Yuri Orlov Remembered Vete A Rhodes Anniversary

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ECEMBER 1987
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Yuri Orlov
Remembered Vete
A Rhodes
Anniversary
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Vol. I No. 3 Cornell's Adult University December 1987
Three
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Mexico, the Yucatan, the Belize coast, and Guatemala, aboard
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DECEMBER 1987 Cover
24 Freedom in Exile
VOLUME 90 Exiled physicist
NUMBER 5 By Michael Scammel Yuri Orlov
What attracted Soviet physicist Yuri Orlov to the Hill. makes a point
with a visitor to
28 To Heal a Nation
his office in
By Joel Swerdlow Newman Lab.
An alumnus explains the power of the Vietnam Memorial.
JON REIS
33 Scotty's Boys
By Richard Zens
A young coach tames wild early swimmers.
DEPARTMENTS
4 From the Editors 22 News
Speak up, readers. Rhodes looks ahead after his first
ten years.
9 Letters
Two major complaints. 36 News of Alumni
11 Faculty Class notes.
Salt in use as a prism.
73 Alumni Deaths
15 Students
Big reward for a writer.
75 Alumni Activities
17 Authors
On Vonnegut's mind. A Homecoming buffet.
18 Sports 78 Another View
Women defend a polo title. A job for supercomputer.
Cornell Alumni News
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he first two letters to the editor magazine, he asks, as was the case in
in this issue (page 9) complain the first decade after he graduated?
about two different aspects of His concerns may well be echoed by
the Alumni News—aspects alumni in some earlier or later class-
that are important, so we ad- es. (His letter is carried without his
dress them here where a full re- name or numeral to avoid pointing
sponse will not usurp space from fingers at individual officers of his
comments by other readers. alumni class over details that will in
One writer complains that he all likelihood be worked out among
has paid for the Alumni News almost the parties.)
continuously since graduation in the The most obvious reason for a
1950s but doesn't always receive his plan that sells subscriptions through
magazine. He blames inefficiencies the classes is that it is a "good deal"
in a system under which he pays for everyone: less expensive in the
A A winter dust-
ing of snow ar- dues to his alumni class and receives long run, supportive of the class or-
rives early on the a subscription as a consequence. ganization, helpful in increasing
main quad- Why not go back to individual subs readership for the magazine. The
rangle. solicited directly by the staff of the plan, known as the Group Subscrip-
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FROM THE EDITORS
tion Plan, has not only increased the labels for the magazine are printed
number of alumni who receive the well in advance of the distribution of
magazine, it has also increased each issue, so Public Affairs Records
membership in the classes dramati- needs information about new ad-
cally from a few dozen duespayers dresses and seasonal address
each before the plan was first offered changes at least a month in advance
to classes in the mid-1940s, to sever- of the move to assure delivery.
al hundred apiece today.
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If the plan's system breaks he second letter writer is
down in a class, or if an individual angry because we devoted on-
simply prefers not to deal with his or ly one paragraph to the death
her class officers, that alumnus can of a faculty member who was
subscribe directly to the Alumni also an administrator. Long-
News. The annual subscription price time readers will probably have
for individuals is in the masthead of noticed that this magazine has rarely
the News, which appears near the gone in for lengthy eulogies of
front of each issue. Alumni of the university faculty, staff, or alumni.
graduate schools and non-alumni With 12 colleges, hundreds of pro-
friends of the university subscribe as grams, 1,600 professors, 18,000
individuals, but we have always en- students, and 150,000 alumni, we
couraged undergraduate alumni to concentrate on reflecting the ac-
subscribe by paying dues to their complishments of people and groups
classes, believing this strengthens while they are alive. The work of
alumni participation in the life of the Professor MacDougall, about whom
university. the letter was written, has been
covered as much as almost any other
i t is even easier to make that sug- we can think of in recent years,
gestion today than it was a few because he headed the popular,
months ago, because an entirely much-reported Adult University and
new procedure is being tested Summer Session.
