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A letter for former members of International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027
EDUCATION
FOR
PEACE
by Joseph Lyford President, The Fund for Peace The extracts
below
are from
an edited version
of Mr. Lyford’s Fund for Peace Annual Report
We Americans are very worried about the breakdown of our cities, crime in the streets, polarization of the races, inflation, student unrest, Vietnam. But there
is some question as to whether we understand at all the basic problems that make all the other problems insoluble. Our first difficulty is that there is no peace in the world. Our second problem is that we have very little time left in which to find it, For a brief and lucid description of the present danger, we are indebted to Professor Richard Falk of Princeton. “There are four interconnected threats to the planet,” he says. “Wars of mass destruction,
over-population,
pollution
and the depletion of resources. They have a cumulative effect. The basis of all four problems is the inadequacy of the sovereign states to manage the affairs of mankind in the twentieth century.” What Professor Falk is really telling us is that the world is burning. He also implies that we do not require anything as spectacular as nuclear wars to consume us. All we need is the constant threat of such wars, and the machinery
necessary to give such threats credibility. For the first time in history, we are faced with a highly organized system of
“If there is a real desire on the part of the older generation
to devote
itself, at
last, to a practical quest for peace, the students will be the first to welcome any sign of such activity.”
nuclear threat and counterthreat which has infected every aspect of human
so-
ciety, and which could soon cause the deaths of many millions of people without the firing of a single weapon. The very system of “nuclear deterrence,” while it has not yet triggered the use of the hydrogen bomb, has set loose forces
which are irrevocably undermining the human
condition
and
which,
if
un-
checked, will eventually bring about the extinction of human societies as effectively as if they had been subjected to mass nuclear violence...
How does the warfare-threat system work? The technological revolution, by enormously increasing the complexity, expense and killing power of weapons systems,
is so distorting the economics
of nations and the psychology of their citizens, that the diverse and delicate political processes of all the world’s nations are showing signs of disintegration. What has happened is that the developed nations of the world—and the underdeveloped nations are beginning to imitate them — are increasingly diverting precious material
and human
resources to
build up life-destroying mechanisms, diverting these dwindling resources away from
what
have
always
been
the main
goals of organized societies—the nourishment of life and the improvement of the environment on which life depends. The disastrous results of such a diversion should be obvious: the precipitous decay of cities, the inadvertent creation of con-
ditions which will lead to massive famines in the 1970s, and the building up of intolerable racial tensions within states and among nations and even entire continents.
Furthermore, in our search for
has left us unprotected against the growth of those very forces — poverty, racism, over-population, disease, deterioration of shelter—which are the major causes of the fear and hatred that explode in organized violence. ...
The warfare-threat system has imprisoned huge segments of our industrial and educational apparatus, making them dependent for their survival on continuation of a strategy of terror. With a few exceptions, most of the leaders in industry, education, and labor are unwilling captives of this warfare-threat system, which has made many of them dependencies of the Federal government and accelerated the pace of inflation. There are definite indications of deep concern about the economic effects of the Vietnam war and support for shifting priorities from defense to domestic needs among the na-
security through vast, unstable weapons patterns, we have not prepared ourselves
tion’s
to resist a technological aggression that
under the control of our business, labor or education leaders, nor is it under the
is disrupting our total environment, polluting and degrading air, water and land with chemicals and radioactive substances, Our preoccupation with the warfare-threat system for maintaining peace
top
corporation
executives.
But
the warfare-threat system is no longer control of the political leadership in this or other developed countries. . . . What is needed is a massive re-direction of human energy and material re-
sources to the achievement of the condi-
Neither the universities nor the pro-
of
fessions can sustain a creative and vigor-
life. These conditions are within our grasp only if we can discover a practical
ous effort on behalf of peace and world order without the active participation of the students who will soon take a major responsibility for our survival—students who have already demonstrated their capacity for effecting change in American
tions
necessary
to the
preservation
way to eliminate the war-threat system.
The task is far greater than putting men on any planet. The penalty for failure can be fatal. ... For this reason we must greatly enlarge the boundaries of what has been traditionally regarded as the province of research and education in world order.
Some far-sighted specialists in international law and relations have recognized that some of the most serious challenges to world order have developed as a result of ill-considered intrusions into our en-
vironment by applied science, and that world order will be a mirage until we create some system of effective control over such intrusions. These scholars,
concluding that speculation about world order must take more account of the technological revolution, have turned their attention to such problems as the exploitation of the oceans, the control of world-wide
communications
systems,
the uses of outer space, and the development of the third world. While the contributions of these few specialists have been of enormous value, it is time for far greater numbers of scholars in several disciplines and professions to commit themselves wholeheartedly to the study of world order. A special responsibility to make such a commitment lies with the nation’s scientific community, much of which up to now has distinguished itself more by its engagement
in
government
- supported
military research, than by its efforts to make a demilitarized world a practical possibility. It is also important that no scholarly discipline
be overlooked.
A concerted,
persistent attack on the war-threat system needs to be a collective undertaking in which lawyers, sociologists, scientists, journalists, educators and politicians all take part. Academic institutions in numerous
cases have made notable contributions to peace research, but it is also true that curriculum, teaching and research in many universities and colleges have not stimulated an awareness of the great issues that affect the prospects for human survival, either among students or the general public. . . . The reluctance of many universities to infuse scholarship with a keen sense of social responsibility has deleted their credibility with large sectors of the public and has cost them the affection of their students... .
society. In order to encourage the fullest possible collaboration of young people in peace-building activity, support must
Staff Notes ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Scarlatos, Director of
Development and Alumni Affairs since Sept.,
1968, resigned
in October.
