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IN THIS ISSUE... Pitt turns its attention to Ceylon with its "middle path and moderate approach to life," as analyzed by Ceylonese journalist H. S. S. Nissanka, now at Pitt on a Ful- bright Grant. Mr. Nissanka's interests range froin the occult to herbal remedies and he delineates them in "The Third World and Beyond," on page i. Closer to home, but more distant in time is the bygone world of Pittsburgh as it once was, when the shape of the city arose from the conflict of Frenchmen, Englishmen and Indians as recalled by university archives in "Windows on the Past," on page io. This issue of Pitt also turns to the world of sports and the specific question not of whether you win or lose but how you play the game three times without doing either. Pitt and Fordham did in '935, '36, and '37. These frustrating years are recalled in "Kiss- ing Your Sister In Front Of 43,000 Or 45,000 Or 50,000 Fans," on page 18. Such dismal history, however, cannot daunt football fans who may find comfort in the guardedly optimistic predictions for the coming season in the sport section, page 29. Pitt is published quarterly by the University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue, P'ittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. Second-class postage paid at Pittsburgh, Iennsylvania. Published for the alumni and friends of the University of Pittsburgh. Editor: J. G. Colangelo, Jr. Associate E'ditors: Helen Knox, Lester Sullivan Desi 'n: Jim Hohman Photos: Herbert Barnett, pp. 1, 4, 5, 10-17 H.S.S. Nissanka, pp. 2, 3, 8 (top) Cover: Buddha, 4th Century, Ceylon. SUMMER 1968 VOLUME XXIV NO. 3 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President, John R. Kountz, Col.' i, Law'54 Vice Presidents, B3enjamin E. Thomas Jr., Col.'52, Law'57 Win. R. McQuade, Eng.'37 Dr. Ralph C. Wilde, Med.'5r Secretary- Treasurer, Miss Jennie Ranii, Ed.'41 Executivc Secretory and Director of Ain41111111 Activ'ities, Norman W. Saunders.

Mr. H. S. S. Nissanka AC The Tieiics ol-Ccylon, February 3, 1961, a cosmopolitan English language newspaper, offers the reader a usual complement of good and bad news. The front page reports a labor dispute ("New Deal for Mercantile Employees"), a notice that Norman Mailer, "author of Te Naked adn tiLc Dad pleaded not guilty today to felonious assault on his wife last November," and a notice that Ileter Ustinov will be interviewed in the Sunday Ti1e1s. But a glance at the 'I'ic,ies' lead article brings the Western reader to an awareness that this is Ceylon, where about 70 percent of the population is Buddhist, an island guardian over the sacred footprint, tooth and Bo tree of the Guatama himself. The article is headed "Girl who Claims to be Reborn," and is a report of a girl, Gnanatilaka, four and a half years old, who remembers an earlier life as a boy named Tillakaratne. The newspaper reports that, "The astounding story .4. . has been going the rounds in the Kotmale area for some time now. In fact, Gnanatilaka is said to have indi- catcd awareness of past life a few months after she was -*k able to lisp the first few words. But it was only recently, after som-eone decided to investigate, that a clear picture of the whole episode began to emerge." 1he "investigator" of this incident, unnamed in the 01 Tbiicnes' account, was a young journalist, Mr. H.S.S. Nissanka, working for a rival paper. And Mr. Nissanka found himself involved, not for the first time, in a nation- wide controversy raging between Buddhists and Chris- tians, between Ceylon's rival political parties, between academicians and scientists, and among all the believers and nion-blicvcrs of argumcntative nature in Ceylon, an island nation 30 miles off the southeast coast of India. At the age Of 32, Mr. Nissanka was already the veteran of scveral political, religious and education wars. He was the author of four books (Girl U'lho I'ds Rebori was to be his fifth), a nationally known ournalist, an educa- tional reformer, a practitioner of native hcrbal medicine, an authority on snake bite, a leader of island-wide social mnovements and an expecrt on love and mnarriagc. .-' -~ 4Y I

Today, Mr. Nissanka, at the age of 9, is laying the groundwork for a career in international diplomacy. Under a grant from the Fulbright Commission, he is studying at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of lublic and International Affairs. l Ic has already done much thinking and writing on Ceylon's role as a Third World power, and expects to write the first text- book in Sinhalese, his native language, on international affairs. Born in the upland portion of Ceylon, Mr. Nissanka comes fromn a rural middle class background. "My father was a native physician, practicing what is known as ayurvedic medicine. He was an expert on snake bite cases, and could charm cobras. Traditionally, secrets like this are guarded closely, to be disclosed only from father to son. A member of the majority ethnic stock, the Sinhalese, Mr. Nissanka is also a member of the majority religious group, the Buddhists. The upland or Kaidyan Sinhalese are characterized as "a proud, independent people" who have "departed less than the low-country Sinhalese from ancient customs. Althotgh this is an age for rejecting national stereo- types, Mr. Nissanka does fit the classic description of the Sinhalese people: "easy-going, friendly, sweet-natured people, fun-loving and humorous and gentle." A small man by Western standards, he is always neatly, and even a little formally dressed in dark suit and hat. And amid the slightly fratic atmosphere of a large American university, he manages to convey a sense of serenity and good humor. lie first attended local village schools, and finished high school in 1945 when he was 16. The next four years were spent acquiring what would be the equiva- lent of all undergraduate college education in the U. S. Most of his time was spent in independent study, par- ticularly ini English literature and language; his goal was to pass the national teacher's examination, which would give him permanent certification in Ceylon. lie passed that examination when he was 20 and began a career as a high school teacher. Ini his first years of teaching, whenl he was hardly older than some of his students, he came in contact with all island-wide mnovment, the All-Ceylon Biuddhist Student's Union. Ceylon is considered to be a country particularly favored by 1l3ddha; he is said to have visited there three tlluCS. liuddhisni, the domninant faith of the island, is really a philosophy, a way of life. The Bunddhist Student's Union had three goals: to study the religion, to study life problems ill the light of religion, and to promote brotherhood among the student generation. Through the Union, Mr. Nissanka came in contact with the intellectuals and the activists (ili Western terms)

TOP LEFT- Biddhist (Stupa) paqoda at MahiyanVana, Ceylon. LEFT-Annuiiial procession in the city oJ'Kandy. ABOVE- Traditionial drtiiiniiuers ol'Ccylon. of the nation. Within three mi-onths' time, he was made president of the central province of the Union. In 1952, he was made national president of the Union. Leaders of the Union were eager to test their educa- tional ideas in an ideal kind of high school setting. Their opportunity came when a wealthy Sinhalese Buddhist purchased a thousand acres ofjungle area to create such a school. The area would be farmed by the students; they would work and learn in a cooperative Buddhist society. In December of 1952, Mr. Nissanka gave up his per- manent teaching post to join the faculty of this school. He, along with two other teachers, were to receive no salary for their efforts, only food and clothing. A news- paper man from the Ceylon Observer and a graduate teacher made up the rest of the staff. The school enrolled twenty-five students, and began with grade ten. '"My time spent at the school was very strange and wonderful," Mr. Nissanka remembers. "We had only flimsy cabins to secure us from the jungle; at night I would hear wild animals, leopards, jackals and foxes, running through the jungle, and climbing on my cabin. Often we would see wild elephants and buffaloes. But they never bothered us. "Buddha says that the whole of teaching can be pre- sented in one word: appaiiiada, or 'self-awareness.' My time at the jungle school was spent in search of self- awareness. When there is self-awareness a person be- comes alive to his own problems and that leads to an awareness of the problems of society. I remember that time as a time of great meditation and growth. "Quite unexpectedly, however, the Director of our school died, after the school had only been open four months. I was 23 at the time, and the other two men were quite young also. We talked about continuing the school, but decided that without the direction of an older person we could not do it. Even though we had to abandon the project after only four months, we con- sidered it a success. Many students and older people, too, had indicated their desire to join us in our experiment. 1 He returned to the city of Kandy, the second most populous city on the island, and began teaching at Dharmaraja High School, a leading Buddhist school in Ceylon. At the same time, Mr. Nissanka enrolled as an external student at London University, where he passed the intermediate examination, which is considered a first undergraduate degree. In the very best sense of twentieth century progressive education, Mr. Nissanka has always regarded the class- room as an extension of life. His students were always active in the commun ity and in social service organiza- tions, and classroon- lessons were built around what was happening in the outside world. In addition, Mr. Nissanka was interested in education

problems which plagued the entire island. Although many of thc schools rcceivcd financial aid from the government, there was no uniform quality of instruc- tion. Mr. Nissanka and many of his colleagues felt that a national system of education had to be introduced in Ceylon to insure good schools for all. Ie organized the Kandian Education Front, a group which petitioned, lobbied, pamphieted and Icafleted for several years be- ginning in I9_7. At the outset of this campaign the prime minister said there was no support for the nation- alization of schools in the parliament. However, in 1960, school reform became a major election issue when Mrs. S. W. Bandaranaike, entering into politics after the assas- ination of her husband, a past prime minister, pledged to take over the schools. She was elected on this plat- form (and made history as the first woman ever to be prime minister of a modern nation), and began a school reorganization which is still taking place in Ceylon. A second venture in education reform arose directly from Mr. Nissanka's classroom experience. Everybody knows that the best way to learn language is from birth, but Ceylonese educators were beginning to dotbt this. Sinhalese is a basic course in the curriculum, taught much as English is here in the United States. Students are required to pass all-island examinations before finish- ing high school. 'Very little thought had ever been given to language teaching in Ceylon," according to Mr. Nissanka, who has taught Sinhalese to high school students for the past 14 years, "and this was reflected in the students' attitudes and performance. Students hated their classes and did very poorly on the national exams. In fact, exam aver- ages seemed to drop lower every year. The teachers were dissatisfied, too. Language classes were too large, and teachers felt overburdened with paper work. I felt that a successful curriculum would have to be interesting to the students at the same time as it cut down the work load of the teacher, so several years ago, about 1963, 1 started working on a new ctrriculum for use in my classes." Mr. Nissanka devised a curriculum that involved a lot of student writing, but actually cut down on work for the teachers. Students corrected each other's work, or even their own work. Much student writing was pub- lished in a veekly newspaper. 'Fhe currictlum was solidly based on what was going on in Ceylon politically, literarily and socially. The curriculum innovations were successful not only in raising the test scores of his students, and in pleasing both students and teachers, but in attracting the attention of the Minister of Education. Mr. Nissanka's method is now being tried experimientally in twelve of Ceylon's high schools, and he has been retained as an education consultant for the Ministry. I Ie will resuime his work as "Buddha says that the whole of teaching can be presented in one word: appamada, or 'self-awareness' ... When there is self- awareness a person becomes alive to his own problems and that leads to an aware- ness of the problems of society curriculum specialist when he returns to Ceylon next year. While he was teaching at Dharamaraja high school about eight years ago, Mr. Nissanka adopted another vocation-journalism. "I beeame a general correspon- dent for a newspaper chain, and was also responsible for one feature colunin weekly. "It was as a journalist that I became involved with the social problems of Ceylon. Through my writing I came in contact with all levels of people. The Rodias, or members of the lowest caste, were not allowed to go into temples or schools. The Ceylonese often try to minimize the injustices of the caste system, but I began to cam- paign against these injustices. Later the Minister of Jtstice introduced a bill into the legislature safeguarding the rights of low caste people and admitting their chil- dren into the schools. "Sometimes I had trouble thinking of feature mate- rial. Once when I was struggling with a deadline, I remembered that as a boy I had suffered from a bad infection, and had gone to a native physician. About 70 percent of the population in Ceylon goes to native physicians for treatments, although for serious ailments and operations many people rely on Western medicine.

''Economists claim that an economic revolution will reduce the crime rate in Ceylon, but I feel that is not enough. We need a cultural revolution, a change of values and attitudes before we can suc- cessfully reduce the level of crime.99 "In this case, the doctor boiled a piece of snake skin and applied it with a paste to my leg, which was quite swollen and infected. In three days' time the snake skin fell off, and with it came a long splinter that had been imbedded in my leg. I also remembered my father's cures for snake bites and many other remedies I had seen or heard of. I began a series of articles OIl the ayurvedic system of medicine practiced in Ceylon." Mr. Nissanka's series begins with the observation that in a more advanced country these herbs and native cures would have long since been studied and researched. In Ceylon, however, they are traditionally family secrets and sometimes, if the native doctor does not pass his secrets on to another, they are completely lost when that doctor dies. For this reason, Mr. Nissanka notes, a UNESCO team is planning medical research in Ceylon. Included in the series, which appeared in the Ceylon Observer, are accounts of the niyangala, or gloriosa yam, which induces childbirth "when ground and applied Oil the patient's palms and navel." l-Ic recommends "varaka mellum'' as a cure against sleeplessness, and offers a cure from the same tree against narcotic or liquor poisoning. Many of the cures involve common household spices such as coriander, ginger, nutmneg, pepper and cloves. 1-ls interest in native medicines has continued, and Mr. Nissanka has experimented successfully to create herbal remedies for stomach upsets and other simple ailments. An entire column is devoted to snake bite, which Mr. Nissanka says is 'the best developed field in the ayurveda today." Cobras are considered to be sacred in Ceylon, for it is said that a cobra once raised his hood to provide some shade for the Buddha. But a religious prohibition against killing the cobra has created snakebite problems for the ordinary Ceylonese. First Mr. Nissanka offers a list of repellents such as the leaf of the "Andu" plant, or the root of "Harankaha," sprinkled on the ground. Other herbs "make the snake powerless to strike, even if it does approach a human being." Ie relates a series of antidotes for the bite of the cobra, Russell's viper and the deadly tarantula spider. Mr. Nissanka became so interested in these cures that he organized a snake bite specialists' association, which, for the first time, attempted to exchange and record information. Another group ofnative doctors he brought together were the eye specialists. Although in the past they had not divulged their mode of treatment to any but their sons, they convened for a conference of the All-Ceylon Eye Specialists Association in 1956, tO ex- change their views and information. The conference was presided over by the Minister of Health. Mr. Nissanka served for two years as general secretary of the group. Still another series which lie wrote for the Ccyloni Observer established Mr. Nissanka as somewhat of an expert on love and marriage. The Sunday Magazinec carried a series which Mr. Nissanka submitted after living for a time in (aldebokka, "a village in the thick jungles of Uda-Dambara in the district of Kandy." In a village so remote that 'wild animals, boars and jackals ill particular and even elephants and bears make theJourney to this semi-primitive village all adventurous onc,"' Mr. Nissanka studied the sexual mores aid rituals of the people. "Since all the families in the village are of one caste, the grown-up girls and boys ofGCaledebokka have full frccdomn to choose their own partners. If a boy is iIiterested in a particular girl in this very pcrinissive socicty, he will go to her house and break the ice iii approximately the following manner: "'an I gct somec lime for my chew of betcl?'' "Is tobaceco avallable Or somctimcs: "Dl)id our bufflo come this way?' Writiig love letters is a cominon feature of village life, aind Mr. Nissanki collected and translated many of these songs anid poems:

It is as i/the inoriii dew had bathed In1 the paddyfJields, Or as Y/floiiers had blooiiied all aiver i the eveiii1, Or the g,oldni-hued body has been spattered ivith beauty spots. 1 a11 so hiappJy 11it/i illy! love/oor you That I cainnot bear it aniy iiore. "As a journalist I associated with all types of people, from very high government ministers and -ustices to the scavengers of society also. I have friends from all castes, who come to see me, sometimes for help, sometimes just to talk. I call meet any man and do well in any part of society, because I am not concerned about my prestige," Mr. Nissanka says. The newspaper presented him with a certificate prais- ing him for "Journalism solely for the sake of social service. His newspaper work also provided Mr. Nissanka with the incentive to write and publish six books on a variety of topics. A collection of his journalistic essays comprised his first book, Kanidiani Characters. These essays explore the sociological and political character of Ceylon. His second book, Observin the Mind, is a psychological study which occasioned great interest in Ceylon, and quickly went into a second printing. "As a teacher, I was much concerned with problem children," he says. "The Director of the All-Ceylon Buddhists Union had a deep tnderstanding of psychological problems, and he taught me how to handle many different cases. In addition, I began reading the works of Western psychologists, particularly Freud. What I tried to do in this book, which contains case studies as well as my own observa- tions, was to synthesize Western and Buddhist psychol- ogy. I tried to show how techniques such as dream interpretation could be used in conjunction with the Buddhist method of meditation and direct confrontation of one's problems." Much of Mr. Nissanka's writing, and particularly this book, stems from his firm Buddhist convictions. "If one understands what Buddhism means, one can never be a fanatic, religiously or politically," he says. it is a middle path, a sort of moderate approach to life. To achieve this middle path, one must understand two kinds of problems: problems within and problems without. Or, again, it is self-awareness which leads to an aware- ness of the problems of society. "In achieving this awareness, you can cure both mental and physical diseases. After the publication of Observi,' the Mitn people began comiing to me with their problems. I could help patients solve their prob- Icls by helping them achieve awareness of these prob- lemis. Actually, this is what modern psychology does. "Mental illness should be treated with understanding, not drugs. I have tested the Buddhist approach to life with grave problems. A boy of Kandy had been hospi- talized for two m-onths with psychosomatic illness, and was in a very bad state. A Western doctor tried to help him with drugs, but his condition became more critical daily." Finally the boy was sent to Mr. Nissanka, who "helped him develop self-awareness within the first two sessions. By the fifth session, the doctor gave him a certificate releasing him from the hospital.' "Buddha," says Mr. Nissanka, "tackled- psychological problem s in the s ame way; he looked at life problems of persons irrespective of caste or creed. It is a liberal and humanistic approach to life, which I have tried to follow." A1 ee aind the Lotus, Mr. Nissanka's third book, is poetry which he wrote at an early age. Rci,olt iin the 1rison, his next book, stems from a newspaper assign- irent. Mr. Nissanka was asked to analyze Ceylon's crime rate. He became interested, he says, in the questions: "Hlow does a child become a criminal? What are the causes and the various stages through which he proceeds?" In the prison book, Mr. Nissanka expounds the theory that Ceylon needs a cultural revolution. "Economists claim that an economic revolution will reduce the crime rate in Ceylon, but I feel that is not enough. We need a cultural revolution, a change of values and attitudes in Ceylon before we canl successfully reduce the level of crime. Mr. Nissanka had also written some newspaper articles on rebirth and extrasensory perception whei a reader brought to his attention the story of Gnanatilaka, The Girl [Vho WIns Rebor. Mr. Nissanka undertook the study of this case with the aid of Ceylon University Professor of P'hilosophy, Mr. K. M.Jayatileke, and the Buddhist Priest, the Vener- able Piyadassi Thera, a well-known author. One accouiit of the book appears in "Dialogue," the Bulletin of the Christian Institute of Buddhist Studies, which naturally is quite critical of Mr. Nissanka's work. The "Dialogue" article begins by quoting Dr. Ian Stevenson, Professor of P'sychiatry at the University of Virginia: "I found this case a particularly rich one both in evidential detail and in its psychological aspects. I studied some 15 cases in India but think this case one of the very best . . ." The "Dialogue" writer adds that such a comment makes it "therefore fitting that we make a critical evaluation of this case." The summary printed in "Dialogue" presents some of the most interesting aspects of the case. "At anl early age Gnanatilaka began to state certain details of a former life in Talawakelle, a town about twenty miles away. Often she spoke about her 'Talawakelle Amnma' (inother). One day when a picture of the Queen Elizabeth was hung oil the wall she remarked that this person had visited

I \U l2 " r. ILb A voracious reader and a prolific writer, Mr. Nissanka is shown here inl afainiliar setting: the library. He has plans not,ftr twvo Iiore books. Talawakelle and that she went to see her as she passed by train. She also stated that in her former life she was a boy; that she had a number of sisters, one of whom was named Dora (or Lora); that she went to school by train and returned home at about five in the evening; that she went to Adam's Peak by car; that houses in Talawakelle were demolished and new ones were built; that the Buddha image in the Temple in Talawakelle was bigger than the one at Puhulpitiya, etc., etc., etc. 1 "Dialogue" reports that Mr. Nissanka took up the case, made a search for a boy who had died in Talawa- kelle and whose life would bear out what the girl said. He learned of a boy who died when he was about twelve years of age. "Forty-six out of sixty-one statements that the girl had made were verified to be correct by the investigation and by the boy's parents." "Dialogue" reports that the boy, Tillakaratne, had indeed been taken to see the Queen who had passed by train; that the girl used to talk of eating pears, although she had not seen pears before; that there was a pear tree near the house in which the boy lived, from which his sister used to pick pears for him. She recognized mem- bers of her former family, "and of particular interest is how she recognized a school teacher in her former life. She recognized him at once and recalled a lesson that he had taught. The record book revealed that it was a lesson he taught in the class in which Tillakaratne had been." The critique that follows the sumrmary is entitled "The Validity of Empirical Evidence in Reincarnation Stories, and was only one of the many esoteric and impassioned religious refutations occasioned by the book's publica- tion. Some of the critics were answered by Mr. Nis- sanka; he wvas in great demand as a lecturer for a while, and through his book formed many close friendships with advocates of the theory of rebirth. Mr. Nissanka and his wife are now translating this book for an English language edition. In Ceylon there is a very small incidence of divorce, but even this is a concern and worry to the Ceyloiiese. Mr. Nissanka's editor asked him to investigate the divorce problem and this led him to the material which would comprise his latest book, Sex Probleis of ic Married. By interviewing divorced men and women he found a number of recurring sexual problenms, such as impotence and frigidity, which had never been dis- cussed or written about in Sinhalese literature. 'In this book I was guided by two ways of looking at sexual problems. First there was the Western approach which I knew from reading the works of Western doctors such as the American, Mary Robinson. Then I

w" LAc 9 C : Mrs. Nissanka ,nana ' is to entertain royally in a one-rooiii apart- ienoit. Anionii the specialties are, thin, rolled anwakes and Ceylonecs tea. In the toy pictunre, Mrs. Nissanka e,ntcrtains the coy/le's dan'htcer. also examined these problems through the Buddhist philosophy of living, which stresses inner knowledge and meditation." Having totally immersed himself in Ceylon's affairs, and having gained a certain renown in all his endeavors, Mr. Nissanka then chose to continue his education in the realm of iIiternational affairs. Since no course in inter- national affairs was available in Ceylon, Mr. Nissanka traveled to Calcutta, India i lS 198, tO study at Jacavpur University where he earned a B.A. Honors Degree. Completing the four-year course in two years, Mr. Nissanka graduated first in his class. I e studied history, international law and diplomatic relations. -The school was modeled oil the inglish system,'' he says, 'and the work was all rather abstract and rcnote.'' In India, he continued to write for the Ceylonese newspapers. Ie returned to Kandy and continued teaching and writing. When he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship, everyone assumed that he would use it to further his career in writing, but his real interest was international affairs. In recommending Mr. Nissanka to the Fulbright Commission, the chairman of the Philosophy Depart- mrent of the University of Ceylon noted: "lie has de- vcloped a particular liking for this subject of International Affairs ... This is a subject that I have been trying to include in the University curriculum for some time ... It is a subject of growing importance all over the world and is particularly relevant to this country, where we need to grow out of the shell of our insularity without losing our traditional moorings. "Mr. Nissanka is eminently suited for the task of being one of the pioneers in this field of study in Ceylon.. ." He selected the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), where he could study under Dr. Marshall Singer, who had taught in Ceylon and who authored The Etnergihg I'litc: a Study ofl)olitical Leadershp ipb Ceyloni. Mr. Nissanka arrived in the United States on July 23, 1967. By taking full advantage of Pitt's three-term calendar, he call complete requirements for a Master's degree in one and one-third years. f-ic plans to complete his four terms of work by the end of December, 1968. When classes began in September, Mr. Nissanka plunged into a kind of education that was quite different from any that he had experienced previously. 'The curriculum at GSPIA is very specific and prob- Icm oriented. ''he philosophy behind the teaching of international affairs is that in order to understand a country, it is first necessary to understand its culture.'' Mr. Nissanka attends classes approximately nine hours per week. -The subject of international affairs is handled quite difierently from the British approach," he says. "T'he British pattern emphasizes international law. Here the cnphasis is oil practical problems. The American system seems to be more realistic and useful, because it recognizes the impact of culture and national traditions. Looking at the international situation in this way is a tremendous help in understanding world forces.' [or his mnasters thesis, Mr. Nissanka is studying Ceylon's voting behavior in the U.N. under P'rim-e Minister S. W. Iandaranaikc, from 1956-59 Ceylon did not receive independence from Britain until 1948, and still remains within the Commonwealth as a IDominion country. After gaining independence, Ceyloii pursued pro-Western policies, until in 19S4, Mr. Bandaranaike enunciated a foreign policy of neutral- ismn and noiialigniciint. Since the unexplained assassina- tion of Mr. Bandaraiialkc by some of his own fo-llowers

ill 19S9, C.cylon's policies have drifted at times towards the Soviet Union. someictimes more towards the U.S. 'Today Ceylon pursues a policy of mindless' neutral- isml, which gains her nothing,' Mr. Nissanka says. "71The CcNylonocsc people are passionately political, but they have niot bcci stccessful diplomats ill the international forn. Many of Ceylon's diplomatic mistakes arise from lack of knowledge, as Ceylon otiers no training in international affairs anywhcrc. Mr. Nissanka has appiied mnch of what lie is Icarning at Pitt to a better understanding of Ceylon's inter- national problems. Many of the papers which he has prepared for his CSPIA classes outline Ceylon's role as a Third World power. "Any power that a couintry like Ceylon may possess lies in its nieutralism; and this neutralism, if it is concerted and organized, beeomes very much greater . . ." Mr. Nissanka stggests that Ceyloni's best bid for power could be iwalized by ,Joining with her nattral allies of what has beeii called the Third World, the neutralist nations of Asia, the Middle East and Black Africa. Most of these countries share a recent colonial past, similar internal weaknesses and econoomic iiistability. "The Afro-Asian netItralist leaders have set for them- selves foir permianent objectives- consolidation of their political independence, elimination of the last traces of Eturopean colonialism, developing their national econ- omes, and playing a special role separately and jointly ill efforts to ease and resolve big power conflicts,"l he writes. Mr. Nissanka urges that Ceylon adopt these policies, and that she exploit all historical and cultural alliance with India, her nearest neighbor. Mr. Nissanka, who has been following racial problems ill the U.S. slllCe i o s, when he heard Dr. Martin Luther King speak in Calcutta, sees a parallel racial problem ill Cecylonl. More thain two-thirds of Ceylon's population is Sinl- halcse, and a little less than a quarter, or about 12 million, of the poptlation is Tamil. More than half the Tainils are recent immigrants from Iiidia, brought to Ceylon by the British to harvest tea. Most of these Indian 1Tamils do not have Ccylonese citizCIship. Althotigh many Tamils wish to return to India, the Indians will not repatriate them. 1The T'ails speak a I)ravician lagtiage, unrelated to Sinhalsc, and are chiefly I lindus. 'he fric - tion existing bctvcn Sinhalese and Tamils has onl occa- sioi eruipted inito violcc e. "A course called 'international aid Regional Integra- tion, which I have been takiig, deals with this subect. and suggests that integration call be achieved by briiigiIig together the colmon eleenit s or intcrcsts of the hostile ethnic or racial groups. For cxample, most blacks and w.hites ill the U.S. sharc a coinmon language and religion, as a start. But iii Ceylon no religious similariics or liiik- ing language scrves as a bond. For at least 2000 years these groups have existed as two separate entities; little integration has taken place. In most of the cotntry, people do not have the freedom to settle cown and do wxhat -job they like, because of caste distinctions, and because cf suspicion and hostility. 'Ihese feelings and ciscrimiiiations are fostered by the politicians of both grotps. Parliamnlit, arranged according to ethnlic and caste reprcscntation, mailitains the breach also. Even lore than in the United States, the sitUation secns hopeless.' Last January Mr. Nissanka's wife joined him in the Unitcd States. "My wife was a high school English teacher ill Cecylon, and hoped to teach in the Pittsburgh schools. However, she could not fcilfill the teacher certification requirements ill Pennsylvania, so she has lots of free time. She meets with the wives of foreign stidents every Thursday, and we have friends from Africa, Etrope, Japan, Indonesia, India and Thailand." Mrs. Nissanka, a tiny, beautiful womanii manages to entertain royally in a one-room apartment. I-er tea is imported from Ceylon (she maintains that American dealers mtst ptrchase only the poorest leaves of the tea plant); and she serves sich delicacies as paper-thin pan- cakes, rolled tip and filled with a coconut sauce. The Nissanka's have a three-year-old datighter who has re- mnained with relatives in Ceylon. Mr. Nissanka compares Americans quite favorably to the British. 'in England the people weren't friendly to me. They still suffer from a colonialist mni-citality, a kind of stperiority complex. The Ceylonese have always liked Americans, although recently the Buddhists have shown great opposition to American intcrvention in Vietnam. Popular cemonistrations have expressed syn- pathy with the Vietnamese Buddhists, and a new note of anti-Americanism is evident ill Ceylon.' The Nissankas have had little opportumnity to travel in the United States yet-once to Pennsylvania's Laurel Motntains, ''very much like otir own mountains in Kandy.' I lowevcr, thcy \vill spend the month of August ill New York, for Mr. Nissanka has won a stimmer internship wvith the United Nations OrganizatiOnl. When Mr. Nissanka returns to Ccylom, lie vill col- tintie his teachiig, at a uiiversity there, he hopes. lie plans to write more books-onie on America, and a text book on intcrnational atiirs in Sinhalcsc. Eventually he wvants to enter the diplomiatic service of his country. And alwvavs he xxill strive to follo%% the dictates of Biddha, trcadinig the paith to Nirvan1a: TIcIct /Ithin tea(11t/i o 's. I,et zttnttrtl~ (li11t(11 (11tc 1 /11ias(dit'ttic(lilt)'ii(hr, Pc l(lit/f1l1l to Ils (dift)'." * Barbara P~aull

