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You Can’t Always Tell

As SUGGESTED in this space in recent issues of the Cornell
Countryman, farming is not the only occupation for which the
College of Agriculture trains its graduates.

For example, agriculiural occupations that are not strictly
farming may center around the raising of flowers, especially
under glass. Courses in floriculture and ornamental horticulture
teach greenhouse methods and the practices connected with
the florists’ trade; in fact, some of the most prominent florists
in the country are Cornell graduates.

Natural Sciences

Practically all of the courses in what are known as “‘natural
sciences,’ or more properly ‘‘nature’’ sciences, are taught in the
College of Agriculture. These include meteorology, or the
science of the weather; botany, the science of plants and plant
life, which has many related sciences or branches, as plant
physiology and plant breeding; pomology, or the science of
growing fruit. Some coileges list ‘‘olericulture’’ among their
courses; Cornell is satisfied in teaching the same subject but, at
the College of Agriculture, the plain and simple designation of
vegetable crops” is enough.

Sometimes They Change

Suppose one wishes to teach science, or just to teach; the
College of Agriculture has courses in rural education and science
teaching. One young man entered Cornell to study these educa-
tional subjects; he made up his schedule of studies and found
that he had to take another course to have enough hours of study
required for a term’s work. He learned of a course in wild-life
conservation that fitted nicely, and he liked it so well that he
then took all of the conservation courses offered by the College.
Now he is a valued member of the New York State Conservation
Commission and declares that he is happier in his present job
than he ever could have been at teaching school.

Make a Start

Regardless of whether you have chosen your career, it is
well to get a start on a college education. If you are below the
draft age, a year at College gives that start and increases the
likelihood that, after the Victory, you will return to complete what
you have begun.

In thinking of College, think what your state colleges offer
you in free tuition, and in an investment in the riches of know-
ledge that can never be taken away from you. As you look
toward college entrance next fail, write to learn what the College
of Agriculture offers. Address your inquiry to

Director of Admissions
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

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In This Issue

‘News and Views on Ag Research by Al Schwartz
and Walt Boek

His Shirt Tails Flying—Short story of the month
by C. E. Gascoigne

The Trend in Agricultural Education by Marj

On the Hill

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June, 1944

New and Views

Feeding

HE department of Animal Nutri-
7 tion at Cornell has been conduct-

ing investigations for many
years in order to attack the feeding
problems of farmers and livestock
men. Improved feeding results in
animals that are more efficient con-
verters of grain and roughage into
human food.

The small animal laboratory has
played an important part in the de-
termination of standards of economi-
cal and effective feeding. There are
kept the mice and rabbits which serve
as test animals in the various experi-
ments attempted in this research. Per-
formed mostly by graduate students,
work had been done on longevity,
basal metabolism, retarded growth,
and chronic diseases. All the experi-
ments are carried out with the pur-
pose of relating them to problems
paralleled in other animals and in
humans.

One important experiement is that
of Marvin Steinberg ’44 and Norman
Kretchmer °’44, concerning gain of
weight by yellow mice. Through dif-
ferent methods of feeding, they are
trying to determine whether or not
the deposition of fat in the body tis-
sues of the animal is regulated by an
inherited factor, or more exactly, to
discover what use is made of the
available nutrients. The result of
these tests may be of significance in
their connection with humans having
the same health problem of gaining
or losing weight.

Another study under investigation
is that pertaining to the use of soy-
beans and soy flour in breadmaking.
The value of adding five percent soy
bean flour to the regular wheat flour
is undergoing tests, and in addition
the preparation of the beans to make
them more palatable.

An animal recently imported from
Asia may be used in the experiments
before long. It is the hamster, a yel-
low-brown burrowing rodent, and may
prove of value as subject and control
animal.

A more practical approach to feed-
ing problems is assumed in the animal
nutrition lab where work is being
done towards better feeding of farm
animals. One of the tests concerns
the type of proteins in calf starters.
Heretofore there had been some
source of animal protein, such as
meat scraps or fish meal in the calf

« by Al Schwartz and Walt Bock

starters, but new findings have lead
to the conclusion that such proteins
can be replaced by plant proteins in
soybeans, linseed meal and the like,
without lowering the quality of the
feed.

Another calf feeding problem is that
regarding the minimum amount of
whole milk fed to calves. With some
of the new rations and starters it will
be possible to reduce the usual 350
pounds of whole milk needed at
present. This means saving to the
farmers and releases more fluid milk
for human consumption.

