  his  committee  members — 
representing  students  and  faculties  of  the 
three  campuses,  the  alumni,  the  public, 
labor  and  business,  the  professions,  and  the 
academic  community  both  within  and  out- 
side of  the  state — and  will  report  to  me  and 
to  the  Board  by  the  end  of  next  summer. 
I  think  you  will  agree  this  committee  is  an 
extraordinary  assemblage  of  talent  and 
knowledge  and  creativity. 

The  committee  will  listen  to  those  who 
know  this  University  best — the  students, 
the  faculties,  the  deans.  They  will  listen  to 
our  legislators  and  citizens  who  have  a  just 
concern  with  how  the  Commonwealth  edu- 


cates  its  children.  They  will  explore  new 
ideas  now  floating  around  the  educational 
community  and  identify  the  ones  on  which 
we  should  be  working.  I  intend  to  listen  to 
the  committee  members  as  well  as  with 
them,  and  I  am  deeply  grateful  they  are 
willing  to  take  on  this  assignment.  Respon- 
sibility for  considering  and  acting  on  their 
recommendations  rests,  as  always,  with  the 
trustees  of  the  University. 

While  we  await  the  work  of  the  com- 
mittee and  the  emergence  of  some  consensus 
on  the  future  University,  I  would  like  to 
share  with  you  three  of  my  predispositions 
regarding  university  education. 

First,  I  am  predisposed  to  the  old-fash- 
ioned idea  of  pluralism  in  education  as  in 
politics.  Contemporary  theories  to  the 
contrary,  I  aspire  to  no  monolithic  establish- 
ment, no  rule  by  any  elite,  or  counter- 
elite,  no  single  pattern  of  institutional 
excellence.  Within  the  universe  of  higher 
education  there  are  a  variety  of  valid  tasks 
to  be  performed  that  demand  the  very  best 
of  human  wit,  and  energy  and  will.  The  idea 
that  you're  either  Harvard  or  a  trade 
school  has  had  no  real  foundation  since  the 
emergence  of  the  great  public  universities  of 
the  West  and  Midwest.  It  is  completely 
gone  today. 

Excellence  in  informing  and  enriching 
society  comes  under  many  different  educa- 
tional guises.  Within  this  University,  it  is 
important  for  each  campus  to  find  its  par- 
ticular identity  and  contribution.  And  even 
on  a  single  campus,  I  would  favor  great 
latitude  for  individual  preference  as  to 
program  content  and  learning  schedules. 
The  most  recent  report  of  the  Carnegie 
Commission  on  Higher  Education  identifies 
a  national  need  to  expand  these  options :  for 
deferring  college  after  high  school;  for  en- 
tering career  and  apprenticeship  programs 
rather  than  a  university;  for  changing 
career  directions  in  school;  for  returning  to 
school  in  middle  age.  We  want  to  weigh 
each  of  these  options  carefully  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts. 

My  second  predisposition  is  toward 
utility.  In  this  credential  society,  our  uni- 
versities have  become  the  great  certifiers  of 


employability  for  the  young.  I  believe  we 
owe  them  the  substance  as  well  as  the 
certificate. 

Most  of  traditional  education  is  really  a 
preparation  for  graduate  work.  Graduate 
study  may  be  an  excellent  exercise  but  it 
inevitably  prolongs  the  time  of  training  and 
narrows  the  range  of  career  choice  by  em- 
phasizing teaching  and  the  established 
professions.  Today  only  about  5%  of  the 
average  UMass  freshman  class — 15%  of 
the  seniors — enter  graduate  school.  Our 
primary  job,  for  the  next  few  years  at  any 
rate,  is  not  so  much  to  concentrate  on 
graduate  education  for  its  own  sake,  but  to 
ensure  that  it  helps  the  bulk  of  our  students 
who  won't  experience  it  directly. 

In  brief,  this  means  an  educational  pro- 
gram in  which  graduate  work  enriches  the 
undergraduate  experience  and  is  not  under- 
taken indiscriminately.  Because  knowledge 
is  the  basis  of  utility,  the  University's  own 
graduate  program  is  essential  to  continued 
quality  in  our  undergraduate  teaching.  And 
where  we  go  forward  with  graduate  work, 
we  should  never  settle  for  second  place. 
But  I  am  inclined  toward  research  that  will 
actually  solve  problems  and  toward  educa- 
tion that  really  helps  the  student  concerned. 

Seventy-five  per  cent  of  our  students 
come  from  families   earning  less  than 
$15,000  a  year  and  at  least  half  are  the  first 
generation  in  their  families  to  go  to  college. 
Only  half  can  depend  on  family  funds  to 
finance  their  education  and  the  rest  depend 
on  employment,  personal  savings,  loans  and 
scholarships.  These  students  are  in  school 
at  some  sacrifice  and  they  are  there — at 
least  in  large  part — to  expand  their  career 
choices  and  their  job  opportunities. 

Too  many  of  them  work  hard  to  get 
B.A.'s  in  psychology  or  American  history  or 
Greek  literature  or  even  political  science 
only  to  discover  that  a  degree  at  that  level 
just  isn't  worth  much  on  the  job  market. 
I'm  sure  we  can  do  more  in  counseling  and 
perhaps  in  departmental  candor.  Some 
sophisticated  market  analysis  could  tell  us  a 
lot  about  employment  opportunities  for  our 
graduates.  But  the  real  challenge  comes  in 
bringing  the  University  and  the  real  world 


"I  am  concerned  about  the  absorp- 
tion as  well  as  the  production  of 
knowledge.  In  field  after  field,  the 
knowledge  we  have  has  outrun 
our  ability  to  use  it  and  our  will- 
ingness to  pay  what  it  costs." 


together  in  new  ways  so  that  students  be- 
come aware  of  society's  needs  and  capable 
of  responding  to  them. 

One  promising  way  of  going  about  this — 
and  this  is  my  third  and  final  predisposition 
of  the  morning — is  through  the  service 
function  of  the  University.  I  am  concerned 
about  the  absorption  as  well  as  the  produc- 
tion of  knowledge.  In  field  after  field,  the 
knowledge  we  have  has  outrun  our  ability 
to  use  it  and  our  willingness  to  pay  what  it 
costs.  Dramatic  new  designs  for  housing 
have  not  yet  sheltered  the  poor.  New  tech- 
nology in  transportation  does  not  now 
relieve  congestion  on  city  streets.  New 
medical  advances  are  still  too  often  re- 
stricted to  the  knowledgeable,  the  rich,  or 
the  welfare  patient. 

The  knowledge  and  skills  that  exist  in 
this  University  are  among  the  state's  great 
natural  resources.  The  Commonwealth  has 
a  right  to  that  knowledge  and  to  those 
skills.  They  represent  opportunities  to  bring 
about  not  only  incremental  improvements 
in  the  environment  but  institutional  change. 

Both  the  nation  and  the  University  com- 
munity have  been  in  a  period  of  what  might 
be  called  a  volunteeristic  approach  to 
change:  from  paint-ins  in  Harlem  to  Earth 
Day  on  the  campus.  These  exercises  owe 
much  in  spirit  to  the  inspired  use  of  non- 
violent resistance  to  destroy  the  remnants  of 
public  segregation  in  the  south.  But  as 


applied  to  the  stickier  dilemmas  of  how  to 
end  the  war,  preserve  the  city,  or  upgrade 
the  environment,  this  approach  hasn't 
really  worked. 

I  am  persuaded  that  the  real  hope  for 
change  lies  in  an  institutional  approach. 
The  University  as  an  institution  that  repre- 
sents both  knowledge  and  change  can  work 
with  other  institutions  that  need  knowledge 
and  are  receptive  to  change.  This  process — 
properly  undertaken — can  feed  back  to  and 
strengthen  the  University's  own  educational 
and  research  capacities.  And  we  begin  to 
move  forward  .  .  . 

I  don't  want  to  overstate  the  case.  The 
scientist  as  miracle  worker  is  in  disrepute — 
and  any  university  professor  will  follow  suit 
if  we  expect  miracles.  We  are  talking  about 
complex  and  subtle  relationships  and  about 
solution-resistant  problems. 

But  we  are  also  on  the  threshold  of  a 
period  of  other  opportunities.  As  the  war 
draws  to  an  end  and  the  national  economy 
begins  to  adapt  to  peacetime  requirements, 
we  have  already  begun  to  see  a  liberation 
of  manpower  capable  of  effective  applica- 
tion to  domestic  social  problems.  By  working 
with  public  agencies  to  define  critical  issues 
and  develop  realistic  proposals,  the  Univer- 
sity can  play  a  major  role  in  assuring  that 
this  capability  is  not  wasted.  Let  me  tell 
you  about  some  of  the  ways  in  which  we 
have  already  begun  to  move  in  this  direction. 

First,  this  state's  minor  economic  miracle 
in  cranberry  culture  and  cooperative  mar- 
keting owes  much  to  the  work  of  the 
University's  historic  centers  of  service:  the 
Agricultural  Extension  Service  and  the 
Agricultural  Experiment  Station.  Both  the 
College  of  Agriculture  and  its  related  insti- 
tutions are  now  moving  into  new  areas  of 
assistance.  In  one  county  the  extension 
service  is  working  on  the  drug  problem  and 
another  has  home  economists  working  in 
three  public  housing  projects.  Several  have 
organized  family  affairs  trouble-shooting 
units.  Dean  Spielman  is  very  interested  in 
bringing  the  assets  of  the  college  to  bear  on 
consumer  protection,  environmental  and 
land  use  problems. 

Second,  for  five  years  the  Amherst 


faculty  has  been  engaged  in  a  joint  effort 
with  the  Belchertown  State  School  for  the 
mentally  retarded  led  by  Professor  Benjamin 
Ricci.  Special  problems  of  helping  retarded 
children  and  adults — from  diet  to  the  re- 
design of  recreational  equipment — have  been 
tackled  by  faculty  and  students  from  the 
departments  of  nutrition,  biochemistry, 
physical  education,  engineering,  economics, 
and  education.  We  want  this  program  to 
be  supported  and  expanded. 

Third,  the  Boston  campus  is  working  with 
Model  Cities  to  help  in  mathematics  pro- 
grams. Boston  has  also  begun  "The  Library 
and  the  City  Child" — the  first  step  to  an 
urban  library  program. 

Fourth,  we  are  developing  a  joint  research 
proposal  with  Commissioner  Milton  Green- 
blatt  and  the  Department  of  Mental  Health 
looking  to  the  decentralization  of  the  de- 
partment's service  delivery  system.  This 
joint  endeavor  could  produce  not  only 
organizational  and  procedural  recommen- 
dations for  the  department  but  proposals 
as  to  how  the  University  might  organize 
educational  and  training  programs  in  man- 
agement, clinical  service,  and  community 
participation.  This  can  be  the  work  of  our 
new  Institute  for  Governmental  Affairs. 

Fifth,  we  are  working  with  Public  Health 
Commissioner  Alfred  Frechette  on  a  child 
health  study  centered  in  Worcester  and  Fal- 
mouth. This  state  is  a  leader  in  public 
health  and  medicine,  but  the  sobering  fact 
is  that  one-third  of  our  19  year  olds  can't 
pass  the  routine  army  physical. 

Next  we  are  getting  together  with  Sheriff 
John  Buckley  of  Middlesex  County  to  work 
in  the  correctional  area. 

Seventh,  the  Labor  Relations  Research 
Center  and  the  Institute  of  Labor  Affairs  are 
performing  a  number  of  services  for  the 
labor  movement  including  consulting  on 
contract  problems,  training  for  union  leader- 
ship, and  the  development  of  special  courses 
in  the  area  of  labor  education. 

Eighth,  the  two  year  old  center  for  busi- 
ness and  economic  research  in  the  business 
school  has  been  conducting  a  series  of 
studies  relating  to  the  economic  development 
of  Springfield.  I  hope  this  can  be  the  foun- 


dation for  broader  efforts  in  the  conversion 
process.  For  as  this  nation  moves  toward 
peace,  we  must  be  sure  that  our  state  re- 
source of  highly  trained  manpower  is 
not  lost. 

As  I  said,  these  are  just  beginnings.  But 
the  excitement  is  there.  I  am  very  much 
aware  that  any  consideration  of  university 
service  must  build  on  a  basic  "good  neigh- 
bor" policy  with  regard  to  the  neighbor- 
hoods and  communities  in  which  university 
facilities  are  located :  Amherst,  Worcester, 
Waltham,  and — most  particularly — Savin 
Hill  and  Columbia  Point.  What  with  the 
competition  for  space  and  differences  in 
priorities,  we  can  hardly  expect  these  rela- 
tionships to  be  without  tension.  But  I  can 
promise  that  the  University  will  continue 
and  accelerate  its  efforts  begun  by  Chan- 
cellor Broderick  to  take  an  active  and 
positive  role  in  resolving  these  tensions 
in  ways  that  respect  the  interests  of  the 
community  involved. 

I  emphasize  Savin  Hill  and  Columbia 
Point  both  because  they  are  our  newest 
neighbors  and  because  I  want  to  make  quite 
clear  that  we  are  in  the  new  Boston  campus 
to  stay.  In  fact  the  first  contracts  for  driving 
piles  are  now  being  signed.  I  feel  certain 
that  our  new  facilities  and  services  there 
can  be  organized  in  ways  that  promote 
mutual  benefit  and  interaction  rather  than 
chilly  coexistence — the  small  town  rather 
than  the  Manhattan  style  of  good  neighbors. 

Together  with  the  Columbia  Point  Health 
Association,  the  residents  of  Columbia 
Point,  Tufts  Medical  School,  and  any  other 
parties  who  wish  to  participate,  the  Uni- 
versity will  seek  support  for  a  Health  Center 
at  Columbia  Point  in  which  the  neighbor- 
hood and  the  University's  needs  can 
be  joined. 

Even  with  a  commitment  to  service  we 
are  left  with  difficult  questions  of  resources. 
The  University  of  Massachusetts  is  not  rich. 
Although  we  are  close  to  the  top  in  recent 
progress,  Massachusetts  still  falls  below  the 
national  average  in  per  capita  support  for 
higher  education. 

Universities  across  the  country  are 
engaged  increasingly  in  diverse  non- 


"//  we  don't  try  consciously  to  shape  the 
University's  future,  the  pressures  of  growth 
will  shape  it  for  us.  And  we  will  replicate 
the  past."  Speaking  at  the  ceremony  invest- 
ing him  as  the  University's  seventeenth 
president,  Robert  Wood  shared  his  hopes 
for  the  future.  First  on  his  agenda:  the 
appointment  of  a  President's  Committee  on 
the  Future  University,  headed  by  Vernon 
Alden,  which  will  report  at  the  end  of 
the  summer. 


educational  activities:  running  community 
health  and  day  care  programs,  training 
paraprofessionals  and  Vista  workers,  run- 
ning federal  laboratories,  helping  city 
governments,  building  low  cost  housing. 
In  part — thanks  perhaps  to  the  uncommon 
success  of  academics  in  the  Manhattan 
Project,  post-Sputnik  space  activities  and 
computer  technology — these  new  responsi- 
bilities have  been  thrust  upon  the  univer- 
sities. In  part,  they  are  responding  to  the 
prodding  of  conscience  and  the  indignant 
young.  In  part,  as  with  the  downtown  uni- 
versity that  finds  itself  overtaken  by  urban 
blight,  involvement  is  the  result  of  self- 
interest  rather  narrowly  defined.  But  as 


Professor  Carl  Kaysen  has  pointed  out,  uni- 
versities have  reached  out  for  new  activities 
since  the  40s  primarily  because  these  new 
activities  have  an  intellectual  justification 
and  are  of  interest  to  university  faculties. 

This  reminds  us,  I  think,  of  what  univer- 
sities are  all  about  and  rescues  us  from 
Clark  Kerr's  stark  formulation  of  the  uni- 
versity as  a  "service  station."  In  assessing 
what  kinds  of  involvement  make  sense,  we 
must  take  account  of  the  history,  skills, 
make-up,  and  nature  of  the  campus  con- 
cerned. But  the  basic  gauge  should  be 
whether  the  involvement  furthers  the 
university's  own  particular  responsibilities 
for  education  and  scholarship. 


As  a  land-grant  University  we  inherit  an 
historic  commitment  not  only  to  public 
service  but  to  equality  of  opportunity.  The 
first  annual  report  of  the  University's  board 
of  trustees  in  1866  was  largely  devoted  to 
the  implications  of  this  commitment. 
"Republicanism,"  the  trustees  explained, 
"has  undertaken  in  America  to  recast  soci- 
ety into  a  system  of  equality.  It  proposes  to 
create  true  and  safe  equality,  not  by  con- 
ferring on  the  ignorant  and  degraded  the 
rights  of  citizenship  but  by  raising  all, 
through  education,  to  the  full  dignity  of  free 
men.  Its  purpose  is  to  diffuse  education  and 
property  among  all  the  people,  to  give  as 
nearly  as  possible  every  child  an  even  start 
in  the  world,  and  an  equal  chance  to  be 
President,  member  of  Congress,  farmer  or 
mechanic  as  he  may  choose."  To  effect  this, 
the  report  continues,  "our  fathers  abolished 
hereditary  rank.  In  England,  the  King's  son 
is  born  to  be  a  King,  and  the  Lord's  son  to 
be  a  Lord,  and  the  oldest  son  inherits  all 
his  father's  land. 

"In  our  country,  the  President's  son  has 
no  better  claim  to  be  President  than  another, 
nor  a  Senator's  son  to  be  a  Senator;  and 
all  the  sons  and  daughters  share  alike  the 
father's  property. 

"Then  comes  in  the  great  regulator  and 
elevator,  general  education,  like  a  huge 
subsoiler,  breaking  up  the  old  foundations 
.  .  .  ."  This,  the  report  concludes,  "must 
finish  the  work." 

The  work  of  equality  is  not  finished,  of 
course — even  now,  100  years  later.  But  our 
University  forefathers'  deep  faith  in  the 
power  of  education  reaches  across  the  cen- 
tury to  touch  us  still.  Let  us  retain  their 
commitment  and  use  that  power  to  break 
up  the  old  foundations — poverty,  ignorance, 
discrimination — that  prevent  the  true 
greening  of  America.  Let  us  retain  it  es- 
pecially in  the  public  university. 

I  am  proud  to  be  the  seventeenth  Presi- 
dent of  the  University  of  Massachusetts. 


A  Day  in  the  Life 


KATIE  S.  GILLMOR 

"We've  got  to  find  a  way  of 
monitoring  what  happens  without 
killing  the  thrust." 


It  seems  presumptuous  to  identify  an  insti- 
tution that  spends  over  $4  million  annually, 
teaches  nearly  2400  graduate  and  under- 
graduate majors,  and  employs  g4  faculty 
members  with  one  man.  But  in  the  case  of 
the  University' s  School  of  Education  and 
its  Dean,  Dwight  Allen,  such  identification 
is  reasonable. 

As  associate  professor  of  education  at 
Stanford  University ,  Allen  had  written  two 
books  and  dozens  of  articles  and  had  gar- 
nered over  $1.7  million  in  research  grants 
before  becoming  head  of  the  UMass  School 
of  Education  in  ig68.  During  his  tenure, 
total  enrollment  has  quadrupled,  teacher 
production  has  doubled,  and  the  graduate 
program  has  increased  ten-fold.  The  cha- 
risma of  the  Dean  and  his  extraordinary 
reputation  are  substantially  responsible  for 
this  vast  expansion. 

Allen's  domain  consists  of  thirteen 
Centers  for  research  and  teaching,  although 
students  may  choose  to  work  independently 
rather  than  through  a  Center.  The  School 
is  involved  in  some  eighty  outside  projects, 
most  of  which  are  funded  through  founda- 
tion and  Federal  grants.  In  igyo-yi,  about 
seventy  such  grants  increased  the  School's 
revenue  by  $2.7  million,  as  opposed  to  the 
$500,000  in  outside  funds  granted  to  the 
school  in  the  year  before  Allen  became 
Dean.  State  support,  for  salaries  and  oper- 
ating expenses,  totals  about  $1.5  million. 

Allen's  attitude  that  change  must  come 


and  come  quickly  has  evoked  negative 
response  in  some  quarters. 

"We'd  like  to  be  an  experimental  unit  at 
the  University,"  he  explained,  "to  simply 
have  a  mandate  to  try  things  that  aren't 
particularly  safe  or  sure,  things  that  may 
work  out  badly.  We  have  an  obligation  to 
be  good  citizens  in  the  University,  to  main- 
tain our  part  of  the  program  and  try  to 
have  that  program  not  have  unintentioned 
consequences  on  other  people's  programs. 
But  I  do  not  believe  that  it  is  only  the 
School  of  Education  that  needs  to  consider 
alternatives.  This  is,  of  course,  a  very,  very 
politically  sensitive  issue.  There  are  some 
people  around  who  are  as  afraid  that  we 
may  succeed  as  they  are  that  we  would  fail. 
If  we  succeed  in  any  demonstrable  way, 
that  could  serve  notice  that  they  need  to 
change  too." 

After  three  years,  however,  criticism  has 
quieted  to  a  dull  roar.  "The  School  of  Edu- 
cation," quipped  the  Dean,  "is  no  longer  a 
wart  to  be  excised,  but  a  chronic  disease." 


The  door  of  the  small  refrigerator  slammed 
shut.  Dwight  Allen  straightened  up  with  a 
bottle  of  No  Cal  cola  in  his  hand.  It  was 
6  a.m.  on  a  foggy  October  morning,  a  usual 
hour  for  the  Dean  of  the  School  of  Educa- 
tion to  start  his  day. 

He  sat  behind  a  huge  desk  at  one  end 
of  the  long,  wood-paneled  office.  Paintings, 
ceramics  and  sculpture  were  everywhere. 
A  bookcase  running  the  length  of  the  room 
was  filled  with  books  and  papers.  The 
overflow  monopolized  the  top  of  a  cabinet 
and  several  chairs.  Other  chairs  were 
arranged  along  the  walls  and  in  front  of 
the  desk. 

Allen,  at  39,  is  a  large,  blunt-featured 
man.  Following  a  recent  visit  to  Africa, 
he  began  to  wear  a  form  of  dashiki  as  his 
working  attire.  That  morning  he  wore  no 
jacket.  His  shirt  was  a  gold,  orange,  red 
and  green  print,  topped  with  an  incongruous 
white  collar  and  a  brick  red  tie. 

His  dazzling  costume,  however,  was  not 
enough  to  draw  attention  away  from  his 


face.  His  features,  framed  by  a  full  head  of 
hair  and  sideburns,  usually  wore  an  open, 
friendly  expression.  His  eyes,  intent  and 
intelligent,  were,  on  occasion,  very  cold. 

After  a  quick  swig  of  No  Cal,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  student  sitting  on  the 
other  side  of  his  desk.  Their  conversation 
had  hardly  begun,  however,  before  the 
phone  rang. 

The  call  lasted  twenty  minutes,  and  Allen 
sat  quietly,  talking  occasionally  and  sipping 
cola.  When  he  did  speak,  the  words  were 
forceful — "I'm  not  going  to  play  the  game 
.  .  .  when  we  have  to  beg  for  a  crumb  .  .  ." 
— but  the  delivery  was  pleasant,  well- 
modulated.  Allen,  born  in  California,  speaks 
with  the  inflection  of  a  westerner. 

By  6 130,  the  receiver  was  cradled,  and  it 
was  time  for  another  cola.  The  Dean  was 
again  able  to  turn  his  attention  to  the 
student. 

In  all,  one  undergraduate  and  three 
graduate  students  had  private  sessions  with 
the  Dean  before  8  a.m.  The  School  of 
Education  was  as  frequently  discussed  as 
the  students'  work.  Allen  actively  demanded 
feedback — What  about  this  course?  That 
teacher  or  student?  He  listened,  sitting 
pressed  into  the  depths  of  a  huge  chair 
upholstered  in  turquoise.  He  heard  enthu- 
siastic responses  to  his  questions.  Things 
were  working  out.  People  were  good.  Once 
he  looked  skeptical.  "I've  heard  mixed 
reactions,"  he  said  with  a  wry  look. 

Usually,  though,  Allen  responded  by 
affirming  that,  yes,  so  and  so  was  great. 
He  contributed  an  air  of  informality  by 
relating  anecdotes  about  favorite  people 
or  talking  about  his  own  work.  He  rocked 
back  and  forth  in  his  chair,  attentive  to  the 
problems  the  students  had,  receptive  to 
their  ideas.  His  own  thoughts  were  prolific 
and  freely  given,  spoken  with  shotgun 
rapidity.  He  talked  at  length,  although  the 
next  appointment  waited. 

The  School  of  Education  itself  was  his 
favorite  subject.  "We've  got  to  find  a  way 
of  monitoring  what  happens  without  killing 
the  thrust,"  he  said.  "I'm  comforted  by  the 
fact  that  we  haven't  become  a  degree  mill. 
The  weak  people  take  advantage  of  our 


system  to  build  up  credit — there's  the 
classic  case  of  a  graduate  student  who 
signed  up  for  33  credits  last  semester  and 
succeeded  in  passing  all  but  one  course — 
but  such  people  don't  have  enough  on  the 
ball  to  put  together  a  total  degree." 

One  of  the  assistant  deans  did  not  stand 
on  ceremony.  Bob  Woodbury  came  in  at  8. 
It  was  time  for  the  weekly  meeting  of 
Allen  and  his  assistants. 

Empty  No  Cal  bottles  clattered  into  the 
wastebasket  under  the  desk,  making  a 
raucous  noise  which  seemed  to  echo  through 
the  empty  building.  Allen  gave  a  violent 
twist  to  his  chair  and  bent  to  get  a  fresh 
cola  while  Woodbury  arranged  his  papers 
on  a  corner  of  the  desk.  One  assistant  dean, 
Earl  Seidman,  would  be  late,  and  the  other, 
Phyllis  Roop,  was  ill  and  couldn't  come. 

The  modular  credit  week,  "Something 
Else  '70",  was  imminent.*  Publicity  was  at  a 
stalemate.  There  were  monetary  and  produc- 
tion problems  to  be  dealt  with.  "Who  do 
we  have  to  light  a  fire  under?"  Allen  asked, 
and  was  halfway  to  the  door  by  the  time 
Woodbury  had  identified  the  bottleneck. 
Ten  minutes  later  he  was  back  at  his  desk 
with  words  of  assurance. 

Strategy  and  money  were  discussed, 
sometimes  with  vehemence.  Allen  took  a 
hard  line,  sitting  forward,  smiling  slightly. 
Woodbury  did  not  yield  readily.  Tension 
grew,  straining  but  not  displacing  the 
friendly  attitude  between  the  two  men. 
The  tension  did  not  dissipate,  however, 
after  Allen  had  won  his  point  and  the 
discussion  had  moved  on  to  other  areas. 

Earl  Seidman  came  in  and  handed  Allen 
a  list  of  people  who  had  a  national  reputa- 
tion in  education.  Quickly  perusing  it,  the 
Dean  commented,  "I  don't  like  so  and  so — 
he's  too  straight."  The  "straight"  wasn't 
scratched,  however,  and  Allen  whirled  in 
his  chair  to  grab  the  dictating  machine. 
Speaking  rapidly,  he  dictated  a  memo 

*For  the  third  year  in  a  row,  the  School  of 
Education  presented  a  marathon  of  events  and 
learning  experiences,  "a  5  day  educational 
smorgasbord."  Credit  for  participation  was 
given  in  modules,  worth  1/15  of  a  credit. 


confirming  the  list,  then  shoved  himself 
out  of  the  chair  and  charged  into  the  outer 
office.  Grinning,  Woodbury  said,  "Every- 
thing Dwight  writes  is  top  priority." 

Then  Seidman  brought  up  a  point.  He 
and  Allen  quickly  disagreed,  and  the  scene 
so  shortly  enacted  with  Woodbury  was 
repeated. 

Allen  did  not  yield,  then  changed  the 
subject.  A  man  who  was  in  charge  of  a  new 
and  very  experimental  project  had  joined 
them.  "Anytime  you  can  identify  something 
for  me  to  do,  I'll  do  it,"  Allen  said.  "Any- 
time you  want  to  sit  down  and  have  a  plan- 
ning session,  I'll  be  available.  But  I  don't 
want  to  get  in  your  hair." 

The  man  began  to  make  his  position 
clear,  specifying  limits  of  responsibility. 
He  reminded  Allen  that,  on  another  project, 
the  Dean's  enthusiasm  hadn't  carried  over 
to  implementation.  Allen  was  annoyed  but 
he  grinned  as  he  said,  "These  wily  faculty 
members — I'm  the  only  person  around 
here  who  does  things  without  prior  condi- 
tions." "You're  like  dealing  with  Mae 
West,"  was  the  reply.  "She  always  said, 
'1  and  1  is  2,  2  and  2  is  4,  and  4  and  4  is 
10 — if  you  know  how  to  work  it  right.'  " 

By  10:15  the  Dean's  office  was  empty. 
Allen  was  touring  the  corridors  and  offices 
of  the  School  of  Education.  Greetings  were 
exchanged  with  students  and  faculty  mem- 
bers as  he  tried  to  move  quickly  down  the 
halls,  in  and  out  of  rooms.  But  his  progress 
was  slow  as  he  was  accosted  on  all  sides. 
"I  want  to  see  you."  "It's  been  a  long  time." 
"It  would  be  nice  to  just  have  a  chat." 
The  appointment  book  which  bulged  out 
of  his  shirt  pocket  was  constantly  in  service. 
Meetings  were  arranged — many,  of  neces- 
sity, were  set  for  6  a.m.  weeks  in  advance. 

Allen  returned  to  his  office  in  a  round- 
about way,  ducking  in  through  an  adjoining 
conference  room.  Nevertheless,  he  was 
cornered.  "I've  got  to  talk  to  you  for  30 
seconds,"  a  student  said.  His  secretary 
handed  him  a  pile  of  messages. 

By  10:45, tne  Dean  was  again  at  his  desk, 
speaking  to  a  school  superintendent  from  a 
New  York  community.  The  visitor  explained 


that  he  had  heard  and  read  much  about 
Allen  and  UMass  and  thought  the  School 
of  Education  might  have  the  answers  to  his 
needs.  "There  is  a  real  shortage  of  people 
who  are  willing  to  climb  out  on  a  limb  with 
us,"  the  Dean  responded.  "Your  program 
sounds  nice — very,  very  clever.  And  the 
kind  of  large  scale  change  that  you  want 
is  one  of  my  top  priorities. 

"Let's  get  rid  of  the  pretense  that  there 
is  one  way  of  going  about  education  and 
that  teachers  ought  to  be  trained  in  that 
particular  way.  We  must  recognize  that 
what  we  really  need  to  do  now  is  to  train 
people  with  diverse  backgrounds  to  do 
diverse  things.  The  biggest  problem  is 
teachers  who  were  trained  for  programs 
that  no  longer  exist  or  for  programs  that 
exist  beyond  their  time. 

"Right  now,  teachers  have  no  systematic 
access  to  retraining.  So  one  of  the  most 
significant  things  the  University  could  do  in 
conjunction  with  schools  would  be  to 
develop  new  inservice  training. 

"But  we  don't  have  any  clear  notion  of 
the  direction  that  education  should  take. 
What  we  really  need  is  the  development  of 
alternatives.  We  might  find  ourselves  work- 
ing with  several  schools  simultaneously, 
each  school  trying  something  different, 
with  undergraduate  teachers  working  in 
the  schools,  each  being  trained  differently." 

The  Dean  was  cordial  but  noncommittal. 
Time  was  running  short.  He  jumped  up  to 
shake  hands,  and  showed  the  superintendent 
out. 

In  the  outer  office,  Allen  collected  his 
next  visitors.  He  ushered  in  a  shy  8  year  old 
boy  and  his  teacher.  Candy  "from  my  secret 
supply"  was  proffered,  but  sweets  didn't 
put  the  boy  at  ease.  His  teacher  had  to 
speak,  and  she  asked  Allen  to  address  her 
class  on  Africa.  He  suggested  that  one  of  his 
sons  might  make  the  presentation,  and  she 
was  pleased. 

The  meeting  ended  abruptly  as  theTJean 
was  called  to  a  phone  in  another  office. 
Problems  had  arisen  over  the  provisions  of 
a  foundation  grant,  and  Allen  sought  to 
clear  up  the  confusion.  He  asked  for  copies 
of  confirming  memoranda.  "This  is  bad," 


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"These  wily  faculty  members — 
I'm  the  only  person  around  here 
who  does  things  without  prior 
conditions." 

"You're  like  dealing  with  Mae 
West.  She  always  said,  'i  and  1  is 
2,  2  and  2  is  4,  and  4  and  4  is  10 — 
if  you  know  how  to  work  it 
right!'" 


he  said,  shaking  his  head  and  frowning. 
"This  is  no  justification  .  .  .  it's  irrelevant." 

On  his  way  back  to  his  office,  two  stu- 
dents stopped  him  and  asked  for  a  few 
moments  of  his  time.  He  arranged  to  squeeze 
them  in  later  in  the  day.  Two  other  people 
were  waiting  for  him,  an  education  major 
and  a  nonstudent  who  wished  to  apply  to 
UMass.  Allen  was  friendly,  but  tough. 
"How  do  you  look  on  paper?"  "Not  good," 
was  the  reply,  "but  I've  been  doing  a  lot  of 
things,  learning  a  lot  not  being  in  school." 
"Well,"  said  Allen,  "that  doesn't  cut  ice 
with  me  one  way  or  another."  He  added 
sardonically,  "We  can't  admit  everyone  who 
doesn't  meet  the  criteria  any  more  than  we 
can  admit  everyone  who  does." 

The  telephone  interrupted.  It  was  the 
Dean's  wife.  "I'll  take  the  station  wagon — 
and  the  dogs — and  the  boys  to  control  the 
dogs,"  he  said.  Hanging  up,  he  explained 
to  his  visitors  that  that  afternoon  would  be 
the  first  time  in  eight  days  that  he  had  seen 
his  family. 

The  pace  had  quickened.  Allen  ended  the 
appointment  and  spoke  briefly  to  a  faculty 
member  about  his  work.  At  noon,  the  ad- 
joining conference  room  was  packed  with 
high  school  students,  waiting  to  question 
the  Dean  of  the  School  of  Education.  "What 
are  you  trying  to  prove?"  one  asked.  "I 
think  education  is  bad,"  Allen  answered. 
"Kids  get  ground  up  but  no  one  notices. 
But  if  you  try  something  new,  everyone 
notices  and  assumes  it's  bad."  He  addressed 
them  for  15  minutes,  speaking  forcefully 
and  critically  of  his  own  program  as  well 
as  of  education  in  general.  "We're  trying 
to  prove  a  lot  of  things,"  he  concluded.  "We 
don't  know  the  answers  but  we  know  the 
right  questions." 

Atron  Gentry,  the  director  of  the  School's 
Center  for  Urban  Education,  was  waiting 
with  his  coat  on  in  the  office.  A  few  points 
were  cleared  up  as  Allen  walked  him  to 
the  door. 

Another  school  superintendent  and  his 
assistant  claimed  the  Dean's  attention  next. 
The  men  were  from  a  Boston  suburb  and 
had  come  to  the  School  of  Education  for 
help.  As  with  the  New  York  superintendent, 


the  Dean  was  cordial  but  evasive.  A  secre- 
tary announced  that  lunch  was  ready. 

It  was  to  be  a  working  session.  Fried 
chicken  and  salads  had  been  brought  in  and 
a  buffet  was  arranged  on  the  conference 
table.  The  superintendent  and  his  assistant 
were  introduced  to  members  of  the  staff 
who  might  help  them. 

Allen  set  the  stage,  speaking  eloquently 
and  concisely:  "There  are  a  lot  of  things 
polarizing  the  schools — teacher  negotiations, 
student  dissent  and  dissatisfaction  and 
disruption — these  are  pulling  people  apart, 
creating  a  climate  where  genuine  experi- 
mentation and  open-ended  inquiries  simply 
aren't  available.  And  as  the  teacher  market 
becomes  clogged,  the  professionals  become 
more  job  security  oriented,  more  protective 
of  their  prerogatives. 

"Look  at  the  pressures  building  on  society 
all  around — there  are  obvious  external 
pressures  on  the  school.  You  have  the  whole 
notion  of  performance  contracting,  the 
possible  intrusion  of  private  industry, 
Job  Corps,  Head  Start,  and  other  kinds  of 
quasi-school  institutions.  The  society 
around  us  has  recognized  the  crisis  in 
education  selectively,  and  educators  should 
be  in  the  forefront  of  that  rather  than 
tagging  along  behind.  If  the  people  as  a 
whole  recognize  a  crisis  in  education  before 
educators  do,  then  they  will  lose  confidence 
and  find  new  leadership  in  education. 

"I  want  to  be  able  to  change  within  the 
structure  rather  than  have  to  pull  the 
structure  down.  The  main  thrust  of  the 
School  of  Education  is  how  to  use  education 
to  change  society.  That's  what  we're  really 
up  to." 

The  superintendents  then  took  the  floor, 
expounding  on  why  their  particular  school 
system  deserved  special  consideration.  "One 
of  our  elementary  school  principals  is 
great,"  they  said.  "He's  on  leave  in  India 
now."  Allen  looked  up.  He  smiled  but  his 
eyes  were  frosty.  "I  know,"  he  said,  naming 
the  man,  "I  met  him  when  I  was  over  there. 
Small  world,  isn't  it?" 

The  two  students  who  had  requested  an 
appointment  with  him  earlier  were  waiting 


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in  his  office.  Allen,  whose  mood  had  become 
increasingly  distant  as  the  meal  progressed, 
greeted  his  visitors  with  warmth.  He  con- 
fided in  them,  sharing  his  impressions  of  the 
superintendents,  and  talked  about  one  of 
the  students  who  had  seen  him  earlier. 
The  pace  as  the  morning  waned  had  become 
frenetic.  Now  Allen  was  again  relaxed,  his 
feet  propped  on  the  desk,  en  rapport  with 
people  he  obviously  understood  and 
enjoyed. 

A  long  distance  phone  call  intruded, 
and  the  Dean,  with  a  wry  look,  responded 
to  a  school  superintendent's  request  for 
help.  "He's  just  discovered  inservice  edu- 
cation," Allen  said  as  he  hung  up. 

Four  men  entered  the  office  next.  Two 
were  black  students,  frustrated  and  angry 
about  some  recent  happenings  and  non- 
happenings.  The  other  two  were  white,  their 
advisors,  clearly  concerned  but  anxious  to 
curb  the  belligerence  of  the  students. 

Allen  tried  to  lighten  the  mood  with  a 
mild  joke.  His  visitors  were  discomforted, 
not  amused.  Immediately,  the  Dean  was 
serious,  solicitous.  The  major  problem  was 
stipends  which  ought  to  have  been  paid 
months  earlier.  "I  think  I  can  take  care  of 
this,"  Allen  assured  them.  But  his  listeners 
were  skeptical.  "Look,"  one  said,  "we  can't 
get  paid  without  signing  some  forms.  But 
the  forms  specify  a  schedule  of  payment 
which  won't  do.  The  original  agreement  was 
different.  I  won't  sign  a  form  committing  me 
to  accept  terms  that  are  unacceptable." 
Allen  tried  to  soothe  him,  then  left  to  check 
out  the  problem.  The  man  he  needed  to  see 
was  out.  Allen  looked  grim.  Abruptly  he 
turned  to  an  assistant  and  demanded  to 
see  the  relevant  personnel  action  forms. 
"No  later  than  tomorrow — check  with  me." 

A  phone  call  was  waiting  back  in  his 
office.  The  advisors  excused  themselves  as 
the  Dean  completed  the  conversation  and 
turned  to  the  students.  He  explained  away 
the  confusion  and  they  were  mollified.  "It's 
just  that  nothing  has  gone  right  since  I  got 
here.  This  has  been  eight  weeks  of  waste," 
one  said.  "The  buck  stops  here,"  Allen 
answered. 

Another  problem  was  presented.  There 


had  been  conflict  in  a  seminar,  and  the 
disagreement  had  racial  overtones.  As  the 
incident  was  being  related,  a  phone  call  was 
put  through.  Allen  spoke  into  the  receiver, 
"You  have  my  conceptual  support  imme- 
diately." He  and  the  caller  arranged  a 
meeting,  ending  the  conversation. 

"Where  in  this  administration  do  you  see 
people  who  are  not  straight  on  the  race 
issue?"  he  asked  the  students.  He  began  to 
name  people.  Some  were  considered  to  be 
okay;  others  seemed  prejudiced.  To  one 
negative  judgment  Allen  answered,  "I  don't 
think  he  has  overt  prejudice.  He  just  doesn't 
have  experience  with  dealing  with  black 
people.  You  know,  it's  hard  to  sort  out  black 
vs.  white  issues  from  issues  where  there 
are  legitimate  criticisms  of  a  particular 
program."  "There's  got  to  be  a  getting 
together  at  this  institution  to  understand 
blackness,"  the  students  replied.  "We're 
working  on  this,"  said  Allen.  "We  can  only 
try.  I  assure  you  that  I  will  act  on  firm 
evidence  of  prejudice." 

The  phone  rang.  "No,  that's  a  rumor. 
I  didn't  say  that."  Abruptly,  the  call  ended. 
The  Dean  and  the  students  arranged  to 
meet  again.  As  Allen  was  accompanying 
them  to  the  door,  the  more  combative  of  the 
two  turned  to  him  and  held  out  his  hand. 
"There  aren't  many  men  who  believe  in 
religion,"  he  said.  "Because  of  your  commit- 
ment to  your  faith,  I  believe  in  you."* 

The  Dean  was  clearly  elated.  He  almost 
bounced  as  he  escorted  his  next  visitor 
into  the  office.  "We  just  had  a  very  nitty 
gritty  discussion,"  he  said.  Another  No  Cal 
was  opened  to  celebrate.  Then  a  phone  call 
interrupted.  It  was  trouble.  A  meeting  which 

*Allen  later  explained: 

"The  Bahai  faith  is  my  source  of  values. 
It's  exactly  where  I  am — totally,  absolutely, 
and  completely.  It's  the  motivating  energy 
behind  all  my  life,  in  so  far  as  I  can  succeed. 

"But  I've  tried  to  separate  my  personal 
beliefs  as  a  Bahai  and  my  responsibility  as 
Dean.  As  Dean  I'll  do  whatever  seems  reason- 
able for  the  benefit  of  the  University  and  for 
the  benefit  of  the  student  body.  In  fact,  I  have 
approved  programs  that,  as  a  Bahai,  I  wouldn't 
ordinarily  endorse." 


"Let's  get  rid  of  the  pretense  that 
there  is  one  way  of  going  about 
education  and  that  teachers  ought 
to  be  trained  in  that  particular 
way.  We  must  recognize  that 
what  we  really  need  to  do  now  is  to 
train  people  with  diverse  back- 
grounds to  do  diverse  things." 


M 


"I  think  education  is  bad.  Kids  get 
ground  up  but  no  one  notices.  But 
if  you  try  something  new,  everyone 
notices  and  assumes  it's  bad. 
.  .  .  We're  trying  to  prove  a  lot  of 
things.  We  don't  know  the  answers 
but  we  know  the  right  questions. 


Allen  was  compelled  to  attend  had  been 
scheduled.  It  conflicted  with  a  national 
speaking  engagement  arranged  months 
earlier.  The  caller  was  obstinate;  the  meeting 
could  not  be  changed.  Allen's  calm  facade, 
which  he  had  preserved  through  all  varieties 
of  encounters  during  the  day,  now  cracked. 
His  arms  pounded  the  chair,  his  legs 
twitched,  his  face  tightened  as  he  rocked 
back  and  forth.  But  his  voice  spoke  on  and 
on,  measured  and  reasonable  despite  its 
insistence.  The  conversation  ended  politely, 
the  caller  unmoved.  "I'm  almost  fed  up," 
Allen  said. 

The  pace  was  again  frenetic.  Quickly, 
the  Dean  handled  the  request  of  the  visitor 
and  urged  him  towards  the  door.  The  school 
superintendents  from  the  Boston  suburb 
came  in,  but  their  aggressive  loquacity  was 
to  no  avail.  In  three  minutes,  they  had  left. 
Allen  moved  to  get  his  coat,  but  returned 
to  his  desk  for  a  call.  He  was  cordial.  No 
hint  of  his  impatience  was  revealed  in  his 
voice.  But  he  was  anxious  to  leave.  He  spoke 
standing  up  and,  as  the  call  lengthened,  his 
agitation  increased.  Nevertheless,  the 
business  at  hand  obviously  had  his  atten- 
tion. His  responses  were  detailed,  his 
questions  pointed. 

Finally,  the  receiver  was  cradled  and 
Allen  shrugged  into  his  coat  as  he  made 
for  the  outer  office.  His  assistant  confronted 
him  at  the  door  with  a  worried  look.  There 
was  a  mix-up.  Someone  had  scheduled 
another  appointment  for  the  day.  "I  can't 
talk  to  them,"  said  Allen.  "My  kids  are 
waiting."  The  visitors,  however,  had 
traveled  500  miles  just  to  see  him.  Abruptly, 
Allen  strode  into  the  outer  office  and  intro- 
duced himself  to  the  callers.  He  explained 
the  mistake,  saying  that  he  was  already  late 
to  pick  up  his  children.  Would  they  like  to 
ride  with  him  and  talk  on  the  way?  They 
would. 

Allen  drove  aggressively,  annoyed  by 
slow  traffic  and  red  lights.  Three  boys,  not 
two,  were  waiting  in  the  center  of  Amherst. 
"Can  my  friend  come  too?"  one  son  asked. 
They  piled  in,  and  Allen  swiftly  drove  north, 
to  his  house  in  Shutesbury,  as  the  over- 
loaded car  bottomed  out  on  country  roads. 


Through  it  all,  the  Dean  talked  business 
with  the  travelers.  The  subject  was  Bahai — 
plans,  programs,  promotions.  Eventually,  he 
swung  into  a  driveway  and  dashed  into  his 
house  to  collect  three  dogs  and  another  boy. 
"The  dogs  need  to  be  dewormed,"  he 
explained.  The  party  switched  to  a  station 
wagon.  Three  boys  and  three  dogs  wrestled 
in  the  back  section,  this  writer  and  Allen's 
eldest  son  sat  quietly  in  the  back  seat,  and  a 
detailed  discussion  of  the  development  and 
distribution  of  Bahai  materials  occupied 
the  people  in  the  front. 

The  business  was  satisfactorily  concluded, 
but  the  turmoil  among  the  boys  and  dogs 
increased.  In  between  discussing  the  relative 
merits  of  Bahai  jewelry,  Allen  had  to 
negotiate  peace  in  the  back.  Finally,  he 
pulled  into  the  veterinarian's  driveway  and 
ushered  four  boys  and  three  dogs  inside. 
At  5  :i5  they  returned,  minus  the  dogs.  The 
Dean  had  to  drive  back  to  the  University  to 
drop  off  his  visitors,  then  to  another  part  of 
Amherst  to  deposit  his  son's  friend,  to 
Shutesbury  to  unload  his  children,  back  to 
Amherst  to  collect  a  staff  member,  and 
then  to  Connecticut  where,  at  8:30,  he  had  a 
speaking  engagement.  He  should  have  been 
late,  but  he  wasn't. 


15 


In  the  Heart 

of  the  Inner  City 


Extraordinary  cooperation  among  dozens 
of  Federal,  state  and  local  organizations  and 
hundreds  of  individuals  has  made  the 
University's  Career  Opportunities  Program 
possible.  Now  being  implemented  in 
Brooklyn  and  Worcester,  cop  is  an  innova- 
tive teacher  training  program,  funded  by 
the  Career  Opportunities  Program.  It  offers 
thirty  credits  of  undergraduate  work  each 
year  leading  to  a  bachelor's  degree  and 
teacher  certification.  The  students  are  para- 
professionals,  noncertified  classroom 
assistants  who  are  interested  in  teaching  in 
Model  Cities  areas.  Working  in  the  com- 
munity, teaching  his  family,  friends,  and 
neighbors,  the  paraprofessional  is  living 
proof  that  there  is  hope  in  an  environment 
where  hopelessness  predominates.  About 
two  hundred  paraprofessionals  are  involved 
in  Brooklyn  elementary  schools,  and  sixty 
are  at  work  in  Worcester. 

Before  becoming  paraprofessionals,  the 
students  had  held  jobs  in  offices,  beauty 
shops,  municipal  government,  and  the 
military  service.  They  have  lived  with  and 
understand  the  problems  and  challenges 
facing  the  cities  and  education.  They  range 
in  age  from  21  to  50.  The  vast  majority  are 
women.  Blacks  make  up  89%  of  them,  6% 
are  Puerto  Rican,  and  5%  are  white. 

These  pictures  were  taken  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York's  Urban  Center  in 
Brooklyn  where,  on  Mondays  and  Wednes- 
days, UMass  professors  and  graduate 
students  fly  down  to  teach  afternoon 
sessions.  This  is  the  first  time  in  history 
that  an  out-of-state  university  was  granted 
permission  to  certify  teachers  for  the  State 
of  New  York. 


Billy  Dixon,  author  of  the  above,  is  a 
doctoral  candidate  at  the  University's  Center 
for  Urban  Education.  Russ  Mariz  of  the 
University  Photo  Center  took  the 
photographs. 


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Fighting  to  be  heard  over  creaking 
radiators  in  classrooms  that  are  always 
too  hot  or  too  cold,  professors  and  teach- 
ing assistants  hold  classes  in  rhetoric, 
advanced  literature,  the  foundations  of 
education,  and  a  practicum  in  super- 
vision. 


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The  enthusiasm  the  paraprofessionals 
show,  their  faith  in  the  educational 
process,  their  curiosity  and  dedication, 
inspired  one  professor  to  say,  "It's  a 
cliche  hut  it's  true — they  teach  me." 


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"Are  you  with  me?"  he  asked.  "Of 
course  we  are,"  they  answered. 


Fostering  Learning 
Through  the  Arts 

DAVID  LEPARD 

"Consider  the  waste  when  vast 
numbers  of  students  are  somehow 
turned  off  to  art  forms." 


Education  is  a  process  of  becoming.  Its 
purpose  is  to  open  minds,  to  provide  the 
substance  and  enthusiasm  for  continued 
personal  discovery  and  growth. 

This  philosophy,  so  obvious  and  basic 
in  the  abstract,  is  often  lost  in  the  transition 
from  educational  theories  to  educational 
practices.  There  are  ready  explanations  for 
the  apparent  inability  to  translate  the  values 
of  creative  experience  into  learning  oppor- 
tunities. But  these  rationalizations,  limited 
to  a  particular  event,  are  frequently  too 
narrow  and  superficial  to  offer  fresh 
alternatives. 

The  School  of  Education  at  UMass,  with 
its  national  orientation  and  wealth  of 
disciplines,  is  working  toward  eliminating 
the  discrepancy  between  what  education 
ought  to  be  and  what  the  public  schools  are. 

The  Center  for  the  Study  of  Aesthetics  in 
Education  (csae),  a  subdivision  of  the 
School  of  Education,  considers  the  arts  to 
be  a  very  important,  but  grossly  neglected, 
media  through  which  learning  can  be 
fostered.  Although  the  arts  serve  a  critical 
function  in  the  education  of  human  beings, 
even  the  casual  observer  is  readily  aware  of 
the  perplexing  problems  which  beset  most 
aesthetic  education  programs.  Consider  the 
vast  difference  between  the  role  the  arts 
play  in  elementary  schools  and  the  role  they 
play  at  more  advanced  levels  of  instruction. 


Typically,  students  in  the  primary  grades 
are  anxious  to  participate  in  any  activity 
guaranteeing  involvement.  But  their  enthu- 
siasm is  short  lived.  Upper  grade  student 
response  to  the  usual  palate  of  creative 
classroom  activities  is  frequently  discour- 
aging. By  the  junior  high  school  level,  even 
specialized  programs  of  instruction  are  often 
ignored  and  required  "appreciation"  courses 
are  resented. 

And  yet,  consider  the  waste  when  vast 
numbers  of  students  are  somehow  turned 
off  to  art  forms — music,  for  example. 
Composition,  after  all,  is  merely  a  statement 
of  someone's  musical  thoughts,  and  every- 
one has  musical  thoughts.  Music  is  pat- 
terned sound,  not  symbols,  diagrams, 
formulae,  or  idiomatic  practices.  It  involves 
both  the  intellect  and  emotions,  and 
therefore  speaks  to  the  whole  person,  rather 
than  just  a  part  of  him. 

Unfortunately,  music  is  too  often  stereo- 
typed in  the  minds  of  school  personnel, 
pupils,  and  parents.  Classical  and  romantic 
periods  are  thought  of  as  the  dominant 
"expression"  of  the  art  and  yet  these  reflect 
only  the  upper  class  European  culture 
during  a  hundred  year  period — a  hundred 
years  ago.  Electronic  music  is  thought  of  as 
avant-garde,  yet  its  greatest  proponent  has 
already  died  of  old  age.  What  is  seldom 
thought  of  is  the  eighth  grader's  view  of 
music  after  eight  years  of  school. 

csae  has  accepted  the  responsibility  of 
developing  a  more  effective  undergraduate 
teacher  education  program  based  on  learning 
experiences  in  the  creative  arts.  The  Center 
relates  this  to  three  main  objectives  of 
education — cognitive,  psycho-motor,  and 
affective — defined  by  Benjamin  Bloom  in 
his  Taxonomy  of  Educational  Objectives. 
Cognitive  objectives  deal  with  the  more 
intellectual  aspects  of  education;  psycho- 
motor with  training  in  performance  skills; 
and  affective  with  valuing.  The  Center 
designs  programs  to  complement  all  levels 
related  to  these  objectives,  from  the  lowest 
to  the  highest.  In  the  case  of  cognition,  the 
lowest  might  be  rote  learning  and  the 
highest  the  ability  to  synthesize  acquired 
knowledge. 


A  philosophy  of  aesthetics  in  education 
is  evolving  at  csae  which  will  encompass 
these  educational  objectives  and  place  them 
in  a  context  to  which  fine  arts  schools  and 
departments  can  relate.  These  institutions 
for  specialized  training  have  emphasized  the 
need  for  superior  performance  capabilities 
in  their  students.  The  artistry  of  a  school's 
graduates  has  been  considered  an  index  of 
their  alma  mater's  quality.  But  a  good 
performer  may  not  make  a  good  teacher. 
Certainly,  his  training  has  seldom  equipped 
him  for  the  critical  social  and  moral  chal- 
lenges facing  schools  today.  The  obligation 
of  fine  arts  departments  and  schools  to 
maintain  high  artistic  standards  often 
militates  against  the  identification  and 
encouragement  of  many  who  could  give 
meaning  and  life  to  aesthetics  in  education. 

The  basic  objective  of  the  Center  is  to 
offer  a  new  dimension  to  the  role  the  arts 
play  in  education.  Unfortunately,  the  work 
has  been  handicapped  by  lack  of  funds. 
The  plan  upon  which  the  Center  was 
founded  called  for  a  $2  million  appropria- 
tion. The  proposal  was  supported  by  the 
Arts  and  Humanities  branch  of  the  Office 
of  Education,  but  all  funds  were  frozen 
when  President  Nixon  took  office  in  1968. 
Nevertheless,  csae  did  not  abandon  its 
program  of  curriculum  reform,  teacher 
training,  research  and  the  development  of  a 
resource  center.  But  progress  has  been 
slowed  and  areas  like  faculty  recruitment 
have  been  seriously  hampered. 

The  teacher  training  program,  however, 
has  made  significant  advances  despite  the 
Center's  straightened  circumstances.  Class- 
room teachers  learn  the  value  of  experience 
in  the  arts  for  individual  development.  They 
gain  confidence  in  their  abilities,  developing 
and  studying  techniques  which  foster  both 
the  verbal  and  nonverbal  expressive  capac- 
ities of  children.  Teachers  acquire  a  theo- 
retical basis  for  integrating  creative  activities 
into  their  personal  philosophy  of  education. 
The  importance  of  evaluative  criteria  for 
arts  activities  and  programs  are  developed 
and  understood.  Many  teachers  are  encour- 
aged to  seek  more  advanced  skill  training 
through  elective  courses  in  the  various  fine 


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arts  departments  at  the  five  colleges, 
(Amherst,  Hampshire,  Smith,  Mount 
Holyoke,  and  the  University.) 

The  growth  of  the  individual  teacher, 
however,  is  but  the  beginning  of  the  reform 
necessary  in  arts  curricula.  The  change 
must  be  supported  in  the  schools.  The 
educational  scene  is  often  too  conservative 
and  real  progress  is  frustrated.  As  Dean 
Dwight  Allen  said,  "It's  easier  to  move  a 
cemetery  than  to  change  a  school."  The 
Center  trains  imaginative  teachers  and 
develops  innovative  programs  only  to  see 
them  stultified  by  resistance  in  classrooms 
that  need  them  most. 

One  possible  solution  is  now  being 


developed.  The  Center  has  applied  for 
funds  for  a  program  called  an  Aesthetics 
Education  Field  Support  Program.  Dynamic, 
talented  education  majors,  on  the  graduate 
and  undergraduate  levels,  would  be  identi- 
fied as  "change  agents."  Carefully  trained 
and  encouraged,  these  students  would  be 
an  innovative  force  on  the  job.  This  illus- 
trates the  kind  the  priority  inservice  training 
that  csae  considers  to  be  half  its  business. 
The  other  half,  preservice,  encompasses  all 
the  teacher  training  programs  on  campus. 

The  degrees  students  may  work  for 
include  a  Master  of  Education  in  Applied 
Aesthetics  in  Education,  a  Doctor  of  Edu- 
cation in  Curriculum  Development  in 


Applied  Aesthetics  in  Education,  a  Master 
of  Arts  in  Teaching,  or  a  Certificate  of 
Advanced  Graduate  Study.  A  unique 
feature  of  these  degree  programs  is  that  all 
candidates  are  exposed  to  the  curricular 
innovations  in  other  aesthetic  education 
areas,  rather  than  in  just  the  one  or  two 
areas  in  which  they  are  specializing. 

Modular  courses  supplement  these  formal 
programs.  A  module  has  been  defined  as 
1/15  of  a  credit;  students  are  allowed  to 
accumulate  up  to  45  modules  a  semester. 
This  system,  which  was  designed  to  present 
a  variety  of  subjects  as  small  courses  defined 
by  content  rather  than  semester  hours, 
provides  additional  opportunities  for  stu- 
dents, teachers,  and  administrators  outside 
the  education  community  with  an  oppor- 
tunity to  keep  abreast  of  the  latest  aesthetic 
education  materials  and  methods. 

New  methods  are  being  continuously 
developed.  Many  are  generated  through 
work  at  the  Center.  For  example,  at  a  recent 
postgraduate  csae  workshop,  children 
soldered  sound  generators  from  schematic 
drawings  to  use  in  recording  their  own 
electronic  music  compositions.  On  another 
occasion,  students  created  light  shows  and 
danced  to  improvised  sounds  in  self- 
designed  inflatable  environmental  rooms. 
Experiments  such  as  these  may  hold  a  key 
to  the  problem  of  student  dissatisfaction 
with  current  programs. 

No  one  can  accurately  predict  what  values 
will  be  preserved  or  what  the  future  mani- 
festations of  the  arts  will  be.  Nevertheless, 
through  the  stimulation  of  interdisciplinary 
dialogues  and  team  teaching  efforts,  the 
Center  has  been  able  to  project  possible 
future  trends  and  challenges.  Under  its 
influence,  the  term  "aesthetics  in  education" 
is  replacing  the  old  "aesthetic  education"  in 
public  school  parlance.  At  the  very  least, 
the  Center  has  forced  educators  to  be 
aware  of  the  nature  of  change  and  the 
unpredictability  of  the  directions  and  uses 
of  the  arts  in  the  years  ahead. 

David  Lepard,  the  administrative  assistant 
to  csae,  is  completing  his  doctoral  disserta- 
tion. 


On  Campus 


A  Scholar  Lost  to  Us 

Ben  B.  Seligman,  professor  of  economics 
and  the  first  director  of  the  University's 
Labor  Relations  and  Research  Center,  died 
October  23, 1970.  "The  University  of 
Massachusetts  has  lost  a  respected  scholar- 
teacher;"  wrote  Chancellor  Tippo,  "the 
world  of  scholarship,  a  devoted  and  produc- 
tive researcher;  the  labor  movement,  one  of 
its  leading  investigators  and  able  inter- 
preters; his  colleagues  in  the  Labor  Center, 
an  energetic  and  imaginative  leader;  and 
his  close  associates,  a  warm  friend  and 
trusted  counselor."  Under  Seligman's 
leadership,  the  Labor  Relations  and  Research 
Center  has  become  nationally  recognized 
in  its  five  year  history  for  its  solid  inter- 
disciplinary approach  and  successful  inte- 
gration of  instruction,  research,  and 
extension  teaching. 

Fusia  Resigns; 
MacPherson  Accepts 

Richard  MacPherson,  assistant  football 
coach  of  the  Denver  Broncos,  has  accepted 
the  position  of  head  coach  of  UMass  foot- 
ball. Coach  Vic  Fusia  had  resigned  December 
8  to  take  an  administrative  position  in  the 
Department  of  Athletics.  In  a  decade  as 
head  coach  at  the  University,  Fusia  had 
compiled  an  outstanding  record :  59  wins, 
31  losses,  2  ties,  and  four  Yankee  Confer- 
ence championships. 

A  six-man  screening  committee  recom- 
mended MacPherson's  appointment  to 
Chancellor  Tippo  on  January  16,  and  four 
days  later  the  announcement  was  made, 
effective  immediately.  The  new  coach  is  not 
a  stranger  to  UMass;  in  1939  he  was  an 
instructor  in  physical  education  here  and 
head  freshman  football  coach.  Since 


leaving  the  University  in  1961,  he  has  been 
an  assistant  football  coach  at  the  univer- 
sities of  Cincinnati  and  Maryland.  He 
joined  the  Denver  Broncos  in  1966. 

Reaching  for  the  Moon 

Geology  121  students  don't  go  on  field  trips. 
Instead,  they  work  with  the  wealth  of 
detailed  maps  and  photos  that  have  been 
made  through  telescopic  observation,  space 
probes,  and  Apollo  landings  to  explore  the 
rills  and  craters  of  the  moon.  This  lunar 
and  planetary  geology  course,  designed 
primarily  for  freshmen  and  sophomores,  is 
not  only  a  first  at  UMass  but  one  of  the  first 
of  its  kind  at  any  institution  in  the  United 
States. 

The  course  deals  mainly  with  the  moon 
but  will  also  devote  some  time  to  Mars  and 
the  solar  system  as  a  whole.  But  why  study 
the  moon  and  the  planets?  For  a  geology 
student,  there  are  a  number  of  good  reasons. 
According  to  the  instructor,  associate 
geology  professor  George  McGill,  the  moon 
is,  in  many  ways,  a  better  subject  than  the 
earth  to  illustrate  an  important  fourth 
dimension  of  geology — the  concept  of 
relative  age.  The  features  of  the  moon  are 
not  eroded  by  air  or  water  and  are  unaffec- 
ted by  plant  or  animal  life.  "What  you  see 
on  the  surface  is  a  direct  key  to  what  has 
happened  there  geologically,"  Dr.  McGill 
explained. 

Establishing  the  President's  Staff 

President  Robert  Wood  has  named  L. 
Edward  Lashman,  Jr.  as  Vice  President  for 
Development,  Franklyn  W.  Phillips  as  Vice 
President  for  Administration,  and  Joseph  A. 
Ryan  as  Director  of  Public  Affairs.  Kenneth 
Johnson,  former  Treasurer  of  the  Amherst 
campus,  is  now  Treasurer  of  the  University 
system. 

Mr.  Lashman  will  handle  development 
programs,  public  relations,  legislative  liaison 
and  alumni  programs.  At  the  time  of  his 
appointment,  he  was  a  partner  in  and 
general  manager  of  Urban  Housing  Asso- 
ciates, Ltd.  of  Denver,  and  during  the 
Johnson  administration,  he  served  as 


assistant  to  the  Secretary  and  Director  of 
Congressional  Liaison  in  the  U.S.  Depart- 
ment of  Housing  and  Urban  Development. 

The  former  Director  of  Administration 
for  the  nasa  North  Eastern  Office,  Mr. 
Phillips  will  now  administer  the  budget  and 
fiscal  affairs  of  the  University  system. 
He  will  also  coordinate  the  planning, 
budgeting  and  fiscal  affairs  of  the  Amherst, 
Boston  and  Worcester  campuses. 

Mr.  Ryan,  a  journalist-broadcaster  with 
more  than  twenty  years  experience  in 
communication  and  community  relations, 
will  be  responsible  for  developing  and 
improving  University  relations  with  its 
several  publics  and  coordinating  individual 
campus  activity  in  this  area.  He  comes  to 
UMass  from  wbz-tv  in  Boston  where  he  was 
press  and  public  relations  director. 

Munchkins 

As  of  last  October,  there  was  evidence 
that  whimsy  hadn't  disappeared  from 
campus  life.  Anyone  abroad  on  All  Hallows 
Eve  would  have  seen  the  Cowardly  Lion, 
the  Scarecrow,  the  Tin  Woodman,  the 
Wicked  Witch  of  the  West,  the  Good 
Witch  of  the  North,  and  Dorothy  skipping 
down  the  "yellow  brick  road"  singing 
"We're  Off  to  See  the  Wizard."  They  all 
arrived  safely  in  the  Land  of  Oz  (formerly 
known  as  the  Chancellor's  House.)  The 
Wizard  of  Oz  and  Auntie  Em  served  refresh- 
ments to  all,  and  Tarzan  and  Jane  dropped 
in  unexpectedly  to  complete  the  party. 

The  Arts  will  have  a  Home 

In  1973,  a  completed  Fine  Arts  Center  will 
overlook  the  Campus  Pond  from  the  south. 
The  need  for  such  a  facility  has  been  evident 
for  a  number  of  years. 

"Students  at  the  University  have  not  had 
all  the  cultural  advantages  that  a  university 
should  offer  them,"  commented  Dr.  Philip 
Bezanson,  head  of  the  music  department. 
This  is  not  to  say  the  UMass  has  been  a 
cultural  wasteland.  Students,  faculty  and 
the  general  public  have  had  innumerable 
opportunities  to  attend  ballets,  concerts, 
and  dramatic  productions.  These  events, 


however,  have  been  held  in  Curry  Hicks 
Gymnasium  or  the  Student  Union  Ballroom, 
where  poor  acoustics  and  visibility  have 
interfered  with  enjoyment  of  the  perform- 
ances. Some  outstanding  groups  have  even 
refused  to  perform  at  the  University 
because  of  the  facilities. 

The  new  Center  will  be  seven  buildings  in 
one,  unified  in  design  by  a  646  foot  bridge 
housing  art  studios  and  covering  a  walkway. 
The  architect,  Kevin  Roche,  has  a  dis- 
tinguished list  of  buildings  to  his  credit, 
including  the  Vivian  Beaumont  Theater  in 
New  York. 

The  Campus  Pond  will  have  a  new  look 
when  the  building  is  completed.  It  will  be 
57  feet  longer  and  129  feet  wider  at  the  end 
nearest  the  Fine  Arts  Center.  Meanwhile, 
during  construction,  the  pond  will  be 
dammed  at  the  south  end  and  pedestrians 
will  cross  on  a  temporary  bridge. 

Campus  Administration  Takes  Shape 

The  reorganization  of  the  Amherst  admin- 
istration has  continued.  R.  W.  Bromery  was 
named  Vice-Chancellor  for  Student  Affairs. 
Jeremiah  Allen  is  Acting  Dean  of  Faculties 
of  the  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  Irving 
Howards  is  Coordinator  of  Public  Affairs, 
working  with  Joseph  Marcus,  Special 
Assistant  to  the  Chancellor  for  Public 
Affairs.  David  Bischoff,  as  Associate 
Provost,  fills  a  new  post  on  the  staff  of 


Associate  Provost  Robert  Gluckstern.  And 
Thomas  B.  Campion  is  Vice-Chancellor  for 
Administrative  Affairs. 

Dr.  Bromery,  a  geology  professor,  has 
been  serving  as  Special  Assistant  to  the 
Chancellor  for  Student  Affairs  since  last 
spring.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  is 
now  president  of  ccebs,  the  Committee  for 
the  Collegiate  Education  of  Black  Students. 

Jeremiah  Allen  had  been  Associate 
Provost.  In  his  new  position,  he  will  be 
implementing  the  academic  reorganization 
of  the  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  Three 
units,  a  Faculty  of  Humanities  and  Fine 
Arts,  a  Faculty  of  Natural  Sciences  and 
Mathematics,  and  a  Faculty  of  Social  and 
Behavioral  Sciences,  will  replace  the  old 
system.  Dean  Alfange,  Jr.,  associate 
professor  of  government,  has  been  ap- 
pointed Acting  Dean  of  the  last  named 
subdivision. 

Dr.  Howards,  a  professor  of  government 
and  specialist  in  state  and  local  government, 
was  a  member  of  the  Faculty  Senate  Long 
Range  Planning  Committee. 

A  professor  and  former  Associate  Dean 
of  the  School  of  Physical  Education,  Dr. 
Bischoff  will  have  special  responsibilities 
for  liaison  with  the  professional  schools 
and  colleges,  other  than  the  College  of  Arts 
and  Sciences. 

Mr.  Campion,  the  former  Director  of 
Operations  for  the  New  York  Times,  will 
be  responsible  for  three  basic  areas:  admin- 


istrative services,  such  as  procurement, 
personnel,  and  parking;  physical  plant 
operations;  and  auxiliary  enterprises  such 
as  food  service,  University  housing  and 
the  Campus  Center. 

Where  do  we  go  from  here? 
— to  SWAP,  of  course 

President  Wood  and  several  members  of  the 
board  of  trustees  joined  hundreds  of  stu- 
dents, teachers  and  administrators  at  the 
Oak  &  Spruce  in  Lee  for  the  fourteenth 
annual  swap  conference — the  Student 
Workshop  in  Activities  Problems.  Working 
from  the  theme,  "Planning  for  UMass  in  the 
future :  Where  do  we  go  from  here?",  study 
and  expertise  groups  explored  such  problem 
areas  as  freshman  orientation,  teacher 
evaluation,  decentralization,  and  security. 
Participants  returned  to  campus  with 
dozens  of  proposals  and  the  resolve  to 
see  them  implemented. 

But  the  weekend  wasn't  devoted  entirely 
to  work.  The  consensus  was  that  the  per- 
sonal interaction  during  these  few  days 
was  the  most  constructive  aspect  of  swap. 
And  as  one  student  put  it:  "Say  what  you 
will  about  the  American's  ability  to  enjoy 
himself  as  it  relates  to  the  consumption  of 
alcoholic  beverages,  but  we  had  a  great 
time  in  the  barroom.  I  don't  think  I  would 
have  been  as  relaxed  talking  to  the  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  trustees  if  I  had  been 
totalling  tea." 

Missing  Matching 

In  the  list  of  companies  which  participate 
in  the  Matching  Gifts  Program  printed  in 
the  last  issue  of  The  Alumnus,  Texaco,  Inc. 
was  omitted  in  error.  This  organization  is 
among  the  hundreds  of  corporations  who 
will  match  alumni  contributions  to  the 
University. 


Drunken  Elephants 

The  Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian  has 
done  it  again.  Here  are  excerpts  from  a 
"Collegian  Close-up" : 
When  the  winter  winds  roar  in,  bringing 
with  them  that  curse  of  the  commuter, 
the  bane  of  the  dorm-liver,  and  the  liberator 
of  school  children;  when  the  campus  is 
covered  from  F  lot  to  M  lot  and  the  tunnel  is 
clogged  with  ice;  there  are  a  gallant  few 
who  brave  the  cold,  put  on  their  coats  and 
boots,  start  the  machines,  and  shovel  that 
snow,  the  men  of  Physical  Plant. 

They're  a  hardy  lot,  and  they  have  to  be. 
Their  trucks  are  the  targets  for  snowballs, 
and  people  would  rather  slide  down 
Orchard  Hill  than  walk  down  it.  Irate 
faculty  have  been  known  to  call  in  the 
middle  of  the  night  and  complain  that  2  lot 
isn't  clear  or  that  they  can't  get  into  the 
back  door  of  Machmer.  But  the  men  of  the 
multi-colored  plows  take  it  all  in  stride. 
Their  number  is  small,  eighteen  to  twenty 
men  including  reliefs,  and  they  man  about 
twelve  pieces  of  equipment.  They  have, 
stored  in  the  fenced-in  yard  next  to  the 
Physical  Plant  building,  plows  for  roads, 
plows  for  lots,  plows  for  sidewalks,  and  an 
occasional  snow-blower,  capable,  it  is 
rumored,  of  eating  three  VW's  lined  up 
in  a  row. 

First  on  the  list  to  be  desecrated  by  the 
roaring,  fire-breathing,  smoke-belching 
plows  is  the  Infirmary  lot.  Then  they  steam 
up  Orchard  Hill,  chewing  up  the  snow  and 
the  road  as  they  go.  Quick,  like  drunken 
elephants,  they  swing  down  and  push  all 
the  white  stuff  off  at  the  police  station,  and 
then,  precisely  then,  very  early  in  the 
morning,  they  begin  to  clear  around  the 
dorms,  trying  their  hardest  not  to  wake 
anyone  up. 

They  are  tough  men,  descended  from 
Paul  Bunyan  and  his  blue  ox,  Babe. 
And  they  work  hard.  They  have  to. 
Who  in  his  right  mind  would  expect  students 
to  walk  through  snow  on  their  way  to 
classes? 


Friends 

The  new  library,  designed  by  Henry  Durrell 
Stone,  is  far  from  completed.  But  while 
construction  is  slowed  by  sub-zero  tempera- 
ture and  snow,  the  work  of  equipping  the 
new,  28-story  facility  is  picking  up  steam. 

A  distinguished  group  of  citizens  has 
agreed  to  serve  as  trustees  of  the  newly 
organized  Friends  of  the  Library.  Formed  to 
support  the  "enrichment  of  the  total 
resources  and  facilities  of  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  library  in  Amherst,"  the  new 
organization  is  open  to  any  individual, 
business  firm,  or  group  interested  in 
assisting  the  development  of  the  resources 
and  facilities  of  the  University  library, 
which  will  have  a  capacity  of  two  million 
volumes  when  it  is  completed  in  1972. 

William  Manchester,  author  and  member 
of  the  Class  of  '46,  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Friends.  Mrs.  Lucy  Benson, 
National  President  of  the  League  of  Women 
Voters,  is  vice-president. 

Trustees-at-large  are:  George  Allen  '36, 
publisher  and  vice-president  of  Fawcett 
Publishing  Company;  Leonard  Baskin, 
artist;  Charles  Cole,  former  president  of 
Amherst  College;  Winthrop  Dakin,  Massa- 
chusetts Board  of  Higher  Education; 
Fred  Emerson,  former  UMass  trustee; 
Robert  Francis,  poet;  Emerson  Greenaway, 
retired  director  of  the  Philadelphia  Free 
Public  Library;  Franklin  Patterson,  presi- 
dent of  Hampshire  College;  Frederick  Troy 
'31,  a  trustee  of  the  University;  and  William 
Troy  '50,  vice-president  of  the  Western 
Publishing  Company. 

The  faculty  senate  and  graduate  and 
undergraduate  students  are  represented. 
Evelyn  Davis  Kennedy  '26,  Janet  Cohen 
Slovin  '56,  and  Mary  Jane  Moreau  '67 
represent  the  alumni. 


A  Ray  of  Hope  in  a 
Grim  Job  Market 

The  economy  is  down,  employment  is  down, 
and  the  demand  for  college  graduates,  even 
those  with  experience,  is  not  what  it  used  to 
be.  It  grows  more  difficult  each  year  to  place 
seniors  and  graduates  in  good  positions. 
In  1969-70,  535  employers,  including  146 
school  systems,  scheduled  recruiting  dates 
at  the  Amherst  campus;  there  were  some  80 
cancellations.  This  year,  only  67  school 
systems  and  261  other  employers  scheduled 
recruitment  dates,  and  60  of  these  were 
cancelled. 

Despite  these  grim  figures,  the  director  of 
the  University's  Placement  and  Financial 
Aid  Services  is  not  discouraged.  "There  are 
jobs  available,"  says  Robert  Morrissey, 
"and  our  office  is  geared  to  help  alumni 
find  them." 

The  Placement  Office  can  provide  alumni 
with  career  literature,  counseling,  and 
requirements;  current  job  market  informa- 
tion; teacher  certification;  actual  referrals 
to  employers;  on-campus  employment 
interviews;  a  complete  file  of  graduate 
school  catalogues  and  requirements; 
information  concerning  prerequisite  exami- 
nations; and  access  to  the  grad  system,  an 
electronic  data  processing  program  for  the 
referral  of  experienced  alumni.  In  order 
to  provide  these  services,  Mr.  Morrissey 
and  his  staff  require  information.  Alumni 
should  keep  up-to-date  their  credentials 
(resumes  and  recommendations)  on  file  in 
the  Placement  Office.  When  inquiring  about 
employment,  a  candidate  should  send  the 
following  information:  full  name;  current 
address;  permanent  address;  phone  num- 
bers; geographic  preferences;  salary  require- 
ments; and  a  resume  of  undergraduate  and 
post-graduate  experience.  "Last  but  not 
least,"  explained  Mr.  Morrissey,  "we  need 
to  know  what  kind  of  work  the  applicant 
is  interested  in.  If  he's  unsure,  he  should 
make  an  appointment  to  visit  this  office. 
We  want  to  be  of  real  assistance,  and  we'll 
do  what  we  can." 


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Encountered  in  Holdsworth 

There's  a  bulletin  board  labeled  "Eco-por- 
nography"  and  covered  with  clippings  from 
newspapers  and  magazines  on  the  first  floor 
of  Holdsworth  Hall.  We  asked  John  Sinton, 
a  research  associate  with  the  Forestry 
Department  and  the  originator  of  the 
display,  what  it  was  all  about. 

"Eco-pornography  isn't  just  a  glib  term 
we've  coined,"  he  explained.  "It's  based  on 
the  original  Greek — ecology  from  oikos 
meaning  home  and  logos  meaning  knowl- 
edge, and  pornography  from  porne  meaning 
harlot  and  graphikos  meaning  symbol.  Eco- 
pornography  is  literally  a  foul  symbol  of 
the  home. 

"Ecology,  as  a  study,  leads  to  an  under- 
standing, reverence,  and  love  for  one's 
environment.  Unfortunately,  now  it's  a  fad. 
It's  annoying  to  see  students,  who  have  no 
reverence  for  the  environment  whatever, 
shouting  that  ecology  is  the  answer  to  all 
our  problems.  Much  more  annoying,  and 
more  destructive  in  the  long  run,  are  the 
false  advertisements  which  exploit  certain 
aspects  of  ecology.  These  are  indeed  ugly 
symbols  of  the  home,  and  they  are  insidious 
because  too  many  of  us  accept  them  as  fact. 
Take,  for  example,  the  "No  Smogging"  ad 
for  Lark  cigarettes.  It  purports  to  relieve  the 
smoker  of  wretched  tasting  "gases"  with  a 
gas-trap  filter.  By  implication,  it  links  other 
brands  of  cigarettes  with  air  pollution.  The 
fact  is,  though,  that  cigarettes  are  unhealthy, 
gas  or  no  gas,  and  it's  something  more  than 
misleading  to  try  to  link  cigarette  smoke 
with  auto  exhaust. 

"The  bulletin  board  was  set  up  to  remind 
us  to  be  wary." 


^_ ; : : «  "  » 

IRESOURCE    ECONOMlCSs'POLlCY  AND 


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A  Rink  Would  Be 
Icing  on  the  Cake 

PETER  F.  PASCARELLI 


Remember  that  infant  that  used  to  be  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  hockey  pro- 
gram? You  know,  the  one  that  hardly  ever 
won  a  big  game,  that  struggled  to  get 
noticed  in  hockey  conscious  New  England, 
that  labored  on  campus  in  near  obscurity. 

Well,  the  hockey  program  is  an  infant 
no  more.  One  climactic  weekend  in  early 
December  the  Redmen  proved  their  coming 
of  age.  On  successive  nights,  they  defeated 
Pennsylvania,  for  their  first  win  over  a 
Division  I  school,  and  Vermont,  the  defend- 
ing Eastern  Collegiate  Athletic  Association 
(ecac)  Division  II  champions.  If  the  pro- 
gram is  not  yet  an  adult  in  the  hockey  world, 
it  has  at  least  proven  itself  to  be  a  mature, 
strapping  adolescent  that  only  needs  its 
own  rink  and  some  good  luck  to  grow 
some  more. 

The  birth  of  a  legitimate  UMass  hockey 
team  has  been  painful.  Until  1968-69,  the 
team  had  only  once  recorded  more  than 
nine  victories  in  a  season  in  almost  forty 
years  of  trying.  But  things  have  been  on  the 
upswing  for  about  four  years,  and  that  can 
be  traced  in  part  to  the  hiring  of  Jack 
Canniff  as  head  coach. 

Canniff,  who  came  to  UMass  in  1967  to 
replace  Steve  Kosakowski  (who  was  forced 
to  retire  because  of  failing  eyesight),  is  a 
well-known  figure  in  Eastern  Massachusetts 
hockey.  And  that  area  is  probably  the  most 
fanatical  and  popular  hockey  area  in  the 
country.  He  was  a  member  of  the  1949 
Arlington  High  School  New  England 
Champions,  a  member  of  Boston  College 
hockey  teams,  and  while  coach  at  Gloucester 
High  School  rolled  up  a  104-30-22  record. 


Those  two  games  in  December  illustrate 
the  best  of  the  Canniff  program  and  also 
the  long,  tough  road  UMass  hockey  still 
has  to  travel. 

The  University  of  Pennsylvania  played 
UMass  at  Amherst  College's  Orr  Rink, 
which  is  new  but  small.  The  Ivy  Leaguers 
are  not  in  the  class  of  their  Harvard  and 
Cornell  counterparts,  but  Penn  is  a  hockey 
team  that  has  to  be  ranked  a  notch  above 
the  University.  And  they  looked  that  much 
better  by  taking  a  quick  one  goal  lead  in  the 
first  period,  to  the  disappointment  of  the 
packed  house.  This,  however,  is  a  new 
UMass  hockey  era.  The  Redmen  tied  the 
game  on  a  goal  by  sophomore  Lonnie  Avery. 
He  is  one  of  seven  sophs  on  a  squad  that 
has  but  one  senior.  Then  junior  Jack 
Edwards,  who  led  the  University  in  scoring 
a  year  ago,  put  the  Redmen  ahead  2-1  at 
the  end  of  the  first  twenty  minutes. 

UMass  made  it  3-1  early  in  the  second 
period  on  a  brilliant  one  man  effort  by 
another  sophomore,  Don  Riley.  However, 
Penn  scored  also  and  cut  the  second  period 
margin  to  3-2. 

The  visitors'  superior  strength  took 
charge  in  the  last  period  as  they  scored  two 
quick  goals  to  go  ahead  4-3. 

It  was  here  that  the  UMass  team  proved 
that  it  had  indeed  grown  up.  Junior  Eric 
Scrafield,  one  of  two  Canadians  on  the 
squad,  tied  the  score  with  nine  minutes  to 
play.  Then,  just  thirty  seconds  later,  Dan 
Reidy,  a  hustling  junior,  took  a  pass  from 
sophomore  Canadian  Pat  Keenan  and  drove 
in  a  blazing  slap  shot  to  put  UMass  ahead 
to  stay. 

Junior  goaltender  Pat  Flaherty,  a  highly 
coveted  high  school  star  from  the  Boston 
area,  had  come  up  with  several  good  saves 
to  preserve  the  win.  Junior  Dennis  Gra- 
bowski  added  the  final  touch  with  an  80 
foot  shot  into  an  empty  Penn  net.  It  was  a 
6-4  win,  the  first  victory  ever  over  a 
Division  I  team. 

The  next  night  was  more  of  the  same  last 
minute  excitement.  The  crowd  at  Orr  Rink 
filled  the  small  arena  a  full  hour  before 
gametime.  It  is  estimated  that  a  thousand 
fans  had  to  be  turned  away.  All  this  for  a 


match  with  the  defending  Division  II 
champions,  Vermont. 

The  Redmen  took  an  early  1-0  lead  on 
a  deflected  shot  by  junior  defenseman  Al 
Nickerson,  but  the  quick-skating  visitors 
tied  the  game  early  in  the  second  period. 
Thereafter,  it  was  a  goaltending  duel 
between  Flaherty  and  Vermont's  All  East 
netminder,  Dave  Reece.  Early  in  the  final 
period,  however,  Keenan  tipped  in  an 
Edwards  rebound  to  give  UMass  a  2-1  lead. 
(In  the  University's  opening  game,  a  16-0 
rout  of  Lowell  Tech,  Keenan  had  shattered 
school  records  with  seven  goals.) 

It  almost  held  up.  Playing  the  last  two 
minutes,  three  men  down  from  penalties 
and  an  extra  Vermont  skater,  Flaherty  held 
the  fort  amazingly  well.  But  Vermont  broke 
the  hearts  of  the  massive  home  crowd  by 
scoring  with  just  three  seconds  left  to  send 
the  game  into  overtime. 

The  tense  overtime  period  was  suddenly 
broken  when  UMass  defenseman  Brian 
Sullivan  rushed  the  length  of  the  ice  and 
missed  his  shot,  only  to  have  it  tipped  in  by 
Grabowski.  UMass  had  a  dramatic  3-2  win. 

That  type  of  weekend  doesn't  happen 
often,  but  it  shows  the  difference  between 
this  year's  hockey  team  and  teams  of  the 
past.  For  the  first  time,  the  University  has 
three  capable  lines  of  attackers  and  two 
sets  of  able  defensemen.  And  besides 
Flaherty,  there  is  excellent  backup  goal- 
tending  help.  Every  position  has  talent. 

All  this  is,  however,  threatened  by  the 
lack  of  a  rink,  which  severely  shortens 
practice  time  and  continually  endangers 
recruiting. 

The  coach  is  mindful  of  both  facts.  "Our 
players  make  a  huge  sacrifice,"  says  Canniff. 
"We  never  get  enough  icetime  before  a 
season  or  a  game,  and  therefore  we  are 
never  sure  that  we  are  ready.  Ice  just  isn't 
that  available  all  the  time  around  here,  so 
we  have  to  do  the  best  we  can. 

"We  have  hockey  players  on  our  team 
that  could  play  for  most  schools  anywhere. 
They  have  the  talent  and  ability  to  make 
most  teams.  And  with  the  ever-increasing 
amount  of  ice  arenas  being  built,  especially 
in  Eastern  Massachusetts,  the  players  have 


25 


a  lot  more  opportunity  to  play  hockey  year 
round. 

"We  can't  be  sure  about  anyone  we 
recruit,"  he  cautions.  "Without  our  own 
rink,  we  cannot  possibly  get  the  blue  chip 
players  from  Eastern  Mass.  We  have  to 
sell  kids  on  the  great  facilities  of  the 
University,  its  academic  background,  and 
we  sometimes  must  concentrate  on  getting 
the  good  players  from  out  of  state  .  .  .  This 
lack  of  a  rink  really  hurts  us." 

Until  this  year,  the  coach  was  forced  to 
do  all  the  scouting  himself,  for  want  of  a 
full  time  assistant,  and  no  one  was  available 
to  fill  in  for  him  at  practices.  Now,  however, 
Canniff  has  a  full  time  assistant — a  former 


UMass  hockey  great,  Russ  Kidd  '56.  Kidd 
holds  numerous  University  hockey  records 
including  most  career  goals,  and  is  second 
on  the  all  time  lists  in  career  points,  season 
points,  and  season  goals.  He  will  be  coach- 
ing the  freshman  team,  while  also  sharing 
recruiting  duties.  A  three  letter  man  at 
UMass,  Kidd  hopes  to  come  up  with  more 
hockey  talent.  "Between  Jack  and  myself, 
we  should  be  able  to  get  out  and  sell  the 
University  a  lot  stronger  than  in  the  past." 

Rink  or  no  rink,  the  team  started  the 
season  with  the  solid  object  of  qualifying 
for  the  ecac  Division  II  playoffs,  something 
UMass  has  never  done.  The  coach  says 


frankly,  "The  playoffs  are  in  the  back  of 
everyone's  mind.  It  is  what  we  are  all 
shooting  for.  We  have  a  good  chance  of 
making  it.  The  potential  is  there,  but, 
realistically,  potential  is  something  that 
could  be  achieved,  not  something  that  has 
been  proved. 

"There  are  six  or  seven  teams  in  the 
division  that  knock  each  other  off — Ver- 
mont, Bowdoin,  Middlebury,  Norwich, 
Hamilton,  and  A.I.C.  You  just  have  to  play 
them  one  at  a  time." 

The  10-8  season  a  year  ago,  coupled  with 
two  successful  freshman  teams  in  a  row, 
has  begun  the  first  consistent  winning 
tradition  in  UMass  hockey.  Canniff  now 
has  the  pleasant  problem,  after  two  good 
recruiting  years  in  succession,  of  having  a 
surplus  of  capable  talent.  He  is  trying  to 
formulate  a  junior  varsity  team  to  keep  this 
surplus  in  playing  shape. 

The  program  still  has  a  long  way  to  go. 
The  schedule  this  year  is  a  backbreaker. 
In  addition  to  the  best  Division  II  schools, 
it  includes  some  of  the  toughest  major 
college  Division  I  teams — New  Hampshire, 
Northeastern,  Providence,  and  national 
power  Boston  University. 

Although  UMass  has  made  great  strides 
in  just  two  years,  the  work  will  be  unfin- 
ished until  hockey  can  be  a  legitimate 
Division  I  team.  The  coaches  and  players 
know  this.  Canniff  sums  up  their  feelings: 
"We  have  to  walk  before  we  run.  The  fact 
is  that  right  now  we  have  our  hands  full  just 
being  the  best  of  Division  II." 

The  hindrance  of  playing  in  a  rented 
facility  cannot  be  stressed  too  much. 
Though  complaints  are  rarely  voiced,  squad 
morale  must  be  affected  by  this  homeless 
condition.  As  one  player  put  it,  "I  personally 
came  to  the  University  because  of  a  lot  of 
reasons  besides  hockey.  I  could  have  gone 
to  somewhere  like  B.C.  or  Bowdoin.  But 
when  we  are  on  a  forty-five  minute  bus  trip 
just  to  practice  somewhere  off  campus,  a  lot 
of  us  wonder  how  much  UMass  cares 
whether  we  came  here  at  all." 

Peter  Pascarelli  is  the  former  Editor  in  Chief 
of  the  Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian. 


26 


From  the  Sidelines 


RICHARD  L.  BRE5CIANI  '60 
Assistant  Sports  Information  Director 


The  1960s  were  the  most  successful  decade 
for  sports  at  UMass.  If  the  fall  of  1970 
results  are  any  indication,  there  should  be 
more  happy  times  ahead  for  Redman  fans. 

Despite  the  football  team  falling  to  a 
4-5-1  record,  just  the  second  losing  mark 
for  Coach  Vic  Fusia  in  ten  years,  the  overall 
picture  was  a  success. 

Fusia,  who  resigned  December  8  to  take 
an  administrative  position  in  the  athletic 
department,  compiled  a  59-31-2  record, 
including  a  41-7-1  Yankee  Conference 
mark,  five  YanCon  first  places,  and  one 
New  England  title.  There's  no  doubt  he  ele- 
vated Redman  football  to  its  highest  pin- 
nacle. 

The  1970  Redman  gridsters  were  an 
outstanding  defensive  team  that  suffered 
early  in  the  fall  from  an  inconsistent  offense. 
Also,  the  ineligibility  of  guard  Pierre 
Marchando  and  end  Nick  McGarry  left  big 
holes  in  the  offensive  line. 

After  blanking  Maine  28-0,  UMass 
battled  powerful  Dartmouth  to  a  0-0  dead- 
lock until  the  final  minute  of  the  third 
quarter.  Then,  a  blocked  punt  and  a  73-yard 
punt  return  brought  two  touchdowns  in  the 
space  of  1 :34-  Dartmouth  went  to  a  27-0 
win  and  an  undefeated  season. 

The  Redmen  then  lost  successive  cliff- 
hangers  to  Buffalo,  Boston  U.,  and  Rhode 
Island. 

The  most  frustrating  afternoon  had  to  be 
the  Homecoming  game  in  which  UMass 
rolled  up  542  yards  of  offense  but  had  to 
settle  for  a  21-21  tie.  Three  lost  fumbles, 
eleven  penalties,  two  pass  interceptions,  two 
recovered  fumbles  that  weren't  allowed,  and 
a  miraculous  80-yard  UConn  touchdown 


play  prevented  what  could  have  been  a  rout. 

The  Redmen  defeated  Holy  Cross  29-13 
behind  a  crunching  ground  attack  that 
netted  308  yards  with  fullback  Dick  Cum- 
mings  and  halfback  Pat  Scavone  leading 
the  way. 

UMass  evened  its  record  with  a  24-14 
win  that  halted  New  Hampshire's  five-game 
winning  streak.  Bill  DeFlavio,  Dennis 
Collins,  and  Bill  Sroka  shone  defensively, 
and  U.N.H.  was  limited  to  minus  seven 
yards  rushing. 

The  finale  before  17,200  at  Alumni 
Stadium  was  a  valiant  bid  that  ended  in  a 
21-10  loss  to  heavily-favored  Boston 
College.  Another  tremendous  defensive 


effort  went  unrewarded  as  UMass  held  the 
Eagles'  great  halfback  Fred  Willis  to  47 
yards  in  eighteen  carries.  He  was  averaging 
123  yards  per  game. 

But  the  Redmen  had  hurt  themselves  all 
fall  and  they  continued  by  fumbling  a  punt 
that  led  to  the  clinching  score,  fumbling  on 
fourth  down  and  inches  at  the  B.C.  36,  and 
having  a  fake  punt  run  backfire.  UMass 
trailed  just  14-10  late  in  the  third  quarter. 

There  were  some  fine  Redmen  players  and 
eleven  were  named  first  team  All  Confer- 
ence with  five  more  on  the  second  team. 
In  addition  to  Hughes,  Hulecki,  Scavone, 
and  Cummings,  other  offensive  stars  were 
guard  Bob  Pena  and  tackle  Bob  Donlin. 


Defensively,  DeFlavio,  Collins  and  Sroka 
were  aided  by  linebackers  Joe  Sabulis  and 
John  Farrelly. 

Scavone  ended  his  career  as  the  third 
all  time  runner  with  1,279  yards,  and 
Cummings,  who  has  another  year,  moved 
up  to  forth  with  1,021. 

Peter  Broaca's  third  year  as  soccer  coach 
was  a  memorable  one.  UMass  tied  its  record 
for  most  wins  with  a  7-2-2  record,  the 
school's  first  outright  Conference  title,  and 
tied  for  fifth  in  New  England. 

With  crafty  Lindo  Alves  notching  ten 
goals  and  seven  assists,  UMass  scored  the 
opposition  32-10  with  five  shutouts. 

Alves,  Augie  Calheno,  and  Joe  Cerniawski 
were  All  Conference,  and  Rick  Matuszczak, 
the  team's  M.V.P.,  was  second  team  All 
New  England. 

The  well  drilled  booters  lost  3-2  and  1-0 
heartbreakers  to  Worcester  Tech  and 
Springfield,  with  Tech  getting  only  five 
shots  on  goal. 

The  cross-country  team  and  Ron  Wayne 
raced  their  way  to  a  7-2-1  record,  the 
Conference  title,  second  place  in  the  New 
England  meet,  and  a  tenth  in  the  IC4A  meet 
in  New  York  City. 

Coach  Ken  O'Brien  '63  had  a  well 
balanced  team  with  Wayne  the  leader. 
The  stellar  senior  won  seven  of  seven  meets 
plus  the  Conference  and  New  England 
events.  Leo  Duart,  Larry  Paulson,  Tom 
Jasmin,  and  Tom  Swain  were  all  consistent 
performers. 


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Comment 

on  the  Conference 


EVAN  V.  JOHNSTON 
Executive  Vice-President 


'50 


Here  are  some  of  the  things  that  I  think 
are  wrong  with  the  Yankee  Conference 
and  our  own  posture  in  it.  These  are  my 
opinions  and  they  may  or  may  not  be 
shared  by  a  majority  of  those  in  charge  of 
our  athletic  program. 

First,  the  management  is  bulky,  unwieldy, 
inefficient,  and  antiquated.  Each  institution 
has  its  own  athletic  council;  some  report 
directly  to  their  president,  some  indirectly 
through  the  faculty  senate.  The  athletic 
directors  form  what  amounts  to  the  opera- 
tional committee  with,  believe  it  or  not,  a 
three-man  executive  committee  for  a  six- 
man  council.  There  is  also  a  Presidents 
Council.  Both  groups  seem  to  cross  lines  of 
responsibility.  Consider  the  expansion  of 
the  Conference  which  has  been  discussed 
for  years.  Although  we  were  told  in  May 
that  B.U.,  Delaware  and  Colgate  would  join 
imminently,  the  Presidents  Council  is  still 
discussing  the  matter. 

In  fact,  it  is  my  opinion  that  the  athletic 
directors,  led  by  the  Commissioner,  told  us 
about  these  three  schools  (and  they  also 
mentioned  Rutgers  and  Holy  Cross)  in 
order  to  keep  us  in  the  Conference.  We 
were  angry  and  making  noises  about 
starting  a  new  conference.  Now  we  find 
out  that  Rutgers  and  Colgate  are  cool  to 
the  idea,  Holy  Cross  is  not  sure  of  the  future 
of  athletics  at  all,  and  B.U.  and  Delaware 
have  always  been  interested. 

UMass  is  the  big  attraction,  and  I  don't 
believe  these  schools  would  come  into  the 
Conference  if  we  dropped  out. 

We've  been  bluffed.  And  unfairly  treated. 


The  Commissioner  admitted  that  the 
charges  brought  against  us  last  year  on  the 
1.6  violation  might  not  have  occurred  if  we 
hadn't  won  the  championship  and  if  the 
two  football  players  in  question  hadn't  been 
stars.  The  Commissioner  is  supposed  to 
check  each  institution  constantly  to  see  that 
regulations  are  adhered  to.  I  believe  that  he 
spends  more  time  on  UMass  than  all  the 
others  put  together. 

This  application  of  the  double  standard 
brings  me  to  my  opinion  of  the  Commis- 
sioner's office.  I  heartily  endorse  the  current 
move  to  make  it  a  really  professional  office, 
away  from  any  one  campus  and  staffed 
by  a  man  experienced  in  athletics  and 
administration  who  has  never  been  affiliated 
with  one  of  the  member  institutions.  I 
believe  this  is  necessary  if  we  are  to  be 
other  than  a  rinky-dink  conference. 

If  the  Yankee  Conference  remains  as  an 
entity,  it  should  expand  its  sights,  including 
a  more  realistic  aid  formula.  If  you  start 
with  fifteen  football  scholarships,  as  we  do, 
and  if  you  lose  student  athletes  in  the  same 
proportion  that  you  do  other  students,  then 
you  end  up  with  about  ten  seniors  on  the 
football  squad.  Some  of  our  better 
opponents,  not  to  mention  schools  we  would 
like  to  play  against  and  can't,  have  twenty- 
five,  thirty,  even  thirty-five  scholarships 
for  just  this  one  sport. 

In  short,  I  believe  we  need  at  least 
twenty-five  grants  for  football  with  con- 
tinued and  increasing  funding  in  other 
areas.  I  would  not  want  to  see  any  of  the 
other  sports  denied  their  present  and 
increasing  levels  of  support.  Basketball, 
lacrosse,  track,  baseball,  soccer,  crew,  Skiing 
and  other  sports  have  brought  us  great 
credit  in  recent  years.  Even  our  touch 
football  champs  have  given  us  national 
recognition. 

A  better  conference  and  a  better  schedule 
would  not,  however,  allow  us  to  realize 
sufficient  income  at  home  games.  We 
should  have  a  15,000  seat  field  house  and  a 
40-50,000  seat  stadium.  We  should  also 
have  an  ice  hockey  plant.  Major  special  and 
regular  events,  intramurals,  open  time,  and 
other  activities  would  keep  these  facilities 


almost  constantly  in  use. 

Once  established,  a  good  athletic  program 
pays  for  itself  and  other  programs.  More- 
over, it  generates  a  good  public  image. 
Consider  what  the  outright  purchase  of 
football  teams  has  done  for  the  reputations 
of  several  academically  weak  schools. 
Imagine  what  a  solid  athletic  program  can 
do  for  an  institution  that  is  as  strong 
academically  as  the  University  of 
Massachusetts. 


Club  Calendar 


JAMES  H.  ALLEN  '66 
Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


Shortly  after  I  became  Director  of  Alumni 
Affairs  last  June,  I  met  a  young  man  who 
shared  my  view  that  there  ought  to  be 
strong  ties  between  the  student  body  and 
the  alumni.  He  was  Martin  B.  Shapiro, 
Class  of  '71.  As  vice-chairman  of  the 
Homecoming  Committee,  Marty  worked 
very  closely  during  the  summer  months 
with  Evan  Johnston  and  myself  as  we 
planned  the  Homecoming  activities  for  the 
coming  fall.  It  turned  out  that  Homecoming 
had  the  greatest  student-alumni  inter- 
mingling and  involvement  in  recent  times. 
But  Marty  was  unable  to  witness  the 
successful  result  of  his  interest  and  enthu- 
siasm. Marty  Shapiro  spent  Homecoming 
1970  in  Boston's  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital  where  he  died  on  Tuesday, 
December  1. 

It  is  with  great  sadness  that  I  dedicate 
this  month's  column  to  this  fine  young  man. 


28 


If  you  are  thinking  about  going  to 
Majorca  with  us  and  have  not  sent  in  your 
registration,  you  had  better  hurry!  Eight 
sun-soaked  days  in  the  Mediterranean  for 
only  $329 — it  should  be  the  time  of  our 
lives.  There  are  still  some  seats  left  on  the 
plane,  but  time  is  getting  short.  Remember 
— the  dates  are  April  17-25  and  the  plane 
leaves  from  Bradley  Field. 

On  November  5,  the  very  active  Engi- 
neering Alumni  Club  held  a  symposium  on 
"The  Problems  of  Environmental  Pollution" 
at  the  Highpoint  Motor  Inn  in  Chicopee. 
Alfred  Wandrei  '50  was  chairman  and  over 
100  people  came  to  learn  about  the  eco- 
logical crisis  we  are  facing. 

After  our  Redmen  football  team  beat 
Holy  Cross  at  Worcester  November  7, 
Bob  '^  and  Mary  Lee  Boyle  Pelosky  '56 
hosted  a  gathering  of  135  alumni.  Real 
interest  was  expressed  in  developing  an 
active  alumni  group  in  the  area.  The  Wor- 
cester Alumnae  Club  has,  over  the  years, 
been  very  resourceful  in  raising  scholarship 
money,  but  now  the  group  is  reorganizing 
to  include  men.  More  on  this  in  the  next 
issue  of  The  Alumnus. 

Bill  Lane,  the  Alumni  Fund  Director, 
and  Joe  Marcus,  Special  Assistant  to  the 
Chancellor  for  Public  Affairs,  traveled  to 
Washington,  D.C.  for  a  National  Capitol 
Club  function  November  12.  Sixty-one 
area  alumni  were  at  the  Flagship  Restaurant 
to  hear  Joe  speak  on  "The  University 
Today."  During  the  course  of  the  evening, 
former  Capitol  Club  President  Ray  Pelissier 
'33  presented  a  citation  to  Colonel  William 
I.  Goodwin  '18  for  his  outstanding  service 
to  the  University  through  its  alumni  clubs. 

Last  fall,  for  the  first  time,  a  class  reuned 
during  Homecoming.  It  was  the  weekend 
of  November  13-15,  the  second  of  two 
Homecomings  held  this  year,  and  the  Class 
of  1965  celebrated  its  5th  in  grand  style. 

People  began  arriving  on  Friday  night 
and  were  immediately  guided  to  Dennis 
Stackhouse's  hospitality  suite.  Before  the 
evening  was  over,  classmates  had  arrived 
from  Washington,  D.C,  Philly  and  Detroit. 
All  told,  we  had  about  100  people  for  the 


various  weekend  events.  I  don't  know 
where  the  rest  of  you  were,  but  you  cer- 
tainly missed  a  fun-packed  weekend.  From 
the  Friday  night  cocktail  party  to  the 
Sunday  afternoon  cocktail  party,  there  was 
never  a  dull  moment. 

The  reunion  was  coordinated  with  student 
run  functions,  which  included  Traffic  and 
David  Frye  on  the  Saturday  night  bill  with 
Buffy  Ste.  Marie  and  the  cast  from  Hair  in 
"Peace  Parade"  on  Sunday.  One  of  the 
highlights  for  me  was  watching  Buffy  in 
her  first  major  concert  on  campus  since 
her  graduation. 

The  success  of  the  weekend  was  directly 
attributable  to  Dennis  Stackhouse  and  his 
very  able  committee.  Dennis  tells  me  he  is 
already  working  on  the  10th  reunion,  so 
you  should  start  making  plans  for  1975. 

On  November  21  we  played  our  final 
football  game,  losing  a  close  one  to  B.C., 
one  of  the  top  teams  in  the  East.  After  the 
game,  about  150  people  attended  a  cocktail 
party  in  the  new  Campus  Center,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Berkshire  Alumni  Club. 

Our  fall  season  came  to  a  close  on 
December   4  with  the  17th  annual  Boston 
Alumni  Club  Sports  Banquet,  at  the  S.S. 
Peter  Stuyvesant  at  Anthony's  Pier  4.  This 
year's  event  \vas  open  to  the  ladies,  and 
one  third  of  the  250  people  present  were 
members  of  the  fair  sex.  The  Boston 
Alumni  Club — Stan  Barron  '51  and  Janice 
Wroblewski  '68  in  particular — are  to  be 
congratulated  for  their  efforts  in  making 
this  event  such  a  success.  Members  of  the 
Athletic  Department  told  me  afterwards 
that  this  was  the  best  UMass  sports  banquet 
they  have  attended. 

Circle  May  21  on  your  calendars — the 
date  of  the  3rd  annual  Varsity  M  Club  Hall 
of  Fame  &  Athletic  Awards  Banquet. 
Previous  inductees  include  Harold  M.  Gore 
'13,  Louis  J.  Bush,  Sr.  '34,  Joseph  Lojko  '34, 
Justin  J.  McCarthy  '21,  Clifton  W.  Morey 
'39,  and  Milton  Morin  '66. 

The  Class  of  1966,  Bernie  Dallas's  class, 
is  planning  on  establishing  the  Bernie  Dallas 
Memorial  Mall,  located  to  the  east  of  the 
football  stadium.  Hopefully,  this  can  be 


A  registration  form  for  Alumni 
Weekend,  June  4-6, 1971,  will  be 
bound  into  the  next  issue  of  The 

Alumnus. 


completed  by  our  5th  reunion  weekend. 
We  would  also  like  to  set  up  a  scholarship 
in  Bernie's  memory,  and  many  money- 
raising  ideas  are  being  kicked  around.  If  all 
goes  well,  one  of  these  may  be  implemented 
by  the  spring.  We're  thinking  of  holding  a 
Bernie  Dallas  Memorial  Football  Game, 
pitting  the  varsity  against  a  team  of  recent 
football  alumni.  If  the  necessary  arrange- 
ments can  be  made,  there  will  be  a  special 
mailing  on  this  in  the  early  spring. 

Finally — if  you  debated  as  a  student  and 
have  not  heard  from  the  Debate  Alumni 
Club  now  being  formed,  please  write  to  the 
debate  coach,  Ronald  J.  Matton,  at  the 
Speech  Department. 


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The  Classes  Report 


1918 

Maj.  Gen.  John  J.  Maginnis  has  written  Military 
Government  Journal,  Normandy  to  Berlin. 
Published  by  the  UMass  Press,  the  Journal 
describes  the  Civil  Affairs/Military  Govern- 
ment which  began  with  the  Normandy  invasion 
in  1944  and  which  is  concerned  with  the 
governing  of  civilians  in  recently  occupied 
or  defeated  nations.  A  review  by  Ivan  Sandrof 
in  the  Worcester  Gazette  states,  "The  book 
will  provide  a  rare  look  at  a  little  publicized 
but  vital  operation  of  the  military.  Gen. 
Maginnis's  records  include  valuable  material 
on  the  Army's  relations  with  French  resistance 
forces  and  on  Soviet-American  confrontations 
during  the  first  months  of  Berlin's  joint 
occupation." 