Mrs.
Mary Ellen Fogle has joined the staff as Assistant to the President for Fund Raising, which includes alumni giving. Mrs. Janice Crichton, Alumni Secretary-Editor, will direct the alumni program.
be found to stimulate the research work of younger faculty ... and graduate students as well as the studies of the older,
established scholars. ... If there is a real desire on the part of the older generation to devote itself, at last, to a practical quest for peace the students will be the first to welcome any sign of such activity. It is a remarkable and melancholy fact, which our fascination with the shortcomings of the young should
not
obscure,
that
it has
life into our
political parties, and led the counteroffensive against the militarization of American policy. It is because of their prodding that more and more middleaged people are getting out of the habit of resigning themselves to sorry situations.
It is essential not only to bring the generations together in the interest of human survival, but to unify and strengthen the responsible organizations that are resisting the growth of the warthreat system. ... A national effort to build world order and peace will also require the support and participation of business leaders. . . . One great obstacle to greater participation of the business community in peacebuilding efforts is the reluctance of corporation executives to become involved in activities that might be regarded in some quarters as “controversial”, . . . Political conservatism or liberalism should not affect the willingness of an individual or group to join a common public effort to survive. No man can remain detached once he understands that the inter-connected crises of the war system—over-population,
racism,
a
been
young and inexperienced people who have provided the impetus for reforms in our universities, put some
f
pover-
ty and unbridled technology—can very well make this century a terminal one for human civilization. Nor can any man be indifferent once he realizes that we are at a point where time is no longer on our side, and where we can no longer count on recovering from a great mili-
tary or political or scientific miscalculation. .
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Herman Rottenberg resigned as Director of Cultural Activities on Aug. 31, 1970. He has formed a Performing Arts Foundation to which the major part of his energies will now be devoted, but he remains affiliated with I. House in an advisory capacity. Mrs. Carolyn Benbow Ralston ’67 has joined the Program Office part-time as Coordinator of the Classrooms International Project. Former Director John L. Mott sent this note for the Newsletter: “This is to bring you the very good news that on May 10th I was married to Mrs. Alfred Hart of Waterbury, Conn. and of 610 No. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach, Fla. She has been a close friend of Celestine’s and mine for years, is a great grandmother, is my age,
has a bad heart as I have and, very recently, we decided that life would be a much happier place if we faced it together rather than separately. We expect to be in Conn. all summer and will probably be back in Florida by November.” Harold Freake, Business Office, 63-65,
is now living in Miami, Fla., and sent greetings to all his old friends. Former Program Director George B. Pettingill has been named to the newly created position of Assistant to the President for Community Affairs at C. W. Post Center, Brookville, N.Y.
Mrs. Mary Y. Mumford, Resident Advisor from 1956-59, has moved to 724 Laurel Ave., Apt. 406, San Mateo, Calif.
94401. Her phone number is 347-5961, and she notes that she is only 10 minutes from the San Francisco airport.
What's
Going
On...
Jack Williams, Jr. °35, Publisher of the Waycross Journal-Herald of Waycross, Georgia, won the drawing on June
Ist of a round-trip ticket to Luxembourg via Icelandic Airlines.
Jack and his wife,
Margaret, took the trip early in September.
In an article written for his own paper, he says, “No one was more surprised than I when my name was drawn in New York for a free roundtrip by air to represent International House in Europe this summer.
Don’t
remember
when
I
have won anything like this before. So, if you have not don’t give up hope.” The Williams traveled through seven countries in Europe, but chose to spend most of their time touring Switzerland.
Jack noted happily that its entire population,
Cafeteria Welcomes
Alumni
Party, anyone? With its kitchen and dining rooms completely remodeled and professionally run by Stouffer’s Management Food Service, I. House now offers
private
dining
facilities
at reasonable
cost for parties of from 10 to several hundred people, with many styles of service. In addition to meals, arrangements can be made for teas and coffees, recep-
tions and cocktail parties. (For the latter, the cafeteria will provide set-ups and service,
with
the
sponsor
bringing
his
own liquor. )
Hors d’oeuvres can be served in the Home and Mural Rooms, while full food service is available in the West Room,
Small Dining Room, Auditorium and North End of the cafeteria. Non-alumni sponsors of meetings, parties or conferences must meet the stipula-
tion that they be concerned in some way with education or international relations.
Public rooms should be reserved through the Program Office. Arrangements for food service should be made through Cafeteria Manager Chuck David, who is happy (and well qualified) to help plan and suggest menus. House
programs
for 1970-71
in-
clude four volunteer community activities and a series of U.N. Roundtables, in addition to the traditional social, travel
and sports events. The monthly U.N. Roundtables were initiated last year, with the appointment of our first U.N. Fellow, to “enable House residents to discuss important international issues with U.N. officials, for-
eign diplomats, national foreign policymakers, professors and journalists.”
including
cows,
was
less
than
that of New York City. “An interesting experience was to visit the Kiwanis in Lucerne where an International House for Students is their project. Each gave 4,000 Swiss francs or $1,000 apiece to build it. It was used mostly this summer by Americans attending college there.”
The Ernest B. Swarzenbach Memorial Fund will be used to support a series of distinguished speakers at the House. The Fund was established in 1968 in honor of the late alumnus who was President of Sony Corp. of America and a member of the International House Development Committee. The series was suggested by Mr. Schwarzenbach’s widow, Marcelle Guignard
Schwarzenbach,
also an alumnus,
who met her husband when they both lived at the House in 1928. Recognizing the frustration felt by many students about today’s world problems, she believes the series may suggest
new and positive approaches by acquainting current I, House members with prominent people, including former members, who are actively concerned with these problems. Mrs. Schwarzenbach hopes that the program may eventually be incorporated in the curriculum of “an” International House World Citizens Institute, proposed at the Japan Conference in March.