The fat percentage in dairy rations
is another important matter. In the
past it had been proven that four per-
cent fat was necessary for optimun
milk production. However, in the
newer methods of processing the soy-
bean, the fat is so lowered that when
the meal is mixed in dairy rations it
no longer gives them the added fat,
and the new ration contains only
two-three percent fat. As a result
of this there will be a decrease in milk
production when the ration is fed.
But the fats are more essential for
human consumption, and consequent-
ly, they will be used in the original
form without being transformed into
the constituents of dairy products.

This is but a brief survey of some
of the work of the animal nutrition-
ists. The key note is better experi-
mental methods which speed the over-
coming of obstacles in the production
of food to improve living standards.

Haying

HESE are times of labor short-
I age and high production goals.
Whatever can be done to benefit

farmers in food production is import-
ant in winning the war.

Agricultural engineers have intro-
duced many new machines to balance
the decreased man power supply. And
since the haying season is the biggest
job for dairymen and the hay itself
is the most important single dairy
feed, efficiency in its production and
harvest is vital. There are several
new developments in this field.

Through actual use, the buck rake
was made known to farmers as a
quick and economical haying imple-
ment. It is a machine for lifting and
carrying hay from the windrow to the

barn in one operation. Its use means
saving of time and labor, and reduc-
tion of losses in nutrient value of the
hay. It can be built by the farmer
with lumber, and a truck body. A set
of long wooden teeth are erected on a
frame and mounted on the rear of the
the truck body. A hoist is attached
to lift the teeth ... by hand or by the
power of the engine. In use, the truck
backs up to the windrow and the hay
is forced onto the teeth. When a load
has accumulated the teeth are raised
from the ground, and the load is
driven to the barn. 800-1200 pounds
can be carried each trip. In the barn
the hay is dumped in a pile or in a
sling, by lowering the teeth and draw-
ing them out of the hay. The hay is
pulled into the mow with the sling or
with a grapple fork. The machine is
operated by two men, one in the mow,
and one working the hoist, but be-
cause it is efficient in its use of man-
power, it is a labor saving device.

Another way to save labor and pro-
vide good quality roughage is to put
the hay into the barn before it is
completely dry. This can be done by
several methods. One system involves
crushing the stems following mowing.
This speeds drying. After the stems
have been crushed between two steel
rolls the hay is hoisted into special
mows. These mows have flues built
in the floor, six feet apart, thus en-
abling air to pass through the hay.
A blower forces air through these
passageways and dries it. During the
day the blower is open, but it is shut
off at night until the hay is cured. It
it possible to cure hay eight feet high
at one time. When a layer is cured,
another can be placed on top of it and
the process repeated, or it can be re-
moved to « regular mow.

Hay can also be chopped by a regu-
lar ensilage cutter and blower which
is drawn through the fields where they
hay is picked up from the windrows,
cut, and blown into a wagon. Driven
to the barn, the hay is then blown into
an elevator which deposits it in the
mow.

These systems enable the farmer to
store hay a few hours after cutting
and so decrease the risk of getting it
wet and incurring losses from leach-
ing; and in each case the hay is of
high quality.

Modern machinery is one step in
reaching our production goals. The
buck rake-and -mow-cured hay may
prove to be ways to pass these goals.

Letter to the Editor
Dear Ed.

The men of the Ag campus are feeling pretty low
these days. For some peculiar reason the women of
Plant Science and Caldwell Hall think that we don’t appre-
ciate them. We surely do. We can’t understand where
they got the silly notions the Ag Hag complained about—
(Just like a woman to have dumb ideas!). We would ap-
preciate it greatly if you’d print an ode that we have
dedicated to them:

Life without a coe-ed
Is like pretzels without beer,
Is like a soda without ice cream,
Is like a car without a gear
Oh, life without a co-ed
Is like soap without its lye.
But, if there’s one thing worse
In this universe,
It’s a co-ed,
I said a co-ed,
I mean a co-ed,
Without a guy.

As "Fe Were

The New Board

Graduation for the class of ’44 is here, and away with

the class goes the old editor. We will say just one word

to her—‘“Good-bye”—for it is time to welcome the new

editor and the new board:

Marjorie Fine, Editor-in-Chief

BUSINESS BOARD

Jean Carnell Business Manager

Jean Krumwiede Asst. Business Manager

Alice Latimer Circulation Manager

Louise Green

EDITORIAL BOARD

Nancy Hubbard Home Ec Editor

Germayne Seelye Campus Countryman Editor

Nina Kuzmich Former Student Notes

Rosa Wunsch

To The New Editor

We wonder if you have noticed how much the late
editor has not been in the office this past month. You, as
trial editor, had to plan the June issue, handle the ads,
line up the features, and manage our concession at the
carnival; while the editor became notorious for picking
better horses than she could ride.