1928 

Ethan  D.  Moore  retired  as  vice-president  of 
the  Lane  Construction  Corporation  of  Meriden, 
Connecticut,  on  December  31.  He  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Peggy  Little,  plan  to  divide  their 
time  between  their  Florida  home  and  the  new 
house  they  are  building  at  Berne,  New  York. 

Edward  H.  young,  assistant  to  the  president 
and  alumni  executive  secretary  of  Lock  Haven 
State  College,  announced  that  he  will  retire 
July  31.  The  former  vice-chairman  of  the 
Association  of  State  College  Organizations, 
he  was  co-author  of  the  original  draft  of  the 
state  college  autonomy  bill  in  April  1970. 
In  1969,  Governor  Shafer  appointed  him  a 
member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Crime  Com- 
mission. 

The  Thirties 

Fred  H.  Taylor  '33,  a  plant  anatomist  and 
professor  of  botany  at  the  University  of 
Vermont,  was  honored  recently  with  the 
presentation  of  a  rare  variety  of  beech.  A 
plaque  near  the  tree  reads:  "The  members  of 
Dr.  Taylor's  class  in  general  botany  make  this 
gift  as  an  expression  of  appreciation  to  a  fine 
teacher  whose  interest  in  and  concern  for  us  as 
individuals  has  greatly  enriched  our  educational 
experience  at  this  university." 


Russell  E.  MacCleery  '34,  a  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Traffic  Safety  Commission,  is 
manager  of  the  field  services  department  of  the 
Automobile  Manufacturers  Association. 

Albert  B.  Hovey  '3;  has- retired  from  the 
U.S.  Forest  Service  after  thirty-five  years  in 
that  organization. 

George  Walker  Simmons,  Jr.  '33  has  been 
transferred  from  Fort  Worth  to  the  new  area 
office  of  the  Department  of  Housing  and  Urban 
Development  in  San  Antonio  as  Chief,  Plan- 
ning and  Codes  Section. 

Dr.  Alfred  H.  Brueckner  '36  is  a  micro- 
biologist at  the  Veterans  Biology  Division, 

A.R.S.,   U.S.D.A. 

Dr.  Austin  W.  Fisher,  Jr.  '37,  professor  of 
engineering  management  at  Northeastern 
University,  is  on  a  one  year  leave  for  study 
and  writing  in  St.  Croix,  Virgin  Islands. 

Dr.  Parker  E.  Lichtenstein  '3g  has  been 
appointed  the  first  university  professor  at 
Denison  University.  In  his  new  position,  the 
former  chairman  of  the  psychology  department 
at  Denison  will  teach  courses  related  to  several 
disciplines. 

The  Forties 

Joseph  Bornstein  '44  has  been  elected 
chairman  of  the  American  Society  of  Agri- 
cultural Engineers'  North  Atlantic  Region,  an 
area  covering  twelve  northeast  states  and  six 
eastern  provinces. 

Gordon  Paul  Smith  '47  is  in  San  Francisco 
as  vice-president  of  Booz,  Allen  &  Hamilton, 
Inc.,  management  consultants. 

Fred  F.  Guyott,  Jr.  '48  is  general  sales 
manager  for  the  Johns-Manville  Carpet 
Department. 

The  Fifties 

William  Lieberwirth  '30  has  been  named 
assistant  director  of  operations  planning  in  the 
operations  planning  department  of  the 
Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 

William  J.  Quinn  '30,  former  marketing 
manager  of  W.  Pt.  Pepperell  Company  of 
New  York,  is  now  with  H.  Mendel  and  Com- 
pany of  Atlanta. 

Professor  Leonard  W.  Feddema  '32  has  been 
appointed  head  of  the  admissions  staff  at  the 
New  York  State  College  of  Agriculture,  Cornell 
University. 

Lt.  Col.  George  V.  Hogan  '33,  u.s.a.f. 
commands  the  ground  unit  that  supplies, 


installs,  and  readies  for  action  the  varied  types 
of  ordnance  used  on  F-4  Phantom  aircraft  at 
Da  Nang  a.b. 

Richard  T.  Cowern  '33,  owner  and  operator 
of  NewFound  Lake  Marina,  Inc.  in  Hebron, 
New  Hampshire,  left  the  Air  Force  in  1963 
after  nine  years  as  a  pilot. 

Lawrence  M.  Hoff  '33,  an  inventory  manage- 
ment specialist  on  B66  aircraft  at  Robins  a.f.b., 
is  a  member  of  the  association  for  retarded 
children  in  Macon.  He  is  chairman  of  a  com- 
mittee which  recently  opened  a  new  school  for 
the  trainable  retarded. 

Wil  Lepkowski  '36  covers  the  Federal  science 
and  technology  scene  as  a  member  of  the 
McGraw-Hill  Publications  Washington  News 
Bureau.  Publications  include  Business  Week, 
Chemical  Engineering,  and  Engineering  News 
Record. 

Richard  G.  Baldwin  '37  is  assigned  to  the 
office  of  the  safeguard  System  Manager  for 
deployment  of  the  abm,  in  the  office  of  the 
Army  Chief  of  Staff. 

David  S.  Liederman  '37  won  reelection  to 
his  second  term  in  the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representatives.  He  had  been  one  of  those 
responsible  for  the  extensive  housing  legis- 
lation passed  in  1970. 

Ward  J.  May  '37  has  been  named  manager 
of  fabrication-quality-control  engineering  for 
Xerox's  Business  Products  Group. 

Paul  H.  McGuinness  '37  has  been  elected 
assistant  vice-president  of  Boston  Gas. 

Edward  N.  Bennett  '38,  a  director  of  the 
Mechanics  Savings  Bank  of  Hartford,  has  been 
elected  an  assistant  vice-president  of  the 
Hartford  Insurance  Group. 

Robert  J.  DeValle  '38  has  been  named 
director  of  agencies  and  designated  a  senior 
officer  in  the  agency  development  department 
of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

Robert  F.  Wise  '38  is  manager  of  purchasing 
for  the  Warwick  plant  of  the  Leesona 
Corporation. 

Bruce  B.  Dickinson  '30  is  a  rocket  engineer 
with  the  Hercules  Powder  Company  in  Salt 
Lake  City. 

Capt.  Gerald  L.  Emerald  '30,  an  electronic 
warfare  officer  with  a  unit  of  s.a.c,  received  an 
M.A.  in  guidance  and  counseling  from  Central 
Michigan  University. 

Robert  J.  Zaterka  '30  is  manager  of  individual 
programming  for  State  Mutual  of  America. 


3° 


1960 

Rodney  F.  Goulding,  a  member  of  the  staff 
of  Palmer,  Goodell  &  Keeney,  received  desig- 
nation as  a  Chartered  Property  Casualty 
Underwriter  last  October. 

Richard  Lipman  is  teaching  at  the  Bell 
System  School  for  Technical  Education  in 
Lisle,  Illinois. 

1961 

Capt.  David  U.  Burke,  a  health  service  officer, 
received  the  u.s.a.f.  Commendation  Medal  in 
Japan. 

1962 

Dr.  Edward  R.  Balboni  is  spending  sabbatical 
leave  from  Hunter  College  in  Italy  at  the 
Institute  of  General  Pathology,  University  of 
Padova. 

Bonny  Waye  Chirayath  is  a  nutritionist  with 
the  Cleveland  Department  of  Nutrition  and 
Health. 

George  D.  Hamer  is  an  air  traffic  controller 
with  the  Boston  Air  Route  Traffic  Control 
Center. 

George  and  Judith  Sprague  Selig  have  two 
daughters,  aged  3  and  15  months. 

Maj.  Vincent  R.  Suppicich  'G,  a  senior 
navigator,  received  his  third  award  of  the 
Air  Medal  for  missions  flown  in  Viet  Nam. 

1963 

Donald  C.  Cournoyer,  a  partner  in  the  law 
firm  of  O'Shaughnessy  &  Cournoyer,  is  the 
Public  Prosecutor  for  Southbridge  and 
Sturbridge  and  Director  and  Conveyancor  for 
the  Southbridge  Credit  Union.  He  and  his 
wife  Barbara  have  two  children:  6-year-old 
Donald,  Jr.  and  2-year-old  Melissa. 

William  F.  Harwood  is  administrative  direc- 
tor and  assistant  treasurer  of  America  Institute 
Counselors,  Inc.,  and  administrative  director  of 
the  American  Institute  for  Economic  Research. 
He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Diana  Piatkowski 
'61,  have  three  children:  Heidi,  Hally,  and 
Scott. 

Capt.  William  J.  Kincaid  received  the  combat 
"V"  for  valor  for  contributing  to  the  awarding 
of  the  Outstanding  Unit  Award  to  the  Third 
Air  Division  in  Guam. 

David  R.  Michaud  is  a  housing  project 
manager  at  Westover  a.f.b. 


1964 

James  E.  Bulger  has  received  his  Ph.D.  in 
biochemistry  from  Purdue  University.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Deborah  Selig,  have  two 
children:  Jennifer,  2,  and  Suzanne,  9  months. 

Robert  Clinton,  Jr.  is  employed  by  the 
Marriott  Corporation  and  is  director  of  food 
services  at  the  National  Cathedral  School  in 
Washington,  D.C.  His  wife,  the  former  Dianne 
Paskowsky,  is  a  substitute  teacher  in  the 
Montgomery  County  School  system.  The 
Clintons  have  three  sons. 

Charles  D.  Hadley,  Jr.,  an  instructor  in  the 
Department  of  Political  Science  at  Louisiana 
State  University,  married  Mary  Turner  on 
February  7,  1970. 

Priscilla  Hurlbutt  Boyle  is  a  substitute 
teacher  in  Florida. 

Allan  W.  Johnson,  an  actuarial  student  at 
Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, and  his  wife,  the  former  Kathleen  Eich- 
horn  '6;,  have  announced  the  birth  of  Lynne 
Ann,  born  November  15, 1969. 

Capt.  Garry  R.  Kwist  is  attending  the  Air 
University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at  Max- 
well A.F.B. 

Arnold  Most,  recently  promoted  to  staff 
industrial  engineer  with  I.B.M.,  dropped  us  a 
line  about  his  last  visit  to  campus:  "We  were 
back  last  summer  and  were  proud  to  see  the 
many  new  buildings.  Also,  I  am  proud  to  see 
so  many  UMass  graduates  assuming  important 
positions  in  business  and  engineering."  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Deborah  Bush  '66,  have 
announced  the  birth  of  their  second  daughter, 
born  in  February  1970. 

P.  Kimball  Wallace,  who  had  been  president 
of  his  Class  at  UMass,  is  now  an  account 
executive  with  The  Bresnick  Company. 

1965 

Richard  C.  Franson,  a  Ph.D.  candidate  at 
the  Bowman  Gray  School  of  Medicine  at 
Wake  Forest  University,  received  his  M.S.  in 
biochemistry  in  August.  Teresa  Joseph  Franson 
'66  received  an  M.A.  in  English/Education  from 
Wake  Forest  in  June.  The  couple  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Kristen  Marlene,  bom 
September  13,  1970. 

Richard  Ginkus  and  his  wife  Trudy  are  in 
Del  Rio,  Texas,  where  he  is  with  the  National 
Park  Service.  After  graduation,  he  had  spent 
two  years  with  the  Peace  Corps  in  Peru. 

Wade  Houk  is  the  European  budget  officer 
for  the  U.S.  Information  Agency,  having 


received  an  M.A.  in  international  relations  from 
Indiana  University.  He  and  his  wife  Doris  have 
two  children,  ages  4  and  1. 

Marcia  E.  Kane  is  a  teacher  in  Australia. 

Thomas  E.  Mahoney,  Jr.  is  central  region 
manager  for  Stanley  Power  Tools,  a  division 
of  The  Stanley  Works  of  Connecticut. 

Capt.  Daniel  E.  O'hAara  111  received  the 
Distinguished  Flying  Cross  for  his  work  as  a 
C-130  Hercules  forward  air  controller  and 
pilot  in  Southeast  Asia. 

1966 

Capt.  Marcus  J.  Boyle,  u.s.a.f.,  an  administra- 
tive management  officer,  is  on  duty  in  Viet 
Nam. 

Arnold  M.  Daniels  has  been  awarded  an 
M.S.  degree  in  industrial  engineering  by 
UMass. 

Roderick  P.  Hart  is  an  assistant  professor 
of  communications  at  Purdue. 

Sue  Ann  Schoenberger  Johnston  'G  received 
her  master's  in  French  from  UMass  and  is 
teaching  at  the  John  Hersey  High  School  in 
Wheeling,  Illinois. 

Paul  E.  Kaplan,  a  doctoral  candidate  who 
received  his  master's  last  year  in  special  educa- 
tion from  Columbia  University  Teacher's 
College,  is  employed  in  the  preschool  depart- 
ment of  the  St.  Francis  de  Sales  School  for  the 
Deaf  in  Brooklyn. 

Gary  R.  Spongberg  has  returned  to  his 
position  as  junior  engineer  with  the  New  York 
State  Department  of  Transportation  after  a 
three  year  tour  of  duty  with  Army  military 
intelligence. 

1967 

Naseer  H.  Aruri  'G,  now  on  the  faculty  of 
Southeastern  Massachusetts  University,  is  co- 
author of  Enemy  of  the  Sun,  a  book  of  poetry 
of  Palestinian  Resistance.  According  to  the 
authors,  the  poetry,  "compels  us  to  confront 
squarely  the  issues  of  liberation"  and  "is 
basically  a  poetry  of  revolution  and  change." 

Capt.  Raymond  M.  Bennert,  a  planning  and 
programming  officer,  received  the  u.s.a.f. 
Commendation  Medal. 

Robert  W.  Gagnon  is  Deputy  State  Attorney 
for  the  State  of  Vermont — Montpelier  County. 

Capt.  Richard  Grinnell  is  at  Tan  Son  Nhut 
Air  Base  in  Viet  Nam. 

l/Lt.  Mark  J.  Kassler  was  awarded  an 
M.B.A.  by  Suffolk  University. 

Capt.  David  A.  Rohrs  is  with  the  Air  Force 


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in  Germany  where  he  is  responsible  for  the 
control  of  fighter  interceptor  air  defense 
missions  in  n.a.t.o. 

A.  Joseph  Ross  received  a  J.D.  degree  from 
Boston  University  School  of  Law  last  June  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  in 
November. 

Marcia  M.  Wisemon,  who  married  John  F. 
Capron  in  on  January  9, 1970,  is  a  social 
worker  with  the  State  of  Delaware. 

Robert  J.  York  'G,  a  chemical  corps  officer 
assigned  to  the  Army  Mobility  Equipment 
Research  and  Development  Center  at  Fort 
Belvoir,  was  promoted  to  captain. 

1968 

Carl  Aframe  and  Bill  Downey  have  recently 
completed  tours  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam  with  the 
1131st  Special  Activities  Squadron  of  the 
Air  Force. 

Kenny  W.  Aldrich  'G  is  employed  by  the 
Third  National  Bank  of  Hampden  County. 
He  has  returned  to  West  Springfield  after 
serving  in  the  Army. 

Sgt.  Albert  H.  Belsky  is  assistant  funds 
manager  at  Cam  Ranh  Bay  Air  Base  in  Viet 
Nam. 

Nancy  L.  Bien,  a  guidance  counselor  at  the 
State  University  of  New  York,  Urban  Center  in 
Brooklyn,  earned  her  master's  in  August.  In 
September,  she  married  David  Diffendale,  a 
Ph.D.  candidate  at  Fordham  University. 

George  E.  Dimock,  who  is  married  to 
Maureen  L.  Madigan,  is  a  first  lieutenant  in 
the  Air  Force  on  duty  in  Thailand. 

Martin  I.  Estner,  who  is  attending  the 
Suffolk  University  Law  School  evening  divi- 
sion, is  with  the  Harvard  Trust  Company  in 
Cambridge.  He  married  Lois  J.  Bloom  '69,  an 
English  teacher  in  Wellesley,  on  June  21, 1970. 

Lee  A.  Finkelstein,  who  married  James  W. 
Berry  on  July  5, 1970,  is  a  third  year  student  at 
the  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania. 

Margaret  Smith  Szewczyk  is  a  doctoral 
candidate  in  history  at  Indiana  University. 

Capt.  Jay  H.  Waldman  is  in  Viet  Nam. 

ilLt.  Alan  H.  Webster  received  the  Air 
Medal  for  his  outstanding  performance  in 
Viet  Nam. 

Elyse  A.  Wright,  previously  a  teacher  in 
East  Liverpool,  has  been  appointed  sociology 
and  temporary  anthropology  instructor  at 
Kent  State  University's  Division  of  University 
Branches. 

George  F.  Zebrowski,  Jr.,  a  managing  editor 


for  the  Buttenheim  Publishing  Corporation  of 
Pittsfield,  married  Marsha  M.  Richey  '69  on 
May  16, 1970.  Marsha  is  a  music  teacher  in  the 
Central  Berkshire  Regional  school  system. 

1969 

Arthur  R.  Cohen,  former  manager  of  the  news 
and  public  affairs  department  of  wfcr-fm,  has 
been  promoted  to  manager  of  programming 
at  the  station. 

Tom  Coury  and  Bob  Servaggio  have  recently 
completed  Viet  Nam  tours  of  duty  with  the 
1131st  Special  Activities  Squadron,  u.s.a.f. 

zILt.  Peter  V.  Donaldson,  a  weather  officer, 
is  at  Kirtland  a.f.b.  with  a  unit  of  the  Air 
Weather  Service. 

Harvey  D.  Elman  is  director  of  public  rela- 
tions and  publicity  for  the  College  Consulting 
Service  in  Boston. 

Sandra  Clark  Hackford  is  a  research  dietitian 
at  the  New  York  Hospital. 

Joanne  Loughnane  Keegan  is  employed  by 
the  telephone  company  in  Boston. 

Martin  M.  Kenney  is  enrolled  in  the  Babson 
College  master  of  business  administration 
degree  program. 

Deborah  Ann  Johnson  Kobeissi  is  completing 
work  under  a  Federal  fellowship  on  a  master's 
in  special  education  at  Illinois  State  University. 
She  is  teaching  in  Peoria  part-time  and  working 
with  student  personnel  services  as  assistant 
dorm  director. 

Kathleen  M.  Koumjian,  who  married  Timothy 
Vackson  on  June  13, 1970,  is  teaching  at  the 
Patricia  Steven  Fashion  Institute  in  Vancouver. 

Maria  K.  Plaza  is  a  software  specialist  for 
PDP-10  computers  at  Digital  Equipment 
Corporation  in  Maynard. 

Regina  Clarke  Sackmary ,  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
at  the  Graduate  Center  of  the  City  University 
of  New  York,  is  a  lecturer  at  the  City  College 
of  New  York. 

Betty  Scheinfeldt,  who  is  completing  her 
training  as  a  Salvation  Army  officer,  is  assistant 
director  of  a  home  for  unwed  mothers  in 
Cleveland. 

Gregory  and  Marjorie  Raschdorf  Scieszka 
are  working  on  masters  degrees  in  education  at 
UMass. 

Nancy  A.  Soucy,  who  married  Wayne  M. 
Noel  on  August  8, 1969,  is  a  physical  education 
teacher  in  Texas. 

Richard  W.  Story  has  been  employed  for  the 
past  year  as  a  staff  assistant  in  the  Provost's 
Office  at  the  University. 


1970 

Edward  Bowe  is  assistant  director  of  student 
activities  at  Morris  County  College. 

Gerald  C.  Chenoweth,  a  graduate  student  at 
the  University,  and  Jeanne  Lynn  were  married 
June  20,  1970. 

Stewart  A.  Kaplan  is  a  graduate  student  at 
UMass,  working  on  an  M.A.  in  humanistic 
education. 

Dennis  J,  Waibel,  a  chemical  engineer,  is 
with  the  research  division  of  the  Rohm  & 
Haas  Company  assigned  to  the  research  process 
engineering  department  in  Bristol, 
Pennsylvania. 

Marriages 

Ruth  M.  Orzechowski  '57  to  John  F.  Dembski. 
Barbara  J.  Vaughn  '64  to  Joseph  Fontana, 
September  19, 1970.  Sheila  P.  Brown  '6$  to 
J.  Michael  Dunican.  Susan  J.  Elder  '6;  to 
Frank  A.  Zoltek,  June  29, 1968.  Margaret  Ellis 
'65  to  Benjamin  Feldman.  Carol  Ann  Parker  '65 
to  Stephen  Barden.  Allen  K.  Dickinson  '66  to 
Phyllis  M.  Judson  '68.  Dorette  M.  Gelzinis  '66 
to  Richard  L.  Markham,  August  1, 1970. 
Sally  A.  Gerry  '66  to  Richard  D.  Stone,  August 
19,  1969.  Mary  E.  Sweeney  '66  to  Edmund  J. 
Nocera,  Jr.  Bernadette  Basarab  '67  to  Robert  D. 
Avery,  June  9,  1968.  Margaret  M.  Dunston  '6j 
to  Mayo  B.  Parks.  Irene  P.  Lazutin  '67  to 
Mohammed  Ghazi.  Joan  R.  Rabinovitz  '67  to 
Leonard  Talkov.  Kathleen  M.  Roche  '67  to 
George  S.  McCarthy.  Carol  A.  Rudge  '67  to 
David  W.  Lodding,  August  1967.  Nancy  Lee 
Jahn  '6g  to  William  P.  Thorns  '67.  Carol  E. 
Bolduan  '68  to  Richard  A.  Shine.  Kenneth  S. 
Chapman  '68  to  Sharon  L.  Redfield  '68,  June 
22, 1968.  Karen  M.  Kuczarski  '68  to  Paul  J. 
McGettrick.  Carolyn  Morrie  '68G  to  Mr.  Travis. 
Richard  Perkins  '68  to  Shirley  Mandell  '6a. 
Julie  A.  Quincy  '68  to  Roger  Jones.  Phillips  H. 
Sargent,  Jr.  '68  to  Cynthia  F.  Haigh  '70,  Febru- 
ary 1970.  Leon  E.  Souweine,  Jr.  '68  to  Ruth 
McCullough  '68,  December  28,  1968.  Christine 
E.  Lowe  '6a  to  Robert  B.  Carlsen  '69.  Edward 
M.  Mackie  '69  to  Judie  Streim,  August  15, 1970. 
Susan  H.  Ostrander  '69  to  Robert  Bruntil. 
Suzanne  M.  Fredett  '70  to  Jon  T.  Park  '69. 
Susan  E.  Patch  '69  to  David  Rochette.  Carol  A. 
Podolski  '69  to  Noel  Scablik.  Coreen  L.  Rice  '69 
to  Richard  K.  Thiele. 

Births 

John  Anthony  born  March  19, 1969  to  John  and 


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Mary  Lou  Walters  Hagen  '57.  Tracy  Sylvia 
born  July  2, 1970  to  Ronald  '58  and  Sylvia 
Finos  Vacca  '59.  Gary  Allyn  born  June  29, 
1970  to  Allyn  and  Diana  Carlson  Peterson  '62. 
Todd  Ehnes  born  December  2, 1969  to  Ronald 
and  Carole  Ehnes  Stribley  '62.  Amy  Allison 
born  August  16, 1970  to  Paul  '64  and  Joanne 
Sullivan  Jaszek  '6$.  Christopher  Robert  born 
January  21,  1970  to  Nancy  and  Ronald  Julius 
'65.  David  Paul  born  October  20, 1970  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Robert  M.  Hutton  '65G.  Thomas 
Joseph  in  born  September  24,  1970  to  Thomas 
and  Anne  Richards  Stoudt  '6;.  Helen  Marie 
born  August  21, 1970  to  Charles  and  Helen 
Martin  Flanagan  '66.  Mark  Ira  born  March  11, 
1970  to  Steven  and  Joyce  Norman  Pyenson  '66. 
Douglas  Robert  born  December  23,  1969  to 
Robert  and  Carol  Olsen  Cloutier  '67.  Matthew 
Patrick  born  October  13, 1970  to  Mark  and 
Cheryl  Bogie  McMahon  '68.  Amy  Lynn  born 
November  12,  1970  to  Patricia  and  Donald  C. 
Willoughby  '68.  A  son  born  November  23, 1970 
to  Andrea  and  Robert  Foley  '6g. 

Obituaries 

Myron  S.  Hazen  '10  died  November  12, 1970. 
He  was  employed  by  the  Coe  Mortimer 
Fertilizer  Company  in  1910  and  advanced  to 
president  in  1916.  The  company  merged  with 
the  American  Agricultural  Chemical  Company 
in  1920,  and  he  was  manager  of  service  for 
field  research  and  farm  service  when  he  retired 
in  1946.  From  1946  to  1963,  he  successfully 
operated  his  fruit  farm  in  Milton,  New  York. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and  brother. 

Reyer  H.  Van  Zwaluwenburg  '13  died  Octo- 
ber 22,  1970.  Van,  a  prominent  member  of  his 
class  at  M.A.C,  served  as  class  historian,  as  a 
member  of  the  Index  board,  and  on  the  College 
Signal  for  four  years.  He  was  a  member  of  Phi 
Sigma  Kappa  and  Phi  Kappa  Phi.  A  nationally 
known  entomologist,  he  had  done  research  in 
the  U.S.,  Puerto  Rico,  Mexico,  Africa,  Europe, 
Japan,  and,  finally,  Hawaii.  His  work  in  Europe 
was  funded  by  the  National  Science  Founda- 
tion, and,  in  Hawaii,  he  was  with  the  Hawaiian 
Sugar  Planters  Association  for  thirty-one  years. 
The  1965  Fernald  Club  yearbook  was  dedicated 
to  him.  Van  was  a  fellow  of  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science 
and  past  president  of  the  Hawaiian  Entomo- 
logical Society.  His  wife,  son,  and  three 
grandchildren  survive  him. 

Edwin  C.  Towne  '15  died  on  October  16, 1970. 


Raymond  A.  Cashing,  who  entered  M.A.C. 
with  the  Class  of  '16,  died  September  3, 1970. 
After  serving  with  the  Eighth  Cavalry  during 
World  War  I,  he  went  to  Wyoming  to  learn 
cattle  raising  and  finally  purchased  a  ranch 
near  Littleton,  Colorado.  Later,  he  acquired  a 
3,000  acre  spread  near  Laramie  which  he  finally 
sold  for  a  smaller  place  near  Wheatland, 
Wyoming.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife. 

Raymond  T.  Stowe  '18  died  June  15, 1970. 
In  1920  he  had  become  vice-president  in  charge 
of  sales  for  the  Wirthmore  Feeds  organization. 
A  former  member  of  the  Rotary  Club  of  Green- 
field, member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of 
Concord,  and  Life  Deacon  of  the  Trinitarian 
Congregational  Church  of  Christ  in  Concord, 
he  was  always  a  loyal  alumnus  of  the  Univer- 
sity. His  wife,  four  children,  and  fifteen  grand- 
children survive  him. 

Paul  B.  Brown,  who  entered  M.A.C.  with  the 
Class  of  '21,  died  April  20, 1970. 

Tscharner  D.  Watkins,  Sr.  '21  died  November 
19,  1970.  The  senior  member  of  Watkins 
Nurseries  in  Virginia,  he  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  five  children,  and  nine  grandchildren. 

Arthur  "Larry"  Swift  '22  died  on  October  21, 
1970.  He  had  been  a  teacher  of  chemistry  and 
biology  at  Amherst  High  School  for  over  thirty 
years  before  his  retirement  in  1964.  He  had  also 
been  director  of  visual  aids  for  the  Amherst 
school  system  and  for  church  organizations. 
In  i960,  Larry  was  the  first  recipient  of  the 
Robert  Frost  Award,  personally  presented  by 
Robert  Frost,  "in  recognition  of  creative  and 
effective  work  done  on  a  secondary  level." 
In  1961,  he  again  received  the  award.  In  1962, 
he  received  the  UMass  Associate  Alumni 
Certificate  of  Distinguished  Service.  That  same 
year,  the  Amherst  Citizen  Award  in  recognition 
of  many  years  of  service  to  the  community  was 
presented  to  him.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
North  Congregational  Church  (where  he  held  a 
number  of  offices),  a  corporator  of  the  Amherst 
Savings  Bank,  and  an  avid  fisherman.  His  wife, 
two  children,  and  four  grandchildren  survive 
him. 

Lester  C.  Peterson  '36  died  August  24, 1970. 
He  received  his  Ph.D.  in  plant  pathology  from 
Cornell  in  1942.  He  remained  at  that  university 
and,  in  1956,  became  a  full  professor.  Dr. 
Peterson,  whose  work  centered  on  improving 
the  potato  for  quality  and  resistance  to  blight, 
wrote  many  articles  for  technical  and  profes- 
sional publications. 


Dr.  Raymond  J.  Hock  '43  died  August  28, 
1970.  He  was  hit  by  a  falling  branch  during  a 
windstorm  while  camping  in  the  Grand  Canyon. 

William  Edward  Stadler  '46  died  October  17, 
1970.  He  was  employed  as  a  land  appraiser  for 
the  U.S.  Fisheries  and  Wildlife  Service.  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  three  children,  his  father, 
and  two  sisters. 

Henry  L.  Thompson  '50  died  April  25, 1970. 

Jean  Grayson,  who  entered  the  University 
with  the  Class  of  '52,  died  recently.  She  had 
been  secretary  to  the  U.S.  Ambassador  to  Israel 
for  the  past  three  years.  In  the  Foreign  Service 
since  1954,  she  had  served  many  embassies  all 
over  the  world.  Her  parents  and  two  sisters 
survive  her. 

Robert  F.  O'Reilly  '58  died  November  4, 
1970  from  injuries  sustained  in  an  automobile 
accident.  A  graduate  of  Boston  College  Law 
School,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bar  and  was  a  claims  adjuster  for  Allstate  in 
Burlington,  Vermont.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  the  former  Valerie  Bombardier  '56,  four 
daughters,  three  sisters,  and  five  brothers. 

Clark  Mitchell  '39  died  November  13, 1970. 

Norbert  Tessier  '60  died  December  6, 1970  in 
the  unexplained  crash  of  his  flying  club  aircraft. 
Norbie  held  a  commercial  pilot's  rating  and 
had  recently  passed  written  tests  for  an  instru- 
ment flight  rating.  An  employee  of  i.b.m.,  he 
leaves  his  wife,  the  former  Sally  Swift  '60,  and 
two  children. 

Stanislaus  J.  J.  Rusek  '62  died  April  9, 1970. 

Kenneth  A.  White  '62  died  in  Viet  Nam. 

Clarence  B.  Shelnutt  '63  died  June  4, 1970. 

Timothy  F.  Murphy,  Jr.  '6a  died  in  October 
1970  in  Viet  Nam.  A  former  sports  writer  for 
the  Collegian,  he  was  regarded  as  one  of  the 
best  writers  in  that  paper's  history. 


'Kids'  Stuff 


Forty-eight  youngsters,  guided  by  Lucy 
Szalankiewicz  Ruland  '69,  are  busy  putting 
together  a  newspaper  involving  the  entire 
student  body  of  the  Flower  Hill  Elementary 
School  in  Port  Washington,  New  York.  The 
recent  subject  of  a  Time  magazine  article, 
"Kids'  Stuff"  is  in  its  second  year  and  comes 
out  three  times  annually. 

When  interviewed  with  her  pint-sized 
newspaper  staff,  Lucy  Ruland  wore  a  red  knit 
pantsuit  and  a  bright  yellow  blouse.  It  was 
a  far  cry  from  her  seven  years  as  a  nun  in 
the  Felician  order  in  Enfield,  Connecticut. 
For  five  of  those  years,  she  had  taught  in  a 
parochial  school.  But  she  had  felt  restricted 
by  the  rules  that  kept  her  from  using  her  talents 
to  the  fullest,  and  she  was  troubled  by  the 
fact  that  she  had  taken  her  vows.  Mrs.  Ruland 
admits  to  a  great  deal  of  soul-searching  before 
she  made  the  decision  to  leave  the  order. 
A  Polish  priest,  Father  Cegielka,  finally  gave 
her  the  courage  to  do  so.  "My  daughter," 
he  said,  "take  God  by  the  hand  and  walk 
out  of  here." 

When  she  left  the  order  in  1965,  she  plunged 
into  the  world  of  business.  First  she  wrote 
radio  copy  for  a  station  in  Massachusetts, 
and  later  did  public  relations  work  for  Steuben 
Glass  in  New  York  City.  It  was  then  she  met 
the  man  who  is  now  her  husband.  Gardner 
Ruland,  whom  she  married  on  July  4, 1969, 
has  been  a  paraplegic  since  he  was  wounded 
during  the  Korean  War,  when  he  was  19. 
Half  of  their  four  year  courtship  was  carried 
out  via  telephone  when  Lucy  went  back  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  to  complete  the 
requirements  for  her  degree.  She  then  applied 
for  a  teaching  position  at  the  Flower  Hill 
School,  and  was  accepted. 

Her  work  on  "Kids'  Stuff"  is  very  demanding, 
although  much  of  the  burden  is  shouldered 
by  the  children  themselves.  "Roving  Reporter" 
Bud  Lavery  canvasses  every  classroom  to  find 
out  what  activities  are  in  progress.  Material 
ranging  from  poems  to  crossword  puzzles  is 
accumulated  by  the  teacher  of  each  class. 


Under  the  leadership  of  Editor  in  Chief 
Ed  Glassman,  the  contributions  are  edited  and 
recopied.  Layouts  are  made,  and  the  art 
department,  headed  by  Pam  Driscoll  and 
Elise  Ciregno,  embellishes  the  whole  thing 
with  original  drawings.  Two  Flower  Hill 
employees  do  the  typing  and  run  off  the 
mimeographed  copies,  which  are  then  dis- 
tributed free  throughout  the  school. 

As  noted  in  Time,  "Kids'  Stuff"  is  definitely  a 
success,  and  Lucy  Ruland  deserves  much  of 
the  credit.  According  to  Principal  Lee  Aschen- 
brenner,  the  rest  of  the  Flower  Hill  School 
faculty  all  "take  their  hats  off  to  her." 


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The  Alumnus 

April/May  1971 

Volume  II,  Number  2 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

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CREDITS : 

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Gib  Fullerton,  pages  1  and  2. 
Mike  Feinstein,  page  3. 
Tracie  Rozhon,  page  5. 
Index,  pages  6,  8  and  10  (left). 
Clemens  Calischer,  page  9. 
Jim  Gerhard,  page  10  (right). 
Gail  Oakland,  page  19. 
Russ  Mariz,  page  27. 


In  This  Issue 

Black  &  White  in  the  Valley 

Bonnie  Barrett  Stretch,  a  Mount  Holyoke 
alumna,  writes  of  the  development  of  Black 
Studies  and  the  position  of  black  students  and 
faculty  at  Amherst,  Hampshire,  Mount  Hol- 
yoke, Smith,  and  the  University.  This  is  the 
fourth  annual  five  college  magazine  supple- 
ment. Page  3. 

The  Black  Way  of  Life 

Johnetta  Cole  discusses  the  academic  view  of 
black  subculture  in  an  article  designed  as  an 
introduction  to  black  anthropology.  Mrs.  Cole, 
an  associate  professor  of  Afro-American 
Studies  and  anthropology,  has  included  a  read- 
ing list  for  those  who  wish  to  pursue  the 
subject  further.  Page  11. 

Lacrosse 

The  Indians  invented  it,  the  UMass  team  excels 
at  it,  and  Peter  Pascarelli  writes  about  it. 
Page  22. 

"Don't  get  nervous.  ..."     page  1 

The  Academy     page  16 

On  Campus     page  18 

From  the  Sidelines     page  24 

Comment     page  26 

Club  Calendar     page  26 

The  Classes  Report     page  27 


// 


Don't  get  nervous- 
it's  only  a  game." 

KATIE  5.  GILLMOR 


"Where's  Julie?"  "We're  missing  someone 
else  too.  I  only  count  twelve."  "No,  there 
are  thirteen  players.  Where's  Julie?" 

The  bus  waited  for  Julius  Erving  outside 
Boyden  on  the  afternoon  of  March  19,  amid 
snow  flurries  and  musical  diversion  from 
the  pep  band.  The  basketball  team  was  head- 
ing for  New  York  City  to  face  top-rated 
North  Carolina  in  the  first  round  of  the  nit, 
and  Erving,  the  star  player,  was  five  minutes 
late. 

When  he  hurried  on  board  the  bus  pulled 
out,  and  Jack  Leaman,  the  head  coach,  set- 
tled grimly  into  his  seat.  Someone  whistled 
for  a  few  minutes,  then  stopped.  Leaman 
opened  a  newspaper  and  most  of  his  players 
followed  suit. 

The  trip,  which  ought  to  have  taken  less 
than  four  hours,  lasted  five.  There  was 
snow  and  then  rain;  there  was  an  unsched- 
uled stop  in  Springfield;  there  was  traffic 
and  the  bus  driver  was  not  familiar  with  the 
route. 

Conversation  was  sporadic  until  after 
Springfield.  The  talk  centered  on  ucla  and 
Assumption,  and  then  on  the  press's  cov- 
erage of  Julie.  One  kid,  referring  to  a  draw- 
ing of  Erving  by  the  Springfield  Daily  News 
cartoonist  Jimmy  Trelease  '63,  said,  "You 
look  like  Muhammad  Ali  after  he's  been 
smacked  in  the  jaw."  Erving  barely  re- 
sponded. He  sat  quietly  with  a  wad  of  cotton 
stuck  in  one  nostril,  waiting  for  his  nose 
to  stop  bleeding. 

They  talked  a  little  about  the  nit,  and 
about  the  sign  that  someone  had  tacked  on 
the  Cage  door  after  the  loss  to  Springfield 
last  February :  a  drawing  of  a  tombstone 


inscribed  "r.i.p. — n.i.t." 

They  talked  about  girls  too.  One  guy  was 
kidded  about  the  girl  he  had  been  with  in 
Maine.  "She  was  so  ugly,  it  hurt  your  feel- 
ings to  look  at  her." 

Someone  produced  a  pack  of  cards  that 
measured  5"  x  7".  "Hey,  Julie,"  he  said, 
"can  you  shuffle  these?"  Erving  coolly  han- 
dled the  deck  while  Mike  Pagliara,  the  5'io 
guard,  laughed  and  said,  "I  can't  get  my 
hands  anywhere  near  them."  He  dug  out  a 
pack  of  cards  more  his  size  and  started  a 
game  of  whist  at  the  back  of  the  bus.  He 
and  John  Betancourt  (the  other  5 '10  guard), 
Chris  Coffin  (a  6'4  forward),  and  athletic 
trainer  Jim  Laughnane  '61  sat  around  a 
precariously  balanced  valise,  apparently 


more  interested  in  flamboyant  arguments 
about  rules  than  in  getting  down  to  business. 

Leaman  walked  to  the  back  of  the  bus 
and  grabbed  Betancourt's  hair,  saying  to 
Laughnane,  "Give  him  a  little  trim,  will 
you?"  Laughnane  indicated  Pag's  hair  and 
the  Coach  said,  "Yeah,  it's  longer  than 
my  daughter's.  Anyone  have  some  clippers? 
You  know,  I  saw  some  of  the  greatest  moves 
in  practice  today — shoot  and  push  your 
hair  back,  pass  and  push  your  hair  back." 
As  Leaman  moved  back  to  his  seat,  Erving 
took  Laughnane's  place  at  the  valise  and  the 
game  settled  down. 

The  rest  of  the  team  was  either  sleeping 
or  reading,  and  John  Betancourt  decided  to 
shake  things  up.  "Hey,  Julie,"  he  said,  "wake 


Julius  Erving  tries  to  block  a  shot. 

On  page  i,  John  Betancourt  moves  down 
the  court  under  pressure. 


up  Bobby  Powers.  Tell  him  Coach  Leaman 
wants  him."  Erving  declined.  "Pag,  you  do 
it,"  said  Betancourt.  Julius  interrupted, 
"Cut  it  out.  Why  not  let  him  sleep?" 
"What's  the  matter?"  Betancourt  answered. 
"Are  you  the  good  guy  on  this  trip?"  Erving 
subsided  and  Betancourt  did  his  own  dirty 
work.  Powers  was  shaken  awake  and  told, 
"The  Coach  wants  you."  Bobby  stared  at 
John  for  a  moment,  then  grabbed  a  news- 
paper and  smacked  him  with  it.  "That's  the 
second  time  you've  done  that.  Don't  do  it 
again,"  he  yelled.  But  Betancourt  was  satis- 
fied and  went  back  to  playing  whist. 

The  trip  seemed  interminable.  Every  five 
minutes  someone  would  say  "Where  are 
we?"  or  "How  much  longer?"  As  the  bus 
finally  began  to  work  its  way  through  the 
rush  hour  traffic,  the  whist  game  broke  up. 
A  moment  before  Pagliara  had  dropped  the 
cards  he  was  holding  and  Erving  had  said, 
"Don't  be  nervous,  don't  be  nervous — it's 
only  a  game." 

The  Redmen  met  North  Carolina  at  11 
a.m.  the  following  morning.  The  game  was  a 
shambles.  Erving  got  four  personal  fouls 
in  the  first  half  and  was  fouled  out  of  the 
game  within  five  minutes  of  the  second 
half.  Two  minutes  before,  John  Betancourt 
had  slammed  into  the  base  of  the  oppon- 
ents' basket,  injuring  his  ankle.  As  Jack 
Leaman  said  later,  "I  would  never  have  be- 
lieved that  my  two  best  players  would  play 
only  23  minutes  each  in  the  nit." 

It  was  unbelievable.  So  was  the  score — 
90-49.  North  Carolina  had  handed  Leaman 
his  worst  defeat  in  five  years  of  coaching. 

As  the  score  suggests,  the  UMass  team 
was  not  at  their  best.  There  were  far  too 
many  turnovers,  and  they  couldn't  hit  even 
when  they  could  hold  onto  the  ball.  The 
kind  of  brilliant  effort  that  made  the  victory 
over  Syracuse  possible  was  missing.  But 
it  wasn't  until  Julie  was  fouled  out  that  the 
game  became  a  rout.  And  even  then,  UMass 
fought  desperately — battered  by  the  Tar 
Heels'  brutal  defense  and  demoralized,  of- 
fensively, by  their  uncanny  accuracy.  Fi- 
nally numb,  the  Redmen  heard  the  buzzer 
ending  the  game. 


The  bus  ride  home  Sunday  began  as 
grimly  as  the  game  had  ended  the  day  be- 
fore. But  Leaman  made  a  point  of  sitting 
with  the  players,  joking  with  them  and  giv- 
ing them  reassurance.  By  the  time  the  driver 
had  found  his  way  out  of  New  York,  (he 
still  wasn't  familiar  with  the  route,)  spirits 
had  improved  to  the  point  that  Betancourt, 
Pagliara,  Coffin  and  Charlie  Peters  felt  up 
to  playing  whist. 

As  the  bus  pulled  up  beside  Boyden,  the 
players  piled  out  with  the  Coach's  voice 
ringing  in  their  ears :  "And  remember — keep 
practicing.  Start  next  Monday." 


Sam  Provo  shoots;  Rich  Vogeley  is  in 
the  foreground. 


Black  and  White 
in  the  Valley 

BONNIE  BARRETT  STRETCH 


A  Five  College  supplement  to  the 
alumni  magazines  of  Amherst 
College,  Mount  Holyoke  College, 
Smith  College,  and  the  University 
of  Massachusetts,  with  the  par- 
ticipation of  Hampshire  College. 


When  Martin  Luther  King  was  killed — way 
back  in  1968 — white  America  wept  with 
remorse  and  guilt  and  vowed  to  do  better  by 
its  black  brethren.  The  nation's  colleges 
and  universities,  in  particular,  pledged 
themselves  to  new  efforts  toward  an  inte- 
grated society,  and  promised  to  increase 
black  enrollment,  create  new  scholarships, 
hire  more  black  faculty  members  and 
administrators,  and  develop  more  Afro- 
American  curricula. 

The  four  valley  institutions — Smith, 
Mount  Holyoke,  Amherst,  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Massachusetts,  (Hampshire  was  as 
yet  unborn) — were  certainly  among  the  most 
concerned.  Indeed,  Mount  Holyoke  in  1963 
had  begun  intensively  to  recruit  black  stu- 
dents and  had  been  involved  since  1965  in 
programs  such  as  A  Better  Chance  (abc), 
to  help  disadvantaged  black  youth  enter 
preparatory  schools  and  eventually  enroll 
in  colleges,  including  Mount  Holyoke.  The 
University  of  Massachusetts  in  1967  had 
taken  the  first  steps  toward  its  ccebs  (Com- 
mittee for  the  Collegiate  Education  of  Black 
Students)  program  by  recruiting  125  stu- 
dents from  big-city  ghettoes.  One  could 
fairly  say  the  valley  institutions  represented 


Most  people  at  the  colleges  and 
the  University  feel  that  these 
institutions  have  a  chance  to  build 
a  harmonious  multi-racial, 
multi-ethnic  community. 
Nevertheless,  the  campuses  have 
experienced  racial  tensions  and 
conflicts  that  parallel  those  of  the 
larger  society. 


the  best  in  white  liberal  thought  and  deed. 
In  the  years  following,  they  all  launched 
active  recruiting  campaigns  and  more  than 
doubled  their  enrollments  of  black  students. 

But  no  one  fully  anticipated  what  this 
would  mean  for  these  institutions.  At  the 
time  all  that  was  intended  was  to  open  the 
doors  of  white  society  a  little  wider.  Many 
of  the  new  students,  however,  came  from 
poorer  socio-economic  and  educational 
backgrounds  and  from  all-black  communi- 
ties. The  adjustment  to  a  white  middle  class 
campus  was  often  an  enormous  problem. 
But  just  as  important,  for  the  first  time 
these  white  middle  class  communities  came 
face  to  face  with  a  large  number  of  blacks. 
And  although  it  took  longer  to  recognize, 
the  culture  shock  was  just  as  great  for 
the  whites. 

Although  most  people  at  the  colleges  and 
the  University  believe  that  this  valley  and 
the  institutions  in  it  have  a  better  chance 
than  most  other  areas  in  the  country  to 
build  a  harmonious  multi-racial,  multi- 
ethnic community,  still  in  the  last  couple 
of  years  the  campuses  have  experienced 
racial  tensions  and  conflicts  that  parallel 
those  of  the  larger  society.  Black  students 
have  become  assertive  and  highly  visible, 
and  even  though  a  number  of  the  white 
faculty,  administrators,  and  students  have 
tried  to  cooperate  and  understand,  there 
have  been  feelings  of  discomfort,  and  some- 
times even  anger  and  fear.  As  Walter 
Morris-Hale,  assistant  professor  of  gov- 
ernment at  Smith,  put  it:  "How  do  you 
create  an  integrated  community  whose 
parent  is  a  segregated  society?" 

The  first  changes  the  institutions  faced, 
of  course,  were  in  recruiting  and  admis- 
sions procedures.  The  three  colleges  are 
among  the  nation's  most  academically 
distinguished,  and  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts is  one  of  the  most  highly  selective 
public  universities  in  the  country.  Tradi- 
tional admissions  criteria,  such  as  sat  scores 
and  high  school  records,  had  long  kept 
black  enrollment  at  these  schools  to  a 
minimum.  Other  criteria  were  needed  if 
enrollment  was  to  expand  substantially. 

While  the  University's  ccebs  program 


aimed  to  open  the  doors  to  all  who  wanted 
to  come,  the  private  colleges  set  out  to 
find  students  who,  despite  poor  schooling, 
could  be  expected  to  survive  the  academic 
pace.  The  essential  ingredient  seemed  to  boil 
down  to  high  motivation — what  are  the 
student's  aspirations,  how  much  drive  and 
leadership  ability  does  he  or  she  have? 
"Basically,"  says  Louise  Hall,  assistant 
director  of  admission  at  Smith,  "we  look 
for  consistent  high  achievement  in  whatever 
context  the  student  is  working." 

The  University,  on  the  other  hand,  has 
gone  into  the  ghetto  to  bring  out  young 
people  who  never  gave  college  a  dream, 
much  less  a  thought.  The  ccebs  program 
attempts  to  provide  the  extensive  psycho- 
logical and  academic  support  these  students 
need  in  their  first  year  or  so. 

Until  1967,  however,  the  University, 
despite  its  role  as  a  state  institution,  had 
almost  totally  neglected  the  state's  black 
population.  Black  enrollment  hovered 
around  45 — on  a  campus  of  over  10,000. 
That  year,  the  half  dozen  or  so  black 
faculty  members  and  administrators  deter- 
mined to  change  things  and  launched  a 
massive  effort  to  open  University  doors  to 
all  segments  of  the  Massachusetts  black 
community.  In  three  years  ccebs  has  grown 
to  a  $1.2  million  program  with  more  than 
500  students,  most  of  whom  have  been 
recruited  from  the  ghettoes  of  Boston 
and  Springfield. 

"We  set  out  to  design  a  new  type  of  pro- 
gram," explains  Randolph  W.  Bromery, 
vice  chancellor  for  student  affairs  at  the 
University  and  president  of  the  committee. 
"ccebs  is  based  on  the  rationale  that  any 
student  who  has  had  the  misfortune  of 
twelve  years  of  poor  schooling  is  not  only 
ill  prepared  for  college  academically,  but 
also  feels  psychologically  inferior.  If  you 
bring  that  student  to  a  white  campus,  he's 
not  going  to  survive — unless,  one,  you  turn 
him  around,  and  two,  you  turn  the  campus 
around  as  well." 

The  first  aim  of  ccebs,  then,  is  to  help  the 
student  develop  a  more  positive  self-image. 
Tutorial  aid  for  any  and  all  of  his  courses 
helps  to  assure  his  academic  survival,  and 


academic  counseling  helps  to  steer  him  in 
directions  where  he  can  develop  his  poten- 
tial and  begin  to  experience  success.  There 
are  sixty  full-time  paid  tutors  in  ccebs 
selected  by  the  various  departments  from 
among  the  University's  3,000  graduate 
students.  From  ccebs'  point  of  view,  this 
institutionalizes  the  program.  When  all  the 
university  departments  are  involved,  ccebs 
students  cannot  be  dismissed  as  an  isolated 
group.  "Once  the  program  becomes  part 
of  the  University,  the  'disadvantaged'  label 
will  disappear,"  Bromery  believes.  "We 
counsel  students,  'Stay  in  the  program  as 
long  as  you're  here.  If  you  do  well,  help 
your  brother  and  sister.'  This  welds  the  unit 


together  politically  as  well." 

"Developing  political  awareness  is  an 
important  part  of  the  program,"  points  out 
William  Wilson,  professor  of  sociology  at 
the  University.  "The  black  student  needs 
to  learn  to  resist  invidious  comparisons. 
He  has  to  be  made  aware  of  this  society's 
structure  of  inequality.  Otherwise  he  will 
internalize  the  definitions  and  perceptions 
of  the  larger  group  and  continue  to  see 
himself  as  inferior." 

The  need  to  resist  white  society's  defini- 
tions of  black  people  exists  on  the  other 
campuses  as  well.  Despite  the  impetus  and 
support  of  the  movement  toward  black 
pride  in  the  larger  society,  it  is  not  easy  to 


make  this  work  on  a  day-to-day  basis  living 
closely  with  white  people.  Black  students 
often  feel  besieged  by  insensitive  probing 
and  insincere  gestures  of  friendship. 

"The  tendency  is  to  use  you  as  a  spokes- 
man," explains  Sandy  Simpson,  head  of 
Mount  Holyoke's  Afro-American  Society. 
"You  can't  be  an  individual.  'How  do  black 
people  feel  about  that,  Sandy?'  I  don't 
know  how  'black  people'  feel  about  it.  I 
know  how  /  feel  about  it,  that's  all.  But 
things  aren't  as  bad  as  when  I  first  came 
here.  There  are  more  of  us  now,  and  that 
helps.  And  white  people  seem  to  be  learning 
a  little.  We  just  won't  let  them  use  us  as 
guinea  pigs  any  more." 

The  increase  of  black  faculty  and  staff 
at  all  the  institutions  has  also  helped.  These 
black  adults  already  know  well  enough  the 
difficulties  of  being  black  in  a  white  world, 
and  they  can  offer  help  and  understanding 
from  the  depths  of  their  own  experience. 
Their  numbers  are  still  far  too  few,  however. 

Then  there  are  the  Afro-Am  Societies 
and  the  Black  Cultural  Centers.  Afro-Am 
organizations  started  on  the  campuses  in 
the  spring  of  1967,  but  only  within  the  last 
year  or  two  has  each  campus  acceded  to 
pressure  from  the  black  students  for  a  place 
of  their  own  where  they  can  get  away 
from  the  white  campus  world  for  a  while 
and  relax  by  themselves.  On  a  daily  basis, 
the  societies  and  centers  serve  as  social 
clubs  and  meeting  places,  ways  of  getting 
together  with  people  you  feel  close  to.  They 
bring  lecturers,  artists,  and  theatre  groups 
to  the  campuses,  and  provide  forums  for 
black  needs. 

But  they  also  serve  a  more  fundamental 
purpose.  "Black  people  are  involved  in  a 
cultural  nationalism  movement,"  Professor 
Wilson  says.  "This  is  an  effort  to  revive  or 
perpetuate  aspects  of  black  experience, 
culture,  and  heritage.  Once  you  get  involved 
in  this  effort,  you  see  a  need  for  programs 
to  enhance  it.  Such  programs  increase  the 
interaction  of  blacks  with  each  other  and 
decrease  interaction  with  others.  Thus  the 
need  for  Afro-Am,  cultural  centers,  and 
black  studies." 

The  task  is  to  maintain  a  black  identity 


in  a  white  world,  not  to  succumb  to  the 
temptation  of  becoming  a  white  person 
with  black  skin.  The  need  is  urgent  and 
not  merely  one  of  individual  salvation. 
The  young  men  and  women  who  attend 
these  colleges  are  among  the  privileged 
few,  and  they  are  being  urged  to  return 
to  their  communities  and  help  other  young 
blacks  along  the  road  they've  already 
traveled. 

The  difficulties  of  this  task  can  be  seen 
in  the  light  of  the  history  of  white  education 
for  black  people.  Ever  since  the  Civil  War, 
white  people  have  offered  black  people 
higher  education.  Originally  it  was  in  the 
form  of  white-owned  and  white-governed 
colleges  for  Negroes.   Later  some  few 
Negroes  made  it  into  white  northern  insti- 
tutions. But  it  was  always  on  the  same 
terms — that  they  forsake  the  black  back- 
ground from  which  they  came  and  adopt 
white  middle-class  styles  and  values.  In  the 
past,  educated  middle-class  Negroes  fre- 
quently sought  to  dissociate  themselves 
from  their  poor  brethren.  As  E.  Franklin 
Frazier  makes  clear  in  Black  Bourgeoisie, 
"Middle  class  Negroes  have  rejected  both 
identification  with  the  Negro  and  his  tradi- 
tional culture.  Through  delusions  of  wealth 
and  power  they  have  sought  identification 
with  the  white  America  which  continues  to 
reject  them." 

It  is  the  thrust  of  the  new  Five  College 
Program  for  Black  Studies  to  break  this 
pattern,  to  recognize  the  continuity  of  the 
black  experience  in  America,  to  provide  the 
student  not  only  with  black  pride  but  with 
a  solid  knowledge  of  his  rich  cultural  herit- 
age and  an  understanding  of  the  ways  in 
which  this  heritage  has  been  denied  him 
till  now. 

A  basic  element  is  defined  in  the  lengthy 
proposal  for  the  W.E.B.  DuBois  Department 
of  Afro-American  Studies  at  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  (on  which  the  five  college 
program  is  based) : 

"This  current  generation  of  Black 
Students  is,  by  virtue  of  the  historical 
circumstances  in  which  they  find  them- 
selves and  the  alternatives  available  to 
them,  the  most  important  generation 


of  Black  people  to  be  produced  in  this 
country,  because  the  decisions  made  by 
this    group,    the    commitments    they 
espouse  and  the  responsibilities  they 
accept  will  determine  the  fate  of  the 
Black  community  in  this  country. 

"Consequently,  much  of  the  emphasis 
of  the  Department  will  be  on  develop- 
ing a  tradition  of  service,  of  collective 
responsibility,  and  a  sense  of  national 
purpose  and  priorities  among  these 
students." 

The  Five  College  Program  for  Black 
Studies  first  came  to  life  late  last  winter 
after  black  student  demonstrations,  which 
included  building  takeovers  on  the  Amherst 
and  Mount  Holyoke  campuses,  called  for 
the  establishment  on  each  campus  of  a 
black  studies  department  and  support  for 
a  number  of  other  projects  of  the  five  college 
black  community. 

Actually,  a  five  college  black  studies 
committee  had  been  formed  two  months 
earlier,  in  December  1969,  in  response  to 
a  five  college  long-range  planning  report 
submitted  to  the  college  presidents  the 
previous  October.  But  the  committee's 
members  readily  admit  that  not  much  had 
been  accomplished  until  the  dramatic  events 
of  February  1970,  when  the  takeovers 
demonstrated  the  coherence  of  the  five 
college  black  student  community  and  im- 
pressed on  the  institutions  the  urgency  of 
the  student  demands.  As  a  result,  the  creaky 
machinery  of  academe  got  into  gear,  and 
in  record  time  each  institution  approved  a 
black  studies  or  Afro-American  department. 

The  rationale  of  a  separate  department 
lay  in  concern  for  establishing  "a  black 
academic  and  cultural  presence  in  what  is 
at  present  a  completely  white-oriented 
environment."  As  a  separate  department  it 
would  have  the  same  autonomy  and  power 
of  all  other  departments  to  recommend 
hiring  and  firing  of  faculty,  to  develop  a 
philosophy  of  education,  and  to  establish 
a  comprehensive  and  coherent  curriculum. 
None  of  these  things  could  happen  as 
effectively  in  the  existing  interdepartmental 
black  studies  programs  which  several  of 


the  institutions  already  had  established. 

Separate  departments  do  not  imply  a 
"separatist"  philosophy,  however.  Black 
studies  faculty  at  all  the  colleges  have  speci- 
fically stated  that  all  courses  and  the  major 
are  open  to  white  students  as  well  as  black. 
An  education  that  ignores  the  roles  of  the 
black  man  in  America  deprives  the  white 
student  as  well  as  the  black  of  a  sophisti- 
cated and  accurate  vision  of  his  nation's 
history  and  culture.  (At  Smith  this  year,  for 
example,  a  white  student  is  among  the  first 
five  black  studies  majors.) 

Nor  would  white  faculty  or  the  works 
of  white  scholars  be  excluded.  The  crucial 
factor  in  considering  new  faculty  members, 
apart  from  a  demonstrable  proficiency  in 
their  fields,  would  not  be  race  but  "an  intel- 
lectual commitment  to  an  aggressive  non- 
traditional  approach  to  their  specific 
discipline."  In  the  last  five  years  or  so,  the 
new  and  fervent  interest  of  scholars  in  the 
Afro-American  experience  has  brought  to 
light  voluminous  materials  of  early  black 
writers  formerly  hidden  in  obscure  journals 
or  lost  in  neglected  library  collections.  The 
reproduction  of  these  sources  by  the  large 
publishing  houses,  combined  with  thousands 
of  related  scholarly  books  and  articles, 
provide  a  wealth  of  material  for  black 
studies.  Thus,  states  the  proposal  for  the 
W.E.B.  DuBois  Department  at  the  Univer- 
sity, "contrary  to  general  opinion,  the  major 
function  of  Black  Studies  is  not  merely  the 
introduction  of  little-known  or  ignored  facts 
and  events  concerning  the  history  of  Black 
peoples.  The  major  function  of  the  field  will 
be  the  introduction  and  validation  of  new 
methods  and  sources,  the  creation  of  new 
interpretations  of  traditional  materials,  and 
a  radical  transformation  of  the  notions, 
concepts,  and  perceptions  of  history,  society, 
and  culture  presently  embodied  in  the  white 
western  academic  traditions." 

For  instance,  materials  are  now  coming 
to  light  that  challenge  the  assumptions  of 
some  historians  that  American  slaves  basi- 
cally accepted  their  oppressed  condition,  or 
that  black  people  played  little  active  role 
before  or  during  the  Civil  War  (i.e.,  that 


As  a  result  of  the  dramatic  events 
of  February  1970,  which 
demonstrated  the  coherence  of  the 
five  college  black  student 
community,  the  creaky  machinery 
of  academe  got  into  gear.  In  record 
time,  each  institution  approved  a 
black  studies  or  Afro-American 
department. 


they  passively  waited  for  the  white  man  to 
free  them).  Many  of  these  issues  are  still 
unresolved,  but  they  are  at  least  open  to 
question  in  ways  they  never  were  before. 

In  the  field  of  literature,  Eugene  Terry,  as- 
sistant professor  of  literature  at  Hampshire 
College,  is  challenging  previous  assumptions 
that  black  writing,  and  black  art  in  general, 
lacks  the  complexity  of  white  art,  that  it  is 
"intuitive,"  "exotic,"  or  sociologically  ac- 
curate, but  naive  in  technique  and  theme. 
Terry  is  also  teaching  a  course  on  black 
autobiography,  which  he  feels  reveals  classic 
patterns  dictated  by  self,  race,  and  human- 
ity, that  recur  in  the  lives  of  such  diverse 
figures  as  Frederick  Douglass  and 
Malcolm  X. 


Yet  while  the  black  studies  departments 
have  been  established  at  each  institution, 
and  as  a  group  have  attracted  an  impressive 
array  of  scholars,  the  efficient  coordination 
outlined  in  the  proposal  has  been  slow  to 
come.  Traditional  institutional  jealousies 
affect  even  these  new  departments.  As  the 
summer  interim  five  college  committee 
reported  in  September,  "the  program  lacks 
coherence  in  its  perspective,  curriculum, 
and  structure." 

As  the  year  wears  on,  however,  some  of 
the  difficulties  are  being  ironed  out  by  the 
permanent  Five  College  Afro-American 
Studies  Executive  Committee.  The  commit- 
tee, comprised  of  the  department  chairman 
and  a  black  student  from  each  institution, 
has  met  almost  weekly  since  November. 
The  course  offerings  for  the  second  semester 
are  almost  double  the  number  offered  in  the 
fall,  and  a  more  carefully  coordinated 
curriculum  has  been  drafted  for  1971-72. 
Forty-four  different  courses  are  now  being 
taught  on  the  five  campuses.  Of  the  private 
colleges,  the  Amherst  department,  under 
the  chairmanship  of  Professor  Asa  Davis, 
offers  the  largest  selection — nine  courses, 
including  Modern  African  History;  Intro- 
duction to  Black  Religion  in  Africa  and 
America;  African  Elements  in  Brazil,  Latin 
America  and  the  Caribbean;  and  an  anthro- 
pology course  on  Peoples  of  Africa. 

The  black  studies  major  is  commended 
as  an  academic  study  on  the  same  basis 
as  any  other  part  of  the  curriculum  of  a 
liberal  arts  college.  Additionally,  as  in 
departments  such  as  political  science  and 
sociology,  involvement  in  some  form  of 
community  study  will  be  available  to  stu- 
dents desiring  it.  But  so  far,  neither  black 
nor  white  students  have  flocked  to  take 
the  major.  Although  generally  enthusiastic 
about  individual  courses,  the  students 
seem  to  be  waiting  for  the  new  major  to 
prove  itself.  Most  black  students  at  these 
institutions  are  here  for  the  same  reasons 
as  white  students — to  get  the  rigorous  aca- 
demic training  and  the  prestigious  degree 
that  will  admit  them  to  well-paid  careers 
or  to  good  graduate,  medical,  and  law 
schools.  (Indeed  a  large  number  of  black 


students  entering  Smith  in  the  past  two 
years  have  expressed  interest  in  premed 
study.) 

The  Five  College  Afro-American  Studies 
Executive  Committee,  concerned  with  es- 
stablishing  academic  credentials,  has  only 
slowly  become  involved  with  such  nonaca- 
demic  responsibilities  as  student  community 
work  in  Holyoke  and  Springfield.  Student 
summer  tutorial  programs,  and  "bridge" 
programs  to  ease  the  transition  to  college 
for  black  freshmen,  have  received  minimal 
cooperative  attention.  Each  institution  has 
been  involved  in  one  or  more  of  these  pro- 
grams, but  seldom  on  a  cooperative  basis. 
Smith  and  Amherst  have  cooperated  for 
two  years  in  a  tutorial  program.  Mount 
Holyoke  and  Smith  have  cooperated  on 
a  bridge  program  and  have  individually 
worked  with  the  national  Afro-American 
Educational  Opportunity  program  to  inform 
black  high  school  students  about  colleges 
they  otherwise  might  not  consider.  The 
University  for  several  years  has  been  a  part 
of  Upward  Bound — a  precollege  "compen- 
satory educational  program"  funded  by  the 
Office  of  Economic  Opportunity  and  the 
University.  Hampshire  has  its  own  Early 
Identification  Program — working  with  a 
group  of  29  fifth  grade  children  from  the 
city  of  Holyoke. 

All  of  these  cost  the  colleges  large  sums 
of  money,  and  all  of  the  colleges  are  finding 
that  the  enthusiasm  of  foundations  for  such 
programs  is  declining.  But  all  are  essential 
steps  for  building  a  multi-racial  community, 
and  cooperative  efforts  in  most  cases  would 
be  cheaper,  more  efficient,  and  more  likely 
to  attract  outside  funding. 

One  major  block  has  been  the  difference 
in  philosophy  and  commitment  between  the 
University  and  the  four  private  colleges. 
"The  University   has   a   very   different 
charge,"  noted  a  Smith  administrator.  "It 
has  a  commitment  to  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts which  even  ccebs  doesn't  meet. 
Smith  has  a  different  group  of  applicants, 
and  if  we  take  all  those  who  apply  who 
meet  our  standards  we  already  have  more 
than  the  national  percentage.  So  why  should 
we  take  on  the  public  university's  job  of 


educating  the  unqualified  students?" 

One  University  faculty  member  has  said 
that  his  institution  recognizes  some  dif- 
ferences, but  he  adds,  "In  the  past  these 
have  been  white  elitist  institutions;  now 
they're  integrated  elitist  institutions.  We 
feel  the  society — certainly  the  black  com- 
munity— can  no  longer  afford  that  kind  of 
class  distinction  .  .  ." 

The  University  is  in  a  strong  position  to 
press  its  point  of  view.  Today  it  is  clearly 
an  institution  on  the  move.  With  state 
funds,  it  is  building  itself  a  new  reputation 
in  a  wide  range  of  fields.  As  in  other  fields, 
so  also  in  black  studies,  it  has  a  larger  staff 
and  more  course  offerings  than  any  of  the 
four  private  colleges,  all  of  which,  cooper- 
atively or  separately,  are  having  trouble 
finding  sufficient  funds  to  support  their 
programs. 

Cooperation  is  useful,  however,  in  attract- 
ing scholars  to  these  small  New  England 
towns.  A  consortium  of  five  prestigious 
institutions  carries  more  weight  than  any 
one  could  alone.  The  search  for  outstanding 
black  faculty  is  arduous,  not  only  because 
they  are  scarce,  but  because  they  are  in 
great  demand  and  are  less  likely  to  come 
to  a  small  town  than  to  a  more  urban 
setting. 

Each  town  harbors  its  share  of  prejudice. 
"There  is  a  certain  level  of  tolerance  for  the 
things  students  do,"  explained  one  faculty 
member,  "and  the  tolerance-level  is  much 
lower  for  black  students."  To  help  rebuild 
deteriorating  town-gown  rapport,  each  of 
the  institutions  has  set  up  a  committee  to 
create  better  relations  with  the  townspeople. 

"It's  a  question  of  institutional  responsi- 
bility," says  Lawrence  Flood,  assistant 
professor  of  political  science  at  Mount 
Holyoke.  "If  you  bring  students  to  an 
environment  you  know  to  be  hostile,  you 
have  a  real  responsibility  to  deal  with  that 
hostile  environment." 

A  great  deal  of  this  burden  falls  on  the 
black  faculty  and  staff  at  each  institution. 
It  is  they  who  must  keep  the  white  campus 
community  aware  of  what  the  young  blacks 
are  experiencing.  They  race  from  faculty 


meetings  to  student  meetings  to  town  meet- 
ings to  conferences  with  individual  students 
on  their  academic  or  social  problems.  "Black 
faculty  should  receive  combat  pay,"  declared 
one  professor. 

For  black  faculty  members  who  also  wish 
to  pursue  their  own  scholarly  interests,  the 
burden  is  particularly  heavy.  Conflicts  of 
interest  between  personal  concerns  as  schol- 
ars and  broader  concerns  with  the  black 
students  and  community  are  not  always 
easily  resolved.  A  faculty  member  can  give 
willingly  and  extensively  to  student  needs 
for  a  while,  but  there  is  a  point  where  he 
needs   to   withdraw,   and   this   can  cause 
tensions  within  himself  and  with  other 


black  faculty  and  students.  There  is  a  deep- 
seated  ambiguity  about  being  a  black  person 
on  a  white  campus,  an  ever  present  knowl- 
edge that  despite  your  commitment  to  the 
black  community,  you  are  nonetheless  living 
in  Amherst  and  not  in  Harlem.  The  black 
struggle,  of  course,  has  no  geographical 
boundaries,  but  of  the  territorial  choices, 
Amherst  is  certainly  one  of  the  more  com- 
fortable. For  many,  the  balance  is  uneasy; 
the  ambiguity  takes  a  toll. 

Similar  conflicts  plague  black  students. 
The  problems  are  as  great  for  those  from 
suburbia  encountering  a  strong  black  com- 
munity for  the  first  time  as  they  are  for 
those  from  the  inner  city  or  rural  South 


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encountering  a  large  white  community. 
All  young  people  of  this  age  face  existential 
questions:  "Who  am  I?  Where  do  I  belong? 
What  do  I  want  to  do  with  my  life?"  But 
each  question  is  compounded  for  young 
blacks,  for  they  must  find  their  place  in  the 
black  world  as  well.  They  are  being  called 
on,  by  themselves  and  by  others,  to  take  a 
broad  responsibility  for  what  happens  to 
the  black  community  in  this  country.  Too 
often,  this  creates  conflicts  with  personal 
needs  and  desires:  "How  black  do  I  want  to 
be?  Do  I  want  to  become  a  lawyer  to  join  a 
big  corporation,  or  go  to  the  ghetto  and 
sweat  for  the  poor?"  Even  with  the  help  of 
black  faculty  and  staff,  the  black  student 
finds  no  easy  bridge  from  the  suburban 
campus  to  the  inner  city.  And  when  these 
inner  conflicts  are  exacerbated  by  white 
insensitivity,  tempers  flare  and  tensions  rise. 

White  students  face  some  of  the  same 
confusion.  They  are  often  baffled  by  ex- 
pressions of  black  animosity  and  frustrated 
in  their  efforts  to  try  to  understand.  So  far 
none  of  the  institutions  has  dealt  with  this 
in  an  effective  way,  largely  because  they 
have  only  dimly  begun  to  recognize  the 
problem.  Informal  attempts  at  human  re- 
lations meetings  on  the  various  campuses 
have  had  only  limited  success,  for  it  is  very 
hard  to  change  the  terms  of  the  conversation, 
to  look  at  the  problem  not  as  a  black  one 
but  as  a  mutual,  even  white,  one.  At  such 
meetings,  white  students  seem  to  expect  the 


blacks  to  talk  about  what  they  think  or  feel, 
but  the  whites  are  seldom  able  to  do  the 
same.  For  the  first  time,  they  are  confronted 
aggressively  by  a  reservoir  of  experience 
and  culture  that  is  not  their  own,  and  they 
find  that  to  respond  to  it  requires  breaking 
out  of  their  parochial  assumptions,  requires 
a  willingness  to  face  exposure,  embarrass- 
ment, injury,  pain. 

Whites — students,  faculty,  administrators 
— are  only  just  becoming  aware  of  the 
ambivalence  between  their  liberal  hopes 
and  their  need  for  things  to  stay  familiarly 
the  same.  In  defense,  many  tend  to  withdraw 
from  the  situation.  Others  seek  new  ref- 
erence points  from  the  blacks  (the  endless 
question:  "What's  it  like  to  be  black?"). 
They  look  to  blacks  for  what  to  think  as  one 
might  in  a  foreign  country  look  to  the 
nationals  to  find  the  correct  behavior.  But 
there  is  no  "correct  behavior."  Blacks  are 
struggling  as  much  as  the  whites.  Perhaps 
the  only  correct  behavior  is  just  that — to 
struggle,  to  seek  to  learn  and  to  act  on  that 
learning. 

None  of  this  complexity  was  anticipated 
a  few  short  years  ago  when  the  institutions 
first  actively  sought  to  enroll  more  black 
students.  No  one  would  acknowledge  how 
deep  the  biases  are  in  our  culture,  or  how 
narrow  our  notions  of  higher  education 
have  been.  Most  of  these  institutions  have 
long   traditions   of   academic  excellence,  of 
institutional  autonomy,  of  a  large  degree  of 
isolation  from  the  community  and  the  larger 
society.  Can  those  traditions  change  to 
include  new  notions  of  subject  matter,  new 
criteria  for  the  selection  of  faculty  members 
and  students?  Can  they  change  to  accept 
new  teaching  responsibilities,  new  ways  of 
working  with  the  surrounding  communities, 
and  new  ways  for  the  colleges  to  work 
with  each  other?  Can  they  change  to  em- 
brace a  new  idea  of  what  a  higher  education 
is,  not  merely  high  achievement  in  certain 
academic  subjects,  but  preparation  for 
responsible  participation  in  the  world  at 
large?  If  so,  they  will  no  longer  remain 
communities  comprised  of  only  a  small 
segment  of  society.  They  will  have  to  reach 
out  more  broadly,  more  comprehensively, 


to  a  new  group  of  whites  as  well  as  blacks, 
to  Chicanos,  Puerto  Ricans,  Asiatics,  and 
American  Indians — not  only  to  enroll  them, 
but  to  include  them  in  the  institutions'  con- 
cepts of  history  and  culture. 

The  faculties  and  administrations  of  the 
five  colleges  are  just  beginning  to  face  what 
this  really  means.  The  colleges  are  less 
culturally  deprived  than  they  were  five  years 
ago,  less  isolated  in  small  New  England 
towns,  more  cosmopolitan,  more  able  to 
contribute  to  the  larger  society.  They  are  by 
no  means  yet  integrated  multi-racial  com- 
munities. But  the  time  is  past  when  they 
can  ask  whether  this  is  the  direction  in 
which  they  should  be  going.  It  is  no  longer 
a  question  of  "should,"  but  rather  how  to 
do  it  and  how  long  it  will  take. 

Bonnie  Barrett  Stretch,  the  assistant  educa- 
tion editor  at  the  Saturday  Review,  is  a 
ig6i  graduate  of  Mount  Holyoke. 


The  Black  Way  of  Life: 
An  Anthropologist's 
Approach 

JOHNETTA  B.  COLE 

The  denial  of  the  existence 
of  a  subculture  among  black 
Americans  has  been  an  effective 
means  of  depoliticizing  black  folks. 


The  ultimate  victory  of  racism  is  when  the 
oppressed  view  themselves  as  they  are 
viewed  by  the  oppressors.  All  oppressed 
peoples  share,  to  some  degree,  what  might 
be  called  the  "denial  urge."  That  is,  the 
condemnation  of  one's  status  and,  by 
extension,  one's  self.  It  leads  200,000  Asian 
women  each  year  to  undergo  operations 
to  reduce  the  slant  of  their  eyes.  It  leads 
Jews  to  "bob"  their  noses,  and  Chicanos 
to  anglicize  their  names.  The  denial  urge 
led  many  Algerian  people  to  embrace  a 
French  style  of  life;  as,  indeed,  colonized 
people  throughout  history  have  sought  to 
relieve  their  condition  by  adopting  the 
appearance  and  manners  of  the  colonizers. 
Racism  in  the  United  States  had  long 
been  successful  in  distorting  the  black 
American's  perception  of  self.  Many  blacks 
came  to  view  themselves  as  physically 
unattractive  and  suffered  considerable  ex- 
pense and  inconvenience  to  look  as  white 
as  possible.  Some  of  the  racial  attitudes  and 
myths  associated  with  white  America  were 
adopted  by  black  Americans.  Until  quite 
recently,  Africa  was  viewed  by  black  as 
well  as  white  Americans  as  a  land  of  "prim- 
itive" people.  For  Afro-Americans,  as  other 
Americans,  the  color  black  became  asso- 
ciated with  bad,  evil,  the  undesirable.  The 


color  white  connoted  good,  purity,  the 
desirable. 

Not  all  black  people  accepted  the  myth 
of  white  superiority.  As  Herbert  Aptheker 
has  recently  pointed  out,  much  of  the  lit- 
erature of  Afro-Americans  rejects  this 
myth,  and  at  times  replaces  it  with  the 
notion  of  black  superiority  in  beauty  and 
character.  The  Afro-American  worksong 
"Sounds  Like  Thunder"  is  an  example.  The 
singer  begins  by  comparing  himself  to  a 
mountan,  thus  establishing  self-respect  and 
dignity  in  the  face  of  enforced  servitude. 
The  singer  then  notes  that  the  boss  man 
spends  all  of  his  money  to  come  to  the  big 
road  to  hear  his  hammer  ring.  Thus,  the 
slave  retained  dignity  and  even  a  degree  of 
superiority  in  a  dehumanizing  situation. 

During  the  early  1900s,  when  whites 
were  writing  books  with  titles  such  as  The 
Mystery  Solved:  The  Negro  A  Beast,  W.  E. 
B.  DuBois  entitled  a  book  The  Souls  of  Black 
Folks.  The  very  purpose  of  this  book  was  to 
express  a  strong  sense  of  pride  in  being 
black.  The  poetry  of  Afro-Americans  has 
always  included  tributes  to  black  people. 
These  expressions  of  racial  pride  first 
flowered  in  the  Harlem  Renaissance,  with 
the  works  of  writers  such  as  Claude  McKay, 
Countee  Cullen,  Arna  Bontemps,  and 
Sterling  Brown.  Today,  during  an  era  of 
increased  racial  consciousness,  praises  for 
black  folks  flow  from  the  poetry  of  LeRoi 
Jones,  Gwendolyn  Brooks,  Don  L.  Lee,  Mari 
Evans  and  many  others. 

Despite  these  expressions  of  pride,  the 
pervasiveness  of  racism  in  the  United  States 
has  produced  feelings  of  doubt  and  in- 
security among  black  people.  How  could 
it  be  otherwise?  In  the  area  of  culture,  no 
less  than  physical  appearance,  too  many 
black  Americans  echoed  the  conclusions  of 
the  majority  opinion  in  social  science  and 
among  laymen — that  Afro-Americans  are 
without  a  culture. 

The  literature  on  black  culture  in  an- 
thropology, sociology,  and  psychology  is 
meager.  When  these  social  scientists  have 
turned  specifically  to  the  life  styles  of  black 
folks,  they  have  either  denied  the  existence 
of  a  distinctive  way  of  life,  or  selectively 


examined  those  aspects  of  black  culture 
which  are  the  greatest  "deviations"  from 
mainstream  American  patterns. 

It  is  of  interest  that  social  scientists  have 
recognized  the  existence  of  various  sub- 
cultures in  the  United  States  based  on  race 
and  ethnicity  (such  as  Polish-American, 
Chinese-American,  Jewish),  and  yet  most 
have  dismissed  black  subculture  as  simply 
lower  class  culture.  The  conclusions  of  the 
few  studies  which  do  exist — indeed,  the 
very  selection  of  problems — are  most  often 
cast  in  terms  of  cultural  pathologies  and 
deviations.  Examples  of  the  problems 
anthropologists  have  focused  on  are  those 
of  matrifocality  (households  headed  by 
women),  street  gangs  and  street  corner 
groupings,  and  the  dozens  (stylized  verbal 
contests  interpreted  as  expressions  of  severe 
role  conflict  among  black  males). 

The  denial  of  the  existence  of  a  black 
culture  or  subculture  among  black  Ameri- 
cans is  not  just  significant  as  an  academic 
error.  It  is  also  an  effective  if  unconscious 
means  of  depoliticizing  black  folks.  For 
when  a  people  assume  that  they  are  with- 
out a  shared  way  of  life,  they  also  assume 
that  they  are  psychologically,  culturally, 
and  politically  dependent  on  those  who 
oppress  them.  On  the  other  hand,  once  the 
oppressed  cease  to  view  themselves  through 
the  eyes  of  the  oppressor,  they  are  psy- 
chologically, if  not  politically,  prepared  to 
change  their  condition. 

It  is  difficult  to  concisely  define  the  black 
way  of  life  because  it  is  not  a  set  of  atti- 
tudes and  behavior  patterns  which  are 
distinctive  to  black  folks.  It  is  not  a  culture 
but  a  subculture.  The  distinctive  patterns 
are  restricted  to  certain  areas,  while  others 
are  drawn  from  a  mainstream  cultural 
pool.  It  is  in  the  combination  of  traits,  the 
subtle  variations  on  universal  attributes, 
that  we  sense  black  subculture.  Recent  an- 
thropological studies  are  finally  focusing 
on  the  characteristics  which  black  Ameri- 
cans themselves  use  in  referring  to  their 
own  way  of  life:  soul  and  style. 

The  notion  of  soul  is  difficult  to  define, 
but  it  seems  to  be  the  composite  of  long 
suffering,  deep  emotion  and  a  sense  of  soli- 


"Style"  is  not  a  black  prerogative, 
although  there  are  clearly  black 
versions  of  it.  "Soul"  is  another 
matter.  It  is  that  quality  which 
has  helped  blacks  survive 
in  white  America,  and  as  such 
it  is  considered  to  be  one  attribute 
possessed  exclusively  by  Afro- 
Americans. 


darity  among  all  black  people.  Black  Ameri- 
can music  captures  the  sense  of  soul  as 
long  suffering  in  the  themes  of  the  blues 
and  the  pathos  of  a  gospel  song.  Soul,  as 
deep  emotion,  is  the  plea  "help  me  Jesus" 
often  heard  in  black  churches.  And  soul  is 
the  bond  which  exists  between  two  black 
people,  perfect  strangers,  because  they  have 
shared  the  experiences  of  being  black  in 
the  United  States. 

Style  is  as  indefinable  as  soul.  It  embodies 
the  combination  of  ease  and  class.  Style  is 
having  a  heavy  rap  (verbal  display) — like 
the  preacher,  the  militant,  or  pimp.  It  is 
being  smartly  dressed  and  highly  composed 
in  the  presence  of  poverty  and  chaos. 

Style  is  not  a  black  prerogative,  although 
there  are  clearly  black  versions  of  style. 
Whites  as  well  as  blacks  may  have  the  abil- 
ity to  look  rich  when  they  are  poor,  at 
ease  when  they  are  tense.  But  soul  is  an- 
other story.  Because  blacks  are  so  highly 
visible  and  have  been  so  systematically  used 
as  a  source  of  power  for  white  Americans, 
the  quality  of  soul  that  has  helped  them 
to  survive  is  considered  to  be  the  one  attri- 
bute which  is  possessed  exclusively,  or 
almost  exclusively,  by  Afro-Americans. 

Although  soul  and  style  are  the  essence 
of  the  black  way  of  life,  not  all  black  people 
express  black  subculture  in  the  same  way. 
The  literature  in  anthropolgy  is  misleading 
in  this  respect.  Overwhelmingly,  it  por- 
trays the  street  life  style — as  described  in 
the  autobiography  of  Malcolm  X  and 
Claude  Brown's  Manchild  in  the  Promised 
Land.  This  selective  perception  of  black 
subculture  hardly  reflects  the  pursuit  of 
"objective"  scholarship.  On  the  contrary, 
the  imbalance  in  studies  of  black  life  styles 
promotes  an  academic  version  of  the  myth, 
"if  you've  seen  one,  you've  seen  them 
all."  Disproportionate  concentration  on  the 
street  life  style,  admittedly  the  most  "ex- 
citing" to  study,  encourages  the  stereotype 
of  black  folks  as  "deviants"  and  perpe- 
trators of  "social  problems."  In  chronicling 
the  details  of  this  world  of  hustling,  nar- 
cotics and  prostitution,  social  scientists 
often  fail  to  give  equal  time  to  the  ongoing 
processes  of  economic  deprivation  and 


exploitation,  and  institutionalized  racism 
and  oppression — the  very  sources  of 
behavior  and  attitudes  in  the  street  life 
style.  There  is  an  unwritten  rule  here 
which  extends  beyond  studies  of  black 
folks.  It  is,  very  simply,  that  social  scien- 
tists are  to  ignore  the  oppressors  but  study 
the  oppressed. 

Like  any  people,  black  Americans  defy 
categorization.  However,  three  life  styles 
besides  that  of  the  street  can  be  delineated. 
Down  home,  for  example,  is  a  common 
expression  among  black  Americans,  indi- 
cating one's  point  of  origin,  down  South,  or 
the  simple,  "traditional"  way  of  life.  It 
centers  in  the  kitchens  of  black  homes, 
in  the  church  halls  for  suppers,  in  the 
fraternal  orders. 

There  is  a  militant  life  style,  that  of  the 
political  world  centered  on  college  campuses 
and  in  urban  black  ghettos.  This  life  style 
appears  new  only  because  attention  is  con- 
centrated on  individuals,  such  as  Malcolm 
X  and  Angela  Davis,  rather  than  on  the  sys- 
tem which  has  continuously  provoked  pat- 
terns of  revolt  and  thoughts  of  revolution 
among  black  and  other  oppressed  peoples. 

The  upward  bound  life  style  is  the  way 
of  life  that  centers  in  the  "better  neighbor- 
hoods." It  is  the  style  of  the  black  middle 
class.  Beginning  with  the  work  of  E.  Frank- 
lin Frazier,  academicians  have  tended  to 
deal  with  the  "personality"  (describing  the 
cocktail  parties,  debutante  balls  and  pro- 
fessional occupations)  of  this  class.  Again, 
the  more  important  considerations  of 
process  have  been  ignored — that  is,  the 
historical  circumstances  as  well  as  cur- 
rent institutions  which  motivate  this  group 
of  black  folks  to  strive  for  a  change  in 
their  caste  through  the  limited  mobility  of 
no  class. 

It  is  considerably  easier  to  note  mani- 
festations of  black  American  subculture 
than  to  identify  the  various  sources  of 
attitudes  and  behavior  which  constitute 
this  way  of  life.  In  a  general  sense,  however, 
we  can  identify  three  major  pools  from 
which  black  Americans  have  drawn:  the 
culture  of  America  (Americanisms),  the 
generalized  culture  of  West  Africa  (Afri- 


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Perhaps  the  biggest  impact  of  black 
studies  has  been  in  the  exposure 
of  the  ugliness  and  depths  of 
academic  racism.  For  those  who 
professed  so  loudly  to  be  in 
search  of  truth  have  been  revealed 
as  too  often  the  protectors  of 
myths  and  prejudices. 


lohnetta  Cole  is  an  associate  professor  of 
Afro-American  Studies  and  anthropology. 


canisms),  and  the  culture  of  oppression 
(reactions  to  racism  and  colonialism).  For 
example,  black  Americans  clearly  share  such 
traits  as  material  culture  (houses,  clothing, 
cars),  values  (emphasis  on  technology 
and  materialism),  and  behavior  patterns 
(watching  TV  and  voting  in  terms  of  in- 
terest groups)  with  mainstream  America. 

Black  Americans  also  have  cultural  pat- 
terns and  attitudes  which  appear  to  be 
African  in  origin.  The  pioneering  work  of 
Melville  Herskovits  and  his  students  in 
establishing  the  presence  of  Africanisms 
in  the  New  World  originally  received  little 
support  from  the  general  community  of 
white  scholars.  It  is  only  today,  with  the 
growth  of  academic  consciousness  among 
black  people,  that  we  are  seeing  widespread 
consideration  of  the  processes  of  cultural 
retention  from  West  Africa.  The  data  was 
always  there,  but  the  values  did  not  encour- 
age focusing  the  spotlight  of  scholarship 
in  that  direction. 

We  can  clearly  document  certain  African 
retentions  in  the  music,  folklore,  language 
and,  to  some  extent,  religion  of  black 
Americans.  The  possession  complex,  the 
pattern  of  "shouting"  and  "getting  happy" 
in  black  churches,  would  be  an  example. 
Another  is  the  tales  of  Uncle  Remus,  a  clear 
reinterpretation  of  Anasai  tales  of  West 
Africa.  But  it  is  difficult,  and  often  impos- 
sible, to  establish  the  persistence  of  African 
traits  in  other  areas. 

Finally,  Afro-American  people  share  a 
number  of  cultural  traits  with  the  world's 
oppressed  peoples.  Culture,  after  all,  is  a 
coping  mechanism,  a  "problem  solving 
device."  The  sparcity  of  literature  on  the 
culture  of  oppression  reflects,  once  again, 
the  extent  to  which  the  values  and  interests 
of  academicians  influence  scholarship.  But 
despite  the  weaknesses  in  the  literature,  it 
is  clear  that  a  large  measure  of  the  behavior 
and  attitudes  of  black  folks  is  in  response 
to  conditions  of  racism  and  economic 
exploitation. 

A  most  important  area  of  study  which 
has  received  little  attention  is  the  extent  to 
which  similar  behavior  of  black  folks  in 
Africa  today,  the  Caribbean,  and  the  United 


States — matrifocality,  extended  kinship, 
nonkinship  ties  in  urban  areas — is  a  reflec- 
tion of  reactions  to  similar  conditions  of 
racism  and  colonialism  rather  than  the  re- 
tention of  African  traits. 

The  American  public  has  ignored  the 
overall  black  subculture  and  focused  on 
particular  individuals  and  stereotypes.  It  is 
the  purpose  of  black  studies  to  turn  this 
focus  around,  to  introduce  a  more  realistic 
perspective  on  black  folks  in  America  by 
studying  processes  rather  than  personalities. 
Although  black  studies  is  described,  by 
the  mass  media,  in  terms  of  "the  contribu- 
tions of  black  Americans  .  .  . ,"  this  is  not 
our  primary  concern.  Rather,  we  must 
study  and  understand  the  processes  which 
have  placed  black  Americans  among  the 
oppressed.  That  understanding  must  then 
serve  as  the  foundation  of  programs  which 
promote  the  liberation  of  black  folks  in 
Africa  and  Afro-America.  By  concentra- 
ting on  Eldridge  Cleaver,  Bobby  Seale, 
and  Angela  Davis,  black  life  and  history 
in  America  is  distorted.  It  is,  in  fact,  the 
processes  by  which  these  militant  figures 
emerged  which  puts  the  picture  in  per- 
spective. It  is  the  rise  of  neo-colonialism 
in  Ghana  and  throughout  the  black  world 
that  is  truly  informative,  not  the  "fall" 
of  Nkrumah.  It  is  the  political  and  economic 
pressures  which  push  thousands  of  black 
children  out  of  America's  schools  which 
should  concern  us,  not  the  personality  con- 
figurations of  "drop  outs."  Heroes  are  not 
unimportant,  but  black  studies  must  con- 
cern itself  with  the  continuity  of  revolt  as  a 
process  throughout  the  history  of  black 
people,  rather  than  become  preoccupied 
with  the  personality  of  Nat  Turner. 

It  is  clear  that  black  studies  has  not 
totally  managed  a  new  perspective,  but  it 
has  had  an  impact.  Racial  pride  has  been 
promoted  through  research  and  publica- 
tion of  data  heretofore  ignored.  Perhaps 
the  biggest  impact  of  all  has  been  in  the 
exposure  of  ugliness  and  depths  of  academic 
racism.  For  those  who  professed  so  loudly 
to  be  in  search  of  truth  have  been  re- 
vealed as  too  often  the  protectors  of  myths 
and  prejudices. 


15 


How  About  Coming  Back  to  School? 

The  Division  of  Continuing  Education  and 
the  Alumni  Office  are  collaborating  in 
an  effort  to  give  alumni  the  opportunity  to 
?    pursue  the  subject  of  Black  Studies  if  they 
so  choose.  If  enough  people  are  interested,  it 
might  be  possible  to  present  seminars 
I  in  Black  Studies  on  campus  sometime  dur- 
J  ing  the  summer.  These  would  be  based 
on  Mrs.  Cole's  article  and  the  bibliography 
that  follows.  Six  books  included  in  the 
bibliography  may  be  purchased  through  the 
■    Division  of  Continuing  Education  for 
i   $18.75.  These  are:  Black  Awakening  in 
Capitalist  America  by  Robert  Allen;  Black 
Metropolis  by  St.  Clair  Drake  and  Horace 
Clayton;  The  Souls  of  Black  Folks  by 
I  W.E.B.  DuBois;  Black  Bourgeoisie  by 
J  E.  Franklin  Frazier;  Myth  of  the  Negro 
j  Past  by  Melville  Herskovits;  and  Soul  edited 
by  Lee  Rainwater.  To  order  the  books  or 
inquire  about  the  seminars,  write  Dr. 
William  Venman,  920  Campus  Center, 
University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst, 
Mass.  01002.  Orders  must  be  received  by 
June  1.  Books  will  be  shipped  in  the  middle 
of  June. 


Annotated  Bibliography 

Allen,  Robert  L.  1970:  Black  Awakening  in 
Capitalist  America.  Doubleday,  New  York- 
Using  a  model  of  the  ghetto  as  a  colony, 
Allen  presents  an  excellent  analysis  of  the 
political  economy  of  black  and  white 
America. 

Aptheker,  Herbert  1970:  "Afro-American 
Superiority :  A  Neglected  Theme  in  the  Lit- 
erature" Phylon  Vol.  XXXI,  No.  4— This 
article  questions  the  generally  accepted  no- 
tion of  self-denial  among  black  Americans. 
Drawing  primarily  on  literary  sources, 
Aptheker  documents  a  history  of  positive 
racial  consciousness  among  Afro-Americans. 

Billingsley,  Andrew  1968:  Black  Families  in 
White  America.  Prentice  Hall,  Englewood 
Cliffs,  New  Jersey.— Refuting  the  Moynihan 
report  that  argued  the  disintegration  of  the 
black  family,  Billingsley  illustrates  the  ways 
black  families  have  adapted  to  adverse 
economic  and  social  conditions.  Black  fami- 


lies (as  opposed  to  the  black  family  in  much 
of  the  literature)  are  organizations  of  con- 
siderable variety  and  strength. 

Brown,  Claude  1965 :  Manchild  in  the  Promised 
Land.  New  American  Library,  New  York. — 
Claude  Brown's  autobiography  is  a  selective 
ethnography  of  the  street  life  style  of 
Harlem  in  the  50's.  It  fails,  however,  to  indict 
the  social  and  economic  conditions  which 
produced  Harlem,  and  it  clearly  ignores  the 
non-hustling  side  of  life  in  that  black 
community. 

Clark,  Kenneth  B.  1965:  Dark  Ghetto.  Harper 
and  Row,  New  York — The  psychological 
as  well  as  socio-economic  consequences 
of  being  black  in  Harlem.  Clark  clearly 
establishes  the  relationship  between  the 
"pathology"  of  American  culture  and  the 
"pathology"  of  the  ghetto. 

Drake,  St.  Clair  and  Clayton,  Horace  1962 
edition:  Black  Metropolis  (two  volumes) 
Harper  and  Row,  Evanston — Although  this 
sociological  analysis  centers  in  Chicago,  it 
is  a  generalized  account  of  the  migration 
of  blacks  to  northern  cities  and  the  commu- 
nity structure  which  developed  in  black 
ghettos. 

DuBois,  W.E.B.  1961  edition:  The  Souls  of 
Black  Folks.  Fawcett,  New  York — A  col- 
lection of  sketches,  essays,  and  songs 
with  historical  and  sociological  overtones. 
The  purpose  of  this  work  was  to  help 
create  in  others  DuBois's  own  positive  sense 
of  blackness. 

Fanon,  Frantz  1968  edition:  Black  Skins,  White 
Masks.  Grove  Press.  New  York — Born  in 
Martinique,  Fanon  left  a  career  as  a  psy- 
chiatrist to  become  a  part  of  the  Algerian 
revolution.  In  Black  Skins,  White  Masks 
Fanon  explores  the  problem  of  identity 
among  black  people  and  the  psychological 
disorders  which  are  an  outgrowth  of  self- 
denial.  Fanon's,  The  Wretched  of  the  Earth, 
a  classic  study  of  racism  and  colonialism, 
is  also  highly  recommended. 

Frazier,  E.  Franklin  1957:  Black  Bourgeoisie. 
Free  Press,  Glencoe— Frazier  argues  that  the 
values,  attitudes  and  behavior  of  the  black 
middle  class  reflect  the  insecurities  and 
frustrations  which  grow  out  of  rejection 
by  white  America  and  self  imposed  separa- 
tion from  the  way  of  life  in  black  America. 


Hammerz,  Ulf  1969:  Soulside.  Columbia  Uni- 
versity Press.  New  York — Study  of  a  black 
ghetto  community  in  Washington,  D.C.  by 
a  Swedish  social  anthropologist. 

Herskovits,  Melville  J.  1941:  Myth  of  the 
Negro  Past.  Beacon  Press.  Boston — An  an- 
alysis of  the  historical  and  cultural  tie's 
which  bind  Afro-Americans  to  Africa. 
Herskovits's  detailed  discussion  of  Afri- 
canisms in  black  American  culture  is  an 
outstanding  refutation  of  the  myth  that 
blacks  are  without  a  culture. 

Liebow,  Elliot  1967:  T alley's  Corner.  Little, 
Brown  and  Company.  Boston — An  anthropo- 
logical study  of  a  group  of  black  men  who 
interact  on  a  street  corner  in  Washington, 
D.C.  Liebow  describes  these  men  as  "losers". 
He  is  presenting  the  attitudes  of  this  street 
corner  group  towards  women,  marriage, 
children,  friends. 

Malcolm  X  (with  the  assistance  of  Alex  Haley) 
1965:  The  Autobiography  of  Malcolm  X. 
Grove  Press,  New  York — This  autobiography 
offers  extraordinary  insight  into  the  Down 
Home,  Street  and  Militant  life  styles.  It 
also  chronicles  the  processes  which  made 
Malcolm  X  a  grass  roots  leader  among 
black  Americans. 

Rainwater,  Lee  (editor)  1970:  Soul.  Aldine, 
Chicago — A  collection  of  articles  dealing 
with  several  dimensions  of  soul.  The  via- 
bility and  uniqueness  of  black  subculture 
is  debated. 

Whitten,  Norman  and  Szwed,  John  (eds.)  1970: 
Afro-American  Anthropology.  The  Free 
Press.  New  York — A  collection  of  twenty- 
two  articles  on  a  variety  of  cultural  aspects 
of  Afro-American  subculture.  The  articles 
range  from  issues  of  contemporary  urban 
anthropology  to  linguistic  and  musical 
analyses.  A  photographic  essay  is  included 
in  the  book. 


16 


The  Academy 
Shall  Not  Perish  . . . 


A  1965  graduate  works  to  rees- 
tablish what  was  once  considered 
the  finest  musical  theater  in  the 
United  States. 


Tom  Kerrigan,  the  assistant  to  the  director 
of  the  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Music,  sat  in 
his  office  one  morning  recounting  some  of 
the  extraordinary  events  in  that  theater's 
history.  "A  man  who  still  works  here  as  a 
ticket-taker  worked  here  in  1920,  when 
Caruso  gave  his  penultimate  performance 
on  this  stage.  He  told  me  that  Caruso  would 
sing  an  aria  and  then  have  to  go  into  the 
wings  to  cough  up  blood.  He  filled  towel 
after  towel  with  blood.  Finally  he  collapsed 
and  could  not  take  his  curtain  call. 

"This  was  once  considered  the  finest 
musical  theater  in  the  United  States.  Anna 
Pavlova,  Edwin  Booth,  Isadora  Duncan, 
Sarah  Bernhardt .  .  .  they  all  played  here. 
But  the  Brooklyn  Academy  of  Music  was 
built  to  suit  a  Metropolitan  Opera  House- 
type  audience,  and  when  these  people  moved 
out  of  Brooklyn  to  "safer"  areas,  or  were 
wiped  out  in  the  Depression,  the  Academy's 
prestige  declined.  Even  now,  although  this 
type  of  theater  patron  is  attracted  to  what 
we  are  doing,  he  still  won't  come.  There 
is  a  tremendous  stigma  attached  to  this 
borough.  Brooklyn  even  has  an  international 
reputation  as  a  wasteland,  a  dead  end." 

Older  Manhattanites  who  now  throng 
Lincoln  Center  may  hesitate  to  travel  to 
Brooklyn,  but  New  York  students  and  other 
young  adults  by  the  thousands  have  no 
qualms  about  taking  the  twenty  minute 
subway  ride  from  Midtown  to  the  Academy. 
And  Brooklyn's  middle  and  lower  class  resi- 
dents, especially  the  large  black  commu- 


nity, have  found  a  theater  tailored  to  their 
needs  in  their  own  backyard.  Harvey 
Lichtenstein,  when  he  became  the  Academy's 
director  in  1967,  set  out  to  attract  this  new 
audience,  and  he  has  succeeded. 

As  Lichtenstein's  assistant,  Tom  Kerri- 
gan has  frequently  worked  ten  hours  a  day 
and  more,  seven  days  a  week,  to  keep  the 
programs  going  which  keep  the  audiences 
coming.  Over  the  past  three  years,  the 
b.a.m.'s  presentations  have  given  it  the 
reputation  of  being  the  country's  leading 
dance  center.  During  the  1968-69  season, 
the  first  season  Kerrigan  was  with  the  Acad- 
emy, nine  dance  companies  were  featured. 
The  following  year,  three  groups  became 
resident  companies:  Merce  Cunningham's, 
Alvin  Ailey's,  and  Eliot  Feld's  American 
Ballet  Company. 

The  Brooklyn  Academy,  however,  is  not 
exclusively  concerned  with  dance.  In 
fact  it  was  the  exclusive  run  of  The  Living 
Theatre  which  brought  the  b.a.m.  into  the 
limelight.  The  Living  Theater,  although 
acclaimed  by  audiences  and  critics,  had 
emigrated  from  the  United  States  because 
of  objections  to  and  conflicts  with  the  U.S. 
government.  Lichtenstein  induced  the  group 
to  return  for  an  engagement  at  the  Acad- 
emy. His  timing  was  perfect.  By  1968,  a 
large  segment  of  the  American  theater- 
going public  was  ready  to  appreciate  The 
Living  Theatre's  unconventional  program. 

In  the  three  years  since  that  sensational 
presentation,  the  diversity,  individuality 
and  quality  of  the  Academy's  projects  have 
influenced  New  York  City's  audiences  and 
critics.  "Brooklyn  Academyesque"  may  be 
clumsy,  but  it  is  a  term  often  applied  to 
programs  at  other  theaters  in  the  city. 

Three  major  theater  companies,  fifteen 
major  dance  companies,  and  two  orchestras 
have  been  among  the  Academy's  bill  of 
fare.  It  is  Tom  Kerrigan's  job  to  help  ad- 
minister these  programs,  working  with  a 
budget  of  $1.5  million  and  ticket  receipts 
totalling  $600,000. 

Kerrigan,  although  only  25-years-old, 
has  the  background  to  do  the  job.  While 
at  the  University  of  Massachusetts,  for 
the  two  years  it  took  him  to  complete  his 


undergraduate  work,  he  studied  theater 
and  became  interested  in  promotion  and 
press  publicity.  Several  faculty  members 
were  instrumental  in  steering  him  towards 
his  present  career;  he  mentions  Doris 
Abramson  in  particular.  Influenced  by 
Cosmo  Catalano,  a  member  of  the  faculty 
in  1965,  he  enrolled  in  the  masters  program 
in  acting  and  directing  at  Yale  after  receiv- 
ing his  bachelor's  degree.  "If  I  hadn't  gone 
to  the  University,"  he  says,  "I  would  never 
have  gotten  to  Yale.  Once  there,  I  switched 
to  theater  administration.  I  was  finally  at 
home.  It  was  fantastic." 

Kerrigan  attributes  his  meteoric  rise  in 
his  profession  to  the  extraordinary  manage- 
ment training  program  at  Yale.  He  had  an 
opportunity  to  study  under  such  New  York 
professionals  as  the  program's  director, 
Herman  Krawitz,  of  the  Metropolitan 
Opera. 

From  New  Haven,  Kerrigan  was  in  easy 
commuting  distance  to  New  York  City.  Even 
while  living  in  Amherst,  he  frequently 
traveled  to  Manhattan  on  weekends.  Now 
he  was  able  to  be  in  the  city  often  enough 
to  work  with  one  of  his  teachers  from  Yale 
— Harvey  Sabinson  of  Solters  &  Sabinson, 
a  press  and  public  relations  firm  which 
usually  handles  half  of  the  Broadway  shows 
produced  in  any  one  season. 

Armed  with  this  experience,  Kerrigan 
became  an  assistant  in  the  Brooklyn  Acad- 
emy's press  department  when  he  graduated 
from  Yale  in  1968.  By  December  of  that 
year,  he  had  been  promoted  to  Lichtenstein's 
assistant,  handling  all  administrative  affairs. 
His  duties  broadened  even  further  last 
August  when,  as  he  puts  it,  the  press 
department  "ended  up  on  my  desk  too." 

Kerrigan  looks  to  the  future  with  mixed 
emotions.  "I  had  planned  to  spend  only  two 
seasons  here,"  he  says,  "and  this  is  my 
third.  There  are  other  things  to  do— start- 
ing a  national  theater  for  instance — and 
I  would  like  to  give  them  a  try. 

"On  the  other  hand,  the  possibilities  here 
are  staggering,  more  than  in  any  other  exist- 
ing theater  in  the  country.  It  is,  in  short  a 
three-ring  circus — and  hasn't  everyone  en- 
vied the  ringmaster  from  time  to  time?" 


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Brooklyn  residents  have  found  a  theater 
suited  to  their  needs  in  their  own  back 
yard,  and,  in  turn,  the  Brooklyn  Academy 
of  Music  has  found  itself  surrounded  by 
an  enthusiastic  audience.  Programs  tailored 
to  special  groups,  such  as  the  neighbor- 
hood schoolchildren  shown  here,  have 
brought  the  Academy  considerable  recog- 
nition. 


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On  Campus 


Trustee  Lyons  Resigns 

"I  greatly  appreciate  these  flowery  words 
and  wonderful  obituary  which  I  trust  will 
be  placed  on  file.  My  statesmanship  has 
been  examined  and  to  give  you  a  strategic 
point,  I  have  noticed  at  Hyannis  and  at  the 
Board  of  Higher  Education  that  all  these 
projections  that  show  the  impossible  number 
of  students  and  the  impossible  amounts 
of  money  that  are  to  be  forthcoming  all 
have  a  target  date  of  1980,  and  I  thought  it 
would  be  technically  very  desirable  for 
me  to  take  this  sabbatical  until  after  1980, 
and,  like  Robert  Frost,  if  I'm  satisfied  in 
having  died,  I  may  return." 

With  these  words,  Louis  M.  Lyons  '18 
resigned  from  the  University's  board  of 
trustees  after  a  seven  year  term.  The  73- 
year-old  journalist,  (he  is  anchor  man  on 
wgbh-fm  nightly  news  commentary  in 
Boston),  is  the  former  curator  of  Harvard 
University's  Nieman  Foundation  for 
journalism. 

Students  as  well  as  colleagues  regretted  his 
resignation  from  the  board.  The  Collegian 
editoralized,  "For  the  past  seven  years 
Louis  Lyons  has  been  one  of  the  University's 
most  active,  most  sincere,  and  most  visible 
trustees,  and  his  departure  from  the  board 
this  month  will  be  hard  to  take  .  .  .  Mr. 
Lyons  has  proved  that  age  is  not  necessarily 
a  barrier  to  understanding." 

Dr.  Lyons's  resignation  became  effective 
February  22. 

