The Almost President

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Cornell alumni news March 1977
In the Meantime
Alumni and other readers were generous or were otherwise deflected. It was signi-
In This Issue
with their written contributions to the ficant that a puck which hit the chicken
magazine this month, to the point where wire dropped "dead" and the Cornell
10 Communications
some must be held for another issue. The team knew this and shaped their actions
most timeless subject our readers dealt accordingly. 18 Claim to Fame
with was the artistry of the writing of E. When our junior year rolled around, I By Kenneth Evett
B. White '21, so comment on his recent was selected by Nick to be the goal
20 Letters from School
volume of published letters will be held guard, until I failed to progress or Nick
By Ray Howes '24
until the April issue. "soured" on me for other reasons.
In the meantime, alumni readers have We had a few practice sessions in De- 23 The Shooting of Serials
written about an unforgettable hockey cember '24 and then went home for By Gerald Best Ί7
coach, the right to hear and to be heard Christmas vacation. I believe today our
29 News of Alumni
at public events on campus, and (in the hockey teams work out during the entire
Forum section) the treatment of the chil- vacation period. However, in my case, the 60 University/The Teams
dren of alumni who apply for admission first game after returning from Christ-
to the university. mas vacation was at Dartmouth which in the next practice session at Ithaca,
had some really fine players including Nicky Bawlf said, or rather shouted,
[Nicky Bawlf and
the well known Miles Lane. We had little "Nash, get in the net and the rest of you
Primitive Cornell Hockey]
or no practice before leaving on a 5 p.m. guys come here with me in center ice." I
In getting ready for their 50th Reunion, train from the East Ithaca station. We assumed that we were going to have a
members of the Class of 1927 who played arrived in Hanover at noon the next day. practice session of shooting at me as cus-
hockey under Nick Bawlf decided to en- The Dartmouth rink at the time was tomary, but no! Nick then sounded off at
courage other Cornellians who played the also of natural ice but the side boards the top of his voice and the skaters on
sport for Bawlf to contribute stories of were four or five feet high and the "back- Beebe Lake drew up outside of the rink
the distinctive coach. They have primed stop" behind the net was made of rail- to hear what was going on.
the pump with two of their own accounts, road ties with the entire area backed by "Nash," Nick shouted, "I suppose you
published here, and ask anyone with snow. This resulted in an almost concrete think you are a goal guard? Well, you
other stories to send them to Stanley R. backstop so that instead of "dropping God-damned pinhead, you couldn't stop
Noble '27, 16 Lake View Avenue, North dead" a puck that passed the net hit the a puck if you had a stick twice as large as
Tarrytown, New York 10591. He plans to wall and bounced out into the area in the one you have, or a bass fiddle. You
run them either in the class's newsletter front of the net, very often into center ice. should have stopped those Dartmouth
or its class column in the News. This the Dartmouth boys knew and we guys easily and we would have had a
The first is contributed by Arthur Lord didn't. chance to win."
Nash '27 and titled by him, "How to have Without much practice our team was On and on it went with several more
your head shrunk and your ego smashed badly outskated, with Jerry Tone, the references to "pinhead" and I sank lower
without really trying." captain, doing a sterling job and I think and lower. My red face should have
making our only goal. To me the air melted the ice.
Dill Walsh's request for experiences seemed to be filled with flying pucks. The The upshot was told to me a year later
during our years at Cornell reminds me Dartmouth guys would shoot and if they by Nicky, who said that since he knew the
of one of my less than happy days as a missed me or the net the puck would Dartmouth game was my first as a varsity
member of the hockey team in 1925. It come bounding or skidding back goal guard and since I had an unusually
also involves a lovable coach and a real through our defense for another goal. favorable comment in the press, he was
"character," Nicky Bawlf. Final score: Dartmouth 11, Cornell 1. determined that I should not have a
Beebe Lake was the scene of the hock- The epilogue was a short article in the swelled head.