So, we recall, and in recalling, look at
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR CELESTINE GODDARD MOTT
ourselves and take stock of our lives. We face death and, with eyes of faith,
October 25, 1969
Litchfield, Connecticut The Rev. Charles A. Baldwin Chaplain of Brown University Dear Friends: We are met in memory and in hope. We are here to do honor, to face death again, to be instructed by our faith, We would celebrate an amazing life and life itself, even while crying at our loss and the crassness of all flesh. We would keep company with this family and by our presence and prayers commit ourselves to their support. This is one of those loaded times in which the whole of life is present. : First, the remembering. Each of us has his memories of Celestine Mott, and
the pictures they call up. There is a public
record
of
service:
Labrador,
the
Labor Movement, the picture of a New York socialite in jail (1 think she would be welcomed by the Women’s Liberation Movement of the present college generation),
India,
International
House,
for-
House Needs Hosts RESOLVED: “As former members of
eign students, and the work of rehabilita-
International House, we offer our assist-
those the world calls “untouchables.” God’s world and people have been her
ance to present and future members, particularly at the time of their departure for New York City and upon their return to our
own
communities.
In addition,
those of us living in proximity to International House invite present residents to share the hospitality of our homes.” Kyoto, Japan—March, 1970. Host families in the New
York
area
are badly needed by the I, House Hospitality program. Our new Program Asst. for Hospitality, current resident Nilma Meira
from
Brazil,
believes
as we
do
that alumni are particularly qualified to help foreign students bridge the culture gap by inviting these students to their homes. Experience shows that informal family dinners—not large parties—are the best occasions for such visits, and that week-
end and holiday evenings are the best times. Because of the students’ limited money and time, host families reachable by subway are most welcome. Former members might also consider inviting selected House residents to lunch at the office, along with a tour of their place of work. Interested alumni should call Miss Meira at 666-7600, ext. 231, between 8:30 and 10:00 A.M., or write to her at
the Program Office, International House.
tion of both men and nature, attention to
service.
But I shall prefer other recollections. Youthful days here in Litchfield, open Fords, and sandy beach, and White’s Woods, and the Bantam River, times in the fields, the barns of the farm. . .
And the people and hospitality, all colors and nations and walks of life, a joy in the world’s richness and God-given diversity. Response to the stranger’s loneliness, delight in needing and being needed by family and friends. And the visitation of disease and all the demons which travel with it, despair and loneliness and pain and fear, the stubborn struggle, the independence, never giving in, “down but not out,” striking back with every ounce of energy. Ramps and chairs and exercise and a tractor to stay in touch with the out-ofdoors, flower and vegetable, tree and bush. I do not know for sure what faith informed these latter days, but from out-
side it seemed death had no power here. . . We do not here try to make her a saint. She would laugh at that. But it is ours to say what inspiration she gave and gives.
see it a dumb force resigned forever to doing the same thing. “Death is for the living.” Ah yes, no creativity of its own, but only as it brings into relief the total pattern of a life, and asks of us what we have done with ours. And looking thus we may hope with her for a finer, cleaner day to come for man and nature, that we may learn to love the world in all its colors and variety —one world and one humanity. We may make this memorial not a wake for a dead past but a dawning of a good future, a fair earth and mankind’s gladness. Celestine Mott was the wife of John L. Mott,
Director
of International
House
from 1935 to 1954. During World War II, when Mr. Mott served in the Office of Strategic Services, she replaced him for three years as Director of the House. Her death was reported in the Fall, 1969, Newsletter.
Space did not permit
the publication of her memorial service at that time, and so we have printed a part of it here for the thousands of International House alumni who knew and admired her.
In Memory
of
Mr. Clarence A. Neff, ’20, Princeton, N.J. Dr. Mitsukame Kawabe ’21, Osaka, Japan
Mr.
John
E.