Amherst  Appointments 

Associate  Provost  Robert  L.  Gluckstern  has 
been  named  vice-chancellor  for  academic 
affairs  and  provost.  As  such,  he  is  the  chief 
academic  officer  for  the  Amherst  campus.  A 
student-faculty  committee,  which  had  con- 
sidered some  forty  nominations  from  on  and 


off  campus  since  last  fall,  unanimously  rec- 
ommended Dr.  Gluckstern's  appointment. 
Two  other  search  committees  have  been 
at  work,  and  the  board  of  trustees  has 
made  the  following  appointments  based  on 
their  recommendations :  Dr.  Jeremiah  M. 
Allen,  acting  dean  of  the  College  of  Arts 
and  Sciences,  associate  provost,  and  profes- 
sor of  English,  was  named  dean  of  the 
Faculty  of  Humanities  and  Fine  Arts;  and 
Dr.  Dean  Alfange,  Jr.,  associate  professor 
of  government,  was  named  dean  of  the 
Faculty  of  Social  and  Behavioral  Sciences. 

Unfinished  Business 

Recently,  there  have  been  drastic  across-the- 
board  cutbacks  in  the  U.S.  foreign  aid 
budget  and  shifts  in  U.S.  technical  assistance 
priorities  in  Africa  along  political  lines. 
Gilbert  E.  Mottla  feels  that  these  are  the 
main  reasons  why  the  contract  with  the 
Agency  for  International  Development  for 
the  University's  six-year  educational  project 
in  agriculture  in  Malawi,  Central  Africa, 
was  not  renewed. 

Mottla,  campus  coordinator  of  the  Ma- 
lawi Project  for  the  University's  College  of 
Agriculture,  explained,  "According  to  re- 
ports from  Malawi  and  U.S.  government 
officials,  our  University  has  done  highly 
commendable  work  in  Malawi  but  unfor- 
tunately the  job  is  far  from  finished." 

Malawi,  with  a  population  of  five  million, 
has  almost  no  natural  resources  and  mini- 
mal industry.  Its  major  source  of  national 
income  is  agriculture,  which  is  still  in  a 
primitive  stage.  Scientific  plant  breeding  is 
all  but  unknown.  Fertilizer,  at  $6  per  bag, 
is  too  expensive  for  the  average  farmer  to 
buy.  Hand  methods  still  predominate  and 
plant  diseases  flourish.  "Malawi  is  a  plant 
pathologist's  dream — every  disease  you  can 
think  of  can  be  found  there,"  said  Joseph 
Keohan,  the  last  UMass  staff  member  to 
serve  there.  He  ended  a  two-year  tour  of 
duty  last  fall  as  a  senior  lecturer  in  biology 
at  Bunda  College,  the  agricultural  college 
unit  of  the  University  of  Malawi  which 
UMass  people  helped  develop. 

In  1971,  Bunda  expects  to  have  fifty  in 


the  graduating  class.  This  is  remarkable 
progress  in  four  short  years  but,  as  Mottla 
puts  it,  "It  takes  at  least  ten  years  to  de- 
velop a  viable  college  specializing  in  the 
modern  agricultural  sciences.  Those  of  us 
who  know  Malawi  and  her  needs  are,  there- 
fore, frustrated  because  UMass  was  not 
furnished  sufficient  funds  to  complete 
the  job." 

The  UMass  College  of  Agriculture,  under 
the  direction  of  Dean  A.  A.  Spielman,  is 
exploring  the  possibility  of  support  from  an 
American  foundation  in  order  to  complete 
the  job  required  at  Bunda.  A  proposal  for 
the  establishment  of  a  regional  center  for 
applied  research  and  technology  has  also 
been  submitted  to  aid  and  several  founda- 
tions. If  financial  support  can  be  obtained, 
this  research  center  would  be  located  at 
Bunda  College  and  would  serve  not  only 
Malawi,  but  also  neighboring  countries  such 
as  Zambia,   Botswana,  Swaziland,  and 
Lesotho. 

Artistry  Beyond  Expectation 

"The  ease  with  which  these  young  women 
approached  the  whole  idea  of  dance  pro- 
gramming for  audience  education  makes  the 
entire  program  a  real  pleasure. .  .  .  The  whole 
evening  was  too  short.  Everyone  was  hav- 
ing such  a  good  time,  on  stage  and  off,  that 
one  would  have  been  content  had  these 
young  dancers  continued  for  a  few  hours 
more." 

In  this  review  of  a  lecture-demonstration 
presented  in  the  fall  of  1969  by  the  Uni- 
versity's Concert  Dance  Group,  a  surprised 
reporter  for  a  Springfield  newspaper  ad- 
mitted by  implication  that  his  talent  as 
a  forecaster  was  on  a  par  with  the  ground 
hogs.  The  seven  UMass  senior  girls  showed 
none  of  the  "cold,  physical  education  ap- 
proach" to  dance  that  he  had  so  smugly 
expected. 

Suitably  chastened,  the  following  year 
he  reported  that  the  Group,  "under  the  di- 
rection of  very  talented,  tenacious  Marilyn 
Patton,  has  grown  in  stature,  developed  in 
creative  integrity,  and  expanded  its  intel- 
lectual attitude  toward  the  dancers'  art." 


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The  men  and  women  of  the  Concert 
Dance  Group  have  performed  off  campus 
as  well  as  on,  visiting  high  schools,  colleges 
and  hospitals  in  Massachusetts  and  neigh- 
boring states. 

The  dance  concentration  program  within 
the  School  of  Physical  Education  has  en- 
rolled thirty-three  students  in  its  third  year 
of  existence.  Marilyn  V.  Patton,  advisor  to 
the  program,  is  assisted  by  two  full-time 
and  one  part-time  faculty  member.  Student 
interest  now  surpasses  the  number  of 
courses  available,  and  Miss  Patton  hopes 
that  a  department  of  dance  will  be  formed 
and  a  dance  major  developed  in  the  near 
future. 


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Chancellor's  Club: 

A  Vehicle  for  Philanthropy 

The  University  has  announced  the  forma- 
tion of  a  Chancellor's  Club  to  coordinate 
substantial  contributions  from  alumni  and 
friends.  Funds  from  the  Chancellor's  Club 
will  be  used  for  initiating  and  maintaining 
new  programs  at  UMass. 

Membership  is  open  to  those  giving  $1000 
or  more  a  year  or  $10,000  over  a  period  of 
time.  Bequests  in  the  latter  amount  also 
qualify  for  membership  status.  All  contri- 
butions may  be  made  in  the  name  of  both 
spouses.  Donors  of  $10,000  or  more  may, 
if  they  desire,  have  their  funds  named  in 
their  honor. 

The  chairman  of  the  Chancellor's  Club 
is  Paul  G.  Marks  '57,  president  of  Display- 
Craft  Corporation  in  Framingham.  Long 
active  in  alumni  affairs,  Paul  is  currently 
serving  as  First  Vice  President  of  the  Asso- 
ciate Alumni.  To  obtain  further  information, 
write  him  c/o  Office  of  the  Chancellor, 
Whitmore  Administration  Building,  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts,  Amherst  01002. 

Rand  Dies  at  the  Age  of  81 

The  death  of  Frank  Prentice  Rand,  on 
February  8, 1971,  marks  the  end  of  an  era 
in  the  history  of  the  University.  The  first 
third  of  his  long  and  distinguished  career 
was  spent  at  the  Agricultural  College;  the 
second  third  spanned  the  years  at  Massa- 
chusetts State;  and  the  final  third  was  at 
the  University  until  his  retirement  in  1960 
as  Professor  Emeritus  of  English. 

In  his  forty-six  years  on  the  faculty,  his 
students  must  have  numbered  well  over 
5,000,  but  he  remembered  most  of  them  by 
personality  and  accomplishment  as  well 
as  by  name. 

His  upper  division  elective  courses  in 
literature  concentrated  upon  four  areas — 
Shakespeare,  modern  drama,  modern  poetry, 
and  Victorian  poetry.  The  essence  of  Frank 
Rand  in  the  classroom  was  a  brilliant  lec- 
ture, perfectly  phrased  and  timed,  full  of  wit 
and  interesting  insights.  The  five  minute 
Rand  quizzes  at  the  beginning  of  each  class 


period — forty-two  quizzes  a  semester — were 
a  legend  on  campus.  Exactly  how  much  he 
counted  these  carefully  corrected  papers 
was  a  secret  no  one  ever  solved. 

Professor  Rand  also  carried  a  section  of 
freshman  composition  in  each  semester, 
even  at  the  end.  His  highly  personalized 
method  of  getting  freshmen  to  write  a  great 
deal  helped  thousands  of  students  improve 
their  command  of  the  English  language.  His 
influence  extended  beyond  the  classroom 
too,  notably  through  his  role  of  director  of 
the  Roister  Doisters. 

A  prolific  writer,  the  author  of  sixteen 
volumes,  Mr.  Rand  had  the  same  flair  for 
style  in  his  books  that  he  displayed  in  his 
lectures  and  his  ordinary  conversation.  His 
publications  included  several  collections  of 
poetry,  plays,  a  history  of  the  University,  a 
widely-praised  history  of  the  town  of  Am- 
herst, and  scores  of  reviews,  articles,  and 
newspaper  columns. 

As  an  administrator  he  served  for  twenty- 
three  years  in  the  post  of  department  head 
in  English.  In  addition,  he  was  the  acting 
dean  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  during 
seven  years  of  significant  development  in 
both  curriculum  and  scholarly  endeavor. 

He  was  the  recipient  of  honorary  degrees 
from  both  UMass  and  Williams  College, 
his  alma  mater.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Cush- 
ing  Academy  and  was  elected  for  several 
terms  as  a  trustee  of  the  Jones  Library  in 
Amherst. 

Professor  Rand  and  his  wife  Margarita, 
(who  survives  him),  were  gracious  hosts, 
sharing  their  friends,  men  like  Robert  Frost 
and  Robert  Francis,  with  students  and  fac- 
ulty members.  Frank  Rand's  contributions 
to  the  University  were  infinitely  generous 
and  his  death  is  an  incalculable  loss. 

The  Graduate  School  Forges  Ahead 

In  i960,  the  University  awarded  a  total  of 
three  Ph.D.'s;  in  1970,  204  doctorates  were 
granted.  This  increase  of  6700%  has  not 
been  at  the  cost  of  quality.  In  fact,  in  nation- 
wide ratings  of  graduate  programs  conducted 
by  the  American  Council  on  Education,  the 
Graduate  School  fared  very  well.  Seventeen 


Ph.D.  programs  were  listed  among  the  best 
in  the  country,  two  being  judged  among  the 
top  twenty  departments  in  their  respective 
fields.  These  were  the  doctoral  programs 
in  German,  offered  cooperatively  with 
Amherst,  Mt.  Holyoke,  and  Smith,  and 
the  program  in  botony,  one  of  the  oldest 
in  the  University. 

The  other  fifteen  programs  cited  were: 
English,  history,  government,  psychology, 
sociology,  human  development,  entomology, 
microbiology,  molecular  biology,  physiol- 
ogy, chemistry,  population  biology,  zoology, 
geology,  and  mathematics.  When  the  last 
such  survey  was  made  five  years  ago,  only 
bacteriology-microbiology,  entomology, 
psychology,  and  zoology  were  included. 
At  that  time,  there  were  2,231  graduate 
students  at  the  University.  In  the  interven- 
ing years,  that  number  has  more  than 
doubled.  There  are  now  4,464  graduate 
students,  and  the  Graduate  School  receives 
three  times  as  many  applicants  as  it  has 
places  available. 

Graduate  Dean  Mortimer  Appley  com- 
mented: "Much  of  the  improvement  re- 
flected in  the  report  is  attributable  to  the 
recruiting  of  highly  qualified  faculty,  partic- 
ularly in  the  last  few  years."  Although 
pleased  with  the  high  ratings  obtained,  Dr. 
Appley  expressed  some  concern  that  the 
ratings  did  not  sufficiently  reflect  recent 
improvements.  In  the  eighteen  months  that 
it  took  to  prepare  the  report,  the  University's 
programs  have  improved  to  a  point  where 
many  more  departments  might  have  been 
cited. 

Love  Story 

Boy  beaver  meets  girl  beaver  .  .  .  love  and 
baby   beavers    follow   in   quick   succession. 
Simply  Walt  Disney  romanticism,  one  might 
say,  but  even  Disney's  chroniclers  of  the 
animal  kingdom  would  have  difficulty  tell- 
ing the  heart  warming  tale. 

The  problem:  the  boy  and  the  girl  know 
which  is  which,  but  human  observers  have 
never  been  able  to  distinguish  between 
sexes  in  beavers. 

The  solution:  a  blood  test,  on  the  basis  of 


which  beavers  can  be  tagged  and  studied. 
University  researchers,  led  by  Joseph  5. 
Larson  '56,  associate  professor  of  wildlife 
biology,  and  graduate  student  Stephen  J. 
Knapp,  discovered  that  the  nuclei  of  the 
female  beaver's  white  blood  cells  are  dif- 
ferent from  those  of  the  male.  Armed  with 
this   information,  the  UMass   research 
team  has  been  able  to  study  the  social 
structure  of  beaver  colonies  and  thereby 
provide  a  basis  for  more  informed  trapping 
regulations. 

The  Second  Century  Club 

Almost  two  hundred  people  contributed 
$100  to  the  1970  Alumni  Fund,  thus  becom- 
ing members  of  the  Second  Century  Club. 
The  names  of  these  donors  are  listed  below: 

1907:  Walter  E.  Dickinson.  1908:  Theoren 
L.  Warner  (dec.)  1913:  Harold  Cory.  1914: 
Harold  W.  Brewer,  Stuart  B.  Foster.  1915: 
James  A.  Price.  1916:  Francis  M.  Andrews, 
Harold  N.  Caldwell,  Alfred  Gioiosa,  Charles 
A.  Huntington,  Perley  B.  Jordan,  Conrad 
H.  Lieber,  Clayton  Nash,  George  B.  Palmer, 
Edgar  A.  Perry,  Lewis  Schlotterbeck,  Robert 
K.  Wheeler.  1917:  Monsell  H.  Davis, 
Harold  G.  Dickey,  Walter  F.  Rutter.  1918: 
Robert  P.  Holmes,  John  J.  Maginnis,  Lester 
N.  Odams,  Oliver  G.  Pratt,  Raymond  A. 
St.  George,  Raymond  Stowe  (Deceased). 
1919:  G.  Kinson  Blanchard,  Verne  A. 
Fogg,  E.  Sidney  Stockwell.  1920:  Susan 
Smith  Andersen,  John  A.  &  May  Crawford, 
Hazen  Hamlin,  Albert  W.  Meserve.  1921 : 
Peter  J.  Cascio,  Samuel  N.  &  Phoebe  Schatz 
Rosoff  '19.  1922:  Clarence  F.  &  Frances 
Martin  Clark  '23,  Robert  P.  Lawrence, 
William  H.  Peck.  1923:  Mason  W.  & 
Dorothy  Turner  Alger,  Eleanor  W.  Bateman, 


Gilbert  B.  Searles,  John  M.  Whittier,  Con- 
rad L.  Wirth.  1924:  Richard  A.  Whitney. 
1925:  Herbert  J.  Marx,  Frederick  F.  Swisler. 
1926:  L.  Clayton  Anderson,  Frederic  A.  & 
Margaret  Smith  Baker,  Alton  H.  &  Maude 
Bosworth  Gustafson,  Lawrence  L.  &  Mary 
Ingraham  Jones  '27,  Evelyn  Davis  Kennedy, 
Montague  White.  1927:  Harry  C.  Nottebart, 
Charles  M.  Powell,  Herbert  F.  Verity,  J. 
May  Wiggin.  1928:  Ellsworth  &  Mary 
Taylor  Barnard  '34,  Richard  J.  Davis, 
Joseph  H.  Forest,  J.  Stanley  Hall.  1929: 
Dennis  M.  Crowley,  Kenneth  W.  Perry. 
1930:  Frederick  C.  Ellert,  Davis  H.  Elliot. 
1931:  Francis  C.  Pray.  1932:  William  B. 
Coen,  Robert  C.  Gunness,  Joseph  Jorczak, 
Oswald  Tippo.  1933:  John  B.  Barr,  Isabel 
Perkins  Jolma,  Raymond  F.  Pelissier,  Paul 
M.  Runge.  1934:  Gordon  E.  Ainsworth, 
Wilmer  D.  Barrett,  Edmund  J.  Clow,  Eliot 
Landsman,  David  C.  Mountain,  Alvan  S.  & 
Pauline  Hillberg  Ryan.  1935:  Henry  Epstein, 
Robert  M.  Koch,  Walter  Stepat.  1936: 
George  H.  Allen,  John  E.  Franco,  David  L. 
Johnson,  Owen  S.  Trask.  1937:  Trento 
J.  Domenici,  Prescott  L.  Richards,  George  R. 
Richason,  Donald  K.  &  Mabelle  Booth 
Tucker  '39.  1938:  Robert  C.  &  Elizabeth 
Howe  Dewey  '40,  William  E.  Roberge, 
Donald  L.  Silverman,  Frank  A.  Slesinski. 
1939:  Frank  J.  &  Jean  Carlisle  Yourga  '42. 
1940:  Roger  W.  Brown,  Jr.,  Charles  L.  & 
Martha  Shirley  Gleason  '42,  John  W.  Swen- 
son,  Frank  &  Louise  Bowman  Wing.  1941 : 
S.  Gilbert  &  Lillian  Moldaw  Davis  '51, 
Robert  F.  Halloran,  Saul  B.  Klaman,  James 
J.  Kline,  Frank  M.  Simons,  Jr.  1942:  Lester 
J.  Bishop,  Ernest  A.  Dunbar,  Jr.,  Marie 
B.  Kelleher.  1943:  Luther  S.  Gare,  Dorothy 
Dunklee  Gavin,  Lloyd  M.  Horlick,  Florence 
M.  Lane,  Harold  J.  &  Ruth  Shea  Quinn 
'48.  1944:  Thomas  E.  &  Celeste  Dubord 
Devaney  '43,  Fred  J.  Nahil.  1945:  Helen 
Thomas  Haddad,  Wilma  Winberg  Johnson, 
Saul  Smoller.  1946:  Lois  Beurman  Torf. 
1947:  Richard  W.  Bauer,  Frank  A.  Duston, 
John  D.  Giannotti,  Janice  Riley  VanRiper. 
1948:  Anthony  J.  Randazzo,  Nathan  B. 
Winstanley,  Jr.  1949:  Allen  C.  Bluestein, 
Roslaide  Tolman  Boyer,  Albert  Brown, 
Bernard  P.  Bussel,  Jerome  Casper,  William 


I.  Cerier,  Richard  F.  Jackson,  Janice  Ritten- 
burg  Rossbach.  1950:  John  D.  Cairns, 
James  P.  Cormack,  Jr.,  John  Gilboard, 
Charles  C.  Goldfarb.  1951:  Stanley  &  Bailey 
Schanberg  Barron  '53,  Shirley  Saphirstein 
Segal.  1953:  Joseph  B.  Flavin,  Jr.,  Donald  I. 
Morey.  1934:  John  Bevilaqua,  Jr.,  James 
F.  Buckley,  Saul  F.  &  Norma  Gurwitz  Fein- 
gold,  Arthur  Jr.  &  Ruth  Freeman  Geissler 
'^5,  Morton  H.  Goldberg,  Gilbert  M.  &  Janet 
Cohen  Slovin  '36.  1955:  Hugh  F.  Ahem, 
Jr.,  Paul  F.  Cronin,  Allan  W.  Dickinson, 
Louis  J.  Kirsch,  William  &  M.  Shera  Lawson 
Lawrence,  Harold  W.  Solomon.  1956: 
David  M.  Bartley,  George  G.  Burke,  Roy 
B.  Cullman,  Jr.,  Myron  E.  &  Sandra  Hurst 
Lappin,  Frederick  L.  Pratt.  1957:  Richard 
W.  Boyle,  Paul  G.  &  Elaine  Siegel  Marks 
'56,  James  P.  Mendrek.  1938:  Richard  P. 
Coleman,  Howard  F.  King,  Jr.,  John  R. 
Picard.  1959:  John  F.  Eppich.  i960:  Mere- 
dith A.  Gonyea,  Mark  E.  &  Judith  Linscott 
Nelson.  1962:  Norman  G.  Cournoyer  'G, 
Albert  L.  Rheaume.  1965:  Elvin  M.  Fowell 
'G,  Linda  R.  Gentry,  Dennis  C.  Stackhouse. 
1966:  Michael  J.  &  Charlotte  Geletka 
Brown  '65,  James  E.  Mulcahy.  Trustees: 
Edmund  J.  Croce,  Mrs.  George  R.  Rowland. 

Progress  in  the  Works — 
Please  Bear  With  Us 

Alumni  records  will  go  on  the  UMass  com- 
puter this  May,  after  ten  months  of  rigorous 
planning  and  research.  The  computeri- 
zation will  increase  the  efficiency  of  the 
present  office  operations  and  will  allow 
broader  dissemination  of  information  about 
alumni  throughout  the  University. 

Unfortunately,  there  will  be  a  period  of 
transition  before  these  benefits  can  be 
reaped.  Delays,  particularly  in  the  acknowl- 
edgment of  donations,  are  foreseen.  We 
ask  our  friends  to  bear  with  us. 


Lacrosse: 
It's  a  helluva  lot  of  fun  to  play" 

PETER  PASCARELLI  '72 


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Lacrosse  is  called  the  All  American  game, 
the  fastest  game  on  earth,  and  it  is  all  that. 
But  lacrosse  was  never  the  big  spectator 
sport  in  New  England  that  it  is  on  Long 
Island  and  in  Maryland,  until  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  lacrosse  team  became 
the  perennial  New  England  lacrosse  power 
and,  finally,  after  years  of  struggling,  a 
nationally  ranked  college  lacrosse  team. 

UMass  has  had  huge  student  support  for 
its  home  lacrosse  games.  Interest  in  la- 
crosse has  made  the  sport  join  football, 
baseball  and  basketball  as  the  big  spectator 
draws  on  campus.  A  perfect  example  was 
a  game  two  years  ago  with  Amherst  Col- 
lege that  brought  an  estimated  6,000  people 
to  Alumni  Stadium.  And  plans  are  being 
made  to  play  some,  if  not  all,  home  games 
in  the  stadium  this  spring. 

All  this  interest  is  surprising,  considering 
that  only  twelve  high  schools  in  the  state 
play  lacrosse. 

Coach  Dick  Garber  has  some  theories 
on  lacrosse's  popularity  at  UMass.  Garber 
should  know,  since  he's  been  Redmen 
lacrosse  mentor  for  seventeen  years,  and 
during  those  years  has  compiled  one  of  the 
finest  coaching  records  in  America,  an 
impressive  110  wins,  57  losses  and  2  ties. 

Garber  thinks  lacrosse  has  caught  on  at 
UMass  because  of  three  big  reasons:  "One, 
the  players  are  a  cross-section  of  the  cam- 
pus. In  most  intercollegiate  sports,  by 
necessity,  the  only  ones  who  play  are 
recruits.  And  while  I  have  nothing  against 
recruiting,  the  recruited  athlete  sometimes 
gets  separated  from  the  rest  of  the  stu- 
dents. Most  of  our  players,  though,  are  just 
students  who  came  out  for  lacrosse.  So, 
whereas  on  most  teams  not  many  students 
know  players,  our  team  is  the  opposite. 

"Secondly,  it  is  simply  a  great  game  to 
watch.  Lacrosse  is  so  similar  to  hockey  and 
basketball  that  even  if  you  don't  know  the 
rules,  you  can  recognize  what  is  going  on. 

"And  thirdly,  we  have  been  a  winner.  We 
have  not  had  a  losing  season  since  1965, 
and  have  not  lost  at  home  in  three  years." 

College  lacrosse  has  always  had  its  prob- 
lems gaining  recognition  nationwide.  The 
fact  that  it  has  never  had  a  national  tourna- 


ment has  not  helped.  Neither  has  the  ab- 
sence of  any  regular  form  of  national 
ranking.  This  year  all  that  changes.  The 
ncaa  will  be  holding  its  first  lacrosse 
championship.  And  the  wire  services  will 
be  carrying  weekly  polls  of  the  nation's 
top  teams. 

To  Garber,  this  is  a  godsend.  "These  are 
long  overdue  steps  for  national  lacrosse 
interest.  The  tourney  will  give  schools  like 
ourselves  the  chance  to  compete  against 
the  traditional  best.  It  will  give  the  fans  and 
players  something  to  look  forward  to.  And 
the  weekly  rankings  can  help  get  lacrosse 
newspaper  space  it  has  never  had." 

The  coach,  a  Springfield  College  grad,  is 
not  sure  how  UMass  will  match  up  against 
the  traditional  lacrosse  powers,  such  as 
Navy,  Johns  Hopkins  and  the  Ivies.  He  does 
say  though,  "We  are  playing  Ivy  League 
schools  in  our  schedule  now,  with  Harvard 
and  Brown  this  year.  And  we  add  Yale  next 
season.  We've  tried  to  gradually  upgrade 
our  competition  because  we've  dominated 
our  level  so  long.  And  besides,  the  Univer- 
sity now  attracts  Ivy-type  student  athletes. 

"Lacrosse  is  just  like  anything  else,"  he 
continued.  "The  amount  of  scholarship 
money  has  a  great  deal  to  do  with  what 
level  we  can  rise  to.  It's  a  fact  of  life  that 
the  best  lacrosse  players  come  from  out  of 
state,  and  therefore  it  costs  them  more  to 
come  here.  But  this  year,  for  example,,  we 
have  eight  of  the  really  good  lacrosse  play- 
ers applying  here  and  they  have  grades 
good  enough  to  be  admitted.  It  will  boil 
down  to  how  much  they  can  give  and  how 
much  we  can  give." 

One  of  the  most  distinguishable  charac- 
teristics of  the  team  is  its  contagious  spirit. 
This  fall,  eighty  players  showed  up  for  fall 
practice,  many  of  whom  had  never  played 
lacrosse  previously,  and  most  of  whom 
still  practice  with  the  team.  Garber  en- 
thused, "A  good  athlete  can  be  taught 
lacrosse  in  a  short  time.  If  he  has  had 
experience  in  something  else,  like  hockey 
or  football,  all  the  better.  Frequently  ath- 
letes can  move  over  from  another  sport. 

"We  can  handle  the  many  kids  who  want 
to  play,  because  we  have  had  a  freshman 


and  junior  varsity  program.  We  get  the 
kids'  games  scheduled  and  that  gives  them 
something  to  look  forward  to.  And  they 
will  be  the  first  to  tell  you  the  game  is  a 
helluva  lot  of  fun  to  play." 

UMass  grad  Russ  Kidd  '56  will  be  junior 
varsity  coach  this  year,  added  to  his  duties 
as  frosh  hockey  coach.  Freshmen  are  eli- 
gible for  varsity  play  in  lacrosse,  so  junior 
varsity  play  has  supplanted  the  freshman 
team.  Kidd,  along  with  Don  Johnson  '56, 
according  to  Garber,  "made  us  a  lacrosse 
team,  when  we  had  really  never  been  one." 

Alumni,  Garber  says,  "put  us  on  the  map 
and  got  UMass  lacrosse  a  lot  of  attention. 
People  like  Billy  Maxwell  '60,  who  is  one 
of  the  leading  career  scorers  and  now  a 
UMass  football  assistant,  and  Dick  Hoss 
'61,  our  first  All  American."  Other  All 
Americans,  like  Jim  Ellingwood  '62,  Dick 
Brown  '65,  Kevin  O'Brien  '67,  John  Bam- 
berry  '62  (a  former  football  assistant),  Walt 
Alessi  '68,  and  more  recent  stars — Kevin 
O'Connor  '69,  now  a  West  Point  assistant 
coach,  Tom  Tufts  '69,  also  at  West  Point, 
Steve  Connolly  '69,  and  two-time  All 
American  and  last  year's  record  breaking 
scorer  Tom  Malone — have  helped  lacrosse. 

UMass  lacrosse  players  seem  to  have  a 
fraternity-like  spirit  that  carries  over  after 
they  leave  school.  Says  Garber,  "Our  grad- 
uates will  go  home  and  talk  up  our  pro- 
gram. This  helps  a  great  deal.  And  since 
we  have  had  success,  good  players  want  to 
come  here.  I  think  any  high  school  young- 
ster is  impressed  by  our  commitment  to 
good  student-athletes  and  to  the  campus. 
For  example,  a  few  years  ago  a  study  was 
made  of  the  academic  averages  of  all  varsity 
sports,  and  lacrosse  was  the  best.  Tom 
Malone,  one  of  our  greatest  stars,  won 
an  ecac  merit  award  for  student-athletes. 

"Our  players  are  really  closely-knit.  They 
remember  us  after  they  graduate.  We  have 
started  an  alumni  game  that  includes  a 
dinner  and  dance.  Last  year  we  planned  on 
about  fifty,  and  one  hundred  twenty-four 
showed  up.  This  year,  I  get  phone  calls  all 
the  time  asking  when  the  alumni  game 
will  be  this  year.  Our  grads  seem  to  bring 
players  with  them  all  the  time." 


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This  year's  schedule  is  probably  one  of 
the  stickmen's  best  ever.  It  includes  a  spring 
trip  that  takes  the  Redmen  south  to  play 
national  lacrosse  powers  Army,  Rutgers, 
Princeton  and  Nassau  Community  College 
on  Long  Island.  Then  they  come  north 
and  play  teams  like  the  English  National 
team,  Adelphi,  Brown,  Harvard,  in  addition 
to  their  Northeast  Division  teams,  like 
Amherst,  Middlebury  and  Wesleyan.  Coach 
Garber  thinks  this  year's  Redmen  will  be 
another  success. 

"Our  first  eighteen  players  are  very 
capable  and  can  probably  compete  on  a 
national  level.  Off  of  fall  practice,  this  could 
be  the  best  team  we've  ever  had.  It  stacks 
up  well  against  the  last  two  years.  We  have 
a  lack  of  size  and  lack  of  experience  in 
playing  together,  but  I  think  we  have  a 
good  shot  at  national  ranking  and,  hope- 
fully, the  national  playoffs. 

To  make  those  playoffs,  UMass  will  have 
to  earn  one  of  the  two  or  three  bids  from 
District  I  of  the  ncaa.  They  can  earn  that  by 
winning  the  New  England  title,  or  by 
being  chosen  for  the  at-large  berths.  The 
New  England  title  is  a  mythical  one  in  the 
sense  that  it  is  chosen  and  not  a  formal 
league.  This  year,  though,  it  will  probably 
be  earned  on  the  field,  because  the  three  top 
contenders — Brown,  Harvard  and  UMass — 
all  play  each  other.  The  eight  team  playoffs 
will  be  held  at  Hofstra  University,  at  a 
new  Astro-turfed  stadium,  after  a  regional 
playoff  round. 

Says  Garber,  "We  have  a  good  chance  for 
the  playoffs.  I  kind  of  wish  they  had  had 
them  the  last  two  years,  though,  because  I 
think  we  would  have  gone  a  long  way." 

In  talking  with  Garber,  you  come  away 
with  an  infectious  enthusiasm  for  lacrosse 
and  athletics  in  general.  He  has  never  been 
one  to  complain  about  much,  but  rather 
goes  out  and  coaches  his  teams  to  the  best 
coaching  record  in  the  University.  He  really 
summed  up  his  feelings  best  when  he  said 
about  UMass  lacrosse,  "We  try  to  succeed 
in  being  a  good  team,  in  a  reasonable 
framework.  The  team  is  a  representative 
of  the  University.  Something  that  seems  to 
come  up  from  time  to  time  is  that  we  get 


the  bad  end  of  the  stick  from  the  athletic 
department  or  somewhere  else.  That's  ridic- 
ulous. We  are  doing  a  really  positive  thing 
out  there.  We  have  never  complained,  be- 
cause there  is  nothing  to  complain  about. 
Our  team  morale  is  just  amazing.  Why  last 
spring  during  the  strike,  the  team  voted 
unanimously  to  keep  playing,  and  a  lot 
of  our  players  were  actively  involved  in 
the  strike." 

Garber  went  on  to  say,  "We  are  well 
thought  of  on  campus,  and  our  fan  support 
shows  that.  I  believe  athletics  can  play  a 
really  positive  role  in  a  kid's  life  and  that 
makes  being  a  part  of  it  so  good." 

Lacrosse  has  not  only  arrived  at  UMass; 
it  has  become  a  major  sport.  It  has  been 
successful,  exciting  and  entertaining.  The  All 
American  game,  invented  by  Indians  and 
played  with  the  ferocious  abandon  of 
hockey  or  football,  is  a  way  of  life  on  the 
UMass  campus  these  days. 

Peter  Pascarelli  is  the  former  editor  in  chief 
of  the  Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian. 


Julius  Erving,  the  extraordinary 
junior  who  sparked  the  basket- 
ball team  to  two  outstanding 
seasons,  has  signed  a  contract 
(reportedly  for  $500,000)  with 
the  Virginia  Squires  of  the  ABA. 

The  news  leaked  on  April 
Fools'  Day,  but  it  wasn't  a  joke. 


From  the  Sidelines 


RICHARD  L.  BRESCIANI  '60 
Assistant  Sports  Information  Director 


The  Yankee  Conference  will  have  a  new 
commissioner,  Adolph  W.  Samborski,  July 
1.  Samborski,  who  retired  as  athletic  director 
at  Harvard  last  year,  will  succeed  J.  Orlean 
Christian,  the  yc's  first  commissioner,  and 
will  have  his  office  in  Durham. .  .  . 

The  new  Redmen  football  staff  has  been 
completed.  Joining  head  coach  Dick  Mac- 
Pherson  are  Bob  Pickett,  Billy  Maxwell  '60, 
Ken  Conatser,  George  Flood,  Larry  Pas- 
quale,  and  Bob  Harris.  Spring  football 
practice  ends  with  the  annual  clinic  and 
intra-squad  game,  April  30  and  May  1.  The 
clinic  will  feature  Detroit  Lions  quarter- 
back Greg  Landry  '68,  Cleveland  Browns 
end  Milt  Morin  '66,  Bay  State  Patriots 
offensive  coordinator  Sam  Rutigliano,  and 
Denver  Broncos  linebacker  John  Huard. 

Football  co-captains  for  1971  are  end 
John  Hulecki  and  defensive  back  Dennis 
Keating.  Two  Redmen  whose  names  should 
appear  in  the  school  records  after  next  fall 
are  place-kicker  Denis  Gagnon,  who  has 
already  set  the  extra  point  record  with  58 
in  62  tries,  and  fullback  Dick  Cummings. 
Cummings  is  the  fourth  all  time  ground 
gainer  with  1,021  (behind  Pat  Scavone's 
1,279,  Sam  Lussier's  1,572,  and  Greg  Lan- 
dry's 1,632).  The  Redmen  will  scrimmage 
at  Cornell  September  11,  then  open  the 
season  September  18  at  Maine. 

We  had  two  players  taken  in  the  nfl 
draft.  Guard  Bob  Pena  went  to  the  Cleve- 
land Browns  in  the  fourth  round  and  was 
the  first  New  England  player  chosen.  End 
Nick  McGarry,  who  was  ruled  ineligible  by 
the  yc  last  fall,  was  drafted  in  the  fifteenth 
round  by  the  Patriots.  Guard  Pierre  Mar- 


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chando,  also  ruled  ineligible  by  the  YanCon, 
had  a  fine  season  with  the  Hartford  Knights 
of  the  Atlantic  Coast  League  and  will  prob- 
ably sign  with  an  nfl  team.  Steve  Rogers 
played  on  the  same  team  and  was  named 
All  League  safety.  He  set  Redmen  pass 
interception  records  in  '67,  68  and  '69.  .  .  . 

Track  Coach  Ken  O'Brien  '63  is  happy. 
The  new  track,  a  440-yard  oval  complete 
with  "Uni-Turf,"  has  been  built  on  an  11- 
acre  site  adjacent  to  the  varsity  baseball 
field.  The  Redmen  will  host  the  YanCon 
track  championships  May  15  for  the  first 
time  since  i960.  .  .  . 

Basketball  enjoyed  its  best  season,  and 
Julius  Erving  continued  to  be  the  most 
honored  Redman  hoopster  ever.  In  just 
two  years  he  has  broken  almost  every 
UMass  record  for  scoring  and  rebounding, 
and  he  has  become  a  bona  fide  All  Ameri- 
can selection.  He  had  great  performances  to 
win  the  mvp  award,  leading  UMass  to 
the  Hall  of  Fame  Tournament  title  and  a 
35-point,  17-rebound  win  over  George 
Washington  at  Madison  Square  Garden. 
After  the  latter  appearance,  the  response 
and  comments  were  tremendous: 

"He  is  the  closest  thing  I  have  seen 
to  Connie  Hawkins  [6'8  star  of  the  nba 
Phoenix  Suns]." — Lou  Carnesecca,  coach 
of  the  New  York  Nets  of  the  aba. 

"Put  Erving's  name  in  a  hat  with  that  of 
Sid  Wicks  of  ucla  and  Ken  Durrett  of 
LaSalle.  Pick  any  two  of  them  and  you 
have  the  nation's  top  forwards." — Wayne 
Embry,  director  of  player  personnel  for 
the  Milwaukee  Bucks. 

"He's  the  best  junior  in  the  country  and 
probably  better,  at  least  as  a  shooter,  than 
Sidney  Wicks.  He  can  do  it  all." — John 
Kress,  chief  scout  of  the  Nets. 

For  sheer  dominance  against  a  solid 
opponent,  Julie's  work  in  the  86-71  final 
home  game  with  Syracuse  ranks  at  the  top. 
He  scored  36  points,  grabbed  a  record  32 
rebounds,  had  seven  assists,  and  five  blocked 
shots.  It  was  another  terrific  coaching  job 
by  Jack  Leaman,  who  won  the  Yankee 
Conference  title  for  the  fourth  straight  year. 

Looking  ahead,  the  basketball  team  adds 
Harvard  away  and  Manhattan  at  Madison 


Square  next  winter.  UMass  will  also  com- 
pete in  the  Quaker  City  Tourney  against 
Tennessee,  South  Carolina,  Boston  Col- 
lege, Fairfield,  Manhattan,  LaSalle,  and 
Villanova.  .  .  . 

Two  dedications  on  campus  this  spring 
deserve  notice.  When  UMass  played  New 
Hampshire  on  April  24,  the  baseball  field 
was  named  the  Earl  E.  Lorden  Field  after  the 
Redman  baseball  coach  who  served  from 
1948  to  1966.  On  May  15,  at  the  YanCon 
track  championships,  the  new  outdoor  track 
will  be  named  after  Llewellyn  L.  Derby, 
Redman  coach  from  1922  to  1953.  .  . . 

Yankee  Conference  baseball  teams  are 
playing  each  other  three  times  this  year, 
for  a  fifteen  game  league  schedule.  Also  on 
the  schedule — the  Redmen  play  at  Harvard 
May  17.  The  UMass  tri-captains  are  sen- 
iors Jack  Bernardo  and  Jack  Conroy,  and 
junior  Brian  Martin  (who  led  New  England 
in  hitting  last  year  at  .422). 

Talk  about  tall  basketball  teams.  Baseball 
need  not  be  ashamed  of  its  height,  with  a 
pitching  staff  which  includes  6'9  Tom 
Austin,  6'6  Tom  White,  6'5  John  Olson, 
6'3  Tom  King,  6'2  Lou  Colabello,  and  6'i 
Jack  Bernardo. 

Former  Redman  All  American  baseballers 
Bob  Hansen  and  Joe  DiSarcina  took  part 
in  spring  training.  Hansen,  who  batted  .323 
in  33  games  with  Portland  of  the  Triple-A 
Pacific  Coast  League  in  September,  is  the 
property  of  the  Milwaukee  organization. 
DiSarcina,  owned  by  the  San  Diego  Padres, 
played  at  Lodi,  California  last  summer 
and  will  be  assigned  soon  to  a  minor 
league  team.  .  .  . 

The  hockey  team's  first  invitation  to  play 
in  the  ecac's  Division  II  playoffs  was  a 
tribute  to  the  fine  work  of  Coach  Jack 
Canniff.  The  Redmen  set  a  new  school  win 
record  and  got  their  first  Division  I  wins 
over  Penn  and  Northeastern,  lead  all  the  way 
by  sophomore  scoring  whiz  Pat  Keenan 
who  set  new  school  records  for  goals  and 
points  in  one  season.  Goalie  Pat  Flaherty 
and  defenseman  Brian  Sullivan  were  also 
outstanding.  .  .  . 

Tennis  Coach  Steve  Kosakowski  will  be 
seeking  his  eleventh  YanCon  title  at  the 


league  championships  May  1  at  Orono.  .  .  . 
Congratulations  to  the  wrestling  coach, 
Homer  Barr,  who  not  only  had  another 
outstanding   season   but   also  was   selected 
as  Penn  State's  all-time  heavyweight.  He 
won  two  Eastern  titles  and  placed  three 
times  in  the  National  Tournament. 

Tournaments 

Redmen  teams  had  a  rewarding  winter 
capped  by  post-season  tournament 
competition. 

In  basketball,  UMass  had  its  second 
straight  appearance  at  the  nit.  The  Redmen 
lost  to  North  Carolina,  90-49,  before  19,000 
spectators  in  Madison  Square  Garden.  They 
finish  the  season  with  23  wins  and  4  losses. 

The  hockey  team  went  to  the  ecac 
Division  II  Tournament  in  Burlington  for 
the  first  time,  losing  2-1  to  defending  cham- 
pion Vermont.  They  finish  the  season  with 
14  wins,  6  losses,  and  1  tie. 

The  wrestling  team  won  the  New  England 
Championship  Tournament  to  break  Spring- 
field's 20-year  domination;  87  points  for 
UMass  to  jy  for  Springfield.  They  end  the 
season  15-3-1. 

The  gymnasts  finished  third  behind  Penn 
State  and  Springfield  in  the  Eastern  Gym 
League  Championships  held  at  Curry  Hicks 
Cage. 

The  ski  team  competed  with  twenty-six 
other  schools,  representing  three  divisions, 
to  win  the  New  England  Ski  Conference 
Championship. 


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Comment 


EVAN  V.  JOHNSTON  '50 
Executive  Vice-President 


For  several  years  now  there  have  been 
increasingly  strong  attempts  to  raise  tuition 
at  the  University  of  Massachusetts.  Former 
President  John  W.  Lederle,  long  a  champion 
of  the  principle  of  low  tuition,  brought  out 
a  statement  last  February  arguing  against 
such  a  move. 

His  five  major  points  are  herein  quoted 
with  his  permission,  and  with  a  few  minor 
editorial  privileges: 

1.  We  are  the  "people's  university,"  estab- 
lished and  designed  to  provide  educational 
opportunity  for  those  who  cannot  afford 
high  tuition. 

2.  Education  is  an  investment  by  the  state 
in  its  most  important  resource — its  youth — 
which  investment  comes  back  many  times 

■    over  in  the  form  of  increased  ability  to 
pay  taxes  and  in  improved  social  conditions. 

3.  While  public  higher  education  ought  to 
be  free,  or  at  most  be  offered  with  a  low 
tuition,  that  some  children  of  rich  parents 
could  pay  more  tuition  is  no  reason  for 
subjecting  all  students  to  higher  tuition. 

4.  Unless  we  don't  care  whether  we  dis- 
advantage our  Massachusetts  youth  for  the 
world  of  tomorrow,  let  us  stand  on  the  prin- 
ciple that  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
should  not  exceed  the  national  median  for 
tuition  and  fees  for  institutions  of  our  type. 
Sound  comparisons  must  use  both  tuition 
and  fees.  We  are  now  at  the  national  median 
on  an  in-state  basis.  We  may  be  somewhat 
under  on  out-of-state  tuition. 

5.  Any  tuition  increase  will  create  more 
real  hardship  than  the  revenue  it  brings  in 
can  justify. 

In  the  course  of  his  remarks,  Dr.  Lederle 
pointed  out  that  "From  one-half  to  two- 


thirds  of  our  students  come  from  homes 
where,  taking  into  account  both  husband 
and  wife's  income  and  savings,  they  can't 
cover  the  full  cost  of  education  even  at  the 
University  of  Massachusetts.  .  .  .  Low  tui- 
tion is  the  birthright  of  the  land-grant 
system;  raising  tuition  to  private  school 
levels  destroys  the  diversity  of  higher  edu- 
cation." He  added,  "A  system  of  loans, 
later  to  be  repaid,  starts  a  student  off  like 
an  indentured  servant,  and  if  his  wife  also 
took  out  a  loan,  we  have  a  reverse  dowery." 

"Why  do  we  make  a  distinction  between 
free  education  through  high  school  and  then 
charge  tuition  for  college,  in  a  day  when  a 
college  education  has  become  as  necessary 
as  getting  through  high  school  once  was?" 
he  went  on  to  ask. 

There  are  other  questions  to  be  consid- 
ered beyond  the  philosophical  justification 
of  low  tuition.  "A  policy  of  low  tuition  is 
self-executing,"  explained  Dr.  Lederle, 
"while  a  scholarship  and  financial  aid  pro- 
gram will  require  a  bureaucracy  to  make  the 
many  appraisals  of  individual  student 
need."  Most  important  of  all,  he  pointed 
out  the  deceptive  quality  of  many  of  the 
proposals:  "Throughout  history  the  an- 
nouncement of  tuition  hikes  has  been 
accompanied  by  the  promise  of  increased 
financial  aid  for  needy  students.  This  has 
been  deceitful  and  fraudulent.  Never,  to 
my  knowledge,  has  sufficient  financial  aid 
been  forthcoming.  There  is  not  sufficient 
financial  aid  now  with  low  tuition.  The 
best  and  most  economical  financial  aid  sys- 
tem, assuring  the  most  equality  of  opportu- 
nity and  avoiding  bureaucracy,  is  the  low 
tuition  system." 

As  a  member  of  the  Scholarship  Com- 
mittee and  chairman  of  the  Athletic  Awards 
Subcommittee  during  Dr.  Lederle's  tenure, 
I  can  verify  his  every  contention.  I  would 
like  to  carry  them  one  step  further,  how- 
ever, and  point  out  that  the  $200  in-state 
and  $600  out-of-state  tuition  fees  are  only  a 
small  part  of  the  cost  to  the  parents.  The 
rest  of  the  board,  room,  books,  and  fees 
package  is  about  $1500  per  student. 

One  proposal  calls  for  a  $600  increase  for 
out-of-state  students  which  would  deny 


many  of  them  the  opportunity  to  come 
here  and  would  raise  only  an  insignificant 
amount  of  money  as  compared  to  the 
state's  need. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  a  member  of 
both  the  Scholarship  Committee  and  the 
Athletic  Council,  a  tuition  increase  would 
be  disastrous.  We  are  allowed  eighty  ath- 
letic grants  in  aid,  twenty  per  class  for  our 
Yankee  Conference  competitions  in  foot- 
ball and  basketball.  An  increase  of  only 
$100  in  tuition  would  mean  a  need  for 
$8,000  more  just  to  maintain  the  status  quo 
during  a  year  when  we  can  expect  less 
income.  If  we  couldn't  raise  that  money,  we 
would  lose  about  five  full  scholarships. 

Finally,  it  should  be  noted  that  tuition 
moneys  go  into  the  general  fund  and  do  not 
revert  to  the  University. 


Club  Calendar 


JAMES  H.  ALLEN  '66 
Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


Basketball  was  the  major  preoccupation  as 
the  winter's  snow  thawed.  The  Varsity  M 
Club  hosted  the  first  Basketball  Captain's 
Night,  February  20.  Of  the  forty-four 
former  basketball  captains  invited  to  watch 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  vs.  Univer- 
sity of  Maine  basketball  game,  twenty 
were  present  and  honored  during  the  half- 
time  festivities.  Following  the  game  a  recep- 
tion on  their  behalf  was  held  in  Memorial 
Hall.  The  oldest  returning  captain  was 
Emory  Grayson  '17  and  the  most  recent 
captain  was  Ray  Ellerbrook  '70.  This  pro- 
gram proved  to  be  so  successful  that  it  is 


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now  being  planned  as  an  annual  event. 

We  were  in  New  York  City  Saturday, 
February  27,  to  watch  our  basketball  team 
compete  against  George  Washington  Uni- 
versity at  Madison  Square  Garden.  Fol- 
lowing the  game  over  150  alumni  met 
Coach  Jack  Leaman  at  a  victory  celebration 
held  in  the  Ivy  Suite  of  the  Statler  Hil- 
ton Hotel. 

Swinging  away  from  the  winter  scene, 
it  seems  appropriate  at  this  time  to  tell  of 
the  successful  response  we  have  had  to  our 
alumni  tour  of  Majorca.  At  the  time  of 
this  writing,  we  have  150  people  signed  up 
and  the  reservations  are  still  coming  in. 
Because  this  tour  is  doing  so  well,  I  am 
already  beginning  plans  for  another  tour 
late  in  the  year.  If  you  have  any  places  you 
would  like  us  to  go  to,  please  drop  us  a  note 
with  your  suggestions.  These  tours  can 
only  be  as  successful  as  you,  the  alumni, 
make  them. 

The  Class  of  1966  has  begun  plans  for 
the  establishment  of  a  memorial  to  Bernie 
Dallas  and  a  Bernie  Dallas  Scholarship 
Fund.  Bernie  Dallas,  the  outstanding  presi- 
dent of  the  Class  and  a  co-captain  of  the 
1965  football  team,  was  tragically  killed  in 
an  automobile  accident  in  April  1968  at  the 
age  of  25.  Bernie  was  an  inspiration  to  all 
of  us  who  knew  him;  because  of  this,  Dave 
Kelley  '66,  the  officers  of  the  Class  of 
1966,  and  myself  are  heading  up  the  Bernie 
Dallas  Memorial  Fund.  The  first  fund 
raising  project  will  be  the  Intra-Squad 
Spring  Football  Game  to  be  held,  May  1 
at  3  p.m.  One  of  the  main  highlights  will 
be  the  active  participation  of  our  profes- 
sional players  such  as  Milt  Morin,  Ed  Toner 
and  Greg  Landry  who,  along  with  this 
year's  pro-draftees,  will  conduct  clinics 
and  demonstrations  before  and  during 
the  game. 

The  Greater  Boston  Alumni  Club  is 
trying  to  raise  money  for  books  for  the 
University  library  now  under  construction. 
Their  first  project  will  be  a  "Fun  City  or 
Carnival  Night"  to  be  held  in  mid-May  in 
the  Boston  Area.  At  the  time  of  this  writing 
the  plans  are  still  incomplete,  but  part  of 
the  program  will  consist  of  games  of  chance 


and  skill.  A  mailing  will  go  out  in  late 
April  to  Boston  Area  alumni.  Anyone 
seeking  further  information  should  write 
Audrey  Wyke  '68, 10  Emerson  Place,  Apt. 
2K,  Boston,  Mass.  02114.  Or  call  her  at 
617-742-7882. 

On  Friday  evening,  May  21,  the  Third 
Annual  Sports  Hall  of  Fame  Banquet  will  be 
held  in  the  Worcester  Dining  Commons 
on  the  campus.  The  evening's  festivities 
will  begin  with  a  cocktail  hour  at  6:00  p.m. 
to  be  followed  by  the  awards  banquet.  For 
information  about  reservations,  write  to 
the  Varsity  M  Club  in  care  of  the  Alumni 
Office.  Also,  membership  in  the  Varsity 
M  Club  can  be  obtained  by  sending  your 
name,  address  and  a  check  for  $10  to 
the  Varsity  M  Club  in  care  of  the  Alumni 
Office,  which  will  entitle  you  to  a  weekly 
sports  newsletter  throughout  the  aca- 
demic year. 

A  word  now  about  the  Worcester  County 
Alumnae  Club,  which  was  founded  in 
1934  with  six  charter  members  under  the 
presidency  of  Zoe  Hickney  White  '32.  One 
of  the  main  projects  of  the  club  over  the 
years  has  been  the  establishment  and  main- 
tenance of  a  scholarship  and  loan  fund  for 
senior  girls.  Many  fund  raising  projects, 
such  as  rummage  sales,  card  parties  and 
candy  sales,  have  been  held,  and  in  1961 
a  very  successful  fashion  show  raised 
over  $250. 

In  recent  years  the  club  has  sponsored 
a  yearly  event  at  which  a  member  of  the 
University  community  travels  to  Worcester 
to  speak  to  outstanding  high  school  jun- 
iors. This  year,  Dean  of  Admissions  Bill 
Tunis  '50  will  be  the  guest  speaker. 

The  Alumnae  Club  is  presently  expand- 
ing; a  full  fledged  alumni  club  is  being 
developed  and  the  Alumnae  Club  will 
become  its  Women's  Committee.  It  is  hoped 
that  this  club,  with  its  broader  scope,  will 
appeal  to  all  alumni  in  Worcester  County. 
If  you  are  interested  in  becoming  involved 
in  its  activities,  please  write  or  call  either: 
Mrs.  Edwin  T.  White,  Auburn  Road,  Mill- 
bury,  Mass.  01527;  or  Mrs.  S.  Gilbert 
Davis,  1A  Kensington  Heights,  Worcester, 
Mass.  01602. 


At  the  reception  after  the  nit  (top)  Saul 
Klaman  '41  and  Julius  Erving  'y2;  (bottom) 
Coach  Leaman  and  President  Wood. 


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The  Classes  Report 


The  Twenties 

H.  Halsey  Davis  '24  was  reelected  a  director 
of  Equity  Services,  Inc.,  a  subsidiary  of  the 
National  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  also  a 
director  of  that  insurance  company,  board 
chairman  and  former  president  of  the  George 
C.  Shaw  Company,  and  head  of  the  Maine 
Savings  Bank  in  Portland. 

John  Crosby  '2$  was  named  president  of  the 
York  County  Farm  Bureau,  an  organization 
interested  in  keeping  consumers  in  closer 
touch  with  producers. 

The  Thirties 

Milton  Coven  '30  is  living  in  Israel. 

Dean  Asquith  '33,  professor  of  entomology 
at  the  Pennsylvania  State  University's  fruit 
research  laboratory,  received  the  third  annual 
outstanding  leadership  award  from  the  State 
Horticultural  Association  of  Pennsylvania. 

George  H.  Allen  '36,  vice-president  and 
publisher  of  Fawcett  Publications'  magazine 
division,  announced  record-breaking  revenues 
and  pages  for  the  first  quarter  of  1971  for 
Woman's  Day,  Mechanix  Illustrated,  True, 
and  Electronics  Illustrated. 

Alden  R.  Eaton  '36,  director  of  landscape, 
construction,  and  maintenance  at  Colonial 
Williamsburg,  was  cited  in  December  for  his 
twenty-five  years  of  distinguished  service  to 
that  enterprise. 

Kenneth  C.  Nolan  '38,  technical  manager, 
pesticides,  for  American  Cyanamid  Company's 
agricultural  division,  has  served  thirty  years 
with  the  company. 

The  Forties 

Dr.  Wilfred  B.  Hathway  '41  is  the  Dean  of 
the  Graduate  School  at  Towson  State  College 
in  Maryland. 

Kathleen  Clare  Yeaple  '41  is  the  director  of 
the  School  of  Nursing  at  Concord  Hospital  in 
New  Hampshire. 

Dr.  Robert  L.  Hemond,  Jr.  '43,  chairman  of 


the  economics  department  at  American  Inter- 
national College,  recently  received  a  research 
and  study  grant  from  the  school. 

Sylvia  Hobart  Field  '46  has  been  appointed 
assistant  director  of  group  pension  valuation 
in  the  group  pension  actuarial  department  at 
the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

Anne  Tilton  Stevens  '46  is  research  assistant 
for  her  husband,  Dean,  who  is  a  zoologist  at 
the  University  of  Vermont  working  on  the 
mechanisms  of  cell  division  in  cancer. 

Dario  "Duke"  Politella  '4-/  associate  pro- 
fessor of  English  and  journalism  studies  at 
UMass,  has  been  invited  to  participate  in 
Newsweek's  annual  Journalism  Professor 
Intern  Program. 

1950 

Arthur  S.  Laurilliard,  Jr.  is  manager  of  quality 
control  for  General  Electric  in  Lynn. 

John  R.  Nelson  has  been  appointed  general 
manager  of  the  Roebling  Division  of  CF&I 
Steel  Corporation. 

Leonard  A.  O'Connor,  treasurer  of  North- 
east Utilities,  was  elected  to  the  Middletown 
Associate  Board  of  the  Connecticut  Bank  and 
Trust  Company. 

Martin  Tuhna  has  been  appointed  assistant 
vice-president  of  the  Emigrant  Savings  Bank, 
the  fourth  largest  savings  bank  in  the  world. 

1951 

George  L.  Gallerani  has  joined  the  American 
Optical  Corporation  as  director,  manufac- 
turing services,  for  the  company's  optical 
products  division. 

1952 

David  R.  Horsefield  has  been  elected  a  vice- 
president  of  Camp,  Dresser  &  McKee,  Inc.,  a 
Boston  engineering  corporation. 

John  Raffin  has  launched  a  Boston-based 
communication  agency,  Johnson,  Raffin  & 
Lingard,  Inc.  John  serves  as  president  and 
director  of  the  new  firm. 

1953 

Richard  J.  Boutilier  has  been  elected  vice- 
president,  claim  department,  of  the  Paul  Revere 
Life  Insurance  Company. 

Victor  E.  Johnson,  who  received  his  master's 
in  education  from  Boston  State  Teachers 


College  in  1958,  has  been  head  of  the  English 
department  at  Richmond  Heights  Junior  High 
School  since  1967.  He  writes  that  he  and  his 
wife  and  their  three  children  "really  enjoy  the 
Miami  area." 

Maj.  George  M.  Vartanian,  a  much-decorated 
master  navigator  at  Westover,  has  been  pro- 
moted to  lieutenant  colonel  in  the  Air  Force. 

Bernard  M.  Weinstein,  executive  director 
of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Center  in  New  York 
City,  will  be  listed  in  the  forthcoming  edition 
of  Who's  Who  in  America.  He  is  the  first 
permanent  nonmedical  administrator  in  the 
hospital  center's  235  year  history. 

1954 

Maj  Milford  E.  Davis,  usaf,  a  senior  pilot  with 
more  than  fifteen  years  of  service,  has  been 
decorated  with  two  awards  of  the  Distinguished 
Flying  Cross  for  achievement  as  an  F-4  Phan- 
tom fighter  bomber  pilot  in  Southeast  Asia. 

Francis  A.  Podlesney  has  been  named  second 
vice-president,  claims,  for  Bankers  Security 
Life  Insurance  Society  in  Maryland. 

Merrill  B.  Walker,  Jr.,  an  assistant  vice- 
president  of  Victor  O.  Schinnerer  &  Company, 
Inc.,  a  subsidiary  of  Marsh  &  McLennan,  Inc., 
has  been  appointed  assistant  vice-president  of 
the  parent  company. 

1955 

Gerald  Chrusciel  has  been  appointed  plant 
manager  of  the  new  Faichney  thermometers 
manufacturing  plant  of  Chesebrough-Pond's, 
Inc.  located  in  Watertown,  New  York. 

Marion  Roberts  Kibbe  is  a  substitute  teacher 
in  the  Springfield  school  system. 

William  W.  Shrader  is  the  inventor  under 
a  patent  assigned  to  his  employer,  Raytheon, 
of  an  improved  electronic  crowbar  system. 
Bill  has  been  with  Raytheon  since  1956  and  is 
a  consulting  scientist  in  the  equipment  division, 
the  highest  professional,  scientific,  and  engi- 
neering level  attainable  at  the  company. 

Maj.  William  E.  Todt  is  a  tactical  air  liaison 
officer  advisor  to  the  Vietnam  Air  Force  at 
Da  Nang. 

1956 

Michael  Ferber  has  been  elected  vice-president 
and  director  of  marketing  for  SpectraMetrics, 
Inc. 

Robert  W.  LeVitre,  Jr.  is  with  the  Paul 
Revere  Insurance  Company  in  New  Hampshire. 


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1957 

Peter  J.  Barrett  is  manager  of  restaurant  oper- 
ations, Western  Division,  for  the  Howard 
Johnson  Company. 

Seth  H.  Crowell  has  been  promoted  to  super- 
intendent of  distribution  for  the  Springfield 
area  by  the  Western  Massachusetts  Electric 
Company. 

Edward  M.  Lee,  ]r.  was  promoted  to  vice- 
president,  marketing,  for  information  handling 
services,  by  Indian  Head,  a  leading  microfilm 
publishing  company. 

Ma).  John  T.  Loftus,  usaf,  an  air  operations 
officer,  received  his  second  award  of  the  Air 
Medal  for  service  in  Southeast  Asia. 

Francis  T.  Spriggs  is  working  as  a  placement 
programs  administrator  for  IBM  World  Trade 
Corporation  in  New  York. 

Catherine  O'Connor  Turner  received  a  mas- 
ter's degree  from  Wesleyan  University  last 
June. 

1958 

John  W.  Durfee  was  named  to  a  newly  estab- 
lished position,  that  of  forest  protection  spe- 
cialist, for  Union  Carbide's  Agricultural  Prod- 
ucts and  Services  division. 

Barbara  M.  Haley  is  a  librarian  at  Mount 
Marty  College  in  South  Dakota. 

William  Nichols,  Jr.,  director  of  planning 
for  the  city  of  Modesto,  California,  and  his 
wife  Betty  have  announced  the  birth  of  their 
second  child,  John. 

Carole  J.  Norris  has  received  a  Certificate 
of  Advanced  Graduate  Study  in  Reading  Edu- 
cation from  the  UMass  School  of  Education. 

Kenneth  W.  Pillsbury  owns  and  operates  a 
dairy  farm  in  Huntington,  Vermont. 

1959 

Ma/.  Paul  A.  Barden,  usaf,  who  received  an 
M.S.  degree  in  economics  in  1970  from  South 
Dakota  State  University,  has  graduated  from 
the  Armed  Forces  Staff  College  at  Norfolk. 

Russell  D.  Burton  was  promoted  to  assistant 
to  the  manager  of  Aetna  Life  &  Casualty's 
Los  Angeles  underwriting  department. 

1960 

Eliot  Sohmer  is  chief  of  the  computer  science 
division  of  the  National  Cryptologic  School 
at  Fort  Meade.  He  and  his  wife  have  a  16- 
month-old  son,  David  Adam. 


1961 

Kristin  Alberston  received  her  master's  degree 
in  education  from  Northeastern.  She  is  teach- 
ing learning-disabled  children  in  Tewksbury 
while  continuing  her  studies  at  Leslie  College 
in  Cambridge. 

Arthur  and  Barbara  Feinman  Colby  are  at 
Arizona  State  University  where  he  is  an  assist- 
ant professor  of  English  and  she  is  completing 
her  master's  in  philosophy.  They  have  three 
children:  Jonathan  David,  born  August  21, 
1961;   and   twins,   Sarah  Jane  and   Miriam 
Jessica,  born  December  13,  1967. 

Capt.  Nicholas  Lambiase,  Jr.,  a  procurement 
officer,  has  received  the  usaf  Commendation 
Medal. 

1962 

Ronald  E.  Callahan  is  a  sales  representative 
for  the  O.  C.  Tanner  Company  in  Salt  Lake 
City. 

Lew  Hoff  is  a  founder  of  the  Bartizan  Cor- 
poration in  New  York  City,  a  new  company 
which  produces  and  markets  inexpensive  credit 
card  imprinting  devices. 

Michael  C.  Moschos  was  admitted  to  the 
Bar  of  the  State  of  New  York  last  July.  He  has 
opened  a  real  estate  consultant  office  in  New 
York. 

Jeanette  Kyle  Woodward  is  a  guidance  di- 
rector in  the  Overseas  Service  School,  Bitburg, 
West  Germany. 

1963 

Albert  A.  Bergeron  has  been  appointed  execu- 
tive assistant  to  the  vice-president,  sales,  by 
the  toiletries  division  of  the  Gillette  Company. 
Boston  College  will  award  him  a  master's 
degree  in  business  administration  in  June.  He 
and  his  wife  have  a  son,  Christopher,  age  2. 

Stephen  R.  Burke  has  been  promoted  to  vice- 
president  of  the  Maine  Midland  Bank  in  New 
York. 

Thomas  E.  Dodge,  director  of  operations 
and  chief  pilot  for  Malibu  Travel,  Inc.  of 
Milwaukee,  recently  left  the  Air  Force  after 
over  seven  years  of  service. 

Joan  McKniff  is  district  advisor  for  the 
Philippines  and  Taiwan  with  the  USA  Girl 
Scouts-Far  East,  in  cooperation  with  the  Girl 
Scouts  of  the  Philippines  and  the  Chinese 
Girl  Scouts. 

William  H.  Rouleau  is  vice-president  of 
Growth  Fund  Research,  Inc.  in  California. 


Donald  J.  Starr,  manufacturing  staff  assist- 
ant in  the  corn  industrial  division  of  CPC 
International,  Inc.,  married  Joan  Henwood  on 
March  28,  1970. 

Stephen  and  Louise  Crosby  Swartz  are  in 
New  York  where  he  is  an  attorney  and  she  is 
a  domestic  engineer  with  the  Irving  Trust 
Company. 

Dr.  Gerald  A.  Tuttle  is  in  Atlanta  with  his 
wife  and  two  sons.  For  the  past  two  years, 
he  has   served  as  director  of  the  Davison 
School,  Inc.,  a  private  residential  school  for 
children  with  learning  disabilities  and  language 
disorders. 

1964 

Robert  A.  Amadori  is  a  physicist  at  the  U.S. 
Naval  Weapons  Laboratory  in  Dahlgren,  Vir- 
ginia. He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Ann  Havi- 
land  '65,  have  a  daughter,  Beth,  born  May 
27/  1969- 

7.  David  Anderson,  an  international  trade 
specialist  for  the  U.S.  Department  of  Com- 
merce in  Washington,  D.C.,  recently  returned 
from  Japan. 

Charles  B.  Clark,  as  the  sanitary  engineer 
for  Boston  Survey  Consultants,  directs  a  large 
portion  of  the  company's  engineering  work. 

Robert  H.  Coffin,  Jr.,  a  captain  in  Army 
Military  Intelligence,  married  Marie  Karth  on 
December  22,  1969. 

John  A.  Kelley  III  is  an  attorney  with  Under- 
wood, Lynch  &  Ketcham  in  Middlebury, 
Vermont. 

Lt.  Alfred  F.  Morris,  Jr.  is  in  the  Marine 
Corps;  he  will  return  to  UMass  next  September 
to  work  on  a  Ph.D. 

Capt.  Richard  F.  Phillips,  a  pilot  in  Viet  Nam, 
is  attached  to  a  unit  which  has  earned  the 
usaf  Outstanding  Unit  Award  for  the  fourth 
consecutive  year. 

llona  Heine  Thomasson  is  a  chemist  in  the 
biochemistry  department  at  the  Chicago  Col- 
lege of  Osteopathy. 

Clark  M.  Whitcomb  was  appointed  assistant 
secretary  of  the  Connecticut  Bank  and  Trust 
Company. 

Benedict  Winiarski,  a  mathematics  teacher 
and  faculty  manager  of  athletics  at  Simsbury 
High  School  in  Connecticut,  has  been  awarded 
a  master's  degree  by  Wesleyan  University.  He 
and  his  wife,  the  former  Ceorgena  Young  '65, 
have  three  children:  Peter,  age  4;  Susan,  age  2; 
and  Michael,  born  July  18,  1970. 

Stephen  E.  Woogmaster,  a  personnel  repre- 


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sentative  with  Dunkin'  Donuts,  Inc.,  had  re- 
ceived the  Air  Medal  and  the  Air  Force 
Commendation  Medal  while  serving  as  a  first 
lieutenant  in  Viet  Nam. 

1965 

Roy  J.  Blitzer,  a  copywriter  and  account  ex- 
ecutive with  an  advertising  agency  in  Palo 
Alto,  received  a  master's  in  marketing  and 
journalism  from  the  University  of  California 
at  Berkeley.  In  June  1969,  he  married  Carol 
Goodkin. 

Marda  Buchholz,  a  programmer  for  IBM  in 
Boulder,  is  working  on  an  M.B.A.  in  man- 
agement science  at  the  University  of  Colorado. 

Peter  W.  Clegg  is  the  1970  recipient  of  an 
annual  fellowship  provided  by  the  Corning 
Glass  Works  Foundation  to  outstanding  stu- 
dents at  the  Harvard  Graduate  School  of 
Business  Administration.  In  his  first  year  of 
the  two  year  program,  he  also  received  the 
National  Defense  Service  Medal,  the  Viet 
Nam  Service  Medal,  and  the  Viet  Nam 
Campaign  Medal. 

Capt.  Thomas  E.  Cleland,  Jr.,  an  instructor 
pilot  and  Viet  Nam  veteran,  is  stationed 
in  Georgia. 

John  E.  Henry  was  awarded  an  M.B.A.  from 
Western  New  England  College  in  May. 

Capt.  Charles  F.  Litchfield  is  with  a  military 
police  brigade  in  Viet  Nam.  He  and  his  wife 
Jeane  have  a  son,  Jackie. 

Robert  A.  Pastuszak  is  a  geologist  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Nancy  O'Brien  '6y,  is 
a  teacher. 

Augusta  Webb  Quatrale  'G,  a  research  associ- 
ate in  the  bioengineering  division  of  the 
Dow  Chemical  Company,  is  on  contract  at 
the  National  Cancer  Institute  in  Maryland. 

Geoffrey  P.  Rantilla  is  a  systems  analyst  in 
in  the  Department  of  Public  Welfare  in  Boston. 

Jane  MacFate  Robinson  and  her  husband, 
Arthur,  have  announced  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Jeffrey,  born  June  3, 1970.  Jane  had 
taught  sophomore  English  for  five  years  at 
Millis  Junior-Senior  High  School  and  was  also 
yearbook  advisor  for  two  years. 

John  R.  Schroeder  is  teaching  physical  edu- 
cation and  coaching  football  and  lacrosse  at 
Holy  Family  High  School  in  Huntington.  He 
and  his  wife  Nancy  have  announced  the  birth 
of  their  son,  John  Thomas,  on  June  7, 1970. 

Deborah  Quirk  Spurlock,  a  former  instructor 
and  teaching  assistant  at  the  University  of 
Maine's  School  of  Nursing,  has  been  appointed 


to  the  faculty  of  the  University  of  Vermont 
as  an  instructor  of  technical  nursing. 

Bill  H.  Wilkinson,  Jr.,  back  at  the  Amherst 
campus  as  a  doctoral  candidate  in  community 
relations,  is  working  with  the  Black  Mass 
Communications  Project  in  the  five  college  area. 

1966 

Steven  Blackmore  was  promoted  to  project 
analyst  in  the  systems  and  procedure  depart- 
ment of  Pratt  &  Whitney  Aircraft.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Carolyn  Smith,  have 
announced  the  birth  of  their  second  child, 
Robert  Martin,  born  November  20,  1970. 

Capt.  Gordon  K.  Breault,  a  highly  decorated 
Viet  Nam  veteran  combat  fighter  pilot,  has 
helped  his  squadron  earn  the  usaf  Outstand- 
ing Unit  Award. 

2/Lt.  Benjamin  E.  Dudek,  usaf,  is  flying  the 
C-130  Hercules  aircraft  in  Taiwan. 

Wilrose  M.  Duquette,  a  manufacturing 
engineer  for  the  Torrington  Company  in  Con- 
necticut, is  enrolled  in  the  M.B.A.  program  at 
the  University  of  Hartford.  He  and  his  wife 
Penny  have  a  daughter,  Deborah  Lynn,  age  3V2. 

Dr.  Francis  A.  Fassett  graduated  from 
Ontario  Veterinary  College  in  Guelph,  Ontario 
and  is  now  practicing  veterinary  medicine 
in  Bolton,  Connecticut. 

Darryl  H.  Fine  is  an  auditor  at  the  Wells 
Fargo  Bank  in  San  Francisco. 

Capt.  Evan  N.  Fournaris  is  both  attending 
the  intelligence  career  course  at  Fort  Holabird, 
Maryland,  and  working  on  his  master's  de- 
gree in  school  administration  at  Loyola  Col- 
lege. He  expects  to  receive  his  master's  in 
May,  and  hopes  to  be  assigned  to  the  staff  and 
faculty  of  the  Intelligence  School  at  Fort 
Huachuca  in  Arizona.  His  wife,  the  former 
Diane  Carey,  had  taught  school  in  Europe, 
Massachusetts,  and  Baltimore  before  the 
couple  adopted  their  son,  Nicholas,  who  is 
now  16-months-old. 

Sharon  Hoar  Gagnon  is  a  nurse. 

Sally  A.  Gerry,  a  sixth  grade  teacher  at  the 
Riverbend  School  in  Athol,  married  Richard 
D.  Stone  on  August  19, 1969. 

Capt.  Ronald  G.  Helie,  usaf,  has  been 
awarded  a  master's  in  education  administra- 
tion by  International  American  University's 
extension  center  in  Puerto  Rico. 

Capt.  Richard  R.  Lanoue,  usaf,  having 
completed  a  twelve  month  tour  of  duty  in  Viet 
Nam,  is  attending  the  Air  University's  Squad- 
ron Officer  School  at  Maxwell  afb. 


Marion  P.  Mscisz,  a  Spanish  teacher  who 
earned  a  master's  degree  in  Spanish  from 
Pennsylvania  State  University  last  December, 
married  Henry  A.  Doll,  III  on  August  29,  1970. 

Joseph  P.  Ouellette,  after  substitute  teaching, 
was  promoted  from  assistant  chief  to  director 
of  a  laboraory  and  X-ray  department  at  a 
Dorchester  health  clinic.  He  and  his  wife 
Marlene  have  announced  the  birth  of  Michelle 
Ann,  born  September  12, 1970. 

Susan  Perry  Peabody  is  managing  a  physi- 
cians' laboratory  in  Taunton. 

George  E,  Pollino  is  an  actuarial  associate 
with  the  John  Hancock  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

Coralie  A.  Pryde  'G  is  a  research  chemist 
with  Bell  Telephone  Laboratories  in  Murray 
Hill,  New  Jersey. 

Paul  Rossetti,  a  math  teacher  at  Lee  High 
School,  and  his  wife,  the  former  Margaret 
Grant,  have  announced  the  birth  of  Stephen 
Michael,  born  May  11, 1970. 

Trenor  G.  Tilley  is  assistant  director  of  the 
Association  of  Student  Councils  in  Toronto. 

1967 

Alan  P.  Asikainen  is  an  environmental  en- 
gineer at  Curran  Associates  in  Northampton, 
and  his  wife,  the  former  Janet  Webb  '68,  is  a 
teacher  in  the  Amherst  public  schools. 

l/Lt.  Robert  L.  Astorino,  who  was  awarded 
an  M.P.A.  degree  by  Syracuse  University  in 
1968,  received  the  Army  Commendation  Medal 
for  meritorious  service  as  a  civil  officer  in 
Viet  Nam. 

Diane  E.  Bartlett,  a  biology  teacher  and 
head  of  the  science  department  at  Smithfield 
High  School  in  Rhode  Island,  married  William 
H.  Rhodes,  III. 

Capt,  Patrick  A.  Crotty,  a  bioenvironmental 
engineer  at  Grand  Forks  afb  in  North  Dakota, 
and  his  wife  Judith  have  announced  the  birth 
of  their  first  child,  Sean  Patrick,  born  Sep- 
tember 23,  1970. 

Richard  D.  Chandler,  a  mechanical  engineer 
for  General  Electric,  married  Mary  Stevenson 
November  27,  1969. 

Gunther  E.  Forst,  a  teacher  in  Cocoa, 
Florida,  married  Pat  Foerst  on  July  xi,  1970.- 

Lt.  Edward  J.  Godek  is  a  pilot  in  the  Air 
Force. 

Daniel  J.  Grieco,  11  is  a  lawyer. 

Donald  P.  Hawkes,  administrative  assistant 
to  the  executive  secretary  in  the  town  of 
Weston,  earned  a  master's  degree  in  public 


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administration  from  the  University  of  Rhode 
Island.  Formerly,  he  had  spent  two  years  as 
assistant  to  the  town  manager  in  Amherst,  and 
he  hopes  for  a  career  in  municipal  manage- 
ment. Donald  and  his  wife  Phyllis  have  a  son, 
Ethan,  age  -^-k. 

Shirley  C.  Lord,  a  physical  education  teacher 
in  Maynard,  married  Robert  Toutant. 

Sgt.  Brian  H.  McMahon  received  the  Air 
Force  Commendation  Medal  for  meritorious 
service  in  Viet  Nam. 

James  F.  Murphy  is  a  food  service  manager 
at  Bryn  Mawr  College.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Judy  Dow  '68,  have  announced  the 
birth  of  their  second  son,  Matthew  Joseph, 
born  October  26,  1970. 

Capt  Robert  C.  J.  Pederzani,  now  stationed 
in  South  Dakota,  had  received  the  Bronze  Star 
during  his  tour  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam. 

Bryan  W .  Plumb  is  a  music  instructor  of  the 
marching  and  concert  bands  of  Tantasqua 
Regional  High  School  in  Sturbridge.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Carol  J.  Rourke  '69,  have 
announced  the  birth  of  Bryan  Christopher, 
born  October  11,  1970. 

Ralph  and  Barbara  Feifer  Prolman  have 
announced  the  birth  of  Lori  Ann,  born  No- 
vember 18,  1970.  Barbara  received  a  master's 
in  education  from  Tufts  University  last  May. 

Maj.  Robert  R.  Reining,  Jr.  'C,  a  senior 
navigator  and  Viet  Nam  veteran,  has  gradu- 
ated from  the  Armed  Forces  Staff  College 
at  Norfolk. 

Capt.  Albert  P.  Richards,  Jr.,  an  Air  Force 
pilot  stationed  in  Viet  Nam,  and  his  wife 
Andrea  have  announced  the  birth  of  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  born  April  12,  1970. 

l/Lt.  George  L.  Smith,  usaf,  is  a  civil 
engineer  stationed  in  Greenland. 

Stephen  F.  Smith  is  a  social  worker  with  the 
Department  of  Public  Welfare  in  Southbridge. 

Henry  G.  Sopel  has  been  promoted  to  senior 
associate  industrial  engineer  at  ibm's  systems 
manufacturing  division  plant  in  Kingston, 
New  York. 

Kenneth  B.  Stevens  is  a  sanitary  engineer 
with  the  New  York  State  Department  of 
Environmental  Conservation  in  Albany.  He 
was  recently  released  from  active  duty  in  the 
Army,  where  he  was  an  instructor  in  pre- 
ventive medicine.  Ken  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Anita  Beaupre  '66,  have  a  daughter,  Jennifer, 
born  February  7,  1969. 

Alan  I.  White,  a  graduate  of  the  Georgetown 
University  Law  Center,  has  taken  a  position 


with  the  law  firm  of  Lawler,  Felix  &  Hall 
in  Los  Angeles. 

1968 

Carole  A.  Bialy,  a  French  teacher,  married 
Wayne  S.  Landesman. 

Joanne  Cavallaro,  an  executive  secretary  to 
the  head  of  a  Boston  computer  time  sales  firm, 
married  Francis  P.  Ruchalski  on  May  24,  1969. 

2/Lt.  Richard  Comerford  graduated  from 
the  usaf  aerospace  munitions  officer  course  at 
Lowry  afb  and  is  serving  with  a  unit  of  tac. 

l/Lt.  Richard  M.  Delaney  is  a  procurement 
officer  stationed  in  Texas. 

Janice  Dimenstein  'G,  a  research  assistant 
in  the  virology  department  at  Baylor  College  of 
Medicine,  married  James  H.  Ratner  on  June 
30, 1968. 

David  H.  Goldman,  having  returned  after 
fourteen  months  in  Viet  Nam,  is  a  graduate 
student  at  Boston  State  College. 

Allen  H.  Grosnick,  a  financial  planning  con- 
sultant for  the  Phoenix  Companies  of  Hart- 
ford, has  been  named  the  Springfield  agency 
leader  for  1970. 

Donald  M.  Hunsberger  is  a  teacher  at  a 
private  school  in  Bellbuckle,  Tennessee. 

Dianne  Kappa,  a  research  assistant  in  cancer 
research  at  the  M.  D.  Anderson  Hospital  and 
Tumor  Institute  in  Houston,  married  Richard 
W.  McLean,  Jr.  on  June  21,  1969. 

Kenneth  R.  Lamkin,  a  second  year  medical 
student  at  Meharry  Medical  College  in  Nash- 
ville, has  been  awarded  an  Association  of 
American  Medical  College/United  States  Pub- 
lic Health  Service  International  Fellowship 
to  study  medicine  in  Jerusalem  this  summer. 
Before  beginning  medical  school,  he  had  spent 
one  year  in  vista  counseling  youthful  offen- 
ders at  the  Rikers  Island  Prison  in  New 
York  City. 

Joel  D.  Lapin  is  an  instructor  of  sociology  at 
Catonsville  Community  College  in  Baltimore. 

Phyllis  Levine  is  in  Boston  doing  employ- 
ment counseling  for  the  State  of  Massachusetts. 

Eugene  D.  Lussier  completed  a  military 
police  course  at  Fort  Gordon  in  Georgia. 

Elizabeth  A.  Mackey,  a  librarian  in  the 
Northampton  school  system,  married  Francis 
S.  Phillips  '67  on  May  4,  1968. 

Peter  C.  Mason  is  a  social  worker  with  the 
New  York  City  Department  of  Social  Work, 
and  his  wife,  the  former  Nancy  Thompson  '69, 
is  a  nurse. 

Russell  C.  Mauch,  Jr.  'G  is  a  teaching 


assistant  in  English  at  UMass. 

Michael  A.  McCarthy  is  a  student  at  Har- 
vard Law  School. 

l/Lt.  Timothy  F.  O'Leary,  Jr.  'G  received 
the  Army  Commendation  Medal  for  service  as 
a  civil  affairs  officer  in  Viet  Nam. 

Eugene  M.  Propper  will  graduate  from  law 
school  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  in 
June  and  has  accepted  a  position  as  an 
attorney  for  the  Justice  Department,  as  part 
of  the  department's  honors  program  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C. 

Capt.  Paul  J.  St.  Laurent  recently  assumed 
command  of  Company  D.,  815  th  Engineer  Bat- 
talion, near  Di  Linh,  Viet  Nam. 

Sharon  M.  Wasserman  has  been  traveling 
throughout  the  continental  United  States  as 
a  market  research  field  supervisor  for  the 
Proctor  &  Gamble  Company. 

William  and  Adele  Darrah  Wagner  have 
announced  the  birth  of  William  Darrah,  born 
October  19,  1970.  Before  the  birth  of  her  son, 
Adele  had  spent  a  year  as  a  medical-surgical 
staff  nurse  at  Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital 
in  Boston,  and  another  year  as  an  inservice 
education  instructor  at  Emerson  Hospital 
in  Concord. 

l/Lt.  David  J.  Webber,  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Dorothy  Rajecki  '69,  have  a  four- 
month-old-son.  Dorothy  is  an  elementary 
school  teacher. 

Wendy  Weinstock,  a  social  worker  at  the 
Hebrew  Home  for  the  Aged  in  Riverdale,  New 
York,  married  Paul  Mlinar  on  January  5, 1969. 

1969 

Peter  Alizzeo,  a  third  year  dental  student  at 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Kathleen  Atchue,  have  a  son,  Gary. 

Susan  D.  Ashley,  a  teacher  at  Assawomp- 
sett  Elementary  School  in  Lakeville,  married 
L.  Barry  French  on  December  20, 1969. 

Ruth  Hozid  Baizman  is  a  staff  librarian  with 
the  American  Chemical  Society's  Chemical 
Abstract  Service  in  Columbus. 

Daniel  P.  Barry  is  a  teacher  at  Springfield 
Community  College. 

Sgt.  Joseph  Burke,  usaf,  married  Janice  M. 
Bongiovanni  'yo  on  June  6,  1970.  Janice  is  a 
physical  education  teacher  at  the  Charleston 
County  School  Department  in  South  Carolina. 

Raymond  Cieplik  'G  is  head  soccer  coach 
and  assistant  professor  of  physical  education  at 
the  U.S.  Coast  Guard  Academy  in  New  London. 


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x/Lt,  lames  L.  Clapprood  is  a  member  of 
the  security  police  force  cited  as  the  best 
such  unit  guarding  a  sac  installation. 

Carol  A.  Cruz  is  a  seventh  grade  English 
teacher  at  Medfield  Junior  High. 

Michael  A.  DeLugan  is  a  consultant  for 
a  Holyoke  paper  firm  and  a  student  at  UMass. 

Roland  J.  Dupuis  is  working  for  the  State 
Division  of  Water  Pollution  Control  while 
studying  for  his  master's  at  UMass.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Kathleen  Pelow  '68,  have 
announced  the  birth  of  Timothy  Joseph,  born 
October  27,  1970. 

Bradley  C.  Fitzgerald,  a  teacher  at  the  John 
F.  Kennedy  Junior  High  in  Springfield,  mar- 
ried Lesley-Anne  Luckett  on  June  14,  1969. 

James  C.  French,  who  has  been  awarded  the 
Purple  Heart  and  the  Army  Commendation 
Medal  during  his  tour  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam, 
married  Florence  M.  Gerow  on  July  28,  1970. 

Elizabeth  A.  Hunsberger  is  in  Nairobi, 
Kenya. 

A/iC  Raymond  M.  Martucci,  an  accounting 
and  finance  specialist,  has  been  named  pride 
(Professional  Results  in  Daily  Efforts)  Man  of 
the  Month  at  Plattsburgh  afb  in  New  York. 

2/Lt.  James  K.  Moran  flies  the  C-141  Star- 
lifter  cargo-troop  carrier  aircraft  at  McGuire 
afb  in  New  Jersey. 

Carol  Ann  O'Connor,  a  substitute  teacher 
at  Wildwood  High  School  in  New  Jersey,  mar- 
ried Al  Pizzi  on  May  23,  1970. 

Ruth  Anne  Pannell,  who  has  an  M.A.  in 
Russian  literature  and  is  teaching  English  at 
the  Institut  de  Geologie  in  Nancy,  France,  mar- 
ried Jean-Eric  Bajolle  on  December  5,  1970. 

Sp/4  Ronald  P.  Paquette  is  a  medic  in 
Okinawa. 

Lorraine  I.  Rzonca  'C  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
at  UMass. 

Clifford  B.  Savell,  a  teacher  at  Twerton 
Junior/Senior  High  School  in  Rhode  Island, 
married  Andrea  Katzman  on  June  22,  1969. 

George  A.  Schofield,  III  is  Director  of  Food 
at  the  Mount  Auburn  Hospital  in  Cambridge. 

Gail  D.  Stevens,  a  registered  nurse  at  St. 
Joseph's  Hospital  in  Tampa,  married  Peter  A. 
Bryson  on  August  23,  1969. 

Peter  E.  Taylor,  head  of  the  cash  department 
for  the  Star  Market  Company  in  Cambridge, 
married  Janet  Brierley  on  November  29,  1968. 

Ronald  S.  Tuminski  was  awarded  a  Master 
of  Public  Administration  degree  last  December 
by  Pennsylvania  State  University. 

Nancy  Su-Nan  Wang  'G  is  a  biochemist 


studying  drug  metabolism  at  Eli  Lilly  &  Com- 
pany in  Indianapolis. 

Robert  F.  Welch  is  with  computer  sales 
for  RCA. 

Murray  J.  Winer,  who  has  earned  an 
M.B.A.  degree  from  Suffolk  University,  is 
a  sales  territory  manager  for  Wyeth  Labora- 
tories in  Philadelphia. 

David  A.  Wilbur,  a  recent  recipient  of 
a  master's  degree  from  the  University  of 
North  Carolina,  has  been  appointed  director 
of  planning  by  the  Massachusetts  Hospital 
Association. 

1970 

Eugene  L.  Bass  'G  is  on  the  faculty  of  Salis- 
bury State  College  in  Maryland.  He  is  married 
to  the  former  Linda  Epstein  '68. 

Jon  E.  Cade  is  an  engineer  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Sybil  Mazmanian  '6y  is  a  social 
worker. 

Antonio  and  Diana  Theofilis  Pavao  '67  are 
teaching  in  Danville,  Illinois. 

Henry  M.  Rogers,  Jr.  'G  has  been  appointed 
oxide  superintendent  at  the  Gibsonburg, 
Ohio,  plant  of  the  Pfizer  minerals,  pigments 
and  metals  division. 

Noel  E.  Schablik  is  a  law  student  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Carol  A.  Podolski  '6g,  is  a 
nurse  at  Hackensack  Hospital  in  New  Jersey. 

Frank  A.  Shepherd  'G  is  a  second  year  stu- 
dent at  the  University  of  Michigan  Law 
School.  Karen  Laing  Shepherd  'G  is  teaching 
English  at  Plymouth  High  School  in  Michigan. 

Robert  F.  Willis,  a  teacher  in  Palmer,  mar- 
ried Martha  Carrington  '67  on  June  27, 1970. 

Thomas  J.  York  is  teaching  and  coaching 
in  East  Longmeadow.  On  December  27,  1969, 
he  married  Alison  Moore  '6g. 

Marriages 

John  M.  D'Arcy  '58  to  Konstanze  Mundlein, 
November  1969.  Robert  S.  Nowak  '58  to 
Margaret  a  Midurski,  August  29,  1970.  Elaine 
S.  Morse  '$g  to  Michael  Fiorillo,  Jr.,  February 
15,  1969.  Thomas  E.  Ohnesorge  '59  to  Barbara 
Shepard,  August  20,  1969.  Hedy  Rothman 
Zarkin  '60  to  Theodore  S.  Samet.  Susan  Fabl- 
burch  '62  to  Donald  A.  Chapman.  Carol  Ann 
Folley  '62  to  Mr.  Factora.  Jane  E.  Tufts  '62  to 
Charles  Bryson.  Donna  L.  Eggleston  '6}  to 
Charles  L.  Barosso,  September  14,  1963.  Emily 
C.  Eldred  '63  to  Norman  Yeo.  Jean  N.  Meakim 
'63  to  Jack  Stanton.  Ann  K.  Ledwith  '64  to 


Lawrence  K.  Elliott.  Judith  C.  Stevens  '64  to 
John  Matchett.  Martha  Billings  '65  to  D.  Wil- 
liam Pratt.  Elizabeth  M.  Bourque  '6;  to  George 
O.  Johnson.  Barbara  Cocchi  '65  to  John  Da- 
borowski.  SaraJi  W.  Howe  '65  to  J.  M.  Flynn. 
Esta  Smith  '65G  to  Frederick  Busi,  June  1967. 
Frank  G.  Ragusa  '65  to  Barbara  J.  Smith  '65. 
Martha  C.  Brockway  '66  to  James  Mahoney. 
Bruce  Grimaldi  '66  to  Lynne  Peirce  '6;,  August 
1966.  Dana  C.  Hirst  '66  to  Elizabeth  Steinmetz 
'68G,  August  29,  1970.  Carol  A.  Kane  '66 
to  Mr.  Kelly.  Janice  W.  Shonak  '66  to  Richard 
Hughes,  April  26,  1969.  Charles  C.  Carswell 
'67  to  Margaret  Mosack  '67.  Louis  J.  Dostal, 
Jr.  '67  to  Nancy  Sanderman,  March  12,  1971. 
Richard  H.  Letarte  '67G  to  Mary  Ellen  Lewis, 
September,  1967.  Joanne  E.  Papuga  '67  to  Pat- 
rick J.  Connelly,  May  11,  1968.  Patricia  A. 
Schmucker  '67  to  Loren  Shumway.  Shirley  M. 
Sturtevant  '67  to  David  F.  Osborne.  Anne  R. 
Tufts  '67  to  Robert  Sobocinski.  Donna  M. 
Apicella  '68  to  Norman  LaFlamme.  Joan  W. 
Bieniek  '68  to  John  Simkovich.  Lorraine  B. 
Carter  '68  to  Patrick  O'Donnell,  Jr.  Jo-Anne 
Dunsford  '68  to  Richard  Sirois.  Rachel  Good- 
man '68  to  M.S.  Spierer,  July  1969.  Charles 
F.  Hopkins,  III  '68  to  Catherine  Leonard  '70. 
Lois  A.  Mozzicato  '68  to  Anthony  R.  Shields. 
Richard  C.  Berman  '6a  to  Myrna  J.  Freedman 
'69.  Maureen  Burke  '69  to  Francis  X.  Mc- 
William.  Cheryl  D.  Burns  '69  to  Jack  Cobean. 
Donna  M.  Cardoza  '69  to  Ronald  A.  Dion. 
Bruce  J.  Cochrane  '69  to  Jacqueline  Anne  Wolff 
'69.  Stephen  Cohen  '69  to  Lynne  A.  Goodman 
'69.  Joseph  F.  Dingman,  Jr.  '69  to  Carolyn 
Ives  '70.  Roger  P.  Fuller  '69  to  Judith  E.  Page 
'68.  Andrea  J.  Krantz  '69G  to  Les  Levine. 
Robert  K.  Legg  '69  to  Eileen  J.  Cembalisty  '69, 
August  23,  1969.  Maureen  A.  Maher  '69  to 
John  R.  Locke,  May  23,  1970.  Raymond  W. 
Martucci  '69  to  Carol  A.  Newcomb,  April  18, 
1970.  Raymond  L.  Poole  '69  to  Joan  M.  Gamble 
'68.  Paula  M.  Rizzo  '69G  to  Mr.  Holleran. 
Stanley  D.  Russell  '69  to  Jane  Chaney  '69, 
December  26,  1969.  Monica  E.  Wilson  '69  to 
Bruce  G.  Harnois,  August  22, 1970.  John  T. 
Higgins,  Jr.  '70  to  Nancy  J.  Harrinton  '69. 

Children 

Tracy  Leigh  was  born  August  10,  1970  to 
Bunny  and  Richard  E.  Johnson  '52;  other  chil- 
dren: Mark,  age  16;  Terrie,  age  18.  Myles  '53 
and  Joan  Arthur  Richmond  '54  have  three  chil- 
dren: Dennis,  age  7;  Robert,  age  3;  Ann, 


age  2.  R.  D.  and  Jean  Waterhouse  McMillen 
'54  have  two  children:  Lynne,  age  11;  Scott,  age 
8.  Leah  Ruth  and  Steven  Edward  were  born 
November  18,  1970  to  Donald  and  Nancy  Wy- 
man  Spraragen  '55.  Dwight  Lawrence  was 
born  August  1,  1970  to  David  and  Mary 
O'Donnell  Whitaker  '58.  Jeffrey  Martin  was 
born  February  8,  1971  to  Leonard  and  Beverly 
Martin  Centine  '61.  Andrew  was  born  last 
November  to  Martha  and  Edmund  A.  Rosen- 
baum  '63.  William  Francis,  III,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1970  to  William  and  Joy  Carter 
Bassett  '64.  Laura  Ann  was  born  December  22, 
1970  to  Frederick  and  Constance  Rapisardi 
DiCioia  '64;  other  children:  Ellen  Marie,  age  3. 
Maren  Rebecca  was  born  November  19,  1970 
to  Leslie  '64  and  Rita  Swartz  Pyenson  '66. 
Abby  Rachel  was  born  December  22,  1969  to 
Robert  and  Janice  Reilly  Zidle  '64.  Craig 
Charles  was  born  November  7,  1970  to  Steven 
and  Jerrilyn  Searleman  Benson  '65.  Tracy 
Beth  was  born  February  28, 1970  to  Joel  and 
Judith  Cohen  Englander  '6;.  Charles  Lloyd 
was  born  February  1,  1971  to  Prescott  and 
Patricia  Quinn  Ferris  '66.  Michael  William  was 
born  last  January  to  Herbert  '67  and  Cynthia 
Collins  Lach  '69.  John  C,  Jr.  was  born  Decem- 
ber 14,  1970  to  Rose  Ann  and  John  C.  Wil- 
ferth  '67.  Charissa  was  born  December  20,  1970 
to  Ronald  and  Daryl  Young  Forth  '68.  Joel 
Peter  was  born  May  9,  1969  to  David  and 
Patricia  Kulczyk  Herman  '68. 

Obituaries 

Dr.  Stevenson  Fletcher  '96  died  February 
10,  1971  at  the  age  of  95.  He  had  been  dean 
of  the  College  of  Agriculture  at  The  Pennsyl- 
vania State  University  from  1939  until  his 
retirement  in  1946.  Dr.  Fletcher  had  joined  the 
Penn  State  staff  in  1916,  having  earned  ad- 
vanced degrees  from  Cornell  University.  He 
is  survived  by  six  children. 

Frederick  H.  Burr  '12  died  November  26, 
1970. 

Alexander  B.  Chase,  Jr.  '15,  a  retired  post- 
master, died  September  8, 1970.  His  wife,  two 
daughters,  seven  grandchildren  and  one  great- 
grandson  survive  him. 

Frank  L.  Davis  '16  died  November  19,  1970 
after  a  long  illness.  A  retired  agricultural 
agent,  he  had  served  Plymouth  and  Norfolk 
Counties  for  forty-seven  years.  Frank  was  a 
past  president  of  the  Massachusetts  Federation 
of  Extension  Administrators,  a  member  of  the 


Walpole  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  fifty- 
year  member  of  the  Pilgrim  Masonic  Lodge  of 
Harwich.  He  is  survived  by  two  sons,  eight 
grandchildren  and  nine  great-grandchildren. 

David  J.  Bowen,  who  entered  m.a.c.  with  the 
Class  of  1917,  died  June  7, 1970. 

Herbert  W.  Terrill,  who  entered  m.a.c.  with 
the  Class  of  1917,  died  December  2,  1970 
after  a  brief  illness.  His  wife  and  two  sons 
survive  him. 

Charles  H.  Mallon  '21  died  November  11, 
1970.  After  working  for  the  Elmore  Milling 
Company  of  Oneonta,  New  York,  for  forty- 
three  years,  he  retired  and  became  involved  in 
the  real  estate  business  with  the  Harry  R. 
White  Company.  A  resident  of  Wilbraham 
for  twenty-eight  years,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Wilbraham  United  Church,  the  Wilbraham 
Conservation  Commission,  and  a  fifty-year 
member  of  the  Newton  Lodge  of  Masons.  Mr. 
Mallon  was  a  dedicated  supporter  of  his  alma 
mater.  His  wife,  two  daughters,  two  brothers 
and  a  sister  survive  him. 

Howard  Bates  '23  died  December  18,  1970 
of  a  heart  attack.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife 
and  three  daughters. 

Lawrence  E.  Briggs  '27  died  December  20, 
1970  after  a  long  illness.  A  retired  UMass 
physical  education  professor,  he  was  the 
school's  first  varsity  soccer  coach,  a  position  he 
held  for  over  thirty  years.  Larry  was  the  reci- 
pient of  the  Harold  M.  Gore  award  for  "out- 
standing contributions  to  schoolboy  basketball 
over  a  long  period  of  time,"  and  the  Associate 
Alumni  cited  him  for  distinguished  service 
to  the  University  by  awarding  him  an  Alumni 
Medal  in  1968.  He  was  a  founder  of  the 
National  Intercollegiate  Soccer  Officials  Associ- 
ation and  won  that  organization's  second 
honor  award  in  1967.  Larry  was  very  active 
and  influential  in  New  England  athletics,  and 
his  colleagues  and  former  students  note  his 
passing  with  regret.  His  wife  and  two  daugh- 
ters survive  him. 

James  E.  Gavagan  '35  died  February  1, 1971 
after  surgery.  He  was  editor  of  New  York 
State  Conservation,  the  official  publication  of 
the  State  Department  of  Environmental  Con- 
servation. He  is  survived  by  four  children. 

Murray  W.  George  '37  died  December  3, 1970 
of  a  heart  attack.  He  was  a  landscape  archi- 
tect with  the  National  Park  Service  for  twenty- 
one  years  and  designer  of  the  park  around 


the  St.  Louis  Arch.  Murray  will  be  remembered 
for  his  practice  of  doing  difficult  tasks,  in- 
cluding a  hand-built  eight  room  adobe  house 
and  moving  a  40'  tree  for  shade.  His  wife,  son, 
and  mother  survive  him. 

Col.  Edward  F.  Stoddard  '39  died  January 
9,  1971.  A  retired  Air  Force  officer,  he  had 
served  in  Panama,  Trinidad,  and  Guatemala 
and  was  a  veteran  of  World  War  II  and  Korea. 
In  1956  he  became  base  commander  at  Grif- 
fiths afb  in  Rome,  New  York,  and  later  was 
deputy  commander  of  the  joint  U.S.  military 
mission  for  aid  to  Ankara.  Upon  retiring  in 
1961,  with  many  military  decorations,  he  came 
to  Amherst  where  he  eventually  became  the 
town's  first  full  time  tax  assessor.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  four  children,  his  father  and 
a  granddaughter. 

John  E.  Merrill,  Jr.  '40  died  September  21, 
1970  of  a  heart  attack.  An  account  executive 
and  engineer  with  Arkwright  Boston  Insurance 
Company,  he  was  a  veteran  of  World  War  II. 
His  wife,  two  children,  his  parents  and  a 
sister  survive  him. 

Abigale  Ferry  '54  died  June  11,  1971. 

Adelbert  S.  Weaver  '58  died  November  22, 
1970.  He  was  a  systems  analyst  in  data  proc- 
essing with  the  Travelers  Insurance  Company. 
His  wife,  daughter,  parents,  and  two  brothers 
survive  him. 

Ursula  Zecca  Martin  '62G  was  killed  in 
an  auto  accident  on  April  3,  1970. 

Lf.  Carleton  P.  Miller,  Jr.  '67  died  in  action 
on  January  6, 1971. 


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The  Alumnus 


University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 
Volume  II,  Number  3    June/July  1071 


In  this  issue 

Letters     page  l 

Big  Ear  in  Quabbin     page  4 

All  he  expected  .  .  .  and  more     page  7 

A  Window  into  Men's  Minds     page  10 

On  Campus     page  14 

From  the  Sidelines     page  23 

Comment  on  Development     page  24 

Club  Calendar     page  24 

Something  old,  something  new     page  25 

The  Classes  Report     page  27 


The  Alumnus 

June/July  1971 

Volume  II,  Number  3 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

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Quint  Dawson,  the  cover,  pages  5  and  6; 
Mark  Harris,  page  11  and  page  26  (upper 
right);  Richard  Shanor,  "YAGS"  (story  and 
photo),  page  16;  Catherine  Moore,  "The 
Student  Lawyer,"  page  18;  Index,  page  19; 
Richard  Hendel,  page  20;  Bob  DiRamio,  page 
21;  John  McCarthy,  page  25  (middle)  and  page 
26   (except  for  upper  right.) 


Letters 


Russell's  point  of  view 

Excerpts  with  amendments  from  a  letter  ad- 
dressed to  lames  H.  Allen  '66,  author  of 
"Wheat  in  Tanzania"  which  appeared  in  the 
October/November  1971  Alumnus: 

I  have  read  your  article,  and  it  seems  to 
follow  my  point  of  view.  However,  I  feel 
that  all  American  intervention,  regardless, 
is  dangerous  and  exposes  a  foreign  nation  to 
the  possibility,  if  not  the  certainty,  of  economic 
imperialism  and  the  infiltration  of  American 
(U.S.)  ideas  on  politics,  international  rela- 
tions, and  other  subjects. 

John  H.  Foster,  in  the  article  on  the  Uni- 
versity's program  in  international  agriculture 
which  precedes  yours,  has  no  doubts  that 
Americans  can  help  the  world  to  solve  the 
problem  of  hunger.  However,  he  doesn't  antic- 
ipate or  recognize  the  other  problems  they 
may  create  or  nurture. 

Joseph  S.  Johnson,  author  of  the  article  on 
rice  in  Indonesia,  apparently  is  unaware  that 
he  is  in  an  area  of  a  vast  massacre,  maybe 
500,000  to  a  million  Indonesians.  That  cuts 
down  on  hunger,  temporarily.  I  wonder  what 
"free  Asians"  he  is  talking  about.  That  is, 
the  guys  who  realize  they  "cannot  battle  the 
Communist  with  arms."  There  are  a  hell  of 
a  lot  of  "free"  Asians,  who  have  found  freedom 
means  being  moved  out  of  their  home  country- 
side, being  wounded  or  killed  as  civilians  or 
in  fighting  their  fellow-countrymen,  or  in 
American-inspired  wars  against  other  coun- 
tries, as  in  Laos  and  Cambodia.  I  wonder 
whether  we  need  Mr.  Johnson's  "counter- 
revolutionary mission"  more  than  we  need 
the  revolution.  .  .  . 

I  was  not  surprised,  neither  was  I  pleased, 
to  see  the  sentence  in  the  Gillmor  article,  ["The 
Coach  Emphasizes  Winning",  same  issue], 
"The  first  commandment  is  to  go  to  church." 
Otherwise,  the  coach  sounded  pretty  good.  But 
this  harking  back  to  conservatism  and  con- 
formity shows  that  the  athletic  system  and 
attitudes  are  more  impervious  to  change  than 
many  other  things  about  universities,  (cf.  Out 


of  Their  League  by  Dave  Meggyesy).  . .  . 

The  format  of  The  Alumnus  is  something 
out  of  this  world.  Great  stuff.  Mr.  Hendel 
did  well.  .  .  . 

In  general,  I  favor  student  revolts  nowadays. 
They  seem  to  be  justified.  I  used  to  revolt 
myself,  and  I  think  I  was  responsible  for  the 
end  of  "arena  parties,"  sadistic  affairs  run  by 
sophomores  on  nonconforming  freshmen.  As 
a  senior,  I  turned  out  the  Grinnell  Arena  lights 
midway  through  the  shindy,  unscrewed  the 
handles  of  the  switches,  and  threw  them  into 
the  sawdust  of  the  arena.  It  didn't  interrupt 
the  ceremonies  for  long,  but  I  heard  later  that 
this  was  the  last  of  such  brutal  exhibitions. 
They  were  usually  led  by  athletes  who  in  later 
life  were  commended  for  their  sportsmanship. 

RALPH  RUSSELL  '22 

Washington,  D.C. 

The  CIA  in  Indonesia 

I  think  the  reader  would  have  a  better  chance 
of  assessing  the  value  of  Mr.  Johnson's  "Rice 
in  Indonesia"  program  if  they  knew  if  Mr.  J. 
was  still  with  Air  America  in  Indonesia.  Mr. 
Johnson  might  also  tell  his  readers  that  Air 
America  is  the  air  line  run  by  and  for  the  cia 
exclusively.  So  if  Air  America  is  "doing  it" 
— the  cia  is  doing  it.  Is  it  strictly  an  agri- 
cultural mission? 

I  too  was  in  Viet  Nam,  with  the  Red  Cross, 
and  saw  Air  America  in  action  there. 

JOAN  MCKNIFF  '63 

USA  Girl  Scouts — Tar  East 
APO  San  Trancisco 

One  for  Hank 

Something  in  the  exchange  between  Henry 
Shensky  and  yourself  in  the  February /March 
issue  of  The  Alumnus  really  got  to  me. 

First  of  all,  when  Henry  claims  that  many 
extraordinary  achievements  of  our  alumni  are 
being  kept  secret  while  other  colleges  extol 
the  virtues  of  their  own,  he's  absolutely  right. 
Each  year  I  fill  out  a  card  for  Syracuse  Uni- 
versity telling  them  the  news  about  my  hus- 
band. As  of  their  latest  printing  he  is  listed  as 
Chester  B.  Fish,  Jr.  '50,  father  of  three  boys 
and  two  girls,  homeowner  in  the  suburbs  of 
New  York,  or  words  to  that  effect.  There's  no 
question  but  that  he  deserves  the  coverage.  I'd 
be  the  first  to  agree.  If  it's  true  though  that 
behind  every  successful  man  there's  a  woman, 
then  this  is  certainly  an  extraordinary  achieve- 
ment of  a  University  of  Massachusetts  alumna 


that's  really  been  kept  a  secret. 

With  my  bachelor's  degree  in  sociology  I've 
managed  to  live  in  a  Boy  Scout  camp  with  no 
running  water,  wash  and  fold  thousands  of 
diapers,  exercise  extreme  diplomacy  and  tact 
with  various  school  administrations  in  the 
course  of  putting  five  children  through  school, 
patiently  wait  for  unreliable  lirr  trains  and 
adjust  untold  numbers  of  social  schedules 
according  to  the  whims  of  their  engineers. 
Perhaps  my  most  extraordinary  achievement 
was  when  in  one  day  our  oldest  boy  received 
from  the  Univ.  of  Mass.  a  refusal  to  grant  him 
admission  and  on  the  following  day  a  request 
for  funds  came  from  the  alumni  association, 
and  I  still  smiled. 