ey rink, with three-foot sideboards and NY Sunday Times which said in effect: I leave it to you. I had my come-
chicken wire netting behind the goals to "Dartmouth overwhelms Cornell 11-1 uppance and if I had any tendency to
stop the pucks that didn't go into the net but if it had not been for the excellent getting a swelled head, Nick surely took
work of Nash in the net for Cornell, the care of that. I have never ceased to be
score would have been much higher." grateful to him for his action, tough
In Bailey Hall. Well, so much for that! At some point though it seemed at the time. I have told
MARCH 1977
the story many times and Stan Noble and ice-planer for refmishing the rink. It re-
The Cornell Alumni News Pete Bubier, both on the team with me, sembled a gigantic glorified plane with
is an independent magazine recall the incident. an adjustable three-foot-wide cutting
owned and published by the
Nick Bawlf was a great guy, tough as edge. It was mounted on a plow share
Cornell Alumni Association
under the direction of its nails, conscientious as a coach . .. at chassis with tow ropes and weighed be-
Publications Committee. times seemingly unfair, but with it all in tween 400 and 500 pounds. Because it
my book a lovable character for whom I was not self-propelled, by the time the
Publications Committee
John E. Slater '43, Chairman had respect. team had finished pushing and towing it
Arthur H. Kesten '44 around the ice, they were beat. One of
John M. O'Brien '49 Stan Noble himself contributed the the "compets" for manager followed the
Marion Steinmann '50
Truman W. Eustis III '51 second story, 'One of life's darkest strange contraption around the rink and
Officers of the Alumni Association moments." filled the ever-present cracks in the ice
Richard W. Brown '49, with a watering can. The opposing teams
President
My first contact with Nicky Bawlf was in were never very cooperative in grooming
Frank R. Clifford '50,
Secretary-Treasurer December 1923 when I watched his var- our ice.
President, Association of Class Officers sity hockey team practicing on Beebe Now, Canadian-born Nicholas Bawlf
Donald E. Whitehead '64
Lake. I was taking time out for a little coached the soccer, lacrosse, and hockey
Editor skating before indoor tennis practice teams at Cornell. He had played profes-
John Marcham '50 with the freshman team in Barton Hall. sional hockey with the now defunct Ot-
Associate Editor On the ice was Ben Tilton; Jerry Tone, tawa Senators. Although he excelled as
Elsie Peterson '55
Assistant Editor catcher on the baseball team and brother both coach and player in all three sports,
Mary Lou Egan of Franchot Tone; as well as Shorty I never realized until years later he was at
Contributors Aronson, coxswain of the crew, a real heart a frustrated tennis player. He must
Geof Hewitt '66, Jon Reis
tricky skater and stick handler. have had a hang-up because that was one
Design
David May Γd rather be a hockey player than a game he never seemed to master. He
General Manager tennis player, I thought, even though I continually tried to use his tennis racquet
Charles S. Williams '44 was seeded in the National Indoor Junior like a lacrosse stick.
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Editorial and Business Offices Regiment Armory in New York and transfer from Columbia College and a
Alumni House scheduled to play there during the Christ- fellow member of the Cornell tennis
626 Thurston Avenue,
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All rights reserved. Back in Ithaca in January '24, I During the 1925 Christmas vacation, I
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to Cornell Alumni News, 626 Thurston
puck, laced on my skates, and stood out- with the NY Americans on Madison
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side the hockey rink in the hope Nick Square Garden ice in the newly formed
Illustrations would know I was out for the team and professional league. I was entranced with
Cover: the south end of the Arts quad
not an idle spectator. It took three humil- the way Ching Johnson of the Rangers
stands against the bitter cold of the winter
of'76-77, by Russ Hamilton. Others: 2 iating days of waiting before Nick got the and Red Dillon of the Americans occa-
Human Ecology, 18, 19 from Kenneth message. Looking back on it, Bawlf was sionally fielded shots with their hockey
Evett, 21 Hamilton, 22 Sol Goldberg '46, secretly testing my determination to see if sticks held high over their heads when
23 University Archives from Walter
Stainton '19, 24, 25 Academy of Motion I really wanted to play hockey. the puck obviously would have sailed into
Picture Arts & Sciences from Gerald Best In 1924, hockey at Cornell was not the the bleachers. They used their hockey
'17, 26, 27 Archives, 28 from Irvin F. big deal that it is today. Outside of Har- sticks like tennis racquets. With my
Westheimer Όl, 31 Biff LeVee, 52, 60
vard, Yale, and Princeton, none of the tennis background, I thought, Jesus, this
Hamilton, 61 Steven Siegert '79, 64 U of
Michigan. eastern colleges had an indoor rink and is for me.
