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Homecoming '83 will feature - in addition to traditional Homecoming activities
- Health
Care in
the Year 2000 - a series of seminars examining four
major topics
in health
care.
Health Care in the Year 2000:
How Can America Afford the Health Care
It Can Deliver?
* A New Look at a Comparison of Health Care
in the United States and Canada
** Effects
Health Care and American Business
of Consumerism
Academic Values in a Changing Environment
Undergraduate and Graduate Years: Required
Science and a Liberal Education
The New Biology and the Future of Medical
Education
*
*
Traditional Homecoming Activities:
Bioethics
*
Medicine, Law and the Public The 1983 Polcyn Lecture
Given by Robert M. Veatch, the Joseph
and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics,
Georgetown University
Biological-Medical Direction for the 21st Century
New Approaches to Cancer, Heart Disease
and Stroke
*
* The Global Vision: Health Care in the Year 2000
* Healing and Belief: Faith in the Physician,
Faith in the Art, and Faith in the Divine
Following the health cace seminaHall of Fame Dinne,, Autumnfest luncheon, Homecoming Dinne, and Dance, and Reunion, fo, the Cla.s,e,
of 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, and 1983. Plus College Olympie, with something fm
eve,yone from a basketball foul shooting contest to chess and bddge tournaments. Turn the page fo, a complete
schedule. And be sure to fill out the registration form at the back.
Health Care in the Year 2000 -
November 9-11
A series of nine seminars* examining four major topics in health care.
The seminars are open to health care professionals as well as alumni of Franklin & Marshall College.
Seminar V:
Wednesday, November 9
How Can America Afford the Health Care It Can Deliver?
Seminar I:
12 noon-2 p.m.
A New Look at a Comparison of the Health Care Systems
in the United States and Canada: An examination of
Canada's socialized medicine with the medical system of
the United States.
Speakers:
Leonard Bachman, M.D. '46
Medical Director , National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration on detail from
U.S. Public Health Service.
Former Secretary of Health for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1974-79).
Jay R. Shapiro, M.D. '53
Director of Prall Diagnostic Clinic,
Tufts New England Medical Center.
Speaker<:
Moderator:
Howard Kaye, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology.
3-5 p.m.
Health Care and American Business: The influence of
business and insurance companies on the health care
available.
Moderator:
Carl B. Myers, M.D. '49
Corporate Medical Director, P.P.G. Industries, Inc.
David King, Ph.D., Professor of Biology.
Bioethics
Seminar VI:
4-6 p.m. - The 1983 Polcyn Lecture
Medicine, Law and the Public: Who should have a voice
and how should they be weighed?
Speaker:
Moderator:
Speakers:
William S. Haubrich, M.D. '43
Head of the Division of Gastroenterology
The Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Richard W. Hill, M.D. '49
Hematology and Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Robert E. Iffert '52
Assistant Director, U.S. General Accounting
Office; Health Care Financing Advisor.
Seminar II:
1-3 p.m.
The New Biology and the Future of Medical Education
- With an increasing emphasis on specialization (both
in research and equipment), are we sacrificing a holistic
vision of humankind?
7 p.m. -
Robert M. Veatch
The Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of
Ethics Georgetown University
Luther Binkley, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy .
Dinner to honor Health Care Graduates.
Friday, November 11
Biological-Medical Direction for the 21st Century
Seminar VII :
Andrew M. Rouse '49
Executive Vice President, CIGNA Corp.
9-11 a.m.
New Approaches to Cancer, Heart Disease, and Stroke.
Moderator:
C. Alan Bruns, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics.
John T. Atlee, Ill, M.D. '63
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology,
University of Wisconsin
Seminar Ill:
7-9 p.m.
The Effects of Consumerism: The role of the individual
in health care delivery.
Warren P. Goldburgh, M.D. '48
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of
Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital.
Speakers:
Leonard Bachman, M.D. '46
Medical Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on detail from
Public Health Service.
Former Secretary of Health, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania (1974-79).
Earl B. Herr, Ph .D. '48 (To be confirmed .)
President and Board of Directors, Eli Lilly
and Co .
Moderator:
Michael Verlin, M.D., F.A .C. P . '63
Hematology and Medical Oncology, Tampa,
Florida.
Moderator:
Charles Francos, M.D. '44, College Physician.
Seminar VIII:
1-3 p .m.
The Global Vision: Health Care for All in the Year 2000.
Speaker:
Austin Rich , Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry.
Thursday, November 10
Academic Values in a Changing Environment: The education of our
physicians.
Seminar IV:
Speakers:
9-11 a.m .
The Undergraduate and Graduate Years: Required
Science and a Liberal Education - Are we placing too
much emphasis on the sciences and neglecting a liberal
education?
Speakers:
Marc Peters-Golden, M.D. '74
Internist, Fellow in Pulmonary Medicine
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
James Rust, Jr., Ph.D. '54
Regional Advisor for Pan Am Health
Organization of the World H ealth
Organization.
Moderator :
James Darlington , Ph.D. '30, Emeritus Professor of
Biology.
Seminar IX:
4-6 p.m.
Healing and Belief: Faith in the Physician, Faith in the
Art, and Faith in the Divine.
Speaker:
Moderator :
The Reverend Robert L. Bayler '56
Vice President , Religion and Health,
Evangelical Hospital Association, Oak
Brook, Illinois.
Katharine Dvorak, Instructor, Religious Studies.
William S. Haubrich, M.D . '43
Head of the Division of Gastroenterology
The Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation
Moderator:
Carl Pike, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology .
The Pre-Healing Arts Club is sponsoring :
The Equipment of the 80's.
Machines which arc used in hospitals today
10
measure cardio and
pulmonary functions will be explained and demonstrated .
Saturday, November 12, 1983, 10-12 noon.
Anthropology Department presents :
*
"Anthropology and Health Care"
(I) Temple University School of Medicine, as an organization
accredited by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
Education (ACCME), designates this Continuing Medical Education
Activity as meeting the criteria for 18 hours in Category I, provided
it is completed as designed .
(2) This program has been reviewed and is acceptable for 18
prescribed hours by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Speaker:
Holly L. Peters-Golden, Ph.D. '74
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Behavioral
Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene & Public Health .
Panelist:
Jere D. Haas '67, Associate Professor,
Nutritional Science, Cornell University.
VOLUME XI
NO. 4
Editorial Staff of F &M Today
Editor, Judy Durand
Consulting Editor, John A. Synodinos
Associate Editor, Maril Weister
Assistant Editor for Class Notes , Connie
Lentz '85
F&M today magazine (USPS-208-080) is published four times a year (October, February,
April, August) by Franklin and Marshall College , College Avenue , Lancaster, PA 17604 ,
in cooperation with the Alumni Magazine Consortium , with editorial offices at the Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore , MD 21218.
Pages I-XVI are published for the Alumni
Magazine Consortium (Franklin and Marshall
College, Hartwick College , Johns Hopkins
University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and appear in
the respective alumni magazines of those institutions. Second class postage paid at Lancaster, PA and additional mailing office . Pages
1-12 , 29-40 © 1983 , Franklin and Marshall College. Pages I-XVI © 1983 the Johns Hopkins
University.
Staff of the Alumni Magazine Consortium:
Editor, Elise Hancock ; Business Manager,
Robert Hewes; Production Coordinator, Wendy
Williams-Hauck; Managing Editor , Mary Ruth
Yoe; Magazine Fellow , Pat Rushin ; Designer,
Allen Carroll ; Senior Writer, Robert Kanigel ;
Editorial Assistant , Edward C. Ernst.
Advisory Board of the
Alumni Magazine Consortium:
Franklin and Marshall College, Gerald C. Eckert and Judy Durand ; Hartwick College , Philip
Benoit and Merrilee Gomillion; Johns Hopkins University , B. J. Norris and Elise Hancock; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Lynn
Holley and Robert M. Whitaker; Worcester
Polytechnic Institute , Kenneth L. McDonnell.
1CONTENTS/
7 Commencement: Goodbye and
Good Luck!
After 20 years, President Keith Spalding
presides at his last F&M Commencement.
10 The Humanities and the
Idea of a Community
A humanist reflects on the future
of liberal arts education.
Geoffrey Marshall, Ph.D.
Industry: New Face on Campus
Industry needs academic know-how,
academe needs industrial support.
What are the costs?
Elise Hancock
X How many rations make a decoration?
The answer , with other bits of knowledge,
is found in an eccentric conversion table.
Solomon W. Golomb
XII The Placebo Effect
Sugar pills, injections of salt solutionplacebos should have no medical effect.
But often they do.
Robert Kanigel
Departments
Letters to the Editor
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Class Notes
Acknowledgments:
Franklin and Marshall College admits academically qualified students of any race, color, sex,
physical handicap, creed, or national or ethnic
origin to all the rights, privilieges, programs,
and activities generally accorded or made available to students of the College.
AUGUST 1983
Commentary
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Alumni Almanac
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Inside back cover
Cover illustration by Jeff Goodby.
AUGUST 1983
1LEl'l'ERSI
Editor:
I have another chapter to add to the history of the Rummell engraving pictured
on the back cover of the February issue
of F&M today .
About a year before I graduated in 1962,
my parents presented me with a Rummell
print that had been beautifully colored by
hand , but it was inaccurately colored. Stahr
H all was red brick and I as a student had
witnessed the refacing of its original tan
brick with red brick . The Watts-DePeyster Library , East Hall, and six other
buildings were not colored at all, suggesting a stone facade . No attention was paid
to the white trim which is laid between
the bricks of some buildings. To top it off,
the light areas behind the reservoir and
Williamson Field were shown as water.
I took my complaint to Piggins Art Shop
in Montclair , N .J., where my parents had
paid $50 for the print, framed . Mr. Piggins was aware of the history of the print
plates , seemed to have a firsthand relationship with their owner , and revealed
that a Japanese artist did the coloring .
The plates included many other Eastern
colleges and Mr . Piggins insisted that all
had been carefully researched . Piggins
made no move to exchange my print with
some of the others which were , although
all colored differently, closer to the truth .
I had won the argument over accuracy
and Piggins offered to assist me to research the true colors. He obtained a blank
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(uncolored) copy of the print for me and
I started to Lancaster with my watercolors.
Mr. Anstaett, the F&M librarian, became interested in my project and he led
me to the materials I needed . We discovered a whole crate containing copies of
the print in sepia ink-probably the original 1910 color. He presented me with one
which, when properly framed, was as
handsome as the colored one. I finished
my work within a day and gave it to Piggins .
When I returned for my 20th reunion
last October, I examined a newer copy of
the print in the new admissions building
(Wohlsen House). It seemed to be faithful
to my research. Ironically, mine, too, had
hung for a time in that building--over the
fireplace at Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity
house.
Today , my flawed print hangs proudly
in my home . It has something all the other
prints do not have , a history of its own .
Hervey E. Blumers '62
Ridgewood , N .J .
Editor's note: John L. Finlayson '64 of
York, Pa. , passes on this tale, perhaps
apocryphal, about the Rummell prints.
Rummell is supposed to have included
his own red automobile in the campus
view of each of the colleges and universities he portrayed. The car is visible in
the F&M Rummell at right, near the end
of College Avenue. Finlayson reports
that he has seen the same vehicle in the
Harvard and Exeter Academy prints, but
can't vouch for any of the others and
doesn't remember where he heard the
story first. The firm which distributes the
prints, Paul Victorius in Virginia, could
not confirm the car's presence in other
prints.
Editor:
I was interested to read the recent article
in the February 1983 edition of F&M today regarding night blindness .
As an ophthalmologist , I would like to
point out that the condition of increased
myopia or nearsightedness during nighttime viewing has been a well described
entity for many, many years. In addition,
the solution for this problem , i.e. , corrective minus lenses , has been available
for better than three centuries .
In fact, I am enclosing a small excerpt
from Dr. Rubin's textbook entitled Optics
for Clinicians, in which he describes this
entity and the solution for this problem
in some detail.
Hence , it appears that the research and
investigation being performed by Dr . Owens is totally unnecessary , inasmuch as
both the problem and its solution have
been described for numerous years.
Barry D . Keis, M .D . , F.A .C.S ., '70
Hartford, Conn .
Dr. Owens replies: Dr. Keis seems to
have the impression that I r:laim to have
discovered night myopia or the use of
negative lenses to correct it. Neither is
the case. In fact, both night myopia and
the use of a negative spectacle correction
date back at least to the 1700s, when the
English astronomer, Nevil Maskelyne,
reported his analysis of this problem to
the Royal Philosophical Society.
Although it was known that minus
lenses would help correct the condition,
it was not possible to predict which individuals would suffer from night myopia,
much less the lens power for optimal
correction. A single correction for all individuals results in improvement for
some, no change for others, and degraded visibility for still others. Obtaining the proper correction was more a
matter of luck than good judgment.
Using the laser optometer, which allows anomalies such as night myopia to
be investigated with unprecedented precision, I and my colleague, Dr. Herschel
Leibowitz of Penn State University, discovered that in the absence of effective
stimulation, the eyes accommodate to an
intermediate resting (or "dark") focus ,
which varies widely from person to person. When visibility is reduced, the eyes
shift involuntarily toward the individual's
resting focus . For persons with a near
resting focus , this accommodation results
in anomalous myopia. Our work has
shown, then, that in order to predict and
correct problems such as night myopia,
one must know the individual's resting
focus value. Since the resting focus cannot be tested using standard clinical tests,
one of our current projects is to develop
a practical clinical technique to do so.
Editor:
I was fascinated by the article by Fred
Kinsey, entitled "Winter Camp" (February , 1983) . Being a former member of
Explorer Post 311 and Troop 11 of Lancaster, Pennsylvania , and a member of
Franklin and Marshall 's Class of 1953 , I
was reminded of some very pleasant times.
The old Winter Camp was one of the high
points in the lives of " Doc's Boys. " Even
though I have lived in California since
1963 , I have been made aware of Explorers and their feats and have also been
kept up to date on the activities of the
"Doc's Boys" through the efforts of Dr.
Richard Eyde , who has managed to keep
in touch with many of us who otherwise
would have Jost contact with this excellent
bit of local tradition .
Thank you again for the pleasant article .
Michael S. Cahn , M .D ., '53
Campbell, Calif.
Editor :
I thoroughly enjoyed Robert Kanigel's
story on the Brooklyn Bridge in the latest
[April] issue of F&M today, and I hope
you won 't accuse me of nit-picking when
I point out that the term " catenary" is
twice used incorrectly to describe the curve
of the main suspension cables. A catenary
is the curve produced by a perfectly flexible cable of uniform density hanging freely
from two points at the same level , much
as an overhead electric or telephone wire
strung between two poles. When that cable is distended by a uniform load applied
throughout its entire length , as in the case
of a suspension bridge , it then assumes
the shape of a parabola . A minor point ,
perhaps , in an otherwise splendid story ;
but I feel that a college publication should
be held to the same strict standards of
precision expected of us when we were
students , and should not misinform
impressionable young minds who may uncritically accept the accuracy of every
statement , considering its prestigious academic origin .
Barry L. Shickman , M .D. , '61
Los Altos , California
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AUGUST 1983
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,FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL NEWS\
CASE Awards
The College's programs and people recently won four awards-three exceptional achievements and one special merit
citation-from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE).
An exceptional achievement award for
Volunteer of the Year, one of 10 awarded
in that category, was given to Aaron Martin, national chairman of the College's recently concluded Century III $9-million
capital development campaign. Martin,
chairman of the board of Advanced Micro-computer Systems Inc. , also was head
of the presidential search committee. A
trustee of the College since 1973, he has
been chairman of the development committee of the Board of Trustees since 1975.
A letter from Dean Richard P . Traina
nominating Dr. Martin for the award
summed it up this way: "He is the model
college trustee. The range of his contributions to Franklin and Marshall can only
be considered exemplary. He is recognized widely for the fullness of his commitment. One anecdote tells it all: I recall
a conversation I had a few years ago with
some public school officials in Kennett
Square in which Dr. Martin was referred
to as the 'M' in F&M."
The College's Alumni Office received
two exceptional achievement awards, one
for total alumni programs and one for an
individual program, 1982's Homecoming
for the Arts. Jerry Eckert, director of
alumni programs, explains that the award
for the total alumni program is based on
the involvement of the Alumni Board and
the direction it gives to the Alumni Association, as well as the breadth of alumni
participation in the College's programssome 1,500 alumni serve in leadership positions and 8,000 alumni took part in College events and programs last year. Sarah
L. Truxal '76, associate director of alumni
programs, was responsible for Homecoming for the Arts.
And finally, F&M today received a special citation in the periodicals program
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improvement category as did the other
members of the Alumni Magazine Consortium-Hartwick College, Oneonta ,
N. Y.; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ,
Troy, N .Y.; Worcester Polytechnic Institute , Worcester, Mass. ; and Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, Md .
that the Nahuat alter the Spanish stories
by incorporating concepts of the universe
derived from the Aztecs. Stories will also
vary, he believes, with father-son relationships, with the position of women in
the family, and according to the position
the storytellers occupy in the class structure of a given community .
F&M21stin
Corporate Leaders
James Taggart, Ph.D .
Have You Heard the
One About ...
Dr. James Taggart, associate professor of
anthropology, has received a $57,151 grant
from the National Science Foundation
(NSF) to collect contemporary Spanish oral
stories and compare them to parallel stories he has gathered in the Nahuat communities of Mexico . The NSF grant will
support Taggart's research and writing on
the topic for two years. He will be on
leave during the coming year to research
stories told in the northern Caceres region
of Spain, the province from which many
Spaniards emigrated to the Nahuat communities .
Dr. Taggart expects his research to show
Franklin and Marshall ranks 21st nationally among 219 predominantly private liberal arts colleges in the number of graduates who are senior officers or directors
of 38,000 U.S. private or public companies .
The 1982 study, the fourth Executive/
College Survey conducted by Standard and
Poor's Corporation , shows that 97 Franklin and Marshall graduates hold top executive positions or are directors of the
companies surveyed. The study is based
on data compiled on executives and directors who earned 52,837 undergraduate
degrees and 23,959 graduate degrees at
499 American colleges and universities .
Among other predominantly undergraduate colleges included in the report ,
Williams topped the list with 355 alumni
identified as corporate leaders . Amherst ,
with 263, Pace University , with 247 , Colgate, with 198, and Drexel , with 184,
rounded out the top five positions.
Annual Summer Scramble
More than 25 ,000 people , in addition to
summer session students , were on campus
from May through August. They attended
22 different programs or events that included the college's four summer sports
camps , the U .S. Soccer and Field Hockey
associations' camps, two three-week sessions of the Johns Hopkins University
Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth classes, Eastern
Archery Association competitions, the
American Music Abroad program , and
the U .S. Soccer Association Women 's
National Tournament . As usual , the biggest draw was the granddaddy of the state's
craft shows , the 36th annual Pennsylvania
Guild of Craftsmen fair and sale in early
August.
In Brief
• Dr . Claude Yoder , professor of chemistry , has been named one of six national
winners in the 1983 Catalyst Awards of
the Chemical Manufacturers Association
(CMA) , Washington , D .C . The award
cites the winners for their ability to instill
in students a continuing desire for science
education . Each winner received a medal ,
a citation , and $1 ,500.
Yoder was graduated , cum laude , from
Franklin and Marshall in 1962 and joined
the facult y in 1966, after completing his
doctoral work at Cornell. When he received the Lind back A ward for Distinguished Teaching at F&M in 1974, President Keith Spalding noted , " It is where
teaching and research merge that he is at
his best ... literally dozens of Franklin
and Marshall students have carried out
independent study or research under his
tutelage. These students have found him
always available : instructing , advising ,
exhorting , consoling , needling when necessary, and always setting an example by
his presence during long hours in the laboratory ."
Yoder himself credited two of his colleagues and former professors , Fred
Snavely and Fred Suydam , with instilling
the desire to teach in many students and
said they " by example have shown us how
to combine rigor , humor, sensitivity , and
enthusiasm in and out of the classroom."
At least two other F&M graduates have
won the CMA Catalyst Award-John
Burmeister '59, professor of chemistry at
the University of Delaware , and John
Moore '61 , who holds the same position
at Eastern Michigan University .
• Caroline Steinman Nunan of Lancaster
has been elected to a five-year term on
the College's 32-member board of trustees . The president of the John Hale Steinman Foundation, she is also a director of
the Lancaster Newspapers Inc., Cable TV
Associates, and the Fulton Bank. She is
active in both arts and cultural issues.
• The College's endowment was ranked
the 129th largest among nearly 200 public
and private U .S. colleges and universities
which responded voluntarily to a study by
the National Association of College and
University Business Officers. At the time
the study was completed , the endowment
was $16,825,000 or $19 ,577,000 if several
trust funds excluded by the study were
added in . The total has since grown to
$24 ,963 ,000, including the trust funds .
Richard Hoffman , vice president for budget and planning, attributed the gain to
an upsurge in stock market prices and to
a more aggressive investment policy by
the College's finance committee.
The College's endowments include in-
vestments in stocks , bonds, and real estate . Income from endowment is used to
fund a portion of the annual operating
budget-some $787 ,000 or 3.6 percent of
the operating budget in 1982-83.
Equally important, Hoffman points out,
is the size of the endowment per student-roughly $11 ,000 per student this
year. That amount produces about $520
a year of income that is applied directly
to the general operating budget. The remainder of the income and appreciation
is kept in the endowment to provide for
long-term growth of the principal.
jCOMMENIARYI
D
ear reader, in the forthcoming paragraphs , I shall contend that college
parliamentary debate has become so popular among East Coast institutions that
entire college debate teams are abandoning the traditional style of debate for the
parliamentary technique.
Dear reader, I rise before you to argue
that the Franklin and Marshall Forensic
Society , though new to the parliamentary
circuit , has already made a name for itself
and is walking away from tournaments
with more than its share of awards.
Dear reader , in the next few minutes I
shall contend all of the preceding and I
am convinced that, by this article's close,
you will be in agreement with the resolution on the floor today: that parliamentary debate is the hottest thing to hit college debating since the invention of the
gavel.
Four days before final exams began last
semester, more than 150 students gathered in the Steinman College Center's
Common Ground . They had put down
their books and abandoned , at least temporarily, their concerns with chemistry and
philosophy , to watch the Franklin and
Marshall Forensic Society debate against
a team from Princeton University. The
resolution: My Karma Ran Over Your
Dogma.
Evan Siegelman, a junior math major,
began the debate : " Thank you, Mr.
Speaker , my distinguished colleagues,
members of this Common Ground , and
the pair from the Poison Ivy League."