Secondly,  when  the  editor  stated  that  the 
magazine  should  be  a  source  of  intellectual 
stimulation,  a  continuation  of  our  university 
experience,  then  I  feel  you  oversimplify.  Our 
university  experience  was  our  first  step  as 
individuals  into  a  form  of  community  life. 
True,  we  were  intellectually  stimulated  by  an 
excellent  faculty  and  the  stimulation  persists 
so  that  we  are  alert  to  situations  in  our  own 
communities  and  the  world  at  large.  The  in- 
tellectual stimulation  brings  much  private 
pleasure  to  us  also  in  the  form  of  appreciation 
of  good  books,  music  and  art.  For  many  of  us, 
though,  the  university  experience  went  beyond 
the  intellectual,  into  the  social  and  the  form- 
ing of  new  relationships  with  people.  This  is 
what  I  feel  Henry  is  getting  at.  The  experience 
of  life  at  the  Univ.  of  Mass.  enriched  us  in 
many  ways  and  lives  on  in  us  as  a  symbol.  It  is 
only  through  The  Alumnus  that  we  can  now 
keep  in  touch  with  the  Univ.  of  Mass.  and 
those  people  who  make  it  tick.  We  identify 
with  them,  we  hope  for  them,  and  we  are 
further  enriched  by  them  as  they  strengthen 
a  symbol  that  played  such  an  important  role 
in  our  lives. 

Stimulation  of  the  intellect  is  a  grand  pur- 
suit, but  stimulation  of  the  emotions  is  what 
moves  men  and  women  to  action. 

CLAIRE  COMMO  FISH  '48 

Greenlawn,  New  York 

And  one  for  our  side 

Here's  a  "Right  On!"  for  Katie  Gillmor,  editor 
of  The  Alumnus,  for  her  comments  on  the 
function  of  an  alumni  magazine.  One's  educa- 
tion never  ends !  Keep  up  the  good  work. 

DICK  JACKSON  '49 

Pocomoke  City,  Maryland 


Dr.  Wood  hit  the  nail  on  the  head 

A  few  remarks  for  your  perusal: 

Format — Compliments  to  those  involved  in 
the  updating  and  vast  improvement  of  the 
Alumnus  format.  Not  only  is  the  format  itself 
readable,  but  the  content  has  taken  on  a  more 
current  attitude  toward  informing  the  alumni 
of  the  University's  programs  and  projections, 
and  inspiring  some  thought  on  social  concerns. 

Dr.  Robert  Wood — His  inauguration  speech, 
reprinted  in  the  February/March  issue, 
touched  upon  an  area  that  I  feel  to  be  of  dire 
necessity  concerning  today's  goals  of  higher 
education. 

The  President's  Committee,  formed  to  report 
to  the  board  of  trustees  at  the  end  of  the 
summer  on  the  role  of  the  University  in  the 
future;  has  been  given  a  challenge  of  no  mean 
stature.  This  committee's  progress  could  very 
well  bring  to  bear  many  specific  directions  in 
Massachusetts  that  will  actualize  projections 
made  from  such  sources  as  the  Carnegie  Com- 
mission and  the  Newman  Report. 

JAMES   M.  MULLIGAN  '69 

field  Representative 
Alpha  Sigma  Phi  fraternity 

Positive  impressions 

I  have  been  extremely  impressed  with  the  qual- 
ity of  The  Alumnus.  It  has  helped  me  create 
an  interest  in  the  University  that  did  not  even 
exist  while  I  was  an  undergraduate. 

DAVID  MILNER  '67 

Denver,  Colorado 

Having  just  received  Volume  II,  Number  i  of 
The  Alumnus,  I  cannot  contain  my  enthusiasm: 
the  format,  the  articles,  layout,  type — every- 
thing is  terrific,  one  of  the  finest  "house 
organs"  I've  ever  seen.  I  particularly  enjoyed 
the  fine  article  on  Dean  Dwight  Allen,  an 
article  which  has  moved  me  to  write  to  that 
gentleman  concerning  our  educational  situa- 
tion. It  fills  me  with  pride  that  my  alma  mater 
is  moving  so  forcefully  in  education — the 
area  to  which  I  have  dedicated  my  life. 

Evan  Johnston's  poorly  written  whining  is 
a  sad  reminder  of  the  old  Alumnus,  (in  para- 
graph five  is  he  complaining  because  UMass 
got  caught  in  violation,  that  UMass  is  policed 
too  closely?).  He  is  one  who  seems  unaware 
of  the  trend  away  from  massive  intercollegiate 
athletic  programs,  who  ritualistically  calls  out 
for  more  athletic  scholarships,  bigger  stadiums. 

May  I  suggest  one  way  to  improve  the 


magazine:  write  articles,  profiles,  on  recent  or 
old  grads — the  many  who  have  made  it,  who 
do  well  by  UMass.  One  such  who  would  make 
a  fascinating  subject  is  Paul  Theroux  '63.  He 
has  written  at  least  four  fine  novels,  (all  of 
which  have  been  well  received,)  and  his  short 
story  in  a  recent  issue  of  Playboy  is  superb. 

MICHAEL  M.  HENCH  '64 

Assistant  Professor 
College  of  the  Virgin  Islands 

May  I  congratulate  the  Associate  Alumni  on 
the  excellence  of  The  Alumnus  magazine. 

Not  too  long  ago,  our  alumni  magazine  was 
little  more  than  a  bulletin  board  announcing 
the  marriages,  family  additions,  and  career 
successes  of  our  fellow  classmates.  The 
Alumnus  continues  to  let  us  share  our  friends' 
latest  achievements.  But  now  it  does  much 
more.  It  truly  gives  one  a  sense  of  once  again 
participating  in  the  life  of  the  University. 

Please  extend  my  thanks  and  good  wishes 
to  those  who  are  responsible. 

LEWIS   C.   HOFF  '62 

New  York,  New  York 

Congratulations  on  the  new  approach  and 
format  of  the  magazine.  It's  most  interesting 
and  enjoyable. 

SUSAN  LEMANIS  WOLF  '63 

Edwardsville,  Illinois 

We  find  the  new  magazine  interesting  and 
perhaps  contributing  more  to  the  community 
of  alumni.  The  campus  has  seemed  rather 
removed  from  us  with  the  almost  total  change- 
over of  administration,  etc.,  since  we  grad- 
uated, and  we  do  enjoy  the  "portraits"  of  the 
new  administration. 

CAROL   LILLIE  NESTOR  '6l 

Randolph,  Massachusetts 

Back  to  the  record  books,  Pete 

Referring  to  the  issue  of  March  1971,  Peter 
Pascarelli's  article  on  Mass.  hockey  is  incor- 
rect in  its  reference  to  early  varsity  hockey 
teams.  He  is  evidently  not  up  on  early  history. 
He  should  have  researched  beyond  the  "forty 
years  of  trying."  In  the  period  of  1911  to 
1915  while  I  was  in  college,  (during  my  senior 
year  I  was  manager  of  the  team  )  the  hockey 
team  ranked  as  more  successful  in  intercol- 
legiate sports  than  any  other  varsity  sport. 
In  the  1913-14  season  we  had  six  victories  and 
two  defeats,  losing  only  to  Dartmouth  and 
Harvard  in  overtime.  Our  team  that  year  had 
two  of  the  best  forwards  in  hockey,  Jones 


and  Hutchinson,  who  were  considered  second 
only  to  the  famed  Hobey  Baker  of  Princeton 
— probably  the  best  college  hockey  player 
of  a  generation.  Professional  hockey  had  little 
standing  and  few  teams  in  the  U.S.A.  in 
those  days,  so  no  comparisons  are  possible. 

The  hockey  season  was  short — from  Decem- 
ber 15  to  February  22 — and  about  half  the 
games  on  the  schedule  usually  had  to  be 
cancelled  as  most  rinks  were  outside  and 
dependent  on  the  condition  of  the  ice.  Our 
practice  and  games  were  played  on  the  campus 
pond.  In  a  mild  winter,  weeks  went  by  with- 
out satisfactory  ice,  and  in  heavy  snows  the 
freshmen  who  were  supposed  to  keep  the  ice 
clear  had  a  habit  of  disappearing !  Even  so, 
Mass.  was  always  rated  among  the  five  top 
rated  n.e.  teams. 

Practically  all  of  The  Alumnus  articles  are 
related  to  present  day  activities,  so  that  it 
is  understandable  that  events  of  forty  to  sixty 
years  ago  are  unknown  (and  perhaps  little 
regarded.)  Old  timers  remember  the  regular 
column  by  Bill  Doran  '15  in  earlier  publica- 
tions with  nostalgia. 

EARLE  S.  DRAPER  '15 

Vero  Beach,  florida 

Regarding  Peter  F.  Pascarelli's  article  about 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  hockey  pro- 
gram, particularly  "the  one  that  hardly  ever 
won  a  big  game,  that  struggled  to  get  noticed 
in  hockey-conscious  New  England,  that  labored 
on  campus  in  near  obscurity" — let  me  say 
that  Mr.  Pascarelli  should  have  opened  the 
record  books  that  went  beyond  his  day. 

In  the  winter  of  1921-22,  we  had  to  wait 
until  the  pond  froze  over  so  that  we  could  get 
some  practice  in.  This  called  for  much  patience. 
But  we  got  some  excellent  results  for  our 
patience.  I  don't  know  what  Mr.  Pascarelli  calls 
"big  games,"  but  we  did  beat  Yale  at  New 
Haven  on  its  own  rink.  We  went  to  West  Point 
to  beat  the  Army  on  its  own  rink.  We  beat 
Amherst  several  times.  We  went  to  the  Phila- 
delphia Ice  Palace  and  played  Quaker  City 
one  night  and  New  York's  St.  Nicholas  the 
next  night.  We  lost  to  Quaker  City  but  not  to 
St.  Nicks. 

It  should  be  kept  in  mind  that  we  had  only 
four  hundred  regular  students  to  choose  from 
for  a  team  and  not  several  thousand  as  is 
the  case  today. 

We  had  a  Jerry  McCarthey  who  made  the 
Olympics.  And  other  men,  such  as  Jack  Hutch- 
inson, who  captained  the  baa  hockey  team  as 
well  as  McCarthey.  Hubba  Collins  was  another 


outstanding  athlete  in  those  years.  The  records 
of  these  men  were  made  before  Mr.  Pas- 
carelli's  time. 

JULIUS  KROECK   '22 

Sarasota,  Florida 

Rhetorically  speaking 

Would  it  be  possible  to  secure  ten  copies  of 
Volume  I,  Number  2  of  The  Alumnus?  I  want 
to  share  the  article  on  the  rhetoric  program, 
"Words  and  the  World"  [by  Walker  Gibson], 
with  members  of  our  studies  and  standards 
committees  and  "On  Campus"  with  our 
academic  dean  and  executive  vice-president. 

RICHARD   A.    MELLEN    '51 

Resident  Administrator 
Salem  College 

I  enjoyed  very  much  the  article,  "Words  and 
the  World,"  in  the  December  issue  of  The 
Alumnus.  What  Mr.  Gibson  describes  seems 
to  be  a  critically  important  experience  for 
anybody  preparing  to  teach  on  whatever  level. 

DANIEL  P.  JORDAN 

Professor 

School  of  Education 

At  3  a.m.  this  morning  I  picked  up  the  Decem- 
ber issue  of  The  Alumnus  assuming  that  it 
would  cure  my  insomnia.  On  the  contrary,  it 
awakened  me  to  a  better  understanding  of 
this  whole  rhetoric  thing. 

WILLIAM  LAUROESCH 

Associate  Professor 
School  of  Education 

Black  &  White 

My  congratulations  to  the  staff's  fine  effort. 
The  Alumnus  is  a  most  attractive  and  in- 
formative publication.  I  was  particularly 
interested  in  "  'Black  &  White'  Reviewed," 
in  that  Dr.  Chametzky  and  Dr.  Kaplan  were 
my  thesis  advisors  during  my  graduate  study 
at  UMass.  In  fact,  I  have  just  done  some 
research  for  Sidney  Kaplan  regarding  a  black 
shipwright  from  Dartmouth,  Massachusetts. 
Dr.  Kaplan  is  helping  to  put  together  a  pro- 
gram at  the  National  Portrait  Gallery,  Smith- 
sonian Institute,  Washington,  D.C.,  which 
should  help  to  further  educate  Americans 
about  famous  Negro  personages. 

JANICE  R.  SOUZA  '60G 

New  Bedford,  Massachusetts 


The  Experience  was  not  Equivalent 

"Dutch"  Barnard,  a  colleague  whose  judgment 
I  usually  admire,  expresses  a  confidence  in 
his  letter  on  last  year's  "strike"  which  I  cannot 
share,  namely  that  a  "majority  of  students 
devoted  themselves  with  intense  seriousness  to 
the  'workshops'  on  current  social  and  politi- 
cal issues  that  largely  replaced  classes."  Some 
fifty  "workshops"  replaced  hundreds  of  regu- 
lar class  sessions.  Classrooms  normally  full 
every  hour  of  the  day  were  empty  all  day 
long,  and  traffic  on  the  walks  outside  was 
drastically  reduced. 

Obviously,  more  students  were  enjoying  the 
fine  weather  than  were  participating  in  these 
"workshops."  They  certainly  were  not  studying 
as  seriously  as  they  would  have  been  if  they 
had  been  preparing  for  final  examinations. 

Moreover,  once  our  administration  and 
faculty  had  been  "persuaded"  by  our  militant 
minority  of  students  not  to  fail  anybody  that 
semester,  (the  president  of  the  student  senate 
stated  that  he  could  not  otherwise  promise 
continued  nonviolence),  many  students  simply 
went  home.  The  house  resident  of  a  dormitory 
with  which  I  am  associated  as  a  Faculty  Fel- 
low estimated  that  at  least  a  third  of  the  330 
girls  in  that  hall  went  home  at  that  time.  Yet 
the  argument  for  not  failing  anybody  was  that 
the  students  were  too  involved  with  "work- 
shops" and  other  strike  activities  to  finish  the 
semester's  work. 

These  "workshops"  would  seem  to  be  mis- 
named since  little  or  no  work  was  required 
of  student  participants.  For  one  thing,  study 
materials  were  in  short  supply,  or  not  avail- 
able at  all.  Hastily  mimeographed  and  highly 
partisan  materials,  frankly  designed  as  counter 
propaganda  to  that  disseminated  by  the  so- 
called  "Establishment,"  were  not  infrequently 
pressed  into  service  as  study  aids. 

Most  of  these  "workshops"  also  had  to  be 
conducted  by  faculty  members  who,  though 
passionately  convinced  of  the  wickedness  of 
the  war  in  Viet  Nam,  of  the  truth  of  the 
alleged  persecution  of  the  Black  Panthers 
and  other  militant  minority  groups,  and  of 
the  general  injustice  of  our  social,  economic, 
and  political  institutions,  were  not  qualified 
to  lead  discussion  on  these  topics  by  any 
special  knowledge,  as  they  are  qualified  to 
give  instruction  in  the  various  fields  in  which 
they  usually  teach.  My  student  conferees 
admitted  that,  in  the  vehemence  of  their  in- 
dignation, these  discussion  leaders  rarely 


attempted  to  explain  why  apparently  sincere 
and  virtuous  men  disagree  with  them  on  these 
disputed  issues.  Some  of  the  "workshops" 
were  frankly  propaganda  sessions  preparatory 
to  taking  partisan  political  action. 

Those  who  supported  the  "strike"  insist  that 
it  was  a  valuable  learning  experience,  much 
more  valuable  than  our  regular  instruction. 
The  evidence  for  such  a  belief  must  be  entirely 
subjective,  for  I  have  never  heard  that  any 
attempt  whatever  was  made  to  evaluate  what 
in  fact  was  learned. 

Therefore,  I  must  respectfully  disagree  with 
Professor  Barnard's  assurance  that  the  "strike" 
was  a  valuable  educational  experience  and 
that  nothing  was  lost  by  abruptly  concluding 
our  studies— not  a  "few  days"  as  he  says — 
but  ten  days  before  the  end  of  classes  in 
addition  to  two  weeks  of  review  and  final 
examinations.  Some  of  us  who  are  convinced 
that  the  Viet  Nam  war  is  a  tragic  mistake  and 
are  outraged  by  the  unnecessary — though  not 
always  unprovoked — killing  of  students  and 
members  of  militant  minority  groups  still 
cannot  bring  ourselves  to  believe  that  the 
"strike"  was  a  learning  experience  at  all  equiv- 
alent to  that  of  our  regular  instruction. 

HOWARD   O.   BROGAN 

Commonwealth  Professor  of  English 

Discovery  in  Bolton 

On  April  17,  I  had  occasion  to  be  in  the  Town 
Hall  at  Bolton,  Massachusetts,  and  was  rather 
startled  to  see  on  the  wall  at  the  left  of  the 
platform  a  plaque  which  seemed  to  "ring  a 
bell."  It  read:  "In  memory  of  Lieut.  David 
Oliver  Nourse  Edes/Co.  E,  131  Inft.,  A.E.F./ 
Killed  in  Action/August  9,  1918." 

Some  of  us  remember  "Don"  Edes  '18. 

JOHN  H.  BURT  '20SP. 

Winchester,  Massachusetts 


Big  Ear  in  Quabbin 


QUINTON  H.  DAWSON  '71 


Radio  astronomy  is  like  trying  to  listen 
to  a  song  bird  a  mile  away.  You  need  a 
quiet  place  to  do  it.  In  Quabbin  Reservoir, 
it's  quiet  enough  to  hear  the  stars. 

This  isolated  sanctuary,  ten  miles  from 
campus,  has  been  the  domain  of  the 
Metropolitan  District  Commission  (mdc), 
which  guards  the  pure  water,  and  the  con- 
servationists, who  defend  the  wilderness. 
Now  astronomers  from  the  five  colleges 
are  there  too,  building  a  super-sensitive 
radio  receiver  that  promises  to  become  the 
largest  radio  telescope  in  the  continental 
United  States. 

The  astronomers  are  ecstatic  about  the 
lack  of  static  in  Quabbin.  The  spark  plugs 
of  a  car — even  a  mile  away — could  gener- 
ate enough  static  radio  waves  to  effectively 
block  out  the  signal  of  a  distant  star. 

Simply  stated,  a  radio  telescope  is  a 
large  radio  antenna  that  collects   radio 
signals  from  space.  These  radio  waves 
may  have  taken  as  many  as  four  billion 
years  to  reach  Earth  and  are,  necessarily, 
extremely  weak. 

The  radio  telescope  must  be  located 
far  from  the  traffic  and  settlements  of 
man — away  from  power  lines,  automobiles, 
factories,  and  electrical  gadgets.  And,  like 
the  telescope,  the  Quabbin  watershed 
needs  isolation  too.  Placing  the  telescope 
within  the  boundaries  of  the  reservoir 
gives  the  mdc  another  good  reason  to 
keep  the  area  highly  restricted. 

A  radio  telescope  and  a  pure  water 
reservoir  make  strange  bedfellows.  The 
telescope  demands  radio  silence  which 
includes  limiting  the  use  of  electrical 
devices  and  gasoline  (spark-igniting)  en- 
gines. Such  limitations  affect  both  the 


astronomers,  who  must  commute  to  and 
from  the  installation  by  automobile,  and 
the  mdc  officials,  who  might  employ 
electrical  equipment,  chain  saws  or  gaso- 
line vehicles  in  the  reservation.  Though 
not  required  by  the  lease,  mdc  personnel 
have  been  very  cooperative  in  coordi- 
nating their  activities  with  those  at  the 
telescope.  A  partial  solution  is  the  use  of 
diesel  vehicles  which  don't  depend  on 
electrical  sparks  for  ignition,  and  don't 
affect  the  telescope. 

On  the  other  hand,  working  in  the  mid- 
dle of  a  reservoir  protected  by  law  puts 
some  unusual  constraints  on  the  telescope 
personnel.  For  example  strict  observation 
of  rules  intended  to  protect  the  purity  of 
the  water  precludes  the  installation  of  any 
sewage.  Ordinary  water  toilets  can't  be 
used  and  the  astronomers  must  rely  on  gas- 
operated  sanitary  burning  systems  called 
"Destroilets."  They  don't  seem  to  mind. 

The  story  of  the  Quabbin  telescope 
began  in  September  1968,  when  Dr.  Richard 
Huguenin  joined  the  astronomy  depart- 
ment at  the  University.  He  brought  with 
him  his  ambition  to  build  a  bigger  and 
better  telescope  and  his  experience  in 
radio  astronomy  at  Harvard  University. 
Funded  by  private  foundations  and  the 
Federal  government,  Five  Colleges  Incor- 
porated leased  the  land  from  the  mdc  and 
undertook  the  first  phase  of  construction. 

The  antenna  of  the  telescope  will  consist 
of  many  huge  reflectors,  each  120-feet  in 
diameter,  made  of  heavy  gauge  wire 
woven  into  a  one-inch  mesh  and  sus- 
pended between  30-foot  poles  arranged  in 
a  circle.  They  look  something  like  bowl- 
shaped  safety  nets  for  trapeze  artists. 
The  radio  signals  are  focused  to  receiving 
antennas  suspended  above  the  reflectors 
on  63-foot  poles. 

The  plan  calls  for  thirty-two  of  these 
huge  reflectors  eventually.  At  present,  the 
first  eight  reflectors  are  funded  and  are 
expected  to  be  completed  during  1972.  So 
far,  one  reflector  is  finished  and  in  limited 
use,  another  is  near  completion,  and 
two  more  are  under  way. 

As  construction  continues,  Dr.  Huguenin 


sees  the  cost  of  the  first  building  phase 
running  to  several  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars. About  half  the  total  will  have  gone 
to  build  antenna  segments  and  the  other 
half  to  purchase  the  sophisticated  electronic 
equipment  needed  to  operate  the  tele- 
scope and  absorb  the  data  it  collects.  By 
the  time  the  thirty-two  reflectors  have 
been  finished,  construction  costs  will 
have  reached  about  a  million  dollars  and 
annual  operating  costs  are  expected  to  be 
one  or  two  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

The  combined  surface  area  of  the 
thirty-two  reflectors  will  be  greater  than 
that  of  the  300-foot  reflector  of  the 
National  Observatory's  telescope  in  West 
Virginia.  Of  the  dozen  or  so  major  radio 
telescopes   in   the   continental  United 
States,  the  Five  College  telescope  will  be 
the  largest.  The  U.S.  can  boast  only  one 
larger — a  telescope  in  Puerto  Rico. 

Yet  the  U.S.  is  anything  but  a  definitive 
international  leader  in  the  field  of  radio 
astronomy.  Australia,  England,  India, 
France,  Russia,  Canada,  and  other  nations 
are  in  contention.  There  are  rumors  that 
the  Dutch  spent  fifteen  to  twenty  million 
dollars  on  their  new  radio  telescope,  and 
that  the  Germans  are  spending  thirty  mil- 
lion and  the  Swedes  an  estimated  fifty 
million  dollars  for  their  telescopes. 

The  fact  that  the  Quabbin  telescope 
is  so  much  less  expensive  can  be  credited 
to  the  resourceful  and  ingeneous  design, 
but  also  reflects  the  lack  of  certain  expen- 
sive refinements.  Much  of  the  installation 
is  being  built  on  the  spot  from  locally 
available  materials  rather  than  assembled 
from  costly  custom-designed  components 
shipped  in  from  specialized  contractors. 

Building  and  operating  a  radio  telescope 
is  different  from  optical  astronomy  in 
some  very  fundamental  ways.  The  differ- 
ences are  not  unlike  those  between  the 
eye  and  the  ear.  An  "eye"  (optical  tele- 
scope) powerful  enough  to  magnify  light 
from  distant  stars  can  still  be  built  so 
that  it  can  be  moved  and  aimed.  It  can  also 
be  visually  sighted  and  aimed  precisely 
at  its  target.  On  the  other  hand,  an  "ear" 
(radio  telescope)  usually  has  to  be  so  large 


that  it  cannot  be  aimed,  but  must  be  built 
immobile  into  the  terrain.  Like  the  ear, 
the  radio  telescope  is  not  so  precisely 
directional  and  cannot  be  visually  sighted. 
(You  have  to  "feel  around"  for  the  tar- 
get.) It's  a  bit  like  building  an  immovable 
cannon  that  must  wait  until  a  target 
passes  in  front  of  it  before  it  can  be  used. 
This  is  one  of  the  problems  with  the 
National  Observatory  telescope  in  West 
Virginia.  About  the  longest  it  can  focus 
on  a  single  star  is  four  or  five  minutes, 
and  usually  less  than  one.  The  huge 
reflector  can't  move  and  "track"  a  star 
as  the  Earth  rotates. 

The  reflectors  at  the  Quabbin  telescope 
are  also  immobile,  but  an  improved  means 
of  controlling  the  position  of  the  receiving 
antennas  above  the  reflectors  allows  a 
much  longer  tracking  time.  The  antenna 
tracks  the  focus  of  the  reflector  rather 
than  the  reflector  tracking  the  position  of 
the  star.  It  takes  the  precise  calculations  of  a 
computer  to  keep  a  star  in  focus,  but  the 
Quabbin  telescope  can  track  a  star  for 
six  to  eight  hours,  affording  astronomers 
much  more  than  one  short  glance  a  day 
at  the  object  of  their  interest. 

Computers  are  employed  to  do  more 
than  merely  focus  the  antenna.  In  fact, 
the  electronic  gear  constitutes  as  important 
a  component  of  the  telescope  as  the 
reflectors.  The  computer's  most  critical 
function  is  "data  acquisition"  or  measuring 
the  electronic  characteristics  of  the  radio 
signals  and  translating  them  into  mathe- 
matical data.  At  the  Quabbin  telescope, 
the  computer  records  the  data  on  com- 
puter cards  or  punch  tape  which  can  be 
brought  down  to  Hasbrouck  Laboratory 
for  further  analysis. 

In  addition,  the  Quabbin  computer  can 
do  some  limited  data  processing  as  well 
as  acquisition.  For  example,  the  computer 
can  determine  the  average  intensity  of 
radio  signals  that  have  a  "pulse."  This 
capability  makes  the  Quabbin  telescope 
especially  suitable  for  the  study  of  mys- 
terious phenomena  called  "pulsars" — a 
subject  of  predominant  interest  among 
the  radio  astronomers  of  the  Five  College 


Astronomy  Department. 

Pulsars  were  first  observed  in  1967.  A 
radio  telescope  in  England  observed  a 
radio  signal  that  pulsed  as  regularly  as  a 
clock.  (Measurements  have  shown  that 
pulsars  beat  at  least  as  regularly  as  any 
chronometer  man  has  invented,  and  proba- 
bly more  so.  They  are  the  most  accurate 
means  of  measuring  time  ever  discovered.) 
When  the  English  astronomers  had  dis- 
carded all  possibility  that  the  signal 
originated  on  Earth,  they  labeled  the  phe- 
nomena "lgm,"  standing  for  "Little  Green 
Men,"  and  speculated  on  the  possibility 
that  the  regularity  of  the  pulse  was  con- 
trolled by  .some  intelligent  means.  It 
could  have  been  a  navigation  beacon  for 
some  super  civilization! 

Evidence  now  indicates  that  the  regular 
pulse  is  a  natural  phenomena.  More  pul- 
sars have  been  discovered,  though,  so  far, 
only  one  pulsar  detected  by  radio  telescope 
has  also  been  observed  visually  by  optical 
telescope.  Located  in  the  Crab  Nebula 
at  a  distance  of  about  5000  light  years, 
this  star  was  observed  by  medieval  as- 
tronomers in  1054  to  have  exploded.  Such 
exploding  stars  are  called  "supernovae" 
and  are  believed  to  give  birth  to  neutron 
stars,  the  densest  type  of  star  known. 
Thus  the  mysterious  pulsars  seem  to  be 
neutron  stars. 

As  for  intelligent  radio  signals  from 
space,  radio  astronomy  has  detected 


nothing  yet  with  properties  that  might  in- 
dicate intelligence,  save  the  pulsars.  Dr. 
Huguenin  and  other  astronomers  feel, 
however,  that  "it's  just  a  matter  of  time." 

In  these  days  of  changing  priorities — 
the  space  program  is  decried  as  too  expen- 
sive for  a  country  that  can't  feed  its 
poor — how  can  astronomers  justify  their 
science  and  its  expensive  instruments? 

Dr.  Huguenin  cites  three  justifications. 
First,  it's  man's  destiny  to  seek  knowl- 
edge; secondly,  knowledge  can  be  banked 
against  the  day  it  will  be  needed;  and 
finally,  astronomy  has  some  practical 
applications  now.  For  example,  it  is 
critical  to  navigation  on  the  Earth's  sur- 
face, and  in  space.  (Pulsars  can  provide 
a  time/speed  determinant  as  well  as  a 
position  "fix.")  Astronomy  even  helps 
measure  continental  drift. 

Perhaps  the  best  justification  of  astron- 
omy, however,  is  that  it,  like  every  other 
field  of  human  knowledge,  has  its  own 
unique  frame  of  reference  for  man — a 
means  of  putting  man  into  perspective  in 
the  universe  that  no  other  field  of  knowl- 
edge can  duplicate.  As  such,  astronomy  is 
a  necessary  part  of  the  expanding  sphere 
of  man's  knowledge  and  understanding. 

Quint  Dawson,  who  graduated  this  June, 
helped  found  and  was  president  of  CEQ,  the 
Coalition  for  Environmental  Quality. 


Weinstein  and  his  water  pumps. 


All  he  expected . . . 
and  more 


KATIE  S.  GILLMOR 

Bernard  Weinstein  '53 
knew  what  he  was  in  for  when  he 
became  director  of  the  nation's 
fourth  largest  hospital.  But  after 
three  years  on  the  job,  Bellevue 
can  still  surprise  him. 


Bernard  Weinstein  has  a  sense  of  humor. 
He  is  also  intelligent  and  competently 
trained,  but  it  is  probably  his  ability  to 
laugh  in  the  face  of  adversity  which  has 
carried  him,  unscarred,  to  his  present  posi- 
tion :  that  of  executive  director  of  Bellevue 
Hospital  Center  in  New  York  City. 

He  can,  for  example,  recall  with  wry 
humor  the  time  there  was  a  fire  in  one  of 
the  buildings.  Arriving  on  the  scene,  he 
found  smoke  pouring  out  of  a  room  guarded 
by  a  harried  nurse,  (her  cap  askew,  mus- 
cles straining,)  standing  with  one  foot  in  the 
door.  "What's  going  on?"  he  asked  the 
people  crowded  behind  the  nurse.  "A  fire," 
someone  said.  "You  can't  go  in  there."  "I 
don't  want  to  go  in  there,   I  want  you  to  go 
in  there  and  put  out  the  fire,"  Weinstein 
replied.  "We  can't,"  they  said.  "There's 
a  maniac  in  there — the  one  who  set  the 
fire — and  he's  got  an  ax."  "This  is  ridicu- 
lous," Weinstein  said  as  he  charged  into 
the  holocaust. 

It  wasn't  a  maniac  with  an  ax.  It  was  an 
alcoholic  patient,  suffering  from  the  DT's, 
brandishing  a  huge  dustpan. 

"How  do  you  do?"  said  Mr.  Weinstein. 
"I'm  the  director  of  the  hospital  and  I'd  be 


"Anyone  who  didn't  know  what 
to  expect  would  have  run  out 
screaming  his  second  day.  I  knew 
what  I  was  getting  into  .  .  . 
Bellevue  has  always  had  excellent 
personnel.  It's  just  that  no  one 
had  ever  been  permitted  to  run 
the  place.  The  directorship  was  a 
tremendous  opportunity." 


happy  to  see  you  in  my  office  anytime  to 
discuss  your  complaints." 

The  wielder  of  the  dustpan,  however, 
was  clearly  not  willing  to  negotiate.  Beat- 
ing a  hasty  retreat,  Weinstein  called  the 
security  force.  The  fire  was  extinguished, 
and  the  patient  was  returned  to  more  ac- 
ceptable forms  of  therapy.  In  the  debris, 
bottles  of  ether  and  acetone  were  dis- 
covered. Had  they  ignited,  Bernard  Wein- 
stein would  not  be  around  to  relish  the 
unpredictable  world  of  Bellevue. 

Nor  would  he  be  able  to  groan  about 
the  all-too-predictable,  but  nonetheless  in- 
credible, administrative  problems  which 
have  dogged  his  footsteps  since  he  took  the 
job  in  June  of  1068. 

It  is  predictable  that  a  huge  institution 
like  Bellevue  (twenty-four  buildings  cover- 
ing ten  square  city  blocks)  would  have 
problems  obtaining  and  maintaining  equip- 
ment. It  is  incredible  that,  until  ig6g, 
Bellevue  had  no  central  inventory  set-up 
for  medical  equipment  and  supplies. 

It  is  predictable  that  a  hospital  with  1800 
beds  would  have  housekeeping  problems. 
It  is  incredible  that,  until  1970,  the  ratio 
of  housekeeping  employees  to  supervisors 
was  40:1  at  Bellevue,  (four  times  as  much 
as  at  private  hospitals  half  its  size,)  and 
that  there  was  no  system  to  monitor  the 
quality  or  quantity  of  housekeeping  service. 

It  is  predictable  that  the  management 
of  the  institution's  $70,000,000  budget  was 
complex.  It  is  incredible  that,  until  1969, 
there  was  no  central  accounting  system 
and  financial  statements  were  not  available. 
There  wasn't  even  a  business  manager. 

It  is  predictable  that,  with  6,000  em- 
ployees, Bellevue  would  have  personnel 
problems.  It  is  incredible  that  the  hospital 
did  not  have  a  qualified  personnel  director 
until  1968. 

It  is  predictable  that  this  nation's  oldest 
public  hospital,  (founded  originally  in  1736 
as  the  six  bed  infirmary  in  the  Publick 
Workhouse,)  would  be  somewhat  decrepit. 
It  is  incredible,  however,  the  degree  to 
which  some  of  the  current  day  buildings 
are  in  disrepair.  For  example,  the  whole 
water  system  broke  down  for  twenty-four 


hours  last  November  when  the  70-year-old 
pumps  gave  out.  The  hospital  had  to  close 
its  doors.  Patients  were  transferred  to  other 
hospitals  or  moved  to  floors  where  the 
water  pressure  had  not  completely  dis- 
appeared while  water  was  being  trucked 
in  from  New  Jersey.  "Would  you  like  to 
buy  some  barrels  of  water?"  quipped  Wein- 
stein. "We've  got  a  corner  on  the  market." 

"Anyone  who  didn't  know  what  to  expect 
would  have  run  out  screaming  his  second 
day,"  he  continued.  "I  knew  what  I  was 
getting  into  when  I  took  the  job." 

It  would  seem  reasonable  to  ask  how  a 
sane  man  would  undertake  such  a  respon- 
sibility, yet  Weinstein  is  clearly  rational 
and,  in  fact,  has  been  successful  in  undoing 
much  of  the  damage  wrought  by  hundreds 
of  years  of  non-management.  He  came  with 
the  expectation  of  trouble  but  that  was 
superseded  by  optimism.  "Bellevue  has 
always  had  excellent  personnel.  It's  just 
that  no  one  had  ever  been  permitted  to  run 
the  place.  The  directorship  was  a  tremen- 
dous opportunity.  I  was  young  enough,  at 
36,  not  to  have  to  worry  about  the  strenu- 
ousness  of  the  job.  I  would  only  have  to 
worry  about  ulcers  if  I  had  a  job  that  didn't 
occupy  me  fully." 

Weinstein's  background  amply  equips 
him  to  cope  with  the  Bellevue  morass.  As 
an  undergraduate  he  took  a  general  science 
course,  majoring  in  public  health.  After 
graduating  in  1953,  he  served  as  a  lieuten- 
ant in  the  usaf  Medical  Service  Corps  in 
administrative  capacities.  He  received  his 
master's  in  public  health  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pittsburgh  in  1959,  and  then  took 
administrative  positions  in  private  hospitals. 
Prior  to  coming  to  Bellevue  in  1968,  he 
had  been  administrator  of  the  affiliation 
program  of  Mt.  Sinai  Hospital  with  several 
New  York  City  municipal  hospitals.  His 
non-medical  status  has  not  been  a  handicap 
in  his  career.  Of  the  7,000  hospitals  in  the 
United  States,  only  12%  are  run  by  physi- 
cians. And  50%  of  the  nation's  hospitals  are 
run  by  people  untrained  in  administration. 

Despite  his  competence,  good  humor,  and 
penchant  for  overwork,  Weinstein  would 
not  have  tackled  the  Bellevue  directorship 


had  not  certain  legislative  changes  been 
imminent.  In  1970,  New  York  State  passed 
a  bill  replacing  the  Department  of  Hospi- 
tals with  the  New  York  City  Health  and 
Hospitals  Corporation.  This  gave  the  muni- 
cipal hospitals  more  autonomy.  Now  they 
had  the  power  to  expand,  purchase  equip- 
ment, and  manage  their  budgets.  Wein- 
stein  had  been  active  in  framing  the  bill, 
having  been  a  consultant  for  the  Depart- 
ment of  Hospitals,  and  he  explained  why 
the  new  corporation  was  essential: 

"The  Department  of  Hospitals  was  like 
any  other  city  department — it  had  to  stand 
in  line  with  the  Department  of  Public 
Works  and  the  Department  of  Welfare  for 
the  use  of  services  like  purchasing,  per- 
sonnel, and  budgeting.  A  kidney  machine 
would  have  no  more  priority  than  a  carload 
of  brooms.  And  it  took  a  year  or  more  to 
purchase  something — if  you  ever  got  what 
you'd  ordered. 

"The  eighteen  municipal  hospitals  were 
being  strangulated,  almost  literally.  It 
couldn't  have  been  otherwise,  when  you 
consider  the  number  of  services  New  York 
City  provides,  the  restrictions  and  delays 
in  that  kind  of  vast  bureaucracy,  and  the 
number  of  years  this  situation  had  persisted. 

"For  Bellevue,  it  was  an  idiotic  contrast. 
We  had  Nobel  Prize  winners  on  the  staff. 
We  are  the  disaster  unit  for  Manhattan 
and  we  have  the  finest  emergency  room  in 
the  city.  We  have  more  than  300,000  out- 
patients per  year  and  make  over  150,000 
emergency  visits.  But  we  couldn't  equip, 
maintain,  or  organize  the  hospital  properly 
to  support  their  efforts. 

"Luckily,  it's  almost  impossible  to  kill 
a  hospital.  Because  the  needs  are  so  great, 
a  hospital  can  survive  almost  anything. 
Bellevue  survived  by  riding  on  the  backs 
of  dedicated  people." 

Bellevue  has  more  than  survived.  It  has 
flourished,  if  one  is  to  judge  from  its  inter- 
national reputation  and  the  innovative 
medical  tradition  which  has  characterized 
its  history — from  1750,  when  members 
of  the  staff  gave  the  first  recorded  instruc- 
tion in  anatomy  by  actual  dissection,  to 
1956,  when  the  Nobel  Prize  in  Medicine 


and  Physiology  went  to  two  Bellevue  doc- 
tors for  developing  a  method  of  heart 
catheterization. 

The  administrative  changes  Weinstein 
has  initiated  are  designed  to  assure  that 
the  hospital's  future  will  equal,  even  exceed, 
its  successful  past.  As  the  hospital's  direc- 
tor, it  is  Weinstein's  responsibility  to 
preserve  the  good  while  winnowing  out 
the  bad.  He  feels  that  his  supervision 
should  be  "pertinent."  "You  have  to  be 
constructive,  not  crack  the  whip,"  he  says. 
"The  power  of  the  manager  is  to  effect 
change,  the  change  people  want,  and  in 
order  to  do  this  I  had  to  find  people  smarter 
than  me.  I've  brought  such  people  in  to 
assist  me,  and  we're  getting  the  job  done. 

"What  we  don't  want  to  do  is  jeopardize 
what  has  always  been  great  about  Belle- 
vue. Like  its  distinctive  personality.  It's 
tough  and  cynical — probably  brilliant.  And 
it  has  a  mission  that  we  must  preserve  too. 
It  serves  anyone  in  New  York  City  who 
needs  care.  No  one  is  ever  turned  away." 

Weinstein  has  reason  to  be  optimistic 
about  the  hospital's  future.  A  new  building 
(25-stories,  1600  beds)  scheduled  for  com- 
pletion in  1972,  is  expected  to  cure  most 
of  Bellevue's  physical  ills  and,  perhaps,  its 
director's  administrative  headaches. 

Meanwhile,  the  director  has  the  situation 
well  in  hand.  In  fact,  one  might  say  he  is 
delighted  with  the  hospital.  Whenever  he 
can,  he  tours  the  buildings.  The  labora- 
tories, where  intricate  machines  run  blood 
through  hundreds  of  spaghetti-like  tubes 
to  complete  forty  tests  on  a  sample  in  a 
minute,  particularly  attract  him.  One  of  the 
most  vital  services  Bellevue  provides,  the 
emergency  room,  is  another  favorite — one 
he  insists  on  sharing  with  unsuspecting 
visitors.  And  no  tour  of  his  vast  domain 
would  be  complete  without  checking  the 
antiquated  water  pumps  to  make  sure  they 
are  still  functioning,  for  the  moment. 


"Luckily,  it's  almost  impossible 
to  kill  a  hospital.  Because  the 
needs  are  so  great,  a  hospital  can 
survive  almost  anything.  Bellevue 
survived  by  riding  on  the  backs 
of  dedicated  people." 


Language:  A  window 
into  men's  minds 


DONALD  C.  FREEMAN 

Modern  linguistics  is  the  study  of 
the  language  people  use, 
and  the  language  they  don't, 
and  why. 


Ninety  percent  of  the  sentences  we  produce 
in  a  given  day  we  have  never  before  pro- 
duced in  our  lives.  This  startling  fact  is  but 
one  of  the  many  paradoxical  aspects  of  the 
study  of  human  language.  The  command 
of  our  native  tongue  is  one  of  the  most 
well-developed  capacities  we  have  as 
human  beings — we  use  language  freely  and 
innovatively  from  the  age  of  about  two 
years  onward.  Yet,  at  the  same  time,  we 
know  tantalizingly  little  about  this  mental 
ability.  Although  we  know  that  the  lin- 
guistic structures  which  even  a  five-year-old 
has  at  his  command  are  immensely  com- 
plex, we  are  just  beginning  to  find  out 
the  nature  of  these  structures  and 
how  they  develop. 

Only  recently  have  linguists  begun  to 
take  real  account  of  these  problems.  They 
are  at  the  heart  of  one  of  the  most 
fundamental  scientific  revolutions  of  the 
twentieth  century,  begun  fifteen  years 
ago  by  Noam  Chomsky  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  which 
has  brought  linguistics  to  the  attention 
of  academic  departments  ranging  from 
zoology  to  comparative  literature. 

This  revolution  and  the  major  strides 
forward  in  linguistic  scholarship  it  has 
produced  are  at  the  center  of  teaching  and 
research  in  the  new  Program  in  Linguis- 
tics at  the  University  of  Massachusetts 


at  Amherst.  It  is  the  first  entirely  post- 
revolutionary  linguistics  faculty  in  the 
nation,  all  trained  by  Chomsky  or 
his  students. 

For  2,500  years,  scholars  have  in- 
quired into  the  nature  of  human  language. 
It  was  supposed  that  the  answer  lay  in 
discovering  as  many  facts  as  possible 
about  individual  languages  (hence  the 
popular  misconception  that  linguists  are 
speakers  of  many  languages).  Now,  what 
formerly  were  ends  are  means:  we  use 
the  facts  of  the  languages  of  the  world  in 
an  effort  to  construct  and  extend  a  theory 
which  will  explain  the  knowledge  that  all 
human  beings  possess  when  they  learn 
and  use  their  mother  tongue.  As  far  as  we 
know,  this  knowledge  and  the  capacity  to 
acquire  it  are  unique  to  man.  Language  is 
by  far  the  most  complex  mental  activity 
of  which  man  is  capable.  And  so,  as 
linguists,  we  study  the  processes  by  which 
human  beings  understand  meanings  from 
sound,  produce  sound  from  meaning, 
and  learn  their  native  tongue. 

In  1955,  at  the  age  of  26,  Chomsky 
characterized  the  human  command  of 
language,  which  he  called  a  "grammar," 
in  terms  of  a  theory  which  sought  to 
explain  the  nature  of  the  knowledge  we 
have  when  we  speak  a  language.  He  hy- 
pothesized that  there  exist  two  levels  of 
organization  in  human  language.  The  first 
is  one  in  which  relationships  of  basic 
meaning  between  elements  in  a  sentence 
are  generated,  thus  establishing  "deep 
structure,"  which  represents  the  basic 
logical  relationships  in  the  sentences  of 
natural  languages.  The  second  level  is  in 
the  actual  form  of  the  sentence  as  it  ap- 
pears in  writing  or  speech.  What  relates 
these  two  levels,  Chomsky  argued,  is  a 
set  of  abstract  processes  or  transformations 
by  which  deep  structures  are  transformed 
into  surface  structures,  the  sentences 
we  actually  perceive  and  create. 

A  small  fragment  of  English  grammar 
will  illustrate  Chomsky's  theory.  Although 
the  sentences  "Jim  expected  John  to  go," 
and  "Jim  promised  John  to  go,"  can  be 


considered  structurally  identical,  our 
intuitions  tell  us  that  their  internal  logical 
relationships  are  quite  different.  In  the 
first,  it  is  John  who  will  go,  (that  is,  we 
understand  the  relationship  of  subject  of 
the  verb  to  hold  between  "John"  and 
"go"),  and  in  the  second  we  understand 
that  it  is  Jim  who  will  go  (the  relation- 
ship holds  between  "Jim"  and  "go"). 
Restated  in  terms  of  the  generative 
component  of  Chomsky's  grammar,  the 
sentences  yield  roughly  the  following 
relationships:  Jim  expected  something  (that 
John  would  go);  and  Jim  promised  John 
something  (that  he,  Jim,  would  go). 

To  illustrate  the  transformational  com- 
ponent of  Chomsky's  grammar,  we  can 
consider  the  sentences  "John  asked  Bill  to 
shave  him,"  and  "John  asked  Bill  to  shave 
himself."  These  sentences  are  identical  in 
every  respect  except  that  the  second  con- 
tains the  reflexive  pronoun  "himself." 
Yet  every  speaker  of  English  understands 
"him"  in  the  first  sentence  to  refer  to 
John,  and  "himself"  in  the  second  to  refer 
to  Bill.  As  with  the  first  two  examples, 
where  the  behavior  of  the  two  verbs 
"expect"  and  "promise"  was  quite  dif- 
ferent, a  native  speaker  of  English  easily 
perceives  this  distinction  without  thinking 
about  it.  Linguists,  on  the  other  hand, 
ask  why  we  are  able  to  make  distinctions 
of  this  sort,  seek  to  understand  the  nature 
of  this  knowledge,  and  use  facts  such  as 
these  distinctions  as  evidence  toward  a 
general  theory  which  explains  this  knowl- 
edge and  how  we  acquire  it. 

Consider  the  problem  of  the  reflexive 
system  of  English,  for  example,  and 
the  linguist's  use  of  scientific  method 
in  approaching  it.  For  people  versed  in 
the  English  language,  of  course,  reflexives 
appear  to  be  a  straightforward  fact,  not  a 
problem.  We  intuitively  reject  as  un- 
English  such  sentences  as  "Bill  believed 
in  themselves,"  or  "Mary  gave  her  a 
bath"  (where  "her"  refers  to  Mary).  The 
linguist,  however,  asks  why  these  con- 
structions are  awkward,  or,  as  we  say, 
"ungrammatical."  As  a  general  rule,  one 
would  say  that  reflexive  pronouns  must 


always  refer  to  the  subject  of  the  sentence 
and  that  references  to  an  already  expressed 
subject  must  be  reflexive.  A  linguist 
would  compare  a  grammatical  sentence 
like  "John  asked  Bill  to  shave  himself" 
with  the  ungrammatical  sentence  "Mary 
gave  her  (Mary)  a  bath"  and  ask  himself 
what  the  difference  is  between  them. 
In  fact,  this  question  was  a  serious  prob- 
lem to  linguists  until  about  seven  years 
ago,  when  a  solution  was  finally  found. 

The  solution  is  based  on  the  way  the 
verbs  and  their  objects  work  in  sentences. 
In  the  sentence  that  contains  the  reflexive 
pronoun,  there  are  two  verbs  and  the 
second  noun  does  two  jobs:  "Bill"  is  the 
direct  object  of  "asked"  and  is  also  the 
subject  of  "shave."  The  deep  structure 
of  the  sentence  corresponds  to  "John 
asked  Bill  something  (Bill  shave  Bill)." 
The  abstract  process,  or  transformation, 
called  "reflexive"  operates  in  this  case, 
while  it  does  not  hold  for  the  nearly  identi- 
cal sentence  "John  asked  Bill  to  shave 
him."  To  solve  this  problem,  linguists 
hypothesized  that  some  kind  of  barrier 
existed,  which  would  allow  the  reflexive 
to  occur  in  "John  asked  Bill  to  shave 
himself,"  but  would  prevent  it  from  oc- 
curring in  "John  asked  Bill  to  shave  him." 
The  scientific  generalization  resulting 
I   from  this  research  is  that  the  reflexive 
I    transformation  changes  all  nouns  which 
,    refer  to  the  subject  to  reflexive  pronouns 
l   (i.e.,  "-self"  forms)  when  these  nouns 
I  occur  within  the  same  simple  sentence. 

This  generalization  further  predicts  that 
|    English   speakers   will   intuitively   reject 
|   as  un-English  simple  sentences  with  non- 
|    reflexive  pronouns  referring  to  the  subject 
I    ("John  admired  him  (i.e.  John)  in  the 
mirror.")   and  simple  sentences  with 
reflexive  pronouns  that  do  not  refer  to  the 
subject  ("Harry  explained  herself.") 

Returning  to  one  of  our  original  ungram- 
matical examples,  it  is  clear  that  Bill 
couldn't  believe  in  "themselves"  because 
"themselves"  does  not  refer  to  the  subject. 
The  grammatical  examples  which  use  the 
reflexive,  on  the  other  hand,  work  because 
the  sentences  are  not  simple  but  complex, 


Donald  Freeman  makes  the  point  that 
research  in  modern  linguistics,  with  rami- 
fications from  physiology  to  philosophy, 
constitutes  a  new  scientific  revolution. 


"To  study  language  is  to  study 
perhaps  the  essence  of  mankind's 
capacities.  No  other  species, 
even  with  the  most  intricate 
training,  can  approach  what  my 
two-year-old  son  has  already 
achieved:  the  ability  to 
communicate  freely  in  his  native 
tongue." 


consisting  of  two  simple  sentences:  in 
"John  asked  Bill  to  shave  himself"  the  two 
sentences  are  "John  asked  Bill  some- 
thing" and  "Bill  shaved  Bill."  The  reflexive 
transformation  must  operate  in  the  latter 
sentence  because  the  subject  and  direct 
object  are  identical. 

The  "barrier"  which  prevents  opera- 
tion of  the   reflexive   transformation, 
linguists  concluded,  is  the  boundary  of 
the  simple  sentence,  and  they  discovered 
that  the  sentence  boundary  is  a  barrier 
which  blocks  a  number  of  other  trans- 
formational processes  as  well,  in  English 
and  many  other  languages.  Almost  no 
speakers  of  English  are  consciously  aware 
of  this  barrier,  but  the  science  of  linguis- 
tics has  shown  that  this  and  many  other 
aspects  of  linguistic  structure  have  pal- 
pable psychological  reality  not  only  in 
English,  but  in  every  natural  language. 

None  of  the  foregoing  is  particularly 
startling,  once  explained.  But  if  it  is  a 
truism  of  linguistics  that  very  little  of 
what  we  know  about  our  own  language  is 
easily  available  to  introspection,  it  is 
equally  a  truism  of  science  that,  in  a  differ- 
ent sense  of  the  word,  we  do  not  "know" 
a  set  of  facts  until  we  can  formalize 
them.    Chomsky's   contribution    was   to 
offer  a  theory  which  could  formalize  this 
device,  this   acquired  mental  ability  he 
called  a  grammar.  In  so  doing  he  re- 
habilitated and  made  precise  many  of  the 
valuable  insights  of  traditional  grammar. 

One  such  insight  is  the  "you"  under- 
stood  of  imperative  constructions  in 
English.   Traditional  grammar  analyzed 
sentences  like  "Shut  the  door,"  as  having 
an  implicit  "you":  (you)  Shut  the  door. 
But  in  the  so-called  New  Grammar  move- 
ment in  the  1950s   and   early  1960s, 
which  unfortunately  and  wrongly  came  to 
be  associated  with  the  science  of  linguis- 
tics, these  constructions  were  regarded  as 
simply  subjectless  sentences,  because  the 
"you"  never  actually  appeared. 

One  of  Chomsky's  students,  however, 
discovered  that  the  "you"  did,  in  fact, 
appear  in  such  imperative  reflexive  con- 
structions as  "Wash  yourself."  This  follows 


the  general  hypothesis  about  reflexives, 
that  nouns  referring  to  the  subject  in  the 
same  simple  sentence  must  be  changed 
to  reflexive  pronouns  by  the  reflexive 
transformation.  This  rule  means  that  "your- 
self" must  refer  to  a  subject  "you"  in  the 
sentence's  deep  structure,  a  "you"  which  is 
later  deleted.  This  rule  can  be  confirmed 
by  constructing  imperative  sentences 
which  contain  other  reflexive  pronouns — 
"Wash  himself,"  "Wash  themselves,"  — 
which  we  intuit  to  be  un-English.  The 
conclusion,  therefore,  is  that  this  intuition 
of  traditional  grammarians,  that  impera- 
tives contain  a  "you"  understood,  is  correct. 
Through  linguistics,  it  is  possible  to  incor- 
porate a  rigorous  and  formal  account  of  this 
intuition  in  a  general  theory  of  grammar. 

These  two  components  of  the  knowl- 
edge we  have  of  our  own  language — a 
device  which  generates  all  possible  logical 
relationships,  and  a  set  of  abstract  proc- 
esses or  transformations  which  transform 
the  elements  of  a  sentence  from  its  under- 
lying organization  to  its  actual  form 
(which,  as  we  have  seen,  frequently  dif- 
fers radically  from  its  deep  structure) — 
constitute  what  Chomsky  called  a  "trans- 
formational-generative grammar."  They 
account  not  only  for  the  sentences  we 
have  examined,  but  for  the  thousands  of 
sentences  we  produce  every  day,  most  of 
which  we  have  never  before  produced. 

Because  the  mechanism  which  performs 
these  prodigious  mental  actions  is  not 
directly  available  for  our  inspection  and 
explanation,  linguists  must  construct  a 
model  of  it,  and  explain  that.  This  proce- 
dure is  basic  to  all  science.  Just  as  biologists 
like  James  Watson  construct  models  of 
the  dna  molecule,  linguists  construct  a 
model  of  the  universal  human  faculty  of 
language,  using  as  their  data  the  intuitions 
of  native  speakers  about  their  own  lan- 
guage. This  model,  linguists  hope,  will 
explain  all  of  the  possible  sentences  which 
a  speaker  of  a  language  can  produce,  and 
will  explain  why  certain  sentences  of  a 
particular  language  cannot  be  produced 
without  the  strong  intuition  that  they 
are  ungrammatical. 


Although  Chomsky's  work  draws  on 
bodies  of  knowledge  common  to  computer 
science,  (mathematics,  logic,  psychology, 
and  linguistics,)  it  is  not  true,  as  is  widely 
assumed,  that  his  discoveries  were  related 
to  efforts  to  teach  computers  how  to  talk. 
Neither  did  they  have  anything  to  do  with 
a  wide  range  of  languages,  although  cur- 
rent research  is  seeking  data  from  many 
languages  to  test  hypotheses  originally 
based  on  evidence  from  English.  Modern 
linguistics  does  not  study  questions  of 
usage   and   appropriateness,  leaving  these 
burdens  to  our  colleagues  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  English  and  the  Rhetoric  Program. 

Since  the  publication  of  his  Syntactic 
Structures  in  1957,  the  impact  of  Chomsky's 
research  has  been  carried,  in  one  of  the 
most  fundamental  revolutions  in  the  his- 
tory of  science,  into  studies  of  cognition  in 
psychology,  semantic  theory  in  philosophy, 
lateralization  of  brain  functions  in  anat- 
omy, stylistics  in  literature,  and  a  number 
of  other  disciplines. 

On  the  University's  Amherst  campus, 
linguistics  has  grown  from  humble  begin- 
nings— two  faculty  and  fifty  students  in 
the  fall  of  1968 — to  a  program  which  will 
have,  in  1971-72,  seven  full-time  faculty 
and  more  than  five  hundred  students. 
Members  of  the  linguistics  faculty,  in  the 
last  six  months,  have  given  public  lectures 
ranging  in  location  from  a  conference  on 
African  linguistics  in  Los  Angeles  to  an 
English  department  colloquium  at  the 
University  of  Lancaster,  England,  and  in 
topic  from  the  syntax  of  Bali-Mungaka 
to  the  sound  structure  of  Alemannic,  an 
early  Germanic  dialect. 

Linguistics   is   a   science  which  defies 
categorization:  members  of  the  linguistics 
faculty  have  held  fellowships  and  grants 
from  the  National  Science  Foundation, 
the  National  Endowment  for  the  Humani- 
ties, and  the  National  Institutes  of  Health. 
One  year  ago,  the  board  of  trustees 
authorized  the  granting  of  M.A.  and  Ph.D. 
degrees  in  linguistics.  The  program's  first 
dissertation  was  accepted  for  publication 
by  the  most  prestigious  research  monograph 


series  in  its  field,  and  its  writer  won  an 
American  Council  of  Learned  Societies 
postdoctoral  grant  for  overseas  research 
in  Albanian,  the  subject  of  his  thesis. 

A  most  important  event  for  linguistics 
at  the  University  and  for  the  discipline 
as  a  whole  will  occur  in  1974 :  the  Golden 
Anniversary  Linguistic  Institute  of  the 
Linguistic  Society  of  America.  This  Insti- 
tute, which  brings  together  a  faculty  of 
thirty-five  renowned  scholars  from  all 
over  the  world  and  five  hundred  students 
in  an  eight-week  program  of  credit  courses 
and   special  lectures,  will  take  place 
on  the  campus. 

Chancellor  Tippo  once  asked  me  to 
tell  him  why  anyone  should  study  linguis- 
tics. With  the  luxury  of  a  platform,  let 
me  say  now  what  I  would  have  liked  to 
have  answered  then. 

One  of  my   most   influential   teachers 
quotes  the  nineteenth  century  French 
physiologist  Claude  Bernard  to  the  effect 
that  language  is  the  best  window  into 
man's  mind.  If  we  can  come  to  an  under- 
standing of  what  the  human  mind  must 
do   to   acquire,  produce,   and  understand 
language,  we  will  gain  far  richer  insights 
into  the  very  nature  of  mental  processes 
themselves.  To  study  language  is  to  study 
perhaps  the  essence  of  mankind's  capaci- 
ties. No  other  species  can  approach  with 
the  most  intricate  training  what  my  two- 
year-old  son,  like  every  other  normal 
two-year-old,  has  already  achieved:  the 
ability   to   communicate  freely  in  his 
native  tongue. 

We  study  linguistics  because  we  want  to 
keep  looking  through  that  window. 

Donald  C.  Freeman  is  an  associate  professor 
of  linguistics  and  chairman  of  the  Program 
in  Linguistics. 


Bibliography 

These  books  may  be  purchased  through  the 
Division  of  Continuing  Education  for  $15.50. 
It  may  also  be  possible  to  organize  seminars 
on  linguistics  during  the  summer  if  alumni 
are  interested.  To  order  the  books  or  inquire 
about  the  seminars,  write  Dr.  William  Ven- 
man,  920  Campus   Center,  University  of 
Massachusetts,  Amherst,  Mass.  01002.  Orders 
must  be  received  by  August  6.  Books  will 
be  shipped  later  in  the  month. 

Chomsky,  Noam.  Syntactic  Structures.  The 
Hague:  Mouton  &  Co.,  1957 — This  short 
technical  monograph  was  Chomsky's  first 
theoretical  treatise  in  the  scientific  revolu- 
tion which  he  introduced  in  linquistics.  This 
is  heavy  going  in  places,  but  in  only  four- 
teen years  it  has  become  a  classic  in  mod- 
ern linguistics. 

Chomsky,  Noam.  Language  and  Mind.  New 
York:  Harcourt  Brace  Jovanovich,  1968 — 
The  synthesis  of  a  series  of  lectures  Chom- 
sky gave  at  the  University  of  California, 
Berkeley,  summarizing  the  "state  of  the  art" 
in  linguistics  over  the  previous  ten  years, 
and  linking  these  advances  to  seventeenth 
century  rationalist  thought  and  philosophy 
of  mind. 

Langacker,  Ronald.  Language  and  Its  Struc- 
ture. New  York:  Harcourt  Brace  Jovanovich, 
1968 — A  very  readable  and  comprehensive 
survey  of  the  science  of  linguistics  written 
for  undergraduate  students. 

Lyons,  John.  Noam  Chomsky.  New  York: 
Viking,  1971 — A  learned  and  useful  survey 
of  Chomsky's  thought  and  the  impact  of 
modern  transformational-generative  linguis- 
tics on  the  philosophy  of  science. 

Sapir,  Edward.  Language.  New  York:  Har- 
court Brace  Jovanovich,  1921 — A  deceptively 
simple,  straightforward  account  of  the 
nature  of  human  language  and  its  philo- 
sophical and  anthropological  implications. 


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On  Campus 


When  it  is  good 
it  is  very,  very  good 
and  when  it  is  bad 
it  is  horrid 

The  New  England  weather  ran  true  to  form 
on  May  30,  Commencement  Day — it  was 
horrid.  An  intermittent  drizzle  and  chilly 
wind,  which  began  as  the  faculty  and 
degree  recipients  shrugged  into  their  robes 
and  adjusted  their  tassles,  continued  through 
the  speeches  and  the  granting  of  degrees. 
No  New  Englander  in  the  crowd  was 
particularly  surprised,  however,  being  used 
to  such  lack  of  cooperation  from  the  ele- 
ments. Plastic  raincoats  were  distributed  to 
the  audience,  and  the  only  concern  among 
those  in  academic  garb  was  protecting  the 
velvet  insignia  on  their  robes  and  hoods. 
Insignia  denoting  professional  status 
were,  in  fact,  almost  the  only  symbols  to  be 
seen.  Few  fists,  doves,  flags,  or  peace  sym- 
bols adorned  the  caps  and  gowns  of  the 
3,400  degree  candidates.  The  president  of 
the  senior  class,  Norman  Patch,  Jr.,  spoke 
to  this  point  in  his  address.  Commenting  on 
the  political  apathy  which  has  character- 
ized this  past  academic  year,  he  noted  some 
of  the  accomplishments  and  failings  of 
last  spring's  strike:  "We  are  still  involved  in 
a  war  in  Southeast  Asia.  We  are  still  being 
arrested  for  demonstrating  peacefully.  We 
still  pay  taxes  that  support  over-extended 
military  commitments.  .  .  .  As  students,  we 
have  proved  that  we  can  cling  to  an  ideal 
we  believe  is  right.  .  .  .  We  have  proved  that 
we  can  act.  .  .  .  But  have  we  proved  that 
we  have  faith,  the  patience,  the  trust  in  our- 
selves and  our  fellow  men  to  persist,  to 
tolerate  each  other's  views,  to  carry  through 
on  our  aim  to  correct  a  system  we  believe 
is  wrong?" 


Senator  Edward  W.  Brooke,  the  featured 
speaker,  spoke  on  the  same  theme.  "You 
have  seen  too  much,"  he  said,  "to  be  per- 
suaded as  easily  as  my  generation  was 
that  the  world  is  waiting  to  welcome  you, 
that  your  dreams  all  will  come  true,  that 
your  idealism  will  be  rewarded."  He  went 
on  to  express  hope  that  concerted  effort 
by  concerned  citizens  would  alleviate  many 
of  the  injustices  to  which  this  college  gen- 
eration has  objected.  Specifically,  he  spoke 
about  the  United  States'  involvement  in 
Southeast  Asia,  its  rejection  of  the  Geneva 
Protocol,  and  its  discriminatory  practices 
as  examples  of  wrongs  we  should  admit  to 
and  apologize  for  as  a  nation  and  as  indi- 
viduals. He  pointed  out  that,  "Even  when 
it  is  clear  that  we  have  been  heading  in 
the  wrong  direction,  we  find  it  terribly  diffi- 
cult to  confess  that  fact.  Perhaps  it  is 
because  we  have  so  few  good  answers  that 
we  insist  so  loudly  that  we  know  all  the 
answers.  Perhaps  it  is  because  the  facts  are 
so  confusing  and  so  unclear  that  we  make 
slogans  out  of  our  guesses  at  the  truth  and 
then  shout  them  from  the  rooftops.  And 
perhaps  it  is  because  we  need  one  another 
so  deeply  that  we  are  unwilling  to  talk 
about  that  need."  In  closing,  he  compared 
the  present  situation  and  its  activists  with 
the  Revolutionary  War  and  its  activists: 
"Like  those  men,  we,  too,  can  overcome  the 
circumstances  of  our  time.  We,  too,  can 
bridge  the  gaps  and  heal  the  scars  and  bind 


up  the  wounds  of  our  people,  if  only  we, 
like  they,  will  doubt  a  little  of  our  infalli- 
bility, recognize  our  need  for  one  another, 
and  move  on  together  in  loving  pursuit  of 
our  common  dreams." 

Senator  Brooke  was  one  of  the  seven 
honorary  degree  recipients.  The  other  six 
were :  Sterling  Allen  Brown,  a  member  of 
the  Howard  University  faculty,  cited  as 
"America's  foremost  authority  on  black 
literature,  poet,  connoisseur  of  jazz,  and 
man  of  letters";  Frederick  Charles  Ellert, 
professor  emeritus  and  former  chairman  of 
the  University's  German  department  and 
Freiburg  Program,  as  a  "dedicated  teacher, 
endowed  with  an  impish  humor";  Francis 
W.  Sargent,  Governor  of  the  Common- 
wealth, for  his  work  as  a  conservationist 
and  administrator;  Emily  Dickinson  Town- 
send  Vermeule,  an  archeology  professor 
at  Harvard,  which  position,  according  to  the 
citation,  proves  that  "if  you  dig  Greece 
successfully — Harvard- will  'dig'  you"; 
Walter  Muir  Whitehall,  director  and  librar- 
ian of  the  Boston  Athenaeum,  as  Boston's 
chief  historian;  and  Eugene  Smith  Wilson, 
Amherst  College  Dean  of  Admissions,  for 
innovations  in  the  field  of  admissions. 

Following  the  awarding  of  the  honorary 
degrees,  2,800  undergraduates,  400  grad- 
uate students,  and  220  Stockbridge  students 
received  their  diplomas.  President  Wood, 
in  closing,  congratulated  the  graduates  and 
bade  them  a  philosophical  farewell :  "The 


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Commonwealth  has  every  right  to  expect 
much  of  you — for  our  society  now  urgently 
requires  competence  that  is  linked  to  com- 
passion and  knowledge  that  is  made  vital  by 
commitment.  ..."  He  quoted  Robert  Ken- 
nedy as  saying  that  it  is  "the  work  of  our 
own  hands  matched  to  reason  and  principle 
that  will  determine  our  destiny/'  and  con- 
cluded, "Two  generations  together,  by  the 
work  of  their  hands,  can  build  a  better 
destiny.  Go  in  peace.  I  wish  you  Godspeed." 

The  Future  University 

"How  do  we  build  the  public  university  of 
the  future,  not  the  public  university  of 
the  50s?"  That's  not  a  simple  question,  as 
President  Robert  Wood  well  knew  when 
he  posed  it  in  his  investiture  speech. 

Unfortunately,  there  isn't  much  time 
to  find  the  answer.  While  the  pressure  for 
admissions  is  increasing  phenomenally, 
the  job  and  money  markets  are  contracting, 
and  the  University's  constituencies  are 
feverishly  redefining  their  roles.  The  prob- 
lem is  how  to  deal  with  this  melange  of 
potentially  conflicting  forces,  so  that 
UMass  may  grow  constructively  and  not 
just  react  to  the  pressures  of  the  moment. 

To  determine  how  to  build  the  public 
university  of  the  future,  Dr.   Wood 
established  the  Committee  on  the  Future 
University  under  the  chairmanship  of 
Vernon  Alden.  The  dimensions  of  the 


committee's  task  is  suggested  by  the 
initial  questions  with  which  they  were 
asked  to  deal: 

"What  principal  forces  of  population, 
economic  growth,  technological  changes 
and  manpower  requirements  will  play  upon 
the  University,  and  what  responsibilities 
will  it  be  asked  to  assume? 

"What  changes  can  and  should  be 
anticipated  in  the  University  community, 
in  its  style  of  living  and  in  the  working 
relationships  among  faculty,  students, 
administration  and  alumni? 

"What  changes  are  necessary  and  de- 
sirable in  the  University  research  and 
instruction  practices,  and  how  do  we  bal- 
ance the  reliable  acquisition  of  knowledge 
with  its  humane  uses? 

"How  should  the  total  educational 
responsibility  of  the  state  be  shared  among 
the  public  and  private  institutions,  and 
how  can  these  diverse  institutions  at  all 
levels  of  higher  education  learn  to  work 
together  for  common  purpose? 

"How  can  the  University  better  serve 
the  state  in  making  its  resources  available 
to  our  collective  public  needs?" 

Since  every  question  begs  ten  more,  the 
committee's  task  could  be  endless.  How- 
ever, its  report  is  scheduled  to  be  presented 
to  the  President  and  the  trustees  in  late 
August  or  early  September.  The  twenty- 
two  members  of  the  committee  have  been 

Family  and  friends  kept  their  vigil  at 
Commencement  despite  the  rain  (left). 
Fritz  Ellert  '30   (center)   was   among 
those  receiving  honorary  degrees,  and 
Senator  Edward  Brooke  (right)  was  the 
principal  speaker. 


meeting  in  two-day  sessions  since  January, 
talking  to  students,  faculty  and  administra- 
tors on  the  campuses,  representatives  from 
the  surrounding  communities,  and  knowl- 
edgeable people  working  in  education 
on  a  national  scale.  Among  the  latter  are 
representatives  from  groups  which  have 
produced  major  reports  on  education  in  the 
past  year:  Virginia  Smith  and  Anne  Heiss, 
the  former,  assistant  director  of,  and  the 
latter,  a  consultant  to,  the  Carnegie  Com- 
mission; Stephen  Graubard,  executive 
director  of  the  Assembly  on  University 
Goals  and  Governance  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences;  and  Joseph 
Rhodes,  Jr.,  a  member  of  both  the  Scranton 
Commission  and  the  Newman  Committee. 

Needless  to  say,  no  one  in  the  field  of 
education,  regardless  of  his  eminence,  will 
be  able  to  simplify  the  committee's  task.  As 
demanding  as  it  is  for  the  members  to 
consider  the  University's  future  course,  it  is 
even  more  difficult  for  them,  (as  it  is  for 
the  people  addressing  them,)  to  examine  the 
fundamental  aspects  of  the  issues  with 
which  they  are  dealing.  For  example,  when 
talking  about  how  an  urban  university  can 
relate  to  the  city  in  which  it  is  located,  it  is 
automatic  to  say  "community  programs" 
and  "government  internships."  But  does  this 
really  speak  to  the  essential  problems  and 
potentials  of  an  urban  university? 

In  this  regard,  the  committee  has  an 
advantage.  Its  members,  having  been  drawn 
from  business,  foundations,  labor,  the  press, 
and  private  as  well  as  public  education, 
represent  a  variety  of  perspectives.  Their 
collaboration,  hopefully,  will  provide  the 
guidelines  that  the  President  requested  and 
the  University  needs. 

Get  'em  while  they're  hot 

The  alumni  office  may  not  resemble  your 
local  store,  but  don't  be  deceived.  We  carry 
special  items  unavailable  elsewhere.  Suit 
your  purchase  to  your  budget.  For  under 
$500,  you  can  go  to  Hawaii  next  winter.  For 
$5,  you  can  buy  an  alumni  directory.  And 
for  $30,  you  can  purchase  a  University  of 
Massachusetts  chair. 


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More  information  on  Hawaii  will  be 
available  in  the  fall.  Details  on  the  more 
moderately  priced  items  are  as  follows : 

The  directories,  which  have  just  been 
published,  list  all  the  alumni  alphabetically, 
geographically,  and  by  class.  This  book 
will  be  a  great  help  to  former  classmates 
who  want  to  keep  in  touch,  especially  be- 
cause there  isn't  sufficient  space  to  print 
addresses  of  correspondents  in  The 
Alumnus. 

To  purchase  a  directory,  send  a  check  for 
$5,  made  out  to  "Associate  Alumni-Direc- 
tory," to  the  Associate  Alumni,  University 
of  Massachusetts,  Amherst  01002. 

Use  this  same  address  to  order  University 
of  Massachusetts  chairs.  They  come  in 
four  styles :  an  arm  chair  with  black  arms  at 
$43;  an  arm  chair  with  cherry  arms  at  $44; 
a  side  chair  at  $30;  and  a  Boston  Rocker 
at  $36.  The  chairs  are  black  with  gold  trim 
and  come  with  the  University  of  Mas- 
sachusetts seal.  The  prices  listed  above  are 
fob  Gardner,  Massachusetts.  Checks 
should  be  made  payable  to  "Associate 
Alumni  Trust  Fund." 

YAGs  are  a  girl's  best  friend 

Howard  Jaffe,  professor  of  geology  at  the 
University,  had  an  idea  back  in  1949  that 
has  turned  out  to  be  a  real  gem. 

The  gem  is  yag,  short  for  yttrium  alum- 
inum garnet,  the  brilliant  new  synthetic 
diamond  that  is  shaking  up  the  jewelry  busi- 
ness. (It  has  luster  and  hardness  that  ap- 
proaches the  diamond,  yet  it  costs  about  $50 
a  carat,  as  compared  to  $2500  a  carat  or 
more  for  diamonds.)  The  yag  has  also  had 
wide  and  important  application  in  laser 
technology  and  as  microwave  ferrites  in 
microwave  amplifiers  and  radar. 

Jaffe's  "gem  of  an  idea"  evolved  when  he 
was  a  researcher  for  the  U.S.  Bureau  of 
Mines  at  College  Park,  Maryland,  studying 
the  then-unexplained  presence  of  the  rare 
element  yttrium  in  natural  garnets.  Jaffe 
explained  that  he  found  yttrium,  and  the 
rarest  of  the  true  earth  elements,  (gado- 
linium, dysprosium,  erbium,  and  ytterbium,) 
in  a  mineral  garnet,  "a  place  where  they 


Jaffe,  with  an  atomic  model  of  the  YAG. 

shouldn't  have  been,  according  to  the  state 
of  the  art  at  that  time."  To  explain  this 
phenomenon,  Jaffe  hypothesized  that,  in 
natural  garnets,  ions  of  yttrium  substitute 
for  ions  of  manganese  when  accompanied 
by  the  substitution  of  ions  of  aluminum  for 
those  of  silicon,  resulting  in  a  stable  mineral. 
In  1951,  working  with  H.  S.  Yoder  and  M. 
L.  Keith,  Jaffe  synthesized  the  first  yag. 
The  three  men  subsequently  published 
separate  studies,  and  these  became  a  spring- 
board for  the  substitution  of  all  kinds  of 
rare  earth  elements  into  synthetic  garnets. 
In  the  50s  it  was  found  that  yttroferrite, 
gadolinium  ferrite,  and  other  rare  earth 
ferrite  garnets  have  remarkable  properties 


as  microwave  ferrites.  In  the  next  decade, 
the  yttrium  aluminum  garnet  was  redis- 
covered by  industry  for  use  first  as  a  laser 
crystal  and,  most  recently,  as  yag,  the 
synthetic  diamond. 

Large  scale  production  of  the  yag  had 
been  impossible  when  Dr.  Jaffe  first  hypoth- 
esized that  rare  earth  elements  could  be 
substituted  into  synthetic  garnets.  "I  told 
them  it  was  possible  scientifically,"  he  ex- 
plained. "That  was  the  first  step.  The  sec- 
ond step  was  the  synthesis  that  proved  my 
science  was  correct.  The  third  step  was  to 
wait  for  technology." 


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Help  is  offered 

"in  an  honest  and  caring  manner" 

In  past  years,  troubled  people  at  the  Uni- 
versity often  felt  there  was  nowhere  they 
could  turn  to  for  help.  A  student  who  had 
flashback  experiences  after  taking  lsd  and 
was  disoriented  might  be  afraid  to  go  to 
the  Infirmary.  A  mother  who  couldn't 
locate  her  runaway  daughter,  who  might 
possibly  be  at  UMass,  wouldn't  know  whom 
to  call.  A  student,  driven  to  achieve,  who 
had  turned  to  "speed"  might  not  know  how 
to  do  without  it.  These  people  can  now  call 
Room  to  Move. 

Room  to  Move  was  originally  conceived 
of  as  a  drug  drop-in  center,  a  place  where 
students  could  get  reliable  information  and 
immediate  support.  It  began  because  some 
students  wished  to  help  other  students  "in 
an  honest  and  caring  manner."  It  soon 
became  evident,  however,  that  the  campus, 
(and  the  community,  for  that  matter,) 
needed  something  more  than  a  mechanism 
to  cope  with  "bad  trips"  and  ignorance,  and 
rtm  expanded  accordingly.  It  is  now  per- 
manently housed  in  the  old  barbershop  in 
the  Student  Union,  manned  24  hours  a  day 
by  a  staff  of  26  who  work  on  rotating  shifts. 

The  impetus  came  from  within  the  cam- 
pus community.  In  September  1969,  several 
students  and  members  of  the  Health  Serv- 
ice staff  began  to  work  on  the  development 
of  a  drug  education  program  under  a  $500 
faculty  research  grant.  Their  research  (stan- 
dardized interviews  of  600  students  selected 
by  random  sample)  determined  that  80%  of 
those  interviewed  favored  the  development 
of  a  drug  education  and  drop-in  center 
which  could  provide  objective  medical,  legal, 
psychological,  and  social  information.  As 
the  idea  for  a  center  developed,  its  function 
was  expanded  to  include  education,  counsel- 
ing, and  crisis  intervention  services. 

In  the  fall  of  1970  when  it  opened  on  a 
full  time  basis,  rtm  had  trained  a  staff  of 
10  undergrads,  graduate  students,  and  for- 
mer students.  Seventeen  new  staff  members 
were  being  trained.  In  that  first  semester, 
the  center  helped  56  students  experiencing 
bad  trips,  provided  counseling  and  referral 


services  for  approximately  250  people,  dis- 
seminated information  to  more  than  800 
people,  developed  workshops  to  be  offered 
in  the  residence  halls,  and  brought  speakers 
to  address  members  of  the  general  Univer- 
sity community. 

Next  year,  the  center  intends  to  further 
develop  and  improve  staff  skills  in  the  areas 
of  counseling,  referrals  and  education.  It 
also  plans  to  extend  its  services  to  runaways 
and  other  young  people  who  become  at- 
tached to  the  University  community.  In 
conjunction  with  other  agencies,  the  center 
plans  to  sponsor  a  training  program  for  high 
school,  college  and  community  teams  in 
drug  education  and  program  development  in 
the  summer  of  '72. 

At  the  moment,  members  of  the  center's 
staff  are  working  with  a  member  of  the 
School  of  Education's  Media  Center  on  drug 
education  films.  They  are  also  developing 
and  improving  upon  in-service  training  and 
self-education  programs,  through  credit 
course  work  and  noncredit  workshops,  the 
latter  led  by  such  leaders  in  the  field  as  Joel 
Forte  and  Stanaslaus  Groff. 

The  success  of  current  and  future  pro- 
grams, however,  is  contingent  on  continued 
support  from  the  University  and  increased 
support  from  local,  state,  and  Federal 
agencies.  The  prospects  are  hopeful.  For 
example,  a  grant  application  has  recently 
been  approved  by  hew. 

Room  to  Move  is  a  cooperative  venture, 
funded  and  supported  by  the  student  senate, 
the  University  Health  Services,  and  the 
Dean  of  Students  Office.  There  have  been 
reciprocal  training  programs,  with  rtm 
developing  workshops  on  drugs  for  the 
University's  medical  staff,  and  the  medical 
staff  has  trained  the  rtm  staff  in  recognition 
of  vital  signs  and  artifical  respiration,  rtm 
staff  members  are  routinely  called  in  to  aid 
the  Infirmary  in  dealing  with  bad  trips,  and 
the  Infirmary  doctors  are  available  to  re- 
spond to  any  emergency  or  to  answer 
medical  questions. 

Most  people  in  trouble  come  straight 
to  the  center  rather  than  seek  more 
"official"  help.  One  staff  member,  John 
Barbaro,  reflected  on  the  kinds  of  problems 


with  which  rtm  is  asked  to  deal:  "Lonely 
students  sometimes  call,  just  to  talk  to 
someone.  Some  students  are  desperate  for 
attention  and  guidance,  and  they  use  things 
like  a  flirtation  with  heroin  as  a  weapon 
to  secure  your  attention.  Runaways  find 
us  and  want  everything — love,  attention, 
direction,  money,  a  bed. 

"But  we  can  only  do  so  much.  Some 
students  are  so  troubled  that  we  can't  help 
them.  We  sense  what  they  need,  but  we 
don't  have  the  time  or  facilities  to  give  it 
to  them.  Like  one  student  who  came  in, 
excited,  frenetic,  talking  incessantly  about 
Christ,  love,  hate,  his   father,  over  and 
over.  He  was  asking  for  help,  but  we 
couldn't  get  through  to  him.  And  none 
of  the  places   available  for  referral  would 
allow  him  to  live,  and  work,  and  grow. 

"Despite  the  frustrations,  I  think  we 
are  vitally  important  to  the  University. 
Working  with  these  people  for  a  year  has 
made  me  realize  that  we  represent  some- 
thing to  members  of  the  counter  culture 
that  they  can't  get  elsewhere — a  place 
where  they  can  get  an  honest  response,  a 
place  to  sort  things  out,  a  safe  harbor." 

McGuirk  resigns: 

"A  gentleman  and  a  man  of  integrity" 

Warren  P.  McGuirk,  Dean  of  the  School 
of  Physical  Education  and  Director  of 
Athletics  at  the  University  for  twenty- 
two  years,  has  announced  that  he  will 
retire  on  January  1,  1972. 

Upon  receiving  the  retirement  letter, 
Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo  said,  "Warren 
McGuirk  has  been  a  major  force  in  the 
development  of  the  University  during  its 
most  dynamic  period  of  growth.  ...  A  man 
of  vision,  he  planned  years  ago  for  the 
crush  of  students  who  are  here  today. 
More  important,  he  is  a  gentleman  and  a 
man  of  integrity.  He  is  dedicated  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  and  has  been 
an  articulate  spokesman  for  it  wherever 
he  goes.  It  has  been  a  privilege  to  have  had 
him  as  a  colleague." 

George  R.  Richason,  Jr.,  chairman 
of  the  Athletic  Council  and  professor 


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of  chemistry,  also  complimented  Dean 
McGuirk :  "His  expertise  and  untiring  efforts 
have  promoted  outstanding  facilities,  pro- 
duced breadth  and  depth  in  athletics 
and  intramural  activities,  and  provided 
an  outstanding  group  of  coaches — all 
this  resulting  in  an  intercollegiate  pro- 
gram that  has  to  be  considered  one  of 
the  best  in  the  East.  His  dedication  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  cannot  be 
measured  in  words." 

During  the  Dean's  tenure,  three  major 
facilities  (the  Women's  Physical  Education 
Building,  Boyden  Gymnasium,  and  the 
football  stadium)  were  built,  as  were  tennis 
courts,  three  baseball  fields,  and  an  eight- 
lane,  all-weather  track.  Golf,  skiing, 
gymnastics,  lacrosse,  and  wrestling  were 
added  to  the  intercollegiate  athletic  pro- 
gram under  his  leadership,  and  the  intra- 
mural program  grew  to  the  point  where  it 
now  involves  more  students  than  do  pro- 
grams at  any  institution  in  New  England. 

Metawampe 

The  student  body  has  given  its  Metawampe 
Award  for  the  outstanding  teacher  of  the 
year  to  Associate  Professor  Lawrence  A. 
Johnson,  founder  of  the  ccebs  program  (the 
Committee  for  the  Collegiate  Education 
of  Black  Students)  and  assistant  dean  of 
the  School  of  Business  Administration. 

The  Metawampe  Award,  which  is  for 
a  faculty  member  who  shows  "outstanding 
dedication  both  in  and  outside  the  class- 
room," has  been  given  by  students  annually 
since  1963.  Dr.  Johnson  received  a  $1,000 
stipend  and  a  silver  serving  tray. 

Two  Dozen  Doctors-to-be 

When  the  first  building  of  the  University 
of  Massachusetts  Medical  School  in 
Worcester  is  open  in  the  fall  of  1974,  the 
entering  class  will  number  one  hundred. 
In  the  meantime,  admissions  must  be  kept 
small.  There  were  sixteen  students  in  the 
first  class,  and  Dean  Lamar  Soutter  has 
announced  that  the  number  of  students  in 
the  second  class  will  be  twenty-four. 


All  are  residents  of  Massachusetts,  and 
eight  are  women. 

Dean  Soutter  explained  that  the  ex- 
panded class  was  in  response  to  "the 
high  number  of  qualified  applicants  [504 
this  year  as  opposed  to  292  last  year], 
and  the  critical  need  for  more  doctors." 

The  student  lawyer: 
Making  the  system  work 

As  a  campus  lawyer  working  solely  for 
students,  Richard  Howland  deals  with 
young  adults  who  have  expressed  a  dis- 
belief in  the  system  and  really  don't  trust 
it.  "Much  of  the  dissatisfaction,  and  a  lot 
of  it  is  justified,"  he  explains,  "is  because 
students  haven't  yet  lived  in  the  system, 
haven't  tried  to  make  it  work.  A  lawyer's 
specialty   is   dealing  with  systems   and 
making  them  work,  or   finding  ways 
to  defeat  them." 

Howland  sees  his  role  in  three  dimen- 
sions. He  serves  as  general  counsel  to  the 
student  government,  advising  them  as  to 
the  legality  of  proposed  legislation  or 
procedure.  He  is  committed  to  represent 
the  student  government  if  any  matter 
should  come  to  litigation.  Most  time  con- 
suming of  all,  he  is  the  resident  lawyer  for 
20,000  students,  fielding  the  needs  of  both 
individuals  and  groups. 

The  hiring  of  professionals  to  defend 
student  interests  has  emerged  as  a  definite 
trend  on  U.S.  campuses  this  year,  and 
UMass  was  in  the  vanguard.  Howland 
was  hired  last  summer  as  the  student  sen- 
ate counsel  for  the  undergraduates,  at  a 
salary  of  $13,500,  and  his  sole  responsibil- 
ity is  to  the  students.  The  senate's  decision 
to  retain  an  attorney  has  saved  students 
over  $100,000  in  legal  fees. 

Howland's  office,  with  its  psychedelic 
decor,  is  a  catchall  for  a  myriad  of  prob- 
lems. The  thirty-one  year  old  lawyer 
defines  "coping"  as  90%  of  the  problem 
for  individual  students.  Students,  in  How- 
land's  eyes,  don't  always  see  where  their 
acts  will  lead  them.  Yet  they  are  adults 
and  need  to  know  that  one  act  will  involve 
certain  ramifications  while  another  will 


lead  to  quite  different  ones. 

Landlord-tenant  problems  are  a  large 
area  of  concern.  Howland  claims  that  land- 
lord prejudice  is  worse  vis-a-vis  students 
than  any  other  sector  of  the  economy. 
"For  example,"  he  recounts,  "the  Student 
Homophile  League  requested  my  assistance 
in  the  case  of  a  pair  of  friends  living 
together  in  a  quite  platonic  relationship. 
One  was  a  lesbian;  the  other,  a  homo- 
sexual. The  landlord  had  threatened  them 
with  eviction  for  supposed  promiscuous 
behavior.  Once  the  relationship  was  put 
in  the  'proper'  light,  the  landlord  retracted 
his  threats." 

Marriage  and  divorce  cases  consume  a 
fair  amount  of  the  young  attorney's  time. 
At  one  point  he  was  called  upon  to  draft 
a  special  ceremony  for  a  young  member 
of  Women's  Lib  who  wished  to  marry  and 
still  retain  her  maiden  name.  The  Justice 
of  the  Peace  whom  she  consulted  had  his 
doubts,  so  it  was  Howland  to  the  rescue. 

Other  typical  problems  include  consumer 
fraud,  bomb  threats  and  motor  vehicle 
torts.  Surprisingly,  drug  connected  cases 
represent  a  small  per  cent  of  the  total 
number  of  problems  handled. 

Dick  Howland's  presence  on  campus  has 
made  a  significant  difference  to  organized 
student  groups,  particularly  the  student 
senate  and  the  judicial  system.  Howland, 
who  attends  all  senate  meetings,  claims,  "I 
am  primarily  concerned  with  their  knowing 
the  legality  of  a  situation.  Once  they  are 
aware  of  the  consequences  of  a  certain 
bill,  the  decision  is  theirs  to  make  as  adults." 

Although  the  judicial  system  finds  How- 
land invaluable,  he  is  often  caught  in 
bizarre  situations.  "It  is  not  unusual,"  he 
remarks,  "for  me  to  serve  as  advisor  to  the 
student  defendant,  the  court  and  the  prose- 
cution. It  makes  for  ticklish  situations." 

In  addition  to  his  work  with  these  two 
campus  governing  bodies,  Howland  has 
been  active  in  draft  counseling,  collecting 
debts  for  the  campus  newspaper,  and  the 
creation  of  an  environmental  law  bulletin 
sponsored  by  the  campus  Coalition  for 
Environmental  Quality. 

Attorney  Howland  has  the  trust  of  his 


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Attorney  Howland  in  his  psychedelic  office. 

student  clients — they  flock  to  his  office  on 
an  average  of  20  a  day — but  what  about 
the  campus  community  at  large?  Is  this 
new  lawyer  a  radical  in  sheep's  clothing? 
How  would  he  function  in  a  larger  issue 
that  might  pit  students  against  the  adminis- 
tration in  bitter  and  violent  conflict? 

"I  don't  consider  it  possible  for  a  lawyer 
to  accept  the  label  'radical'  if  a  lawyer  is 
any  good  at  all,"  responds  Howland. 
"  'Radical'  means  a  rejection  of  the  system. 
Basically,  I've  adopted  the  system.  At  best, 
I  can  only  be  liberal. 

"I  graduated  during  the  riots  at  Colum- 
bia in  the  spring  of  1968  and  was  the 
confidant  and  legal  advisor  to  Mark  Rudd. 


The  system  failed  the  students  at  Columbia. 
After  a  century  of  near  deafness  to  stu- 
dent requests  for  change,  there  was  no 
responsive  chord  left.  If  there  had  been  a 
legal  mediator  in  a  position  such  as  I  occupy 
here  at  the  University  of  Massachusetts,  the 
tragedy  might  well  have  been  alleviated." 

Howland  feels  he  must  be  a  teacher  as 
well  as  an  attorney.  To  clarify  this  role,  he 
uses  the  analogy  of  a  sample  swatch  of 
cloth  with  its  frayed  edges.  "If  you  pull 
one  of  those  intricately  woven  threads 
you'll  distort  the  original  pattern.  In  like 
fashion,  when  a  student  chooses  to  pull 
hard  on  one  problem  area  in  the  university 
system,  he  often  fails  to  see  that  in  some 


way  he  will  throw  the  system  out  of  kilter. 

"I  try  to  show  the  student  where  and 
why.  I  join  the  student  client  in  a  test  of 
what  can  be  feasibly  done  and  how  far 
we  can  go." 

Books,  And  More  Books 

The  first  published  novel  by  E.  M.  Beek- 
man,  assistant  professor  of  Germanic 
languages,  has  been  very  well  received. 
The  novel,  Lame  Duck,  was  reviewed 
by  Thomas  Lask  in  The  New  York  Times 
last  March,  and  the  following  quotes 
from  Mr.  Lask's  article  suggest  the  excite- 
ment of  the  book :  "The  author,  a  Dutch 
writer  who  now  lives  and  works  in  Amer- 
ica, has  made  his  point.  The  boiling 
cauldron  of  our  minds  and  feelings  lies 
just  below  the  facade  we  exhibit  to  the 
world.  We  are  a  series  of  faults — in  the 
geologic  sense — and  we  never  know 
how  close  we  are  to  those  adjustments 
that  spell  disaster  to  ourselves  and  others. 
His  book  traces  those  fissures  in  the  lives 
and  hearts  of  a  handful  of  characters  he 
has  set  in  contemporary  Amsterdam." 
Lame  Duck  was  published  by  the  Houghton 
Mifflin  Company. 

Leonard  L.  Richards,  assistant  professor 
of  history,  has  shared  top  American 
Historical  Association  honors.  The  aha 
recently  named  his  Gentlemen  of  Property 
and  Standing:  Abolition  Mobs  in  ]ack- 
sonian  America  one  of  the  two  best  books 
of  the  year  in  American  history.  Dr. 
Richard's  concern  was  with  the  kinds  of 
Northerners  who  formed  mobs  to  fight 
the  abolition  movement,  and  he  found 
that  mobs  were  not,  as  one  might  have 
supposed,  primitive,  emotional  and  sponta- 
neous responses  of  the  poor  and  desperate. 
Rather,  they  were  often  well  organized 
and  led  by  "scions  of  old  and  socially 
dominant  Northeastern  families."  He  goes 
on  to  say,  "How  can  one  call  'spontaneous' 
mobs  that  assembled  at  church  meetings 
with  bags  full  of  rotten  eggs?  Or  with  a 
band?"  Gentlemen  is  published  by  the 
Oxford  University  Press. 

Another  book  written  by  a  member  of 


the  history  department  has  gained  recogni- 
tion. The  Army  and  Politics  in  Argentina, 
ig28-ig45  by  Professor  Robert  A.  Potash 
received  honorable  mention  in  the  Herbert 
E.  Bolton  Prize  competition  sponsored  by 
the  Conference  on  Latin  American  History. 

Recent  publications  by  other  members 
of  the  history  faculty  include:  The  Islamic 
World  and  the  West — A.D.  622-1^2  by 
Archibald  R.  Lewis,  published  by  Wiley; 
Aristotle  and  the  American  Indians  by 
Lewis  U.  Hanke,  reprinted  in  paperback 
by  the  Indiana  University  Press;  Japanese 
Tradition  and  Western  Law  by  Richard 
H.  Minear,  published  by  the  Harvard 
University  Press;  and  Max  Eastman  by 
Milton  Cantor,  published  by  Thwayne. 

Donald  C.  Freeman,  the  author  of  an 
article  on  linguistics  in  this  issue,  edited 
and  wrote  portions  of  Linguistics  and 
Literary  Style.  Dr.  Freeman  is  an  associate 
professor  and  chairman  of  the  University's 
program  in  linguistics.  The  book  was  pub- 
lished by  Holt,  Rinehart  and  Winston. 

Bridge  across  the  Bosporus  by  Ferenc 
A.  Vali  was  published  recently  by  The 
Johns  Hopkins  Press.  Dr.  Vali,  a  professor 
of  government,  has  intimate  knowledge 
of  Turkey,  the  subject  of  his  book.  He 
believes  that  "the  transformation  of  Turkey 
from  a  traditional  Islamic  country  into  a 
modern  nation-state  is  one  of  the  most 
impressive  developments  of  our  epoch." 

The  Yale  University  Press  has  published 
The  Craft  of  Dying  by  Nancy  Lee  Beaty. 
Dr.  Beaty,  an  assistant  professor  of  English, 
examines  the  cumulative  influence  of 
Renaissance,  Reformation,  and  Counter 
Reformation  upon  the  gospel  of  reconcilia- 
tion preserved  in  liturgical  tradition. 

An  associate  professor  of  English  and 
journalistic  studies,  Dario  "Duke"  Politella 
'47,  has  written  The  Illustrated  Anatomy 
of  Campus  Humor.  The  book,  (which  is 
amply  described  by  its  subtitle,  "An 
Exegesis  On  the  Funny  Games  Students 
Play  with  Words  and  Pictures,")  is  pub- 
lished by  the  Commission  on  the  Freedoms 
and  Responsibilities  of  the  College  Student 
Press  in  America. 

Mark  Roskill,  an  art  historian,  takes 


a  fresh  look  at  how  artists  affect  one 
another  and  need  one  another  in  his 
book  Van  Gogh,  Gauguin  and  the  Impres- 
sionist Circle  published  by  the  New  York 
Graphic  Society. 

A  professor  of  comparative  literature, 
Dr.  Warren  Anderson,  has  brought  out  a 
new  translation  of  Theophrastus:  The 
Character  Sketches,  published  by  the  Kent 
State  University  Press. 

A  more  down-to-earth  publication, 
Handbook  of  Modern  Marketing,  has  been 
published  by  McGraw  Hill.  Editor  in  chief 
Victor  P.  Buell  is  an  associate  professor 
of  marketing. 

Arthur  C.  Gentile,  professor  of  botany 
and  associate  dean  of  the  Graduate  School, 
is  the  author  of  Plant  Growth,  published 
by  the  Natural  History  Press.  Axiomatic 
Theory  of  Sets  and  Classes  is  a  text  for 
advanced  undergraduate  and  beginning 
graduate  students  written  by  Murray 
Eisenberg,  associate  professsor  of  mathe- 
matics. The  publisher  is  Holt,  Rinehart 
and  Winston,  Inc. 

Barbara  Burn  is  the  principal  author 
of  Higher  Education  in  Nine  Countries, 
published  by  McGraw-Hill.  Dr.  Burn,  the 
director  of  international  programs  at  the 
University,  prepared  the  book  for  the 
Carnegie  Commission  on  Higher  Educa- 
tion. The  University  of  Chicago  Press 
has  published  Government  Patronage  of 
the  Arts  in  Great  Britain,  written  by 
Professor  John  S.  Harris  of  the  govern- 
ment department. 

From  the  UMass  Press 

The  University  of  Massachusetts  Press 
continues  to  receive  professional  recogni- 
tion for  its  many  beautiful,  readable  books. 
A  Drunk  Man  Looks  at  The  Thistle  by 
Hugh  Macdiarmid  was  selected  by  the 
Seventeenth  New  York  Type  Director's 
Show   for  "typographic  excellence"  and 
by  the  Chicago  Book  Clinic  as  a  top  honor 
book.  The  edition  was  edited  by  John  C. 
Weston  of  the  University  faculty. 

The  American  Association  of  University 
Presses  Book  Show  picked  The  Symposium 


of  Plato  as  the  book  of  the  year.  This  vol- 
ume was  translated  by  Suzy  Q  Groden  of 
Cambridge,  edited  by  John  A.  Brentlinger,  a 
member  of  the  UMass  philosophy  depart- 
ment, and  illustrated  by  Leonard  Baskin. 

Both  volumes  were  designed  by  Richard 
Hendel,  as  were  the  following  Press 
productions : 

And  Sandpipers  She  Said  by  Donald 
Junkins  '53,  director  of  the  Master  of 
Fine  Arts  Program  in  English,  is  a  sequence 
of  lyrics,  that  can  also  be  read  as  one 
long  poem.  Poet  Robert  Bragg  said  of  it: 
"It  is  terrific .  .  .  there  is  nothing  like  it 
in  American  poetry." 

The  Trouble  with  Francis,  a  new  auto- 
biography by  Robert  Francis,  the  poet, 
is  the  graceful  recounting  of  a  life  "full  of 
quiet  pleasures  and  vitality,  lived  largely 
in  solitude  and  on  the  edge  of  poverty." 
Another  Press  publication,  The  Growing 
Tree  by  B.  F.  Wilson,  is  an  analysis  of 
how  a  tree  grows  written  for  owners, 
observers,  and  professional  students. 


An  Elegant  Violence 


JAMES  ROSS 

"Gentlemen,  we'll  have  a 
scrum  down. 
Here's  your  mark." 


"Get  lower,  second  row." 

"UMass  .  .  .  ball  coming  in  .  .  .  now !" 

At  the  "now",  scrum-half  Jim  Clapper 
throws  what  appears  to  be  a  fat  football 
among  the  thirty-two  flying  feet  of  a  scrum 
down.  On  this  chilly  spring  afternoon  a 
play  has  begun  in  the  lively  and  honorable 
sport  of  Rugby  football.  The  scrum  is  a 
grunting,  unwieldy  beast,  composed  of  the 
eight  burliest  players  from  each  team.  The 
object  of  a  scrum  down  is  to  capture  the 
ball  using  only  your  feet  while  preventing 
the  other  team  from  doing  the  same  thing. 
But  before  going  into  finer  points,  it  might 
be  well  to  leave  these  straining  young  men 
a  moment  and  explain  just  what  Rugby 
football  is  about. 

The  object  of  the  game  is  simplicity 
itself;  to  carry  an  inflated  rubber  ball 
across  your  opponents'  goal  line  and  touch 
it  to  the  ground.  You  may  use  fifteen 
persons  to  accomplish  this,  any  of  whom 
may  kick,  throw  or  run  with  the  ball.  You 
are  not  permitted  to  wear  armor,  to  pass  the 
ball  forward,  or  do  violence  to  an  opponent 
who  does  not  have  the  ball.  Of  course,  an 
opponent  who  does  have  the  ball  is  fair 
game,  and  may  be  tackled  by  one  and  all, 
which  contributes  greatly  to  the  drama  of 
the  sport. 

There  are  several  ways  to  score,  the  fore- 
most of  which  is  the  "try,"  or  touchdown, 
which  is  worth  three  points  with  a  chance 
at  a  two-point  conversion  kick.  However, 


if  you  are  so  unmannerly  as  to  use  your 
hands  in  a  scrum,  or  to  be  off-sides,  or  to 
use  your  fist  when  the  referee  is  watching, 
that  gentleman  will  award  your  opponents 
a  penalty  kick.  They  may  kick  the  ball  high 
into  the  air  and  run  downfield  after  it,  or 
barely  kick  it  at  all  and  then  run  with  it. 
But  if  they  are  near  your  goal  they  might 
just  kick  it  through  the  goalposts  and  gain 
three  points.  A  field  goal  may  also  be  scored 
by  drop-kicking  the  ball  through  the  up- 
rights from  a  running  play,  but  this  is  too 
esoteric  an  art  for  most  Americian  players. 
In  the  fall  season,  however,  UMass  had  a 
British  player,  Mike  Bull,  whose  astound- 
ing drop-kicks  from  as  far  out  as  forty 
yards  lead  to  a  28-0  triumph  over  the  for- 
midable Beacon  Hill  Club. 

But  let  us  see  how  that  scrum  down  is 
coming. 

"Heel  it  back." 

"Easy!  Watch  the  feet." 

Toby  Lyons,  the  UMass  hooker,  has 
captured  the  ball  and  passed  it  to  the  feet  of 
the  second  row  forwards,  then  to  the  eighth 
man,  Dick  Ladner.  Meanwhile,  the  scrum 
exerts  itself  to  the  utmost  to  drive  the 
Schenectedy  Club's  scrum  away  from  the 
ball.  This  club,  lead  by  their  excellent  scrum 
half,  gave  UMass  a  sound  beating  last  fall, 
and  everyone  was  looking  forward  to  this 
spring  to  even  the  score.  But  there  was  a 
confusion  in  time  schedules  and  today's 
matches  ended  up  with  the  Schenectedy 
'A'  team  against  the  UMass  'B's  and  vice 
versa.  Our  'B's  put  up  a  good  struggle,  los- 
ing only  12-9  on  the  excellent  kicking  of 
prop  forward  Bill  Wyland.  But  now  the 
Schenectedy  'B's  are  having  much  less  luck 
against  our  first  fifteen: 

"Okay,  let  it  out.  Let  it  out!" 

The  ball  suddenly  appears  at  the  rear  of 
our  scrum  and  is  thrown  to  our  Australian 
fly-half,  Dale  Toohey,  who  begins  to  run 
with  it.  It  was  not  always  like  this  in  foot- 
ball. The  first  person  in  recorded  history 
to  run  with  a  football  was  William  Webb 
Ellis  of  Rugby  School,  England,  in  1832. 
Both  sides  were  so  flabbergasted  by  this 
unorthodox  behavior  that  Ellis  ran  on  to 


score.  Naturally  a  great  controversy  ensued, 
with  those  against  finally  becoming  soccer 
players,  and  those  for  becoming  Rugby 
football  players  and  the  forefathers  of 
American  football.   The  Rugby  Football 
Union  was  organizied  in  1871  to  bring  a 
little  coherence  to  the  mayhem,  so  that  to- 
day the  game  is  known  as  "a  sport  for 
ruffians,  played  by  gentlemen." 

"It's  out." 

"Break!  Break!" 

The  scrum  distintegrates  as  Schenectedy 
chases  the  ball  carrier  and  our  forwards 
follow  the  play,  ready  to  support  the  backs. 
Far  behind  the  play  is  our  full-back,  Jim 
Dever,  with  the  bushiest  beard  on  the  team. 
He  has  the  lonely  job  of  preventing  catas- 
trophe should  the  other  side  break  through 
or  kick  over  the  heads  of  our  backs.  At  the 
moment,  however,  there  is  little  danger  of 
that,  for  the  ball  has  gone  nicely  down  the 
field  and  is  now  in  the  hands  of  Jack  Long. 
Next  year  Jack  will  be  off  to  med.  school, 
and  is  the  last  UMass  player  left  from 
the  original  side  who  played  against  Tufts 
in  1968. 

The  club  was  founded  that  spring  by  Jeff 
Freedman,  a  grad  student  from  Tufts.  The 
first  coach  was  Tony  Moss-Davis,  a  former 
Welsh  international  player.  Since  Rugby 
football  is  a  club  sport,  its  players  are 
drawn  from  undergraduates,  graduates, 
faculty  and  staff.  The  atmosphere  is  relaxed 
and  egalitarian,  and  the  sport  provides  a 
splendid  outlet  for  those  who  wish  some- 
thing more  than  intramurals,  but  whose 
size,  age,  or  academic  schedule  preclude 
playing  varsity  sports.  The  club  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  England  Rugby  Football 
Union,  which  was  formed  in  1969,  with 
Brian  Leach  of  UMass  a  member  of  the  first 
Board  of  Directors. 

Although  our  regular  opponents  are  other 
New  England  clubs,  a  team  went  down 
to  Freeport,  Grand  Bahamas  in  January, 
1970  for  three  games,  and  later,  in  May,  we 
hosted  the  London  Irish  side.  The  roughest 
game  in  memory  was  a  bloody  29-0  loss  to 
Fairfield  College  in  1969,  but  last  fall  the 
club  had  its  first  winning  season. 


"Go,  Jack!" 

"Get  it  out  to  the  wing!" 

The  chilled  but  dauntless  spectators  sud- 
denly cheer  and  run  along  the  touch  line, 
intent  on  the  action  at  the  far  side  of  the 
field.  Out  of  an  apparently  hopeless  situa- 
tion, Long  has  passed  to  Frank  Boksante, 
wing  three-quarters  and  team  captain.  The 
swiftest  runners  are  usually  placed  at  the 
two  wing  positions,  and  the  sense  of  this  is 
immediately  and  explosively  demonstrated: 

"Is  he  into  touch?" 

"No.  No  flag." 

"He's  got  it!  He's  clear!" 

Racing  along  the  touch  line,  Frank  moves 
the  ball  in  for  a  score  from  thirty  yards, 
leaving  three  hapless  defenders  scattered  on 
the  ground  behind  him.  The  spectators  are 
delighted,  except,  of  course,  for  the  Schen- 
ectedy 'A'  team  players  who  have  stayed  to 
watch  the  second  game.  They  sympathize 
and  encourage  their  teammates  on  the  field, 
and  one  wishes  that  they  were  meeting  our 
'A's.  But  we  will  all  be  meeting  each  other 
in  a   slightly  different   competition  within 
the  hour. 