IIIDOITS OX THE PAST iarratives of picturesque cads, and sturdy lads, and hard-gained wealth, and wealth by stealth, With supporting cast of courtly Frenchmen and Indians, to whom w'e owe nothing except the land upon which the city now stands, as convincingly cironicled in the sprightly annals of the Unitvcrsity of Pittsbugrh. ~- _I C i B C- ' ,!1 1

THOUSAND Frenchmen can't be wronged-nor even contradicted, not when disputing with no more than forty-one Englishmen. Such is the res of a letter penned by young George Washington in April 1754, a letter now in the records of the University of Pittsburgh. He wrote: "It is with the greatest concern I acquaint you that Win. Ward, ensign in Captn Trenk Company was compelled to surrender his small fort on the forks of the Monongahela to the French on the i7th instant. "Who fell down from Venango with a fleet of 360 Batoes and canoes with upward of one thousand men and eighteen pieces of artillery. Ward had 41 in1 all. They suffered him to draw off his men, arms and work- ing tools and gave leave that he might retreat to the inhabitalts." Major Washington, in his report to the authorities, was unknowingly describing a preliminary to the French and Indian War or, as it was known upon the global stage, the Seven Years War, which involved such stately personages as Frederick the Great of Prussia, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Major General James Wolfe versus Louis-Joseph de St. Beran, Marquis de Montcalm. Washington, then 22, was upon the threshold of his own career at arms. His first victory came in May, when his command of 45 men surprised a somewhat smaller French detachment near the headwaters of the Youghio- gheny. His first defeat came in July, not far away, at Great Meadows, where Washington's small army capitu- lated to the French who permitted them to depart with the honors of war. Washington's report both from the magnitude of subject matter and the identity of the author would find an honored place in any archives, but it is only one of hundreds of items which comprise the records of the University of Pittsburgh. Archives are popularly considered as records, legal documents, ledger books and letters as indeed most of them are, but it is only fair and vastly more entertaining to define an archive as "physical evidence of a fact." This kindly framework embraces not only documentary evidence but such cheerful evidence as the flute of Henry Brackenridge in the Darlington Library and the Croghan ballroom. This ballroom once graced the Croghan estate, '"iic- nic,'' which met the destiny ofinany stately halls in 1949, when it was subdivided into developments. The ball- room was spared, disassembled, then re-assembled as an impressive addition to the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning. Fortunately for the archivists, most of the archives N t'w NI N L NI %VA 'SA si. AL L r f P~4j r C~, ~ Cc~*, 'ci \1, *i I I rJ 'V3 (~*3 K t 1 ~t I ~iC c~~ "- 4 ~3 t ~ I~S3 -;; *i i ~aa I, JJ "J r2K p n~ J \i "C r \ ~ L a*u ( ~ L '3 II ~F 1J 4

are in the much more portable form of documents, which have been gathered from such diverse sources as abandoned shacks, attics and basements of homes and businesses, offices of trusts and estates and the inactive files of business organizations and groups of all types. Archives are by nature, items which are no longer in daily use. They are, of course, available for historians and others engaged in legitimate research and are fre- quently consulted for such purposes. Most of the archives are housed in the new Hillman Library, whose special collections area was designed for a higher-than-normal humidity to ensure the longevity of the books. The ultra modernity of this building is in complete contrast to the other repository of archives, the Dar- lington Memorial Library, in the Cathedral of Learning, with its wrought iron gateway and nineteenth century furnishings. The Darlington Collection was donated to the university by the last survivor of the family of William Darlington, Miss Mary Darlington. It contains more than fifteen thousand historical documents, news- papers, first editions, original papers and maps. The collection has been supplemented from time to time by donations from friends of the university and by purchase from dealers in historical documents. This historic accumulation takes various forms-files of newspapers, books, periodicals, printed documents, photographs, maps, and advertising flyers. Some of the merriest came to light recently when George McMaster Jones, of the Darlington Library, brought forth a vener- able cardboard box which contained the glittering and brightly be-ribboncd badges of delegates to the Brotherly and Paternal Order of Elks gathering in Pittsburgh in 1892. These badges were produced by J. Bernhard & Bro., 67 Ohio St., Allegheny, and the Brothers Bern- hard spared not color nor gilding. Jangling out of the same box came the brass medallions and red-white-blue rosettes of delegates to the 1888 national convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron & Steel Workers. Such jolly mementoes, diverting though they may be, have little to tell the lay browser, who begins to appreciate the historian's task of research, evaluation and analysis. What sort of men wore those badges? What did they hope to do and what did they achieve? Such objects are not history, but the fodder of the his- torian. Only historians can supplement such finds with expert knowledge to ascertain the actual course of events. Nevertheless, even the casual observer without a special frame of reference can sense some of the color and flavor of a bygone time, fascinating glimpses of things past, as though he had peered over the stockade walls of old frontier strongholds or observed the goings on behind the Georgian doors of men of property. One such glimpse is afforded by the indenture of Elizabeth Reed, age nine, who, on February 12, 1803, was apprenticed to Andrew Watson, Esquire, to serve him and his family "bonstly, orderly and obediently in all things," until the age of eighteen. In return for such service she was to be taught "the art and mystery of housekeeper and housework,"* to receive "one year and six months schooling," and "sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging and wearing apparel." At the con- clusion of service she was to receive "two full suits of *AirJonces observcdthathe had becii told that this art remiiaitis a mtiystery to some vomiien to this very day.

wearing apparel, one suit to be new and befitting an apprentice, one spinning wheel, fully equipped, five pounds cash and one Bidale." (A bidale was an enter- tainment at which ale was served and contributions were m-lade.) Those with more inclination toward the tides of empire may turn from Elizabeth's humble destiny to the hound copies of the Gentlemen's Magazine, m-ore particularly to the issue of August 1755, which chron- icles the failure of the British attempt to drive the French from the wilderness which was to become Pittsburgh. The issue contains several genre bits, accounts of brawlers summoned before Justice Fielding, rowdy chairmen and hayinakcrs, many of them Irish, who, the journalist opines, soared to the apex of combative fury by "drinking gin instead of whiskey, their natural drink." More significant is an item datelined Whitehall, Augtst 26, 1755, by His Majesty's Ship Sea Horse from Virginia. It describes the fate of Braddock's army which on -9July was attacked by a body of French and Indians who made a sudden fire from the woods which put the troops into great confusion and occasioned their retiring with great precipitation notwithstanding all the en- deavors of the general and the officers many of whom were killed." The report then lists the officer casualties and describes the reactions of the men in the ranks. "The officers were told by the men . . . that if they could see the enemny they would fight him but they would not waste their ammunition against the trees nor bushes, nor stand exposed to invisible assailants." Young ;orgeWQashington, now a colonel and one of the few surviving officers of Braddock's expedition, is glimpsed again in the archives, as the recipient of a letter dated July, 1758, and written by Colonel Henry Bouquet. It reads: "MaJor Lewis with 200 men under his command arrived here last night. I ain extremely obliged to you for this extraordinary dispatch. I have heard nothing of Genl. Forbes since IS ofJune. "Your most obedient humble servant, Henry Bouquet" The lore of Henry Bouquet is one of the pitfalls of those who wish merely to browse through the archives, for here is a fascinating man whose attributes tempt the browser into becoming a researcher. One of Pitt's re- nowned alumni, the novelist I Iervey Allen, said of Bouquet, that "If it weren't for him we'd all be speak- ing French today." -listorians may challenge this comment and thereby wash away visions of multi-colored umbrellas at the sidewalk cafes along the Monongahela nd of light- hearted citizens dancing the carmagnole on Ilastille l)ay at the Ilace De Gaulle, in the Triangle )or on the Ohio waterfront, but the record is impressive enough. Bouquet was born a Swiss and began his military career in the Dutch service. It was common practice for officers of that era to transfer allegiance, and Bouquet joined the British Army. fie was not only an extrem-ely able officer, but a man of refinement and cultural back- ground. This background he turned to practical advan- tage when he utilized ancient Roman tactics to inflict total defeat upon the Indians at Bushy Run-remarkable testimony to the advantage of a Liberal Arts education. Bouquet's letter to Washington was written when both men were miarching across Pennsylvania with the British army of General John Forbes, an army which was to drive the French fron the headwaters of the Ohio forever. Grandiose as such conseqtiences were, they were but a part of William Pitt's grand design which saw fulfillment with the British conquest of Canada. Fort Duquesne, at the junction of the Monongahela and the Allegheny, became Fort Pitt and the English returned to business, as evidenced by a trading permit issued May 1, 1762, at Fort Pitt, by George Croghan, Esq., deputy to the Honourable Sir William Johnson, Baronet. The permit authorizes John Bard to pass into the Indian territory with 12 pack horses laden with trade goods. With business came its concomitant-debt-and in- evitably the necessity for soothing creditors, as exampled in a letter of 1765, from Adam Smith, debtor, to Colonel Hugh Mercer, creditor. "I have hemp enough," Mr. Smith writes, "and as sool as I call get it to market, I will remember you. Payment deferred is also the topic of a letter, dated April 6, I787, from General George Rogers Clark, who wrote to James O'Hara at Fort Iitt asking for aid in settling accounts with Congress. Clark complained that nothing had been paid him from the first setting out to the close of the treaty at the Miami. Clark's tireless opponeiit, the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, also had expense account problems with the British government, as may be seen in a letter from him dated December 23, 1791: "Sir: "When Colonel Butlcr was last at the head of the lake I gave him an account of some expenses we had incurred for a war feast when a party of the Six Nations went to the Westward and as such expenses have usually been defrayed by the government I was iii hopes you would have ordered it paid, but Colonel Butler informs me it could not be done. "The Americans are daily gaining ground upon the Indians and influccc with them. This I am sorry for as the lnglish wished the Indians to go to the Westward, and of course they must have been interested in it as well

as the Indians, and I am afraid if such rigid economy is used in expenses and in the present critical situation of our affairs it may tend to lessen the influence of the English with the Indians and advance that of the Amler- icans which is already too great. I request you will have the goodness to favor me with an answer." Such stately language is scarcely what one expects from an Indian chief, but Brant was an educated man, had visited England where he met James Boswell and had had his portrait painted by Roniney. The American influence which he feared was less than complete, for a letter sent to Fort Pitt, October 23, 1793, lists an inventory of horses and wagons lost October 17, when Indians attacked a supply train escorted by a com- pany of soldiers. The archives peruser who wearies of annals of howling savages brandishing dripping knives may advert with some relief to such genteel appearing items as the June 28, 1798 receipt for the rental of quarters for a fencing school, and of the receipt issued by Rembrandt Peale to Joseph L. Machcrson for $25 -one half the price of his portrait. The name Croghan appears and reappears in the annals of Pittsburgh; and only the most tireless of his- torians would count the number of times it appears in contrast with the name of Brackenridge. Anybody who enters the Darlington Library and asks for the Brackenridge Letters will be well advised to cancel all his other appointments. Hugh Henry Bracken- ridge wrote to everybody and everybody wrote to him and when he wasn't writing or reading letters he was writing his book lierican Chivalry or running for office. Closer to home, Mr. Brackenridge was one of the founders of the Pittsburgh Academy which was to become the University of Pittsburgh. Brackenridge had a lively eye for the dramatic and his accounts of the Whiskey Rebellion are especially vivid. tie was involved in this lively occasion as he was in practically everything and, as a judge, tried to dis- suade the rioters from burning the home of the revenue inspector. He was accompanied on this mission, as he wrote, by "the venerable clergyman, the Rev. John Clark, to dissuade the people from the object they had in view. It was to no purpose; they considered him as in his dotage or as having skill in spiritual affairs but not in the temporal interests of the country." The place was put to the torch. Unlike the omnipresent Brackenridge, some names appear but once, as does "a Negro named Cuff" who, on io December 1783,was"give and conveyed" byAndrew Watson, of the town of Pittsburgh, to James Chambers and Susannah, his wife, of the same place, in exchange for a plot of ground nearby that "which Deveroux Smith and the Widow McCay's houses stand." The archives peruser may observe how often the most minatory letters are signed 'Your most humble and obedient servant.' Such inscriptions undoubtedly implant a gentlemanly tone to what would otherwise be a vulgar exchange of threats or, as in the following letter, a fear of benefits forgot. The spelling may be questioned but the message is plain. Letter ofJune 28, i8oo fromJoseph Beckett, Elizabeth Township, to Dunning McNair. "Dear Sir: "We have directed our petitions to the care of your worthy friend John Woods who I have wrote too on that occation. I am happy to find you placed amongst that Honorable Bodey that yoi can render us the service you promised me in case it was your lot to be elected. I theirfore humbly request that your freindly Exersions will not be wanting in favour of our plan for the new county. Now we comne to the part about love. Not love in a log cabin with the groom congratulating himself on his bride's dowry of a milch cow and a spinning wheel, but the haur inonde kind of thing, that Jane Austen handled so well. To the Pittsburgh historian this can be nothing but the elopement of Mary Croghan in 1842. Eloping with Mary Croghan was about the best day's work an enterprising man could do for himself- nothing less than making off with an heiress. The standard to which she had been accustomed can be readily ascer- tained by visiting Room 156 of the Cathedral of Learn- ing wherein has been restored the Croghan ballroom and oval room. These rooms are in the restrained ele- gance of the Greek Revival style, dominated by a chandelier bedecked with hundreds of glass facets and haughty griffins. Of such enrichments was the home of William Croghan, Esq. It is easy to imagine the consternation with which he received the intelligence that his 15-year- old daughter had left her school in New York and gone away with a man thrice her age, but it is not necessary to imagine it for picturesque and detailed indignation leaps forth from the William Croghan Papers. Early among them is a letter from Mary Croghan, the schoolgirl, which begins with bantering reprovals of her father for not writing and mentions that "Mr. Schenley has not yet ceased in his kindnesses to me and all of the other girls." This letter is dated 23 January 1842, a significant date, for a friend of Mr. Croghan's later wrote and referred to the Schenley-Croghan marriage certificate, "which I have seen, is dated the 22 ofJanuary." This fact, Miss Croghan, or rather, Mrs. SchcnlIy, neglected to mention. It may be that Captain Schenley believed that such an announceIment required a more delicate approach. lie may well have reasoned that very

few heiresses' fathers would approve their elopement with a one-legged foreigner, twice widowed and pos- sessed of a daughter senior to his bride. The general attitude toward the wedding can be seen in letters to Mr. Croghan which refer to "the dreadful event," "the event so distressing to us all,' and 'the unhappy event in which you have so deep an interest.' It's the sort of caper that requires a lot of explaining -and something pretty good too-which Captain Schenley took pen in hand to bring about. fHe wrote to a friend to "beg the favor of your good offices .. ." The way being paved as best it could be by friendly intercession, Captain Schcnley planned an assault upon the very fountainhead of resistance: a letter to William Croghan, Esq. H e regretted "the temporary bereavement I have occasioned you,' and went on to "solemnly assure you that I have used no undue means or arguments." I e then played the ace, which was nothing less than refer- ring his new father-in-law to his previous one for char- acter references. Knowledge of his "character and coi- duct as a son and a husband," could be obtained, he said, from "Sir William and Lady Pole of Shute House, Devonshire, whose daughter was my first wife and under whose care my only child, their granddaughter resides." Mr. Croghan may have lost a daughter but he un- deniably gained stately reassurance in polite language, including a letter from Henry Delafield which described Mr. Schenley as a "gentleman of the strictest integrity, most amiable and generous temper and situated in life and position in society." Mrs. Schenley went to England to live and in the full- ness of time the vast Croghan acreage became Schenley Park, and nearby rose the stately Schenley Hotel. It was to the Schenley I lotel that Willa Gather's pro- tagonist of "Paul's Case," an usher at Carnegie Music Hall, followed the carriage of the "soprano soloist with the world shine upon her." Paul stood in the night and peered through the doors at the "tropical world of shiny glistening surfaces and basking ease with green bottles in baskets of ice." The Schenley I otel is now the Pitt Student Union, its terrace room animated with the merry click of billiard balls. Mention of Miss Cather calls to mind another Pitts- burgh novelist, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and in Rinehart memorabilia the Darlington Library is rich indeed. Here is the desk upon which she wrote, and standing upon it her mascot, the littlejeweled trtimpeter. Nearby is a large Howard Chandler Christy watercolor, the frontispiece for "The Man in Lower Ten." Christy brings to us the Rinehart world-the moonlit beach house in the background and in the foreground an overturned boat. Upon this boat sits a handsome young woman with copper colored hair and beside her sits one of the heroes of the Taft era; handsome, eupeptic, with a first-rate tailor and ajob which provides unlimited time off to pay court to the granddaughters of Pitts- burgh millionaires. The young woman is relating various goings-on in- volving a young attache of the Austrian Embassy, the Riviera and Virginia Hot Springs, for such was the milieu of some of the Rinehart people-perilous but comfortable and in vogue. Servants, continental tours and accomplished hairdressers gave them the sangfroid necessary to cope with dastardly but imaginative villains. Mrs. Rinehart was not only a very able and successful novelist but a prolific one, as can be seen by the number of titles listed in the Rinehart collection.