And with this first, albeit heavy attempt
at humor , the debate was under way.
When you first encounter college parliamentary debate, either in a small twoteam contest or at one of the scores of
tournaments held up and down the East
Coast, you may be surprised at the humor, spontaneity, and informality of the
proceedings. If it's traditional debate you're
expecting, complete with categorized and
classified index cards and a labyrinth of
flow charts, then you're in for an even
greater shock .
Standing in the front of a room without
cards or charts , and speaking at a rate
slow enough actually to be understood, is
a member of Her Majesty's Government .
His (or her) remarks are directed toward
the Speaker of the House, he is referred
to as the Prime Minister , and he is arguing
against members of Her Majesty's Loyal
Opposition.
Well , arguing may not be exactly all
he's doing. College debators succeed not
only when they find flawed logic or spurious arguments in the opposition's case;
they are also encouraged to be as witty
and ironic as possible. For example , in
the round against Princeton , an Ivy opponent, countering Siegelman's argument
that the pursuit of truth and beauty (karma)
is in conflict with the pursuit of profit and
money (dogma), explained: "Truth and
beauty are defined by the person beholding the object. Karma is within you, like
fer sure, totally."
Minutes before a debate begins, the two
members from the government are presented with the resolution for the particular round. The pair has 10 minutes to
concoct an eight-minute speech, including
constructing coherent definitions and rational arguments . When the Prime Minister completes his speech , a member of
the opposition must immediately supply
a counter-argument. And so it goes , extemporaneously, back and forth , for some
50 minutes .
Both sides , then , find themselves in a
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F&M's self-named Gang of Six, a group of students from Hong Kong, mainland
China, and New York, are (seated, from left): Margaret Lam, Louis Lam (no relation), Mark Ruane, Mazie Tsai, (standing) David Zhu and Wendy Choi. Sharing
Chinese meals, the language, and interests is a bond that transcends politics.
"It's like we're all each others' best friends," says Zhu '85, from mainland China.
position that requires quick thinking, logic,
and the ability to call on knowledge from
most every discipline. In one round, debators may argue Reagan foreign policy
and in the next, philosophy and religion.
Resolutions, for that matter, can range
from the ridiculous to the sublime. Among
the resolutions examined at the recent
World Parliamentary Debate Tournament were " Those who think should govern those who toil," and "One big vice in
a person keeps out many smaller ones."
At the World Tournament , two F&M
debators finished 16th out of 40 colleges
competing, including Swarthmore, Harvard, and Amherst. The team of Siegelman and freshman Jenny Pariser defeated
debators from St. Andrews University of
Scotland, Princeton, and Fordham, en
route to a 5-4 finish.
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In the true tenor of the British House
of Commons, the style upon which parliamentary debates are based, heckling
from the audience is encouraged. But be
wary. When a member of the audience
threw a barb at Siegelman, he deliberately
paused for a long moment, then countered with, "Isn't it a shame when cousins
marry?" Later, when a fellow debator's
speech became particularly mundane,
Siegelman whispered to the audience,
"This speech has been brought to you by
Sominex." Nor were the gentlemen from
Princeton above the fray. One Princetonian answered a heckle with a disdainful ,
"Your parents were brothers," a put-down
that is currently in vogue among parliamentary debators.
Such is a parliamentary debate . But at
its best, it is much more than humorous .
Successful debators establish rapport with
the audience, with the judges, and even
with the opposition. Each debator has his
own style and technique. Tournament debators earn points for their individuality
and their ability to communicate.
Ron Sann, who graduated this May, has
a long-standing interest in developing debating style and technique. When he arrived at F&M in 1979, he found the College lacking a debate team, although F&M
had a tradition of public speaking dating
from the 19th century Diagnothian and
Goethian literary societies up to F&M's
strong record on the traditional debate
circuit through the early 1960s.
Sann teamed up with Ken Hopson '80,
who shared his interest. They pulled together an interested group of students and
by the fall of 1980, F&M had entered its
first debate in some 20 years at Villanova
University's Debate Tournament.
Yet despite a fast start-early on F&M
debators were winning speaker awards and
finishing strongly in tournaments-interest in the club waned. Traditional debate
requires extensive research, and F&M
students, with demanding course loads,
had neither the time nor the inclination
to research. Making matters more difficult, the new forensic society had sponsored the annual John Marshall High
School Debate Tournament, which
brought hundreds of high school debators
to F&M and demanded a lot of time.
While contemplating his foundering debate society, Sann received a letter from
Vassar College. "I pursued that," he said,
"and I found out where the Ivy League
schools were hiding out ." Students from
academically rigorous schools had fallen
in love with parliamentary debate, for it
demanded no research, was challenging
and, not-so-surprisingly, was lots of fun.
"Parliamentary debates are kind of informal," Sann says. "They tend to be social commentaries. In fact , it is actually a
purer form of debate. Instead of relying
upon stacks of evidence cards, the debators rely upon their own knowledge,
analysis, wit, and persuasive ability."
Dear reader, the members of the opposition will maintain that I am in the
wrong, that parliamentary debate is but a
Johnny-come-lately, destined to wilt and
fade away. I have, Dear reader, contended that this is not the case, that parliamentary debate is what's new and exciting, and urge you to accept my resolution
on the floor today as it stands.
-DG
David Glavin '83 was co-editor of The
College Reporter in 1982-83.
Commencement:
Goodbye and Good Luck!
T
his May the luck that had held
for the past two years ran out.
The now familiar Commencement morning deliberation over whether
to stay outdoors on Hartman Green or
to move the ceremony inside was settled
an hour before the ceremony. The College's 196th graduation , the last over
which Keith Spalding would preside as
president, was moved inside . It was a
good decision. Commencement was
barely half over when the steady morning drizzle became a downpour.
Inside, spirits were warm and high.
For the graduates and their families, as
always, it was a joyous occasion. If
being indoors made it hard to spot the
one graduate you craned your neck to
see, it also created a stronger sense of
togetherness: there was a feeling of
community in the air.
Other feelings were in the air as well.
The graduates were conscious of the
goodbyes they would be saying later to
friends and faculty. It was a day for
goodbyes all around, including a hard
one. The president was leaving after 20
years .
It is not possible , of course , to sum
up 20 years in a few pages or even a
few days . But during the last weeks before Commencement, people searched
for ways to put the Spalding years into
a perspective , to articulate something of
what those years had meant to the institution . Somehow that seemed a necessary step to take before saying goodbye .
One way to measure those years , perhaps the simplest, is to look at the
changes in the College during the
Spalding tenure. The list of those
changes is, by any standard, impressive.
Since 1963, the size of the student
body has doubled, the size of the campus has tripled, and the size of the en-
Three presidents: President James L.
Powell flanked by President Emeritus
Keith Spalding and "Prexy" Distler, also
President Emeritus.
dowment has grown from $6 million to
$25 million. Buildings constructed since
1963 include the Ben Franklin residences (1964), the one-story Grundy
Observatory (1969), Pfeiffer Science
Center, Thomas Hall , Whitely Psychology Building and Herman Arts Center
(1970), the Steinman College Center
(1976) and the new wing of the ShadekFackenthal Library (1982). Keiper Hall ,
the Green Room , and the Fackenthal
Library were renovated extensively , and
renovation of Stahr Hall is scheduled to
begin next year.
President Spalding gained a reputation
for careful management of people and
resources , including the total of $69.5
million in gifts and grants that has been
raised from both private and public
sources in the past 20 years. Three capital campaigns were successfully completed , including the Century III campaign which recently concluded a year
ahead of schedule . The number of
alumni donors to the College has more
than doubled .
New academic programs have been
added in the arts, in American studies,
and in the history of philosophy and science. A general education curriculumthe College Studies program-was
added in 1981. Cooperative efforts were
begun with Dickinson and Gettysburg
Colleges in 1968 and with Lancaster
General Hospital in 1980.
One of the most significant changes
during Spalding's administration was the
adoption of coeducation in 1968. Franklin and Marshall and Princeton , which
made the change the same year , were
the first of what later became a flock of
all-male institutions shifting to coeducation . Spalding patiently shepherded the
proposal , working with students ,
alumni , faculty, and the Board of Trustees to insure that the College examine
all the pros and cons and, later, plan
well for the transition. That the change
from all-male to co-ed institution went
so smoothly is one of his most remarkable achievements.
While president, Spalding earned a national reputation as a spokesman for
higher education and as a defender of
the liberal arts. At various times he was
secretary of the American Council of
Education , chairman of the American
Association of Colleges, and one of
three members of the national executive
committee of the Association for Higher
Education. In 1970, he interrupted a
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President Spalding welcomed a vote for coeducation on the " Protest Tree. "
Canadian vacation to attend a White
House meeting, called to explore the
thinking of the nation's young people,
with President Nixon and 16 other college and university presidents . In 1982,
he was elected a director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, an organization
of 800 schools . He has spoken and written extensively on education in national
forums and was widely quoted on student dissent during the late '60s.
Throughout the years , Spalding has
been a staunch defender of the liberal
arts. During the early '70s , when the
College's financial situation required
stringent belt-tightening, he firmly resisted the pull of vocational forces. In
an April 7 , 1979 New York Times article , he was quoted on the dangers of
making academic policy on the basis of
manpower studies and of chasing after
the markets . The only useful concession
to the shifting job market , he allowed ,
was to offer more and better career
counseling and internships for on-thejob experience.
This year, in the inaugural Myer Siegel lecture which Spalding gave May 15
at the College, he focused on the issues
facing education now and those he saw
coming in the future. He cautioned
against "the habit of measuring the
value of education in short-range terms,
in terms of first-job utility," and urged
that the mission of education be to develop "leaders who not only know their
fields of expertise but have some comprehension about the consequences for
the rest of us because of what they do
in those fields."
In closing, he offered his own assessment of the strengths of the College he
had helped to develop: "So, if standards
and expectations state minimums and
tend to deal in averages, since education reflects and does not control society, it will be incumbent on some strong
institutions to exercise leadership by
breasting those tides. This college, let
me say, will surely be one of them. It
has had the strength and courage and its
faculty has been imbued with a singular
sense of purpose that has allowed the
College to function with style .... It
has kept its traditions vital. Since this is
a kind of a swan song, I'm sure you will
permit me to say that I hope it always
will."
Another theme emerged during the last
weeks of the Spalding presidency-the
extent to which the tributes and praise
heaped on the Spaldings were intended
for both Spaldings; in some ways, it was
their presidency. John Vanderzell, professor of government , put it best in a
speech at a farewell dinner held on
campus. After noting that any presidency requires support, succor, and
sage counsel, he said, "The degree to
which you have had that is the degree
to which you, Keith, must share this
tribute with others-especially Dot. As
we mark the successes of the Spalding
years , we must mark the successes of
the Spaldings."
One by one, the luncheons, dinners,
and presentations passed, and it was
Commencement morning. At the podium for the 21st and last time, Spalding was surprised with the gift of an
"Aristotle," a presidential version of
the "Socrates" memento traditionally
awarded to retiring faculty. After the
unexpected presentation, he resumed
the order of events, announcing with a
broad smile that "the rest of the program is mine."
And so it was, as the Williamson
Medal was given to Vanessa Christman,
a French and drama major from Reading, Pa ., and the Lindback Awards for
Distinguished Teaching were awarded
to Professors Robert Gray of the government department and Richard Fluck
of the biology department. Honorary
degrees went to Paul C. Warnke, chief
SALT II nuclear arms negotiator under
President Jimmy Carter, and to Alice
Stone Ilchman, president of Sarah Lawrence College.
As the list of names of the graduates
was called, several moments stood out
during the long procession of black
gowns crossing the stage. Lisa Atchison,
whose singing of the national anthem
had opened the ceremony, and her
mother both received degrees from
President Spalding: Mrs. Atchison had
missed her own commencement at
Stockton State College in order to attend her daughter's. The Stockton president empowered President Spalding to
present Mrs. Atchison's degree so
mother and daughter could share their
graduation. Later Constance Robb
Dunn received her degree exactly 100
years after her great-grandfather was
graduated.
The list of names continued to toll,
until the dean called out, "Blair J.
Zykan." Approaching the podium,
Zykan drew two champagne glasses
from beneath his robe. At the same
time, the 474 graduates passed glasses
down the aisles of seats, popped champagne corks, and poured. Zykan, who
"by virtue of my last name," would be
the last student to receive a degree from
Spalding, clinked glasses with him and
said: "President Spalding, on behalf of
the class of 1983, I propose this toast to
your future and ours."
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W
ayne Booth, a literary critic and
professor at the University of
Chicago, has written , "There is
no known instance of an isolated genius
raised in an unscholarly society who invented interesting scholarship out of pure
native wit ." In other words , creativity demands a supportive community. Booth
mentions scholarship , but for the moment
I'll maintain that he has expressed a universal truth: all creativity requires a supportive community.
What you and I would call a community
is created and sustained by shared experience . A genuinely human community
must share more than a common geography and a common language .
How is this relevant to the humanities?
What are the humanities? When I use the
term, I mean the study of history , literature , languages , philosophy , and other
closely related subjects . I am excluding
the sciences , the creative and performing
arts , and the social sciences. (I have to
start somewhere .)
Whether or not the humanities are relevant to the human community is a question that I believe underlies much of the
current anxiety about the study of the humanities , and the fate of liberal arts colleges such as F&M . I want to give some
data to illustrate the " condition" of the
humanities , at least so far as that condition is reflected in undergraduate teaching and learning; I want to explore some
definitions of the humanities that go beyond the list of college departments that
I have offered; and I want to argue that
the humanities are essential for the kind
of human communities in which we would
want to live . I hate to give away the good
parts too early, but I will say right away
that I do not believe that the humanities
make individuals into good persons or
groups of people into moral societies.
That's not part of my argument.
There seems to be a dramatic flight away
from the study of the humanities, coupled
with a mushrooming interest in business
and technologically related study. That's
oversimplifying, but that's essentially it.
Let's look at some specifics: in three
disciplines-English, foreign languages,
and history-there was a growth of 25 to
35 percent in the number of degrees earned
in the 20 years from 1948 to 1968. But
from 1968 to 1978, just 10 years , degrees
earned in these disciplines dropped 43 to
50 percent. The percentage of persons
graduating in these fields is smaller now
than it was at the end of World War II.
Why is this an issue? Partly because of
the economics of higher education . There
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The Humanities
and the Idea
of a Community
Why study the humanities? Geoffrey Marshall,
Ph.D., deputy chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, speaking at a
spring colloquium, offered refreshing reasons .
by Geoffrey Marshall
are faculty members and whole institutions that depend for their livelihood on
enrollments in these and related fields.
Between 1950 and 1970, America created
new institutions of higher education at the
rate of about three per month. For 20
years, three per month. Why? Because at
the start of World War II, there were 1.5
million students enrolled in higher education in America. In 1975, there were 11
million. So there is an economic reason
to be concerned about radical shifts in
enrollment.
But I don't think that many people believe this issue is just a matter of market
economics . A decline in humanities majors is not simply analogous to what happened to button shoes, Big Band music,
or Detroit automobiles that looked and
drove like rolling marshmallows. People
are worried because they believe a decline
in the study of humanities may be profoundly important, fundamentally important, to our civilization.
In a way, it is ironic that there should
be widespread concern. There is a strong
American tradition of skepticism about
the value of a liberal education. Alexis de
Tocqueville in the 18th century observed
that people in democracies have confidence in their individual judgments and
above all accept no authorities. To the
men and women of a democracy, tradition
is just information. Therefore, why bother
with the past or with abstractions like philosophy, or with ephemera such as literature , or worse, literary criticism? Doubts
about the value of the liberal arts persist,
from the founding of the nation until today. The fine contemporary novelist Toni
Morrison, in her novel Song of Solomon,
writes of one character: "Bryn Mawr had
done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for
eighty percent of the useful work of the
world."
E
ven for those who do not believe
that study of the humanities incapacitates one for useful work, there
are aspects of such study that are unsettling and perhaps justify looking elsewhere for greater clarity and sharper sense
of purpose. Frederick Rudolf of Williams
College has written an excellent book on
the history of the curriculum in America's
colleges. Rudolf says, "I am persuaded
that liberal learning certifies uncertainty
as a condition of understanding." Rudolf
is not distressed about this fact, but uncertainty distresses others. What does
Hamlet mean? What is the nature of justice?
After all, the " facts" of science are clear
and immutable, or at least they are immutable once we get them right. And we
are going to get them right very soon.
Maybe next week.
The humanities are also seen by many
to be an elegant refinement embellishing
fundamental necessities, sort of like gracious manners when compared to eating
with your fingers. In this view , learning
about history, literature, and philosophy
is useful in order to fill the gaps between
serious work and serious play . Note that
the study of literature from this perspective is a good thing-parents and others
recommend it-but the recommendation
can sometimes be seen , at least in part ,
as a reflection of status or of the aspiration
for status . We study English because we
can afford to study it . An English major
is good in the same way that a BMW is
good when compared to a Chevrolet.
From still a different perspective there
is a recurring disappointment among those
who hope that the humanities will provide
the solace of what has been called " secular fundamentalism ." Secular fundamentalism , exaggerating a little , suggests
that the humanities are a sort of medicine
chest for the soul. If you are grieving for
the death of a loved one , you should read
Tennyson's In Memoriam . If you are having trouble with your children , read King
Lear. If you are unsure how to create civic
virtue , read about Sparta .
The difficulty with this justification for
the study of the humanities is that it has
proved untrustworthy. In fact, you do think
of death differently after reading In Memoriam. You think of children differently
after reading King Lear. But somehow,
despite reading widely, stubborn facts remain. For one instance, the pain of loss
does not go away no matter how many
elegies one has read and, for another, the
doggone poets and historians and philosophers don't seem to agree. For example,
if I go to the humanities medicine chest
to learn how to be a good citizen, what
do I find? I find Aristotle, I find Machiavelli, I find Thomas Hobbes, I find Ezra
Pound, I find Jefferson, and Marx, and
Chairman Mao , and Voltaire, and on and
on. Scientists don't do that to me. If I
want to know whether light is a wave or
a particle, I can get just one straight answer, right?
Why, then, given all these points of
doubt about the value of the humanities,
are some people distressed nowadays about
the apparent falling off of interest in them?
Let me offer another definition, provided
by Charles Frankel, a man who was a philosophy professor at Columbia University
and served as an undersecretary of state .
"The humanities," Frankel wrote, "are a
civilization's organized tradition of selfconsciousness." In other words, the humanities are concerned with humankind
doing those things that seem exclusively
human: creating and living in societies,
making art, contemplating the fact of consciousness, exploring the qualities of experience and the nature of knowledge.
To borrow a figure of speech from the
computer, the humanities are not a form
of "dedicated knowledge; " they are not
bound to just one application or set of
applications. The humanities acknowledge a human being as something more
than an organic binary processor. That
more is often, if not always , tied to the
uniquely human property of language .
Language is associated with most of the
characteristics that are also associated with
the humanities: uncertainty, impracticality as well as practicality, emotion as well
as intellect, imagination as well as reason.
History , literature, and philosophy are
impossible to imagine without language.
L
anguage makes the bridge, I think,
between the humanities and the
idea of a community. Analysis of
language reveals quickly that two persons
cannot talk to one another on the basis
of shared language alone. What must also
be present is a shared experience.
Let me emphasize this assertion: two
completely articulate individuals sharing
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the same language have no communication without shared experience. Language must have content as well as vocabulary and grammar. A commonplace
example of this phenomenon occurs when
we meet strangers. Our conversation starts,
almost always, on grounds that we know
are shared: the weather and our surroundings . Only tentatively do we move
out from this enclave of safety into territory where communication may collapse
because we do not share experience: such
territory as political judgments, attitude
toward family, religious belief.
By "sharing experience" I mean a great
deal. I am not speaking about the need
to have practiced skiing, or polygamy, or
Republicanism in order to talk about them.
I am speaking about the entire incomprehensibility of " I saw Eternity the other
night/Like a great Ring of pure and endless light," without shared experience that
goes considerably beyond the sum of the
parts: "Oh, sure, I know what ring means;
I know what pure means; I know what
light means." Remember the fourth-grade
joke: " Hey, Geoff, somebody said you
have a heart of gold----cold and yellow."
The sum of the parts in language is not
enough.
We need a community, then, for language to make communication possible ,
and community is created when individuals share both experience and a language
for that experience. Here's my basic point:
a decay in understanding of the humanities among Americans is a threat to our
human community. To the extent that we
lack a common experience and a common
vocabulary, we are isolated from one another. The core of that common experience and common vocabulary has been
conveyed in history, in literature, and in
philosophy. It has not been carried in the
other subjects that are now· looming so
large in the curriculum .
For example, can you imagine a community of persons whose shared experience is made up of the principles of botany , divorced from history, literature, and
philosophy? Really? What do the botanists discuss? Why? Under those circumstances, is it not as valid for 100, or 1,000,
or all botanists to devote their lives to the
study of dandelions as to the study of
wheat? What would it mean to have a
community based solely upon the principles of economics-anybody's principles of economics? Jonathan Swift's essay, A Modest Proposal, offers a solution
to the poverty problem in Ireland: the
Irish poor should sell their children, when
they reach the age of one, to be eaten by
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the rich. This transaction will provide a
delicacy for the tables of the wealthy; the
price for a plump youngster will offset the
cost of supporting the child for one year;
and simultaneously, the numbers of the
poor will decline. I'm speaking figuratively now, but there's nothing wrong with
that modest proposal if one is living in a
community which shares only the experience of the principles of capitalist economics.
I said earlier that I do not believe the
humanities are synonymous with goodness. I want to repeat that now. Jonathan
Swift had studied the humanities and theology and he despised what his countrymen were doing to the Irish. But many of
those same countrymen had also studied
the humanities and theology. My point is
that history, literature, and philosophy
provide for us, for human beings, a common self-consciousness that makes possible a human community as opposed to
a community of animals or a community
of some other kind, perhaps of machines.
We live in a time of increasing specialization. Each specialty has its own language, its own social roles, economy, and
political culture. Specialization has been
a powerful tool throughout human history
and not just since the Industrial Revolution . It is functional, satisfying, orderly,
and nearly always incomplete-whether
we speak of economists or English professors. Would you ask a microbiologist
whether we should undertake genetic research? Would you ask a FORTRAN
programmer whether all records in this
country should be indexed by Social Security number? Would you ask me what
ought to be taught in college English
classes?