very few even had a hockey team. Cornell In February 1926 Dartmouth came to
hockey players bought all their own Ithaca for the big Junior Week game.
equipment and even their uniforms. Out on the ice skated big, beefy All-
They maintained the rink. Only on the American football and hockey player
few out-of-town games did the CAA pick Miles Lane. He later became a Boston
up the chit. Classmate Dick Mollenberg Bruin and still later was a US attorney.
turned that all around when he built the With him was another star, Hardy, who
present rink. excelled in both sports. On the ice for
Volume 79, Number 7 Some genius in the Cornell ME Lab Cornell were Phil Hoyt, Art Nash, Char-
dreamed up a real "Rube Goldberg," an ley Barthen, "Pistol Pete" Bubier, Joe
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June 27-July 10
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July 25-August 7
slaught? frustrated tennis player and I confessed
Aided by slow ice and playing defen- that my heart had always been with
Third Annual
sive hockey, the Big Red held the score hockey.
down, backed by the superb goal tending [Fritz Kreisler and
WOMEN'S
of Art Nash. Again and again Charley
the Right to Hear]
Barthen and "Pistol Pete" penetrated
WRITING the Dartmouth defense, only to miss Editor: Your communication, "The
close in shots. Late in the second period Right to Be Heard" in your December
WORKSHOPS Charley skated through the entire Dart- issue, I found distressing, as I am sure
mouth team but hit the post on what many others of your readers did also.
should have been a goal. To show his The racial problems at Cornell in the
• Poetry and Fiction Writing disdain and upset the All American past few years have been so well publi-
• Journal Writing Dartmouth defensemen, Charley went cized that not many of us can have been
• Women in Literature into a figure skating routine in front of surprised by your references to them. But
(discussion) the Dartmouth net that would have made I, for one, had not heard of the Ky or
Sonja Henie jealous, while his team Colby incidents, and was taken aback by
Opportunity for women to live and mates were battling for the puck in your account. I was brought up on the
work in community. Supportive at- center ice. This, of course, infuriated campus to believe in the boast (I forget
mosphere with scrupulous, focused Nick Bawlf who pulled him off the ice. who coined the phrase) that Cornell was
criticism. Guest speakers include: In the basement of the Johnny Parsons an institution that was intolerant of
club which the team used as a dressing nothing but intolerance.
Robin Morgan Alice Walker
room, Nick passed out lumps of sugar to One of my proudest memories of Cor-
Audre Lorde Grace Paϊey
give us energy, so he said. "Have we been nell is of the Fritz Kreisler concert in
Anne Pride, Editor
good boys, Nick?" jibed Charley, and the 1919 to which you refer. I happen to have
Beverly Tanenhaus, Director team snickered. This infuriated the hell been an usher in Bailey Hall that eve-
E * HARTWICK COLLEGE out of Bawlf. That was the final straw. ning. I am reluctant to rely on a fifty-
Oneonta, New York 13820 Charley turned in his uniform and came odd-year-old memory to add to Morris
—
out in civilian dress to watch the final Bishop's account. But in one respect I
Write: E. E. Bates
period with the score Dartmouth 4, Cor- believe the episode reflected more credit
nell 0. on the undergraduate body than his ver-
Short of substitutes and in an attempt sion would have it (I wish I could check
to relieve some of the regulars early in the my recollection with others who were
Commonwealth Tours third and final period, Nick sent me in at there).