Talbot,
’21,
Minneapolis,
Minn. Mr. Irving Foltz, ’22, E. Stroudsburg, Penn. Mrs. Eunice Bischof ’24, Rockville Centre, N.Y. Mr. Athanasius D. Vlahos, ’24, Beechhurst, L.L, N.Y. Miss Ruby A. I, Adendorff ’25, Cape Town, So. Africa Prof. Henry Staats Sharp ’27, Southbury, Conn. ; Prof. Chi Chen Wang ’28, N.Y., N.Y. .. Mrs. Winifred B. Burgess ’29, Bay Village, Ohio Mrs. Christina Bratescu ’30, Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Helen Kiduk Kim ’31, Seoul, Korea Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow ’31, Brookline, Mass. Miss Jean H. McFarland, ’35, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Miss Jean Wyndham ’36, Sidney, Australia Mrs. Chi Chen Wang ’37, N.Y., N.Y. oF Luther B. Arrington, ’38, Somerset, Dr. Thomas J. Francis ’38, Orlando, Fla. Miss Dorothea Seemann ’60, Denver, Colo. Miss Medina Levendoglu ’66, Ankara, Turkey
Alumni
Notes
Mrs. Sara Shaw Gilley ’21 writes: “... After graduating from Columbia in 1921, I went directly to Hiroshima, Japan, to assist the establishing of the Women’s College. After four years I returned to the U.S.A. to be married. Then, 37 years later, my husband retired and we both went back to Hiroshima and gave a year of teaching. Five years later my husband died and I returned to Japan and taught English and. Art at Seiwa College. Now I am working with Head Start in St. Petersburg, Florida, going to 14 schools to tell illustrated stories and secure volunteers from all the clubs and churches of the city.” Since 1967, William Miller, Jr. ’21 has been
President of Aereon Corp. in Princeton, N.J. He was formerly exhibiting Australian aboriginal art throughout the U.S. to benefit Australian aborigines. The exhibit can be seen now in Colorado Springs. Prof. Leslie Day Zeleny ’23 is teaching Sociology at the University of Manitoba this year. He has taught previously in Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming and Cairo, Egypt. Mrs. Eleanor Miller Webb ’25 has three married sons and nine grandchildren. She lives with her daughter in Montclair, N.J. Miss Betsy W. Horne ’26 of Deland, Fla., has undertaken to run a foster home for two senior citizens under Project Hope. After his retirement in 1965, James Gordon Manzer ’26 spent a two year term in the Peace Corps along with his wife, both teaching in Barbados. The Manzers now live in Trenton, N.J. Dr. Marian E. Madigan ’27 is at Fort Lauderdale University in Florida, completing work on a revision—Sth edition—of her text: Psychology: Principles and Applications. AND at age 72 she just soloed and hopes to get her pilot’s license this year! Mrs. Marjorie Saxton Grant °28 is in charge of the Personnel Office for volunteer workers at Riverside Church. She had previously retired as Senior Employment Manager in the N.Y. State Division of Employment after 28 years. She also spent two and a half years as a supervisor in the Youth Corps in the Community Council of Greater New York. Mrs. Christine Kirkwood has let us know a book written by her late husband, Kenneth P. Kirkwood ’28, Canadian Ambassador and author, has just had its second printing. The book, entitled Renaissance in Japan. A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century, was first printed in Tokyo in 1938. The foreword to this edition was written by Arnold J. Toynbee. Since January, 1967, Dr. Willis D. Mathias *28 has been Minister Emeritus of the Emmanuel United Church of Christ in Allentown, Pa.
Keith Aitkin ’29, Alumni Council member for England, is anxious to get some new blood into the Alumni Organization, in the shape of active young returning alumni. Miss M. Frances Cromwell ’29 is working as a substitute teacher at the School for the Blind in Batavia, N.Y. She writes: “In order to be a ‘good substitute’ I have learned Braille. Working with the blind is a new experience for me.” Dr. Charles F. Marden ’29 is now Prof. Emeritus at Rutgers. He taught last year as
a Visiting Professor at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and has published a book, Minorities
in American
Society.
Mrs. Freda Wobber Marden ’29 has retired from her job as Executive Secretary of the New Jersey Association of High School Councils. She has political and civic interests and devotes much of her effort to Conservation in her community, Somerset, N.J. Janet L. Cameron ’30 is helping international students and their wives at Virginia Tech Univ. Classes are offered to help the wives know how to shop and where to obtain various services. Mrs. Aida Flemming ’30 of Fredericton, N.B., founded the “Kindness Club” in 1959. It is an international organization open to young people aged 8 through 18, and dedicated to helping animals. Edith Howes ’30 of Hartsdale, N.Y., writes: “Have been taking what might be called ‘Friendship Tours’ for the last seven or eight years with my brother, a teacher of organ, with small groups going to North Europe to play on and study historic and contemporary church organs.” A. Beatrice Young ’30 is the President of the Columbia Univ. Woman’s Club of Colorado, editor of a state educational publication and Professor Emeritus of English at Temple Buell College in Denver. Following the death of Dr. Helen Kim ’31, Dr. Unsook Saw ’31 has taken over as President of the Board of Trustees of Ewha Woman’s University in Korea. Egon von der Lieth ’32 visited I. House this spring, for the first time in 38 years. He is now back in Copenhagen, where he works as a manager and civil engineer. Arnold Mobbs ’32 has been the Secretary of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches for twenty years. He has written a booklet for the Federation’s 50th anniversary, held in June. Marcia Cook ’34 has retired after 40 years of teaching in American colleges abroad. She was director of English and instructor in Sociology in the American College for Girls, Cairo, Egypt, and previously taught in the Istanbul Women’s College and the Peking American School. Dr. Beatriz P. Ronquillo ’35 is now Prof. of Behavioral Sciences and Communication at the University of the East. She is also President of the League of Women Voters of the Philippines, Director of a Child Guidance Center, and Director of the Columbia Univ. Alumni Assoc. of the Philippines. Timothy Davidson ’36 tells us that the Elmira, N.Y. alumni group has been meeting regularly, twice a year, since March, 1948. On May 2nd there was a speaker from the Philippines and the “Harry Edmonds Brotherhood Award” was presented to a senior at Mansfield State College by honored guest Harry Edmonds. After teaching music for many years, Mrs. Marion Gordon ’36 of Fulton, Mo., is now finding great satisfaction in teaching children at the Missouri School for the Deaf. Mrs. Florence E. Boehmer ’37 has spent all her adult life as an educator. She taught high school English, was later dean of women and then a college president for four years. She has long been concerned with peacekeeping, civil rights, and the substitution of world view for narrow nationalism. At present, she
is living in a Quaker-owned retirement residence near Philadelphia. Mary Ethel Dixon ’37 has visited Europe using the “Passport” as a travel guide. She tells us that although she has been to Europe twice before, she never enjoyed it so much. P. H. Kjaer-Hansen ’37, Alumni Council Member for Denmark, has been elected to the Board of the Scandinavian-American Foundation’s Section for former scholars. Dr. Raymond Rogers ’37 of Ottawa, Ontario, retired in 1968 from the Canadian Government’s Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources, where he had begun working in 1941. He was engaged in research with the electrochemistry and corrosion of metals. In July, Dr. Adrian J. Smuts °37 began teaching Educational Psychology at the University College for Indians, in Durban, South Africa. Ieoh Ming Pei ’38 was lauded in the cover story of “Business Week” on August 22 as “one of the few architects who really sees the
concept of urban design.” Pei contends that cities must become multi-level in order to take full advantage of the limited urban space. He also predicts a dire future for New York City without some drastic change. Mrs. Launcey Roder ’38 of Cincinnati, Ohio, retired in 1966 after 30 years as a school psychologist. She is now President of the Woman’s City Club, which is concerned with improving local government, education, living conditions, etc. The Club is an active sponsor of the International Visitors Bureau. Mrs. Evelyn W. Farrar ’39 is presently teaching reading and English in the Alice High School in Alice, Texas. Her husband is an administrator in the Alice Independent School System. They have one married daughter and two granddaughters. Albert E. Kane ’40 plans to retire in June, 1971, from his job with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. He contributes book reviews to The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on the Far East. He has also written legal articles about the American Indian, several appearing in the Congressional Record and the Arizona Law Journal. James W. Owens ’40 has been appointed permanent conductor and musical director of the Stamford, (Conn.) Symphony. Ramon and Leora Dumlao °41 both retired in 1967 from their jobs in the Rochester, N.Y., area.