The  action  on  the  field  is  only  half  of 
Rugby  football.  For  when  the  referee  blows 
his  whistle  and  calls  "No  sides !",  each  team 
will  give  three  cheers  for  the  other,  applaud 
everyone  off  the  field,  and  go  get  dressed  for 
the  party.  It  is  not  recorded  who  may  have 
started  this  tradition,  but  the  party  after 
the  game  is  as  important  to  the  game  as 
running  with  the  ball.  Around  the  beer  keg 
you  soon  find  yourself  cheerfully  conversing 
with  those  whose  ribs  you  were  thumping 
shortly  before.  And  if  your  team  lost  the 
game,  they  might  still  win  the  party  by 
outsinging  your  opponents  with  bawdy 
Rugby  songs.  Incidently,  UMass  has  a  very 
good  record  at  winning  parties,  beginning 
with  the  first  back  in  1968. 

Today's  party,  in  North  Amherst,  is  a 
lively  one  with  two  kegs  and  later  a  huge 
pot  of  spaghetti.  Here  you  can  see  the  wide 
range  among  the  players  in  age,  size,  and 
background.  But  in  spite  of  these  dif- 
ferences, they  all  understand  each  other  as 
an  equal,  as  someone  who  plays  a  vigorous 
and  demanding  sport  for  the  sheer  enjoy- 


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ment  of  it,  and  for  the  camaraderie  of  the 

drinking  and  the  singing. 
"If  I  were  the  marrying  kind, 
Which,  thank  the  Lord,  I'm  not,  Sir ! 
The  kind  of  girl  that  I  would  wed 
Would  be  a  scrum-half's  daughter; 
For  she  would  .  . ." 

James  Ross,  a  University  staff  member 
in  administrative  data  processing,  has 
played  Rugby  for  six  years. 


From  the  Sidelines 


RICHARD  L.  BRESCIANI  '60 
Assistant  Sports  Information  Director 


The  Frank  Keaney  Trophy,  symbolic  of 
Yankee  Conference  supremacy,  is  back 
on  campus.  UMass  compiled  a  YanCon 
record  of  52  points,  (with  titles  in  soccer, 
cross-country,  basketball,  outdoor  track, 
baseball,  tennis,  and  golf,  and  second  place 
finishes  in  football  and  indoor  track),  to 
beat  40V2  points  garnered  by  UConn. 
It  was  the  seventh  straight  year  and  eighth 
in  the  trophy's  nine-year  existence  that 
UMass  was  the  top  point-getter. 

An  overall  won-lost  mark  of  133-59-6 
for  1970-71  is  a  new  Redmen  season  record. 
The  teams  won  70%  of  their  events,  ex- 
ceeding the  1969-70  record  of  63%.  Twelve 
of  the  fifteen  teams  had  winning  records, 
seven  won  YanCon  titles,  and  three  won 
New  England  crowns.  The  year  was  capped 
by  all  the  spring  sports  winning  champion- 
ships with  a  combined  54-21  record. 

Dick  Bergquist  coached  the  baseball 
team  to  a  21-10  record  through  the  play- 
offs, including  a  13-game  winning  streak. 
His  is  a  young  team,  which  lost  only  three 
seniors  at  Commencement.  Six  freshman 


starters — catcher  Tom  McDermott,  short- 
stop Ed  McMahon,  center  fielder  Charlie 
Manley,  left  fielder  Steve  Newell,  and 
pitchers  Chip  Baye  and  John  Olson — are 
standout  newcomers. 

Manley,  who  broke  the  hit,  triple  and 
stolen  base  records,  batted  .382,  and  cov- 
ered acres  of  ground  in  the  outfield,  was 
voted  mvp. 

Another  new  baseball  hero  was  6'5" 
sophomore  first  baseman  Dan  Esposito, 
who  won  a  starting  berth  with  long  home 
runs  in  successive  games  and  an  extra- 
base  hitting  binge  that  produced  clutch 
runs.  Dan  hit  six  homers  (including  two 
grand  slams)  and  drove  in  30  runs. 

UMass,  with  a  12-3  league  record,  split 
a  double  header  May  19  with  UConn 
(which  had  a  league  record  of  11-3)  to  win 
the  YanCon  baseball  title.  A  new  league 
rule  which  forbids  makeup  games  of  rain- 
outs  cost  the  Huskies  a  chance  for  a  Yan- 
Con tie — rain  had  postponed  the  second 
game  of  a  UConn/URI  double-header  last 
April.  It  is  ironic  that  non-league  rainouts 
could  be  replayed,  but  YanCon  games  that 
had  a  bearing  on  title  chances  could  not.  .  .  . 

Coach  Steve  Kosakowski's  tennis  team 
won  its  eleventh  YanCon  championship  in 
the  league  tourney  at  Maine.  The  Redmen 
trailed  URI  by  a  point  but  won  the  last  two 
doubles  matches  for  a  19-18  decision. 

The  lacrosse  team,  with  junior  Charlie 
Hardy  tallying  10  goals  and  51  assists 
(he  broke  All  American  Tom  Malone's  one- 
year  assist  record  of  44),  had  a  10-2  season 
and  ranked  third  in  the  final  New  England 
poll.  Brown,  ranked  first,  beat  UMass 
8-4,  the  lowest  Redman  goal  total  since 
an  8-3  loss  to  Oberlin  in  1967,  and  number- 
two  Harvard  scored  twice  in  the  final  90 
seconds  of  overtime  to  tip  UMass  7—6. 

The  new  Derby  Track  brought  a  sense 
of  togetherness  to  Coach  Ken  O'Brien's 
team.  They  were  7-3,  won  the  YanCon 
and  placed  second  to  BC  in  the  New 
England's.  Ed  Arcaro  was  a  great  performer 
in  the  shot  put,  hammer  and  discus  and 
set  a  new  record  of  55'  in  the  shot.  Rocco 
Petitto  twice  broke  the  13-year-old  javelin 
record  with  a  high  of  209'  5". . . . 


The  third  Hall  of  Fame  Banquet  held  May 
21  provided  many  lasting  memories:  the 
sincerity  of  Robert  Dallas,  accepting  for  his 
son  Bernie  '66,  the  subtle  wit  of  Fritz 
Ellert  '30,  and  the  humility  of  Em  Grayson 
'17.  These  three  new  inductees  raise  the 
membership  to  nine. 

Among  the  many  honors  bestowed  that 
night  were :  the  second  "Kid"  Gore  Alumni 
Coach  Award  to  Carmen  Scarpa  '62,  who 
has  a  144-49-2  record  as  football,  basket- 
ball and  J  V  baseball  coach  at  East  Boston 
High  School;  the  Eastern  Collegiate  Ath- 
letic Conference  Merit  Award  to  William 
Sroka,  an  All  Conference  defensive  tackle 
and  an  honor  student  in  history,  as  the  top 
senior  student  athlete;  the  Samuel  S. 
Crossman  two-sport  award  to  Ronald 
Wayne  for  his  terrific  feats  as  YanCon  and 
New  England  cross  country  and  YanCon 
mile  champion;  the  Oswald  Behrend  Award 
to  both  Richard  Matuszczak,  who  over- 
came a  heart  condition  to  become  an  All 
New  England  soccer  selection,  and  Thomas 
Myslicki,  who  is  a  top  member  of  the 
gymnastic  team  and  a  member  of  the  swim- 
ming team,  despite  a  back  injury;  the  Den- 
nis Delia  Piana  Award,  given  by  the 
Varsity  M  Club,  to  pitcher  Jack  Bernardo 
'71,  who  finished  three  varsity  seasons 
with  a  12-5  record.  .  .  . 

The  fall  sports  season  is  just  around  the 
corner,  and  football  and  soccer  will  have 
new  head  coaches.  Dick  MacPherson  is 
anxiously  looking  ahead  to  the  September 
11  scrimmage  at  Cornell  and  the  opener 
the  following  week  at  Maine.  Judging  from 
the  showing  at  the  spring  football  drills, 
he's  got  a  good  nucleus  to  work  with. 

A  new  soccer  coach  should  be  named 
shortly.  The  current  coach,  Peter  Broaca, 
who  also  coached  frosh  basketball,  has 
accepted  the  head  basketball  job  at  the  U.S. 
Coast  Guard  Academy.  Peter  had  an  18-1 
frosh  hoop  team  this  year,  and  a  five-year 
57-30  record.  In  soccer,  he  put  together 
a  17-12-3  record  in  three  years,  including 
7-2-2  last  fall  and  the  first  UMass  outright 
YanCon  title. 


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Comment  on 
Development 


EVAN  V.  JOHNSTON  '50 
Executive  Vice  President 


"Before  the  University  can  ask  for  volun- 
tary support  from  the  public,  it  must  first 
prove  the  need  for  such  support  and  make 
known  how  this  support  will  be  used. 
The  United  States  is  the  only  country  in  the 
world  where  philanthropy  is  everybody's 
business.  For  this  reason  the  American 
public  has  become  extremely  sophisticated 
about  the  giving  away  of  money.  Every 
American  from  the  wealthiest  foundation 
to  the  lowly  wage  earner  is  besieged  from 
all  sides  for  gifts.  An  appeal  for  support 
must  stand  or  fall  on  the  logic  of  its  argu- 
ment, and  large  gifts  are  more  likely  to 
result  from  a  reasoned  approach  to  the  mind 
than  from  vague  tugs  on  the  heart  strings. 

The  preceding  paragraph  was  the  open- 
ing statement  of  a  report  given  to  the 
alumni  board  of  directors  in  1964  by  Her- 
bert N.  Heston,  then  Vice  President  for 
Development  at  Smith  College,  now  a  top 
professional  consultant. 

At  that  time,  Herb  was  serving  as  a  con- 
sultant to  the  Fund  Committee  which  had 
been  trying  in  vain  for  five  years  to  get  the 
University  to  establish  a  development  pro- 
gram. Now,  seven  years  later  we  are  on 
the  verge  of  doing  just  what  was  then  being 
suggested. 

Almost  all  of  the  elements  of  a  good 
development  program  exist  here  now. 
Despite  low  budgets,  we  have  good  people 
and  operations  in  the  areas  of  news,  pub- 
lications, photography,  cinematography, 
continuing  education,  and,  even,  our  own 
office.  To  quote  again  from  Mr.  Heston's 
report:  "The  Associate  Alumni  program 


is  being  successfully  managed,  especially  in 
consideration  of  present  budget  and 
facilities." 

But  most  importantly,  we  have  a  fine 
institution  and  great  facilities.  All  we  need 
to  do  is  to  sell  it  properly.  We  now  have  a 
consultant  firm  working  on  a  plan  for  us  to 
coordinate  all  of  our  resources  into  an  ef- 
fective organization.  We  have  strong 
leadership  from  Chancellor  Tippo  and 
President  Wood.  Your  support  will  be  of 
prime  importance.  An  avidly  interested 
alumni  body  is  one  of  the  keys  to  success- 
ful development.  Right  on.  (Or  is  it 
write  on?) 


Club  Calendar 


JAMES  H.  ALLEN  '66 
Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


This  month's  column  will  focus  on  the  two 
major  alumni  events  which  took  place  in 
the  early  spring. 

On  April  15,  alumni  and  their  families 
—  169  people  in  all  —  gathered  at  Bradley 
International  Airport  in  Hartford  ready  to 
depart  on  a  one  week  tour  to  Majorca, 
Spain,  sponsored  by  the  Associate  Alumni. 
After  everyone  had  made  it  through  the 
rather  chaotic  check-in  procedure,  we  were 
off.  The  plane  was  a  250  passenger  dc-8 
stretch  jet  which  we  shared  with  a  group 
from  aic,  and  there  were  no  major  delays. 

Majorca  turned  out  to  be  all  we  had 
hoped  for  and  then  some.  The  people  at 
American  International  Travel  Service,  who 
ran  the  tour,  had  told  us  that  they  knew 
how  to  put  on  a  high  quality  vacation  week, 
and  they  were  true  to  their  word. 


Our  first  night,  a  barbecue  of  roast 
suckling  pig  and  chicken,  and  all  the  wine 
and  champagne  you  could  drink,  at  a 
Spanish  hacienda  set  the  tone  for  the  week. 
During  the  days  that  followed  many  of  us 
toured  the  city  of  Palma,  attended  the  bull 
fights  (they  were  as  gory  as  anticipated  — 
one  trip  is  really  enough  for  anybody), 
went  across  the  island  to  Formentor  and 
the  Caves  of  Drach  (which  are  enormous 
and  beautiful),  and  took  the  one  day  trip  to 
Madrid.  Unfortunately,  a  trip  to  Algiers 
never  got  off  the  ground.  Literally.  We 
were  hemmed  in  by  fog. 

Not  everyone  kept  up  a  hectic  pace.  The 
Mediterranean  and  the  lovely  beaches  in 
and  around  Palma  enticed  many  of  us  to 
just  sit  in  the  sun. 

The  night  life  in  Majorca  was  plentiful 
and  diversified.  There  were  gourmet  res- 
taurants (and  the  food  in  the  hotel  was  good 
too)  and  Spanish  night  clubs,  featuring 
Flamenco  dancers,  Las  Vegas  style  night 
clubs,  or  discotheques  for  diversion.  Beer 
cost  35^  and  brandy  25^.  I,  for  one,  tried 
everything. 

By  the  time  the  week  was  over,  we  were 
very  tired  but  happy.  The  week  went  by  too 
quickly,  but,  quite  frankly,  I'm  not  too 
sure  how  much  more  my  body  could  have 
stood. 

Our  next  trip  is  planned  for  Hawaii, 
either  the  last  week  in  December  or  in  Jan- 
uary or  February.  Many  people  who  went 
to  Majorca  want  to  go  to  Hawaii,  so  plan  to 
get  your  reservations  in  early.  We  don't 
want  to  leave  anyone  behind. 

Another  big  spring  event  was  the  Bernie 
Dallas  Memorial  Football  Day,  which  took 
place  on  May  1.  As  I  mentioned  in  my 
previous  column,  Bernie  Dallas,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Class  of  1966  and  co-captain 
of  the  1965  football  team,  was  tragically 
killed  in  an  automobile  accident  in  April 
1968. 

This  football  day  was  a  kick-off  for  the 
Bernie  Dallas  Memorial  Fund.  The  minimum 
goal  is  $50,000,  part  of  which  will  be  used 
to  construct  a  monument  to  Bernie  to  be 
located  in  the  Bernard  Dallas  Mall  to  the 


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east  of  Alumni  Stadium.  The  remainder  of 
the  money  will  be  used  to  establish  a  Bernie 
Dallas  Memorial  Scholarship  to  be  awarded 
annually  to  an  outstanding  University  of 
Massachusetts  student. 

The  Bernie  Dallas  Day  began  with  sepa- 
rate clinics  for  high  school  coaches  and 
students,  run  by  Milt  Morin  '66  of  the 
Cleveland  Browns,  Greg  Landry  '68  of  the 
Detroit  Lions,  Phil  Vandersea  '66  of  the 
Green  Bay  Packers,  Ed  Toner  '66  of  the 
New  England  Patriots,  John  Huard  of  the 
New  Orleans  Saints,  and  Sam  Rutigliano, 
coach  of  the  New  England  Patriots.  With  a 
star-studded  cast  like  this,  the  clinics  had  to 
be  a  success.  Over  two  hundred  coaches 
and  over  six  hundred  students  attended. 
Guided  tours  of  the  campus  and  a  fine  lunch, 
provided  by  the  Dining  Commons  staff, 
followed  the  morning  clinics. 

The  day's  activities  culminated  in  the 
spring  intra-squad  game.  The  new  coach, 
Dick  MacPherson,  had  an  opportunity  to 
show  what  he  has  in  store  for  us,  and  it 
looks  like  we  will  be  seeing  some  exciting 
football  in  the  fall.  The  game  was  attended 
by  about  2,000  loyal  U.  of  Mass.  fans, 
the  largest  turnout  ever  for  a  spring  foot- 
ball game.  This  was  a  great  tribute  to 
Bernie  Dallas,  "a  man." 

In  the  month's  ahead,  you  will  be  hearing 
more  about  the  Bernie  Dallas  Memorial 
Fund.  We  hope  when  the  time  comes  that 
you  will  be  ready  to  help  in  this  very  worth- 
while project. 

Looking  ahead  to  next  year,  let  me  give 
you  an  advance  preview  of  the  events  the 
Boston  club  has  planned.  After  the  BU 
game  October  9,  there  will  be  a  German 
Night,  and,  on  November  20,  a  cocktail 
party  will  follow  the  BC  game.  There  will 
be  a  Sport's  Night  on  December  3,  a  Monte 
Carlo  Night  (to  raise  money  for  library 
books)  on  March  19,  and  a  Night  at  the 
Pops  on  May  14.  It's  going  to  be  a  busy 
year. 


Something  old, 
Something  new 


The  University  had  some  surprises  in 
store  for  alumni  who  returned  to  campus 
to  celebrate  the  anniversary  of  their 
graduation.  Construction  sites — of  the 
library,  fine  arts  center,  graduate  research 
center,  Tobin  Hall,  and  the  Northeast 
Residential  Complex — seemed  to  dominate 
the  landscape.  New  roads  and  new  build- 
ings made  a  once  familiar  campus  appear 
to  be  unknown  territory. 

But  a  second  glance  was  reassuring. 
Much  of  what  was  good  has  been  pre- 
served, and  alumni  found  their  way  to 
such  landmarks  as  Stockbridge  Hall,  Old 
Chapel,  and  Butterfield.  And  since  they 
also  found  old  and  dear  friends  as  well  as 
old  and  dear  buildings,  Alumni  Weekend 
was  definitely  a  success. 

Those  alumni  who  came  early  enjoyed  a 
barbecue  and  the  folksinging  of  DJ  Friday 
night.  The  following  morning,  members 
of  the  faculty  joined  the  group  for  break- 
fast and,  after  the  ham  and  eggs  were 
cleared  away,  Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo  '32 
was  on  hand  to  talk  about  the  University. 
Students  were  the  topic  of  the  morning, 
and  the  Chancellor  spoke  frankly,  often 
scathingly,  of  the  present  college  genera- 
tion. As  his  remarks  were  augmented  by 
comments  by  student  leaders,  members  of 
th  administration,  and  the  alumni,  the 
talk  developed  into  an  open  forum. 

The  Annual  Awards  Luncheon  fol- 
lowed, the  occasion  for  honoring  both  the 
alumni  and  the  University.  Medals  for 
distinguished  service  were  presented  to: 
Gordon  Ainsworth  '34,  head  of  the  largest 
land  surveying  organization  in  New  Eng- 
land; David  Bartley  '56,  speaker  of  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives; 
and  Harry  Pratt  '36,  a  senior  scientist  with 
the  U.S.  Public  Health  Service. 


At  the  Awards  Luncheon,  Don  Douglass 
(above)  presented  the  University  with 
three  gifts  donated  by  members  of  his 
class,  the  Class  of  '21,  on  the  occasion  of 
their  fiftieth  reunion.  The  gifts  were  thirty 
granite  benches,  $1400,  and  a  portrait  of 
President  French  (top). 


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President  Robert  Wood  and  Chancellor 
Tippo  addressed  the  group,  and  then 
select  members  of  the  Second  Century 
Club  were  honored  for  their  sustained 
support  of  the  Alumni  Fund. 

It  was  the  Fiftieth  Reunion  of  the 
Class  of  '21,  and  Don  Douglass  did  the 
honors  for  his  classmates  by  presenting 
the  University  with  several  generous  gifts. 
These  included  thirty  granite  benches 
which  had  been  installed  at  various  loca- 
tions on  campus  during  the  academic  year. 
A  portrait  of  Henry  Flagg  French,  the  first 
president  of  M.A.C.,  which  the  Class  had 
commissioned  was  unveiled,  and  Don  also 
announced  that  a  gift  of  $1400  was  being 
donated  to  the  University  of  Massachusetts 
Foundation  by  the  Class. 

The  weekend's   festivities  culminated 
in  fourteen  class  reunions.  Members  of  the 
classes  of  1913,  '14,  '16,  '19,  '20,  '21,  '26, 
'31,  '36,  '41,  '46,  '51,  '56  and  '61  gathered 
to  spend  a  convivial  evening.  The  parties 
disbursed  in  the  early  morning  hours  and, 
all  too  soon,  it  was  time  to  go  home. 


Alumni  Weekend  was  a  time  for  eating, 
drinking  and  making  merry.  Thanks  to  the 
straightforward  comments  of  Chancellor 
Tippo  and  President  Wood,  it  was  also 
an  opportunity  to  learn  more  about  the 
UMass  of  today. 


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The  Classes  Report 


1918 

Louis  M.  Lyons,  who  recently  retired  from  the 
University's  board  of  trustees,  received  the 
first  Distinguished  Massachusetts  Citizen 
Award  to  be  given  by  Adelphia,  the  senior 
men's  honor  society.  The  presentation  was 
made  at  a  luncheon  honoring  Mr.  Lyons  and, 
after  the  citation  was  read,  he  quipped,  "When 
I  was  receiving  an  award  on  another  occasion, 
someone  leaned  over  to  me  and  said,  'Don't 
inhale  that.'  Well,  I  won't  inhale  this,  but  I  will 
treasure  it." 

1921 

The  Class  Poet,  Lafayette  J.  Robertson,  Jr., 
has  written  the  following  tribute  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts  on  the  occasion  of 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  Class: 
A  halo  drifts  across  these  golden  years/Of 
study,  work,  and  play;  anxious  hopes  and 
fears. /Vicissitudes  of  peace,  of  war,  and  peace 
again/Have  taxed  the  sinews  and  wisdom  of 
our  men./In  countless  fields  of  usefulness, 
harmonious  with  all/Class  graduates  of 
Twenty-One,  stand  tall. /Now,  reverently  we 
pause  to  note  the  honored  dead:/Beloved 
classmates  who  have  gone  ahead. /Each  lived 
so  well  while  still  alive/His  charm  and  forti- 
tude, survive. /In  union  we  may  consecrate 
anew/With  sincere  devotion  to  what  we  know 
is  true,/And  trust  that  sons  and  daughters  here 
may  find/The  quest  for  close  communion  with 
mankind. /We  pray  for  them;  each  lad  and 
lass,/"God  bless  the  University  of  Mass." 

1929 

Robert  L.  Bowie,  headmaster  at  Thornton 
Academy  in  Saco,  Maine,  retired  this  June. 
During  his  tenure,  since  1953,  the  enrollment 
at  the  school  has  almost  doubled  and  an 
extensive  building  program  was  launched. 
During  his  career,  Mr.  Bowie  had  also  taught 
at  Portland  High  School  and  the  Hackley 
School  in  Tarry  town,  New  York. 


The  Thirties 

John  Blackinton  '30,  director  of  the  Manu- 
facturer's National  Bank  in  North  Attleboro, 
is  chairman  of  the  ways  and  means  committee 
of  the  North  Attleboro  Scholarship  Foundation, 
an  organization  which  gives  financial  aid  to 
local  high  school  graduates. 

Clyde  W.  Nash  '31  has  retired  after  almost 
forty  years  of  service  with  the  Rohm  &  Haas 
Company  of  Philadelphia.  He  established  and 
was  administrator  of  a  microchemical  section 
in  the  analytical  laboratory  of  the  company's 
Bristol  plant  and  is  well  known  in  the  micro- 
analytical  field. 

Dr.  Warren  Fabyan  '32  and  his  wife  Ida  May 
closed  out  parallel  careers  at  Central  Connecti- 
cut State  College  last  December  31  with  a 
combined  total  of  forty-one  years  of  service. 
The  couple's  initial  plans  were  to  live  with 
Indian  friends  in  Mexico. 

Robert  C.  Jackson  '34,  public  relations  officer 
of  the  Massachusetts  Civil  Defense  Agency, 
retired  last  February  after  more  than  thirty 
years  of  state  service.  The  previous  August  he 
had  retired,  with  the  rank  of  commander,  from 
the  Naval  Reserve.  During  his  twenty-eight 
years  in  the  Reserve,  he  had  served  as  Chief 
of  Naval  Press  under  four  Secretaries  of  the 
Navy.  On  five  occasions,  President  Harry 
Truman  cited  him  for  service  as  special  assist- 
ant to  the  White  House  while  the  President 
was  at  sea  and,  especially,  for  the  Potsdam 
and  Rio  conferences. 

Harry  D.  Pratt  '36,  a  scientist  director  with 
the  U.S.  Public  Health  Service,  was  awarded 
the  Distinguished  Service  Medal  in  recognition 
of  his  outstanding  service  during  the  twenty- 
eight  years  in  the  PHS  Commissioned  Corps. 
Dr.  Pratt,  who  has  supervised  the  production 
of  twenty  motion  pictures  and  training  guides 
dealing  with  aspects  of  insect  and  rodent 
control,  was  cited  for  his  "high  level  of  effec- 
tiveness and  leadership  in  the  development  and 
promotion  of  vector  control  programs  in  the 
U.S.  and  many  foreign  countries."  Since  1968 
he  has  been  chief  of  the  Insect  and  Rodent 
Control  Branch  of  the  Bureau  of  Community 
Environmental  Management,  PHS. 

The  Forties 

Maj.  Gen.  Franklin  M.  Davis,  Jr.  '40  has  become 
the  twenty-third  commandant  of  the  U.S. 
Army  War  College  at  Carlisle  Barracks  in 
Pennsylvania. 

James  J.  Kline  '41  was  recently  elected  to 


senior  vice-president  of  the  B.  Manischewitz 
Company  of  Newark.  Jim  writes :  "I  think  I 
am  equally  as  proud  of  the  fact  that  I  have 
just  completed  work  for  my  master's  in  busi- 
ness administration  and  will  be  receiving  my 
M.B.A.  from  Rutgers  University." 

Betty  Bushnell  Nichols  '43  is  working  at 
^Etna  Life  &  Casualty  in  Hartford.  She  writes 
that,  while  in  California  in  the  course  of  a 
cross-country  camping  trip  this  summer,  she 
and  her  husband  visited  Barbara  Hayward 
Waite  '43  and  her  family  in  San  Jose.  Betty's 
son,  Kenneth  Nichols  'jo,  is  in  Viet  Nam  with 
the  Army. 

Lois  M.  Lasalle  '48  has  been  appointed  asso- 
ciate systems  director  in  the  personal  lines 
systems  department  at  the  Travelers  Insurance 
Companies  in  Hartford. 

1950 

H.  Francis  Nadeau  has  been  promoted  to  frame 
and  sunglass  engineering  manager  for  the 
optical  products  division  of  the  American 
Optical  Corporation. 

1951 

Dr.  Paul  B.  Cilman,  Jr.  has  been  appointed  a 
senior  research  associate  at  Kodak  Research 
Laboratories  in  Rochester. 

Col.  Andrew  P.  losue  has  assumed  command 
of  the  usaf  504th  Tactical  Air  Support  Group, 
headquartered  at  Cam  Ranh  Bay  ab  in  Viet 
Nam. 

1952 

Lt.  Col.  Joseph  C.  Fiorelli,  usaf,  was  decorated 
with  the  Bronze  Star  for  his  service  as  chief  of 
personnel  services  division  and  base  directorate 
of  personnel  while  serving  in  Thailand. 

Ernest  L.  Grolimund  is  assistant  vice-presi- 
dent of  Marsh  &  McLennan,  Inc,  international 
insurance  brokers  and  employee  benefit  con- 
sultants. 

Allen  W.  Hixon,  Jr.,  a  landscape  architect 
and  head  of  the  firm  of  Allen  W.  Hixon,  Jr.  & 
Associates,  was  the  subject  of  a  feature  story 
in  the  Worcester  Sunday  Telegram  last  March. 
A  member  of  the  Connecticut  Governor's 
Commission  on  Environmental  Policy,  Hixon 
was  quoted  as  saying,  "I  do  not  separate  pol- 
lution of  the  visual  environment  from  non- 
visual  pollution,  such  as  that  caused  by  gases. 
Esthetics  and  a  sense  of  scale  are  important." 

Robert  J.  Spiller  has  been  elected  president 


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of  the  Boston  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank,  effec- 
tive next  January. 

1953 

Thomas  R.  Bevivino,  recently  named  chairman 
of  air  science  and  commander  of  the  Air  Force 
rotc  detachment  at  the  University  of  Michigan, 
has  been  promoted  to  lieutenant  colonel. 

1954 

Gerry  C.  Atwell  is  manager  of  the  Kodiak 
National  Wildlife  Refuge  on  Kodiak  Island 
in  Alaska. 

Morton  H.  Goldberg,  M.D.,  D.M.D.,  is  chief 
of  oral  surgery  at  Hartford  Hospital  and  acting 
chairman  of  the  department  of  oral  surgery  at 
the  University  of  Connecticut. 

Robert  Pollack  was  named  senior  vice-presi- 
dent of  Colonial  Penn  Group.  Inc.  which 
specializes  in  insurance,  travel  and  employment 
programs,  primarily  for  older  people. 

Patricia  French  Rogers  was  appointed  assist- 
ant superintendent  of  the  Food  Demonstration 
Kitchen  for  the  New  York  State  Fair. 

1955 

Maj.  Donald  Rodenhizer,  usaf,  a  rescue  duty 
controller,  is  serving  in  Viet  Nam. 

Maj.  Robert  C.  Tashjian  is  the  instructor 
inspector  of  the  Marine  Corps  Reserve  Training 
Center  in  Orlando,  Florida.  He  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Lois  Roberts  '56,  have  announced 
the  birth  of  Robert  Creedon,  born  February 
12,  1971. 

Maj.  William  E.  Todt,  usaf,  a  tactical  air 
liaison  officer  advisor,  has  been  awarded  the 
Vietnamese  Armed  Forces  Honor  Medal  First 
Class. 

1956 

Dr.  George  F.  Cole  was  promoted  from  assist- 
ant professor  to  associate  professor  in  the 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  at  the 
University  of  Connecticut,  effective  October  1. 

Rene  A.  Heck,  cpa,  is  owner  of  Cape  Cod 
Financial  Computer  Services,  Inc.  in  Yarmouth 
Port.  Rene  and  his  wife  Nadine  have  two 
children,  Lynn  age  9,  and  Andrea  age  5. 

John  C.  Winkley  was  named  assistant  super- 
intendent of  the  Coke  Plant  at  cf&i  Steel  Cor- 
poration's Pueblo  Plant  in  Colorado. 


1957 

Maj.  John  T.  Loftus  was  decorated  with  his 
third  through  ninth  awards  of  the  Air  Medal 
for  air  action  as  an  F-4  Phantom  fighter  bomber 
pilot  in  Southeast  Asia. 

Maj.  William  J.  Mathieson,  usaf,  was  dec- 
orated with  the  Bronze  Star  for  his  performance 
as  chief  of  the  targets  branch  of  the  targets 
division  at  Nakhon  Phanom  Royal  Thai  afb 
in  Thailand. 

1958 

Arthur  Andrews  is  a  stockbroker  with  F.I. 
du  Pont  Glore  Forgan  in  Springfield  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Lizabeth  Lipski  '68,  is  teach- 
ing English  at  Longmeadow  High  School. 

Charles  P.  Carlson,  Jr.  is  the  sales  supervisor 
for  the  Norton  Company  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Patricia  Holt,  is   chairman  of  the 
Algonquin  Regional  High  School  Department 
of  English  in  Northboro. 

James  A.  Coderre  was  appointed  controller 
for  the  safety  products  division  of  the  Ameri- 
can Optical  Corporation. 

Edwin  M.  Sullivan  was  named  Executive 
Officer  to  the  Deputy  Commissioner  for  De- 
velopment, U.S.  Office  of  Education  in  Wash- 
ington D.C. 

Richard  A.  Witham  was  recently  appointed 
national  sales  manager  for  the  Davis  &  Geek 
Division  of  the  American  Cyanamid  Company. 
He  and  his  wife  Barbara  have  two  children, 
Jennifer  and  Richard. 

1959 

Maj.  Paul  A.  Harden,  a  missile  operations  of- 
ficer, received  the  usaf  Commendation  Medal. 

Dennis  Crowley,  Jr.  is  deputy  director  of 
intelligence  for  the  recently  formed  New 
England  Organized  Crime  Intelligence  System 
in  Wellesley.  The  organization  is  operated  by 
New  England's  attorneys  general  and  state 
police  administrators  in  cooperation  with  the 
Law  Enforcement  Assistance  Administration. 

Rita  M.  Hausammann,  an  assistant  professor 
of  German  at  Wellesley  College,  was  married 
to  Robert  Kimber  on  September  12,  1970. 

Edward  F.  Larkin,  Jr.  was  named  Southern 
region  manager  for  the  consumer  products 
department  of  Dow  Chemical,  U.S.A. 

Maj.  Frederick  J.  Mitchell,  usaf,  a  microbiol- 
ogist, was  one  of  the  scientists  stationed  in  the 
Lunar  Receiving  Lab.  at  the  nasa  Manned 
Spacecraft  Center  in  Houston  during  the  past 


mission  quarantine  period  of  the  Apollo  14 
astronauts. 

Barrie  G.  Sullivan,  II  has  opened  a  law  of- 
fice in  Boston. 

1960 

Sumner  Barr,  an  assistant  professor  of  atmos- 
pheric physics  at  Drexel  University  in  Philadel- 
phia, received  his  Ph.D.  degree  in  meteorology 
from  the  University  of  Utah  in  1969. 

Peter  M.  Doiron  is  editor  of  Choice  in  Mid- 
dletown,  Connecticut,  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Martha  Holbrook  '$6,  is  a  nurse. 

Maj.  Donald  R.  Hiller  received  a  U.S.  Armor 
Association  Certificate  of  Achievement  for  an 
article  which  appeared  in  Armor  Magazine. 

John  S.  Temple,  Jr.  is  teaching  high  school 
in  Milford,  New  Hampshire. 

1961 

Gordon  A.  Benoit  is  a  motion  picture  producer- 
director  in  California. 

Leonard  Dalton,  a  senior  analyst  programmer 
for  Analyst  and  Computer  Systems  in  Burling- 
ton, received  his  master's  degree  from  North- 
eastern this  June.  He  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Leona  Mabie,  have  two  children,  Lynn  and 
Leonard,  Jr. 

Capt.  James  K.  Lavin,  usaf,  a  Viet  Nam 
veteran,  is  a  member  of  the  1st  Weather  Wing 
at  Hickam  afb  in  Hawaii,  winner  of  the 
pride  award,  which  stands  for  "Professional 
Results  in  Daily  Efforts." 

William  F.  Lockwood,  Jr.  was  named  manager 
of  plant  engineering  for  the  American  Optical 
Corporation's  optical  products  division. 

Sharon  Whittier  Long  is  on  a  teaching  fel- 
lowship at  Rutgers  University. 

Capt.  Francis  M.  Madden,  a  missile  launch 
officer,  was  selected  as  an  alternate  participant 
in  the  sac  missile  combat  competition  recently 
held  at  Vandenberg  afb. 

Francis  E.  Nestor  is  "the  math  department" 
at  the  New  Wentworth  College,  which  just 
began  this  year  as  the  off-shoot  of  Wentworth 
Institute.  A  two  year  college,  (for  the  junior 
and  senior  years,)  it  will  grant  a  degree  in 
engineering  and  technology. 

1962 

Raymond  S.  Creek  has  returned  from  his 
second  tour  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam.  While  in 
Viet  Nam,  he  received  two  Bronze  Stars  and 
the  Army  Commendation  Medal.  He  and  his 


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wife  Bondelyn  have  a  daughter,  Leslie  Anne. 

Capt.  Henry  A.  Czelusniak,  Jr.  is  a  weapons 
control  officer  in  the  Air  Force. 

Dr.  Virginia  Clark  Joy  is  a  psychologist. 

David  S.  Osterhout,  an  F-104  instructor  pilot, 
is  a  member  of  a  unit  which  earned  the  usaf 
Outstanding   Unit   Award. 

Edward  J.  Poshkus  is  head  of  the  specifica- 
tions and  systems  area  in  special  media  re- 
search and  development  for  the  Memorex 
Corporation. 

Alan  C.  Rogers  was  named  senior  nuclear 
component  project  engineer  in  the  nuclear 
power  generation  department  at  the  Babcock 
and  Wilcox  Company's  power  generation  di- 
vision headquarters  in  Barberton,  Ohio.  He 
and  his  wife  Faye  have  three  children:  Bradley, 
age  7;  Russell,  age  5;  and  Beth  Ellen,  age  4. 

Edward  Shevitz  is  a  sales  manager  for  twa 
in  New  York. 

Walter  R.  Silvia  is  the  public  relations 
supervisor  for  New  England  Telephone.  He 
and  his  wife,  the  former  Diann  Coyle,  have  an 
18-month-old  daughter,  Kim  Mary. 

Jayne  Hayden  Uyenoyama  was  widowed 
January  13,  1971  when  her  husband,  Dennis, 
was  killed  in  a  helicopter  crash  in  South  Korea. 
They  had  married  in  the  spring  of  '68  when 
Jayne  was  a  speech  therapist  with  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Defense  in  Heidelberg,  Ger- 
many. Jayne  writes  that  she  and  her  two-year- 
old  daughter,  Catharine  Mieko,  are  living  on 
Cape  Cod  where  they  are  "picking  up  our 
lives  and  making  readjustments." 

1963 

Douglas  A.  Cowley  was  promoted  to  project 
leader  within  electronic  data  processing  at  the 
John  Hancock  Insurance  Company  in  Boston. 

John  P.  Hartnett,  Jr.  a  physical  education 
instructor  in  Spencer,  is  married  to  the  former 
Ann  E.  Kelly. 

James  H.  Hogue  is  staff  assistant  to  the 
President  in  the  Congressional  Relations  Di- 
vision at  the  White  House,  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Patricia  Chase,  has  just  "retired"  after 
four  years  of  working  with  Congressman 
William  Steiger  (R-Wisc.)  as  his  legislative 
assistant.  The  couple  have  announced  the 
birth  of  their  first  child,  Allison  Wentworth, 
born  January  3, 1971. 

Pefer  L.  Masnik,  who  graduated  from  Boston 
College  Law  School  in  1966  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Massachusetts  Bar  the  following  year, 
was  elected  to  the  Massachusetts  House  of 


Representatives  from  the  22nd  Worcester 
District. 

Capt.  Warren  Miller  is  assistant  staff  judge 
advocate  at  Bergstrom  afb.  He  and  his  wife 
Reisa  have  announced  the  birth  of  Ethan  Caleb, 
born  February  19,  1971. 

Thomas  L.  Verrier  was  recently  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  major  in  the  Army. 

Richard  J.  Wolanske  is  an  English  teacher 
at  Oakmont  Regional  High  School  in  Ashburn- 
ham. 

1964 

Dr.  Richard  H.  Buck,  who  received  his  D.D.S. 
degree  in  1968  and  his  M.S.  in  orthodontics  in 
1970  from  St.  Louis  University,  has  started  his 
orthodontic  practice  in  Dracut. 

George  E.  Cusson  is  an  instructor  in  the 
department  of  data  processing  at  Springfield 
Technical  Community  College.  He  and  his  wife 
Margaret  have  two  daughters,  aged  two  years 
and  six  months. 

Michael  M.  Hench,  an  assistant  professor 
of  humanities  at  the  College  of  the  Virgin 
Islands,  proposed  and  is  directing  a  National 
Endowment  for  the  Humanities  Faculty  De- 
velopment Grant.  The  grant  is  intended  to 
develop  several  courses  in  Caribbean  literature 
and  entails  travel  to  Jamaica,  Martinique, 
Dominica,  Haiti,  and  Trinidad.  Mike  com- 
ments :  "It's  a  tough  life." 

Robert  W.  Lee,  who  received  his  Ph.D.  degree 
from  the  State  University  of  New  York  at  Stony 
Brook,  is  on  the  faculty  of  Duke  University  in 
the  zoology  department. 

Bruce  W.  Lord  is  employed  by  the  Sun  Oil 
Company  in  Providence. 

Capt.  Barry  Meunier  is  a  pilot  in  the  Air 
Force. 

Hugh  D.  Olmstead  is  working  in  England 
for  the  next  two  years  as  a  technical  officer 
for  Imperial  Chemical  Industries. 

Robert  C.  Peters,  a  teacher  at  Smith  College 
Day  School,  and  his  wife,  the  former  Patricia 
Enos  '6$,  have  announced  the  birth  of  twins; 
Christopher  Robert  and  Jonathan  Michael  were 
born  October  27,  1970. 

1965 

David  B.  Axelrod  is  currently  teaching  creative 
writing,  mythology  and  freshman  writing  at 
Suffolk  Community  College  and  is  finishing  his 
Ph.D.  at  Stony  Brook.  He  has  collaborated  with 
two  of  his  colleagues  and  two  of  his  former 


students  on  a  volume  of  poems,  Starting  from 
Paumanok,  published  by  Despa  Press.  (Despa 
Press  is  an  all-UMass  alumni  operation  which 
has  published  six  items  since  its  founding  in 
1967.)  Reprinted  below  is  one  of  the  poems 
from  Starting  from  Paumanok,  "Attempts  to 
Pass,"  a  tribute  to  the  late  Wes  Honey  '62 
written  when  David  learned  of  Wes's  death: 

Pastels  flesh  out  the  early  morning 
grey,  I've  watched  the  night  turn 
into  day.  The  night  before  trips 
we  stay  awake,  indexing  all  we've 
learned.  Review  the  sounds 
the  travel  guide  lists  for  jets 
about  to  land :  the  thud  of 
wing  flaps,  suspension  of  the 
power,  the  squeal  of  tires, 
the  tests  we  put  on  life. 

Once  while  landing  at  a  smaller 
strip,  we  swooped  up  suddenly 
to  keep  from  piggy-backing 
with  a  plane  not  yet  in  flight. 
A  matter  of  mere  seconds ! 

We  are  travelers  in  the  dark, 
students  of  some  ancient 
fortune-telling  art,  studying 
our  lessons  carefully  as  we 
embark,  with  illusions  of  answers 
only. 

Kenneth  M.  Baldwin  'G  received  his  Ph.D. 
in  physical  education  from  the  University  of 
Iowa  last  January. 

franco  Berak,  upon  receiving  an  M.B.A. 
degree  from  Boston  University,  accepted  a 
position  with  the  New  York  Public  Service 
Commission  as  a  rate  engineer.  He  and  his 
wife  Patricia  have  two  children. 

Joseph  W.  Bradley  is  director  of  public  re- 
lations at  Wesson  Memorial  Hospital  in  Spring- 
field. He  is  married  to  the  former  Carol  Scobie 
'62. 

Barry  R.  Coppinger  is  a  teacher  in  Turners 
Falls  and  his  wife,  the  former  Mary  Hutchinson, 
teaches  occasionally. 

Eleanor  Smith  Flanagan  and  her  husband 
Thomas  have  two  children. 

Richard  A.  Hampe,  an  assistant  attorney 
general  with  a  law  degree  from  George  Wash- 
ington University,  heads  the  new  consumer 
protection  division  in  the  state  attorney  gen- 
eral's office  for  the  State  of  New  Hampshire. 

Catherine  Noel  Hofmann,  who  received  an 
M.S.  degree  in  library  science  from  Simmons 
College  in  1968,  is  the  senior  librarian  in  the 


3° 


Conejo  Branch  of  the  Ventura  County  Library 
in  Thousand  Oaks,  California. 

Richard  A.  Morril,  an  assistant  professor  on 
the  counseling  center  staff  of  San  Diego  State 
College,  received  his  Ph.D.  in  counseling 
psychology  from  Michigan  State  University  in 
June  1970. 

Capt.  Daniel  E.  O'Mara,  III  is  in  Anchorage 
with  the  Air  Force. 

Virginia  Considine  Rockwell  'G  is  a 
counselor. 

Jim  Tattersall,  Jr.  'G,  an  assistant  professor 
of  mathematics  at  Providence  College,  received 
his  Ph.D.  degree  from  the  University  of 
Oklahoma.  He  and  his  wife  have  announced 
the  birth  of  Virginia  Marie,  born  March  20, 
1971. 

1966 

Capt.  Alfred  J.  Davis  Jr.  is  a  pilot  and  service 
platoon  commander  with  the  Army  in  Viet 
Nam. 

John  H.  Josephson  is  manager  of  Feldman 
Construction  Company,  Inc.  of  Rockport.  He 
and  his  wife  Sharon  have  two  children,  Eric, 
age  5,  and  Trina,  age  2. 

Capt.  George  A.  Marold  completed  an  ord- 
nance officer  advanced  course  at  the  Army 
Ordnance  Center  and  School  at  the  Aberdeen 
Proving  Ground  in  Maryland. 

Capt.  John  T.  O'Connor,  Jr.  is  a  dental  sur- 
geon with  the  Third  Tactical  Fighter  Wing 
in  Korea. 

Sgt.  Charles  T.  O'Donnell,  after  completing 
service  in  the  Peace  Corps  and  the  military, 
is  a  graduate  student  in  political  science  at  the 
University  of  New  Mexico. 

Gerald  F.  Scanlon  is  an  agent  for  the  Internal 
Revenue  Service  in  Manhattan. 

Thomas  E.  Shea  is  a  nuclear  physicist  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Judith  Clark  '64,  is  an  English 
teacher  in  California. 

Michael  P.  Smith  'G,  a  specialist  in  American 
parties  and  politics,  has  been  promoted  from 
instructor  to  assistant  professor  on  the  Dart- 
mouth College  faculty. 

Richard  R.  Strange,  an  engineer  at  Pratt  & 
Whitney  Aircraft  in  Connecticut,  married 
Marcia  P.  Hennick  on  May  24,  1969. 

George  L.  Wietecha  is  a  regional  traffic 
manager  in  the  circulation  service  department 
of  the  Dow  Jones  &  Company,  Inc.'s  South 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey  office. 


1967 

Cheryl  Daggett  Baxter  works  in  the  personnel 
department  of  Arthur  Young  &  Company  in 
Boston. 

Stephen  E.  Berk  'G  received  his  Ph.D.  degree 
in  history  from  the  University  of  Iowa  last 
January. 

Harriette  S.  Block  is  a  teacher  at  Ludlow 
High  School. 

Capf.  Hamer  D.  Clarke,  an  intelligence 
officer,  received  the  Army  Commendation 
Medal  in  Viet  Nam. 

Lt.  Jerilyn  T.  Doyle  is  in  the  Air  Force. 

Pasqual  N.  Freni  'G  is  employed  at  the 
Alliance  Theatre  Company  in  Atlanta  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Judith  A.  Kuhn  '69,  is 
working  in  the  public  relations  division  of 
Lever  Brothers.  The  couple  was  married  on 
February  1,  1969. 

Capf.  Edward  J.  Godek,  a  tactical  airlift 
pilot,  received  the  Air  Medal. 

Joel  H.  Goldman,  an  attorney  with  Toltz  and 
Nataupsky  in  Boston,  married  Mina  Strumph 
on  August  24,  1969. 

Michael  J.  Heffernan  'G  received  his  Ph.D. 
from  UMass  last  October. 

Daniel  B.  Jones  has  been  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  first  lieutenant  in  the  Air  Force. 

Sandra  Regan  Kosterman  is  teaching  kinder- 
garten at  the  North  Parish  School  in  Greenfield. 

Bruce  P.  MacCombie,  a  University  of  Iowa 
graduate  student  in  composition,  has  been 
awarded  a  fellowship  for  a  year  of  study  in 
Germany,  at  the  Musik  Hochschule  in  Freiburg, 
by  the  Deutscher  Akademischer  Austausch- 
dienst. 

David  I.  Milner  had  worked  with  vista  for  a 
year  after  graduating,  living  in  a  Federal  hous- 
ing project  and  working  closely  with  the  Den- 
ver Juvenile  Court  and  the  Denver  General 
Hospital.  After  that  he  worked  for  the  Juvenile 
Court  Halfway  House  Projects  before  becom- 
ing director  of  the  Denver  Youth  Services 
Bureau  School  Program.  In  the  latter  position 
it  was  his  responsibility  to  design  and  imple- 
ment a  psycho-educational  program  for  stu- 
dents of  junior  high  school  age.  Since  February, 
he  has  been  director  of  the  Denver  Youth 
Services  Bureau,  and  next  September  he  will 
begin  full-time  graduate  study  in  education 
psychology  at  the  University  of  Colorado. 

Kevin  P.  O'Brien  received  his  M.S.  degree 
in  pharmacology  from  the  University  of  Iowa. 

Pamela  K.  Pearce  is  a  biology  teacher  at 
Milton  High  School. 


A.  Joseph  Ross  has  become  an  associate  in 
the  law  firm  of  Englander,  Englander  &  Eng- 
lander  of  Boston. 

Capf.  Vredrick  N.  Sadow,  a  missile  launch 
officer,  graduated  from  the  Air  University's 
Squadron  Officer  School  at  Maxwell  afb. 

Philip  H.  Scott  is  head  of  a  new  news  bureau 
office  opened  by  General  Electric  in  Lynn. 

Kathleen  J.  Tevlin  has  been  commissioned 
a  second  lieutenant  in  the  Air  Force. 

1968 

William  B.  Appleton,  III  is  a  second  lieutenant 
in  the  Army. 

Edward  J.  Bransfield,  Jr.  is  regional  manager- 
reservations  south  for  Northeast  Airlines. 

Andrea  Kallfa  Clem  is  a  social  worker  at 
the  Welfare  Department  of  Agawam. 

Myron  D.  Cohen  and  Elliot  D.  Lerner  passed 
the  Massachusetts  c.p.a.  examination  and  are 
staff  accountants  with  Peat,  Marwick,  Mitchell 
&  Co.,  a  c.p.a.  firm  in  Boston. 

l/Lt.  Jeffrey  A.  Cronig,  a  supply  manage- 
ment officer,  is  a  member  of  a  unit  which 
earned  the  usaf  Outstanding  Unit  Award. 

Kathryn  W.  DeLibero  is  a  division  manager 
with  the  Sears,  Roebuck  Company  in  Hicksville, 
New  York. 

Eileen  Dorgas,  a  substitute  teacher  in 
Tucson,  married  Ted  F.  Douthitt  on  June 
li,  1970. 

Sgt.  Donald  G.  Farrington,  an  aerial  weather 
observer,  is  serving  with  the  Air  Force  in 
Japan. 

The  Rev.  Harry  S.  Finkenstaedt,  Jr.  'G  and 
his  wife  and  three  children  are  doing  parish 
work  in  England. 

Janice  Hoare  French  received  an  M.A.  degree 
in  German  from  the  University  of  Colorado 
last  December. 

Andrew  F.  Gori,  a  buyer  with  the  locomotive 
department  of  General  Electric's  transportation 
division  in  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  is  enrolled  in 
marketing  management  courses  sponsored  by 
g.e.  His  wife,  the  former  Diane  McCobb  '69, 
is  team-teaching  English  at  West  Lake  Junior 
High  School  in  Millcreek  Township. 

Wayne  F.  MacCallum  received  an  M.S. 
degree  in  wildlife  management  from  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  University  last  March. 

Irene  A.  Menard  is  a  tax  auditor  in  Hartford 
for  the  Internal  Revenue  Service. 

Roger  H.  O'Donnell  is  a  junior  executive  in 
engineering  sales  with  the  Westinghouse  Cor- 
poration in  New  York  City. 


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Patricia  A.  Petow,  a  teacher  in  the  Somer- 
ville  schools,  is  a  public  relations  consultant 
for  Metropolitan  Security  Service,  Inc.  of 
Somerville.  Formerly,  she  had  been  a  reporter 
for  the  Worcester  Telegram  6V  Gazette. 

Robert  Rappaport  received  a  D.M.D.  degree 
in  May  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania's 
School  of  Dental  Medicine.  He  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Marilyn  Katz,  will  be  living  in 
Chicago  where  Robert  will  take  specialty 
training  in  orthodontics  at  the  University  of 
Illinois  School  of  Dentistry. 

Capt.  Paul  J.  St.  Laurent,  as  commanding 
officer  of  Company  B  of  the  815  th  Engineer 
Battalion,  received  the  Army  Commendation 
Medal  in  Viet  Nam. 

l/Lt.  Alan  H.  Webster,  an  Air  Force  pilot, 
served  in  Viet  Nam. 

Sgt.  David  S.  Wood,  an  accounting  and 
finance  specialist,  is  serving  with  the  Air  Force 
in  Spain. 

1969 

James  R.  Barabe  is  a  sales  representative  for 
Proctor  &  Gamble  in  Cambridge. 

Gary  J.  Bianchi,  a  programmer  for  John 
Hancock,  married  Mary  Lea  Mabie,  an  English 
teacher  at  Maynard  Junior  High  School. 

i/Lt.  Thomas  N.  Berard,  as  executive  officer 
of  the  278th  general  supply  company,  100th 
Supply  and  Service  Battalion,  received  the 
Army  Commendation  Medal. 

Stewart  F.  Clark,  Jr.  is  working  on  his  M.S. 
degree  in  geological  science  at  the  University 
of  Maine  in  Orono.  He  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Denise  Westort  '68,  have  a  son,  Ira  Stewart 
Jonathan,  born  May  12,  1970. 

Virginia  Leon  de  Vivero  'G  is  a  graduate 
student  and  part-time  lecturer  at  UMass. 

2/Lt.  Raymond  J.  DeTerra  has  graduated 
from  the  weapons  controller  course  at  Tyndall 
afb  in  Florida. 

A/i  Robert  J.  DiPadua,  an  accounting  and 
finance  specialist,  has  been  named  Outstanding 
Airman  in  his  unit  at  Thule  ab  in  Greenland. 

Harvey  D.  Elman  has  been  named  director 
of  public  relations  at  Bryant  &  Stratton  College. 
He  is  also  the  varsity  basketball  coach. 

Jonathan  and  Jeanne  La  Vine  Gerard  '70, 
having  spent  the  past  year  as  employees  of 
Temple  De  Hirsch  in  Seattle,  are  on  their  way 
to  Jerusalem  where  Jonathan  will  enter  Hebrew 
Union  College. 

Capt.  Dave  S.  Harrigan  'G  received  the 
Bronze  Star  for  service  in  Viet  Nam. 


David  R.  Katz  is  teaching  history,  govern- 
ment, and  international  relations  at  East 
Bridgewater  High  School.  He  also  coaches 
freshman  football  and  is  the  assistant  varsity 
basketball  coach. 

Maria  A.  Keil  'G  is  a  graduate  student  in 
the  Freiburg  program. 

Donna  Shumaker  Loates  is  a  teacher  in 
Etobicoke,  Ontario. 

William  Mailler,  Jr.,  a  social  worker,  married 
Karen  A.  Shulda  '68,  a  master's  degree  candi- 
date, on  June  8, 1968. 

2/Lf.  Myles  7.  McTernan,  Jr.  completed  the 
usaf  navigator-bombardier  course  at  Mather 
afb  in  California. 

Francis  X.  McWilliams  is  in  Viet  Nam  with 
the  Army  and  his  wife,  the  former  Maureen 
Burke,  is  a  teacher  in  Billerica. 

Diane  L.  Curley,  a  social  worker  for  the 
State  of  New  Jersey,  married  Emery  J.  Messen- 
ger, an  electrical  engineer,  on  September  28, 
1969. 

Alberta  Mazur  Nally  is  teaching  first  grade 
in  Olivet,  Michigan.  She  and  her  husband 
William  were  married  on  July  4,  1970. 

Deborah  A.  Oliveira,  a  math-science  teacher 
in  Dartmouth,  married  Peter  J.  McMahon  on 
November  21,  1970. 

Joel  P.  Palley  received  an  M.A.  degree  in 
economics  from  the  Pennsylvania  State  Uni- 
versity last  March. 

Dave  B.  Pierce  is  an  industrial  engineer  for 
Prest-Wheel,  Inc.  in  South  Grafton.  He  and 
his  wife  Linda  have  two  sons,  William  Robert 
born  July  4,  1969,  and  Keith  Frederick  born 
September  11, 1970. 

James  T.  Pye,  an  Army  private,  was  named 
trainee  of  the  week  for  the  second  basic  combat 
training  brigade  at  Fort  Jackson  in  South 
Carolina. 

Robert  T.  Rice  was  recently  honored  by  the 
President  of  Smith  College  as  curator  of  Smith's 
Museum  of  Art.  Before  coming  to  Smith,  he 
was  an  architectural  designer  for  firms  in 
Pittsfield,  Stockbridge,  and  Amherst.  In  May 
and  June  of  last  year,  Robert  had  an  exhibit  of 
prints  at  the  Berkshire  Museum. 

Allan  M.  Ryan,  Jr.  has  accepted  a  position 
in  the  quality  control  group  at  Microsystems 
International  Ltd.  in  Ottawa.  He  and  his  wife 
Carol  have  announced  the  birth  of  Robert 
Joseph,  born  September  25,  1970. 

2/Lf.  Robert  J.  Sheehan  recently  assumed 
command  of  Company  C,  48th  medical  battalion 
of  the  2nd  Armored  Division  at  Fort  Hood. 

l/Lt.  Thomas  D.  Simpson  earned  the  Bronze 


Star  while  assigned  as  Chief  of  Systems  Engi- 
neering and  Control  with  Headquarters  De- 
tachment, 160th  Signal  Group,  in  Viet  Nam. 

Michael  and  llene  Zaleski  Sissenwine  '68 
are  attending  graduate  school  in  oceanography 
at  the  University  of  Rhode  Island.  The  couple 
were  married  on  May  22, 1969. 

i/Lt.  Louis  N.  Stamas,  Jr.  is  a  supply  man- 
agement officer. 

Janet  Spring  Toner  teaches  ninth  and 
eleventh  grade  English  at  Sandwich  High 
School. 

Charles  V.  Warren  is  a  doctoral  student  and 
and  instructor  at  UMass. 

Carol  Ann  Zall  Lincoln  is  taking  courses 
toward  a  master's  degree  at  UMass.  She  and 
her  husband,  Alan  '71G,  have  a  daughter, 
Alisa  Kim. 

1970 

Barbara  M.  Bell  is  a  secretary  to  the  vice- 
president  of  engineering  in  a  Boston  computer 
firm. 

Robert  F.  Willis,  the  music  director  at  David 
Prouty  High  School  in  Spencer,  and  Martha 
Webb,  '67,  a  second  grade  teacher  in  Palmer, 
were  married  on  June  27, 1970.  Martha  re- 
ceived her  M.  Ed.  degree  from  UMass  in  1969. 


Marriages 

Susan  W.  Harris  '58  to  Neal  A.  Brown.  Patri- 
cia Hurley  '62G  to  Mr.  Folmbee.  Carele 
Stone  '63  to  Lawrence  Mayer.  Marion  E. 
Damon  '64  to  Wayne  V.  Salminen,  Jr.  Carol 
F.  Lufkin  '65  to  James  E.  Plato.  Jeannette  M. 
Radice  '65  to  John  V.  Scanlon.  Marcia  Suther- 
land '65  to  William  E.  Pearson.  Gordon  K. 
Breault  '66  to  Sheila  Gebhardt,  January  25, 
1971.  Diane  C.  Del  Genio  '66  to  Thomas  A. 
Good.  Julie  C.  Holm  '66  to  David  T.  Tilden, 
August  -vj,  1968.  Arthur  H.  Bronstein  '67  to 
Elaine  D.  Lounsbury  '69.  Karen  E.  Kane  '67  to 
John  Kallipalites,  July  1968.  Amy  M.  St. 
Clair  '67  to  Philip  Goepp,  April  12, 1969.  Nancy 
E.  Clark  '68  to  Raymond  K.  Anderson.  Carol  A. 
Kelly  '68  to  Bill  O.  Wilen.  Janis  H.  Long  '68 
to  Wesley  E.  Price.  Elizabeth  A.  Scott  '68  to 
Harold  E.  Gerrior,  Jr.,  August  3,  1968.  Kathleen 
M.  McMahon  '68  to  Richard  Moltz  '68G.  Ida 
L.  Sherman  '68  to  Bruce  A.  Cole.  Lynne  J. 
Swierzbin  '68  to  Francis  B.  Lally.  Lawrence  E. 
Brown  '6aG  to  Kathryn  L.  Rodocker  '70. 
Patricia  D.  Chornyak  '6g  to  Philip  J.  Grise. 
Judith  C.  Ciullo  '6g  to  David  R.  Sullivan. 


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Susan  L.  Follett  '69  to  Joseph  D.  Galvin.  Cyn- 
thia L.  Creenberg  '69  to  Mr.  Schwartz.  Deborah 
Gunn  '69  to  Mr.  Smyth,  loan  Hanlon  '69  to 
Henry  Correia,  Jr.  Vivian  Huber  '69  to  Mr. 
Cameron.  Paul  E.  Johnson,  Jr.  '69  to  Martha 
L.  Whelan  '69,  January  31,  1970.  Jenny  L. 
Kirley  '69  to  Edmund  J.  Wagner.  Catherine  L. 
Krautter  '69C  to  Phillip  Schmidt.  Alice  N. 
Martin  '69  to  Mr.  Neely.  Patricia  E.  Perrell  '69 
to  William  R.  Palombo.  Carol  E.  Sellars  '69 
to  Lee  Davis  Kelley,  January  17, 1970.  Paul  J. 
Silverman  '69  to  Enid  J.  Salamoff  '69.  Pris- 
cilla  L.  Stewart  '69  to  Ronald  Levesque. 
Corinne  Trabucco  '69  to  Robert  Klump.  John 
E.  Weir  '69  to  Margaret  M.  Flint  '69.  Dorothy 
M.  Silvia  '69  to  James  E.  Mello. 

Births 

Jonathan  Lowell  born  December  28, 1970  to 
Karin  and  Robert  L.  Larson  '38.  Jocelyn  Elise 
born  September  5,  1970  to  Lawrence  and 
Patricia  Baron  Crowley  '63;  Jocelyn's  sister, 
Monica  Elizabeth,  is  two  years  old.  John  born 
in  July  1970  to  Arthur  and  Charlotte  Scannell 
Follansbee  '63.  John  born  January  1,  1970  to 
John  and  Lucille  Johnson  Sampson  '63.  Kristin 
Marie  born  September  7,  1970  to  Robert  and 
Susan  Lemanis  Wolf  '63.  Alec  born  in  March 
1971  to  Norman  and  Emily  Eldred  Yeo  '63. 
Shannon  Elizabeth  born  December  5,  1970  to 
William  '64  and  Edith  Doyle  Walsh  '67.  An- 
drew Travers  born  May  4,  1970  to  Keith  and 
Judith  Hripak  Bettencourt  '63.  Donna  Lynne 
born  January  21,  1971  to  Edward  and  Dorothy 
Cahill  Champlin  '63.  Neal  Edward  born  April 
14,  1971  to  Earl  and  Joyce  Kostek  Lapierre  '63. 
Jeffrey  Mitchell  born  January  3,  1971  to  Mff- 
chell  '63  and  Sandra  Coddard  Liro  '63.  Jay 
Justin  born  July  31,  1970  to  Edward  and  Susan 
Morash  Powers  '63.  Jeffery  Allen  born  Jan- 
uary 19,  1971  to  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Robert  A. 
Bass  '66;  Jeffrey's  older  brother  David  is  two 
years  old.  Scott  Philip  born  January  28,  1971  to 
Curtis  '66S  and  Aleta  Talbot  Cromack  '69. 
Steven  Mark  born  February  25,  1971  to  Arnold 
'66  and  Marcia  Blumenthal  Daniels  '67.  Me- 
lissa Lauren  born  February  23,  1971  to  Law- 
rence and  Jean  Hammersley  Partridge  '67. 
Geoffrey  Edward  born  March  11,  1971  to 
Edward  and  Judith  James  Buswick  '67.  Nancy 
Lin  born  October  21,  1970  to  Arthur  and 
Susan  Neet  Dimock  '67.  Michael  Scott  born 
November  23,  1970  to  Arthur  '70  and  Cynthia 
Berg  Rubenstein  '69. 


Deaths 

Robert  A.  Cooley  '93  died  two  years  ago. 
Dr.  Thome  Carpenter  '02  has  died.  Dr.  Car- 
penter was  a  most  distinguished  physiologist, 
having  published  scores  of  articles  dealing 
with  respiratory  and  digestive  phenomena. 
After  receiving  his  Ph.D.  degree  from  Harvard 
in  1915,  he  was  associated  with  the  American 
Institute  of  Nutrition,  (and  was  president  of 
that  organization  in  1940),  and  the  Nutrition 
Laboratory  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  of 
Washington,  (eventually  achieving  the  position 
of  director  of  the  Boston  branch.)  Dr.  Carpenter 
had  a  wide  reputation  for  careful  and  valuable 
work,  and  the  quality  of  his  research  was 
highly  regarded. 

Dr.  Allen  N.  Swain  '03  died  April  25,  1971  at 
the  age  of  88.  A  graduate  of  Suffolk  Law 
School,  he  had  practiced  law  in  the  Boston 
area  for  many  years.  He  was  very  active  in  the 
Masons  and  was  a  member  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bar  Association,  Psi  Sigma  Kappa,  and  a 
past  president  of  Dedham  Rotary.  During 
World  War  I,  he  had  served  with  the  Inter- 
national Red  Cross  in  France.  Dr.  Swain  is 
survived  by  a  son  and  two  nieces. 

Winthrop  A.  Cummings  '08  has  died. 

Theoren  L.  Warner  '08  died  March  19,  1971  at 
the  age  of  86.  Known  throughout  Massachu- 
setts as  one  of  New  England's  most  efficient 
municipal  officials,  he  had  resigned  as  the 
Sunderland  town  clerk,  after  twenty  years  of 
service,  only  a  few  weeks  before  the  last 
annual  election  because  of  ill  health.  Never- 
theless, he  received  more  than  200  complimen- 
tary votes.  Known  with  affection  as  "Pop" 
Warner,  he  took  pride  in  being  the  first  at  the 
State  House  the  day  after  state  and  national 
elections  with  Sunderland's  official  returns. 

Mr.  Warner  was  a  civil  engineer  with  the 
U.S.  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey  until  1913 
when  he  began  farming  in  Sunderland.  Thir- 
teen years  later,  he  established  the  Warner 
Brothers  Construction  Company.  As  a  Sunder- 
land resident,  he  was  very  active  in  com- 
munity and  church  activities.  His  wife,  six 
children,  nineteen  grandchildren,  three  great- 
grandchildren, three  brothers  and  a  sister 
survive  him. 

William  N.  Wallace  '10  died  March  6, 1971.  He 
had  operated  a  fruit  farm  in  Wilbraham  until 
World  War  II,  when  he  worked  as  an  inspector 
for  the  Westinghouse  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  four  children, 


and  several  grandchildren. 

Ralph  W.  Howe  '13  died  March  25,  1971.  He 
had  been  a  pharmacist  in  Wilmington,  Ver- 
mont, for  over  fifty  years  and  was  the  owner 
of  the  Parmelee  and  Howe  Drug  Store.  A 
fifty-five  year  member  of  the  Wilmington  Con- 
gregational Church  and  deacon  emeritus  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  Lodge  for  over  fifty  years  and 
a  leader  in  his  community.  His  wife,  three 
children,  twelve  grandchildren,  a  brother  and 
a  sister  survive  him. 

Calmy  Wies  '17  died  April  24,  1971  at  the  age 
of  77.  He  was  chief  chemist  of  the  Shell  Oil 
Laboratory  of  Seawarren,  New  Jersey,  at  the 
time  of  his  retirement  in  1953.  Mr.  Wies  held 
many  patents  developed  during  his  stay  at 
Shell.  He  is  survived  by  his  son,  three  sisters, 
one  brother,  and  four  grandchildren. 
Paul  F.  Hunnewell  '18  died  December  24,  1970 
in  Port  Hueneme,  California. 

Prof.  Oliver  C.  Roberts  '18  died  April  9,  1971. 
He  had  retired  as  professor  of  horticulture 
at  UMass  and  had  been  living  in  Florida  since 
1961.  An  active  Mason  and  church  member, 
he  was  also  a  former  president  of  Hampshire 
Council,  Boy  Scouts  of  America.  His  wife,  a 
son,  a  sister,  three  grandchildren,  and  one 
great-grandchild  survive  him. 

Marion  Wells  Cerrish  '19  died  April  29,  1971 
at  the  age  of  73.  For  about  forty  years  she  had 
reported  for  the  Springfield  Daily  News  and 
the  Springfield  Republican,  during  which  time 
her  by-line  appeared  on  many  features.  Mrs. 
Gerrish  took  an  active  part  in  town  affairs  and 
assisted  in  establishing  the  zoning  system  in 
Springfield.  She  was  a  member  of  the  planning 
board,  having  served  at  the  board's  inception. 
She  is  survived  by  her  husband  and  niece. 
Ralph  Shaw  Stedman  '20  died  suddenly  April 
21,  1971  in  Daytona  Beach.  Ralph  was  a  star 
basketball  player  in  college  and  a  sports 
enthusiast  through  life.  He  was  a  partner  in 
Newman  &  Stedman,  produce  merchants,  and 
president  of  the  A.  C.  Hunt  Company,  both 
of  Springfield.  For  the  past  twenty  years  he 
had  lived  in  Daytona  Beach,  where  he  was  an 
associate  of  the  Atlantic  Realty  Company 
and  the  director  and  general  manager  of 
Loutitt  Manor,  a  retirement  complex.  Mr. 
Stedman  was  a  past  commodore  of  the  Hali- 
fax River  Yacht  Club.  He  was  a  World  War  I 
veteran.  His  wife,  four  children,  a  sister, 
and  fourteen  grandchildren  survive  him. 


Rolland  F.  hovering  '22  died  March  29,  1971 
following  a  lengthy  illness.  After  working 
in  creameries  in  Pittsfield  and  Springfield, 
Mr.  Lovering  moved  to  Troy,  New  York,  in 
1928  where  he  was  employed  as  factory 
supervisor  at  Wager's  Ice  Cream  Company. 
After  thirty  years  of  service  there,  he  became 
a  plant  engineer  at  the  Sealtest  Company  in 
Albany,  retiring  in  1964.  His  wife,  three 
children,  thirteen  grandchildren,  one  great- 
grandchild, a  brother  and  a  sister  survive  him. 

Margaret  Koerber  Parson  '31  died  in  1968. 

Edward  W.  Watson  '32  died  in  February  1969. 

Dr.  Laurence  H.  Kyle  '37  died  April  24, 1971 
in  Balboa,  Panama.  Dr.  Kyle,  who  was  chair- 
man of  the  department  of  medicine  at  the 
Georgetown  University  School  of  Medicine, 
was  in  Panama  on  a  teaching  visit  to  Gorgas 
General  Hospital.  He  was  internationally 
known  for  his  research  in  metabolic  diseases, 
particularly  obesity  and  bone  diseases,  and 
two  years  ago  he  was  honored  with  a  master- 
ship in  the  American  College  of  Physicians.  He 
had  received  his  M.D.  degree  from  Boston 
University  in  1941,  and  had  pursued  his  post- 
graduate work  at  Boston  City  Hospital  and 
the  National  Institutes  of  Health  after  a  three 
year  military  stint  during  World  War  II.  Dr. 
Kyle  had  been  at  Georgetown  since  1948,  during 
which  time  he  had  served  as  a  consultant  at 
Walter  Read  Army  Medical  Center,  the 
National  Naval  Medical  Center,  the  nih 
Clinical  Center,  Andrews  afb  Hospital,  and 
the  Washington  Veterans  Administration 
Hospital.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife  and 
three  children. 

William  A.  Edwards  '51  died  recently. 


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The  Alumnus 


University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 

Volume  II,  Number  4     October/November  1971 


In  this  issue 

Letters     page  i 

The  Peanut  Papers     page  3 

College  graduates  need  not  apply     page  7 

On  Campus     page  11 

Continuing  the  tradition     page  20 

Big  Mac     page  21 

He's  tough  and  he's  fair     page  23 

Comment     page  24 

Club  Calendar     page  24 

The  Classes  Report     page  26 


The  Alumnus 

October/November  1971 

Volume  II,  Number  4 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

Evan  V.  Johnston  '50,  Executive  Vice-President 

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credits  : 

David  Webster,  Cover,  pages  3,  5,  6,  and  11. 

Corbin  Gwaltney,  page  8. 

John  McCarthy,  page  10. 

Arthur  Cohen,  pages  14  and  15. 

The  Collegian,  pages  16  and  18. 

Russell  Mariz,  pages  18, 19,  21,  22,  and  23. 


Letters 


From  the  front  lines 

Bob  Uljua  '67  recently  showed  up  at  my 
squadron  here  at  Da  Nang,  and  it  was  like  a 
drink  of  cold  water  to  a  parched  throat.  After 
a  couple  of  long  talks  about  "the  good  old 
days,"  I  realized  how  I'd  forgotten  how  great 
UMass  was  and  how  I'd  never  expressed  any 
appreciation.  It's  a  bad  scene  to  have  to  rely 
on  good  memories  for  enjoyment,  but  I  have 
so  many  from  UMass  that  I  could  go  another 
year  over  here.  Thanks  for  running  a  great 
school — I  hope  I  can  come  back  when  I  get 
out. 

JOHN  N.  KOMICK  '66 

Da  Nang  AFB,  Viet  Nam 

Low  tuition  prevents 

intellectual  and  professional  starvation 

In  reference  to  your  "Comment"  by  Mr. 
Johnston  in  the  April/May  Alumnus,  I  must 
agree  wholeheartedly  with  the  view  expressed 
by  former  UMass  president  Dr.  John  Lederle. 
Many  students  who  made  snide  remarks  about 
the  apparent  invisibility  of  Dr.  Lederle  during 
my  studies  at  UMass  from  '64  to  '68  failed  to 
realize  that  this  man  was  shunning  publicity 
and  frequent  appearances  in  order  to  more 
efficiently  promote  the  future  increased  ex- 
cellence of  the  school. 

The  purpose  of  the  University  (freshman 
English  aside)  is  to  provide  quality  education 
for  the  citizens  who  support  it,  both  finan- 
cially and  spiritually,  both  present  and  future. 
Providing  jobs  for  worthy  educators  is  also 
no  small  part  of  its  role.  With  the  cost  of  ev- 
erything becoming  more  and  more  prohibitive, 
the  natural  assumption  is  to  include  education 
in  this  financial  headless  chicken  race.  "Why," 
many  ask,  "should  the  cost  of  education  re- 
main untouched  in  the  midst  of  an  inflationary 
trend  which  has  managed  to  scare  everything 
else  up  a  greased  flagpole,  [a  flagpole]  which 
has  an  upraised  rip-saw  edge  to  make  com- 
ing back  down  again  much  less  than  pleas- 
.  ant?"  Because,  as  the  article  points  out,  to 


attempt  to  wring  more  money  from  its  stu- 
dents (for  whatever  cause  or  causes)  would 
be  an  attempt  to  duplicate  the  medical  school 
mess  (nationwide)  which  is  now  finding  that 
the  tremendous  cost  in  medical  education  over 
the  past  fifteen  years  is  resulting  in  a  shortage 
of  physicians  so  acute  that  many  towns  and 
cities  have  no  medical  personnel  available.  In 
short,  increasing  the  amount  of  money  a  school 
takes  from  its  students  can  only  result  in  an 
intellectual  and  professional  starvation  within 
the  following  two  decades — a  starvation  which 
would  absolutely  affect  all  levels  of  Massa- 
chusetts business  and  education  for  an  inde- 
terminate time  to  follow.  If  it  had  not  been  for 
the  University's  low  tuition  and  cost  of  living 
rates,  my  father's  death  in  my  sophomore  year 
of  high  school  may  very  well  have  destroyed 
any  chances  of  my  going  to  college. 

I  hope  that  I  have  not  beaten  an  already 
bruised  and  bloody  topic  into  a  state  of  shock, 
but  my  feelings  on  this  are  so  strong  that  I 
had  to  vent  them.  I  viewed  my  four  years  at 
UMass  as  one  of  the  most  enjoyable  and 
worthwhile  experiences  of  my,  so  far,  short 
life.  To  deny  any  resident  the  same  oppor- 
tunity for  emotional  and  educational  fulfill- 
ment borders  on  the  criminal,  especially  if  this 
denial  is  to  be  based  on  money. 

IT.  (j.G.)  KENNETH  B.  SHERMAN 

Naval  Air  Facility 

Cam  Ranh  Bay,  Viet  Nam 

Don't  forget  the  dolphins 

While  I  gather  that  other  alumni,  like  me, 
will  appreciate  Donald  Freeman's  article  on 
linguistics  in  the  June/July  issue,  several  minor 
points  of  that  article  may  be  open  to  some  dis- 
pute and  criticism.  First,  he  writes  that  "this 
knowledge  [which  all  human  beings  possess 
when  they  learn  to  use  their  mother  tongue] 
and  the  capacity  to  acquire  it  are  unique  to 
man."  If  Mr.  Freeman  is  writing  as  a  scientist, 
surely  he  should  know  better  than  to  make 
such  a  generalization.  At  this  departure  in 
human  history,  we  are  only  just  beginning  to 
learn  of  the  complexities  of  such  animals  as 
dolphins  and  of  the  dolphins'  ability  to  com- 
municate with  each  other  in  what  appears  to 
be  a  rational  manner.  Scientific  knowledge  is 
scanty  with  respect  to  animal  behavior.  Eth- 
nology, for  example,  as  a  discipline,  is  not  much 
more  than  a  decade  older  than  linguistics. 
Some  animals  may  have  the  capacity  to  learn 
a  language  and  to  communicate  just  as  man 


does.  But,  unless  I  am  mistaken,  scientific 
knowledge  does  not  yet  appear  to  have  ar- 
rived at  such  a  point  as  to  justify  the  general- 
ization I  take  issue  with.  And,  therefore,  I 
wonder  if  Mr.  Freeman  would  still  maintain 
the  truth  of  his  penultimate  sentence? 

Second,  the  participial  phrase  which  appears 
at  the  bottom  of  page  11  ("Returning  to  one 
of  our  original  ungrammatical  examples")  has 
no  grammatical  referent.  It  is  itself  ungram- 
matical. 

STEVEN  FINER  '69 

Boston,  Massachusetts 

Taking  pride 

I  have  just  read  Mike  Hench's  letter  in  Vol. 
II,  No.  3,  and  want  to  express  strong  agree- 
ment with  his  idea  that  The  Alumnus  should 
recognize  Paul  Theroux  '63.  For  three  years 
I  have  expected  such  recognition  and  have 
been  disappointed.  We  were  very  proud  of  Paul 
when  he  was  an  undergraduate.  Let  us  con- 
tinue to  show  our  pride  in  the  truly  fine  litera- 
ture he  has  produced  as  an  alumnus. 

DEBORAH  CHAPIN  PELLETIER  '64 

Palmer,  Massachusetts 

Ed:  Jungle  Lovers  by  Paul  Theroux  is  featured 
in  this  issue's  "On  Campus"  section. 

Mixed  blessings 

We  certainly  enjoy  our  alumni  magazine.  Our 
university  has  changed  so  much  in  the  short 
time  we  have  left,  and  we  appreciate  the  op- 
portunity to  read  of  these  changes. 

GEORGE  '67  AND  CYNTHIA  BERG  WHITE  '68 

Munich,  Germany 

The  Alumnus  is  very  readable  and  "profes- 
sional" in  its  layout.  All  responsible  are  to  be 
congratulated  for  the  tremendous  effort  which 
must  be  required  for  such  an  achievement. 

RAYMOND  A.  KINMONTH,  JR.  '50 

Arlington  Heights,  Illinois 

I  wish  to  continue  receiving  the  Alumnus 
magazine  even  though  I  do  not  altogether 
approve  of  the  new  format.  I  want  more  news 
on  alumni,  on  campus  happenings,  etc.  If  I 
want  to  read  "problems  of  the  world"  I  prefer 
Time  or  Life  or  The  New  Yorker.  Many 
alumni  agree  with  me. 

FLORA  JACOBS  VALENTINE  '67 

Crothersville,  Indiana 


We  enjoy  The  Alumnus  immensely  and  think 
you  people  do  a  wonderful  job  keeping  the 
alumni  informed. 

ROSS  AND  DONNA  FREW  ANDERSON  '69 

Northampton,  Massachusetts 

Keep  up  the  good  work  with  The  Alumnus. 
I'm  with  you  and  believe  that  learning  never 
stops  and  should  properly  be  a  function  of  an 
alumni  magazine — no  matter  how  disguised. 

The  articles  challenge  one  to  read  them  and 
think  about  them.  In  order  to  grow,  the  Uni- 
versity has  to  change  so  I  think  the  alums 
ought  to  be  kept  abreast  of  changes  as  they 
occur.  As  the  old  Boston  Transcript  used  to 
say — "Today's  truth,  tomorrow's  trend." 

RICHARD  F.  JACKSON  '49 
Pocomoke  City,  Maryland 

My  husband  and  I  look  forward  to  each  new 
issue  of  The  Alumnus.  The  new  format  and 
up-to-date  articles  make  for  excellent 
reading.  We  especially  enjoy  the  class  reports 
which  keep  us  in  distant  touch  with  former 
friends.  Thank  you,  and  keep  up  the  good 
work. 

PATRICIA  RYDER  FOLEY  '66 

West  Hartford,  Connecticut 

At  long  last,  I  find  myself  writing  to  corro- 
borate all  the  good  things  that  have  been  said 
about  The  Alumnus,  and  its  new  look.  If  the 
congratulations  keep  coming,  as  I  am  sure  they 
will,  your  "Letters"  column  will  eventually 
monopolize  most  forthcoming  issues. 

JOSEPH  A.  DELVECCHIO  '64 

Deputy  Executive  Director 
White  House  Conference  on 
Children  and  Youth 

Cohesiveness 

I  have  been  impressed  by  the  large  numbers 
coming  back  to  reunions  of  the  "Cow  College" 
classes,  the  relatively  small  numbers  from  the 
University.  It  is  not  because  old  men  have 
more  time  or  more  nostalgia  than  young  men 
with  families  trying  to  win  a  place  in  the 
world.  We  came  back  just  as  strong  for  our 
fifth  and  tenth  as  for  our  fortieth  and  forty- 
fifth.  It  is  partly  the  difference  between  a 
school  of  five  hundred  and  one  of  fifteen  thou- 
sand, but  that  is  hardly  the  whole  answer. 
My  wife  also  graduated  from  a  small  college 
and  at  her  twenty-fifth  she  was  grievously  dis- 
appointed after  attending  our  reunions. 


At  the  last  meeting  of  my  college  fraternity 
I  attended,  two  of  our  illustrious  alumni  were 
holding  forth.  One,  a  professor  at  the  Agricul- 
tural College,  who  as  freshman  class  president 
had  been  tied  up  for  two  weeks  in  a  tobacco 
barn,  was  complaining  that  the  college  had 
gone  to  the  dogs  because  the  class  scraps  were 
not  what  they  used  to  be.  The  other,  a  trustee 
of  the  college,  who  was  president  of  the  soph- 
omore class  that  tied  up  his  fraternity  brother, 
was  inclined  to  think  that  things  had  improved. 

If  you  agree  with  the  president  of  Yale  who 
stated  that  the  chief  object  of  a  college  educa- 
tion is  to  teach  a  person  how  little  he  knows, 
if  you  agree  that  humility  is  the  beginning  of 
wisdom,  perhaps  you  may  consider  the  possi- 
bility that  the  hazing  of  freshmen  produced 
some  positive  good.  There  were  abuses.  I  agree 
thoroughly  with  Ralph  Russell  '22  in  the  last 
issue,  that  the  arena  parties  were  a  disgrace. 
I  agree  with  the  trustee  who  felt  that  wreck- 
ing a  trolley  car  and  a  house  was  carrying 
things  too  far. 

Yet  I  do  feel  that  most  of  the  rules  laid  down 
for  freshmen  in  my  day  benefited  them  and 
that  the  class  struggles  which  ensued  created 
a  cohesiveness  in  those  classes  not  found  in 
many  institutions  of  higher  learning  today. 

As  we  fought  together  so  did  we  play  to- 
gether. One  fifth  of  the  upperclassmen  were 
on  the  football  squad  and  most  of  the  others 
were  on  other  varsity  teams.  This  cannot  oc- 
cur in  a  large  university.  Some  boys  received 
permanent  injuries  in  football  but  the  only 
permanent  injury  I  have  heard  of  from  the 
class  scraps  was  on  an  old  alumnus  who 
proudly  showed  me  the  ear  bitten  off  in  a  ban- 
quet scrap. 

TRESCOTT  T.  ABELE  '23 

Pepperell,  Massachusetts 

Reprimand  for  printing  "stuff" 

Why  did  you  print  Joan  McKniff's  letter  con- 
cerning the  cia  in  Indonesia?  Was  it  because  of 
something  in  print  involving  those  "three  little 
initials"  or  because  something  important  was 
said?  I  hardly  think  the  latter.  I  do  think  that 
both  you  and  Miss  McKniff  should  be  repri- 
manded for  writing  and  printing  "stuff"  bear- 
ing no  information  or  enlightenment  while  at 
the  same  time  casting  implied  aspersions  upon 
an  organization  comprised  of  men  who  have 
performed  some  of  the  most  humanitarian 
feats  I  have  ever  heard  of.  I  ask  neither  for 
approval  or  condemnation  of  the  Air  America 


organization  by  anyone  of  our  readers  who 
has  not  had  the  opportunity  to  see  them  in  ac- 
tion, twenty-four  hours  a  day,  however  I  am 
proud  that  they  bear  the  name  of  our  country. 
I've  been  there  too,  in  more  than  one  country. 

Someday  I  will  acknowledge  writing  this 
letter  ...  I  wish  to  God  I  could  now. 

UNSIGNED 

Washington,  D.C. 


Where  are  you  going? 
What  are  you  doing? 
What  are  you  thinking? 

Please  keep  in  touch.  We  print  all  the  class 
notes  we  receive  and  many  letters  to  the  edi- 
tor. We  must,  however,  reserve  the  right  to 
shorten  or  edit  information  for  publication 
whenever  necessary.  Please  send  address 
changes  and  other  correspondence  to  Mrs. 
Katie  Gillmor,  Editor,  The  Alumnus,  Associate 
Alumni,  University  of  Massachusetts,  Amherst 
01002.  Please  note  that  The  Alumnus  is  six 
to  eight  weeks  in  production.  We  will  publish 
material  at  the  earliest  opportunity. 


The  Peanut  Papers 


Armed  only  with  determination, 
persistance  and  imagination,  one 
woman  set  out  to  endow  music 
scholarships  . .  .  with  peanuts? 


September  i6, 1969 

Mr.  W.  D.  Shaw 

President 

Planters  Peanuts 

Division  of  Standard  Brands,  Inc. 

Suffolk,  Virginia 

Dear  Mr.  Shaw: 

I  may  be  the  first  professor  of  music  in 
Planters'  long  history  to  write  suggesting  a 
public  relations  idea  to  you.  But  I've  no 
doubt  that  you  value  ideas,  no  matter  how 
nutty. 

Some  time  ago  I  was  presented  with  the 
gift  of  an  antique,  i920S-type  peanut  dis- 
penser, the  kind  that  once  stood  in  front  of 
every  self-respecting  candy  store  to  entice 
nickels  from  your  favorite  people,  the  pea- 
nut-lovers of  America. 

It  seemed  to  me  that  the  machine's  nos- 
talgic charm  could  serve  a  useful  purpose: 
the  raising  of  money  toward  scholarships 
which  some  of  our  talented  music  students 
urgently  need.  I  placed  the  machine  at  the 
door  of  my  campus  studio  and  made  it 
known  that  the  nickels  it  gathered  would 
go  to  our  department's  scholarship  fund, 
after  cost  of  peanuts  was  deducted.  With 
innocent  heart,  I  bought  and  installed  the 
shelled  unsalted  peanuts  that  would  soon 
launch  a  thousand  Mozarts,  Gershwins  and 
Rubinsteins. 

Alas,  the  harsh  truth  of  un-Keynesian 
economics  soon  beclouded  my  innocence. 
The  machine  holds  two  and  one-half  pounds 


of  peanuts.  I  put  in  one  and  one-half  pounds, 
for  which  I  paid  $1.50.  The  machine  dis- 
penses that  quantity  of  peanuts  in  about 
twenty  sales.  At  a  nickel  a  sale  that  means, 
even  to  my  unmathematical  intelligence,  a 
loss  of  fifty  cents  each  time  the  machine  is 
stocked.  The  value  of  a  nickel  has  unfortu- 
nately diminished  somewhat  since  the  1920s. 
This  is  not  exactly  an  efficient  way  to  create 
scholarships.  (In  fact,  we  may  find  ourselves 
eliminating  our  few  existing  scholarships, 
one  by  one,  in  order  to  keep  the  peanut 
machine  stocked!) 

And  that  is  why  I  write  to  you  now.  It 
seems  to  me  that  Planters  Peanuts  can  gain 
some  unusual  publicity  and  public  sym- 
pathy if,  after  learning  of  our  plight,  you 
were  to  arrange  to  donate  a  regular  supply 
of  peanuts  for  the  machine.  Every  nickel 
placed  in  the  machine  would  then  be  pure 
"profit"  toward  our  scholarships.  I  can  en- 
vision appropriate  opening  installation-of- 
peanut  ceremonies,  with  officials  of  Planters 
and  our  music  department  in  attendance, 
followed  by  the  insertion  of  the  first  nickel, 
perhaps  by  a  prominent  musician,  etc.  Cor- 
rectly handled  by  good  public  relations  men, 
such  an  event  will  make  good  feature  story 
material  for  the  wire  services  and  network 
television  news. 

And  thus  ends  my  letter,  but  not,  I  hope, 
my  idea.  I  look  forward  to  learning  your 
reaction  to  it. 
Sincerely, 

(Miss)  Dorothy  Ornest 
Assistant  Professor  of  Music 
University  of  Massachusetts  at  Amherst 


September  24, 1969 

Miss  Dorothy  Ornest 
Assistant  Professor  of  Music 
University  of  Massachusetts 
Amherst,  Massachusetts 

Dear  Miss  Ornest: 

I  read  with  interest  your  letter  of  Septem- 
ber 16, 1969.  You  are  indeed  fortunate  to  be 
the  owner  of  a  1920  vintage  peanut  dis- 
penser. 

Matters  of  public  relations  are  handled 
through  our  Headquarters  Office  in  New 
York.  Accordingly,  I  have  forwarded  them 
your  letter  for  response. 

Yours  very  truly, 

William  D.  Shaw 

President,  Planters 

Suffolk,  Virginia 


November  12, 1969 

Miss  Dorothy  Ornest 
Assistant  Professor  of  Music 
University  of  Massachusetts 

Dear  Miss  Ornest: 

Belatedly,  I  am  replying  to  your  letter  of 
September  16th  addressed  to  our  Mr.  Wil- 
liam D.  Shaw  at  Suffolk,  Virginia. 

Your  dilemma  is  being  called  to  the  at- 
tention of  our  Boston  District  Office.  Within 
a  short  time,  one  of  our  representatives  will 
contact  you  and  I  am  sure  something  can  be 
worked  out  to  put  your  i920s-type  of  Pea- 
nut Dispenser  on  a  profitable  basis. 

We  do  appreciate  your  writing  to  us  and 
letting  us  share  in  what  we  hope  will  be  a 
satisfactory  solution  to  your  problem. 

Very  truly  yours, 

William  P.  Malloy 

Vice  President,  Marketing 

Planters  Division 

New  York  City 


July  10, 1970 

Mr.  William  P.  Malloy 
Vice  President,  Marketing 
Planters  Division 
New  York  City 

Dear  Sir: 

On  November  14, 1969  I  received  your 
letter  and  have  long  since  had  to  stop  ex- 
pecting a  follow-up  to  come  at  any  moment. 
What  has  happened? 

Your  letter  was  greatly  encouraging.  I'm 
sure  that  Planters  Peanuts'  participation  in 
my  project  of  raising  music  scholarship 
money  with  my  1920  peanut  dispenser  can 
only  bring  advertising/public  relations  ad- 
vantage to  your  company  at  the  same  time 
it  helps  our  cause.  My  original  letter  to  Mr. 
William  D.  Shaw  outlined  the  possibilities. 

The  University  of  Massachusetts  begins 
its  fall  semester  on  September  10th.  May  I 
hope  that  well  before  that  date  we  can  work 
out  an  arrangement  pleasant  for  Planters 
and  my  peanut  machine? 
Very  truly  yours, 
(Miss)  Dorothy  Ornest 


May  24, 1971 

Mr.  E.  J.  Lee 
Field  Sales 
Planters  Division 
Boston,  Massachusetts 

Dear  Mr.  Lee: 

I  am  enclosing  my  original  letter  to  Plant- 
ers to  start  the  project  Peanut  Machine  for 
Music  Scholarships. 

It  is  not,  I  realize,  a  major  project,  but  I 
feel  that  its  value  in  terms  of  publicity 
would  greatly  outweigh  the  effort  needed 
by  your  advertising  department  to  launch  it. 

I'll  look  forward  to  hearing  from  some- 
one soon.  Thank  you. 
Very  truly  yours, 
(Miss)  Dorothy  Ornest 

May  24, 1971 

Mr.  William  Malloy 
Vice  President,  Marketing 
Planters  Division 
New  York  City 

Dear  Mr.  Malloy: 

I  have  spoken  with  Mr.  Lee  in  the  Bos- 
ton office.  He  told  me  that  his  is  a  sales 
office  and  he  might  get  in  touch  with  your 
office  again. 

I'm  writing  as  though  this  were  the  only 
matter  to  cross  your  desk.  Your  secretary 
spoke  to  me  last  Thursday  and  knows  the 
details. 

I  won't  apologize  for  persevering  because 
I  feel  sure  that  a  minimum  effort  on  your 
part  could  only  bring  maximum  publicity 
for  your  company  and  our  scholarship  needs. 

Thank  you. 
Yours  truly, 
(Miss)  Dorothy  Ornest 


June  22,  1971 

Mr.  William  P.  Malloy 
Vice  President,  Marketing 
Planters  Division 
New  York  City 

Dear  Mr.  Malloy: 

A  correspondence  between  Dorothy 


Ornest,  an  assistant  professor  of  music  on 
our  campus,  and  your  office  regarding  a 
peanut  machine  and  a  scholarship  fund  has 
come  to  my  attention.  I'm  sure  it  is  a  trivial 
matter  as  far  as  Planters  is  concerned,  but 
the  opportunity  to  promote  scholarships  at 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  is  a  far 
from  trivial  matter  for  us. 

A  Mr.  Lee  at  your  Boston  office  has  called 
Miss  Ornest  to  say  that  peanuts  will  be  pro- 
vided for  her  machine.  But  peanuts,  after 
all,  are  only  peanuts,  and  we  would  rather 
not  let  the  matter  rest  here.  We  would  like 
to  capitalize  on  this  by  publicizing,  partic- 
ularly in  our  alumni  magazine,  Miss  Ornest's 
unique  approach  to  fund  raising  and  the 
cooperation  of  Planters  Peanuts. 

I'd  like  to  talk  to  you  about  this  in  person. 
I  will  be  in  New  York  City  on  Friday,  July 
23,  and  would  appreciate  it  if  you  could  see 
me  then. 

Sincerely, 

Katie  S.  Gillmor 

Editor,  The  Alumnus 

University  of  Massachusetts  at  Amherst 

June  28, 1971 

Katie  S.  Gillmor 
Editor,  The  Alumnus 
University  of  Massachusetts 
Amherst,  Massachusetts 

Dear  Mrs.  Gillmor: 

Thank  you  very  much  for  your  letter  of 
June  22, 1971.  I  am  completely  familiar  with 
the  Peanut  Machine  and  Miss  Ornest's  de- 
sire to  set  up  a  scholarship  fund  based  on 
the  receipts  therefrom. 

I  will  be  happy  to  meet  with  you  on  July 
23rd.  If  I  am  not  available,  my  assistant, 
Joel  Mitchell,  will  see  you.  We  will  make 
any  information  available  we  have  for  the 
article  you  are  planning  in  your  alumni 
publication. 

Sincerely, 

William  P.  Malloy 


July  28, 1971 

Katie  S.  Gillmor 
Editor,  The  Alumnus 
University  of  Massachusetts 
Amherst,  Massachusetts 

Dear  Mrs.  Gillmor: 
The  Peanut  Machine 

D.O.  University  of  Mass.,  Music  Dept.  to 
W.D.S.,  Planters  Manufacturing — 9/24/69 

W.D.S.  to  D.O.— 9/24/69 

W.P.M.,  Planters  Marketing  to  D.O. — 
11/12/69 

D.O.  to  W.P.M.— 7/10/70 

D.O.  to  W.P.M.— 5/24/71 

D.O.  to  E.J.L.,  Planters  Field  Sales— 
5/24/71 

K.S.G.,  University  of  Mass.  Alumnus 
Editor  to  W.P.M.— 6/22/71 

W.P.M.  to  K.S.G.— 6/28/71 

K.S.G.  to  J.S.M.,  Planters  Marketing— 
7/26/71 

What  else  but  a  1920  peanut  machine 
could  generate  such  a  running  series  of 
correspondence  for  almost  two  years! 

Summarizing  all  this  correspondence,  and 
confirming  our  conversation  in  New  York 
last  week,  Planters  will  be  most  happy  to 
donate  a  supply  of  peanuts  on  a  regular 
basis  for  the  machine,  the  monies  from 
which  would  be  applied  towards  a  scholar- 
ship fund  for  the  University  of  Massachu- 
setts Music  Department.  We  would  hope 
that  you  would  also  give  Planters  Peanuts 
due  credit  as  a  participant  in  any  publicity 
which  you  may  develop  in  the  Peanut  Ma- 
chine Scholarship  Program. 

Let  us  know  when  you  plan  to  launch  this 
worthwhile  project  so  that  we  can  coordi- 
nate our  end  (i.e.  procedures  in  supplying 
product,  how  much,  how  often,  etc.). 

We  will  try  to  have  a  representative  on 
the  premises  when  the  project  officially  gets 


underway.  I  would  suggest  you  arrange  for 
local  newspaper  coverage  of  this  event.  I  am 
sure  that  the  idea  of  using  an  antique  pea- 
nut machine  as  a  vehicle  to  promote  schol- 
arship funds  would  be  interesting  reading 
for  the  entire  Western  Massachusetts  com- 
munity. 

Sincerely  yours, 

Joel  S.  Mitchell,  Jr. 

Product  Manager,  Planters 

New  York  City 


Are  peanuts,  after  all,  only  peanuts?  Not 
when  they  feed  an  antique  peanut  machine 
which  in  turn  feeds  a  scholarship  fund 
which  in  turn  brings  music  majors  to  the 
University  who  in  turn  keep  the  faculty 
happily  teaching  at  the  University. 

Peanuts,  however,  aren't  the  only  iron  in 
the  music  department's  fire.  The  scholarship 
fund  for  music  students  has  been  growing 
through  donations  by  private  individuals, 
contributions  from  several  department  ac- 
tivities, and  proceeds  from  the  annual  How- 
ard M.  Lebow  Memorial  Scholarship  Con- 
cert. But  the  interest  on  the  money  collected 
to  date  was  only  sufficient  to  provide  one 
$200  scholarship  last  year.  Another  $200 
scholarship  will  be  awarded  at  the  memorial 
concert  November  30. 

Music  department  members  would  like 
to  be  able  to  provide  larger  sums  for  more 
students.  So  Miss  Ornest  and  her  colleagues 
are  working  to  awaken  the  general  public 
to  the  music  students'  needs,  through  pea- 
nuts if  necessary.  Dorothy  has  even  threat- 
ened to  bring  the  Peanut  Machine  to  foot- 
ball games. 


College  graduates 
need  not  apply 


The  "real  world"  awaits  the  graduate.  Ten 
years  ago,  even  five  years  ago,  it  was  a 
world  of  opportunity.  Now  it  is  a  frighten- 
ing dead  end. 

Or  is  it?  Many  UMass  graduates  have 
found  jobs,  have  fulfilled  the  ambitions 
which  brought  them  to  college.  But  their 
numbers  are  dwindling,  because  the  num- 
ber of  available  positions  is  dwindling.  On 
the  bachelor's  level,  openings  are  down 
24  per  cent;  on  the  master's  level,  22  per 
cent;  and  on  the  doctoral  level,  43  per  cent. 
For  what  openings  there  are,  there  are  ex- 
perienced personnel,  men  and  women  re- 
cently laid  off  from  responsible  and  lucra- 
tive jobs,  waiting  for  an  opportunity  to 
rejoin  the  work  force.  And  so  the  frustra- 
tions that  more  and  more  young  men  and 
women  encounter  as  they  try  to  break  their 
way  into  careers,  or  even  interim  jobs, 
perpetuates  the  image  that  no  one  wants 
them  "out  there." 

The  job  market  isn't  inviting,  certainly, 
but  all  the  doors  are  not  closed.  Young 
graduates,  in  fact,  have  an  inside  edge,  if 
they  are  willing  to  go  anywhere  there  is 
work  and  take  whatever  salary  is  offered. 
Few,  however,  are  willing  to  abandon  the 
expectations  that  carried  them  through  col- 
lege— the  conviction  that  their  diploma  was 
a  passport  to  the  good  life.  That  that  life 
might  have  to  start  in  Timbuctoo  instead 
of  Boston,  as  a  copyboy  rather  than  as  a  re- 
porter, is  a  bitter  pill  for  some  to  swallow. 

Faced  with  the  prospect  of  unemploy- 
ment, the  qualified  graduate  will  often  go 
into  graduate  school  as  a  last  resort,  think- 
ing that  this  year's  job  market  is  rock  bot- 
tom, not  thinking  that  his  motivation  for 
graduate  training  ill-equips  him  for  rigor- 


ous study,  not  thinking  that  his  degree, 
should  he  make  it  through  with  a  master's 
or  doctorate,  will  further  limit  his  employ- 
ment potential  because  he  is  over-qualified 
for  the  broadest  range  of  jobs. 

Members  of  the  staff  of  the  University 
Placement  Office  are  very  concerned.  They 
see  the  numbers  of  students  who  were  un- 
able to  find  jobs  this  year,  the  growing  num- 
ber of  graduates  who  will  seek  jobs  next 
year  and  the  year  after.  And  they  see  prac- 
tically no  sources  for  new  jobs  for  the  pres- 
ent college  graduate.  They  do  see  a  need 
for  personnel  with  service  skills.  Plumbers, 
electricians,  mechanics,  and  technicians  are 
in  short  supply.  According  to  Bob  White, 
who  is  in  charge  of  career  planning  for  stu- 
dents with  Education  degrees,  there  is  no 
reason  why  college  graduates  aren't  train- 
ing for  a  variety  of  positions,  using  their 
education  as  a  base  for  their  growth  as 
individuals,  and  not  as  a  passport  to  a  par- 
ticular status  or  salary  level. 

But  many  students  do  not  take  this  ap- 
proach to  college,  nor  are  they  encouraged 
to  by  their  parents,  their  peers,  or  their 
secondary  school  experience.  So  the  staff  of 
the  Placement  Office  makes  the  best  they 
can  of  a  bad  situation,  offering  advice,  al- 
ternatives and  guidance,  trying  to  alert  stu- 
dents, as  early  as  the  freshman  year,  that 
"Open  Sesame"  won't  gain  them  entry  into 
the  promised  land. 

The  following  cases  are  not  necessarily  rep- 
resentative of  the  Class  of  'ji,  hut  they  are 
informative,  suggesting  that  no  matter 
how  well  you  were  trained,  how  early  you 
looked,  or  how  many  letters  you  wrote, 
there's  still  a  good  chance  that  you  won't 
find  a  first,  second,  or  even  third  choice 
position  in  a  given  field. 


More  fortunate  than  some 

Having  drawn  a  draft  lottery  number  of  78, 
Edward  Watts  did  not  look  for  a  job  or  use 
the  interview  facilities  offered  by  the  Place- 
ment Office  during  his  senior  year.  Even  if 
the  Army  did  not  claim  him  immediately, 
he  did  not  think  employers  would  be  inter- 
ested in  making  a  job  offer  to  someone 
about  to  be  drafted. 

In  May,  however,  he  flunked  his  draft 
physical  and  began  looking  for  a  job  right 
after  graduation.  "My  degree  is  in  account- 
ing," he  said,  "and  I  had  been  under  the 
impression  that  accounting  was  a  good  de- 
gree to  have  in  terms  of  the  number  of 
openings  and  pay.  As  weeks  went  by  and 
no  job  materialized,  though,  I  began  to 
wonder  what  opportunities  must  be  in  other 
fields  if  opportunities  in  accounting  were 
supposed  to  be  among  the  best." 

Ed  applied  to  about  twenty-five  places, 
including  cpa  firms,  insurance  companies 
and  banks,  and  he  also  tried  the  want  ads. 
When  he  registered  with  the  State  Profes- 
sional Employment  Office  in  Boston  and 
told  the  woman  at  the  desk  that  he  was 
from  UMass,  he  recalls  her  laughing  and 
saying  "It  seems  as  if  every  UMass  gradu- 
ate has  been  in  today.  You  should  have 
trained  to  be  a  plumber." 

He  began  to  fear  that  she  was  right.  At 
two  of  the  large  banks  in  Boston,  he  didn't 
even  get  past  the  receptionist.  "I  was  told 
there  wasn't  much  point  in  even  filling  out 
an  application,"  he  said.  "Not  only  were 
there  no  openings  in  accounting,  there 
were  no  openings  in  anything.  Some  places 
were  even  laying  people  off." 

Finally,  Ed  was  successful.  He  has  landed 
a  job  with  the  accounting  department  at 
John  Hancock  in  Boston  at  a  good  starting 
salary.  He  is  relieved  and  happy  to  be  do- 
ing work  appropriate  to  his  training.  But 
he  says  that  many  of  his  friends  are  not  so 
fortunate. 

"I  just  want  to  be  able  to  support  myself" 

With  his  ba  in  government,  a  neat  haircut, 
and  a  wide  tie,  Joel  Fox  tried  to  take  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  by  storm.  But  after  two  hectic 


m  Li 
Washington,  D.C.  might  be  an  exciting  place  to  work,  but  Joel  Fox  can't  find  a  job  there. 


weeks  pounding  the  capital's  pavements, 
he  came  back  to  Massachusetts. 

Looking  for  work  in  Washington  had 
proved  fruitless  and  frustrating.  Each  gov- 
ernment agency  does  its  own  hiring,  based 
on  an  eligibility  list  which  uses  the  Federal 
Civil  Service  Examination  as  a  criterion. 
Joel's  score  was  80;  had  it  been  90  or  above, 
he  would  have  been  assured  a  position.  As 
it  was,  he  made  the  rounds  of  Housing  and 
Urban  Development,  the  U.S.  Information 
Agency,  the  Labor  Department,  the  Civil 
Service  Commission,  the  State  Department, 
and  the  offices  of  his  Congressman  and 
Senators.  Traffic  was  heavy  and  parking 
impossible.  He  had  to  drive  long  distances 
to  each  agency.  Once  he  got  there  they 
were  crowded.  Some  people  gave  him  en- 
couragement, but  no  one  gave  him  a  job. 
With  one  exception.  He  might  have  applied 
for  a  job  which  paid  $5,000,  but  he  felt  that 
wasn't  enough  to  support  himself.  With  his 
level  of  education,  a  government  job  should 
pay  him  $6,500. 

Despite  setbacks,  Joel  was  cheerful  and 
dauntless.  "I  think  the  Washington,  D.C. 
area  would  be  an  exciting  place  to  work," 
he  said,  "and  the  employment  situation 
there  is  much  better  than  it  is  in  Boston. 
Federal  government  hiring  is  down  only 
1%  while  private  hiring  is  down  much 
more.  But  I'd  have  an  easier  time  if  I  were 
a  woman.  There  are  lots  of  secretarial  and 
research  positions  available  and  from  the 
job  descriptions  I  can  tell  that  they  don't 
want  a  man." 

Joel  decided  to  leave  Washington  rather 
than  to  continue  to  impose  on  the  relatives 
he  was  staying  with.  He  began  to  look  for 
work  in  public  relations  at  a  college  or  uni- 
versity. "I  think  I've  got  a  chance,"  he 
reasoned,  "because  I'm  willing  to  take  a 
small  salary.  I  just  want  to  be  able  to  sup- 
port myself  and  take  that  burden  off  my 
parents.  And  if  I  do  get  a  job  at  a  univer- 
sity, I  can  start  doing  some  work  toward  a 
graduate  degree." 


"No  openings  and  none  expected. . . ." 