left defense. Down the ice swept Miles When the lights went out suddenly, the
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panied by a Guest Speaker (in addition
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With the recent Ranger-New York that the football team was lined up to re-
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days: $2649.00 from San Francisco. anything away to Dartmouth. I also recall being told that others
Six years later, in 1932, I ran into Nick (competent, as I was not to judge such
All tours include air fares, accommo- Bawlf on the streets of Los Angeles quite things) said that often as they had lis-
dations, transfers, sightseeing and tour-
by chance. I had come west to watch the tened to Kreisler, they had never heard
ing etc. Two meals daily (or more) de-
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youth. You may be right in saying that intolerance on the part of students. I am posure to controversial speakers. Al-
this wave originated in the civil rights not at all impressed by the argument though this can be nothing but guess-
movement in the early 1960s. But I would which you attribute to Prof. [William] work, I doubt that people like George
suggest that the civil disobedience pro- Miller, that to discipline him would have Burr (probably Cornell's most noted ex-
moted in that movement was quite in been to impair his own right of free ponent of individual liberties), or Presi-
keeping with the Cornell tradition: large speech. When a man or woman joins the dent [Jacob Gould] Schurman, would
numbers of persons simply ceased to be faculty, I would argue, he or she under- have considered it a victory to shelter
tolerant of our long-standing intolerance takes to abide by the principles, written students from controversy in this fashion.
towards blacks—an intolerance that we or unwritten, that govern the institution. I should guess that those men, and many
had lived with too long. After all, freedom of speech has been a others like them, might likely have felt
What to do about the various forms of fundamental dictate of our constitution, that such action by the university would
intolerance that have cropped up on the virtually from the day the nation was constitute an abdication of its responsi-
Cornell campus in recent years is a vefy born, arid I believe a faculty member, by bility to inculcate respect for the rights of
difficult question. To the best of my accepting appointment as such, has others.
knowledge there is no consensus among waived his right to flout that precept, as Please forgive so long a letter. The
educators or psychologists, or any other much as he has waived the right he would issues you raise are important enough to
relevant discipline, how best to deal with have as a private citizen to preach that merit prolonged discussion.
unruly brats, whether they be grammar the world is flat. Alanson W. Willcox '22
school pupils or university undergradu- If thought necessary—as I am sure it is Washington, DC
ates, and whether they be black or white. not—the university might require every
Until some consensus is achieved I refuse new faculty appointee, as a condition of The letters section of this issue carries
to join those alumni who condemn the his appointment, to acknowledge in other comments on the "Right to Be
university authorities for being too lenl writing that the Bill of Rights is a part of Heard" column. Reader Willcox's letter
ent with student miscreants. I doubt that the supreme law of the land, and that his raises some questions of fact about the
alumni who, like me, have no experience duty to help inculcate the principles of Kreisler appearance, and it's interesting
or expertise in dealing with such prob- good citizenship includes a duty to foster to find what the journals of the day had
lems should venture to second-guess respect for the Bill of Rights. to say about the event. Fact is, they dif-
those who have at least some claim to ex- If there is anything in your statement fered on what took place.
pertise in such matters. with which I would take issue, it is your The Cornell Era magazine made no
I would, on the other hand, urge a assertion that Yale and Princeton "won mention of the event. Nor did the Cornell
stern attitude toward any member of the the battle" against student intolerance Alumni News, except in an editorial
faculty who is found to have encouraged by excluding most students from ex- published November 27, thirteen days
can take part in this
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before the concert, which opposed the shortly after intermission, no further in-
opposition of the American Legion to the terruptions were made.
concert: "Fritz Kreisler is a brave and The actions of the gang in attacking
generous man who had the misfortune, Bailey Hall and threatening the Univer-
as it now appears, to be born an Aus- sity's guests was deprecated by Univer-
trian. But neither that, nor the fact of his sity authorities. No action will be taken
having fought in the Austrian army, con- however, as University opinion expressed
stitutes him a partίceps crimίnis with the the belief that the affair was merely an
Kaiser; thousands fought for the Central unwarranted action by a few rowdies,
Powers because they had been mis- and not an officially organized plan of
Windermere is a certain kind of resort for a informed about the war and its causes the American Legion.
certain kind of person. Truly an Ivy atmosphere.
Elegant but simple. Friendly but exclusive.
