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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO, I 


JAPANESE BIRD GROUP NEARS COMPLETION 
The Japanese bird group, final habitat 


_ group in the Birds of the World Hall, is 


scheduled for completion this year, the 
Exhibition Department reports. The 
location of the new exhibit, just to 
the right of the entrance to the staff 
cafeteria, has been screened off in re- 
cent months while artist Matthew 
Kalmenoff has been at work on the back= 
ground painting. 


The group was collected in the Misaka 
Mountains of Japan in the fall of 1958 
by George E, Petersen of Exhibition. 
Its vantage point is Mt. Eboshidake, 
looking southeast to lit. Fuji which 
rises 12,397 feet. Four of the five 
lakes of the Fuji area can be seen in 
the panorama: on the right is Motosu-ko, 
to the left are Shoji and Sai-ko, and 
in the far distance is Kawshuchi-ko,. 

In order to paint this panoramic view 
on the horseshce-shaved back wall, Mr. 
Kalmenoff used stereo photographs taken 
at the site by Mr. Petersen. 


Before selecting the exact location 
to be reproduced in the exhibit, Mr. 
Petersen climbed many mountains in the 
area and viewed Fuji from all sides. 
The Mt. Eboshidake view proved to be 
the most spectacular and offered the 
most interesting and representative 
foreground. 


The birds to be included in the ex- 
hibit will come from the Bird Devarte 
ment's study collection, according to 
Dr. Dean Amadon, Department Chairman. 
In the center will be several beautiful 
Japanese copner pheasants. Nearby, a 
group of smaller birds -~- chickadees, 


(continued on page 2) 


FEBRUARY 1960 


CREDIT UNION STARTS 25TH YEAR 


The AMNH Employees! Federal Credit 
Union began its 25th yeer of service 
last month by announcing a 3% dividend 
for its 69 shareholders. At the organ- 
ization's annual meeting on January 22, 
members learned that Credit Union assets 
stood at $151,000 at the end of 1959. 
Retiring-President Dorothy Bronson re~ 
ported that the unit is in excellent 
financial health, and has been commended 
by the auditors for its well-kept re- 
cords and absence of delinquent loans, 


Mrs. Bronson also noted that, according 
to the revised By-Laws adopted by the 
organization's Board of Directors, divi- 
dends may henceforth be declared semi- 
annually. In conclusion, she said, 

"The cooperation we receive from the 
Museum Administration by providing office 
space, lighting, heat, free telephone 
service, a payroll deduction plan, cash- 
ing services and a belief in the value of 
an employee's credit union makes our 
Credit Union of great service to you, We 
are glad of your interest and support. 

We are here to serve you." 


Because of the increased volume of 
Credit Union business during the past 
year, the membership voted to increase 
the Treasurer's monthly stipend from 
$80 to $100. 


CU officers for the coming year are: 
President - John Saunders; Vice Pres= 
ident = Rita Ross; Secretary - Constance 
Sherman; and Treasurer — Harry Lange. 
Members of the Board of Directors, in 
addition to these officers, are Dorothy 
Bronson, Anna Montgomery, and Philip 
Miller. The Credit Committee consists 
of Robert Adlington (Chairman), Rudolph 

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GRAPEVINE 


STAFF 
Editor: Kate Swift - Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 
Reporters: 


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Accounting, Payroll., Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine V. Mahoney 


Anpkibians ¢ and xepiiies - Margaret S. Shaw 


ques queninnen = 


Anthropology - et A, Ford 
Birds = Constance D. Sherman 


Building Services and Protection = Victor J. Badaracco, Edward T. 


Malley, 
Albert C. Potenza 


Exhibition and Graphic Arts - Katharine Beneker 
Fishes and Aquatic Biolopy - Dorothy E. Bliss 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 

Geology and and Paleontology = G. Robert Adlington 


nsects and Spiders = Rudolph J. Schrammel 


Library = Olga Smith 
Mammals - T. Donald Carter 


- William F. Somerville 


Membershi 
Wicropaleontology - 


Museum Shop « Peter Bujara 


Mary A. McKenna 


Natural his History - Helene J. Jordan 
Office Services - Robert E. Murray 
Planetarium — James S. Pickering 


Power Plant - Malcolm Mackay 
Print Shop - ~- Edward A. Burns 


Public “Instruction = George A. Crawbuck 
Shops | and Shipping = John Erlandsen, Rudolf Bonen, Arthur R. Schaefer 
Slides, F. Films, Photography, Projection and Sound = Helen B. Jones 


The staff of the "Grapevine" expresses special thenks to Vincent Amodio, Office 
Services, for his painstaking care in mimeographing this publication. 


(JAPANESE BIRD GROUP, cont'd. from p. 1) 


a Japanese magpie, and others -- will be 
shown harassing a Ural owl. G. Stuart 
Keith, who visited the site in 1958, 
advised on the selection and placement 
of the birds. 


The foreground vegetation -- which in- 
cludes cherry trees, red maple, sumac, 
bamboo grass, and poison ivy -- is being 
prepared by Mr. Petersen with the as-~ 
sistance of William E. Fish. These 
accessories are now about 90% completed , 
and their installation will begin in the 
early spring. A pine tree which Ir, 
Petersen brought back from Japan in 
slabbed sections has already been set 
into the exhibit. 


The first group to be installed in 
this Hall was completed in 1927. Rep= 
resenting a site on Barro Colorado Is- 

_ land in the Panama Canal, it was col- 
lected by Dr. Frank Chapman, Francis Lee 


(continued on page 3) 


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(CREDIT UNION, cont'd. from p. 1) 


Schrammel, and Albert Potenza. Serving 
on the Supervisory Committee are 
Catherine Pessino (Chairman), Edward 
Burns, and Larry Pintner,. Kate Swift 
was reappointed Chairman of the Edu- 
cational Committee. 


The AMNH Credit Union was founded in 
January, 1936, when many Museum employ- 
ees, like people everywhere, were suf- 
fering the effects of the depression, 
From the beginning it has been a "boot- 
strap" operation in which members help 
themselves by helping one another. Its 
principle is the pooling of money by 
members for loan to members at low in- 
terest rates. Surplus funds are invested 
and profits are returned to members in 
the form of dividends. While most people 
first join the Credit Union in order to 
borrew money, nearly all members even- 
tually become savers. 


(continued on page 3) 


(JAPANESE BIRD GROUP, cont'd. from p. 2) 


Jaques painted the background and the 
birds and plants were mounted by 
Raymond B,. Potter. The group was a gift 
or Jr. Evan M. Evans, the noted cardi- 
o}.ogist. In the ensuing years, groups 
were collected and installed to show 
the bird life of other major faunal 
areas of the world, including the high 
Ances, the Canadian tundra, southern 
Fngland, the African plains, and 
Australia. The Japanese group, the 
twelfth and last exhibit in the series, 
is a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. 
Sterling. 


GERTSCH HEADS INSECT DEPARTMENT 


Dr. Willis J. Gertsch has been 
appointed Acting Chairman of the Departe 
ment of Insects and Spiders, replacing 
Dr. Mont A. Cazier who has returned to 
Arizona to assume the full-time Resident 
Directorship of the Southwestern Re- 
search Station at Portal. Dr. Gertsch, 
who has been with the Museum since 
1932, is a leading authority on spiders 
and other arachnids. On expeditions in 
the United States, Mexico, and the 
Panama Canal Zone, he has collected 
many thousands of specimens. Altogether 
he has described over 700 new svecies. 
His popular writings have done much to 
dispel mistaken notions about the 
venomous nature of spiders, scorpions, 
and tarantulas. 


APPRECTATION FROM GREATER N.Y. FUND 

The Greater New York Fund, represent- 
ing 425 hospitals and health, welfare, 
and youth agencies, has expressed spe= 
cial thanks to Museum employees for 
their participation in the 1959 campaign. 
Jonn Saunders, Chairman of the Fund 
drive here, reports that $719 was 
collected -- the largest amount ever 
contributed by AMNH employees. 


TRADING POST 


FOR SALE Green Lawson divan in good 
condition, Slip cover in- 
cluded. 10. Abe Kaplan, 
Ext. 460, 


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(CREDIT UNION, cont'd. from p. 2) 


Employees who are not members of the 
Credit Union are urged to join and take 
advantare of its special conveniences: 
painless payroll deductions and trans- 
action of business right in the Museum 
at lunch hours, The Credit Union office 
(Room B=l\9 in the Roosevelt casement) is 
open every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 
(except pay days) from 12 noon to 1 P.j/i, 


DR, RICE RETIRES 


The Planetarium bids a fond farewell to 
Dr. Hugh S. Rice, Research Consultant in 
Astronomy, who retired last month after 
38 years with the Museum and Planetarium. 
Dr. Rice began his association with AMNH 
as staff photographer in 1922. Later, he 
headed the Photography Division where 
many of his pictures remain on file today 
and are in constant use. In 1935 he 
joined the staff of the newly-established 
Planetarium where, over the years, his 
meticulous accuracy in all matters astro- 
nomical has been of incalculable service 
to the sky-watching public. His "Star 
Finder" is a great boon to beginners in 
astronomy, as is "The New Handbook of the 
Heavens" on which he collaborated. His 
many friends throughout the Museum and 
Planetarium miss him and hope that he 
will come back to see them often. 


QUESTIONS OF LANGUAGE 


Larry Pintner =~ who, as Chief of 
Office Services, handles some of the 
Musevm's funniest correspondence <= re-= 
ceived a letter the other day requesting 
"liturey on fishing for fun and equipment 
used to catch them." ...A 7-year-old 
visitor to the Natural Science Center 
wanted to know if the skunk had been 
"defumigated"...eKay Kennedy (Pub. Rel.) 
answered a query from a fourth grader who 
wondered why we call ourselves a MVSEVM 
on the 77th Street facade. The ex= 
planation: Classic Roman lettering was 
in fashion in the 19th Century when the 
building was designed. 


When you need an electrician, 
plumber, painter, carpenter, 
mason, mechanic -= please don't 
call the shops. Call Emil Kremer's 
office. 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Consolidated Edison, while laying a new 
duct for electrical service on Wards Is- 
land recently, uncovered a harpoon and a 
number of bones, The harpoon was rec- 
ognizable, but speculation about the bones 
ran the gamut from Moby Dick's skeleton, 
to Neanderthal Man, to an escaped convict 
who did'nt make it across the East River. 
The specimens were turned over to our 
Department of Mammals for identification. 
Regretfully, the mammalogists had to 
inform the "archaeologists" from Con 
Edison that the bones belong to our good 
friends the cow, the sheep, and the sea 
turtle. 


Eugene Eisenmann (Birds) is doing field 
work in Panama this month, While there he 
hopes to work with Dr. Alexander ‘etmore 
of the Smithsonian Institution. 


Joan Gordan (Veg. Studies), who has 
been on a leave of absence for several 
months because of illness, dropped in at 
the "Grapevine" office to say hello the 
other day. Those who are familiar with 
her past work on bibliographies and 
indexes for scientific publications will 
be happy to know that she is now avail- 
able to undertake assignments of this 
nature on a part-time basis. If you need 
the services of an excellent bibliographer, 
you can reach Mrs. Gordan at TRafalgar 3- 
5853, or drop a note to her at the 
Vegetation Studies office, 


Newest AMNH resident of Tenafly, N.J. is 
Katharine Beneker (Exhib.) who moved into 
her newly=purchased abode -= a barn-red 
shingled house with two-car garage -- on 
January 29. 


Harry Tappen (Bldg. Serv.) and Al 
Hansen (Paint Shop) were the purveyors of 
some heart-warming international relations 
while working on the Planetarium renova= 
tions last month, One of the Zeiss 
technicians from Germany, who was here 
to install the new projector, was climbe 
ing arduously over and around the in= 
strument one morning when his wallet 
slipped, unnoticed, from his pocket. It 
contained among other things, $250 in 
hard-earned cash. The young man, who 
spoke almost no English, spent an anxious 
time assuming he would never recover his 
money. He was thrilled when the wallet 
was returned to him, contents intact. His 
favorite English expression is now "THANK 
YOU" «— addressed to Messrs. Tappen and 


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Hansen, whose reply is "bitte schcn, 
es macht nichts." 


Dr. Harry L. Shapiro (Anthro.) and 
Ruth Norton (Pub. Rel.) attended the 
Seminar for Science Writers held at Gould 
House, Ardsley, New York early this month, 
Dr. Shapiro addressed the group of 2) 
newspaper men and women, who came from all 
over the country, on the subject "Social 
Change In Modern Culture," His comments 
evoked great interest from the press group, 
Miss Norton reports. After the formal 
session, Dr. Shapiro and Miss Norton 
joined the writers at dinner for a useful 
exchange of ideas and views on the re- 
porting of scientific developments in the 
popular press, The Seminar, conducted by 
New York University, was sponsored by a 
National Science Foundation grant as part 
of the program to create better public 
understanding of science. 


Leonard J. Brass (Mammals) returned 
late in January after nine months in New 
Guinea where he headed the Sixth Archbold 
Expedition to that area, He spent ten 
days here before traveling south to his 
regular base of operations, the Museum's 
Archbold Biological Station in Florida, 
He'l1 be back at the end of February for 
the arrival of the expedition's collec- 
tions. Due to return at about the same 
time is Hobart M. Van Deusen, mammalogist 
on the expedition, who has been studying 
mammal collections in Australian museums 
for the past several weeks. Preliminary 
reports indicate that the latest endeavor 
in the Museum's long-term biological 
survey of New Guinea has been one of the 
most successful yet. 


Apologies to Sam Kuster (Bldg. Serv.) 
and his wife Goldie whose wedding anni-~ 
versary last month was incorrectly re= 
ported as their 30th, when in fact it was 
their 37th. 


DR. ZWEIFEL AND THE SAFETY BELT 


Dr. Richard G,. Zweifel (Amphs. & Reps.) 
may owe his life to a safety belt. Re- 
covering from a broken nose suffered in 
an automobile accident last month, he 
credits his narrow escape from more seri- 
ous injuries to the fact that he was 
wearing a safety belt. We wish Dr. 
Zweifel a speedy recovery (and, at the 
same time, urge all our colleagues to 
equip their cars with safety belts.) 


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EBA ANNUAL REPORT 


At the annual meeting last month of the 
imployees' Benefit Association, Retiring- 
President Mildred Parmenter Randino re- 
xorted that EBA membership now stands at 
528. The organization's year-end balance 
gas $1,065.50 in death benefit funds and 
$162.37 in general funds. Mrs. Randino 
reviewed the EBA's 1959 activities which 
included two dinner dances and the fifth 
annual Children's Christmas Party. She 
also reviewed the developments that led 
to the transfer of sponsorship of the 
"Grapevine" from the EBA to the Adminis- 
tration, 

Other highlights from the report: The 
surplus of gifts purchased for the 
Children's party was donated to a neigh= 
borhood church for distribution to under- 
privileged children. A television set has 
been given to the EBA by lirs. Josephine 
D. Kimball, and is available in the 
Association's meeting room for all members 
to use at their discretion. The Adminis- 
tration continued its appropriation of 
$750 to help finance the social and 
athletic activities of the EBA. 


Mrs. Randino expressed her personal 
thanks "to the Officers and Directors of 
the EBA for making my year as President a 
most enjoyable one." She wished every 
success to the new Officers: President-= 
Catherine Pessino; Vice President - Kath- 
arine Beneker; Treasurer + George Floegel; 
and Secretary - Marie Praitano, In con- 
clusion the report noted the election to 
the Board of Directors (for 3-year terms) 
of Dorothy Fulton, Albert Potenza and 
Mildred Randino, 


LOW COST FLIGHT TO EUROPE 


The low cost flight to Europe, for 
Museum employees and their families, is 
still on -- tentatively. The round-trip 
has gone up slightly, to about ‘260, still 
a great saving over the regular economy 
flight at $500. Fence-sitters must make up 
their minds immediately as the Museums 
Council will decide this month whether or 
not to schedule the flight. Tentative 
dates are: departure - August 10, return - 
September 17. If you are interested, 
please call Dr. Stephen Kayser, Curator 
of the Jewish Museum, who is handling 
arrangements. Telephone SA 2-282, and 
do it now} 


5. 


TWO UNION LOCALS MERGE 


Two AMNH locals of the American Feder-~ 
ation of State, County, and )lunicipal 
Employees have voted to amalgamate into 
one unit. The decision, made in December 
and legally consummated last month, brings 
together Local 150) (representing super- 
visors and foremen) and Local 1559 
(clerical, technical, and professional 
personnel). 


At their first post-merger meeting on 
January 25, the members of the combined 
unit (which is designated Local 1559) 
elected the following officers: President - 
Walter Joyce; Vice President ~ Dorothy 
Fulton; Secretary ~- Helen Jones; Treasurer - 
Mary McKenna. Marie Praitano, Robert Daly, 
and Louis Monaco were elected trustees of 
the Local. 


KUDOS 


"Astronomy For You," a series of 13 
half-hour television programs starring 
James S. Pickering of the Planetarium, 
received a Sylvania Television Award last 
month. The program, which appeared on 
Channel 11 in New York this past fall, was 
produced in film in the summer of 1958 by 
the Metropolitan Educational Television 
Association in cooperation with the 
Planetarium. Sponsored by the National 
Educational Television and Radio Center, 
it has been shown on TV stations through- 
out the country. 


"Experiments In Sky Watching," a book 
for young amateur astronomers, written by 
Dr. Franklyn M. Branley with illustrations 
by Helmut Wimmer (both of the Planetarium), 
has received the Edison Award for the 
best children's science book of 1959. The 
book, published by Thomas Y. Crowell 
Company, is for boys and girls of 12 
through 15 and may be purchased at the 
Planetarium Book Corner. The Edison 
Awardsfor outstanding books are made 
annually by the Thomas Alva Edison 
Foundations 


WEDDING BELLS 


Vladimir Walters and Lisa Hamilton (both 
Fish, Dept.) became Dr, & Mrs. on Jan. 30 
at the Mill Brook Church, Millbrook, N.Jd. 
They!11 be back at the Fish Lab after a 
wedding trip in Florida, Feb. 13th is the 
happy day for Fred Schulze (Photo Div.) 
and his bride, Mary Fitzpatrick. They will 
be married at Our Lady of Grace Church, 
Hoboken, N.eJ. and will honeymoon in Canada, 


DID YOU KNOW THAT? 


Dr. Stunkard hides his light under a 
bushel of clams. 


(From time to time the "Grapevine" will 
report to you on some of the important -- 
and perhaps lesser-known <= work being 
done by Museum personnel.) 


For the past three summers Dr. Horace W. 
Stunkard (Fishes & Aquatic Biology) has 
served at Woods Hole, Mass., as Research 
Scientist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, studying parasites of soft- 
shelled clams and their predators. This 

is an important aspect of research lead-= 
ing eventually, it is hoped, to biological 
control of green crabs and horseshoe 

crabs which have virtually wiped out the 
soft-shelled clam industry in New England. 
Dr. Stunkard will continue his work at 
Woods Hole during the coming summer, 


FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW PLACES 


Walter Koenig, who replaces George 
Nelson as Chief of the Planning Division, 
has moved to new quarters in the re= 
modeled conference room on the second 
floor approach to the power house, The 
conference room has been divided into 
three smaller rooms, two of which have 
been assigned to Paul Grouleff, our new 
Plant Manager. Messrs. Koenig and Joseph 
Guerry occupy the last office on the 
left -- before the hall turns right. 


Upstairs in the power house, Alec 
Williams has replaced Lothar Witteborg as 
Chief of the Exhibition Division. 

Jeanne Lyons, who has just completed 
her fourth year with the Main Library, 
moves to Geology and Paleontology as 
Scientific Assistant as of March 1, She 
will be sorely missed by her Library 
colleagues but, happily, her new office 
Will be just down the hall. 


DISCOUNT TICKETS 

Larry Pintner, Office Services, has a 
number of discount tickets for Broadway 
plays, sports events, films, and other 
types of entertainment. Current programs 
that Museum employees can take in at 
discount prices include The Ice Follies 
of 1960 at Madison Square Garden, hockey 
games by the New York Rangers, the 
motion picture "Orpheus Descending," and 
the Broadway musical "Destry Rides Again." 


6. 
NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


Seen around the Museum recently was the 
familiar face of William Schwarting, 
erstwhile teacher in Public Instruction, 
who is now in charge of education at the 
Ft, Worth Children's Museum in Texas. He 
and his wife Carol (also a former AMNH 
teacher) are the proud parents of twins. 
Mr. Schwarting brought us word of Lewis 
Brown (formerly of Exhibition) who is 
getting adjusted to Texas and to his work 
as head of preparation at the Children's 
Museum, 

Mrs. Josephine D, Kimball (formerly Pres. 
Off.) is currently in town for a month and 
has dropped in at the Museum several times, 
Mrs. Kimball and her husband, Richard A, 
Kimball, who was recently appointed 
Director of the American Academy in Rome, 
returned to New York on Academy business 
after a month of settling in to their new 
home in Italy. According to a feature 
story in Rome's English-language daily 
paper, the Kimballs settled in with 
dispatch, A few hours after their arrival 
in Rome by jet, they were entertaining the 
entire contingent of Academy Fellows at a 
reception. Small world post script: the 
feature story was written by Dorothy 
Sandler, who forwarded it to her brother- 
in-law Dr, Harry L. Shapiro (Anthro,), 
who forwarded it to the "Grapevine", 

Fred Mason, former Assistant Chief of 
Exhibition, has been appointed Director 
of the Massachusetts Audubon Society's 
Wachusett Meadows Sanctuary in Princeton, 
Mass. 


Tony Cartossa, who was with Building 
Services for many years, visited us the 
other day. He heads for Florida soon to 
spend several months soaking up the sun 
in the Miami area, We look forward to 
seeing him later on at EBA gatherings 
which he hopes to attend. 


FAREWELL AND GOOD LUCKI 


We are sorry to say so long to two 
stalwart members of Building Services: 
George Van Nest retired on January 15 
after 2) years with the Museum, and John 
Lambert will have completed three decades 
of service when he retires on February 29, 
Both men have seen us through many ups 
and downs, Mr. Van Nest on the Roosevelt 
elevators and Mr. Lambert on the elevator 


If you're interested in any of these, call in the School Service Building, 


Mr, Pintner at ext. 263, 


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VOL. XVII, NO. 2 


MARCH 1960 


AMNHers WEATHER THE BIG SNQV 


It is suggested that you save this 
issue of the "Grapevine" until some 
sweltering afternoon next July -—- then 
get it out and enjoy the blizzard of 
March 3-). 

When the air finally cleared Friday 
morning, the Museum's steps and driveways 
were buried under about 15 inches of 
snow, with drifts considerably higher, 
and a good proportion of our loyal 
colleagues had battled their way in to 
work, Visitors were not quite as brave, 
however; the 878 who showed up that day 
at the Museum and the 167 at the 
Planetarium constituted just about the 
smallest attendance in memory. The 
preceding night, exactly one person 
arrived to see the sky show at the 
Planetarium, But true to tradition, the 
show went on. (Fortunately, a group 
of City College students, present for 
a special lecture at 7 p.m., remained 
to see the regular sky presentation.) 


A scheduled dinner program Thursday 
night in the Museum for members of the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute went 
off without a hitch -= thanks to the 
efforts of Anne Montgomery (who came in 
with a raging fever to direct the 
arrangements), the Globe Canteen (which 
was prepared to serve 250 expected 
guests, of whom 138 made it) and Harry 
Tappan and Ed Teller (who moved a 
mountain of snow to make the 77th Street 
entrance accessible.) Mr. Tappan was 
at the wheel of the Museum's handy snow 
plow when it bogged down in the deep 
drifts, but Mr. Teller came to the 
rescue with a good old-fashioned shovel 
and dug the mechanized operation out. 


(continued on page 2) 


DIRECTOR EMERITUS ANDREWS DIES 


Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, Director of 
this Museum from 1935 to 191 and a member 
of our staff for 35 years, died of a heart 
attack in Carmel, Calif., on Friday, March 
11. He was 76 years old. 


Dr. Andrews, a native of Beloit, Wis., 
came to New York at the age of 22 with 
$30 in his pocket and took a job as a 
cleaner at the Museum. In the succeeding 
years he worked his way up in the 
scientific staff and became world-famous 
as an explorer, naturalist, and prolific 
writer. As leader of the Museum's Central 
Asiatic Expeditions, he headed the famous 
Gobi Desert Expedition of 1922 -— made up 
of forty men, eight automobiles, and 150 
camels <= wnich uncovered the first dino= 
saur fossils ever found in that region. 


In his letter of resignation as Museum 
Director in 191, he wrote, "I shall hope 
to maintain close relations with the 
Museum and continue to serve it in other 
ways as long as I live.eeel have had the 
finest possible support and the most 
cordial relations with the Board of Trus- 
tees and the Scientific and Administrative 
Staffs, many of whcm have become my most 
valued personal friends," 


On its editorial page last Sunday, The 
New York Times said, “Roy Chapman Andrews 
was one of those supremely fortunate men 
who know exactly what they want to do in 
the world. He wanted to be a naturalist 
and he was one <= one of the best and one 
of the last whose range of knowledge 
spanned the earth...-Now, at the age of 
76, he has gone exploring in vaster 
regions than he knew before. It is hard 
to think of his indomitable spirit as 
ceasing to exist." 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 
Editor: Kate Swift - Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 
Reporters: Accounting, Payroll, Personnel, Purchasing = Catherine V, Mahoney 
Amphibians and Reptiles - Margaret S. Shaw 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 


Anthropology — “James A. Ford 
Birds = Constance D. Sherman 
Building Services and Protection - Victor J, Badaracco, Edward T. )ialley, 


Albert C. Potenza 
Exhibition and Graphic Arts - Katharine Beneker 


Biology - Dorothy E. Bliss 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 


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Membership ~- William F, Somerville 
Micropaleontology + Mary A. McKenna 
Museum Shop — Peter Bujara 
Natural History - Helene J. Jordan 
Office Services - Robert E. Murray 
anetarium - James S. Pickering 
Power Plant = Malcolm Mackay 
Print Shop = Edward A. Burns 
Public Instruction = George A. Crawbuck 
Shops and Shipping = John Erlandsen, Rudolf Bonen, Arthur R. Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection and Sound - Helen B. Jones 


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employees was continuing at a snail's husband by phone shortly after lunch 

pace late into the evening and, in some that he was starting home from his office 

cases, had slowed to a halt. Ann Miller, 18 miles out in New Jersey. He arrived 

sitting on a bus that advanced half a at the Nichols residence on West 65th 

mile in six hours, happened to be Street some eleven hours later. 

carrying a loaf of bread from which she Friday, March th was to have been 

passed out slices to starving fellow moving day for the James A. Oliver family. 

passengers. Her total time en route, With all their worldly possessions packed 

normally 45 minutes, ran a little over for the movers, they lived for three days 
eight hours. Ruth Delaney made it in out of packing boxes before they were able 
_ six hours. After a thorough tour of to shovel their way out of their house in 
____ the West Oth Street area in an Bronxville and into their new home in 
unheated bus that tried every approach Tenafly. 

to the Lincoln Tunnel and failed, she 


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it a couple of miles or more to get to or 


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entrance driveway and blocked the egress 
for large cars. Among the smaller cars 
that were able to squeeze past was Rudy 
Schrammelts. (Braud name withheld to 
avoid possible antagonism of U.S. auto 
manufacturers.) Mr. S. not only sailed 
up the incline to Columbus Avenue, but 
packed six stranded hitch-hikers into 
his midget vehicle on the way home to 
Mt, Vernon. Harold Silverman was less 
lucky. His small foreign car was so 
small that he had some difficulty in 
locating it under a sncw bank. Once 
uncovered, it reauired the weight of a 
good part of the Animal Behavior Depart- 
ment, sitting on its rear, to provide 
sufficient traction to move it. 


Museum President Alexander M. White, 
grounded in Boston, where he had attended 
a dinner at the home of President Pusey 
of Harvard, found the automobile trip 
from Penn Station to his Long Island 
home almost as long as the train trip 
from Boston to New York. Joseph M, 
Chamberlain, grounded in Washington, 
managed to get here in time to deliver 
an evening lecture at the Planetarium. 


Public transportation delays in out- 
lying areas on Friday morning required 
considerable ingenuity on the part of 
our stalwarts who were determined to 
be on the job. Many, like Joe Nullet 
and Betty Nullet, who live in Queens, 
used an old trick: after failing to push 
their way into a dozen jam-packed 
Manhattan=-bound trains, they boarded an 
out-bound train, rode to the end of the 
line, and came back in <= with seats} 
For automobile commuters it was more a 
matter of brawn than brain. Isabel Mount 
and her husband began in the grey dawn 
to shovel out their 150-foot driveway, 
but by noon they were forced to give up 
the prospect of driving into the City. 


Several employees, like Cornelius 
Munic and John Hackett, sustained bumps 
and bruises from slipping on the ice; 
others, like Vic Badaracco and Dot Madsen, 
suffered head colds or sore throats re- 
sulting from wet feet. Fortunately, there 
were no more serious casualties. 

The big snow, and accompanying low 
temperatures, effected at least one 
innovation in men's fashions. Leo Vroman 
wore a hat! It was a Navy watch cap, to 
be sure, but Dr. V. wore it at sucha 
variety of rakish angles that we expect 
the style will sweep the Museum when the 
next big blizzard sets in. 


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PARR PORTRAIT UNVEILED 


A portrait painting of Dr. Albert E. 
Parr, Senior Scientist, commissioned by 
the employees and trustees of the Museum, 
was recently completed and was presented 
to him and Mrs. Parr at a cocktail party 
on Monday, March 14. The likeness of 
Dr. Parr, who served as Museum Director 
for 17 years, was painted by the American 
portrait artist Willard Cummings. In it, 
Dr. Parr is seated and wearing academic 
robes. The painting will hang for several 
weeks in the Staff Restaurant after which 
it will grace the Parr home for the 
enjoyment of family and friends. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


The Administration has been advised by 
the Bureau of the Budget that ten po- 
sitions in the title of Museum Attendant 
and Senior Museum Attendant have been 
changed to the title of Museum Technician, 
and one Museum Assistant to that of 
Senior Clerk, These changes will be 
submitted to the Board of Estimate as a 
resolution for adoption on March 2). The 
new positions call for upgradings to 
Grade 8 and 7 respectively. 


Checks for retroactive pay were de- 
livered last payday to six Museum employ- 
ees in the titles of Supervising Clerk, 
Senior Clerk, and Senior Attendant. This 
happy action resulted from a readjustment 
by the Board of Appeals of the original 
desk audit evaluations concerned, 


The Administration reports further that 
it has been advised of a Determination 
increasing the hourly rates of the titles 
of Stationary Engineer, Stationary Firemar 
and Oilere The Museum is now awaiting 
modification of the City Budget in order 
to prepare payment. 


The many friends of Helen M. Gunz, 
Assistant Librarian, bade her a fond fare-« 
well on February 29th at a party given for 
her by her colleagues in the Library and 
attended by some 80 AMNH'ers, Miss Gunz, 
who was a member of the Library staff 
for 2 years, held the post of Assistant 
Librarian from 1935 until her retirement. 
She is planning to keep her hand in with 
occasional work at Fairleigh Dickinson 
Colleve and, happily, she will be coming 
in to the Museum from her home in 
Rutherford, NeJe, now and then to say 
hello. 


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PHOTO DIVISION SHOOTS ECLIPSE 
AMNH Photographers Elwood Logan and 

Alex Rota braved temperatures in the low 
20s for five hours early last Sunday, 
March 13, to photograph the total lunar 
eclipse from the roof of the Park 
Crescent Hotel on Riverside Drive at 
87th Street. The eclipse-watch party, 
headed by Joseph iM. Chamberlain, Plan- 
etarium Chairman, included several press 
photorraphers as well as "Natural 
History" Editor John Purcell and his 
wife; Public Relations Manager Ruth 
Norton, and vour "Grapevine" editor, 
Cloudless skies permitted excellent 
visibility as the full moon, passing 
through the shadow of the earth, assumed 
the strange copper color that can be 
seen Only during a lunar eclipse. The 
photographic record obtained by Messrs. 
Logan and Rota was, as usual, outstanding. 


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It is with sorrow that we report | 
the death of Mrs, Ella B, Ransom 

on February 13, 1960. Mrs. Ransom 

served the Museum with deep 
loyalty and dedication for 
eighteen years as secretary and 
executive assistant to President ~ 

Emeritus F. Trubee Davison, At 

the time of her death she was 

serving as personal secretary to 

Mr. Davison at his home on Long 

Island. Mrs. Ransom's warm and 

sympathetic personality and her 

enthusiasm for the Museum will 
long be remembered by her many 
friends here, 


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EMPLOYEES IN MUSEUM COURSES 


Employees of the Museum may audit 
most evening courses free in classes 
that are not fully subscribed. It is 
requested, hcwever, that persons 
interested call Bruce Hunter, ext. 5, 
in advance, to be sure that courses are 
still open. 


In the workshop course "Japanese 
Flower Arrangement," starting March 17, 
there may still be a place when you 
get this "Grapevine". This series of 
four Thursday evening sessions cannot 
be offered free because of the flower 
costs involved. However, Museum 
employees may take it for {10 instead 
of the usual $20, should there be any 
openings left. 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Paul Goodhouse gets the hot foot: The 
other night our Electrical Chief was 
awakened to find his bed on fire. No, 
he hadn't been smoking; it was a short 
in his electric blanket. 

John Cook (Gen. Account.) who under- 
went a difficult and successful operation 
for cataracts early this month is making 
a good recovery, his wife Alma Cook (Burs, 
Off.) reports. We are thinking of him and 
hoping he'll be back with us very soon, 
Also sorely missed these days are Charles 
O'Brien (Birds) who is convalescing after 
an operation, and John Killalea (Bldg, 
Serv.) who has been ill for several weeks. 


It's good to have Erica Prud'homme 
(Exhib.) back with us again. During her 
year's absence, she and her husband were 
living in Holland, Germany, and Switzer- 
land. Jerry Lanes (Nat. Hist.) is look- 
ing tanned and fit after a brief vacation 
in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, 

More additions to the Museum's Jersey 
clan: Director James A. Oliver and his 
family have moved back to Tenafly for the 
third time (see Snow Story, page 1), and 
Terry Curtin McKnight (Amphibs. & Reps.) 
and her husband have traded Manhattan for 
Ft. Lee, 


Family Affairs: Congratulations to Peter 
Kanyuk (Pow. House) and his wife who 
became the proud parents of a baby girl 
on February 2nd. Carol Lutz (Birds) will 
be leaving us at the end of this month 
to be married in Philadelphia to Ralph 
Flood, and English Literature instructor 
at the University of Pennsylvania. 
Cecile Cwelich (Geo. & Paleo.) became 
engaged recently to S/Sget. Willard L. 
Wood of the Air Force who is presently 
stationed in Florida. They will be 
married in the fall, 


NEW FACES 


George H. Goodwin, Jr., the new 
Librarian who will work in collaboration 
with Hazel Gay, Chief Librarian, comes 
to us from the State University College 
of Education in New Paltz, N.Y. and was 
associated with the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution Library for six years. His varied 
experience in his profession will make 
him a valuable asset here. 


(continued on page 5) 


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(NEW FACES, cont'd. from p. ) 


Cynthia Stenhens, who has joined the 
Planetarium staff as Scientific Assistant, 
was formerly with the Mt. Wilson and 
Palomar Observatories where, as Research 
Assistant, she worked with some of the 
country's foremost astronomers. A Phi 
Beta Kappa from Wellesley with honors in 
astronomy, she also did research at 
Strawbridge Observatory, Haverford 
College. 

Robert J. C. Maul, a new member of 
Geology and Paleontology was formerly 
an interior designer; and Marilyn 
Freilicher who has joined the Vegetation 
Studies office is, at 23, a retired 
school teacher. 


Additional recent arrivals at the 
Museum include Grace Lieder, Animal 
Behavior; Gladys Hartland, Controller's 
Office; Pachin Wandres, Insects and 
Spiders; Nolan Willence, Planning; 
Robert Hill and Robert Batalitzky, both 
Building Services; Florence Klodin, 
Natural History Magazine; Barbara 
Botteri, Planetarivm; Janet Cooper, 
Membership; Robert E. Andreone and 
William P. Hogan, Frick Laboratory; John 
J. Lee, Micropaleontology; and in the 
Electrical Shop, James J. Doyle, Peter 
Maresca, and Conrad Mauer. Also back in 
the Electrical Shop -- to help with the 
sped=up program of bringing light to 
darkened exhibits -- are two familiar 
faces, William Shaw and Joseph "Stitch" 
Krosche who has been with us off and on 
for many years. 


RETIREMENT TEAS 


The recently instituted program of 
afternoon teas, given by the Museum in 
honor of retiring employees, has been 
received with great enthusiasm. Bighty- 
five people attended the tea in the 
Sportsmen's Library, February 25th, 
honoring John J. Lambert and George Van 
Nest, and several photos taken on that 
occasion are now displayed on the 
cafeteria bulletin board. 


While all of us would probably like 
to attend every tea, such a mass 
evacuation of Museum posts would obviously 
be impractical. Therefore, the Committee 
in Charge of Retirement Teas, of which 
Larry Pintner is Chairman, will request 
the retiring employee's department head to 
prepare the guest list. 


5. 
COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Radio messages from the Navy Ice- 
breaker Glacier, on which Dr. Robert 
Cushman Murphy (Birds) is now sailing 
through Antarctic waters, report that 
the ship has explored part of the 
Amundsen Sea where no vessel has ever 
traveled before. Back home in the Bird 
Department, a visitor from Copenhagen, 
Dr. Hans Johansen, is with us for three 
months of research. He is an expert 
on birds of the Arctic and Siberia, 


Marion Carr (Jr. Nat. Hist.) goes to 
Washington at the end of this month to 
take part in the White House Conference 
on Children and Youth. It is a measure 
of her magazine's high prestige that 
Mrs. Carr was invited to participate in 
the work panel that will discuss books, 
magazines, and newspapers and their effect 
on children and youth. 

Dr. Donald Squires (Geo. & Paleo.) has 
returned from a year of field work in New 
Zealand during which he made extensive 
studies of coral reefs. Dr. Willis 
Gertsch and Rudolph Schrammel (both 
Insects) leave this week for a two-month 
field trip in the southwest. They will 
collect spiders in Texas and southern 
California and will also stop at the 
Southwestern Research Station in Arizona, 
Charles M. Bogert and Dr. John Moore 
(both Amphs. & Reps.) left last week for 
Mexico where Mr. Bogert will record frog 
voices near the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 
They will be back at the end of the 
month, For Dr. Moore, the field trip is 
the first of a series on which he will 
collect frogs for embryological studies. 


Dr. Horace Stunkard (Fishes) has re- 
turned from three weeks at the Lerner 
Marine Laboratory in the Bahamas where 
he was seeking, successfully, parasites 
frem the kidney of the octopus. Mrs, 
Stunkard accompanied him on his field trip, 


CIRCUS DISCOUNT TIX 


Discount tickets for Ringling Brothers 
Barnum & Bailey Circus, coming to 
Madison Square Garden at the end of this 
month, are now available from Larry 
Pintner, Office Services. They can be used 
for evening shows only and do not apply 
for admission of children under 12. With 
the discount, the regular $6.50 ticket is 
$4; the regular $4 ticket is $2.90. Those 
under 12 pay + regular price. 


UNNATURAL HISTORY NOTES 


Ed Teller (Bldg, Serv.) tells us of 
three small visitors who were looking at 
the pumpkin in the Warburg Hall. One of 
them remarked that it was not very big. 
The oldest, a lad of about 7, exclaimed, 
"Well, it's grown a lot since I first 
saw it. When I used to come to this 
Museum when I was little, that pumpkin 
was just a teeny weeny thing}" 


The following conversation between two 
visitors as they passed the John 
Burroughs exhibit was overheard by Kay 
Beneker (Exhib.) 


lst Visitor: Say, who was John Burroughs? 


2nd Visitor: John Burroughs? Oh, he 
wrote "Tarzan And The Apes." 


The Administration reports that 
notice of job vacancies in the 
Museum will henceforth be posted 
on Museum bulletin boards in order 
that all present employees may be 
aware of the openings and have the 
opportunity to apply for any which 
might offer an advancement and for 
which they might qualify. 


CHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOP 


Museum people who are parents (or 
aunts, uncles, guardians, godparents, 
etc.) will be interested to know that 
Jacqueline Riseman of the Promotion 
Department conducts a Children's Thea- 
tre Workshop on Saturday mornings at 
her studio a few blocks from the Museum. 
Her classes are divided into age groups 
ranging from 7 to 16. The chief aim is 
to help youngsters discover the fun of 
creating characters and imaginative 
situations. There is also some work in 
scenic design, costumes, and props. Fees 
are very reasonable and a personal 
interview is required for prospective 
students, 

Before Miss Riseman joined the Museum 
staff, she lived in Boston where she was 
active in the Boston Children's Theatre 
doing weekly TV and radio dramas. She 
has taught dramatics at summer camps and 
was the founder and director of a little 
theatre group for Boy and Girl Scouts 
while she was a student at Wellesley, 

(continued at foot of next column) 


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NEWS OF FORMER EMPLOYEES 


A note from Alma O'Connor (formerly 
Bldg. Serv.) tells us that she is enjoy- 
ing the "Grapevine" with its news of her 
many friends at the Museum. Mrs. O'Connor 
is living in Florida where the weather 
has been unusually cool of late -- but, 
like a good Floridian, she reports that 
it is "still very nice, all in all." She 
has recently moved to 1375 Pasadena Ave., 
South, Box 603, St.Petersburg 7. 


James Fowler (formerly Birds) is 
teaching Zoology on a year's appointment 
at Barnard College. He and his wife, 
formerly Peggy Phillips of the Director's 
Office, are living in upper Manhattan 
with their two small sons, 


A card to Marguerite Newgarden from 
the C, Howard Currans reports that they 
are very happy with their new home in 
Leesburg, Fla. Dr. Curran, who retired 
from the Insect Dept. this year, has 
been painting the new house, working 
around the garden and (we can be quite 
sure) stopping to examine whatever Diptera 
happen to be buzzing nearby. 


Betty Emery's many Museum friends were 
delighted when she dropped in to say 
hello the other day. Mrs. Emery, who 
lives in Yonkers, retired two years ago 
after 27 years of attending to our aches 
and pains as AMNH nurse, 


TRADING POST 


Will sell ,.22 caliber Ruger blue steel 
9-shot automatic complete with two clips 
and leather holster. Fine target or col- 
lector's gun. $25.00. Call Bill Burns, 
Ext. 212, 


Apartments: Summer sublets, in the 
Hunter College vicinity, are needed for 
teachers who will be attending a teaching 
institute at Hunter July 1 - Aug. 2. If 
interested, call Bruce Hunter (no relation 
to the College, just a friend) at Ext. lh5. 
Meanwhile, if you know of someone looking 
for a summer sublet on the west side, Mr. 
Hunter's apartment, one block from the 
Museum, will be available for July & Aug. 
Reasonable rent. 


If you are interested in learning 
more about the Children's Theatre Work-= 
shop, call Miss Riseman at Ext. 320 during 
lunch hour, or at home, EN 2-0778, 


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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 3 


APRIL 1960 


CAMERA CLUB TO EXPLORE NiW GUINEA 


"Exploring New Guinea" is the general 
title of a series of three illustrated 
talks which the Camera Club plans to 
offer its members and other employees of 
the Museum. Each talk will feature a 
different speaker. All meetings are 
scheduled for Room 26 at 12 noon, with 
the speaker commencing his talk 

promptly at 12:15. It is expected that 
all talks will end by 1 o'clock, Each 
member of the audience is requested to 
bring his lunch (including coffee or 
tea) and to try and consume it by 

12:15 so that the talk can begin. 

Dates are as follows: April 27 = 

Dr. E. Thomas Gilliard, speaking on 
"Birds of New Guinea" — illustrated with 
motion pictures; May 18 ~ Hobart Van 
Deusen, discussing "Nammals of New 
Guinea" ~- illustrated with Kodachromes. 
It is hoped that Leonard Brass can be 
induced to be the third speaker in 

June, and that he will give an illustra- 
ted talk on "Exploring for Plants in 

New Guinea," More information on this 
will appear when plans are definite. 


The Camera Club also announces that 
annual dues have been abolished. It 
is now the policy of the Club that any 
emplovee of the Museum who wishes to 
join can do so without payment of dues. 
He need only communicate his wish to 
the President or Secretary of the Club, 


Officers of the Club are: President ~ 
William ifussig; Vice President - Joseph 
Sedacca; Secretary = Nancy Gahan; 
Treasurer = Mary McKenna; Chairman of 
the Executive Committee - Dorothy 
Fulton; Chairman of the Program Come 
mittee - Dorothy Bliss. 


DR. MURPHY BACK FROM ANTARCTICA 


Down at the bottom of the world, where 

the bleak white shore of Antarctica meets 
the Amundsen Sea, there is a 7300-foot 
mountain called Mt. Murphy. Named by IGY 
scientists four years ago in honor of 
Robert Cushman Murphy, the mountain and 
its famous namesake met for the first time 
this year. 


Dr. Murphy, Lamont Curator Emeritus of 
Birds and Research Associate of the Bird 
Department, returned at the end of March 
from a two-month tour of duty as zoologist 
with "Operation Deep Freeze," the U.S. 
government's antarctic research project. 
He was one of nine scientists invited by 
the National Science Foundation to take 
part in the project. Their ship, the 
Navy's newest icebreaker Glacier became 
the first vessel ever to reach the coasts 
of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas. 


Using the ship as a base of operations, 
Dr. Murphy explored the shore and coastal 
waters by launch, helicopter, and on foot, 
making extensive observations of penguins, 
seals, whales and other animal inhabitants, 
He was particularly interested in the 
factors that control the distribution of 
species in the pack ice and along the 
Antarctic Convergence. 


The expedition, which was to have con- 
tinued through April, was cut short when 
the Glacier was sent to the rescue of an 
Argentinian ship caught in the ice. 
Unfortunately, from the scientists! point 
of view, the emergency occurred just as 
the Glacier reached the most interesting 
area of its explorations. (And then the 
Argentinian ship extricated itself before 


the rescuers arrived). 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor: Kate Swift - Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 


Reporters: 


a vior = yn Shaw 
Anthropology - James A. Ford 


Birds = Constance D. Sherman 


Accounting, Payroll, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine V. Mahoney 
Amphibians and Reptiles - Margaret 5. Shaw 
Animal Beha Evely: 


Building Services and Protection - Victor J. Badaracco, Edward T. Malley, 


Albert C. Potenza 


Exhibition and Graphic Arts - Katharine Beneker 


snes an 


Fish d Aquatic Biology - 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 


Geology and Palecntolo 


Dorothy E. Bliss 


Robert Adlington 


- G. 
Spiders - ae Adlington 


Insects and 

Library = Olga Smith 
Mammals = T. Donald Carter 
hembership 


- William F. Somerville 


Microplaeontology = Mary A. McKenna 
Museum Shop = Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene J. Jordan 
Office Services = Robert E, lfurray 


netarium —- J 
Power Plant - Malcolm Mackay 
Print Shop - Edward A. Burns 
Public Instruction = George A 
Shops and Shipping = John Erl 


ames S. Pickering 


- Crawbuck 
andsen, Rudolf Bonen, Arthur R. Schaefer 


Slides, Films, Photography, Projection and Sound = Helen B. Jones 


The handsome sketch of the Museum's 77th Street facade that graces our cover 


each month is the work of Phyllis Morse, 


Graphic Arts. 


(DR. MURPHY, continued from p. 1) 


Temperatures along the antarctic coast 
ranged from about 7° to 1),° F., Dre 

Dr. Murphy reports. Although he was 
equipped with heavy polar clothing, he 
was usually able to work in a nylon 
Wind-proof suit. Among the items he was 
required to take along were "chopper- 
liner gloves, fishnet drawers, and 
waffle undershirts."" On first looking 
over the list, he wondered when he was 
supposed to wear what. (The waffle 
undershirts turned out to have a weave 
that resembles a breakfast waffle, and 
they are so comfortable that he's still 
wearing them). 


As for life aboard the 8600-ton Glacier, 
Dr. Murphy reports that his accommo= 
dations were luxurious, a cabin steward 
attended to his every wish, he had fresh 
laundry daily, and the ship's food was 
superb. Quite a change from the 382-ton 
whaling brig Daisy on which he made his 
first expedition to the subantarctic re= 
gions forty-eight years ago. 


OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN 


That low cost flight to Europe for Museum 
employees and their families is still a 
possibility. Although deadlines, now 
past, were reported in earlier "Grapevines", 
a new flight plan has been tentatively 
scheduled and the number of applications 
is now approaching the figure required 
for definite scheduling of the flight. 
Dates would be: departure - August 20, 
return = September 20; round trip cost - 
$258. Dr. Stephen Kayser of the Jewish 
Museum is handling the arrangements for 
the Museums Council. If you want to sign 
on, call him at once. SA 2-21;82. 


IMPORTANT REMINDER 


Employees who wish to carry over unused 
annual leave allowance must conform with 
the rules found on page 12 of the 
General Regulations, A form for this 
purpose may be obtained from the 
Personnel Office. 


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JCHN KILLELEA 


Nearly everyone who comes to this 
Museum regularly knew John Killelea, 

As a Senior Attendant, he was frequently 
on the main doors, and he was a big man 
in stature and in spirit -- the kind of 
man one remembers. Although he had been 
home for several weeks with arthritis, 
his sudden death from a heart attack 
last Thursday, March 31, was a great 
shock to his close friends and cole 
leagues in the Museum. He is survived 
by his wife, the former Julia Cronin, 
whom he married in 1919. 


Born in County Roscommon, Ireland, he 
came to this country as a young man and 
did combat service with the U.S. Arny 
Infantry in France during World War I. 
He started working at the Museum as a 
night watchman in 1937. Both on and off 
the job, his outstanding characteristic 
was generosity. As one of his 
colleagues put it, "He would do just 
about anything for anybody." His fellow 
employees and the Museum Trustees who 
came to know him well over the years 
will miss him very much, 


iMUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


The upgrading of ten positions in the 
titles of Attendant and Senior 
Attendant to the title of Museum Teche 
nician has been approved by the Board 
of Estimate, and this week the Budget 
Director approved modification of the 
1959-1960 Budget to reflect the up- 
grading. This action finally achieves 
the recognition for which the Museum 
has been pressing since the Career and 
Salary plan was started, an equal grade 
for all personnel on City Payrolls in 
the various scientific departments, 


OUR FAR=FLUNG MEMBERS 


Membership Secretary William A. Burns 
just received a letter from one 

Lt. Robert B. Connolly of the USS SARGO, 
a nuclear-powered submarine on duty in 
the Arctic, who writes: "SARGO has just 
become the third vessel ever to reach 
the North Pole. I thought you would 
like to know that the Museum is 
represented by an Associate Member!" 


36 
CREDIT UNION REPORTS 


As this "Grapevine" goes to press, the 
records of our Credit Union have just been 
audited by an examiner from the Bureau of 
Federal Credit Unions. As of Feb, 28, 
1960, our total assets amounted to 
$168,752.23; members! shares amounted to 
$154,930.46; and outstanding loans to 
members stood at $1)6,20).33. The Credit 
Union is still able to hold the low 
interest rate on loans to 2/3 of 1%, which 
is lower than that of any commercial 
lending agency in the N.Y. area, 


In January we reported that according to 
the revised By-Laws adopted by the CU 
Board of Directors, dividends may hence~ 
forth be declared semi-annually, For the 
present the Board has decided to retain 
the annual dividend. If, in the future, 
it is decided that dividends should be 
paid semi-annually, the membership will 
be notified. 


CU members, please note: The Supervisory 
Committee will be sending verification 
forms to some of you this month, Please 
sign and return them as soon as possible 
in order that the Committee may be sure 
that your account record is accurate and 
up-to-date. 


IT'S TERMITE TIME 


The season has arrived when anxious 
householders are rushing to their phones 
to call John Pallister (Insects) with 
queries about those curious flying 
insects that are dropping their wings on 
floors and shelves. Letters are also 
arriving daily containing specimens of 
the insects for identification. This is 
the time of year, Mr. Pallister explains, 
when the termites are making love. The 
males and females, out on their nuptial 
flights, are usually the only evidence 
of an infestation in the woodwork, The 
workers, who avoid daylight, stay busy 
inside the wood eating out the center. 
One species of termite is quite common 
in the New York area, and a colony when 
once established can do considerable 
damage to a home. Termites are no 
respecters of persons and have been 
known to attack the homes of people who 
work in natural history museums. If 
you run across some small wing-dropping 
creatures in your living room, your best 
bet is to call the exterminator, 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Slug tem, Maggie} Due to a slight 
misplacement of type in the mimeographed 
schedule of lectures and meetings held in 
the Museum on March 30, it appeared that 
one of our best-natured Senior Instruc- 
tors had suddenly turned belligerent. 
The line in question read "2:00 P.M. = 
Film Program for Adults - Fighting Miss 
Newgarden." (The descriptive adjective 
was part of a film title and belonged on 
the line below.) 


Like all of us, Ann Thropus is finding 
the Museum's new Directory and 
Telephone Book very useful, and is 
grateful to Dr. William A, Burns for 
having compiled it. Although she is a 
very long-term employee, Miss Thropus 
has not yet completely learned her way 
around the building, and there are still 
a number of employees whom she doesn't 
know personally. (For the benefit of 
those who don't know her, Miss T. was 
occupying a small house on this 
property when President Grant laid the 
cornerstone for the first building. 
Because she refused to move, the Museum 
was more or less built around her.) 
With the help of the new Directory, she 
has (1) learned that the Institute of 
Intercultural Studies can be reached on 
extension 85, (2) discovered how to get 
to Micropaleontology, and (3) finally 
found out the name of the handsome man 
who sits in an office she passes every 
day on her way to lunch. 


Elinor White (formerly Exhib, Dept.) 
was married on March 19 to George G. 
Montgomery, Jre A number of her Museum 
colleagues who attended the wedding 
report -- to the surprise of no one -- 
that she was a beautiful bride....Judie 
Schwartz (Pub. Rel.) was hostess to a 
group of Museum people who attended the 
opening March 28 of a show of paintings 
by her artist husband, Daniel Schwartz, 
The paintings, all on a sports theme, 
will be on view at the Davis Galleries, 
231 E. 60th St., through April 16. All 
AMNH'ers are invited to drop in. 


Travellers:.: Connie Sherman (Birds), 
back from a week in South Carolina, 

is wearing a touch of southern spring- 
time -- pink camellias....Angelina 
Messina (Micro.) is sporting a lovely 


he 


tan after ten days of beachcombing on a 
small island off the Florida coastece. 
Gordon Reekie (Exhib.) is about to board 
a United Fruit Company freighter bound 
for Panama where he will go through the 
Canal. He promises to bring all of us 
bananas, 


If Gladys Schroeder (First Aid) doesn't 
write a book about her tour of Mexico, it 
will be everybody's loss. Our intrepid 
nurse spent four weeks south of the 
border, travelling 12 to 1) hours a day 

by bus, and visiting Indian villages and 
ruins from the Gulf coast to the Pacific. 
A lone traveller, she eschewed the beaten 
paths and tourist attractions and rarely 
saw another U.S. citizen. Although she 
spoke little Spanish, she made friends 
everywhere, communicating by sign language 
and pictures. One Indian family with whom 
she stayed adopted her. But accommodations 
were not always easy to find. A beautiful 
and uninhabited beach on the west coast 
offered only a small hut which she shared 
over night with a number of chickens, 
goats, and pigs from a nearby village. 


Dr. Herndon Dowling (Amps. and Reps.) 
returned recently from Trinidad with a 
bushmaster snake which he will use for 
research on the conditions under which 
bushmasters live. The bushmaster is the 
largest venemous snake in the western 
hemisphere. 


Kenneth Chambers (Pub. Inst.) wishes to 
thank his many Museum friends for their 
kindnesses to him during his hospital- 
ization. We hope that by the time you 
read this he'll be home from the hospital 
and well along the road to recovery. 


Our colleagues at the Museum switchboard 
are having some trying times these days. 
Honnie Scharf is on leave for some weeks 
in order to take a needed and well-earned 
rest. And as of last weekend, Marge 
McGoldrick is laid up with bronchial 
and pleural pneumonia at St. John's 
Hospital in Long Island City. Marie 
Praitano was at the board alone the other 
afternoon when a reporter for this column 
stopped by to say hello. Miss Praitano, 
beset by a steady flow of incoming and 
outgoing calls, was able to return the 
greeting only with a nod of her head. 
Helping out at the board part time during 
this difficult period is John Hackett. 
and Frances Black is temporarily 
(continued on page 5) 


(HEARD IN PASSING, cont'd, from p. h) 


replacing Miss Scharf, Considering the 
increased load of business in recent 
years, our telephone operators have 
been doing a heroic job. Under the 
present circumstances, it behooves all 
of us to lighten their load whenever 
possible ° 


A hearty welcome to Regina Wimmer who 

arrived, not entirely unexpectedly, on 
March 11 at the home of Helmut Wimmer 

(Planet.) and his wife Francie. 

Regina weighed in at 74 pounds and is 

doing nicely. 


FAREWELL & GOOD LUCK! 


Senior Attendant Edward V. Lyons 
retired on March 3lst after 2) years of 
service with the Museum. For the 

past several years he has been keeping 
a watchful eye on the treasures of the 
Gem Hall. Richard Pankanin (An. Behav.) 
also left us last month to take a 
Civilian job with the United States 
Army. He had been at the Museum for 

18 yearse 


ATTENTION, ALL E,B.A. MEMBERS 


The Employees! Benefit Association 
Wishes to bring its files up to date, 
Kindly fill in the form at the bottom 
of this page. Cut it out along the 
lines in order that the form will fit 
in a 3 x 5 card file. Send it to E.B.A. 
Secretary Marie Praitano, Office 
Services, Please do it nowl 


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DEFINITELY NOT GREEN CHEESE 


A few days ago Elon Pollick, 8, of Jersey 
City, paid a visit to the Planetarium with 
his Boy's Club, So, incidentally, did 750 
other young people in various groups. In 
the normal brouhaha of exodus from a 
Planetarium performance, Elon lost touch 
with his group. Using his head, he 
reported his predicament to the Box Office 
where Sophie Milkowska was on duty. When 
it was sadly certain that Elon's group 

had gone off without him, Sophie got to 
work. First, she called the boy's mother 
and announced that Elon was all right, but 
that the group had gotten lost. Then she 
put in a call to the headquarters of the 
Club, which sent an emissary all the way 
back from Jersey City to reclaim the 
missing member, 


Meanwhile, Elon was living it up. He and 
Sophie had a light snack and toured the 
behind-the-scenes regions, and the lad 
was reluctant to leave when the Club 
representative turned up to claim him, An 
exchange of vital statistics disclosed 
that Elon's father was a baker in Jersey 
City. 


The next day Mr. Pollick came to the Box 
Office with a large elaborately wrapped 
package for Sophie and a wealth of 
paternal gratitude. The package turned 
out to be a cake designed to represent 
the surface of the moon <= complete with 
craters, maria, rills and peaks. On it 
was a rocket poised for take-off. The 
sides of the cake were a delicate blue, 
and the inside was delicious. The entire 
staff of the Planetarium shared in the 
grateful beneficence of Elon's father, 
with Sophie as a beaming hostess, 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 


DR. LIBBIE HYMAN TO BE HONORED 


One of the highest honors in the field 
of biological research will be awarded 
to Dr. Libdbie Hyman, Department of 
Fishes and Aquatic Biology, when she 
flies to England late this month to 
receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean 
Society of London. Dr. Hyman, this 
country's foremost authority on inverte- 
brates, has been engaged for nearly 
thirty years in the preparation of a 
monumental treatise titled "The Inverte- 
brates". Five volumes have already 
been published and she is now workirz on 
Volume 6, When completed, the study. — 
will be the most comprehensive treatment 
of its subject ever published, 


Dr. Hyman's reputation is such that 
there is a regular stream of pilgrimages 
to her office on the Museum's fifth 
floor, both by professional zoologists 
from all over the world and by college 
students who use her textbooks. Five 
years ago she received the Daniel Giraud 
Elliot Medal of the National Academy of 
Sciences. The Linnean Gold Medal, which 
she receives this month, has been 
awarded annually since 1888 to a 
zoologist or botanist who has made 
outstanding contributions to man's 
knowledge of the fauna or flora of the 
world. 

MUSEUM DOING NEW RADIO SHOW 


A new series of radio programs, produced 
jointly by AMNH and Station WRCA, went 
on the air this past Sunday and will 
continue to be heard each Sunday at 
2:05 P.M. on WRCA, Titled "Journey Into 
Nature", the series will cover tcpics 
with which the Museum deals in research, 
exhibition, and education. In each 
program, one or more Museum scientists 
(continued on page 2) 


MAY 1960 


PENSION BENEFITS INCREASED 


For the second time in three years, a 
surplus in the AMNH Pension Fund, resulting 
from the wise investments of the Finance 
Committee, has made possible a general 
increase in benefits for all participants 
in the Pension Plan. In recent months, 
the employee members of the Pension Board 
have been conferring with our actuary in 
an effort to determine the most equitable 
way of increasing benefits. After much 
consideration of various formulas for 
accomplishing this purpose, the actuary 
advised us that a 10% "dividend" method, 
in which each employee would share prow 
portionately, would afford the most equi- 
table distribution of the surplus. 


The Pension Board's resolution, passed in 
March and approved by the Board of Trustees 
at its meeting last month, states that at 
the close of business on June 30, 1960, 

the pension credits of all active employees 
will be increased by 10%, and the pension 
benefits of all retired employees will be 
increased by 10%, 


Personnel Officer Adrian Ward reports that 
each active employee will receive indi- 
vidual notification of his total pension 
credits up to June 30th sometime during 

the coming summer. Retired employees will 
first receive the 10% increase in their 
checks for the month of July, Mr. Ward said. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


In connection with the first stage of the 
conversion of the Museum's electrical 
system from direct current to alternating 
current, the Board of Estimate last month 
adopted a resolution approving the ex- 
penditure of $17,000 for the purchase of 
&C electrical equipment and for the con- 
version of office and shop machines from 
DC to AC. 


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Editor: Kate Swift - Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 


Reporters: Accounting, Payroll, Personnel, Purchasing — Catherine V, Mahoney 
: Amphibians and Rentiles = Margaret 5. shaw 
Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropolory = James A. Ford 
Birds = Constance D. Sherman 
Building Services and Protection ~ Victor J. Badaracco, Edward T. Malley, 
Albert C. Potenza 
Exhibition and Graphic Arts « Katharine Beneker 
Fishes and Aquatic Biology = Dorothy E. Bliss 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Geology and Paleontology = G. Robert Adlington 
Insects and Spiders - Rudolph J. Schrammel 


Library - Olga Smith 
Mammals = T. Donald Carter 


Membership - William F. Somerville 
Micropaleontology ~ Mary A. McKenna 


Museum Shop = Peter Bujara 
Natural History 


- Helene J. Jordan 


Office Services - Robert E. Murray 
Planetarium - James S. Pickering 


Power Plant = Malcolm Mackay 
Print Shop = Edward A, Burns 


Public Instruction - George A. Crawbuck 
Shops and Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolf Bonen, Arthur R. Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection and Sound = Helen B. Jones 


(NEW. RADIO SHOW, cont'd from page 1) 


are interviewed by the NEC newscaster 
and commentator Ken Banghart. 


In the first program, Dr. Edwin H,. 
Colbert, Chairman of the Geology and 
Paleontology Department, discussed the 
rise and fall of the dinosaurs. This 
Sunday, Nay 8, Joseph MN. Chamberlain, 
Planetarium Chairman, will talk about 
the origin of the earth. Among the 
programs to follow is one in which 

Dr. Colin Turnbull, Anthropology, will 
discuss primitive musical instruments 
with reference to the exhibit "Lute, 
Flute and Drum" which opens in the 
Museum's Corner Gallery on May 10, 

The husband and wife ethnology team, 
Dr. Robert Carneiro, Anthropology, and 
Dr. Gertrude Dole, will describe the 
life of the Indians of the Montana 
with reference to the Museum's exhibit 
hall on that subject. The sound 
recordings in the Montana Hall will be 
heard on the program, as will recordings 
prepared for the primitive musical 
instruments exhibit. 


Each program is being taped in advance at 
the Museum. The series is being aired 

on public service time, and the "com= 
mercials" consist of announcements about 
the Museum, new exhibits, and the benefits 
of membership. 


REHIBILITATION PROGRAM UNDERWAY 


Rehabilitation of the Northwest Coast Indian 
Hall is the first step in a new program of 
refurbishing halls not scheduled for major 
renovations. Katharine Beneker is in charge 
of the program which Gordon Reekie, 
Exhibition Manager, describes as "somewhat 
like painting the Golden Gate Bridge -- it 
never stops.""§ The South American Indian 
Hall on the second floor will be the next 
in line, after which others will be 
selected in order of need. The purpose is 
to give a new lease on life to some of the 
older halls which continue to have great 
educational value. 

The Twenty-Five Year Dinner, taking place 
just as this issue went to press, will be 
covered in next month's Grapevine. 


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CAMERA CLUB SERIES CONTINUES 


Mark Wednesday, May 18 on your calendar 
for the second in the Camera Club's 
series of fascinating illustrated talks 
on New Britain and New Guinea. Hobart 
Van Deusen will describe his adventures 
last year in New Guinea as a member of 
the 6th Archbold Expedition to that 
island. All employees are invited to 
come and bring their own lunch. Room 
26 at 12:00 noon. 


Dr. Thomas Gilliard's Camera Club talk 
last month, at which he showed the 
extraordinary color motion pictures he 
took recently in New Britain, was 
attended by a large and very enthusiastic 
audience, 


NEW OFFICERS FOR PVEO 


Members of the AMNH Professional and 
Vocational Employees Organization met on 
April 7 and elected the following offi-- 
‘cers for two-year terms: President - 
Elwood Logan; Vice President - Marjorie 
Muhleman; Secretary - Dorothy Bronson; 
Assistant Secretary - Charlotte Stove; 
and Treasurer - Walter Sorenson. 

Elected to the organization's Board of 
Delegates were Mabel Colahan, Anne 
Giraud, George Krochak, William Mussig, 
and James Turner. The members also 
heard a report by retiring-President 
Edward McGuire on recent activities of 
the PVEO Board and Committees, and 
enjoyed a luncheon of sandwiches and 
coffee. 


FILM RECOMMENDED 


Dr. James P. Chapin (Birds) was one of 
the scientific advisors on a film made 
three years ago in the eastern Belgian 
Congo and now showing at the Palace 
Theater in New York under the title 
"Masters Of The Congo Jungle", This 
nature film, which Dr. Chapin considers 
the finest he has ever seen, was made 
in Cinemascope with color under the 
auspices of a foundation established by 
ex-King Leopold of the Belgians for the 
express purpose of making a great film 
about the native peoples and their 
natural environs in the eastern Belgian 
Congo. The chief photographer was Hans 
Sielmann, famous for his bird films. 


30 


AN OPEN LETTER FROM OAKHURST 


Oakhurst, Calif., is a community of 800 
people. A few weeks back, Ed McCuire 
(Mammals) received a letter from those 
800 people which he felt should be shared 
with all of us. T. Donald Carter supplies 
the following background: 


Among the more colorful guests at the 

Boone & Crockett Club's Annual Awards 
Dinner on Mar. 15 was one Bert Palmberg, 

a trophy-winner (second prize, black bear) 
from Oakhurst. He came in a buckskin coat 
and wide=brimmed hat, with his charming 
wife on his arm, and in the course of 
conversation Don learned that (1) Mr. P., 

a plumber by trade, devotes much time and 
interest to Oakhurst's civic welfare and 
has served, among other things, as the 
local Santa Claus for as long as anyone can 
remember, and (2) the local citizenry had 
chipped in and paid for the Palmbergs' trip 
to New York, As the couple had never before 
visited our city, Ed McGuire served as their 
their host and got them a hotel room over- 
looking Central Park (because they wished 
to stay in the country and close to the 
Museum at the same time.) That Ed made an 
excellent host may be judged from the 
following letter. 


Dear Mr. McGuire: 


As a community, we are most 
grateful to you and your associates 
for the warm and wonderful hospitality 
you extended to our friends, Bert and 
Vi Palmberg, on their recent visit to 
New York. You made their trip a 
memory to cherish, and a source of 
many entertaining hours for all of 
us, as we share their experiences 
through Bert's colorful reports. 


As individuals, we are happy to 
know that people in New York are as 
friendly as people in Oakhurst. And 
we can imagine, knowing our Bert as 
we do, that you must have enjoyed 
playing host, as well. 


We hope to have the opportunity of 
welcoming you to our town someday 
soon. We think you would enjoy our 
community as much as the Palmbergs 
enjoyed yours. We know we would be 
honored and delighted to have you 
visit us. 


With heartfelt gratitude, 
The People of Oakhurst 


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COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Museum President Alexander M. White and 
Mrs. White left from San Francisco by 
jet on May 6 for a ten-day visit to 
Japan. Mr. White is one of nineteen 
American business and financial leaders 
who have been invited by Japanese 
financial and industrial organizations 
to survey that country's business 
recovery. Following their visit, the 
Whites will continue westward, stopping 
in Hong Kong and Bangkok. By the end 

of the month they will be in Rome where 
they will stay a few days with Mr. and 
Mrs. Richard A. Kimball, Mrs. Kimball, 
formerly Executive Assistant to 


Mr. White at the Museum, and her husband 


have been in Italy since December when 
Mr. Kimball took over his duties as 
Director of the American Academy in 
Rome. 


AMNHers who have been following the news 


of the ten-nation disarmament confer-= 
ence in Geneva in recent months have 
been particularly interested in the 
work being done by the chief United 
States delegate, Fredrick M. Eaton, 
who is also First Vice President of the 
Museum. During the current recess of 
the conference Mr, Eaton will return 
briefly to the United States before 
attending the East-West summit talks 
in Paris, after which he will resume 
the negotiations in Geneva. An 
interesting sidelight on disarmament, 
pointed out by Mr. Eaton in a recent 
speech, is that the earliest known 
disarmament talks took place between 
rival groups of Chinese pirates on the 
Yangtze River in the ninth century B.C. 


Marion Carr (Jr. Nat. Hist.) will take 
off soon on a trip to the Shenandoah 
Valley, the Great Smoky Mountains, and 
Cape Hatteras, to talk with rangers 
and collect magazine ideas,...Lili 
Ronai (Micropal.) attended the annual 
meetings of the American Association 
of Petroleum Geologists last week in 
Atlantic City. 


Among the large Museum contingent bound 
for Europe are Ethel Smith (Pres. Off.) 
who leaves this week; Edward Holterman 
(Pow. Plant.) and his wife, departing 
May 13; Dr. Herbert Ruckes (Insects) 
and his wife, leaving on the 18th to 
take in museums in London, Copenhagen, 


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Brussels, Stockholm, Berlin, Vienna, and 
Paris; and Dr. and Mrs. Norman Newell 
(Invert. Paleo.) on the 25th, to visit 
museums, make collections, and attend the 
Geological Congress meetings in Copenhagen, 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Joseph Guerry (Planning) is the creator 
of two interesting large murals displayed 
in the new branch of the Hanover Bank that 
opened last month at Madison Avenue and 
47th Street. Designed and executed by 
Mr. Guerry, the murals are not paintings 
but are fabricated out of various 
materials. One represents early Greek 
coins, the other shows different types of 
objects that are used for money in 
primitive societies, 


Among the many people who miss Alice Gray 
(on leave of absence from Insects for the 
past two years) is a youthful insect 
collector who writes in regularly for 
Miss Gray's leaflets and signs herself 
"Your Fellow Naturalist". Miss Gray, who 
is completing studies for her doctorate 
at the University of California, will be 
back with us this summer...Jennifer 
Chatfield (Pub. Inst.) finished her course 
work for her Ph.D. in anthropology at 
Columbia last month and will be joining 
us again next week following a vacation 
in Puerto Rico. 


Junior Natural History, India, and the 
Scarsdale branch of Rotary International 
seems like an unlikely association, but 
they are cooperating very closely indeed, 
Junior furnishes an article and illus- 
trations from its pages each month to a 
children's magazine called Sunshine, which 
is published in India and distributed to 
school children there. The mailing costs 
are defrayed by the Rotary group. 


The thoughts and very best wishes of all 
her Museum friends are with Louise 
Pedeberdot (Films) who has been in 
Memorial Hospital and will, we hope, be 
at home by the time you read this. A 
bouquet of flowers sent by a group of her 
colleagues were so beautiful, it was 
reported, that they looked like the kind 
of artificial flowers that look real! 


It's good to have Ken Chambers (Pub. 

Inst.) with us again after his long seige 

in the hospital. And welcome back to Tom 

Hogan (Bldg. Serv.) and Marge McGoldrick 
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(Off. Serv.), both of whom had sessions Welcome back to Rudolph Schrammel (Insects), 
in sick bay recently...We're looking just returned from six weeks collecting 
forward to the return of Charlie O'Brien in the southwest and California, and to 
(Birds) and Charlie Falkenbach (Frick Dr. William Barr (also Insects) who has 
Lab.), both making excellent recoveries been studying specimens in Canada, at 

after their operations. Cornell University, and at the Museum of 
Still missing and sorely missed are Comparative Zoology in Cambridge. 

Winnie Cullen (Mus. Shop) who is taking Summer field work in Vertebrate Paleone 

it easy for a while in order to over- tology: Dr. Bobb Schaeffer and Walter 


come acute anemia, and Claire Moynihan 
(Planet.) who is recuperating from a 
serious operation at Harkness Pavilion. 
Hope we'll see them both back on the job 


Sorenson leave for Utah, Colorado, Idaho, 
and Wyoming on May 20th...Dr. Malcolm 
MeKenna and George Whitaker head for 
Colorado on the 27th, 


soon. 

Thomas Smith (Planet.) learned the hard Dr. John Evans, Director of the Australian 
way that the rung of a step ladder was Museum in Sidney, and Mrs, ivans visited 
harder than his toe. He was off his foot US in late April. Dr. Evans conferred 

for a few days, and for a small fee he with numerous members of our staff on 
will exhibit the injured member which matters of scientific interest and museum 


operation...Meanwhile, a member of his 
staff, Dr. Allen Keast, was spending a 
couple of weeks with the Bird Department 
Louis Ferry (Carp. Shop) has learned a while recuperating from a broken leg 
lot of things he never knew about human suffered while he was chasing some very 
nature, having spent part of his vacation pretty ptarmigan on skis in Colorado. 

as a census taker for the U. S. 


is now a classic example of the ultra- 
violet region of the solar spectrum. 


Government...£d Williamson (Nat. Hist. ROBERT SEIBURT RETIRES 
Mag.) is as proud of his new Pontiac “Staa Sen Bais’ Secaiaten 
Station wagon as he would be of a new Robert J. Seibert, General Accounting, 
addition to his family! Speaking of new left us last month to go on terminal leave 
additions, cheers for two couples who preceding his retirement next September. 
have lately joined the golden circle of Mr. Seibert joined the Museum staff in 
grandparents: it's a grandson for 1917. Over one hundred of his friends 
Zoltan Batary (Pow. House) and Mrs. B., and associates gathered on April 29th 
and President and Mrs. Alexander M. to honor him at a tea in the Portrait 
White have a new granddaughter. Room. He and his wife told us of their 
plans for landscaping, gardening, and 
Cicely Breslin Aikman (Planet.) is one interior decorating of their attractive 
of a group of artists whose paintings home in Mahwah, N.J. It sounds like a 
are currently on exhibit at the Peridot lot of fun and we wish them all good 
Gallery, 820 Madison Avenue. The show fortune in the years ahead. 
is titled "American Still Life 
Painting Today," NEW FACES 
The new face in the Membership Section 
REMINDER TO VACATIONERS belongs to Lucille Sprackland. Mrs. Sprack- 
land is the daughter of Victor Badaracco 
If you want your paycheck for your (Bldg. Serv.), by virtue of which fact she 
vacation period before you go away, is also the sister of Marilyn Badaracco 
your application for a salary advance (Guest Serv.). The new secretary to 
must be in the hands of the Personnel Dr. Emerson and Dr. Bliss in the Fish Dept., 
Office two weeks prior to the day you is Phyllis Fish, wife of William Fish of 


Wish to receive your check. (continued on page 6) 


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the Exhibition Department. Other recent 
arrivals on the staff are Adele M,. 
Rothenberg, Birds; David Schwendemen, 
Exhibition; Robert Neilson, Ralph 
Csencsics, and Franklin W. Hoffman,Jr. -- 
all Building Services; Vita De Vita, 
Office Services; and Alexander Holub, 

who is now secretary to Francesca LaMonte 
in the Fish Department, 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


Friends of Margaret Titcomb, formerly 
Library, were delighted to see her during 
her visit here from Honolulu where she 

is Librarian with the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum. 


Charles J. Lang, formerly chief preparator 
in the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, sends 
greetings to his many Museum friends. He 
would like to hear from them. His 

address is 230 Grant Avenue, Farmingdale, 
Long Island. 


Leon Stover and Aalbert Heine, both 
formerly with Public Instruction, had a 
Museum reunion in Corpus Christi Texas 
recently where Mr. Heine is Director of 
the Children's Museum. lir. Stover was 
en route to Mexico for the American 
Anthropological Association meetingsSee. 
Another former instructor, Sally Hobbs, 
is back in this country after a year in 
Germany. Best wishes to her on her 
forthcoming marriage. 


Dr. Helge Larsen, formerly with 
Anthropology, has been visiting friends 
in the Museum during his current visit 
to this country to attend meetings. He's 
now with the Danish National Museum in 
Copenhagen.e 


TRADING POST 


FOR SALE - Electrasteam, electric steam 
radiator, 8 sections, 110 volts, 950 
watts. Peter Kanyuk, ext. 279. 


FOR RENT = Pine-panelled, 3=bedroom house 
on private lake, 2 hours drive from NYC, 
in beautiful wooded hills. Boating, 
fishing, deer, beaver, other assorted 
wildlife. $625 from June 1 until snow 
flies. Jamie Jordan, ext. 73. 


6. 
FAREWELL AND GOOD LUCK 


James J. Flood (Bldg. Serv.) retired last 
month after 28 years of service with the 
Museum. All who ride the Power House 
elevator, which he has operated in recent 
years, will miss his smiling Irish eyes, 


Paul Mason Tilden (Nat. Hist. Mag.) has 
left to become editor of National Parks 
Magazine in Washington, D.C. Mr. Tilden 
came to our magazine from Nature when 

the two magazines merged in January, and 
he has become such a valuable staff 
member that our pleasure in his advance} 
ment is tempered by sadness at his leaving. 
However, he will continue to write the 
"Nature In Rock & Mineral" column for 
Natural History. It's good to know he'll 
still be "part of the family." 


We're sorry to say so long to Marie 
Praitano (Off. Serv.) who resigned at the 
end of April, to Barbara May (Fishes) who 
left to take a position with Eastern 
Airlines, and to Adrian Gagesteyn (Fishes) 
who has moved out to the Aquarium. 


Renate Oehler (Geo. and Paleo.), who was 
recently married to William Corkutt, 
resigns this month. She and her husband 
will take a trip to Germany, after which 
they will live in San Francisco... 
Jeannette Reinhardt (Insects) went to 
work at N.Y.U. last month, both as a 
student and as a secretary in the Biology 
Department. 


TWO REQUESTS TO HOARDERS 


If you receive more inter-office mail 
than you send, please don't store away 
the inter-office envelopes. Return those 
that you don't need to the Office Services 
Division so that other people can use 
them...eAlso, if you are hoarding trays, 
dishes, or silverware from the cafeteria 
in your office, lab, or elsewhere, please 
return them, tout de suite! Thanks, 


Among the business establishments in the 
Museum neighborhood that give discounts 

to AMNH personnel are La Rochelle Drug 
Store, Columbus Avenue at 76th Street, 

and Midway Electric Company on 83rd Street 
between Columbus and Amsterdam. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 5 


JUNE 1960 


LIBRARY IN TRANSIT 


Anyone who has ever moved from one house 
or apartment to another has had the 
problem of packing and transporting 
several dozen or several hundred books, 
But until a couple of weeks ago, few of 
us had ever been involved in the re~ 
location of nearly two hundred thousand 
volumes. Of course, except for Hazel 
Gay and her intrepid staff, most of us 
are not directly involved in this 
prodigious undertaking. However, the 
passer-by who is not enjoying the role 
of sidewalk superintendent on the 
fourth or fifth floor these days is 
rare indeed. 


The moving operation is being handled 
by twenty-three men from Fisher & 
Brother, a concern which describes 
itself as "the world's largest long 
distance movers," In our case, the 
distance is from the fifth floor to 
the fourth floor by way of the 77th 
Street elevators. The stacks are being 
moved section by section, each shelf 
fitting into one box which is labeled 
for its proper destination in the new 
stacks. An ingenious conveyer belt 
system carries the boxes directly 
from the old stacks into the corridor 
through openings in the wall where 
panels have been removed, 


The new Library occupies the fourth 
floorsof the Museum's oldest and 
newest buildings. The offices and 
reading room will be located in the 
space that was once the Petrology Hall, 
while most of the stacks will be housed 
in the adjacent new building. The area 
has been handsomely designed and 
painted in restful colors. It is ex- 
pected that the new Library will open 
for business sometime in July. 