These questions are too big for specialists. They call for something more than
specialized knowledge. They call for wisdom, and we do not know how to teach
wisdom or how to learn it. Wisdom appears in individuals with no formal education-but hardly every time. Wise men
and women appear in any profession but
their wisdom is not recognized because of
their profession, but in spite of it. We will
call a specialist intelligent, or even a genius , but only generalists are called wise.
If we credit individuals with wisdom, it is
always because they have transcended
narrowness, contemporaneity, and jingoism. Wisdom is always associated with
a manifest sense of the larger human community, of perspective, of complexity , of
wholeness, and of calm. The humanities
do not teach wisdom, but wisdom is part,
at least, of their subject matter.
F
inally, an education in the humanities seems absolutely critical to the
special form of human community
we call democracy. Study of the humanities and the maintenance of a democratic
society is something of a paradox. On the
one hand, the humanities are intensely
personal and individual. Maxine Green,
of Columbia Teachers College, points out
that we can never send an emissary to
view a Matisse painting or hear a Bach
harpsichord concerto on our behalf . . .
interpreting, appreciating, and sensemaking are intentional activities which we
must perform for ourselves.
On the other hand, democracy can only
exist within a community of educated men
and women. Some of us are worried about
who enrolls in what subjects in college
because we suspect that the nation may
be lowering a proud standard of cultural
literacy, a standard that has always formed
the foundation of complete citizenship.
The democratic vision of an informed citizenry is showing signs of weakening into
a reality of marginal skills and shallow
vocational and professional training.
Let me end with a specific example of
my worry. We hear much about a national
desire to ensure that everyone is at least
functionally literate. But the usual definition of functional literacy does not offer
the kind of community in which I want to
live. As one scholar recently explained it,
functional literacy is the ability to manage
"instructions, labels, signs, forms, and form
letters-types of communication generally intended to elicit passive behaviors or
to encourage conformist responses that
reproduce or further reinforce existing social arrangements." In other words, sufficient competency to allow you to interact with the bureaucracy.
This is not enough . Real functional literacy, I think, should give individuals the
skills ( or access to the skills) that they
need to accomplish what they wish to accomplish, or what they must accomplish,
by use of language.
On a much larger scale, to function in
a human community of diversity, of
promise, and of creativity, I think we must
have the humanities-history , literature ,
and philosophy. Accept no substitutes.
Geoffrey Marshall, a Lancaster native, is
a 1959 graduate of Franklin and Marshall. Before joining the National Endowment for the Humanities, he taught
English at the University of Oklahoma
and later became provost. ln addition,
he was head of the Oklahoma humanities commission.
Over the next decade,
industry,supported academic
research will increase
from $200 million to about
$600 million a year.
The stream of money is
widening and deepening;
the exchange of ideas and
people is increasing; even
optimists are concerned
about paying the piper.
Academe Meets Industry;_
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rudely speaking , the purpose of a
business enterprise is to provide
goods and services for a profit, while
the purpose of higher education is to produce knowledge and educated people . Industry needs both the knowledge and the
people, while academe needs money.
Therefore it would seem that industrial
funding could underwrite parts of academic research and education , to the benefit of all-including society as a whole .
Indeed, while the federal government
has reined back on its support for academic research and training , industries
have moved in to help fill the gap. At
MIT, according to TIME magazine , private contracts jumped from $6 million in
1979 to $18 million in 1981. At the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine , industry used
to provide 8 percent of its research funding. In the last three years , that number
has gone up to 15 percent. Over the next
decade , nationwide , Edward E . David ,
Jr. (president of the Exxon Research and
Engineering Company) estimates that industry-supported academic research will
increase from $200 million to about $600
million a year.
Two caveats: Despite the federal budget-cutting, even that $600 million will be ,
at most , 15 percent of the billions provided by federal agencies . Secondly , these
numbers are all less precise than they
by Elise Hancock
sound , because the financial categories are
imprecise . Is a grant to support a graduate
student philanthropic, or is it a type of
public relations and therefore a cost of
doing business? How to value secondhand
equipment given to schools ? Or new
equipment , for that matter. Does a student internship have financial value? Different companies keep books in different
ways , and many arrangements between
schools and industrial firms are locally and
informally handled ; they may never enter
the corporate books at all .
Clearly, however , the stream of money
moving from industry to academe is widening and deepening; the exchange of ideas
and people is increasing , and even optimists find themselves concerned about
paying the piper.
For seldom before could anyone say that
a company had bought a department-as
one could literally say of the new Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH , which
is affiliated with Harvard Medical School).
Hoechst A . G ., a W est German chemical
company , is putting up $70 million over
ten years to completely equip and support
the department , down to the last piece of
filter paper. Work will be on somatic cell
genetics , microbial genetics, virology, immunology , plant molecular biology , and
eukaryotic cell gene regulation . MGH
" agrees to do nothing" that might give
any other entity a claim on work done by
the department , staff members may consult only for non-profit making entities ,
and Hoechst gets exclusive world licenses-or the best possible license-for any
commercially useful results. Most members of the scientific staff are expected to
hold faculty positions at Harvard . Hoechst
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may have four company scientists at any
one time in training in the department ,
working on problems chosen by the chairman, distinguished geneticist Howard
Goodman. Goodman says it's just like a
grant, and he plans normal academic collaboration with colleagues at Harvard on
projects with NIH funding. He'll need an
OK from Hoechst, though .
Does that matter? Many would argue
not. Hoechst presumably entered into the
agreement because Goodman et alia have
expertise the corporation does not. Goodman is allowed to follow his well-schooled
intuition about what fundamental questions will be most fruitful , Harvard finds
the center a magnet for faculty , the department trains people for Hoechst who
will be able to work on likely applications ,
and the world at large will gain wonderful
new drugs, self-fertilizing crops , ways to
combat genetic disease , who knows? If
Hoechst makes money , why not? Surely
it is entitled to a reasonable return on its
investment.
On the other hand, there is that implicit
leash: Goodman et alia will presumably
want the contracts renewed. Does that
mean they will inevitably begin slanting
their work for the quick return , something
that will show Hoechst its investment was
wise? Will they stop asking the tough
questions , ones that will yield applications
only 20 years from now if ever? Will they
skimp on their teaching duties? In short ,
do arrangements like this one constitute
eating the seed corn?
There are a number of such concerns ,
many of them voiced by academe and industry alike. Yet the contracts , large and
small, continue to proliferate, and for
compelling reasons . These reasons , and
the worries, together are reshaping many
academic departments .
problem we all have can be summed
up in one word ," said one industrialist at a conference: "Japan."
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Japan has mounted an effort to do to the
computer field what it has done to automobiles and threatens to do in biotechnology: dominate the world market. U .S.
industry is running scared .
At the same time, academia finds itself
strapped. A few years ago, roughly half
of research proposals submitted would
garner a grant. Today , only about a quarter
do (at least on first submission). Young
researchers, generally conceded to be the
most innovative , are less likely to win
grants than are people you might call
"proven products" ; the young waste even
more time writing fruitless grants than do
senior people. Federal training grants are
largely a thing of the past, and money for
equipment is also becoming hard to getat a time when more and more scientific
fields require high-tech tools . " They told
me they'd only pay for one-third of it, and
I'd have to share the cost with people who
need the same microdensitometer," said
a faculty member plaintively. "But I could
only find one, and he works on another
campus." His story is not uncommon.
Furthermore , both industry and academia find themselves short-handed.
According to the American Electronics
Association, U.S. electronics and information-technology industries will need
nearly 200,000 new electrical and computer science engineers during the next
five years. The nation's colleges are expected to produce only about 85,000 graduates with those skills . About one-quarter
of faculty posts in engineering colleges are
vacant , for lack of qualified people, and
the number of engineering doctorates
granted continues to fall . There were 3,600
engineering PhDs granted in 1970, but only
2,800 in 1981-and not all of those are a
gain. In 1980, according to the National
Science Foundation , foreigners earned 46
percent of U.S. engineering doctorates,
22 percent of those in physical sciences ,
and 27 percent of those in math . Many of
them return home. Japan graduates 75 ,000
engineers annually, the Soviet Union
300,000. The United States graduates only
63 ,000 , and the percentage of scientists
and engineers in the labor force has been
dropping since 1965 .
Part of the problem is that industry is
eating the seed corn itself: because of the
shortage , industrial salaries are so high
that fewer engineers choose to go on to
graduate schools , and fewer fresh PhDs
choose to teach .
In an important sense , then , the new
academe-industry agreements can be
viewed as people-sharing. Industrial support of research keeps the teachers teaching , the students learning , and the research coming. When several companies
band together to sponsor generic research
in a university lab , it helps avoid duplication of effort. In every way, it leverages
the available mindpower.
It does so , moreover , at a time when
industry has just been reminded how
profitable basic research can be. In the
postwar years , it seemed to take an idea
15 to 20 years to move from the basic
research stage to usable technology. Recombinant DNA technology , though, has
taught that the time lag is not inevitable.
Once the Supreme Court ruled that a
microorganism could be patented-once
it had been changed-the race was on .
Insulin grown in bacteria , antibodies tailor-made to hone in on cancer cells , living
soups that will clean up oil spills-these
are not fantasy , a bare ten years after the
initial discoveries. The insulin is already
on the market; DNA-made interferon is
going through clinical testing. And most
of the work took place in universities .
"Industry got caught with its pants
down, " crowed one university administrator. " They weren't paying attention ."
The first companies into biotechnology
were mostly small firms formed by university faculty members with dollar signs
dancing in their eyes . Now industry is
buying expertise, sponsoring university
work , and establishing centers.
Nor will it forget soon to pay attention.
Many departments in many disciplines are
offering affiliate relationships, in which a
small fee-$5 ,000 to $20,000, say-buys
a "window on research ." The window
usually consists of occasional symposia, a
newsletter, and access to faculty and students.
N
obody questions the value of the
relatively simple window programs. It is always good to view
your work from someone else's point of
view , and the window offers that advantage to both industrial and academic people. The fee is trivial for the companyeven a small company-and demands on
faculty time are minimal. Consulting and
collaboration may develop , which is useful to both parties . Alan Goldberg, director of such a program at the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health, sums up : " There are things we're
doing that are needed by industry, and
they don't know we're doing it and we
don't know they need it. That's why the
interaction is so important ."
When interaction gets more complicated , though, other factors come into play.
Are industrial engineers dealing with academic engineers? In that case there is
likely to be little trouble. As Edmund T .
Cranch, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), points out , academic
engineers have been working with companies for decades . " The industrial links
are absolutely natural." Engineers often
move from industry to academe or the
other way; the value systems differ little .
An academic scientist, however, is often
a person who could have been an engineer. By temperament and abilities, he or
she is a person who likes to solve problems-but who chose less tangible prob-
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Companies prefer that a new
technology be a well-kept trade
secret, like the formula for
Coca-Cola. But academicians
say they must have freedom to
discuss and publish their
research.
!ems, for whatever reason . Usually the
scientist chose academic science despite
knowing that engineering or industrial science would probably bring a higher income . Academic scientists may or may
not care whether there is any immediate
application for their work , or even a longterm application , and they may or may
not communicate easily with their industrial counterparts. Certainly the values of
academic science and industrial science
differ.
In a recent talk , Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center , claimed that applied researchers thought of themselves as practical , hardworking types wielding science
for useful ends while the basic scientists,
a " dreamy , unworldly Jot, " worked without real purpose . On their side, Thomas
said , the basic scientists considered themselves the only real source of scientific
knowledge and saw the applied scientists
as " money grubbing day laborers ." The
greater traffic between industry and academe is changing these stereotypes,
Thomas argued , finding the shift a reason
to applaud the new arrangements . Still ,
the comment has the sting of a near-truth;
if not those attitudes , the ghosts of those
attitudes persist . They interfere .
Second, the intellectual turf also seems
to matter. In biotechnology, as witness
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the MGH/Hoechst agreement , academe
has knowledge that industry badly wishes
to buy. Furthermore, the work is done
with equipment a home laboratory could
easily amass. The contracts generously cede
almost anything the universities care to
ask. But in areas like computers and robotics, the knowledge and-very importantly-the expensive equipment are in
industrial hands. In these cases faculty and
student access to equipment is often the
school's major gain . Francis C. Lutz, associate dean for projects at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, says bluntly, "It could
be advantageous to give up some of your
rights , in return for getting ahead by two
years , as industry often is ahead." Equipment can be a big factor in keeping-or
not keeping-desirable faculty and students.
Third, the clout of the academic institution is critical. Home of the heavy hitters, the ones industry wants to work with,
major universities are able to negotiate
conditions: that all work can be published
in scholarly journals-though after a brief
delay so the sponsor can patent useful material. Or that the university holds the patent and collects royalties.
F
oremost among the issues that come
up in negotiations between industry
and academe is secrecy. As an ideal,
companies prefer that a new technology
be a well-kept trade secret, like the formula for Coca-Cola. That way may lie a
huge profit. Patents are the second-best
choice. In general, entrusting proprietary
information to people outside their own
laboratories seems to companies dangerous. How can their secrets be protected?
But from the academic point of view,
complete freedom to publish and talk about
work is not merely ideal , but essential.
Said one dean of research, " If we do nothing else, we've got to protect our freedom
to publish as we do . We have to preserve
academic openness. In my view it's like
personal virtue-to be compromised just
once is enough." Said Richard Zdanis,
vice provost at Johns Hopkins University ,
" If a researcher on his own discovers
something he thinks is commercially valuable , all he needs to do is keep quiet and
the delicate fabric of academic life is already damaged."
Why? Isn' t this degree of caution exaggerated?
Pushed to explain why he thought not ,
Zdanis offered an example from the Space
Telescope Science Institute, which is on
the Hopkins campus. The Space Telescope staff find themselves delighted with
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of Interests
" My feeling is that universities are far too
conservative. They sat out the microelectronic revolution. Now the biotechnical
revolution is coming along, and they can't
afford to sit that out . What we have to do
is protect the university by putting it in a
position where it is not in control, where
it only owns minority stock , where faculty
members serve only as consultants . We
have to keep the university simon-pure
and clean. But we have to Jet the university grow with the bionic revolution."
-Wayne S. Brown, Director,
Innovation Center,
University of Utah
"Some academic institutions Jive or believe they Jive in a risk-free environment-but the world outside is risk-laden .
Ethical statements get tested in real life ,
by specific cases, with the introduction of
money. That's when the soul of the university gets tested ."
-Edmund T. Cranch, President,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
" As times get harder , all donors will be
more apt to try to call the shots-not just
corporate sponsors. Colleges will increasingly face the question, Do I accept the
gift and the strings that come with it , or
do I refuse?"
-James L. Powell, President,
Franklin and Marshall College
" The manufacturing sector is only 25 percent of the GNP, roughly, but 65 percent
of it derives from manufacturing . Service
doesn't generate money. The U.S . cannot
survive selling raw inventions and services-I don' t think the U .S. wishes to be
the laundry capital of the world ."
- Leo Hanifin, Director,
Center for Manufacturing
Productivity and Technology
Transfer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The average car has about 16,000 parts;
all 16,000 of those parts will come together and make a perfect car. If you , as
manufacturing supervisor, had to be sure
that this car appeared on schedule, you
might just go a bit overboard to make sure
that you used nothing but absolutely
proven technology . . . . Consequently,
when you approach manufacturing people with the idea of new technology, they
are something less than enchanted."
-Thomas 0. Mathues, Vice
President, General Motors
"The decision to settle on just one school
is not smart business. The actual research
community is apt to be spread through
half a dozen or more schools. It's better
to support the field as a whole."
-John Schaefer, President,
Research Corporation
"For obvious reasons, it would be imprudent for business to support undifferentiated research: when it pays off it pays
handsomely, but it does so infrequently.
Likewise, it would be a clear misappropriation of federal funds to develop these
discoveries into commercial use. Development will happen without institutionalizing it."
-David A. Blake, Associate
Dean for Research, School
of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
"If we assert that industry's welfare de-
pends on the basic infrastructure of research at universities, then a mechanism
is needed. Is it unreasonable to conceive
of an 'Industrial Science and Technology
Foundation' to match in size and scope
the government's National Science Foundation?"
-Robert M. White, President,
National Academy of Engineering
in the country are these smaller ones. How
do we interact with them?"
-James D. Bruce, Director
Industrial Liaison Program, M.I. T.
"Ten years ago, companies made stuff and
screened it at random and tried it on animals and hoped you'd stumble on something. Now medical research has come so
far that good basic research is relevant to
drug development." About the NIH: "That
H is for Health, not Hobby. We're on
NIH money so we should be trying to
work on material with practical relevance.
Otherwise universities are wasting time."
-Solomon H. Snyder, School
of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
"Look out for the price. Watch the price
very carefully. Because so often when
Athena, who is the goddess of wisdom,
comes in contact with Mammon, who is
god of money, it is Mammon who comes
out on top."
-DeWitt Stetten, Jr.
National Institutes of Health
"DNA is like Midas's gold---everyone who
touches it goes insane."
-Frank Press, President,
National Academy of Sciences
"The Gross National Product is an unfortunate phrase, because what it really
means is the gross national saleable product. It does not include such products as
the products of Homer, of Mozart, or of
Michelangelo."
-DeWitt Stetten, Jr.
"My view is that we make a product for
them-our students--and they should help
pay for it. Their view is that they're doing
us a favor in hiring our students. Industry
at large does not think enough about small
schools. The big schools will not produce
enough engineers."
-Yi Hua Ma, Head of Chemical
Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute
"Our job with these students is to make
sure that whatever they said they wanted
when they came here, they end up getting
a liberal education. We don't trouble ourselves a great deal about biasing the search
for knowledge in some way. Harvard has
to worry about that. We don't. Our virtue
is protected because nobody really wants
to violate it ."
-Bryant L. Cureton, Dean,
Hartwick College
"How do we address the needs of the
smaller companies? ... Such companies
can and do compete effectively for our
students. They can and do send students
here for continuing education programs.
But such a company cannot afford to be
a member of (M.I.T.'s] liaison programs;
the fees are too high. Yet we know that
some of the most innovative companies
"The development of technology-based
emphasis in education does have ominous
implications. We can't afford to lose our
English departments or classics departments or history departments, though they
don't need the same magnitude of support
that science subjects do. We're Jiving in
a technological society, and if an attitude
develops that these are nice frills but that
it's technology that deserves our support,
that will lead to a skewing of values."
-John Schaefer
"If your main purpose is not education,
you're not a university, you're a research
institute."
-V. David Vandelinde
G. W. C. Whiting School of
Engineering, Johns Hopkins
University
"Liberal arts students should learn not to
be afraid of computers, and we should
either require, or make it very easy for,
students to get personal computers. But
they don't really have to know anything
about computers. I don't know how this
telephone works, and computers will be
the same way in 10 years or Jess."
-James L. Powell
"Whatever relations we have formed with
industries have first of all developed out
of educational projects. It is essential that
they happen this way."
-George M. Low, President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"An academic Jab is like an industrial Jab
except it's half trainees. Our students are
unencumbered and eager and new-that's
very valuable. The science in many industries is first-rate, so what they want is
our students and our ferment. An institute that is not training students will not
have the ferment of a university."
-David A. Blake
"Skilled and dedicated graduate students
are one of the last remaining pools of cheap
labor anywhere in the world today. Industrial Jabs are hard pressed to match
the quality of this working force in the
better universities, even at a significantly
higher cost."
-Lewis B. Gustafson,
Conoco executive
"If universities train people who are not
state-of-the-art, then it's several years before they become effective for industry.
So it's really cheaper to keep us state-ofthe-art-but they've got to help us with
the equipment. Otherwise, their own people with their sophisticated scientific temperaments will have doctorates from
where? Of what quality? I think that's
really the issue."
-Steven Muller, President,
Johns Hopkins University
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Are we eating the seed com!
Because of the shortage of
engineers, industry salaries are
high. Therefore fewer students
choose to go on to graduateschool, and fewer fresh PhDs
choose to teach.
the academic atmosphere , he said , because they can do better work . Example:
A measuring device for the Telescope
would not behave itself, and the staff talked
it over with faculty members . A metallurgist recommended a mounting block
with the same coefficient of expansion as
the instrument , to avoid distortion-and
it helped . Someone else advised them on
humidity and other atmospheric problems
that might be affecting performance-and
it helped. After all the casual consultation , the instrument out-performs its
manufacturer's specifications. And , Zdanis
concluded triumphantly , for very high
quality work it is vital to have this kind
of daily discussion of the " details-details
that might at some time have commercial
value." Academe is a house built on trust.
This secrecy issue looks intractable, but
in practice it can be worked out . In recent
contracts , the usual arrangement is that
the corporation gets a first look at any
papers, and that publication may be held
up-sometimes as long as 120 days-to
allow the company to file for a patent .
The normal delays of academic publishing
are at least that long anyway .
More iffy is the question of international patents: In U.S. law , presenting an
oral report at a conference would not bar
a patent. But in the rest of the world, it
seems that any communication of the
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work-" enabling disclosure"-may jeopardize the patent. How then to have peer
review? In a recent survey by Donald
Fowler, Caltech's General Counsel, university people declared the secrecy issue
to be the most serious impediment to industry/university cooperative research .
And what did industry view as the main
impediment? What Fowler calls the "asserted fact " that industry has its own research capabilities , and would use them
wherever there was " no clear-cut cost advantage or unique capability on the part
of the university. "
"Unique capability" often means an academic superstar who cannot be lured from
academe , and such exist. Young professors have been known to turn down multiples of their university salaries because
they prefer to work on campus.
The cost advantage is where cooperative research centers come in. The centers
that succeed come close to being all things
to all people. They provide meaningful
projects for students-usually graduate
students-who are supervised by faculty ,
who thus maintain contact with industrial
realities (" a sanity test," one Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute professor calls it).
Students also get an introduction to industrial realities: "Time constraints , money
constraints , having to work in a teamstudents learn all these things in working
with industry ," says WPI President Cranch.
" So if we can expose our students to that ,
we feel it's a tremendous advantage."
For the sponsors , a sum like $20,000
each year will typically buy work on a
project of their choice, a chance to improve recruiting by knowing students well,
access to faculty, the non proprietary results of work performed for other sponsors , and seminars for employees. Says
WPI Dean of Faculty Ray Bolz , "Often
students don't know something can't be
done , so they do it ."
Some cooperatives effectively develop
proprietary secrets of their own. At the
Center for Interactive Computer Graphics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, any
software developed for one sponsor is
shared with all sponsors , but only for their
internal use. Asked whether secrecy was
a problem, Director Michael J. Wozny
looked blank . Software can be valuable ,
but the possibility of trouble was obviously a new thought, which would seem
to indicate that everyone honors the
agreements . So far , 30 companies have
joined that center and none has left.