Nearby is the H-ervey Allen collection with transla- tions of his hooks in several editions and languages. 1'he archives are well equipped to foster research about Mr. Allen. Ruth Salisbury, Coordinator of Special Collec- tions, chose Mr. Allen as the subject of her thesis. Another area is extensively chronicled by the Paulin Collection of Theatre Programs of Two Centuries. One of its volumes is on a second tour of duty. It was at one time The Towecr, the Allegheny High School yearbook, and has been pressed into service as a scrapbook, and through the paste dimly can be seen the hopeful faces of the Class of 1913-1914. Beneath a critique of Walter Damrosch can be seen the portrait of pretty graduate Romaine Isabel McClelland and the comment: "Contin- ual corfort in her face, the Lineament ofGospel Books." The Paulin collection bestirs melancholy reflection upon the decline of theatre in Pittsburgh and every- where else. It harks back to days when William Farnum trod the Alvin stage as Ben Htir and Henry Irving as A Waterloo Veteran. An actress named Sarah Truax appears again and again. She was Cigarette in "Uider ?'ue Flags" with Thomas Meighan, and as Lady Godiva, is pictured with the long tresses so vital to that role. Miss Olga Nethersole's triumph as "Camille" at the Alvin in 1897 is attributed partly to her "subtle, clever touch of dropping her voice in the course of ordinary dialogue." Another compliment is paid in the text accompanying a portrait of Olive Wyndham , "who played the young American girl in 'In 'l ntifromti Homtie' and was one of the comprehensible causes for making him go back there." The archives section was significantly strengthened in 1963 with the establishment of the Archives of Indus- trial Society. Here may be found Samuel Pierpont Langley's nineteenth century design for a mechanical bird, and also his letter of 30 November 1885, in which he requests John Brashear, the astronomer, to make a lens for him. One of Langley's mechanical birds found a place in the Smithsonian Institution as the "first heavier-than-air craft in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight under its own power. 9 Both men played prominent roles in the university s history, Langley as a member of the faculty and Brashear as trustee and acting chancellor. "Industrial archives" may connote a dreary collection of wearisome facts, yellowing invoices and old bills of lading, but Archivist Frank A. Zabrosky has assembled much, much more. He has brought together not only the histories of the entrepreneurs, but the color of the social mileu in which they operated. I lere may be found the history of the Poles in Western Pennsylvania and the records of the Davison Sand & Gravel Company, 'John K. Davis at age of 14, in 1854, established himself in the sand business at Lawrenceville, and, in 1870, took his brother, Edward into partnership." The Davison history was a gift of the company and nearby is stored the Edwin J. Fithian Papers, a gift of Mrs. E. J. Fithian. Mr. Fithian lived from 1863 until 1953 and that lifetime appears to be the prototype of the Protestant Ethic. He was the son of a eabinet maker and attended Grove City College before he earned his medical degree at Pitt in 1892. He practiced medicine in Portersville and Zelienople until 1898, when he organized the Car- ruthers Fithian Company and the Bessember Gas Engine Company. He became chairman of the board of the Cooper Bessmer Corporation and tirelessly proceeded to become president of the board of the Grove City National Bank, a trustee of Grove City College, the Prohibition Party candidate for governor of Pennsylvania in 1918 and Pro- hibition Party candidate for the U. S. Senate in 1932. '0. C 1, .q VOTE FOR The Prohibition Candidate Dr. E. J. Fithian Of Grove City, Pa. For Governor of Pennsylvania

SEINA 1 %jr r 1.ININ-S SENSATIONAL IRETIREMENT FROM THINGS POLITICAL ;1)1~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ful f'Trnn fliTruri Pln' natl -cI~,_ ~~ _ NOT ONLY STEPS OUT OF NOT iiiuiv-) 'il-'i111 I STATE SIK, BUT FROMI REPUBLICIN CUMMITTIES Business Interests (ii\en as lt , ,ti -,I 1 , , pl,0, I a ReaSon hu Yorloin M0t 11 1A,d L.eadeT. "This Is nwtnl -,d .....FORCH) To AhDGATF "I,(. n ft ,p In I,, Tt SAY 11II\ OT)ONl NTS sit[ -10; Otbers Tiint, lba the vnator M N IY T181l iq 01 lqA l .. .LitHoever \N l The industrial archives offer examples of the frequent entwinement of industry, commerce, banking and poli- tics-especially in the multi-volume saga of the career of State Senator William Flinn, from 1898 until 1921. Mr. Flinn's clipping service appears to have overlooked nothing, even those who did not esteem Mr. Flinn at all are given voice in neatly pasted newspaper accounts. Many such journalistic skeptics expressed mocking doubt, and in verse too, of Mr. Flinn's statement of 7 March 1902, when he said: "My Sharon Steel Co., natural gas, oil, real estate, banking and contracting interests have grown so large that I must devote my entire time to my business. "I have resigned my seat in the state senate and miiy membership in the Republican city, county and cam- paign committees. Thejournalistic consensus was that Mr. Flinn's formal retirement was merely a matter of going backstage as producer-director of the Republican charade. Of such stuff are the protagonists of the Industrial Society Archives, and Archivist Zabrosky hopes to add many more chapters. He is seeking records of business firms, ledger books, correspondence, minutes of meet- ings and trade catalogs. He also hopes to obtain records of organizations, labor unions, national societies, social clubs, community service, women's organizations, including minute books, newspapers, reports and correspondence. The archives accepts such items either as outright gifts or as loans and respects the restrictions of the donor. Mr. Zabrosky's co-worker, Ruth T. Wallace, Univer- sity Archivist, invites like items-old glee club photos, dance programs, letters, class photographs, pamphlets, anything which contributes to knowledge of university history. The university history is, of course, more than a chronology of chancellors, faculty members and stu- dents. Imbedded in it is the very meat and drink of life, to take these random exam-ples chronicled during the chancellorship of Samuel Black McCormick, 1904-1920. Here we see William D. McClelland (Dentistry 1918) stretching for a put-out from third base, when the Pitt nine gloriously swept all before it, and here in faded newspaper clippings are members of the class of 1917 as they stand ranked together in civilian garb practicing a dress-right, learning to be war-time soldiers. That the university's daily life is linked with the com- mon and memorable life of the city and the world is a truism nowhere more appreciated than in Agnes Lynch Starrett's history of the university, Through One Hundred and Fifty Years. Mrs. Starrett has drawn the threads together and illumined the era when the university was young: "There were horse races and turkey shoots and the firing of cannon. There was the excitement of the Whiskey Rebellion and the drilling of soldiers for the War of 1812. There were postriders galloping in with mail from East and West. There were Louis Tarascon's boats launched at the wharf that carried cargoes to Bordeaux, Marseille, Genoa, Leghorn, Patras, faraway lands of mystery and romance. "And at Zadok Cramer's bookshop it was not impos- sible to borrow, or even to buy Madern Chivalry, The Arabian Nights, Gil Bias, Toni_Jones, The Vicar of Wake- field, histories of Greece and Rome and England, and an occasional volume of The Spectator. "A boy in the Academy not only learned to measure life with the patterns of great books taught by sensitive, scholarly gentlemen, but he grew up in a world that was full and radiant." University records also were a source for Agnes Sligh Turnbull's historical novel, The Day Must Dawn, and for many other novels and histories ofWcstern Pennsylvania. Such authors must be tempted to believe, or at least dimly to feel, that men accomplish deeds of valor and commit picturesque follies solely to supply fodder for historical writers-much as criminals create employ- ment for detectives. And it is true that old far-off achievements would fade into uncertain legend or into oblivion were it not for the dedicated historical writer. A deed that has been written about acquires lasting form, and the bricks and mortar for many achievements not yet fully comprc- hended lie awaiting their places in the history of this university. Lester Sullivan RETTIE) DO,SS OF PITTrSBtURG,

WB EUJE~{ Kissing Your Sister In Front O IF IT IS TRUE, as the saying goes, that a tie is like kissing your sister, the men who in the mid-'30s played football for Fordham and Pittsburgh to this day hold the all-time American record for, well, simiulated incest. Three straight times- 193 5, 136, and '37 -they battled one another in the Polo (;rounds, and the final scores were o-o, o-o, and o-o. Jock Sutherland, a tall, grim man with a Scotch burr, coached Pitt at the time, presiding over a sort of thresher- type single wing offense that ground opponents to rib- bons, all the while abjuring the forward pass as a frill for sissies. Through seven seasons, 193 1-37, Pitt never lost more than a single game. Stocked right down to the third team with the toughest coal miners in Iennsylvania and West Virginia, the Panthers also could brag about a defense that during those seven years averaged six shut- outs a season. The school's supporters trumpeted a battle cry that demanded, "Millions for defense, not one cent for faculty!" As the ranking powerhouse of the East, Pitt decided to embellish its image by booking a series of New York appearances for exposure. Fordhain seemed a likely opponent. The Rams, coached by Sleepy Jim Crowley, the ex-Horseman from Notre Dame, were coming into the big time and yet did not appear to have reached the point where they could handle Pitt. Crowley being a man about town, Broadway had adopted his team. Kate Smith, Mark Ileclinger, and Ted Iusing regularly journeyed uptown in carriage cars to participate in campus pep rallies oil Rose 1ill. Municipal enthusiasm for the Ramns swelled. Altogether, a Fordhani series struck Pitt as one that would pay satisfactory gate receipts while posing no particular threat to Sutherland's bitumi- nous bulls. November 2, 1935, the date of the first Pitt-Fordham game, drew near with both teams showing identical records-four victories and one defeat. But Pitt's defeat was by only three points, at the hands of Notre Dame. Bookmakers, who in those days did not bother to calcu- late point spreads, made the Panthers 2.12 to I favorites. "According to all available information," a Pittsburgh newspaperman wrote two days before the game, "the Crowley line is nothing over which to become excited." The Crowley line, as it happened, was to become legeidary as the Seven Blocks of Granite. "We took it for granted we were going to win, recalls Bobby LaRue, a swift, compact Pitt halfback "and we played that way." University officials an- nounced that 45,000 were in the Polo Grounds, although Frank Carver, then Pitt's press agent and now her athletic director, says the actual attendance was exaggerated by some 17,000. (In the two subsequent years, crowds of 50,000-plus were announced, though the truth was more like 43,000.) 1 lyperbole was good business, for program advertisers were billed according to attendance. "Those were the good old days," sighs Carver. The game was a dreary affiir, distinguished Only for its clean but brutal tackling. Between the 20-yard lines, the field was soggy; it may have been soggy inside the 20S, but neither team penetrated that deep to find out. Psychologically fat, the Ianthers seemed unwilling to believe that Fordham's line could contain them. 'It'sjust impossible," Quarterback Arnold Greene appeared to be thinking as he sized up a 3rd-and-I8 situation and called for a smash into the line. In the end, FordhalI outgained Pitt, I o meaningless yards to 73, and the crowd, jubilant over a moral victory, surged onto the field and tore down the goalposts. This demonstration, plus a brief i. ideiit that occurred oil the train carrying Pitt hom, accounted for the entire week-end's excitement. On the train, Sutherland and his first assistant, Bill Kern, fell into a disagreement over the Scotchian's

ITM~~JR~~ 13,000 Or 45,000 Or 50,000 Fans strategy that day. "Do you think you know more foot- ball than I do?" Sutherland demanded. "Yes," Kern answered. Thus did a beautiful friend- ship end. HE BETTING again was oil the Panthers when they returned to New York in 1936. A week earlier they had manhandled Notre )ame, 26-0. Halfback Mad Marshall Goldberg, a sophomore sell- sation, had gained 177 yards. "In the open," wrote one Journalist, "he travels with all the abandon ofa typhoon on a holiday.' By this time, however, nobody doubted that the Fordham line was as tough as any in the land. Undefeated in four games, the Rams had not given up a first down to either Southern Methodist or St. Mary's of California. Blockers found it virtually impossible to move tackle Ed Franco, though he stood only 5-9 and weighed but 200 pounds. At right guard Vince Lombardi was, of course, tough and cunning. Crowley's game play was g0 percent defense. Hie instructed his liincien to concentrate on destroying the Pitt blockers before they crossed the line of scrimmage. Linebacker Alex Wojcicchowicz, whose range was proportionately as wide as his name, would nail the ball carrier. For two quarters the teams waged a bruising war that led nowhere. The second-half kickotH" howekver, sailed into the arms of Bobby LaRue, and he raced upfield through a funnel of Pitt blockers, emerging in the clear near midfield. Only one Fordhaii man, Andy Palan, stood in his path. "My God, with the New York press in the stands,' says LaRue, "there was my chance to make all-Amecrica. I threw the guy a fake, a very nice hip fake that by all rights he was supposed to take. But he didn't. lIe was too dumb.' Late in the third quarter, LaRue again seemed in a position to score. Pitt had driven to the Fordham 3 and now faced fourth down. LaRue set himself to smash over his right side, between guard and tackle. "But there was a little mixup in our signals," he reImlembers. "I went in low and hard, but our guard, Biff Glassford, got his big bucket in the way." LaRue ploughed head- first into Glassford's big bucket, then rebounded and started again. "Wojciechowicz lathered me," he sighs. Hlie almost tore me apart. The game resumed its agonizing format. All the while, a substitute quarterback named Bob (Jerk) McClure sat oin the Iitt bench wondering why his team kept trying to batter away at a Fordham defense that clearly was overloaded up front to stop the running game. Suddenly McClure heard Sutherland directing him into the game Without consulting the coach, McClure iImmediately devised a plan. He ordered the Panthers into a double wing, a forma- tion that Iclt itself to the long pass. The quarterback, McClure in this case, ordinarily would throw the pass, but McClure reminded himself that Sutherland hated only two things worse than a pass-an incomplete pass and all intercepted pass. Prudently, McClure cast around for a back who would exchange positions with him and throw the ball. He selected left halfback Johnny Wood, a reckless mountaineer from West Virginia who punted barefoot and played with a trick left shoulder literally chained to his side. Deep in the double wing, Wood cocked his right arm as he saw his receiver race into the clear with ridiculous ease. Wood fired long. Alas, the ball ticked off the rcceiver's fingertips. Sutherland, possessed of a clear eye when it caine to getting to the bottom of chicanery, .jerked McC(lure from the game, which then ground on, death-like, to its conclusionl. 0 Ac k a i\F by MYRON COPE, Col' 51 .XMr. (Cope I' s Contributing editor ./or Sports Illustrated, (111d his /ret- lance articles haic yeapearcd in 7 lnrue, Saturday Evening Post, anid other nationial publications. lrentice-Hall has lu11st brotjt out in book forni a collection ofis stories of offo b'at characters in thei t'orld of sports. (Broken Cigars, $5.95) A\