QUARTER CENTURY CLUB DINNER 


Time plays funny tricks. Sometimes it 
goes so slowly you think five o'clock 
will never come and sometimes it goes 

so fast there isn't time to think. For 
Raymond A. Fuller (Bldg. Main.), E. 
Thomas Gilliard (Birds), Stephen W. Knapp 
(Bldg. Serv.), Bailey Lewis (Print Shop), 
and William H. Sherman (Acct. Off.) the 
past twenty-five years has been a little 
of both, but mostly the time has passed 
faster than any of them realized. On 

May 3rd, these five men became members of 
the Quarter Century Club and, as such, 
were honored at the 11th annual dinner for 
their loyalty and devotion to an insti- 
tution whose world-wide reputation each 
one of them helped to make. Dr. Gilliard, 
speaking in behalf of the new members, 
spoke of the esteem in which the American 
Museum of Natural History is held through- 
out the world, and of how this has been 
built up by the help and understanding of 
all the people who have ever worked 

here == whether a director helping a 
young scientist to get started, a scientist 
helping another scientist with information, 
or an attendant helping a visitor to find 
his way. 


Mr. C. DeWolf Gibson, affable Vice Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trustees and stand- 
in for President White, greeted 89 of 

the 168 members, all but one of whom sat 
down to a roast beef dinner in the Whitney 
Hall of Pacific Birds. (Dr. Chester Reeds, 
who at the youthful age of 77 rose early 
on the morning of May 3rd, set out 900 
strawberry plants, and then drove over a 
hundred miles to reach the Museum, had to 
forego the roast beef and speeches 
because of excitement and temporary 
exhaustion.) 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor: Kate Swift - Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 


Reporters: Accounting, Payroll, Personnel, 
Am hibians. and 


Purchasing - Catherine V. Mahoney 
Reptiles = Margaret S. Shaw 


Trina? Selavior > lvelgn Shay 


Anthropology - James A, Ford 


Birds = Constance D. Sherman 


Building Services and Protection - Victor J. Badaracco, Edward T.Malley, 


Albert C. Potenza 


Exhibition and Graphic Arts - Katharine Beneker 


Fishes and Aquatic Siciose 
eorge 


Frick Laborato 
Geology and Seivontaloay 


- Dorothy E. Bliss 
Krochak 


- G. Robert Adlington 
Taeccte and Spiders — Rudolph J. Schrammel 


Library = Olga Smith 
Mammals - T. Donald Carter 


Membership - 


~- William F. Somerville 


Micropaleontology = Mary A. McKenna 
Museum Shop ~ Peter Bujara 


Natural History 


- Helene J. Jordan 


Office Services = Robert E. Murray 
Planetarium ~ James S, Pickering 


Power Plant - Malcolm Mackay 
Print Shop = Edward A, Burns 


Public Instruction - George A. Crawbuck 


Shops and and Shipping 


~ John Erlandsen, Rudolf Bonen, Arthur R. Schaefer 


Slides, Films, Photography, Projection and Sound - Helen B, Jones 


(QUARTER CENTURY DINNER, cont'd from p.1) 


At present there are 79 pensioners in 
the Quarter Century Club but only 23 
were present this year. Grapevine 
reporter Kay Beneker, talked with 
several of them and brings you news of 
the following: 


Harry Ramshaw is working these days on 
the "Sea Owl," the research vessel of 
the Department of Micropaleontology. 
Last year London-born Harry took his 
American-born wife to England to meet 
the relatives. It was his first trip 
"home" since 190, and a fine time it 
Wase 


Oscar Shine will celebrate his fortieth 
wedding anniversary by taking Mrs. Shine 
to Italy, Israel, Spain, France and the 
Scandinavian countries. Oscar has been 
in the baby carriage business ever since 
he retired, but is stepping down in 
favor of his two sons<in-law. (All 
Museum employees in the market for a 
baby carriage at a discount, please 
note the address: 120 New Main Street, 
Yonkers) e 


Chris Olsen, whom we see around the 
Museum from time to time, says he spends 
his time eating, sleeping, and reading 
the Grapevine through and through, but we 
know that he is also busy making giant 
insect models for sister institutions. 


Alcide Roche looked younger than ever. We 
decided it must be because he spends his 
days running up and down stairs. He has 
a studio in the attic where he makes and 
fires inlaid ceramics, and a workshop in 
the basement where he....well, we aren't 
sure just what he does there. He has a 
brook in his backyard which he keeps 
stocked with trout for the neighborhood 
children to catch, 


Robert McMorran looked so deeply tanned 
that we were sure he had spent months on 
some silver strand, but he informed us 
that he had been traveling by car from 
Florida to Canada with a stopeover in 
Binghamton (N.Y.) to see his four grand- 
children. 


Henry Ruof has been busy working on his 
home in East Durham, N.Y. =- just finished 
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(CUARTER CENTURY DINNER, cont'f, from p.2) 


the attic. Henry welcomes all Museum 
employees who happen to be driving 
through that section of the state during 
the summer. 


Jacob Stephens has been in the hospital 
but is fine now and looking forward to 
a trip to Maine with Mrs. Stephens. 


Tony Cartossa spent six weeks at Miami 
Beach, mostly at the dog track where 
he found that six was a real hot number. 


Harry Farrar was as full of youthful 
good spirits as ever. In fact, all 
evening he claimed to be not a day over 
5h - and he looked it, 


Helen Gunz of the beautiful smile has 
been working in the library at Fairleigh 
Dickinson College ever since she left 
the Museum, and finds working with young 
people exhilarating. 


May Sheehan, looking lovely in a blue 
dress and hat, has given up binding 
books and is enjoying her home and her 
seven grandchildren. 


Ida Grobe finds the days too short for 
all the pleasant things that New York 
has to offer. In addition, she reads 
four newspapers a day and serves as an 
informal clipping bureau for her friends. 


Elizabeth Emery was so busy saying 
hello to all her old friends (she knew 
everyone present) that we couldn't get 
within ten feet of her to find out how 
she is filling her days. By the looks 
of her, retirement is a ball. 


Dorothy Shuttlesworth has just finished 
her horse book and is working on 

another - this time about dogs. We can't 
keep track of her output but we think it 
will be her fifth publication. 


To all of those who did not attend this 
year's dinner; you were sorely missed 
and it is hoped that next year will 
find the full membership in the Quarter 
Century Club present. 


—————————_— 
Our deepest sympathy to 
| Dominick Caggana of the 
| Print Shop on the loss of 

his wife, Charlotte, on 

May 22nd. 


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3. 
MUSEUM=CITY RELATIONS 


The budget modification of May 16th 
effected the following changes in the 
Building Services Department: Donald 
Buckley moved over to Building Construc- 
tion and Maintenance as a Sheet Metal 
Worker's Helper; Elizabeth C. Nullet, 
John J. Ryan, and Robert J, Blake were 
promoted from posts of Museum Attendant 
to Senior Museum Attendant. Congratu- 
lations to all} 


HENRY HUNTERTPFUND RETIRING 


Henry Huntertpfund, who joined the Museum 
staff in April, 1914, and now holds top 
seniority in the Building Services 
Department, will go on terminal leave at 
the end of June. Mr. Huntertpfund, a 
Senior Attendant, has been home on sick 
leave since last November, but prior to 
that time he held one of the best attend- 
ance records ever achieved by an AMNH 
employee. In addition, during his 6 
years of service, he never once arrived 
late on the job. 


During World War I, Mr. Huntertpfund took 
military leave to serve in the U. S. Army 
Infantry. At the Museum, he has worked 
in all exhibit halls, on the elevators, 
and at the doors. In recent years his 
cheerful smile has greeted early-arriving 
fellow employees at the Roosevelt lst 
floor entrance. "He is one of the most 
dependable men we have ever had," 
according to Philip C. Miller, Custodian, 
who adds, "I, for one, will miss him." 
And so will many others. 


"PLANNING FOR WHAT?" 


Walter Koenig, head of our Architectural 
Planning Division, tells us that when he 
had a long distance call coming in some 
weeks ago and the caller asked for 
"Planning", the operator asked right back, 
"Planning for what?" To help answer that 
question for all who may be a little hazy 
on the subject, Mr. Koenig provides the 
following information: The Museum has 
a long-term program of physical 
(structural) improvements to its buildings 
and equipment, both for maintainence 
reasons and for the development of future 
exhibition space. The Planning Division, 
which is in the Department of the Plant 
Manager, is producing designs and 
contract details for this work. Three of 
its major current jobs == they have been 
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causing considerable debris and plaster 
dust around the building lately -- are 

the Hall of the Biology of Man (1st floor, 
west of 77th Street entrance), the new 
Library (see LIBRARY IN TRANSIT); and 

the Hall of North American Birds (3rd 
floor, above the Hall of Oil Geology.) 


The main responsibility of the Planning 
Division, as Mr. Koenig sees it, is to 
furnish designs that provide for new 
construction and at the same time 
respect the dignity that deserves pre- 
servation in the existing buildings. 
Some of the projects now on the planning 
boards are designs for the new Halli of 
Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians, the 
mammal exhibit corridor and the lounge 
outside the auditorium on the lst floor, 
and various offices, laboratories, and 
storage areas. One question Mr. Koenig 
cannot answer: "How long does it take 
after the completion of plans to get 
contractors to do the actual work?" 
Nobody really knows. 


LIFE INSURANCE FOR CU MEMBERS 


Membership in the AMNH Employees! Federal 
Credit Union entitles you to purchase 
life insurance for yourself and members 
of your immediate family at a great 
savings over the usual cost of similar 
policies. Here's how it works: The 
Credit Union National Association, of 
which our CU is a member, operates the 
CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Members 
of our CU may apply directly to the 
Society for such policies as ordinary 
life, ordinary endowment, term, family 
security, and mortgage reduction. 
Premiums are considerably lower than 
those of regular insurance companies as 
there are no middle men or agency fees 
involved. Further information is 
available from the AMNH Credit Union 
office (Room B-l9, Roosevelt Basement) 
which is open every Monday, Tuesday, and 
Thursday, except paydays, from 12 noon 
to 1 P.M. 


TIME WAS ccccce 


For some reason it seems unlikely that 
in 1960 a couple of eminent world 
statesmen would be taking a walk in the 
woods to look at birds. Shooting quail, 
perhaps, playing golf or traversing a 


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battlefield, yes -- but bird watching... 
well, times have changed. 


Fifty years ago this June 10th, Theodore 
Roosevelt and Sir Edward Grey took their 
now-famous bird walk in the New Forest at 
Hampshire, England. Col. Roosevelt had 
just completed his second term as Presi- 
dent, and Sir Edward was Secretary of 
Foreign Affairs for Great Britain. The 
location of their walk is reproduced in 
an exhibit in the Birds of the World Hall 
at this Museum, 


To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of 
the event, a bird walk is being conducted 
at the original site in England on Friday, 
June 10th. On the same day, Dr. Robert 
Cushman Murphy will lead a bird walk at 
the Roosevelt homestead, Sagamore Hill, in 
Oyster Bay, L.I. The latter will retrace 
the path Col. Roosevelt took on another 
walk, shortly after his return from 
England, during which he made notes on 
many interesting comparisons and contrasts 
with the bird life of the English country- 
side. Museum employees are invited to 
take part in the Sagamore Hill walk 
which starts from the terrace of the main 
house at 10 A.M. 


DR. RANSEY CONVALESCING 


The many friends of Dr. Grace Ramsey, 
Curator Emeritus of School Relations, will 
be sorry to hear that she is in the 
Danbury (Conn.) Hospital with multiple 
injuries resulting from an automobile 
accident on May 2nd. She had planned to 
attend the Quarter Century Club dinner on 
May 3rd and was greatly missed when she 
did not appear. The latest report is that 
she is convalescing comfortably and sends 
thanks to her Museum friends for their 
expressions of concern and sympathy. 


CAMERA CLUB 


According to Mr. William Mussig, president 
of the Camera Club, the officers and board 
of the Club have decided not to renew the 
group camera insurance policy when it 
expires on July 3, 1960. It is suggested 
that Museum employees who have taken 
advantage of the group policy arrange 
coverage elsewhere before the expiration 
date. 


The Club's May meeting, at which Hobart 
Van Deusen was scheduled to show color 
(continued on page 5) 


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slides from his recent New Guinea 
expedition, had to be postponed because 
of a projector breakdown. It is hoped 
that the program will be presented in 
the fall along with other exciting Club 
activities that are now being planned, 


ANDREW A. MONTE 


It is with sorrow that we record the 
death of Andrew Monte, Building Services, 
who suffered a fatal heart attack on 
May 11th while on his way home from the 
Museum. Mr. Monte, known to his many 
friends here as "Monty", came to the 
Museum in July, 1937. His last assign- 
ment was the daily patrol of the Akeley 
African Hall balcony, A World War I 
veteran, he was married to the former 
Eileen Rayel, a member of the Museum's 
cafeteria staff in the late '30's and 
early 'hO's., His fellow employees, who 
miss him greatly, express their deepest 
sympathy to Mrs. Monte, 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Employees who attended the opening of 
the colorful Corner Gallery exhibit, 
"Lute, Flute, and Drum", listened, 
spell-bound while a visitor from 
Nigeria rendered authentic African 
percussion on the large slit-gong drum 
in the center of the exhibit. Henrick 
Van Dort (Carp. Shop), emerging from 
the trance, said of the drum, "I never 
dreamed it could make such wonderful 
music. Why, I've passed that thing 
hundreds of times on the third floor -- 
even pushed it around -~ and I always 
thought it was just a big hunk of 
furniture."....Margaret Connolly (Bldg. 
Serv.), on duty in the Corner Gallery, 
reports very great interest in the 
exhibit on the part of all who visit it. 
It's so popular, in fact, that she's 
had considerable trouble restraining 
young music-lovers from trying to play 
the instruments. 


The "Voice of America" has selected the 
Museum's current radio series "Journey 
Into Nature" as a regular progrma to be 
broadcast throughout the world. The 
first program beamed by the "Voice" 

was the interview on the Montana Indians 
with Dr. Robert Carneiro (Anthro.) and 
Dr. Gertrude Dole. "Journey Into Nature" 


be 


is heard locally over WNBC at 2:05 P.li. 
every Sunday. On last Sunday's show, 

Dr. Richard Van Gelder (Mammals) discussed 
whales in fact and fiction, and this 
Sunday Dr. Brian Mason (Geo.) talks about 
diamonds. In the future listeners will 
also hear from Dr. Gordon Eckholm (Anthro.) 
Dr. Franklyn Branley (Planet.), Director 
James A. Oliver, Dr, Harry Shapiro 
(Anthro.) and John Saunders (Pub. Inst.). 


We're happy to welcome back Charles 
O'Brien (Birds) after his long illness 
and James Lee (Planet.) who was also out 
of action for some time. Charlotte Stove 
and John Maloney (both Off. Serv.) are in 
hospitals at this writing. We miss them 
and wish them fast recoveries. 


Engaged: Mary Balladares (Pub. Inst.) and 
Gilbert Lopez, an electrical engineer. 
They will be married Aug. 20th. Born: 

a granddaughter to Barney Kreps (Planet.), 
making Mr. Kreps a grandpa for the second 
time. 


While many AMNHers head for Europe for 
vacations, Alice Pollak (Mus. Shop) will 
travel westward to spend the month of 
July in sunny Hawaii. Shorter excursions 
closer to home: Constance Sherman (Birds) 
this month joins in her class reunion at 
Oberlin College, and Dr. Robert Cushman 
Murphy attends commencement exercises at 
his alma mater, Brown University. 


When Rudolf Bonen (Elec. Shop) urges us 
not to tamper with electrical wires and 
fixtures around the Museum, he knows 
whereof he speaks. As a volunteer member 
of the Mattawan (N.J.) Emergency Ambulance 
Squad, Mr. Benen is frequently called out 
on serious accidents resulting from just 
such tampering. 


The pockets of small boys are repositories 
of many wonderful things. A youngster 
riding the elevator to the fifth floor 

the other day told Sam Custer (Bldg. Serv.. 
that he had a specimen he wished to give 
to a scientist. When Mr. Custer asked to 
see it, the boy carefully pulled a live 
snake from his pants pocket. A future 

Dr. Oliver, perhaps? 


Congratulations to John Pallister (Insects. 
on his re-election as Vice President of 
the Explorers Club, and to Dr. E. Thomas 
Gilliard (Birds) who has been elected to 
the Club's Board of Trustees, Congratu- 
lations and gratitude, to Ann Miller (Pub. 
(continued on page 6) 


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Inst.) who has accepted the Secretary- 
ship of the Employees' Benefit Associ+ 
ation, The post had been vacant since 
Marie Praitano left the Museum in April. 


Alexander Rota (Photog.) flew to 
southern California last month to visit 
his mother who had been in a bad auto- 
mobile accident. Despite considerable 
injuries, the senior Mrs. Rota was well 
on the way to recovery when her son 
arrived, On her first outing with the 
family, she insisted on being driven 
over the bumpy back roads of Mexico to 
a restaurant where she consumed vast 
quantities of enchalades, tortillas, 
sopapillos, tacos, chili, and tequilla. 
She was 83 this May. 


Word from Anthony Tumillo (Print Shop, 
retired) in Florida is that his soft- 
ball team leads the Liniment League 

in St. Petersburg. Mr. Tumillo, who is 
team pitcher, was in bad health for 
some time and recently underwent a 
major operation. He writes, "It's great 
to be alive and able to make a come- 
back}" We're hoping to see him when 

he visits New York this month. 


EBA "FREE RIDES" 


As vacation time approaches, George 
Floegel, Treasurer of the Employees! 
Benefit Association, reminds us of an 
important point about EBA deductions 
from our paychecks. According to the 
EBA By=laws, the death benefit fund is 
required at all times to maintain a 
sufficient balance for at least four 
benefit payments of {200.00 each, or a 
total of $800.00. Therefore, when the 
balance is {1,000 or over, a benefit 
payment can be made without any assess- 
ment of the membership. With all due 
respect to the nature of the fund, such 
payments are affectionately known as 
"free rides." During vacation time, 
however, with many employees receiving 
advance paychecks, it would be difficult 
to maintain the necessary balance in 

the fund through payroll deductions, and 
individual collections would be imprac- 
tical. For this reason, it has been the 
EBA'ts practise each spring to accumulate 
a surplus over the recuired minimum 
balance and to use it for "free ride" 
payments during the summer. 


6. 
GOINGS AND COMINGS 


Director James A. Oliver last month 
attended the meeting of directors of 
natural history museums at Lawrence, 
Kansas, after which he visited the Museum's 
Southwestern Research Station in Portal, 
Arizona. His stay at the Station included 
what he describes as a "wonderful herpe- 
tological holiday” on Friday, the 13th. 
While touring the region with Dr. Mont A. 
Cazier, he found two large specimens of 
the rare Arizona rattlesnake, a rare green 
rat snake, and a diamond-back rattler. 

Dr. Oliver left the rattlesnakes undis- 
turbed, but as the Bronx Zoo had long 
wanted a green rat snake, it was his 
pleasure to collect that specimen for Dr, 
Herndon G. Dowling, the Zoo's Curator of 
Reptiles. Incidentally, it was the big- 
gest snake of its kind ever collected at 
that location. 


Christopher Schuberth and Kenneth Chambers 
(Pub. Inst.) leave for the Southwestern 
Research Station June 13th to conduct a 
summer institute for teachers in field 
geology and zoology. The program is 
sponsored by the National Science Founda- 
tion. Dr. Jack McCormick (Veg. Studies) 
departed for the same location late last 
month to continue his long-range survey 
of the vegetation of the Chiricahua 
Mountains, another NSF-supported project. 


The AMNH contingent attending the American 
Association of Museums Conference in 
Boston last month included Dr. A. E. Parr, 
Senior Scientist, and Mrs. Parr; Dr. 
Edwin H. Colbert, Geology & Paleontology; 
Miriam Stryker, Public Instruction; 

Dr. William A. Burns, Membership; 
Katharine Beneker, Exhibition; and Ruth 
Norton and Kate Swift, Public Relations. 
Dr. Colbert participated as a speaker in 
two programs of the conference. Gordon 
Reekie, Exhibition, was elected chairman 
of the Science-Technical Section of next 
year's AAM conference, which will be held 
in Detroit. 


T. Donald Carter (Mammals) and George 
Petersen and Matthew Kalmenoff (both 
Exhib.) spent two weeks in Louisiana in 
May collecting material for the muskrat 
group to be installed in the North 
American Mammal Hall corridor. The 
expedition worked at the Rainey Wildlife 
Sanctuary in Abbeyville. 

(continued on page 7) 


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Dr. Willis Gertsch (Insects) is back from 
a ten-week field trip to the west coast 
with an interesting collection of 
spiders...From the same Department, Dr. 
and Mrs. Frederick Rindge leave shortly 
to collect for six weeks in the Rocky 
Mountains; Dr. Herbert Ruckes heads for 
Europe where he will tour museums to 
study Hemiptera types; Dr. William Barr 
returns to the University of Idaho after 
working with us for the past eight months. 


Dr. and Mrs, Charles Vaurie (Birds and 
Insects, respectively), just back from 
Studying collections at Chicago's Museum 
of Natural History, set out for the West 
Indies this week where they will collect 
in Martinique and the Lesser Antilles. 
Other Bird Department migrations: 

Dr. Dean Amadon left last month for 
Japan to attend meetings of the Inter- 
national Council for Bird Preservation, 
of which he is chairman of the United 
States Section. Afterwards he will go 
to Alaska to make studies for future 
habitat groups. Eugene Eisenmann, is 
also attending the meetings in Japan 
and will visit Midway Island on his way 
back to New York. Dr. Wesley Lanyon 
returned from field work in Mexico on 
June 1. 


Charles M, Bogert and Dr. Richard Zweifel 
(Amphs. & Reps.) will attend the annual 
meetings of the American Society of 
Icathyologists and Herpetologists in 
Chicago this month. Also on Mr, Bogert's 
summer schedule are lecture dates at the 
Southwestern Writers Conference in 
Flagstaff, Ariz., and at a teachers 
institute at the University of Colorado. 
Dr, Zweifel will continue his frog 
studies at the Southwestern Research 
Station. Dr. John Moore (Amphs. & Reps.) 
Will work at the Univ. of Colorado on a 
science curriculum study, after which 

he will fly to Europe for the Inter- 
national Congress of Cell Biology in 
Paris. Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder 
(Mammals) will travel to the west coast 
to examine museum skunk collections in 
connection with his long-range study of 
the skunks of the world. 


NEW. FACES 


After a temporary setback, Phyllis E. 
Fish has resumed her new job as secretary 


7. 


to Drs. Emerson and Bliss in the Dept. 
of Fishes. The setback was a fall in 
which Mrs. Fish sustained injuries. 
Happily, she is now fully recovered. 
is the wife of William E. Fish, Dept. 
of Exhibition. 


She 


The two new members of Public Instruction 
are Ernie Daniel, anthropologist, who 
will serve on the teaching staff, and 
Martin Daly who replaces Jimmy Drago as 
Office Assistant. (The next Grapevine 
will carry news of Mr. Drago's current 
activities.) 


Joan B, Behrensohn is the new secretary 
to Dr. William A. Burns, Membership. 
John P. Heffernan has joined Building 
Services, and Ronald L. Bohn is the 

new man in Animal Behavior. Carol L. 
Gimson replaces Gladys Hartland in the 
office of Walter Meister, Controller. 


Dr. Henry E. Coomans, formerly of the 
University of Amsterdam, has joined the 
Fish Dept. for two years to work on the 
mollusk collection under a National 
Science Foundation grant to Dr. William 
Emerson. Another recent arrival in the 
department is Arnold Ross who is studying 
the barnacles collected by the Puritan-~ 
AMNH Expedition to Western Mexico in 1957, 


Bernard Soll has accepted the newly- 
created post of Advertising Director on 
Natural History. Before coming to this 
country from England three years ago, 

Mr. Soll was a partner in his own 
advertising firm and ad director of 
various publications. Since his arrival 
on these shores, he has been associated 
with Reporter Magazine. The new Associate 
Editor at Natural History is Hubert 
Birnbaum, formerly on the picture desk at 
United Press International. He is a 
graduate of the Columbia School of 
Journalism. 


TAKE A BOW 


(The following letter from a woman in 
Rockville Centre, N.Y., was forwarded 
to the Grapevine by Dr. Oliver.) 


I had the pleasure of visiting your 

edifice with my grandchild from out of 

town on Saturday, and during our visit I 

left my purse on a bench and didn't 
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discover it until I was down on the main 
floor . 


This letter is to congratulate you on 
the efficiency and courtesy afforded 
me by your personnel. The gentleman 
on the main floor, not in uniform, 
alerted all the guards and asked me to 
retrace my steps. Back on the fourth 
floor the guard turned the purse over 
to me, much to my surprise and pleasure, 
for it is a very uncomfortable feeling 
to be stranded in New York without any 
money for transportation home, 


It is comforting to know that in spite 
of all the unpleasant news we hear 
about New York, there are places one 
can visit and meet such nice people. 


Sincerely and with thanks... 


Dr. Oliver adds, "We like to get letters 
of this kind, and we do get lots of 
them. They help to offset the more 
critical notes that also come our way. 
Fortunately most of our employees | 
perform their jobs in a manner that 
produces the type of letter above. Keep 
up the good work}" 


6. 
TRADING POST 


Wanted: One piano. Studio or console. 
Rudy Schrammel, ext. 365. 


Available for sublet, July-August: 5 

room railroad apartment, East 78th Street. 
$75.00 a month. Call Cicely Breslin 
evenings, RE 306. 


Items For Sale: 


Exacta, 3.5 Tessar lens, perfect 
condition, quick wind lever. $50.00. 
Ilona Kunsagi, ext. 9h. 


Cabinet model Kenmore Ironer, perfect 
condition, scarcely used. $50.00. Ella 
Parr, ext. 00 between 10 A.M. and 1 P.M. 


Volkswagen, '58, black, with sun-roof, 
whitewall tires, radio and other extras. 
Very good condition, 11,500 miles, 
original owner. 1,250. Otto Simonis, 
ext. 521. 


The AMNH's collection of paintings by 
Titian Ramsey Peale will be on exhibit 
at the Kennedy Galleries, 13 E. 58th St., 
beginning June 13th. 


VARIABLE STAR WATCHERS CONVENE 


Last month the Planetarium was co-host with the American Astronomers Association 
to the 9th Spring Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. 
The A.A.V.S.0. has been going since 1911 -= the father of James S. Pickering 
(Planet.) was one of its founders -~ and includes both amateur and professional 


astronomers. 
is not constant. 


Its object is to collect data on variable stars, those whose light 
Such stars are found in profusion everywhere in the universe 
and their study has become almost a separate branch of astronomy. 


The A.A.V.S.0. 


furnishes astronomers everywhere with the results of a continuous research program 
involving literally millions of individual observations by its members all over 


the world. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO 6 


JULY 1960 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Mr. Meyenberg has been notified by the 
Bureau of the Budget of a modification 
in the City budget for 1960-61, in 
which the following positions are to 
be up-graded one grade as of July l: 
Senior Clerk, Clerk, Senior Steno, 
Senior Telephone Operator, Assistant 
Accountant, Motor Vehicles Operator, 
Staff Nurse, and Senior Building 
Custodian. The new salary rates will 
be reflected in this month's first 
payroll. These up-gradings are 
effective retroactive to January as 
1960, and the Museum is now awaiting 
instructions from the City Controller 
regarding the payment of retroactive 
increases where applicable. These are 
all positions that the Museum has been 
working to have up-graded and which 

it is very glad to see improved.- 


EXHIBIT ON MAN AND SPACE PLANNED 


Early in rly in 1960 the Museum will open an 
exciting and unusual exhibit on the 
subject of Man and Space, Joseph M. 
Chamberlain, Planetarium Chairman, re- 
ports. The exhibit, to be located on the 
second floor of Roosevelt Memorial, will 
emphasize the psychological, physio- 
logical, and biological aspects of man's 
first venture into space. Mr. Chamber- 
lain and Gordon Reekie Chairman of 
Exhibition, recently made visits to 
Denver and St. Louis to confer with 
officials of the Martin Company and 

the McDonnell Aircraft Corp. on aspects 
of their research into space environment 
and existence. Most spectacular part 
of the exhibit is expected to be a 
reconstruction of a lunar housing 
simulator, 32 feet in diameter. 


3 NEW DEPARTMENTS ESTABLISHED; 
OTHERS ARE RE-NAMED 


Living Invertebrates, Fossil Invertebrates, 
and Mineralogy have moved up in the AMNH 
world. As of July 1, 1960, the Museum 
created new departments for these three 
branches of science, raising the number of 
our scientific departments from 10 to 13. 
At the same time, 6 of the 10 existing 
scientific departments were re-named and 
the Department of Public Instruction became 
the Department of Education. 


Mineralogy and Fossil Invertebrates were 
carved out of the former Department of 
Geology and Paleontology, now Vertebrate 
Paleontology, while Living Invertebrates 
was separated off from what used to be 
the Department of Fishes and Aquatic 
Biology, now Ichthyology. 


Appointed as Chairmen of the new depart- 
ments are: Dr. Norman D. Newell, Fossil 
Invertebrates; Dr. William K. Emerson, 
Living Invertebrates; and Dr. Brian H. 
Mason, Mineralogy. Dr. Newell, who is 

a graduate of the University of Kansas 
and took his doctorate at Yale, came to 
the Museum in 1945. Dr. Emerson earned 
his Ph.D. at the University of California 
at Berkeley and was with the University's 
Museum of Paleontology before he joined 
our staff in 1955. Dr. Mason, a New 
Zealander who completed his graduate work 
at the University of Stockholm, taught at 
Indiana University before coming to the 
Museum in 1953. 


With the revisions in department nomen-~ 

clature, several fields of study have been 

assigned their more formal scientific 

names. In addition to Vertebrate Paleon- 

tology and Ichthyology, we now have 
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(3 NEW DEPARTMENTS, cont'd from p. 1) 


departments of Herpetology (replacing 
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(replacing Insects and Spiders), 
Mammalogy (replacing Mammals), and 
Ornithology (replacing Birds. ) 


According to the dictionary, the suffix 
"logy" denotes a doctrine, theory, or 
science. It comes from the Latin 
"logos", meaning word or discourse. 


The new department names -- together 
with Anthropology and Micropaleontology, 
which remain the same -- will make it 
considerably easier for AMNH poets to 
compose rhyming lyrics about the 
institution. The only non-conformers 
in this respect are the two Inverte- 
brate departments and Animal Behavior 
and Astronomy (which quite rightly 
refuses to get mixed up with astrology 
just to please the poets.) 


ART CLASS STUDENTS EXHIBIT 


Members of the AMNH Employees! Art 
Class, which has been meeting regularly 
for the past year with Matthew 
Kalmenoff as instructor, recently 
staged a three-day exhibit of their 
work in the staff cafeteria. Most of 
the exhibitors had had no previous art 
training, and their colleagues were 
impressed with the quality of their 
work. Subjects ranged from landscapes 
and still-lifes to portraits of Louis 
Ferry. Members of the class were 
William Mussig, Miriam Stryker, Ann 
Ferry, Mabel Colahan, Ed Hoffman, Al 
deLuca, Rudy Bonen, William Burns, 
Carlton Beil, and Dorothy Bronson. 
Additional painting enthusiasts turned 
out in large number for the group's 
last meeting in June at which 

Mr. Kalmenoff gave a demonstration 
lesson, explaining methods and 
techniques while he painted. 


i Interested in automatic savings? 
Through the AMNH Credit Union, you 
can put away a few dollars each 
month without any fuss or bother. 

No rushed trips to the bank, no 
waiting in line to make deposits. 
Just tell the Credit Union to have 
the amount deducted from your pay- 
check, and then forget about it. 
Remember, the Credit Union pays 
higher dividends on savings than any 
commercial bank in the New York area. 


2. 


The GRAPEVINE is the monthly employee 
publication of The American Museum of 
Natural History. 

Editor: Kate Swift 

Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 


TWO LONG-TERM COLLEAGUES RETIRE 


Two very popular staff members of long 
standing at the Museum are joining the 
retirement ranks this month and will 
shortly start out on foreign travels for 
the summer. Rachel Nichols, Scientific 
Assistant in charge of the Osborn Library 
of Vertebrate Paleontology, leaves us this 
week; and Frederick Wernersbach, Foreman 
of the Sheet Metal Shop, went on terminal 
leave at the end of June. 


Mrs. Nichols came to the Museum in 1925 
as a cataloger and general assistant in 
the fossil vertebrate collections. She 
has been in charge of the Osborn Library 
since 1940. One afternoon this spring 
the scholarly atmosphere of the Library 
was transformed by a display of colorful 
travel posters and naval signal flags 
spelling out GOOD LUCK, RACHEL, as her 
many friends gathered for a farewell 
party in her honor. This week Mrs. Nichols 
and her husband will fly to Norway for a 
North Cape cruise, to be followed by an 
automobile tour of Europe in August and 
September. Next fall they plan to settle 
in the San Francisco area. 


Mr. Wernersbach has been with the Museum 
since 1926. During World War II, he took 
military leave and served as Chief Warrant 
Officer in charge of a floating dry dock 
in the Pacific where ships and submarines 
came to be repaired. His many Museum 
friends joined in a gala farewell party 
for him on June 29th and wished him bon 
voyage on his forthcoming trip to Hawaii 
where he will visit friends. 


BOWLERS HAD A GREAT SEASON 


The AMNH Bowling League ended a highly 
successful season in May. The four teams 
taking part in the race for first place 
were the Indians -- Arthur Naylor, 
Catherine Pessino, Catherine Mahoney, 
Micky Nagyhazi, and William Forbes; 
Headhunters -- Farrell Carney, Trudy 
Mosler, Paul Goodhouse, Don Serret, and 
Nick Amorosi; Mummies -- Robert Adlington, 
Irene Nagyhazi, Hugh —— ss 
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Murray Altman, and Sal DiBella; and 
Fossils -- Albert Potenza, Mary McKenna, 
Joe Krosche, Lois Hussey, and Charles 
LaSalla. In addition, Mabel Colahan and 
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The Grapevine's ace sports reporter, 
Murray Altman, gives us the following 
blow-by-blow account: 


It took the Indians only one week to 
savor the aroma of first place, and 
after that they doggedly refused to 
relinquish that position. The other 
teams, hard as they tried, could not 
budge them. Throughout the season the 
competition was keen and battles were 
neck and neck. Positions changed hands 
each week and final standings were in 
doubt up to the last night. The 
Fossils were bogged down in last place 
but second and third were undecided. 
The Mummies and Headhunters were 
fighting hard for second and a clean 
sweep would insure a tie for the Mummies. 
The first and second games were won 
decisively by the Mummies, but the 
strain was too great. The Fossils took 
the last game and second place, and the 
noble-hearted Mummies took third. 


A week later, at a gala dinner party, 
trophies were awarded for first and 
second place, along with trophies for 
men's high score -- Al Potenza and 
Bill Forbes, tied with 217; men's high 
average -- Al Potenza with 155; women's 
high score -- Trudy Mosler with 187; 
and women's high average -- Catherine 
Pessino with 126. 


The members of the League have great 
plans for expansion next year. They 
would like to set up more teams and this 
can be done only if more people come 

out to bowl. The only requisite is the 
desire to have a good time. 


The Mail Desk would appreciate it if you 
would include your name, or department 
name, with the Museum's return address 
on the envelopes of outgoing mail. The 
reason is that when mail cannot be 
delivered and is returned by the Post 
Office, our Mail Desk usually has to 
open it to find out who sent it. In 


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addition, a number of Museum people have 
outside correspondents who do not address 
them by name or department on the envelope, 
An envelope arrives, apparently addressed 
to the Museum in general, but the letter 
inside begins "Dear Mr. So-and-so." If 

you customarily receive such letters, 
would you ask your correspondent to 


include your name in the mailing address. 


IN THE FIELD 


Dr. William Tavolga (An. Behav.) spent 
two weeks at the Lerner Marine Laboratory 
in Bimini and is now at Marineland, St. 
Augustine, Fla., studying underwater 
sounds produced by fishes....Dr. Evelyn 
Shaw (An. Behav.) is at the Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod where 
she's investigating the development of 
schooling behavior in fishes. 


Robert Hellmann (Educ.) and Eugene (Jimmy) 
Drago (formerly Educ.) are setting up 
Nature Trails and other exhibits at three 
institutions in New Jersey -- the State 
Hospital at Marlboro, the Child Treatment 
Center at Allaire, and the Women's 
Reformatory at Clinton Farms. The project 
is being financed by Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson. 


Jennifer Chatfield and Roger Sandall (Educ. 
and Dorothy Cinquimani (formerly Educ.) 

are in Mexico making an experimental 
educational motion picture on life in an 
Indian village. Their location is Los 
Morros in the state of Guerrero. 


Miriam Stryker (Educ.) is vacationing on 
St. Lawrence Island off the coast of 
Alaska where she's studying the life and 
customs of the Eskimos. 


PHOTOGRAPHERS INVITED TO EXHIBIT 


The Camera Club has forwarded to us an 
announcement of the 22nd Buffalo 
International Exhibition of Nature 
Photography in which all AMNH shutterbugs 
are invited to take part. The exhibition 
will be held at the Buffalo Museum of 
Science Oct. 25 through Nov. 6, 1960, and 
the closing date for entries will be 

Oct. 8. You may submit a maximum of four 
slides and four prints. The entry fee for 
slides is $1.25 and for prints $2. For 
further information and entry blanks, 
write to the Science Museum Photographic 
Club, 22nd Nature Salon, Museum of Science, 
Buffalo 11, New York. 


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UPCOMING RADIO JOURNEYS 


The Museum's weekly radio program 
"Journey Into Nature" on WNBC continues 
to evoke interest and praise from 
listeners. Last Sunday, Ken Banghardt 
interviewed Dr. Harry L. Shapiro on the 
subject of cavemen. On July 17th, 

Dr. Brooks Ellis discusses the story of 
oil, and on the 24th Dr. Franklyn M. 
Branley talks with a group of young 
people about space travel. Later 
programs will feature Dr. Walter 
Fairservis and his recent excavations 
in Pakistan, and Dr. Lester Aronson who 
will explore the role of instinct in 
behavior. The program is aired every 
Sunday at 2:05 on WNBC,. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES. 


It was very good to see Florence Halpern 
(formerly Animal Behavior) who paid us 

@ visit last month during a vacation trip 
to New York. She's now Mrs. Hyde, and 
she and her husband live in Van Nuys, 
California. 


Betty Nullet stopped in the other day to 
show us some color snapshots of Alma 
O'Connor (formerly Building Services) at 
her home in St. Petersburgh, Fla. 

Mrs. O'Connor's new habitat is a large, 
beautifully modern trailer complete 
with screened porch, flower borders and 
carport. Ah, retirement! 


Ernest Neilson (formerly Anthropology) 
spent a day at the Museum in June 
renewing old friendships. It was his 
first visit to New York after four 

years in the sunny south where he's now 
with the University of Florida at 
Gainesville. Unhappily, Ernie couldn't 
begin to see all the people he wanted to 
say hello to while he was here, but he 
did manage to cover his old department, 
have lunch with the Junius Bird family, 
coffee and cake with the Public 
Instruction crowd, and a chat with a 
former staff member at the U. of Fla., 
Dr. James A. Oliver. In a note to the 
Grapevine he says he hopes to repeat the 
visit next year with enough time to 
"really see everybody." 


Albert Butler, who was assistant to 

Dr. James L. Clark in exhibition 
preparation for many years, stopped in 
to see friends at the Museum last month. 


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Marguerite Newgarden reports that he 

looks wonderful and is fully enjoying life 
in Orlando, Fla. Mr. Butler came to the 
Museum in 1904 and retired about fifteen 
years ago. He would like to hear from any 
AMNHers passing through Orlando. His 
address is 752 Palm Drive, 


NEW ANTHROPOLOGIST APPOINTED 


Dr. Stanley Freed has been appointed 
Assistant Curator of North American 
Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology. 
A specialist on the Indian tribes of the 
U.S. and Canada, he received his doctorate 
at the University of California at 
Berkeley. He and his wife, who is also 

an anthropologist, recently spent two 
years in New Delhi, India studying the 
effects of urban life on villagers who had 
moved to the city. During the past year 
Dr. Freed taught anthropology at the 
University of North Carolina. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


It's nice to have Paul Goodhouse (Elec. 
Shop) back with us for a change. He 
recently spent over three straight months 
on jury duty -- and the case wasn't even 
very interesting. 


Gil Stucker (Vert. Paleo.) will marry 
Alma Helbing on July 17th in Mt. Vernon, 
New York. Their honeymoon will be a 
camping trip through France, Italy, 
Germany, and Austria. 