At the same center , enthusiastic sponsors have donated equipment worth about
$4 .5 million , which is beginning to reverse
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the brain drain to industry . Most of the
research is done by master's degree candidates (supervised by full-time staff) , some
of whom are now staying on for PhDs.
That's partly because few industrial plants
can begin to match the equipment of the
Center , Wozny explains .
Such a center is obviously good for students , who are exposed to a rich variety
of projects and equipment. And that's the
point, to RPI President George M . Low.
He feels a university/industry link can succeed only if the program has intrinsic educational merit. Otherwise , there will be
transplant rejection .
The center concept also eliminates the
possibility that a sponsor might dictate
unacceptable terms: There are too many
sponsors . Hoechst might possibly be able
to dictate to the department it created.
But no $20 ,000 sponsor , even a mighty
giver of equipment , can dictate terms.
"Even if company X wanted us to do
something foolish ," says Low, " we would
be in an awfully good position to tell them
to go to hell, because in any given year
our income from any one company would
be a tiny fraction of our income ."
As well as the many university centers ,
industrial firms are themselves establishing centers , including the Semiconductor
Research Cooperative (SRC) . This nonprofit foundation is linked to the Semiconductor Industry Association and is intended to reestablish U.S . supremacy in
integrated circuitry. Erich Bloch , IBM's
vice president for research and chairman
of SRC's board, says that Japanese companies have captured about 40 percent of
the market for the current generation of
computer memory chips, the 16K RAM.
It is projected they may take 70 percent
of the market for the 64K RAM. Enter
SRC, with plans to commission long-term
basic research from universities on such
topics as computer-aided design, alternative semiconductor materials , and new
ways to imprint circuits on silicon chips .
Industrial members will contribute in proportion to their total semiconductor sales
or to the value of the semiconductors they
use in their products .
The other big new industry effort is the
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) , a $50-million-ayear joint venture of 12 high-technology
companies. Research will focus on CAD/
CAM, computer architecture , software
technology, and packaging. Sponsors buy
into each project separately, goaded by
the knowledge that those who fund the
project get a 3-year lead on licenses for
any products-while companies that are
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A professor's first loyalty should
be to academic work. If he is
also an investor in a
biotechnology firm, how will
that affect his work?
shareholders but didn't join the particular
project gain no advantage. The research
will be performed by research people from
member firms . MCC represents the brute
force approach to the problem .
The most imaginative research organization is a hybrid with four parts: the
Center for Biotechnology Research, which
is the central element and contracts with
universities-Stanford , Berkeley , and
MIT, at this point-to do basic research
in production and product separation
processes . The universities (part 2) are
independent contractors and will hold any
patents. The sponsoring companies (3) can
get options for licenses to the patentsand so can (4) a unit called Engenics , which
is the profit-making unit. Engenics will
perform applied research and process development in biotechnology and genetic
engineering. The corporations , the founders , and the Center hold equity in Engenics. If Engenics proves profitable , the
Center's 30 percent take will allow it to
continue to contract for basic research .
The idea is to prevent conflict of interest.
Of all the various problems created by
the new order, conflict of interest is one
of the most vexing. A professor's first loyalty should be to academic work. If he or
she is also an investor in , for instance , a
biotechnology firm, or a principal of the
firm , how will that affect her academic
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work? Can the principal of a firm ethically
participate as an academic worker on research grants contracted by the firm? Or
can his students? Will a financial interest
skew judgment of the student work or of
the professor's own work? Many universities are now asking faculty members to
disclose any outside commitments.
Disclosure rules sometimes lead to
losses, as in the case of Walter Gilbert , a
Nobelist and former professor of molecular biology at Harvard. Gilbert was also
an executive with Biogen, S.A . , an international research firm . In 1982, when
Harvard imposed new rules about conflict
of interest, Gilbert was asked to leave the
university and has become Biogen's fulltime chairman. Some computer people are
also leaving university life in order to form
their own corporations. Individuals are
entitled to make their own choices, but
those leaving are often those whose work
is of the highest quality.
At first blink , patents appear to be a
problem also, but most people in universities no longer worry about it. The Patent
and Trademark Amendments of 1980 give
universities, small businesses, and nonprofit organiz11tions the right of first refusal to title in inventions made under
government contract. Previously, the federal government held the patents and refused to give exclusive licenses, on the
grounds that the public had already paid
for the research. However, too few companies were willing to go to the expense
of developing a product to which they could
not hold an exclusive license, so the ideas
for which the public had already paid languished in the patent office .
Many universities now claim patents and
share royalties with the inventor-often
also with the inventor's department or
school , and even the inventor's research.
"That's what they really like," said one
administrator confidentially. "It's tax free
and it ensures the continuity of their work."
Many universities will grant an exclusive
license, but under conditions: if the licensee does not develop and market the
product, the exclusive right is lost .
However , the issue seldom arises . Before the eruption of biotechnology , scholars were seldom inventors . " Look ," said
one administrator. "Look how few big inventions have come out of universitieswarfarin , Vitamin D, the laser, stannous
fluoride-there are so few of them you
can count them on your fingers. " Carnegie-Mellon, for one, has decided not to
seek patents but to let the industrial sponsors have them.
A last worry, in the flood of glamour
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biology and computer studies , is that the
liberal arts will submerge. To much of the
public, they already seem less and less
"relevant," and occasional schools are
phasing out Classics departments and some
foreign languages . " Possibly," responds
Richard Zdanis, "but whether universities participate in research consortia or
not, that's going to be a challenge. In a
sense we're reliving the Sputnik era, and
we have to be concerned about overaccommodating. But universities only began to flourish, really, when they came
out of the monastery and began to interact with society."
I these worries may well be premature, for the temptations may pass.
Joshua Lederberg, president of
Rockefeller University , recently told a bar
association colloquium in New York that
the present situation is an " aberration. "
He sees the cooperation as industry
scrambling to draw on university talent it
does not yet have in-house. Agreements ,
he notes , mostly call for industry researchers on campus , for pre-publication
reviews , for seminars. Industry is getting
educated.
Meanwhile, one trend is apparent : the
corporate money tends to go to the academic haves , rather than the have-nots .
Digital Equipment Corporation is giving
MIT nearly 2,000 personal computers,
terminals , and work stations , as well as
63 minicomputers over five years , while
IBM is giving the school about 1,000 personal computers . MIT will use this material to develop a computerized curriculum. Motorola is a highly selective
industrial associate : MIT, Stanford, and
Caltech . RPI's new Center for Integrated
Electronics received an electron-beam lithography system , one of only three such
machines ever built , as a gift from IBM .
Hartwick College , by contrast, gets a
small IBM grant to help retrain two professors to use and teach computers .
Franklin and Marshall College gets $60,000
from the Research Corporation (a foundation) to support chemistry, because the
Research Corporation has discovered that
the majority of graduate students in
chemistry have graduated from liberal arts
colleges. Such primarily undergraduate
schools do not attract the big bucks , and
the gap is widening between the haves and
the have-nots.
From a corporation's point of view, those
particular decisions are easy to defend. If
you wish to computerize scientific curricula nationwide, you will start at the school
which is likely to produce many future
departmental chairmen . That's MIT. And
Hartwick was delighted with its grant,
which provided exactly what it needed . It
must be remembered, though, still crudely
speaking, that corporate boards expect a
return on money spent, and money spentor not spent-indicates corporate priorities . To be fair , there is also a certain
inertia in systems run by human beings ;
it is hard to think through all details affected by a new situation .
People like Exxon's Edward David have
pleaded convincingly for more basic research . The U .S. will spend $80 billion on
R&D this year, David has written-over
two-thirds of it for development. He writes:
"The process is so expensive and so slow
because we are receiving inadequate help
from predictive science. In the petroleum
and chemical industries , we typically must
build pilot plants costing hundreds of millions of dollars to determine whether and
how we can practice a technology on an
industrial scale. The reason is that we still
know too little about the structure and
chemistry of hydrocarbons and this applies particularly to synthetic fuel resources like coal and oil shale. There are
similar problems in other industries . Designers of aircraft and steam turbines spend
heavily on wind tunnel tests because they
lack a good theory of turbulence and of
materials failures ."
In Donald Fowler's survey, both university and industrial people called for
more basic research , and both see a significant correlation between the amount
of money spent on basic technological research and future technological productivity . Of the academicians, 98 percent
believed that such a correlation existed ,
and 89 percent of those in industry agreed.
Still , substantial segments of industry show
only a verbal commitment to higher education and basic research .
Item: Westinghouse Educational Foundation contributes more than $2 million
each year to various universities for faculty development and structuring curricula , according to Westinghouse Vice
President Roy V . Gavert , writing in
CHANGE Magazine (April 1983). That
sounds good . Then on another page , one
learns that Westinghouse also spends $27
million on in-house education programs
for employees. It does seem that some of
that $27 million could have been spent
sending Westinghouse employees to take
appropriate courses at local colleges which
need students. It might well have been
cheaper and better to do so.
Item: It is generally agreed that the
dwindling supply of PhDs is a serious
problem , and the American Chemical Society has organized something called the
Chemical Research Council , which is intended to promote cooperation between
industry and higher education . Now in its
second year , the Council has 40 industrial
members , including Dow Chemical,
Exxon , Monsanto , and the Shell Development Company , and 141 university
members. The Council's first project is to
distribute industrial money from a kitty,
which is to be divided among university
members based on the number of PhDs
graduated in chemistry and chemical engineering. The present 40 corporate members are better than 20 corporate members, the number of the first year, but it's
not many. It will be interesting to see how
many corporations take up this straightforward way of helping universities meet
the need for PhDs in chemistry.
Item: the comment and suggestion of
Harit Majmudar , professor of electrical
engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. You might say he's on the front
lines . Majmudar says flatly , "When industry really begins to feel the pinch in
terms of qualified students , they say they've
got to get involved. When they don't feel
a pinch they won' t care one iota. " The
market for electrical engineers is now very
competitive . " So every week I get a call ,
'We want to have a better relationship,
what can we do for you?' " He thinks the
answer is obvious: be involved on a continuing basis. " They can see where we are
hurting. Engineering education in particular has needs for equipment and supplies
which have become very costly . These are
not capital expenses , these are operating
expenses. And we need fellowships ." And ,
he concludes, we need to " find people in
industry who can participate as professors. The concept of practitioners on one
side and professors on the other-we
should abandon the schism. We need to
do this as a corporate decision , not just
allow one guy to teach night school."
Consider also an organization called the
Life Sciences Research Foundation
(LSRF), founded by Donald D . Brown,
a prominent Baltimore biologist. The other
organizers are David Baltimore, Paul Berg,
Konrad E. Bloch , Arthur Kornberg,
Daniel Nathans , Hamilton 0. Smith ,
James D . Watson , and Lewis Thomas. All
but Brown and Thomas are Nobel Prize
winners . These scientists are concerned
that federal budget cuts and industrial interest in biomedicine will , at best , divert
universities from fundamental research.
LSRF seeks 30 postdoctoral fellowships
a year , at $30,000 each , for young sci-
"When industry begins to feel
the pinch in terms of qualified
students, they suddenly say
they've got to get involved.
When they don't feel a pinch,
they don't care one iota."
entists chosen by an LSRF peer review
committee to do basic biological research ,
non-targeted and with no strings attached. (The young scientists are expected to visit their sponsor corporations ,
however.) Considering tax breaks , the actual cost to a corporation would be about
$13 ,000. Given the caliber of the organizers , you'd think this could be a remarkably economical way to sponsor life sciences research at the very front line , where
recombinant DNA was 15 years ago . You'd
think sponsors would be waiting in line .
After a year of hard work , Brown has
found support for only 11 three-year fellowships , ten from companies and one from
a foundation , and six pledges for future
years . Monsanto (chemicals) and Hoffman-LaRoche (drugs) became sponsors
immediately for two Fellows each and
helped with the fund-raising . LSRF has
two objectives: to strengthen research and
teaching in the life sciences , and to convince industry that they're giving wrongly,
in too short-sighted a way . "They're used
to getting it free ," Brown says. "For years
the government supported all this work
and trained all these people-the corporations need to adjust to new times ."
So does higher education .
Elise Hancock is editor of the Johns
Hopkins Magazine.
AUGUST 1983
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proposed conversions, which will be published in a later issue. Please write before
October 15 .
To jog your memory, Solomon W. Golomb has prepared a table of the standardized prefixes corresponding to scale
factor changes by powers of ten:
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In addition, there are well-established
prefixes for the factors from 1 to 9, based
on both Latin and Greek roots :
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Solomon W. Golomb is professor of electrical engineering and mathematics at the University of
Southern California, where his primary area of interest is communication engineering-information
theory and coding theory. A writer of palindromes,
he has also written of an analogy he discovered
between quark theory and Rubik's cube.
Once, doctors prescribed crocodile
dung, fly specks, and eunuch fat:
patients came back for more, because
they wound up feeling better.
I
'm the doctor and you're the patient:
I tell you I'm giving you something to
make you feel better. You take it and ,
sure enough , you do feel better. Yet there's
nothing in what I gave you to account for
it. Maybe it's an injection of salt solution ,
which can relieve severe surgical pain by
no physiological mechanism known to
medical science . Or a sugar pill , which
logically, pharmacologically, or any other
way can have no effect , for good or ill ,
on the common cold. But it does anyhow:
That's the placebo effect .
In his famous 1955 review of 15 placebo
studies , which involved 1,082 patients suffering from conditions that ranged from
headache and seasickness to wound pain
and the common cold , pioneer placebo
researcher Henry K . Beecher found that
placebos worked about one third of the
time , or to use the precise figure cited
frequently since, "35.2 plus or minus 2.2
percent. "
Consider this : A research team at the
University of California at San Francisco
(Jon D . Levine, Howard L. Fields , and
two others) in 1980 reported that , on average, a placebo packed the pharmacological punch of a four to six milligram
dose of morphine in treating the pain of
tooth extractions .
Or this: In a clinical trial during the
early 1960s, surgeons tied off certain arteries of patients suffering from angina!
pain. The idea was to improve circulation
to the heart . It worked , or seemed to;
patients reported at least 60 percent relief
from pain . But this pleasing result was
tainted when mock " operations" in which
the skin of patients was cut , leaving a scar,
while internal organs were left untouched-an experimental control involving a form of placebo surgery not apt to
be condoned today-achieved almost
identical results .
A placebo's effects needn't be beneficial: Placebos have been found to elicit
side effects ranging from headache and
drowsiness to nausea and a " warm glow ,"
just like pharmacologically active drugs.
And they can be addictive : In one famous
case, colored pills-a " new major tranquilizer," she was told-were given to a
44-year-old schizophrenic woman. They
did help relieve her headache , insomnia ,
and anxiety . But after a while , she started
doubling and redoubling her dosage . Pretty
soon she was taking 25 tablets a day and
couldn't stop without psychiatric help.
But by and large, placebos do leave patients suffering less. In one 1965 study
conducted at Johns Hopkins Hospital by
Lino Covi and Lee C. Park , both now
associate professors of psychiatry, 14 out
of 15 patients declared that the inert pink
pills they'd been given to treat their neurotic symptoms had helped. In fact , four
of the 15 rated them " the most effective
ever prescribed for them " -although
they'd been told they were receiving sugar
pills. In at least one instance , a placebo
effect has even reversed the effects of an
active drug : When, in the early 1950s, a
pregnant woman in a New York hospital
complained of nausea, her physician ,
Stewart Wolf, gave her a drug he assured
her would cure it. Sure enough , the nausea disappeared. The medicine he'd given
her? Ipecac, normally given to induce
vomiting.
Like other medicines, a placebo may or
may not work; the " placebo effect" is what
happens when it does. It may be prescribed to actually help the patient. Or it
may be used as a control in the clinical
trial of some drug or treatment. It may
be a small green pill , or a big impressive
red capsule ; size , shape , and color don 't
seem to matter. It may be an injection .
It may be superficial surgery whose only
effect is to leave a scar. It may succeed
in lowering the pulse , or causing gastric
juices to secrete, or easing depression , or
reducing pain . It is, in short , the form of
treatment without its substance ; yet it can
achieve substantive results.
P
lacebos work on some of the people
some of the time, but not on all the
people all the time . Is there one
kind of person who responds to placebos
and another who doesn't? Is there , in short ,
such a thing as a "placebo reactor"?
Though students of the subject disagree , the more widespread view these days
is that there is not . The fact is , some studies find that females respond to placebos
more than do men , others the reverse.
Some studies find correlations with IQ ,
while others do not . And many people
respond to placebos at one time but not
another.
There are, however , certain paradoxical consistencies about the situations in
which placebos tend to work . First, placebos are clearly more effective in easing
clinical pain than experimentally induced
pain-by one crude measure about twice
as effective , according to Michael Jospe
in The Placebo Effect in Healing .
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"The doctor gave me something. Now I feel better."
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Second , placebos work better on severe
pain than they do on mild pain: In one
study by Beecher, a placebo was only 29
percent as effective as a standard dose of
morphine on patients with " mild" pain ,
but 77 percent as effective on patients with
" very severe pain. "
Finally , there is " the Anzio effect":
Soldiers badly wounded on the beachhead
at Anzio , one of World War Il's bloodiest
battles , and removed to rear positions for
care , complained far less often of pain
than do typical hospital patients recovering from surgery. Placebo pioneer Beecher,
who first took note of the discrepancy ,
found that less than a third of the wounded
soldiers complained of enough pain to require morphine . But morphine was needed
by four out of five civilians recovering from
analogous wounds incurred in surgery .
What to make of it all? The interpretation fashioned by Beecher, and now
widely accepted , is that pain has two distinct components . One is associated with
the original source of the pain . The other
factor superimposes on the sensation itself the patient's fears , anxieties , and ignorance about his situation . Gls pulled to
safety at Anzio were relieved at having
survived the battle and now perhaps being
on their way home , thus easing their pain .
Surgery patients on the other hand ,
plucked from home and family and subjected to a hospital ordeal , generally feel
a heightened anxiety. The anxiety compounds their pain .
Likewise , the kinds of experimental pain
inflicted on willing subjects , through electrical shock and other controlled means ,
mostly lack that secondary component of
pain that intensifies suffering: They carry
no ambiguity and fear. That holds for mild
pain of any sort , like that from a scratched
thumb . Its victim is apt to be aware of the
pain , yet not concerned.
It's this second component of pain , then ,
that the placebo is thought to reduce . Acting not upon the wound itself, but rather
easing the patient's emotions about it, it
lessens its perceived intensity. This " cog-
nitive" dimension is what NIH researcher
Ronald Dubner also comes back to in
trying to explain the placebo's salutary
effects-not just on pain but on all manner of physiological and psychological
conditions. " The meaning of the pain
changes because you get a placebo ," he
says. " What you' re altering is not the intensity of the sensation but the ·relative
unpleasantness of the situation as a whole.
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"Since it doesn 't do anything, it won't be easy to get people to take it every day.
There's just no demand for a preventative placebo. "
by Robert Kanigel
AUGUST 1983
XIII
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"Find out who set up this experiment. It seems that half of the patients were given a
placebo, and the other half were given a different placebo."
The placebo alters the meaning of the experience: 'The doc gave me something;
now I feel better.'"
O
nce, of course, placebos were
virtually the only treatment physicians prescribed. Once , before
CAT scans and penicillin, doctors prescribed crocodile dung , teeth of swine , fly
specks, oil of ants, fur, feathers, and eunuch fat . They purged their patients, punctured them, blistered them, bled ,them,
froze them, and shocked them. Remarkably, patients kept coming back for more.
Came back because they wound up feeling better . Came back for something in
those few moments with witch doctor , faith
healer, or physician , something in his
healing touch, that left them better offfreer of symptoms, further from deaththan they'd been before.
"Today we know," writes veteran placebo researcher Arthur K. Shapiro of
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, "that
the effectiveness of those procedures and
medications was due to psychological factors often referred to as the placebo effect . Since almost all medicines were until
recently placebos, the history of medical
treatment can be characterized largely as
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the history of the placebo effect."
But then along came modern medicine:
Antibiotics do not depend for their potency on the personality of the physician
administering them , or the kindness he
shows, or the ritual setting in which he
renders treatment. The old remedies,
meanwhile, which worked only some of
the time and in mysterious ways , were by
and large discarded. And the placebo effect itself, whose potency had masked their
ineffectiveness? As if guilty by association
with crocodile dung and bleeding cups, it
came to be "considered merely as a variable to be controlled," as one revisionist
commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association noted in 1975,
and so "ignored."
Coming from Latin , the word placebo
translates as " I shall please." After the
Middle Ages it came to mean a servile
flatterer, sycophant, or toady . By 1811it appeared that year in Hooper's Medical
Dictionary-it was being used about as it
is today , complete with faintly unsavory
aroma, as an "epithet given to any medicine adapted more to please than benefit
the patient."
Contempt dogged the subject, and in
some quarters still does. Around the turn
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of the century, the eminent Harvard medical ethicist and physician Richard C. Cabot observed that "No patient whose language you can speak , whose mind you can
approach, needs a placebo. I give placebos now and then . . . to Armenians and
others with whom I cannot communicate." A more recent commentator lamented that " some patients are so unintelligent , neurotic, and inadequate as to
be incurable , and life is made easier for
them by a placebo. "
In keeping with these attitudes, it is only
in the last 35 years or so that the placebo
effect has been studied as a phenomenon
all its own. As Hopkins pharmacologist
Paul Talalay observes, "The major textbooks of medicine don't even mention the
subject"-although, as he says, the placebo " confounds every transaction between the physician and patient. "
" Most physicians tend to disbelieve the
magnitude of it ," says Talalay , and are
uncomfortable with the subject. "It undermines a doctor's confidence in the effectiveness of his treatment . We're not
comfortable with the idea that much of
the time what we're doing has no therapeutic basis . . . . It makes us edgy. I suppose it's because the placebo is the meeting ground between the physician and the
charlatan. "
P
sychiatrist Jerome Frank of Hopkins likes to speak to "the faith that
heals ." That was the title of an address he gave a group of medical school
graduates in 1975 in which he outlined
how Christian Scientists , acupuncturists,
yoga masters , and the like view illness and
health . All such non-medical healers , he
observed, see health "as a state of harmonious integration of the person with
himself, and with his society, nature , and
the cosmos. " Illness represents a disruption of this harmony, and "the task of the
healer is to restore the disrupted harmony ," mobilizing the patient's faith
And mobilizing the patient's faith, argued Frank , is part of what happens every
day in every hospital , right alongside the
'' I gi,ve placebos . '' said medical
ethicist Richard C. Cabot, ''to
Armenians and others with whom I
cannot communicate. ''
surgery and the drugs. " One need only
substitute Science for the supernatural
healing powers invoked at faith-healing
shrines to discover striking similarities,"
Frank told his Commencement Day listeners. At a hospital , which enjoys " an
immense reputation as a site of amazing
cures ," physicians " perform arcane rituals. " Their labs and operating rooms and
intensive care units are places to " which
they alone have access ." They employ
"spectacular machines that beep and gurgle and flash lights or emit immensely
powerful but invisible rays ." From time
to time they perform " a dramatic , expensive , and impressive operation in which
the surgeon stops the patient's heart , repairs it and starts it up again . The surgeon
literally kills the patient and then resurrects him . Few faith healers can make an
equally impressive demonstration of healing power. "
A patient typically comes to every encounter with his physician , says Frank ,
with an attitude of " 'Oh , he must have
very powerful medicine ,' which is the
equivalent of ' Oh , he has powerful
magic.' " This "magic," and the patient's
belief in its power , are the basis of the
placebo effect .