Until  the  beginning  of  July,  Geralyn  Adie 
(ba  '71)  had  been  focusing  all  her  energies 
on  getting  a  job  as  a  social  worker,  any 
place  and  for  any  salary.  Her  efforts  came 
to  nothing.  "I  sent  letters  of  inquiry  and 
resumes  to  literally  hundreds  of  places," 
she  told  us.  "About  10°/o  were  never  even 
answered.  Of  the  responses  I  got,  95%)  said 
'No  openings  and  none  expected  in  the  im- 
mediate future.'  The  other  5%  only  had 
openings  for  people  with  a  master's  degree 
in  social  work. 

"I  also  tried  answering  want  ads  for  so- 
cial worker/counselor  positions.  I  got  only 
two  interviews  for  my  trouble.  One  place 
said  they  would  keep  me  'on  file.'  The  other 
place  turned  me  down  flat — due  to  'lack  of 
experience.'  How  one  is  to  get  this  experi- 
ence is  beyond  my  imagination!" 

Geralyn's  credentials,  although  they  do 
not  include  a  master's  degree,  are  impres- 
sive. She  graduated  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Magna 
Cum  Laude,  with  a  major  in  sociology  and 
has  a  broad  background  in  psychology  and 
the  other  social  sciences  as  well  as  experi- 
ence in  counseling. 

She  took  the  Massachusetts  Social  Work- 
er's Civil  Service  Examination  but  isn't 
optimistic.  It  can  take  as  long  as  a  year  to 
get  a  position  from  this  exam  since  there 
are  so  many  qualified  applicants.  In  fact,  it 
took  more  than  four  months  for  her  to  even 
get  the  results  of  the  test. 

When  social  work  jobs  did  not  material- 
ize, Geralyn  sought  some  kind  of  part-time 
or  temporary  employment.  But  by  July, 
openings  for  summer  jobs  had  been  filled, 
and  she  did  not  have  the  clerical  skills  often 
required  for  temporary  employment.  The 
months  since  graduation  have  been  frus- 
trating, and  she  is  depressed  about  the  fu- 
ture. "Now  I'm  just  looking  for  something 
to  keep  me  occupied  while  I  continue  to 
apply  for  the  sort  of  position  I  am  really 
interested  in,  the  position  that  my  four 
years  at  the  University  led  me  to  expect  to 
be  attainable." 


The  adventure  is  over 

Arthur  Machia  and  his  roommate  were 
looking  for  more  adventure  than  the  Place- 
ment Office-want  ad-interview  route  of- 
fered. With  packs  on  their  backs  and  little 
currency  in  their  pockets,  they  set  out  after 
Commencement  to  hitchhike  to  Alaska. 

But  in  Winnipeg  they  heard  that,  because 
of  Alaska's  fiscal  problems,  there  was  a 
strict  border  check  to  exclude  itinerant  vis- 
itors without  visible  means  of  support,  a 
perfect  description  of  Arthur  and  his  room- 
mate. So  they  headed  west,  to  California, 
instead  of  north. 

They  had  no  trouble  getting  in  to  Cali- 
fornia, but  they  wanted  out  again  very 
quickly.  "I  didn't  like  the  pace  and  the 
attitude  of  the  people  there,"  Arthur  ex- 
plained, "and  unemployment  is  worse  there 
than  the  national  average."  The  two  trav- 
elers returned  to  Massachusetts,  only  to 
find  that  job  hunting  in  their  home  state 
was  not  an  easy  proposition. 

An  English  major,  without  working  ex- 
perience, Arthur  made  the  rounds  of  news- 
papers, insurance  companies,  and,  eventu- 
ally, employment  agencies.  He  felt  that  he 
could  write  and  that  he  had  a  bent  for  pub- 
lic relations,  but  he  was  willing  to  take 
other  kinds  of  work.  He  drew  the  line  at 
manual  labor.  "As  long  as  I  have  a  degree," 
he  said,  "I  might  as  well  use  it." 

Unfortunately,  he  found  that  he  couldn't 
use  it  in  the  life  insurance  companies.  They 
had  recruited  during  the  year  and  had  no 
openings.  He  found  he  couldn't  use  it  in  the 
newspaper  field.  There  were  no  openings, 
and  if  there  were  openings,  he  was  told,  he 
would  have  to  start  as  a  copy  boy. 

Next  he  tried  the  "Help  Wanted"  ads, 
only  to  find  that  many  notices  were  placed 
by  employment  agencies,  and  he  would 
have  to  pay  a  fee  if  he  got  the  job.  Finally 
he  turned  to  the  University's  Placement 
Office,  only  to  find  that  the  positions  which 
remained  unfilled  required  experienced  per- 
sonnel. So  now  Arthur  is  working  at  night 
as  a  bartender  and  plans  to  spend  his  days 
looking  for  a  full  time  job  where  he  can  use 
his  education. 


Ed  Watts  '71  was  looking  for  a 
position  as  an  accountant.  The 
woman  at  the  State  Professional 
Employment  Office  in  Boston 
laughed.  "It  seems  as  if  every 
UMass  graduate  has  been  in  to- 
day/' she  said.  "You  should  have 
trained  to  be  a  plumber." 


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A  decision  long  in  coming 

"No  one  is  moving.  Please  call  us  in  Au- 
gust." That  was  the  only  answer  Stephanie 
LeBell  could  get  when  she  applied  for  teach- 
ing positions  in  Gloucester,  Peabody,  Ips- 
wich, Hamilton,  and  the  Pentucket  Regional 
Schools  in  June. 

"Most  interviewers,"  she  recalled,  "were 
quite  impressed  by  my  remarks.  Or  so  they 
said.  I  majored  in  geology  and  have  a  good 
transcript.  So  I  don't  think  I  was  being  put 
off.  I  want  to  teach  science  on  the  second- 
ary level,  but  there  simply  are  no  openings 
in  these  systems. 

"Many  of  my  friends  had  no  luck  locally 
and  now  are  teaching  overseas.  And  I'm 
sure  they're  more  excited  by  Guam  than 
Gloucester." 

But  Guam  is  out  of  the  question  for 
Stephanie.  She  is  getting  married  and  will 
live  in  Peabody,  so  Boston's  North  Shore  is 
her  employment  "hunting  grounds."  And, 
although  she  is  willing  to  take  an  interim 
job,  she  has  further  limited  her  opportuni- 
ties by  setting  her  heart  on  teaching.  She 
would  be  marking  time  in  any  other  work. 

"The  thought  that  I  might  not  be  able  to 
teach  is  sad  for  me,"  she  said.  "Teaching 
was  a  decision  long  in  coming.  It  took  me 
quite  a  while  to  dare  to  try  it.  For  me,  teach- 
ing is  the  greatest  challenge.  That's  why  I 
want  to  pursue  it  as  a  career.  But  here  I  sit, 
waiting,  my  enthusiasm  and  fortitude  wan- 
ing." 

epilogue:  As  we  went  to  press,  we  received 
a  letter  from  Stephanie.  She  will  spend  the 
year  teaching  physical  science  in  a  high 
school  in  Gloucester,  replacing  a  teacher  on 
leave.  The  school  principal  told  her  that  the 
field  of  more  than  fifty  applicants  had  been 
narrowed  to  five  before  she  was  chosen. 
That's  quite  a  reverse,  she  says.  A  few 
years  ago,  it  would  have  been  more  than 
fifty  schools  begging  to  be  chosen  by  one 
college  graduate. 


A  question  of  discrimination 

Dian  Johnson,  a  native  of  Maryland,  got 
her  master's  degree  in  accounting  in  Au- 
gust. Last  fall  she  interviewed  nine  national 
accounting  firms  through  the  University's 
placement  service.  Three  firms  were  inter- 
ested, and  she  went  to  Boston  for  further 
interviews.  No  jobs  materialized.  Next  she 
applied  for  a  teaching  position  in  a  Massa- 
chusetts junior  college.  She  sent  fourteen 
letters  and  got  twelve  replies.  Ten  were 
negative.  She  interviewed  at  one  of  the  two 
remaining  schools  but  did  not  get  an  offer. 
The  other  school  said  that  they  were  trying 
to  authorize  a  new  position.  She  has  tried 
to  follow  that  up,  but  she  can't  get  them 
to  respond  to  her  inquiries.  In  the  middle  of 
June  she  wrote  fourteen  local  accounting 
firms  in  Boston.  Two  weeks  later,  she  still 
had  no  replies. 

"I  definitely  want  to  work  in  public  ac- 
counting," she  said.  "I'd  prefer  to  work  in 
Boston,  or,  perhaps,  somewhere  else  in 
Massachusetts.  But  if  this  last  set  of  letters 
doesn't  produce  anything,  I'll  try  else- 
where." 

We  asked  her  if  she  thought  one  problem 
was  discrimination  against  women.  "I  think 
so,"  she  answered.  "When  I  interviewed 
the  national  firms,  I  would  ask  both  the 
men  and  women  I  met  what  the  firm's  at- 
titude was  towards  women.  The  men  had 
always  been  with  the  firm  for  some  time 


and  had  achieved  a  high  position,  and  they 
said  there  was  no  discrimination.  The 
women  had  been  with  the  firm  only  a  year 
or  two,  and  one  of  them  told  me  that  she 
had  been  hired  at  a  time  when  the  firm  was 
desperate  for  personnel.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  one  personnel  manager  said  it  was  his 
opinion  that  women  were  physically  and 
psychologically  more  suited  to  housework, 
and  he  implied  that  a  woman  could  not  be 
interested  in  marriage  if  she  was  to  have  a 
successful  career. 

"Accounting  is  mostly  a  male  field,  and 
my  friends  and  I  had  thought  that  this  fact 
would  be  to  my  advantage,  because  compa- 
nies have  been  feeling  pressure  to  hire  at 
least  a  few  blacks  and  a  few  women.  But 
with  the  depressed  state  of  the  economy,  I 
guess  tokenism  is  a  luxury  these  companies 
can't  afford." 


Women  are  more  suited  to  housework  than 
to  a  career,  Dian  Johnson  was  told.  She  does 
not  agree.  Sewing  is  just  a  way  to  pass  the 
time  as  she  waits  for  answers  to  her  job 
applications. 


On  Campus 


Yes,  Virginia, 

there  is  a  Santa  Claus 

At  least  it  felt  that  way,  even  in  the  hot, 
sticky  blanket  which  is  Washington,  D.C. 
in  July.  Not  that  there  was  a  jolly  little  man 
in  a  red  suit,  or  carols,  or  reindeer.  .  .  .  Just 
a  great  deal  of  "Ho  Ho  Ho"  and  some  sig- 
nificant booty. 

The  occasion  was  the  national  conference 
of  the  American  Alumni  Council,  an  organ- 
ization representing  3,580  alumni  adminis- 
trators, fund  raisers,  and  communicators 
from  1,534  colleges,  universities  and  inde- 
pendent schools.  The  Council,  with  the  co- 
operation of  several  corporations  and  or- 
ganizations who  wish  to  encourage  the 
aac's  work,  annually  gives  recognition  to 
achievements  in  alumni  public  relations  and 
fund  raising.  And  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts at  Amherst  shared  the  spotlight 
with  several  other  distinguished  educational 
institutions. 

William  F.  Lane,  the  UMass  alumni  fund 
director,  was  there  to  receive  a  substantial 
check  and  a  warm  handshake  from  a  rep- 
resentative from  the  United  States  Steel 
Foundation.  U.S.  Steel  has  been  distribut- 
ing Alumni  Giving  Incentive  Awards  since 
1959,  and  Bill's  annual  fund  program  won 
recognition  this  year  as  one  of  thirteen 
schools  which  had  the  best  sustained  per- 
formance. 

Katie  Gillmor  got  a  handshake  too.  Sev- 
eral, in  fact,  as  awards  were  doled  out  in 
the  course  of  the  conference.  First,  The 
Alumnus  received  a  distinctive  merit  cita- 
tion for  appearance.  Then  the  cover  of  the 
April/May  issue,  which  featured  a  litho- 
graph by  Steve  Stamas  '72,  was  chosen  as 
one  of  the  best  covers  produced  by  alumni 
magazines  this  year.  And  The  Alumnus  was 
one  of  six  regional  winners  in  the  contest 


for  the  "most  improved"  publication.  The 
Alumnus  was  named  to  represent  the  North- 
east. 

Like  the  sustained  giving  award,  the 
"Achievement  Award  for  Improvement  in 
Magazine  Publishing"  is  also  sponsored  by 
a  corporation  and  not  the  aac.  In  this  case, 
Santa  Claus  was  Time/Life,  Inc.;  one  of  its 
representatives  presented  Katie  with  a  silver 
bowl  to  add  to  her  certificates. 

Tension  built  (for  the  editor)  as  the  time 
for  the  announcement  of  the  overall  winner 
approached.  Finally,  the  agony  was  over. 
The  Alumnus  was  the  national  winner.  An- 
other, larger,  silver  bowl,  another  certificate, 
and  a  generous  check  were  borne  back  to 


the  University  in  triumph.  It  was  definitely 
an  occasion  for  singing  "Joy  to  the  World." 

What  do  we  think  we're  doing? 

Each  issue  of  The  Alumnus  represents  an 
investment  of  time,  effort  and  money.  In  an 
attempt  to  assure  that  that  investment  is 
worthwhile,  the  editor  and  the  Alumnus 
Advisory  Committee  met  several  times  ear- 
lier this  year  to  draft  a  policy  statement.  Our 
intent  was  to  produce  a  position  paper 
rather  than  a  blueprint,  to  give  some  ex  post 
facto  definition  to  the  magazine  we  have 
been  publishing  for  so  many  years.  Here, 
then,  is  what  we  think  we  are  doing: 
"The  Alumnus  is  the  magazine  of  the 


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Associate  Alumni  and  the  principal  vehicle 
of  communication  between  alumnus  and 
alumnus  and  the  University  and  her  alumni. 

"It  is  designed  to  project  the  ideals  of  the 
University,  disseminate  information  about 
the  University  and  her  graduates,  and  foster 
pride  in  the  institution  among  the  maga- 
zine's constituents. 

"The  Alumnus  reports  on  curriculum  and 
faculty  and  student  life  on  campus  so  that 
— within  the  framework  of  deadline  require- 
ments— readers  will  be  kept  current  on  im- 
portant issues  involving  all  components  of 
the  University. 

"Recognizing  that  alumni  successful  in 
business,  the  arts,  the  professions,  and 
other  occupations  demonstrate  the  high 
quality  of  education  at  the  University,  The 
Alumnus  will  regularly  enlist  the  literary 
and  artistic  efforts  of  graduates  for  articles 
and  commentary  on  developments  in  their 
areas  of  expertise.  Student  views  will  also 
be  solicited  from  time  to  time. 

"The  Alumnus  will  be  a  source  of  con- 
tinuing education  for  its  readers,  presenting 
articles  of  intellectual  interest. 

"The  magazine  will  maintain  high  jour- 
nalistic standards  of  objectivity,  giving  hon- 
est and  balanced  treatment  to  current  is- 
sues. 

"In  each  issue,  The  Alumnus  will  present 
material  broadly  representative  of  the  va- 
ried interests  of  alumni  and  members  of  the 
University  community. 

"There  shall  be  an  Alumnus  Advisory 
Committee  appointed  by  the  Associate 
Alumni  Board  of  Directors  in  consultation 
with  the  editor  and  the  University  adminis- 
tration. 

"The  Advisory  Committee  will  consult 
with  the  editor  on  editorial  and  production 
policies  and  problems." 


Here  I  am.  Where  am  I? 

A  new  student  finds  it  difficult  to  find  him- 
self at  the  University  of  Massachusetts  at 
Amherst.  He  feels  lost  in  the  crowd  (there 
are  approximately  19,600  undergraduate 
and  graduate  students)  and  lost  on  the  cam- 
pus (where  8  million  gross  square  feet  of 
building  sit  on  1100  acres).  The  prevailing 
campus  culture  is  unknown  to  him  and,  if 
he  is  a  freshman  rather  than  a  transfer  stu- 
dent, any  kind  of  campus  culture  is  un- 
known to  him. 

Nothing  can  make  the  student's  adjust- 
ment simple,  but  now  at  least  a  new  student 
publication  gives  him  a  clue  to  what  he  is 
in  for.  The  publication  is  a  handsomely 
produced  guide  to  undergraduate  living 
called  University  Directions  which  was  sent 
to  incoming  students  during  the  summer. 
Peter  F.  Pascarelli  '72,  former  editor  of  The 
Massachusetts  Daily  Collegian  and  some- 
time contributor  to  The  Alumnus,  edited  it 
and  Don  Trageser,  Jr.  '71,  former  editor  of 
Spectrum,  did  the  design. 

University  Directions  is  the  product  of 
discussions  held  at  last  year's  swap  confer- 
ence, the  annual  two-day,  off  campus  work- 
shops at  which  students,  faculty  and  staff 
discuss  University  problems.  The  conferees 
felt  that  not  enough  had  been  done  to  pre- 
pare students  for  what  they  would  confront 
in  Amherst,  and  that  an  orientation  booklet 
was  needed  which  would  inform  students 
early,  thoroughly,  and  candidly  about  what 
to  expect.  William  Field,  the  Dean  of  Stu- 
dents, implemented  these  suggestions  by 
hiring  Peter  and  giving  him  free  rein.  As 
the  dedication  of  the  booklet  relates,  Dean 
Field  "got  things  rolling,  kept  them  moving, 
and  more  importantly,  put  faith  in  students 
to  do  the  job  themselves." 

If  an  incoming  student  wants  to  know  the 
horrors  in  store  for  him  at  registration,  he 
has  only  to  look  in  University  Directions 
under  "Academics"  to  learn  that  "it  really 
isn't  too  bad."  Course  change  day,  on  the 
other  hand  is  described  as  "a  day  to  be 
avoided  if  at  all  possible."  Options  and  op- 
portunities are  set  forth  by  anonymous 


authors  who  are  usually  informative,  some- 
times funny,  occasionally  acerbic. 

By  turning  to  "Services"  the  student 
learns  about  where  to  go  for  academic  and 
personal  advice,  what  to  do  when  he  loses 
his  id  card  or  when  he  is  sick,  how  to  cash 
a  check  or  float  a  loan.  The  section  on  stu- 
dent activities  suggests  ways  to  spend  his 
spare  time,  in  the  unlikely  event  that  he  has 
any. 

Incoming  students  must  choose  their  on 
campus  residence  during  the  summer,  and 
until  University  Directions  was  published 
their  choice  was  blind.  This  year,  however, 
based  on  the  "Student  Living"  section, 
where  each  dormitory's  character  and  loca- 
tion is  listed,  new  students  could  make  a 
more  informed  decision. 

The  "Student  Living"  section  is  the  heart 
of  the  book.  Everyone  recognizes  that 
where  a  student  lives  determines  to  a  large 
extent  how  he  lives.  And  the  living  alterna- 
tives to  choose  from  are  many.  Each  resi- 
dential area,  each  dormitory,  and,  in  the 
towers,  each  floor  in  a  dormitory,  has  its 
own  style.  Through  the  short,  subjective 
descriptions  in  University  Directions,  the 
new  student  has  a  clue  to  the  variety  that 
awaits  him.  He  learns  that,  at  John  Adams 
Lower,  he  can  "fulfill  his  educational  de- 
sires, not  only  in  the  classroom,  but  also  in 
the  dormitory."  In  Calvin  Coolidge  Lower, 
the  "development  of  free  expression  and 
individualism  is  encouraged,"  but  in  Mac- 


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Kimmie  House  free  expression  has  to  be 
quiet — 24  hours  a  day  in  the  "Quiet  Wing" 
and  weekday  evenings  and  weekends  in  the 
"Traditional  Wing."  Knowlton  House  is 
"conservative";  the  men  and  women  in 
Noah  Webster  House  are  "earnestly  in- 
volved in  developing  models  of  democratic 
institutions";  and  Dwight  House  residents 
believe  in  individual  responsibility,  feeling 
that  "self  realization  first  will  lead  to  a 
group  consciousness,  a  true  community." 

Subjective  reporting  continues  in  the  last, 
and  liveliest,  section  of  the  brochure.  In 
"Off  Campus"  neophytes  to  the  Amherst 
area  read  about  the  pros  and  cons  of  hitch- 
hiking, where  to  eat,  where  not  to  eat,  how 
much  to  expect  to  spend,  where  to  get  your 
clothes  washed,  and  the  best  source  of 
penny  candy. 

And,  if  a  new  student  is  unmoved  by  all 
the  on  campus  and  off  campus  diversions 
described,  he  can  always  fall  back  on  the 
section  entitled  "How  to  escape  from 
UMass." 

Baby  needs  a  new  pair  of  shoes 

The  University  of  Massachusetts  at  Am- 
herst, in  some  ways,  is  too  big  for  its  boots. 
In  too  many  administrative  and  procedural 
areas,  the  "boots"  were  made  to  fit  a  small 
but  expanding  state  university.  Now  that 
the  campus  has  grown  into  a  major  institu- 
tion, the  shoe  doesn't  fit  well  any  more. 

We  could  continue  the  metaphor  and  de- 
scribe the  inevitable  "corns,"  "bunions," 
and  "calluses."  Certainly,  many  of  the 
students,  faculty  and  administrators  at  last 
year's  swap  (Student  Workshop  on  Ac- 
tivities Problems)  conference  were  com- 
plaining that  the  University,  in  effect,  had 
flat  feet.  Much  of  the  planning  at  that  work- 
shop revolved  around  the  question  of  how 
to  cope  with  expansion,  a  question  usually 
raised  whenever  people  concerned  about 
UMass  get  together. 

But  people  have  done  more  than  just  talk 
about  the  problem.  In  a  major  attempt  to 
better  serve  the  student  population,  and  to 
cope  with  the  University's  size  and  aspi- 
rations, the  administration  has  embarked 


upon  a  major  reorganization  of  the  Office 
of  Student  Affairs.  A  special  joint  Student 
Affairs  and  Undergraduate  Student  Senate 
Reorganization  Commission  was  organized 
last  fall  to  accomplish  this,  and,  after 
lengthy  discussions  with  students,  faculty 
and  staff,  a  new  plan  was  announced  this 
summer. 

This  year  the  residence  halls  are  divided 
into  five  areas — Southwest  Residential  Col- 
lege, Orchard  Hill  Residential  College,  Syl- 
van Residential  Area,  Central  Residential 
Area,  and  Northeast  Residential  Area.  Each 
is  headed  by  an  area  director  and/or  mas- 
ter, and  each  has  centralized  budgeting, 
management,  and  academic  and  nonaca- 
demic  program  functions.  Business  man- 
agers, student  affairs  officers,  and  academic 
or  program  officers  will  be  either  assigned 
to  a  specific  residential  area  or  shared  by 
two  of  them  to  coordinate  and  manage  the 
dormitory  programs  and  oversee  the  stu- 
dents' needs.  It  is  hoped  that  this  structure 
will  dramatically  increase  communication 
and  efficiency  within  the  residential  area 
and  between  that  area  and  the  central  ad- 
ministration. 

New  lines  of  responsibility  will  facilitate 
this.  There  will  be  daily  communication 
between  the  business  managers  and  pro- 
gram officers  and  the  area  directors.  More- 
over, the  business  managers  will  have  a 
direct  responsibility  to  Thomas  B.  Campion, 
the  vice-chancellor  for  administrative  af- 
fairs, and  the  area  academic  program  officer 
will  report  directly  to  Robert  Gluckstern, 
vice-chancellor  for  academic  affairs. 

Students  not  associated  with  dormitories, 
such  as  nonresident  students,  commuters, 
and  members  of  fraternities  and  sororities, 
will  be  represented  by  the  Office  of  the  As- 
sociate Dean  of  Students.  A  member  of  that 
office  will  serve  on  an  Area  Directors  Coun- 
cil, which  will  meet  with  Randolph  W. 
Bromery,  the  vice-chancellor  for  student  af- 
fairs, and  the  four  administrators  working 
under  him. 

The  Director  of  Security,  the  Director  of 
the  Campus  Center/Student  Union  Com- 
plex, the  Director  of  Human  Services,  and 
the  Dean  of  Admissions  and  Financial  Aid 


will  report  to  Dr.  Bromery  and  work  with 
him  on  the  Operations  Council.  Appoint- 
ments to  these  positions  have  been  made 
on  an  acting  basis  pending  further  review. 

Director  of  Security  William  Dye  is  re- 
sponsible for  the  supervision  of  the  campus 
police,  security  guards,  and  traffic  and  park- 
ing control.  Gerald  Scanlon  is  responsible  for 
the  Campus  Center,  the  Student  Union,  and 
student  activities.  The  services  offered  by 
the  Infirmary,  Mental  Health,  Psychological 
Counseling,  Community  Development  and 
Human  Relations,  and  Career  Counseling 
and  Placement  are  now  grouped  under  the 
title  "Human  Services,"  under  the  direction 
of  Robert  Gage.  William  Tunis,  whose  title 
of  Dean  of  Admissions  is  now  expanded  to 
include  Financial  Aid,  will  also  be  respon- 
sible for  transfer  affairs  and  the  Registrar's 
Office. 

Student  Advisory  Councils  for  security, 
admissions  and  financial  aid,  and  the  resi- 
dence halls  will  be  formed  to  supplement 
the  existing  Student  Union  Governing 
Board,  the  Student  Health  Advisory  Coun- 
cil, and  the  area  governments. 

The  triumvirate  complete 

Major  reorganization  has  been  going  on  in 
the  academic  realm  as  well  as  in  student 
affairs.  The  division  of  the  College  of  Arts 
and  Sciences  into  three  faculties  has  pro- 
gressed with  the  appointment  of  the  third 
of  the  three  deans.  Dr.  Mac  V.  Edds,  Jr.,  an 
outstanding  biologist  from  Brown  Univer- 
sity, is  now  Dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Natural 
Sciences  and  Mathematics.  He  will  be  work- 
ing closely  with  Jeremiah  M.  Allen,  Dean 
of  the  Faculty  of  Humanities  and  Fine  Arts, 
and  Dean  Alfange,  Jr.,  Dean  of  the  Faculty 
of  Social  and  Behavioral  Sciences. 

A  Dean  of  the  School  of  Physical  Educa- 
tion has  been  named.  David  C.  Bischoff, 
presently  an  associate  dean  and  professor 
in  the  School  and  an  associate  provost  of 
the  University,  will  assume  the  post  when 
the  present  dean,  Warren  P.  McGuirk,  re- 
tires January  1. 

Robert  L.  Woodbury  has  been  named  an 
associate  provost.  The  former  associate  dean 


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WFCR  staff  members:  getting  the  inside  story  firsthand. 


of  the  School  of  Education,  he  will  be  in 
charge  of  special  programs,  such  as  the 
University  Honors  Program,  the  Bachelor's 
Degree  with  Individual  Concentration,  in- 
ternational programs,  and  resident  college 
academics. 

Come  over  to  our  place 

wfcr,  the  Five  College  radio  station  sup- 
ported by  the  University  and  Amherst, 
Hampshire,  Mount  Holyoke  and  Smith 
Colleges,  is  known  for  its  unusual  pro- 
gramming. As  a  noncommercial,  public 
broadcasting  outlet,  it  can  and  does  provide 
programming  for  audiences  too  small  to  at- 
tract the  services  of  commercial  stations, 
and  without  having  to  worry  about  pleasing 
squeamish  sponsors,  wfcr  can  delve  into 
topics  considered  too  controversial  by  com- 
mercial broadcasters. 

The  seeds  of  a  new  series  that  promises  to 
enhance  the  station's  reputation  for  uncon- 
ventionality  were  sown  last  June  when 
Hampshire  County  House  of  Correction 
Deputy  Master  Merton  Burt  appeared  on  an 
interview  program  with  two  inmates.  After 
the  show,  Mark  Mills  '72,  the  program's 
producer,  suggested  another  program  later 
in  the  summer. 

"Sure,"  Mr.  Burt  responded.  "Why  don't 
you  come  over  to  our  place?" 

Mark  was  intrigued.  "I  was  so  accustomed 
to  picking  up  the  phone  and  inviting  people 
to  the  studio  for  interviews  that  I  hadn't 
considered  broadcasting  a  conversation  from 
inside  a  prison,"  he  says.  He  suggested  a 
live,  two-hour  program  broadcast  from  the 
House  of  Correction  for  August  3.  Partici- 
pating were  Hampshire  County  High  Sheriff 
John  Boyle,  Merton  Burt,  Mrs.  Chelsea  Kes- 
selheim,  who  is  a  prison  reform  advocate, 
UMass  student  body  attorney  Richard  How- 
land,  and  three  inmates.  Massachusetts  At- 
torney General  Robert  H.  Quinn  was  also 
invited,  and  when  he  accepted  Mark  was 
sure  a  unique  radio  event  was  in  the  making. 
The  state's  top  legal  official  would  be  speak- 
ing with  prison  inmates  on  a  live  program 
from  inside  the  walls  of  a  jail. 


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It  would  also  be  a  unique  experience  for 
Mark,  who  is  doing  his  work  at  wfcr  as  in- 
dependent study  toward  his  degree.  He  re- 
calls that  visiting  the  jail  for  the  first  time 
was  a  frightening  experience :  "The  heavy 
wooden  door  of  the  prison  separates  two 
vastly  and  sadly  different  worlds.  As  I 
passed  through  it,  I  knew  for  the  first  time 
what  it  was  like  to  be  caged  in  an  ill-equip- 
ped, unclean  warehouse  of  boredom  and 
bitterness.  I  was  grateful  for  the  freedom 
when  I  could  walk  out  to  my  car  and  drive 
away." 

He  was  back  at  the  House  of  Correction 
on  the  evening  of  the  broadcast.  The  pro- 
gram participants  spoke  revealingly,  and  lis- 
teners heard  facts  about  prison  conditions, 
information  on  new  rehabilitation  programs, 
and  expressions  of  regret,  determination, 
and  hope  from  the  inmates,  Dick,  Arthur, 
and  Jim. 

Dick,  who  has  spent  twelve  of  his  29 
years  in  various  Massachusetts  jails,  said, 
"This  place  here  is  like  being  in  heaven 
compared  to  Walpole."  He  described  the 
tension  and  racial  conflict  among  prisoners 
at  Concord  and  Walpole  State  Prisons  as  be- 
ing unbearable.  His  transfer  to  the  House 
of  Correction  was  the  turning  point  in  his 
life,  he  said.  Dick  hopes  to  receive  invita- 
tions to  speak  at  youth  correction  facilities. 
"I've  been  through  a  life  of  agony,"  he  said. 
"You  may  say  I'm  having  pity  on  myself. 
Well,  I'm  not.  But  I'll  tell  you  one  thing,  I'd 
just  hate  to  see  some  17-year-old  kid  have  to 
go  through  what  I  went  through.  I'd  rather 
see  him  go  across  the  street  and  get  killed 
by  a  car.  He'd  be  better  off." 

Arthur,  the  second  prisoner,  had  also 
spent  much  of  his  life  in  confinement.  He 
cited  his  experiences  at  the  School  for  Boys 
in  Shirley  as  a  partial  cause  for  his  later 
troubles  with  the  law.  Arthur  is  interested 
in  writing  and  described  his  successful  ef- 
forts to  start  a  magazine  written  by  his  fel- 
low inmates. 

The  third  prisoner,  Jim,  described  how  he 
became  a  drug  addict.  Although  his  first 
mainline  shot  of  heroin  did  not  actually  ad- 
dict him,  he  found  that  his  life  became  in- 
creasingly directed  towards  getting  the 


money  for  another  "Bag."  Addiction  cost 
him  his  wife,  his  children,  and  his  freedom, 
but  he  now  believes  he  has  overcome  it. 
"I've  matured  enough  to  deal  with  prob- 
lems instead  of  running  away  from  them," 
he  said.  Jim  wants  a  job  in  drug  rehabilita- 
tion when  he  gets  out. 

After  listening  to  the  prisoners,  Attorney 
General  Quinn  remarked  to  Sheriff  Boyle,  "I 
think  an  awful  lot  of  people  would  just  as 
soon  you  took  care  of  the  problems  and 
didn't  disturb  them.  Because  to  so  many  of 
us  in  society,  the  questions  of  the  Arthurs 
and  the  Dicks  and  the  Jims  are  too  difficult 
to  answer  and  we'd  just  as  soon  not  answer 
them.  We'd  just  as  soon  not  face  the  prob- 


Mark  Mills  and  Attorney  General  Quinn 

lems  of  ghetto  living,  or  disadvantaged  edu- 
cation, or  lack  of  vocational  training.  I  think 
this  is  a  challenge  in  public  service  that  all 
of  us  have  to  overcome." 

The  responses  of  the  other  panelists  sug- 
gested that  citizens  can  do  a  great  deal  if 
they  choose  to  face  the  prisoners'  needs. 
Mrs.  Kesselheim's  reform  group  is  raising 
money  to  hire  a  full  time  teacher  who  can 
instruct  inmates  wishing  to  obtain  a  high 
school  equivalency  diploma.  Attorney  How- 
land  suggested  that  local  bar  associations 
encourage  lawyers  to  spend  time  advising 
inmates  about  to  be  released,  and  thus  aid 
prisoners  in  the  transition  from  confinement 
to  productive  life  in  the  community. 


Merton  Burt  discussed  the  success  of  the 
prison's  work  release  program.  The  men 
work  outside  at  regular  jobs  during  the  day 
and  pay  $3.50  a  day  in  room  and  board  to 
the  prison.  Frequently  they  keep  their  jobs 
when  their  terms  are  up.  But  he  expressed 
concern  that  Massachusetts  law  does  not 
permit  an  education  release  program  that 
would  allow  inmates  to  attend  high  schools 
or  colleges  during  their  sentences. 

Sheriff  Boyle  talked  about  the  need  to 
overhaul  the  House  of  Correction's  inade- 
quate facilities,  a  building  which  housed 
Confederate  prisoners  during  the  Civil  War. 
Funds  are  so  scarce  that  the  prison  de- 
pends on  local  organizations  for  gifts  of 
such  necessities  as  mattresses,  paints  and 
building  materials,  tools,  kitchen  equip- 
ment, recreational  items,  and  books. 

Listeners  responded  enthusiastically  to  the 
wfcr  program,  and  the  station  plans  to  re- 
broadcast  it  at  8:30  pm  October  14.  As  a  re- 
sult of  the  broadcast,  wfcr  now  hopes  to 
present  a  weekly  program  produced  by 
House  of  Correction  inmates.  Several  pris- 
oners would  be  selected  for  employment  at 
wfcr  as  part  of  the  work  release  program. 
The  production  staff  would,  among  other 
things,  travel  to  prisons  within  the  wfcr 
coverage  area  to  compare  conditions. 

After  his  visits  to  the  House  of  Correc- 
tion, Mark  Mills  is  particularly  enthusiastic 
about  the  new  program.  "The  station  should 
continue  to  work  to  arouse  community  in- 
terest in  the  lives  of  those  who  are  hidden 
behind  the  bars  and  drab  walls  of  prisons. 
Most  of  the  inmates  at  the  House  of  Cor- 
rection are  between  18  and  26.  They  can 
change  if  they  want  to.  They  have  a  stake  in 
developing  their  potential.  But  they  need  to 
know  that  it's  worth  trying  to  make  it." 


l6 


The  Fee  Squeeze 

Tuition  remains  low.  Nevertheless,  Amherst 
campus  students  had  a  bigger  bill  to  foot 
when  they  registered  in  September.  Al- 
though the  student  activities  tax  and  senior 
class  fee  decreased,  room  rents,  the  cost  of 
meals,  and  the  Campus  Center  fee  went  up. 

All  undergraduates,  an  estimated  16,300, 
must  pay  the  Campus  Center  fee  (up  $12, 
from  $48  to  $60)  and  the  student  activities 
tax  (down  $1,  from  $35.50  to  $34.50).  Sen- 
iors must  pay  a  $1  tax,  which  is  $4  less  than 
last  year's  seniors  were  taxed. 

All  students,  with  the  exception  of  sen- 
iors, veterans,  and  those  over  21  or  married, 
must  live  in  dormitories.  Room  rents  were 
raised  $50,  bringing  the  total  to  $275  per 
semester  for  State  owned  residence  halls 
and  $305  for  self-liquidating  or  recently 
renovated  dormitories.  A  room  in  the  new 
Sylvan  Residential  Area  costs  $350. 

Two  of  the  older  residence  halls  need  to 
be  renovated  and  others  need  refurbishing. 
Some  of  the  money  realized  from  the  rent 
increase  will  go  here.  There  will  also  be 
more  money  for  increased  security  and  stu- 
dent-initiated projects  to  improve  living 
conditions. 

All  dormitory  residents  must  purchase  a 
meal  plan,  unless  they  are  over  21,  seniors, 
or  have  been  given  exemption  for  extraor- 
dinary reasons.  Students  may  purchase  ten 
meals  a  week  for  $271.50  a  semester  or  fif- 
teen meals  for  $306.50.  Last  year  students 
did  not  have  the  10-meal  option  and  paid 
$265  for  fifteen  meals. 

Rising  costs  of  food,  labor,  utilities,  and 
maintenance  necessitated  the  increase.  The 
dining  halls  have  been  operating  at  a  deficit 
for  several  years,  and  it  has  been  two  years 
since  the  last  increase  in  the  cost  of  the 
meal  ticket. 

The  board  of  trustees  approved  the  new 
fees  last  May,  after  Randolph  W.  Bromery, 
vice-chancellor  for  student  affairs,  and 
Thomas  B.  Campion,  vice-chancellor  for 
administrative  services,  had  held  exhaustive 
meetings  with  student  leaders  to  reach  an 
agreement  on  the  matter.  Students  con- 
ceded that  some  increase  was  necessary. 


The  students  were  impressed  with  the 
amount  of  time  the  vice-chancellors  devoted 
to  these  sessions  and  the  number  of  alterna- 
tives that  were  presented  to  them,  but  they 
were  reluctant  to  endorse  the  entire  pack- 
age. "While  I  think  the  Dining  Common 
fee  still  gives  the  students  a  good  deal," 
explains  Lee  Sandwen,  president  of  the  stu- 
dent senate,  "I'm  not  at  all  convinced  about 
the  dormitory  rents.  Take  one  of  the  suites 
in  the  new  dormitories,  for  instance.  Eight 
students  will  be  paying  at  least  $22,000 
over  a  four-year  period  to  live  there — 
$22,000  for  eight  small  bedrooms,  a  living 
room  that  won't  hold  eight  people,  no 
kitchen,  and  only  nine  months  tenancy  not 


Lee  Sandwen:  worried  about  the  future. 

to  mention  the  vacation  periods  when  they 
aren't  allowed  to  stay  in  their  rooms.  They 
could  buy  a  house  for  the  same  money  and 
get  a  lot  more." 

Lee,  and  other  student  leaders,  are  wor- 
ried about  the  future.  "The  trouble,"  he 
says,  "is  that  scholarship  money  and  stu- 
dent salaries  have  leveled  off,  but  inflation 
is  steadily  driving  the  labor,  maintenance 
and  operating  costs  up.  So  fees  will  con- 
tinue to  rise  and  students  will  have  a  harder 
and  harder  time  paying  them." 


Good  News  on  the  Pollution  Front 

Although  we  oughtn't  to  ignore  doom-laden 
prophecies  of  inevitable  environmental  de- 
terioration, some  recent  reports  from  UMass 
scientists  suggest  that  a  little  optimism 
would  not  be  remiss. 

Nature  has  more  power  to  resist  con- 
tamination than  some  had  thought.  In  one 
set  of  experiments,  done  at  the  UMass  Sub- 
urban Experiment  Station  in  Waltham,  Dr. 
L.  E.  Craker  has  demonstrated  that  the 
earth's  soil  has  the  power  to  remove  certain 
pollutants  from  the  air.  And,  after  com- 
pleting three  studies  on  the  nitrate  concen- 
tration in  fresh  vegetables,  two  associate 
professors  in  plant  and  soil  sciences  on  the 
Amherst  campus  have  concluded  that  the 
increased  use  of  nitrate  fertilizers  in  this 
century  apparently  has  not  materially  in- 
creased the  nitrate  content  of  common  food 
plants. 

The  air  pollution  research,  done  in  co- 
operation with  scientists  at  the  U.S.  De- 
partment of  Agriculture's  Plant  Air  Pollu- 
tion Laboratory  in  Beltsville,  Maryland,  and 
the  Army's  Plant  Science  Laboratory  at 
Fort  Detrick,  Maryland,  showed  that  small 
samples  of  soil  removed  ethylene,  sulfur 
dioxide,  and  nitrogen  dioxide  (all  major 
pollutants  resulting  from  combustion)  from 
the  air.  Even  when  the  soil  was  sterilized  by 
heat,  the  removal  process  continued,  al- 
though at  a  slower  pace. 

"The  results,  suggest  that  while  microbial 
action  may  play  some  role  in  removal,  a 
major  portion  of  the  pollutants  are  removed 
by  the  soil  itself  in  some  chemical  fash- 
ion. . .  ."  says  Dr.  Craker.  "I  think  we  can 
now  reasonably  say  that  here  is  another 
factor  to  look  at  when  you  are  considering 
ways  to  reduce  air  pollution  levels." 

In  their  experiments  on  nitrate  content 
in  vegetables,  Donald  M.  Maynard  and  Al- 
len V.  Barker  compared  studies  made  in 
1907  and  1964  with  their  own  research. 
They  demonstrated  that  about  as  many 
vegetables  have  shown  minor  decreases  in 
nitrate  concentration  as  those  which  have 
registered  minor  increases.  In  all  cases,  the 
nitrate  was  far  below  the  toxic  level. 


17 


Bravo  for  the  "angels" 

"Angels"  have  sustained  the  theatre  for 
centuries,  allowing  companies  to  present 
productions  that  startle,  warm,  intrigue,  or 
offend  us.  Universities  have  "angels"  too, 
although  the  programs  they  support  have 
little  drama,  and  receive  little  applause. 
But  these  are  vital  to  a  rich  educational 
experience  and  significant  research,  and  we 
would  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  say 
"Bravo"  to  several  of  the  public  and  pri- 
vate organizations  which  have  awarded 
grants  to  the  University. 

First  on  the  list  is  the  Woodrow  Wilson 
National  Fellowship  Foundation,  which  has 
given  recognition  to  two  UMass  graduate 
students.  Zillah  R.  Eisenstein,  a  political 
science  major,  received  an  award  which  will 
help  her  complete  her  dissertation,  "Women 
and  Work  Life:  Political  and  Social  Con- 
sciousness." Funds  for  the  dissertation  fel- 
lowship were  provided  by  the  Ford  Foun- 
dation. Honorary  mention  went  to  Luis 
Thomas  Gonzales-del-Valle,  a  major  in  His- 
panic languages  and  literature. 

The  National  Science  Foundation  awarded 
$582,000  to  the  psychology  department  to 
support  training  of  graduate  students  in 
the  social  science  aspects  of  psychology. 
The  grant  will  support  study  in  cognitive 
processes,  personality  psychology,  child 
psychology,  educational  psychology,  and 
social  psychology — areas  in  which  nsf  feels 
the  University  has  significant  doctoral 
strength,  enough  to  serve  as  a  base  for 
improvement. 

The  head  of  the  department,  Professor 
Richard  T.  Louttit,  sees  the  grant  as  "an 
indication  that  department  is  ready  to  move 
to  a  position  of  real  strength  in  research 
and  graduate  education." 

The  psychology  department  has  also  re- 
ceived $53,702  from  the  Office  of  Education. 
That  sum  went  to  Professor  Jerome  L.  My- 
ers for  a  two-year  study  of  how  college 
students  learn  prose  material,  research 
which  will  have  implications  for  theories  of 
instruction.  Assistant  Professor  Daniel  R. 
Anderson  received  a  one-year  grant  of 
$25,717  to  develop  an  operational  mathe- 


matical theory  and  apply  it  to  a  study  of 
individual  learning  differences  in  children. 

The  U.S.  Public  Health  Service  has 
awarded  $73,485  to  the  department  of  pub- 
lic health  which  will  provide  stipends  and 
tuition  for  three  master's  degree  candidates 
in  community  health  education  and  two 
master's  degree  candidates  in  health  statis- 
tics. The  financial  aid  will  allow  them  to 
pursue  special  interest  projects. 

A  five  year  grant,  totalling  $344,587,  was 
awarded  by  the  National  Institute  of  Mental 
Health  to  the  School  of  Nursing.  This  will 
support  a  psychiatric-mental  health  spe- 
cialty area  within  the  Master  of  Science 
degree  program  for  nurses.  For  the  first  time 
UMass  graduate  students  will  have  an  op- 
portunity to  train  for  positions  as  primary 
or  co-therapists  to  individuals,  groups,  and 
families;  as  consultants  to  community 
health  workers  or  institutions;  as  educa- 
tors; or  as  skilled  researchers. 

All  manner  of  books 

The  scene  is  Malawi,  the  central  figure  an 
American  life  insurance  salesman,  and  the 
story  evolves  into  a  very  funny,  very  bitter 
account  of  black  and  white  interacting  in 
Africa.  Jungle  Lovers,  published  by  Hough- 
ton Mifflin,  is  another  major  novel  by  Paul 
Theroux  '63,  whose  literary  efforts  have 
won  acclaim  from  reviewers  and  alumni 
(see  the  "Letters"  in  The  Alumnus,  Vol.  II, 
Numbers  3  and  4).  In  a  review  in  the  Bos- 
ton Globe,  Margaret  Manning  notes  that 
Jungle  Lovers  "is  a  comic  view  of  the  evan- 
escent impact  of  white  culture,  whether 
bourgeois  or  radical,  upon  an  indolent,  na- 
ture-oriented black  culture.  .  .  .  Theroux  is  a 
natural  writer  of  good  clean  prose,  backed 
by  an  acute  and  mordant  eye  and  a  pene- 
trating sense  of  the  absurd  and  the  pitiful." 
Another  alumnus,  Raymond  Abbott  '65, 
has  also  caught  the  attention  of  reviewers. 
His  book,  Paha  Sapa  (The  Black  Hills)  was 
critiqued  by  Sandra  Dallas  in  the  Denver 
Post,  who  called  the  book  "outstanding." 
Abbott  tells  the  story  of  a  contemporary 
Indian  movement  to  regain  land  rights,  and 
Miss  Dallas  notes  that  "in  the  hands  of  a 


The  Origins  of 
Greek  Painting 


&ff 


less  skillful  writer,  the  book  might  be  a 
series  of  cliches."  But  the  author  knows  his 
subject  (he  spent  two  years  on  a  Sioux  re- 
servation as  a  social  worker),  and  his  anger 
is  not  self-righteous.  Paha  Sapa  is  available 
for  $2  in  a  rough  edition  (stapled  rather 
than  bound,  with  hand-written  corrections 
in  the  text)  from  the  Appalachian  Press, 
258  Linden  Street,  Pittsfield. 

Returning  from  other  lands  and  other  cul- 
tures to  the  Amherst  campus,  we  note  re- 
cent publications  by  two  members  of  the 
faculty: 

Loren  P.  Beth,  professor  of  government, 
has  written  The  Development  of  the  Ameri- 
can Constitution,  1877-1917.  Dr.  Beth 
traces  the  roots  of  today's  "constitutional 
crisis"  to  the  social  problems  and  intellec- 
tual ferment  of  the  40-year  period  between 
Reconstruction  and  World  War  I.  Harper  & 
Row  is  the  publisher. 

A  professor  of  ancient  history  and 
archaeology,  J.  L.  Benson  is  the  author  of 
Horse,  Bird  &  Man:  The  Origins  of  Greek 
Painting.  It  is  a  systematic  and  comprehen- 
sive analysis  of  the  origins  of  Attic  figure 
style  in  the  period  from  the  eleventh 
through  the  eighth  centuries,  bc,  published 
by  the  University  of  Massachusetts  Press. 


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DOESN'TR^UY 


The  artists:  above,  Tony  Nicoli;  right, 
Althea  Smith;  opposite  page,  Ray  Everett. 


Mural,  mural  on  the  wall 

Which  is  fairest  of  them  all?  It's  hard  to 
choose. 

The  project  began  in  1968,  when  John 
Grillo  of  the  art  department  thought  walls 
might  be  a  good  challenge  for  his  students. 
Art  majors  attacked  the  stairwells  in  Bart- 
lett  Hall  with  enthusiasm,  and,  when  the 
Campus  Center  was  completed,  they  di- 
rected their  efforts  there.  Now  most  of  the 
Bartlett  stairwells  and  many  of  the  walls  on 
the  lower  levels  of  the  Campus  Center  sport 
such  a  variety  of  murals  that  passers-by  find 
something  to  their  taste. 


19 


Continuing  the  tradition 


DICK  PAGE 

Sports  Information  Director 


When  someone  asked  Dick  MacPherson 
what  was  foremost  in  his  mind  as  he  looked 
forward  to  his  first  season  as  head  football 
coach,  it  took  him  but  a  second  to  answer, 
"Winning." 

This  is  the  University's  eighty-ninth  foot- 
ball season,  and  MacPherson,  the  nine- 
teenth man  to  hold  the  head  coaching  job, 
is  enthusiastic.  "The  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts has  proven  itself  one  of  the  top 
football  teams  in  New  England  in  the  last 
decade,"  he  observed,  "and  my  staff  hopes 
we  can  continue  this  fine  tradition." 

Twenty-four  lettermen,  headed  by  co- 
captains  John  Hulecki  and  Dennis  Keating, 
will  form  the  nucleus  of  this  year's  Redmen, 
and  over  seventy  candidates  reported  for 
the  preseason  practice  which  began  on 
August  27th. 

As  the  season  began,  the  big  problem 
confronting  the  new  coaching  staff  was  re- 
placing last  year's  entire  starting  backfield. 
The  loss  of  fullback  Dick  Cummings  be- 
cause of  academic  deficiencies  has  deprived 
the  current  team  of  its  most  powerful  in- 
side runner  since  World  War  II. 

But  the  new  head  coach  is  cheerful  about 
the  prospects  of  bringing  the  Bean  Pot  to 
the  Amherst  campus.  "I  think  we  are  going 
to  be  an  exciting  team  to  watch,"  MacPher- 
son has  confided.  "I  firmly  believe  that 
throwing  the  football  is  one  of  the  most 
effective  ways  of  keeping  the  defense  hon- 
est. We  plan  to  use  an  offense  that  has  a 
split  end  as  well  as  a  flankerback.  If  we  can 
utilize  the  entire  width  of  the  field  it  will 
certainly  help  spread  the  defenses  teams  use 
against  us  and  hopefully  make  our  running 
game  complement  our  passing  strategy." 


Returning  this  fall  are  six  All  Yankee 
Conference  first  team  selections  from  last 
year:  Hulecki  and  Keating,  the  co-captains, 
and  Bob  Donlin,  Bill  DeFlavio,  Joe  Sabulis, 
and  John  O'Neil. 

By  overcoming  a  21-7  deficit  in  last  year's 
game  at  Alumni  Stadium  to  earn  a  21-21 
tie,  the  University  of  Connecticut  won  the 
Bean  Pot  outright  for  the  first  time  in  eleven 
years.  The  Huskies  and  the  Redmen  are  ex- 
pected to  be  the  strongest  contenders  for 
the  top  spot  in  the  final  Yankee  Conference 
standings.  But  MacPherson  is  well  aware 
that  New  Hampshire,  Maine  and  Rhode  Is- 
land are  all  hopeful  of  playing  the  role  of 
spoilers  while  Vermont  should  be  improved 


with  the  addition  of  several  junior  college 
transfers. 

The  Redmen  opened  their  home  schedule 
late  in  September  against  Dartmouth,  a 
team  they  have  not  defeated  in  nineteen 
previous  meetings.  The  other  acid  test  on 
the  nine-game  slate  is  the  finale  against 
Boston  College  the  week  before  Thanksgiv- 
ing. While  the  Redmen  have  given  the 
Eagles  all  they  could  handle  in  the  last  two 
meetings,  Joe  Yukica's  squad  has  been  on 
the  winning  end  of  the  score  when  the  final 
whistle  has  sounded. 

Although  Boston  University  and  Holy 
Cross  became  official  members  of  the  Yan- 
kee Conference  early  in  the  summer,  neither 
team  plays  enough  games  against  Confer- 
ence foes  to  qualify  for  the  Bean  Pot  this 
fall.  However,  both  teams  will  have  extra 
incentives  in  their  meetings  with  the  Red- 
men  this  year  as  they  attempt  to  become 
"unofficial"  Yankee  Conference  Champions. 

In  a  nutshell,  it  looks  as  though  the  com- 
ing football  season  could  be  a  productive 
one  for  UMass.  The  Redmen  will  show 
their  stuff  on  home  turf  September  25  (vs. 
Dartmouth),  October  16  (vs.  Rhode  Is- 
land), October  30  (vs.  Vermont)  and  Nov- 
ember 6  (vs.  Holy  Cross).  "We  plan  to  give 
the  spectators  what  they  want,"  Coach 
MacPherson  has  stated,  "and  still  keep  it  a 
fun  game  for  our  players." 

Basketball  Jottings  .  .  .  October  15th  marks 
the  start  of  preseason  basketball  drills  for 
Coach  Jack  Leaman  and  his  squad.  "The 
unexpected  loss  of  Julius  Erving  will  cer- 
tainly change  some  of  our  strategy  for  the 
coming  year,"  Leaman  has  stated,  "but  I 
feel  our  returning  players  have  every  confi- 
dence in  their  abilities  and  will  make  the 
necessary  sacrifices  to  bring  another  Yankee 
Conference  Basketball  Championship  to 
our  campus." 


21 


Big  Mac 


KATIE  S.  GILLMOR 


It's  a  new  football  season,  with  a 
new  coach,  and  we  set  out  to 
answer  the  question,  "What  is 
Dick  MacPherson  really  like?" 


The  electric  fan  in  Dick  MacPherson's  of- 
fice was  having  a  hard  time  of  it,  jerking 
back  and  forth  as  it  fought  to  dispel  the  90° 
heat  and  goalo  humidity.  But  the  new  head 
football  coach  looked  unwilted  sitting  be- 
hind his  neat  desk,  an  expectant  expression 
on  his  freckled  face  below  the  gray,  crewcut 
hair. 

We  were  curious  about  him  and  about  the 
kind  of  football  UMass  fans  would  be  see- 
ing this  fall,  and  so  we  asked  him,  first, 
why  a  successful  coach  in  pro  football  (he 
had  been  an  assistant  coach  with  the  Denver 
Broncos)  would  want  to  come  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Massachusetts?  The  question  was 
predictable,  and  MacPherson  had  several 
answers  ready.  "I  have  a  sentimental  attach- 
ment to  this  area.  I  started  my  married  life 
here  when  I  was  freshman  coach  at  UMass 
eleven  years  ago.  That's  one  reason  I  was 
happy  to  take  this  job.  Another  is  the  feel- 
ing I  have  that  the  future  of  education  is  in 
public  education.  There  are  fifty  state  uni- 
versities in  this  country,  and  now  I've  got 
one  of  the  fifty — one  of  the  best  of  the  fifty. 
Which  brings  me  to  the  most  important 
reason  for  coming  here.  Massachusetts  has 
a  winning  tradition.  And  a  coach  can't  be 
happy  unless  he's  winning." 

But  what  about  the  Yankee  Conference? 
We  asked  whether  conference  rules  limit 
our  winning  potential.  The  coach  chose  his 
words  carefully.  "It's  my  job  to  direct  a  pro- 


MacPherson  on  the  practice  field  is  a  man  of 
many  moods,  as  this  picture  and  the  ones  on 
the  following  pages  suggest. 


gram  that  the  administration  feels  it  wants," 
he  said.  "If  they  support  the  Yankee  Con- 
ference, then  I'm  being  disloyal  not  sup- 
porting them.  On  the  other  hand,  if  they 
choose  to  invest  in  a  big  program,  it  could 
easily  be  done.  There  is  limitless  opportunity 
here.  Massachusetts  has  the  best  football 
talent  in  the  East." 

Why  then,  we  wondered,  has  the  state 
university  gotten  such  a  small  portion  of 
this  talent?  The  coach  sensed  that  his  last 
statement  begged  this  question.  "There  are 
two  natural  barriers  to  our  recruiting  this 
talent,"  he  added.  "One  is  that,  with  our 
local  schedule,  we  can't  attract  the  super- 
athlete.  Which  I  can  understand.  The  great 
ones  ought  to  shoot  high. 

"The  other  barrier  is  the  prestige  of  Ivy 
League  education,  which  attracts  athletes 
who  might  otherwise  come  here.  But  we're 
not  complaining.  I'm  very  satisfied  with  the 
recruiting  we've  done  this  year."  He  paused 
and  smiled.  "Of  course,  I  can't  be  sure  un- 
til I  see  the  players  on  the  football  field." 

We  asked  if  he  had  a  special  technique 
for  recruiting.  "No,"  he  answered,  and  we 
sensed  that  a  potential  player  would  see  the 
same  expression  of  intense  concern.  "You 
can't  use  the  same  spiel  over  and  over.  Too 
many  recruiters  do  that,  and  they  end  up 
talking  to  themselves.  You've  got  to  find 
out  who  you  are  talking  to.  You've  got  to  be 
honest  and  sincere  with  him.  I  think  this  is 


a  great  school,  and  I  tell  them  so.  And  I'll 
encourage  them  to  come  here.  Sometimes  I 
feel  that  certain  athletes  would  be  happier 
elsewhere,  and  I  tell  them  that  too.  But 
many  of  them  choose  to  come  here  any- 
way." 

We  wondered  what  his  job  entailed  be- 
yond coaching  and  recruiting.  "I'm  trying 
to  publicize  UMass  football  in  the  state," 
he  told  us.  "I'm  making  the  rounds  of  high 
school  banquets,  trying  to  overcome  some 
of  the  prejudice  against  public  versus  pri- 
vate education  and  trying  to  meet  reporters 
and  get  newspaper  coverage  for  football. 
I'll  go  anywhere  in  the  state  to  talk  to  any 
group  who  wants  to  listen  to  me.  I  think 


that's  part  of  my  job  as  a  representative  of 
the  public  university." 

Next  we  asked  about  the  members  of  his 
staff.  What  had  he  been  looking  for  when 
he  chose  them?  "I  was  looking  for  good 
people.  And  nice  people.  It's  a  people's 
game.  The  administration  let  us  do  our  own 
selection  of  staff,  and  almost  everyone  we 
wanted  came."  Again,  he  smiled.  "So  if  the 
staff  doesn't  work  out,  it's  only  me  to 
blame." 

And  what  did  he  expect  of  his  players? 
"We  expect  them  to  come  here  for  two 
things,"  he  answered.  "Education  and  foot- 
ball. The  education  comes  first,  and  we 
don't  interfere  with  that.  In  fact,  I  think  we 


help  that.  Football  is  an  educational  expe- 
rience too,  and  we  expect  them  to  work 
hard  at  it  and  play  it  well. 

"During  the  season,  when  a  student  is 
on  the  team,  we  expect  him  to  stand  for 
everything  good  in  athletics.  When  the  sea- 
son's over,  he  can  do  his  own  thing,  but 
when  we're  playing,  he's  got  to  be  a  credit 
to  us. 

"We're  going  to  work  the  players  hard, 
but  we  don't  want  to  take  the  fun  out  of 
football  for  them.  As  coaches,  it's  hard  for 
us  to  remember  that  what  is  a  vocation  for 
us  is  just  an  avocation  for  them.  I'll  never 
sell  football  to  a  young  man  as  the  most 
important  thing  he'll  do.  Of  course,  it  may 
be  the  most  important  thing  he'll  do. ...  It 
is  for  some  people." 

What  about  new  tactics,  we  asked.  Mac- 
Pherson  looked  cagey.  "I'll  say  this,"  he 
said.  "There's  53  1/3  yards  of  width  in  a 
football  field.  And  if  we  don't  use  some  of 
it,  we're  helping  the  opponents." 

Then  the  coach  had  a  question  for  us. 
"Do  you  think,  based  on  all  I've  told  you, 
that  ours  is  a  new  approach  to  UMass  foot- 
ball?" "Yes,"  we  answered  instinctively, 
and  then  we  had  to  think  why.  We  thought 
of  the  first  question  we  had  asked  and  the 
answers  he  had  given.  He  said  he  had  left 
pro  ball  for  his  present  job  because  he  liked 
the  area,  he  believed  in  public  education, 
and  he  felt  the  University  had  potential  for 
great  football.  But  it  was  our  impression 
that  the  most  vital  reason  had  been  left  un- 
said. He  is  coaching  football  because  he 
loves  the  sport  and  he  came  to  UMass  be- 
cause he  really  likes  young  people.  "Yours 
is  a  new  approach,"  we  told  him,  "because 
your  kids  will  love  to  play  ball." 


23 


He's  tough  and  he's  fair 


Three  men  who  have  worked  with 
him  give  their  impressions  of  Dick 
MacPherson. 


John  McCormick,  Jr.  '62  was  a  quarterback 
when  Dick  MacPherson  first  coached  at 
UMass  between  1959  and  1961.  They  were 
together  again  when  John  played  for  the 
Denver  Broncos  and  Dick  was  the  assistant 
coach.  McCormick  has  a  great  deal  of  re- 
spect for  his  former  coach  and  thinks  he 
will  do  well  at  the  University. 

"I  think  he'll  win,  going  as  far  as  he  can 
without  using  any  of  his  players  as  bodies/' 
John  said.  "He's  a  hard  worker,  a  good 
motivator  of  people,  contagiously  enthus- 
iastic. He's  the  kind  of  coach  who  could 
work  at  a  school  with  an  academic  orienta- 
tion, like  UMass,  which  still  demands  that 
athletes  be  students — and  not  necessarily 
in  that  order." 

But  McCormick  does  think  that  the  new 
head  coach  will  have  some  adjustments  to 
make.  "As  an  assistant,  Mac  could  get  close 


to  people,"  he  explained.  "But  a  good  head 
coach  isn't  intimate  with  his  players.  He 
can't  be,  because  there  are  too  many  tough 
decisions  he  has  to  make.  He  may  be  re- 
spected, but  he  isn't  often  liked.  Mac  is  go- 
ing to  have  to  adjust  to  this." 

Sam  Rutigliano,  the  New  England  Patriots' 
offensive  coordinator,  thinks  MacPherson  is 
well  suited  to  coaching.  "When  people 
think  of  a  football  coach,"  he  said,  "they 
think  of  a  taskmaster,  a  chief  of  staff.  But 
I  think  the  qualities  a  coach  needs  are  very 
simple:  he  has  to  be  firm  and  he  has  to  be 
fair." 

Rutigliano,  who  worked  with  MacPher- 
son at  the  University  of  Maryland  and  then 
in  Denver,  thinks  that  the  difference  be- 
tween pro  and  college  football  is  in  the  type 
of  game  that's  played,  not  in  the  relation- 
ship between  the  coach  and  the  players.  In 
any  event,  he  doesn't  think  Mac  will  have 
any  trouble  adjusting :  "He's  not  just  a  foot- 
ball coach.  He's  vitally  interested  in  both 
winning  and  seeing  his  boys  graduate.  He 
won't  let  them  pursue  a  career  in  football 
here  if  it  will  interfere  with  their  education. 

"MacPherson  is  a  man  of  very  strong 
moral  fibre.  He  believes  in  things  and  will 
never  waver  regardless  of  pressure.  His 
qualities  are  the  qualities  we  all  want  to  find 
in  our  friends:  consistency  and  dependabil- 
ity." 

John  Huard,  a  New  Orleans  Saints  mid- 
dle linebacker  who  had  played  for  Denver 
when  MacPherson  was  there,  would  agree 
with  Sam  Rutigliano's  assessment  of  Mac's 
character.  But  Huard  believes  that  the  rela- 
tionship between  the  coach  and  his  players 
is  different  in  the  pros  than  in  college  ball. 

"The  pros,"  he  said,  "like  to  live  their 
own  lives.  If  they  have  problems,  it's  none 
of  the  coach's  business.  MacPherson  found 
this  frustrating.  He  is  very  interested  in 
young  people,  very  understanding,  and  he 
enjoys  sitting  down  and  talking  things  out. 
That's  why  Mac  will  do  well  at  UMass.  He 
really  knows  football.  He's  dedicated,  and 
sincere,  and  tough.  That's  all  you  can  really 
ask — that  a  coach  be  tough  and  fair." 


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24 


Comment 


Club  Calendar 


EVAN  V.  JOHNSTON  '50 
Executive  Vice-President 


We  lost  a  dear  friend  and  an  active  booster 
when  Gordon  Ellery  Ainsworth  '34  passed 
away  August  5,  but  his  influence  and  spirit 
shall  remain  alive  as  an  inspiration  to  those 
of  us  who  had  the  good  fortune  to  know 
him  and  work  with  him. 

His  dedication  to  his  family,  his  commu- 
nity, his  occupation,  and  his  alma  mater  we 
know  of  first  hand.  Whenever  we  needed 
his  help,  we  got  it  with  a  generous  measure 
of  good  will  and  good  humor. 

His  many  significant  achievements  in  his 
professional  life,  as  head  of  the  largest  land 
surveying  organization  in  New  England,  are 
too  numerous  to  list.  In  his  public  and  pri- 
vate life,  he  also  received  the  highest  acco- 
lades. The  Alumni  Medal  and  Citation  for 
Distinguished  Service  to  the  University 
awarded  to  him  last  June  termed  him  a  "rare 
and  precious  graduate."  If  anything,  he  gave 
too  much  of  himself  to  all  of  us.  We  are  sad- 
dened. Perhaps  we  should  not  have  asked 
for  that  much.  We  shall  miss  him,  but  we 
are  everlastingly  grateful  that  we  knew  him. 

One  of  Gordon's  many  activities  was  the 
chairmanship  of  our  Second  Century  Club. 
And  I  think  that  this  would  be  an  appropri- 
ate moment  to  honor  the  many  alumni  who 
give  their  time  and  energy  to  the  alumni 
association,  as  Gordon  gave  his. 

And  so  to  the  Associate  Alumni  Board  of 
Directors,  and  particularly  to  the  Alumni 
Fund  Committee  and  the  Alumnus  Advisory 
Committee  (which  played  an  important  role 
in  our  winning  recognition  from  the  Ameri- 
can Alumni  Council)  may  I  say  a  heartfelt 
"Thank  you." 


JAMES  H.  ALLEN  '66 
Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


Wilbur  Buck  '31  and  the  officers  of  the 
Capital  Club  are  to  be  commended  for  the 
fine  job  they  are  doing  in  the  Washington, 
D.C.  area.  They  chalked  up  another  suc- 
cess with  the  Annual  Spring  Dinner  held 
May  15.  Approximately  forty  people  gath- 
ered at  the  Evans  Family  Farm  Restaurant 
in  McLean,  Virginia  to  hear  Professor  of 
Government  Luther  Allen  speak  on  "Viet 
Nam — A  UMass  Perspective."  Dr.  Allen  is 
one  of  the  country's  leading  political  experts 
on  Viet  Nam,  and  his  speech  created  a  very 
lively  conversation. 

The  Greater  Delaware  Valley  Club  an- 
nually runs  a  summer  picnic  at  Camp  Hide- 
away near  Valley  Forge.  This  year  was  no 
exception,  and  according  to  club  secretary 
Janet  Smith  Anderson  '55,  seventy-four 
people  came.  That's  about  a  25%  increase 
over  last  year's  attendance.  Bob  Pollack  '54 
and  his  committee  are  to  be  congratulated. 

"Young  Alumni"  in  the  Boston  area 
gathered  on  the  banks  of  the  Charles  River 
July  9  to  hear  the  Boston  Pops.  A  Univer- 
sity of  Massachusetts  banner  was  stretched 
between  two  chairs,  with  two  smiling  bal- 
loons attached,  and  soon  over  thirty  people 
had  assembled  in  the  general  area.  The 
rains  threatened  all  evening,  but  we  were 
spared.  Tchaikovsky  mixed  with  Richard 
Rodgers  provided  an  entertaining  program, 
and  Audrey  Wyke  '68  invited  some  of  us 
back  to  her  apartment  for  an  after-the- 
concert  party. 

August  1  saw  me  traveling  to  Orleans  on 
the  Cape  for  the  Hotel,  Restaurant  and 
Tourism  Club's  summer  clambake.  After 
last  year's  successful  event,  I  knew  this  was 
a  "must,"  and  judging  from  the  number  of 


people  who  drifted  in  all  day,  the  good  word 
had  spread  far  and  wide.  Hats  off  to  the 
cooks — the  lobsters  and  steamers  were 
great. 

The  fall  program  will  hit  its  peak  with 
Homecoming,  October  15-17.  As  usual,  the 
Annual  Tailgate  picnic  will  be  in  the  north 
parking  lot  of  Alumni  Stadium  prior  to  the 
game.  Afterward,  an  Alumni  Cocktail  Tent 
will  be  set  up  on  the  stadium  grounds.  Head 
Football  Coach  Dick  MacPherson  and  many 
members  of  the  administration  will  be  there. 

The  president  of  qtv  in  Amherst,  Karl 
Signet  '62,  has  announced  that,  after  the 
Homecoming  game,  qtv  alumni  and  their 
"qute"  wives  (or  girl  friends)  are  invited  to 
a  Happy  Hour  and  "Steamship  Round" 
Buffet  in  the  Commonwealth  Room  of  the 
Student  Union.  Background  and  dance  mu- 
sic will  be  supplied  by  a  live  orchestra,  and 
all  this  costs  just  $6  per  person.  Karl  says, 
"Spread  the  word  to  all  qutes  in  your  area." 
Send  checks  payable  to  qtv  Corporation  to 
Karol  Wisnieske  '37,  235  Public  Health 
Building,  University  of  Massachusetts,  Am- 
herst 01002. 

The  Class  of  1966  will  be  holding  its  fifth 
reunion  during  Homecoming.  As  part  of  the 
reunion  exercises,  the  dedication  of  the 
"Bernie  Dallas  Mall  and  Memorial"  will 
take  place  east  of  the  stadium  following  the 
game.  All  alumni  and  friends  of  Bernie's 
are  cordially  invited. 

Remember  '66ers:  if  you  haven't  as  yet 
sent  in  your  reservations,  please  do  so  im- 
mediately. 

When  we  play  the  Huskies  of  UConn  at 
Storrs  October  23,  there  will  be  more  than 
a  football  game  to  entertain  area  alumni. 
A  cocktail  hour  and  buffet  will  be  held  in 
the  UConn  Faculty-Alumni  Lounge,  which 
is  immediately  east  of  the  football  stadium. 
Football  fans  in  the  Boston  area  should  note 
that  a  cocktail  party  will  be  held  after  the 
Redmen  play  Boston  College  on  November 
20.  The  location  will  be  bc's  Alumni  Hall 
and  the  event  is  sponsored  by  the  Boston 
Alumni  Club.  For  more  information  on 
either  of  these  events,  please  write  to  me  at 
the  alumni  office. 


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-i-l^'-jr^^-- 


A  reminder  and  an  announcement  will  fin- 
ish up  this  column.  The  reminder  is  that 
alumni  directories  are  available  at  $5  each. 
Directories  make  it  easy  to  keep  in  touch, 
since  alumni  are  listed  by  class,  geographi- 
cally, and  alphabetically.  Send  checks  made 
out  to  Associate  Alumni  Directory  to  the 
alumni  office. 

And  now  for  the  announcement.  A  sec- 
ond alumni  tour,  the  Aloha  Carnival  to 
Honolulu,  is  scheduled.  This  time,  there  will 
be  two  separate  trips  departing  from  Brad- 
ley Field:  one  on  January  15,  the  other  on 
February  19.  Eight  days  and  seven  nights 
at  the  new  Hawaiian  Regent  Hotel  on  Wai- 
kiki  Beach,  and  it's  all  outlined  in  a  bro- 


chure which  you  will  receive  soon. 

Some  people  may  wonder  if  we  can 
improve  on  the  Majorcan  Carnival  we  ran 
last  spring.  We  think  we  can.  This  time 
we'll  be  flying  American  Airlines  Boeing 
707  jets,  with  in-flight  movies  and  cham- 
pagne. And  in  Honolulu,  there  will  be 
champagne  breakfasts  to  greet  you  in  the 
morning  and  cocktail  parties  every  night. 
So  circle  those  dates  on  your  calendar: 
January  15  or  February  19. 


26 


The  Classes  Report 


The  following  information  was  received  by  the 
alumni  office  before  August  i,  1.971. 


The  Thirties 

Donald  W.  Chase  '34  retired  last  May  from 
the  FBI  with  the  rank  of  special  agent;  he  had 
served  that  organization  for  thirty-six  years. 

Russell  E.  MacCleery  '34  holds  the  newly- 
created  position  of  vice-president  in  charge  of 
the  Washington  office  of  the  Automobile  Manu- 
facturers Association. 

Grace  E.  Tiffany  '34,  md,  illustrated  The 
Teakwood  Tree  and  Other  Stories,  a  recently 
published  book  of  imaginative  tales  written  by 
Lavinia  Tiffany  Bentley. 

Dr.  Francis  A.  Lord  '36  has  been  resident 
director  of  the  University  of  South  Carolina's 
Lancaster  Regional  Campus  since  1965.  He 
had  previously  spent  fourteen  years  in  the  cia 
as  a  research  analyst  concerned  with  science 
in  the  Soviet  Union. 

Dr.  Charles  L.  Branch  '39  was  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  Massachusetts  Dental  Society. 
Currently  he  is  president  of  the  Tufts  Univer- 
sity School  of  Dental  Medicine  Alumni  Execu- 
tive Committee. 

The  Forties 

Dorothy  Kinsley  Barton  '43,  a  librarian  at  the 
Van  Nuys  branch  of  the  Los  Angeles  Public 
Library,  received  an  MS  degree  in  library  sci- 
ence from  the  University  of  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

Dr.  Charles  W .  Dunham  '44  was  promoted 
to  full  professor  in  plant  science  by  the  Uni- 
versity of  Delaware  last  May.  He  has  been  on 
the  university's  staff  since  1954,  and  had  pre- 
viously held  graduate  assistantships  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  (where  he  earned  his 
master's  degree)  and  at  Michigan  State  Uni- 
versity (where  he  earned  his  doctorate). 

James  M.  Moulton  '44,  chairman  of  the  biol- 
ogy department  at  Bowdoin  College,  sailed  on 
Atlantis  II  last  fall,  on  a  North  Atlantic  oceano- 


ographic  cruise  from  the  Woods  Hole  Oceano- 
graphic  Institution. 

Dr.  Helen  A.  Padykula  '46,  a  professor  of 
biological  sciences  at  Wellesley  College,  was 
awarded  the  1971  Graduate  Society  Medal  of 
the  Radcliffe  Alumnae  Association. 

Stanley  R.  Sherman  '47,  as  vice-president  of 
University  Center,  Inc.,  supervises  the  develop- 
ment of  innovative  educational  programs  for 
underachieving  students.  University  Center, 
Inc.  is  a  Boston  psychological  testing  and 
counseling  agency. 

Richard  F.  Jackson  '49  is  employed  by  the 
Campbell  Soup  Company  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey. 

M.  K.  Nadel  '49,  phd,  is  general  manager  of 
the  chemical  reagents  group,  part  of  Abbott's 
scientific  products  division  in  South  Pasadena. 

1950 

Bruce  T.  Bowens,  director  of  administration, 
Community  Service  Center,  has  been  awarded 
a  master's  degree  from  aic's  Center  for  Hu- 
man Relations  and  Community  Affairs. 

Raymond  A.  Kinmonth,  Jr.,  after  nearly 
eighteen  years  with  the  American  Cyanamid 
Company,  is  now  an  assistant  to  the  vice- 
president  for  research  at  the  Atlas  Electric 
Devices  Company  in  Chicago. 

Myron  E.  Shapiro  was  named  assistant 
treasurer  of  Sealol,  Inc.,  a  Providence  based 
manufacturer  of  mechanical  seals. 

1951 

Lt.  Col.  Robert  A.  Johnston,  Jr.  is  a  member 
of  the  437th  military  airlift  wing  which  earned 
the  usaf  Outstanding  Unit  Award  for  the 
fourth  consecutive  year. 

Lt.  Col.  William  T.  Thacher,  Jr.  is  an  auditor 
in  the  Army. 

1952 

Philip  M.  Johnson  is  responsible  for  the  ad- 
ministration of  all  the  New  England  advertis- 
ing accounts  and  account  executives  with 
Creamer,  Trowbridge,  Case  &  Basford,  an 
advertising  and  public  relations  firm  in  Provi- 
dence. He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Janet  Rob- 
inson '$4,  their  three  children  (Roberta,  14; 
Jeffrey,  12;  and  Julie,  3)  and  their  new  German 
Shepherd  have  moved  to  Uxbridge.  They  had 
been  living  in  Scituate  for  the  past  five  years 
where  Janet  was  very  active  as  a  substitute 
teacher. 


Judith  Broder  Sellner,  a  communications 
specialist  with  the  Teachers  Insurance  and 
Annuity  Association,  has  been  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Society  of  loma  Graduates  (a  pro- 
fessional insurance  group)  and  has  been 
appointed  publicity  chairman  of  the  U.S.  East- 
ern Amateur  Ski  Association,  the  eastern  divi- 
sion of  USSA. 

1953 

The  Rev.  Sherwood  Carver,  the  former  pastor 
of  a  new  church  in  South  Burlington,  Vermont, 
which  he  helped  to  organize,  has  been  ap- 
pointed minister  of  the  First  United  Methodist 
Church  of  Gloversville,  New  York. 

Paul  V.  Paleologopoulos  is  assistant  direc- 
tor of  group  pension  underwriting  at  the 
home  office  of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company. 

Andre  R.  Tetreault  is  another  Mass.  Mutual 
employee.  He  is  a  mathematical  assistant  in  the 
company's  mathematical  department. 

1954 

James  F.  Buckley  is  a  first  vice-president  and 
voting  stockholder  with  Shearson,  Hammill  & 
Company,  Inc.  of  New  York. 

John  J.  Dillon,  news  supervisor  at  New 
England  Telephone,  has  been  cited  for  helping 
the  company  win  the  Public  Relations  Society 
of  America's  Silver  Anvil  Award. 

John  J.  Pasteris,  manager  of  Price  Water- 
house,  joined  the  firm  in  1954.  He  and  his  wife 
Joan  have  three  daughters,  Leslie,  Lynn,  and 
Susan. 

Duane  Wheeler  has  been  elected  to  the  posi- 
tion of  corporate  controller  by  the  Acushnet 
Company. 

1955 

Robert  J.  Clark  has  been  named  as  a  vice- 
president  to  head  a  new  corporate  administra- 
tion department  at  /Etna  Life  &  Casualty  in 
Hartford. 

William  I.  Savel  is  the  marketing  manager 
of  the  Nestle  Company's  chocolate  division  in 
White  Plains,  New  York. 

Sheldon  R.  Simon  is  in  Iran  for  a  year  and  a 
half  as  the  director  of  a  project  which  will 
coordinate  eight  regional  studies  and  then  is- 
sue a  five-year  master  plan  for  Iran's  regional 
development.  Sheldon's  wife,  the  former 
Rhoda  Bloom  '37,  and  their  three  children 
(Lisa,  8;  Peter,  4;  and  Eric,  2)  are  with  him. 


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1956 

Robert  J.  Bruso  is  manager  of  Duty  Free 
Shoppers,  Ltd.  in  Hong  Kong. 

1957 

Lee  H.  Hall  has  been  advanced  to  associate 
director  of  group  insurance  administration  in 
the  group  life  and  health  administration  de- 
partment of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company. 

Maj.  Edward  H.  Johnston  graduated  last 
June  from  the  U.S.  Army  Command  and  Gen- 
eral Staff  College  at  Fort  Leavenworth.  Ed 
has  received  the  Silver  Star,  three  awards  of 
the  Distinguished  Flying  Cross,  the  Bronze 
Star  Medal,  the  Army  Commendation  Medal, 
the  Vietnamese  Gallantry  Cross,  and  thirty- 
three  awards  of  the  Air  Medal  during  the 
course  of  his  military  career. 

Edward  M.  Lee,  Jr.  has  been  promoted  to 
president  of  the  Indian  Head  Company's  In- 
formation Handling  Services.  He  had  been 
vice-president  for  marketing  and  corporate 
director  of  communications. 

Bruce  O.  Lindbom  received  an  msw  degree 
last  June  from  Rutgers. 

Maj.  John  T.  Loftus,  usaf,  has  been  dec- 
orated with  the  Distinguished  Flying  Cross 
for  extraordinary  aerial  achievement  in  South- 
east Asia. 

Maj.  Bruce  D.  MacLean,  who  holds  the 
Army  Commendation  Medal  and  two  awards 
of  the  Bronze  Star  Medal,  graduated  from  the 
U.S.  Army  Command  and  General  Staff  Col- 
lege at  Fort  Leavenworth. 

David  J.  Valley  and  his  family  have  moved 
to  Tokyo  where  Dave  is  executive  vice-presi- 
dent of  Ocean  Systems  Japan,  Ltd. 

1958 

James  Costantino  received  his  phd  degree 
from  the  American  University  last  May. 

Robert  L.  Dusty  has  been  named  adminis- 
trator, new  product  development,  in  ^Etna 
Life  &  Casualty's  group  pension  department. 

Donald  J.  Forrester,  an  assistant  professor 
of  parasitology  at  the  University  of  Florida, 
and  his  wife  adopted  Rebecca  Ruth,  a  Korean 
orphan,  in  March  1970. 

Maj.  Richard  J.  Keogh,  a  military  analyst 
and  author  of  the  pictorial  review  War  as  I 
Knew  It,  has  been  appointed  deputy  sheriff  in 
Madison  County,  Alabama. 

Margaret  Anderson  Robichaud  '58,  formerly 


a  teacher  in  the  Yarmouth  school  system,  helps 
her  husband  Joseph  run  their  market  in  West 
Dennis  from  April  to  November  and  their 
apartments  in  Naples,  Florida,  the  rest  of  the 
year.  The  Robichauds  have  announced  the 
birth  of  a  son,  Charles  Albert,  born  March  17, 
1971. 

Gerald  P.  Rooney  went  around  the  world  via 
bicycle,  motor  scooter,  and  ship  between 
May  1964  and  November  1967.  Working  as 
an  international  troubador,  the  1,286  day  ex- 
cursion cost  him  approximately  $2  a  day. 
Now  Gerry  is  back  in  Massachusetts,  working 
as  an  administrator  in  the  New  Bedford  pov- 
erty program.  He  and  his  wife  Ayako  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  their  daughter  on  Janu- 
ary 7,  1971. 

Dr.  Jack  F.  Woodruff  is  a  physician  at  the 
Cornell  Medical  College  in  New  York  City.  His 
wife,  the  former  Judith  J.  Shapiro  '62,  is  a  phy- 
sician at  Downstate  Medical  Center  in  Brook- 
lyn. The  couple  has  three  children. 

1959 

Dr.  Dominic  J.  DiMattia,  an  assistant  profes- 
sor in  counselor  education  at  the  University  of 
Bridgeport's  College  of  Education,  has  been 
awarded  a  research  grant  by  the  Department 
of  Health,  Education  and  Welfare,  U.S.  Office 
of  Education. 

Rene  L.  Dube  received  his  doctorate  from 
the  University  of  Connecticut.  He  is  an  asso- 
ciate professor  of  electrical  engineering  at 
Western  New  England  College. 

James  A.  Murphy  received  an  MS  degree  in 
engineering  management  from  Drexel  Univer- 
sity last  June. 

Robert  Myers  was  recently  awarded  the  Dis- 
tinguished Public  Service  Medal  by  the  Mari- 
copa County  Medical  Society  for  efforts  on 
behalf  of  the  Community  Organization  for 
Drug  Abuse  Control  of  which  he  was  elected 
vice-president.  He  was  also  elected  Ninth  Cir- 
cuit Governor  of  the  American  Trial  Law- 
yers Association  and  appointed  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Examinations  and  Admissions  by  the 
Arizona  Supreme  Court. 

Lt.  Cdr.  Albert  J.  Smith  is  the  commanding 
officer  of  the  USS  Skylark.  He  and  his  wife 
Dorothy  have  three  children. 

Richard  H.  Whelan  is  a  food  technologist  in 
the  food  and  flavor  section  of  Arthur  D.  Lit- 
tle, Inc. 

Norman  S.  Winnerman,  a  member  of  the 
City  Council  of  Danbury,  Connecticut,  was 


recently  appointed  chairman  of  the  Danbury 
High  School  history  department. 

1960 

Ronald  F.  Flynn  was  named  district  manager 
of  Massachusetts  for  Hiram  Walker,  Inc. 

Maj.  Donald  R.  Hiller  was  selected  for  the 
U.S.  Army  Command  and  General  Staff  Col- 
lege Commandant's  List  upon  graduation  from 
Fort  Leavenworth  last  June. 

Douglas  M.  Lane  is  an  auditor  for  the  In- 
dustrial Label  Corporation.  He  is  married  to 
the  former  Susan  LaFrancis  '61. 

William  J.  McConville  is  general  manager 
of  Bombardier  East  Inc.  in  Lee,  a  subsidiary  of 
Bombardier,  Ltd.  of  Montreal. 

Peter  J.  Riordan  was  made  an  associate  of 
Goldberg-Zoino  &  Associates,  a  soil  engineer- 
ing firm  in  Newton  Upper  Falls. 

1961 

The  Rev.  Oliver  J.  Hebert,  tor,  was  ordained 
last  May  and  will  be  teaching  mathematics  at 
St.  Francis  College  in  Loretto,  Pennsylvania. 

Barbara  Pottern  Jackson  is  teaching  in  the 
Springfield  school  system. 

David  Ching-Shyang  Liu  'G  received  his 
phd  last  June  from  Rutgers. 

Dale  Melikan  has  been  appointed  head- 
master of  the  Long  Ridge  School  in  Stamford, 
Connecticut. 

Capt.  Guenther  H.  Ressel  is  a  contract  nego- 
tiator with  the  Air  Force.  His  wife,  the  former 
Bette  Goodnow,  had  worked  as  a  reporter  on 
newspapers  in  Worcester  and  in  Texas. 

1962 

Ann  Frazier  Anderson  has  been  teaching  at  the 
North  Junior  High  School  in  Brockton  for  the 
past  four  years.  She  and  her  husband  Robert 
have  announced  the  birth  of  their  second 
daughter,  Kirstie  Ann,  born  April  12, 1971. 

John  Blair  'G,  chairman  of  the  department 
of  history  at  Richard  Bland  College,  has  com- 
pleted work  on  his  doctoral  degree  in  Ameri- 
can history  at  the  University  of  Chicago. 

Capt.  James  A.  Corsi,  usaf,  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Arizona  with  an  ma  degree 
in  Latin  American  studies. 

David  G.  Field  received  his  jd  degree  from 
The  American  University  last  May. 

Roderick  L.  LaVallee,  Jr.  received  his  mba 
degree  from  Rutgers. 

Judith  Clark  McCausland  has  taught  in 


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Los  Angeles  for  the  past  year  and  a  half.  She 
and  her  husband  have  a  son. 


1963 

Albert  Bevilacqua  is  with  the  U.S.  Depart- 
ment of  Fish  and  Game  in  Boston.  He  and  his 
wife  have  announced  the  birth  of  Amy  Paris, 
born  May  26, 1971. 

loseph  M.  Donato  is  in  Spain  as  an  audit 
supervisor  with  Touche  Ross  &  Company,  an 
international  accounting  firm.  His  wife,  the 
former  Linda  Sorensen  '68,  is  with  the  U.S. 
Dependent  Schools  teaching  at  Torrejon  afb 
in  Madrid. 

Capt.  Richard  H.  Gebelein  has  been  hon- 
ored as  Outstanding  Supply  Officer  of  the  Year 
by  the  Air  Force. 

Elizabeth  Crosier  Kendall,  formerly  an  in- 
structor of  management  at  Berkshire  Commu- 
nity College,  is  now  living  in  Georgia  with 
her  husband  and  two  children. 

Cordon  N.  Oakes,  Jr.  has  been  elected  a  full 
vice-president  of  the  Valley  Bank  &  Trust 
Company  of  Springfield  and  will  head  the 
bank's  consumer  loan  division. 

1964 

Pauline  Torrence  Cann  teaches  in  Maiden. 
She  and  her  husband  John  have  a  one-year- 
old  son,  Sean  Philip. 

Dr.  Barry  S.  Friedman  recently  opened  an 
office  of  optometry  in  Hanover,  Massachusetts. 
He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Judith  Leibowitz 
'66,  have  announced  the  birth  of  Marc  Stuart, 
born  February  21, 1970. 

Eileen  M.  Holland,  who  married  Robert  C. 
Ripley  on  December  28, 1969,  is  a  customer 
application  specialist  in  General  Electric's  in- 
formation service  department. 

Michele  M.  King  has  been  named  assistant 
brand  manager  for  Dow  Bathroom  Cleaner  in 
the  consumer  products  department  of  Dow 
Chemical. 

Joseph  7.  Lanzillo,  a  medicinal  chemist  work- 
ing with  anti-cancer  agents,  received  his  phd 
degree  in  pharmacy  from  the  Massachusetts 
College  of  Pharmacy. 

Joanne  Miller  Pearson  '64  was  awarded  a 
phd  degree  in  home  economics  by  Iowa  State 
University. 

Frank  C.  Romito  has  been  promoted  to  the 
position  of  supervisor  in  the  Boston  office 
of  Peat,  Marwick,  Mitchell  and  Company,  a 
cpa  and  consulting  firm. 


Sam  J.  Tombarelli,  who  received  a  three 
grade  promotion  into  management  with  the 
Ford  Motor  Company  as  the  Boston  district 
heavy  truck  sales  engineer,  married  Carol 
Freitag  on  June  26,  1971. 

1965 

Helen  Radowicz  Cooke,  an  instructor  in  the 
physiology  department  at  the  University  of 
Iowa,  recently  received  her  doctorate  from 
Sydney  University  in  Australia.  She  and  her 
husband  Allan  have  announced  the  birth  of 
Ian  Russell,  born  in  March  1971. 

Theodore  B.  Belsky,  an  instructor  of  his- 
tory at  American  International  College,  pre- 
viously taught  at  Greenfield  Community  Col- 
lege. 

Ellen  Odiorne  Derow  received  her  master's 
degree  from  Rutgers  last  June. 

Alan  S.  Forman  has  been  awarded  a  Master 
of  Public  Administration  degree  from  The 
American  University. 

Joseph  E.  Kielec,  currently  enrolled  in  the 
mba  program  of  the  Wharton  Graduate  Divi- 
sion of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  spent  the 
summer  in  Washington,  D.C.  as  an  intern  to 
Virginia  Knauer  in  her  Office  of  Consumer  Af- 
fairs. The  internship  was  the  result  of  Joe's  win- 
ning a  "Wharton-White  House"  fellowship. 

Thomas  M.  Kilroy,  Jr.  is  being  transferred 
to  the  position  of  planning  and  coordinating 
engineer  in  the  Anaconda  Company's  Mon- 
tana operation.  Tom  had  been  chief  mine  plan- 
ning engineer  in  Chile,  but  the  Chilean  mines 
will  soon  be  nationalized. 

Roland  A.  Laramee,  a  teacher  in  Philadelphia, 
married  Margaret  E.  Brown  on  June  13, 1970. 

Susan  Bonnelli  Magee  is  a  programmer  in 
the  information  services  department  of  the 
Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. 

Frank  Nesvet  is  an  accountant  with  Price 
Waterhouse  and  Company  in  Boston. 

Robert  W.  O'Leary  is  now  assistant  director 
of  the  Massachusetts  Hospital  Association.  He 
has  an  mpa  degree  from  the  Graduate  School  of 
Public  Affairs  of  the  State  University  of  New 
York,  and  is  presently  a  degree  candidate  at 
Suffolk  Law  School. 

Joseph  F.  Piecuch  is  a  dentist  at  the  Hallo- 
man  afb  dental  clinic.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Michele  Potvin  '66,  have  announced  the 
birth  of  Michael  Frank  Joseph,  born  January  13, 
1971. 

Herbert  J.  Rosenfield  '67  received  an  msw 


degree  from  Boston  University  last  year. 
On  June  13, 1971,  he  married  Linda  Jane 
Price. 

7.  Russell  Southworth  'C  was  promoted  to 
manager  of  Peat,  Marwick,  Mitchell  &  Com- 
pany, a  Boston  cpa  and  consulting  firm. 

Capt.  Howard  P.  Waller  is  attending  the  Air 
University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at 
Maxwell  afb. 

1966 

Alan  Bulotsky,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Vermont  Medical  School,  is  training  at  McGill 
University's  Montreal  Children's  Hospital.  His 
wife,  the  former  Toby  Sevartz  '69,  received  a 
bs  degree  in  nursing  from  the  University  of 
Vermont  last  year.  The  couple  has  an  18- 
month-old  daughter,  Rebecca. 

Laurence  L,  Dayton  'C  is  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  psychology  at  Idaho  State  University. 
He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Jofannie  Solomon 
'C,  have  a  son,  Christopher  Scott,  born  in 
September  1966. 

Wayne  R.  DuBois  is  a  newspaper  reporter 
for  Today's  Post  in  Pennsylvania. 

Paul  F.  Cinsburg  was  promoted  to  assistant 
administrator  of  agency  costs  at  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 

Michele  J.  Holovak,  a  Spanish  teacher, 
married  David  E.  Harrison  on  February  27, 
1970. 

Donald  R.  Kestyn  is  a  highway  research 
engineer  employed  by  the  Federal  Highway 
Administration's  Department  of  Transporta- 
tion. 

Elizabeth  Wormwood  Newcomb  received 
her  ms  degree  from  Kansas  State  University 
last  May. 

Capt.  Louis  J.  Plotkin  is  attending  the  Air 
University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at  Max- 
well afb. 

Burton  R.  Rubin  is  a  senior  accountant  with 
Price  Waterhouse  and  Company.  He  and  his 
wife  Nancy  have  a  two-year-old  daughter, 
Julianne. 

Capt.  Courtney  K.  Turner,  who  commands 
Troup  G,  2nd  Squadron,  11th  Armored  Cav- 
alry Regiment  in  Viet  Nam,  has  received 
awards  of  the  Purple  Heart,  the  Air  Medal,  a 
second  Bronze  Star,  a  second  Vietnamese  Cross 
of  Gallantry,  and  the  Soldiers'  Medal  on  his 
second  tour  of  duty. 

Elinor  M.  Tuttle,  who  married  James  Mc- 
Gonigle  in  August  1968,  is  teaching  sixth 
grade  in  the  Natick  school  system. 


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Richard  C.  Warren,  a  helicopter  pilot  with 
Petroleum  Helicopters,  and  his  wife,  the  for- 
mer Lynette  Arcardi  '6$,  have  two  children. 

Arnold  B.  Wolfson  received  two  top  awards, 
one  from  the  Insurance  Advertising  Confer- 
ence and  the  other  from  the  Greater  Hartford 
Advertising  Club,  for  his  work  as  the  writer  of 
^Etna  Life  &  Casualty's  current  college  re- 
cruiting brochure. 

1967 

Robin  J.  Avery  has  joined  the  student  person- 
nel staff  at  the  University  of  Connecticut  as  a 
program  advisor  at  the  student  union. 

Denis  R.  Baillargeon,  an  intern  at  the  Rhode 
Island  Hospital  in  Providence,  received  his 
md  degree  from  the  Georgetown  University 
School  of  Medicine  last  May. 

Carol  M.  Burdick  received  her  mis  degree 
from  Rutgers  in  June. 

Jonathan  Busineau  married  Linda  H.  Brown 
'6a  on  May  12,  1968.  Linda  is  a  pension  and 
trust  analyst  for  the  New  England  Life  In- 
surance Company  in  Boston. 

Lorraine  C.  Couch  is  a  high  school  home 
economics  teacher  in  New  York. 

Gerald  Creem  is  an  investment  analyst  at 
the  John  Hancock  Life  Insurance  Company  in 
Boston.  He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Iris 
Goodman,  have  announced  the  birth  of  Jen- 
nifer Alene,  born  December  14,  1970. 

Robert  C.  Dewire  is  coordinator  of  the 
department  of  environmental  protection  at 
the  Med-Fairfield  County  Youth  Museum  in 
Westport,  Connecticut.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Mary  Jean  Williams  '68,  have  two 
children:  Kristen  Jean,  age  1V2,  and  Michael 
Scott,  born  April  28, 1971. 

Richard  G.  Dumont  'G,  who  is  working  on 
his  phd  in  sociology,  has  been  appointed 
an  assistant  professor  in  the  department  of 
sociology  and  anthropology  at  the  University 
of  Vermont. 

G.  Gregory  Fahland  'G  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  assistant  professor  in  the  Vassar  Col- 
lege political  science  department. 

J.  Thomas  Foote  'S  married  Deborah  Bar- 
nard '6a  on  August  23,  1969.  Debbie  is  cur- 
rently teaching  English  and  reading  at  Oxford 
High  School  in  Oxford,  Massachusetts. 

Joan  Waterman  Frenette  is  a  social  worker 
for  the  Connecticut  State  Welfare  Depart- 
ment's division  of  child  welfare. 

Steven  C.  Garner,  an  intern  at  the  State 
University  of  New  York,  Upstate  Medical  Cen- 


ter in  Syracuse,  received  his  md  degree  from 
the  George  Washington  University  School  of 
Medicine  last  May. 

Theodore  A.  Giebutowski  'G  is  an  assistant 
professor  of  mathematics  at  Plymouth  State 
College  in  New  Hampshire. 

Stephen  F.  Gordon  received  his  Juris  Doctor 
degree  from  The  American  University  last 
May. 

Cynthia  Hatch,  who  married  John  Mac- 
Eachern  on  March  1, 1969,  has  been  teaching 
at  Endicott  Junior  College  for  two  years. 

Barbara  John  married  Robert  Troup  in  July 
1969.  She  is  working  with  welfare  cases  for 
the  state  of  Illinois. 

Patricia  Machia  Koziol  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company's  information  services  department 
since  1967. 

Jon  L.  Kraszeski  received  his  md  degree  in 
June  from  the  Milton  S.  Hershey  Medical 
Center  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  University. 

Doris  Jean  Minasian  received  her  md  from 
the  Medical  College  of  Pennsylvania  in  May. 

Capt.  Theodore  A.  Monette,  Jr.,  who  had 
received  the  Associate  Alumni's  rotc  Award 
as  an  undergraduate,  has  been  assigned  as  an 
assistant  director  of  the  Bowdoin  College  rotc 
program.  During  the  course  of  his  military 
service  he  has  been  awarded  the  Bronze  Star, 
the  Air  Medal  (with  "V"  device)  and  six  oak 
leaf  clusters,  the  National  Defense  Service 
Medal,  and  the  Republic  of  Viet  Nam  Service 
Medal,  and  the  Republic  of  Viet  Nam  Cam- 
paign Medal. 

Capt.  Stephen  Pretanik  received  the  usaf 
Commendation  Medal  for  his  performance  as 
a  food  facility  officer  when  stationed  at  Bien 
Hoa  Air  Base. 

Herbert  J.  Rosenfield,  supervisor  of  high 
school  programs  for  the  Jewish  Community 
Center  in  Brighton,  received  his  master's  de- 
gree in  social  work  from  Boston  University. 
On  June  13,  1971,  he  married  Linda  Jane 
Price. 

Margaret  Denman  Smith  had  been  a  junior 
high  school  teacher  in  Georgia.  Now  she  and 
her  husband  Scott  are  living  in  Vermont  with 
their  daughter,  Rebecca  Courtney,  who  was 
born  on  September  20,  1970. 

Justyna  M.  Steuer  'G  is  at  Georgian  Court 
College  in  New  Jersey  teaching  intermediate 
Spanish  and  working  in  the  admissions  office. 
She  spent  last  summer  on  a  study-tour  in 
Poland  as  a  member  of  the  Kosciuszko  Foun- 
dation summer  session  group. 


Robert  E.  Sylvester,  a  graduate  of  Southern 
Methodist  University's  School  of  Law  (where 
he  was  an  instructor  in  political  science),  is 
continuing  his  studies  at  The  Johns  Hopkins 
School  of  Advanced  International  Studies  in 
Washington,  D.C  He  has  attempted  to  be 
designated  a  conscientious  objector  while  ful- 
filling his  military  obligation  as  an  Army 
officer. 

Susan  Bailey  Tubbs  and  her  husband  have 
gone  to  Australia  to  teach. 

Flora  Jacobs  Valentine  has  moved  to  Croth- 
ersville,  Indiana  and  writes  that  "all  old 
friends  are  welcome  when  in  the  area." 

Don's  Kleinerman  Wuraftic  had  taught  the 
educable  mentally  retarded  in  Los  Angeles 
before  she  and  her  husband  Bob  moved  to  their 
present  home  in  North  Dartmouth.  The  Wur- 
aftics  have  announced  the  birth  of  Adam  Ja- 
son, born  March  9, 1971. 

Capt.  Robert  J.  York  'G  has  been  cited  by 
the  U.S.  Army  Mobility  Equipment  Research 
and  Development  Center  at  Fort  Belvoir  for 
co-authoring  two  technical  papers  enhancing 
the  prestige  of  the  center. 

1968 

Douglas  F.  Bidwell  has  been  promoted  to 
staff  sergeant  in  the  Air  Force. 

William  J.  Boardman  11,  a  recent  graduate 
of  Northeastern  University  Law  School,  is 
working  for  the  United  Shoe  Corporation. 
Susan  Ruckstuhl  Boardman  is  employed  by 
the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital. 

Robert  A.  Boucher  is  a  group  underwriting 
assistant  in  the  group  life  and  health  under- 
writing department  of  the  Massachusetts  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company. 

Cheryl  Evans  Bowers  is  teacher-director  of 
the  Collinsville  Child  Care  Center  in  Morris- 
town,  New  Jersey. 

Steven  D.  Brown  is  an  accountant  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Susan  Pevzner  '6g,  is  a 
teacher  at  South  Boston  High  School. 

John  F.  Denman  has  been  named  systems 
analyst  in  the  general  systems  department  of 
the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany. 

Donald  G.  Farrington  has  been  promoted 
to  staff  sergeant  in  the  Air  Force. 

Stephen  J.  Furtado  received  an  ms  degree 
in  speech  pathology  from  the  University  of 
Vermont  last  May. 

Glenda  G.  Garlo  is  a  mathematical  assistant 
in  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance 


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Company's  group  pension  actuarial  depart- 
ment. 

Thomas  Gastone  married  Linda  E.  Buckman 
'67  on  April  12,  1969.  Linda  is  an  elementary 
school  teacher  in  Pittsfield. 

Joseph  7-  Cray,  Jr.  received  a  Master  of 
Arts  degree  in  Russian  from  the  University 
of  Colorado  in  May. 

William  B.  Hartley  received  his  master's 
degree  from  The  American  University. 

Cheryl  Dyer  Harrold  is  in  England  where 
her  husband,  an  Air  Force  staff  sergeant,  is 
stationed.  Cheryl  and  Tom  have  a  one-year- 
old  son,  Thomas  James. 

Janice  E.  Hoare,  who  married  Thomas  L. 
Keller  on  May  29,  1971,  had  been  a  teaching 
associate  at  the  University  of  Colorado. 

Allen  Crosnick  was  selected  by  the  home 
office  of  the  Phoenix  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  as  the  "Associate  of  the  Month," 
an  honor  granted  to  Phoenix  employees  who 
have  done  an  outstanding  job  in  terms  of 
personal  advancement  and  service  to  clients. 

Donald  B.  Headley  was  awarded  an  ms  de- 
gree in  research  psychology  by  Oklahoma 
State  University  last  May. 

Jane  Winslow  Hubbard  has  received  a  mas- 
ter's degree  from  the  University  of  Northern 
Colorado. 

Robert  D.  Jacobs  received  his  Juris  Doctor 
degree  from  The  American  University  last 
May. 

Cathy  Kelly  has  been  promoted  from  lieu- 
tenant to  captain  in  the  Women's  Army  Corps. 

David  Langdon  Knowlton,  an  education  ma- 
jor, received  a  Master  of  Arts  degree  from 
Trinity  College. 

William  B.  Lahtinen  is  a  computer  pro- 
grammer at  rca.  He  and  his  wife  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Eric,  born  February  5, 
1971.  Their  first  son,  Matthew,  was  born  July 
3,  1968. 

Ronald  K.  Mania  is  married  to  Nancy  J. 
Eklund  '6y,  a  fourth  grade  teacher  in  Utica. 

l/Lt.  David  W.  McElwey,  a  bioenvironmental 
engineering  officer  in  the  Air  Force,  married 
Susan  Van  Der  Linden  on  December  27, 1969. 

Leonard  R.  Mees  is  in  his  fourth  year  of 
medical  school  and  his  wife,  the  former  Pam- 
ela 7-  Wood  '69,  is  a  computer  programmer 
for  the  University  of  Rochester  Medical  De- 
partment. They  were  married  on  November 
6, 1970. 

Robert  A  Morse  is  a  staff  accountant  with 
Price  Waterhouse  and  Company. 


Virginia  A.  Moughan  has  been  a  social 
worker  in  New  York  City  for  two  years. 

i/Lt.  Michael  H.  Murray  has  graduated  from 
the  usaf  F-4  Phantom  pilot  course  at  Davis- 
Monthan  afb. 

Joseph  Oleksiewicz,  a  supply  specialist,  has 
been  promoted  to  staff  sergeant  in  the  Air 
Force. 

Jerold  G.  Paquette  is  graduating  from  the 
Case-Western  Reserve  University  School  of 
Law  and  expects  to  practice  law  in  the 
Worcester  area. 

Dr.  Edward  W.  Pepyne  'C,  a  professor  of 
counselor  education  at  the  University  of  Hart- 
ford, has  been  elected  president  of  the  New 
England  Educational  Research  Organization 
for  the  1971-72  academic  year. 

Sandra  Phelps  received  a  Master  of  Reli- 
gious Education  degree  last  December  from 
the  Southern  Baptist  Theological  Seminary. 

Dr.  Sanford  M.  Portnoy  'C  is  working  at  the 
Emma  Pendleton  Bradley  Hospital  and  teach- 
ing a  course  at  Brown  University.  On  February 
23,  1969  he  married  Joan  Flynn,  who  is  a 
psychometrician  for  the  Child  Development 
Study  at  Brown  University. 

l/Lt.  John  C.  Richards  has  been  awarded 
silver  wings  upon  graduation  from  usaf  pilot 
training. 

Robert  M.  Rodgers  is  in  his  last  year  at 
Northeastern  University  School  of  Law.  On 
August  29,  1970  he  married  Mary  Goodzoin 
'69,  who  received  an  MS  degree  from  Simmons 
College  last  June.  Mary  is  teaching  English 
at  Burlington  High  School. 

Capt.  Robert  J.  Santucci  is  a  company  com- 
mander in  the  military  police  corps  at  the 
Army's  European  Command  Headquarters  in 
Germany.  His  wife,  the  former  Penelope 
Tselikis,  is  a  counselor  at  the  Army  Education 
Center. 

l/Lt.  James  L.  Scott  is  a  bioenvironmental 
engineer  on  duty  at  Ubon  Royal  Thai  afb. 

Lt.  j.g.  Kenneth  B.  Sherman  flies  the  p-3 
aircraft  as  a  senior  navigator  and  antisubma- 
rine warfare  tactical  coordinator  with  the 
Navy  Patrol  Squadron  One  at  Cam  Ranh  Bay, 
Viet  Nam. 

David  P.  Sumner  'C,  a  lecturer  at  UMass, 
is  attending  an  advanced  science  seminar  in 
combinatorial  theory  at  Bowdoin  College. 

1969 

Ian  M.  Andersen,  the  former  Kenneth  L. 
Sinofsky,  is  a  graduate  student. 


Sandra  J.  Camp  is  teaching  art  in  the 
Springfield  schools. 

Robin  Clarke  Correia  is  teaching  school  in 
Lakeville.  She  and  her  husband  Gary  were 
married  on  June  28, 1970. 

Jane  N.  Cohen,  who  married  Lester  Gold- 
berg on  March  27, 1971,  is  an  elementary 
school  teacher  in  Worcester. 

Lt.  j.g.  Neil  J.  Collins,  a  boiler  officer  on 
the  USS  Albany,  is  being  assigned  to  Saigon 
as  a  naval  engineering  advisor. 

Bruce  M.  Cramton  is  teaching  mathematics 
at  St.  Luke's  School  in  New  Canaan,  Con- 
necticut. 