"Next year," Pittsburgh Columnist Chester L. Smith reported wishfully, 'they are going to start the game on Monday morning and keep at it until somebody scores." A CTUALLY, a third scoreless tie seemed an impos- sibility, for in 1937 Pitt fielded a Juggernaut regarded by many as the school's most powerful in history. The best evidence was that John Michelosen and Johnny Chickerneo, the first- and second-string blocking backs, kept a man named Ben Kish on the bench. Kish was to play ten years of professional foot- ball. In New York Jim Crowley noted that his scout, Hugh Devore, had been so shaken by the sight of Iitt's offense that enroute home he lost his head and tipped a porter a quarter. For the better part of the first half Fordham's line frantically managed to stave off Pitt's attack, but late in the second quarter Pitt stormed to the Fordham 5. There, the backfield lined up in left formation, with Curly Stebbins at tailback and Goldberg at wingback. Stebbins took the snap and started to his left. Goldberg, meanwhile, peeled out of the formation, gathered in a reverse from Stebbins, and swept deep around the right side. Pitt's famous deep reverse caught the Fordham defense moving in the wrong direction, and Goldberg raced untouched into the end zone. The play had been perfectly executed, except for one detail. On a meaning- less patch of ground far from the action, Pitt's left tackle, Tony Matisi, was seen holding. The touchdown nullified, Matisi screamed at the officials. A devout Catholic, he returned to the Pitt huddle and swore on the names of the saints and on everything holy that he had thrown a perfect block. "The next day," says Curly Stebbins, "I open the Sunday paper-the New York Ne,s-and there is the most beautiful picture of the most beautiful stranglehold you ever saw. Tony is in a crouch with his left arm around this Fordham guy's leg, hanging on to him for dear life, and the Fordham guy is standing up but sort of leaning, as if he's holding on to something. I can still see the whole scene. It reminds me of the flag raising at Iwo Jima." The Fordharn player was Al Gurske. From Gurske's location on the field, says Stebbins, he could not have made the tackle had Goldberg been running 200 yards. The clock ran out before Pitt again could thrust into the end zone, but in the second half the Panthers' big, swift backs went right back to thrashing the Fordham line. Stebbins ran brilliantly. Time and again, he knifed his way sizable distances. The only trouble was, he kept leaving the ball behind for Fordham to fall on. "I ran more yards without a football than anyone in the history of the game," Stebbins concedes. "It got to the point where it was just like passing the ball off to Wojciechowicz coming up the middle." After his second fumble, Stebbins determined to make amends. Studying the Fordham offense, he drew a keen prognosis of the Rams' next move-a sideline pass. "I read that play like a book," Stebbins says. "I was Johnny-on-the-spot for the interception. I had a clear field. There wouldn't have been a chance in hell of anybody catching me, even if I would have walked. I grabbed that ball, took three steps, and fumbled." Stebbins could not grip the ball securely because Jock Sutherland, a firm believer in hard work, had scrim- m-aged his team only two days before the game, and someone had stepped on Stebbins' left hand and broken it. To this day, Stebbins has a sizable lump on the back of his hand and his nose is twisted out of shape, owing to the fact that Sutherland teams rarely took the trouble to have fractures set. Stebbins makes Ino complaint. But he confesses that by the time he had committed his fourth fumnble he began to have doubts about himself 07~1Di3 d

I Ic told Quarterback Michelosen, "Mike, I doul't wvant to carry the ball. I can't hang onto it.' "Curly, I'm calling a play right now where you're going to carry the ball," Michlosen shot back. If I don't, you 11 lose your colidcncc. 'Okay,"tebbins said. 1 Ic carricd thc ball and fumbled. Stebbins' five fumblcs plus three others made a total of eight for Iitt. Published accounts of the game vary according to the size of the reporters' hip flasks, but at least six of the fumbles were recovered by Fordham. One occurred at Pitt's 8-yard line and two others inside the Pitt 30; each time, the Fordham otiense advanced the ball no farther than end Johnny Druze could kick it missing field goals. Once the Ramns ploughed nicely throtIgh the Pitt line fr'om the 28 to a first down oil the io, whereupon they astonished the crowd by throwing three passes-all incomplete. "They started to think,'' says Frank Carver, the ex-press agent, "and that's always dangerous for a football team.' Jim Crowley, vho today is industrial commissioner for Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, cannot remember vhich of his Cquarterbacks (alled those three pass plays, or why, but he is indignant at Carver's words. 'You canl t ever accuse any of my teams of thinking,"' snorts Crowley. H aving played a third time to no purpose, lPitt and Fordhami had set a record for ofensive ineptitude that in all probability will never be equaled. Crowley re- members that as he crossed the field and shook hands with Sutherland, both of them were mortified. "I would rather have been beaten 27-20 than have tis happen again,'' Crowley earnlestly told his rival. Sutherland went home to Pittsburgh With a question nagging at his mind. Why hadn't he yanked Stbbliis from the gainc? The answer was that each time Stcbbinis had fumbled, Sutherland had told himself, "'lie caiit possibly fuble again.' Now Sutherland wvondered if LFU~I Stebbiiis had gotten all his funible-itis out of his system. Oi the Monday following, Stebbins was undressing in front of his locker whcn he heard a Scotch voice bark, "Curly !' Stebbins turned just ill time to see Sutherland flip him a football. lie dropped it, Onl the practice field that day, Sutherland arranged his squad in two long rows, each facing the other. He gave Stebbins a football, carefully handing it to him as he Would all infant, and ordered him to run the gantlet. Sutherland admonished him that he had better not let anyone slap the ball out of his hands. Five times Stebbins went lown the line. He emerged each time with the ball, bUt with his face bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. "Some of those players m1ust have hated me," Stebbins speculates, "because they sure as hell weren't trying to hit the ball." Back at Rose f ill, the Fordhamn players, though shar- ing the ignominy of twelve scoreless quarters, had every right to feel proud of themselves. For three years they had deadlocked a team that Unquestionably had the better talent-a marked superiority in ruiIIIIIIg backs ,vho hit into the Fordham line ferociously. 'I played 6o min)utes in all three of those games,' says Ed Franco, the all-Amnerica Fordham linemnan, 'and I still have the bumps to show for it." Wincing at the prospect, the two teams met in 1938 for a fourth time, this time in Pittsburgh. At last the logjamn broke. In all action-packed contest, 1itt exploded for three touchdowns iii the fourth quarter to will, 24-13. The fans, Jammed into Pitt Stadium's aisles and temporary field bleachers, got more than their nioney's worth. There vcre exactly 7_057 of them there, according to all annoulicement fron the box-office. "Actually," Frank Carver says, making a (lean breast, 'the crowd was only 68,910." The streak of ties had been broken, but the program advertisers' losing streak remained int act.U IA'j

'UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN AN URBAN CENTER' IS THEME CHOSEN FOR DEDICATION OF HILLMAN IN SEPTEMBER Dedication of the Hillman Library has been set for September 6 at 1I:30 a.m. The theme will be "The University Library in an Urban Center." Dr. C. Walter Stone, director of university libraries, will preside. Scheduled to participate are Governor Raymond P. Shafer, Henry L. Hillman, William H. Rea, chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Wesley W. Posvar, chan- cellor. Representatives of the faculty and student body also will be on hand, and Mayor Joseph M. Barr will speak briefly at a luncheon following the ceremony. Tours of the library will precede and follow the ceremony at io a.m. and from a to 9 p.m. Greetings from sister institu- tions will be delivered at the luncheon. Work began on the Hillman Library in June of 1965 and it opened in January of 1968. In 960, the Hillman Foundation gave the university a $3,000,000 grant for the construction and the General State Authority allocated an additional S8,ooo,- ooo for the structure. BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS THREE CHARTER MEMBERS, THREE TERM AND TWO ALUMNI AT ITS MAY MEETING At its May meeting, the Board of Trustees elected three new charter members, three new term trustees and two trustees nomi- nated by the alumni. Four other former board members were given emeritus status. R. S. Ahlbrandt, B. R. I)orsey and G. II. McCraken, all former term trustees, were elected charter trustees. Charter trustees are permanent appointees who serve until retirement. Mr. Ahlbrandt is president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Mr. Dorsey is president of Gulf Oil Cor- poration, and Mr. McCracken is vice chair- mran of the board and one of the founders of Scholastic Ma(,azines, Inc. The new term trustees are I I.J. Heinz III, general product manager of the I-I.J. I leinz Co. (;rocery Marketing Division; R. I. Barker. chairman of the board of PP1G Industries, and R. E. Kirby, executive vice president of Westinghouse Electric Cor- poration. Mr. Heinz, filling out the unex- pired term vacated by B. R. Dorsey, will serve until i969. Messrs. Barker and Kirby will serve regular three-year terms until 1971. Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert (Bius.'41, Law '47) and Mr. Russell M. Arnold (Eng. 134) are the two new trustees nominated by the University's alumni and elected by the full board. They, too, will serve three- year terms expiring in i97 i. Judge Aldisert is judge of Allegheny County Common pleas Court and Mr. Arnold is president of Burrell (orporation, manufacturers of lab- oratory equipment. The four former trustees who were given eineritus status are P'ittsburgh financier, Lt. (;eneral Richard King Mellon; 1). G. Iill, former board chairman of Pittsburgh ON OUR CAMPUS

Plate ;lass (o.; [rank L. Magec, former board chairman of Alcoa; and W. K. Whiteford, former board chairman of (ulf Oil (orporation. BLACK EDUCATOR, SCHOLAR WILL DIRECT UCEP OFFICE A prominent black educator and scholar has been appointed to direct the univer- sity's office of University-Commnunity Educational Programs (UCEP)). fII is I)r. Donald I lugh Smith, cur- rently director of the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois State C,ollege in hicago. Dr. Smith, who will hold-joint appoint- mnents as professor of education and pro- fessor of speech, received an A. 1. in speech education from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in educational administration from DePail University, and a Ih.D. from the University of Wisconsin. As director of UCEP at Pitt, l)r. Smith, working through a coordinating commnit- tee, will be responsible for promoting and coordinating the planning and operation of academic programs for educationally disadvantaged students. These programs will involve both undergraduate aId grad- uate schools within the university. I)r. Smith also will oversee projected coopera- tive ventures between Pitt and the city's public schools, as well as training programs for elementary and secondary school spe- cialists, both aimed at using the university's expertise to improve pre-university edu- cation. At Northeastern Illinois, lr. Smith has held joint appointments as associate pro- fessor of inner city studies, director of the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program, and director of the Center for Inner C'ity Studies. In the latter post he has been responsible for the design and administra- tion of a program for training teachers for the ghetto. In discussing the new appointment, Dr. Wesley Posvar, chancellor, said, 'It is hoped that creation of this new office will permsit the University of Pittsburgh to strengthen its contributions to the solution of one of society's Imost critical problems: the provision of adequate educational opportunity to all citizens. We are very gratified to find someone so qtalified to work with tIs toward the goal.' Ir. Smith will asstme his duties at Pitt early in September. IIe will report directly to the provost. per(Wal uUntr 1 876i 9b8 E AlCH of those weho knew Iercival IHhnr hos a special eninory oft innan. Those ivho did not know hin personally but only knoiv ''of'' him, will rcienfiber himn fi)r the reinark- able imnpact he imade oil his students. Years after they studied under hiin, these students continued to seek his counsel. Fiercely devoted and intensely loyal, hisforuer students nomw span, in a ;e,Jive decades -froti those in their 705 to those still ill their 30s. They sou ght his comnpanyjfervently. To the end, the talk was lively, stiimulatinl . These mecin and tvoinen, niany of then in professions connected either directly or in- directly withi vritin , stru/eggd to find ways to inake his later years inore coinlri-tablc. When his eyesifhttmiilcd, they read to hini. Wh/ile lie still ivas able to ivalk, tlhe'y aiccoMpanicd hini. If/c had a sudden appetite.for somne particu lair. food, t/c'yferreted it out. ir. Hunt had to ineasure his words at timecs f1,r had lie linted that lie wished to havye the inoon, they ivould havm'e clinibed up and got itf1or huni. Mr. Hunt lovmed the Eim ;/ism lans,'uai e and lie liamidled its words as ifthey ivcreicuwcls. A firin per 1tctioiist, lie soinetiines w'as distressed to see time mwil/d popularity of third-rate ivork. He did miot aTProve ofsnsatioalasmn or trickery in ivrirtim. To cac/i ofhis students, lie transinitted a kind of an awot'rfo the superbly-crafted written pam'c'. Soilictilift's Co1- sciously and soinecfiiies nlot, his students-forever tried to see thi(ir ivork as lie would see it and j.udg0 e it. In his last lfei days, visitors Iwerc' discourag'ed, but these special 1riciids oflr. Hunt cainle anlyway onl tlie chance that lie had rallied or weould ivant coinpany perhaps even-lo a Imlinute or so. Wh/men lie died these friends were nearby. Separately and collectively, they are a ininoria/ to tie ll.n One of thoen, carefully, and wit/i thec prolle'ssor's iniodesty icl/ ili iid, prepared rIme obituary which folowm's. Percival hlunt died July 8th, at the Home for Aged Protestants in Wilkinsburg. Brief services were held for him on July ioth, and formal miemlorial services will be held at I leilz Chapel in September, on a date which will be announccd. Mr. I int, cmrittis professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh was born January 9, 1876, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, the son of I Icnry Clay I lunt and IIclcn Marr Garrison Hunt. A great scholar ant teacher of English Literature, Mr. I lunt had built the Uni-