Bob Murray (Off. Serv.) reports that 
dozens of people with whom he has talked 
on his travels about town have commented 
on the excellence of the Corner Gallery 
exhibit "Lute, Flute, and Drum." Several 
have asked Bob to convey their 
congratulations to those responsible for 
the exhibit. 


Jeanne Lyons (Vert. Paleo.) takes over as 
head of the Osborn Library when Rachel 
Nichols retires this month....Dr. Theodore 
Schneirla's new secretary in Animal 
Behavior is Ronald Bohn....Trudy Mosler 
(Account. ) has been appointed Membership 
Secretary of the Employees’ Benefit 
Association. 


Henry Seelman (Films) will never start 

another vacation on Friday, the 13th. It 

was on that day in May that he planned to 
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leave for Nassau by ship with a group of 
friends. They boarded the ship, waited 
for several hours, then learned that the 
crew was on strike and the sailing was 
cancelled. Two days later they got 
plane reservations, went to the airport, 
and waited another half day while the 
plane underwent repairs. They got to 
Nassau all right, but found they had 
been misinformed about car rental 
arrangements and would have to pay twice 
the amount they had expected. Finally, 
there was another maintenance delay 
before their return flight to N.Y. 
Henry's not superstitious or anything, 
but he's not likely to make any important 
plans for the next Friday that falls on 
the 13th. 


KUDOS 


AMNH was one of eight city agencies 
which last month received safety awards 
under a citywide employees' safety 
program for the reduction of accident 
frequency rates. In connection with the 
same program, Louis Ferry (Carp. Shop) 
recently took a course given by the city 
in safety methods and practices. Framed 
on his office wall is the handsome 
certificate he was awarded for successful 
completion of the course. 


Ed Malley (Bldg. Serv.) forwarded a 
recent clipping from the Journal-American 
which discussed the most frequently 
heard complaints of out-of-town visitors 
to New York. In between negative 
comments about the appearance of the City 
and manners of its citizens, was the 
following statement which Ed marked 

for our attention: "On the credit side 
were the excellence of theaters, movies, 
and museums, and the courteous service 
rendered by museum personnel and members 
of the N.Y.C. Police Dept." 


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FAREWELLS 


Nearly a hundred people crowded into one 
small office in the Film Library one day 
last month to say goodbye to Louise 
Pedeberdot at a sumptuous party given 
in her honor by her colleagues. We miss 
her and hope she'll be coming in to say 
hello often. 


Friends of Dorothy Madsen and Joan 
Governale (Contrib. Prog.) gave them a 
combination farewell party and baby 
shower before they left the Museum at the 
end of June. Joan's baby is due in 
October, and Dot plans to be a lady of 
leisure until that time. (After that, 
she says, she'll have a regular job as 
baby-sitter for the new Governale. ) 


REQUEST FROM ANIMAL BEHAVIOR 


The Department of Animal Behavior can use 
@ number of male cats and kittens for 
research purposes. The animals will be 
well taken care of and will not be 
subjected to harm. If you have any 

you would like to contribute, please call 
Harold Silverman, ext. 267. 


NEW EXHIBIT FEATURES FUN IN NATURE 


——— ee -— SO 


The work of one of Europe's best loved and 
most spirited artists will be displayed in 
the forthcoming exhibit “Fish, Fowl and 
Fantasy = from the Sketchbooks of Hans 
Fischer" opening in the North American 
Mammal corridor on July 27th. Hans 
Fischer's light-hearted and loving approach 
to cats, foxes, frogs, fishes, roosters, 
lobsters, crabs, and birds; his tongue-in- 
cheek, pot-bellied, supercilious bear; 

and his delicately delineated ferns and 
flowers are friendly and familiar sights 
in his native Switzerland. His sketches, 
lithographs, and etchings, as well as the 
original art for some of his book 
illustrations, will be included in the 
exhibit here. 


"THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE" 


All Museum employees are welcome to visit the Planetarium 


at no charge. 


a ticket of admission for you and one guest. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO 7 


August 1960 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Following the up-grading of eight Career 
and Salary positions, reported in the 
July Grapevine, the Bursar's Office has 
submitted to the City Controller payrolls 
for retroactive pay to the employees - 
concerned for the period January 1 to 
June 30, 1960. The position of Staff 
Nurse was up-graded two grades, rather 
than one, as mistakenly reported here. 


In another action, pursuant to Labor 
Law 220, the Bursar's Office has 
submitted to the City Controller pay- 
rolls for retroactive pay for the period 
July 1, 1959 to May 31, 1960 to 
employees in the titles of Oiler and 
Stationary Fireman; and for the period 
January 1, 1960 to May 31, 1960 to 
those in titles of Stationary Engineer, 
Sheetmetal Worker, and Sheetmetal 
Worker's Helper. 


A draft in payment will be issued by the 
City Controller after an audit of the 
above mentioned rolls. 


CAMERA CLUB ELECTS 


At its last meeting before the summer 
recess, the AMNH Camera Club elected 

the following new officers: Arthur 

Pitschi - President; Louis Monaco - Vice 
President; Marguerite Newgarden - 
Secretary; and Miriam Stryker - Treasurer. 
The Club is planning an interesting series 
of programs for the fall, including slide 
and motion picture showings, at which 

all Museum employees are welcome. 


Members of the AMNH Employees Federal 
Credit Union have, from time to time, 
expressed a desire to increase the amount 
of their Credit Union savings beyond the 
$1000 maximum set by our CU Board of 
Directors. In addition, some would like 
to increase the amount of their monthly 
deposits, made through payroll deduction, 
beyond the $40 limit. 


Limitations on CU savings accounts are 
necessarily determined by the total 

amount of business handled by the 
organization, according to John Saunders, 
CU President. Because of the healthy 
growth of our Credit Union in recent years, 
he points out, increases in the established 
maximums for accounts and deposits are 

now feasible. 


At its June meeting, the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Credit Union voted to raise 
the top limit of savings accounts from 
$1000 to $1500, and the maximum monthly 
deposit from $40 to $50. This means 
that you may now arrange to save up to 
$25 from each semi-monthly paycheck, and 
you can continue to increase these 
dividend-producing savings up to the 
amount of $1500. The new maximums, which 
become effective August lst, will enable 
many CU members to reactivate automatic 
savings in accounts that had previously 
reached the $1000-mark. 


The CU office, located in the basement of 
Roosevelt Memorial, is open for business 
from 12 to 1 on Mon., Tues, and Thurs. 


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HERMAN OTTO RETIRES 


Herman Otto, Foreman of the Machine Shop, 
retired from his post at the end of July 
after nearly forty years with the 
Museum. At a party in his honor in the 
Bean Club last Thursday, his friends 

and colleagues wished him a warm fare- 
well and many miles of happy driving in 
his beautiful new Lincoln Continental. 


Mr. Otto who came to the Museum as a 
machinist in September, 1920, is a man 

of the "Can Do" school. When complicated 
rigging was required for moving the 
dinosaurs and the huge safes in the 

old bookkeeping offices, he devised it. 
Under supervision he built the first 
underwater camera used by the Museum. 
Recently, when a scientist needed an 
unusual machine built for his experiments, 
Mr. Otto constructed it without blue- 
prints. In addition, he has been in 
charge of laying out all the steelwork 
for the Museum's habitat groups. 


A deep sea fishing enthusiast, Mr. Otto 
owns his own boat out on Long Island's 
south shore where he and his wife have 
a lovely home. We doubt that time will 
be hanging heavy on his hands, and we're 
sure he will be getting together with 
his many Museum friends often in the 
future. 


VIC BADARACCO & THE BLOOD BANK 


Victor J. Badaracco, who underwent a 
difficult and successful kidney 
operation last month, is a strong 
supporter of the AMNH Blood Bank. In a 
note to the Grapevine he expresses his 
thanks to all donors to the Bank for 
their blood which he was able to get when 
he badly needed it. "A mere thank you 
seems most inadequate,” he writes, "but 
it conveys a deep appreciation on my 
part." Each of us, in a similar emergency, 
would feel the same, and we are indeed 
fortunate to have had blood available 
for Mr. Badaracco's use. If you haven't 
offered to make a blood donation 
recently, why not call the First Aid 
Room and arrange for an appointment at 
the Red Cross. And when you make a 
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2. 


The GRAPEVINE is the monthly employee 
publication of The American Museum of 
Natural History. 

Editor: Kate Swift 

Production Assistant: Pamela Scallan 


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T. DONALD CARTER RETIRING 


T. Donald Carter, Assistant Curator in 
the Department of Mammalogy, retires 
from active service this month after 
forty years and four months with the 
Museum. During that time, Mr. Carter 
says, he has moved just six feet -- from 
a round table where he first worked, to 
a desk by the window in the same office. 
In the same period, however, he had made 
twenty-seven expeditions for the Museum 
which took him to nearly every corner of 
the earth. 


An expert in ornithology as well as 
mammalogy, Mr. Carter has collected 
thousands of animal specimens, many of 
which are on exhibit in the manmal and 
bird halls here. In the past year and 
a half he has traversed most of North 
America to obtain material for the 
fourteen new habitat groups to be 
installed in the North American Mammal 
Hall Corridor. 


The large turnout at the retirement tea 
for Mr. Carter in May, and again at a 
Mammal Department party in his honor in 
July, gave evidence of the high esteem in 
which he is held by all who have known him 
here. On the former occasion he was 
presented with a box of very special 
cigars sent by Mr. and Mrs. Newell J. 
Ward, Jr. who accompanied him on his 1958 
expedition to Africa. Ina clever, tho' 
cryptic, telegram, the Wards speculated 
that Mr. Carter may go in for some unusual 
genetics experiments at his farm in 
Boonton, N.J. -- breeding "elands to 
shorthorns, oysters to leghorns, baboons 
to racoons" and so forth. The possi- 
bilities sound fascinating. 


But whatever he decides to do with his new 
freedom, we know, that the years ahead 
will be active and productive for Don 
Carter. He's just made that way. 


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donation, be sure that your blood is 
credited to the AMNH Blood Bank. 


_ Mr. Badaracco is convalescing comfortably 
and we hope he'll be back with us soon. 
Meanwhile, he thanks all who have sent 
their good wishes and adds that the 

many cards he has been receiving are 
really good “medicine”. 


IN THE FIELD 


Director James A. Oliver and Herpetology 
Department Chairman Charles M. Bogert 
went to Costa Rica the last week in 
July to set up a new program whereby 
the Museum will assist the Caribbean 
Conservation Association in preserving 
the green turtle, a species which has 
become dangerously low in numbers in 
recent years. The plan is to transport 
newly-hatched turtles from Costa Rica 
to a “nursery” at the Museum's Lerner 
Marine Laboratory on Bimini Island. 
There, the hatchlings will be protected 
from predators during their first year 
of growth, after which they will be 
released. It is hoped that the program 
at Bimini will get underway this fall. 


Three scientists from the Mammalogy 
Department attended the meetings of the 
American Society of Mammalogists in 
Tacoma, Washington, in June. Hobart M. 
Van Deusen and Dr. Joseph C. Moore each 
presented papers on their recent re- 
search, and Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder 
participated in a symposium on the 
current state of mammalogy in the Soviet 
Union. After the meetings, Mr. Van 
Deusen made a short field trip in the 
Olympic National Forest, Dr. Moore 
visited Mt. Ranier and environs, and 
Dr. Van Gelder continued his study of 
skunk collections at west coast 
museums. 


NEW FACES 


"Our chickens are coming home to roost" 
says Chief Engineer Malcolm MacKay as 

he welcomes back two former employees 

at the Power Plant. Vincent J. LePore, 
having earned his engineer's certificate, 
returns as Stationary Engineer, and 
Robert B. Horan will take over as 
Maintenance Man at the Planetarium. 


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Mr. Horan replaces Robert Fearman who, 
after 19 years of keeping the 
Planetarium's air conditioning in order, 
returns to plant operation activities in 
the Museum. 


The four new faces in Building Services 
are Alain J. Petit, Francis Wedgeworth, 
William Nash, and John H. Doscher who was 
with us briefly before. In the scientific 
departments, Eugeny Afanasiew has joined 
Ichthyology, Betty P. Ayer has joined 
Entomology, and William E. Old, Jr., is 
the new man in Living Invertebrates. Latest 
addition to the Library staff is Florence 
E. Stewart. For interesting news of 
another recent arrival in the Museum, see 
"Heard In Passing." 


As though in compensation, the hot 
weather always brings us a number of 
refreshing young faces belonging to 
students who join us temporarily during 
the summer. Among this year's crop are 
high schoolers Susan*Amadon and Clare 
O'Brien, working in Ornithology with their 
dads, Dr. Dean Amadon and Charles O'Brien, 
and Rosalind Moore who is assisting her 
father Dr. Joseph Moore for a short 
period in Mammalogy. Working with Ethel 
Smith in the President's Office is Linda 
Fischer who will be a senior this fall 

at Utah State University. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Nolan Willence, erstwhile trumpet player 
with the Boston Pops, Indianapolis 
Smyphony, Atlanta (Ga.) Symphony, and the 
National Orchestral Association, is a new 
member of the Planning Division =- not as 

a trumpet player, but as an architectural 
draftsman. Nolan recently joined the City 
Symphony which on Saturday nights during 
July gave concerts on the mall in Central 
Park. Soon they will be preparing for 
their fall series of concerts which will 
probably be held in our Museum. To keep 
himself and his trumpet in shape, Nolan 
practices every noon and hopes that other 
fellow-employee-musicians will join him so 
that eventually we may have an AMNH trio, 
quartet, quintet, or even a full symphony 
orchestra == who knows? How about luncheon 
music in the staff cafeteria? 


Two colleagues in Office Services under- 
went serious operations recently. Charlotte 


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Stove and John Maloney were both hospital- 
ized for some time and we're happy to 
report that both have made good recoveries 
and are back at their posts. It's good, 
too, to have John Pallister back in 
Entomology after his several weeks absence 
which included a stay in the hospital. 

He had a rough bout with his appendix in 
June, and he's happy to be rid of it. 
Speaking of hospitals, Mr. Pallister's 
office served as a maternity ward 

earlier this summer. He came in one 
morning to find that one of his black 
widow spiders had produced a flock of 
babies during the night. 


Travellers Abroad: Graphic Arts Chief 
Joseph Sedacca is back from a vacation 
in the eastern Mediterranean area where 
he visited Greece, Turkey, the Aegean 
islands, Cypress, Haifa, Nazareth, 
Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv (also London and 
Paris en route.) Scientific Publications 
Editor Ruth Tyler has returned from 
travels in England, where she made the 
cethedral tour, and Denmark and Sweden. 
Still over there are two colleagues in 
Micropaleontology who will attend the 
International Geological Congress in 
Copenhagen later this month: Carol 

Turco is also taking in France, Italy, 
and Switzerland, while Angelina Messina's 
itinerary reads England, Netherlands, 
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Soviet Union, 
Poland, Austria, Italy, and Portugal. 
(Lest anyone think that Micro is showing 
favoritism for Europe, Gladys Davis is 
spending two weeks in Rome, N.Y.) 


Back on the homefront, two members of the 
Film Division have acquired new habitats. 
Josephine D'Orsi moves shortly to her 
beautiful new apartment in Forest Hills 
which she has been decorating and 
furnishing for the past several weeks, 
and Henry Seelman is weekending at his 
newly-purchased house in Pennsylvania. 


Congratulations to John Heffernan of 
Building Services who will be married on 
September 3 to Mary Harty at the Sacred 
Heart Church in Manhattan. The future 
Mrs. Heffernan is employed at the Bank 
for Savings. 


As of mid-June, the familiar figure of 
James Perry Wilson has been seen about 


4. 


the Museum. He has been commissioned to 
paint five backgrounds for the new groups 
in the North American Mammal Hall Corridor. 


Bob and Rose Adlington (Fossil Inverte- 
brates and Entomology, respectively) have 
good reason to be very proud of their 17 
year-old daughter, Roberta, who has won an 
American Field Service scholarship to 
study in Berne, Switzerland, during the 
coming school year. She will live witha 
Swiss family and attend a local school 
where most of her classes will be in 
Germane In preparation, she is being 
coached in German this summer by language 
expert Connie Sherman (Ornithology) who 
reports that Roberta is an excellent 
student. Roberta sails for Europe in 
September with two hundred other young 
people who have been selected to take part 
in the program.’ 


Several people have pointed out that one 
of the exotic melodies emanating 
regularly from the “Lute, Flute, and 
Drum" exhibit sounds amazingly like a 
popular American ballad that we heard 
frequently during World War II. Remember 
"They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"? 
Listen for it next time you're passing 
the Corner Gallery. 


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| It is with sorrow that we report 

{| the following deaths: Charles 
Edwards (Bldg. Serv., retired) on 
June 3; Mike Lyons (Bldg. Serv.) 
on June 9; and Wilson L. Todd 
(formerly Power Plant) on July 4. 
Mr. Edwards, who served the Museum 
from 1923 to 1952, was a sargeant 
at the time of his retirement. 
Mr. Lyons had served as a floor 
man since 1951; his sudden death 
after only a day's absence from 
duty was attributed to a heart 
attack. Mr. Todd was Plant 
Engineer when he went on deferred 
pension eight years ago after some 


20 years of service to the Museum. ! 
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A REMINDER 


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corner of 76th St., reminds us that they 
extend special consideration to all AMINH 
personnel who shop there. But they can't 
tell just by looking at you that you're 

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ANY COLLECTORS INTERESTED? 


The following letter, received by the 
Museum, has already been answered. We 
are printing it for the benefit of any 
Civil War buff who may be interested. 


Dear Gentleman: 

I have in my possession a 
horse bridal which was used in the civil 
war on the Yankee side. It has on the 
side two buttons, an eagle in the 
middle, and 13 stars. It also states; 
E-Plur-Ibus Unum; (found on money). 

I would like to save up 
enough money to go to college. Would 
the museum be interested in buying it. 
Write back and tell me. 


Yours truely, 


Bill Pailey 
2303 West Dupont Ave. 
Belle, W. Va. 


MORE RADIO JOURNEYS 


Staff scientists who will be heard from 

on forthcoming programs of the Museum's 
weekly radio series, "Journey Into Nature," 
are: Auge 7eeeDr. Lester Aronson, 

"Instinct - What It Is And How It Came 

To Be" ; Aug. 14...Dr. K. Le Franklin, 
"Radio Astronomy - Listening To The 
Heavens"; Aug. 21...Dr. Stanley Freed, 
"The Indians of North America - Fact, 
Fancy and Fiction"; Aug. 28...Dr. Joseph C. 
Moore “ Our Squirrels And How They Got 
Here - Zoogeography"; Sept. 4...Dr. Junius 
Bird, "Ancient Textiles - How The Oldest 
Garments Were Made"; Sept. 11...Dr. 
Margaret Mead, “American Social Customs - 
American Family Life Circa 1960" (Part I); 
Sept. 18...Dr. Mead (Part II.) 


The program is heard each Sunday at 
2:05 P.M. over WNBC-Radio. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 8 


SEPTEMBER 1960 


NEW MEDICAL INSURANCE PLAN 


The new medical insurance plan for Museum 
employees, which becomes effective 

October 1, carries many valuable benefits 
that were unavailable to us under the 
former plan. These are described in 
detail in literature accompanying a letter 
sent to each employee a few days ago by 
Controller Walter F. Meister. 


In view of the recent sharp increases in 
all medical costs, we are fortunate that 
our Personnel Department has been able to 
secure an improved contract -- providing 
higher allowances and covering treatment 
with new medical techniques -- at only 

@ slightly increased cost. Premiums for 
each employee's own contract will be paid, 
as in the past, by the Museum. Employees 
whose contracts also cover members of 
their families will have small increases, 
as indicated in Mr. Meister's letter, in 
their payroll deductions. If your pres- 
ent contract covers persons other than 
yourself, and you wish to change it in 
any way before the new plan takes effect, 
be sure to get in touch with the 
Personnel Department by Friday, Sept. 30. 


NEW CHAIRMAN FOR ENTOMOLOGY 


Dr. Jerome G. Rozen, Jr. has returned to 
the Museum after 13 years absence. During 
a college summer, back in 1947, he worked 
here as a preparator of insect specimens. 
This month Dr. Oliver is announcing his 
appointment as Chairman of the Department 
of Entomology. 


Born in Evanston, Ill. in 1928, Dr. Rozen 

was graduated from the University of Kansas 

and took his doctorate at the University 
(eontinued on page 2) 


WELCOME TO VICE PRESIDENT GIBSON 


C. DeWolf Gibson, Vice President of our 
Board of Trustees, joined us after Labor 
Day on a full-time basis to devote his 
prodigious energies and business knowl- 
edge to the activities of the Museum, 
especially in the area of fund-raising. 
Although he is officially located in the 
President's Office on the second floor, 
he has spent the greater part of his 
time since his arrival visiting the 
various departments in order to famil- 
larize himself thoroughly with all 
aspects of the Museum's work. 


Mr. Gibson is no stranger to most of the 
staff, having been active in AMNH affairs 
since 1940. <A member of the Men's 
Committee, he served as its chairman for 
three years and was elected a Trustee in 
1953. Professionally, he was with the 
Air Reduction Company for many years, 
and was Vice President and. Director of 
that organization when he retired from 
business last spring. He is alsoa 
member of the Executive Committee of the 
Greater New York Council of Boy Scouts 
and a past chairman of the Committee for 
Commerce and Industry of the American 
Red Cross. 


Mr. Gibson's interest in the Museum 
began as a child. His father, a 
naturalist with the first Peary expedi- 
tion, presented the Museum with fossil 
and mammal specimens collected on his 
trips to the Arctic and to theGrand 
Canyon. "I learned early of the 
exciting work in science and education 
carried on by this Museum," he says. 
His enthusiasm is contagious, and we 
look forward with pleasure to working 
with him. 


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Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


by pay Pen am, —_—— 


Anthropolopy - James Ford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Katharine Beneker 


Frick Laboratory - George Kvochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 
Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 


Invertebrate Paleontology - Robert Adlington 


Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Dorothy Bliss 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Membership - William Somerville 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Brian Mason 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 
Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Robert Murray 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Maicolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops and Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(NEW CHAIRMAN FOR ENTOMOLOGY, 
cont'd from p. 1) 


of California in Berkeley. He has taught 
at both institutions and served on the 
staff of the United States National 
Museum in Washington, D. C. Before 
coming to us this summer, he was for two 
years Assistant Professor of Entomology 
at Ohio State University. 


Dr. Rozen is married to the former 
Barbara Lindner, also an entomologist, 
who worked at AMNH at several periods in 
the late 1940's. They have three sons 
and are living temporarily in Englewood. 
They hope to move to their new home in 
Closter early in October. 


HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY TO OUR STARS 


On Oct. 2, 1935, eight hundred invited 
guests attended opening ceremonies at 
the American Museum-Hayden Planetarium 
and saw the man-made stars twinkle for 
the first time. Since then approximately 
11 million people have visited the 
Planetarium. 


FLORIDA AMNHers & THE HURRICANE 


When Hurricane Donna ripped through 
central Florida this month, Richard 
Archbold and Leonard Brass of the 
Archbold Biological Station provided 
shelter for 73 victims of the storm. Among 
them was a group of Seminole Indians in- 
ciuding an expectant mother whose baby 
was due to arrive momentarily. As Mr. 
Brass cared for the refugees, Mr. Archbold 
kept the Station's emergency generator 
running to provide power for, among other 
things, the needs of the impending 

birth -- which fortunately did not take 
place during the crisis. There was no 
damage to the Station's buildings or 
facilities, but much vegetation on the 
property -- including many valuable exotic 
plantings -- was destroyed. 


As we go to press, we have not yet heard 

how any of our former colleagues now 

living in Florida weathered the big blow. 

We are thinking of them and hoping that 
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they all came through in good shape. In 
that connection, we are taking up a 
suggestion from Ernest Neilson, formerly 
Anthro. Dept. and now with the Univ. of 
Pla. State Museum, who visited in 

August with Dr. C. Howard Curran, 
formerly Entomol. Dept., and his wife. 

The three agreed that the Grapevine should 
carry a list of “all former employees of 
our great and glorious institution who 
have retired to Florida," so that those 
who don't know the whereabouts of others 
can get together from time to time. 

While we don't have a complete list, we 
do have the names of those who are 
members of the Pension Plan: Floyd Blair, 
ReRe 1, Box 103, Williston, Fla.... 

Albert E. Butler, 752 Palm Drive, Orlando, 
Fla.... C. Howard Curran, 1302 Peters Dr., 
Leesburg, Fla.... Katherine Griggs, Box 
987, Route 2, Lakeland, Fla.... Jules M. 
Hyman, 1228 West Dorothy St., Lakeland, 
Fla.... Walter Ge Jensen, 620 Wood St., 
Dunedin, Fla.... Ernest A. Neilson, 

P. O. Box 205, Interlachen, Fla.... 

Alma L. O'Connor, 1375 Pasadena Ave. 
South, Box 603, St. Petersburg 7, Fla.... 
Viola K. Reckert, 2502 Alpine Ave., 
Sarasota, Fla.... George Severn, 129 
South Prospect Ave., Avon Park, Fla.ee. 
Anthony Tumillo, 3831 29th Ave. North, 
St. Petersburg, Fla.... Benjamiu E. 
Edwards, 3901 Yardley Ave.- North, 

St. Petersburg, Fla. 


TWO ASSISTANT CURATORS APPOINTED 


Two departments report the appointment of 
new Assistant Curators this month. 

Dr. Meredith L. Jones has taken office 

in the Department of Living Invertebrates, 
and Dr. Sydney Anderson has joined the 
staff of Mammalogy. 


Dr. Jones comes to us from the Oceano- 
graphic Institute of Florida State 
University where for the past three 
years he has been in charge of a hydro- 
biological survey. A graduate of the 
University of California at Berkeley, he 
took his M.A.and Ph.D. degrees at that 
institution. There he specialized in 
marine invertebrate zoology, his thesis 
being on population dynamics. Since 
that time his interests have become more 
taxonomic and he now classifies himself 
as a systematist working on polychaete 


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annelids and ostracods. He and his wife 
are living in Manhattan. 


Dr. Anderson comes to us from the 
University of Kansas where, for the past 
four years, he has been Assistant 

Curator in charge of mammals. A graduate 
of the University, he took his doctorate 
there and also taught in the Department 
of Zoology. His research interests 
include distribution, variations, and 
relationships of microtine rodents, 
studies of activity cycles of rodents, 
water requirements, growth and development, 
and serological relationships. He and his 
wife, two daughters, and one son are 
living in Hackensack. 


THE LITTLE WORLD OF CLAIRE MOYNIHAN 


As the Museum family, partially dispersed 
for the summer, reconvenes at 79th Street 
and C.P.W. this month, we're especially 
happy to welcome back a colleague who was 
neither on vacation nor on a field trip. 
Claire Moynihan, Manager of the Planetarium 
Book Corner, was seriously ill and 
hospitalized for several months in the 
spring and early summer. It was a rough 
ordeal, and our thoughts were with her 
constantly. 


During her convalescence in August, 

Mrs. Moynihan wrote to the Grapevine to 
express her gratitude to all AMNH Blood 
Bank donors for the transfusions she 
received in the hospital, and for the 
personal concern of her colleagues during 
her "incarceration." She recalls one 
evening, just before an operation, when 
she was feeling very low. Then into the 
room came a procession of Planetarium 
friends bringing presents and good cheer. 
"It was like every Christmas and birthday 
rolled into one...It was almost worth 
being sick to find so much warmth, 
affection, and goodness in the little 
world I belong to..." The little world 
is very, very glad to have her back. 


Sam Kuster's latest anecdote is about the 
mother and child who were on their way out 
of the Museum when the mother stopped in 
front of our collection box and reached 
into her pocketbook... Child: "Whatcha 
doing?” Mother: "I'm going to put a quarter 
in this box." Child: "Goody! What's 

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ETHLYN NELSON 


Museum friends and colleagues of Nels C. 
Nelson, Curator Emeritus of Prehistoric 
Archeology, extend to him their deep 
sympathy on the loss of his wife, Ethlyn 
G. Hobbe Nelson, who passed away suddenly 
on July 16, 1960. Mrs. Nelson, who was 
born on Christmas Day, 1867, was closely 
associated with the Museum for nearly 
fifty years. As office secretary to her 
husband in the Department of Anthropology, 
and as his volunteer field assistant on 
expeditions, she participated in many of 
Dr. Nelson's important contributions to 
the study of early American Indian 
cultures. 


A native of California, Mrs. Nelson 
taught in a district school there before 
the turn of the century. Later, she was 
employed at the Anthropology Museum of 
the University of California in Berkeley 
where she first met Dr. Nelson in 1906 -- 
the year of the San Francisco earthquake. 
They were married in 1911, and the follow- 
ing year Dr. Nelson was appointed an 
Assistant Curator in the Anthropology 
Department at AMNH. From that time until 
1941, Mrs. Nelson was an active member 

of the Museum family. On field trips 
with her husband to New Mexico, Montana, 
and Kentucky, she numbered and packed 
excavated specimens, handled payrolls for 
workers, and did the camp cooking as well. 
During these years she contributed a 
number of articles to Natural History. 
Long term employees will also remember her 
charming verses in early issues of the 
Grapevine. 


Dr. Nelson, who has been Emeritus since 
1943, lives just a block from the Museum 
and comes in from time to time to visit 
his associates in Anthropology, the 
Library, and other departments. We mourn 
with him the loss of his wife; but we are 
also mindful of the deep gratification he 
knows for the many happy and productive 
years she shared with him. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


The current rehabilitation of the Indian 
war canoe in the 77th Street foyer shows 
what can be done with a little paint and 
plaster -- when applied with a lot of 
artistic skill. The realism of the 
refurbished life-sized figures is such 


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that a passer-by nearly fainted the other 
day when one of the figures appeared to 
move. It turned out that Preparator Bill 
Fish, working intently on a particular 
detail, was just shifting his position. 


The Main Library is now ensconced in its 
new quarters in the east wing, fourth 
floor, after a monumental moving job, and 
our librarians are finally getting a chance 
to catch their breath. Hazel Gay and 
George Goodwin worked late into the evening 
for many weeks, and everyone on their staff 
pitched in nobly to share the extra work 
load. We owe them all a hearty vote of 
thanks! 


Robert Jones of Building Services wishes 
to express his gratitude to all Museum 
colleagues who have offered prayers for 
the recovery of his 9-year old daughter, 
Barbara, who last month underwent a 
serious operation for a brain tumor. 
condition has improved under radiation 
treatments and she is now off the critical 
list. We will keep her in our thoughts 
and hope that she will soon be fully 
recovered. 


Her 


The Ornithology Dept. contingent attending 
meetings of the American Ornithologists 
Union in Michigan in August included Dean 
Amadon, Tom Gilliard, Charles Vaurie, 
Helen Hayes, and Stewart Keith. Mr. Keith 
is now in Saskatchewan photographing 
Sandhill Cranes. At the end of August 
Lester Aronson, Animal Behavior, attended 
the AIBS meetings at Oklahoma State Univ. 
where he delivered a paper. 


Travellers to the west: Ethel Tobach (An. 
Behav.) is back from California, Nevada, 
and a tour of the Grand Canyon. Dwe back 
this week is Jo D'Orsi (Films) who visited 
Frances Piansky (formerly Contr. Off.) in 
Santa Monica, then took in Las Vegas and 
a trip to Mexico. 


Leon Hrycark (Bldg. Serv.) is justly proud 
of a letter of thanks he recently received 
from the pastor of his church, St. Francis 
Xavier in the Bronx. Each year Mr. Hrycark 
works as a volunteer in the church's 
building fund drive. 


We're sorry to hear that Ilona Kunsagi 
(Main Lib.) has been on the sick list for 
several weeks. She's now out of the 


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So long and good luck to four colleagues 
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regretfully left us at the end of August. 
Emanuel Fonnick and Robert Statler 
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a new job in Charleston, W. Va. 


Congratulations to new parents: Bill 
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William Arthur, Jr., on Labor Day. Gerry 
Turkewitz (An. Behav.) and wife Myrna 
welcomed a new son, Aron, in June. 
Correcting a serious error in last June's 
Grapevine, Barney Kreps (Planet.) had a 
new grandson, not granddaughter. His 
name is Bradley Stephen Weiss. 


COURSES OPEN FREE TO EMPLOYEES 


The fall program of evening courses 
offered by the Dept. of Education begins 
the first week in October. As in the past, 
Museum employees may audit, free of charge, 
any courses that are not fully subscribed. 
It is requested, however, that persons 
interested call Bruce Hunter, ext. 445, 

in advance to make sure that the class is 
not already full. The schedule of courses 
is posted on the cafeteria bulletin board. 


NOTICE TO ALL WHO TYPE 


TYPE-OUT, a chemically treated correction 
sheet that removes typing errors from a 
single or first copy spotlessly and with 
a minimum of effort, is now available from 
the Office Services Division on requi- 


sition. Office Services suggests you try 
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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 9 


OPEN LETTER TO THE GRAPEVINE 
I want to thank you and your staff for 
the warm words of welcome in the 
September issue of the Grapevine which 
has just come to me. 


As you have suggested, for a number of 
years I have been more or less familiar 
with many of our Museum's activities and 
have known of our rare and priceless 
collections. But now for the first time 
I realize that the Museum's most 
valuable collection is its people--some 
six hundred men and women who make this 
Museum what it is. 


In reply to your friendly words, I want 
you to know that I am exceedingly proud 
to join the Museum ranks and look fore 
ward to meeting more of my associates 
as each day goes by. 


Sincerely yours, 


C. D'W. Gibson 


SURPRISE PARTY AT PLANETARIUM 


Visitors to the Planetarium on Sunday 
evening, Oct. 2, were in for an un- 
expected pleasure when, following the 
sky presentation, they were invited to 
share a fabulous birthday cake with 


members of the Museum-Planetarium family. 


The occasion was the Planetarium's 25th 
anniversary, and the cake -- baked in 
the shape of the Planetarium building -- 
was complete with miniature flags, the 
institution's name inscribed in 
chocolate, and a delicious marzipan 
dome. The first cut from this Globe 
(continued on page 2) 


numerous to list. 


October 1960 


ROYAL VISITOR 


It isn't every day that a Crown Prince 
leaves a Yankee ball game after the third 
inning in order to visit our Museum. But 
Prince Akihito of Japan did just that on 
Sunday, Oct. 2. As the New York Times put 
it, "Although known to be a baseball fan, 
the Prince is apparently more of an 
enthusiast for biology and ichthyology." 


Arriving here forty-five minutes ahead of 
schedule, His Highness was the first 
visitor to the newly-completed Japanese 
Bird Group in the Hall of Birds of the 
World. In line with his special interest 
in ichthyology, he spent considerable time 
in the Fish Dept. laboratory and in the 
Animal Behavior Dept. greenhouse where he 
observed the African mouthbreeder Tilapia, 
a fish to which he is especially partial. 
He also looked in on dinosaurs, fossil 
mammals, and North American forests, and 
stayed well past closing time. 


Advance preparations for the royal visit 
required careful planning and coordination 
among many departments and individuals too 
Suffice to say that 
the Prince's enjoyment of the Museum made 
our efforts well worth while, and we hope 
he'll come again. 


NEW TIME FOR MUSEUM RADIO JOURNEYS 
"Journey Into Nature", the Museum's radio 
series heard each Sunday over WNBC, has 
been moved from 2:05 P.M. to 11:05 A.M., 

@ more advantageous listening time. This 
Sunday, Oct. 9, Anthropologist Colin 
Turnbull discusses the cultural background 
of the crisis in the Congo; on the 16th, 
Dr. Wesley Lanyon, Ornithology, will talk 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - 


Animal Gehavior- Evelyn Shaw 
Anthro; opo OlOgy =. ogy ~ James Ford 


Catherine Mahoney 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 


Exbibition & Graphic Arts Arts - Katherine Beneker 


Fossil inv invertebrates = Robert Adlington 
Frick Taboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 
poe logy - Victoria Pelton 

- Olga Smith 
ony Invertebrates - Dorothy Bliss 


Magazine Circt Circulation ~- William Somerville 


Mammalogy - EK - Hobert Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Brian Mason 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 
Naturel History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Robert Murray 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant ~ Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


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Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(SURPRISE PARTY AT PLANETARIUM, 
cont'd. from p. 1) 


Canteen masterpiece was executed by 
Mrs. Fe Trubee Davison. Mr. Davison, 
Museum President when the Planetarium 
was founded, was unable to attend the 
party because of a business trip abroad. 


Guests attending a small dinner prior to 
the evening show included three men who 
had helped to open the Planetarium for 
the first time in 1935: Joseph Connors 
and Henry Ehlenberger, now Business 
Manager and Assistant Business Manager 
respectively, and Charles Federer, now 
editor of the magazine Sky & Telescope. 


The Employees' Benefit Association made 
six payments from its death benefit fund 
during the months May through September, 
1960. Assessments were noted on 
members‘ paychecks only for the last 
three payments, however, as the first 
three were covered by surplus funds 
accumulated in the spring. 


(NEW TIME FOR MUSEUM RADIO JOURNEY, 
cont'd. from p. 1) 


about the Kalbfleisch Field Research 
Station, of which he is resident director; 
on the 23rd, Exhibition Chairman Gordon 
Reekie will describe the many factors that 
go into the making of an exhibit, and tell 
something of our future exhibition plans. 


We were very sorry to learn that Kenneth 
Banghart, the noted commentator who has 
been host on "Journey Into Nature” since 
it was started last spring, will be 
leaving NBC soon. Mr. Banghart's deft 
skill as an interviewer, together with 
his deep interest in the Museum, have 
contributed greatly to the success of the 
program. Museum staff members who have 
worked with him on the series will miss 
him. 


The new Main Library on the fourth floor 
was opened to the public on Oct. 1. Hours 
for public use are 12-4 weekdays and 
Saturdays, closed Sundays and holidays. 


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GEORGE L. SCHROTH 


George L. Schroth, Accounting, who died 
on September 5, had been with the Museum 
for thirty-five years. Early this 

August he entered the hospital for a 
major operation from which he never fully 
recovered. His colleagues extend their 
deepest sympathy to his brothers Paul 
Schroth, Shipping Room; Chris Schroth, 
who retired from the Museum a few years 
ago; and Philip. 


Mr. Schroth was born in New York City in 
1902. An excellent amateur photographer, 
he was an active member of the AMNH 
Camera Club for many years. He also 
enjoyed building models, and on one 
occasion constructed a 2000-piece model 
of the U.S.S. "Missouri" for the young 
son of his friend and colleague in 
Accounting, Bill Sherman. 


After Mr. Schroth's death, Louis A. 
Benesh, Chief Accountant, wrote to the 
Grapevine, "His passing is profoundly 
felt by those with whom he had daily 
contact. The character of the life he 
lived can be summed up in a few words; 
he was sincere, earnest, loyal, in- 
dustrious, and self-sacrificing. His 
passing leaves a void in our hearts and 
in the organization that will be 
difficult to fill." 


It is with sorrow that we record also 
the deaths of two distinguished former 
colleagues, Charles J. Lang on Sept. 7, 
and Herbert F. Schwarz on Oct. 2. 


Mr. Lang retired from his post in the 
Vertebrate Paleontology laboratory in 
1949 after 46 years of service to the 
Museum. As Chief Preparator of fossil 
vertebrates, he mounted thousands of 
skeletons including Tyrannosaurus and 
many others in our exhibition halls. He 
was @ master craftsman and developed 
valuable techniques that have been 
adopted by museums throughout the world. 
His friends here extend their deep 
sympathy to his wife, Elizabeth, who 
shared with him a continuing interest 
in the Museum after his retirement. 


Mr. Schwarz, Research Associate in 
Entomology, was an authority on stingless 
bees and published numerous papers on the 


36 


subject. He was Editor of Natural History 
in the early 1920's and served as Acting 
Chairman of the Entomology Dept. for two 
years following the death of Dr. Frank 
Lutz in 1944. He was also an active 
member of the Explorers Club. In recent 
years, ill health prevented him from 
pursuing his work at the Museum, but he 
continued to come in from time to time to 
see his colleagues, who will miss him 
very much. 


CREDIT UNION CO-MAKERS 


Recently a Museum employee, Mr. X., asked 
a colleague to co-sign a note for a large 
loan from the AMNH Credit Union. The 
colleague said, "Sure, anything for a 
friend," and was all set to affix his 
signature without giving the matter a 
second thought. It turned out, however, 
the the prospective co-maker had no 
savings, was in debt himself, and would 
have been in no position to take over his 
friend's payments if the loan became 
delinquent. The Credit Union asked Mr. xX. 
to get another co-maker. 


Co-makers perform an important and 
valuable service in any Credit Union. 
Fortunately, our CU has rarely had to 

ask a co-maker to make good on a loan -- 
but it has happened, and co-makers have 
occasionally expressed surprise to learn 
the extent of their liability. When you 
co-sign a friend's CU note, you are agree- 
ing to pay the full amount due on the loan, 
including the interest, if at any point 
your friend becomes unable or unwilling 

to pay it. Your signature is nota 
character reference or a vote of confidence 
in the borrower; it is your acceptance of 
full legal responsibility for the debt if 
the borrower defaults. 