They now
live in Mesa, Arizona.
Their older daughter met her husband at I. House in Chicago, as her parents met while residents at I. House in New York. Daniel and Eve Schwartz Fruedenthal °41, who also met at I. House, are happy to announce that they’ve celebrated their 28th ‘great year’ together. Eve is a social worker in the San Francisco Public Schools and Daniel is the Coordinator of Research and Publications of the Berkeley Public Schools. They have two married sons, a daughter in college and a two-year old granddaughter. Dr. Forrest H. Kirkpatrick ’41 retired as vice president of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation to become an adjunct professor at West Virginia University. He will continue to make his home in Wheeling. Bernice Klumb ’41 is retired and living in Berkeley, California. Margaret Rasmussen ’41 was, for 13 years (1956-1969), editor of Childhood Educa-
tion, the official journal of the Association for Childhood Education International. She is now teaching Education courses for the Univ. of Virginia in Falls Church, Va. and also edits the U.S. Section of The New Era,
hance the role relegated by society to those who are disabled.” Largely through Dr. MacArthur’s efforts, the Manitoba Legislature recently passed a bill which would enable severely disabled persons living at home to cast
a journal of World
their ballots by mail. This summer, Mrs. Marjorie Rosenfeld °51
Education
Fellowship.
Edmond Nouri ’42 was married on Sept. 17 to Mrs. Diana Crocker Redington of New York. Mr. Nouri is President of E. J. Nouri Associates, general agents for N.E. Mutual Life Ins. Co., and
a member
of Dallas, Texas, received her M.A. in English from the Southern Methodist University. She would like to hear from traveling I. House members and alums. Miss Kiku Tomita ’51 of New York City has traveled extensively with the aid of
of the I. House
Alumni Fund Committee. Mrs. Carrie Williams Taylor ’42 is leader of the Legislative Program for the AAUW membership
of
La
Grande,
Oregon,
and
member of the “Larger Parish” Christian Education committee. Her hobby is hunting gem stones and minerals with the Blue Mountain Gem and Mineral Society. Mrs. Mary Agnes Walsh ’42 was on a sabbatical leave last spring from San Diego State College, where she is on the faculty. She and her husband went to Europe for six weeks, where they planned to contact people listed in the “Passport”. Mrs. Walsh is most interested in having an active alumni group in the San Diego area. Dr. Juan Salcedo, Jr. ’44 is President of Araneta Univ. Foundation in Rizal, Philippines. He is also President of the Science Foundation, Chairman of the National Research Council and Chairman-President of the Nutrition Foundation, all of the Philippines. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in April, 1970, by the Univ. of the Philippines for having dedicated 40 years of his life to the promotion of science and technology, medical education and allied fields in that country. John Tagliabue ’44 teaches English at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. A new edition of his second book, A JAPANESE JOURNAL, came out and a new edition of his third book, THE BUDDHA UPROAR, appeared this past summer. His fourth book, the doorless door, will soon be published. Miss M. Lois Clipsham ’45 is a Home Economist working in Nutrition Extension
Education with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food. Jean Madeira *45 has completed her twenty-second year with the Metropolitan Opera. She has been chosen (with her husband, Francis Madeira, Conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra) for the Rhode Island Heritage of Fame “for valuable contributions to the illustrious heritage of R.I.” and, in June, received an honorary Doctor
of
Music
from
her
Alma
Mater,
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Maria H. Farr ’47 retired as Councilman at Large in Syracuse, N.Y., on January 1, 1970. She was elected President of the Board of the Syracuse Y.W.C.A. in May. Marjorie Del Parker ’47 of Fresno, Calif., is working with a “Sister City” group for Torreon,
Mexico.
In
November,
1969,
the
a
Dr. James M. Davis ’39 and ’48 became the second President of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan, on February 1, 1970. He was formerly Provost at the U.S. International University in San Diego. Prior to coming to that position in 1967, he was Vice President of the Institute of International Education in New York. Mr.
and Mrs.