7.  Harris  Dean  is  a  newspaper  editor  with 
The  Stafford  Press  in  Connecticut  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Susan  Young,  is  a  speech 
therapist. 

Airman  Edward  W.  Duggan,  a  communica- 
tions specialist,  graduated  with  honors  from 
the  technical  training  course  at  Sheppard  afb. 

Frederick  J.  Englander  received  his  ma  de- 
gree from  Rutgers  last  July. 

Sidney  C.  Fenton  is  a  naval  officer  in  Vir- 
ginia. 

Linda  S.  Ferguson  received  an  Office  of 
Education  Fellowship  for  1972  as  a  master's 
degree  candidate  in  audiology  at  Ball  State 
University  in  Indiana. 

Nancy  E.  Fogg  received  her  MS  degree  from 
Kansas  State  University  in  May. 

Irene  R.  Frizado,  who  received  an  ma  in 
mathematics  from  the  University  of  Hawaii 
in  May,  married  Wayne  H.  Uejio  on  June  12, 
1971. 

Dennis  C.  Cero,  an  employee  of  E.I.  du- 
Pont  de  Nemours  Company,  Inc.,  married 
Edith  Frisbie  on  July  19,  1969. 

Allain  Hirtle,  an  associate  underwriter 
for  the  Paul  Revere  Insurance  Company  in 
Worcester,  married  Richard  Schnable  on  May 
28,  1969. 

Nancy  S.  Jaworski  is  married  to  William  C. 
Harvey.  She  is  presently  a  graduate  student 
at  UMass,  working  on  a  master's  in  child  de- 
velopment. 

Caren  Johnson,  a  computer  programmer  for 
>£tna  in  Hartford,  married  James  H.  Leonard 
on  June  21,  1969. 

Bruce  W.  Krasin  is  performing  with  the 
Air  Force's  17-piece  jazz  band,  called  the 
"Commanders,"  at  norad  Headquarters  in 
Colorado  Springs. 

Janice  L.  Malcolm,  a  teacher  in  the  Wind- 
sor, Connecticut,  public  schools,  married  Rob- 
ert Spear  on  February  21,  1970. 


3i 


Ann  Martindale  is  a  cpa  with  Lyb,  Ran- 
Ross  and  Montgomery  in  Springfield. 

Patricia  A.  Mueller,  a  children's  librarian 
in  the  Arlington  County  (Virginia)  library 
system,  earned  her  mis  degree  from  Rutgers 
University  in  August  1970.  She  married  Mark 
W.  Lamprey  on  November  28, 1970. 

James  M.  Mulligan  had  worked  for  the 
Alpha  Sigma  national  office  in  Delaware  be- 
fore entering  the  Denver  University  Graduate 
School  of  Law  in  September.  On  July  3, 
1971,  he  married  Greta  M.  McBride. 

Jeffrey  L.  Nesvet,  in  his  third  year  at 
Georgetown  University  Law  Center,  writes  for 
Law  and  Policy  in  International  Business,  an 
international  law  journal.  He  has  been  a  spe- 
cial assistant  to  Congressman  William  D.  Ford 
(D-Mich)  since  February. 

Robert  P.  Novak  is  a  third  year  student 
at  the  Georgetown  University  School  of  Den- 
tistry. 

z/Lt.  Jon  T.  Park  is  a  weapons  controller 
in  the  Air  Force. 

Jean  M.  Patterson  'G  is  an  instructor  of 
English  at  Oregon  State  University. 

Craig  and  Carol  Kaczynski  Pineo  are  in 
Danville  where  he  is  working  in  the  new 
products  division  of  the  Hyster  Company  and 
she  is  substitute  teaching. 

Maria  K.  Plaza  was  transferred  to  the 
Anaheim  office  of  the  Digital  Equipment 
Corporation. 

Leonard  Radin  attended  Guy's  Dental 
School  in  London  last  summer. 

Marcia  Aronstein  Satz  is  teaching  in  the 
Broward  County,  Florida,  public  schools. 

Robert  E.  Spekman,  a  graduate  student  in 
business  administration  at  Syracuse  Univer- 
sity, married  Nancy  J.  Haynes  on  May  30, 1970. 

Linda  R.  Tower,  who  holds  a  master's  de- 
gree in  education  from  Springfield  College, 
has  been  promoted  to  analyst  in  the  systems 
and  methods  department  at  The  Travelers 
Insurance  Companies  in  Hartford. 

Ruth  Packet  linger  is  teaching  in  New  Jer- 
sey. 

Capt.  Donald  N.  Waden  is  with  the  Ameri- 
cal  Division  in  San  Francisco. 

2/Lf.  Warren  J.  Wetherbee  has  been  trained 
as  a  pilot  by  the  Air  Force.  On  April  3, 1970, 
he  married  Beth  Amiro  'yoC. 

Marsha  H.  Zack,  a  librarian,  is  doing 
graduate  work  in  geography  at  the  University 
of  Vermont. 


1970 

Sp/4  John  P.  Allison  is  stationed  in  Germany 
with  the  Army. 

Leora  Brainin  Baron  is  a  graduate  student 
at  UMass. 

James  D.  Collins  is  an  accountant  in  the 
Boston  firm  of  Harris-Kerr  and  Forrester.  On 
June  26,  1971,  he  married  Johanna  M.  Hayes, 
an  English  teacher  in  the  Boston  area. 

l/Lt.  James  H.  Dunham  'C  is  attending  the 
Air  University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at 
Maxwell  afb. 

Pamela  Cordon  Green  is  a  stewardess  with 
Delta  Air  Lines.  Her  base  station  is  New 
Orleans. 

Robert  O.  Goss  is  an  arborist  at  Cotton 
Tree  Service  in  Northampton  and  his  wife  the 
former  Janet  B.  Drummond,  is  a  substitute 
teacher  in  Chicopee. 

Dr.  Richard  B.  Holzman  'G  became  super- 
intendent of  the  Gateway  Regional  School 
District  in  Huntington  last  April  after  serving 
as  assistant  to  the  Deputy  Commissioner  of 
Education,  New  York  State  Education  Depart- 
ment. 

Gordon  Hutchins,  Jr.  is  an  electrical  engi- 
neer in  Dallas. 

David  A.  Lawrence,  a  personnel  specialist, 
has  been  promoted  to  airman  first  class  in 
the  Air  Force. 

Judith  A.  Lesica,  an  elementary  school 
teacher,  married  John  Murphy  on  August  26, 
1970. 

Ann  Brooksbank  Lucaroni  is  a  teacher. 

Matthew  W.  Novak,  Jr.  received  an  ma  de- 
gree in  history  from  the  University  of  Dela- 
ware last  May. 

Charles  N.  Smith  works  for  Whitman  & 
Howard  Engineering  in  Boston  and  his  wife, 
the  former  Carolyn  Holt  '69,  teaches  in  Mid- 
dleboro. 

Stephen  A.  Smith  and  Mary  M.  Dole  '69 
were  married  August  30, 1969.  Mary  is  a 
waitress  at  Putnam  &  Thurston's  Restaurant 
in  Worcester. 

Kathryn  Susan  Smith,  a  teacher  in  Amherst, 
married  James  A.  Geddes  '72  on  June  13, 1970. 

Leanne  Goyette  Stewart  is  a  claim  adjuster 
for  American  Mutual  Insurance  in  Chestnut 
Hill. 

Laura  Trachtenberg  is  an  MS  candidate  in 
microbiology  at  Smith  College. 

Paul  and  Jane  Gillan  Vaccaro  are  both 
teaching  physical  education  in  New  York. 

Allan  D.  Hartwell  'G  and  Janice  P.  Wiater 


'69  were  married  on  July  25, 1970.  Janice  is 
a  home  economics  teacher  in  the  Lebanon, 
New  Hampshire  school  system. 

1971 

Raymond  K.  Streeter  married  Margaret  S. 
Blanchard  '70  on  August  15,  1970.  Margaret  is 
a  library  assistant  and  Ray  is  in  the  Air  Force. 

Prank  C.  Stuart,  a  night  supervisor  at  the 
UMass  Campus  Center,  married  Marcia  A. 
Niemiec  'yo,  a  waitress  at  Chequers,  on  Feb- 
ruary 14, 1971. 

Marriages 

Nancy  E.  Schuhle  '$8  to  Dick  Cotter  '58. 
Susan  E.  Kehew  '61  to  Duane  Rouch.  Linwood 
A.  Libby  '64G  to  Donna  Heywood  '68.  Jane  A. 
Siddall  '64  to  Paul  J.  Montigny.  Barbara  M. 
Solomon  '64  to  Edward  H.  Fleischer,  April  25, 
1971.  Joan  R.  Panttila  '66  to  James  H.  Block. 
Beatrice  L.  Epstein  '67  to  Ellery  Wilson,  June  28, 
1969.  Sandra  A.  Paria  '67  to  Mr.  Allen.  Nancy  E. 
Gerry  '67  to  Mr.  Canali.  Cynthia  L.  Ingham  '67 
to  Max  J.  Brinker,  June  20, 1970.  William  H. 
Moulton  '67  to  Anne  E.  Drew  '68,  November  29, 
1969.  Eileen  P.  Hachey  '69  to  James  P.  Romano- 
wicz  '67.  Priscilla  L.  Hartmann  '68  to  Mr. 
Donahue.  Jacquelyn  A.  Mize  '68  to  J.  Mi- 
chael Weaver,  March  28,  1970.  Theo  Snyder 
'68  to  Michael  K.  Glickman.  Catherine  E. 
Bradbury  '69  to  Mr.  Horowitz.  Jeffrey  M.  Bur- 
gess '69  to  Andrea  Pitt  '69,  July  12, 1969.  Betty 
E.  Deane  '69  to  Mr.  Duby.  Linda  Lee  Doggart 
'69  to  R.  Pienkos.  Marilyn  A.  Houdelette  '69 
to  Mr.  Deignan.  Carolyn  M.  Lender  '69  to 
Barry  Legg.  Sheila  L.  Malis  '69  to  Mr.  Shulman. 
Irene  T.  Matuszek  '69  to  Stanley  J.  Czerwiec. 
Jane  M.  Rae  '69  to  M.  Ronald  David,  January 
7, 1970.  Elizabeth  Wyman  Rogers  '69  to 
Robert  E.  Gillette,  April  3, 1971.  Sheryl  A. 
Wall  '69  to  Brian  A.  Lajoie.  Marilyn  C.  Bates 
'70  to  Brian  Thompson,  June  12, 197a.  Anthony 
E.  Barabani  '70  to  Cheryl  E.  Evans  '68,  May 
29, 1971.  Joan  M.  Endicott  '70  to  George  H. 
Norton.  Marilyn  L.  Hass  '70  to  Mr.  Clark. 
Robert  A.  Henry  '70  to  Madalyn  M.  Weiner 
'69,  April  4,  1971.  Jill  W.  Hosner  '70  to 
L.  David  Spealler.  David  S.  Koitz  '70  to 
Gretchen  Englund  '70.  Betty  Jean  Mestel  '70  to 
Paul  R.  Arsenault.  Susan  J.  Newman  '70  to 
Edward  Currier.  Robert  E.  Sullivan  '70  to 
Patricia  S.  Rose  '70,  September  1, 1970. 


32 

Births 

Alice  Rebecca,  born  December  10,  1970, 
adopted  by  Joan  and  Clifton  F.  Giles,  Jr.  '60. 
Joseph  Dominic  born  May  28, 1971  to  Joseph 
and  Martha  Crane  Lipchitz  '62.  Adrienne 
Margaret  born  June  8,  1970  to  George  and 
Sandra  Magdalenski  Pozzetta  '64;  Adrienne's 
brother,  James  Michael,  was  born  March  8, 
1969.  Laura  born  in  September  1970  to  Ronald 
and  Karen  Hebert  Nelson  '65.  David  Barry 
born  March  12, 1971  to  Michael  and  Barbara 
Hursh  Rutberg  '6s;  David's  sister  Julie  was 
born  September  11, 1969.  Jeffrey  Andrew  born 
April  25, 1971  to  Mary  Jo  and  Barry  Beswick 
'67.  Michael  Carl  born  April  13, 1971  to 
George  '67  and  Cynthia  Berg  White  '68.  Mi- 
chael Adam  born  December  11, 1970  to  Gerald 
and  Lynn  Kelberman  Yaffe  '67.  Tammy  Joy 
born  September  13, 1970  to  Ty  and  Laura 
Bishop  Belanger  '68;  she  is  the  Belangers' 
second  daughter.  Matthew  Alfred  born  March 
14,  1971  to  Donald  and  Mary  Fennessey  Per- 
ron '68.  Matthew  Alexander  born  October  4, 
1970  to  Frederick  and  Meredith  Houston  Goet- 
tel  '68;  Matthew's  sister,  Elisabeth,  is  four 
years  old.  Heather  Gail  born  September  4, 
1970  to  Norman  '6g  and  Cynthia  Keeling 
Bartlett  '68.  Scott  Francis  born  July  12, 1971 
to  Jan  and  Marlene  Ball  Merzbach  '6g.  Lori 
Beth  born  in  January  1971  to  Russell  and  June 
Dabrowski  Wright  '69. 


Deaths 

Chester  S.  Gillett  '08  died  on  April  29,  1971. 

Elmer  Francis  Hathaway  '09  died  November  8, 
1968.  He  had  been  a  baker  in  Newton. 

Carl  A.  Shute  '13  died  in  Marietta,  Georgia 
on  April  29,  1971.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife. 

Milford  R.  Lawrence  '17  died  June  28, 1971 
at  the  age  of  74.  In  his  junior  year  at  mac  he 
had  been  at  the  head  of  his  class  and  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  University  Landscape 
Architects  Society,  an  honor  given  to  only  one 
member  of  each  class.  He  had  also  been  man- 
ager of  the  hockey  club.  After  graduating,  he 
spent  two  years  in  the  Naval  Reserve  and  two 
years  in  Minneapolis  before  returning  to  Fal- 
mouth to  join  in  his  father's  horticultural 
business.  During  the  years  that  followed,  he 
accumulated  extraordinary  credentials  as  a 
civic  leader  in  the  town,  including  serving 
twenty-seven  years  as  town  moderator.  He  was 
also  very  active  in  his  profession.  His  wife, 
three  children,  and  thirteen  grandchildren  sur- 
vive him. 
John  7.  Lyons,  Jr.  '22  died  on  January  15, 1971- 

Gilbert  J.  Haeussler  '25  died  May  12, 1971. 
He  had  been  an  entomologist.  His  wife  and 
two  sons  survive  him. 

Leonard  Bartlett  '31  died  April  10, 1971  at 
the  age  of  60.  He  had  gone  to  graduate  school 
at  Harvard  where  he  distinguished  himself  in 
the  field  of  landscape  architecture,  obtaining 
an  mla  degree.  Mr.  Bartlett  was  widely  known 
as  a  consulting  landscape  architect  and  par- 
ticipated in  many  private  and  government 
projects.  He  was  a  veteran  of  World  War  11, 
active  in  several  professional  societies,  and  a 
member  of  Lambda  Chi  Alpha  fraternity  and 
the  University  Club  in  Washington.  Two 
brothers  survive  him. 

7o?m  C.  Burrington  '32  died  January  11, 1969. 

Gordon  E.  Ainsworth  '34  died  June  5, 0.971  at 
the  age  of  62.  Evan  Johnston  has  written  a 
tribute  to  Mr.  Ainsworth  in  this  issue's  "Com- 
ment." 

Dr.  Abraham  I.  Michaelson  '36  of  Andover 
died  November  9, 1970. 

Dr.  Phillip  B.  Miner  '36  died  March  16,  1969. 

Robert  E.  Alcorn  '38  died  May  1, 1971  of 
throat  cancer.  Before  being  hospitalized  last 
October,  he  was  working  as  a  civil  engineer 
for  William  E.  Moore  Contractor  in  Westfield. 


His  wife  and  daughter  survive  him. 

James  A.  Stewart,  Jr.  '41  died  May  28, 1971. 

Horatio  W.  Murdy  '47  died  May  11, 1971.  He 
was  a  wildlife  biologist. 

Ursula  Kronheim  Alpert  '48  died  April  12, 
1971.  She  had  taught  at  both  Galveston  Col- 
lege and  Texas  Southern  University  and  was 
a  member  of  the  American  Association  of 
University  Professors,  the  board  of  the  Gal- 
veston County  Jewish  Welfare  Association, 
and  the  Family  Service  Board  of  Galveston. 
Mrs.  Alpert  was  the  first  woman  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Union  of  American  Hebrew  Con- 
gregations. Her  husband,  two  sons,  her  par- 
ents, and  a  sister  survive  her. 

Barbara  Young  Barrows  '54  died  December  17, 
1970. 

Henry  P.  Carr  '63  died  while  completing  his 
studies  at  the  Suffolk  University  School  of 
Law. 

Melbourne  C.  Fisher  III  '67  died  in  a  skiing 
accident  on  April  7, 1971.  He  had  been  a  sail 
maker  for  Alan-Clarke  in  Northport,  New 
York.  His  wife,  the  former  Carol  R.  Belonis 
'67,  survives  him. 

Ronald  L.  Vaccaro  '68  died  July  21, 1971. 

Barbara  A.  Bogdan  '69  was  found  strangled 
to  death  in  Boston  on  June  6, 1971.  She  had 
graduated  with  highest  honors  with  a  major  in 
accounting  and  had  been  working  for  the 
Boston  accounting  firm  of  Lybrand,  Ross 
Brothers  &  Montgomery  for  two  years.  She 
is  survived  by  her  parents,  her  twin  brother, 
and  her  maternal  grandparents. 

Janice  Grace  Greenough  '69  died  of  a  heart 
attack  on  August  10,  1969.  She  had  been  en- 
gaged to  marry  Larry  Cannon  '69. 

Paul  R.  Provasoli  '69G  was  killed  in  an  auto- 
mobile accident  on  March  30, 1971. 


Posthumous  Honors 

The  "R.  F.  Palumbo,"  a  96-foot  marine  re- 
search vessel,  was  christened  last  January  in 
memory  of  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '40. 
Ralph  Palumbo,  who  died  in  a  car  accident  in 
1965,  had  been  a  professor  at  the  University 
of  Washington  and  had  worked  with  the 
Atomic  Energy  Commission.  The  ship  named 
in  his  honor,  which  may  become  a  prototype 
for  new  research  vessels,  will  carry  on  its 
work  in  Puerto  Rico  and  the  Caribbean  Sea. 

The  University  of  Nevada  System  has  hon- 
ored the  late  Raymond  J.  Hock  '43,  who  had 
been  a  professor  of  zoology  at  the  Las  Vegas 
campus.  Colleagues  have  established  a  fund 
to  support  annual  memorial  lectures  and  have 
designated  a  room  in  the  Desert  Research  In- 
stitute in  Boulder  as  the  Raymond  J.  Hock 
Room.  The  room,  which  will  house  Dr.  Hock's 
manuscripts  and  books,  will  be  dedicated  in 
May. 

A  fund  in  memory  of  Norbert  A.  Tessier 
'60,  who  was  killed  December  6,  1970  in  an 
airplane  crash,  has  been  established  for  the 
use  of  the  University's  School  of  Engineering. 
Norbie,  an  engineering  student  who  had  inter- 
rupted his  education  to  serve  in  the  Army  in 
Japan,  had  been  an  active  member  of  the 
wmua  technical  staff.  Alumni  who  wish  to  con- 
tribute to  the  fund  should  send  checks  (pay- 
able to  the  Norbert  A.  Tessier  Memorial 
Fund)  to  the  Union  National  Bank  in  Town- 
send,  Massachusetts  01469,  c/o  Joseph  Sher- 
wood. 

Barbara  Bogdan,  whose  tragic  death  is  re- 
ported in  this  issue,  was  a  lively,  stimulating, 
and  highly  motivated  student.  The  Department 
of  Accounting,  School  of  Business  Adminis- 
tration, plans  to  honor  her  high  ideals  and 
academic  achievement  (she  graduated  with  a 
3.84  cumulative  average  and  a  4.0  in  her  ac- 
counting courses)  by  establishing  the  Barbara 
Bogdan  Award  for  Excellence  in  Accounting. 
This  award  will  be  given  annually  to  the  sen- 
ior with  the  highest  academic  achievement  in 
the  field  of  accounting.  A  permanent  plaque 
will  be  placed  in  the  School  honoring  Miss 
Bogdan  and  the  recipients  of  the  award.  Con- 
tributions may  be  sent  to  the  Department  of 
Accounting,  School  of  Business  Administration 
at  UMass.  Checks  should  be  made  out  to  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  Barbara  Bogdan 
Fund. 


Heeding  the  call 


Whenever  a  woman  asserts  herself  these 
days,  observers  hasten  to  attach  the  label 
"Women's  Lib."  But  Carol  Atwood  Forsythe 
would  deny  that  her  ambitions  had  anything 
to  do  with  women's  liberation  even  though 
she  has  chosen  a  profession  which  is  usually 
thought  of  as  exclusively  male.  On  June  17, 
she  was  ordained  a  minister  in  the  United 
Church  of  Christ. 

Carol  is  not  the  first  woman  to  be  or- 
dained, but  she  is  part  of  a  tiny  minority. 
Only  2°/o  of  the  9,000  ministers  ordained  by 
the  denomination  are  women.  She  did  not, 
however,  experience  prejudice  during  her 
theological  training.  "I  found  no  one  inside 
or  outside  of  the  seminary  trying  to  dis- 
courage me  from  becoming  a  minister.  In 
fact,  I  would  recommend  it  to  other 
women,"  she  said. 

But  Carol  was  not  suggesting  that  women 
in  the  church  have  a  position  comparable  to 
male  ministers.  "Many  parishes  cannot 
bring  themselves  to  hire  a  woman  as  the 
senior  or  head  minister,"  she  said.  "In  many 
cases,  when  a  woman  wants  her  own  church, 
she  must  settle  on  one  that  most  men  would 
not  take.  And  this  is  true  even  though  a 
woman  ordained  by  most  denominations  has 
had  the  same  education  and  training  as  a 
man. 

"Personally,  my  own  interests  are  more 
in  education  than  in  preaching.  At  the  pres- 
ent time,  I  would  like  a  position  as  Minister 
of  Education  or  as  an  Assistant  Minister 
with  major  responsibilities  in  education. 
Should  I  decide,  however,  that  I  do  want  my 
own  parish,  I  would  not  want  to  be  denied 
one  because  I  am  a  woman." 

Carol,  a  1966  graduate  of  the  University, 
began  her  theological  studies  at  the  Andover 
Newton  Theological  School  in  1968.  She 
transferred  to  the  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  the  following  year,  and  completed 


a  three-year  program  to  earn  a  master  of 
divinity  degree  last  June. 

Carol  is  now  in  Carbondale,  Illinois  be- 
cause her  husband,  the  Rev.  James  E.  For- 
sythe, is  in  a  nine-month  training  program 
as  a  prison  chaplain  at  the  federal  peniten- 
tiary in  Marion.  Carol  is  also  interested  in 
clinical  training  and  has  applied  to  two 
nearby  centers.  Openings  for  parish  work 
in  the  immediate  area  are  unlikely.  Although 
Carbondale  is  in  the  middle  of  the  Bible 
Belt,  where  it  is  not  unusual  for  a  town  of 
18,000  to  support  thirty  or  more  churches, 
the  tradition  is  fundamentalist  and  liberal 
denominations  like  the  United  Church  of 
Christ  are  in  the  minority.  And  even  in  the 
United  Church  of  Christ,  the  atmosphere  is 
more  conservative  than  Carol  had  known  in 
the  East.  "I  was  raised  in  the  Congregation- 
alist  tradition,"  she  explained.  "In  1958,  the 
Congregationalists  merged  with  the  Evan- 
gelical and  Reformed  Church  to  form  the 
United  Church  of  Christ.  The  Evangelical 
and  Reformed  Church  had  its  stronghold  in 
the  South  and  Midwest,  and  so  the  United 
Church  here  has  some  distinctly  conserva- 
tive elements.  And  having  spent  a  year  at 
Andover  Newton,  I'm  considered  a  flaming 
liberal." 

Although  they  are  both  in  the  ministry, 
the  Forsythes'  future  plans  do  not  include  a 
joint  appointment  in  a  parish.  They  had 
worked  together  in  Nutley,  New  Jersey 
where  Jim  was  assistant  minister  at  St. 
Paul's  United  Church  of  Christ  and  Carol 
was  superintendent  of  the  church  school, 
and  they  found  that  their  working  habits 
were  quite  different  and  that  their  lives  were 
too  oriented  around  the  church.  "We  talked 
business  during  business  hours  and  busi- 
ness when  we  weren't  working.  There  was 
no  comic  relief,"  Carol  explained.  In  any 
event,  she  does  not  expect  the  opportunity 
to  arise.  "Jim  is  probably  going  to  devote 
himself  to  clinical  education — training  other 
ministers,  most  likely  in  a  prison  setting. 
Even  if  he  should  return  to  parish  work,  it 
is  unlikely  we  would  be  able  to  work  to- 
gether. Congregations  don't  like  paying  two 
salaries  into  one  family." 


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Volume  II,  Number  5     December/January  1972 


In  this  issue 

Letters     page  i 

Who's  in  charge  here?     page  3 

A  geophysicist  at  the  helm     page  8 

An  exceptional  man     page  10 

Bulwark  against  barbarism     page  12 

On  Campus     page  15 

Running  to  win     page  21 

Sidelines     page  23 

Comment     page  25 

Club  Calendar     page  26 

The  Classes  Report     page  27 


The  Alumnus 

December/January  1972 

Volume  II,  Number  5 

Katie  S.  Gillmor,  Editor 

Stanley  Barron  '51,  President 

Paul  G.  Marks  '57,  President-elect 

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Extending  higher  education 


Letters 


Participles  flapping  in  the  breeze 

A  reply  to  Steven  Fitter's  letter  ("Don't  forget 
the  dolphins,"  October/November  1971  issue) 
in  which  he  challenged  points  raised  by  Donald 
Freeman  in  an  article  on  linguistics  printed  in 
the  June/July  Alumnus. 

Alumnus  Steven  Finer's  letter  shows  a  com- 
mendable precision  both  in  reading  and  in 
grammar.  I'll  have  to  admit  that  participles 
have  dangled  and  flapped  in  the  breeze  in 
my  prose  for  years;  further,  I'll  have  to  confess 
that  the  particular  one  Mr.  Finer  pointed  out 
doesn't  bother  me  very  much,  nor  do  I  think  it 
should  bother,  say,  a  teacher  of  English.  All 
living  languages  are  constantly  changing,  and 
one  of  the  changes  occurring  in  English  is  the 
gradual  loosening  of  the  requirement  that  par- 
ticipial clauses  have  clearly  stipulated  noun 
heads.  Gaffes  like  "having  eaten  lunch,  the 
truck  drove  off"  are  still  proper  objects  of  cen- 
sure, but  the  referent  of  "returning  to  one  of 
our  original  ungrammatical  examples"  was 
clearly  "we."  Mr.  Finer  missed  the  real  howler: 
".  .  .  .  what  I  would  have  liked  to  have  an- 
swered then  .  .  .  ."  Yuck. 

In  an  earlier  draft  of  the  article,  I  qualified 
my  statement  that  "this  knowledge  [which  all 
human  beings  possess  when  they  learn  to  use 
their  mother  tongue]  and  the  capacity  to  ac- 
quire it  are  unique  to  man"  with  the  phrase  "as 
far  as  we  know  now."  In  an  essay  for  a  general 
audience,  I  decided  finally  to  stop  being  cagey. 
I  am  not  an  expert  in  animal  communication, 
but  what  I  have  read  of  the  literature  in  this 
field  makes  me  extremely  skeptical  that  what- 
ever linguistic  capacity  may  be  discovered  in 
dolphins  will  in  any  way  approach  the  infinite 
complexity  and  innovativeness  of  human  lan- 
guage. Mr.  Finer  was  right  to  bring  up  the 
point,  but  I  would  maintain  the  generalization. 

DONALD  C.  FREEMAN 

Associate  Professor  of  Linguistics  and 
Chairman  of  the  Program  in  Linguistics. 


The  letter  of  Steven  Finer  in  response  to  Pro- 
fessor Donald  C.  Freeman's  article  is  interest- 
ing for  a  number  of  reasons.  It  validates  the 
interest  in  linguistics  that  Freeman  points  to 
and  also  suggests  some  of  the  misconceptions 
that  permeate  language  study.  Mr.  Finer  has 
unjustly  left  off  the  qualifying  phrase  "As  far 
as  we  know"  in  citing  Freeman's  statement: 
"As  far  as  we  know,  this  knowledge  (which  all 
human  beings  possess  when  they  learn  to  use 
their  mother  tongue)  and  the  capacity  to  ac- 
quire it  are  unique  to  man."  I  am  sure  that  Mr. 
Freeman  is  aware  of  recent  work  on  animal 
communications  and  the  work  of  John  Lilly  and 
the  communication  systems  of  dolphins.  The 
fact  of  the  matter  is  that  while  interesting,  this 
research  has  not  been  the  most  fruitful  of  the 
study  of  man's  linguistic  capability.  Further- 
more, what  does  Mr.  Finer  mean  by  saying  that 
ethology  (which  he  mistakenly  calls  ethnology) 
is  "not  much  more  than  a  decade  older  than 
linguistics"?  Finally,  on  the  question  of  the 
grammaticalness  of  Freeman's  participial 
phrase  and  its  lack  of  a  referent,  I  refer  Mr. 
Finer  to  Current  American  Usage  by  Margaret 
M.  Bryant  (pp.  64-65)  which  should  vindicate 
Freeman. 

ALFRED  F.  ROSA  '66 

Burlington,  Vermont 

Ed:  Mr.  Finer  understood  the  difference  be- 
tween "ethnology"  and  "ethology."  Our  proof- 
reader did  not. 


I  commend  you  on  your  new  format.  I  hope  you 
will  continue  and  expand  the  kind  of  service 
provided  by  Donald  Freeman  in  his  essay  on 
developments  in  linguistics  (June/July  1971  is- 
sue). In  fact,  a  systematic  series  covering  many 
areas  of  study  (and  accompanied  by  an  an- 
notated reading  list)  within  the  University 
would  do  much  to  keep  alumni  up  to  date.  You 
could  be  the  first  alumni  magazine  to  function 
as  an  extension  of  higher  education  as  well  as 
a  stimulator  of  nostalgia. 

RONALD  GOTTESMAN  '55 

Highland  Park,  New  Jersey 

Feedback 

I'm  really  proud  of  the  "new"  Alumnus.  .  .  . 
More  than  a  "who's  where  and  what,"  it  has 
the  undertones  of  a  literary  journal,  providing 
an  intellectual  format  for  the  educated  mind. 

LYNNE  SPENCER  SCHNEIDER  '66 

Wiesbaden,  West  Germany 

The  new  format  of  The  Alumnus  is  great.  The 
new  physical  shape  and  appearance  immediately 
come  across  as  a  "now"  publication. 

MARILYN  KOLAZYK  SHIELDS  '6l 

Ridgefield  Park,  New  Jersey 

Privacy 

In  regard  to  the  alumni  directory,  did  it  not 
occur  to  you  that  some  of  us  value  our  privacy 
and  do  not  wish  to  be  listed  in  directories?  Be- 
fore another  edition  is  published,  please  give  us 
the  opportunity  to  refuse.  If  this  is  not  possible, 
please  delete  my  name  from  all  your  mailing 
lists. 

VERA  D.  BRIGGS  '63G 

Tustin,  California 

The  Nuts 

Please  know  that,  as  an  old  PR  man  and  mag. 
editor,  I  thought  your  "Peanut  Papers"  piece  in 
the  October/November  issue  was  the  nuts. 

DARIO  POLITELLA  ' ttf 

Associate  Professor  of  Journalism 

Scholarships  do  not  hide 
in  peanut  shells  alone 

The  "Peanut  Papers"  (October/November 
issue)  may  not  be  grist  for  the  New  York 
Times,  but  for  me  they  were  a  delightful  illus- 


tration  of  ingenuity  at  work  in  providing  schol- 
arship funds.  Bravo  for  Miss  Ornest. 

Perhaps  readers  of  The  Alumnus,  particularly 
those  with  sons  and  daughters  contemplating 
attending  UMass,  may  like  to  know  of  another 
relatively  unknown  program  which  provides 
ten  scholarships  currently  to  UMass  students 
with  numerous  others  available.  I  refer  to  the 
College  Scholarship  Program  operated  by  the 
U.S.  Air  Force. 

Nationally,  in  1971,  some  4,874  students  re- 
ceived annual  scholarships  averaging  $954.77  in 
benefits  (tuition,  books,  fees).  Of  these,  800 
were  for  entering  freshmen  who  will  have  four 
years  eligibility  for  the  grants.  Typically,  stu- 
dents receiving  freshman  grants  are  in  the  top 
9%  of  their  high  school  classes,  have  mean 
scores  of  1,223  on  the-  Scholastic  Aptitude  Test 
and/or  the  American  College  Test,  and  indi- 
cate an  interest  in  flying  for  the  Air  Force. 

We  can't  bring  "the  peanut  machine"  to  foot- 
ball games  to  build  scholarships.  But  perhaps 
those  alumni  with  sons  or  daughters  who  may 
be  interested  in  serving  our  country  as  officers 
in  the  Air  Force  may  wish  to  contact  the  Uni- 
versity's Department  of  Air  Science  about 
scholarships  already  available. 

PAUL  H.  FISHER,  COLONEL,  USAF 

Professor  of  Air  Science 


Job  hunting: 

What  life  is  all  about 

I  wish  to  compliment  those  in  charge  of  produc- 
ing the  current  issue  of  The  Alumnus.  You 
are  doing  a  very  fine  job  and  I  am  happy  to  re- 
ceive and  proud  to  have  on  my  library  table  a 
copy  of  The  Alumnus  for  those  visitors  that  oc- 
casionally pick  it  up  and  say  "What  is  this?"  I 
have  been  getting  The  Alumnus  for  more  years 
than  I  care  to  remember,  and  I  just  have  the 
feeling  as  I  read  through  page  by  page  that 
Massachusetts  has  finally  grown  up.  You  are 
just  that  good. 

In  the  current  issue  (October/November 
1971)  I  was  very  much  interested  in  that  section 
"College  graduates  need  not  apply,"  page  7. 1 
could  not  help  but  feel  for  those  recent  grads 
out  looking  for  a  job  that  they  had  spent  four 
years  preparing  for  and  getting  negative  an- 
swers at  every  call. 

Life  seems  to  be  getting  back  to  normal.  Most 
of  us  had  to  find  our  place  and  many  times  our 
efforts  seemed  to  lead  us  down  the  avenue  of 
frustration  and  discouragement.  Sometimes  I 
think  the  real  postgraduate  work  is  done  when 
endeavoring  to  land  that  first  job  just  out  of 
college.  This  is  when  most  kids  begin  to  find 
out  what  life  is  all  about.  This  experience  is  the 
real  testing  time — and  just  when  everything  ap- 
pears to  be  hopeless,  the  sun  comes  out  and  the 
problems  disappear. 

There  is  nothing  new  about  this  struggle 
which  in  the  end  is  full  of  wonderful  experi- 
ences. Most  of  us  have  had  to  go  through  it 
from  time  to  time  and  in  the  end,  as  a  result  of 
our  experiences,  we  came  to  know  ourselves  and 
what  we  could  do  best. 

HAROLD  WILLIAM  BREWER  '14 

Naples,  Florida 

Equal  time 

In  class  notes,  you  keep  publishing  reports  of 
material  "success":  prestige  appointments, 
well-paying  jobs,  and  glamorous  "fame." 
These,  clearly,  are  um's  success  stories.  One 
would  get  the  idea  that  the  intent  and  value  of 
a  college  degree  is  as  a  stepping  stone  to 
greedy,  material,  and  ego-aggrandizing  goals, 
or  achievements. 

Yet,  in  recent  years,  there  must  be  many  of 
us  with  alternate  life-styles,  whose  true  success 
stories  consist  not  in  beating  out  the  competi- 
tion for  more  prestige  and  money,  but  in  quiet 
unheralded  humanitarian  service,  Utopian  ex- 
perimentation, or  spiritual  discovery.  We'd  love 


news  of  our  classmates  also — but  such  items 
are  not  deemed  suitable  fare  for  class  notes. 

How  about  some  Equal  Time  (space)  for  Al- 
ternate Society  class  notes? 

J.  DICKSTEIN  '63 

Warren,  Vermont 

Ballot  battle: 

The  Associate  Alumni  election 

I  object  very  strongly  to  a  ballot  with  not  one 
woman  candidate  for  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Associate  Alumni.  Could  it  possibly  be  pos- 
sible that  not  one  woman  of  the  thousands  of 
graduates  is  interested?  I  can't  believe  that! 

BARBARA  A.  CLIFFORD  '53 

Bedford,  Massachusetts 

Are  any  of  these  men  [candidates  listed  on  the 
ballot]  married?  How  many  children?  If  there 
were  a  woman  running,  you'd  be  sure  to  men- 
tion it! 

MYRNA  SALTMAN  ROSENBLATT  '59 

Port  Washington,  New  York 


Who's  in  charge  here? 


KATIE  S.  GILLMOR 

On  Friday,  Oswald  Tippo  sent  a 
letter  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  asking  to  be  relieved  of 
his  duties  as  Chancellor.  The 
following  Thursday  Randolph 
Bromery  was  named  Acting 
Chancellor.  In  the  interim, 
confusion. 


A  tense,  tumultuous  week  preceded  the 
board  of  trustees'  meeting  on  October  7, 
but  with  a  few  brisk  motions,  recommended 
by  the  Executive  Committee  and  passed 
unanimously  by  the  full  assemblage,  the  ad- 
ministrative hierarchy  of  the  Amherst 
campus  was  temporarily  reordered. 

Chairman  of  the  Board  Joseph  Healey 
first  submitted  a  letter  of  resignation  from 
Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo.  Dr.  Tippo's  res- 
ignation was  accepted  "as  in  the  best 
interests  of  the  System  and  the  Amherst 
campus."  A  motion  was  introduced  to 
appoint  Randolph  W.  Bromery,  vice-chan- 
cellor for  student  affairs,  as  interim  chan- 
cellor. It  was  so  voted. 

The  first  news  of  Chancellor  Tippo's 
resignation  appeared  in  an  article  in  the 
Springfield  Union,  October  2.  The  Chan- 
cellor and  "several  other  high  ranking 
campus  officials,"  the  Union  reported,  had 
resigned  in  a  dispute  with  President  Robert 
Wood  over  budget  and  the  role  of  the  Am- 
herst campus  in  the  University  system. 

Rumor  raged  over  the  weekend,  and  the 
campus  community,  dismayed  at  losing  a 
respected  leader  and  fearful  of  "chaos"  or 
"takeover,"  was  restive  on  Monday.  But 
Chancellor  Tippo  remained  calm.  Strolling 


out  of  Whitmore,  he  stopped  to  talk  with  a 
student  he  knew  well. 

"What's  the  fuss  about?"  he  asked 
blandly. 

"Something  about  a  botany  professor 
resigning,"  the  student  answered,  and  the 
Chancellor  laughed. 

For  most  people,  the  occasion  did  not 
call  for  laughter.  First  as  provost  and  then 
as  chancellor,  Oswald  Tippo  had  been 
respected  for  his  piloting  the  Amherst  cam- 
pus to  its  present  academic  status.  There 
was  a  sense  of  loss  and  a  sense  of  frustra- 
tion. 

The  dimensions  of  the  present  crisis  were 
unclear,  although  there  was  little  doubt  of 


Oswald  Tippo 


Tippo's  resignation.  Many  felt  that  Amherst 
had  lost  a  power  struggle  with  the  System, 
and  that,  in  the  future,  the  center  of  gravity 
would  shift  to  the  Boston  campus.  Said  one 
faculty  member,  "Even  if  we  win  the  battle 
of  the  budget,  we've  lost  the  war  because 
we've  lost  Tippo."  But  no  one  really  knew 
on  what  lines  the  battle  was  drawn. 

On  Monday,  the  text  of  Dr.  Tippo's  letter 
to  Chairman  Healey  was  published.  "Dear 
Joe,"  it  read,  "I  write  to  submit  my  resigna- 
tion as  Chancellor,  University  of  Massachu- 
setts, Amherst,  effective  September  1, 1972 
or  earlier  if  the  Board  wishes.  It  is  my  hope 
that  I  be  granted  sabbatical  leave  for  one 
semester  after  which  it  is  my  wish  to  take 
up  duties  as  professor  of  Botany.  I  want 
to  take  this  opportunity  to  thank  you  per- 
sonally and  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the 
support  and  encouragement  you  have  ex- 
tended to  me  since  I  came  to  Amherst  in 
1964." 

The  Collegian  reported  that  the  Chan- 
cellor had  declared  he  had  "been  in  adminis- 
tration for  thirty  years"  and  that  he  had 
"had  enough."  The  real  conflict,  The  Col- 
legian opined,  had  been  over  a  proposed 
transfer  of  trust  funds  from  the  Amherst 
campus  to  the  President's  System  Office 
in  Boston.  The  paper  confirmed  that  Dr. 
Tippo  had  sent  a  letter  of  resignation  to 
Chairman  Healey.  Letters  of  resignation 
from  Vice-Chancellor  for  Academic  Affairs 
Robert  Gluckstern  and  Dr.  Tippo's  special 
assistant,  David  Clay,  had  been  tendered  to 
the  Chancellor.  Randolph  Bromery  was  also 
reported  to  have  resigned. 

Perhaps  it  was  the  wisdom  of  hindsight, 
but  after  the  initial  surprise,  many  people 
on  campus  said  that  it  had  only  been  a  mat- 
ter of  time.  At  some  point  there  had  to  be 
a  resolution  of  where  the  power  rested,  of 
how  the  Amherst  campus  would  fare  within 
a  state-wide  University  system. 

The  trustees'  appointment  of  President 
Wood  last  year  carried  a  clear  mandate  to 
render  the  University  administration  into  a 
cohesive  structure.  This  challenged  the 
sense  of  autonomy  the  Amherst  campus 
had  enjoyed,  an  autonomy  that  may  have 


Robert  Wood 

been  illusory  but  was  the  product  of  a  na- 
tural evolution.  For  over  a  hundred  years, 
the  campus  had  been  the  University.  The 
establishment  of  campuses  at  Boston  and 
Worcester  had  been  welcomed  as  an  exten- 
sion of  Amherst's  glory  rather  than  as  a 
threat.  Amherst  was  assured  that  the  needs 
of  the  two  new  campuses  would  not  be 
fulfilled  at  the  expense  of  the  old. 

During  the  time  the  new  campuses  were 
established,  John  Lederle  served  as  Presi- 
dent. He  continued  to  work  on  the  Amherst 
campus,  using  the  Amherst  staff,  and  under 
the  circumstances  it  was  difficult  for  him 
to  disassociate  himself  from  the  day-to-day 
affairs  of  the  campus.  When  he  left  in  1970, 


the  role  of  the  presidency  was  redefined  as 
embracing  all  three  campuses,  from  a  neu- 
tral location,  with  chancellors  running  each 
campus. 

Between  Dr.  Lederle's  retirement  and  the 
accession  of  President  Wood,  Chancellor 
Tippo  of  the  Amherst  campus  inherited  by 
default  many  of  the  responsibilities  and 
prerogatives  which  had  been  the  President's. 
The  structure  that  had  been  Dr.  Lederle's 
base  for  the  campus's  phenomenal  growth 
was  now  his.  Also,  Dr.  Tippo  had  a  close  re- 
lationship with  the  trustees.  Even  when  they 
found  it  necessary  to  accept  his  resignation, 
they  passed  a  tribute  to  Dr.  Tippo  which 
said,  in  part,  "As  Chancellor  he  faced  with 


resolution  and  imagination  the  problems  of 
a  large,  complex,  and  diverse  campus.  He 
enjoys  the  respect  and  affection  of  students, 
faculty,  and  the  community.  The  Board 
wishes  him  well  in  his  continuing  role  as 
teacher  and  scholar." 

The  growth,  innovation,  and  overall  im- 
provement at  Amherst  under  President 
Lederle  and  Dr.  Tippo  were  made  possible, 
in  part,  by  the  use  of  trust  funds.  These 
are  monies  donated  to  or  otherwise  ac- 
quired by  the  University  in  addition  to  the 
state's  allocation.  They  are  used  at  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  trustees.  Some  of  the  funds 
are  restricted.  Some,  though  unrestricted, 
have  been  traditionally  earmarked  for  the 
campus.  Still  others  were  funds  which  had 
been  made  available  by  President  Lederle 
for  "seeding"  innovative  programs  at  Am- 
herst and,  in  general,  providing  for  the 
needs  of  the  school. 

When  President  Wood  took  office  and 
gathered  a  staff  in  Boston,  he  began  to  guide 
the  growth  and  direction  of  the  University. 
His  policies  reflected  two  convictions:  that 
the  University  must  have  a  centralized 
structure,  guided  by  the  System  Office,  as 
the  trustees  had  determined;  and  that  the 
University  must  reach  out  and  provide  ap- 
propriate services  to  the  people  of  the  Com- 
monwealth. Meanwhile,  Dr.  Tippo  went 
about  fulfilling  his  responsibilities  as  chan- 
cellor in  his  own  way.  A  first-class  acade- 
mician with  firm  convictions  on  how  a 
strong  academic  program  ought  to  be  built, 
and  an  administrator  who  had  been  free 
for  so  many  years  to  develop  the  Amherst 
campus,  he  and  the  new  President  would 
inevitably  come  to  loggerheads — or  so  peo- 
ple said,  after  the  fact. 

If  friction  between  the  Chancellor  and 
Dr.  Wood,  rather  than  the  desire  to  teach 
botany,  precipitated  the  Chancellor's  resig- 
nation, it  was  probably  the  budget  that 
brought  matters  to  a  head. 

Budgets  for  fiscal  year  1971-72  had  been 
drafted  and  redrafted  throughout  the  spring 
and  summer.  They  were  presented  to  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  trustees  at  the 
end  of  September. 


The  Worcester  and  Boston  budgets, 
drawn  in  a  traditional  way,  were  recom- 
mended for  approval  at  the  September 
meeting.  The  Amherst  budget,  always  a 
weighty  and  complex  document,  was  pre- 
sented for  the  first  time  in  a  program-ori- 
ented format.  Although  the  trustees  and  the 
President  were  delighted  with  the  new 
Amherst  format,  approval  was  postponed 
because  there  were  certain  areas  of  the 
budget  which  did  not  adhere  to  the  program 
breakdown.  The  minutes  quote  the  President 
as  being  concerned  about  "the  dispersal  pat- 
tern of  the  institutional  allowance  account 
for  contingency  purposes"  and  noting  that 
the  "UM/Amherst  budget  listing  of  Bank- 
head-Jones,  Morrill-Nelson  and  Land  Grant 
funds  called  for  expenditures  on  books,  pe- 
riodicals, and  equipment  which  are  system- 
wide  in  nature."  He  wished  clarification  on 
these  matters,  but  added  at  another  point 
that  the  problems  he  had  identified  were 
near  resolution. 

The  Chancellor  responded  at  the  time 
that  he  felt  the  Amherst  campus  budget  cuts 
were  fairly  drastic.  He  noted,  among  other 
things,  that  support  per  student  had  dropped 
about  5°/o,  and  financial  aid  about  q°/o,  and 
went  on  to  cite  certain  sums,  designated  for 
the  System  rather  than  Amherst  use,  which 
represented  a  particular  hardship  to  the 
campus. 

The  minutes  quote  him  as  saying  that 
the  transfer  of  $35,000  in  the  Amherst 
travel  account  to  the  System  Office  repre- 
sented one-sixth  of  all  travel  monies  availa- 
ble for  Amherst.  The  System  Office  required 
$40,000  for  telephone  services,  and  the 
Amherst  campus  had  begun  the  year  with 
$11,000  less  in  this  account  than  it  had  last 
year.  The  equipment  money  to  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  System,  $40,000,  represented 
the  total  amount  required  to  provide  for 
new  faculty  members  at  Amherst.  The 
System  Office  had  requested  an  additional 
$75,000  of  trust  fund  interest  money  from 
UM/Amherst  to  be  supplemented  by 
$100,000  in  reserve  for  the  trustees.  Dr. 
Tippo  stated  further  that  approximately 
$90,000  was  requested  for  transfer  from 
Bankhead-Jones,  Morrill-Nelson,  and  Land 


Grant  funds.  In  all,  these  charges  meant 
reduction  of  funds  for  UM/Amherst  of 
$865,000. 

When  the  Chancellor's  resignation  be- 
came the  subject  of  discussion,  $850,000 
was  the  figure  bandied  about,  along  with 
the  general  question  of  allocation  of  trust 
funds.  At  the  time  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee meeting,  however,  that  sum  did  not 
appear  to  be  the  crux  of  the  matter. 

If  Dr.  Tippo  felt  rebuffed  at  the  trustees' 
acquiescence  to  the  President's  request  for 
postponement  of  budget  approval,  he  did 
not  show  it  publicly.  He  did,  however,  hold 
a  meeting  with  the  faculty  senate  on  Sep- 
tember 30,  a  Thursday,  to  explain  the 
transfer  of  funds,  indicating  his  feelings 
that  these  transfers  would  stunt  the  growth 
of  the  campus. 

Dr.  Tippo  read  from  a  memo  he  had  pre- 
pared in  July  which  included  recommen- 
dations on  the  transfer  of  funds :  that  over- 
head, educational  allowance,  nsf  institu- 
tional grants  and  similar  funds  be  assigned 
for  use  to  the  campus  which  generates  the 
research  and  the  other  grants  on  which 
this  income  depends;  that  trust  fund  in- 
terest be  allocated  to  the  campus  which 
produces  the  trust  fund,  except  that  rea- 
sonable amounts  be  transferred  to  the 
President's  Office;  that  all  campuses  share 
in  this  responsibility;  that  the  Land  Grant, 
Bankhead-Jones  and  Morrill-Nelson  funds 
continue  to  be  budgeted  by  the  Amherst 
campus  in  recognition  of  its  historic  land- 
grant  functions  and  responsibilities;  that 
Amherst  endowment  funds,  other  than 
those  clearly  unrestricted,  continue  to  be 
allocated  to  this  campus;  that  administra- 
tive allowance  funds  be  employed  for  the 
intended  administrative  purposes,  be  they 
on  the  Amherst  campus  or  elsewhere;  that 
in  no  case  should  funds  (or  interest  on  such 
funds)  derived  from  student  fees  or  taxes 
be  expended  on  any  other  campus. 

The  faculty  responded  by  forming  a  Com- 
mittee of  Concern  charged  with  drawing  up 
a  budget  statement,  including  the  Chancel- 
lor's recommendations,  to  submit  to  the 
board  of  trustees.  Later,  when  the  faculty 
learned  of  the  Chancellor's  resignation,  the 


Randolph  Bromery 

committee's  purpose  was  redefined  as  "an 
attempt  to  avoid  a  repetition  of  the  un- 
fortunate and  unnecessary  events  which 
led  to  the  resignation  .  .  ." 

Throughout  this  time,  the  campus  had  been 
operating  under  a  strain.  Without  a  budget, 
expenditures  were  limited  to  one-twelfth  of 
last  year's  allocation.  It  was  difficult,  if  not 
impossible,  to  estimate  what  funds  would  be 
available  for  the  fiscal  year.  No  one,  from 
the  deans  on  down,  had  seen  the  budget  in 
its  various  stages  of  development.  When  the 
issues  involved  in  the  Chancellor's  resigna- 
tion appeared  to  hinge  on  that  document, 
everyone  was  talking  in  a  vacuum. 

The  general  confusion  was  not  diminished 
by  much  of  the  news  reporting.  The  trust 
funds,  some  reported,  were  to  be  transferred 
to,  or  even  "redistributed"  to,  Boston,  no 
distinction  being  made  between  the  System 
Office  in  Boston  and  the  Boston  campus. 
The  transfer  was  sometimes  said  to  involve 
not  only  all  trust  funds,  but  also  property 
holdings  and  student  fees.  Some  papers 
went  so  far  as  to  prophesy  that  UM/Boston 
would  soon  dwarf  the  Amherst  campus. 

Another  unsettling  point  was  the  question 
of  just  how  many  resignations  had  really 
been  offered.  There  had  even  been  some 
doubt  about  Dr.  Tippo's,  until  his  letter 
actually  reached  Chairman  Healey  on  Mon- 
day. The  resignations  of  Dr.  Gluckstern  and 
Dr.  Bromery  were  not  clarified  until  the 


board  met  Thursday.  The  two  vice-chancel- 
lors' resignations  would  have  had  to  be 
submitted  to  and  acted  upon  by  the  trustees; 
but  before  the  trustees  met,  Dr.  Tippo  told 
the  press  that  he  would  "pocket  veto"  the 
resignations.  Hence  they  never  came  before 
the  board. 

One  issue  which  did  not  appear  to  be 
obscure  and  which  preoccupied  most  of  the 
campus,  was  the  question  of  who  would  be 
interim  chancellor  and  how  would  his  suc- 
cessor be  chosen.  It  was  feared  by  many 
that  a  new  chancellor  would  represent  the 
System  on  the  campus  rather  than  the  other 
way  around.  As  one  administrator  put  it, 
"Tippo  was  Amherst's  man  in  the  System. 
Anyone  else  will  be  Wood's  man  on  cam- 
pus." 

Dr.  Tippo  did  not  hold  a  convocation  or 
make  a  public  statement.  For  the  most  part, 
he  was  unavailable  to  the  press  and,  in  gen- 
eral, did  not  involve  himself  with  the  specu- 
lation on  campus.  Perhaps,  at  59,  he  really 
was  pleased  to  be  out  of  the  rat  race.  Joking 
with  a  student  reporter,  he  said  he  thought 
he  might  grow  a  beard. 

The  Chancellor's  resignation  was  at  the 
discretion  of  the  board,  and  the  Collegian 
said  that  he  anticipated  vacating  his  campus 
residence,  the  former  President's  House,  in 
the  near  future.  House  hunting,  reportedly, 
was  his  immediate  concern. 

Even  taking  into  account  the  tight  hous- 
ing situation  in  Amherst,  Dr.  Wood  had 
more  pressing  concerns  that  week.  He  ar- 
rived Monday  for  discussions  with  faculty 
and  student  leaders,  and  held  a  convocation 
Tuesday  to  put  the  matter  before  the  entire 
campus. 

The  proceedings  were  broadcast  on  the 
student  station,  wmua-fm,  but  more  than 
1,000  people  gathered  in  the  Student  Union 
ballroom  to  listen  to  the  President  in  person. 

It  would  have  been  inaccurate  to  ascribe 
the  tension  in  the  room  to  hostility.  The 
faculty,  who  were  in  the  majority,  were 
more  worried  than  angry.  There  was  a  sense 
that  a  golden  age  for  the  Amherst  campus 
was  ended.  They  listened  silently  as  Dr. 
Wood  began  his  speech  amid  the  whir  of 
television  cameras. 


After  praising  Dr.  Tippo's  accomplish- 
ments during  his  years  of  service,  Dr.  Wood 
turned  his  attention  to  the  matter  at  hand. 
"I  think,"  he  said,  "we  must  understand 
that  our  present  situation  does  not  turn  on 
individual  personalities  so  much  as  it  turns 
on  the  stresses  and  strains  of  building  a 
University  system  and  the  consequences 
of  going  from  one  to  three  campuses."  Us- 
ing examples  set  by  other  university  sys- 
tems to  show  that  the  present  conflict  was 
not  unusual,  he  quoted  the  Carnegie  Com- 
mission report  on  the  need  for  "a  high  de- 
gree of  sensitivity  and  flexibility  on  the  part 
of  both  executives,  a  tolerance  for  ambi- 
guity as  to  their  respective  authority,  and  a 


After  the  fact,  many  people  said  a  break 
between  President  Wood  and  Chancellor 
Tippo  was  inevitable. 


considerable  measure  of  personal  trust,"  in 
the  relationship  between  a  university  sys- 
tem and  its  campuses. 

"For  our  purposes  today,"  he  continued, 
"I  would  like  to  deal  with  certain  major 
questions  and  misunderstandings.  I  would 
begin  by  separating  two  quite  different  mat- 
ters :  allocation  authority  retained  in  the 
System  Office,  and  the  cosf  involved  in 
staffing  and  running  that  office.  Both  are 
involved — and  perhaps  confused — in  the 
reported  $850,000  that  figures  so  promi- 
nently in  recent  discussions.  That  sum  is 
a  mixture  of  state  appropriations  designed 
to  help  cover  office  costs  and  non-state 
funds  (interest  earned  on  trust  funds,  fed- 
eral grants,  and  endowments)  to  be  allo- 
cated later  to  the  campuses." 

He  stressed  the  importance  of  trust  funds 
as  "malleable"  resources  available  for  in- 
novation, and  the  appropriateness  of  their 
being  used  at  the  discretion  of  the  President 
and  the  trustees.  He  noted  that  most  of 
these  funds  had  already  been  reallocated 
to  the  campus  and  that  the  Amherst  campus 
was  receiving  30%  more  in  unrestricted 
trust  funds  this  year  than  it  had  spent  last 
year. 

"It  is  important  to  understand,"  he  said, 
"that  in  the  case  of  all  trust  funds  the 
amounts  reserved  by  the  trustees  can  be 
further  allocated  for  program  purposes. 
They  are  not  for  the  operation  of  the  Sys- 
tem Office." 

Dr.  Wood  concurred  with  several  of  the 
points  raised  by  the  Chancellor:  research 
and  endowment  funds  would  remain  on 
the  generating  campus.  Student  fees  would 
also  remain,  although  he  did  not  mention 
whether  interest  on  those  fees  would  remain 
too. 

The  money  needed  to  operate  the  System 
Office  was  then  dealt  with.  "This  office  has 
been  growing  .  .  .  because  it  is  taking  on 
functions  that  used  to  be  handled  some- 
where else,  as  well  as  new  functions.  To 
date  some  $450,000  of  the  reported  $850,000 
has  been  allocated  for  these  purposes.  At 
most,  $345,000  of  this  can  be  attributed  to 
the  new  requirements  of  the  President's 
Office  in  our  new  location.  The  balance 


covers  old  costs  of  the  President's  Office 
when  it  was  in  Amherst  and  carried  in  the 
Amherst  budget.  .  .  . 

"But  after  all  is  said  and  done  about  le- 
gitimate transfers  and  salary  increases, 
about  old  budgets  in  new  budget  lines,  the 
fact  remains  that  the  System  Office  costs 
more,  and  a  part  of  this  cost  is  borne  by 
each  campus.  This  is  not  a  conspiratorial 
fact  of  life.  But  it  is  a  fact  of  life.  I  think 
and  the  trustees  think  that  the  Common- 
wealth stands  to  gain  something  substantial 
from  this  expenditure,  and  I  hope  that  in 
two  to  five  years  it  will  become  evident  that 
each  campus  is  likewise  a  beneficiary.  .  .  . 

"For  what  is  fundamentally  at  stake  is 
not  money  or  power  but  education:  how  do 
we — as  teachers,  scholars,  administrators 
and  students — best  serve  this  Common- 
wealth and  the  coming  generations,"  Presi- 
dent Wood  concluded. 

The  applause  was  polite.  Then  came  the 
questions.  "Aren't  you  moving  away  from 
us?"  asked  someone,  referring  to  the  Presi- 
dent locating  his  office  in  Boston.  "How 
does  this  conflict  relate  to  the  future  of  the 
campus?"  "If  our  programs  are  not  in  dan- 
ger, as  you  have  assured  us,  why  did  the 
Chancellor  quit?"  "The  system  role  is  to 
make  policy,  the  campus  role  to  administer, 
but  the  line  between  the  two  is  hard  to 
delineate.  How  far  down  the  line  are  you 
willing  to  come  on  making  policy?"  And, 
finally,  "There  is  going  to  be  a  test  soon, 
due  to  a  vacancy,  whether  we  have  a  right  to 
make  our  own  decisions. . . ." 

To  all  President  Wood  responded  calmly, 
citing  policy  previously  articulated  in  his 
talk  that  day,  his  investiture  speech,  and  ap- 
pearances before  the  faculty  senate  to  reas- 
sure his  audience.  And  the  audience,  if  not 
totally  reassured,  was  willing  to  "wait  and 
see." 

The  next  day,  the  Collegian  reported 
Chancellor  Tippo's  response.  This  was  to 
repeat  much  of  the  presentation  he  had 
made  the  previous  week  to  the  board  of 
trustees  and  later  to  the  faculty  senate. 
He  emphasized  the  hardship  the  $850,000 
transfer  would  entail.  The  Chancellor  also 
took  issue  with  Dr.  Wood's  statement  that 


endowment  transfers  had  never  been  con- 
templated, citing  memoranda  which  sug- 
gested the  contrary.  Dr.  Wood  later  said  that 
the  memos  in  question  had  been  misinter- 
preted by  the  Chancellor. 

Wednesday's  Collegian  also  carried  an 
editorial :  "With  a  quiet,  low-keyed  deliv- 
ery, the  President  recited  his  address,  chock 
full  of  figures,  and  lulled  his  listeners  from 
their  hostility  into  a  mood  of  soft  serenity. 
By  the  time  the  address  and  ensuing  ques- 
tion and  answer  period  had  finished,  most 
of  the  crowd  was  wondering  what  the  big 
deal  was  about  in  the  first  place.  .  .  .  Presi- 
dent Wood  has  handled  the  situation  so 
well  that  [it]  has  become  what  one  observer 


President  Wood  and  Chairman  Healey 

called  a  'non-issue.'  Only  time  will  tell 
whether  Wood's  magic  becomes  our  mis- 
take." 

The  "non-issue"  was  still  attracting  at- 
tention on  Thursday,  when  the  board  of 
trustees  met.  Everyone  expected  the  im- 
mediate acceptance  of  the  Chancellor's 
resignation  and  the  appointment  of  an  act- 
ing successor.  The  expectations  were  ful- 
filled and  many  fears  diminished  when 
Randolph  Bromery  was  named. 

Another  matter  was  also  resolved  at  that 
meeting.  President  Wood,  having  received 
memoranda  he  had  requested  clarifying  the 
use  of  certain  funds,  recommended  that 
the  Amherst  budget  be  approved. 


At  the  press  conference  after  the  meeting, 
Dr.  Wood  and  Dr.  Bromery  expressed  the 
thought  that  this  was  "the  conclusion  of 
seven  very  active  days."  This  was  true.  The 
campus  rapidly  returned  to  normal.  Bill 
Bromery  was  the  choice  of  much  of  the 
campus,  and  his  appointment  reduced  fear 
that  the  appointment  of  a  permanent  chan- 
cellor would  represent  a  "takeover."  His 
remarks  to  the  board  and  afterwards  to 
the  press  did  much  to  assure  continuity. 

Dr.  Bromery  expressed  appreciation  that 
Vice-Chancellors  Gluckstern  and  Campion 
had  agreed  to  work  with  him  and  said,  "I 
think  the  University  of  Massachusetts  is 
the  best  state  university  in  the  country, 
thanks  to  the  dedication  of  many  people — 
particularly  Dr.  Tippo.  His  was  one  of  the 
ablest  administrations  I  have  ever  dealt 
with,  and  he  is  one  of  my  closest  personal 
friends." 

Quality  improvement  in  the  University 
system  was  a  necessity  according  to  Brom- 
ery. The  President  responded  later  that  he 
hoped  this  was  the  beginning  of  a  time 
when  System  and  campus  would  move  as 
one. 

Chairman  Healey  told  the  press:  "The 
University  is  best  served  by  a  strong,  central 
board  of  trustees.  We  brought  in  a  strong 
administrator  in  Dr.  Wood  so  that  the  Uni- 
versity— the  whole  University — would  not 
get  out  of  hand.  But  we  don't  want  a  chan- 
cellor in  Amherst,  or  on  the  other  campuses, 
to  be  at  the  bidding  of  President  Wood.  Dr. 
Bromery  is  his  own  man." 


A  geophysicist 
at  the  helm 


Bill  Bromery  is  a  very  tall  man  with  light 
brown  skin,  short  hair  and  a  tiny  mustache. 
He  is  a  geophysicist,  and  now  he  is  Acting 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Massachu- 
setts at  Amherst. 

Dr.  Bromery 's  decision  to  accept  the  post 
of  acting  chancellor  could  not  have  been  an 
easy  one.  In  an  oblique  reference  to  the  ru- 
mor that  he  was  one  of  the  top  candidates 
for  the  position  of  Secretary  of  Education  of 
the  Commonwealth,  Dr.  Bromery  said  his 
acceptance  of  the  acting  chancellorship  had 
required  much  soul  searching.  "I  had  to 
make  decisions  which  would  affect  the 
whole  course  of  my  future,"  he  said.  "The 
University  is  at  the  top  of  my  priority  list." 

Coming  to  the  Amherst  campus  in  1967  as 
an  associate  professor  of  geophysics,  Dr. 
Bromery  was  active  in  founding  the  Com- 
mittee for  the  Collegiate  Education  of  Black 
Students  (ccebs).  In  1969,  he  was  named  full 
professor  and  chairman  of  his  department. 
The  following  year  he  became  vice-chancel- 
lor for  student  affairs.  "As  vice-chancellor 
I  represented  the  students,"  he  told  the  trus- 
tees, "As  acting  chancellor,  I  will  continue 
to  represent  the  students,  although  from  a 
broader  perspective.  Following  Chancellor 
Tippo's  example,  my  door  will  be  open." 

Although  Bromery  expressed  a  commit- 
ment to  graduate  education  when  accepting 
his  appointment,  saying  that  its  graduate 
program  made  the  Amherst  campus  unique, 
the  Acting  Chancellor  was  not  specific  when 
asked  later  about  future  policies.  He  did 
however,  speak  about  his  belief  in  the  po- 
tential for  public  higher  education. 

"We  can  take  greater  risks  than  can  pri- 
vate institutions.  We  are  obligated  to  take 
greater  risks,"  he  believes.  "Because  we  are 
a  public  university,  for  example,  we  can 
challenge  admissions  criteria,  like  class 


standings  and  achievement  scores.  Private 
colleges  cannot  take  these  risks.  They  justify 
their  existence  on  the  'excellence'  of  their 
student  body,  measured  by  these  criteria. 

"This  doesn't  mean  that  the  education  of- 
fered at  a  public  university  cannot  be  excel- 
lent. Too  often  'elitism'  and  'academic  ex- 
cellence' are  equated.  I  believe  minorities, 
the  poor,  deserve  excellence.  The  excellence 
doesn't  have  to  be  restricted  to  academics. 
If  you  are  teaching  vocational  art,  that 
should  be  excellent. 

"Not  that  it's  easy  to  achieve  or  maintain 
excellence.  This  is  a  very  large,  complex  in- 
stitution. We  are  going  to  have  to  be  more 
competent  in  our  administration.  You  can 


have  well  managed  programs  that  don't 
mean  a  thing.  And  in  the  context  of  educa- 
tion, it's  hard  to  measure  what  programs  do 
mean — what  their  output  is,  their  impact.  So 
we've  got  to  pay  more  attention  to  the  pro- 
gram itself  than  to  its  fiscal  aspects." 

The  new  chancellor  has  moved  quickly  to 
increase  the  competence  of  his  administra- 
tion. He  appointed  Dr.  Robert  Gage  '38  as 
acting  vice-chancellor  for  student  affairs, 
and  expressed  his  intention  to  depend  more 
heavily  than  had  Dr.  Tippo  on  his  vice- 
chancellors.  "I  believe  in  delegating  respon- 
sibility, and  I  hope  the  vice-chancellors 
would  also,"  he  said.  "We  can  only  work  as 
a  whole  team.  The  University  should  not  be 


Bromery:  working  to  achieve  excellence  without  elitism. 


in  trouble  if  something  should  happen  to 
me." 

The  Amherst  campus  is  not  monopolizing 
Chancellor  Bromery's  attention.  "My  prin- 
ciple focus,"  he  says,  "will  be  establishing 
a  relationship  between  Amherst  and  the 
President's  Office  and  Amherst  and  the 
other  campuses.  I  believe  in  an  open  sys- 
tem. There  should  be  free  communication 
within  the  campus  and  within  the  system." 

On  the  day  he  was  appointed,  a  reporter 
asked  him  whether  he  anticipated  difficulties 
in  his  relationship  with  the  President. 
Bromery  grinned  and  said  no,  making  a 
joking  reference  to  the  Amherst  interpre- 
tation of  the  "political"  atmosphere  in  the 
System  Office.  "Based  on  my  experience  in 
the  Federal  government,  I  recognize  the 
style  and  understand  the  language,"  Brom- 
ery said. 

The  Federal  experience  to  which  the 
Chancellor  referred  had  begun  in  1948 
when  he  went  to  work  full  time  for  the  U.S. 
Geological  Survey.  Having  proved  his  stam- 
ina in  those  years,  he  doesn't  contemplate 
any  difficulty  handling  the  rigors  of  his 
new  position. 

Chancellor  Bromery  is  a  veteran  of  World 
War  II  who  hadn't  thought  of  college.  The 
Gl  bill  gave  him  the  opportunity  for  higher 
education,  but  his  high  school  background 
was  a  serious  handicap.  On  the  advice  of 
the  University  of  Michigan,  he  made  up  his 
deficiency  in  mathematics  through  a  corres- 
pondence course  at  Brigham  Young  Univer- 
sity, and  then  entered  Michigan  as  an  en- 
gineering major. 

"I  knew  I  wanted  to  be  a  scientist,"  he 
recalls,  "and  at  the  time  I  thought  I  wanted 
to  be  an  applied  scientist.  But  my  math  was 
terrible.  And  then  I  met  a  man  named 
Clyde  Love  who  turned  me  on  to  mathe- 
matics in  an  analytical  geometry  course." 
Bromery  switched  his  major  to  mathematics, 
with  a  minor  in  physics. 

He  also  switched  schools.  In  the  summer 
of  1946,  his  mother  became  fatally  ill,  and 
Bromery  transferred  to  Howard  University 
to  be  near  her.  She  died  the  following  year, 
but  he  stayed  on.  He  much  preferred  the 
social  life  at  Howard.  "There  were  very 


few  blacks  at  Michigan  then,"  he  recalls. 
"Remembering  the  rough  time  I  had  there 
gave  me  a  great  deal  of  sympathy  for  the 
early  ccebs  students  at  UMass." 

After  graduating  from  Howard,  working 
full  time,  he  earned  a  master's  in  geology 
and  geophysics  from  the  American  Univer- 
sity. After  another  four  years  of  study, 
still  working  full  time  and  commuting  92 
miles  six  days  a  week  to  school,  he  received 
his  doctorate  from  Johns  Hopkins.  Today 
he  is  the  only  black  professional  geophysi- 
cist  with  a  doctorate,  and  he  is  one  of  four 
blacks  who  hold  phd  degrees  in  the  earth 
sciences.  There  are  35,000  practicing  earth 
scientists  in  the  country. 

Not  surprisingly,  Dr.  Bromery  has  called 
for  a  new  emphasis  on  enrolling  minorities 
and  women  in  the  University's  graduate 
programs.  He  feels,  however,  that  the  Uni- 
versity has  already  established  a  policy  of 
increasing  enrollment  opportunities  for 
blacks.  When  a  reporter  suggested  that,  as 
acting  chancellor,  he  would  favor  blacks, 
Bromery  looked  surprised  and  replied 
firmly  that  he  represented  the  whole 
campus.  Commenting  later,  he  said  that  if 
there  is  fear  of  racial  favoritism  and  hos- 
tility to  him  on  campus,  he  does  not  believe 
it  is  widespread. 

Support  for  him,  on  the  other  hand,  is 
widespread.  He  is  respected  and  trusted, 
and  the  campus  has  been  quiet  and  recep- 
tive since  his  appointment.  Bromery  as- 
sesses the  campus  attitude  as  relatively 
indifferent: 

"I  think  people  just  want  to  get  back  to 
the  business  of  education.  And  rightly  so. 
They  feel  that  the  administration  is  there 
to  stop  things  from  getting  in  the  way." 

KSG 


When  a  reporter  suggested  that,  as 
acting  chancellor,  he  would  favor 
blacks,  Bromery  looked  surprised 
and  replied  firmly  that  he  repre- 
sented the  whole  campus. 


io 


An  exceptional  man 
of  extraordinary  gifts 

FREDERICK  5.  TROY  '31 

It  is  difficult  to  do  justice  to  Oswald 
Tippo  who,  with  boundless  energy 
and  unrelenting  dedication,  guided 
the  Amherst  campus  to  its  present 
eminence. 


The  resignation  of  a  top  University  official 
is  normally  the  occasion  for  polite  regrets 
and  conventional  tributes.  But  the  resigna- 
tion of  Dr.  Oswald  Tippo,  Chancellor  of  the 
University  of  Massachusetts  at  Amherst, 
calls  for  something  more,  for  he  is  an  ex- 
ceptional man  of  extraordinary  gifts,  who 
first  as  Provost,  working  with  the  very  able 
President,  John  Lederle,  and  then  as  Chan- 
cellor, provided  the  University  with  pre- 
cisely the  quality  of  leadership  it  needed 
in  one  of  its  most  critical  periods  of  devel- 
opment. Dr.  Tippo  came  to  us  in  1964 
shortly  after  President  Lederle  had  under- 
taken the  thorny  task  of  convincing  Massa- 
chusetts that  it  needed  and  could  have  a 
great  public  university;  he  leaves  the  chan- 
cellorship in  1971  with  a  record  of  accom- 
plishment so  impressive  that  it  is  difficult 
to  do  him  justice. 

The  first  quality  that  impressed  all  of  us 
who  have  worked  closely  with  Dr.  Tippo  is 
his  thoroughgoing  professionalism:  he  is 
completely  at  home  in  the  academic  world 
on  all  its  levels.  For  many  years  he  was  a 
successful  teacher;  then  he  moved  into  ad- 
ministrative work  as  Dean  of  the  Graduate 
School  at  the  University  of  Illinois;  later  he 
returned  to  teaching  as  Chairman  of  the 
Department  of  Botany  at  Yale.  After  Yale 
he  was  Chancellor  of  the  University  of 
Colorado,  Vice-President  of  New  York 


University  and  then  returned  to  his  Alma 
Mater  as  Provost. 

He  knows  the  world  of  higher  education 
intimately,  and  he  is  widely  known  and 
respected  in  that  world  as  both  a  scientist 
and  administrator.  And  it  should  be  stressed 
that  though  Dr.  Tippo  is  an  exceptionally 
able  administrator,  he  has  never  lost  the 
intellectual  habits  of  the  scholar  and  sci- 
entist: he  has  never  lost  sight  of  the  fact 
that  university  administration  is  only  a 
means  to  an  end — the  creation  of  a  dis- 
tinguished faculty  to  teach  able  students  so 
that  knowledge  may  be  both  created  and 
transmitted.  He  set  very  high  standards  for 
himself  and  for  others,  and  the  result  for 
the  University  has  been  growth  not  merely 
in  numbers  but  in  excellence  as  well. 

His  years  at  the  University  have  been 
both  exciting  and  difficult,  but  as  Provost, 
Dr.  Tippo  was  fortunate  to  be  working  with 
as  gifted  and  understanding  a  man  as  Presi- 
dent Lederle.  Together  they  made  a  formi- 
dable team.  Any  university  that  adds  the 
equivalent  of  an  Amherst  College  to  its 
entering  class  year  after  year,  that  must 
develop  a  first-rate  graduate  school  almost 
from  scratch,  that  must  seek  out  the  most 
gifted  scholars,  deans  and  department  heads 
to  manage  the  newly-expanded  areas,  that 
must  provide  genuine  education  and  some 
kind  of  orderly  campus  life  for  thousands 
of  students  in  an  age  of  student  revolt  and 
protest,  must  inevitably  be  an  institution 
that  will  suffer  severe  stresses  and  strains. 
And  the  University  did,  though  not  as 
severely  as  many  other  institutions  facing 
lesser  problems.  But  one  always  had  the 
feeling,  under  this  leadership,  that  the  Uni- 
versity was  on  the  right  road.  One  of  Dr. 
Tippo's  first  recommendations  to  the  Uni- 
versity Trustees  was  that  we  give  absolute 
priority  to  building  the  University  Library, 
which  in  1964  lagged  woefully  behind  our 
needs.  Only  recently  the  library  received 
its  millionth  volume,  and  what  this  achieve- 
ment means  in  terms  of  difficulties  over- 
come through  tough  resolution  and  re- 
sourceful allocation  of  funds  from  many 
sources  only  those  most  concerned  will  ap- 
preciate. He  also  addressed  himself  to 


raising  faculty  salaries  and  to  the  vital  task 
of  recruiting  a  really  distinguished  faculty 
in  both  teaching  and  research.  The  trustees, 
at  first  startled  and  not  a  little  alarmed  at 
the  proposed  salary  schedule,  soon  yielded 
to  his  sharply-informed  and  highly  factual 
recommendations.  Similarly,  he  needed  no 
urging  to  recognize  the  importance  to  our 
national  reputation  of  the  University  Press 
and  the  Massachusetts  Review.  He  strength- 
ened their  financial  support  and  the  morale 
of  their  editors  by  showing  a  keen  personal 
interest  in  their  work. 

But  leadership  in  a  large  university  in- 
volves far  more  than  the  support  of  particu- 
lar programs :  it  also  calls  for  a  certain  style 
and  spirit,  the  ability  to  create  a  sense,  in  all 
the  complex  areas  of  a  large  institution,  of 
momentum,  vitality  and  growth.  This  the 
Chancellor  achieved  superbly.  He  undertook 
the  almost  impossible  task  of  really  know- 
ing his  faculty,  administrators,  and,  if  not 
all  the  student  body,  at  least  the  student 
leaders.  His  capacity  for  work  has  become 
legendary,  and  the  fact  that  he  performed  it 
with  decisiveness  yet  easy  good  humor  and 
without  arrogance  or  cant  has  had  much  to 
do  with  the  trust  and  confidence  that  all 
thoughtful  members  of  the  University  have 
shown  in  him. 

Dr.  Tippo  also  built  an  excellent  adminis- 
trative staff.  William  James  once  remarked 
that  a  primary  value  of  a  liberally  educated 
man  is  his  ability  to  recognize  a  good  man 
when  he  sees  him.  Certainly  as  Provost  and 
Chancellor,  Dr.  Tippo  proved  that  he  could. 
In  a  very  short  time  he  found  top-notch 
men  to  serve  in  his  administration,  almost 
all  from  within  the  University,  reaching  into 
such  diverse  fields  as  physics,  botany,  phil- 
osophy, geophysics  and  English — and  even 
moving  out  to  pluck  a  successful  executive 
from  the  New  York  Times.  A  humanely  edu- 
cated and  able  administrative  staff  is  of  crit- 
ical importance  in  a  large  university.  It 
must  have  the  trust  and  respect  of  both 
faculty  and  students.  Once  the  suspicion 
grows  that  an  administration  is  a  mere 
bureaucracy  composed  of  faceless  men  con- 
cerned only  with  budgets,  computers  and 
statistics,  isolated  from  the  real  interests 


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Tippo:  a  "dangerous  man"  because  he  had  no 

and  problems  of  the  faculty  and  students,  an 
institution  can  count  on  serious  trouble.  Dr. 
Tippo's  team  was  composed  of  not  only 
efficient  but  humane  men,  deeply  concerned 
i    with  every  aspect  of  University  life  and 
embodying  much  that  is  finest  in  the  Uni- 
versity spirit. 

Like  all  university  leaders  in  our  time,  Dr. 
Tippo  had  to  come  to  grips  with  the  new 
spirit  of  student  unrest — with  student  in- 
sistence upon  their  rights,  privileges  and 
power  within  the  university  community. 
And  here,  too,  he  was  highly  successful.  The 
reasons  for  his  success  were  simple  enough: 
he  really  likes  and  trusts  students,  and  he 
got  to  know  as  many  of  the  student  leaders 


personal  ambition, 

as  he  possibly  could.  He  was  frank,  sym- 
pathetic and  friendly  with  them  and  quickly 
responsive  to  what  he  believed  was  sound 
and  workable  in  their  programs.  In  his 
personal  relations  with  students  he  taught 
many  of  them,  by  example,  that  the  real 
"gap"  to  be  concerned  about  is  not  the  gen- 
eration gap  but  the  one  that  yawns  in  every 
generation  between  honest  men  of  what- 
ever age  who  have  achieved  something 
through  sincerity,  devotion  and  hard  work 
and  the  hollow  men — the  time-servers  and 
operators.  In  his  relations  with  students — 
indeed,  in  his  relations  with  everyone — he 
brought  humor  into  everything  he  did,  a 
humor  sometimes  earthy,  often  irreverent 


and  always  funny.  W.  H.  Auden  once  de- 
fined a  friend  as  one  who  laughs  at  our 
jokes.  If  this  be  true,  Tippo  must  have  a 
thousand  friends.  There  were  few  meetings 
throughout  the  years,  whether  formal  or  in- 
formal, that  he  failed  to  spark  with  his  quick 
and  original  wit  and  humor. 

Yet  everyone  could  sense  his  underlying 
seriousness  and  the  intensity  of  his  deter- 
mination to  move  the  University  of  Massa- 
chusetts to  its  rightful  place  among  the  very 
best  universities  in  America.  He  once 
startled  a  large  University  audience  at  Con- 
vocation by  describing  himself  as  a  "danger- 
ous man."  He  meant  that  he  was  dangerous 
because  he  was  no  longer  concerned  with 
personal  ambitions  and  therefore  was  invul- 
nerable to  the  pressures  and  fears  that  lead 
some  to  compromise  their  deepest  convic- 
tions. Only  a  strong  man  can  deal  from 
strength — and  the  University  is  the  better 
for  his  having  taught  everyone  this  simple 
but  important  truth. 

The  impact  of  his  mind,  work  and  exam- 
ple will  be  felt  in  the  University  at  Amherst 
for  years  to  come.  The  man  who  will  succeed 
him  as  Acting  Chancellor,  Dr.  Randolph  W. 
Bromery,  a  member  of  his  administrative 
team  and  a  close  personal  friend,  is  another 
gifted  scholar-administrator  and  a  man 
deeply  committed  to  public  higher  educa- 
tion. And  most  of  his  other  colleagues  will 
continue  in  their  posts. 

Dr.  Tippo  will  return  to  his  first  enthu- 
siasm— the  study  of  botany.  He  intends  to 
teach  introductory  botany  and  possibly  offer 
a  course  to  upperclassmen  on  some  aspect 
of  university  education.  It  is  pleasant  to 
contemplate  all  of  that  abundant  energy  be- 
ing poured  once  more  into  university  teach- 
ing; pleasant,  too,  to  think  of  him  enjoying 
a  little  leisure;  and  also  pleasant  to  think 
that  his  charming  wife,  Emmy,  may  see  a 
little  more  of  him.  When  asked  by  a  student 
reporter  what  he  would  do  now  that  he  had 
resigned  from  administrative  duties,  he 
replied  that  he'd  like  to  teach  again — and 
probably  grow  a  beard. 

"Barnie"  Troy  has  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  since  1963. 


Bulwark  against 
barbarism 


ROBERT  DYER 

To  have  a  perspective  on  the 
present  we  must  understand  the 
past.  The  study  of  the  classics,  the 
traditional  education  of  free  men, 
is  particularly  relevant  in  these 
days  of  social  transition. 

Discrimination  against  women  in  Western 
culture  began  in  the  Greek  concept  of  the 
family.  The  concept  of  a  fixed  social  order 
governed  by  Providence,  which  was  the 
ethic  of  early  American  slave  owners  and 
aristocrats,  was  based  on  Plato.  The  ideal  of 
the  rational  man  and  his  self -discipline  was 
evolved  by  Plato  and  Aristotle.  Our  concept 
of  duty  to  God,  country  and  the  army  is 
Roman  in  origin.  The  social  values  on  which 
American  justice  and  democracy  are  based 
go  back  to  two  ancient  political  systems 
which  failed  completely :  Athenian  demo- 
cracy and  Ciceronian  republicanism. 

Today,  when  relevance  is  the  credo  of 
education,  it  is  slowly  dawning  on  the  col- 
lege student  that  study  of  the  classics  may 
be  the  key  to  his  understanding  of  the  twen- 
tieth century. 

Classical  education  is  not  a  eulogy  of  the 
past.  The  classical  values  of  individualism, 
justice,  responsibility,  simplicity,  duty  and 
success  are  not  taught  as  inevitable  compo- 
nents of  Western  civilization,  nor  are  the 
characters  of  Achilles,  Odysseus,  Antigone, 
Demosthenes,  Julius  Caesar  and  Aeneas 
presented  as  ineluctably  admirable  charac- 
ters. The  classics  lecture  room  is  open  to  the 
debate  between  those  who  cherish  the  tradi- 
tional Western  value  system  and  those  who 
seek  to  reject  parts  of  it. 


Students  are  searching  for  values  to  ad- 
here to  and  for  a  sense  of  being  a  person 
free  from  the  determining  pressures  of  soci- 
ety and  the  economy.  But  if  the  leaders  of 
the  new  generation  choose,  in  the  course  of 
this  search,  to  reject  the  values  transmitted 
to  them  by  society,  they  must  act,  not  as 
barbarians,  trampling  on  things  they  do  not 
understand,  but  in  conscious  awareness  of 
the  system,  its  modifications  and  its  chal- 
lenges through  its  history. 

The  student  entering  college  usually  has 
a  confused  and  fragmented  view  of  Western 
civilization  and  the  basis  of  the  American 
way  of  life.  The  values  against  which  his 
"counter  culture"  rebels,  such  as  duty,  so- 


cial order  and  organization,  and  ethics,  have 
never  been  explained  in  the  context  of  the 
system  within  which  they  originated.  Even 
if  he  champions  these  traditional  values,  his 
attitude  is  often  a  naive  chauvinism,  bellig- 
erent because  it  is  irrational.  He  becomes 
another  of  the  uneducated  masses  whose 
loyalty,  vote  and  decisions  can  be  manipu- 
lated by  the  latest  political  catch  phrase. 

It  is  our  tragedy  if  weak  curricula,  bad 
teaching,  over-professionalized  faculty  and 
the  dollar  sign  in  the  college  degree  have 
created  a  humanities  education  which  leaves 
the  student  no  other  option  than  to  blindly 
rebel  or  blindly  follow. 

The  study  of  the  humanities  has  tradi- 


tionally been  the  cornerstone  of  independ- 
ent thought.  The  concept  originated  with 
Cicero  in  Rome  as  the  training  in  human 
psychology  necessary  for  the  aristocrat,  pol- 
itician or  lawyer  who  must  lead  and  manip- 
ulate public  opinion.  It  was  always  in- 
tended as  a  practical  education  for  such 
people.  The  allied  concept  of  the  liberal  arts 
has  always  implied  the  education  of  a  free 
man,  able  to  administer  with  humanity,  wis- 
dom and  authority  those  who  could  not 
aspire  to  his  freedom.  These  educational 
systems  centered  until  recently  on  a  classi- 
cal education :  Greek  and  Latin  language 
and  literature,  ancient  history  and  philoso- 
phy, together  with  more  recent  writers, 
thinkers  and  periods  which  could  be  shown 
to  have  influenced  Western  culture  or  the 
student's  national  culture. 

This  education  was  exported  to  the 
American  colonies,  where  the  liberal  arts 
college  and  many  private  schools  were  mod- 
elled on  it.  Soon  Americans  were  seeking  to 
give  their  children  a  liberal  education,  as  the 
one  which  would  best  fit  them  to  be  free 
men  or  leaders  in  the  new  republic. 

It  might  be  argued  that  many  American 
colleges  mimicked  the  form  of  British  and 
European  liberal  education  without  under- 
standing the  purpose  of  its  content.  In  any 
event,  the  schools  began  to  stress  England 
and  Europe  rather  than  Greece  and  Rome  as 
important  in  the  American  tradition.  Even 
so,  the  goals  of  education  remained  the 
same.  The  private  colleges  and  the  parents 
who  sent  their  children  to  them  were  sure 
that  a  good  liberal  education  guaranteed  a 
good  future  in  society. 

The  system  of  public  higher  education  in 
the  United  States,  although  it  held  to  the 
premise  that  a  good  education  led  to  a  good 
life,  diluted  the  liberal  arts  tradition  still 
further.  A  little  Latin  language  was  pre- 
served as  a  token  and  as  a  background  for 
English  literature  and  language,  but  a, 
knowledge  of  European  and  American  his- 
tory, with  French  and  some  critical-creative 
appreciation  of  Western  literature  thrown 
in,  seemed  enough  "cultural  background." 

Those  who  fought  for  an  egalitarian  soci- 
ety, equal  education  and  opportunity  for  all, 


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opposed  the  old  liberal  education  as  elitist 
and  not  meeting  the  needs  of  all  the  people. 
It  has  been  argued  that  this  philosophy  has 
resulted  in  discrimination.  For  example,  H. 
Rap  Brown  observed  that  the  white  Ameri- 
can establishment  had  oppressed  blacks  by 
offering  them  at  school  no  alternative  to  the 
Judeo-Christian  ethic  of  humility  and  self- 
sacrifice  while  educating  its  own  children  in 
the  Greco-Roman  ethic  of  force  and  power. 
Brown  and  his  fellows  misunderstood  those 
Greco-Roman  values,  but  this  argument 
does  highlight  a  truth  about  America.  Blacks 
and  other  groups  were  systematically  ex- 
cluded, through  the  curriculum  offered  in 
the  state  education  system,  from  the  train- 
ing in  the  liberal  arts  which  had  originally 
been  designed  to  develop  social  leaders. 

Classics  professors  have  the  opportunity 
to  reverse  these  tendencies  in  American 
education.  They  cannot  rely  on  the  long 
school  background  in  Greek  and  Latin, 
once  taken  for  granted,  although  the  Clas- 
sics Program  at  the  University  is  winning 
national  recognition,  under  the  leadership 
of  Professor  Gilbert  Lawall,  for  its  efforts 
to  improve  the  standard  and  speed  of  Latin 
teaching.  But  now,  even  without  this  back- 
ground, they  can  make  the  value  systems  of 
the  classical  past  intelligible  to  the  modern 
student  using  theories  in  the  behavioral  sci- 
ences and  other  disciplines. 

The  anthropologist  Claude  Levi-Strauss, 
for  example,  has  shown  that  "primitive" 
tribes  may  have  complex,  totally  logical 
value  systems  which  can  be  understood  by 
studying  the  myths  which  contain  their 
central  structural  beliefs  about  the  universe. 
Despite  the  contradictory  nature  of  some  of 
these  myths,  it  is  possible  to  predict  what 
behavior  will  seem  rational  to  the  tribe.  An- 
other modern  approach  which  can  be  used 
to  interpret  the  classical  past  is  that  of  Ernst 
Cassirer,  the  philosopher,  who  speaks  of 
forms  perceived  by  people  as  becoming 
symbolically  manifested  in  language  or  in 
such  structures  as  the  state. 

With  these  theories  in  mind,  a  simple 
introductory  course  can  be  constructed 
around  the  early  Greek  myths  of  gods  and 
their  relationship  to  men  and  the  social 


values  which  resulted.  In  these  myths,  the 
sky-god  Zeus  presided  over  a  council  of 
supernatural  forces,  each  with  a  will  which 
could  be  understood  and  influenced  by  the 
prayers  and  behavior  of  men.  Only  Zeus 
had  sufficient  power  not  to  be  overridden 
by  the  council.  He  in  return  was  bound  to 
abide  by  principles  of  fair  play.  This  reli- 
gious system,  besides  offering  comfortable 
"outs"  when  your  prayers  failed,  served  as 
a  model  for  the  male  assumption  of  power 
in  the  family,  for  the  operation  of  (and 
search  for)  presidential  power  on  councils  of 
authority,  and  for  the  attitudes  of  lovers. 
Modern  psychologists  are  showing  that 
the  individual,  especially  before  he  acquires 


a  stable  identity,  acts  out  various  roles 
which  match  paradigms  in  his  family  my- 
thology, his  reading  and  his  experience. 
This  is  particularly  true  of  roles  in  love 
relationships.  The  Greeks  often  used  the 
god-man  relationship  as  a  model  for  love, 
where  one  member  was  the  powerful  god 
giving  favors  and  punishments,  the  other 
the  grateful  servant  worshipful  and  obedi- 
ent. In  the  Symposium,  Plato  singles  out 
pederasty  as  the  purest  form  of  love. 

Another  important  paradigm  for  behavior 
is  the  hero.  Many  Greeks  imitated  Achilles 
in  the  Iliad  and  tried  to  show  by  success  in 
sport,  war  or  some  other  competitive  ac- 
tivity that  they  were,  like  him,  the  chosen 


of  the  gods.  Thus  the  Greeks,  modelling 
themselves  on  the  arrogant  narcissism  of 
Achilles,  rejected  social  structures  which 
obstructed  freedom  of  opportunity  to  com- 
pete on  equal  terms.  At  first,  Athenian 
democracy  seemed  ideal  for  such  men,  but 
the  collective  will  of  the  people  was  too  un- 
stable to  administer  the  great  power  of 
Athens.  The  system  quickly  and  dismally 
failed,  for  reasons  brilliantly  analyzed  by 
Thucydides,  who  left  his  history  as  an  ever- 
lasting warning  against  democracy. 

Euripides  helped  in  savage,  logical  plays 
to  debunk  many  of  the  myths  on  which  this 
value  system  had  been  based  and  to  show 
that  man  was  subject  to  irrational  forces  of 
human  psychology  and  external  chance.  The 
old  myths  lingered  on  for  a  few  generations 
in  men  like  Demosthenes,  but  the  Greeks 
were  disoriented  and  in  need  of  new  value 
systems. 

The  student  can  explore  his  own  attitudes 
to  this  system  and  its  component  parts  in 
his  identification  with,  or  rejection  of,  char- 
acters in  Homer  and  Greek  tragedy,  and 
thus  shape  his  attitude  to  classical  values 
still  present  in  the  American  way  of  life. 
But  for  a  sterner  training  he  must  advance 
to  the  study  of  Greek  society  and  those  so- 
cial systems  which  were  advanced  by  the 
intellectuals,  notably  by  Plato  and  Aristotle, 
after  the  collapse  of  democracy. 

Roman  values  can  best  be  studied  after 
the  Greek,  but  they  are  the  most  relevant 
to  American  experience.  Every  American 
recognizes  the  traditional  virtues  of  duty 
and  responsibility  in  Cicero's  writing,  in 
Vergil's  Georgics  and  Aeneid,  and  in 
Horace.  Just  these  virtues  are  most  in  ques- 
tion among  the  younger  generation,  and 
Rome  gives  us  an  intellible  ground  on  which 
to  debate  them. 

To  fully  understand  the  relationship  be- 
tween the  present  and  our  traditional  values, 
the  student  who  has  time  and  motivation 
must  study  a  much  longer  time  span  than 
ancient  Greece  and  Rome.  But  it  is  simplest 
for  him  to  begin  there,  for  nearly  all  later 
modifications  were  made  by  men  educated 
in  the  classics  and  can  best  be  understood 
in  terms  of  the  classical  background. 


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The  Classics  Program  recognizes  that 
many  Americans  also  owe  allegiance  to  a 
second  cultural  traditions,  and  it  offers 
courses  on  Hebrew  and  Armenian  language 
and  culture.  There  is  also  attention  given 
now,  throughout  the  University,  to  the 
African  traditions  of  black  Americans  and 
to  Islam. 

The  humanities  programs  of  the  future 
may  embrace  the  value  systems  of  all  the 
great  cultures  foreign  to  America,  explained 
according  to  their  own  logic.  There  are  also 
detectable  in  the  myths  of  modern  America 
alternative  value  systems,  based  on  the 
astrophysical  theory  of  an  ever-expanding 
universe,  subject  to  chance  evolution  (the 
God  has  a  spirit  of  adventure  people),  and 
on  the  psychologists'  concept  of  healthy 
inter-personal  relationships  (the  commune 
people).  In  the  future,  an  individual  will  not 
be  bound  by  his  Western  tradition,  but  will 
choose  from  many  systems  that  which  best 
suits  his  individual  beliefs.  He  will  be  a 
citizen  of  the  world,  independent  of  all 
systems. 

Today  the  American  student  still  wants 
to  be  an  American  and  to  improve  the 
American  way  of  life.  His  attitude  appears 
to  be  a  rejection  of  the  classical  world-view, 
with  its  emphasis  on  war,  nationalism,  male 
chauvinism,  competition  and  duty.  But  as  he 
moves  away  from  this  ancestral  heritage, 
we  must  remind  him  that  we  have  all  ab- 
sorbed the  myths  and  attitudes  of  that  tra- 


dition. No  one  can  create  new  systems  for 
America  in  a  blind  trampling  of  these  val- 
ues. If  we  are  to  be  truly  free  of  our  past 
and  able  to  modify  the  inculcated  models 
of  behavior,  then  we  must  each  understand 
and  be  able  to  explain  the  logic  of  that  sys- 
tem which  is  our  peculiar  property — West- 
ern civilization  in  America. 

A  professor  of  classics  at  the  University, 
Robert  Dyer  is  a  New  Zealander  who 
taught  in  his  native  country,  Australia,  and 
the  United  Kingdom  before  coming  to  the 
United  States  in  ig66. 


Suggested  reading 

A.  W.  Gouldner,  The  Hellenic  World:  a  socio- 
logical analysis  (Harper  Torchbooks,  $1.95) : 
A  critical  analysis  of  Greek  values  by  a 
modern  sociologist.  This  study  is  a  useful 
balance  to  books  which  praise  the  Greek 
way  of  life  too  effusively,  e.g.  C.  M.  Bowra, 
The  Creek  Experience  (Mentor  Books,  $1.25). 

F.  M.  Cornford,  From  Religion  to  Philisophy 
(Harper  Torchbooks,  $2.25) :  Rather  out  of 
date,  but  a  useful  attempt  to  show  the  rela- 
tionship of  Greek  philosophy  to  more  primi- 
tive ideas. 

Claude  Levi-Strauss,  The  Savage  Mind  (Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  Press,  Phoenix  Books, 
$3.25) :  The  most  important  work  in  struc- 
turalist anthropology.  It  suggests  ways  to  un- 
derstand the  beliefs  and  systems  of  cultures 
which  appear  different  or  primitive  to  us. 

Ernst  Sassirer,  Essay  of  Man  (Bantam  Books, 
950);  The  Philosophy  of  Symbolic  Form  (3 
vols.,  Yale  University  Press,  $8.15);  The 
Myth  of  the  State  (Yale  University  Press, 
$2.25) :  These  works  by  a  great  modern 
philosopher  suggest  new  ways  of  relating 
higher  forms  of  human  activity,  such  as 
political  structures,  to  underlying  forms  of 
thought  which  can  be  seen  in  myths,  stories, 
language  or  symbolic  structures. 

G.  S.  Kirk,  Myth:  it's  meaning  and  functions 
in  ancient  and  other  cultures  (University  of 
California  Press,  $7.95) :  A  good  survey  by  a 
classicist  of  modern  approaches  to  the  ancient 
myths. 


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On  Campus 


A  long  time  coming 

The  University  of  Massachusetts  is  a  great 
institution  and  there  is  widespread  interest 
in  working  to  make  it  better. 

That  was  the  attitude  of  members  of  the 
University  community  and  other  citizens  of 
the  Commonwealth  as  related  in  interviews 
conducted  by  the  Lavin  Company  of  Bos- 
ton. The  company,  which  had  been  hired  by 
the  board  of  trustees  and  President  Wood 
to  conduct  a  study  of  the  feasibility  and  or- 
ganization of  a  complete  development  pro- 
gram at  the  University,  reported  that  "in  the 
hundreds  of  feasibility  studies  which  the  in- 
terviewers have  conducted  for  other  clients, 
seldom  have  we  experienced  quite  such  a 
favorable  and  positive  attitude." 

The  "Lavin  Report"  contains  no  great 
revelations,  unless  it  is  a  revelation  to  skep- 
tics that  the  continually  improving  quality 
of  faculty,  students  and  programs  at  UMass 
have  culminated  in  general  good  will.  The 
report  is  a  working  document,  suggesting 
ways  to  capitalize  on  that  good  will  so  that 
the  University  might  realize  more  voluntary 
support  for  its  programs.  The  need  now  is 
for  more  flexible  monies  than  the  State  will 
allocate,  and  the  need  in  the  future  will  be 
for  more  money,  period,  as  tax  support  is 
not  expected  to  grow  commensurately  with 
the  pressures  on  the  University  to  accom- 
modate more  and  more  students. 

The  University,  with  its  three  campuses, 
has  been  a  significant  public  investment. 
The  capital  fund  appropriation  from  the 
Commonwealth  totalled  $156,000,000  in 
1969-1970.  In  that  year,  the  University's 
operating  budget  was  $107,883,774,  51% 
of  which  was  allocated  by  the  State. 

Although  UMass  has  received  considera- 
ble support  from  the  Commonwealth,  non- 
state  funds  have  also  been  vital.  In  1969-70, 
they  represented  49°/o  of  operating  costs. 


In  the  past,  the  University  had  not  made  an 
organized  effort  to  secure  these  funds.  A 
development  program  as  outlined  in  the 
Lavin  Report  would  accomplish  this. 

In  any  institution,  the  development  program 
encourages  support  "by  making  friends  and 
involving  many  persons  in  its  programs." 
For  the  University  to  do  this,  the  Lavin  Re- 
port recommends  significant  improvement 
in  both  internal  and  external  communica- 
tions. The  interviewers  found,  for  example, 
that  very  few  businessmen  were  truly  in- 
formed about  UMass,  although  they  were 
favorably  disposed  toward  it.  The  alumni 
also  did  not  feel  informed  about  or  involved 
in  the  affairs  of  their  Alma  Mater. 

Armed  with  improved  communications 
and  a  "case"  for  the  need  of  philanthropic 
support,  the  Lavin  Company  is  optimistic 
about  the  University's  development  poten- 
tial. There  would  be  three  aspects  to  the 
development  program:  consistent  annual 
giving  by  all  elements  of  the  constituency, 
the  promotion  of  deferred  giving  through 
bequests,  trusts  and  annuities,  and  occa- 
sional capital  campaigns. 

The  leadership  for  the  program  would 
come  first  from  the  trustees  and  the  Presi- 
dent. The  report  recommends  also  that  a 
Development  Council  be  established  which 
would  be  concerned  with  the  overall  pro- 
gram. Members  would  be  broadly  repre- 
sentative of  the  University's  public,  and 
the  council  would  be  responsible  to  the 
President  and  the  trustees. 

The  active  involvement  of  people,  accord- 
ing to  the  report,  will  make  the  development 
program  work.  Committees  of  volunteers 
are  proposed  to  act  as  liaison  with  particu- 
lar constituencies,  such  as  alumni  and  par- 
ents, and  to  encourage  certain  kinds  of  do- 
nations, such  as  deferred,  foundation  and 
corporate  gifts. 

The  Massachusetts  Foundation  would 
continue  as  an  important  part  of  the  Uni- 
versity's fund  raising  structure.  As  a  private 
organization,  it  is  an  ideal  vehicle  for  the 
University  to  accept  and  manage  property, 
annuity  trusts,  ten  year  trusts,  uni-trusts, 
insurance  gifts,  and  other  kinds  of  deferred 


gifts.  Donors  can  be  assured  that  the  use  of 
their  gifts  will  be  free  of  political  or  govern- 
mental influence  or  interference. 

Under  the  proposed  structure,  the  Foun- 
dation would  have  a  complementary  rather 
than  a  competitive  role,  working  closely 
with  the  Development  Office  and  the  De- 
velopment Council.  The  Lavin  Report  sug- 
gests many  changes  for  the  Foundation, 
among  them  that  it  reconstitute  its  member- 
ship to  be  representative  of  the  entire  Uni- 
versity and  include  groups  other  than  trus- 
tees, administrators  and  alumni.  Members 
of  the  Board  of  Governors  would  take  a 
leadership  role  in  fund  raising. 

The  report  concludes  with  a  proposed 
timetable  that  is  almost  intimidating  in  its 
scope.  But  Ed  Lashman  and  other  University 
officials  are  eager  to  launch  the  campaign. 
The  Vice  President  for  Development  ex- 
plains, "American  society  institutionalized 
its  philanthropy  a  long  time  ago.  UMass  is 
late  in  making  an  organized  attempt  to  at- 
tract that  philanthropy.  Finally,  with  the 
Lavin  Report  as  a  basis,  we  feel  we  can 
move  quickly. 

"But  I  hasten  to  emphasize  that  the  re- 
port isn't  Moses  speaking  from  Mount 
Sinai.  It  only  proposes  action.  It  is  up  to  the 
President  and  the  trustees  to  make  policy 
commitments.  When  they  do,  the  Develop- 
ment Office  will  act." 

It's  time  to  talk  of  cabbages  . . . 

The  people  who  developed  the  crookless 
squash  are  now  working  on  a  one-foot 
cabbage. 

The  crookless  squash  is  the  famed  Wal- 
tham  Butternut,  which  won  the  All- Ameri- 
can Selection  award  when  it  was  introduced 
in  1970.  It  has  no  crook,  more  meat,  better 
flavor  and  color,  and  gives  growers  an  aver- 
age of  28  per  cent  more  marketable  squash. 
The  Waltham  Butternut,  a  cross-between  an 
African  squash  and  a  New  Hampshire  but- 
ternut, the  latter  being  a  cross  between  a 
butternut  and  a  Korean  squash,  took  four- 
teen years  to  develop. 

The  one-foot  cabbage  (the  name  has 
nothing  to  do  with  locomotion)  is  a  new 


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variety  being  bred  to  grow  in  one  square 
foot  of  space.  The  typical  field  of  cabbage 
spreads  out  and  needs  a  square  yard  of 
growing  space,  but  the  new  Waltham  va- 
riety is  smaller  and  grows  up,  rather  than 
out. 

Both  are  examples  of  research  by  Pro- 
fessor Robert  E.  Young  at  the  University's 
Waltham  Suburban  Experiment  Station, 
formerly  called  the  Waltham  Field  Station. 
During  four  decades  at  Waltham,  his  work 
in  selective  plant  breeding  has  produced 
over  forty  improved  varieties  of  vegetables 
and  has  made  the  name  Waltham  known 
wherever  vegetables  are  grown  in  this 
country. 

Waltham  29  broccoli  has  been  the  most 
important  variety  of  freezing  broccoli  in  the 
country  for  the  past  fifteen  years  and  the 
Waltham  high  color  carrot  is  increasing  in 
use  faster  than  any  other  carrot  variety  in 
the  country.  In  fact  it  has  made  possible  the 
10,000-acre  Florida  carrot  industry.  The 
Waltham  mildew-resistant  hybrid  tomato 
helps  keep  Bay  State  greenhouse  tomato 
growers  competitive  with  those  in  the  rest 
of  the  country. 

There  are  new  menaces  to  vegetables,  and 
Waltham  is  responding  by  developing  va- 
rieties that  resist  air  pollution  damage. 

"At  the  present  time  it  is  almost  impossi- 
ble to  grow  greenhouse  tomatoes  in  eastern 
Massachusetts  without  seeing  air  pollution 
damage.  It  has  been  reported  on  spinach 
grown  on  Cape  Cod.  Squash,  cucumbers, 
pumpkins  and  similar  plants  are  also  sus- 
ceptible to  air  pollution  effects.  If  we  are 
going  to  continue  to  grow  these  we  will 


have  to  develop  resistant  varieties,"  ex- 
plained Dr.  J.  A.  Naegele,  Waltham's  direc- 
tor. "We  are  starting  now  to  develop  va- 
rieties that  will  be  resistant  to  this  and  to 
develop  new  genetic  stocks  that  will  have 
a  higher  threshold  of  response  to  air  pollu- 
tion than  our  current  plants  do." 

Familiar  names  in  new  positions 

The  first  week  as  Acting  Chancellor  was 
particularly  hectic  for  Randolph  Bromery 
as  he  tried  to  assume  his  new  duties  while 
still  fulfilling  his  responsibilities  as  vice- 
chancellor  for  student  affairs.  The  prompt 
appointment  of  Dr.  Robert  W.  Gage  re- 
lieved Dr.  Bromery  of  much  of  that  pres- 
sure. 