CU loans of over $750 require either a 
co-maker or equivalent collateral such as 
negotiable stocks or bonds, or jewelry. 
Credit Union savers often use their own 
CU shares as collateral on a short term 
loan. 


BLUE CROSS UP 


Rising medical costs, discussed in last 

month's Grapevine in connection with the 

Museum's new medical insurance contract, 

have also affected New York's Blue Cross 

Plan, as explained in Controller Walter 

F. Meister's recent letter to all employees. 
(continued on page 4) 


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Although all Blue Cross premiums have 
been increased to cover the higher 
allowances and additional benefits, there 
will be no payroll deductions for 
employees’ cwn contracts. These in- 
creased premiums will be paid by our 
Trustees as in the past. Employees who 
carry Blue Cross coverage for other 
members of their immediate families, 
however, will pay slightly increased 
premiums. If you are in the latter 
category, and if you wish to make any 
change in your contract before the new 
plan becomes effective November 1, be 
sure to get in touch with the Personnel 
Department by Friday, October el. 


William A. Nalty and Thomas Grady, both 
of whom came to the Museum in the 1920's, 
retired from active service last month. 
Mr. Nalty, who had been with us 39 years, 
served in Building Services, Preparation, 
and most recently, Anthropology -- where 
he is sorely missed as "no one can find 
anything around here since he left" 
according to Dr. Junius Bird. Mr. Grady, 
who started as a Museum watchman in 

1926, has served as an attendant in most 
of the exhibition halls. His most 
recent assignment was on the freight 
elevator in Section 9. As both men are 
residents of New York City, we hope to 
see them often again. 


ART CLASSES 


Informal art classes for employees will 
be resumed this month with an opening 
meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Room 
1-A (off the 77th St. foyer) from 5 to 
7 pem. Matthew Kalmenoff (Exhib.) will 
again instruct the group in techniques of 
painting landscapes, still-lifes, and 
portraits. Students who have their own 
paints should bring them to the first 
meeting. Others will be advised at that 
time on the kind of paints they may buy. 
The class will meet regularly on the 
second and last Thursday of each month. 


Office Services has a new machine for 
copying that is infinitely better than 
the previous one. This machine can 
€ven copy from books and magazines. 


4. 
HEARD IN PASSING 


Fred Pavone (Elect. Shop) and his wife 

are having a family reunion this month. 
Their son, who has been overseas with the 
Air Force for 3 years, has arrived home 
with his wife and child; and their 
daughter, who lives out west, has brought 
her child home for a visit. As Mr. Pavone 
says, “Happy are the grandparents who see 
the joy of the fruits of life before them.” 


Ed Burns (Print Shop) was a particularly 
anxious grandpa-to-be this summer. His 
son and daughter-in-law were expecting 
their eighth child -- after seven boys in 
@ row. The new baby has now arrived and 
guess what! Her name is Mary Ellen. 


The Animal Behavior Dept. extends special 
accolades to Harry Mirollo, John Polo, 
and Sam D'Angelo for their work, beyond 
the call of duty, to make the greenhouse 
sparkle for the visit of the Japanese 
Crown Prince. They scrubbed and polished 
all day Saturday and Sunday so that the 
Prince would be able to see the fishes in 
the tanks without having to peer through 
a forest of green algae. Messrs. Mirollo 
and Polo deserve particular thanks...they 
were on vacation at the time. 


Another note on the royal visit: His 
Highness arrived carrying a small grocery 
bag containing an assortment of leaves, 
twigs, and acorns he had picked up at the 
Rockefeller estate herbarium in Tarrytown. 
He would like them identified, he said, 
but he would be leaving for Japan at 
10:30 the next morning. It being a Sunday, 
our vegetation expert Jack McCormick wasn't 
in -- but he arrived a few hours later to 
attend the Planetarium's anniversary 
festivities. Dr. McC. didn't get much 
sleep that night. After the party he went 
to his office and studied the specimens, 
and he was up at the crack of dawn next 
morning for a guest appearance on a 
television show. At 10:15 a.m. he person- 
ally delivered the grocery bag, with 
contents properly identified, to the royal 
suite at the Waldorf Towers. 


It's good to see the familiar face of 
Jack Greig around the Museum. He's back 
with the Paint Shop temporarily to help 
with the general sprucing up that's going 
on everywhere we turn these days. Latest 
area to get the new look is the Museum 
Shop. (continued on page 5) 


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The arrival and departure each day of 
Don Squires (Fossil Invert.) is a great 
occasion for ball-playing youngsters on 
the upper West Side. The game is to 
bounce the ball off Dr. S.‘'s gleaming 
white safety helmet as he flies down 
Columbus Ave. on his motor scooter. 

Dr. S. was recently run over by a 
pedestrian who failed to notice his small 
vehicle sandwiched in between two cars 
at a stop light. Pedestrian, scooter, 
and scientist landed in a heap -- with- 
out casualties. 


Walter Fairservis (Anthro.) tells us that 
Center Spot, Inc., the "off-Broadway" 
theater in Westchester to which he 
devotes much of his free time, is pre- 
senting a production of "Everyman" this 
month. Performances are at 8:30 p.m. 

on Oct. 7, 8, 14 and 15, at Christ Church 
in Bronxville. There is no admission 
charge, but advance reservations may be 
made by calling SP 9-1705. Dr. Fairservis 
is artistic director of the theater group. 


Bill Burns was one of three judges at 
the judging of the Nature Section of the 
International Exhibition of the Color 
Camera Club of Westchester, held in 
Scarsdale last month. Over 700 trans- 
parencies had to be judged and the 
session lasted ten hours. This is un- 
questionably the longest time that 

Dr. Burns has ever been known to sit 
still. 


Al de Luca (Elect. Shop) helped to close 
up Atlantic City at the end of the 
season last month. He's an enthusiastic 
volunteer promoter of the famous resort 
town, in return for which he has been 
appointed its unofficial mayor. 


This month the Planetarium welcomed back 
from vacation a colleague who left as 
Barbara Botteri and returned as 

Mrs. Vincent Harrison. When you pass 
through the office these days, the soft 
chime of wedding bells can still be heard 
in the background. We're glad to have 
Mrs. H. back and we wish her and her 

new spouse the best of everything. 


Employee discounts for Xmas shopping at 
the Museum Shop & Planetarium Book Corner 
begin November 1. Shop early! 


BLOOD BANK COMING 


The AMNH Blood Bank will be replenished 
on Monday, December 12, when the Red 
Cross Bloodmobile makes its next visit 
to the Museum, Dr. William A. Burns, 
Blood Bank Chairman, reports. Ina 

few weeks you will receive a letter ask- 
ing you to donate blood at that time; 
please sign the return form and send it 
back at once. Meanwhile, all employees 
will have the opportunity to see the 
film, "Prescription For Life" at a meet- 
ing on November 3 at 9 a.m. in the main 
auditorium. This film describes the 
vital importance of participation in the 
blood bank. The Administration expects 
all personnel, except those at posts whc 
which cannot be vacated, to be present 
for this short meeting. Make a note of 
it on your calendar now. 


FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW PLACES . 


Dr. Norman Newell (Fossil Invert.) has 
moved to new offices on the 5th floor. 
He's now located in the tower formerly 
occupied by the Main Library reading 
room and Miss Gay's office....James 
McDonnell has transferred from Micro- 
paleontology to General Accounting.... 
Edith Kendall moved across the hall from 
the Exhibition Dept. to the Office of 
the Plant Manager....Samuel D'Angelo 
went from Building Services to Animal 
Behavior....and Dr. Richard Zweifel 
(Herp. ) was promoted from Assistant 
Curator to Associate Curator as of 
July l. 


GET WELL QUICK 


Among our colleagues who are hospitalized 
or convalescing from operations as we 

go to press are Joseph Sedacca (Graph. 
Arts), Libbie Hyman (Living Invert.), 
Charles Kerr (Burs. Off.), Victor 
Badaracco (Bldg. Ser.) and John Cook 
(Account. ). We miss them and hope they 
are all making good recoveries. 


ORDERS FROM THE FIRE DEPT. 


Custodian Philip C. Miller received a 

Fire Dept. violation order last month 

on behalf of several employees whose 

parked cars were blocking the exits from 

the school service cafeteria in the Museur 

yard. The next step will be $15 tickets, 
(continued on page 6) 


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(ORDERS FROM THE FIRE DEPT., cont'd. 
from page 5) 


which Mr. Miller will pass along to the 
owners of the cars. Fire safety regu- 
lations require that exits from the 
children's cafeteria be kept accessible 
at all times, whether or not the room is 
in use. Parking is therefore prohibited 
along the exterior walls of the school 
service building, on both the north and 
south sides of the building. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


Louis Ferry (Carp. Shop) and wife were 
guests in September of Harry Farrar 
(formerly Mason Shop) and his wife at 
their summer place in Vermont. During 
the Ferry-Farrar weeklong reunion, 
Wayne Faunce (formerly Vice Director) 
and his wife came over from their home 
in Stowe and the three couples enjoyed 
a steak cook-out. Also during the week, 
Elizabeth Emory (formerly Staff Nurse) 
and her husband stopped in to say hello 
at the Farrar household. Mr. Ferry 
brings us greetings from all of then, 
and an invitation from Mr. Faunce to 
come up and enjoy the skiing at Stowe. 


Joan Governale (formerly Contrib. Off.) 
gave birth to a baby boy on Octe 3.00.6 
mother and son doing beautifully, it's 
reported by Dorothy Madsen (formerly 
Contrib. Off. too). 


Dr. Edward Weyer (formerly editor of 
Natural History) has been appointed 
Director of the School of American 
Research in Santa Fé, New Mexico. 


Jeanne Lyons (Vert. Paleo.) has dis- 
covered that she and Barbara Segelken 
(formerly Dir. Off.) are living in the 
same residence club. Miss S. is now 
with the Sinclair Oil Co. 


Irene Ruibal (formerly Herp.) stopped 
here to say hello last month on her way 
to Argentina where she and her son are 
accompanying her husband on a six 
months' research trip. 


TRADING POST 


For Sale: 12" Goodmans axiom speaker in 
large bass-reflex enclosure with match- 
ing walnut veneer cabinet for hi-fi 
components. Call Judie Schwartz, ext. 
Luh or 481, 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


In Living Invertebrates: Dr. Horace 
Stunkard back from summer studies at 
Woods Hole on the parasites of soft- 
shelled clams and their predators.... 
Morris Altman spent two weeks at the 
Lerner Marine Laboratory in the Bahamas 
making field observations on land crabs 
for Dr. Dorothy Bliss's research. 


In Herpetology: Charles M. Bogert and 
Museum Director James A. Oliver were at 
the Lerner Marine Lab for several days 
last month in connection with the project 
to conserve the green turtle....Dr. 
Richard Zweifel back from a summer's work 
at the Southwestern Research Station in 
Arizona where one of his field assistants 
was Harvey Pough, son of Frederick Pough 
formerly of the Museum staff....Field 
Associate Philip Spalding has taken off 
to join William Hosmer, also Field Assoc., 
in Australia for another collecting 
expedition. 


In Fishes: Dr. Charles M. Breder is in 
Florida for field work on the Gulf 
coast....Francesca LaMonte spent ten days 
last month doing research at Scripps 
Institution of Oceanography in California. 


In Ornithology: Dr. Jean Dorst, ornitholo- 
gist and Associate Director of the National 
Museum of Natural History in Paris arrives 
this month to spend three weeks with us. 


CAMERA CLUB PLANS 


An unusually interesting program has been 
planned for the November 10th meeting of 
the AMNH Camera Club, to which all 
employees are invited. Angelina Messina 
(Micro.) who this summer visited Russia 
and the Soviet satellite countries, as 
well as Europe, will give an illustrated 
talk on her travels at 12 noon in Room 
319, Roosevelt Building. Meanwhile, the 
first fall meeting of the Club takes place 
this Thursday, Oct. 13 (also at noon in 
Room 319), Club President Arthur Pitschi 
reports. All members and those interested 
in joining are urged to attend. Com- 
mittees will be appointed and ideas for 
future programs will be discussed. Bring 
your lunch. 

Place special book orders now at Museum 
Shop & Planetarium Book Corner, if you 
want books in time for Christmas. 


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VOLe XVII, NO. 10 


YOU AND THE MUSEUM 


"You And The Museum", an informative 
and attractive handbook for AMNH 
personnel, has just come off the press 
and is now being distributed to all 
employees. In addition to giving 
general background information about the 
Museum, it describes the activities and 
locations of each department and unit, 
as well as the various benefits and 
services available to Museum employees. 


As far as anyone can remember, this is 
the first handbook ever published for 
all members of the Museum family. 
Opening with a letter of welcome from 
President White and Director Oliver, it 
is designed primarily for new people 
coming into the organization. However, 
it should prove a valuable aid and handy 
reference even for those who have been 
with the Museum for many years. 


ATTENTION, NON-RESIDENTS 


Museum personnel who are not residents 
of New York State are entitled to deduct, 
for N.Y. State income tax purposes, any 
pay received for work performed outside 
this state. However, the employee must 
report the duration of such work to the 
Personnel Office immediately upon his 
return to the Museum. A form for this 
purpose entitled "Report of Work Outside 
The State of New York by Non-Residents" 
is available from Office Services. It 
should be filled out and filed with the 
Personnel Office before the first pay 
period after the employee's return. 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


NOVEMBER 1960 


WALTER MEISTER HONORED BY TRUSTEES 


The inscription plaque reads: "For Walter 
F. Meister, in warm appreciation of his 
long years of valuable and devoted service, 
from the members of the Board of Trustees 
of the American Museum of Natural History. 
New York, October 24, 1960." 


The words are inscribed on a handsome 

desk set presented by the Trustees at their 
annual meeting last month to our popular 
and respected Controller, Deputy Director, 
and Executive Secretary. President 
Alexander M. White pointed out at the 
meeting that the gift is as much an 
expression of regard for the many years in 
which Mr. Meister will continue to devote 
his abilities to the Museum, as it is a 
tribute for his great contribution in the 
past 44 years. This thoughtful idea 
originated with Mrs. Richard Derby and 

E. Roland Harriman, both members of the 
Board of Trustees. 


The plaque is set between two graceful pen 
stands in a block of granite taken from 
the exterior wall of the Museum building. 
On a vertical stand behind the plaque is 
the outline of the Museum's 77th Street 
facade engraved in silver. The pens them- 
selves were chosen with special attention 
to Mr. Meister's chirographic habits. 

Both have tapered handles, similar to desk 
set fountain pens, but one is a ball point 
and the other a red pencil -- the two 
kinds of writing implements that 

Mr. Meister has used exclusively for many 
years. 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, 
Animal Petavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 


ition & Graphic Arts - Katherine Beneker 


Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Dorothy Bliss 


Mamma logy - “Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Minerelo - Brian Mason 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 
Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Pa. aE iabaeolaay - Jeanne 1e Lyons 


MUSEUM-CITY RETATIONS 


The Administration reports the successful 
culmination of efforts to secure pro<- 
motions for two colleagues in City line 
positions. In Plant Operations, William 
S. Heslin, formerly Sheet Metal Worker's 
Helper, moved up to Sheet Metal Worker. 
And in Building Services, James Duffy was 
promoted from Museum Attendent to Senior 
Museum Attendant. 


IF YOU EVER NEED A TRANSFUSION..... 


If you haven't decided yet whether you're 
going to donate blood next month when the 
Red Cross Bloodmobile comes to the Museum, 
you might discuss the matter with Rose 
Adlington of Entomology, Claire Moynihan 
at the Planetarium, Victor Badaracco who 
is still on sick leave from Building 
Services, or any one of a number of our 
colleagues who attribute their well- 
being today to blood transfusions that 
were available when they were on critical 
lists in hospitals. They will tell you, 
(continued on page 3) 


HUMMINGBIRDS 


"Hummingbirds", a beautiful and extraor- 
dinary book by Crawford H. Greenewalt, 
AMNH Trustee, is being published by the 
Museum and Doubleday and Company on 
November 18, simultaneous with the 
opening of an exhibit here based on the 
book. Mr. Greenewalt's volume is an 
avian portrait gallery containing full- 
color, life-size photographs of 70 local 
and exotic members of the hummingbird 
family, as well as line drawings and a 
fascinating text. In order to capture 
on film dozens of hummingbirds rarely 
seen by man, Mr. Greenewalt traveled 
more than 100,000 miles through North, 
Central, and South America. During the 
seven years he worked on the project, he 
found it necessary to devise a unique 
stroboscopic flash 1/30,000,000 of a 
second in duration, in order to "stop" 
on film the whirring wingbeat of the 
hovering hummingbird. 
Dr. Dean Amadon, Chairman of the 
Department of Ornithology, wrote the 
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from their experience, that if you ever 
need blood for yourself or a member of 
your immediate family you will need it 
urgently, at once, and in quantity. 
There won't be time to round up donors, 
to explain how you had meant to pledge 
a donation to the AMNH Blood Bank but 
just hadn't gotten around to it. Only 
those employees who have given blood 
through the Museum Blood Bank -- and 
those who have pledged to give but have 
been turned down -- are eligible to 
receive blood free from our Blood Bank. 
If you haven't signed up to give a blood 
donation at the First Aid Room on 
December 12, please do it now. Call 
Nurse Margaret Johnston, ext. 466. 


MEMBERSHIP OFFICE RELOCATES 


Dr. William A. Burns, Chairman of 
Membership, has moved from his third 
floor office to new and larger quarters 
in the Members’ Room near the Roosevelt 
second floor entrance. The relocation 
is in line with Dr. Burns' program to 
interest potential new members through 
personal contact. A sign on the door 
will invite visitors to walk in and talk 
over the benefits of Museum membership. 
The beautiful butternut panelling of the 
room contributes to its gracious 
atmosphere, and Dr. Burns is thinking of 
many additional ways of making the room 
more attractive to our members and 
potential members. 


ARTHUR S. VERNAY 


Arthur S. Vernay, who died on Oct. 25, 
1960, made many important contributions 
to the American Museum, both as an 
expedition leader and as a member of our 
Board of Trustees from 1935 to 1950. At 
the time of his death, he was an 
Honorary Trustee and a Field Associate 
in the Department of Mammalogy. 


Mr. Vernay made at least 15 major 
expeditions for the Museum. In the 
1920's, he and Col. J. C. Faunthorpe led 
six expeditions to India, Burma and Siam 
to collect and later donate to the 
Museum the specimens in the Hall of 
South Asiatic Mammals, still the finest 
and most complete exhibit of its kind 


(continued on page 4) 


3. 
(HUMMINGBIRDS, cont'd. from p. 2) 


foreword to the book. Mr. Greenewalt, a 
Research Associate in that Department, 
is President of E. I. du Pont de Nemours 
& Co. 


The exhibit, including a remarkable 
filmy will be displayed in the North 
American Mammal Hall Corridor from 
November 18 until March 19, 1961. 


PLANETARIUM TELEVISION SERIES 


James S. Pickering of the Planetarium is 
the on-camera lecturer in an excellent 
weekly TV show titled "Astronomy For You", 
now being shown each Sunday morning from 
10 to 10:30 on Channel 7 in New York. 
The series was made two years ago in 
cooperation with the Planetarium for 
distribution to educational television 
stations, and has proved so popular that 
many commercial channels have been 
showing it. Last year, the program and 
Mr. Pickering won a Sylvania Award for 
outstanding educational TV. 


CAMERA CLUB PROGRAMS 


Last month's Camera Club program, at 
which Hans Behm of the Photo Division 
presented a kodachrome travelogue 
through West Germany, was attended by an 
overflow crowd. As a result, the forth- 
coming program -- this Thursday, 

Nov. 12 -- will be held in the Roosevelt 
fifth floor lecture hall. Angelina 
Messina of Micropaleontology will give 
an illustrated talk on several European 
countries she visited this summer, 
including the U.S.S.R. This program 
begins at 12 noon and everyone's welcome. 
Photography enthusiasts will have a rare 
opportunity on Dec. 1 to see close-up 
color photography of flowers, particularly 
orchids, presented by Dr. Harold E. 
Anthony of the Frick Lab. The December 
program will be held at 12 noon in 
Room 419 of Roosevelt Memorial. 


Camera Club President Arthur Pitschi 
reports that the Club is now working on 
plans for a photo competition which will 
be open to all AMNH personnel, as well 
as on a program of instruction in dark- 
room methods. Details of these in- 
teresting projects will be announced 

at the Nov. 12 and Dec. 1 meetings. 

Put them both on your calendar now. 


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in existence. Mr. Vernay's last 
expedition was to Nyasaland, South 
Africa, in 1946 with Dr. Harold E. 
Anthony and Leonard J. Brass. 


In a resolution expressing the deep sense 
of loss occasioned by Mr. Vernay's death, 
our Trustees said that his great personal 
charm and splendid character will be 
remembered by all who were privileged to 
have known and worked with him. 


ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SEMINARS 


A program of seminars on current research 
in animal behavior, initiated several 
years ago by the Animal Behavior Dept., 
has been renewed this fall on a regular 
twice-monthly basis. At last month's 
meetings, Lisa Walters, Ichthyology, 
discussed her work with fishes, and 

Dr. Colin Bier of Oxford University spoke 
on his seagull research. On Nov. 10, 

Dr. Edward Hodgson of Columbia discusses 
sensory mechanisms in insects. On the 
18th, Dr. Henri Coomans of the University 
of Amsterdam, who is with us temporarily 
on a research fellowship, will talk 

about behavior in rats. And on Dec. 1, 
Dr. Vladimir Walters, Ichthyology, will 
discuss his findings on locomotion in 
fishes. 


Dr. Evelyn Shaw, Animal Behavior, is in 
charge of the seminars, which are open to 
all interested personnel. If you would 
like to attend, please get in touch with 
Dr. Shaw, ext. 373. 


KUDOS FOR MR. CHAMBERLAIN 


Joseph M. Chamberlain, Chairman of the 
Planetarium, last month received an award 
for "Outstanding Business Achievement" 
from his alma mater, the U. S. Merchant 
Marine Academy. Mr. Chamberlain was one 
of five men selected for the award from 
among over 6,000 graduates in classes 
gathering for Homecoming Day at the 
Academy on Oct. 22. The other four award 
winners were presidents or high executives 
of steamship companies. 


OPENING IN BOWLING LEAGUE 


The AMNH Bowling League is off to a flying 
start this season with excitement and fun 
running high at the several practice 
sessions already held. Several additional 


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bowlers are needed to fill out the teams 
and the openingswill be filled by the 
first people (men or women) to apply, 
regardless of bowling skill. The League 
bowls every Tuesday evening at alleys on 
Broadway at 197th Street. Members with 
cars will provide transportation from the 
Museum. If you're interested, call 

Al Potenza, ext. 428 or 226. 


E.B.eA. FISH & CHICK FRY 


There will be dancing to live music, 
choice of a fish or chicken dinner, and 
plenty of beer for all at the festive 
autumn get-together of the Employees' 
Benefit Association on Friday, Nov. 18, 
Catherine Pessino, EBA President, reports. 
The party, which begins at 5:30 p.m. in 
the Roosevelt basement foyer and cafeteria, 
is unquestionably the best dinner-dance 
bargain of the season -- as tickets cost 
only $1. 


EBA representatives are now selling 
tickets throughout the building. Tickets 
are marked with either "F" or "C" -- for 
your choice of fish or chicken. If the 
representative in your department does not 
contact you soon, get in touch with 
Kenneth Chambers, chairman of the ticket 
committee. The bigger the turnout, the 
better the party will be. See you there: 


LETTER TO THE GRAPEVINE 


Now that Mr. K has departed our shores, 
we have time to reflect soberly on the 
items discussed at the U.N. From these 
discussions it is evident that to have 
peace among all people on this earth the 
prerequisite is co-existence. Mr. K's 
brand is force; history reveals this 

as unworkable, shoe-pounding notwith- 
standing. Now what about our own brand? 


Throughout our country, people of all 
kinds and shades live and work together, 
solving their continuing problems in a 
civilized and human way. Everywhere in 
the U.S., even here at the Museum, co- 
existence could be a problem. That it is 
not, I suppose, is due to right thinking 
and understanding. A case for example is 
our own Electrical Department. 


The electricians of the Museum are 
descendants of the English, Irish, 
Germans, Dutch, French, Italians, Spanish, 
Their religions are 
(continued on page 5) 


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page 4) 


Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. Since 
the co-existence here is tops, I believe 
it proves the point. Some may say this 
situation is pure luck, but I don't think 
so -- knowing that there are thirteen 
individuals involved. 


Paul Goodhouse 
NEW FACES 


A warm welcome to all our new colleagues 
who have joined the Museum staff in 
recent months. They are: Exhibition - 
Preston McClanahan, Raymond Kaplan, 
Herbert Kammerer, Ricca Metz. Building 
Services - Patrick Flannigan, Vincent 
Paternoster, Ruben Libraty, Daniel Flavin, 
Melvin Hinkley, Patrick O'Neill, Pasquale 
Bartolone, Richard McCallion, Thomas 
Hayden, Salvatore Sperazza, John 

Othmer, Gerald W. Thurmann. Natural 
History Advertising - Ronda De Sola. 
Magazine Circulation - Eileen Randell. 
Membership - Mary Dougherty. Herpe- 
tology - Marian Schmied. Museum Shop - 
Elaine Reilly. Fossil Invertebrates - 
Lynne Hollander, Sidney Horenstein. 
President's Office - Laura Whitmer. 
Animal Behavior - Harold Langner. 
Education - Barbara Neill, Ethne Marenco. 
The two new temporary men in the 
Carpentry Shop are Dan Faloon and John 
Zemba. New part-time research assistants 
in Animal Behavior are Joan Evers and 
Jack Victor. 


MORE ON CREDIT UNION CO-MAKERS 


In last month's Grapevine it was pointed 
out that a person who signs as co- 

maker for a friend's loan from the AMNH 
Credit Union assumes responsibility for 
repaying the full amount due on the loan 
if, for any reason, the borrower defaults. 
This applies both for a new loan, and for 
an increase on an earlier and still- 
outstanding loan to the borrower con- 
cerned -- whether or not the co-maker 
was involved in the original loan. 


Take the case of Mr. X again. This 
employee borrowed $700 several months 

ago to pay for improvements to his home. 
He did not have a co-maker at that time. 
However, the improvement costs ran higher 
than he had expected and he later applied 


total debt of the borrower. S 


for an extra $300 loan to meet his 

bills. He had paid back $160 of the 
original loan and still owed $540 plus 
interest. In order to borrow $300 more 
(making his total debt $840 plus interest) 
he needed a co-maker. He went to his 
friend, Mr. Y., and explained the situ- 
ation. Mr. Y. agreed to be his co-maker 
and has assumed responsibility for the 
total debt of $840 plus interest -- not 
just $300 -- if for any reason the Credit 
Union cannot collect from Mr. X. 


In other words, when a CU member makes 
application to increase the amount of a 
still-outstanding loan, the Credit Union 
Treasurer writes a new note to cover the 
is 
note that the co-maker signs. 


When two or more coO-makers are required 
for a loan, each assumes responsibility 
for the entire amount due, in the event 
of default by the other co-maker(s) as 
well as the borrower. 


In order to avoid possible misunderstanding 
in the future regarding co-maker responsi- 
bility, the Credit Union will henceforth 
ask borrowers and their prospective 
co-makers to come to the CU office 

together in order to negotiate a loan. 


NOTE TO ALL CREDIT UNION MEMBERS: CU 
Pass Books are audited once a year. Each 
quarter, audit forms are sent to 25% of 
the membership. When you receive yours, 
check your Pass Book to see if it agrees 
with the Credit Union records. The form 
must be returned with your signature -- 
whether or not you indicate corrections. 
If you do not return this form, you will 
receive a statement of your account in 
30 days. The second notice is for your 
information only and should not be 
returned. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Charlotte Stove (Off. Serv.) returned last 
month from a vacation tour of the British 
Isles with her husband. The couple 
rented a car and motored from Dover to 
Edinburgh, stopping en route to visit 
castles and cathedrals which are of 
special interest to Jim Stove, an 
architect. They also took in the Orkney 
Islands, Jim's ancestral home, off the 
northern tip of Scotland. 

(continued on page 6) 


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Meanwhile, back at the Museum, we had some 
more visitors from abroad who were in N.Y. 
from the U.N. session. Prime Minister 
Nehru of India enjoyed a sky show at the 
Planetarium and looked at birds and 
elephants in the Museum. Other heads of 
state who came to see our exhibits 
included Kadar of Hungary and Novotny of 
Czechoslovakia. 


Congratulations to Joseph Amendolare (Bldg. 
Serv.) and his wife Frances who welcomed 

@ new son, Francis Thomas Amendolare, on 
Oct. 29. Francis, who weighed in at 

6 lbs. 13 oz., is their second boy. 


Mabel Colahan (Mamms.) has joined the 
AMNH Grandparents Club with the advent of 
her first grandchild, Alexandra, born to 
eldest son Tom and his wife. On her 

first visit to see the newest member of 
the family, Mrs. Colahan got a $10 parking 
ticket, but we doubt that this will deter 
her from being an attentive and admiring 
grandmama. 


Regardless of who will be the next 
President of the United States, Stephen 
Ryan (Planet.) and his wife Grace will be 
celebrating on the day after the election. 
Nov. 9 is their Silver Wedding Anniversary. 
Congratulations: 


"GR:rm" is not a new sky-shaking theory 
on the origin of the universe. It's 
simply the newest secretarial signature 
closing letters in the Department of 
Exhibition & Graphic Arts. Ricca Metz, 
Gordon Reekie's secretary as of Oct. 10, 
is now busy learning the 3 r's of Museum 
office routines. Her former job in Beirut, 
Lebanon, involved the "r" of creative 
writing for a weekly English-language 
newspaper. In a note to the Grapevine, 
Miss Metz said, "In Lebanon grapevine 
leaves stuffed with rice is a favorite 
food. After a first hasty bite, the 
Grapevine of the AMNH appears to be 
equally digestible and entertaining, 
besides" Merci beaucoup! 


Speaking of new secretaries, this 
question was overheard in the cafeteria 
the other day: "Who is that very pretty 
secretary Dr. Parr has now?" (In case 
you didn't know, our Senior Scientist's 
charming wife, Ella, is doubling as his 
assistant in the office.) 


6. 


Items of interest about some of the 
recent arrivals listed under NEW FACES: 
Richard McCallion (Bldg. Serv.) is the 
grandson of the late Hugh McCallion who 
was in Building Services for many years 
before his retirement in 1946. Marian 
Schmied, new Scientific Assistant in 
Herpetology, is a graduate of Washington 
University in St. Louis. Barbara Neill, 
now assisting Catherine Pessino in the 
Natural Science Center, started her 
museum career here in 1947 when she was 
a volunteer working with Kay Beneker on 
the Anthropology Department exhibit 
"From The Neck Up.” Since that time 

she has been with museums in Charlotte, 
North Carolina, and Santa Barbara, 
California. Most recently she was 
Director of the Lutz Junior Museum in 
Manchester, Connecticut. Ethne Marenco, 
new instructor in the adult program of 
the Education Department is an anthropol- 
ogist and illustrator. A graduate 
student at Columbia, she has done 
research at several places in Europe 
including the Musee de L'Homme in Paris. 
She has illustrated books and articles 
on anthropology and archaeology both in 
this country and abroad, and has served 
as an instructor at Hunter and City 
Colleges. Harold Langner, research 
psychologist on stress tension in the 
Animal Behavior Dept. comes from Canada 
where he graduated from the Univ. of 
Toronto. He also attended the Univ. of 
Chicago, and is now doing graduate work 
at Columbia and the New School. 


Planetarium colleagues are happy to have 
John Coalter back after a couple of 
weeks absence while he nursed a badly 
infected foot. It started out as a 
minor blister and became a major headache 
(metaphorically speaking. ) 


Dr. John C. Lilly, head of the Communi- 
cations Center (a new marine biological 
laboratory in the Virgin Islands) spent 
a day with cur Animal Behavior Dept., 
last month and gave staff members a 
firsthand report on the extremely 
interesting work he has been doing with 
porpoises. His films on porpoise 
behavior and tape recordings of sounds 
made by the animal evoked great interest. 
Dr. Lilly hopes that AMNH scientists will 
visit the Communications Center after it 
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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVII, NO. 11 DECEMBER 1960 


Rerpnxy CHRISTMAS 


Once again the Christmas Season is at hand. This is a time dedicated to joy and 
hayiness. It is a time characteristically productive of the best in all of us -- how 
wonderful it would be if each of us could keep our "Christmas characteristics" all 
year: To each of you and your loved ones, the Board of Trustees and the 
Administration wish all happiness and bountiful good will at this Holiday Season. 


James A. Oliver, Director 


EBA PARTY SCORES HIGH "OMNIBUS" VISITS US 
Music, laughter, and the clink of glasses On Sunday, December 11, AMNH will share 
still echo in the Roosevelt lower level the honors with a precinct police station, 
foyer after November's "Fish 'n Chick a bagel factory, and other oddly assorted 
Fry" -- widely conceded the most suc- locations around the city when the well- 
cessful dinner dance sponsored by the known television show "Omnibus" does a 
Employees' Benefit Association in recent program on lesser-known activities in 
years. 218 dinners were consumed, not New York after dark. (Channel 4, 5 P.M.) 
counting second helpings of the fine 
fried chicken and seafood mixed grill Our appearance on the show was filmed 


served up by Messrs. Taffet, Mercer,et al. last month by Producer Robert Saudek and 

some 20 production people who descended 
Our volunteer bartenders performed in upon us for two evenings along with 
their usual highly professional style, several carloads of equipment, including 
with the usual kibitzing from across the a portable canteen from Schrafft's for 
bar ("Just tilt that glass a little more dispensing coffee and danish. The 


so I don't get all foam,") and the producer's short-notice request to Public 
orchestra provided music to suit the Relations Manager Ruth Norton for per- 
tastes of all -- from jitterbug Al mission to film a night watchman making 
Potenza, to Waltz King Paul Goodhouse, his rounds resulted in a hastily-convened 


to Cha-cha-cha aficionado Walter Joyce. meeting with Ann Montgomery, Paul Grouleff, 

Bobbie Jones and Vita de Vita set a new Philip Miller, and Paul a oa to work 

speed record at rug-cutting to "Bye Bye out the myriad details. 

Blackbird", and Dorothy Fulton and 

Helmut Wimmer virtually transformed our The theater of operations extended from 

subterranean supper club into the Vienna the first floor Roosevelt entrance where 

Woods. The youngest reveller present the canteen was set up, to the freight 

was Fred Pavone's granddaughter who elevator at the end of the Fish Hall, and 

presided over the Pavone family table in thence to the fourth floor and Brontosaur 

a home-made highchair, fashioned from a Hall where the film was shot. Jack Carew 

cardboard carton. and Ted Safranek, at the door on the night 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - 
Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 


Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Catherine Mahoney 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 

Entomology = Rudolph Schrammel 
Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Ricca Metz 
Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - G Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Dorothy Bliss 


a Circulation - William Somerville 


- Hobart Van Deusen 


Mamma logy 
Micropaleontology - 


Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Brian Mason 
Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 


Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection ~- Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(EBA PARTY, cont'd. from p. 1) 


Many participants attributed the 

success of the event, at least in part, 
to the good proportion of ladies present. 
Whatever it was, we owe a large vote of 
thanks to EBA President Catherine Pessino 
and her hard-working entertainment com- 
mittee headed by Kenneth Chambers. 


MICHAEL LERNER HONORED 


Michael Lerner, a member of the AMNH 
Board of Trustees and the founder of the 
Museum's Lerner Marine Laboratory in the 
Bahamas, was the first recipient last 
month of a series of Gold Medal Awards 
established by the International 
Oceanographic Foundation. The award will 
continue to be presented annually to an 
angler who has made an outstanding 
contribution to marine science. Dr. A. E. 
Parr, AMNH Senior Scientist, was a 
speaker at the award banquet in Miami on 
November 16. 


("OMNIBUS" VISITS US, cont'd. from p. 1) 


of the first shooting, and Gil Powers, 
Charles Henderson and William Nash the 
second night, maintained a line of 
communications between the upstairs 
activities and the production people who 
arrived periodically with additional 
equipment. Assisting with problems of 
lighting and projection in Brontosaur Hall 
were Hughie Ohrnberger, Joe Abruzzo, Bill 
Shaw, and "Stitch" Kroschet. 


The scene is a real artistic spine-chiller, 
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giant skeletons to pick out the lone figure 
of the fearless Museum guard as he scans 
the dark hall with his flashlight. Albin 
Markowski performed the role admirably in 
the first shooting as he circled the big 
dinosaur island half a dozen times. The 
television people, however, had brought 
the wrong lights on that occasion and when 
they came back for the second shooting it 
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was John Collins who braved the camera. 
We'll be watching him next Sunday at 

5 o'clock, and we hope he wins an 
Academy Award. 


In any case, everyone involved deserves 
accolades. Miss Norton reports that, as 
usual, Museum personnel rose to an unusual 
occasion with competence and enthusiasm -- 
despite the midnight hour. 


OUR LIVE ANIMALS 


When visitors ask for "the place where 

you have live animals", they usually 

mean the Natural Science Center for Young 
People on the second floor of the 
Education Building. Natural Science 
Center hours from October through June 

are as follows: Tues.-Fri., 2 to 4:30 P.M.; 
Sat., 10:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. and 1:30 

to 4:30 P.M.; Sun. and hol., 1 to 4:30 P.M. 
Closed Mondays. 


Of course, we have many different kinds of 
live animals in several of the research 
laboratories, but these areas are not 
open to the general public. 


TELEPHONE POINTERS 


We have all noticed a marked improvement 
in one another's telephone techniques 
since the visit of Miss Myrtle Collins 
to the Museum. The Telephone Company 
representative gave us many useful 
pointers in her lively and interesting 
presentation. Let's not let the new 
polish on our telephone techniques wear 
off -- and remember, "U as in Utah, not 
Ulcer!" 


NSF GRANT FOR PETREL MONOGRAPH 


The Department of Ornithology has received 
a National Science Foundation grant for 
the completion of the extensive mono- 
graph on petrels and albatrosses which 
Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy has had in 
preparation for several years. Helen 
Hays, who has been working in the 
Department while completing requirements 
for her M.A. at Cornell, is serving as 
technical assistant on Dr. Murphy's 
project. . 


36 
MABEL COLAHAN RETIRING 


Things just won't be the same around the 
Museum after Mabel C. Colahan, 

Department of Mammalogy, retires at the 
end of this month. While 17 years is not 
a long term of service by AMNH standards, 
Mrs. Colahan has made her mark here and 
will be sorely missed. A past President of 
the Employees' Benefit Association and 

of the Camera Club, she was also one of 
the founders of the Professional and 
Vocational Employees' Organization. She 
has been an active participant and promoter 
of such recreational projects as dancing 
and art classes and the Bowling League, 
in which she was captain of the ~ 
"Dinosaurs." 


Mrs. Colahan came to the Museum as 
secretary to Edwin C. Meyenberg, Bursar, 
in 1943. Later she was secretary to 
Walter F. Meister, Controller, and is now 
Department Secretary in Mammalogy. After 
she leaves the Museum she will continue 
her many civic activities in her home- 
town of Somers, northern Westchester 
County, and will start her new job as 
Assistant Director of Somers Manor, a 
nursing home and residence for senior 
citizens. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Two electricians, William Shaw and James 
Doyle, were recently added to the City 
payroll in a change of title involving 
two carpenter vacancies. 


COLLEAGUE SINGS IN CHINESE OPERA 


Stringner (Suyu) Liang of the Animal 
Behavior Department is a member of the 
Yeh Yu Chinese Opera Association and will 
sing in the Association's New York 
production of excerpts from four Chinese 
operas on Saturday, December 10. The 
event takes place at 8 p.m. at the 
Fashion Institute, 227 West 27th Street, 
and tickets range from $1 to $3. Miss 
Liang, who comes from Hong Kong, is a 
graduate student at NYU, and is working 
in Animal Behavior on a National Research 
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NEW EQUIPMENT ACQUISITIONS 


The Department of Mineralogy has installed 


a large and valuable new X-ray machine 
which will be used for research on 
meteorites, Dr. Brian Mason, Chairman, 
reports. The device was obtained 
through a research grant from the 
National Science Foundation. 