Frank concludes , "History has shown
that faith healing works , and the placebo
is an attenuated form of it .. . Faith healing conjures up witchcraft and all sorts of
quackery ," he admits . but what the modern physician does , through the placebo
effect, is simply " smuggle it in through
caring, and warmth that are offered-or
not offered.
Consider this study from the mid-1960s :
Two matched groups of patients facing
abdominal surgery got differing styles of
care . One had the anesthesiologist in to
tell them about the coming operation but
heard nothing about any postoperative pain
they might face. The other group got special treatment : The anesthesiologist spent
much more time with them , discussed the
nature and severity of the pain they were
likely to experience , and reassured them
that backup medication was available from
the nursing staff. As it turned out , those
in the more sympathetically treated group
needed only half the pain medication , and
were discharged from the hospital an average of two days earlier , than members
of the other group . " A placebo effect
without the placebo ,'' was how the investigators put it (L. D . Egbert , G . E .
Battit , C. E. Welch , and M . K. Bartlett ,
New England Journal of Medicine). What
it amounted to , though , was caring and
respect for the patients as people .
This and other studies yielding similar
results moved Herbert Benson and Mark
D. Epstein to lament , in a commentary
in the Journal of the American M edical
Association entitled " The Placebo Effect :
A Neglected Asset in the C are of Patients ,'' " the growing trend toward decreasing doctor-patient contact , for example through the u s e of computer
facilities to obtain histories." Benson has
elsewhere been quoted as saying that " the
most important thing a doctor can do in
terms of dispensing care is simply to care
about the patient. And establishing rap-
the back door . "
A
s the doctor-patient relationship is
rediscovered as a worthy focus for
medical research and medical education ,'' writes Howard Brody of Michigan State University in a recent issue of
the Annals of Internal Medicine , "the placebo effect assumes center stage as one
approach to a more sophisticated understanding of this relationship ." It is not the
medical expertise the doctor can bring to
bear that counts most heavily here , but
the doctor in person , and the kindness,
" Well, I went to medical school o verseas, and for y our type of low-back pain, we
sprinkle dried roots on the ground, then chant for ten minutes."
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XV
"It makes us edgy, " says
pharmacologist Paul T alalay. ''I
suppose because the placebo is the
meeting ground between physician
and charlatan. ''
port is the real basis for the placebo effect."
To what can be traced the physician's
healing influence? Until 40 years ago, of
course, very often all a physician could
do was diagnose , laying out the likely
course of an illness and informing the patient what he would face. And this actually
helped. In an insight Jerome Frank credits
to a Hopkins colleague, Paul R . McHugh ,
those early physicians were at least addressing the awful ambiguity a sick patient
feels about his condition, and ambiguity
is , as Frank notes , "one of the greatest
sources of anxiety ." Anxiety, in turn-as
Henry K. Beecher, with his two-level pain
model 30 years ago surmised-tends to
aggravate the pain the patient actually
perceives. Thus a doctor who "offers clear,
concise, unambiguous treatment immediately reduces anxiety ," says Frank, and
so, in many cases, the patient's suffering
as well.
But the physician 's healing influence is
hardly cut and dried . "Between the doctor and the patient's getting better there
may be 50 complicated variables that affect one another," says medical psychologist Michael Jospe; medicine is an art as
well as a science and, like any art, some
practitioners may be better at it than
others. Whether physicians differ innately
in their ability to heal is , as Jerome Frank
says, an "awkward question ." But Michael Jospe plainly thinks so. " Some doctors are better healers than others," he
says, and the differences lie in their personalities, in the intuition, the calming influence they bring to their dealings with
patients .
Is this, then, what faith healers and other
"primitive" practitioners offer? " Oh , yes,"
Jospe replies. " We only say it's 'primitive'
because it's so complex we don 't know
how to deal with it ."
A
totheplaceboitself, though , there
s one intriguing lead on a possible
physiological mechanism , discovered in California a few years ago. Jon
Levine's research team at the University
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of California at San Francisco gave first
placebos , then intravenous naloxone, to
patients recovering from surgery for tooth
extraction: the naloxone cancelled any
placebo effects they'd experienced. The
article was published in Nature , Britain's
pre-eminent journal, and created international excitement among researchers in
the life sciences.
Naloxone is an "opiate antagonist":
Often used in helping addicts detoxify , it
Jocks onto the same receptor sites in the
brain at which endorphins hook up (the
brain's natural opiates), thus blocking their
pain-killing action. Therefore, if an injection of naloxone blocks the placebo's
analgesic effect in patients who had been
relieved by it, perhaps the placebo effect
works through the endorphin system.
Years before, in 1965 , Louis Lasagna
had commented on the "curious hyperalgesic [pain-heightening] effect" of naloxone on patients with post-operative
pain, but couldn't explain it . Now here ,
maybe , lay the explanation: The placebo
marshals the body's natural pain-killing
system-which the naloxone disrupted ,
thus exacerbating pain.
Maybe . Recent studies at the National
Institutes of Health seem to lend another
interpretation to the California results . Just
as in Levine's work, says Ronald Dubner
(chief of neurobiology and anesthesiology
at the National Institute of Dental Research), dental patients in his studies reported greater pain when they got naloxone. But so did patients who got no
placebo.
In their still-unpublished experiment,
the results of which were presented to the
annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience last November , Dubner, research psychologist Richard Gracely , and
their colleagues, established a "no-treatment" group that got neither pain-killer
nor naloxone. Yet the pain level in this
group shot up the same amount when it
got naloxone as did the placebo group's
pain . In other words , the results can be
explained without the placebo. Perhaps ,
says Dubner , it was simply " the stress of
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surgery" that activated the endorphin system , not the placebo at all.
But the endorphin placebo hypothesis
is by no means a closed book. " The placebo is not the only thing in the world
that turns on the endorphin system," says
Levine. Why should the pain increase in
the NIH no-treatment group be surprising? His group is repeating the experiment-with a no-treatment group--but
with different pain levels. He hopes to
resolve the discrepancies between his
group's results and those at NIH.
But even if endorphins or related mechanisms should come to explain certain aspects of placebo action, that leaves wide
open the intriguing fundamental question
of how symbolic input-a thought or an
emotion-can release endorphins, or for
that matter other neurotransmitters. Then,
too , the endorphin hypothesis would seem
to apply only to the placebo's pain-killing
powers , not to its capability to bring relief
in other ways . So, despite the promise of
the endorphin work , a neat physiological
explanation for the placebo effect is still
a long way off. "Most likely, " as Paul
Talalay says, " the placebo effect is like
cancer-a whole series of different things
that operate through a variety of different
mechanisms."
A
terword : A few years ago, the
Journal of the American Medical
Association reprinted an old piece
from its June 23, 1900 issue in which one
W . W . Keen , MD, LLD , outlined what
he saw as the characteristics of "The Ideal
Physician." At times of "sickness and
weariness and woe ," Keen wrote in the
overwrought prose of that era, the physician is a welcome visitor indeed: "Then
can his gentle touch give assurance; then
can his sympathetic voice bring hope; then
can the thousand and one acts of thoughtful kindness bind to him for life the anxious hearts looking to him as the messenger of life. Even in the daily routine of a
hospital clinic," he wrote in the first year
of the twentieth century , "a kind word is
often better than any medicine ."
, ALUMNI ALMANAC I
Gerald C. Eckert
Director of College and Alumni Relations
Sarah L. Truxal '76
Associate Director of Alumni Programs
Maxine Gelhard
Manager, Alumni House
Juan Flores
Assistant Alumni Director
Class Associations
This is the last in a series of articles
about the work of committees of the
Alumni Board.
"The strength of F&M's reputation , like
the reputation of any college, rests on the
lives and achievements of its alumni." Steve
D. Lockey III '59 pauses in his explanation of the importance of strong ties between alumni and their College. "Because alumni feel so good about the
College, their efforts as volunteers and
their financial support have helped to preserve and strengthen this institution for
nearly two centuries, making it possible
for each freshman class to attend one of
the finest liberal arts colleges in the country .
"If you look at our nearly 19 ,ODO-member alumni body," Lockey continues, " you
begin to realize that alumni remain involved with the College through many different avenues . Some stay in touch with
others in their profession-such as medicine or geology-while the loyalty of other
alumni is linked to a specific organization-such as the radio station or the Poor
Richards or the Academy . There is one
bond, though, that supersedes all these
individual interests, and that is the bond
you feel with the people who shared your
four years on campus-your class."
Lockey is completing his fourth year on
the Alumni Board; for the past three years
he has been chairman of the class association committee . The committee has developed a plan to integrate class officers
into the programs of the Alumni Association, working with each year's reunion
classes, and the Alumni Office has compiled a manual to help officers organize
their classes as their reunions approach .
"The task of revitalizing the class officer
structure for all 50 classes from 1933 to
1983 seems monumental. However, if we
do the 10 reunion classes each year , as we
plan to, we will complete the projecr in
five years," says Lockey. For some classes ,
preparing for their reunion will include
selecting officers, if they never did so .
Steve Lockey Ill, M .D . '59
Many of the older classes have elaborate systems of officers which may include
a class historian , poet, or orator. While
classes that have such officers may ask
them to participate in reunions , these positions are optional.
Here is a brief list of the responsibilities
of class officers:
President. Communicates to the Alumni
Office class interests. Consults with the
class vice president and the Alumni Office
in appointing new chairperson. Presides
at meetings. Attends the yearly Alumni
Council meeting and stays abreast of
changes at the College. Works closely with
other officers.
Vice President. Assists the president in
planning class projects . Consults with the
president and the Alumni Office in appointing new chairpersons. Presides at
gatherings in the president's absence. Attends the yearly Alumni Council meeting.
Reunion Planning Chairperson. Appointed by the president and the Alumni
Office. Works with Alumni Office to recruit a committee to help plan the reunion. Works closely with the Alumni Office
to plan the reunion every fifth year.
Reunion Gift Chairperson. Appointed
by the Development Office , after consultation with the Alumni Office , class
president, and vice president. Works with
the Development Office to recruit a committee. Develops and implements a plan
for reunion gift solicitation. Presents the
reunion gift to the College.
Bequest Chairperson. Appointed by the
College's Assistant to the President for
Bequests and Trusts, after consultation
with the class president. Works to inform
classmates of deferred giving opportunities. Encourages classmates to present deferred gifts to the College.
Class Correspondent (Secretary). Keeps
informed of changes in the business and
personal lives of classmates through correspondence. Serves as the correspondent
between the College and the class.
Class Agent. Appointed by the College's Development Office. Encourages
gifts to the College.
New Alumni
Officers, Members
The Alumni Board elected officers and
appointed three new members to fouryear terms at its May meeting . Donald K.
Hess '52, Rochester, N.Y., was elected
president. Don has served on the board
since 1981 and was vice president last year.
He is vice president for campus affairs for
the University of Rochester. A former director of the Peace Corps, he was associate director of the United States Office
of Economic Opportunity. His term on
the board continues through 1985 .
Milton S. Samuels '40, New York, is
vice president; Timothy D. Armbruster
'66, Baltimore , Md ., is treasurer. New
members are Roger S. Reist '53, Lancaster, Pa.; Alfred Dally '49, Pen Argyl, Pa .;
and Paul E. Cooney '74, Woodbury, Conn.
Other board members are Robert A.
Groh '49, Cornwall, Pa. ; Timothy J.
Stewart '64, Peapack, N.J . ; Paula J. Faust
'77, Canton, N.Y.; Richard W. Rogers
'57, Norristown, Pa.; and Stanley Cheslock, Jr. '67, New York City. Kenneth M.
Duberstein '65, Alexandria, Va., and
Harry P. Ridenour '63, Washington, D.C.,
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are serving in one-year , at-large positions.
Two alumni faculty members , Alan Glazer
'69 and Claude H. Yoder '62 , also serve
on the board.
Spring Reunions
It is fitting somehow that the College celebrate Commencement each year at the
same time that the 50-year and earlier
classes return for reunions. Commencement , after all, marks the change from
undergraduate to graduate. And so it was
this past May when the alumni ranks grew
by 475 new members of the Class of 1983 .
The weekend began with a reception
for alumni and seniors on Friday evening.
The Class of 1933 , celebrating their 50th
reunion , shared their view of the College
in the 1930s with the seniors, relating tales
of pushball , the senior fence, and the oncetraditional pajama parade.
The Class of 1918 has been meeting every
year for the past 10 years , unlike other
classes which meet every fifth year for
reunion. This year marked the 65th anniversary of 1918's graduation . It was an
especially warm occasion for the 13 alumni
and their spouses who returned to celebrate .
And during its third annual meeting ,
the Nevonian Society inducted 50 new
members , who graduated more than 50
years ago . A new honorary member was
President Spalding, whose first official act
as a Nevonian was to pass on his gavel to
incoming President James Powell , for use
at faculty meetings.
Alumni Leaders Convene
On Friday evening, March 18, 103 alumni
leaders from a variety of programs came
to campus to participate in the first Alumni
Leadership Conference. Liz Mackey '75,
then president of the Alumni Association,
welcomed the volunteers, stressing the
importance of their service to the College.
" Each of you, " she said, "can be proud
of the effects of your contributions. In
alumni-admissions work , career programs, or as class agents , regional presidents or representatives, class presidents,
reunion chairmen, or Alumni Board
members-you have contributed immeasurably to making F&M the outstanding college it is today."
The 103 volunteers , most of them regional council committee chairmen , class
agents , or regional council presidents,
represented more than 1,500 alumni in-
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volved in the service programs of the College. Altogether, more than 8,000 alumni
took part in the events and programs offered by the Alumni Association last year.
On Saturday morning , the working sessions got under way. Alumni met with the
College's four vice presidents for an update on academic and fiscal matters and
physical plant changes and for a briefing
on the incoming president, James Powell.
Following a tour of the recently renovated Shadek-Fackenthal Library, volunteers split into separate groups. Class
agents, chairmen of gifts, reunions, career
programs, regional development, and social programs and past presidents of the
Alumni Association met to evaluate the
past year, and plan for the next.
After lunch , people began heading
home. The general feeling was summed
up by one alumnus who said he appreciated being able to talk with alumni from
other parts of the country and thought
that the conference should be longer next
year , to allow more time for discussion.
For Your Reference ...
Metropolitan N.Y.: Robert Groden '68 ; 20
West 64th St., Apt. 20-S ; New York , NY 10023 .
Northern N.J.: J . Robert Snyder '67; R.D .
#2 , 2 Grandview Pl.; Rockaway, NJ 07866.
Washington, D.C.: George Wilcox '61 ; 12017
Wayland St.; Oakton , VA 22124.
Baltimore, Md.: Timothy Armbruster '66;
Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland , 300
North Charles St. , Suite 250 ; Baltimore , MD
21201.
Regional Representatives
Cleveland, Oh.: James Norris '48; 9431 Smith
Rd .; Waite Hill , OH 44094.
Detroit, Mich.: Herbert H . Schaeffler , Jr.
'57 ; 2775 Shagbark Lane, Box 187 ; Milford ,
MI 48042.
Jacksonville, Fla.: Charles B . McGowan '51 ;
3705 San Viscaya Dr. ; Jacksonville , FL 32217.
Houston, Tex.: Amy K. Dooley '77 ; 24027
Griffin House Lane; Katy , TX 77449.
San Francisco, Calif.: Henry R. Brett '49 ;
507 Panorama Dr.; San Francisco , CA 94131.
San Diego, Calif.: (Open- Contact th e
Alumni Office if you are willing to serve as the
San Diego regional representative .)
Miami, Fla.: Mortimer J. Cohen '51; 2005
N.E. 198th Terr. ; Miami , FL 33179.
Charleston, S.C. : John M. Bevan '44; 12 Bull
St. ; Cha rleston , SC 29401 or Wayne H. Braverman, M .D. '65 ; 44 Tradd St. ; Cha rlesto n ,
SC 29401.
Here is a list of regional council presidents and regional representatives (for
areas where not enough alumni live to
organize a regional council).
Richmond, Va.: James Neese '56; 1618 Pope
Ave .; Richmond , VA 23227.
Regional Council Presidents
Charlotte, N.C.: Edward N . French '63 ; 725
Charter Place; Charlotte , NC 28211.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Michael Lamond '74 ; 211
Avon Rd.; Cherry Hill , NJ 08034.
Raleigh, N.C.: Thomas Gipson '65 ; 6709
Ridgecroft Lane ; Raleigh , NC 27609.
Lehigh Valley, Pa.: Donald Wieand , Jr. '73 ;
1411 Hamilton St. , Apt. 6E ; Allentown , PA
18102.
Chicago, Ill.: Crane Hauser '46 ; 1515 Astor
St. , Apt. 14C; Chicago , IL 60610.
Berks County, Pa.: Robert Solsky '57 ; 200
Lahoma Lane; Reading, PA 19601.
Chicago, Ill.: Henry Wiggins, Jr. , M.D . '46;
Mercy Hospital , King Dr. & Stevenson Expwy.;
Chicago , IL 60616.
Lancaster, Pa.: Jack Sippel '52; 407 S. West
End Ave.; Lancaster, PA 17603.
New Orleans, La.: E . Kendall Gike '76; 1127
Decatur St.; New Orleans , LA 70116.
York, Pa.: David Schlager '80; 1927 Queenswood Dr. , H-102 ; York, PA 17403 .
Phoenix, Ariz.: Paul J. Garraha n , Jr. '51 ;
1518 West Frier Dr. ; Phoenix , AZ 85021.
Harrisburg, Pa.: Richard Angino '62; R .D .
#4, Box 693; Harrisburg , PA 17112 .
Los Angeles, Calif.: Stephen D . Moses '55 ;
149 Denslow Ave. ; Los Angeles , CA 90049.
State College, Pa.: Amos Goodall '70 ; R.D.
#1, Box 57; Port Matilda , PA 16870.
Tampa, Fla.: William A. Zinzow, Jr. '48;
2277 Minneola Rd .; Clearwater, FL 33516 .
Somerset, Pa.: John Cascio '68 ; R .D. #3,
Box 4 ; Somerset, PA 15501.
Denver, Colo.: Jesse Arman '72; 900 Elmira
St. ; Aurora , CO 80010.
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Louis Salamone, Jr. '68; 1061
Apple Hill Lane ; Allison Park , PA 15101.
Central N.J.: S. Harrison Jerrold , M .D . '54 ;
2 Front Ave. West ; Edison , NJ 08817.
Boston, Mass.: Alan Jacobs '63; 133 Federal
St. ; Boston , MA 02110.
Las Vegas, Nev.: Bruce Hatt '51 ; 1808 Melinda Ave .;· Las Vegas , NV 89101.
New Haven, Conn.: John Witmer '67; 85
Woodsvale Rd.; Madison , CT 06443.
Atlanta, Ga.: Mark L. Fisher '62; 1229 Arbor
Vista Dr.; Atlanta, GA 30329.
Albany, N.Y.: George Danes '62; 14 Delucia
Terr.; Loudonville, NY 12211.
Seattle, Wash.: J . Roger Lee '71 ; 1221 Taylor Ave . North , #505 ; Seattle, WA 98109.
Rochester, N.Y.: John Bonin '72 ; 55 Hunters
Lane ; Rochester , NY 14618.
Southern N.J.: Robert Moore '50; 25 E ast
13th St.; Avalon, NJ 08202 .
1CIASS NOTESI
, 16 Paul
G. Murray, founder of Murray
Insurance Associates Inc. , sold the
business in March . He lives at 1239 Wheatland
Ave. , Lancaster, PA 17603.
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'3 8 Alfred
E. Garfinkel, president of Impervious Paint Industries Ltd. , resides
, 2 4 The
Rev. Canon Stuart Gast has moved
to 422 W . Vernon Ave., Linwood , NJ
at 1112 Orleans Rd ., Cheltenham , PA 19012.
08221. Last year he donated his collection of
800 religious lithographs to the Billy Graham
Museum at Wheaton College .
,3 9 cember
Richard M. Reinhart retired last Defrom his candy company. He
lives at R .D . 2 Leike Rd ., Parkesburg, PA
19365.
'28 Cumberland
The Rev. C. Harry Kehm, 815 E.
St., Allentown , PA 18103,
celebrated 45 years of service to Grace United
Church of Christ in March .
'3 2 Ben
Mazloff and Bill Saltzman, roommates at F&M and friends for 65 years,
get together each summer at Bill's Camp Canadensis in the Poconos. Although Ben resides
at 6911 SW 147th Ave ., Apt. 2C, Miami , FL
33193 , and Bill lives at B33 Briar House, Meetinghouse & Old York Rds ., Elkins Park , PA
19117, they keep in touch weekly by phone .
E. Jackson Taylor works part time as a relief
manager at State College theatres. He and his
wife live at 240 Toftress Ave., Apt. 101 , State
College, PA 16801.
,3 4 Walter
J. Gyngell lives at 106 N. Crescent Dr. , Rome, NY 13440. His wife ,
'40 Richard
Madfis is retired. He runs,
plays tennis, and cruises New England
waters. He lives at 280 Boylston St. , Chestnut
Hill , MA 02167. W. Herbert Pennington, retired from the Department of Energy, lives at
124 Redwood Dr., Douglassville , PA 19518.
'41 Richard
Cogley, director of research
and government relations at Knouse
Foods Cooperative, Inc., is president of the
South Mountain Audubon Society. His address
is Box 28, Arendtsville, PA 17303. Elliott R.