You never said anything, but you probably thought it
was queer. We wonder if you won’t do the same thing
next year to the new editor. It will be hard on him, but he
will be editor, and not a figurehead.

Your work will not be noticed, only your absence from
the spotlight, for you will be a back-stage prompter. You
will let the editor-to-be play the leading role, even though
he misinterpret some lines, for in a few months you will
be gone, and he must play the role alone.

His Shirt
Tail Flying

~ by C. E. Gascoigne

OUNG Claude Waldo would
Y rather fish than eat; he thought

that a person could fish at only
one time during the day, whereas he
could eat at any time. Maybe he was
right; maybe he was wrong. Anyway,
Waldo always used to catch fish.

He used to work in a canning fac-
tory in the summer, and every night
at about six-thirty the populace of
Wolcott saw Waldo with his green
shirt tail flying racing down the West
Main Street hill on his bicycle. The
red light on the corner never bothered
him; instead of stopping, he would
sneak to the right and go around the
town fountain at the _ intersection.
When he hit Main Street, he would
keep right on peddling for all he was
worth, skimming past any car that
stopped or that was going too slow
to suit him. What a sight that was—
a flash of green on a bicycle dashing
down the street at a speed much too
great for safety. People could have
understood it if he had been rushing
home to supper, but they couldn’t
figure out why he was in such hurry
to go fishing.

Leaving Main Street, he would go
hell bent for leather down another
hill, across the mill pond bridge, and
up the other hill. Then he would
turn to the left, scoot into his own
yard, drop the bicycle, and rush into
the house. In two minutes he would
dash out with a fishing pole and a
landing net clasped in his hands.
Taking a short cut to the pond, he
abandoned his mad rush for the rest
of the evening. Skillfully and quietly,
he would get into the boat and row
easily around the pond, stopping every
now and then to cast his old battered
plug into the place where a bass
should be. More often than not, the
bass would be there, and more often
than not, he would put it back after he
caught it. He caught so many that
he would only keep the ones that
were big enough to be proud of. When
he did catch a big one, he made sure
that every one in town knew about

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it, too. Claude Waldo was like that.

Yes, Waldo was like that. It
doesn’t seem possible that last sum-
mer is just a memory when Waldo was
like that. He probably never realized
that then would be the last time he
would ever go fishing. Last summer
he went fishing nearly every night
and always caught at least one fish.
One night after catching one that
weighed a little over four pounds, he
thought he had caught the biggest
fish in the pond. He felt pretty good
about that. Then one night he spied
one of the biggest bass he had ever
seen strike. He claimed that it would
weigh six pounds if it weighed an
ounce. Sure, he was excited about it.
Who wouldn’t be? I don’t know why
he wrote only me all about the
“Whopper”. Sure, he told other peo-
ple that there was a big bass there,
but that was as far as he went. Every-
body knew that; they knew Waldo
liked to talk, too.

MAYBE he told me about it in his

letters just to fill up space, or
maybe he wanted to take my mind off
my illness for awhile, or maybe he
trusted me? Who knows? From that
night on, he was determined to catch
the bass, and he didn’t bring a fish
home after that. He always said there
wasn’t a fish in the pond that he
would keep if it wasn’t as big as the
“Whopper”. Every night that bass
would strike; once he had it right up
to the boat and was so excited that
he didn’t get the landing net under
it in time. Another time the fish
leaped out of the water beside the
boat and gave him a bath from the
splash. Several times he battled with
him for three or four minutes, but
never could he land him. But Waldo
was not the type to give up.

Then one day he heard that some
one had caught a bass that weighed
slightly under six pounds. Nobody
could make him believe that was the
“Whopper”, though. The only way
to find out was to go fishing; Waldo
went fishing that night. Once more
Waldo dashed through the streets
with his green shirt tail flying. No
one ever thought that would be the
last time. I wish I could tell you
about it as well as Waldo told me.
Just a minute now and maybe I can
find the letter in which he told me
about it. Here it is. Maybe you can
get the story better if I read his
words.