versity's English department into one of the country's foremost. lie was professor and head of the English dcpartmnent from 1()22 until 1941. During that time he instituted and taught freshman composition, short story writing, poetry, descrip- tion and narration, and Shakespearean courses. The I Iunt courses were known for their high requirements. For thc writing courses, the I lunt emphasis wvas upon anl honest story worth telling and told in simple, original phrases. ie insisted upon the precise word and the true word, and tpon the expression of a unique self in each student's writing. Mr. h unt prepared two monographs for class ise, All OlitliuICe0/ ("0nIIIOsitionl (1930) and Studeit Thenies (193 8). Mr. Hunt became professor at large in 1941 and officially retired in 1948, but never lust his interest in helping those who wanted to write. He continued to help and guide the many persons who came to him for advice in writing until the onset of his last illess. "A good teacher," Dr. Hunt once wrote, "is a good manl teaching." It was a definition he himself fulfilled to the last of his great teaching strength. A testimonial volume, If By Your Art, was presented to Mr. Hunt when he retired. In it, the late John C. Bowman, former chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, described Mr. Hunt as "the best teacher of English I have known. Jo the teaching of any subjct-Shakespeare, Chaucer, composition-he brings the same good sense, order, insight and subtlety of humor." It was to perpettate stch values that the Percival Hunt Writing Award was established for students of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natiral Sciences. Mr. I Itnt held that teaching was a full-time career. Hle himself did not turn to writing until is rtirement years but he was quite prolific in that time. The first of his four books, SaiNiul Pc,pys inl th(' Diary, appeared in 1959 when Professor Hunt was in his eighties. First published by the University of Pittsbtrgh Press, it was later published in a British edition by Oxford University Press. Three years later he published P'ificenth Century In1t,;Iiid. Of it the Netv York b'iines Book Rcticiv said, "Mr. Hunt has performed the difficult feat of bridging a long gap in time, of bringing close a period which for most of us has been remote i. lls eye is sharp for the significant detail, his deductions convincing." Thc Cift of he d Unicorn, essays on writing, appeared in 1965. 'lThe Fnlish novelist and critic, Storm Jameson, wrote of it: "A writer has everything to learn from this book, and any reader who cares in any degree for our culture and our traditions will be incomparably entertained, his mind stretched and his imagina- tion nourished. It is a book to be read as a whole and thei left close at hand for constant re-readings." Mr. I hInt was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began teaching English at that university in 1904. 1 Ic was in charge of the English I)cparnlcnt at Iowa when he resigned in 1921 to come to the University of Pittsburgh. I ec had visited England four times and had toured in continental Europe, South America. Australia, Africa and Asia. Mr. I lunt was a member of the Modern Language Association, E nglish Speak- ing Union, Phi Becta Kappa aid Sigina Chi. I Its last residence was at the I Iome for Aged Protestants in Wilkinsburg. i e was a bachelor and had no surviving relatives, but hie did have a frin circle of friends, many of them former students, who never lost their interest in his well being. Mr. I Int's last work, '"o WVhat (reen Alta'" has not vet been published. In one passage of this manuscript he writes of the sevcnteenth-century Enlih diarist Samuel Pepys in vords that may ,velI describe his own gifts: 'lie had thoughts and imaginings beyond the ranlge of most of is: and poxvcr beyond most of us to make them alive. And this imagination and this power grew as his years increased.' DR. PEAKE NAMED PROVOST Dr. Charles II. Peake has been named provost. He has been serving as actin g provost since September of 1967. when the institution Is academic and administrative structure underwent a major reorganiza- tion. A search committee appointed early this year unanimously reconiinded Dr. Peake for the position. Besides Dr. Peake the principal deputies to the chancellor now are F. Sargent Cheever, Vice Chancellor for the Health Professions; Edison Montgomery, Vice Chancellor for Finance; A. C. Van L)usen, Vice Chancellor for Program Develop- ment and Public Affairs, and Jack Critch- field, Assistant Chancellor for Student Affairs. l)r. Peake came to Pitt in 196 as Assis- tant Chancellor in charge of student affairs. In 1959, he was named Vice Chancellor for the Academic I)isciplines. Under the reorganization of last Septem- ber. academic programs were brought together under the office of provost, and other administrative functions were con- solidated and lines of authority simplified. The College of Arts and Sciences was also reestablished. I)r. Peake came to Pitt from Knox Col- lege in Galesburg, Ill., where he was dean for six years. 3,500 RECEIVE DEGREES; 5 HONORARY DEGREES GIVEN Approximately 3,500 graduate, professional and undergraduate degrees were awarded at the conimencement ceremonies on Wednes- day, May 29. Dr. Wesley W. Posvar, chancellor, also conferred honorary de- grees on recipients representing education, state government, urban development, international affairs and nationil and inter- national civil service. They were: Chief Simieon Olaosebikan Adebo, director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), a Doctor of Liws degree; Harlan Clevelind, United States Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, a Doctor of Letters degree; Father HenryJ. McAnulty, president of Duquesne University, a D)octor of Humane Letters degree; Governor Raymond Shafer, a Doctor of Public Service degree; .nd Robert C. Wood, Under Secretary of Housing and Urban D)evelopment, a Doctor of Htmane Letters degree. Gover- nor Shafer offered greetings at the cere- mony.

DR. GOW TO RETURN IN FALL I)r. Steel Cow, Jr.. wxill return to the university this fall to become the univer- sity's first assistant provost for instructional experimentation. 1)r. Gow, currently vice president for planning and development and professor of political science at Buck- nell University, was a member of the Pitt staff from 1957 to 1965. 1)r. Gow will assume his new duties this fall. iHe will direct a projected Division of Instructional Experimentation, vhose piii7- pose will be to develop, test and demon- strate improved programs of higher edu- cation. Dr. (;ow also will serve as executive director of the University's Learning Re- search and Development Center. Chan- cellor Wesley Posvar said that an especially close relationship will exist between the Division of Instructional Experimentation and the Learning Research and Develop- ment C,enter. However, individual faculty members in the university's schools and departments who have long harbored ideas for radically different approaches to teach- ing and learning in their respective stbjects will be encouraged and assisted to conduct experiments in the division. The division, Chancellor Posvar said, must be an instru- ment which can respond readily and effec- tively to felt needs among faculty and students for curricular innovations, thus providing the necessary means for testing and evaluating promising proposals, what- ever their source. l)r. Gow first came to Pitt in 1957 as a lecturer in political science. In i959 he became the first director of the Coordinated Education Center. From 1963 to 1965 he served as director of the Learning Research and Development Center and as professor at large. i e left Pitt in 1965 to assume his present duties at Bucknell. CRAWFORD PRIZE AWARDED The Stanton Crawford Prize for Good Teaching, establishe last year in the De- partment of Biology, is being awarded this year to Donald Graybill, biology grad- tate teaching assistant. The award, w,,hich carries a $ioo honorarium, was made pos- sible by the Crawford Memorial Fund, contributed by friends and colleagues of the late 1)r. Stanton Chapman Crawford, Pitt's thirteenth chancellor. DR. KEEFE JOINS FACULTY l)r. William J. Keefe, formerly chairman of the D)epartment of Political Science at Chatham College, is the new chairman of Pitt's Department of Political Science. He assumed his new post on July i. Dr. Keefe has been at Chatham since i952 and has held various positions in the DepartIncut of Political Science: assistant professor (1952-1955), associate professor (1955-Ig6i), professor (i961), Given pro- fessor (1965 to present), and chairman (1954 to present). He also was chairman of Chat- ham's Division of Social Sciences from 1954 to 1958 and again from 1959 to 1964, and he has served as director of the Falk Foundation Practical Politics Program. Before Chatham, Dr. Keefe, a specialist on political parties and legislatures, taught in Wayne State University's Department of Government (1948-1949) and was assistant professor of political science at the Univer- sity of Alabama (I951-1952). He also has taught in the summer schools of North- western University and the University of Wisconsin, and three years ago he con- ducted a one-semester course at Pitt on the legislative process. FREEMAN NAMED SECRETARY AS DR. CROUCH RETIRES The Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Mr. Jack E. Freeman as Secretary of the University and Secretary of the Board, succeeding Dr. W. George Crouch, who retired from those positions on June 30. Mr. Freeman will continue as Executive Assistant to the Chancellor in addition to his new responsibilities. The purpose of this change is to consolidate the administrative and legal functions of the secretary with those of the chancellor's office. The academic and ceremonial respon- sibilities traditionally performed by the Secretary of the University, such as certify- ing diplomas and signing letters of appoint- ment to the faculty, will be transferred to the Provost. The office of the Dean of the Faculty. vhich previously was held con- currently w-ith that of the secretary, will be abolished. Dr. (touch has been designated lDean Emeritus of he Factlt-y and Secretary Emeritus of the Board. Dr. Crouch vil remain with the University as professor of English. DR. ELMER IS HONORED l)r. Manuel Conrad Elmer, professor emer- itus of sociology, xas presented the Hon- orary Doctor of Letters degree by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Dr. Elmer, xho for many years was chairman of Pitt's Department of Sociology, is an alumnus of North Central's 1911 class. He also attended the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago. He served on the faculties of Fargo College, the Uni- versity of Kansas, the University of Min- nesota, Western College for Women and Howard College. DR. ALLEN, INITIATOR OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH, DIES Dr. Alexander John Allen died early in June at the age of 68. Dr. Allen started the university's program in nuclear research and had served until recently as professor of physics. When he joined the Pitt faculty in 1939 he began the construction of a second major cyclotron. The construction was in- terrupted by World War II, during which he was a group leader at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Radiation Labora- tory. Here he played a leading role in the development of radar systems. Shortly after the war he returned to Pittsburgh as West- inghouse professor of engineering and physics and director of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Radiation Laboratory. He completed the Pitt cyclotron and started a major program of nuclear research. The labora- tory has been expanded three times and now houses, in addition to the cyclotron, a major Van de Graaff installation. Dr. Allen was born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in goo. He was educated at the University of Colorado and New York University, where he received a Ph.D. in physics in 1926. He spent the next 13 years at the Bartol Research Fotndation of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where he designed and constructed one of the earliest cyclo- trons, working closely with the late Ernest 0. Lawrence, Nobel prize wiinner and inventor of the cyclotron. Dr. Allen xas a Iellox of the American Physical Society. lie is survived by his xxife, Eleanor Allen. Burial xas in Colo- rado. Friends may nia"L contributions to the Alexander J. Allen Fund in care of the University of Pittsburgh.

ALUMNI NEWS REVIEW REUNIONS FOR '18, '28 WERE WELL ATTENDED The Class of i918 joined the Class of 1928 in the academic procession for the 1968 Commencement on May 29th in the Syria Mosque. A reception was held in the Pea- cock Lounge at Webster Hall for both reunion groups. CHARLES M. TEA hosted the 5oth Re- union. Two of the classmates, BERTHA ORTMANN RAEBER and HAMILTON GAMBLE GRADY, came all the way from California for the reunion. JANET MACDONALD FLINN came from Silver Spring, Maryland, and ROBERT B. BOSSLER came from College Station, Texas. GWENDOLINE RICHARDS HADEN was the Pittsburgh representative who promoted the reunion. MRS. MARY SANNER KARCHER, married to a Pitt Medical School graduate, DR. J. FRANKLIN KARCHER, told the group that she has three sons who are all Pitt grad- uates. Others who returned to Pitt for their 5oth Reunion were FLORENCE MILLER WILLISoN, AUGUSTA SCHMELZ, PEARL LITTLE KWOLWASSER and her husband JACOB, both of the CLASS OF 1918, LOUISE HETHERINGTON, and four of seven living engineers: ROBERT B. BOSSLER, HAMILTON GAMBLE GRADY, CHARLES C. HILL, JR., and ALBERT N. REYNOLDS. Each returning class member received a gold panther pin or charm engraved "so". Director of the Fortieth Class celebration luncheon was WILLIAM E. BRINKER, who came from Chicago, Illinois. He previously had rallied NANCY MYLER, PAUL R. FISHER, and ART H. "RED" THOMAS as planners. Current Pitt information was featured on the program and class members received old and new campus maps to point up the contrast between now and then. More informal was the recollection of school day events and details of some of the scandalous happenings of 1924-28, revealed for the first time. Each classmate gave a brief resume of "My Life Since I Left Pitt." GlBBY WELCII, the All-American, joined his classmates. Gibby is presently Alumni Representative of the Pitt Medical Alumni Association. Many messages were received from class- mates unable to return to their Reunion.

Vj- Ark j1- pCY . 11cre art' tlic Coip)oratc' Groiip Czairn cir t ei Corporate Aluoini Caiiipaigii of thi_ A_+l1,la/ Giv141'FiN l Seated, left to right: Alexander Lcii'is, Jr., setiior vice president, Cii/JOil Cor- p)oratioii; I'ai! N. KiZIiicbI, vicc prcsideoit, Colioiibia Gas of Pensylvania, Inic. (cliairitianl);- Ctirris E. joties, ',ice presidenit, iMle/loi ,N'ational 13anik &' irust Coniipaiiy. Standing, left to right: Clytic IL SIslet, assistaiit to tle president anid coloiel, Dravo Corporatioti; C. Alleni Hcadlee, vice prct i t l ITiitcd States Steel Corporationi; Berniard P. Koperek, director, 1)clvlop- niet and Alumni A~lairs, University of Pittsbur i; I;di,diard l". Kay, partler, Lrnst & ]rnst; Robert 13. Siiiithi, iiiiiicrsity coordibiator, ( Tiiircrrsity 01 l'ittsbir 1i. DR. KONOPKA HONORED FOR HER SOCIAL WORK )R. GISEaLA KoNOPKA, professor of group- work, University of Minnesota School of Social Work, received a Distinguished Alumnus Award at a dinner for social work alumni in the Hilton Hotel this spring. Forty-eight alumni, in Pittsburgh for the National Conference on Social Welfare, attended the affair. Dr. Konopka, who received her M.S.W. from P'itt, has taught at the University of Minnesota, Columbia, Tennessee, Califor- nia, Illinois, Utah, North Carolina, Chicago and Smith College. She has lectured in Germany, Holland, Canada, Puerto Rico, the West Indies and israel. She is the author of seven books and ioo articles. Dean William II. McCullough planned the meeting. PHARMACY DINNER DRAWS MORE THAN 200 ALUMNI More than 200 alumni attended the Phiar- inacy annual dinner on May 28 in the Webster iall lotel. GEORGEJ. HAGGETY served as inaster of ceremonies for the programn, which included the presentation Of awards by Dean Joseph A. Bianculli to outstanding seniors and to two distinguished alumni: RALPH G. LEMOON'37, and GEORGE J. IIAGGELRTY'29. )ean Bianculli reported on the progress of the school and the changes during the past year. Reporting on the alumni affairs of the school, 1967-68 President, GEORGi M. KILLY'42, told about alumni programs and presented the recommendations of the nonmnating commitee. Nominated and elected as officers for 1968-69 were:JAMES L. STRADER'26- pres- ident; IDAVID P. ROSENFiELD'53 -first vice president; EDwIN S. ROWSE, JR.,37- sec- ond vice president; P'AUL J. WURDACK'49, '52, '59-secretary and treasurer. F'ollowing the short business meeting, the dean presented the individual members of the rcumnion classes. I)inner arrangcm-ints were made by 1)R. PAI J. WURDACK and l)R. josEiPH MCEVIH.IA. NURSES HONOR DR. YOUNG The Nursing Alumni Association honored l)R. LUCIE S. YOUNG, one of the outstand- ing figures in the profession, at the associa- tion s annual dinner at the Park Schenley Restaurant May 22. Presiding at the meet- ing was the outgoing president, Miss RUTHI M. RAY, assis'ant professor of nursing and mcdical-surgical nursing instructor of the Penn State University School of Nursing at Allegheny General Hospital. A plaque honoring Dr. Young for out- standing contributions to her profession, school and community was presented by MRS. DIANA NEY, coordinator of nursing at Allegheny Community College. Dr. Young, who lives in Elizabeth Township, served as president of the Pennsylvania Nurses Association last year, and has been active in many other professional groups. C urrently serving as assistant administrator of nursing functions at McKeesport Hos- pital, lr. Young received a B.S. degree in 1947, a masters degree in 1957 and a Phi). degree in 1965, all at Pitt. The business meeting included a progress report by Dr. Marguerite Schaefer, dean of the School of Nursing at Pitt. The alumni group, with a membership of more than 2,ooo, elected as its new president MRS. ROSEMARIE Rizzo PARSE of Pittsburgh, assistant professor and coordinator of med- ical and surgical nursing at Duquesne Uni- versity and program chairman of the dinner event. Other officers elected were RUTH MROZEK, vice president, ELAINE EWING, secretary,JUDITH FINCKE and ETHEL RIEvES, baccalaureate program representatives, and EIL EN MILLER and En LEEN CLEARY, masters program representatives. DENTAL ALUMS WELCOME MEMBERS OF CLASS OF '18 Under the chairmanship of FRANCIS CORSELLO, D.D.S. '48, the School of Dental Medicine held its annual dininer-dance at the Hotel Webster Hall on May 28. One of the highlights of the day was the intro- duction of the Class of 19 18, celebrating its Soth Reunion with 32 of the 40 living members in attendance. The officers-elect for next year will be JAMIS SMUDSKI, )1).S. 'S2, president: GRALD GUINE, D.D.S. S5, first vice presi- dent; JOHN MICHANOWICZ, I).l).S. '6o, second vice president; and AiLLAN SEGAL, 1)1.S. '46, secretary-treasurer.