Fishel, M.D., president of the Maryland chapter
of the American Occupational Medical Association , lives at 5 Eden Roe Ct. , Baltimore,
MD 21208 . Joe Wiebush teaches chemistry at
the University of Central Florida and is a class
agent. He and his wife live at 1830 Ramie Rd. ,
Clermont, FL 32711 .
Ave. , State College, PA 16801. He retired this
year after 40 years at Penn State . Ward Latshaw, Jr., retired director ofrevenue programs
for the Manheim Township School District,
lives at 64 Sunrise Ave., Lancaster , PA 17601.
William J. Schnelli married Phyllis R . Buchanan in January. The couple lives at 742
Greenfield Dr., Port Orange, FL 32019.
'44
John D. Bealer, M.D., corporate medical director, industrial relations department, at Bethlehem Steel, retired in March.
He and his wife, Janis, reside at 3639 Emerson
Cr., Bethlehem, PA 18017. Jeptha J. Carrell,
executive director of both the Greater Lorain
County Community and the Nordson foundations, recently returned from a 28-day trip to
China. He and his wife , Demaris , reside at 158
S. Prospect St., Oberlin, OH 44074 . The Rev.
Richard Winters is a member of the staff of
World Neighbors, an agency devoted to aiding
development of impoverished areas. He lives
at 4400 NW 36th St., Apt . 4, Oklahoma City,
OK 73112.
'45
The Rev. L. Richard Batzler, associate
director of the Gotach Center for
Health , has written two books , Journeys on
Your Spiritual Path and Through the Valley of
the Shadow . He lives at 9337 Oppossumtown
Pike, Frederick, MD 21701. Richard Kleppinger, M.D., and his wife, Dorothea, also an
M.D ., were the subjects of an article in the
Reading Eagle in April. They reside at 1300
Lancaster Pike, Reading , PA 19607.
Helen , died in 1982 after a two-year illness.
'3 5
Judge Anthony Appel lives at 1409
Hillcrest Rd. , Lancaster, PA 17603.
He was keynote speaker at a February meeting
on the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse,
offered by the Penn Manor School District.
Harold Z. Baumbach lives at 941 E. Moores
Mill Rd ., Bel Air , MD 21014.
'42 William
Bevan, Ph.D., vice president
and health program director at the
'46 geon
Leonard Bachman, M.D., fleet surMacArthur Foundation , lives at Apt. 202, East
in the National Oceanic and
Residence , 666 Lakeshore Dr. , Chicago, IL
60611. On leave from Duke University, Bevan
is also president of the American Psychological
Association. Wendell R. Garner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Yale University, has
received an honorary doctorate from Johns
Hopkins University. He lives at 48 Yowago
Ave. , Pine Orchard, Branford , CT 06405 .
'3 7 Max
Migdon retired from the retail
clothing business in March . He had
owned four stores in Lancaster and Ephrata.
Max and his wife, Mildred, live at 1286 Meadowbrook Rd ., Lancaster, PA 17603. Herbert
R. Pierce retired in 1981 as controller and secretary of H .M . Stauffer and Sons , Inc. He lives
at 40 School Lane Ave. , Brownstown, PA 17508.
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'43 E.itusErwin
Klaus, Ph.D., professor emerof chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, lives at 221 Nimitz
Atmospheric Administration, lives at 3830 Harrison St. N .W. , Washington , DC 20015. Aloys
D. Heyen, D.D.S., retired from the Navy Dental
Corps in 1965 and has maintained a private
practice in Palm Springs for the past 17 years.
He was recently made a fellow in the American
Institute of Oral Biology and resides at 42-469
The Veldt, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270. John
A. Kirkpatrick, M.D., chief radiologist at Children 's Hospital, Harvard University Medical
Center, was the 1982 Polcyn Lecturer at F&M.
The lectureship was established in memory of
the late Dr. John L . Polcyn to advance premedical education and counseling programs at the
College. John lives at 34 Lowell Rd ., Wellesley,
MA 02181.
Irwin N. Perr, M.D., J.D., professor of
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cently became a grandfather for the second
time. He lives at 2845 Liberty St., Allentown ,
PA 18104. Donald Byers, clinical director of the
young adult unit of Augusta Mental Health
Institute, and his wife, Pat, recently spent three
weeks in China, visiting psychiatric facilities .
Their address is P .O. Box 724 , Augusta , ME
04330.
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'53 Warren
Leventhal, 15 Stephen La.,
Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 , is vice
president of investments at Prudential-Bache
Securities. John Maliniak, D.D.S., was invited
to China to lecture on implant dentistry under
the People-to-People Ambassador program.
His daughter Ann is an '81 F&M graduate
working as a research assistant in experimental
psychology at the Institute of Pennsylvania
Hospital. He lives at 2439 Hillside Dr., Norristown, PA 19403.
'54
psychiatry at Rutgers Medical School, has been
elected secretary of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences. He resides at 14 Liberty Bell
Ct. , East Brunswick, NJ 08816. Bruce Ryder
was recently elected president of the Lancaster
Bar Association. He lives at 504 Race Ave .,
Lancaster, PA 17603.
,4 7 Armstrong Worldgeneral
manager of
Industries' Spanish
John R. Fritz,
company, can be reached at Sor Angela, Dela
Cruz, #10-78, Madrid, 20 Spain. James A.
Smith retired in February as manager of sales
and marketing of metal closures at Kerr Glass
Manufacturing Corporation after 40 years with
the company. He and his wife , Helen , live at
1929 Edgemont Dr. , East Petersburg, PA 17520.
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'48 author
The Rev. B. David Hostetter is the
of Psalms and Prayers for Congregational Participation, published in January
by the C.S.S. Publishing Company. His address
is 5516 Route 414, P.O. Box 39 , Hector, NY
14841.
Ivy Bridge Rd., Glendale, CA 91207. John
Ebersole has retired from the Central Soya
Company after 33 years. He and his wife ,
Marie, plan to work with the Brethren Volunteer Service. They live at 1780 Longwood,
Orangeburg, SC 29115.
Joseph Frake, retired from the Los Angeles
city school system, resides at 1111 Carterford
Cr. , Westlake Village, CA 91361 with his wife ,
Winifred. Ross Peters, a director of the Society
of Vacuum Coaters, is president of B&K Plastic
Industries Ltd. and Vacuum Platers, Inc. He
lives at 46 Lyncroft Rd., Montreal, Quebec,
Canada H3X3E5.
'5 0 Edwin
L. Dunbaugh, Ph.D., has had
his fourth history book published; The
Era of the Joy Line is a history of a steamboat
line. He lives at 116 E. 10th St. , New York, NY
10003. David W. Graham, business office manager for Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital, is one
of 300 certified managers of patient accounts in
the Healthcare Financial Management Association. His address is R.D.1, Paradise , PA
17562. Charles Lohin, who retired a year ago
as principal of J.P. McCaskey High School in
Lancaster, is now a consultant for the School
District of Lancaster. He resides at 3118 Chryst
Cr., Lancaster, PA 17601 .
'49 Edward
H. Achorn teaches accounting
'5 1 Walter
A. Longenecker, a teacher in
at Pennsylvania State University. His
the Downingtown School District, lives
address is P.O. Box 287, Lemoyne, PA 17043.
John R. Biechler, chairman of the board and
chief executive officer of Commonwealth National Bank , lives at 149 Murray Hill Dr.,
Lancaster, PA 17601. Don Butler and his wife
have visited 23 countries in the last four years.
At home , the Butlers can be reached at 1710
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The Rev. Ronald R. Krick celebrated
his 10th year as pastor of the Palm
Schwenkfelder Church in February. Friends
can contact him care of Box 303 , Palm , CA
18070. Charles Patterson, executive director of
the Lancaster County housing and redevelopment authorities for the past six years , resides
at 2121 Lyndell Dr. , Lancaster, PA 17601.
'5 5
Stephen D. Moses, 149 Denison Ave .,
Los Angeles , CA 90049 , has been
elected to the Pitzer College Board of Trustees.
He is also a member of the National Advisory
Board of the Center for National Policy and
the L.A. Olympic Citizens Advisory Committee, and vice chairman of the Los Angeles Ballet. The Rev. Paul Sherry, 235 W. Eugene St. ,
Chicago , IL 60614 , is executive director of the
Community Renewal Society. Maj. Gen. Carl
R. Smith, military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, spoke on " Meeting
the Defense Challenge" at F&M last fall. He
lives at 6309 Capella Ave. , Burke, VA 22015.
'5 6 town
Phillip Harting, mayor of Adams, resides at 83 E. Main St., Box
266 , Adamstown , PA 19501. The Rev. L. Eugene Moyer was selected in February by the
Pottstown Mercury as its " Clergyman of the
Week. " He and his wife , Merle , reside at 742
Locust St. , Collegeville , PA 19426. Janis Sube,
M.D., stationed at Fort Carson , lives at 1425
Winding Ridge Tr. , Colorado Springs , CO
80919.
at 529 W. Boot Rd ., West Chester , PA 19380.
'5 7 Donald
A. Bruaw, D.O., chairman of
the family practice staff at Holy Spriit
,5 2 sylvania
Frank R. Beauchner returned to Pennfrom Houston to form his own
Hospital, resides at 100 Sharon Rd., Enola, PA
17025. Gordon L. Galloway went on leave from
Denison University in January to become director of academic computing at Cornell University. Write to him at 103 Chapin Pl. , Gran-
company, Construction Materials Co. He re-
ville, OH 43023. Lee Rosky, M.D., has a son
at Bucknell, a daughter at Wesleyan, and an
eight-year-old son who has a green belt in karate. The family lives at 8209 Lagoon Dr., Margate , NJ 08402. Albert L. Werner III, a music
teacher in the Muskegon County School System , arranges and composes music and adjudicates for the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association . He lives at 943 Jefferson
St. , Muskegon , MI 49440.
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Institute, lives at 6303 Broad Branch Rd. ,
Chevy Chase , MD 20815 . William MacNulty is
in his 23rd year as a 747 captain for Northwest
Orient Airlines. He lives at 13312 Penn Ave.
South, Burnsville, MN 55378. Karl D. Nolph,
M.D., lectured on "Continuous Ambulatory
Peritoneal Dialysis" last September in Pittsburgh, as well as in several European cities. He
lives at 908 Hickory Hill Dr. , Columbia , MO
65201. Joseph Noll's son , Jeff, and daughter,
Suzy, are new members of the Ice Capades
troupe. The Nolts live at R .D . 3 , Box 747,
Mount Joy , PA 17552.
November 11-12
,5 8 Frank
S. Keith, staff vice president,
'60 Soccer
Brian
Ahearn is a United States
international marketing, at RCA CorFederation referee who officiK.
poration, lives at 136 Forest Rd., Moorestown ,
NJ 08057 . Michael Paules, president of Fulton ,
Mehring and Hauser Co. , and a director of
York Bancorp and the York Bank and Trust
Co ., resides at 745 Southern Rd. , York , PA
17403.
, 5 9 John
L. Burmeister, Ph.D., chemistry
professor at the University of Delaware , lives at 1 Carriage Ln ., Covered Bridge
Farms , Newark, DE 19711. Donald M. Herr,
V.M.D., received the 1982 Award of Merit
from the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association. He lives at 2363 Henbird La ., Lancaster, PA 17601. Donald L. Jones, 760 Stoney
Battery Rd ., Landisville , PA 17538, is an
assistant vice president at Hamilton Bank . Paul
Leventhal, president of the Nuclear Control
ates at games in Northern Virginia. He and his
wife, Bonnie, coach the Vienna Rowdies and
live at 206 Commons Dr., Vienna, VA 22180.
Edwin R. Knopf, M.D., medical director of
Doylestown Hospital, lives at 90 Glen Dr. ,
Doylestown , PA 18901. Carl W. Mantz, 441
Normal Ave ., Kutztown , PA 19503 , is chief of
civilian personnel , U.S . Army , Ft. Indiantown
Gap. He is also a member of the Berks County
Bar Association . Seymour B. Stern, president
of the Maryland Institute for the Professional
Education of Lawyers and a director of the
Frederick County Chamber of Commerce , has
a general practice of law in Frederick . He
resides at 20 Fairview Ave., Frederick, MD
21701 . Robert G. Walton, vice president, international division, Hamilton Bank , resides at
158 Hess Blvd ., Lancaster, PA 17601.
Community College while retaining his faculty
rank as director of theatre. He lives at 1179
Wright Ave. , Arnold , MD 21012. Phillip E.
Kidd, Ph.D., a vice president and director of
strategic planning at Chase Manhattan Bank ,
lives at 16 Hidden Brook Dr. , Stamford , CT
06907.
Charles J. Reylek III , sales manager for
Sperry Univac's Harrisburg public sector, lives
at Melissa Ct., Enola , PA 17025. Claude Yoder,
Ph.D., professor of chemistry at F&M, is one
of six national winners in the Chemical Manufacturers Association's 1983 Catalyst Competition , which honors teachers who instill in
students a desire for science education. He
received a medal , $1 ,000, and a citation at the
association 's annual meeting in June . Claude
lives at 2946 Kings La. , Lancaster, PA 17601.
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'63 Rep.
William Gray recently lectured at
the University of Pennsylvania on the
federal government's impact on the city of
Philadelphia . He lives at 602 E . Vernon Rd .,
Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA 19119. John S.
McIntire was voted "Construction Project Executive of the Year" by the Southeastern
Pennsylvania chapter of General Business Contractors of America. He resides at 424 Lyn broke
Rd., Springfield, PA 19064. G. R. Bruce Walker,
Jr., vice president-administration of Brooker
Lumber Company, lives at 515 Alminar Ave .,
Coral Gables, FL 33146.
'61 William
B. Caskey, M.D., executive
vice president of St. Francis Medical
'64 ing
William E. Bates lives at 1500 SpreadCenter, resides at 601 Hamilton Ave ., Trenton ,
Oak Dr. , Pittsburgh , PA 15220.
NJ 08629. Thomas P. Cole, attorney , his wife ,
Sandra , and son , Thomas III , reside at 306
Greenview Dr. , Country Club Place, Box 116,
Greensburg, PA 15601. The Rev. Ralph G.
Cook is a member of the steering committee of
the Association for Creative Change . He lives
at 328 Aigburth Rd ., Baltimore , MD 21204 .
David R. Eckroth, editor of encyclopedias at
John Wiley and Sons , is on the Commission on
Organic Nomenclature of the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. He lives
at 22 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217.
William Hobbs III, president of Chemung
Foundry, Inc., resides at 802 W. Clinton St.,
Elmira, NY 14905. W .J. Morrow, Jr., president
of Safeguard Business Systems of Western
Pennsylvania Inc. , lives with his wife, Linda ,
and two daughters at 5113 Scenic Rd ., Murrysville , PA 15668. Thomas E. Yingst, 22431
Haven Hurst Ave., Los Altos , CA 94022 , is a
general manager at Varian Associates.
Llewellyn M. Ehrhart, associate professor of
biological sciences at the University of Central
Florida, conducts research in marine turtle
biology and conservation. His address is Box
421 , Oviedo , FL 32765 . Roger Hildebeidel, chief
budget officer for the Bureau of Land Management , U.S . Department of Interior , can be
contacted at P.O . Box 344, Springfield, VA
22150. John N. Kreider, vice president of Girard
Services, Inc. , a subsidiary of Girard Bank ,
lives at 1705 Wheatland Ave., Lancaster, PA
17603.
'65 Karl-Eric
Strandberg, account executive at Richardson, Thomas & Bushman, Inc., lives at 12 E . Abington Ave.,
Philadelphia, PA 19118. Marc Strauss, M.D.,
an oncologist, lives at 10 Bero! Close, Chappaqua, NY 10514.
'66 with
Michael Entmacher, M.D., a physician
'62 George
R. Coder, D.C., president of
Worcester City Hospital , says,
the Pennsylvania Chiropractic Society,
lives at 156Hamilton Rd. , Lancaster, PA 17603.
Joseph J. Iannoli, Jr., vice president for development and college relations at Ripon College ,
is included in the 1983-1984 edition of Who 's
Who in American Finance and Industry . He
resides at 527 Fairview Ave. , Ripon, WI 54971.
Robert E. Kauffman will manage the new
Center for Performing Arts at Anne Arundel
"Hello to teachers and friends from years ago."
He lives at 8 Nipmuc Rd . , Paxton , MA 01612.
Lt. Col. Stephen T. Forbes, chief of the wing
codes division at Malmstrom AFB , lives at 4440
Gumwood St., Great Falls, MT 59405 . John L.
Lorentz, chief engineer at WJNO-WRMF for
Fairbanks Broadcasting, lives at 552 Springdale
Cr., Palm Springs, FL 33461. Michael M.
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Ravitch, associate professor of medical education at Michigan State University, lives at 955
Lantern Hill Dr., East Lansing, MI 48823.
Clark C. Sorensen, 2025 Lucas Rd ., Bloomington, IN 42401 , is manager of information
systems and services at Indiana University.
'67 David
P. Bartos, D.P.M., practices
podiatry in Reading and lives at 27
Eagle Ln ., Reading, PA 19607. Ronald D.
Deprez, Ph.D. , director of research and evaluation at Medical Care Development in Augusta,
Me ., has received a master's degree in public
health from Harvard University. He lives at
Alna Rd. , Alna, ME 04535. John H. Gushwa,
consulting hydrologist at Arthur Little , Inc. ,
lives at R.D. 1, Box 451, Harvard , MA 01451
with his wife, Susan , and their two sons . Harvey
E. Klehr, professor of political scie nce at Emory
University, had an article published in the
December 1982 issue of Encounter Magazine.
He resides at 810 N. Parkwood Rd ., Decatur,
GA 30030. Richard Kroll and his wife, Susan ,
are the parents of a new son , Adam . Rich , a
urologist affiliated with the urology departme nt
of Columbia University's College of Physicians
and Surgeons, lives at 24 Pleasant Ridge Rd. ,
Spring Valley, NY 10977. Joseph E. (Jed) Laird,
Jr., is co-author of Investing in the Future, an
examination of 10 industries and 75 growth
companies, published by Doubleday. He lives
at'471 W. 22nd St. , New York, NY 10011.
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'68 and
Donald R. Berk, an insurance broker
financial planner, is tournament
chairman of the Metropolitan Squash Racquet
Association. He lives at 239 W . 71st St., New
York, NY. Richard F. Blanchard, M.D. , associate chiefof medicine at Buffalo V.A. Medical
Center, is an assistant professor at the SUNYBuffalo School of Medicine. He lives at 382 W.
Klein Rd ., Williamsville, NY 14221. Robert
Brown, chief legal officer in the Phoenix district
for the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
lives at 4431 E. Calle Allegre, Phoenix , AZ
85018. William F. Doran, Jr., received a master's degree from the Cornell University Graduate School of Business last year. He is vice
president of marketing and operations for Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. , and lives at BT-4 , the
Village of Plymouth , Plymouth , MA 02360.
Larry Keener, an attorney at Van der Hiel ,
Cowley and Winterstein, lives at 46 E. Wellsboro St., Mansfield, PA 16933. Dennis H.
McNamara, vice president at Fleet National
Bank, resides at 49 Farewell St., Newport , RI
02840. David L. Meyers, M.D., and his wife ,
Roberta, are the parents of a son, Adam. The
family lives at 1129 W . Drummond Pl., Chicago, IL 60614. Randolph W. Roberts, instructor of science, mathematics and photography
for the Baltimore County Board of Education ,
lives at 3 Glyndon Ct., Reisterstown , MD
21136. Joseph A. Shrock, an oceanographer
and helicopter pilot on the USS America, can
be reached at 12612 Shady Creek Ct., Jacksonville, FL 32223 . Robert S. Stern, deputy public
defender for Placer County, lives at 2105 Meadow
Vista Rd ., Meadow Vista, CA 95722.
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Ray_mond J. Csciari, ~-1?·: assistant
professor of me"d1cme at the
University of California at Irvine, lives with his
wife, Colleen, and three children at 9261 Tritt
Cr., Villa Park , CA 92667. Richard A. Gourley, Jr., is an account executive at Paine Webber, as is Matthew Schiffman '79. Richard lives
at 34-42 87th St., Jackson Heights , NY 11372.
David M. Harvey, vice president and treasurer
of the Merrill Lynch International Bank , New
York representative office, lives with his family
at 20 Winding La ., Scarsdale, NY 10583. David
L. Katz, a trial attorney with the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice , prosecutes major fraud cases. He resides at 1325
18th St., N.W., #511 , Washington , DC20036.
Jon Plebani, administrative assistant to Virginia Congressman James Olin , lives at 1109
6th St. , S.E., Washington , DC 20003. Elliott
B. Weniger, M.D., a diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, specializes
in joint reconstructive surgery . He , his wife ,
Babs, and two sons reside at 3800 N . 32nd
Ave., Hollywood, FL 33021.
, 7 0 Mitchell
Brecher, attorney for Southern Pacific Communication Company,
his wife, Sandra, and their son live at 31 Hollyberry Ct., Rockville , MD 20852. Thomas B.
Bride, D.O., vice president of the York County
Osteopathic Medical Society, lives at 329 Kirkman Dr. , York, PA 17402. Peter G. Bruder, a
financial consultant with U.S.P.A. and LR.A.,
invites "anyone in the area to drop in at 3636
Glenway Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78415" to
visit him and his wife , Janet, and their two
daughters. J. Michael Eakin lives at 212 Ridge
Hill Rd ., Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.
Thomas Edkin, an associate broker with Tom
H . Edkin, resides at 334 N . Tenth St., Lebanon , PA 17042. Bertram Kaplan, a dermatologist, married Miriam Gerber in March . They
live at 8217 Bryn Manor Ln., Germantown,
TN 38138. Martin Raffel, Pennsylvania regional director of the American Jewish Congress , lives at 515 W . Chelten Ave. , Apt. 1410 ,
Philadelphia, PA 19144. Howard P. Segal,
Ph.D., has received a Beveridge grant for his
project on " The Pioneering Experience in Decentralized Technology." He lives at Burns Park,
Condo. 14, 1531 Packard Rd. , Ann Arbor, Ml
48104. Wayne Sibole, vice president, planning
and marketing , at Morton F. Plant Hospital ,
resides at #4 Druid Pl. , Belleair , FL 33516.
j
71 Maj.
Caroly E. Adams , co-author of
a textbook on nursing , lives at 24
Heather Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118. Joshua
S. Brumfield married Carrie 0 . McNully , a
reporter with the Howard County Times and
the Columbia Flyer, last August in Greenwich.