The  new  acting  vice-chancellor  for  stu- 
dent affairs  was  promoted  from  his  position 
of  director  of  human  services.  Dr.  Gage  is 
an  alumnus,  Class  of  '38.  In  i960  he  be- 
came director  of  health  services,  and  during 
part  of  the  time  he  held  that  position  he 
was  head  of  the  department  of  public 
health.  The  Metawampe  Award,  given  by 
the  senior  class,  was  presented  to  him  in 
1968  in  recognition  of  his  continued  efforts 
in  health  counseling.  Last  summer  he  as- 
sumed the  post  of  director  of  human  serv- 
ices, and  in  that  capacity  was  responsible 
for  the  services  offered  by  the  Infirmary, 
mental  health,  psychological  counseling, 
career  counseling  and  placement,  and  com- 
munity development  and  human  relations. 

John  DeNyse  and  Daniel  Melley  have 
also  been  promoted  to  new  positions  in  the 
reorganized  Amherst  administration.  De- 
Nyse, who  has  been  personnel  director  since 
1965,  is  now  director  of  personnel  and 
financial  services.  A  1950  UMass  graduate, 
he  returned  to  campus  in  1953  to  work  in 
the  cashier's  office,  and  transferred  to  per- 
sonnel five  years  later.  In  his  new  position, 
he  will  be  responsible  for  the  bursar's  office 
and  for  personnel,  accounting  and  adminis- 
trative data  processing. 

Another  alumnus,  Dan  Melley  '55,  is  now 
director  of  public  affairs.  After  earning  an 
ms  degree  in  public  relations  from  the  bu 
School  of  Public  Communications,  he  came 


to  the  University  in  1961  as  assistant  news 
and  publications  editor.  In  1964,  the  year  he 
coached  the  undefeated  UMass  College 
Bowl  Team,  he  became  news  director.  In  his 
new  position,  he  is  in  charge  of  news,  pub- 
lications, radio  and  television,  photographic 
and  cinematography  services,  and  special 
events.  Joseph  Marcus,  who  had  previously 
served  as  director  of  public  affairs,  has  re- 
turned to  the  School  of  Engineering  as  as- 
sociate dean. 

Harvey  L.  Friedman,  the  new  director  of 
the  Labor  Relations  and  Research  Center,  is 
an  exception  to  this  roster  of  promotions  in 
that  he  is  not  an  alumnus.  A  graduate  of 
Clark  University  and  Boston  University 
Law  School,  he  came  to  UMass  in  1965  as 
assistant  director  of  the  Center.  The  Center, 
which  provides  a  graduate  program  leading 
to  a  Master  of  Science  degree  in  labor 
studies,  does  both  pragmatic  and  theoreti- 
cal research  in  the  area  of  labor  studies  and 
assists  in  other  campus  programs  where 
there  is  an  academic  or  research  component 
in  labor  studies.  Prof.  Friedman  succeeds 
Ben  B.  Seligman,  the  Center's  first  director, 
who  died  in  October  1970. 

Kudos  to  the  faculty 

It  was  the  ninth  occasion  that  the  Distin- 
guished Teacher  Awards  were  presented  to 
three  members  of  the  Amherst  faculty.  At 
the  opening  convocation  ceremonies  in  Sep- 
tember, Oswald  Tippo,  as  Chancellor,  cited 
Dr.  Thomas  T.  Amy  of  the  physics  and 
astronomy  department,  Dr.  Ian  B.  Thomas 
of  the  electrical  engineering  department,  and 
Mrs.  Barbara  J.  White  of  the  department  of 
zoology  for  "manifest  excellence  in  the  art 
of  teaching  and  outstanding  devotion  to 
the  cause  of  education."  The  professors, 
who  received  a  $1,000  stipend  with  the 
award,  were  chosen  by  an  all-University 
committee. 

Mrs.  White,  who  has  been  teaching  at 
UMass  since  1961,  is  the  first  woman  to 
receive  the  award.  Dr.  Amy  has  been  on  the 
staff  since  1966,  and  Dr.  Thomas  since 
1967. 

Dr.  Thomas's  teaching  was  also  cited 


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outside  the  University.  The  Western  Elec- 
tric Fund  Award,  in  the  amount  of  $i,ooo, 
was  presented  to  him  for  his  "outstanding 
contributions  to  both  undergraduate  and 
graduate  education  in  electrical  engineer- 
ing" and  "significant  professional  contribu- 
tions in  his  particular  area  of  research  and 
in  his  many  committee  activities  both  on 
and  off  campus." 

Associate  Professor  Thomas  has  an  un- 
usual specialty.  He  has  designed  electronic 
instruments  that  visually  display  speech 
patterns  and  is  nationally  known  for  his 
work  in  sound,  speech,  and  problems  of  the 
deaf. 

Dr.  Larry  S.  Roberts,  an  associate  profes- 
sor in  the  zoology  department,  received  the 
1971  Henry  Baldwin  Medal  for  "excellence 
in  research  in  the  field  of  parasitology." 
The  American  Society  of  Parasitologists 
made  the  award  to  Dr.  Roberts,  whose  re- 
search has  been  directed  to  the  study  of  the 
development  of  tapeworms  in  their  verte- 
brate hosts  and  the  study  of  Ergasilus,  a 
copepod  parasite  that  lives  in  the  gills  of 
fish. 

The  contributions  of  Dr.  Richard  S.  Stein 
to  the  development  of  optical  techniques  for 
studying  high  polymers  were  recognized  in 
September  when  he  won  the  1972  American 
Chemical  Society  Award  in  the  chemistry  of 
plastics  and  coatings.  Dr.  Stein,  who  re- 
ceived a  $1,000  award  from  the  Borden 
Foundation,  Inc.,  is  Commonwealth  Profes- 
sor of  Chemistry  and  director  of  the  Poly- 
mer Research  Institute  at  the  University. 

The  1971  Rudolph  Hering  Medal  was  be- 
stowed upon  Bernard  B.  Berger  for  his  paper 
"Engineering  Evaluation  of  the  Virus  Haz- 
ard in  Water."  Dr.  Berger,  director  of  the 
Water  Resources  Research  Center,  received 
the  award  from  the  American  Society  of 
Civil  Engineers.  His  paper  showed  that  the 
threat  to  the  public  of  pathogenic  viruses 
in  drinking  water  had  not  yet  been  elimi- 
nated. On  the  other  hand,  known  control 
techniques  could  be  depended  on  to  protect 
the  public  health  if  rigorously  enforced. 
"Unfortunately,  few  water  suppliers  ob- 
serve the  necessary  vigilance  to  this  end," 
Professor  Berger  commented. 


Piaffe  II 

A  professor  of  art,  Robert  Mallary, 
received  the  $1,000  first  prize  in  a  new  Inter- 
national Silver  Company  sculpture  competi- 
tion conducted  by  the  University  of  Con- 
necticut Foundation.  His  award-winning 
sculpture  is  named  "Piaffe  II." 

Honorable  mention  at  the  sculpture  com- 
petition went  to  John  Townsend  for  "Tree 
Figure."  Townsend  is  an  associate  professor 
of  art  and  director  of  graduate  studies  at 
UMass. 

Down  with  spelling  bees 

"Against  stupidity  the  gods  themselves  con- 
tend in  vain." 

Donald  Freeman  acknowledges  Schiller's 
point,  but  he  is  nevertheless  willing  to  en- 
gage in  ungodly  contention  against  it.  The 
object  of  his  assault  is  the  prevalent  preju- 
dice against  poor  spelling. 

Freeman  is  chairman  of  the  program  in 
linguistics  and  an  associate  professor.  A 
perfect  speller,  he  points  out  that  the  con- 
nection between  good  qualities  and  good 
spelling  began  with  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson 
and  his  dictionary.  "Before  the  eighteenth 
century,"  he  says,  "people  didn't  really  care. 
Spelling  was  just  an  attempt  to  represent 
pronunciation.  Many  spelling  conventions 
were  introduced  by  printers." 

Any  magazine  editor  could  corroborate 
the  wayward  attitude  printers  have  toward 
words,  but  the  pre-Johnson  era  was  marked 


by  far  greater  liberties  than  we  see  today. 
"In  the  Renaissance,"  Dr.  Freeman  says, 
"when  the  printer  came  to  the  end  of  the 
line  and  had  space  left,  he'd  arbitrarily  in- 
sert letters — such  as  extra  vowels — to  justify 
the  line." 

The  printer's  whim  of  yesteryear  has  left 
us  a  peculiar  heritage:  namely,  peculiar 
spelling.  And  yet  people  persist  in  associat- 
ing lack  of  neatness,  morality  and  intelli- 
gence with  poor  spelling. 

This  is  Dr.  Freeman's  thesis  and  in  his 
courses  this  semester  he  is  trying  to  impress 
it  upon  the  future  teachers  of  English.  Cre- 
ative thought,  rather  than  the  mechanical 
skill  spelling  represents,  should  have  pri- 
ority with  them.  To  reinforce  his  point,  the 
linguistics  professor  explains  that,  very 
often,  bad  spelling  arises  because  a  word 
is  mispronounced  or  heard  incorrectly.  Peo- 
ple tend  to  spell  phonetically,  and  in  a  tele- 
vision-oriented society  where  children  rarely 
turn  towards  books  to  occupy  their  leisure 
time,  it  would  be  inevitable  that  spelling 
deteriorate. 

But  this  doesn't  mean  that  intelligence  is 
deteriorating.  Freeman  says,  "Too  many 
children  get  reputations  in  school  as  being 
extra  intelligent  because  they  spell  well; 
equally,  too  many  get  reputations  as  dum- 
mies because  they  spell  badly.  These  repu- 
tations tend  to  become  reinforced  by  teach- 
ers, and  a  relatively  mechanical  skill  thus 
becomes  a  crucial  prerequisite  for  success." 

A  Successful  "Awful  Waffle" 

The  nickname  has  stuck  and  many  people, 
when  confronted  with  the  Campus  Center 
for  the  first  time,  indulge  in  a  diatribe 
against  modern  architecture.  But  if  they 
quarrel  with  the  way  the  package  is 
wrapped,  at  least  they  have  come  to  accept 
its  contents  as  an  important  part  of  campus 
life. 

After  one  year  of  operation,  the  Campus 
Center  has  lived  up  to  all  expectations  for 
its  use.  In  fact,  the  number  of  customers 
using  the  University  Store  has  surpassed 
original  projections.  The  food  service  offered 
in  the  Center  has  also  been  a  marked 


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success.  Although  the  Hatch  still  has  its 
devotees,  the  Center's  coffee  shop  and 
cafeteria  overflow  at  noontime,  as  thou- 
sands of  people  now  choose  to  lunch  on 
campus.  Those  who  are  more  affluent  and 
less  hurried  often  frequent  the  Top  of  the 
Campus  Restaurant,  which  can  be  favor- 
ably compared  to  other  fine  restaurants  in 
the  area. 

The  Center's  clientele  is  not  limited  to 
the  campus  community.  The  Division  of 
Continuing  Education  has  sponsored  ap- 
proximately three  hundred  conferences  to 
date,  giving  25,000  conferees  the  oppor- 
tunity to  enjoy  the  facilities  and  observe 
the  campus  in  operation. 

Such  observations  can  be  slightly  mis- 
leading. For  instance,  there  are  pinball 
machines  on  the  concourse  level,  and  the 
uninformed  might  deduce  from  their  con- 
stant use  that  flashing  lights  and  ringing 
bells  were  the  Center's  major  attraction. 
But  most  students  have  more  important 
business  in  the  building.  The  facilities  were 
used  for  over  1,700  staff  and  student  meet- 
ings last  year.  The  Program  Council  and 
other  student  groups  sponsored  about  430 
events  at  the  Campus  Center,  and  another 
400  special  functions  sponsored  by  the 
University  were  held  there.  Less  formal 
offerings  include  tables  in  the  concourse  set 
up  by  student  craftsmen  to  display  and  sell 
their  wares. 

The  Awful  Waffle  is  awfully  busy  these 
days. 


From  kidneys  to  smoke  stacks 

Research  at  the  University  covers  a  lot  of 
ground.  Some  of  the  projects  now  underway 
are  an  investigation  of  outpatient  medical 
care,  the  development  of  an  artificial  kidney, 
a  study  which  may  help  predict  future  pat- 
terns of  environmental  change,  and  an  at- 
tempt to  find  better  ways  of  removing 
pollutants  from  plant  smoke  stack  gases. 

A  team  of  researchers  from  the  depart- 
ments of  industrial  engineering  and  opera- 
tions research  and  sociology  are  studying 
the  role  of  outpatient  care.  There  is  no  or- 
ganized body  of  knowledge  on  this  subject, 
although  the  role  of  outpatient  care  in 
America  is  expanding  enormously.  The  re- 
searchers, working  on  a  $165,000  two-year 
grant  from  the  U.S.  Health  Service  and 
Mental  Health  Administration,  are  con- 
structing a  general  methodology  which  can 
be  used  to  evaluate,  design,  and  improve 
various  types  of  outpatient  facilities.  "We 
take  it  as  axiomatic,"  they  explain,  "that 
the  crisis  in  medical  care  is  in  the  delivery 
and  not  in  the  nature  of  the  care  itself." 

A  technique  for  encapsulating  enzymes, 
developed  in  recent  years,  is  making  it  pos- 
sible for  Stanley  Middleman  of  the  chemi- 
cal engineering  department  to  work  on  the 
development  of  an  artificial  kidney.  Profes- 
sor Middleman  explains  that  while  enzymes 
are  necessary  for  many  biochemical  proc- 
esses, they  were  too  expensive  to  use  as  a 
raw  material  in  research  because  they  are 
soluble  and  must  be  continually  replaced. 
The  microencapsulated  enzyme  technique 
has  solved  the  problem.  According  to  Dr. 
Middleman,  "By  forming  extremely  small, 
Nylon-enclosed  droplets  of  enzyme  solution 
it  is  possible  to  design  a  reactor  which 
could,  for  example,  remove  toxic  materials 
from  blood,  a  function  normally  performed 
by  the  kidney.  The  encapsulated  enzyme 
can  be  retained  in  the  system  and  con- 
tinually reused."  The  research  is  supported 
by  a  $5,245  grant  from  the  National  Insti- 
tutes of  Health  through  the  University's 
Biomedical  Sciences  Support  grant  program. 

Grants  from  the  U.S.  Forest  Service  and 
the  Massachusetts  Water  Resources  Com- 


mission are  supporting  a  three-year  project 
led  by  two  UMass  professors,  William  Mac- 
Connell  and  Joseph  S.  Larson.  Using  aerial 
photographs  of  Masschusetts  taken  in  1951 
and  1971,  the  research  team  will  trace  the 
environmental  changes  wrought  over 
twenty  years.  Dr.  MacConnell  feels  that 
comparison  of  the  two  sets  of  photographs 
will  make  it  possible  to  develop  predictors 
of  future  patterns  of  change.  "By  use  of 
time-lapse  aerial  photo  analysis,"  he  ex- 
plained, "the  study  will  expose  those  areas 
most  pregnant  for  development  and  will 
predict  what  that  development  is  most  likely 
to  be.  This  information  will  give  planners 
more  lead  time  in  dealing  with  the  problem 
of  vanishing  green  space." 

Another  environmental  problem,  air  pol- 
lution caused  by  nitrogen  oxides  and  sulfur 
oxides,  is  being  examined  by  James  R.  Kitt- 
rell,  associate  professor  of  chemical  engi- 
neering. Working  under  a  $94,597  grant 
from  the  Air  Pollution  Office  of  the  U.S. 
Environmental  Protection  Agency,  Dr. 
Kittrell  is  trying  to  find  better  ways  of  re- 
moving these  pollutants  from  plant  smoke 
stack  gases.  At  present,  it  is  possible  to  re- 
move nitrogen  and  sulfur  oxides  simul- 
taneously using  catalytic  converters,  but 
these,  unfortunately,  do  not  sustain  conver- 
sion over  a  long  enough  time  to  be  econom- 
ically feasible.  "The  purpose  of  the  present 
research,"  Dr.  Kittrell  explained,"  is  to 
develop  new  catalysts  for  this  purpose,  and 
to  mathematically  model  their  behavior  to 
allow  full  exploitation  of  their  unique 
properties  in  the  design  of  converters  to 
eliminate  nitrogen  and  sulfur  oxide  emis- 


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It  ain't  like  it  used  to  be 

Homecoming.  Bright  foliage,  plush  floats,  a 
lovely  queen,  and  raucous  noise  from  the 
Cage  as  thousands  listen  to  a  big  rock 
group.  Well,  it  wasn't  quite  like  that  this 
year.  The  trees  were  festive,  but  the  campus 
was  not.  The  floats  were  few  in  number, 
the  queen  absent,  and  the  concerts  small 
and  poorly  attended.  The  old  images  of 
Homecoming  did  not  apply  in  1971. 

There  was  still  the  football  game,  and 
alumni  gathered  in  the  parking  lot  near  the 
stadium  for  the  annual  tailgate  picnic.  But 
joy  that  afternoon  was  limited  to  the  park- 
ing lot.  With  two  vital  players  injured,  the 
Redmen  suffered  defeat  at  the  hands  of 
the  uri  Rams.  Alumni  returning  to  Amherst 
had  to  be  content  to  take  their  pleasure 
from  reunion  with  old  friends,  the  bright 
sunlight,  and  the  autumn  colors-— but  for 
most  that  was  more  than  enough. 


'     Frustration  was  the  rule  when  UMass  lost 
to  URI  at  Homecoming,  31  to  3.  But  the 
Redmen  redeemed  themselves  later  in  the 
season. 


20 


Getting  down  to  business 

The  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Associate 
Alumni  is  never  the  high  point  of  Home- 
coming Weekend.  The  business  of  electing 
officers  to  the  association  is  rarely  more 
compelling  than  the  sunshine  and  breezes 
of  an  autumn  morning.  And  so  it  was  this 
year,  but  perhaps  for  the  last  time.  Among 
several  by-law  changes  suggested  by  Evan 
V.  Johnston,  the  association's  executive 
vice-president,  was  the  rescheduling  of  the 
Annual  Meeting  to  coincide  with  Alumni 
Weekend  in  June. 

The  business  conducted  at  the  October  16 
meeting  included  announcing  the  results  of 


President-elect  Paul  Marks 

the  ballot  contest  for  three  members  of  the 
Board  of  Directors.  Myron  Hager  '40, 
Norman  Patch  '71,  and  Daniel  Issenberg  '50 
were  elected.  James  Mulcahy  '66  was  elected 
by  those  assembled  to  the  Athletic  Council, 
and  Maida  Riggs  '36  to  the  Memorial  Hall 
Board  of  Overseers. 

The  slate  of  proposed  officers  was  read 
and  duly  voted.  On  January  1,  the  associa- 
tion's president  will  be  Paul  G.  Marks  '57, 
who  has  served  on  the  alumni  board  and 
had  been  active  recently  as  chairman  of  the 
Chancellor's  Club.  Harold  Fienman  '50  was 
named  First  Vice-President,  Lois  Toko  '56 
was  named  Second  Vice-President,  and 
Robert  Fitzpatrick  '43  and  Lillian  Moldaw 


Davis  '51  will  continue  to  serve  in  their 
respective  positions  as  treasurer  and  secre- 
tary. The  regional  vice-president  for  eastern 
Massachusetts  is  Dr.  William  Less  '51;  the 
western  Massachusetts  regional  vice-presi- 
dent is  Stanley  Chiz  '50;  and  the  New  York 
regional  vice-president  is  Anthony  Cham- 
bers '54.  Three  board  members  were  also 
elected  with  the  officers.  They  are  Dr. 
George  Atkins  '52,  Dr.  William  MacConnell 
'43,  and  David  Liederman  '57. 

In  his  remarks  to  the  meeting,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Associate  Alumni,  Stanley 
Barron  '50,  expressed  concern  about  the  re- 
cent events  on  campus.  Referring  to  the 
rigors  of  a  development  program  as  out- 
lined in  the  Lavin  Report,  he  felt  that  Dr. 
Tippo's  resignation  as  chancellor  reflected 
an  absence  of  harmony  and  respect  which 
would  be  necessary  for  a  major  fund- 
raising  effort.  The  confusion  over  trust 
funds,  he  declared,  should  be  speedily  dis- 
pelled, and  he  announced  that  an  alumni 
committee  would  be  appointed  to  determine 
the  facts  of  the  case. 

Problems  in  the  transition  of  the  alumni 
office  from  an  independent  to  a  trust  fund 
operation  also  caused  Dr.  Barron  concern. 
The  association's  Treasurer,  Robert  Fitz- 
patrick, also  expressed  his  concern  on  this 
subject.  The  '71-72  office  budget  has  not 
been  approved  nor  have  any  funds  been 
allocated.  Evan  Johnston,  in  making  his 
report  as  executive  vice-president,  noted 
the  difficulties  this  budgetary  vacuum  repre- 
sented but  expressed  hope  that  the  situation 
would  soon  be  clarified. 


One  million  plus  one 

Library  acquisitions  finally  reached  the  one 
million  mark  in  October  with  the  purchase 
of  The  Freedom  of  the  Will  by  Jonathan 
Edwards,  courtesy  of  UMass  librarians. 
And  to  make  October  a  banner  month  for 
the  library,  a  book  overdue  for  29  years, 
five  months  and  ten  days  was  back  on  the 
shelves. 

Six  Plays  of  Clifford  Odets  had  been 
checked  out  of  the  library  by  William  Man- 
chester when  he  was  an  undergraduate  in 
May  1942.  Now  head  of  the  University's 
Friends  of  the  Library,  the  famous  author 
returned  the  book  with  his  apologies  and  a 
check  for  $505.69.  Although  he  was  aware 
that  the  maximum  fine  for  overdue  books 
is  $6,  Mr.  Manchester  preferred  to  compute 
the  daily  fines  he  had  accumulated  and 
make  his  contribution  to  an  impending 
Friends  of  the  Library  membership  drive 
which  he  will  direct. 

President  Wood,  responding  to  Bill  Man- 
chester's gesture,  wrote,  "If  the  University 
could  only  correlate  generosity  and  delin- 
quency in  such  portions  as  your  case  with 
the  library,  the  University  would  indeed  be 
blessed  with  flexible  resources." 


21 


Running  to  win 


EARLE  BARROLL  '73 


Erving  is  gone,  but  the  basketball 
coaches  and  players  are  too  busy 
developing  a  new  strategy  to  waste 
time  on  vain  regrets. 


It  seems  as  if  this  basketball  season  got  its 
start  back  in  April  when  Julius  Erving  was 
signed  for  a  half -million  dollars  by  the 
Virginia  Squires  of  the  American  Basket- 
ball Association.  It  was  one  of  the  cele- 
brated "hardship"  signings  by  that  league. 

The  immediate  reaction  around  campus 
was  split  between  contempt  for  the  "war- 
ring league"  of  the  basketball  world  and 
sympathy  for  Coach  Jack  Leaman  and  the 
season  ahead.  The  reaction  around  New 
England  hoop  circles  was  one  of  relief  now 
that  Julius  was  gone. 

Just  what  could  the  UMass  basketball 
team  do  without  the  great  6'6  dynamo  of 
the  hardcourt  who  had  led  them  to  their 
greatest  heights  as  a  team  and  as  a  program 
in  the  history  of  the  school?  This  was  the 
popular  cry  in  the  remaining  days  of  the 
spring  semester,  and  a  not  surprising  one  at 
that. 

And  now,  as  the  season  begins,  there  is 
still  the  thought  of  an  Ervingless  basketball 
team  clouding  the  minds  of  UMass  fans. 
But  those  who  really  count,  the  coaches  and 
the  players,  are  looking  ahead. 

It  is  their  season  and  not  a  time  to  look 
back  to  the  days  of  the  28  points  and  20 
rebounds,  the  blocked  shots  and  defensive 
prowess  of  Erving.  Those  days  are  just  not 
to  be  found  anymore. 

The  team  will  face  a  New  England  basket- 
ball scene  that  has  reached  a  new  height  in 
the  quantity  and  quality  of  outstanding  in- 
dividuals and  teams  that  can  vie  for  national 


John  Betancourt 


recognition.  The  schedule  can  no  longer  be 
sneared  at. 

This  is  basketball  '72.  It  had  the  makings 
of  a  vintage  year,  with  Erving  on  the  team. 
Many  of  the  players  that  remain  are  by- 
products of  the  great  freshman  team  of 
1968-69,  the  team  of  Julius  Erving  and  the 
now  returning  veterans  Mike  Pagliara,  John 
Betancourt,  Chris  Coffin,  Rick  Vogeley  and 
Tom  Austin,  who  will  be  making  the  sacri- 
fices and  suffering  the  hardships  of  altering 
their  basketball  ways  so  that  this  will  be 
their  own  vintage  year. 

For  Leaman  and  his  squad,  there  is  a 
new  philosophy,  a  new  look  and  a  new 
attitude.  The  coach  faces  a  problem  he 
hasn't  had  to  cope  with  since  he  arrived 
here — the  lack  of  a  big  man  like  an  Erving, 
a  Ken  Mathias  or  a  Peter  Gayeska  to  get 
that  ball  off  the  boards. 

The  Redman  cannot  count  on  a  thunder- 
ing board  game  .  .  .  they  just  don't  have 
the  horses  to  do  it. 

So  for  Leaman  and  his  cagers,  speed  is 
essential.  The  team  must  run,  must  play 
aggressive  defense,  must  make  condition- 
ing an  important  part  in  the  outcome  of 
each  game  in  order  to  win.  In  the  words  of 
the  head  coach,  "We  must  run,  run,  run." 

"We'll  be  a  gambling  team  this  year,  a 
team  that  will  either  bring  the  crowd  to  its 
feet  or  give  me  grey  hair,"  Leaman  says. 
"In  the  past  we  went  with  the  percentages, 
which  I  prefer  to  do,  but  we  have  to  gamble 
this  season.  This  is  the  type  of  game  the 
fans  like  and  should  make  for  an  interesting 
team  to  watch.  We'll  be  using  variation 
presses  .  .  .  man  to  man  and  zone.  We'll 
have  to  be  an  aggressive  group  and  cover 
all  over  the  court  and  attack  the  ball  on 
defense." 

Leaman  has  never  been  more  emphatic 
about  the  importance  of  conditioning. 
Coming  from  one  who  always  preached  fit- 
ness in  the  past,  there  is  no  doubt  that  his 
ball  club  will  not  need  a  second  wind 
during  the  season. 

Although  it  didn't  bear  fruit  at  the  time, 
UMass  learned  something  at  the  nit  last 
year. 


North  Carolina  employed  an  attack  that 
featured  relentless  pursuit  all  over  the 
court,  non-stop  action  from  opening  to 
closing  buzzer  and  the  shuffling  of  players 
in  and  out  of  the  lineup  to  keep  the  ranks 
fresh  and  hungry  for  the  heat  of  action. 

The  Tarheels  crushed  UMass  last  March. 
This  year,  the  Redmen  must  mirror  their 
multi-player  approach. 

The  success  of  the  Redman  attack  will  be 
numbers  and  plenty  of  them.  From  last 
year's  23-4  varsity  and  18-1  freshman 
teams  come  the  finest  group  of  quality  ball- 
players ever  assembled  at  this  school.  "We 
have  four  outstanding  guards,  four  out- 
standing forwards,  and  if  we  can  find  a 
guy  who  can  do  a  reputable  job  at  center 
then  we'll  even  be  a  better  team,"  says 
Leaman. 

His  four  guards :  seniors  Mike  Pagliara 
and  John  Betancourt  and  sophomores  Rick 
Pitino  and  Peter  Trow.  Four  good  ones  that 
make  up,  in  Leaman's  opinion,  the  "best 
backcourt  in  New  England." 

Pagliara  is  captain  this  season  and,  like 
the  rest  of  the  team,  sees  the  challenge  that 
awaits  him.  "Without  Julius  we'll  be  going 
through  a  physical  and  mental  change.  We 
won't  have  him  to  go  to  this  season.  In  the 
past  on  defense  if  our  man  got  by  us  we 
knew  Julie  was  there  to  stop  him,  but  he 
won't  be  this  season." 

"We  need  a  more  concentrated  effort,  as 
a  team.  Five  guys  have  to  put  in  40  minutes 
of  basketball  and  we  can't  let  down.  With 
Julius  we  could." 

Betancourt  is  a  two-year  starter  and  an 
All  Conference  choice  last  season.  Like  his 
backcourt  partner,  he  sees  a  change  for  his 
final  campaign  as  a  Redman.  "Like  Ford- 
ham,  we  have  to  cause  turnovers  and  mis- 
takes to  be  an  effective  team,"  he  says. 
"We'll  be  something  like  North  Carolina, 
using  man-to-man  and  double  team  de- 
fenses, denying  the  man  the  ball  .  .  .  and 
this  is  where  having  four  guards  will  be 
important." 

Pitino  will  be  remembered  from  last  year 
for  his  slick  ball  handling  and  adept  touch 
on  his  jumpshot,  while  Trow  is  the  more 
rugged  of  the  two,  a  hardnose  ballplayer. 


Chris  Coffin 


23 


They  spearheaded  the  freshman  attack  last 
year  and  add  tremendous  depth  to  the 
UMass  backcourt. 

Up  front  Leaman  has  veterans  Chris 
Coffin,  Rick  Vogeley  and  Tom  McLaughlin 
and  freshman  standout  Al  Skinner  to  spice 
up  a  front  court  attack  that  had  it  rela- 
tively easy  with  Erving  the  past  two  years. 

McLaughlin,  who  came  to  UMass  midway 
through  last  season,  sees  a  new  role  for 
himself  and  his  fellow  f rontcourters :  "In 
the  past  we  just  stood  around  and  watched 
Julie,  but  now  we  have  a  lot  more  respon- 
sibility. We  need  a  lot  of  confidence  in  our- 
selves. We  never  had  this  pressure  before. 
We  have  to  concentrate  more  on  boxing  out 
and  getting  tougher  on  defense." 

Both  Vogeley  and  Coffin  have  two  years 
of  varsity  ball  behind  them.  While  the 
former  is  a  noted  shooter,  the  latter  is  a 
defensive  specialist  and  rebounder  who 
started  last  season.  He  may  be  forced  into 
the  center  post  if  Tom  Austin  or  Charlie 
Peters  cannot  fill  the  void  left  by  Mathias. 

Skinner  was  the  big  man  for  last  year's 
freshman  squad,  leading  in  both  scoring 
(19.4)  and  rebounding.  What  he  lacks  in 
size  (6'4)  for  a  forward  in  varsity  ball,  he 
more  than  makes  up  for  in  his  leaping 
ability  and  quickness  on  the  court.  He  will 
definitely  have  to  be  a  big  man  up  front  for 
the  Redmen. 

The  big  question  mark  still  remains  at 
center,  where  either  Austin  or  Peters  has  to 
start  to  make  UMass  an  effective  team. 
Austin  is  a  slender  6 '9  and  still  very  green 
for  a  big  time  center  position,  while  Peters 
is  a  brawny  67.  He  is  "coming  into  his 
own"  according  to  his  coach,  but  still  lacks 
experience. 

These  are  the  men  who  will  have  to  "run, 
run,  run"  this  season.  Due  to  the  equal 
ability  that  abounds  on  the  squad,  pre- 
season practices  have  been  better  than  ever. 
Competition  for  each  starting  berth  has 
been  spirited,  the  effect  of  "five  open  posi- 
tions." 

As  in  previous  seasons,  Leaman  and  his 
players  have  set  three  goals:  to  win  the 
Yankee  Conference,  to  be  number  one  in 
New  England,  and  to  make  a  precedent- 


setting  third  trip  to  the  nit.  Moreover,  this 
year,  UMass  plays  in  the  Quaker  City  In- 
vitational Basketball  Tournament  at  the 
famous  Palestra  in  Philadelphia  for  the 
first  time. 

Achieving  these  goals  is  going  to  be  a 
man-size  job,  to  say  the  least.  Villanova, 
runner-up  in  the  ncaa  tourney  last  season, 
is  in  the  first  round  of  the  Quaker  City 
tourney.  Harvard  and  Providence  are  both 
nationally  ranked  in  pre-season.  Transfer- 
loaded  Rhode  Island  is  the  best  team  in 
New  England,  according  to  one  publication. 
And  the  Redmen  also  face  Holy  Cross, 
Boston  College,  Fordham,  Syracuse  and 
Manhattan  at  Madison  Square  Garden. 

Man  size  alright,  but  only  that  much 
more  incentive  to  get  the  wheels  churning 
on  the  new  Redman  "run  to  win"  express. 

Earle  Barroll  is  sports  editor  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Daily  Collegian. 


From  the  Sidelines 


RICHARD  L.  BRESCIANI  '60 
Assistant  Sports  Information  Director 

UMass  has  been  a  winter  wonderland  for 
athletic  success  in  recent  years.  Three 
straight  seasons  of  improvement  from  just 
about  every  varsity  team  culminated  in  an 
overall  61—29-2  record  in  1970-71.  Three 
championship  teams,  plus  the  best  hockey 
season  ever,  helped  to  compile  the  finest 
Redmen  winter  record  ever. 

However,  a  vintage  group  of  seniors 
left  campus  and  there  have  been  some  un- 
expected losses  as  well.  UMass  coaches, 
openly  confident  last  year,  have  a  more 
cautious  attitude  now. 


Despite  the  premature  loss  of  6'6  All 
American  Julius  Erving  to  the  Virginia 
Squires  of  the  aba,  basketball  fever  still 
runs  high  on  campus.  Coach  Jack  Leaman 
feels  that  there  is  sufficient  talent  available 
to  keep  the  Redmen  in  contention  for  New 
England  and  Conference  honors.  "The 
squad  realizes  the  challenge  that's  ahead  of 
them,  especially  without  Julie,"  Leaman 
said.  "They've  been  working  hard  and  I 
think  we'll  surprise  a  lot  of  people." 

The  backcourt  of  Capt.  Mike  Pagliara, 
10.6  points  per  game,  and  John  Betan- 
court,  12.6,  returns  with  starters  Chris 
Coffin  and  Tom  McLaughlin  for  a  sound 
nucleus.  Improvement  by  6'5  Rich  Vogeley, 
6'y  Charlie  Peters  and  6'9  Tom  Austin  will 
be  vital,  as  will  the  development  of  sharp- 
looking  sophomores  Al  Skinner,  Rick  Pitino 
and  Peter  Trow,  who  led  the  f rosh  to  an 
18-1  record  last  year. 

Leaman  has  been  named  New  England 
Coach  of  the  Year  the  past  two  winters  while 
driving  the  exciting  Redmen  to  41  wins 
against  11  losses.  Four  straight  first  places 
in  the  YanCon,  two  consecutive  trips  to  the 
National  Invitational  Tournament,  and  a 
66-21  record  since  February  of  1968  illumi- 
nate the  UMass  basketball  surge. 

Curry  Hicks  Cage  overflowed  its  4200 
seat  capacity  for  every  home  game  as 
UMass  had  its  greatest  season,  23-4,  with 
three  losses  by  a  total  of  10  points  prior  to 
the  defeat  by  eventual  NiT-champ  North 
Carolina. 

With  nationally-ranked  teams  like  Har- 
vard, Providence,  Villanova,  Fordham, 
Syracuse,  Holy  Cross  and  Boston  College, 
plus  perennial  arch-rivals  Rhode  Island 
and  Connecticut  on  the  schedule,  it  adds  up 
to  a  stern  test. 

UMass  has  rugged  December  assignments 
with  Holy  Cross,  UConn,  Manhattan  at 
Madison  Square  Garden,  and  Harvard. 
The  Redmen  are  pitted  against  Villanova  in 
the  opening  round  of  the  Quaker  City 
Tournament  in  the  Penn  Palestra. 

Another  sport  came  of  age  last  winter,  when 
Coach  Jack  Canniff's  hockey  team  skated 
to  a  14-6-1  record,  including  12-4-1  in 


24 


Division  II  of  the  Eastern  Collegiate  Athletic 
Conference. 

Led  by  flashy  center  Pat  Keenan,  28  goals, 
28  assists  for  56  points  (all  one-season 
records),  defenseman  Brian  Sullivan  and 
goalie  Pat  Flaherty,  the  Redmen  earned 
their  first  tournament  berth. 

Sullivan  and  Flaherty  were  both  named  to 
the  All  East  Division  II  team.  Keenan  was 
somehow  left  off. 

Over  4000  fans  packed  Vermont's  hockey 
rink  in  mid-March  to  see  the  Catamounts 
edge  UMass  2-1  in  a  superbly-played  play- 
off game  by  both  teams.  Capacity  crowds 
were  also  prevalent  during  the  regular  sea- 
son at  Orr  Rink  as  UMass  blazed  its  way 
to  an  11-0  home  record. 

Only  two  seniors  have  departed  from 
that  team,  and  CannifP s  pucksters  are  in 
the  best  position  of  the  winter  squads  to 
duplicate  last  year's  heroics. 

Wings  Jack  Edwards,  19  goals,  19  assists, 
and  Dan  Reidy,  13  goals,  22  assists,  flank 
Keenan  to  form  one  of  New  England's  best 
lines.  Rugged  center  Don  Riley,  hustling 
wing  Eric  Scrafield  and  steady  defenseman 
Bob  Bartholomew  are  other  key  Redmen. 

UMass  will  compete  in  the  Williams 
College  Invitational  Dec.  28-30  with  Wil- 
liams, Oswego  and  Colby. 

Wrestling  Coach  Homer  Barr  has  lost  the 
experienced  depth  that  was  a  big  factor  in 
the  15-3-1  record  and  the  school's  first 
New  England  championship.  Barr  feels  the 
team  has  a  chance  to  defend  its  title,  espe- 
cially if  some  of  the  freshmen  develop  as 
the  year  progresses. 

However,  he  points  to  always  tough 
Springfield  and  much-improved  Rhode 
Island,  Central  Connecticut  and  New  Hamp- 
shire as  main  contenders.  A  tougher  sched- 
ule could  hurt  the  overall  record  also,  espe- 
cially with  freshmen  in  the  lineup. 

There  are  some  fine  wrestlers  to  watch, 
such  as  Sheldon  Goldberg,  a  two-year  New 
England  134  lb.  champion.  Goldberg,  who 
may  move  up  to  the  142  class,  was  17-0-1 
last  year  and  is  32-2-1  on  the  varsity. 
Heavyweight  Carl  Dambman,  11-4,  was 
another  ne  champ  last  year  but  he  could  be 


in  the  191  class  with  Ed  Carlsson,  11-4-2. 

Dave  Amato  was  14-1  and  second  in  the 
ne's  at  118  lbs.  and  Dave  Reynolds  was 
11-2  at  126.  The  best  of  the  new  freshmen 
appear  to  be  John  Connelly,  state  champion 
from  Westford  Academy  at  177  who  had  17 
pins,  Mike  McGlaughlin,  60-6  at  126,  and 
Chris  Cadwallader,  a  158-lb.  district  champ. 

The  gymnastics  team  has  been  a  con- 
tender in  the  tough  Eastern  League  and  had 
a  6-2  record  with  a  third  place  in  the  League 
meet.  Coach  Erik  Kjeldsen  lost  seven  seniors 
and  will  have  a  lot  of  inexperienced  per- 
sonnel. 

Co-captain  Dave  Genest  was  Eastern 
champion  on  the  parallel  bars  and  is  the 
best  specialist.  Co-captain  Tony  Vacca  was 
fourth  in  the  all-round  event  in  the  East- 
ern's, Jay  Aronstein  was  fourth  on  the 
rings  and  Tom  Myslicki  placed  fifth  on  the 
high  bar.  With  mostly  new  performers  on 
the  high  bar  and  side  horse  events,  it  ap- 
pears that  the  gymnasts  will  be  in  a  rebuild- 
ing year. 

Coach  Ken  O'Brien  '63  could  have  a  hard 
time  duplicating  his  second  place  Confer- 
ence finish  with  the  indoor  track  team. 
O'Brien  lost  the  top  man  in  twelve  of  six- 
teen events.  There  are  some  good  individ- 
uals but  it  may  take  time  for  the  team  to 
become  a  real  threat  for  Conference  honors. 

The  sprinters  and  hurdlers,  especially 
Ron  Harris,  Tony  Pendleton  and  Jim 
Graves,  represent  the  team's  strength.  Also 


high  jumper  Ed  Shaughnessy  and  pole 
vaulter  John  Kamb  return.  Outstanding 
weight  man  Ed  Arcaro  is  gone  and  Barney 
Schneider  and  Gil  Sylvia,  who  set  a  new 
UMass  javelin  record  of  210'n",  will  have 
to  pick  up  the  slack.  Sophomore  Doug 
O'Connell  should  do  a  capable  job  in  the 
mile  and  two-mile  and  quarter-miler  Steve 
Levine  is  another  key  veteran. 

Swim  coach  Joe  Rogers  has  just  four  let- 
termen  back  from  last  winter's  2-10  team. 
Capt.  Herb  Schuster,  medley,  freestylers 
Dick  Blaisdell  and  Peter  Ouellette,  and 
backstroker  George  Kwiecien  will  need  a  lot 
of  help  from  the  freshman  class.  A  woeful 
lack  of  depth  has  been  a  prime  reason  for 
a  3-18  record  the  past  two  years. 

Bill  MacConnell's  ski  team  has  won  the 
New  England  title  two  straight  years  and 
three  of  the  last  four.  The  Redmen  finished 
first  in  ten  straight  league  meets  last  year 
for  the  school's  finest  ski  season. 

This  year  MacConnell  has  just  one  re- 
turning letterman,  Kurt  Syer,  to  help  defend 
the  title.  Syer  will  get  assistance  from  some 
promising  sophomores,  Tuck  Woodruff, 
David  Ferris,  Buzz  Laughlin,  Mark  Cour- 
ville  and  Wayne  Simpter.  Courville,  accord- 
ing to  MacConnell,  has  the  potential  to  be- 
come one  of  the  best  Redmen  skiers. 


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Comment  on  the 
Massachusetts  Foundation 


EVAN  V.  JOHNSTON  '50 
Executive  Vice-President 


On  the  seventh  day  of  August  1950,  Chap- 
ter 180  of  the  General  Laws  of  the  Com- 
monwealth was  signed  into  law  establishing 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  Foundation, 
Inc.,  a  "charitable,  benevolent  and  educa- 
tional" organization.  The  incorporators  were 
Alden  C.  Brett  '12,  Clarence  F.  Clark  '22, 
Dennis  M.  Crowley,  Esq.  '29,  William  L. 
Doran  '15,  George  E.  Emery  '24,  Hobart  W. 
Spring  '22,  and  Frederick  S.  Troy  '31. 

The  statements  about  the  formation  of 
this  organization  designed  to  receive  and  ad- 
minister gifts  were,  to  most  people,  less  than 
earth  shattering  and  couched  in  such  legal 
terminology  as  to  be  difficult  to  understand. 
But  to  those  who  had  worked  so  hard  for 
its  establishment,  most  of  whom  were 
alumni,  it  was  a  milestone.  The  days  of 
$1  dues  were  over.  It  was  the  dawn  of  an 
era  which  would  see  large  gifts  start  to  give 
the  University  the  kind  of  support  it  needed 
from  the  private  sector. 

Even  so,  it  was  a  slow  process.  From  1950 
to  i960  only  about  $30,000  was  in  the 
foundation's  portfolio.  In  the  last  ten  years, 
however,  its  worth  has  grown  tenfold.  And 
in  the  next  five,  it  might  multiply  by  another 
ten,  due  to  the  advent  of  a  development 
program  soon  to  be  implemented.  If  we 
were  to  add  monies  given  directly  to  Uni- 
versity trust  funds  by  alumni  during  that 
period,  the  total  would  now  be  over  two 
million  dollars. 

Great  names  in  the  University's  history 
have  been  associated  with  the  Foundation. 
The  first  Board  of  Governors  included  Van 
Meter,  Hawley,  Bartlett,  Leach,  Haigis, 
Clark,  Goldthwait,  Forest,  Lyons,  Smith  and 
Brett.  Brett  was  the  Foundation's  first  Presi- 


dent, and  Forest,  Smith,  Spring,  and  Arthur 
McCarthy  '19  served  as  his  officers.  Of 
the  alumni,  the  late  Alden  Brett,  Dennis 
Crowley,  Louis  Lyons  and  Frederick  Troy 
went  on  to  become  trustees.  Crowley  and 
Troy  still  act  in  that  capacity. 

Joe  Forest  '28  is  the  current  president, 
taking  over  this  summer  from  Charlie 
Powell  '27,  who  served  long  and  ably.  Joe 
recently  retired  as  Vice-President  of  the 
Liberty  Mutual  Insurance  Company  and 
now  devotes  quite  a  bit  of  time  to  the  Foun- 
dation. Through  many  meetings  with  coun- 
sel and  the  Vice-President  for  Development, 
Ed  Lashman,  a  whole  new  set  of  by-laws  is 
being  developed  to  realign  the  Foundation 
for  an  increasingly  important  role  in  the 
University's  future.  Tens,  even  hundreds  of 
millions  of  dollars  may  one  day  be  handled 
by  the  Foundation.  Its  scope  will  increase 
to  include  all  campuses  now  in  existence  and 
those  which  might  be  developed. 

A  lot  of  people  and  classes  have  to  be 
thanked  for  supporting  the  University  of 
Massachusetts  Foundation,  Inc.,  but  none 
more  than  those  who  founded  it  and  kept 
it  going.  These  include  present  officers  Larry 
Jones  '26,  Treasurer,  and  Wyn  Dangelmayer 
'31,  Secretary.  Much  rides  on  the  new  for- 
mat and  new  members  like  Bob  Spiller  '52 
and  Bob  Halloran  '41. 

Incidentally,  gifts  to  the  Foundation  can 
be  made  through  the  alumni  office  and  they 
are  tax  deductible. 


Joe  Forest  '28,  a  member  of  the  Foundation's 
first  Board  of  Governors,  now  serves  as  Pres- 
ident. 


26 


Club  Calendar 


JAMES  H.  ALLEN  '66 
Director  of  Alumni  Affairs 


Our  fall  season  began  on  September  17 
when  we  traveled  to  Yarmouth  for  a  Maine 
State  Alumni  Evening.  Jack  Needham  '51, 
Walt  Miles  '41  and  Dick  Davis  '28  acted  as 
hosts.  Thirty-five  State  of  Mainers  and  ten 
Massachusetts-based  alumni  gathered  at 
North  Yarmouth  Academy  where  Jack  is 
Headmaster.  A  slide  presentation  on  the 
"Growth  of  the  UMass  Amherst  Campus" 
followed  the  cocktail  party  and  buffet.  For- 
mer Chancellor  Oswald  Tippo  '32,  the  even- 
ing's speaker,  was  ably  assisted  by  Evan  V. 
Johnston,  Executive  Vice-President  of  the 
Associate  Alumni. 

On  September  25,  our  football  team 
played  (and  was  defeated  by)  a  good  Dart- 
mouth College  team.  A  cocktail  party  and 
buffet  on  the  10th  floor  of  the  Campus  Cen- 
ter followed.  Although  we  were  beaten, 
there  was  still  a  good  turnout,  and  those  in 
attendance  were  given  a  chance  to  explore 
the  Campus  Center  facilities. 

On  October  2,  the  Greater  Boston  Alumni 
Club  sponsored  a  "Gala  Cocktail  Party"  at 
the  Boston  Club  following  the  UMass-Bos- 
ton  University  football  game.  You  couldn't 
exactly  call  the  event  a  celebration  (our 
team  was  defeated),  but  three  hundred 
alumni  and  friends  were  in  attendance.  We 
may  have  all  been  drowning  our  sorrows, 
but  whatever  the  reason  we  had  a  great 
time. 

Homecoming  '71  was  held  on  October 
15-17  this  year.  As  has  been  the  case  for 
the  last  fourteen  years,  the  weather  was 
beautiful  and,  except  for  the  football  game, 
everyone  had  a  great  time.  At  the  annual 
alumni  tailgate  picnic  before  the  game,  old 
friends  gathered  over  food  and  drink  and 
the  University  of  Massachusetts  Equestrian 


Drill  Team  put  on  a  very  enjoyable  per- 
formance. Following  the  game,  the  Varsity 
M  Club  and  the  Associate  Alumni  co-hosted 
an  outdoor  cocktail  party.  Many  alumni 
(about  250-300)  thronged  the  "Beer  Tent" 
where  they  were  greeted  by  Acting  Amherst 
Chancellor  Randolph  W.  Bromery,  Univer- 
sity President  Robert  C.  Wood,  Vice  Presi- 
dent for  Development  L.  Edward  Lashman, 
and  Head  Football  Coach  Dick  MacPherson. 

Homecoming  weekend  also  marked  the 
fifth  year  reunion  of  the  Class  of  1966.  The 
Class  of  1966  was  the  late  Bernie  Dallas's 
class,  and  part  of  the  weekend's  activities 
included  the  dedication  of  the  Bernard  L. 
Dallas  Mall.  Dean  Warren  McGuirk  of  the 
School  of  Physical  Education  was  the  main 
speaker.  His  very  appropriate  remarks  were 
much  appreciated  by  those  of  us  who  knew 
Bernie. 

On  Saturday  evening,  the  class  held  its 
reunion  dinner  dance  with  about  one  hun- 
dred in  attendance.  The  meal  proved  to  be 
even  better  than  advertised,  and  an  evening 
of  dancing  and  partying  topped  off  a  very 
enjoyable  weekend.  My  thanks  to  Joanne 
Piela  '66  and  John  Parnell  '66  who  worked 
so  hard  to  help  make  this  a  successful  week- 
end. 

October  23  found  me  traveling  to  Storrs, 
Conn,  for  our  game  with  UConn,  which 
ended  in  a  tie.  That  was  far  better  than  our 
luck  on  previous  weekends.  After  the  game, 
a  cocktail  party  and  buffet  was  hosted  by 


the  UConn  alumni  office.  Many  of  those 
who  attended  this  post-game  function 
showed  an  interest  in  getting  an  alumni  club 
going  in  the  Hartford  area.  Hopefully  in  the 
next  few  months  I  will  be  able  to  follow 
through  on  plans  for  such  an  organization. 

A  notice  to  former  debaters :  if  you  would 
like  a  copy  of  the  latest  Debate  Alumni 
Newsletter,  please  write  to:  Ronald  Matlon, 
Speech  Department,  at  the  University. 

Nominations  are  now  being  accepted  for 
the  fourth  annual  Varsity  M  Club  Hall  of 
Fame.  An  athlete  must  have  graduated  at 
least  five  years  ago  in  order  to  be  eligible. 
Send  nominations  to  Varsity  M  Club,  Me- 
morial Hall,  at  the  University.  The  deadline 
is  March  1. 

Other  nominations  are  now  being  accepted 
on  campus,  but  we  hope  this  won't  become 
an  annual  event  like  the  Hall  of  Fame.  The 
search  committee  for  an  Amherst  campus 
chancellor  would  like  to  consider  any  recom- 
mendations you  might  have.  Submit  names 
to  Evan  Johnston,  c/o  the  alumni  office. 

An  alumni  club  is  being  formed  in  the 
Louisville/Indianapolis/Cincinnati  area. 
Anyone  interested  in  participating  should 
get  in  touch  with  Flora  Jacobs  Valentine  '67 
at  408  North  Preston  Street,  Crothersville, 
Indiana  47229. 

Two  reminders  before  I  sign  off.  Alumni 
Directories  are  still  available  at  $5  each. 
Send  checks  made  out  to  Associate  Alumni 
Directory  to  the  alumni  office.  And  a  final 
reminder.  If  you  are  thinking  about  joining 
us  on  our  Aloha  Carnival,  you  still  have 
time  to  get  your  reservations  in.  A  few 
spaces  are  available. 


John  Parnell,  vice-president  of  the  Class  of 
'66,  presides  at  the  dedication  of  the  Bernie 
Dallas  Mall. 


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The  Classes  Report 


The  following  information  was  received  by  the 
alumni  office  before  October  22, 1.071. 

1924 

William  Wilson  Wood,  now  retired  to  Sebas- 
topol,  California,  writes,  "Hope  to  get  back  to 
campus  sometime.  Maybe  for  the  50th  reunion. 
After  all,  it's  only  three  years  away!"  Mr. 
Wood  had  been  with  the  LaFinca  Orchards 
Company  in  Marysville  for  forty-five  years, 
serving  as  superintendent,  assistant  secretary, 
treasurer,  and  member  of  the  board  of  direc- 
tors. He  and  his  wife  Bernice  have  a  son,  two 
daughters,  and  seven  grandchildren. 

The  Thirties 

Eleanor  C.  Thatcher  '35,  having  retired  from 
her  position  at  the  Massachusetts  Correctional 
Institution  in  Framingham  last  May,  is  taking 
care  of  the  Kathryn  S.  Taylor  Greenhouse  for 
the  Massachusetts  Horticultural  Society. 

James  W.  Clapp  '36  has  been  appointed 
group  leader,  chemical  research  operations,  in 
the  research  and  development  department  of 
the  American  Cyanamid  Company's  agricul- 
tural division  in  Princeton. 

Robert  E.  Couhig  '37  operates  Asphodel — 
Restaurant,  Gift  Shop  and  Guest  Cottages  as 
well  as  Couhig  Restaway  Company  in  the 
Jackson,  Louisiana  area. 

C.  Allen  Cove  '39,  corporate  controller  of  the 
Kendell  Company  in  Boston  since  1961,  has 
been  named  a  vice-president  of  the  company. 

The  Forties 

Roy  E.  Morse  '40,  professor  of  food  science  at 
Rutgers,  recently  returned  from  a  month  in 
Ismir,  Turkey  where  he  served  as  an  advisor  on 
flour  products  and  powdered  soup  processing. 
Dr.  Morse's  trip  was  arranged  by  the  Inter- 
national Executive  Service  Corps. 

Talcott  W.  Edminster  '42  is  an  administrator 
of  the  Agricultural  Research  Service. 

Nancy  R.  Webber  '42  has  recently  accepted 
a  position  in  the  library  at  Oregon  State  Uni- 
versity. 


Sidney  Solomon  '48,  a  professor  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  New  Mexico,  was  chosen  an  Out- 
standing Educator  of  America  for  1971. 

Robert  L.  San  Soucie  '40  has  been  appointed 
president  and  chief  executive  officer  of  dlj 
Capital  Corporation,  a  subsidiary  of  Donaldson, 
Lufkin  &  Jenrette,  Inc.,  Wall  Street  investment 
bankers. 

Robert  W.  Tetrault  '49  was  promoted  to  re- 
gional accounts  manager  for  American  Bosch 
electrical  products  at  Detroit. 

Robert  M.  Thomas  '49  is  assistant  chief  of 
the  recently  opened  Mid-Manhattan  Library  of 
the  New  York  Public  Library,  New  York  City. 

1950 

Myron  L.  Atlas  is  a  vice-president  of  Frank  M. 
Cushman  Associates,  Transportation  Consul- 
tants in  Sharon.  Frank  M.  Cushman  is  a  1938 
UMass  graduate. 

John  L.  Grimes  was  appointed  vice-president 
and  general  operating  manager  of  the  Dayton 
Company,  a  Minneapolis  department  store  and 
a  division  of  the  Dayton-Hudson  Corporation. 

Dr.  Allen  H.  Keough  is  a  chemist  for  the 
Dennison  Manufacturing  Company  in  Framing- 
ham. 

Peter  Pano,  Jr.  is  manager  at  Graybar  Electric 
Company,  Inc.  in  Worcester. 

1951 

Paul  7.  Furlani  has  been  appointed  pension 
trust  administration  assistant  in  the  pension 
trust  administration  department  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 

1952 

Robert  A.  Davies,  associate  professor  of  English 
at  Pacific  University  in  Forest  Grove,  Oregon, 
has  been  elected  to  that  university's  faculty 
council. 

Daniel  R.  Porter,  III  is  director  of  the  Ohio 
Historical  Society. 

1953 

Joseph  B.  flavin,  Jr.  has  been  named  to  the 
Policyowner's  Examining  Committee  by  the 
Northwestern  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  Milwaukee.  Mr.  Flavin  is  executive  vice- 
president  of  the  Xerox  Corporation,  Stamford, 
and  had  formerly  been  controller  of  the  IBM 
World  Trade  Corporation. 


Lt.  Col.  Victor  H.  Marcotte,  usaf,  is  a  hos- 
pital administrator  at  Westover  afb. 

1954 

Marta  Mapes  Bent  is  in  Teheran,  Iran  where 
her  husband  has  been  assigned  to  the  U.S. 
Embassy. 

Robert  P.  McMahon  is  director  of  informa- 
tion services  at  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life 
Insurance  Company.  He  has  been  active  in 
the  Pioneer  Valley  United  Fund  Drive  and  has 
taught  at  the  evening  division  of  Western  New 
England  College. 

Dr.  P.  Shenian  'G  is  manager  of  a  newly 
formed  industrial  products  section  within  Gen- 
eral Electric's  laminated  products  business  de- 
partment in  Coshocton,  Ohio. 

Peter  J.  Webber,  a  B-52  aircraft  commander 
at  Loring  afb,  has  been  promoted  to  lieutenant 
colonel  in  the  Air  Force. 

1955 

Paul  F.  Cronin  is  a  senior  partner  in  the 
Hawaii  law  firm  of  Bortz,  Case,  Stack,  Kay, 
Cronin  &  Clause. 

Norman  D.  T-arwell,  as  director  of  admissions 
at  the  MacDuffie  School  for  Girls  in  Spring- 
field, will  direct  financial  aid  and  scholarship 
programs  as  well  as  being  responsible  for  ad- 
missions. He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Margaret 
W.  Saw  tell  '56,  have  four  children. 

Maj.  Cordon  L.  Tucker,  a  meteorologist,  re- 
ceived his  second  award  of  the  usaf  Com- 
mendation Medal  for  service  in  Taiwan. 

1956 

Daniel  and  Margery  Mueller  Burns  have  two 
children:  Jeremy  Michael,  born  July  5,  1968, 
and  Elizabeth  Louise,  born  November  28,  1969. 

Jordan  Chatis  is  a  district  manager  with  the 
Grant  Company  in  Massachusetts  and  Rhode 
Island.  He  and  his  wife  have  four  children: 
John,  age  9;  Nancy,  age  7;  Valerie,  age  3;  and 
Scott,  age  1. 

Robert  E.  Conroy,  a  lieutenant  colonel  in  the 
Army,  is  at  North  Carolina  State  University. 

7.  Frank  Dearness,  Jr.  is  assistant  commis- 
sioner in  the  Tennessee  Department  of  Mental 
Health. 

1957 

James  R.  Bowers  has  moved  to  North  Carolina 
where  he  is  vice-president  of  sales  at  the 


28 


Southern  Screw  Company  in  Statesville. 

Andrew  C.  Knowles,  III  is  responsible  for  all 
of  the  activities  of  the  pdp-ii  and  for  the  com- 
munications marketing  activities  of  the  Digital 
Equipment  Corporation.  He  is  married  to  the 
former  Mary  Pomposo. 

Paul  H.  McGuinness  has  been  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  Boston  Gas  sales  department. 

Dr.  John  F.  Welch,  former  general  manager 
of  General  Electric's  plastics  department,  is  the 
new  head  of  a  chemical  division  in  Pittsfield. 

1958 

Cynthia  MacKnight  Kulig  was  widowed  June 
20, 1971  when  her  husband,  Phil,  was  killed  in 
an  auto  accident.  Cindy  will  remain  in  Battle 
Creek,  Michigan  where,  with  the  help  of  her 
eight-year-old  son  Jimmy,  she  raises  and  shows 
purebred  golden  retrievers. 

John  R.  Picard  is  employed  by  the  General 
Electric  Company  in  Irvine,  California. 

1959 

Henry  H.  Hazen,  III  has  been  promoted  to  dis- 
trict ranger  of  the  Steamboat  Ranger  Station, 
Umpqua  National  Forest,  Oregon.  He  is  mar- 
ried to  the  former  Elizabeth  Langlois  '58. 

Maj.  George  D.  Kennedy  is  with  the  Air 
Force  in  Tucson. 

1960 

Robert  C.  Armstrong  was  elected  Administra- 
tive Officer  of  the  Covenant  Life  Insurance 
Company. 

Capt.  George  E.  Bradley,  Jr.,  a  space  systems 
officer,  is  on  duty  with  the  Air  Force  in  Alaska. 

Thomas  S.  Foster  is  teaching  at  Greenfield 
Community  College. 

Dr.  George  Lust  is  an  assistant  professor  at 
Cornell  University. 

James  G.  Shields  is  area  traffic  manager  for 
the  New  Jersey  Bell  Telephone  Company.  His 
wife,  the  former  Marilynn  Kolazyk  '61,  is  the 
exclusive  designer  of  "New  Dimensions,"  a 
three-dimensional  concept  for  wall  hangings 
being  marketed  nationally  by  Bucilla  of  New 
York  City.  The  couple  has  three  children. 

1961 

Cornelius  J.  Coleman  has  been  named  the  new 
assistant  district  director  of  Internal  Revenue 
for  Seattle. 

Robert  G.  Sturtevant  and  his  wife,  the  former 


Carol  L.  Worthen  '6y,  have  two  children:  Karen 
Lynn,  born  October  25, 1968,  and  Brian  Russell, 
born  March  29, 197O. 

1962 

Fred  and  Roberta  Lincoln  Bren  announced  the 
birth  of  David  Henri,  born  August  14, 1971. 
The  Brens  have  a  daughter,  Vicki  Lynn,  born 
December  27, 1968. 

Capt.  Francis  E.  Falbo,  usaf,  has  been  named 
Outstanding  Company  Grade  Officer  of  the 
Year  in  his  unit  at  McClellan  afb. 

Maj.  Paul  F.  Foley  was  awarded  a  Master  of 
Education  degree  in  counselor  education  from 
Indiana  University  last  August.  He  is  pres- 
ently with  the  Army  in  Viet  Nam. 

Lee  and  Anne  Silvia  Jezek  have  announced 
the  birth  of  Dianne  Marie,  born  May  19, 1971. 
The  Jezeks  have  two  sons:  David  Lee,  born 
May  16, 1967,  and  Daniel  Wayne,  born  May  20, 
1968. 

Charles  J.  Paydos  has  been  promoted  to 
assistant  actuary  and  officer  of  the  company  by 
the  Phoenix  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  Hartford.  Charles  recently  passed  final 
exams  to  earn  the  designation  of  Fellow  in  the 
Society  of  Actuaries. 

David  S.  Robinson  is  a  self-employed  de- 
signer for  Coach  Road  Designs  in  Amherst. 

Norman  R.  Sharp  has  been  appointed  asso- 
ciate professor  and  counseling  psychologist  at 
Shippensburg  State  College. 

Margaret  Smith,  formerly  a  personnel  repre- 
sentative with  the  General  Dynamics  Corpora- 
tion in  New  York  City,  married  John  F.  Wil- 
liamson in  November  1970.  They  spent  last 
summer  in  Morocco,  France,  Spain  and  Portu- 
gal. 

Ralph  J.  Takala,  cpa,  has  been  promoted  to 
the  position  of  manager  in  the  Hartford  office 
of  Ernst  and  Ernst,  a  cpa  and  consulting  firm. 
Ralph  and  his  wife,  the  former  Meredith  Maw- 
bey  '61,  have  two  children:  Kristin  and  Brad- 
ford. 

1963 

Virginia  Blais  Babeu  is  a  programmer  for  the 
Syracuse  University  library. 

Diane  Fuller  Bibby  is  a  teacher  in  White 
River  Junction,  Vermont. 

Barry  S.  Briss  is  practicing  orthodontics  in 
Chelmsford.  He  also  practices  and  teaches  at 
Tufts,  where  he  earned  his  dmd  degree  and  did 
postgraduate  training. 


Thomas  F.  Connolly,  an  employee  of  the 
Federal  government,  is  married  to  the  former 
Mary  Sahib  '61. 

Lt.  (s.g.)  James  H.  Donahue  is  stationed  in 
Mobile  with  the  U.S.  Coast  Guard. 

Capt.  Norman  D.  Gelfand,  usaf,  has  been 
awarded  a  master's  degree  in  business  adminis- 
tration from  Western  New  England  College 
under  the  usaf  "Operating  Bootstrap"  program. 
He  is  now  in  Taiwan  as  a  munitions  officer. 

Lester  Neale  is  employed  by  Snelling  & 
Snelling  in  Atlanta. 

Kenneth  A.  Parker  is  working  on  a  phd  in 
agricultural  education  at  Ohio  State.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Judith  Kelley,  have  a 
daughter,  Cheryl  Lynne,  born  in  September 
1968. 

Donald  L.  Quinlan  'G  received  his  doctorate 
in  educational  psychology  from  the  University 
of  Connecticut.  Following  an  extended  Euro- 
pean vacation,  he  will  resume  his  duties  as 
school  psychologist  at  the  Norwich  Free 
Academy  in  Connecticut. 

Edmund  A.  Rosenbaum  is  employed  by  the 
U.S.  Forest  Service  in  Cedarville,  California. 

Edward  F.  Spencer  is  a  dentist  in  Boston. 

1964 

Joseph  A.  DelVecchio,  formerly  a  special  as- 
sistant in  the  Office  of  Secretary  of  Transporta- 
tion John  Volpe,  is  currently  deputy  executive 
director  of  the  White  House  Conference  on 
Children  and  Youth.  He  received  his  master's 
degree  in  political  science  in  February  1971 
from  the  University  of  Maryland,  where  he  is 
now  a  doctoral  candidate. 

Robert  C.  Ellis  has  been  transferred  by  the 
Weyerhaeuser  Company  as  Indonesian  controls 
coordinator  of  a  new  operation  in  Balikpapan, 
Borneo.  He  and  his  wife  and  their  two  children, 
three-year-old  India  and  two-year-old  Laurie, 
will  be  in  Borneo  for  two  years. 

Pamela  Osborn  Fucci  is  coordinator  of  spe- 
cial benefit  programs  for  Blue  Cross-Blue  Shield 
in  Boston. 

Donald  A.  Gibbs,  an  actuarial  student  in  the 
group  pension  department  at  /Etna  Life  & 
Casualty  in  Hartford,  has  become  an  associate 
of  the  Society  of  Actuaries. 

James  M.  Kaplan  has  received  his  phd  degree 
in  French  from  the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley.  He  spent  the  past  two  years  abroad, 
first  in  Sweden  on  a  fellowship  from  the 
Swedish  government,  and  then  in  Paris,  on  a 
fellowship  from  Berkeley. 


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Arthur  Joseph  Louis  LaPeriere,  III  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Jacqueline  Doyle,  received 
master's  of  science  degrees  from  Iowa  State 
University  last  August.  His  was  in  wildlife 
biology,  hers  in  water  resources. 

Sandra  Zarvis  Milenski  received  her  ma  de- 
gree in  library  science  from  the  University  of 
Iowa  in  August  1970. 

Capt.  Mark  Nataupsky,  usaf,  has  been  trans- 
ferred to  the  University  of  Hawaii  where  he 
will  be  a  full  time  doctoral  student  in  psychol- 
ogy. In  1966  he  received  a  master's  in  psy- 
chology from  Purdue,  and  in  1970  earned  a 
Master  of  Aerospace  Operations  Management 
degree  from  use  through  a  correspondence 
course.  Mark  and  his  wife  Marilyn  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Deborah,  born  January  9, 
1971. 

Bruce  K.  Norlund  is  a  mechanical  engineer 
at  Markem  Machine  Corporation  in  Keene. 

John  D.  Peper  'G,  who  received  his  phd  de- 
gree in  geology  from  the  University  of  Roches- 
ter in  I967,  is  working  as  a  geologist  for  the 
U.S.  Geological  Survey  in  Boston.  He  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Susan  Brown  '63,  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Erik  David,  born  August 
2, 1971.  The  Pepers  have  a  daughter,  Kristin 
Amy,  born  December  18,  1969. 

Capt.  Richard  F.  Phillips  has  received  his 
second  through  fourteenth  awards  of  the  Air 
Medal  for  air  action  in  Viet  Nam. 

Dr.  William  J.  Shoemaker  received  his  phd 
degree  from  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology  last  June. 

Cordon  M.  Webb  is  a  teacher-coach  at 
Boston  State  College. 

1965 

Ann  Posner  Barowsky  is  a  utilization  review 
associate  with  Massachusetts  Blue  Cross,  Inc. 

Cornelia  Jandris  Begley  has  returned  to 
Massachusetts  after  several  years  at  Barksdale 
afb  in  Louisiana,  where  her  husband  was  a 
captain  in  photo  intelligence.  Cornelia  writes, 
"We  can't  wait  for  our  2'/2-year-old  daughter 
to  experience  her  first  real  New  England  snow 
storm.  My  husband  Tom  is  a  Colorado  native, 
so  this  will  be  his  first  New  England  winter 
too." 

Robert  and  Lois  Basilissa  Benotti  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Jay  Travis,  born  October 
13,  1970. 

Capt.  Thomas  E.  Cleland,  Jr.  has  been  deco- 
rated with  his  second  award  of  the  Distin- 
guished Flying  Cross. 


Philip  and  Susan  Palmer  Craig  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Jessica  Merryl,  born 
December  3,  1970. 

Andrew  DeToma  'G,  formerly  assistant  sec- 
retary for  news  at  Smith  College,  has  been 
named  assistant  secretary  at  Amherst  College. 

Dr.  William  A.  Green  has  joined  the  staff  of 
Dr.  John  B.  Kenson  of  Milford,  New  Hamp- 
shire, as  an  associate  in  general  dentistry. 

Michael  S.  Hawrylciw,  Jr.  received  a  master 
of  engineering  degree  from  Penn  State. 

Edward  E.  Kelley  is  a  technical  writer  in  the 
components  division  of  IBM  in  East  Fishkill, 
New  York.  Ed  is  married  to  the  former  Patricia 
A.  Reed  '66. 

Capt.  Edward  C.  Lemieux,  a  student  at  the 
Medical  Field  Service  School  at  Fort  Sam 
Houston,  received  his  third  award  of  the  Army 
Commendation  Medal. 

John  7.  Mortellite  has  been  appointed  man- 
ager, manufacturing  engineering,  for  the  safety 
products  division  of  the  American  Optical 
Corporation  in  Southbridge. 

Gail  Mandell  Nissen  is  registrar  at  the 
Roosevelt  Hospital  School  of  Nursing  in  New 
York  City. 

Keith  C.  Ross  received  an  ms  degree  in  mete- 
orology from  Penn  State. 

Capt.  Jack  N.  Singer  received  the  Air  Force 
Commendation  Medal  and  1st  Oak  Leaf  Cluster 
upon  completing  his  Air  Force  tour  of  duty. 
He  is  now  completing  a  phd  in  industrial  psy- 
chology at  Colorado  State  University. 

Leo  J.  Stanlake,  a  missile  maintenance  officer, 
has  been  promoted  to  captain  in  the  Air  Force. 

Theron  J.  Sumner  is  a  captain  in  the  Air 
Force. 

Gordon  H.  Thorner,  Jr.  has  been  named 
superintendent  in  the  personal  accounts  depart- 
ment at  the  Kansas  City  casualty  and  surety 
division  office  of  JEtna  Life  &  Casualty. 

1966 

Lewis  and  Sandra  Borden  Anderson  announce 
the  birth  of  David  James,  born  March  3,  1971. 
The  Andersons'  first  son,  Edward  Alan,  was 
born  February  28, 1969. 

Doris  Baglione,  a  teacher  in  California,  mar- 
ried T.  Stolarski  on  April  4,  1971. 

Robert  A.  Bass,  following  four  years  of  active 
duty  in  the  military,  is  a  personnel  manage- 
ment specialist  for  the  Veterans  Administration 
Hospital  in  Marion,  Indiana. 

Helen  A.  Bearse  is  a  librarian  at  the  Chelsea 
Public  Library. 


Donna  Huebel  Bogdan  works  for  the  Educa- 
tional Testing  Service  in  Princeton. 

Merrill  A.  Bookstein  is  an  attorney  for  Fields 
&  Bookstein,  in  Florida. 

Louise  A.  Brown  is  a  remedial  reading 
teacher  in  the  Boston  public  schools. 

Michael  J.  Brown  is  a  senior  programmer 
analyst  with  Security-Connecticut  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  of  Hartford.  Charlotte  Geletka 
Brown  '65  teaches  kindergarten  in  Winsted, 
Connecticut. 

John  E.  Copp  is  a  process  engineer. 

John  C.  Cunney,  III  is  assigned  to  the  u-2 
squadron  in  Tucson.  He  is  married  to  the 
former  Barbara  Collins. 

Raymond  A.  Dube  is  manager  of  the  numeri- 
cal control  ship  operations  at  General  Electric 
in  Burlington. 

James  A.  Gaffey  is  an  administrator  at  the 
Raytheon  Company  in  Wayland. 

Marcia  Muirhead  Garner  is  a  librarian  at 
Lyndon  State  College  in  Vermont. 

George  W.  Hannum  is  a  landscape  architect 
for  the  city  of  New  Haven. 

Thomas  H.  Hofman  is  a  captain  in  the  Air 
Force. 

George  R.  Ingham  is  a  candidate  for  his  phd 
degree  at  Brandeis  University. 

John  B.  Jaxheimer  is  an  account  executive  in 
advertising  for  R.  L.  Polk  &  Company  in  New 
York. 

Ann  E.  Jordan  received  her  med  in  counseling 
and  guidance  in  1969  from  Temple  University 
and  is  currently  a  medical  social  worker  at  the 
Albert  Einstein  Medical  Center  in  Philadelphia. 
On  August  21,  1971,  she  married  Kurt  Richard 
Bruhn. 

Capt.  Aris  G.  Kalpakgian  is  a  navigator  in 
the  Air  Force. 

Margaret  O'Rourke  Keane  is  a  social  planner. 

Capt.  John  N.  Komich  is  serving  in  Viet  Nam, 
with  the  Aerospace  Rescue  and  Recovery  Serv- 
ice, flying  an  HH-53  Super  Jolly  Green  Giant 
helicopter. 

Mary  Ann  Kuczynski  McDonald  and  her 
husband  Duran  have  two  children:  Jennifer, 
age  2V2,  and  Matthew,  age  3  months. 

Paul  R.  Mitchell,  md,  is  in  Oklahoma  with 
the  Indian  Health  Service,  a  division  of  the 
Public  Health  Service. 

William  J.  Morrison,  an  English  instructor 
at  Beverly  Junior  College,  is  an  editor  for  Ginn 
and  Company. 

Daria  Montanari  Plummer  received  her  mas- 
ter's degree  from  the  University  of  Connecticut 


3° 


in  August  1970  and  taught  reading  in  South 
Windsor.  She  and  her  husband  Peter  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Katherine  Elizabeth,  born 
August  31, 1971. 

Helen  Mitchell  Popp  has  been  appointed  as- 
sociate professor  of  education  and  research  and 
associate  in  education  at  Harvard. 

Lynne  Spencer  Schneider  is  in  Wiesbaden, 
West  Germany  where  her  husband  is  chief 
administrator  for  the  Office  of  Special  Investi- 
gations in  Europe. 

Capt.  John  C.  Seekings,  after  completing  a 
twelve  month  tour  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam,  is 
attending  the  Air  University  academic  instruc- 
tor course  at  Maxwell  afb. 

Leslie  Arnold  Shriberg  is  in  market  research 
with  the  Gillette  Safety  Razor  Company  in 
Boston. 

Gary  Freeman  Strniste  is  a  member  of  the 
staff  of  the  Los  Alamos  Scientific  Laboratory 
working  with  the  health  division  as  part  of  a 
postdoctoral  program. 

Elliot  Neal  Tompkins,  a  research  physicist 
for  Radiation,  Inc.,  married  Charlotte  Herzog 
on  July  31, 1971. 

Capf.  Courtney  K.  Turner,  who  has  spent  all 
of  his  second  tour  of  duty  in  Viet  Nam  in  the 
combat  zone,  was  wounded  for  the  second  time 
in  a  matter  of  months;  he  suffered  cuts  and  a 
dislocated  shoulder  when  his  tank  hit  a  mine. 

John  F.  Uretsky  is  a  purchasing  agent  for 
Morse  Shoe  in  Canton. 

Donald  A.  Walder  is  an  engineer. 

Lester  G.  Welch,  Jr.,  an  analyst  for  the  cen- 
sus bureau,  married  Louise  Koehler  on  June  12, 
1971. 

Charlotte  R.  Werlin  works  for  Shearson, 
Hammill  &  Company  in  San  Diego. 

Alexander  Woodle  is  a  program  development 
specialist  in  the  environmental  programs  office 
of  the  New  England  Regional  Commission. 

John  F.  Yunger  is  a  chemical  engineer  for 
Eastman  Kodak  in  Rochester.  On  November  27, 
1970,  he  married  Virginia  Collamer. 

1967 

Dr.  Thomas  W.  Albert  is  a  dentist  in  Brookline. 

Alan  and  Janet  Webb  Asikainen  '68  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Gregory  Alan,  born  July 
12, 1971. 

Capt.  Raymond  M.  Bennert,  after  a  tour  of 
duty  in  Viet  Nam,  has  graduated  from  the  Air 
University's  Squadron  Officer  School  at  Max- 
well afb  as  an  F-111  pilot. 


Elaine  Lucas  Berg  is  teaching  at  the  Parker 
Junior  High  School  in-Reading. 

Eloise  Chicoine,  who  married  Jean-Francois 
Briere  on  August  22,  1970,  is  teaching  at  the 
College  St.  Jeanne  D'Arc  in  Dakar,  Senegal. 

David  R.  Burnett,  who  graduated  magna  cum 
laude  last  May  from  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania School  of  Veterinary  Medicine,  is  work- 
ing for  Dr.  M.  Sidney  Mall  in  Newton.  He  and 
his  wife,  the  former  Joanne  Rogers,  have  two 
sons:  Dave,  age  3V2,  and  Peter,  age  1. 

Bruce  N.  Colby  earned  his  doctorate  in  ana- 
lytical chemistry  from  Cornell  University  and 
now  holds  a  postdoctoral  position  in  chemistry 
at  the  University  of  Illinois.  His  wife,  the 
former  Elana  Yoike,  has  a  master's  from  Cor- 
nell and  is  a  laboratory  coordinator  at  the 
University  of  Illinois. 

Alan  C.  Copithorne,  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  of  Hatfield,  received  his 
master's  degree  in  religious  studies  from  the 
Hartford  Seminary  Foundation  last  June.  He 
and  his  wife,  the  former  Rifa  Cerutti,  have 
adopted  a  son,  Eric  Alan,  born  May  20, 1971. 

Donald  R.  Courtney  is  working  in  Brookline 
and  taking  graduate  courses  in  urban  affairs  at 
Boston  University.  He  was  discharged  from  the 
Army  in  June  1970  with  the  rank  of  captain, 
and  had  earned  the  Army  Commendation 
Medal,  the  Bronze  Star,  the  Air  Medal  and  the 
Vietnam  Honor  Medal.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Carol  M.  Carcifa  '68,  have  announced 
the  birth  of  Sean  Michael,  born  April  20,  1971. 
The  Courtneys  have  a  daughter,  Christine 
Marie,  who  is  two  years  old. 

Frances  L.  Duncan,  advertising  production 
supervisor  at  Ginn  &  Company  in  Lexington, 
married  Richard  Gregor  on  May  3,  1969. 

Staff  Sergeant  Robert  N.  Durbin,  an  inven- 
tory management  specialist  in  the  Air  Force, 
was  named  Outstanding  Airman  of  the  Quarter 
in  his  unit. 

Capf.  Edward  W .  Feeley,  Jr.,  a  pilot,  is  on 
temporary  duty  in  Germany. 

Ronald  E.  Foley,  Jr.,  who  received- his  cpa 
certificate  in  August,  is  employed  by  Whittlesey 
and  Hadley,  a  Hartford  cpa  firm.  He  and  his 
wife,  the  former  Patricia  Ryder  '66,  have  two 
children. 

David  G.  Gibbs  is  with  Saga  Food  Service  at 
the  University  of  Vermont.  He  and  his  wife,  the 
former  Donna  Leach,  have  a  son,  Gregory 
Gardner,  born  July  14,  1970. 

Suzanne  Hopkins  received  her  master's  in 
education  from  Boston  State  College  in  May 


and  spent  the  summer  as  a  guidance  counselor 
for  a  kindergarten  readiness  program  in  Wal- 
pole.  She  is  presently  teaching  in  a  sixth  grade 
team  teaching  program,  also  in  Walpole. 

Robert  A.  Kindness  is  an  underwriter  for  the 
U.S.  Fidelity  and  Guarantee  Insurance  Com- 
pany in  Springfield.  Faith  Dickhaut  Kindness  is 
an  art  teacher  in  the  Chicopee  junior  high  and 
middle  schools. 

Alice  Louise  Lilly,  director  of  recreation  for 
the  city  of  Norwich,  is  married  to  .Robert  John 
O'Donovan. 

Wayne  D.  Lyford  and  his  wife,  the  former 
Susan  L.  Barrett,  are  teaching  at  Brattleboro 
Union  High  School.  The  Lyfords  have  a  son, 
Scott  Douglas,  born  December  22, 1970. 

Bruce  F.  MacCombie  received  his  phd  degree 
in  music  from  the  University  of  Iowa  last 
August. 

Dr.  Frederic  Mackler,  who  received  his  dmd 
degree  from  Tufts  University,  is  a  captain  in 
the  Air  Force  doing  an  internship  at  the  usaf 
Medical  Center  at  Lackland  afb.  He  is  married 
to  the  former  Susan  Bernstein  '68. 

Philip  Main  is  a  mechanical  engineer  at 
Union  Carbide  Corporation  in  Niagara  Falls. 
He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Carol  Degnan, 
have  announced  the  birth  of  Jennifer  Lynn, 
born  January  9, 1971. 

Walter  F.  Malcolm,  Jr.  is  a  student  at  the 
UMass  Graduate  School  of  Business. 

Dr.  Nina  L.  Marable  'G  is  a  professor  at  Vir- 
ginia Polytechnic  Institute  in  Blacksburg,  Vir- 
ginia. 

Richard  B.  Schinoff,  formerly  assistant  dean 
of  student  affairs  at  Miami-Dade  Junior  College 
in  Florida,  has  been  appointed  executive  assist 
ant  to  the  vice-president  at  Miami-Dade. 

Robert  P.  Scott,  a  systems  analyst  with  the 
Department  of  Defense,  was  named  recipient  of 
an  mba  fellowship  at  the  George  Washington 
University.  He  and  his  wife,  the  former  Donna 
Brumm  '69,  have  two  children. 

Capt.  James  E.  Stewart,  who  has  served  in 
Viet  Nam  and  Thailand,  married  Patricia  L. 
Flaherty  on  April  16,  1971.  Capt.  Stewart  has 
been  decorated  with  the  Distinguished  Flying 
Cross  and  seven  awards  of  the  Air  Medal. 

Gene  C.  Studlien,  a  software  engineer  at  the 
medical  electronics  division  of  the  Hewlett- 
Packard  Company  in  Waltham,  received  his  MS 
degree  in  computer  science  from  Cornell  Uni- 
versity last  June.  In  September  1970  he  married 
Susan  Tillman. 


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Richard  Tobacco  received  a  master's  of  en- 
gineering degree  from  Rensselaer  Polytechnic 
Institute  in  1968  and  is  presently  a  senior  asso- 
ciate engineer  at  IBM  in  New  York.  His  wife,  the 
former  Susan  O'Connor  '68,  has  completed  re- 
quirements for  an  ms  in  English  education  at 
suny  and  teaches  English  in  the  Arlington  Cen- 
tral School  District. 

Flora  Jacobs  Valentine  is  a  guidance  counselor 
at  Jennings  County  High  School  in  Indiana. 

Lawrence  J.  Wilker  is  teaching  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Delaware.  The  Wilkers'  son  was  born 
last  June. 

Dr.  Paul  R.  Wozniak  'C  is  an  associate  pro- 
fessor of  sociology  at  Western  Kentucky  Uni- 
versity. 

1968 

:  Sandra  J.  Beaton  is  training  and  supervising 
I  students  working  at  the  University  of  Michigan 
I  library.  On  June  27, 1970,  she  married  Joseph 
Finnerty. 

Stephen  C.  Bitgood  received  a  master's  degree 
in  psychology  from  the  University  of  Iowa  in 
August  1970. 

Emile  A.  DesRoches,  an  information  officer, 
1  has  been  promoted  to  captain  in  the  Air  Force. 
Andrew  F.  Cori,  employed  in  General  Elec- 
il  trie's  large  steam  turbine  department  in  Sche- 
nectady, and  his  wife,  the  former  Diane  Mc- 
I  Cobb  '6g,  toured  Europe  this  summer.  Diane  is 
■■  an  English  teacher  at  LaSalle  Institute. 

Lt.  Col.  Miller  Craf  'G  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Air  Force's  advanced  course  for  communica- 
tions electronics  officers. 

Paula  F.  Halprin  is  a  medical  technologist  at 
Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital  in  Boston. 

Claudia  Dembski  Hawley  is  a  clinical  audiol- 
ogist  at  the  University  of  Minnesota  Hospital 
in  Minneapolis. 

Ellen  Palmer,  who  married  Aaron  Kischel  on 
April  4, 1971,  is  teaching  in  Rockland. 

Albert  M.  Klein  is  doing  graduate  work  in 
computer  science  and  his  wife,  the  former 

(Barbara  Block  '67,  is  a  teacher. 
John  J.  Kliska,  Jr.,  after  thirteen  months  of 
'  active  duty  with  the  Army  in  South  Korea,  has 
returned  to  the  States  with  a  promotion  to  cap- 
tain. 

David  L.  Knowlton  is  an  administrator  in  the 
office  of  the  dean  of  students  at  Ithaca  College. 

Carl  P.  LaPoint,  an  employee  of  the  Glen 
Cove  School  System  on  Long  Island,  received 
his  ms  degree  from  Columbia  University  and  is 
;now  enrolled  in  a  doctoral  program  at  Fordham. 


On  August  28,  1971,  he  married  Sharon  Ann 
Boyle. 

i/Lf.  David  W.  McElwey,  a  bioenvironmental 
engineer,  graduated  from  the  Air  University's 
Squadron  Officer  School  at  Maxwell  afb. 

Stephen  M.  Moss  has  been  promoted  to  ser- 
geant in  the  Air  Force. 

Lorraine  Evans  Pacocha  is  a  school  teacher 
in  California. 

Sgt.  Lawrence  Paolino,  an  education  and 
training  specialist,  is  stationed  with  the  Air 
Force  in  Korea. 

Kim  R.  Santerre,  an  administrative  officer, 
has  been  promoted  to  captain  in  the  Air  Force. 

l/Lt.  Kenneth  R.  Smith,  Jr.,  a  transportation 
officer,  is  serving  with  the  Air  Force  in  Thai- 
land. 

Alan  S.  Task  is  a  teacher  at  the  Wildwood 
Elementary  School  in  Amherst.  His  wife,  the 
former  Jill  MacDonald,  was  recently  honorably 
discharged  after  two  years  in  the  Army  Nurse 
Corps.  The  couple  has  a  one-year-old  son, 
Bryon  Scott. 

Carol  L.  Van  Nostrand  'G  is  an  instructor  in 
music  at  Luther  College  in  Iowa. 

Joyce  Sarat  White,  a  counselor  for  seventh 
and  eighth  graders  in  Cumberland,  Maine,  re- 
ceived a  master's  degree  from  Columbia  in 
1969. 

Gerald  F.  Wood  is  a  design  engineer  for  the 
Link  Group,  a  division  of  the  Singer  Company. 
He  is  married  to  the  former  Barbara  Rayner  '67. 

Robert  S.  Zielinski,  a  weapons  controller,  has 
been  promoted  to  captain  in  the  Air  Force. 

1969 

Christine  Peterson  Baker  is  teaching  in  Holyoke 
at  the  Sullivan  School. 

Colin  Battle  'G  is  an  accountant. 

Lonnie  and  Patricia  Hatfield  Brunini  have  an- 
nounced the  birth  of  Katey  Anne,  born  March 
19,  1971. 

James  H.  Chaney,  an  inventory  management 
specialist,  has  been  promoted  to  sergeant  in  the 
Air  Force. 

Shari  Nanartonis  Conover  is  buyer  and  man- 
ager of  the  ladies  department  at  the  House  of 
Walsh  in  Amherst. 

Glenn  Cummins  is  a  biology  teacher  and 
wrestling  coach  at  Hollywood  Hills  High  School 
in  Florida.  His  wife,  the  former  Linda  Bowman, 
teachers  physical  education  and  is  the  gymnas- 
tics coach  at  Miramar  High  School. 

Paul  B.  Duby,  a  data  systems  specialist  at 
Duluth  International  Airport  in  Minnesota,  has 


been  promoted  to  sergeant  in  the  Air  Force.  He 
is  married  to  the  former  Betty  Deane. 

Steven  B.  Finer  is  a  phd  candidate  and  teach- 
ing fellow  at  Boston  University. 

Dr.  Elizabeth  Fosket  'G  is  with  the  depart- 
ment of  developmental  and  cell  biology  at  the 
University  of  California's  Irvine  campus. 

Mary  Ann  Beecher  Gilbert  'G  is  a  research 
associate  for  Colby  College. 

Rosalie  Giordano,  a  social  worker,  married 
J.  M.  Cuticchia  on  September  26, 1970. 

Claudia  Shim  Harvey  is  a  fourth  grade 
teacher  at  the  Northwest  Elementary  School  in 
Leominster. 

Carolyn  Keeler,  a  third  grade  teacher  in  Sa- 
lem, married  Erik  Maartmann-Moe  in  August 
1970. 

Thomas  F.  Limero  teaches  chemistry  at  the 
Fairfield  University  Preparatory  School  in  Con- 
necticut, and  his  wife,  the  former  Lorraine  E. 
Balch,  is  working  in  public  relations  at  the  uni- 
versity. 

Cynthia  Ellen  Lindahl  spent  thirteen  months 
in  Viet  Nam  as  head  nurse  of  the  Army  Nurse 
Corps'  intensive  care  unit.  She  received  the 
Bronze  Star  for  her  service.  On  May  19, 1971, 
she  married  Edmund  J.  Virusky,  Jr. 

Thomas  Guy  Musco,  an  employee  of  Rural 
Housing  in  Suffolk,  married  Judith  H.  Jenkins 
'70  on  August  30,  1970. 

Eugene  C.  Paltrineri  is  a  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Air  Force  being  trained  as  a  pilot. 

2/Lt.  Thomas  L.  Paradis,  a  supply  manage- 
ment officer,  is  serving  in  Thailand  with  the  Air 
Force. 

David  Pickwick  and  his  wife,  the  former  Gail 
Lord  '66,  have  a  son,  Michael  David,  born 
May  12, 1970. 

Jay  A.  Raney  is  a  graduate  student  in  geology 
at  the  University  of  Texas.  Anne  Baker  Raney 
is  a  graduate  student  in  special  education. 

Cynthia  L.  Rosenfield,  who  is  working  on  a 
master's  in  speech  pathology  at  San  Jose  State 
College,  married  Hal  Daner  on  June  14, 1970. 

Capf.  Stanley  D.  Russell  is  stationed  in 
Hawaii  with  the  Army. 

Airman  Robert  A.  Scarfa  is  being  trained  as 
an  education  and  training  specialist. 

Nancy  Sheehan  is  at  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin, Madison,  where  she  is  a  teaching  assist- 
ant and  a  candidate  for  a  master's  degree  in 
child  development. 

Paul  and  Enid  Salamoff  Silverman  are  in  Ma- 
laysia with  the  Peace  Corps.  He  is  working  in 
rural  development,  she  in  home  economics. 


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l/Lt.  Robert  M.  Soffer  and  Doreen  J.  Manin 
'71  were  married  on  April  3, 1971.  Doreen  is 
teaching  second  grade  at  Marcy  Elementary 
School  in  New  York. 

Arthur  F.  Stuart,  Jr.  is  a  salesman  for  Allied 
Plywood  in  Charlestown.  His  wife,  the  former 
Holly  J.  Smith,  is  an  accountant  at  the  Guar- 
anty Bank  and  Trust  Company  in  Worcester. 

Irene  Frizado  Uejio  is  an  epda  fellow  at  the 
University  of  Hawaii. 

Kathleen  Sullivan  Ward  is  a  fashion  retailing 
teacher  at  Essex  Technical  Institute  in  Danvers. 

Austin  and  Bonnie  Loesser  Zipeto  '68  have 
announced  the  birth  of  Leigh  Stephanie,  born 
April  5, 1971. 

1970 

Carl  S.  Albro  is  working  for  his  master's  degree 
at  mit  and  the  Woods  Hole  Oceanographic  In- 
stitute. He  is  married  to  the  former  Donna 
Hamblett,  a  nurse  at  the  Visiting  Nurses  Asso- 
ciation in  Falmouth. 

John  D.  Balling  'C,  a  phd  candidate  in  psy- 
chology at  UMass,  married  Eleanor  M.  Skinner 
on  June  13,  1970.  Eleanor  is  the  Five  College 
Fellow  at  the  Five  College  Coordinator's  office. 

Stanley  J.  Baran  received  a  master's  degree  in 
journalism  from  Penn  State. 

Rosalind  M.  Barbacki,  a  teacher  in  the  West- 
field  school  system,  married  William  S.  Brezin- 
ski  on  August  22,  1970. 

Elaine  J.  Canter,  an  administrative  assistant 
for  Hinkel-Hofmann  in  Pittsburgh,  married 
Gerald  M.  Barron  on  July  12, 1970. 

2/Lt.  Robert  S.  Carley,  usaf,  is  with  a  unit  of 
the  Tactical  Air  Command. 

Dr.  Loren  W.  Cheney  'G  is  assistant  dean  for 
residence  halls  at  Rhode  Island  College. 

Gerald  Chenoweth  is  a  junior  faculty  mem- 
ber at  UMass  and  his  wife,  the  former  Jeanne 
Lyman,  teaches  music  in  Montague. 

Marilyn  Hass  Clark  is  employed  by  Early 
Achievement  Center,  Inc.  in  San  Diego. 

James  D.  Collins,  a  teacher,  is  married  to 
Johanna  M.  Hayes. 

Dennis  Couture  is  employed  by  the  depart- 
ment of  city  planning  in  Roanoke. 

Karen  Emprimo,  an  elementary  school 
teacher,  married  Charles  F.  Ketchen  on  June  27, 
1970. 

David  Kenneth  Forbes  is  an  industrial  engi- 
neer in  the  Air  Force. 

Elaine  Peterson  Foster  is  teaching  French  at 
the  Belmont  High  School  in  New  Hampshire. 

Myra  Garber,  a  radiological  biologist  at  the 


Mayo  Clinic  in  Rochester,  Minnesota,  married 
Jonathan  M.  Levy  on  August  30, 1970. 

Patrica  A.  Gardner  is  a  graduate  student  at 
UMass. 

Jacqueline  Girouard  Gloutak  is  teaching  at 
Holyoke  High  School. 

Johnette  Utsumi  Harris  is  a  computer  pro- 
grammer at  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  In- 
surance Company  in  Springfield. 

Helene  Hass,  a  substitute  teacher  in  East- 
hampton,  married  Steven  D.  Holmes  on  Octo- 
ber 10, 1970. 

Jane  Wildes  Jeter  is  a  science  teacher  at  the 
Memorial  School  in  Union  Beach,  New  Jersey. 

2/Lt.  Brian  J.  Krutka,  as  a  space  systems  ana- 
lyst at  the  norad  Space  Defense  Center,  helped 
to  prevent  the  collision  of  the  Apollo  15  astro- 
nauts with  other  space  traffic  during  their  lunar 
landing  mission. 

Robert  B.  McKay  and  Ellen  Robinson  '68  are 
married.  Ellen  is  a  math  instructor  at  Northam- 
ton  Junior  College. 

Kathleen  A.  Medeiros,  a  fifth  grade  teacher  at 
the  Immaculate  Conception  School  in  Taunton, 
married  Michael  J.  Cronan  on  June  20,  1970. 

2/Lt.  Warren  T.  Mills  is  a  navigator  with  a 
unit  of  the  Tactical  Air  Command. 

Diane  Oestmann  Rankin  is  a  graduate  assist- 
ant in  music  at  Mankato  St.  College,  Mankato, 
Minnesota. 

Michael  John  Roh  is  a  graduate  student  at 
the  University  of  South  Carolina. 

David  J.  Schlatka  is  a  Navy  engineer.  He  is 
married  to  the  former  Linda  E.  Bickford. 

Alice  Duesing  Sloan  is  teaching  in  the  Pitts- 
field  public  schools. 

Dana  M.  Sroka,  a  medical  technologist  at  the 
Franklin  County  Public  Hospital  in  Greenfield, 
married  Michael  Marchand  on  August  14,  1971. 

Paul  J.  Stonely  received  an  med  degree  in 
counselor  education  from  Penn  State. 

Sandra  Trowbridge,  a  French  teacher,  mar- 
ried Robert  L.  Tatro  on  August  29, 1970. 

Irene  Chien  Wang  'G  is  a  research  associate 
at  Michigan  State  University. 

Sandra  Richards  Wood  is  an  electric  living 
specialist  with  the  Carolina  Power  and  Light 
Company  in  Jacksonville,  North  Carolina. 

1971 

Allan  W.  Blair  married  Sheila  Drotter  '70  on 
May  22,  1971.  Sheila  is  an  employment  coun- 
selor for  the  State  of  Massachusetts  working  in 
Springfield. 

Donald  R.  Pontes  married  Patricia  J.  Men- 


zigian  '70,  a  teacher  in  the  Haverhill  public 
schools,  on  June  26, 1971. 

Charles  S.  Miles,  a  sixth  grade  teacher  in 
Brimfield,  married  Paula  L.  Joyal  '69,  a  second 
grade  teacher  in  Belchertown,  on  July  11, 1970. 

Robert  C.  Parsons  and  June  E.  Carter  '70  are 
married.  June  works  as  a  bank  teller. 

Marriages 

Natalie  A.  Palk  '51  to  George  W.  Wheeler,  Au- 
gust 14,  1971.  John  B.  Walsh  '57  to  Helen  V.  : 
Eaton  '71.  Ronald  A.  Lane  '62  to  Judith  L.  Man- 
dell  '63.  Elaine  A.  Alarie  '64  to  John  A.  Helm. 
Thomas  G.  Miner  '65  to  Sandra  Marchetti  '66. 
Linda  F.  Wood  '65  to  Thomas  J.  Geoghegan.  Lil- 
lian E.  Chivas  '66  to  Larry  Meade.  Joyce  L. 
Lodico  '66  to  Robert  Canning.  Lorraine  Osborn 
'66  to  Kenneth  E.  DeConti.  Marcia  J.  Soule  '66 
to  Anthony  Behm.  Gail  B.  Cheney  '67  to  Ber- 
nard F.  McCabe,  August  24,  1968.  Bettye  M. 
Halbert  '67  to  Edward  G.  Stanley.  Jackson  Jo- 
Cheng  Jen  '67G  to  Maria  Ko-Chih  Cheng  '67G. 
Susan  B.  Kitchenka  '67  to  Steve  A.  Clasby,  Jan- 
uary 23,  1971.  Sally  F.  Kyle  '67  to  Bruce  J.  Mil- 
ler. Linda  Cole  Newton  '67  to  Christopher  J. 
Young,  June  26, 1970.  Mary  A.  Buck  '68  to  Mr. 
Ness.  Constance  L.  Gizienski  '68  to  David  W. 
King.  Shirley  Goldberg  '68  to  Alan  Levitz.  Mary 
E.  Harrigan  '68  to  Mr.  Neyhard.  Barbara  E. 
Leary  '68  to  Arthur  Dion,  October  29,  1971. 
Diane  M.  Salomon  '68  to  Jerry  A.  Salmanson, 
April  9, 1971.  Paul  E.  Sendak  '68G  to  Carol 
Burke  '67.  Barbara  1.  Berkowitz  '69  to  Leon  Hol-i 
leb,  June  20,  1970.  Sally  E.  Bulpitt  '6gG  to  Mr. 
Padhi.  Emily  Ruth  Carron  '6g  to  John  C.  Green, 
June  26,  1970.  Barbara  L.  Deimling  '69  to  Mr. 
Hawes.  Alan  F.  Ewing  '69  to  Bonita  J.  Van 
Arkel,  June  26, 1971.  Paul  K.  Gately  '69  to  Pa- 
trica A.  O'Nell  '69.  Geraldine  Hanney  '69  to 
Stephen  D.  Cope.  Ann  W.  Jackson  '69  to  James 
Sherrington,  III,  October  3,  1970.  Marilyn 
Morel  '69  to  Mr.  O'Connor.  Mary  Arnone  '70 
to  Randall  L.  Berman.  Charles  C.  Burr  '70  to 
Mary  E.  Carroll  '70.  Dale  M.  Cashman  '70 
to  Mr.  Curran.  Judith  S.  Creeger  '70  to  James  R. 
Bates.  Wilbur  R.  Everett,  111  '70  to  Linda  Lee 
Stevens  '71.  Thomas  H.  Gale,  Jr.  '70  to  Donna 
Carol  Foehr  '69.  Barbara  Anne  Goldman  '70  to 
Steven  J.  Gilbert.  Mary  J.  Madden  '70  to  Mr. 
LaFerriere.  Kathryn  M.  McKnight  '70  to  Dale 
A.  Pope.  Paula  Mlynarczyk  '70  to  Mr.  Clebnik. 
Karen  W.  Nylund  '70  to  Mr.  Halvorson.  Eliza- 
beth E.  Rodgers  '70  to  Ronald  E.  Moyer,  June 
12, 1971.  Linda  M.  Runnals  '70  to  Richard  G. 
Gurnon,  June  13,  1970.  Anita  M.  Rusokovitch 


'yo  to  Mr.  Karcher.  Eudora  Shaw  'yo  to  Arthur 
Coti.  John  P.  Shyavitz  'yo  to  AUene  B.  Bass  'yo. 
Barry  Spunt  'yo  to  Stephanie  Ellen  Kendall  'yo, 
October  25, 1970.  Barbara  J.  Tushin  'yo  to  War- 
ren Dow,  September  7,  1970.  Kathleen  M.  Wil- 
lis 'yo  to  John  S.  Edmund.  Patricia  A.  Lempart 
'yi  to  William  O.  Collins,  III. 

Deaths 

Albert  Parsons  '03  died  September  23,  1971.  A 
dairy  farmer  all  his  life,  he  had  lived  in  North 
Amherst  and  served  the  town  as  selectman  and 
cemetery  commissioner.  He  was  clerk  of  the 
North  Congregational  Church  for  thirty-one 
years,  Sunday  School  superintendent,  and  a 
deacon.  A  member  and  former  president  of  the 
Amherst  Golden  Age  Club,  he  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Hampshire  County  Farm  Bureau.  Mr. 
Parsons  was  a  loyal  alumnus  and  a  consistent 
supporter  of  the  University.  Three  children,  a 
brother,  a  sister,  nine  grandchildren,  and  three 
great-grandchildren  survive  him. 

Harold  C.  Hyde  '1;  of  Warren,  Ohio,  died  of  a 
heart  attack  on  August  2, 1971.  He  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  three  daughters,  two  sisters,  seven 
grandchildren,  and  five  great-grandchildren. 

Wendell  F.  Smith  '19  died  September  30, 1971 
after  a  long  illness.  An  Army  veteran  of  World 
War  I,  he  attended  bu  and  Harvard  graduate 
schools  and  taught  at  Newton  High  School  for 
eight  years  before  joining  the  Brookline  High 
School  staff  in  1930.  He  retired  in  1965,  having 
served  as  head  of  the  school's  adult  education 
program  as  well  as  teaching  history.  Mr.  Smith 
was  a  member  of  the  Federated  Church  of 
Hyannis  and  a  member  and  former  secretary 
of  the  Retired  Men's  Club  of  Hyannis.  His 
wife  Miriam,  two  children,  and  three  grand- 
children survive  him. 

Earle  S.  Leonard  '22  died  November  9,  1970. 

Philip  W.  Kimball  '31  died  September  18, 1971. 
He  had  been  a  representative  for  the  Toledo 
Scale  Company  for  twenty-two  years,  and  then 
for  the  Hobart  Sales  and  Service  Agency  for 
three  years.  A  World  War  II  veteran,  he  served 
with  the  Americal  Division  on  Guadalcanal  and 
was  awarded  the  Bronze  Star,  the  Asiatic-Pa- 
cific Service  Medal,  and  the  Distinguished  Unit 
Badge.  Mr.  Kimball  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
three  sons,  three  brothers,  and  a  grandchild. 

Ofi's  Henry  Hanslick  '32  of  Groton  died  Sep- 
tember 16, 1971  after  being  in  failing  health  for 
seven  years.  During  World  War  II,  he  had 


served  in  the  Pacific  with  the  American  Red 
Cross.  Mr.  Hanslick  had  attended  Tufts  Uni- 
versity, and  during  his  career  he  worked  for 
several  newspapers:  the  Norwich  Bulletin,  the 
former  New  London  Life,  and  the  former  Jewett 
City  Star.  A  member  of  the  Groton  Lions  Club 
and  the  Armed  Forces  Writers  League,  he  is 
survived  by  his  wife  Edna,  a  daughter,  a 
brother,  and  three  grandsons. 

Louis  A.  Breault,  Jr.  '37,  a  retired  Army  colonel, 
died  September  29, 1971  after  a  tractor  accident. 
Former  press  aide  and  public  affairs  adviser  to 
Army  Chief  of  Staff  Gen.  W.  C.  Westmoreland, 
Col.  Breault  retired  last  April  after  twenty-five 
years  of  military  service,  including  twenty-one 
years  as  a  career  Army  information  specialist. 
After  World  War  II,  he  wrote  and  edited  radio 
programs  for  stations  in  Dallas  and  Beaumont, 
Texas,  until  recalled  to  active  duty  for  the  Ko- 
rean War.  During  that  conflict,  he  was  the  chief 
spokesman  for  combat  operations  involving 
United  States  forces.  From  1950  until  he  retired, 
Col.  Breault  held  public  affairs  positions  with 
the  Army  in  Korea,  West  Germany,  Berlin, 
South  Viet  Nam,  and  the  United  States.  He  also 
served  as  information  officer  for  the  101st  Air- 
borne Division  during  the  Little  Rock  school 
integration  crisis.  In  1969  he  was  assigned  to 
the  Pentagon,  where  he  wrote  speeches  and 
planned  news  conferences  for  Gen.  Westmore- 
land. Col.  Breault  received  the  Bronze  Star,  the 
Army  Commendation  Medal,  the  Parachutist 
Badge,  and  several  foreign  decorations.  His 
wife,  two  daughters,  his  mother  and  a  sister 
survive  him. 

Clement  F.  Burr  '41  died  September  26, 1971  of 
a  heart  attack  while  bicycling.  He  had  been  re- 
gional manager  for  Kerr-McGee  Chemical 
Company  for  fifteen  of  his  twenty-five  years 
with  the  company.  Mr.  Burr  had  served  in  Ice- 
land and  Italy  with  the  Army  Air  Corps,  and 
was  discharged  in  1947  with  the  rank  of  major. 
A  member  of  the  Franklin  Harvest  Club  and 
the  Southampton  School  Committee,  he  also 
served  on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Three 
County  Fair.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  mother, 
two  children,  and  a  brother. 

Dr.  Charles  Lloyd  Warner  '43  died  August  31, 
1971. 

Benjamin  S.  Keyes,  Jr.  '45S  died  recently.  His 
wife,  the  former  Jean  Swenson  '47,  and  three 
children  survive  him. 

Charles  H.  Maines  '56  died  July  31, 1971  in 
California,  where  he  was  associate  manager  of 


the  mechanical  engineering  department  of  Me- 
chanics Research,  Inc.,  a  Los  Angeles  firm.  Mr. 
Maines  had  worked  for  North  American  Avia- 
tion in  Columbus,  Ohio,  for  ten  years,  and  the 
Aerospace  Corporation  in  El  Segundo,  Califor- 
nia, for  two  years.  In  1963  he  received  his 
master's  in  structural  engineering  from  Ohio 
State.  His  wife  Patricia,  four  children,  two  sis- 
ters and  a  nephew  survive  him. 

Corrections 

Melbourne  C.  Fisher  III  '6y  did  not  die,  as  re- 
ported in  the  last  issue  of  The  Alumnus. 

Catherine  Bradbury  '69  is  married  to  David 
Luther,  not  a  Mr.  Horowitz  as  previously  re- 
ported. 


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