300 MEDICAL ALUMNI HONOR CURRENT GRADS DR. ROBERT S. TOTTIEN, president of the Medical Alumni Association, was niaster of ceremonies for the annual luncheon held on May 29, when about 300 medical alumni honored the graduating seniors. Awards given to outstanding~ seniors were presented by DR. FRANCIS S. CHEEVER, vice chancellor for the health professions. DR. ROBERT E. LEE, general chairman for reunions, reported spring reunions. GSPH HOLDS DINNER The Graduate School of Public Health held its Annual Alumni Dinner at the Park Schenley Restaurant May IX with 35 alumni present. Guest speaker was I)R. ROBERT J. AGNEW, associate professor of business. Chairman for the dinner was MR. CHARLES STOWELL. DR. WOOD SPEAKS TO ALUMS More than 85 alumni of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs attended the Annual GSPIA Society dinner on May 28. A lecture by DR. ROBERT A. WooD, Under Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban D)evelopment, fol- lowed the dinner. 120 AT NORTH HILLS MEETING The North Hills Pitt Club held its spring dinner meeting at the Highland Country Club on May io. More than 120 alumni heard DR. ABE LAUFE, professor of English, present a program titled "You Canl Steal and Get Away With It"-an analysis of "tune-borrowing" among song-writers. SQUARE DANCE FEATURED More than 8s Iitt alumni living in the South Iills section of Pittsburgh got together at Buffalo Inn, South Park, for a chicken dinner and an old-fashioned square dance, on Miy lo. A professional caller led the dances. 13Lr-i,v and CHARL ES I)ii Lii and Sur and I IFNRY LA ROSA handled all arrangements. GROUP HEARS ABOUT CHANGES The Manhattan Luncheon Club, in its sec- ond meeting of the year in May, heard from one of Pitt's vice chancellors, dis- cussed future plans and changed its name. DR. A.C. VAN DUSEN, vice chancellor, Program Development and Public Affairs, discussed "Our Changing University." The name of the club was changed to the Greater New York Pitt Club and membership now will be drawn from the metropolitan New York area. Three meetings and a trip back to Pitts- burgh for Homecoming are being planned. The officers-elect are: G. HERBERT MCCRACKEN, Bus. '2i, honorary president for life; GEORGE MITCHELL, Col. '53, presi- dent; LLOYD WHITMAN, Bus. '54, Retailing SS' vice president; ROBERT SISTERsON, Grad. Sch. 'so, secretary-treasurer; H.R. YOUNG, Bus. '41 chairman, 1968-09 Annual (;iving Fund. BENJAMIN FLECK HONORED BENJAMIN A. FLECK, BA '43, Country l)irector for Korea, Department of State, was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Dinner on May 23. The dinner was held at the Park Schenley Restaurant. Chairman for the dinner was PLATO MARINAKOS. TWO REPRESENT PITT Two alumni recently represented Pitt at official functions. They were SAMUEL S. FRIiDMAAN at Marywood College and THOMAS E. POE, JR. at General Beadle State College. TOURS FEATURE AMERICA Th is year the Alumni Tours Committee offered Pitt alumni travel experiences i1 America. A scheduled European Tour was cancelled in January and in its place a trip to I lawaii in the spring and one to Alaska in the summer were scheduled. Onl April 27, litt alumni checked in at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport and prior to take-off' for I lawaii had a bon-voyaige brcakfist as guests of the I )cvelopiieint and Alumni Affairs Office. On July 2o a group of Pitt aluniii left for San Francisco, Alaska and Seattle. *

SPORTS COACH HART OPTIMISTIC -BUT CAUTIOUSLY SO It's been five long, frustrating years since Pitt has produced a gridiron winner, but 1968 could mark the end of the Panthers' decline. In I963 Pitt roared to a 9-I record and the number three ranking in the country. Since those glory days. however, the Panthers have purred like little kittens in- stead of grown beasts in compiling( an 8-30-2 record. Noy, at long last, the Panther should begin growling again. "There's no question we're a much, much better football team than the past two years.' coach D)ave I lart noted follow- ing a strong spring practice. "We had our best spring in the three years I've been here. We simply have more football players, more size, better speed and more depth. Barring injuries and getting the expected improvement fromt our young players, we could have as non-losing season." H art's new-foun optimism, wshich is in direct contrast to his first two years it Pitt. is still somewhat giarecd and cautiois. 'Yes, I'm optimistic, but I'mn optimistic to a point. he quickly adds. ''We're a much better football ream but we're intici- patingr that five to six of oir opponents are too. So se need to be greatly improved. We're a young team that will count heavily on sophomores. and sophomores make costly mistakes no matter how good they arc. We have very few seniors who'll be playing and that could hurt us." The 1968 season could rightly he termed The-Year-of-The-Sophomore at Pitt. As many as ten sophomores could crack the starting lineup, even though 14 regulars will return from last year. Several of the sophs could he classed in the "Super Soph" category. Linebackers Ralph Cindrich and Lloyd Weston are being touted as two of the finest prospects to enter Pitt in years. Weston is a former first-team high school All-American hailed as the finest school- boy lineman ever to come out of Pittsburgh (Westinghouse High School). The 6'2", 230-pounder is a vicious tackler who has every tool for the game. He lacks only experience. Cindrich, who co-captained the Penn- sylvania Big 33 squad two years ago against Texas, had an outstanding spring. Another vicious hitter, the Pitt coaching staff feels this 6'i", 230-pounder has the potential to be as good as anyone the Panthers play against next fall. Pitt has suffered both offensively and defensively the past two seasons, allowing 621 points and scoring only 178. H art doesn't figure this will happen again, even though Pitt will be relying rather heavily on inexperienced personnel. Iefensively, Pitt could start as many as six sophomores and five juniors. Up front the Panthers will be big, bit not particu- larly quick. At the end of spring practice, the front line showedjuniors P'aul Naponick (6'4 ", 228) and Bob Ellis (6'2 ", 21 s) at end. and sophomores Howard Blroadhead (6'4", 2- S) and John Stevens (6'2", 23 8) at tackle. The linebac king corps. which was espe- cially strong during the spring, had Cind- rich, Weston. senior Ed Gallin and junior prowler-back Iave Dibbley. Gallin and D)ibbley are both returning regulars, while (indrich and Weston are ness coners. Pressing theni were sophomores I)ve Mc Grath and John Wozniak, in addition to returning regular ILoi Parrott, who uissed spring drills becaiuse of knee surrcrv. In the defensive backfield, coach 1ill ILewis has little experience, but still feels the P1anthers will be improved because of better athletes. In the three-deep setup, junior Jeff Barr appears to have one slot nailcd down but the other two ,ire up for grabs between tjunior Georec Iriish and sopho- mores J. D. Lewis, Bryant Salter and Charley Hall. None of the backs were regulars last season, but coach Lewis is confident P'itt's secondary will be stronger than in the past two campaigns. Offensively. Pitt has eight regulars re- turning, better backs with more speed plus outstanding receivers. Despite all this, the offense still is a question mark. Pitt hasn't controlled a game offensively in two years, and it is in this area that the Panthers need the most improvement. Quarterback is the key. Last year's third- team freshman quarterback, Dave Havern, was the surprise of spring practice. Only 518", 158 pounds dripping wet, Havern showed exceptional running ability to go along with a more than adequate arm. The sparkplug of the offense during spring, Havern must beat ourjunior Frank Gustine, who started four games last year. Also battling for a starting job are sophomore Mike Bannan and junior Chuck Winters. In the backfield, Pitt appears to have excellent potential. The Panthers will have their best speed in years, and Hart is ex- pected to take advantage of this with a strong outside game. Sophomore tailback Dennis Ferris was hailed as one of Pitt's brightest running prospects in years but had to sir out last season because of a summer eye injury. He's healthy now, and will battle returning regular Gary Cramer, last season's leading ground gainer with a 4.0 average. Another speedster. I)ave Gar- nett, sat our spring drills because of a leg injury. Garnett is all potential and appears to possess all the equipment needed to be a top-notch ball carrier-he's 6'3 ", 208 pounds and has been timed in the hundred in 9. . At fullback, junior Jeff Brown (4.5 aver- age last season) returns. The 6'3", 212- pounder is a powerful runner who came on strong at the end of last season. During spring drills he received stiff competition fromt sophomores Tony Esposito (6'2", 227) and Phil Sgrignoli (5'i i", 205). At wingback. returning regular Joe Mc(:ain. a Junior, was fighting sophomore J. 1). Lewis for the starting job. McCain was Pitt's second leading pass receiver with 26 receptions last season. and is expected to be at wingback when the Panthers kick off against UCLA. In addition to McCain, Pitt will have excellent receivers in split ends Skip Orszu- lak, a senior, and sophomore 13ill Pilconis. Orszulak is a speedster with outstanding potential wNho has been injury prone his

first two years, vd bile Iilconis (6'6", 205) could be one of Pitt's best receivers in years. At tight end, regular George Medich, a 6 / 1, 220-pound junior, returns to battle junior Rodney Iedorchak (6'7", 23 5 pounds). In the off'ensive line, Pitt will have both size and experience, but the Panthers will bave to prove tbat tbey can do thejob here. The best bets to start are: senior Ed Whit- taker (6'4", 238) and junior Dave Mancuso (6'4", 212) at tackle; seniors Art Alois (6'2", 224) and Greg Ellis (6'2", 232) at guard; and junior Chuck I lutchko (6'r 200) at center. Also battling for starring jobs are juniors Ed Sdowski (6', 217) and George Richards (6'1". 223) and sopho- more Bob Seltzer (6'i ", 228). Pitt's traditionally tough schedule has been eased somewhat, but tbe P)anthers will still face many of the nation's best teams. Pitt must go on the road to such powerhoises as Notre Dame, UCLA, Miami of Florida, Syracuse and Navy. Ar horne Pitt hosts Penn State, Army, West Virginia, Air Force and William & Mary. Overall, while Hart and his players are secretly harboring thoughts of spending New Year's Day in Pasadena, Pirt is still one year away from bowl contention. The P)anthers will be an exciting team, though. that should be in every ball game. The one-win-a-year pattern of the past two seasons should come to an abrupt halt. It should be the starr of Pitt's return to football prestige. DEAN BILLICK at UCLA W. VIRGINIA WM. & MARY at Syracuse at Navy AIR FORCE at Miami at Notre Dame ARMY PENN STATE 8:00 1:30 1:30 1:30 1:30 1:30 8:15 1:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Sophomore Jerry Richey, ig, has set six all-time Pitt varsity records in the mile, soo-meter, two-mile, three-mile, 5,000- Meter and Io,ooo-meter track events. His sub-four minute mile (3:58.6) came in the IC4A championships in Philadelphia. where he nevertheless finished third. His rime mnatched the best ever run outdoors in the East: that recorded by Jim Ryun two years ago. Young Richey lives in Iittsburgh and is enrolled in The College. Hie is 5ii and weighs I6 pounds. 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. F ~ i, ~ , i $ SI --- F " % ,a a ,z ~~ "* 1968 PITT FOOTBALL Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. (Gd )acl Dan Hart AL L :* P- Ic '* "'~"; c\: . *-* s4" Irl ~trl I" F~'L~