He says, “. .. I went down to see
about the ‘Whcpper’ tonight. It

June, 1944

couldn’t have been a better night to
use that old battered plug of mine;
you know the kind of a night I mean.
The sun was setting and everything
was quiet. There wasn’t a ripple on
the water, and it was just beginning
to get dark. The oars didn’t even
squeak; the first time in weeks. I
took my time and stopped the boat
in just the right place. I sat there
for a couple of minutes to kind of get
my nerve up and then looked at my
old plug. The hooks were sharp
enough, and they were attached solid-
ly. I took my time casting because
it had to be a good cast the first time.
I judged the distance carefully and
then easily cast the plug. The reel
hummed naturally, and the plug hit
the water in just the right spot. There
wasn’t a sound to be heard, and I
let the plug rest on the water for a
minute. Then I gave it a little
twitch; nothing happened. I waited
for a few seconds and gave it another
little twitch; still nothing happened.
I was working that bait for all I was
worth, so if he was there, he just
couldn’t possibly resist it. I gave
another twich, and everything was
quiet. He just had to be there. It
was almost dark, and it was just a
matter of minutes. One last twitch,
and I knew the bass was still there!
He was just as big as ever! He fought
so hard that he practically tore the
bottom off the pond. He got me wet
again before he shook the hook! You
know, I’ve got a feeling that that
bass was made for me to catch; and
I'll catch him if it’s the last thing I
ss

HE never realized that he would

never catch the “Whopper”. Yes,
Waldo was like that; he never gave
up without a fight. But now the peo-
ple of Wolcott will never again see
that flash of green on a bicycle dash-
ing through Main Street They will
never see that rickety old boat on the
pond with Waldo gently pulling on the
oars, or hear him say, “Man you
should see the bass I caught last
night! Why, he’d weigh four pounds
if he weighed an ounce!” You see, the
time came when Waldo had something
else big to fight for. He went fighting
on the ocean for the day when he
could catch the “Whopper” and tell
the whole town about it. But the
“Whopper” will never be caught, be-
cause Waldo stayed with his ship. He
never gave up if he thought he had a
fighting chance. Maybe he didn’t even
have a fighting chance when he was
killed in action.

Cornell Countryman

A Journal of Country Life - Plant, Animal, Human

riculture were young they were

thought of as “trade schools”, as
places where young men could learn
to be better farmers than their fathers
had been. The students went through
their training and returned to the
home farm, and there it was learned
that they were not the best farmers
in the community. They knew the
scientific name of the organism caus-
ing Bang’s disease, but they couldn’t
keep the abortions out of their herds.
And perhaps folks began to wonder
just what the boy had been learning
while he was at college.

Ll: the days when the colleges of ag-

The story of what he had been
learning is this . . . He came to the
college to learn the best way to farm.
But by the time he had been gradu-
ated he had become divorced from
actual farm practice, and more in-
volved in the experiments behind the
techniques of operation. His inter-
ests became focused on improving
breeds of livestock, selection and
crossing of plants to develop varieties
of crops adapted to various soil and
climatic conditions, engineering, ag-
ronomy, plant pathology, dairy in-
dustry, economics of production and
distribution, in short, he had become
interested in applied science. He was
not the best farmer, but he was a good
research man. "

Times were changing. The farm
was becoming more specialized. Farm-
ers bought clothing in town; they
bought food in town. And they didn’t
try to grow a little of everything on
their land. They began to grow the
crops best suited to their area, and
had supplies of products they couldn’t
grow well sent in from places where
they were easy to grow. Farmers
spent their time on enterprises that
paid best, and before long they noticed
that it took fewer men to till the same
acreage, and that there was enough
produced by one man to send another
to the city to produce manufactured
goods. Farms weren’t self-sufficient;
they were commercial. Prices became
important, increased production be-
came important. That is why the son
who went to college began to learn

Ithaca, New York, June, 1944

The Trend

* by Marjorie L. Fine

about prices, about improving effi-
ciency on the farm, about better ani-
mals and plants. And so, the colleges,
though they may have seemed to, did
not fail the farmer. They gave him
the men who laid the foundations for
nodern agriculture.

Some may wonder why it is then that
each farmer runs his farm differently,
why farming did not become stand-
ardized as did industry. The reasons

that agriculture is not pursued by
factory methods are many. Farming
deals with living things; farming de-
pends on weather; by-products must
be utilized on the land from which
they originated; soils vary, not only
from farm to farm, and field to field,
but even from one part of a field to
another. The key note in agriculture
is variation. It might be said that the
only thing that does not change is the
fact that everything else does change.
Agriculture itself has not matured.
It would be a catastrophe if the stage
were ever reached from which we
could no longer grow and develop.