Scott C. Lyon
Chase,
Maryland
House,
lived
in
have, the
’48 of Chevy
since
USSR,
leaving
Germany
Il. and
Brazil as well as the U.S. Their three teenage sons were all born in Germany. Scott has retired from Foreign Service and is now with the U.S. Commerce Department. Margaret Helen Gast ’49 has been Director of the Marion (Ohio) General Hospital School of Practical Nursing since September, 1957. Dr. Louis Mars ’49 of Port-au-Prince, Hai-
ti, has had a distinguished career in his country’s diplomatic service as well as in Psychiatry and Medicine. Presently Professor of General Psychiatry and Psychology at the Faculty of Medicine of Haiti, he has also served as Haiti’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Paris, Washington, D.C., Madrid and Guatemala. He has been decorated by Haiti, Liberia and France, and has published three books in addition to numerous papers in his professional field. Frank Durham ’51 is a Prof. of English at the Univ. of South Carolina. For the past two years, he has served as co-editor of The South Carolina Review. He has written a number of book introductions and essays, and his Elmer Rice is being published by the Twayne Publishing Company as a volume in the U.S. Authors Series. The Durhams were visited recently by Shirley and Sidney Stark ’51 of Pittsburgh. Lucy Ishkanian ’51 has gained international stature as a concert pianist. She was invited recently by the U.S. Dept. of State Cultural Program to tour as an “American Specialist” throughout the Near and Middle East and the
she
subcontinent of Asia for seven months, giving
visited in France and England with foreign students who had lived at her home in previous years. Mrs. Leonor J. Watson ’47 is working as School District 3, Manhattan, Coordinator of English as a Second Language and Bilingual Programs. During the summer she was in charge of a Bilingual Project in seven schools in the district involving pupils of Hispanic and Chinese backgrounds.
concerts and lecture-recitals in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Ceylon, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Greece.
Lucy lives in New
York City.
Dr. A. Isabel MacArthur ’51 is now living at the Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. The Canadian Paraplegic Association chose her as the recipient of their 1969 Merit Award, “For her inspiring example in surmounting the severe limitations of physical disability and her outstanding efforts to en-
“Passport,”
most
recently
in
Mexico,
Greece, Lebanon, Israel, Jamaica, Finland and Colombia. In September she left for Spain, where she was looking forward to meeting more I. House friends. ‘ Miss Isabel Beveridge ’52 is Vocation Counsellor with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Vancouver, B.C. She is, herself, blind. Lucia
Simons
’52,
is teaching
a class
for
teenage mothers and pregnant girls in Chester, Pennsylvania, to enable the girls to keep up with their school work so they do not have to lose a year’s credit. Classes are also given
in nutrition,
child
care
and
health.
Hilda R. Gonzalez ’53 has been a Social Worker for the Mental Health Program of Puerto Rico, Community Mental Health Education Section, since 1957. One of their educational activities is the Human Relations Workshop, offered to key personnel of public agencies. Eleanor Phinney ’53 of Nantucket, Mass., has retired from her position with the American Library Association and is presently editing a text on library service to patients in hospitals. She has bought a house on Nantucket. Her brother Lucien spent a weekend in Wellington, N.Z. with Henrietta Kirkwood ’53, now Mrs. Henrietta Hume. Armas Edwin Suvanto ’53 is Principal of the Elizabeth Irwin High School in Manhattan. Helen Steiger ’53 reports that after years of looking after refugees in Europe and in Africa, she now lives in Langenthal, Switzerland, and is “heading for a starting point in writing.” Elaine Travis Gordon ’54 of Seattle, Wash., organized a laboratory manual for upper extremity anatomy and has done some teaching at the Univ. of Washington to upper class Occupational therapy students. She enjoys having foreign student guests among the family, “but misses them when they they leave.” Dr. Janet Jeffers ’54 is currently Professor of Audiology in the Dept. of Special Education of the California State College at Los Angeles. She lives in Redondo Beach and would be delighted to entertain any visiting alumni. Nina Manuelian ’54 has, since graduating from Juilliard, travelled extensively with concerts. For the last eight years she has been teaching cello and piano in Huntington, L.I. Also, she has her own chamber music group which performs locally. Edward Saipher ’54, vice president of American Drapery and Carpet Co., has won 37 trophies during the 12 years that he has been a member of the Roughriders, an organization that helps businessmen improve their speech techniques. He lives in N.Y.C.
Dr. John E. Rexine ’°55 is currently Director of the Division of Univ. Studies and Chairman of the Classics Dept. at Colgate University. He was elected to a three-year term on the Program Board of the Div. of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. He has also been appointed chairman of a national committee on Teacher Training Programs in Colleges and Universities in the U.S. by the American Classical League. Ruperta Simmons Waters ’55 is Department head in English at the Fairmount Hill Junior-Senior High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Bhuwaneshwar Prasad ’56 has retired after 35 years in the field of physical education in India. He had served as Principal of the Government College of Health & Physical Education in Patna, was Deputy director of Phys. Ed. in Bihar State and Pilani, Rajasthan, and was Principal at the Indian College of Phys. Ed. in Amabti. Eva Charlotte Kaufmann ’57 of Montreal, having specialized in Froebel education, has had a teaching career in private progressive schools. She is married to a Swiss who has six times won the Diamonds International Award for design and creation of jewelry. They have two children. On
March
23,
1970, Maj. Gen. William A.