PEOPLE WE KNOW EDUCATION EDWARD C. SCIAIIE'49, former scper- intendent cf Northeastern Beaver (County School District, has heen) appcinted an assistant superintendent of the Beaver C'ounlty schools. . . . JAM:s E. 1IFATITY' 1i director of adnissions aInld re,,istrar of Ocean Cotnty C,ollege in NewJersey, has been appointec to the post of assistant cean of students. . CH .(,1ARIIs G. RiI s2 was selected the news head basketball coahli for the University of Pittsburgh. I I conies to Pitt from Westminster (College vhere he held a similar position. Ile took his West- mitister Titans to the NAIA (ishinpion- ships in Kansas four straight years by ,vin- ning state titles in 19 9, 1900, 1961 and 1962, and in the latter year was named "(oach of the Year." ... [RIDERICK R. (CYPHhRiTS, associate dean of Ohio State University's College of Education and a noted educational researcher, was honored by Clarion State C'ollge \vith a D)istin- guished Alnmnus award. Ile has been at Ohio State for tine years. . . . EDWARD FI1BBI'63 was selected as the school director for the Mon Valley Vocational Technical School.... 1DR. I-WiS A. CR1iLL63, 7 has accepted the position of superintendent of schools of the Eden School I )istrict in Eden, N.Y. [or the past two years, he has bee assistant snperintendent of the Anerican International Schools at the I lague in the Netherlands.... I)R. GENE E. SEASL'6s,'58 has been appointed adminstrative assistant to the president of Indiana Cenrtral College. Admissions, and altmni, church and pcblic relations will conic under his jurisdiction. BUSINESS THOMAs J. LAWRY'32, of Pittsbcirgh National Bank, has been appointed to the board of directors of the P'ittsburgh C'hap- ter of the American Institute of Banking. ... WILLIAM Hl. LANG'38 has been elected a inember of the board of directors of James Talcott, Inc. Mr. Lang is vice presi- dent of the board and chairman of the executive committee of the First National State Bank of NewJersey.... CiLARLN(: II. SCHULY,JR.'3 9 has been elected to the board of directors of the 1I. H. Robertson ('o. ... Ni 1101IAS (,o0vAr'47 has been namued vice president, Real Estate I)ivision of TOONA, Inc. Ile will be responsible for the firmn's national property acqtuisition program.... Wii IIAN ANDRES549 has beenl named chairman and chief exec utive offic r of )ayton's department stores in Miilic sota. I Ic was formerly senior vice president for operations. . . . RidCHARDI U. SCO()149 has been pronote to the position of vice president of market- ing with the Kirsch 1 C'o., a department store cha. I ie will be responsible for domestic iiarketing( F . S('IINoI:S 49 has M'ir. S(Ii;is been appointed presidemit of the I )rcsscr Ilustiali Valve mid Instrumnt division of I)resscr Industries, Inc. I lus headquartc rs will be in Stratford, (oun1C'ticLcit. ARu.iz Z. IRYL, JR.S3 has been named vice president of sales for the Frances D)enny .ilr. Itye C,osmetics C'o. lie will also assist in de- veloping future train- in(g and inarketing programs. . . . RON- ALI) C. SiINLISER'S3, 52 has been admitted as a partner in the J. K. Lasser & Co., an accounting and audit- ilig firm... WIiIAM C. AGNi'E 7 was appointed vice presi- dent of the Industrial Appraisal C'o. LAC. provides independent appraisals on indus- trial, conmmerc ial and institutional prop- erties for inscrance, financial and fair mar- ket value purposes. Mr. Sclimcisr ...JoSPh'11 S"IIl.we,Je4.'57,' S, a Pittsburgh Plate Glass personnel adlinistratcor, has been named by PPG Industries to serve in the Job Placement anId Procuremsent Sec- f7 -I T\1 I-, I,~~,l: ~ Alliance cf Bcsiness A men's hard-core un- cnployed program. lr. Schciie WI11IAM I. MAR TIN7, director of operations research, (Columbila Broadcast- ing Systens, Inc., has been elected director- ar-large of the Amer- ican Society for Qtial- ity Control for the year 1968 to 1969.... EDWAi) T. WORth- Al;r. 2ILirthi INGTON'6o has ass- scumecd the duties of chief indistrial cngi- fr ofthe Mountaiintop plant of the Foster Wheeler Industrial lgineering ('o. JA,mi-s E. BIsHioP'63 has been appointed amninistrative assistalit to the division nan- a,,er of Rockwell Manuacturing C,oni- piy I s Measuremuent & Cointrol i)ivision. AO* Rui, ir iG. INN'64 his heel) appointed supervis or of general ic.c ontin for Pitts- burgh Plitc (dass In- Al1'. 11i,411 clustrics in their neW

Meadville plant.... ANTHONY M. KOM- LYN'65 has been elected a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is associated with the Pittsburgh office of the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse & Co. ... GEORGE L. EDWARDS'66 was named supervising plan- ning engineer for the Bell Telephone Com- pany s 16-story, a i-million-dollar building now under construction in downtown Pittsburgh. He has been employed by Bell since 1959. ENGINEERING RALPH A. MAIN'33,'26 was named "Engi- neer of the Year" by his colleagues in the Oakland, Michigan Chapter of the Society of Professional Engineers. . . . Louis W. LINSLEY'3 5, president of Material Handling, Inc., has been elected president of the Mate- rial Handling Equipment Distributors Association.... HARRY T. HEUPLE'39 has been elected eastern district chairman of the American Petroleum Institute's Divi- sion of Research. He is with the Manu- facturers Light and Heat Co.... GEORGE F. EVANS'43 was named "Engineer of the Year" by the Cleveland, Ohio Society of Professional Engineers.... JAMES W. LIN- HART'46,'38 has been promoted to vice president of research for the Ohio Steel Foundry Co. He has been with the com- pany since 1950.... ANDREW PUDLAK'47 has been promoted to area manager cover- ing South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He will be in charge of all market- ing activities in that area for Copperweld Steel International Co. . . . ALLEN M. MOTTER'48 became the new president of the Systems and Procedures Association. SPA is an international society of adminis- trativo executives and systems special- ists serving business, commerce, educa- tion, government and the military.... JOHN R. BARON'49 was named division super- intendent of U. S. Steel's Gary, Indiana tin works. . . . L. VERNON been promoted to the newly-created post of vice president of engineering. .. . JOHN C. MARouS'53,'49 has been appointed gen- eral manager of the Semiconductor Divi- sion of Westinghouse Electric Corp. WILLIAM F. ECKLES'55, sales supervisor for the East Ohio Gas Co's. Akron Division, has been promoted to the Youngstown Division. . . . FRANCIS J. MCGAUGHEY'62 has been named manager of information systems at the Crucible Steel Corp. He was formerly with Main Lafrentz & Co. where be was a senior consultant.... LEON V. KULASA'65,'62 has been promoted to vice president of K.P.A. Computer Tech- niques, Inc. He will bc responsible for over- all technical coordination, sales and mar- keting of the Engineering division. WALTER E. BECKER'66,'60, a market devel- opment specialist with the foam chemicals group of Mobay Chemical Co., has been promoted to product manager. . . . DR. CHARLES FRANK'66,'63 has been selected for inclusion in the 1968 edition of Owstaiiditgn YotitW Meii oJAierica. He is the co-author of two books, and is presently a staff re- search engineer engaged in research and development in the AC Electronics divi- sion of General Motors Corp., Oak Brook, Wisconsin. GRADUATE DR. MORRIS D. STONE NS'33 has been elected to the board of directors of United Engineering and Foundry Co.... WILLIAM R. VAN DERSAL NS'33,'3, currently with the U. S. Dept of Agriculture and teaching in its Graduate School, has published a revised edition of his book, TIic Successjl S ipe rvisor in Go iterent a nd Business... DR. JOHN R. ANDERSON NS'44 has been named director of research for the Perinutit Co., Paramus, New Jersey. The firm is a leading manufacturer of water and waste treatment equipment and systems.... DR. A. JAMES )IEFEN- DERFERN S'5 7 has been selected to serve as a National Science Foundation consul- tant in India. He will Mr. Baron serve on the staff of FRYE's0 was a six-week institute in appointed to the newly created post of general manager in the Williamsport, Ila., Water and Samitary Authority.... VICTOR F. KoONTZ'52, formerly assistant to the president of Eriez Magnetics, Erie, Pa., has Mr. )ifend crk chemistry at the University of Rajasthan. ...I)R. R. J. JOENK NS'63 has been pro- moted to associate editor of the I.B.M. Journal of Research and Development. He joined I.B.M. in 1962 as a theoretical physi- cist and has worked principally in the fields of magnetism and nonlinear optics. LAW REV. :IARLLS E. SHEEIY'36 was presented the Alumni Association's award for dis- tinguished service to the University of Notre I)ame. He is the first clerical member of the faculty to be honored.... CHARLES W. DiTHRICH'5o has been named to the newly created post of secretary and corpo- rate counsel of the Fisher Scientific Company. The firm is one of the world's Mr. Ditirich largest producers and distributors of instru- ments and chemicals for laboratories. HEALTH PROFESSIONS DOROTHY CORNELIUS N'42 of Reynolds- burg, Ohio was elected to her second two- year term as presi- dent of the American Nurses' Association at the A.N.A.'s 46th national convention in Dallas, Texas.... LAURA V. CARVER N 51 was appointed \ h~ as cbief of the East I). Corneliuis Orange, N. J. Vet- erans Administration Hospital's nursing service. She held a similar post at the VA Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington.... I)R. BERNARD M. CARR D'55 was certified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Oral Surgery, following successful com- pletion of written and oral examinations taken in Chicago.... DR. BURrON TU CKIER D'59 was elected president of the Penn Hills Chamber of Commerce. He has his own dental practice, and is also on the P>itt Dental School faculty. COLLEGE THEODORE H. SAvAGL'32 has been appointed Chief of the Department of I lousing and Urban Development's (HUI)) Demon- strations and Intergovernmental News Services staff. ie was formerly associate director of ACTION-Housing, Inc., in Pittsburgh. . . . Joi P. IRACKEN'34 has been elected president of the (;reater lhila- lelphia Chamber of Commerce. lie is a senior partner and managing partner in the law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. 91. "P

. RUSSELL G. CONNOLLY'36 has been named a vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., with responsibility for personnel and em- ployee benefits. . . . EUGENE S. COHEN'36 has accepted an assignment with the Inter- national Executive Service Corps to serve as a volunteer executive us (;reece. JACK R. SCOTT'41 has been appointed vice president of sales in the Southwestern district of United States Steel Corp.... THOMAS P. BRONCO 1 o, general manager of the Wire Products Group of American Mr. Scott Chain & Cable Co., has been elected a vice president.... KENNETH L. MCDOWEL'5 1, manager of Pittsburgh National Bank's Craig Street office, has been elected assistant vice president of the Retail Banking D)ivi- JOSEPII BENDEL'53 has begun his assignment inJohnstown, Pla. as field direc- tor for the state-city partnership program on community development. CHARLES EFINSKY'55 has been appointed to the newly-created position of Batavia plant Entertainment Prod- ucts, an operating group of Sylvania Electric Products Inc. DR. GEORtL F. BUERGER'58 has been awarded a fellowship at the Manhattan Eye Mr. lIriisky and Ear Hospital. He also won the Dr. Henry Fischbach award from the national office of D)elta Tau Delta. ... DRS. GEORGE and FRED LEiBLER'58 are now captains in the U. S. Medical Corp located with the 121 st Evacuation Hospital near Ascom City in Korea.... RICHARD A. H IRSCH'66 has been promoted to assistant treasurer of Railway -W Maintenance Corp. ... DARYLE RUBY'67 has been appointed chief physical thera- pist at Braddock Gen- eral Hospital, Brad- dock, Ila. He was formerly a staff physi-U cal therapist at Shady- Mr. Rib) side Hospital in Pittsburgh, and is a inemi- her of the American Physical Therapy Association. E DEATHS CLARENCE F. GRIMM, BUS'24 DONALD WOODROW, BS'26 DR. J. BARNES IvFY, Dent'27 RALPH L. WEIDE, Ed'27 JOHN C. ALLSHOUSE, Bus'28 EDWARD BARMLN, Pharm'28 ALEXANDER BIELSKI, Bus'28 Mn '[ON D. CRANE, Ed'28 DR. EUGENE E. LING, Dent'28 CHARLES R. LUKER, JR., Bus'28 BENJAMIN MALIINGER, Bus'28 DR. HOMER E. REYNOLDS, Dent'28 ROBERT WILLIAM SMITH, Law'28 WILLIAM C. WALKER, Ed'28 DR. FRANK BURTON, Ed'29 FREDERICK J. GILSDORF, H'29 EUGENE L. LANTZ, Co'29 KENNETH C. LOUIS, Pharm'29 DR. ROBERT HOLT, Dent'30 CAREY P. RITCIE, S.S.'30 FERDINAND C. ARENS, Bus'3I DAVID C. MCALISTER, Bus'3I JOHN L. BINGIIAM,JR., C01'32 PIERSON CAPLAN, Pharm'32 DR. JENNINGS D. GRAHAM, Dent'32 MIDRED BAIR LISSFELT, Ed'32 WILLIAM L. RINEHARt, Ed'32 JOHNJ. SMOYER, C01'32 STEPHEN FLOYD WILMOTH, S.S.'32 NATHAN LIPPE, Ed'33 HOWARD W. PEHFER, Ed'33 CLIFFORD E. BURNETT, Ed'34 JAMES WATKINS, Ed'34 VINCENT E. WILLIAMS, Law'34 DR. JOHN S. FRANK, Med'35 EDNA VERNA THOMAS, Ed'35 ROY L. ANDREWS, Ed'36 HOWARD A. KELLY, SR., Ed'36 JOHN A. LANTZ, Ed'36 JOSPHINE Y. CANNISTRA, M.Lit'37 ANDREW GEORGE P-UTCI, Bus'38 MRS. DANIEL H. WELLS, Ed'38 EDWARD B. DORAN, Law'39 WILLIAM A. HELFRICH, S.S.'39 LOWELL B. HENDERSON, Hum'40 PAUL R. CHANDLER, Ed'41 VIRGIL R. FREED, Ed'41 WILLIAM T. SHERIS, Bus'41 WILLIAM A. STORER, Ed'4I THOMAS G. ARNOLD, Assoc. Grad'43 GRACE SNYDER, Ed'44 DR. A. R. CERVERIS, Dent'45 MARCUS ROSENTHAL, S.S.'S ELMER I. SCHULTE, Ed'46 RICHARD BURRELL, Ed'47 GEORGE C. DEIMEL, Ed'47 SIGNE BERGSTROM HAGELIN, Ed'47 PAUL M. SMITH, Ed'47 DR. ARTHUR 1I. GLESSNER, C01'49 DR. HOWARD E. HIGBE, N.S.'49 MICHAEL MELENCHEN, JR., Bus'49 EDvTHE WORKMAN, Ed'49 I)ONALD GEORGE BROWN, C0'0O MICHAEL KRAMER, Ed'5o JOAN K. SHAFFER, Pharm'so MRS. ROBERT L. CILARK, Ed'5I FRED THOMAS O'LEARY, Ed'5i LouIs. GLASER, S.W.'52 WILLIAM W. WILKIE, Bus'_S2 THEODORE H. GREINER, Ed'53 JAMES C. MILLER,JR., C01'53 CLARENCE E. KOESTER, Ed'53 DR. CARL HENRY SNYDER, Co'53 WILLIAM WALTHER, Pharm'53 LEWIS ANTHONY ZAvRL, Co'53 WILLIAM F. LOvELADY, JR., S.S.'54 URBAN P. PETROS, Ed'54 MELVIN R. HAMMERSTROM, Bus'55 I ARRY JAMES HONOHAN, Ed'56 JACQUES G. HILL, JR., Ed'57 ALBERT H. FISCHER, Bus'58 JOSEPH ILISTA, Ed'58 KARL KAY KINDER,-Bus'58 DR. LOUIS P. TALOTTA, Dent'59 THOMAS PIHILIP DERMOT, JR., Bus'61 CAROLYN MOOERS SCOTT, N.S.'64 WILLIAM RUSSELL MILES, JR., Col'66

PITT 4200 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Second-Class postage paid at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania MRS RUTH WALLACE UNIV ARCHIVES 363 H LIBR It's not the principal. It's the principle. "How?" you say, "can my small gift matter?" "Plenty," we say. You see, the amount of money contributed to a university's annual giving fund isn't everything. The number of people who con- tribute that money can be critically impor- tant. For example, when a university goes to a large potential donor-a foundation, say, or a corporation-one of the first things the man behind the desk wants to know is: "What's the percentage of your alumni sup- port?" It's not how much the graduates gave, it's how many gave. As Time Magazine recently explained in its "Education" section: "The big donor shies away from a school that cannot demonstrate the confidence of its graduates." So, this year, if you can only send in two, five or ten dollars, that's fine. It's not just the principal you give, it's the principle of giving. Your gift counts, regardless of how much it counts up to. -------------------------- SQANNUAL GIVING FUND University of Pittsburgh 210 S. Bouquet St. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 L I would like to make a gift of $ (Check enclosed) I I would like to make a pledge of $ Please send payment plan information. (Use space below for name and address)