At the Planetarium, Chairman Joseph M. 
Chamberlain reports the aquisition of a 
classroom planetarium which resembles a 
giant TV set with a circular screen. A 
gift of Dr. Clair O. Musser who designed 
it for Scientific Industries, Inc., it 
will be used in navigation and astronomy 
courseSe 


SHELLBACKS INVITED 


The "Sea Owl", the Museum's 99-foot 
research vessel on which Dr. Brooks F. 
Ellis, Chairman of the Department of 
Micropaleontology, conducts his 
sedimentation survey of Long Island Sound 
during the summers is now tied up at her 
City Island base after a successful 
season. The ship was very ably skippered 
this year by John Greig of the Paint 
Shop, with John Erlandsen of the Paint 
Shop giving a hand at the wheel. 
Grapevine reporter Erlandsen suggests 
that qualified shellbacks who are 
interested in week-end cruising on the 
Sound next summer get in touch with 
Skipper Greig. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Mary V. Wissler, Main Library, was 
honored by her colleagues at a luncheon 
last month on the occasion of her twenty- 
fifth anniversary with the Museum. 


At another recent luncheon gathering, 
the Department of Animal Behavior 
converged en masse on the Great Shang-hai 
Restaurant for a many-course Chinese 
meal celebrating three engagements in 
the Department. Guests of honor were 
Suyu Liang who will be married during 
the Christmas holidays to George Yang, 
a graduate student at Syracuse; Jane 
Merovick, whose wedding to Charles 
Schneider is scheduled for July; and 
Barry Komisaruk and Carrie Kornstein, 
both members of the Department who met 


4, 


on the job and will be married in June. 
Since the lunch took place in November, 
nobody wrote poems about moon and June 
for the occasion. It was noted, however, 
that Barry and Carrie go very well 
together! 


James Scally, Building Services, became 
a grandfather for the ninth time on 
November 13 with the birth of Kevin 
Michael Clinton, born to Mr. Scally's 
daughter, Margaret Clinton and her 
husband. 


Jack Ingerman, Employees’ Cafeteria, has 
good reason to be proud of his son, the 
television actor and comedian Martin 
Engles who has appeared on the Jack Paar 
and Steve Allen Shows as well as in 
numerous TV plays. Mr. Ingerman last 
month saw his well-known son off to 
Germany where he's now making a film with 
Allied Artists. 


Items of interest about recent arrivals 
listed under "New Faces" this month: 
Christopher Ray of Exhibition is an 
amateur astronomer and space enthusiast. 
He spends his spare time making telescopes 
and designing rockets, and has also 
worked as a planetarium lecturer. Joel 
Wagner, Graphic Arts, goes in for music 
on the outside. When asked what he likes 
to play, came the lightning answer - "my 
phonograph." And William Judge of 
Accounting is a likely candidate for the 
Museum's large contingent of Long Island 
boating and fishing enthusiasts. He 
spends most of his summers on the water, 
off his summer home at Southhampton, and 
is a member of the East Rockaway Boatmen's 
Association. 


Item of interest to the Bowling League: 
Joseph M. Chamberlain, Planetarium, reports 
that his 13-year old daughter Jan bowled 
235 the other day, a feat which is now 
permanently recorded on a special placque 
at the Port Jefferson Bowling Alley. 


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It is with sorrow that we report the 
deaths last month of three former 
colleagues. Fred Christman, who 
retired from the Electrical Shop in 
1949, died suddenly while at the polling 
place in Bronxville on Election Day. He 
was with the Museum for 42 years and had 
frequently attended Quarter Century Club 
dinners in recent years. After his 
retirement here, he remained active in 
business, working with his son's 
wholesale hardware firm. Until the time 
of his death, he had enjoyed excellent 
health except for a period of 
hospitalization earlier this year for 
cataracts. Norman Weaver, who left the 
Museum in 1957 after 21 years with the 
Electrical Shop, was killed in an 
automobile accident in Florida on 
November 12. He had been working in 
Miami and was driving to his daughter's 
home in inland Florida for the weekend 
when the accident occurred. The death 
of Bonaventura Vitolo, who was in 
Building Services and left the Museum in 
1922, was reported to the EBA in which 
he retained his membership. 


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| Special Spanish-language 
performances of the Planetarium's 
Christmas sky show will be given 
on Tues., Wed., and Thurs. of 
Christmas Week (Dec. 27, 28, 29) 
at 6 P.M. Admission will be 


regular daytime rates: adults $1, 
children 50¢. 


GREATER N.Y. FUND 


Three hundred Museum employees had 
contributed a total of $792 to the 1960 
Greater New York Fund as of Nov. 29, 

John R. Saunders, AMNH Chairman for the 
Fund,reports. As we go to press, a few 
more contributions are expected and these 
may push the final figure over the $800 


mark. The next Grapevine will let you 
know. Last year our total contribution 


to the Fund was $719 and we placed 
fourth on a per capita basis among 
museums and libraries in the city. We 
hope we can improve our standing this 
year. 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Isabel Mount, Public Relations, and her 
husband, Marshall Mount, Chairman of the 
Art History Department at Finch College 
are going to Africa on a Fellowship 
grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to 
make a survey of contemporary African 
art. They will leave for Europe in late 
February to study African collections in 
Paris, London, Brussels, Zurich and 
Stuttgart for a month before proceeding 
to Africa where they will work in the 
Union of S.A., Uganda, the Congo, Katanga, 
Nigeria, and Ghana for eleven months. 
The survey will cover both painting and 
sculpture and will take the Mounts not 
only to urban centers but also into 

"the bush". They plan to collect and 
photograph objects and talk with a large 
number of artists and art teachers. 


Dr. Nicholas Obraztsov, Entomology, has 
returned from a study trip to Europe 
where he did research at several museums. 
In the same Department, Dr. Alexander 
Klots is also back from European travels 
on which he studied insect collections. 


Dr. William Tavolga, Animal Behavior, 
spent several days at the Lerner Marine 
Laboratory in Bimini last month. When 
chided for not coming back with a tan, 
he explained that he had spent most of 
his time there in a dark room with an 
oscilloscope. 


Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, Ornithology, 
delivered the Isaiah Bowman Memorial 
lecture on "The Ocean and Man in Our 
Century" at the Annual Dinner of the 
American Geographical Society last week. 
Also last week, Dr. Theodore Schneirla, 
Animal Behavior, spoke at the meeting of 
the Entomological Society of America. 


Dr. John Lee, Micropaleontology, spoke 
at a seminar at the University of 
Massachusetts last month on his work 
with living foraminifera. Dr. lee is 
studying these minute sea animals in a 
laboratory containing some unusually 
interesting equipment designed for his 
research. One device simulates the 
motion of the waves in the tanks where 
the forams live. 


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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DISCOUNTS 


Don't forget your 20% discount on all 
gift items purchased at the Museum Shop 
and Planetarium Book Corner between now 
and Christmas. If you haven't stopped by 
the Shop for several weeks, be sure to do 
so soon and see the wide selection of 

new jewelry, figures, bookends, bowls, 
and nature games and hobby kits for 
youngsters. At the Planetarium Book 
Corner you will find jewelry with an 
astronomical motif as well as star charts, 
celestial globes, and other aids for 
amateur astronomers. Employees may 
purchase books in both the Shop and Book 
Corner at cost plus 10%. 


The Pottery Barn, at 24th Street and 
Tenth Avenue, offers AMNH personnel a 
10% discount on purchases between now 
and Christmas. The Barn has a large 
variety of imported contemporary 
accessories for dining, cooking, and 
entertaining. As they are very crowded 
on Saturdays, they urge all who wish to 
take advantage of the discount to come on 
weekdays. They're open weekdays til 

9 pem. through December 23. Be sure to 
carry Museum identification. 


' Season's Greetings from your 
Credit Union, which suggests 
this New Year's resolution for 
a happy 1961: "I will save 
automatically through payroll 
deductions." To start your 


account, visit the C.U. office, 
Roosevelt basement, any Mon., 
Tues., or Thurs. (except paydays) 
between 12 and l. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Edward C. Teller resigned last month 
after 14 years with Building Services. 
Starting as a Watchman, he became a 
Senior Museum Attendant and was on the 
Guide-a-phone desk in the 77th Street 
foyer for several years. We wish him 
lots of luck in his new job in Canaan, 
New Hampshire. 


The man who services the air-conditioning 
plant at the Planetarium is Mr. Whisker 
from the Tickle Company. 


NEW FACES 


Welcome back to Lewis Brown who has 
joined the Anthropology ranks as 
Preparator. Mr. Brown, who was formerly 
in our Exhibition Department has been 
with the Fort Worth (Texas) Children's 
Museum for the past two years. Another 
new face in Anthropology is that of 
Roger Greene who is working on 
archaeological materials from several 
South Pacific islands to determine 
sequences in their early cultures. Also 
working in the same Department are the 
two present Ogden Mills Fellows: Paul 
Tolstoy who is studying the distribution 
of bark cloth and its processes of 
manufacture, and Philip Newman who has 
recently returned from the Upper Asaro 
valley in the central highlands of New 
Guinea. He is working on the religious 
system of the Gururumba, the people with 
whom he stayed. 


Three new Attendants joined Building 
Services in November. They are Thomas 
Buttimer, James Dooley, and Joseph 
Merger. Richard Oremland is the new man 
in the Electrical Shop. In Entomology, 
Gloria Schwartz became Secretary to 

Dr. Frederick Rindge, and Ellen Holt 
began work as a volunteer assistant. 
Animal Behavior welcomed two new part- 
time assistants, David Anderson and Ivan 
Barofsky, both of whom will work with 
Dr. Helmut Adler on his bird navigation 
study. 


Christopher Ray, new Assistant Preparatory 
Technician in Exhibition, was formerly 
Science Curator at the Everhart Museum 

in Scranton, Pa. Before coming to us he 
was with the Museum of Art, Science, and 
Industry in Bridgeport, Conn. Joel 
Wagner, new Artist with Graphic Arts, has 
just finished a tour of duty with the 

U.S. Army. Before that, he was an artist 
with the Wagner Studio on Madison Avenue. 


Richard E. Graham has joined the Dept. 
of Mammalogy as Research Assistant. A 
graduate of the Univ. of California where 
he was associated with the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology, he is also President 
of Cave Research Associates. His 
particular interest is in the paleontology 
of caves. 

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(NEW FACES, cont'd. from p. 6) 


William A. Judge, new Senior Accountant 
in General Accounting, is a graduate of 
N.Y.U. School of Commerce and Finance 
and was formerly Chief Cost Accountant 
for Bickford's Restaurants. 


7. 


FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW PLACES 


Fred Scherer, formerly Preparator in the 
Department of Anthropology, has moved 
over to the Exhibition Department. Fred 
Bisso, formerly Mechanic in the Metal 
Shop, moved up to Foreman of the Shop 
in August. Congratulations. 


TRADING POST 


Items for Sale: 


Two 4-barrelled Rochester carburetors minus linkage, on 


manifold. 
and 283 cc. 
Don Squires, ext. 446 


American Oil Burner with controls. 


5-tube radiator. 
Paul Goodhouse, ext. 378. 


Suitable for Chevrolet engines of both 265 
Practically new and in excellent shape. 


Also 1l-section 


Chinese rug, 9 x 12, perfect condition. $130. 


Ilona Kunsagi, ext. 366. 


Wanted: 


A loving home for six-month old black male kitten. 
Gentle, affectionate, with six toes on each of 


front feet. 


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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVIII, No. 1 


JANUARY 1961 


SUPPORT YOUR EBA 


The Employees' Benefit Association is the 
oldest membership organization of AMNH 
employees. For the past 53 years it has 
not only performed a valuable service in 
terms of its original purpose -- it has 
also provided numerous recreational 
benefits and programs for all Museum 
employees. Participation in the EBA's 
social events and use of its facilities 
such as the lending library, television 
set, and ping pong tables are advantages 
that we sometimes tend to take for granted, 
but they are made possible only by the 
continued work of the officers and 
directors of the organization. The 
membership-at-large is asked to assume 
responsibility only once a year, at the 
time of the Annual Meeting. 


Ballots to be cast at this year's Annual 
Meeting have been distributed to EBA 
members along with a report for the year 
1960 by outgoing President Catherine 
Pessino. As members, let us now do our 
part. Attend the meeting -- Tuesday, 
Jan. 10, at 12:30 in Rm. 319 -- and vote: 


FORTHCOMING RADIO JOURNEYS 


Dr. Junius Bird, Anthropology, will 
discuss some of the problems of 
archaeological research on the Museum's 
radio program "Journey Into Nature" this 
Sunday, Jan. 15, at 11:05 A.M. on WNBC. 
Next Sunday, the 22nd, Katharine Beneker, 
Exhibition, will talk about the history 
of the Museum and will describe some of 
the interesting and little-known past 
events of which she, as Keeper of 

Tex 
ntoine is interviewer for the 


NEW PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM 


On February 1, 1961, the Museum will 
launch a new and extensive program of 
popular publications in the natural 
sciences. John F. Purcell, Editor of 
Natural History, has been appointed to 


head the activity which will function as 


an executive arm of the Publications 
Committee. As Publications Manager, 

Mr. Purcell will oversee the production 
of popular works in the natural sciences 
written by Museum authors and published 
for the Museum by an as yet unchosen 
publishing house. In addition, he will 
serve as liaison on all other ventures 
in which the Museum cooperates with 
commercial publishers. 


One of the first results of the new 
program will be the production of a 
natural history paperback library 
consisting of reprints of some of the 
classics in the fields of science with 
which the Museum is concerned. Books for 
this series are now being selected by a 
committee of the scientific staff 
chaired by Dr. Franklyn M. Branley of the 
Planetarium. The reprints will include 
prefaces especially prepared for these 
editions by Museum scientists. The 
natural history paperback library, soon 
to be announced, will be published by 
Doubleday and Company, which has already 
undertaken a similar series of works in 
the field of the physical sciences. 


WE MADE IT: 
The last contribution to the Museum's 


Greater New York Fund Drive for 1960 
pushed the total over the $800-mark. The 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Reyes eet Personnel, ee - Catherine Mahoney 


vior ~ Evelyn 
Mthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Tducation - George Crawbuck 

Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 
Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Ricca Metz 
Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laborator - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 


Ichthyolo - Victoria Pelton 
Library - Olga Smith 
Living Invertebrates - Dorothy Bliss 


Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 


Manma Lo - Hobart Van Deusen 
Hicropeleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Brian Mason 


Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Constance Sherman 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Edward Burns 


Print Shop - 
Shops & Shipping 


- John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 


Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


ACCIDENTS INCREASING 


Emil Kremer, Superintendent of Construc- 
tion and Maintenance, reports that 
accidents have been on the increase in 
the Museum in recent weeks. The great 
majority have been caused by failure to 
observe standard safety measures in shops, 
offices, halls, labs, and storage rooms, 
Mr. Kremer points out. Casualties of 
this kind can be eliminated only by 
constant observation of safe housekeeping 
rules and by regular attention to 
potential hazards. 


While safety is part of everyone's job, 
it is the responsibility of the Staff 
Committee on Safety, headed by Louis 
Ferry, to see that potential hazards are 
reported to the Superintendent. The 
Committee has held regular meetings with 
valuable discussions and films on safety 
practices, but Mr. Ferry reports that 
attendance has been extremely poor in 


recent months. Every department and 
unit in the Museum must have a 
representative on the Safety Committee, 
and these representatives are expected 
to attend Committee meetings regularly. 
Heads of units which do not at present 
have Safety Committee representation 
should appoint representatives now and 
should let Mr. Ferry know their names so 
that they may be advised of meetings. 


CREDIT UNION ANNUAL MEETING 


(The following is addressed to all 
members of the AMNE Employees Federal 
Siiiay 


Dear Member: 


The Annual Meeting of the AMNH Employees 

Federal Credit Union will be held on 

Wednesday, January 25, 1961, at 12:15 P.M. 

in Room 319. At this meeting you will 

hear the reports of the Directors, 
(continued on page 3) 


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(CREDIT UNION ANNUAL MEETING, cont'd. 
from page 2) 


Treasurer, and Credit and Supervisory 
Committees. Elections will also be held 
at this time. 


In accordance with Article VII, Sec. lc, 
of the By-Laws, revised Oct. 1959, the 
annual dividend rate will be announced 
at the meeting. Coffee will be served. 


Constance Sherman 
Secretary 


LOUIS KINZER 


Louis W. Kinzer, who died on December 
13, 1960, was with the American Museum 
for 17 years. He joined the staff in 
1935 and served as Assistant Custodian 
until his appointment as Custodian 
following the retirement of J. B. Foulke. 
During World War II, Mr. Kinzer took 

a military leave of absence and served 
overseas with the U.S. Air Force. He 
Saw combat in North Africa and held the 
rank of Captain at the time of his 
honorable discharge. He left the 
Museum in 1952 and became Manager of 
Business Administration for the Cities 
Service Research and Development 

Company in Cranbury, N.J. Formerly a 
resident of Manhasset, N.Y., he was 
living in Freehold, N.J., at the time of 
his death. 


Mr. Kinzer was married to the former 
Ruth Foulke and is survived by her and 
their son, Louis W. Kinzer, Jr. The 
many Museum people who worked with 

Mr. Kinzer and knew him well express 
their deep sympathy to his wife and son. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Edwin C. Meyenberg, Bursar, reports that 
the 1960-1961 Budget will be modified 

to reflect the new allocation in 
upgrading of the following titles: 
Attendant, Senior Attendant, Supervising 
Attendant, and Storekeeper -- up one 
grade; Instructor, Senior Instructor, and 
Supervising Instructor -- up two grades. 
These upgradings will be retroactive to 
January 1, 1961. 


@eeeoeene 


The Museum Shop sales desk at the 2nd 
floor Roosevelt entrance will henceforth 
be open only on weekends and holidays. 


3. 
COMINGS AND_ GOINGS 


Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Chairman of 
Mammalogy, returned after Christmas from 
a 24-month field trip in connection with 
his research on the skunks of the 

western hemisphere. He covered 24 states, 
travelled some 10,000 miles, visited 17 
institutions plus the Museum's field 
stations in Arizona and Florida, gave 
seven lectures, and took 16,000 
measurements on skunks: 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Jr., Chairman of 
Ichthyology, is back at the Museum after 
an autumn of field work in Florida, 
principally on the Gulf Coast, where he 
continued his studies on the nature and 
causes of color change in young marine 
fishes. 


Charles Falkenbach, Frick Laboratory, is 
in Nebraska for six weeks doing field 
work with Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz at the 
University of Nebraska. Mr. & Mrs. 
Falkenbach spent Christmas with their son 
and Mrs. Falkenbach's family in New Mexico. 


Leonard Brass, Archbold Biological 
Station, recently received a cordial 
invitation from the Rijksherbarium in the 
Netherlands to join a 5-month botanical 
expedition to Dutch New Guinea. Mr. Brass 
decided to decline the invitation, 
however, as he is still writing and 
researching his extensive "summary" of 
the 1959 Archbold Expedition to New 
Guinea. 


Dr. Archie Carr, Research Associate in 
Herpetology, flew up from Florida in 
December to attend a luncheon meeting at 
the Museum of the Brotherhood of the 
Green Turtle. The meeting was in 
connection with the Caribbean Conservation 
Association's work to preserve the green 
turtle population, a project in which 
Museum Director James A. Oliver and 
Herpetology Chairman Charles M. Bogert 
have been participating. 


An interesting visitor in the Department 
of Mammalogy recently was Captain Willem 
Morzer-Bruyns, skipper of the Dutch 
freighter "M/S Banda." Capt. Morzer-. 
Bruyns is a watcher of whales and sea 
birds and regularly sends data on his 
observations to Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, 
Ornithology, and Dr. Joseph Curtis 
Moore, Mammalogy. On December 10-11 
(continued on page 4) 


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the Captain was a weekend house guest of 
the Hobart Van Deusens in Montclair, 

New Jersey, where he found himself 
dgarooned on Monday by the Big Blizzard. 


ART CLASSES RESUMED 


Mmployees' art classes were resumed last 
reek following the holidays and will 
sortinue to meet regularly on the first 
and third Thursday of each month in 

Room 1A at 5 P.M. Next meeting - Jan. 19. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


As the snow piled up outside our windows 
last month, some old timers sat around 

a@ warm radiator reminiscing about former 
winters at the Museum. There was a time, 
before the days of parking problems, when 
the courtyard outside the Print Shop 
served as a tennis court and roller 
skating rink for employees at lunchtime. 
On one cold winter's night, someone had a 
fine brainstorm and flooded the area with 
a hose. For the next few days the staff 
turned out in full force for ice skating 
at the lunch hour. 


Married: Ellen Forsythe, Frick Lab, to 
Donald Styles of Michigan on Nov. 26. 
They visited Williamsburg, Va., on their 
wedding trip....Born: Still another 
grandchild (the tenth) to Ed Burns, Print 
shop. The latest arrival, Leo M. Walsh, 
Came on Dec. 10. 


Dr. and Mrs. Vladimir Walters, Ichth., 
csesigned from the Museum last month to 
atove to Los Angeles where Dr. Walters 
vill teach zoology at the Univ. of Calif. 
Dr. Walters has been with us since 1956 
and was investigating the locomotion of 
fishes under an ONR grant. Lisa Hamilton 
Jalters joined the staff in 1957 and was 
working on an NSF grant involving studies 
on cave fishes. Their colleagues here 
wish them much success in their new 
venture. 


Albert Sable and James Bourdonnay, Bldg. 
Ser., were the decorating geniuses who 
trimmed the beautiful Christmas tree that 
graced the staff cafeteria during 
December. They did a splendid job: 


4, 


Gwynne (Whitey) Payne, Mason Shop, 
William Stubbs, Elect. Shop, and Quentin 
Mercer, Cafeteria, are all hospitalized 
at this writing. Each is reported making 
a good recovery and we hope to see them 
back soon. 


Sidney Berman, who has been Sales 
Assistant in the Museum Shop for the past 
four years, transferred last month to the 
Frick Laboratory where he is now a 
Preparator. Congratulations: 


Mabel Colahan, Mamm., who retired at the 
end of December (see last month's G'vine) 
received a mighty sendoff from her 
colleagues. The crowd attending a tea in 
her honor on Dec. 29 included two 
retired members of the Department who 
returned especially for the occasion -- 
T. Donald Carter and Henry Ruof -- and we 
were delighted to see them. A week 
earlier, over 100 people gathered in the 
staff dining room for a cocktail party 
feting Mrs. Colahan and heard Edward 
McGuire, Mamm., deliver a fine tribute 
which was written by Charlotte Stove, 
Off. Ser. We quote the last verse: 


We'll miss you, Mabel, one and all 

And hope you'll be back to make a call, 
In fact, not one, but on many a day 
That you'll find time to come our way: 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


A long feature article in a recent issue 
of the Brooklyn Heights Press tells us 
that Dr. George H. Childs (formerly Exhib. ) 
is as busy as ever creating models and 
assembling miniature habitat groups. He 
and Mrs. Childs returned from a 5-week 
trip to Ireland in November to find their 
mailbox jammed with orders for models and 
miniatures. 


Among the most welcome recent visitors to 
the Museum were Mildred Parmenter Randino 
(formerly Contrib. Prog.) who is thoroughly 
enjoying the pleasures of being "just a 
housewife", and Alma O'Connor (formerly 
Bldg. Serv.) who was en route home to 
Florida after visiting relatives in New 
England. 


The many Museum friends of Helen Gunz 

(formerly Main Lib.) will be glad to learn 

that she made an excellent recovery from 
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(NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES, cont'd. from 
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her recent operation and was out of the 
hospital in tine to be home for 
Christmas. 


Henry Ruof (formerly Osteo. Lab.) who 
visited us in December can't keep away 
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5. 
TRADING POST 


Telescope Wanted: Anyone interested in 
selling a used 200X or more telescope, 

in good condition, with good resolving 
and light gathering power, mount, 
pedestal or tripod, and other accessories, 
please call Phyllis Morse, ext. 275. 


A new edition of the Museum Directory is 
now in preparation. Please send changes 
of personnel and extensions listed to 
Larry Pintner, Office Services. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVIII, NO. 2 


FEBRUARY 1961 


KNIGHT EXHIBIT HAILED 


The current exhibit in the Corner 

Gallery is of more than usual interest 

to the many Museum people who remember 
Charles R. Knight with admiration and 
deep affection. Mr. Knight, who died 

in 1953, spent much of his distinguished 
career here as a painter and sculptor of 
prehistoric life. The present exhibit of 
his work was assembled by the Exhibition 
Department with the assistance of 

Mr. Knight's daughter, Mrs. Richard Steel. 


In a letter to Katharine Beneker, who was 
in charge of preparing the exhibit, 

Mrs. Steel wrote, "The skill and 
perfection of the Museum staff was 
nothing short of superb, for without them 
the exhibit could not have been 

flawless -- and it was flawless." To 
which Miss Beneker adds her own 
philosophy of exhibition: "A good exhibit 
represents the interdependence of many 
minds and hands. It is never the result 
of just one person's work and thinking, 
but rather the sum of the efforts of all 
who worked on it.” 


10-DAY LIMIT LIFTED IN MEDICAL PLAN 


The new medical insurance plan for 
Museum employees provides that your visit 
to the doctor in connection with the same 
ailment are covered, beginning with the 
fourth visit, regardless of the interval 
between visits. Under our old plan, 
successive doctor's appointments had to 
be within ten days of each other in order 
to qualify as continued treatment for a 
particular condition. 


MUSEUM RESTAURANT OF THE *30's RECALLED 


Back in 1933, the Museum's main 
restaurant was located in the rooms now 
occupied by the staff cafeteria. It was 
used by both visitors and employees, and 
during the summers outdoor dining was 
provided on the patio above the 77th 
Street carriage entrance. 


Katharine Beneker, Keeper of Memorabilia, 
recently turned up some menus dating from 
that year -- and, naturally, they give us 
pause. The 4-course luncheon priced at 
50¢ featured such entrees as "Roast 
Sirloin of Beef, au jus, with Fried Sweet 
Potatoes and New Asparagus," and "Broiled 
Chicken Halibut, Maitre d'hétel, with 
Hash Brown Potatoes and Buttered Beets." 
(There were 8 or 10 entrees to choose 
from each day.) You started off with 
soup -- cream of asparagus, vegetable, or 
clam chowder (Manhattan or New England) -- 
and the salad might be watercress, 
cucumber, or cole slaw. Then you wound 
up with one of a dozen kinds of pie, cake. 
custard or fruit, and a choice of 
beverage 


But that was the expensive meal. For 30¢ 
you got fried liver with bacon, or 
grilled lamb chop on toast, or broiled 
sea trout with parsley butter -- plus 
your tea, coffee, or milk. The eat-and- 
run contingent paid 15¢ for a ham 
sandwich, or tongue, or cheese. It was 
20¢ for a toasted rarebit. Beverages 
included a wide variety of soft drinks, 
soda fountain specials, and beer. Tea 
was available in the following forms: 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Swift, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 
Animal Beh: 


avior - Evelyn 


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Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 


Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 

Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Ricca Metz 

Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 

Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 

Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 

Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 

Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 

Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
neralogy - Brian Mason 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services = Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Constance Sherman 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Pa. Paleontology y - Jeanne Lyons 


(MUSEUM RESTAURANT, cont'd. from p. 1) 


"English Breakfast, Orange Pekoe, Oolong, 
and Ceylon-hot." 


The menus, attractively printed and 
dated for each day, were enclosed ina 
cover that carried additional information 
such as HOW TO REACH THE MUSEUM, (Sixth 
or Ninth Avenue Elevated), and the 
following choice bit of datum: 


"The restaurant is under Museum management 
and in charge of a graduate dietitian... 
The end room is reserved for members of 
the staff, and visiting scientists and 
explorers. The hostess will be gled to 
tell you who's who...." 


It is planned that a display of the 
menus, together with photos of the 
restaurant, will be put up in the 
cafeteria soon. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Authorization received from the City has 
resulted in the recent promotions of 
Margaret Connolly and Cornelius Munic 
from Museum Attendants to Senior Museum 
Attendants. Congratulations: 


NEW MANAGING EDITOR 


Robert E. (best known as Ed) Williamson 
has become Managing Editor of Natural 
History, according to an announcement 
from Editor-in-Chief John Purcell. Mr. W. 
has been Art Editor and Production Chief 
of the magazine for 14 years. Just as 
N.H.'s G'vice reporter pointed out -- it 
couldn't happen to a nicer guy. 
Congratulations: 


The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in 
Tucson has announced the establishment of' 
the Roy Chapman Andrews Memorial Research 


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JAMES P. FARRELL 


James P. Farrell, Senior Attendant, died 
on January 18, 1961, after nearly a 
quarter of a century of service to the 
American Museum. He had been in ill 
health for some time and recently 
underwent a major operation. He came to 
the Museum in 1937 and served in various 
attendant capacities, his most recent 
assignment being at the main entrances. 
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. 
Madeleine Brady of Patchogue, N.Y., to 
whom his many friends and colleagues here 
extend their deepest sympathy. 


Dr. T. C. Schneirla's colleagues in the 
Dept. of Animal Behavior, and throughout 
the Museum, wish to express their 
heartfelt condolences to him and his 
wife on the loss of their son Donn. Donn 
(John Richard) Schneirla hed served four 
years with the U.S. Air Force and 
studied at the University of Colorado 
School of Engineering. At the time of 
his death last month he was 23 years old 
and was held in high regard in the 

San Francisco Laboratories of the Pacific 
Bell Telephone Company where he was 
employed. 


NEW EBA OFFICERS 


New officers of the Employees' Benefit 
Association, elected at the January 
annual meeting, are: President - Arthur 
Naylor; Vice-President - Emil Kremer; 
Secretary - Constance Sherman; and 
Treasurer - George Floegel. New members 
of the organization's Board of Directors 
are Catherine Fessino, Dean Amadon, and 
Raymond de Lucia. 


COURSES OPEN FREE TO EMPLOYEES 


Museum and Planetarium courses for 
adults, some of which start this week, 
are open to emzloyees free of charge in 
any instance where the course is not 
already fully subscribed. Course 
schedules are posted on the cafeteria 
bulletin board, and a number of new and 
interesting subjects are being offered 
this semester. Persons interested in 
taking Museum courses are requested to 
call Bruce Hunter, ext. 445, in advance 
to make sure that the class is not 


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already full. Those wishing to take 
Planetarium courses should call 

Dr. Franklyn Branley, ext. 412, in 
advance. 


CREDIT UNION 


At it's Annual Meeting last month, the 
AMNH Employees' Federal Credit Union 
announced a year-end dividend of 4+ per 
cent on CU savings. The occasion was the 
25th anniversary of the organization, and 
it elicited a letter from H. Vance Austin, 
Managing Director of the Credit Union 
National Association, which read, in part: 


"Congratulations on your Credit Union's 
25th Birthday. In 25 years your Credit 
Union has brought immeasurable assistance 
and comfort to members and their families. 
I know that all of you who have played a 
part in the growth and development of 
this Credit Union must take great pride in 
its many accomplishments...Our congratu- 
lations on reaching this historic 
milestone and our best wishes for con- 
tinued success in service.” 


During these past 25 years, our CU at the 
Museum has made loans tomembers totaling 
approximately three and a half million 
dollars. During the same period, it has 
lost only $270 in delinquent loans. This 
is a record of which we can be extremely 
proud. 


DR. ROSEN APPOINTED 


The Department of Ichthyology welcomes 
Dr. Donn Rosen whose appointment as 
Assistant Curator became effective Feb. l. 
Dr. Rosen is well known to many of his 
new colleagues here, having worked off 
and on between 1°42 and 1959 in the New 
York Zoological Society's Genetics 
Laboratory located on the 6th floor of 
the Museum's Whitney Wing. During his 
last year with the Genetics Lab he held 
@ National Science Foundation Post- 
Doctoral Fellowship. 


A native New Yorker, Dr. Rosen attended 
Northwestern University and took his 
Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees 

at New York University. In between, he 
served for two years with the U.S. Army 
Infantry in Korea. For the past year he 
has been Assistant Professor of Biology at 

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the University of Florida and Assistant 
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University's Florida State Museum. His 
research includes studies in the genetics, 
anatomy, ecology, and taxonomy of fishes, 
and he has done considerable work on the 
killifishes, a group of live-bearers 
including guppies and their relatives. 


Dr. Rosen andhis wife and two sons now 
make their home in Flushing. 


NEW TELESCOPE AT PLANETARIUM 


The Planetarium recently acquired an 
exceptionally fine small telescope, the 
Questar, which will be used in courses 
and for observation of important celestial 
events. The acquisition, a gift froma 
foundation, was made possible through 
the interest of Miss Julia Wightman, a 
former student in Catherine Barry's adult 
astronomy course at the Planetarium. 
Miss Wightman, who wished to express her 
interest and appreciation to the 
Planetarium, consulted with Miss Barry 
regarding the institution's needs and 
learned that a Questar would be most 
welcome. The instrument is a 
catadioptric telescope with a 33-inch 
mirror and a special correcting lens in 
a tube measuring, over all, 8 inches in 
length and giving an effective focal 
length equivalent to a tube of over 40 
inches in length. It costs about $1000. 


KUDOS 


Marion Carr, Editor of Junior Natural 
History, is more than a little excited 
over a letter she received from the New 
York Employing Printers Association, Inc. 
informing her that Junior was selected 
for hanging in the 19th Exhibition of 
Printing at the Hotel Commodore in 
January. The letter said, in part: 


"Selection of your specimen for hanging 
means that it was chosen by an eminent 
Board of Judges as outstanding in its own 
category from among the thousands of 
entries submitted for consideration. 

These thousands of entries had been 
nominated by printers throughout the New 
York metropolitan area as representing the 
best of their production during the year 
1960....-It is a tribute to your printed 


4, 


piece and to everyone involved in its 
planning and production that it won the 
approval of the judges over many 
contending pieces in the same category." 


Dr. Libbie H. Hyman, Living Invertebrates, 
has been elected an Honorary Member of 
the Society of Protozoologists in 
recognition ofmeritorious service in the 
field of protozoology. 


Two high school students who have been 
working in the Dept. of Animal Behavior 
as volunteer assistants to Dr. Ethel 
Tobach have received Honorable Mention 
in the Westinghouse High School Talent 
Search. They are Shelley Chess, who 
submitted a project in animal behavior; 
and Harriet Fell, who entered the 
mathematics competition. 


COMINGS, GOINGS & GATHERINGS 


Dr. Tom Gilliard (Ornith.) left Jan. 30th 
to spend six weeks in British Guiana 
where he will study the Cock-of-the-Rock. 
The current (Feb.) issue of the National 
Geographic features a beautiful article 
by Dr. G., "Exploring New Britain's Land 
of Fire," with photos by the author and 
two superb illustrations by Margaret 
Gilliard of the new honey eater which 
they discovered in the Whiteman Range 

of the island...Also in the same issue is 
an article about the sea by Dr. Paul 
Zahl (Ichth.) which includes photos 
taken in the Museum. 


Charles Bogert and Dr. John Moore (Herp.) 
have been in Mexico collecting Leopard 
Frogs and other species that may be 
abroad during the winter seasoneee. 
Bernard Soll (Nat. Hist.) is just back 
from a business t trip t to California.... 
Dr. Wesley Lanyon (Ornith.) has visited 
museums in Washington, D. C. and 
Cambridge in recent weeks in connection 
with his flycatcher studies. 


Dr. Dean Amadon (Ornith.) showed his 
film “Argentina Through the Back Door" 
to the Explorers Club at their January 
meeting...e.Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky of 
Columbia Univ. was the guest speaker at 
the Jan. 12th seminar in the Dept. of 
Animal Behavior....eDr. John Imbrie (Foss. 
Invert.) has been serving as Acting 
Chairman of the Geology Department 
(continued on page 5) 


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(COMINGS, GOINGS & GATHERINGS, cont'd. 
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at Columbia in the absence of the 
Chairman. 


Frank Lombardi (Foss.Invert.), who 
toured Alaska, Canada, and the north- 
western states on his vacation last fall, 
has just received his color slides from 
the developer. They are extraordinarily 
fine pictures and include some out- 
standing scenic views of Glacier 
National Park. Anyone wanting a sneak 
preview may call Mr. L. 


Leonard Brass (Mamm.) flew up from the 
Archbold Biological Station in Florida 
a few days ago, his arrival here 
coinciding with the start of New York's 
worst cold wave in many years. He'll 
be with us for a month to work on the 
report of his last New Guinea 
expedition. 


AMNH played host last month to the 
Panel on Shark Research of the A.I.B.S. 
Scientists engaged in shark studies 
gathered here from places as far away as 
New Zealand and South Africa to exchange 
information on why sharks attack humans 
and what can be done to prevent such 
attacks. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


Word has been received of the election 
of Ernest Neilson (formerly Anthro.) as 
Mayor of Interlachen, Florida. When 
you're next passing that way, be sure 
to visit His Honor -- and if you would 
like the red carpet treatment at City 
Hall, drop Ernie a note in advance at 
P.O. Box 205, Interlachen. 


A letter from Rachel Nichols (formerly 
Vert. Paleo.) to Harry Lange reports 
that she and her husband, arrived in 
sunny California on New Year's Day after 
two weeks of driving in sub-zero 
temperatures. Mr. N. has joined a 
brokerage house in San Francisco and 
Mrs. N. is "just being a housewife." 
Their temporary address is 2523 Ridge 
Road, Berkeley 9. Rachel writes, "Please 
give my greetings to all my old friends, 
whom I miss very much:" And that's 
mutual! 


NEW FACES 


The two new faces in Building Services 

are Arvo Hyland and John Harding. Both 
joined us as Attendants in January.... 
Ginny Crawbuck, the new secretary in 
Vertebrate Paleontology, is the sister- 
in-law of George Crawbuck (Educ. )..«. 
Loren D. Arnold has joined Exhibition 

on a temporary basis to help with the 
silk-screening operations for the forth- 
coming Hall of the Biology of Man.... 
Gerald Turner, new part-time sales 
assistant at the Planetarium Book 

Corner, is a Philosophy major at Columbia, 
also a pianist and composer....Geraldine 
Dils, new secretary in Fossil Invertebrates 
is a Pennsylvanian and formerly worked in 
Philadelphia. 


New arrivals at Natural History are Lisa 
Levinson, a Rutgers graduate who comes to 
us from the Museum of Modern Art; 
Beatrice Brewster, formerly with Display 
Industries and the Geological Society of 
America, who joins the advertising 
department as secretary to Bernard Soll; 
and John Bowman, a Harvard man who has 
spent the past seven years in Europe, 
studying at Cambridge, serving with the 
Army in Germany, and teaching English in 
Greece. Carole Gold, the new face in 
Ornithology, goes in for sketching and 
drawing on the side. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Heading the list of colleagues to whom 
we said goodbye last month is William 
Schloer, Building Services, who retired 
after 18 years of service with the 
Museum. Mr. Schloer's most recent tour 
of duty was on the 77th Street elevators. 
While we miss him, we know that he will 
soon be enjoying long hours of fishing 
and boating near his home in Freeport, 
Long Island. 


Mary Patsuris and Eunice Reardon resigned 
from Vertebrate Paleontology at the end 
of January. We hear that Mrs. Patsuris 
plans to teach and we hope we'll be seeing 
her in the future when she brings her 
students in to AMNH. 


William Farley resigned from Building 

Services last month after ten years with 

the Museum. He has accepted a position 
(continued on page 6) 


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with a public relations firm. 


Jerrold Lanes left Natural History to 
join the editorial staff of Barron's, a 
weekly magazine of business and financial 
news. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


We were all much concerned to hear that 
both Kay Beneker (Exhib.) and Joe 
Chamberlain (Planet.) suffered mild 
heart attacks late last month. At this 
writing, Miss Beneker is still 
hospitalized but reported making good 
progress. She has asked the G'vine to 
thank her many colleagues who have sent 
cards and letters. We miss her greatly 
and wish her a very speedy recovery. 
Mr. Chamberlain is now home from the 
hospital and we look forward to having 
him back with us quite soon. 


Cheers for Valerie Newell (Foss. Invert.) 
who won't let a little thing like a torn 
ligament of the leg keep her down. The 
injury, sustained in a fall, prevents 

her from walking for the time being, 

but it's not keeping her off the job. 
It's business as usual for Mrs. N. -- 
from a wheel chair. 


As AMNH employees, we all felt a share 
of the honor extended to our Director 
when he was invited to Washington last 
month by President-Elect Kennedy to 

take part in the Inaugural celebrations. 
Although Museum business prevented 

Dr. Oliver from attending, we thought it 
was a splendid idea on Mr. Kennedy's 


part. 


Trustee Crawford Greenewalt's stunning 
book "Hummingbirds" was certainly the 
hit of the Christmas book trade. The 
entire edition of 8500 copies, just 

off the press in mid-November, was sold 
out early in January. A second edition, 
now in press, will be available in the 
spring. 


Married: Kate Swift (Pub. Rel.) to 
Stewart Ogilvy, a writer at Fortune 
Magazine, on Feb. 4, The Ogilvys will 
live on West 8lst Street...Sam Kuster 


6. 