Knowlton ’57 became the 49th Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy. Prior to his appointment to West Point, he served as secretary to the Army General Staff at the Pentagon. The Knowltons have three sons and a daughter. Dawn Joy Miller °57 of Hamburg, N.Y., has performed in and toured with the National Company’s “Sound of Music.” Since then, as a singer-actress-dancer, she has been doing supper club engagements in the upper N.Y. and Canada area. Ruth Van Meter °57, after working for five years as Adviser to the Y.W.C.A.’s of Latin
America, is now helping to organize the first Y.W.C.A. in Teheran, Iran. Mabelle Nardin °57 returned from India in mid-1968 and is teaching reading and writing skills in a Developmental Program at Illinois Central College in East Peoria. Janet Soares 57, choreographer and director of Dance
Uptown,
had works
performed
at the Minor Latham Playhouse in New York. Leila Zamir ’57 is Coordinator of Programs in Physical and Mental Health at Cleveland College of Case Western Reserve Univ. in Ohio. Her book, Expanding Dimensions in Rehabilitation, has been published by Charles Thomas. Dr. Felix A. Zuniga ’57 is President of the Andes Interchange Corp., which is located in the Pan Am Building in New York. V. S. Prasad ’58 is working with the Everready Flashlight Co. in Aishbagh, Lucknow, India. Miss Renee Gerard ’59 taught for several years in France after graduating from the N.Y. School for Social Work. She has also served with the U.N. in the Ivory Coast, Korea and Togo. She is now with U.N.D.P. in Teheran,
Iran.
Joann C. McLaughlin ’59, who plays the cello, says if any alumni in the Washington, D.C. area are interested in playing chamber music, she would like to arrange a group.
recitals at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, at the Hartford Seminary, and at Wheelock College in Boston during April and May. Carlos H. Daza
’62 moved
to Lima,
Peru,
on July 1, 1970, where he is Medical Officer Advisor in Nutrition for PAHO/WHO. Jacqueline Rosay °62 is presently teaching French and Spanish at Westchester Community
K. H. Patel ’°59 was awarded the Diploma in International Relations by the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. He has now resumed his duty as Senior Research Officer with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. Michael
Westgate
’60,
at last report,
was
a student at Harvard Business School. During the summer, he worked for the Urban Development Corporation of New York State, on plans to rebuild Welfare Island in the East River. Dr. Rita Chow ’61, Acting Deputy Dir., Manpower Utilization Branch, National Center for Health Services Research and Development, received the First Place Award for Scientific Writing at a meeting of the Assoc. of Operating Room Nurses held in Anaheim, Calif. Dr. Chow, who has published a number of research papers on the clinical care of patients, was also the recent recipient of the Federal Nursing Service Award. She lives in Washington, D.C. Dr. W. Dierick ’61 is now chairman of the department of Medical Biochemistry at the new State University in Antwerp, Belgium. Geeta Leuva, J. P. ’61 is in Bombay working for Indicare. She was Assistant Public Relations Officer in Bombay Municipal Corp. until 1968, when she ran for civic office on the Congress Ticket. She has remained in politics since as an active member of the Ruling Party. She was named Justice of Peace on August 15, 1969, an honor given by the State to active social workers and to those who work for the poor. Charles Rotenberg ’61 is an Assoc. Planner with the Virgin Islands Planning Board. As such, he is working on the first real zoning ordinance that the Territory has ever had and on the preservation of the Danish Colonial Architecture. He is also writing a book on the Indians of the Caribbean. Maxwell Shepherd ’61, is asst. prof. of music at the U. of Conn. He presented piano
Did you know that three guest suites at the House are available for use by outof-town alumni, parents of present members, and special guests of International House? These suites may be reserved for a maximum of one week at the rate of $7,50 per night for single occupancy and $13.00 per night for double occupancy.
College
in Valhalla,
N.Y.
James B. Boskey ’63 is on leave of absence from his teaching position at Cleveland State Law School to take the LIM program .at the London School of Economics. Mr. Boskey was just married in June and his wife, who will be doing post-doctoral research in Chemistry, will accompany him. Alison C. Brown ’63 is now a registered medical technician. Presently, she is working in microbiology and serology at Denver, Colo., General Hospital. Judith Alstadter °63 has given us a rundown on her musical activities. She made her
New
York
debut
on
March
6,
1970,
at
the Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center. Other appearences include a sries of concerts in the Caribbean, Florida, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York. In the summer of 1969, she was artist-in-residence at Rhode Island College. A book on the life and music of Gabriel Faure is in preparation. Maria Josefina Forjonel ’64 writes from Caracas, Venezuela, that she is “still active and ready to help I. House anytime.” David McGregor ’64 is with the New York City Planning Commission. : Bruce Merrill Reis °64 has been living abroad
for the last 6 years, dancing in Ballet
Companies in South Africa, Germany, England, and Switzerland. In early 1970, he returned to the U.S. and is teaching in Chicago. Mrs. Mary L. Tobin ’64 has returned to graduate study at Rice University and visited New York in November to do dissertation research. Her husband, Don ’65, is a geologist with Shell Oil Company and was recently transferred to the company’s Midland, Texas,
office. Lorna Haywood ’65, soprano, had her debut with the Sadler Wells Opera on May 6 as Michaela in Carmen. Also in May, she performed with the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Symphonies. This past summer, she sang at Tanglewood and also at the Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Festival. David Taylor ’65 is teaching social studies at Cold Spring Harbor H.S. in New York and has become active in local conservation activities. Dr. Hardev S. Gurm 66 is with the Dept. of Physics, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. Lan Fen Tung-Lee ’66 is now teaching in Taipei, Taiwan. David and Katherine Miller °66 are in Moscow this year on the official US-USSR exchange program while David does research on his dissertation. They taught English with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan for two years. Since then, David has been studying for a Ph.D. in Russian History at Princeton, and Katherine has been teaching High School English. Dr. Mildred Tahara ’66 received her Ph.D. from the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department of Columbia University in Dec., 1969. Presently, she is an Asst. Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii.