The agricultural colleges have de-
veloped but full maturity cannot be
reached. Their work is never done.
It has become evident that what is
good today may not be satisfactory
within the span of a few years. We
cannot rely on smut resistant varieties
of the small grains to be resistant to
new races of the smuts which appear

as mutations and hybrids just as the
hosts themselves have done. In short
the work that has been done by these
colleges cannot be regarded as com-
pleted. Continually, weaknesses be-
come apparent, and it is clearly seen
that the time has not come to close
the laboratory and experimental field.

Plant breeding is less than half a
century old; agricultural economics is
half the age of p'tant breeding. The
social sciences have reached a point
in their development analagous to the
physical sciences at the time it was
discovered that fire is not composed
of either angry spirits nor matter.

gricultural research is not yet in
full bloom.

One of the ‘research problems that
lies ahead is analysis of farm opera-
tion. At present all that has been
done is to describe individual farm
jobs and farm organization. What
must be done is to analyze in-
dividual farms. This is important
because labor is the scarce factor of
production in the United States, and is
the largest single cost of the business.
For this reason it must be used to the
greatest advantage. Efficiency is es-
sential, and becomes increasingly so
with the passage of time and the im-
provement in technology. Efficiency
is a measure of the use of time. To
attain high efficiency time must be
planned so that the right thing is done
at the right time. Farmers who read
this are not learning anything new,
for they know what must be done. But
perhaps they do not know that “time
consciousness” can be taught.

One of the functions of the agri-
cultural colleges is to aid the student
in learning how to analyze a problem
and to solve it methodically. Success
in this function of the colleges is fully
as important as their contributions
resulting from experiments in applied
sciences. For if they can equip the
student to recognize problems and to
work them through they will have pro-
duced successful farmers, and success-
ful men. They will have given the
student tools. Without them he is
lost. But with them he can build a
still greater agriculture, and a greater
America.

Memories Linger

Spring Day is over; and all of us
have memories of one grand hectic
weeked.

We will be able to tell our children
about the great military revue and the
earnival. Concessions of all sorts
adorned the fie!d. I couldn’t resist the
temptation to stop at the Cornell
Countryman booth and pound those
nails in. I finally won a corncob pipe
after several tries (incidently, I also
received a black and blue thumb; I
think the nails were crooked).

Everywhere I turned, sound of
“Step right up and have a nice sizzling
hamburger or hot dog,” “Ice cream—
this way please” and “How about
some candy to give to your best girl.”

The Skunk Hollow Carnival will al-
ways remain the big weekend for the
class of ’44.

Les Brown’s orchestra did a bang
up job on the Spring Day formal
where all danced around the May-
pole. Doris Day, the vocalist, added
sparkle to the evening. President
and Mrs. Edmund Day, Col. and Mrs.
Edwin Van Duesen, Capt. and Mrs.
Burton Chippendale, Major and Mrs.
Jewett and Mrs. Phillip Olin and Lt.
Commander C. B. Reemelin were the
receiving line.

Grange Activities

The Grange initiated the following
members with the first and second de-
gree status:

Jean Carnell
Sidney Hart
Frank Reynolds

They will receive the third and

fourth degree status in June.

To Collect Milkweed Pods

Ralph Y. DeWolfe, state chairman
of the U.S.D.A. War Board heads a
program to collect 1,500,000 pounds of
milkweed floss this year. Most of the
gathering of the floss will be done by
schoolchildren in July, August, and
Semptember. The milkweed floss will
serve as a substitute for kapok used in
the manufacture of life jackets and
aviator’s suits for our armed services.
The War Hemp Industry will provide
a worker to help with the program and
to furnish mesh bags for the pods.

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On The Hill

Betsy Kandiko °44

When a sunny day rolls around, the
Cornell Countryman editor cannot be
found in the office. She is out horse-
back riding. When she dashes into the
office, mud on her plaid shirt, the
freckles scraped off her nose, the
hardened staff nods casually, “Fall
off again?” Some day she will quit
racing with good riders.

Betsy, a senior in the Home Ec
school, comes from Ancram, N. Y. Al-
though she worked off campus her
freshman year, she not only took part
in campus activities, but also received
the highest grades in her class that
year. She became a member of the
Debate Club and of Kermis, the upper
campus dramatic club. In her sopho-
more year she was appointed to the
Off-Campus Straight Committee, and
became a compet for the Cornell Dra-
matic Club. She also made the Coun-
tryman board that year. She entered
the Home Ec Public Speaking Stage

June, 1944

both her freshman and sophomore
years. During her junior year, she
became former students notes editor
of the Countryman, and is now editor-
in-chief.

For a month this term she worked
as an associate editor of the Cornell
Alumni editing the alumni
notes.