(Bldg. Ser.) and his wife Goldie 
celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary 
on Jan. 2]1....-While most of us are 
battling the snow and low temperatures in 
N.Y., Walter Joyce (Plumb. Shop.) is 
wielding his golf clubs on the sunny 
fairways of Pinehurst, N.C. He'll be 
back from vacation Feb. 14. 


"Il Giorno di Palma" or "The Day of the 
Palms" is not yet celebrated on our 
national calendar. However, after the 
public takes a peek at a commercial 
calendar recently designed by Tino di 
Palma (Graph. Arts), this may all be 
changed. Mr. di P. spent countless hours 
working on the 72 plates and the result 
shows not only artistic skill but a 
hilarious grasp of Americana. Singing in 
the rain on St. Swithin's Day, and bombs 
bursting in air for Independence Day are 
just two examples of his clever caricatures 
Congratulations, Tino. Viva Italia: 

Viva di Palma: 


The day before the most recent Big Snow 
a freight-car-sized W.&J. Sloane 
furniture truck drove down Dr. Bill 
Burns' driveway in Pound Ridge to 
deliver a box spring on legs, then got 
stuck on a slight grade going up again. 
The driver called New York and they sent 
up another freight-car-sized truck which 
promptly got stuck nose to nose with the 
first. The next day was Snowy Friday and 
the two trucks stayed there until Monday 
morning, when Sloane sent a heavy 
wrecking truck with crane to pull them 
out. 


All during this travail, the Burnses 

kept the workers warm and happy with 
sandwiches, coffee, and an occasional 
thermos of hot water laced with rum. 
Their main concern was that the town fire 
engines could not have gotten near the 
house in an emergency. 


TRADING POST 


Items for Sale: Emerson 3/4-ton air 
conditioner in good condition. $90, or 
make an offer. Stringner Liang, ext. 267 
or 262..++..1952 Ford, automatic trans- 
mission, 2-door sedan, excellent condit. 
$125. Trudy Mosler, ext. 292....Pair of 
Chicago roller skates with attached shoes, 
size 83. Alma Cook, ext. 221. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVIII, NO. 3 


MARCH 1961 


EXPEDITION TO N.J. FOR A HIPPO 


When Chairman Richard G. Van Gelder of 
the Mammalogy Department accepted the 
orfer of a recently-deceased baby pygmy 
hippopotamus from the Cleveland Zoo 
last month, he did not foresee the 
complications that would necessitate a 
major expedition to Newark by Edward 
McGuire and Edward Hawkins. 


It seems that the hippo specimen, 
weighing 75 pounds and packed in dry ice, 
arrived at the Newark Airport just a 
couple of days after the blizzard of 

Feb. 4. As the ban on auto travel was 
being strictly enforced, Dr. Van Gelder 
had to explain to the Police Department 
that the specimen might constitute a 
health hazard if it remained at Newark 
and became defrosted. So, equipped with 
emergency travel permits, Messrs. McGuire 
and Hawkins set out by car through the 
snowy wastelands of N.Y.C. and the Jersey 
Turnpike. But the people at the air 
freight office suspected a hoax and were 
reluctant to turn over the package. How, 
they demanded to know, could such a 

small box possibly contain a hippopotamus? 
Well, our mammalogists explained, it was 
& pygmy hippo -- and a baby at that. 
Still somewhat skeptical, the airport 
people acquiesced and the McGuire-Hawkins 
Expedition returned with the specimen, 
still safely frozen, about 74 hours after 
setting out. 


The hippo's skeleton and skin are now 
being preserved for the Mammal Department 
study collection. 


DR. SHAPIRO'S DREAM COMES TRUE 


An exhibit idea conceived more than 15 
years ago by Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, 
Chairman of the Department of Anthro- 
pology, will become a reality this 

month with the opening of the Hall of 
the Biology of Man. Actual work on the 
exhibits began about six years ago, 
spurred by a grant from John D. 
Rockefeller. The hall will be officially 
opened in the presence of invited guests 
on Monday, March 20, at 5:30 P.M., and 
will be open to the public the following 
day. 


In a spacious, modern setting of gray 
and white, the two-part exhibition 
begins by considering man's place in 
the process of evolution, his pre- 
historic ancestors, and the charace 
teristics that relate him to and dis- 
tinguish him from other forms of animal 
life. With this perspective, the 
visitor is then introduced to an 
examination in vivid detail, of the 
workings of his own body. 


According to Dr. Shapiro, under whose 
supervision the new hall was designed 
and built, "This hall is the first ina 
projected series of five that I conceived 
of as a way of making available to the 
public the new discoveries in anthropol- 
ogy missing in older exhibitions. We 
have begun, therefore, with this 
presentation of organic man, which will 
be followed by exhibitions on behavior, 
social organization and the growth and 
development of civilization." 

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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor- Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, 
An or - W 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco ,» Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


ducation = George Crawbuck 

Entomology - Rudolph Schrammel 
Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Ricca Metz 
Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 


rpetology - Margaret Shaw 
chthyolo - Victoria Pelton 
brary - Olga Smith 


Tiving Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 

Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
ogy ~- Hobart Van Deusen 

Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 

Mineralogy - Brian Mason 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Constance Sherman 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(DR. SHAPIRO'S DREAM COMES TRUE, cont'd. 
from p. 1) 


In an attempt to achieve the maximum 
clarity, combined with beauty and drama, 
the designers, artists and technicians 

of the Museum's Department of Exhibition 
have utilized a vast variety of exhibie 
tion materials and techniques; and where 
conventional means proved inadequate, 
they invented new ones. They deserve the 
highest praise for a magnificent addition 
to the Museum and a great contribution to 
science education. 


EXHIBIT FACE-LIFTING AT PLANETARIUM 


The Planetarium's most popular exhibit, 
"Your Weight On Other Worlds", is having 
its face lifted. Artist Helmut Wimmer 
has painted a domed ceiling and back- 
ground for the exhibit that pictures the 
late winter sky in fluorescent colors. 
Before this background there will be new 


scales to replace those in use for many 
years. The scales will show visitors 

the effect of the gravitational forces 

of such celestial bodies as the sun, moon, 
and various planets, on their own bodies. 
The Toledo Scale Company, which gave the 
original exhibit, has donated the new 
scales and is helping with the 
refurbishing. 


DISCOUNT TICKETS 


Larry Pintner, Office Services, has a 
limited number of discount tickets for 
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus 
which opens this month at Madison Square 
Garden. The discounts apply for certain 
dates only. Mr. Pintner also has dis- 
count tickets for two plays, "The 
Balcony" and "Tenderloin", and for 
sightseeing trips on the Hudson River 
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WHY MORE ATTENDANTS? 


In connection with the Museum's recent 
request to the City for an increase in 
the size of our Attendant Force, Paul 
Grouleff, Plant Manager, compiled some 
rather staggering statistics. We hope 
they will impress the City Fathers as 
much as they impress us} Here are 
some examples: 


The floor space that must be cleaned 
regularly in the Museum (excluding the 
Planetarium) amounts to about one 
million square feet, while the wall 
area from which dust, grime, and 


finger marks must be removed periodically 
totals a million and a half square feet. 


As for window cleaning, we have some 
1900 exterior windows containing about 
96,000 square feet of glass. 
that another 270,000 square feet of 
glass enclosing approximately 2400 
exhibits. 


Mr. Grouleff's report points out that 
60% of the Museum is open to the public 


and that the average daily attendance is 


around 5,000. "These visitors, divided 
between children and adults, are in the 
main, polite and cooperative. 
do, however, include a running un- 

predictable number given to thoughtless 


mischief, vandalism or theft, if not kept 


under control. Not even considered as 
mischief is the smudging of glass 
surfaces of exhibit cases and littering 
of floors with candy wrappers, peanut 


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dying and expressed a desire to own the 


An old friend in the midwest was 


beautiful book. The old man was a well 
known amateur ornithologist and owned a 
large collection of bird skins and eggs 
which he was bequeathing to a university. 


Dr. Burns tried every possible source for 
a copy of the book but none was available. 
Finally George Goodwin, Main Library, 
offered to lend an uncatalogued copy. It 
went air express and the old gentleman 
had the pleasure of leafing through it, 
thinking it was his own copy. 


Last week the book came back to Dr. Burns' 
office. It had served its purpose. 


A LETTER FROM MISS BENEKER 


(As we go to press, we have good news about 
Katherine Beneker, Exhibition, from several 
colleagues who have been to see her in the 
past week. Miss Beneker, who suffered a 
heart attack at the end of January, is now 
home from the hospital making good progress. 
The following letter from her is addressed 
to everybody. ) 


May I use the Grapevine to thank my Museum 
friends for the many ways in which they 
have expressed their friendship and their 
love? The cards and letters and gifts, 
the telephone calls, the concern for my 
mother's well-being, and now -- the 
portable remote control television set 
which is much too extravagant a gift but 
which I'm NOT returning: Not by a long 


shells, bags, etc., which seems inevitableshot: 


irrespective of the caliber of visitors' 


ages, mores, or morals." 


Our present Attendant Force number 108 
On paper, but because of illnesses and 
vacations it is actually less than that 
at any given time. Considering their 


work load, the present 108 do an amazing 


job. But it is hoped that, through 


City action, we can increase their total 


strength to a minimum of 137, thereby 
bringing the enormous job of Museum 
guardianship and cleaning somewhat more 
under control. 


A TALE OF A BOOK 


A couple of month's ago a man rushed into 
Dr. William A. Burns' office saying that 


he had to buy, borrow, or beg a copy of 
Crawford Greenewalt's "Hummingbirds." 


I want you to know how much I appreciate 
all you have done for me, even to spoiling 
me completely, and I especially want you to 
know that the part of my heart in which 
you are all deeply and safely ensconced 
suffered absolutely no damage ! 


Kay Beneker 


P.S. If I didn't miss all of you so much, 
and if the government would support me, 

I'd stay right here in bed for the rest of 
my days -- rereading your cards and letters 
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CREDIT UNION ELECTIONS 


At the annual meeting of the AMNH 
Employees Federal Credit Union on 

Jan. 25, the membership re-elected the 
following people to the CU Board of 
Directors: Dorothy Bronson, Anne 
Montgomery, Marguerite Ross, and John 
Saunders. Robert Adlington and Albert 
Potenza were re-elected to the Credit 
Committee. When the Board of Directors 
met later on the same day, the following 
officers were re-elected: John Saunders- 
President; Marguerite Ross-Vice President; 
Constance Sherman-Secretary; and Harry 
Lange-Treasurer. Kate Ogilvy was 
re-elected Chairman of the Educational 
Committee. 


TWO LONG-TIMERS RETIRE 


Two colleagues with a combined service 
to the Museum of 76 years retired last 
month. They are Carl Sorensen and 
Johanna Scharf who were honored at a 
tea in the staff dining room on Feb. 21. 


Mr. Sorensen is a native of Denmark and 
had served in the Danish Merchant 
Marine before coming to the Museum as a 
preparator of fossil skeletons in 1916. 
His job here has taken him on numerous 
excavation field trips in different 
parts of the U.S., and the specimens 
which he has prepared for study and 
exhibition are scattered throughout 
museums in this country and abroad. 
Among the skeletons he helped to mount 
are the dinosaurs Camptosaurus, 


Procheneosaurus, and Struthiomimus, and 


the plesiosaur Styracosaurus. During 
the coming summer, Mr. Sorensen and 
wife will make a tour of Denmark and 
other Scandanavian countries. 


Miss Scharf is better known as "Honey" 
to the thousands of AMNH'ers whose 
telephone calls she handled at the 
Museum switchboard during 31 years. 
Although her speaking voice is familiar 
to all of us, not many of her former 
colleagues know that she also has an 
exceptionally fine singing voice and 
takes part in choral activities. Last 
year Miss Scharf went to Europe where she 
visited relatives in Germany. A 
resident of Bronxville, N.Y., she also 
has a summer home in Vershire, Vt. 


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We hope that Mr. Sorensen and 

Miss Scharf will be back to say hello 
from time to time. We'll miss them 
both a lot. 


NEW DISCOUNT POLICY ON BOOK PURCHASES 


A change in the Museum's discount policy 
on book purchases by employees has been 
announced by Alice Pollak, Manager of 
the Museum Shop. Beginning March l, 
employees will receive a 12% discount 
from the selling price on books carried 
by the Shop. Books that are not on the 
Shop shelves, and must therefore be 
specially ordered, must be limited to 
the natural science field and will be 
handled at a 10% discount from the 
selling price. Special book purchases 
for departmental use (orders for which 
must be accompanied by a requisition) 
will continue to be billed at cost. 


COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 


Dr. T. C. Schneirla (An. Behav.) left 

the country at the end of January for a 
six months field trip to study legionary 
ants. At present he's in the Philippines, 
in the mountains of Negros Oriental, where 
he'll remain until May when he heads for 
Thailand. 


A letter from Dr. E. T. Gilliard (Ornith.) 
reports that he is heading into the 
mountains of British Guiana where he hopes 
to find the display grounds of the 
Cock-of-the~Rock...Other travels in 
Ornithology: Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy 
went to Florida late in February to 
deliver a lecture in Coconut Grove, and 
Eugene Eisenmann braved the big snow 
storm of last month to give a talk to the 
Nuttall Ornithological Club in Cambridge, 
Mass. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Jr. (Ichth.) left 
for Florida at the end of the month to 
continue his field work with fishes on 
the Gulf Coast...Another Florida traveller 
in February was Dr. Joseph Curtis Moore 
(Mamm.) who attended the 25th Anniversary 
Meeting of the Florida Academy of Sciences 
at Gainsville where he gave a paper on 
squirrel distribution as evidence of 
major stream piracies in the Indochinese 
Subregion. Dr. Moore is a past president 
(continued on page 5) 


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from p. 4) 


of the Academy. While in Florida he 
inspected damage done by Hurricane Donna 
in the Everglades National Park and 
reports that, considering the extensive 
blow-down and stripping of foliage, "the 
survival and recovery of both vegetation 
and birdlife seemed amazingly good.” 


Dr. John J. Lee (Micro.) has been chosen 
by the Society of Protozoologists to 
receive a NSF travel fellowship to the 
International Congress of Protozoology, 
meeting in Prague this August. Dr. lee, 
who is in charge of the living foraminifera 
laboratory here, will give a paper at the 
Congress on the physiology of forams. 


Enrique Campdera, of Caracas, Venezuela, is 
currently visiting the Planetarium where he 
is studying methods of operations. A 
professor of mathematics at las 
Universidadas Central Y Santa Maria, 
Observatorio Cagigal, Senor Campdera will 
assume management of the new Humboldt 
Planetarium in Caracas when he returns to 
his country. 


Recent visitors in the Mammalogy Dept. 
included Dr. E. A. Smith of the British 
Nature Conservancy who was doing research 
on the grey seal; Dr. Harry Lillie of 
Aberdeen, Scotland, who is lecturing 

in this country and Canada on marine 
mammal conservation; and John McNally, 
Assistant Director of the Fisheries and 
Wildlife Dept. of Victoria, Australia, 
and a specialist on the ecology of 
Koalas. 


Dr. E. Endroczi of the Medical 
University, Pecs, Hungary, visited the 
Animal Behavior Dept. last month and 
extended an invitation to members of the 
Museum staff to visit his laboratory in 
the University's Physiology Dept. 
whenever possible. 


NEW FACES 


Mrs. Jean E. Shaw has taken Adele 
Rothenberg's place in the Dept. of 
Ornithology...Roberta Galante is the new 
secretary to Dr. Malcolm McKenna, 
Vertebrate Paleontology...New arrivals 
in Building Services are Julius Savino, 


5 


Francis Murphy, Peter Clarke, and 
Anthony Sercia. 


Arthur N. Dusenbury, the new face in 
Micropaleontology, was for 19 years 
paleontologist and stratigrapher with 
the Creole Petroleum Corp. in 
Venezuela. 


RICHARD W. WESTWOOD 


Richard W. Westwood became editor of 
Nature Magazine in 1929. In the 31 
years between that time and Nature's 
incorporation with Natural History in 
January, 1960, Dick won a nation-wide 
reputation as a sturdy fighter for the 
conservation of America’s - and, indeed, 
the world's - natural resources. 
Forests, untouched lands ranging from 
prairie to desert, and all the wild 
inhabitants thereof, were Dick's 
personal charges. Nor was his concern 
purely for isolation and protection: 

he felt deeply that the people of this 
country should be led, wherever possible 
to a greater enjoyment of their natural 
surroundings. And he fought successfull 
for example, for legislation that would 
keep outdoor advertising billboards from 
blocking off these surroundings from 
even so humble a prospective naturalist 
as the Sunday motorist. 


From the time of Nature's incorporation 
with Natural History until Dick's 
untimely death in February, 1961, he 
acted as the combined magazines' eyes 
and ears in the nation's capital, 
reporting regularly on Federal and 
other activities affecting the wild 
lands and the wildlife of America. Both 
as a contributing editor and as editor- 
emeritus of Nature, he offered wise 
advice and warm counsel to his many 
associates. He will be long honored and 
greatly missed by all who knew hin. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Our most welcome Valentine was the 
return on February léth of Victor 
Badaracco (Bldg. Ser.) whom we sorely 
missed during his 7-month sick leave. 
He's looking better than ever and we're 
delighted to have him back. 


(continued on page 6) 


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(HEARD IN PASSING, cont'd. from p. 5) 


Another face that we're very glad to see 
around again is that of Charles Morgan 
(Pow.House) who was absent for a long 
period of recovery after two operations. 
We wish him continued good health. 


And Joseph Chamberlain (Planet.) is back 
on the job looking fit and shorn (it was 
a hospital haircut) and being commendably 
cautious about the scope of his 
activities for a while. 


Still on the sick list are Joseph Schmitt 
(Ichth.) who suffered a heart attack in 
January and was hospitalized for three 
weeks, and Ed Holterman (Pow. House) who 
was hospitalized for an operation. We 
hear that they are both at home now and 
recuperating satisfactorily. We hope to 
see them back soon. 


Patrick J. O'Connell (Exhib.) and his 
wife, Marcy, are the proud parents of 

@ lively Irish baby girl, Deborah -- 
almost named Kelly. She weighed in 

at 7 lbs. 12 oz. and measured 213 inches. 
Congratulations: 


Lili Ronai (Micro.) recently spent a 
week's vacation, mostly on skis, in West 
Dover, Vt. 


Dr. Leo Vroman, poet laureate of the 
Animal Behavior Department, has written 

a new long poem, partly in English, partly 
in Dutch, to be published soon in 

Holland. It's called "Amerika." 


Bea Brewster (Nat. Hist.) is looking for 
people who like to sing (especially tenors 
and basses) and wish to join a church 
choir. If you're interested, give her a 
ring on ext. 320. Bea herself is a 
soprano and sings with various groups 
including the Canby Singers who are giving 
a concert at Carnegie Recital Hall on 
March ll. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Our best wishes for lots of good luck go 
to Phyllis Morse who left the Graphic Arts 
Dept. in February after 4 years with the 
Museum. Her many friends here miss her... 
Ann Miller who left the Dept. of Education 
in December after 11 years with the Museum 
is now teaching 6th grade in Bloomfield, 


6. 


New Jersey and "enjoying the challenge.” 
«e+eFrancis Laub has resigned after 7 
years with the Museum, first in Building 
Services and more recently at the Power 
House. We wish him all the best in his 
new assignment with the Sanitation 
Dept...-Adele Rothenberg resigned last 
month from her post in the Dept. of 
Ornithology 


NEWS FROM FORMER COLLEAGUES 


(The following letter, addressed to 
Dr. William A. Burns, is self- 
explanatory. Mr. Haddon, who retired 
in 1953, is fondly remembered by his 
many friends here. We hope that, with 
rest, he will son regain his health.) 


Dear Dr. Burns: 


May I take this means of expressing my 
gratitude for the generous assistance 
given me by you and the Blood Bank 
during my recent illness. I was in 
Bergen Pines Hospital for five weeks, 
and after x-rays and blood tests, they 
are of the opinion that my lungs are 
shrinking. This, of course, affects my 
breathing and the least exertion leaves 
me exhausted and confined to my home. 


May I say "hello" to all my friends and 
especially those in the Print Shop with 
whom I spent twenty-five happy years. 

I would greatly appreciate a line from 
any of my friends who remember me. 


Again may I express my heartfelt thanks. 


Sincerely, Albion A. Haddon 
254 Knox Avenue 
Cliffside Park 
New Jersey 


Two very welcome visitors in the Museum 
last month were Terry McKnight, formerly 
of Herpetology, and Ida Grobe who was 
with the Department of Mammalogy for 
many years. 


The February issue of the Reader's 


Digest contains an article about Edith 


Cavell, the famous English nurse of 

World War I, written by Jacqueline van 

Til Miller, formerly of our Main Library. 

Mrs. Miller had been a student in Edith 

Cavell's nursing school in Belgium. In 
(continued on page 7) 


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(NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES, cont'd. 
from p. 6) 


the article she pays tribute to her 
former teacher as "The Most 

Unforgettable Character I've Met." Later, 
Mrs. Miller came to the United States and 
joined the Museum as nurse in charge of 
the first aid room. Subsequently, she 
transferred to the Main Library where she 
remained until her retirement in 1957. 


TRADING POST 


Sublet available: April 1 - Sept. l, 
35-room furnished apartment. Riverside 
Drive at 106th St., river view, air 
conditioner. $160 a month. Brian Mason, 
ext. 315. 


Refrigerator needed: Do you have an old 
electric refrigerator, in working 
condition, that you wish to get rid of? 
Our cleaning maids in the Museum would 
appreciate having it in their lunch room 
as their present refrigerator has just 
expired. 


T° 


For Sale: 1959 Fiat 600 sedan, 
excellent condition, light blue, heater- 
defroster, white walls, windshield 
washer. 30 miles per gallon at 60 
miles per hour, 36-40 m.p.g. at 40 m.p.b 
$700, may be seen any day. Hugh 
Birnbaum, ext. 247. 


Tatay guitar. $60 with 
Florence Brauner, 


For Sale: 
carrying case. 
ext. 2h7. 


For Sale: Complete three room stucco, 
cinder-block. Completely furnished. 
Lake rights, beautiful view. Near 
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. Reasonable. 
Call EVergreen 77-1209. 


Lost: A diamond engagement ring in a 
red change purse, somewhere in the 


vicinity of the Museum. Rita Keller, 
ext. 27. 
For Sale: Chippendale sofa covered in 


gray and green silk. Reasonable. 
Helen Straus, ext. 4h, 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVIII, No. 4 


APRIL 1961 


THREE-CHANNEL SOUNDTREK INSTALLED 


This month. AMNH becomes the first 
museum in the world to provide bilingual 
three-channel radio guide service for 
visitors. Our newly-installed system 
SOUNDTREK, will broadcast three talks 
simultaneously in each of ten Museum 
halls, For visitors who wish a 
detailed discussion of the exhibits, 

one channel carries a 35-minute talk 
recorded by the curator in charge of the 
hall. Those who prefer a more general 
commentary on the seme hall may tune in 
to another channel for a shorter talk. 
And for Spanish-speaking visitors, as 
well as language students, the short 
talk is translated and broadcast in 
Spanish over a third channel. 


The portable transistorized receivers 
for the new sound system are both 
smaller and lighter than the Guide-A- 
Phone receivers which they have re- 
placed. Each is packaged in a bright 
red styrene plastic case with a fired 
gold enamel front panel containing two 
knobs. One knob is the on-off switch 
and volume control; the other is the 
channel selector. The earphone is a 
button-shaped device resembling a 
hearing aid. It attaches to the ear 
by means of a disposable cardboard 
loop, a fresh sterile one being provided 
for each rental. 


Two hundred receivers will be available 

for use, renting for 50¢ to adults and 

35¢ to children. Rental desks are in 

the 77th Street foyer, the second floor 

of Roosevelt Memorial, and at the 

Eighth Avenue Subway entrance, 
(continued on page 2) 


PREVIEW: MAN IN SPACE 


While we are keenly interested in the 
big question of whether the United States 
or Russia will launch the first man into 
space, we are more immediately con- 
cerned at the moment about whether either 
launching will take place before the 
opening of the AMNH exhibition "Preview: 
Man In Space". If it does, the striking 
exhibit now in preparation for opening on 
April 18 will be something of a post-view 
-~- but will, nevertheless, provide a 
valuable and informative picture of the 
problems of life-support during space 
flight. 


The new temporary exhibit will be located 
on the second floor of Roosevelt Memorial 
Hall. Suspended from the ceiling and 
dominating the display will be a full- 
scale model of the Mercury Capsule in 
which the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration will launch this country's 
first space man. Looking through a 
cutaway section of the shell, visitors 
will see a life-sized manikin astronaut 
at the Capsule's controls. What physical 
conditions will man experience during 
space flight? What will be their effects 
on the complex processes of his body and 
mind? A series of colorful panels in the 
exhibit will give some of the answers to 
these questions. The display will also 
include a short repeating motion picture 
film on the launching of the Mercury 
Capsule. 


This exhibit will continue until next 
autumn when it will be incorporated into 
an extensive new temporary exhibition 
entitled "Man In Space”, 


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2. 


GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 
Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - bvelyn shaw 
oe - Philip Gifford 


Buildi rvices - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Fntomology - Rudolph Schrammel 
Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Ricca Metz 
Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

chthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Brian Mason 
Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(THREE-CHANNEL SOUNDTREK INSTALLED, 
cont'd. from p. 1) 


Like the Guide-A-Phone, with which the 
Museum pioneered in 1954, the new sound 
system has been the responsibility of 

Dr. William A. Burns, Chairman of 
Membership. SOUNDTREK, Inc. was started 
by two young engineers who, in 1955, read 
a Natural History Magazine article 

in which Dr. Burns discussed radio guides 
in museums. Last year, the firm gave us 
a demonstration of their two-channel 
system -- the curator's detailed talk 
and the short general talk -- already 
installed at the Chicago Museum of 
Natural History. Why not have a third 
channel, Director James A. Oliver 
suggested, for a foreign language 
commentary? The SOUNDIREK people went 
to work with the result that the new 
installation at AMNH is the first of its 
kind anywhere. 


Halls being wired to receive the three 
kinds of talks are: Biology of Man, 

Man and Nature, North American Forests, 
Northwest Coast Indians, North American 
Mammals, Biology of Birds, Oil Geology, 
African Mammals, Brontosaur, and 
Tyrannosaur. It is hoped that SOUNDIREK 
will be in operation very soon. 


NATIONAL ACADEMY AWARD TO DR. NEWELL 


Dr. Norman D. Newell, Chairman of the 
Department of Fossil Invertebrates, will 
be awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal 
of the National Academy of Sciences at the 
Academy's annual meeting in Washington on 
April 24. The award, given for distin- 
guished services to geology or 
paleontology, is particularly in recog- 
nition of Dr. Newell's work on the 
ecology of modern and ancient calcareous 
reefs. Dr. Newell will go to Washington 
to receive the Medal in person. He'll 

be accompanied by his wife, Valerie Newell. 


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CAPTAIN DELACOUR HONORED 


Captain Jean Delacour, Research 
Associate in Ornithology, was awarded 
the Verrill Medal of the Peabody Museum, 
Yale University, on March 10. The 
citation mentioned especially Captain 
Delacour's outstanding work on the 
pheasants and waterfowl of the world. 
Dr. Dean Amadon and Bugene Eisenmann 
represented AMNH at the presentation. 


At the end of the month Captain 
Delacour left for a tour of France, 
England, Germany, and Russia. This 
summer he will attend a meeting of the 
International Council for Bird 
Preservation, of which he is President 
Emeritus, in Stavanger, Norway, and 
will proceed in September to a meeting 
of the Directors of Zoological Gardens 
in Rome. In October he heads for Brazil, 
and he plans to be backin N.Y. about 
the middle of November. 


CREDIT UNION VERIFYING ACCOUNTS 


This month the Supervisory Committee of 
the AMNH Employees Federal Credit Union 
will be sending out verification forms 
to one fourth of the CU members. If 
you receive a form, check to see that 
the amount shown in your account agrees 
with your own record. Then sign the form 
and return it to the Committee as soon 
as possible in the envelope provided. 

Do not send your CU account book to the 
Supervisory Committee. If you wish to 
have your book brought up to date before 
you sign and return the form, take your 
book to the Credit Union office in 
Roosevelt Basement during regular CU 
hours -= Mondays, Tuesdays, and 
Thursdays (except pay days) between 12 
and 1. 


The members of the Credit Union 
Supervisory Committee are Edward A. 
Burns, Catherine M. Pessino, and Thelma 
T. Pollick. Four times a year this 
Committee verifies the accounts of one 
quarter of the CU members, each account 
being verified once a year. So if you 
don't receive a form this month, don't 
worry; you'll be in a later group. 

When you do receive one, please follow 
the above procedure with all reasonable 
speed. 


3. 


CAMERA CLUB PROGRAM & CONTEST 


Members and friends of the Camera Club 
will enjoy an unusual program this month 
when Dr. Dean Amadon presents his color 
film "Town And Country In Japan", Club 
President Arthur Pitschi reports. Dr. 
Amadon made the film last spring during 
field trips of the International Council 
for Bird Protection in which he partici- 
pated in Tokyo. The showing will be on 
Thursday, April 20, at 12:10 p.m. in 

the fifth floor lecture hall of 
Roosevelt Memorial. Everyone is invited. 
At the same meeting, the Club will discuss 
plans for a field trip as soon as the 
trees are in blossom. Arrangements will 
be made for car pools and all who would 
like to participate should be on hand to 
sign up. 


The Camera Club Contest, announced a few 
weeks ago, closes May 1. All employees 
are eligible to submit entries -- up to 
five color slides and five black-and- 
white photos between the sizes 5 x 7 and 
16 x 20. The first prizes in each 
category, color and black-and-white, will 
be a one-hour flight in beautiful weather 
over New York -- in a four seater single 
engine plane. Other prizes will be 
announced. Please send your entries to 
Dorothy Fulton, Slide Library, before 
May le 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


The many Museum friends of Dr. George H. 
Childs (formerly Exhib.) were deeply 
concerned to learn that he suffered a 
heart attack on the evening of March 2Oth 
while he and his wife were attending the 
opening of the Hall of the Biology of Man. 
His wife reports that while his condition 
is still serious he is making progress 
toward recovery at Long Island College 
Hospital, Brooklyn. All our warmest good 
wishes are with him. 


Gladys Serrille (formerly Main Lib.) and 
her husband recently bought a house in 
Tuckahoe, N.Y. They now have two little 
girls...It was good to see Tom Grady 
(formerly Bldg. Serv.) when he dropped .. 
in to say hello:to his friends on. St. 
Patty's Day.. 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Born: To Giles MacIntyre (Vert. Paleo.) 
and Pamela MacIntyre (Gen. Lab.), a 
daughter, Alice, on March 18....To Edward 
P. McCormick (Bldg. Ser.) and his wife, 

a daughter, Emily, on February 3. 
Congratulations and welcome! 


Three colleagues who recently underwent 
operations are reported making good 
recoveries. Val McClure and Albin 
Markowski (both Bldg. Ser.) went home 

from hospitals last month after operations 
in February and we hope to see them both 
shortly. Dr. Malcolm McKenna (Vert. 
Paleo.) was glad to be able to get home in 
time for Easter, 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Authorization received from the City has 
resulted in the recent promotion of 
Christopher J. Schuberth, Department of 
Education, from Museum Instructor to 
Senior Museum Instructor. Congratulations! 


HAIL AND FAREWELL 


Among the new arrivals in the Museum last 
month was Cecile M. Cusson who replaces 
Mabel Colahan in Mammalogy. Miss Cusson 
was formerly with the National Audubon 
Society where she was secretary to John 
Terres, recently retired editor of 
Audubon Magazine. She had previously 
been secretary to Carl Buchheister, now 
president of the Society. Her hobby is 
bird watching -- but she likes mammals 
too. 


Also during March we said goodbye to 
Helga Udvardy who resigned after six 

years with Anthropology. Her colleagues 
gathered at Colin Turnbull's apartment for 
a farewell party in her honor and wished 
her bon voyage on her two month tour of 
Europe. 


WANT PAPER PLATES? 


The Globe Canteen urgently requests the 
return of dishes, trays, and other 
utensils taken from the staff cafeteria. 
These implements should not be taken out 
to offices, labs, etc. in the first place, 
and an acute shortage in the cafeteria is 
now imminent. Please cooperate?’ 


4, 
LINGUA IN BUCCO LATERALIS 


An announcement from the editorial offices 
of the Journal of Insignificant Research 
("An Occasional Journal Published 
Intermittently And Unauthorized By The 
American Museum of Natural History") 
reports that Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder 
has been awarded the Journal's 1961 
Fundumbarity Medal for his “dazzling 
display of deft dactylology before 
millions of avid viewers" on the 
television quiz show "To Tell The Truth" 
in March. Dr. Van Gelder, who was able 
to convince one half of the show's panel 
of experts that he was not an expert on 
skunks, is the first recipient of the new 
Medal which will continue to be awarded 
annually to persons in the natural 
sciences making significant contributions 
through fundumbarity. 


For persons not familiar with the Journal 
of Insignificant Research, this illuminat- 
ing periodical is edited by Drs. Donald 
F. Squires and Richard G. Zweifel and 
published by the Van Gelder Company of 

New York. It throws valuable new light 
on a wide range of subjects not other- 
wise covered in available literature. 
Persons interested in subscribing should 
get in touch with the editors. 


TRADING POST 


SUBLET - Furnished apartment available 
July 3 for 12 weeks. Two rooms with 
linen and dishes. 336 East 29th Street. 
$75 a month, gas and electricity 
included. Mitchell Kaufman, ext. 343. 


FOR SALE - Protect-O-Matic food slicer, 
Mod. 1005-M. $11.75. Harry Lange, 
exte 225 ry 


BIOLOGY OF MAN ON TV 


This Saturday evening, WOR-TV will 
present a special half-hour documentary, 
"The Story of Man", based on our newest 
exhibition hall. Dr. Harry L. Shapiro 
will be the commentator, with John 
Wingate as host. Watch for it at 8 p.m, 
Saturday, April 8, on Channel 9. 


And remember to listen to the Museum's 
radio program Journey Into Nature, Sundays 
at 11:05 on WNEC. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 5 


May 1961 


SALUTE TO OUR BURSAR 


On Monday, May 1, 1911, a new messenger 
boy started work at AMNH. He was only in 
his mid-teens, but he was bright and 
willing and within a few weeks everyone 
had come to know him as Eddie. He liked 
working with figures and budgets, and he 
was soon transferred to the Accounting 
Department. He became Assistant Bursar 
in 1939, and in 1942 was appointed Bursar, 
the post he holds today. May 1, 1961, 
also a Monday, marked his 50th anniversary 
with the Museum. His five decades of 
continuous service (interrupted only by a 
year and a half of military duty during 
World War I) is the record among active 
full-time members of our staff. This 
month, as he begins his second half- 
century with the Museum, his colleagues 
salute -- with pride and much affection -- 
Edwin C. Meyenberg. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Authorization received from the City has 
resulted in the recent promotion of 
Nellie O'Reilly from Museum Attendant to 
Senior Museum Attendant. Congratulations! 


Edwin C. Meyenberg, Bursar, reports that 
a hearing by the City on the matter of 
upgrading the title of Museum Technician 
has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 10, 
at the Bureau of the Budget conference 
room. Further information on this may be 
obtained from Mr. Meyenberg's oifice. 


An attractive new give-away folder for 
Museum visitors is just off the press. It 
contains a floor plan (with all sections 
numbered -- the letter designations have 
been eliminated), as well as information 
on SOUNDTREK, and other Museum services. 


NEW SAFETY COMMITTEE 


If your working area has loose wires 
strung around the floor, objects that 
are precariously balanced or easily 
stumbled over, potentially dangerous 
equipment, or other safety hazards of 
any kind, get ready for an onslaught by 
the newly reorganized AMNH Safety 
Committee. The Committee, appointed 
last month with Paul Grouleff, Plant 
Manager, as Chairman, will establish 
procedures for accident prevention and 
hazard control throughout the Museum. 
Members of the Committee, in addition 
to Mr. Grouleff, are: Emil Kremer, 
Philip C. Miller, Margaret L. Johnston, 
Malcolm MacKay, Carlton Beil, Henry 
Gardiner, Joseph P. Connors, James A. 
Ford, Ge Robert Adlington, Edward A. 
Burng, and Joseph R. Saulina. 


DR. HYMAN HONORED AGAIN 


The most recent accolade to be conferred 
on Dr. Libbie H. Hyman ( Living 
Invertebrates) was her election last 
month to the National Academy of 
Sciences. The Academy is a non- 
governmental organization founded in 
1863 to serve as adviser to the 
Government on scientific problems. 

Its membership now numbers some 630 
eminent scientists, elected by their 
fellow members for their exceptionally 
distinguished scientific achievements. 


IMPORTANT: Anyone wishing to carry over 
unused annual leave from 1960 must do 
so at once on a form provided for this 
purpose by the Personnel Office. (See 
page 12 of the General Regulations). 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 
Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


havior - Evelyn S 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Patricia Bogert 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


SUBWAY PEARL-HUNTER 


An article in a recent issue of the N.Y. 
Mirror tells us about the subterranean 
activities of Richard Graham, Mammalogy, 
who has been picking up pearls in the 
city's subways. Mr. G., a Columbia 
graduate student, is a veteran spelunker 
and feels very much at home among 


stalactites, stalagmites, and cave pearls, 


the formations developed underground by 
dripping water. Not long ago, Beatrice 
Vogel, Entomology, drew his attention to 
such formations in the subway tunnels 

and Mr. Graham went out to investigate. 
With Transit Authority approval, he anda 
companion descended into the subway at 
190th street to collect and photograph. 
They got some interesting specimens which 
are being sent to various institutions 
around the country for study. 


The author of the Mirror article, 
incidentally, was Larry Van Gelder, 
brother of our Mammalogy Department 


Chairman. Mr. Van Gelder's lively 
column appears regularly in the Mirror 
and is liberally sprinkled with scoops 
from AMNH. In reporting the Graham 
pearl hunt, he observed, "It is further 
testimony to the monumental imperturb- 
ability of New York's subway riders that 
this weird expedition caused only the 
barest flicker of interest. Not a 
single token-dropper stayed around to 
watch." 


LOOSE MONEY 


One day during Easter Week might have 
been pretty unhappy for three Museum 
visitors, had it not been for the prompt 
action of three Museum attendants. Dan 
Flavin found a wallet containing $43 in 
cash; Mary Molloy picked up an unattended 
handbag holding $106; and Katherine 
Hrycak noticed a brown envelope on the 
floor which turned out to have $190 in 
it. In each case the money was 
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connected up with its rightful owner 
and three more people are now telling 
their neighbors about the honesty and 
efficiency of the attendant force 

at AMNH. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


We were very happy to learn the other 
day that Dr. George H. Childs (formerly 
Exhibition) is making a good recovery 
from his recent heart attack and is 

now home from the hospital. 


T. Donald Carter (formerly Mammalogy) 
visited the Museum in April to confer 

with James Perry Wilson (Exhibition) 

who is doing background painting for some 
of the new mammal habitat groups collected 
by Mr. Carter. Mr. C. enjoyed a cup of 
tea with the Library staff and a game 

of table tennis with his partner on the 
long unbeatable team of Carter & O'Brien 
(i.e., Charles O'Brien, Ornithology). 


NEED CASH IN A HURRY? Or would you 
like to start saving now -- pain- 
lessly, through payroll deductions? 
The AMNH Employees' Federal Credit 
Union is here to help you. Visit 


its office any Mon., Tues. or 
Thurs. (except paydays) between 12 


and 1 o'clock. North end of 
Roosevelt Building basement. 


VITAL STATISTICS 


Born: To Betty Kopf (who left Animal 
Behavior in mid-March) and her husband, 
Fred, a son - Alexander Conrad Kopf - on 
April 6. We hope Mrs. K., who lives just 
around the corner from the Museum, will 
come in soon wheeling the baby carriage. 


Married: Trudy Mosler (Accounting) to 
Morton Neger on April 23. Mr. Neger is 
a@ member of the staff of the United 
Nations. 


Engaged: Cynthia Stephens (Planetarium) 
to Jan Westerman. They will be married 
June 17. Mr. Westerman is a department 
store executive. 


HELEN M. GUNZ 


The death of Helen M. Gunz on March 31, 
1961, was a severe shock to her many 
friends and former colleagues here. She 
had been a member of the Museum Library 
staff for 42 years when she retired from 
her post as Assistant Librarian early in 
1960. Although her health was failing 
during the past year, she continued to 
visit the Museum occasionally. Her 
charm and effervescence will be greatly 
missed by us all. 