Dragos Jovovic ’67 and Anne Goslee ’68 were married on July 26, 1969, and are living in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where Dragos practices law. They were visited by Anthony and Anne (Junek) Fitzgerald ’67 during the summer of 1969, and by J. Peter and Virginia (Tice) Stillman ’67 and Joan Dacey ’67 during
the summer of 1970. Mrs. Zenebeck Negash ’67 is now the mother of two boys (18 months and 5 months).
She works for the System Director,
Industrial Relations, of Ethiopian Airlines as an Administrative Assistant, and is active with the Y.W.C.A. in Addis Ababa. She would be happy to be contacted by any alumni visiting Ethiopia. A.B.L. Srivastava ’66 has been working as statistician in the UNESCO sponsored Asian Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India, since August, 1969. M. Shahidullah Khan ’67 is running an orientation program for the international experts working
in Pakistan.
Catherine Peters ’67 teaches History at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Barbara Robertson ’67 is Nutritionist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is also part-time lecturer in nutrition in the University School of Nursing and the Faculty of Dentistry. Dr. Gyorgy Szepe ’67 is currently a senior research member of the Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he is working in Hungarian generative grammar. He is also a reader in general and applied linguistics on the Chair of General and Applied Linguistics of the L. Eotvos University in Budapest. He feels that his experiences at I. House help him considerably in his role as representative in Hungarian linguistics in three international bodies: A.I.L.A., 1.C.C.I. and the Association Internationale de Semiotique. James S. Toedtman and his wife Haydee (Sicart) ’67 are now living in North Babylon, N.Y. Haydee is working in the budget section of General Motors’ Overseas Division and James is an asst. news editor at Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper. Patricia Wells ’67 was a soloist at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds last summer. She is a former member of the Juilliard Opera
Theater
'.
and has been
a soloist with the Juil-
liard Orchestra, the Louisville Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony. On July’ 12, 1969, Anne Junek ’67 and Tony Fitzgerald ’68 were married in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia. After a short stay at I. House they travelled to Antwerp by freighter and spent close to three months in Europe. While there, they visited the Dalmation Coast with Dragos and Anne Goslee Jovovic ’68 and enjoyed the hospitality of Walther Caspar ’36 and Renee Nordmann 736. They are presently living in Watertown, Conn. Anne is a librarian at Westover School in Middlebury and Tony practices law. His principal public activity is being a director of the Conn. Civil Liberties Union. J. M. Wood ’67 is now Branch Manager of Marac
Finance Co., Ltd., in Wellington, New
Zealand. He would be happy to entertain alumni visiting his area. Therese Beaupain ’68 married Edouard Klein last June 25. She is working at the Research Center of the Institute of Sociology at the Free University of Brussels. Dr. Bozidar Jelcic ’68 is teaching Public Finance and Finance Law at the Law School of the University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia. He, too, would be glad to help out visiting alumni. Robert
Jones
’68, tenor,
has
returned
this
fall to Kansas City to perform Cassio in Verdi’s “Otello” and Curly in Floyd’s “Of Mice and Men.” He has previously appeared with the Dallas Civic Opera, Augusta Poera, the Kansas City Lyric Theater, the New York Oratorio Society and the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals. Rick Rosensweig ’68 taught Economics at Lincoln University (Pa.) after leaving the
Aliou
Diao
’69
of
Senegal,
West
Africa,
graduated from Columbia in June, 1970. He married an American girl in July and began graduate studies at the Columbia School of Business in September. Miriam
Gersho
’69
of
San
Francisco,
Calif., received her Elementary Teaching Credential in June. Her field is the diagnosis and education of children with minimal neurological dysfunction. Reuven Kimelman ’69 was ordained a Rabbi in June by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He will continue in Rabbinics at Yale University on a Kent Fellowship. In a feature article in the N.Y. Times of Nov.
16,
1969,
Frank
Ntonya
°69
was
de-
scribed as a kind of pioneer, being “the only black envoy in white-ruled South Africa, where racial segregation is law.” He was accredited First Secretary to the Malawi legation. In the temporary absence of the head of the mission, Mr. Ntonya was acting charge d’affaires. He reported that he and his family experienced very little discrimination. He had served also for two years in the Malawi High Commission in Britain. Paul A. Pellemans ’69 is now Head of the Management Department at Namur University and Asst. Professor at the Univ. of Louvain
in Brussels,
Belgium.
ployed by Arthur Andersen & Co. of New York as a management consultant. In September he was married to Miss Diane Kreiger. Tomasz Z. Winnicki ’68 is working at the
J. Reilly Lewis ’69 is presently studying for his doctorate at Juilliard. He completed a year’s study with Helmut Walcha in Frankfort under a Fulbright Grant. Vernon and Jane McCroskey Roningen ’69 spent the summer of 1969 in Central Africa, where Vernon did research for his dissertation in Economics. He studies at Columbia. Jane is teaching brain damaged children at Steven Gaynor School in New York. Gail Levine ’70 is presently working as a speech therapist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Mari-Elizareth Morgen °70 recently gave
Polytechnical
a recital in Victoria, Canada,
House.
Since August,
1969, he has been em-
Institute
of Wroclaw,
Poland,
where his major field is ion exchange and environment protection. On June first, he was appointed for the first professors degree. Alice Banchs ’69 and John Rounsaville 69 were married in Caracas, Venezuela on June 28, 1969. They now live in Cambridge, Mass.,
where
John
attends
Law
School
at
Harvard. Alice is a librarian at the Boston Public Library.
and performed
with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. She also won the 1970 Young Artists Series competition in N.Y., which includes a New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall plus management for an extended period. Julie Torrealba and Jim Hutchinson, both °70, were married at Riverside Church on September 19, 1970. For the present, they expect to live in England.