While at Cornell, she held these
scholarships: the New York State
Bankers’ Association Scholarship, the
Robert M. Adams 4-H Memorial, the
Stite Cash, and the Martha Van Rens-
selaer Alumnae.

Her favorite activities are dancing,
horseback riding, swimming, and lis-
tening to the hit parade on Saturday
night before a date with the Navy.
Concerts at Bailey Hall also rate.

She is a member of Pi Delta Gam-
ma, women’s honorary journalistic so-
ciety, and of Omicron Nu, senior hon-
orary society in home economics. Her
major has been journalism.

As yet Betsy is undecided as to what
she is going to do when she finishes
college, but at this point is consider-
ing joining the Marines, being an air
stewardess, spending the summer on
a dude ranch, and settling down to a
real job in journalism.

News,

Art Shows

“An appreciation of art can be in-
creased by repeated visits to art
shows,” says Virginia True, an assist-
ant Professor at the New York State
College of Home Economics. “Art
makes one feel and live more intense-
ly, and exihibts open the doorway to
art,” she explained. The appreciation
of works of art involves both the artist
and the layman. Since art is visual
it must be seen; since it is mental, it
must be understood; as it is emotional,
it must be felt.

A trained person, versed in tech-
nical knowledge, has a far greater
chance to appreciate art than does the
untrained person.

“Art feeds on life, and since life
changes, art cannot be static. What
intersts the artist will sooner or latter
interests the artist will sooner or later
why annual exhibits are useful, they
show new trends from year to year.

Recent exhibits in the Martha Van
Rensselaer Art Gallery have included
a group of paintings sent to this
country by the Brazilian government.

June, 1944

The Cornell Countryman

Former Student Notes

15

Elwood L. Chase was appointed di-
rector of the transportation division
of the War Food Administration in the
US Department of Agriculture on
April 15. After graduation from the
University, he did farm management
and extension work in New Jersey,
and for four years was agricultural
agent in Ulster county. For the past
twenty years he has been in the feed
and grain business with the coopera-
tive GLF mills. As chairman of the
Lower Lakes grain committee, Chase
has worked with the War Food Ad-
ministration in solving problems of
shipping and handling grain on the
Great Lakes.

16

Paul R. Young has just completed
the manuscript for his second junior
text on gardening called Garden
Graphs, Book Two. The first book,
Elementary Garden Graphs, was pub-
lished in 1942. Young is garden editor
of the Cleveland News and_ schoo!
garden supervisor on the city’s Board
of Education.

20

Ina S. Lindman, author of a new
cook book for the U. S. Navy, was
recently featured in the New Yorker’s
“Talk of the Town.” She is working
for the United Fruit Company and to
date has worked out over 600 new
recipes for bananas. Her chief am-
bition is to do a specialized cook book
for use in submarine and aircraft
galleys.”

22

W. King White was featured in a
recent issue of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. A descendent of the manu-
facturers of the White Sewing ma-
chine and the White Steamer auto-
mobile, he has built the Cleveland
Tractor Company to its present im-
portance. He was behind the “Cle-
trac”, first with Wilkins at the North
Pole, first with Byrd at the South
Pole, and now its “cousin” the bull-
dozer, found on every battlefield to-
day.

98
Dorothy DeLany is the assistant
4-H Club leader for New York State,
with headquarters in Roberts Hall at
the University.

25

Lieutenant Donald T. Ries is sta-
tioned at Greensboro, North Carolina,
as assistant medical inspector in the
USAAF Training Command Center.

John E. Coykendall has gone west
to Tuscon, Arizona, where he is now
employed by Consolidated Aircraft
Corporation.

°26

Elton Hanks is back in Ithaca as
assistant farm land supervisor. He
was formerly agricultural agent for
Rensselaer County.

Calvin Russell II is working in the
farm loan department of the Metro-
politan Life Insurance Company,
Rochester, Minn.

29

Ensign Stewart C. Smith is now
on active sea duty with the USCGR.
He received his commission at the US
Coast Guard Academy after four
months of preliminary training.

Richard Eglington has accepted a
position as head of sanitation in the
Connecticut State Department of
Heaith, Hartford. Before that he was
city bacteriologist in Ithaca.

led Cooter)

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Oo.

Giff Hoag is doing a great deal of
traveiing these days—on business, of
course. He is working in the informa-
tion and extension division of the
Farm Credit Administration, Kansas
City, Missouri.

34

Ruth E. Broderick is a dietitian at
the Colon Hospital, Cristobal, Canal
Zone.