that does just what our letterwrit- As the university has grown and
er suggests by having class dues sub- diversified, we have tried to present
mitted to Alumni House in Ithaca balanced coverage of it. We are con-
rather than to the homes and offices sciously trying to get the stories of
of volunteer classmates. A univer- more individuals into the Alumni
sity employee opens envelopes and News in its new format, using more
records payments, pays class bills, short articles that try to represent
and orders Alumni News subs, all un- the flavor of the subject concisely in
der the direction of a class officer. word and picture. Cornell is so
The Office of Class Programs and strong in so many fields, this seems
the Association of Class Officers the best way to mirror its character.
launched this as a pilot program Both the distribution system and
earlier in the calendar year for a the content of the Alumni News are
handful of classes on an experimen- a partial consequence of the odd-
tal basis. Leaders of the effort hope duck nature of this particular alumni
to offer the service to all classes as magazine, relying as it does solely on
soon as bugs are out of the system its readers and advertisers for in-
and staff is hired to handle the work. come. It's a delicate relationship in
Readers should continue to which readers require the magazine
write us, as this letter writer did, if to serve their wishes well enough
they are having trouble receiving that they be willing to pay to receive
their subscriptions, or want to get a it. The challenge is to keep quality
class news and dues letter, or need high and production costs low (ours
other help. Word of address is the lowest per-page cost in the Ivy
changes, as ever, is recorded most League). So, while no editor looks
promptly when it is submitted to forward to receiving letters of com-
Public Affairs Records, 512 E. State plaint, we see their value in helping
Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, but such us shape the Alumni News to the
information received first by the needs of alumni and alerting us to
News is routinely forwarded to the need for an explanation of our
Public Affairs Records. Mailing policies.
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FROM THE EDITORS
Market's Effect
University investments took an 8
percent loss in the October stock
market fall, down from $1 billion to
$918 million, which compares with
$775 million at the end of 1985 and
$910 million at the end of 1986.
The Board of Trustees met at
the end of the week of the market's
500-point drop, and heard a report
on its impact from Controller John S.
Ostrom '51. He said Cornell's total
assets passed the $2 billion mark
earlier in the year, "we thought
permanently, but the latest stock
market gyrations may change that."
Although the employees' retire-
ment plan known as TIAA-CREF
lost 22 percent in value, the univer-
CALL l-800-4DEWAR'S. sity's manager of benefits said she
thought employees would not lose in
the long run, particularly if employ-
ees stay in the fund's equity pool un-
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Contributors
Windermere Island Club
Is Hard To Fϊnd.
Prof. Michael Scammel, who wrote
the article on Russian emigre Yuri
Orlov in this issue, is the author of
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography. He is cur-
rently writing a book on the emigra-
tion of the arts from the Soviet
Deliberately. Union between 1960 and 1985. His
article for us is adapted from one
written originally for the Arts and
Sciences Newsletter.
Joel Swerdlow, PhD '74, who
^c: wrote the article on the Vietnam me-
morial in this issue, adapted the
piece from both an article for the
National Geographic and from the
But to those who always seem to know the best places to be, it's a favorite book he wrote with Jan C. Scruggs,
island retreat. Miles of unspoiled beaches to explore, superb tennis, water To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam
sports, a guest list that reads like an International Who's Who.
Veterans Memorial, © by them in
Done in the tradition of excellence by the owners of the Venice Simplon-
1985, and reprinted here with per-
Orient-Express, the Windermere Island Club is a slice of paradise. Not exclusive,
mission of the National Geographic
really... But not for everyone.
and Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
For details, speak with your travel agent or call our office at [phone].
The book will be the basis of a
In New York State call [phone]. In Canada, [phone].
two-hour movie on NBC-TV in May.
Windermere Island Club He has another book, Presidential
Debates: 1988 and Beyond coming
Eleuthera The Bahamas out this month. He writes frequently
for national publications on media-
A Venice SimplonOrient-Express Hotel related issues of public policy and
© 1987 Venice Simpton-Orient-Express has taught at American University.
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