A cabinetmaker with his own company, he
studied medieval literature at Brown University. The couple lives at 910 Tyson St., Baltimore , MD 21201. Christopher Carlisle, a vice
president of the National Bank of North America, is also man ager of the bank's Connecticut
district. He resides at 166 Colonial Dr. , Fairfield , CT 06430. Mary Anne Motter Cullen has
joined the firm of Sponaugle and Sponaugle as
an associate. She lives at 407 Church St., Lancaster, PA 17602.
Robert Kassinger has received an MBA in
accounting from Seton Hall University. He resides at 342 Semel Ave ., 2nd fl ., Garfield , NJ
07026. Richard Leach and Patricia Krouse '68
now have a son, Graham . The family lives at
R .D.2 , Box 80, Pownal , VT 05261. Mark
McManus is a voice-over talent agent at Cunningham, Escott, Dipene and Associates. He
lives at 450 W . 24th St. , 7D, New York, NY
10011. Mark M. Vogelhut, M.D., an anesthesiologist, lives with his wife and children at
1807 Woodgate Way , Tallahassee , FL 32312 .
Christine Welch displayed her photography at
the Fourth Street Photo Gallery in New York
in December. She lives at 1406 Valley Rd. ,
Lancaster, PA 17601. Vincent Zarilli works at
General DataComm and lives with his wife,
Jackie, at 37 Pleasant St. , Danbury, CT 06810.
, 72 George
E. Biechler, assistant vice president of corporate communications for
American Bank and Trust Co., resides at 1424
Bleeker Ave. , Kenhorst, PA 19607. Cecelia
Higgins Cannizzaro resides at 3605 Twilight Ct.,
Oakton , VA 22124. Mitchell D. Feller, M.D.,
married Phyllis E. Bell in November. They live
at 2508 Myrtle Ave., Sullivan's Island , SC 29482.
Timothy Folkomoer, Ph .D., and his wife announce the addition of two-and-a-half-year-old
John William to the family. They live at 165
Reese Rd. , Springfield , PA 19064. Lee R.
Grossman and his wife , Patricia , announce the
birth of a son , Adam Jordan . Lee , a junior
executive at Furniture Inn , and his fam ily live
at 311 E . Hathaway La., Havertown , PA 19083.
Henry D. Lane lives at the Hill School , where
he teaches English and history and coaches varsity lacrosse and squash. He can be reached at
the school, Pottstown, PA 19464.
Carol A. Nix married James Lynch last August and lives at 200 Glenview Dr. , Des Moines,
IA 50312. She graduated from Notre Dame
Law School in 1975. Denise Miller Ponzetto and
her husband, Ennio, announce the birth of Alexandra Mia . They live at 5 Morton Pl., White
Plains, NY 10603. John Shellenberg, 411 W.
Lancaster Ave. , Haverford , PA 19041 , is
working on a master's degree in exercise physiology at Temple University. Mark D. Sperber,
a senior attorney with the office of the public
defender, appellate section , East Orange , has
married Toby C. Schack and lives at 115 Old
Short Hills Rd ., Apt. 586, West Orange , NJ
07052. Daniel D. Tisonik, senior staff geologist
for Champlin Petroleum Co ., lives at 7721 S.
Forest St., Littleton , CO 80122, with his wife
and daughter. Jeffrey Trachtenberg covers
Hollywood for Women 's Wear Daily and can
be reached care of the paper, 615 Flower St.,
Suite 1101, Los Angeles, CA 90017.
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Hooded Sweatshirts with front pocket.
Perfect for every F&M sports
enthusiast. Available in navy with white
imprint or gray with blue. Sizes: S , M,
L, XL. $17.95 each . (No sales tax for
PA residents)
Wilton Armetale® Tankard and
Queen Anne plate made of durable,
pewter-like Armetale~ with College seal
in relief. (Other items include ashtray
and miniature mug .) tankard: $17 .50,
plate: $19 .95.
Collector's Spoon is an attractive
addition to a wall d isplay. Silver-plated
with F&M seal . $6 .95.
November 11-12
"Old Main" and "F&M" pennant
charms make attractive gifts. Each
available in silver or gold finish. (Other
styles include mug and ring charms.)
Old Main: $3.95, pennant: $2.50.
, 73 ate
Andy Boettcher is working on a doctorof ministry at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives at 750 S. 6th St.,
Chambersburg, PA 17201. Walter Clebowitz, a
partner in the law firm of Webb, Sweeney &
Clebowitz, lives at 61 Roberts St., New Britain ,
CT 06051. Stephen J. Erickson, account vice
president and certified financial planner at
Paine , Webber, Jackson and Curtis, Inc. , married Janet Anderson in October. The couple
lives at 359 Union St. , Gardner , MA 01440.
Bruce Firkins and his wife , Diane, became the
parents of Andrew Nicholas last August. His
birth was highl ighted in an article about the
Lamaze method in The New York Times. They
live at 115 Harvard Cr., Hartsdale , NY 10530.
Michael G. Grossman, M.D., lives at 293
Turnpike Rd. , Westborough , MA 01581. James
Neil is studying medical technology at Louisiana
State Un iversity . He resides at 317 N. Francis ,
Gonzales , LA 70737. Roye. Rineer has married
Judy Ann Smith and lives at 322 Manor Ave. ,
Millersville , PA 17551. Susan Washburn, director of college relations and development at
Evergreen State College, lives at 4117 Park
Dr., SW, Olympia , WA 98502.
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published books by faculty and plenty of F&M memorabilia.
Enclose check or money order payable to F&M Bookstore. Include $2.00 per item for shipping
and handling. Pennsylvania residents should include 6% sales tax. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
MAIL TO: F&M Bookstore, Franklin & Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604.
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F. Avrutin, D.D.S. , and his wife,
Eleanor , announce the birth of a
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Ann Ln., Rye, NY 10580. William Crabtree
and his wife, Ruth Lorenz Crabtree '75, are the
parents of a son, Matthew. The family lives at
310 Eckman Rd., Lancaster, PA 17603. Brent
DuBeshter is a clinical instructor at Harvard
Medical School and has a private practice. He
resides at 60 Lindbergh Ave., West Newton,
MA 02165. George C. Francos, M.D., assistant
clinical professor at Jefferson Medical College,
recently presented a paper entitled , "Hypoxemia During Hemodialysis." He is also the
father of three-year-old Julia and of Gregory ,
born in February. The family lives at 106 N.
Fernwood Ave. , Pitman, NJ 08071 . Alan J.
Gold and his wife, Jodie, 132 Clairhaven Dr.,
Hudson, OH 44236, have a new daughter,
Abbie. Alan works for Shared Medical Systems . Scott Henderson and his wife, Barbara
Weber Henderson, have a year-old daughter,
Lauren. They live at Crescent Ave., Oneida,
NY 13421.
Lloyd Hoffman, M.D., chief surgical resident
at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center,
lives at 435 E . 70th St., Apt. 3J, New York,
NY 10021. Lauren Rosenberg Howard and her
husband , John, are the parents of Eliza Sydney.
Lauren is marketing manager for the Revlon
product "Charlie." John is an investment banker
at Bear Stearns . They live at 40 W . 15th St.,
New York, NY 10011. Nancy Mayer Hughes, a
second-year student at Boston College Law
School, is a member of the Boston College Law
Review. Home for Nancy and her husband,
Kevin Hughes '73, is still 808 Race Ave. ,
Lancaster, PA 17603. Kevin teaches in the
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York City School District and coaches swimming at York High School. Jessica (Jettie) and
Tony Minicozzi '73 are the parents of Michael
Anthony. Tony is director of marketing at the
Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Company. They
live at 19 E. Woodlawn Dr. , Destrehan, LA
70047. Michael A. Langer, M.D., M.P.H.,
assistant chief of the venereal disease control
program for the Department of Health Services, lives at 2112 Ewing St., Los Angeles , CA
90039.
Louise Preston Lipsitz and Lew Lipsitz '73
announce the birth of their son, Matthew. Lew
is a geriatric internist with Harvard Medical
School and Louise is a special educator. They
live at 312 Walnut St., Brookline, MA 02146.
John T. Martino, 925 Virginia Ave., Lancaster,
PA 17603, is the deputy secretary for programs
in the Pennsylvania State Department of Community Affairs. Nancy Scattergood, M.D., and
her husband, Richard Barad, M.D., have joined
a family practice . They live at R .F .D. 2, Box
4176, Bennington, VT 05201. Steven Schwartz,
manager of the tax department of Cortland L .
Brovitz and Co., lives with his wife , Jill Bender
'75, at 5 Sugarmills Cr., Fairport , NY 14450.
Jill is a financial consultant for the Xerox
Corporation. Russell Stanley, fund raising director of the American Heart Association's
Hunterdon-Somerset chapter, resides at 5
Hopewell Ave., Flemington, NJ 08822. Steve
Troutman, a partner in Troutman Bros. , can
be contacted care of Box 148, Klingerstown ,
PA 17941. Wayne Ushman, senior investment
officer and assistant treasurer at State Mutual
Life Assurance Co. of America, lives at 295
Turnpike Rd., Westborough, MA 01581.
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Lawrence J. Bruskin, engineering geologist for Chen and Associates, lives
at 14801 E. 5th Cr., Apt. D ., Aurora , CO
80011. James P. Devenney married Ruth M.
Shafer in F&M's Nevin Chapel last October.
They live at 233 S. Broad St. , Lititz, PA 17543.
Diane Citron Hass, in-house counsel for the
Federal Loan Home Mortgage Corporation ,
resides at 4114 Davis Pl., N .W., Apt. 216,
Washington , DC 20007. Martin Hudzinski,
M.D., serves on the staff of the Piney Mountain
Home and maintains a private family practice.
He lives at 11730 Hades Church Rd ., Greencastle, PA 17225. Robert J. Katz is an attorney
with the firm of Hugh M . Davis, Jr. He lives at
1313 Lake Pointe , Gross Pointe Park , MI 48230.
Gary Kolanchick, M.D., lives at 82 Palmer
Ave., Delmar, NY 12054.
Frank S. Lieberman, M.D., and his wife,
Beverly, have a three-year-old son, Mordecai .
Frank, a research fellow at the University of
Chicago, lives at 4800 S. Lake Park Blvd., Apt.
1608, Chicago, IL. Nancy F. Mauro, a computer
systems analyst at Frieman Parametric Systems,
is the mother of two girls. She lives at 66
Brambling La ., Voorhees , NJ 08043. Michael
G. Nathans married Marcia Goldstein in 1979.
Vice president of Sterling Investments, he lives
at 103 Liberty Dr. , Newton, PA 18940. Benjamin Norris, R.D . 2, Newport , VT 05855 , is the
laboratory manager of North Country Hospital.
He and his wife have a son, Ben. Joseph
Polovina, a geologist with Gulf Oil , resides at
4812 Summer Tree La. , Apt. A , Bakersfield ,
CA 93309. He has received a master's in geology
from UCLA. Paul Stobie, a Navy pediatrician,
is stationed in the Philippines. He married Joan
S. Martin in 1982 and may be reached at NRMC
Box 23 , FPO San Francisco, CA 96652.
Lisa Loring Waldman and her husband,
Mark, announce the birth of a second child ,
Andrea Lynn. They live at 173 Rodney La.,
Rochester , NY 14625. Peter Weissman, 57
Davis Ave., Apt. H , White Plains, NY 10605 ,
married Patricia Potenza in April. Attending
the wedding were Cynda Hollenbaugh Farnsworth and her husband , Bob Farnsworth '76,
and Pete Xianas. Laura Zimmer, a bookkeeper
with Century City Advertising Agency , plays
drums for a punk roclc band and studies Chinese
in her spare time . She lives at 1812 S. Beverly
Glen Blvd. , Los Angeles , CA 90025 .
, 7 6 Fran
Schepps Alexander, advertising
account executive at J. Walter
Thompson, married David Alexander in 1981.
They live at 245 E. 63rd St. , Apt. #26F, New
York, NY 10021. Mark Aronson, D.O., can be
reached at Muschopauge Rd., Rutland , MA
01543. Susan Boylan married Thomas Keane
last November. Susan is a second-year medical
student at North Carolina Baptist Hospital and
lives at 630 B Rugby Rd., Winston-Salem, NC
27106. David Carpenter, an energy sales engineer with Robertshaw Controls Company,
married Karen B. Dinger in October 1982.
Classmates in the wedding were Max Stoner,
Erik Cooley, and David Terner. The couple
lives at 22 Helen St. , Hampden , CT 06514.
Nicholas A. Cook, M.D., a medical officer at
the Naval Regional Medical Center, lives at
1211 Villanova Ave. , Folsom , PA 19033. His
wife, Dawn Larson Cook, is a computer programmer for Scott Paper Co.
Jay H. Diamond married Joyce Goldkang
and they live at 500 E . 77th St., Apt. 916, New
York, NY 10021. Anthony Frisoli graduated
from Rutgers Medical School in May. He may
be reached through his parents at 21 Hillside
Way , Short Hills, NJ 07078. R. Edward Gordon, comptroller of the Horst Group , lives at
662 New Holland Ave., Lancaster, PA 17602.
David J. Graham, M.D., and Nancy Peterson
Graham are the parents of Meghan Elizabeth.
David is a neurology resident at University of
Pennsylvania Hospital , and Nancy works part
time. They live at 4232 Carteret Dr. , Philadelphia, PA 19114. Daniel A. Harnick, manager of Manfredi Surgical & Orthopedics, and
his wife , Michelle, live at Pennant Club Apts.,
#28-M , Jackson, NJ 08527. Richard Healy, vice
president at Arnold & Company, may be
reached at 225 Lincoln St., Duxbury, MA 02332.
Greg Henry, 24 Orchard Pl. , Bradford, PA
16701, is running for mayor of Bradford.
Steven and Sheila Horan have a new daughter, Kathryn, and live at 1151 Marey St., Las
Cruces, NM 88001. John 8. Houghton is director of admissions at King School , where he
also teaches English and history. He lives at
474 Main St., 2nd fl., New Canaan , CT 06840.
Carene Hunt, senior product administrator in
IBM Headquarters's national accounts division , has a master's degree in business admin-
istration . She resides at 20 Pine Tr. , Wayne ,
NJ 07470. David C. Jelinek married Diana Lewis
in December. The couple lives at 1027 Valley
Forge Rd. , Devon , PA 19333. Jean Kracke, a
continuing education specialist at Delaware State
College, has received a master's degree in continuing education from the University of Michigan . She lives at 1178 Madison Ct., Dover,
DE 19901. Michael Lee, C.P.A., a partner with
Stewart , Benjamin and Brown , lives at 1598
13th St., Trenton, NJ 08638.
Patricia M. Nachtrab, a teacher at St. Anne 's
School , recently played the role of Lily in Ah!
Wilderness at the Fulton Opera House. She
lives at 215 W. Strawberry St. , Lancaster, PA
17603. Joe Rish and his wife , Margaret, a Bates
graduate, welcomed their son , Thomas George,
in July 1982. Nancy Seeman, her husband, John ,
an accelerator physicist , and their son , Michael , live at 2130 Byron St. , Palo Alto, CA
94301. Anne Stevens, employed by Travelers
Insurance Co. , resides at 3037 E . Overbrook
Rd. , Cleveland, OH 44118. Daniel Weber has
married Nina M. Castillo '77, and they live at
9 Stone Spring La. , Camp Hill , PA 17011. Dan
is a resident at the Hershey Medical Center,
and Nina is an assistant librarian.
, 7 7 husband , Charles , live with their
and her
son ,
Francine DiFranco Barnes
Matthew, at 2105 Emerald Isle, Leander, TX
78641. She is " writing like a fiend but as yet
unpublished." Jay Beddick is the manager of
production systems for General Electric space
system division's re-entry systems operation .
He, his wife, Nancy, and their two children
live at 1517 English Brook Dr. , Landisville , PA
17538. Connie Costello married John J. Chapell
'78 last November. Classmates in the wedding
included Julie Stone-Weinreb, Gerry Gioia '78,
and Dave Carney '78. John is supervisor of
marketing finance for GTE Sylvania, and Connie is employed by Mutual Data , Inc. They live
at 28 Atlantic Ave., #5 , Beverly, MA 01915.
John Eliason, Jr., and Joann Latimer Eliason
have a son , Eben, and live at 2617 Main St.,
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648. Gary Fink and his
wife , Ann '78, recently moved. Gary is a second-year resident in internal medicine at Tenn .
Nashville Baptist Hospital, and Ann is in her
second year in the clinical psychology program
at Vanderbilt.
Alan J. Finkel has joined the law firm of
Monroe Markovitz and lives at 1314 Field Ave.,
Plainfield, NJ 07060. P. Douglas Folk resides
at 2910 W. State Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021,
and is interested in hearing from other alumni
in the area. Suzanne Estey Gitomer, writer/editor, Allegheny General Hospital , is treasurer
of the Pittsburgh chapter of the International
Association of Business Communicators. She
resides at 6327 Monitor St. , Pittsburgh, PA
15217. Steven Kennedy lives with his wife and
two children at 941 N. Webster St., Naperville ,
IL 60540. He is employed by Amoco Chemical
Company. Eileen Savage Kulp, a lending officer at Irving Trust Company, lives at 7000
Boulevard East, Apt. 25 A , Guttenburg , NJ
07093.
Karen Sydell Litman and Steven Litman announce the birth of their son, Jeffrey. Karen
is on leave from her position as a high school
mathematics teacher. Steve is an architect. Ken
Quarles, processing party chief for Geophysical Services, Inc., and his wife , Regina , live at
1950 S Balsam St. , Lakewood , CO 80227.
Christopher Reel is a senior geologist in exploration and research. His address is Flagstaff
Star Rte. , Boulder, CO 80302. James Ryan, a
salesman, married Estrella Perea last fall. They
live at 72 Scarlet Oak Dr. , Doylestown , PA
18901. Paul Thomson III and Kim Rogan
Thomson '76 welcomed their first child, Paul,
last year. They live at 81 West Neck Rd. , Huntington, NY 11743.
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the North
V. James Carone, Jr.,
American Telecommunications Assn. , lives at
3010 Wisconsin Ave. , N.W., Washington, DC
20016. Timothy Christman married Linda Jean
Ritter in December. Tim , a student at the
Evangelical School of Theology , Myerstown,
lives on Churchview Rd ., Emmaus, PA 18049.
Richard Foltin and Cynthia Graves have been
married and living in Chicago for four years.
Richard is completing requirements for a Ph.D.
in behavioral pharmacology, and Cindy works
as a front office manager at the Knickerbocker
Hotel. They live at 5220 S. Kenwood Ave. ,
Apt. 301 , Chicago, IL 60615. Robert A. Jason,
M.D., is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology
at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center.
His address is 164 Widwood Rd., King's Point,
Great Neck, Long Island , NY 11024.
Eve L. Kuniasky, 1213 Poplar Grove Dr.,
NE, Atlanta, GA 30306, earned an MS in civil
engineering from Georgia Tech . Stephen H.
Torrance works for Dean Witter Reynold and
lives at 2708 Brendan Cr. , Huntington Valley,
PA 19006. Howard C. Williard, 40 Henderson
St. , Paterson, NJ 07501, is a senior financial
administrator at Lear Seigler Avionic Systems
Corporation.
, 7 9 Colleen
Devlin, assistant director of
alumni relations at the University of
San Francisco, lives at 927 Lincoln Way, San
Francisco, CA 94122. Anne Frazier is in a
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graduate program in marine education at the
College of William and Mary. Her address is
General Delivery, Bena , VA 23018. Matthew
Friedman, 2022 Spring Garden St. , Philadelphia , PA 19130, attends Hahnemann Medical
College . John Ginther, laboratory supervisor
with Quaker Chemical , resides at 360 Anthony
Rd. , King of Prussia , PA 19406. Bruce Herlich,
his wife, Carole , and son, Dustin , live at Apt.
6A, 83-43 118 St. , Kew Gardens , NY 11415.
Chip Patterson is working for a car-leasing
company and is also modeling. His address is
2700 Rolido , #254-1 , Houston, TX 77063.
Karen Rohmann Stanley married John Stanley
in December. They live at 34 W. Montgomery
Ave., #115 , Ardmore, PA 19003. Patrick J.
Thorogood married Paula L. Fuschetti '80 in
November. They live at 9 King James La.,
Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716 . Patrick is vice
president-investments for William M . Cadden
& Co., Inc. Paula is an assistant analyst for
Chubb and Son.
'80 Larry
Barth and Denise Jessum Barth
were married in 1982. They live at 90
Edgewater Dr. , #323 , Coral Gables , FL33133.
James E. Buerger, 1010 Maple Ave. , Lancaster,
PA 17603 , is senior credit analyst at Fulton
Bank. Chris Dean received his master's in
geology from Texas A&M, and works for
Amoco Oil. He lives at 2700 Rolido , #254-1 ,
Houston, TX 77063. Dean M. Dilzell manages
a transportation firm and lives at 2440 S.
Quebec St. , #F, Denver, CO 80231. Roberta
F. Shwerin Fiacco married Gerard Fiacco in
October. The couple resides at 20 W. Montgomery Ave., Ardmore , PA 19003.
Joshua Friedman recently began work in
artificial intelligence at Johns Hopkins University. Friedman lives at 515 E. 39th St., Baltimore , MD 21218. Gail J. Geibel, 411-A E.
Main St., Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, is a senior
accountant at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company. Evan Glass, a consulting hydrogeologist ,
lives at 1211 N. Pierce Ave., North Bellmore ,
NY 11710. Joyce Kaplan is working on a
doctorate in science education at Rutgers. Her
address is Box 364 , Gladstone, NJ 07934. Barry
Levine, a law student at Emory University , has
written an article on "British New Town Planning: A Wave of the Future or a Ripple Across
the Atlantic?" for the Journal of Legislation.
He lives at 20 Sunset Rd., Bay Shore , NY
11706.
Doug Osborn, a marketing analyst for TriState Oil Tool Industries, Inc. , resides at 215
Sandbeach Blvd., #1202, Shreveport , LA 71105.
John G. Osborne, assistant vice president of
Hemsley-Spear, Inc. , lives at 60 E. 42nd St. ,
New York , NY 10165. John B. Scarano, a youth
minister at St. Louis Catholic Church, resides
at 10826 SW 72nd St., Apt. 26 , Miami , FL
33173. Michael Slipowitz, an actuary for Mutual
of New York , lives at 40 Heron Rd. , Livingston ,
NJ 07039. Janet Wasilewski works for Zayre
Corporation and lives at 1625 Commonwealth
Ave ., Apt. 8, Brighton , MA 02135.