Pauline S. Keese is overseas as a
civil employee of the US Army.

Captain John S. Andrews had a real
military wedding last March when he
was married to Lieutenant Aileen
Paquette, Army Nurse Corps, at Camp
Meade, Maryland. Before being called
into active service, Andrews was an
assistant in the Research Division of
the US Department of Agriculture.

Warren C. Huff has been appointed
Northeastern States’ representative of
the educational and research bureau
of By-product Ammonia. He was
formerly extension soil conservation-
ist at the College of Agriculture.

35

Helen M. Sands is assistant profes-
sor in home economics and Director of
Nursery schools at Austin, Texas.

Paula L. Bethke is a dietitian at the
St. Johns River Ship Building Com-
pany, Jacksonville, Florida. Before
accepting her new position, she was
cofeteria manager of the Kankakee
Ordinance Works, Illinois.

Mary Robinson left her job as as-
sistant in charge of housekeeping and
food service at Pembroke College to
take over duties as cafeteria manager
for the Todd Union at the University
of Rochester.

Leon F. Graves is in the meteorol-
ogy department at Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology doing research
assistant teaching in the Army-Navy
program there. On campus he met
Ross L. Heald ’46 who is an aviation
cadet at the Institute.

°38

Since last September Second Lieu-
tenant Leonard C. Grubel, AAF, has
been teaching meteorology to basic
pitots at Greenville, Mass.

James J. Miller is teaching voca-
tional agriculture at Deposit Central
School.

°39

Sergeant Alfred C. Kuchler is in
Egypt as an Army meteorologist. He
is a member of the staff of the Sky-
master, a weekly newspaper published
by the men there.

First Lieutenant Lynn W. Cocker,
USAAF, has been awarded the Air
Medal and Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster
for outstanding achievement in mis-
sions over enemy territory. He is in
England piloting Mustangs.

Lieutenant Raymond A. Lull, Army
Air Corps, was killed in action in
Europe last December. His parents
received the Purple Heart, awarded
posthumously, and a personal mes-
sage from Commanding General H. H.
Arnold in which he praised Lull’s
high courage and ability.

Sally Steinman, with the American
Red Cross in North Africa, starred in
the play “How Green Was My Corn”,
presented to the soldiers in Oran. The
show was written and produced by a
group of Red Cross girls and service
men. Costumes were of the Gay Nine-
ties variety, made from old curtains.
The play made such a hit in Oran that
the troupe took it to Algiers and gave
four more uproarious _ performances.

The Cornell Countryman

June, 1944

Former Student Notes

40
Corporal Herman Grubin, Jr., likes
the field life he lives in New Guinea.
All it needs to be perfect is a little
wine and lots of women.

Helen L. Crum is in England with
the American Red Cross doing hos-
pital recreational work.

Sergeant Laurence (€. Gardner is
now stationed at Mason General Hos-
pital, Brentwood. Before entering the
service he was associated with the
Farm Security
Wellsville.

Administration in

Betty Jane Banes, feature editor of
the Countryman in 1940, is writing for
the Warwick Valley Dispatch, a coun-
try weekly edited by her aunt, Flor-
ence Ketchum. This job is only tem-
porary, for she plans to sett'e down to
dairy farming when she marries Fred-
rick E. Wright of Warwick. In Betty’s
words, “I never thought my ag train-
ing would come in so handy so soon.”

Winston Klotzback has been pro-
moted to staff sergeant in the Army.
George Allen recently resigned his

position as district agricultural en-
zineer for the State War Council to
work on farm machinery with G.L.F.

"41

“Home was never like this,” says
Lieutenant Burrt D. Dutcher, Army
Signal Corps. He has been in the war
theater of New Guinea a long time
now, but he still can’t get used to the
jungles.

Ronald E. Bowman is in Whitesville
managing the GLF farm machinery re-
pair center there.

William J. Packer has been in Aus-
tralia the past few months as a navi-
gator. He writes that he doesn’t mind
the job he is doing, but he missed
Ithaca’s winter weather. We hope that
next year he will be making snow
balls again with the rest of us!

°42

Lieutenant Leo Hamalian is _ sta-
tioned in England, not far from the
River Avon. He has traveled a great
deal and so far has been to Wales,
East Angelia, Yorkshire, Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, Hants, Dorset, and
Wilts. He also visited Windsor, Carfe,
and Cardiff castles but found them un-
comfortable-looking places in which
to live. Leo is doing his bit to cement
Anglo-American relationships by pass-
ing out chewing “goom” (gum to us)
to the children. It is quite popular

in England and since Leo has a lot
of it, he is, too!

