1932
Medico members of our class headline the news this month. Since last going to press, it has been announced in Jersey City that WallieModarelli, to us known as Butch, has been named the head of a medical division of Pollak Hospital for Chest Diseases. Our felicitations, Modie! The newspaper article carrying the announcement stated, among other things:
"Dr. Modarelli, a Union City resident, attended Dartmouth College and the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was resident physician at the old county tuberculosis hospital from 1936 to 1937. For three years he was chief^resident and assistant superintendent at Central Maine Sanitorium, Maine. He served a similar period as assistant attending physician at Pollak Hospital. From 1940 to this year he was clinic physician for the hospital."
Joe and Betsy Bennett spent a couple of weeks in Florida during the late spring. On this occasion they had an opportunity to catch their quota of fish in the deep blue sea off Pompano Beach. Joe came out second best in a battle with a Kingfish which he had pulled into the boat. Betsy says Joe's finger bled quite profusely. Unfortunately, while Joe and Betsy were there, Capt. Charlie Mayo was tied up with a charter party and was unable to take them out. Joe was recently elected chief of staff of the Lake Forest Hospital. Incidentally, Lake Forest Hospital is one of the finest equipped, pleasantest and most efficient smaller suburban hospitals in the country. I am happy to see that in selecting a new head they have recognized administrative as well as medical ability. Congratulations, Joe!
In the area of research, another medical member of our class has come to the fore. A clipping to the following effect appeared in The New York Times:
"Dr. Sheldon C. Reed and his co-workers in the University of Minnesota have traced the family histories of 600 breast-cancer patients and found only a slight hereditary susceptibility to breast cancer. The controls used for statistical comparisons were the families of the patients and husbands, who, generally, were in the same age, racial, social and economic groups as the patients."
Not strictly in the medical field, but closely related, is the work being done by Frank Westheimer. Frank, recently was appointed professor of chemistry at Harvard University, effective July 1, 1954. As you know, he has been on the staff of the University of Chicago since 1936. He was appointed a full professor in 1948. At Harvard he will continue with his research in organic chemistry, particularly as related to bio-chemistry. Recognition of Frank's valuable contributions in this field, particularly those having to do with the mechanism of organic reactions, is seen in his designation as the 1954 Harrison Howe lecturer of the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society. He will formally be awarded this honor and deliver his lecture in Rochester on Saturday, November 13, 1954.
Having served his second consecutive term in the House of Representatives from the Second Congressional District of Missouri, TomCurtis has indicated his continued public spiritedness through filing for and winning renomination in the primary conducted in Missouri in early August. Tom is still serving as a member of the College's Board of Trustees.
An interesting letter from Whip Walser carried further the controversy introduced by Bob Hosmer as to who is the youngest father in our class. Congratulations to Whip and Adeline! Whip's comments included the following:
"I thought you'd like to know that we have an addition to the house of Walser. Adeline came back from the hospital today with our new baby daughter, Alisa Ann, born May 9, at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park. Both mother and daughter are doing well and it was a fitting Mother's Day gift, arriving on that day. Father is doing well also!
"A few months ago 1 read in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that Bob Hosmer wanted to hear from some of the younger fathers in the class - so this is my contribution. Conrad is now 10; Eric, 8 - hoping to get into Dartmouth at the proper time.
"We have finally sold our house at Lombard and will move to Florida in the month of August. I don't know exactly where we shall settle, but it will be near Miami - either Hollywood Beach or Fort Lauderdale. I'll let you know once we are settled.
"I will keep my office in Chicago but will establish a branch in Miami. I will still have to spend some of my time in Chicago, so will be seeing you and the other '32ers around this area. Can you tell me who is in Florida from our class? I am in touch with Charlie Mayo and know that Joe Roberts is there also. Is there anyone else?
"I recently went to New York for a few days and stayed with the Cleaves in Rutherford, N. J. Dick, Marg and their four children are all well and getting settled in the New York suburbanite life once again. Dick is happy and making great progress in his new (one year now) position with Continental Can Company. He has seen quite a few of the New York and New Jersey '32ers who seem to get together much more often than our gang here in Chicago.
"Business is good and I'll leave again for South America around October. Working out of Miami will be much easier and more pleasant for the whole Walser family, although we will miss all of our many friends here in Chicago."
As of September 1, Chuck Adkins took overthe responsibilities of the director of publicrelations of Colgate University. Chuck hasbeen assistant professor of English and editorof the alumni news at Colgate. He will continue to edit the alumni news and workclosely with the university's development office. After finishing at Hanover, he served onthe faculty at Syracuse University, at whichinstitution he received his M.A. degree in1940. He was assistant professor and memberof the English department at James MillikinUniversity, Decatur, Ill., from 1940 to 1945.
During the last nine years at Colgate, Chuck has had charge of all the university's writing courses. He has been a member of the administrative and faculty committees on publications, admissions, research, university development and Alumni Memorial Scholarships. Chuck and Virginia have four daughters, Terry 12; Jameson 10; Leslie 7 and Allison 6. In addition to his activities in the academic field, Chuck has been active in civic affairs in Hamilton. He is president-elect of the Hamilton Club, a local service organization, and past president of the Parent-Teacher Association. Professionally Chuck is a member of the Pi Delta Epsilon journalistic fraternity, American College Public Relations Association, the American Alumni Council, the American Association of University Professors and the National Council of Teachers of English.
As a defender of individual civil liberties, Joe Fanelli has again received justifiable recognition. The following clipping appeared recently in the Washington Post-Times Herald:
"Happy Ending - The Chasanow case has had a happy ending - a rarity in cases of this kind (charges of security risk or disloyalty against a U.S. Navy employee). A stupid miscarriage of justice has been rectified, thanks* in part to Mr. Chasanow's own courage and steadfastness, in part to the pertinacity and devotion of his counsel, JosephFanelli, in part to the readiness of the Navy Department in the person of Assistant Secretary James H. Smith to acknowledge error with candor and make amends for it with generosity. Mr. Smith's condemnation of the anonymous informers whose gossip was found to be groundless and his warm indorsement of Mr. Chasanow did as much as could be done to make restitution. . . ."
The Fund for the Republic, an agency supported by the Ford Foundation, recently announced the election of Ping Ferry as vice president. In making the announcement, Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Foundation, stated that Mr. Ferry had withdrawn from partnership in Earl Newsom & Co., public relations counsel, of 597 Madison Ave., New York City.
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