,81 Laura
A. Battaglia. an internal consul tan tat Morgan Guaranty Trust
Company, lives at 194 Bay 20 St. , Brooklyn,
NY 11214. Stan Bruckheim, director of tele-
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marketing at National Direct Mail Service, lives
at 10005 Clue Dr., Bethesda, MD 20817. David
W. Carter is a legislative assistant to Rep .
Bernard J. Dwyer and can be reached at his
office, 404 Cannon House Office Bldg. , Washington , DC 20515. George L. Church, a vice
president with B&B Sprinkler, Inc., resides at
R.D.2,Box463A , Columbia, PA 17512. Robert
L. Height works at Height Tire and lives with
classmate Steve Greene. Their address is 106
Nichol Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
Scott M. Heimberg, a second-year law student at the George Washington University is
on the staff of the Journal of International Law
and Economics. He lives at 1512 Rhodes St. ,
Apt. 308, Arlington, VA 22209. Richard Hess,
a software marketing specialist at Digital Equipment Corporation , is working on a master's in
business administration at George Washington
University. He lives at 6016 Westchester Park
Dr., Unit T-2, College Park, MD 20740. Margaret (Maggie) Keenan, back from Europe and
India , lives at 1641 Third Ave., Apt 22C East,
New York, NY 10028, and works for Batten,
Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Melissa King and
Ray Hargreaves are not married as stated in the
April issue. Melissa is a third-year medical
student at Johns Hopkins University and lives
at 2619 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224.
Linda S. Lazarus, an international investigations specialist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust
Co. , lives at 295 Park Ave ., #7N , New York,
NY 10010.
Lisa D. Rudolph studies Judaica at the Jewish
Theological Seminary and lives at 527 Wl21
1 OBITUARIES
Leigh P. Helm '12 died in March at the age of
93. He was a former vice president of Raub
Supply Co. A member of Phi Sigma Kappa,
Leigh also belonged to Lodge 43 of the Free
and Accepted Masons. He is survived by three
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Cmdr. Raymond A. McClellan '16 died December 17 in Bethlehem. He was 92. After
studying at Newport War College , R.I. , he
served as chief engineer on the USS Blackhawk, the USS Arctic, and the USS William P.
Biddle. In addition, he was executive and commanding officer of the U.S. Receiving Station
in Philadelphia. He is survived by his wife Dorothea, 3125 Mosser Dr., Allentown, PA, a
stepson , a stepbrother, and two grandsons.
Robert J. Brown '24 died in November 1982.
He was the retired owner of General Insurance , Brown & Mccarter. A member of the
Lancaster Sons of the Revolution and of St.
Mary's Catholic Church, he is survived by his
wife, Eliza , 2 Michelle Lynn Dr. , Lancaster,
PA 17602 , one son , and two grandchildren .
Harold Smith '24, a former leader of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and the retired
owner of the Harold E. Smith Co. , died in
October. His family was named Lancaster's
" Most Typical Family" in 1950, as part of a
promotion for the film "Stars in My Crown."
He is survived by his wife, Malinda, 743 Col-
St., Apt. 41 , New York , NY 10027. James R.
Walker was on the staff of the Dickinson Law
Review in 1982. He lives at 200 Beach St.,
Linesville, PA 16424. Pamela L. Werntz, a
research assistant at the Rehab Group, Inc.,
resides at 5446 Midship Ct., Burke, VA 22015.
'82 class
Robert C. Bair, Jr., is a member of the
of 1986 at Temple University
School of Dentistry and may be reached at
West Ave., Wellsboro, PA 16901. Michelle
Beckman and Mickey Abeshaus were married
on July 14. They live at 2875 N Tucson Blvd. ,
#35, Tucson, AZ 85716. Karen M. Frevel lives
at 329 S. Elm St. , Windsor Locks, CT 06096
and works for Lux Bond Green and Stevens.
Deborah Hern, a student at Duke University's
medical school, will begin clinical rotations this
fall. She resides at 1700 Bivins St. , Durham ,
NC 27707. Michael F. lademarco attends the
University of Virginia Medical School and lives
at Apt. 407, 1800 Jefferson Park Ave., Charlottesville, VA 22903. Matthew Korsen is attending Albany Medical College and can be
reached through the college at Box 280, Albany,
NY 12208. Maryjane M. Loeper passed the
state boards in nursing and may be reached at
Box 4234, R.D.4, Pottsville, PA 17901. Robert
Ream, 212 Drake Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 ,
is a student at Jefferson Medical College . Steven
Ulrich, sports information director at Western
Maryland College , resides at R.D. 4, Box 48,
Huntington, PA 16652.
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lege Ave ., Lancaster, PA 17604, five daughters, 19 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a brother, and a sister.
William F. Diller '25, a retired professor of
English at Millersville State College, died in
January. A member of Lodge 43 of the Free
and Accepted Masons, William was also a
member of the Blue and White Singers and a
former violinist for the Lancaster Symphony
Association. Surviving is his wife, Edna, 1455
Hollywood Dr., Lancaster, PA 17601.
Edwin R. Weaver '25 died in October of a heart
attack. A retired businessman, he is survived
by his wife, Helen , 2728 Old Cedar Rd.,
Broomall, PA 19008.
D. Frank Workman '25, principal ofWardwick
Elementary from 1927 to 1961, died in September 1982. During World War II , he was
chairman of local bond drives.
Frank P. Krebs '26, former county sealer of
weights and measures , died in December in
Berwick , Pa. He is survived by a daughter,
Mary Jane Ward, and two grandchildren .
Robert F. Groff '27, owner of Groff Inc. Funeral Home , died in January. Groff was a
member of several professional organizations
and of Elks Lodge 134. While at F&M, he
belonged to Phi Kappa Sigma. He is survived
72 Heritage Ln., Exton, PA 19341, two children, three grandchildren, and two sisters.
Robert A. Weitzel '38, a retired teacher in the
Manheim School District, died in January. A
World War II Army veteran, he was awarded
the Bronze Star. While at F&M, he was comanager of the wrestling team and announced
their meets. He also was student player-coach
of the soccer team and a brother at Phi Kappa
Tau. He is survived by a daughter , three sons,
five grandchildren, and two brothers.
The Rev. Walter L. Schacht '40 died in February. He is survived by his wife , Elizabeth,
1007 S. Roache , California, MO 65018.
Robert P. Shoemaker '46 died at 60 in December. He practiced law in Waynesboro , Pa., until his death. He belonged to a number of
professional organizations and to the College's
Alumni Association. He is survived by a brother
and two sisters.
Richard W. Holland '48, who worked with Applied Coatings, died in January at 59. A tail
gunner during World War II , he received the
Purple Heart. While at F&M, he was a brother
in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity , president
of the junior class, and captain of the tennis
team. He is survived by his wife, Grace , 4101
NE 17 Terr. , Pompano Beach, FL 33064, his
mother, and a daughter.
Harold Hinman, Ph.D. '49, died in December
at 75. He was a professor of industrial psychology at Pennsylvania State University. Surviving are his wife, Leila, Royal Stewart Arms ,
#310, 7 Elgin Pl. , Dunedin , FL 33528, three
daughters , and a son.
by his wife, Nancy, 174 River Dr., Lancaster,
PA 17603 , a son, and six grandchildren.
44 years in Rome , N.Y. He is survived by his
wife , 426 Sly Hill Rd. , Ava, NY 13303.
N. Lee Perkins '29 died May 12. A retired attorney, he had been graduated from Tulane
University Law School. While at F&M, he revived Hullabaloo, the humor magazine which
had been dormant since 1897. Former president of the South Jersey Alumni Club , he was
a regional representative for Southern New
Jersey at the time of his death.
Harry P. Green '36, owner of H .P . Green and
Associates, died in March 1981. He was a
brother of Chi Phi fraternity. He is survived
by his wife , Elizabeth, 1001 E. Camino Real ,
503 N, Boca Raton , FL 33432 , and three children.
Maurice W. Collins '30 died in January 1983.
While at F&M, he was a member of Kappa
Sigma. He is survived by his wife, Helena, 293
Medford Leas, Medford, NJ 08055.
John F. Perez, M.D. '33, former chief of urology at Atlantic City Medical Center and Shore
Memorial Hospital , died in December. During
World War II, he served as a medical officer
in the Army. He is survived by his wife, Lydia,
749 E. Chanese Ln., Atlantic City, NJ, five
sons, three sisters, a brother, and twelve grandchildren.
William L. Spangler '33 died in October. He
is survived by his wife, Grace, 1728 Warren
St., New Cumberland, PA 17070, and two
daughters , Anne and Alexandrette '76.
Murray Miller, D.O. '34, died in February.
After graduation, he practiced osteopathy for
Roland Jermyn '36 died in Lancaster at the age
of 69. He was the owner and operator of Charles
F. Bowman and Co., a real estate and insurance brokerage. At F&M, he was a member
of Phi Kappa Psi and the Cliosophic Society.
He also belonged to the Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. Surviving
are his wife, Helen, 1417 Newton Rd ., Lancaster, PA 17603, and two children.
Clement J. Stiely '37 died in October at 67 in
Lancaster. He retired in 1980 as manager of
the Lancaster Office of Public Finance Service,
Inc., after 40 years of service. He was a member of Lodge 62 of the Free and Accepted Masons. Surviving are his wife, Alice , 928 Virginia
Ave., Lancaster, PA 17603 , a son, two grandchildren, two brothers, and a sister.
Robert S. Veit '37, a partner with Exton Welders Service, Inc. , died in October. He served
in the Navy for 17 years, retiring as lieutenant
commander. He is survived by his wife , Elinor,
E. Edwin Gates '52, retired vice president of
Gates Dental Co., died in December at 70. A
World War II veteran , he was a licensed ham
radio operator for 50 years. At F&M, he belonged to the radio and management clubs and
to Alpha Delta Sigma. Surviving are his wife,
Talitha, 2161 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster, PA 17602, a brother, and a sister.
William D. Brinton, Jr. '54, executive marketing representative with Armstrong World
Industries, died in March at 49. He joined
Armstrong in 1956 and, 20 years later , received
the President's Award as outstanding salesman
of the year. Surviving is his sister Ellen L. Brinton of Lancaster.
Allen Heller '63 died of cancer in December at
40. After several years in the import-export
business in New York City, he moved to California and became involved in the costume
jewelry business. His cousin, Gerald Levine '66,
in notifying the College of his death , said, "Allen was the main reason I came to F&M ...
Allen was extremely active in the fraternity and
in student government and was an outstanding
leader of his class. . . . His death at such a
young age is truly a tragedy for his family and
friends; as someone who never got a chance to
tell him how much he affected my life , I wanted
you and your readers to know of his untimely
death and also to express how much he will be
missed by so many people ." Allen is survived
by his wife , Evelyn Jager, and his sons, Eric
and Peter.
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College Avenue "Alumna"
J
ust as Notre Dame has "subway
alumni" (avid Notre Dame supporters but non-alumni), F&M has discovered a special "fummer" right nextdoor. Catharine E. Lobach, known to
family and friends as "Kitty," is a longtime friend and neighbor of the College.
In fact, Kitty's close association with F&M
began right at home . . . just down the
street on College Avenue. Her father, the
Rev. Albert Lobach, played on the 1889
F&M football team and graduated from
the seminary in 1890. Kitty and her two
brothers and three sisters grew up on College Avenue.
"My dad never made a lot of money as
a minister ," Kitty says , " but we always
had enough and we were always going
places. We were a close family." One of
six children who all earned academic degrees (their mother was a teacher), Kitty
relocated to Philadelphia in 1919 to teach
high school Latin. She finished her master's in Latin at the University of Pennsylvania and completed 82 credits of postgraduate work at Columbia, Harvard , and
the Classical Academy of Rome .
Kitty says she would have come to F&M,
as did her brothers, the Rev. Samuel E.
'14, and Titus B. '17, but the College did
not grant degrees to women then. She
chose nearby Dickinson College instead ,
graduating in 1919. Even a different alma
mater didn't dampen Kitty's enthusiasm
for taking part in F&M life.
" My brother Tite was in Phi Kappa
Sigma, and so was a man I was dating at
Dickinson. We would drive down to go
to the fraternity's dances, held in the
Brunswick downtown. I still have a program from 1916, when [the late] Nat Hager
'21 was one of the chaperones. "
Athletics, too, drew Kitty to F&M's
campus, especially when her brother Tite
was on the field or court. Tite played
bruised . Since he played center, he was
always in the pile and we were always
worried about his ankle. After every play
he'd signal to Mom and me to let us know
he was OK." Tite later went on to officiate in the National Football League and
in collegiate sports in O hio.
While still in high school, Kitty spent
her summers teaching lessons , games, and
dances to youngsters enrolled in a Lancaster city playground program run by her
brother Sam.
"We held Field Day each August," Kitty
says, "and it was always at Williamson
Field. All the kids from eight city playgrounds would put on a big show for the
parents. They'd do Maypole and folk
dances, and the boys built pyramids. The
kids' summer school art was on display,
too. Everybody in town came. It was really
something to see!"
Kitty thinks it was her enthusiasm and
success in playground instruction that led
her to the Henry S. Williamson (for whom
Williamson Field was named) family. "For
three summers I was invited to the estate
to stay with the Williamson grandchildren . I earned a little money for college
by teaching the twins their lessons."
Remembering others from town connected with the College, Kitty recalls her
friendship with Henry J. Marshall '19, the
Lancaster businessman for whom the College's front gate is named. Marshall chaired
a 1947 financial campaign to raise $600,000
needed to renovate and add on to Stahr
Hall and Fackenthal Laboratories because of increased science enrollments.
"The Marshalls lived a few doors away
from the Lobachs and we always visited
each other. We'd all collect on the porch
and chat. Porch visiting was very popular
in those days ."
After 62 years of teaching Latin in Philadelphia, including 19 years as a substitute teacher, Kitty returned to College
Avenue in 1981, although not to the house
she grew up in . At 86, she still leads a
busy life , walking several miles a week to
the farmers' market and the library . As
you might expect, F&M is still part of her
life . She visits Terry Ferrier , lecturer in
German, for assistance in translating German documents which will help her trace
her family's history. And Kitty is a regular
at the Artists-in-Concerts series in Hensel
Hall, which she describes as one of the
best things around.
-Maril Weister
baseball , basketball, and football , letter-
ing in all three. Kitty and her mother could
usually be found in the stands, rooting
him on. Cheering at football games was
a little more nerve-racking for sister and
mother , however.
" When Tite was 14, his ankle was shattered in a bobsledding accident that left
him with a limp. It never affected his playing sports, though. Before every game,
he would wrap it to keep it from getting
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The Lobach family in 1923: from the left, Ada, Titus '17, Marguerite, Mrs. Lobach,
Kitty, Samuel '14, and Pearl. The inset is Rev. Albert Lobach, father of the family,
who played on the 1889 F&M football team. Only Kitty and Ada are living today.
Health Care in the Year 2000 Registration
Please return this form by October 25, 1983.
Name_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Class Year________ Major
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Zip Code _ _ _ _ _ __
Business Address
Home Phone.,__ __,___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Business Phone _.__ __.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Zip Code _ _ _ _ _ __
Make check payable to Franklin & Marshall College and mail it with this form to: Homecoming '83, Alumni Office, Franklin & Marshall
College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604.
NOTE: No confirmations will be mailed. Tickets can be picked up at registration. Pre-payment is needed for all events.
______ I am taking these courses for 18 hours of Continuing Medical Education Credit. Check here to be registered for all
nine seminars.
______ I am taking these courses for 18 prescribed hours by A.A .F.P .
Register me for these health care seminars:
Number Attending
Semi nar Number and Title
Reserve _ _ _ _ seats for me at the Dinner to Honor Health Care Alumni -
Homecoming Registration -
Thursday, November 10. ($22 per Prime Rib Dinner.)
F&M Alumni
Please return this form by October 25, 1983.
Name,________________________ Class Year________ Major
) New Address or Phone. Guest Name(s)
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Make check payable to Franklin & Marshall College and mail with this form to: Homecoming '83, Alumni Office, Franklin & Marshall
College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604.
NOTE: No confirmations will be mailed. All tickets can be picked up at daily registration on campus. Pre-payment is needed for all events.
(Dance tickets will be available at the door.)
Class Reunion Dinner Reservations Will Not Be Accepted After Friday, November 11.
Homecoming '83 Activities
Friday, November 11
College Radio Reunion Reception and Dinner -
Number
$17 each,
Amount Enclosed
includes reception. Roast Leg of Lamb dinner .
1943 Welcome Dinner at Host Towne. $11 each.
Saturday, November 12
Coffee with Emeriti Faculty Members. Sponsored by the Class of 1953.•
Autumnfest Luncheon and Lancaster Market. (Includes luncheon, glass
mug . and football tickets.)
Adult $7
Children 12 and under $4
Tour of Campus. Sponsored by 1he Class of 1968 .•
Reunion Class Reception and Dinners. (On Campus.
Sl6 each.) Classes of 1938 , 1943. 1948 , 1953 , 1958 , 1963 . 1968.
1973, 1978. and 1983 .
Please indicate year _ _ _ _ __
Homecoming Dance with the Big Band Sound of The Sound of Roses. ($4 per person includes reception .)
Sunday, November 13
Coffee and Donuts with Coach Tom Gilburg.
Review of Homecoming "83 game. Sponsored by the Class of 1973.• .
Class of 1963 Sunday Brunch. $8 each.
Class of 1968 Sunday Brunch. $8 each .
•Alumni are welcome at all events. Reunion s are for the members and guests of reunion classes only.
(College Olympics form on reverse side)
College Olympics
Please register me for the following event(s):
_ _ __ Male
____ Age
___ _ Female
Wednesday, November 9
Partner
Name and Class Year
Number
Attending
7-9 p.m.
Pool and Game Room Activities
9 p.m.
Basketball Shooting Contest
(No registration necessary)
Thursday, November 10
7-9 p.m.
Nautilus Room Open House
(No registration necessary)
9 p.m.
Women's Squash Round-Robin
Tournament
Friday, November 11
4 p.m.
Coed Touch Football
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Sports Trivia Contest
8:30-9:30 p.m.
Pep Rally -
Bonfire
(No registration necessary)
9:30-11 :30 p.m.
Volleyball Tournament
(Anyone can play! If you know other
alumni, get a team of six together and
send the list in with this form, or we will
place you on a team .)
Saturday, November 12
9-12:30 p.m.
Men's Squash Tournament
10 a.m.
Homecoming '83 Run
10:30 a.m.
Football Films: A Day in October
1:30 p.m.
Football Game,
F&M vs. Gettsyburg.
4:30 p.m.
Basketball Intersquad Scrimmage
Sponsored by the class of 1973 . *
(Exhibition -
4:30 p.m.
no registration necessary)
Alumni Swimming Meet
(Odd vs. Even Years)
Sunday, November 13
11 a.m.
Coffee and Donuts with
Coach Tom Gilburg. Video playback
of Homecoming '83 game. Sponsored
by the class of 1973. *
1 p .m.
Badminton (Poona) Contest
(Women's Doubles)
1 p.m.
Bridge Tournament
1 p.m.
Chess Tournament
p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Backgammon Tournament
Badminton (Poona) Contest
(Mixed Doubles)
3 p.m.
Blue/ White Wrestling Meet
(Exhibition-no registration necessary)
• Alumni are welcome at all events. Reunions are for the members and guests of reunion classes only.
F&M Olympics T-Shirts - $6 each. T-Shirt size: _ _ S
__ M
Homecoming '83 Run T-Shirt - $6 each. T-Shirt size: _ _ S
__ L
__ M
_ _ XL
__ L
_ _ XL
Number
Amount Enclosed
,F&Nf SPORTSI
The Best of the
Little Three
Franklin and Marshall's men and Gettysburg's women emerged the winners in the
annual sports competition among central
Pennsylvania's " Little Three" colleges:
Dickinson, F&M , and Gettysburg .
The Diplomat men, with wins over
Dickinson and Gettysburg in four spring
sports, finished the year with 34 points .
Dickinson edged Gettysburg , 24 points to
23 , to take second spot .
F&M earned five points in track , lacrosse, golf, and tennis for wins aga inst
the Red Devils and the Bullets. Gettysburg beat F&M and Dickinson in football
and cross country, and Dickinson was a
double winner in swimming. No points
were earned in baseball since the F&MDickinson game was cancelled because of
rain .
In the women's competition, Gettysburg piled up 32 points , followed by F&M
with 28 and Dickinson with 12.
The Bullet women beat both F&M and
Dickinson in volleyball, basketball , swimming , softball , and tennis. F&M was a
double winner in field hockey , cross country , and lacrosse.
17th Sponaugle Set
for November 18-19
Millersville , the defending champion, will
meet Elizabethtown in the opening game
of the 17th annual S. W. Sponaugle Collegiate Basketball Classic , November 1819 at F&M's Mayser Center. In the second game , F&M will face Albright.
For the first time in several years, the
two-day tournament will be the season
tip-off for the four colleges and will be
played on a Friday-Saturday night schedule. The event was held on Sunday and
Monday nights in recent years, when it
was schedu led on the weekend following
Thanksgiving. Game times will again be
7 and 9 p.m. both nights .
The women's lacrosse team's national ranking rose from third in 1982 to second as
they ended this season with an 11-3-1 record.
The tournament is being organized for
the second year by F&M's Lancaster
Alumni Council for the benefit of the
McCaskey Chapter of the American Field
Service .
John Boyer '77 of Lititz , a standout forward from 1973-77 , is the tournament
chairman. Carl J . Witmeyer, who has been
involved with the planning of every Sponaugle tournament , is assistant chairman .
The Name to Remember
is Centennial
The new eight-team football league in
which Franklin and Marshall will compete
beginning this fall will be known as the
Centennial Football Conference .
The member institutions- Dickinson ,
F&M, Gettysburg, Johns Hopkins , Muhlenberg, Swarthmore , Ursinus , and Western Maryland-are small, private , liberal
arts institutions with similar academic
standards . Each college competes at the
NCAA Division III level.
Through the 1982 season , the eight colleges played football as members of the
Middle Atlantic Conference Southern Division , and they will remain members of
the MAC in other sports .
The name of the new football conference reflects the fact that each of the eight
colleges was founded more than 100 years
ago.
F&M will open its 1983 football campaign playing the U .S. Merchant Marine
Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. , on September 10. The first Centennial Conference game is scheduled against Ursinus
at Collegeville on September 17 .
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