Relaxed but sophisticated. Accounts of the concert in the Ithaca A separate front-page story in the Sun
In a setting that is almost perfection. Journal and Cornell Daily Sun differ in reported:
For further information on
Winderemere, call or write to: Jane Baker, some important regards.
711 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017, The concert was the evening of Kreisler played to an intensely enthusi-
[phone]
Wednesday, December 10, the night of astic audience. . . . He held his listeners
the opening basketball game of the sea- at the tip of his bow with that charm
MOWGLIS son. Cornell beat Hobart 54-6, and which he alone knows... . His power was
neither paper's game account carries any complete, and the serenity with which he
On Newfound Lake, mention of the Kreisler concert or an continued to play after the lights in the
foot-hills of White announcement being made to the building had gone out won for him the
Mts. Founded 1903.
audience. admiration and hearty applause of the
Eight-week opportu-
nity for 95 boys ages The Sun news report of December 11 audience. . . .
7-14. Instruction in reads:
swimming, canoeing,
crew, sailing, archery, riflery, tennis, crafts. An editorial in the same edition read:
Emphasis on hiking, camping, trail-build- Purporting to represent the American
ing. Quality staff, ratio 1-4. A character-
building experience in group living. 1977 Legion, national organization of the na- . . . Ithaca editors who condemned the
season June 30-August 23, tuition $975. tion's honored veterans of the World underclass rush in such sweeping terms
Call or write William B. Hart, Director, War, a gang of hoodlums, numbering will have a hard time reconciling the ac-
East Hebron, N.H. 03232. 603-744-8095.
SCHOOL-OF-THE-OPEN about 80, invaded the Campus last night tion of these few trouble seekers. Unless
and attempted to break into Bailey Hall, they were inspired by prejudice for the
where Fritz Kreisler was presenting his University they will have to criticize with-
program before a capacity audience. But out reservation the action of this group
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or gentle river. Excellent instruction, great
food. Free brochure. Warren and Beverly Members of the gang broke Bailey when it was freely rumored on the streets
Cochrane, Greenville, ME 04441. [phone]. Hall's lighting circuit immediately after yesterday that trouble would develop at
the first concerto, throwing the audience the concert is unknown to us. They were
into darkness except for the few gas certainly more necessary than during the
lights marking exits. Immediately the last downtown "rush."
9 OUT OF 10
gang, which had formed outside, at-
EUROPEAN
tempted to enter the hall, and succeeded The Ithaca JournaΓs main report the
VACATIONS in gaining entrance through the vestibule afternoon of December 11 read in part:
START WITH into the lobby, where it was held by stu-
A MISTAKE: dent ushers and other undergraduates . . .. Chief William Marshall of the
who had prepared for trouble when the [Ithaca] police department, who with an-
the assumption that
lights were extinguished. other police officer was constantly on
the freedom of car
Acting under orders from Lieut. T.H. duty outside Barton Hall during the
travel is too expensive. Twesten, University proctor, the under- demonstration, stated that in his opin-
Even for two it can be graduates inside, aided by reinforce- ion, "90 per cent of the crowd was com-
the cheapest. ments which had come from the basket- posed of Cornell students." No arrests
ball game in the Drill Hall, attempted to wer,e made.
Check out short term
treat with the intruders, and upon failure [The two Ithaca policemen] denied
car ownership.
to secure their voluntary withdrawal, that there was fighting among a crowd
It's faultless. threw them out. which congregated outside the building.
The only injury was sustained by Lieu- Chief Marshall said that in his opinion
Name
tenant Tweston, who, while directing the the crowd of young men was composed
Street preservation of order about Bailey Hall, 90 per cent of students and that while the
Town was struck on the side of the head, se- remainder may have been young men
"state Zip verely injuring his ear. He was also the from downtown he did not recognize
200 target for eggs and other missiles. them. The crowd first formed itself in
The hoodlums withdrew downtown groups and walked peacefully around the
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I Sδaah Francisco CA 94109 shortly after their ejection from the building. The police officers kept a close
building, and when the lights were put on watch on the stage door to repel any pos-
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