Solomon Cook is teaching agricul-
ture at Lisbon and is leader of two
4-H Clubs in that area of St. Lawrence
county.

Louise Mullen °43

Louise Mullen is active 4-H Club
agent in Middlebury, Vermont. Here
is what the former business manager
of the Coutryman wrote in a recent
letter to the staff: “I certainly have
one swell bunch of 4-H boys and girls,
and I am proud of them. Two of
my members attended the national 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago and one
of them was a national winner.” As
president of the 4-H council, Louise
attended Capitol Day March 6 in Al-
bany where she presided over a ban-
quet and presented 25 pursuit ships to
the armed forces on behalf of the
$2,000,000 worth of war stamps and
bonds sold by 63,000 4-H members. She
also made Governor Dewey New York
State’s first honorary 4-H member.

Amelia D. Bielaski is Home Demon-
stration agent for Chenango County,
Home Bureau office, Norwich, New
York.

More news about “who’s who” in the
field of home ec_ teachers. Mary
Christian is in Walden, New York,
Shirley J. Busacker in Andes, Jean
Marie Hammersmith (Mrs. G. B.
Wright) in Waterloo, and Gracia R.
Byrne in Portville.

Lois T. Zimmerman is employed in
the promotion and sales division of
Alexander Smith and Sons, makers
ef rugs and carpets, Yonkers, New
York.

"43
Since November 1, Helen McCune
has been assistant home demonstra-
tion agent in Jamestown. She is con-
centrating on the nutrition program
there.

Elizabeth M. Brockway has started
training at the Yale school of nursing,
New Haven, Conn.

Harriet E. Fonda is an assistant at
the Rochester Children’s Nursery.

Evelyn V. Corwith is assisting in the
testing kitchen at Standard Brands,
Inc., New York City.

Jane A. Bartholomae is a dietitian
at the Franklin Baker Division of
General Foods, Hoboken, New Jersey.

Margaret €. Morse (Mrs. Walter
Thalman) took a government-spon-
sored course in Aircraft drafting and
then was employed for 6 weeks as an
aircraft draftsman at Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Corp. where her hus-
band also works. The couple are liv-
ing in San Diego, California.

Margaret R. Dilts is doing executive
work for the Girl Scouts in Manhat-
tan, New York.

Dorothy M. Cothran, “the girl with
the golden voice,” is back on the Hill
doing clerical work in the office of
Mr. Williams, assistant to the Univer-
sity’s Dean of Engineering.

Mrs. Frances E. Carroll, the former
Jean McConnell, is a chemist at Lever
Brothers. At present Jean is testing
soaps.

Betty O. Bowman is working as a
dietitian for the Manhattan Eye Ear
and Throat Hospital in New York
City.

Before her marriage in September
to Robert Murphy °43, Dorothy Lou
Brown was assistant teacher at the
Rochester Children’s Nursery.

Ethel Baer resigned her job as as-
sistant cafeteria manager for IBM
to join her husband, John W. Poley,
Jr., now in the armed service.

Since last. September Dorothy B.
Kay has been a hemotologist at the
Strong Memorial Hospital in Roches-
ter.

Frances Anderson is a student dieti-
tian at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more.

*44

While awaiting to be called into the
WAVES as an officer candidate, Lor-
raine A. Bode is working in the Al-
bany Home Bureau office.

Management of the

Student Laundry Agency

extends their most hearty congratula-

tions to the graduating class of 1944.

Wm. Schmidt ‘36—Grad. Mgr.
Harrie Washburn ‘45—Asst, Mgr.
John Bishop ‘45—Secy. & Treas.

409 College Ave. Dial 2406

NEW CORNELL GIFTS
for the JUNE GRADUATES

Four New Cornell Mascots

JIGGS, THE ENGLISH BULLDOG
TERRY, THE WIREHAIR TERRIER
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New Cornell Jewelry

CORNELL DANGLE BRACELETS
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PEARL PENDANT & FOB SETS

Merton Crew Hats in Cornell Colors
Sport Shirts with Cornell Insignia
and many other items

THE CORNELL CO-OP

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CONGRATULATIONS
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to the

CLASS of JUNE ‘44

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Established 1868
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The Hill Drug Store

Frank T. Thorpe and Harry P. Ryerson

328 College Ave. Ithaca, N. Y.

This store has served the Cornell Stu-
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under the new management will con-

tinue to uphold this policy.

Drugs — Cosmetics — Soda Fountain

Prescriptions promptly and

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