We were saddened to learn of the deaths 
of two other former members of the 
Library staff. Ida Richardson Hood, 
Head Librarian before her retirement in 
1934, died on March 24; and Jacqueline 
Van Til Miller, who retired from the 
staff in 1957, died on April 27. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Louise Pedeberdot (Film Library) is 

back on the job looking tanned and happy 
after a wonderful two week cruise in the 
Caribbean....Dr. Frederick Rindge 
(Entomology) and his family spent the 
Easter holidays in California helping 
celebrate his parents’ 50th wedding 
anniversary. During the same week, 

Dr. and Mrs. R. celebrated their own 
18th anniversary....Claire Moynihan 
(Planetarium Book Corner) leaves soon 

for a vacation trip to her native England. 
Her friends have lined up a whirlwind 
social schedule for her, but she hopes to 
have time to see some publishers of 
astronomical books in London. 


We were sorry to learn that Joseph M. 
Chamberlain (Planetarium) is again in 
the hospital and we hope it will be a 
short stay and a quick recovery. At the 
same time, we welcome back several 
colleagues who have been very much 
missed lately due to operations or 
extended illnesses: Helmuth Sommers 
(Mammalogy), Dr. Lester Aronson (Animal 
Behavior), Joseph Schmitt (Ichthyology) 
and Karel Smetana, Steve Tomka, Val 
McClure, Albin Markowski, and Leon 
Hrycak (all Building Services). 
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Ludwig Ferraglio (Exhibition) is raising 
a family of scholarship winners. His 
elder son, Paul, who graduates from 
Brooklyn Tech this June, just won a 
State Scholarship. His younger son, 
Robert, is following Paul at Brooklyn 
Tech, having turned down a scholarship to 
another school. Daughter Suzie is a 
pianist of unusual talent, and it's sure 
to be open sesame at the music school of 
her choice. (Yet to be heard from is 
Deborah, age 5, an expert at handling 
the knobs on the TV set, according to 
Ludi. ) 


Paul Malot's colleagues at the 
Planetarium gave him a rousing farewell 
party recently when he left for his new 
post as Technician in the Anthropology 
Department. He'll be sorely missed in 
the starry regions, but his friends wish 
him much success in his new job. 


A welcome visitor in the Library the 
other day was Mrs. Clark Wissler, widow 
of the famous anthropologist and 
specialist on American Indians. It was 

a busman's holiday for her daughter, Mary 
Wissler of the Library staff, who was on 
her day off when she brought her mother 
in to see the new Library quarters.... 
Speaking of busmen's holidays, Bob 
Adlington (Fossil Invertebrates) was on 
vacation at the end of April when the 
AMNH Bowling League teams went into the 
final stretch in the race for first place. 
So Bob came in to help his team, The 
Untouchables, hold the lead. (Whenever 
the team drops below first place, it 
changes its name to The Touchables, 
naturally. ) 


The end-of-April rush to use up last 
year's vacation time found Eddie Morton 
(Office Services) helping his father 
Gene Morton (retired from Building 
Services) with his gardening out on Long 
Island, and Charlotte Stove (Office 
Services) doing a thorough 2-week-long 
spring house cleaning. 


SHARE THE WEALTH 


As long as some people insist on hoarding 
inter-office routing envelopes in their 
desks, other people have to get along 
without them. Larry Pintner urges that 


4, 


you help your fellow man by returning 
all such envelopes not in use to Office 
Services. Thank you. 


COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 


Dr. Meredith L. Jones (Living 
Invertebrates) returned late last month 
from a 33-week field trip aboard the 
Lamont Geological Observatory's research 
vessel "Vema" on which he collected 
deep-sea biological samples off the 
coast of Chile and in the Straits of 
Magellan. Just after his return, 

Dr. Donald Squires (Fossil Invertebrates) 
headed south to pick up the ship for 
another leg of the voyage. 


Director James A. Oliver visited the 
Museum's Lerner Marine Laboratory at 
Bimini last month to attend two 
conferences of scientists from research 
institutions in this country and abroad. 
One group was concerned with shark 
studies, the other with sounds produced 
by underwater organisms. Dr. Oliver 
listened by hydrophone to some 30 
different kinds of sounds emanating from 
the not-so-silent sea and reports that 
they ranged from loud knocks to squeaks, 
groans, and crackles. 


Among recent visitors at the Museum's 
Southwestern Research Station in 
Arizone were Dr. Jerome Rozen and 
Rudolph Schrammel (Entomology) who are 
due back soon from 4 weeks of bee- 
collecting in Texas, Arizona, and 
California. Other entomologists in the 
field are Dr. Willis Gertsch who is 
collecting spiders in southern California, 
and Patricia Vaurie who is visiting 
museums in Europe with her husband, 

Dr. Charles Veurie (Ornithology). 

Dr. Vaurie’s itinerary includes 10 days 
in the Soviet Union. 


Under the auspices of Philip Spalding 
(Field Associate in Herpetology), William 
Hosmer of Melbourne, Australia, is spend- 
ing several months in the Herpetology 
Department working on the Australian 
amphibians and reptiles collected by 
the Spalding-Hosmer Expeditions. He is 
assisted by Muriel Lea who also hails 
from Australia. Mr. Hosmer recently 
joined Herpetology Chairman Charles M. 
Bogert and Dr. Richard G. Zweifel to 
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(COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS, cont'd. 
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attend the meetings of the Society of 
Ichths and Herps in Texas where Mr. 
Bogert presided over a symposium session 
and Dr. Zweifel gave a paper on 
hybridization of whiptail lizards. 
Another Department member who presented a 
paper was Roger Conant, President-elect 
of the Society. 


Vickie Pelton (Ichthyology) is back from 
Florida where she spent a pleasant week 
working with Dr. Charles M. Breder, 
Ichthyology Chairman, on his Gulf Coast 
fish studies. As of this writing Dr. T. 
C. Schneirla (Animal Behavior) is in 
Thailand, continuing his army ant 
research. 


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on Comparative Endocrinology at the 
University of New Hampshire at the end of 
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Morris Altman (Living Invertebrates) and 
Drs. Ethel Tobach and Leo Vroman and 
Joseph Gitlin (Animal Behavior). 

Dr. Sydney Anderson (Mammalogy) worked 
at Harvard's Museum of Comparative 
Zoology for a week in April. 


Dr. and Mrs. James P. Chapin (Ornithology 
and Main Library respectively) showed 

some of their films and slides of Africa 
at a fund-raising dinner for the Boy 
Scouts in Atlantic City, and Dr. E. 

Thomas Gilliard (Ornithology) gave the 
Explorers Club a preview of his Cock-of- 
the-Rock film at their fund-raising dinner 
at the Waldorf Astoria. 


TRADING POST 


Going on vacation, or just working in 
the back yard? Men's and women's hand- 
madé sandals, adjustable to the foot, 
moulded arches, classic styles. Call 
Mitch Kaufman, ext. 343. 


| The Globe Canteen has received some complaints 


lately about people bucking the line in the 


public cafeteria, 


Unfortunately, 
buckers are mostly Museum employees. 


the line- 
With the 


recent upswing in attendance, our public eating 


facilities are in heavy use, 


It is requested, 


therefore, that employees not use public cafe- 


teria at lunch time on weekdays. 


When you use 


this cafeteria at weekends, please remember 
that visitors waiting im line take a dim view 


of anyone getting in ahead of them. 


for your cooperation, 


Thanks 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 6 


JUNE 1961 


This month, the entire Museum family joins in extending good wishes and 
appreciation to Mr. Alexander M. White on the occasion of his tenth 
anniversary as President of The American Museum of Natural History. This 
has been a decade of much progress in all the areas of Museum activity -- 


research, exhibition, exploration, and education. 


Under Mr. White's 


continuing leadership, we look forward to the advancement of programs 
that will enable the Museum to keep fulfilling its role in the quest for, 


and the interpretation of, scientific knowledge. 


Mr. White, and many happy returns! 


Congratulations, 


QUARTER CENTURY CLUB MEETS 


Three thousand years of service sounds 
impossible, unless one is speaking of 
Ginosaurs. But we are speaking of 
people -- the AMNH Twenty-Five Year Club 
members who gathered here on Monday 
evening, May 10, and whose combined 
service to the Museum totals something 
over three millenia. 


Of the 171 members of the Club, 107 
attended this year's Dinner to welcome 
the thirteen newest members: James G. 
Bourdonnay, Joseph P. Connors, George B. 
Decker, Matthew M. Duffy, Henry 
Ehlenberger, George J. Hawkins, Walter 
McGrath, James F. Phelan, Albert C. 
Potenza, Joseph R. Saulina, Fred F. 
Scherer, Edward J. Tuohy, and Mary V. 
Wissler. Unfortunately, George Hawkins 
was unable to attend because of illness, 
and Walter McGrath was out of town. 
Both were sorry to miss their first 
2>-Year Dinner, but they will have ample 
opportunity to make up for it in the 
future. 

(continued on page 2) 


THE MUSEUM LIBRARY & MISS GAY 


The Open House of the new Museum Library 
on June 22 will be a memorable event 

for two reasons. It marks the 
culmination of many years of preparation 
and work to create adequate housing for 
the Library and to transfer the 
thousands of volumes, as well as records 
and catalogs, with safety and 
efficiency. The completed quarters are 
as functional as they are handsome, and 
worthy to house one of the world's 
greatest collections of scientific 
writings. 


More important, the occasion will mark 
the retirement of the woman, who, more 
than any other person, is responsible 
for the excellence of the Library as it 
stands today. Hazel Gay joined the staff 
as Assistant Librarian in June, 1916, 
and became Head of the Library in 1936. 
During her forty-five years of service, 
she has come to know the book 
collections intimately and has helped 
thousands of investigators and students 
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GRAPEVINE STAFE 
Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 
Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 
mat vior - Evelyn Shaw 

Anthropology - Philip Gifford 

Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 

Education - George Crawbuck 

Entomology - Rose Adlington 

Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Patricia Bogert 

Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 

Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 

Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 

Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 

Memmalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 

Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 

Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop ~ Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Constance Sherman 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 

Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolpk Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 

Slides, Filns, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


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(QUARTER CENTURY CLUB, cont'd. (THE MUSEUM LIBRARY & MISS GAY, cont'd. 
from page 1) from page 1) 

President A.M. White greeted the to track down little-known writings and > 
members as "the youngest-looking obscure reference papers. As Head 
rejJntively old group” he had ever seen Librarian, she has developed and 
and cited, as an example, Dr. Barnum instituted many practices to effect 
Brown who made his first expedition for better use of the Library. In addition, 
the Museum just 72 years ago. Director she has an almost encyclopedic knowledge 
James A. Oliver then introduced the new of the Mus:um, its history, and its 
members, giving brief but lively personnel throvegh the years -- a mental 
biographical sketches, and Controller storehou-? thas has proved invaluable 
Walter F. Meister presented each with to her ccliesgv2s on many occasions. 
a certificate of Life Membership in the There arc few exnloyees: whose circle of 
Museum. Museum friends, both active and 

retired, is as wide as Miss Gay's. We 
The Club now has 85 members who have wish her a very happy and relaxing 
retired from active duty. Of these, vacation after she leaves us on the 22nd, 
33 were able to attend the inner. It and we hope to be seeing her frequently 
was good to see the faces of so many in the future. 


(continued on page 3) 


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(QUARTER CENTURY CLUB MEETS, cont'd. 
from page 2) 


who were here for last year's Dinner, 
including Anthony Cartossa, Elizabeth 
Emery, Harry Farrar, Ida Grobe, Robert 
McMorran, Chris Olsen, Henry Ramshaw, 
Henry Ruof, May Sheehan, Oscar Shine, 
Dorothy Shuttlesworth, and Jacob 
Stephens. There was also a fine turnout 
among those who have retired quite 
recently, including Don Carter, James 
Flood, Thomas Grady, William Nalty, 
Herman Otto, Johanna Scharf, Robert 
Seibert, and Fred Wernersbach. 


Dr. James L. Clark, here for his first 
25-Year Dinner in many years, still gets 
fan mail from all over the country and 
answers every letter. He and his wife 
spend half the year in Florida where 

Dr. C. goes in for swimming and eating 
grapefruit -- but not for night clubbing. 
When in New York, however, the Clarks go 
dancing every Saturday night. 


James A. McKeon, just back from a Florida 
trip, continues to enjoy his leisure 
after 16 years of retirement. Frank S. 
Vitolo, who retired 23 years ago and 
lives in Queens Village, keeps his hand 
in with drawing and lettering. Ashton 
Littlefield spends a lot of time working 
in his garden at Throgs Neck and finds 
the results very rewarding. 


Dr. Grace F. Ramsey continues to be very 
active in community affairs in 
Brookfield Center, Conn. She's looking 
wonderful and seems completely 
recovered from the bad auto accident she 
suffered a year ago. 


Joseph F. Connolly, who used to play 
professional basketball, is living in 
University Heights with his daughter 
who is on the staff of St. Luke's 
Hospital. Bernard Marshall and John J. 
Lambert were comparing grandchildren -- 
Mr. M. has 12 and Mr. Le has 25. the 
latest of which are twins. 


Alma O'Connor had come up from Florida 
especially for the 25-Year Dinner, her 
first in five years. Her sister and 
brother are living with her in St. 
Petersburg now and they all love trailer 
life. Fortunately, Hurricane Donna did 
little damage to their area. Lilian 


3. 


Utermehle has sold her New Jersey home 
and she and her sister now live in 
Washington. At the time of the Dinner 
she was visiting New York for two weeks 
to see old friends and take in theaters 
and restaurants. 


Jacob Shrope, who had planned to be with 
us that evening, was taken sick a few 
days before the Dinner. We missed him, 
and a number of others who were kept 
away by illness. We'll look forward to 
seeing them next year. 


We wish the Grapevine could bring you 
news of every member of "this happy 
throng”, as Charlotte Stove so aptly 
referred to the Club in her fine poem 
written especially for this year's 
Dinner. Just one more item: After the 
presentation of certificates, Dr. Oliver 
announced a special presentation, a silver 
automatic pencil, in recognition of "a 
young man who came to work here as a 
fleet, agile, slim messenger boy" -- 
Bursar Edwin C. Meyenberg who this May 
celebrated his Fiftieth Anniversary with 
the Museum. 


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IMPORTANT 


If you wish to receive your pay 
for your vacation period before 
you leave on vacation, don't 
wait til the last minute. The 
form provided for this purpose 
must be in the Personnel Office 
at_least two weeks prior to the 
date on which you want to receive 
your check. If you forget to file 
this form, don't expect special 
consideration. Our Personnel 
Office can't cope with 600 prima 
donnas « 


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SAFETY COMMITTEE REQUEST 


In order to help the Safety Committee 
locate and remove any potential hazards 
around the building, it is requested that 
such hazards be brought to the attention 
of Paul Grouleff, Plant Manager and 
Safety Committee Chairman. If you 

trip over a broken step, stub your toe 

in a dark hall, or bump your head on a 
low beam -- please describe the location 
in writing and address it to Mr. Grouleff 
who will make every effort to correct the 
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The Park Department awarded a contract 

for lighting improvements in the 

Children's Cafeteria, Basement, Section ll, 
and work will begin about June 19. 


On Friday, June 2, bids will be taken for 
rehabilitation of the parking field 
adjacent to the Hayden Planetarium, by 
the Park Department. 


DAN FLAVIN CREATES UNIQUE ART 


We recently saw an attractive, modern 
brochure announcing a show of constructions 
and watercolors by one "dn flavin" who, 

it turns out, is Dan Flavin of Building 
Services. Mr. Flavin's art, like his 
artistic signature "dn", is distinctive, 
as you would have seen if you had visited 
the Judson Gallery, 239 Thompson Street in 
N.Y., during the past month. The show 
closes this week, but may still be seen 
by special appointment. 


A rave review of the show in the May 
issue of Art News refers to Mr. Flavin 
as "a young artist whose work has a 
precocious air of authority and daring." 
A Flavin watercolor which incorporates 

@ quote from Van Gogh is described as 
"The story of Van Gogh's life -- surging, 
explosive, black, brilliantly colored, 
complicated, swift, uncompromising." 


The Flavin constructions consist of painted 
surfaces to which a "found object" -- 4 
flattened tin can, a screw driver, a 

piece of molding from a building -- has 
been attached. The artist considers him- 
self a realist, explaining that these 
objects are real things, not painted 
illusions. 


Mr. Flavin took courses in art history 
with Prof. Meyer Shapiro at Columbia and 
also studied under Hans Hoffman at the 
New School. Last year his work was seen 
in two widely-acclaimed shows, "New Media" 
and "New Forms", at the Martha Jackson 

| Gallery. 


FOUR LONG-TIMERS RETIRE 


We must say so long this month to four 
| colleagues who have been with us for 
Many years; Alexander Seidel, James 
Fogarty, James Gallagher, and Hazel Gay 
(see Library story, p. 1) 


4, 


Mr. Seidel, a noted scientific illustrator 
joined the staff as an artist in the 
Ornithology Department in 1943, and 
subsequently served in the Graphic Arts 
Division and the Exhibition Department, 
He has illustrated many publications, 
both scientific and popular, and his 
work may also be seen in the Hall of Oil 
Geology, the Hall of North American 
Forests, and the Hall of the Biology of 
Man. Each December, he delights his 
friends with his charming Christmas cards 
which show small animals celebrating the 
Yuletide. On June 8th, his colleagues 
will gather to honor him at a Tea in the 
staff dining room, and to wish him much 
success in his future ventures. 


Mr. Fogarty came to the Museum first as 
a@ night watchman in 1930. He left us 
briefly in the early 30's but returned 
permanently in 1934 and is now a Senior 
Attendant, working on the doors and in 
the Auditorium. After he retires at the 
end of this month, he will just relax for 
@ while at his home in the Bronx. 
Eventually he hopes to take a trip to his 
native Ireland and visit his ancestral 
home in County Kerry. 


Mr. Gallagher, also born in Ireland 
(County Mayo), joined the Attendant Force 
permanently in 1935, after a brief period 
with us a few years earlier. He had 
previously been a Special Patrolman at the 
observation area atop the Woolworth 
Building -- and no one can debate his 
contention that he once held the highest 
police job in the City of New York. He and 
his wife, who have four children and nine 
grandchildren, live in Valley Stream, L.I., 
and are looking forward to travelling and 
seeing the world now that their time is 
their own. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


The jubilant smile on the face of Malcolm 
Mackay (Power House) is explained by the 
fact that his son Gordon, 22, has just 
been awarded a Columbia University 
Fellowship to train as an education officer 
in East Africa this summer. Young Mr. McK 
is a senior at Hope College, Michigan. 
His training includes preliminary study 
at Columbia and the University of London, 
then at Makerre College in Uganda until 
December, after which he will be 
(continued on page 5) 


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assigned a post in Uganda, Kenya, or 
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John Ottens (Frick Lab.) is ill and 
hospitalized at Holy Family Hospital, 
155 Dean Street, Brooklyn. Friends who 
would like to cheer him up may send 
good wishes to him there. Marie Skinner 
(also Frick Lab.) is back at work looking 
hale and harty after three weeks 
hospitalization. She wishes to thank 
all her anxious friends for the cards 
and get well wishes she received during 
her convalescense,. 


Born: A daughter, Gail, to Thomas D. 
Nicholson (Planetarium) and his wife 
Branca. on May 28, She weighed in at a 
healthy 9 lbs. 3 oz. Dr. Robert Cushman 
Murphy (Ornithology) and Mrs. Murphy 
welcomed their first great-grandchild, 
Lawrence Stuart Mathews, born April 5. 
Congratulations to all! 


Numerous Museum visitors to 110 Sunset 
Lane, Tenafly, report that Kay Beneker 
(Exhibition) continues to make 

excellent progress in recovering from her 
heart attack. She'll spend the summer 
getting a long restful vacation on Cape 
Cod before coming back to work in the 
fall. 


FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW PLACES 


Bea Brewster, formerly of Natural History, 
has taken over as secretary to 

Dr. Norman D. Newell, Fossil 
Invertebrates...Melvin Hinkley left 
Building Services last month to join 
Dr. Newell's department as a laboratory 
assistant....Joan Gordan, formerly 

with Vegetation Studies and temporarily 
at Public Relations and Natural History, 
has joined the staff of Junior N.Heeee. 
So has Joan Troy, who was Joan Duggan 
when she worked on Natural History 
several years ago....Marlyn Mangus will 
shortly transfer from Education to 
Vertebrate Paleontology where she will 
assist Drs. Edwin H. Colbert and Bobb 
Schaeffer in the post vacated by Mary 
Patsuris a few months ago. 


PET PEEVE; People who dial the wrong 
number or get the wrong department and 
then hang up without saying a word. Can't 
they at least say "Sorry, I have the 
wrong number."? GR-R-R! 


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BOWLING LEAGUE CELEBRATES 


The AMNH Bowling League wound up its 
season on May 26th with the annual 

dinner dance for members and their guests 
at Mayer's Parkway Restaurant. High- 
light of the evening was the awarding of 
trophies to the first and second place 
teams, the Reptiles and the Untouchables, 
and to the four bowlers who took the 
individual honors: Hobart Van Deusen who 
bowled the men's high average of 163; 
Catherine Pessino who took both the 
women's high average of 126 and the 
women's high game at 223; and Ed Hoffman 
and Al Potenza who tied for men's high 
game with 223 each. (The men were mighty 
relieved when Cath got only 6 pins in her 
last frame, giving her a tie with them 
rather than putting her ahead). 


Six teams competed for first place this 
year, and it is hoped that more bowlers 
will come out for the League next 
September. Early that month, notices 

of the first fall meeting will be mailed 
to all employees. As so many people have 
expressed reluctance to join the league 
because they think they lack bowling 
skill, Al Potenza is organizing a summer 
league to put, or keep, everyone in 
shape for the coming season. Contact 
him for details. Members who continued 
through last summer showed marked 
improvement. One of the Untouchables, 
Sal DiBella, increased his average by a 
smashing 31 points, thanks to summer 
practice and continued effort all year. 


This year's team and final standings 
were: Reptiles (1st place) - Irene 
Nagyhazi, Charles La Salla, Paul 
Goodhouse, Arthur Naylor; Untouchables 
(2nd place) Catherine Pessino, Sal 

Di Bella, Nicholas Amorosi, Bob 
Adlington; Whales (3rd place )- catherine 
Mahoney, Joe Droche, Richy Oremland, Al 
Potenza; Gorillas (4th place) - Lois 
Hussey, Ed Hoffman, Bill Barbieri, Bill 
Forbes. Tied for low place on the totem- 
bowl were the Dinosaurs - Doris Hoffman, 
Vita de Vita, Farrell Carney, Hobart Van 
Deusen and the Flying Saucers - Trudy 
Neger, Mary McKenna, Micky Nagyhazi, 

Don Serret. 


Rudy Schrammel, Hugh Ohrenburger, and 
Mabel Colahan had to drop out of the 
League during the season. Their fellow 
members were sorry to see them leave but 
grateful to Charles La Salla and Ed and 
Doris Hoffman who filled the vacancies. 


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LISTEN to the Museum's radio program 
"Journey Into Nature" every Sunday at 
11:05 a.m. on WNBC. Staff members who 
will be heard on forthcoming programs 
are Lois Hussey on Bird Watching Around 
Town (June 11); Colin Turnbull on Africa 
and African Art (June 18); and Dr. Leo 
Vroman on Blood (June 25). 


ALBION HADDON 


It is with sorrow that we record the 
death on May 9, 1961, of Albion 

Haddon who retired in 1953 after twenty- 
six years of service as a printer with 
the Museum. Mr. Haddon used to operate 
the large press on which Junior Natural 
History was printed for many years, 

His former cOlleagues in the Print Shop 
and his many other Museum friends extend 
their deep sympathy to his wife and 
daughter. 


NEW FACES 


Welcome to Ernestine Weindorf, newly 
arrived secretary at Natural History, 
who comes to us from E. F. Drew Company. 
She's a dance enthusiast who also is 
interested enough in the Museum to beat 
her way in from Pelham daily. 


Welcome also to S. Abulgasim Khatami 
("Just call me Abul if it's easier"), 
new instructor in the adult program of 
the Education Department, who is an 
Iranian by nationality and an 
anthropologist by profession. Born in 
Isfahan, city of many romantic legends, 
he studied in Teheran, in France and 
England, at Columbia and Chicago in this 
country, and holds an M.A. in languages. 
He recently taught languages at Queens 
College and is now a candidate for a Ph.D. 
at Columbia. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Kay Henderson leaves the Museum this 
month after 13 years in the Education 
Department. She's joining the staff of 
the Public Library at Levittown, L.I., 

as a librarian trainee, starting June 16.. 
Rita Keller, editorial secretary at 
Natural History left last month to be 

a housewife and, in the fall, a mama.... 
Alain Petit, Building Services, heads 
west next week to join the archaeological 
survey of the University of South Dakota 


6. 


and the South Dakota State Parks 
Commission. He will be working at 
sites near Lewis and Clark Lake and 
Fort Randall. This is his third summer 
with the South Dakota group and he had 
previously worked with the Chicago 
Natural History Museum on digs in New 
Mexico. 


COMINGS , GOINGS & GATHERINGS 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Chairman of 
Ichthyology, returned in May from 
Florida where he has been doing 
behavorial and ecological studies of 
fishes on the Gulf Coast. His latest 
research involves the recording of fish 
sounds and the study of these sounds in 
relation to other behavior. 


Dr. Norman D. Newell, Chairman of 
Fossil Invertebrates, will spend the 
last two weeks of June at Bimini 
testing some new equipment designed 
to record data on burrowing organisms, 
He will be accompanied by Drs. John 
Imbrie and Edward Purdy and two 
eminent British geologists, Drs. G. R. 
Orme and R. G. C. Bathhurst. 


Louis Ferry, Foreman of the Carpentry 
Shop, visited the Smithsonian Institution 
in Washington last month and exchanged 
information and ideas with the head of 
their carpentry shop. Mr. Ferry reports 
that he received the red carpet and that 
he and his Smithsonian counterpart both 
learned some useful information. 


Five members of the Mammalogy Department 
will attend the American Society of 
Mammalogists meeting at the University 
of Illinois this month. They are 

Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Chairman; 

Dr. Joseph C,. Moore; Richard Graham; 

Dr. Sydney Anderson who will present a 
paper on the white-sided jack rabbits of 
Mexico; and Hobart Van Deusen who will 
speak on the carnivorous marsupials of 
New Guinea. After the meetings, Mr. and 
Mrs. Van Deusen will visit the Chicago 
Natural History Museum and the Carnegie 
Museum in Pittsburg. Dr. Van Gelder 
and Mr. Graham will visit several other 
museums before returning to New York. 


Dr. William Tavolga, Animal Behavior, 

deft last month for the Lerner Marine 

Laboratory at Bimini where he will 
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(COMINGS, GOINGS & GATHERINGS, cont'd. 
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continue his study of fish sounds 

this summer....Dr. James P. Chapin, 
Ornithology, and Mrs. Chapin, Library, 
flew to San Francisco at the end of 

the month. They are on a three week 
trip which will take them down the coast 
to Los Angeles and San Diego. 


Sherrill Baehler, Planetarium, and her 
husband are presently travelling 
through Mexico and Yucatan. Their 
itinerary includes Chichen Itza where 
they will visit the original pre- 
Columbian planetariun. 


REMINDER 


The Museum Library has recently had 
several complaints from visitors who 
received misinformation about Library 
hourse For everyone's information, 
the Library is open to the public from 
12 noon to 4 p.m. Mondays through 
Saturdays from October through May. 
It is always closed Sundays and 
holidays, and it is also closed 
Saturdays from June 1 through 
September 30. 


Small boy in Biology Hall: "I never 
knew ladies had mirrors inside them." 


TRADING POST 


Rentals 


Small vacation and weekend cottage available for 


the summer. 
90 miles from New York City. 
season, $200. 


Sublet July 1 - Sept. 15. 
apartment, East 78th Street. 


Situated on a lake in a wooded preserve 
Rent for the 


Five room railroad 
$100 a month. 


For information on either of the above rentals, 
call Cicely Breslin, ext. 478, or evenings at 


RE 4-3406. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 7 


JULY 1961 


DR. McCORMICK TO DO POLAR STUDIES 


Dr. Jack McCormick, in charge of 
Vegetation Studies, will leave the Museum 
this summer to take up his duties at 
Ohio State University where his new 
appointment takes effect September 1. He 
will be Assistant Professor in the 
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology 
and, for six months each year, will be 
attached to the staff of the University's 
Institute of Polar Studies. In the 
latter capacity, he will spend consider- 
able time in the Arctic doing ecological 
research. After he leaves us, the 
Museum will no longer maintain a full- 
time staff program in vegetation studies. 


Dr. McCormick came to the Museum in 

1954 and supervised the completion of 
the Hall of North American Forests which 
was opened in 1958. Since then he has 
devoted his attention to vegetation 
studies in various parts of the country 
including the Chiricahua Mountains of 
southeastern Arizona and the Museum's 
Kalbfleisch Field Research Station on 
Long Island. This summer he will finish 
the Chiricahua study, which is supported 
by a National Science Foundation grant, 
and thereafter he will retain an 
association with AMNH as a Consultant 

in Ecology. Happily, he will visit us 
from time to time to continue his 
studies at the Kalbfleisch Station. 
Meanwhile, we wish him all good fortune 
and success in his new assignment. 


DR. SCHNEIRLA BACK FROM ASIA 


Winding up with a leisurely 17-day 

freighter trip from Hong Kong to 

California, Dr. T.C. Schneirla, 
‘(continued on page 2) 


ARTS STUDENTS EXHIBIT 


The Museum Art Class climaxed its 1960- 
61 season with a handsome exhibit of 
paintings in the foyer of the employees’ 
cafeteria. The subjects were mainly 
still lifes -- colorful flower arrange- 
ments, fruit and a wine bottle, a 
theater mask, a squirrel (a mounted 
still life, or was he persuaded to 
pose?) Three fine interpretations of 
one subject -- a seabird with driftwood 
and a shell -- evoked a question from 

an admiring viewer: was Bill Baker 
sitting on Angelina Messina's lap (or 
vice versa) with Dorothy Bronson squeezed 
in on their right, all on the same chair? 
Other exhibitors were Carlton Beil, 

Anna Ferry, Helen Jones, Betty Kopf, 
William Mussig, Edna Prestia, and 

Miriam Stryker. 


The members of the group have expressed 
deep gratitude to their very talented 
and patient instructor Matthew Kalmenoff, 
and they are looking forward with 
enthusiasm to the next Art Class season 
which begins in September. All Museum 
employees are welcome to participate. 


MR. PICKERING TEACHES AT DAWN 


Those who wish to bone up on their 
astronomy are invited to turn on their 
television sets to Channel 4 (WNBC-TV) 
every Friday morning at 6:30 and study 
with James S. Pickering, Assistant 
Astronomer at the American Museum-Hayden 
Planetarium. Mr. Pickering is the on- 
camera instructor in the TV series 
"Astronomy For You" which began last 
month and will continue through August. 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil invertebrates - hobert Adlington 

Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 

Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 

Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
nalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 

Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 

Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Constance Sherman 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John E:landsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(DR. SCHNEIRLA BACK FROM ASIA, cont'd. 
from page 1) 


Department of Animal Behavior, returned 
to the Museum last month after five 
months in southeast Asia. The purpose 
of his field trip was to study legionary 
ants, specifically their behavior and 
its biological basis. This research is 
related to the studies on New World army 
ants in which Dr. Schneirla has been 
engaged since 1932, and he reports that 
the results of his latest expedition 
were better than he had expected. He 
spent the majority of his time in the 
Philippines, working on Negros and Luzon 
islands, and devoted the last month to 
studies in Thailand. 


WINNIE CULLEN RETIRES 
Winifred Cullen, Museum Shop, retired 


last month after 29 years of service with 
the Museum. She had been on extended 


sick leave for over a year, trying to 
surmount an acute anemic condition; but 
fortunately she has been able to drop 
in from time to time for such occasions 
as the annual dinner of the 25-Year 
Club. This month she plans to take a 
Florida vacation and we hope that the 
combination of sunshine and plenty of 
fresh orange juice will give her health 
a real boost. We'll miss her a lot, 
but will look forward to seeing her 
whenever she's in our neighborhood. 


MAMMALOGY STAFF PICNIC 


Members of the Department of Mammalogy 
gathered on June 17th to munch hamburgers 
and frankfurters, pitch horseshoes, and 
witness a magnificent display of plumage 
staged by four handsome peacocks. The 
occasion was the Department's annual 
picnic for which T. Donald Carter, 
recently retired from the Department, 
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(MAMMALOGY STAFF PICNIC, cont'd. from 
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It is with sorrow that we record the 
deaths last month of two people who were 
close to the Museum family for many years 


and Mrs. Carter again opened their 
beautiful country home at Kinnelton, N.J. 
The peacocks are among the many fortunate 
animals, both domesticated and wild, who 
Mrs. Walter F. Meister, wife of our 
also enjoy the Carter's hospitality at Deputy Director and Controller , died 
‘innelton. suddenly of a heart attack on June 13. 
Mrs. Mary C. Barry, mother of Catharine 
BOWLING LEAGUE PLANS. and Josephine Barry of the Department of 
Education, passed away on June 15 after 


The AMNH Bowling League recently elected a long illness. 


the following officers for the coming 
year: President - Lois Hussey; Vice- Museum colleagues extend their deepest 


President - Mary McKenna; Secretary - Al Beek ey tate tansy oak ie 
Potenza; and Treasurer - Farrell Carney. sympathy to the Meister y 


Barry family. 
The League plans to send notices to all 
employees early in September inviting 
them to join. Spouses will be welcomed, 
too. The official season will start PROMOTED 


Wednesday, October 4, and will continue 
through the middle of May. However, 
there will be two preliminary sessions on 
the last two Wednesdays in September for 
those who want to get in some practice 
before the League scoring begins. The 
sessions will be at 6 p.m. at the 
Manhattan Lanes. Meanwhile, if you care 
to join others who are bowling this 
summer, call the Secretary, Al Potenza. 


The following promotions of scientific s 
staff members took effect this July 1: 
Dr. James A. Ford, Anthropology, from 
Associate Curator to Curator of North 
American Archeology; Dr. William K. 
Emerson, Chairman of Living Invertebrates, 
from Assistant Curator to Associate 
Curator; Dr. Donald F. Squires, Fossil 
Invertebrates, from Assistant Curator 
to Associate Curator; and Dr. Richard G. 
Van Gelder, Chairman of Mammalogy, from 
Assistant Curator to Associate Curator. 


ELECTED 


John C. Pallister, Research Associate in 
the Department of Enthomology, was 
elected President of the Explorers Club 
in May. Mr. Pallister who has been 
active in the Club for many years had 
previously been a Vice President. 


HONORS IN ORNITHOLOGY DEPT. 


June 11 was Honorary Degree Day for the 
Department of Ornithology. Dr. Dean 
Amadon received a Doctor of Science 
degree from Hobart College, and that 
same afternoon Keuka College, fifty miles 
away, conferred a Doctor of Letters on 
Constance D. Sherman. A week earlier, 
on June 5, Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy 
served as Chief Marshall at the 193rd 
commencement procession of Brown 
University from which he graduated just 
fifty years ago. 


Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Chairman of 

| the Department of Mammalogy, was elected 

to the Board of Directors of the American 
Society of Mammalogists at the Society's 
meeting last month in Urbana, Illinois. 


NEW FACES IN THE SHOP 


The Museum Shop recently welcomed three 
new employees: Anne Penzer, a native 


New Yorker, is clerical assistant in the COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Shop office; Robert Re, formerly of Dr. Donald F. Squires, Fossil Inverte- 
White Plains and a night student of art brates, is just back from two months 

. at Pratt Institute is on the 77th Street aboard the Research Vessel "Vema" in 

» sales desk; and Doris Wessot, a former the chilly waters where the Atlantic 


_ arts and crafts teacher in the YWCA, is and Pacific meet below the southern tip 
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of South America, The collecting 
expedition travelled almost to the 60th 
parallel south but was turned back by 
storms with 150 mp.h. winds and 75-foot 
high waves. Despite this, and despite a 
collision with an Argentine oceanographic 
vessel, Dr. Squires' dredging and deep 
water sampling operations were extremely 
successful. 


Dr. James A. Oliver, Director, and his 
family are on vacation touring the 
southwest and visiting museums....Charles 
M. Bogert, Herpetology, is spending the 
summer doing field work in Oaxaca, 
Mexico. He and his wife Mickey went 
first to Texas for daughter Pat's 
wedding on June 27. 


The Stuart Keiths, Ornithology, are 
back from two weeks in Bermuda....Connie 
Sherman, Ornithology, flies to Europe 
in a few days to spend six weeks 
visiting friends in Spain, Switzerland, 
France, and England....Nan Keating, 
Natural History, soaked up a gorgeous 
tan on Sicilian beaches last month. 
Among her fellow passengers on the 
return flight from Rome to Idlewild 
was Jacqueline Kennedy. 


Dr. Evelyn Shaw, Animal Behavior, left 
for Woods Hole in June to continue her 
field research....Dr. Jerome Rosen, 
Entomology, and his family headed for 
California, Utah, and Arizona to collect 
insects....In the same Department, 

Dr. Frederick Rindge and his family left 
for New Mexico and Colorado to collect 
lepidoptera....Other entomologists 
recently returned from the southwest 
include Mar jorie Statham, Dr. Willis 
Gertsch, and Rudolph Schrammel. 


Regular readers of the New York Times 
may have noticed the fine literary hand 
of Isabel Mount, on leave from Public 
Relations, in dispatches from Africa. 
Mrs. Mount and her husband Marshall 

are about midway through their year- 
long tour of the African Continent, 
observing contemporary art in the 
various countries, working on a Rocke- 
feller Grant. 


WANTED: Good used Ford or Chevy, from 1956 on. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Abul Khatami, Education, played host for 
the Museum to an interesting visitor on 
July 5, 1.e., the Supreme Patriarch of 
Thailand who is spiritual leader of the 
world's 150 million Buddhists. The 
distinguished guest and his party of 
twelve asked many questions and expressed 
great interest in the Museum and 
Planetarium. 


Born: To Elinor White Montgomery, 
formerly Exhibition, and her husband 
George, a son George Geoffrey Montgomery 
on June 30. G.G.M, who weighed in at 

7 pounds, 6 ounces, is the first grand- 
son for Museum President and Mrs. A. M. 
White, who also have two granddaughters. 
eeeTO Bernice McClure Attard, daughter of 
Val McClure, Building Services, a girl 
on June 23. Mr. McClure's new grand- 
daughter is Elizabeth Mary Attard. 


Married: George Deabreo, Building 
Services, to Miss Verna Vrooman on July 
8 at Our Savior's Church in the Bronx.... 
Patricia Bogert, formerly Exhibition, to 
Millard Jeffrey Holbrook end, on June 27 
at the Unitarian Chapel of Lackland Air 
Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Mr. 
Holbrook, a native of Oregon, is a 
Second Lieutenant in the Air Force, 
stationed in Waco, Texas. 


Joseph Amendolare, Building Services, 
and his wife Frances celebrated their 
fifth wedding anniversary on June 16. 
They now have two charming youngsters, 
Joseph and Frances, Jrse, and hope to be 
homeowners soon....James S. Pickering, 
Planetarium, and his wife Meg were 
married forty years on June 18, and on 
July 3 Jim celebrated his tenth anniver- 
sary with the Planetarium. 


The distaff staff of the Circulation 
Department gave a gala dinner party 

at a Yorkville restaurant on June 20th 
in honor of two of their number, Joan 
Mahoney who left a few days later for a 
vacation visit to her native Ireland, and 
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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 8 


MOSQUITOFISH AT KALBFLEISCH 


If the Museum's Kalbfleisch Field Research 
Station experiences a mosquito plague in 
the next few weeks, staff members and 
students who are working there can blame 
it on Dr. Donn Rosen of the Ichthyology 
Department. But if his new project at 

the Station is successful, we will be 

able to thank him for a reduced mosquito 
population at the Station in the future. 


Dr. Rosen is attempting to establish a 
cold-tolerant strain of the mosquitofish, 
Gambusia affinis, in the Station's spring- 
fed pond. These fish are descended from 
@ cold-tolerant strain developed in 
Chicago in 1937 and maintained more re- 
cently in New Jersey by Dr. Charles M. 
Breder, Chairman of Ichthyology. 
Gambusia's native range extends from 
southern New Jersey to southern Illinois 
and southward to the Gulf and northern 
Mexico. However, because of its appetite 
for mosquitoes, it has been introduced 
widely in many parts of the world and has 
proved a very effective agent for con- 
trolling these unpopular insects. In 
observational studies, one 2-inch female 
Gambusia consumed 250 mosquito larvae in 
one hour. 


The fifteen hundred goldfish who previous- 
ly occupied Kalbfleisch Station pond (and 
also ate their share of mosquitoes) had 
to be removed before the Gambusia were 
introduced. Until the new occupants take 
hold, there may be a few extra mosquitoes 
around. 


For discount tix to Ice Capades, Madison 
Sq. Garden, call Larry Pintner, ext. 263. 


August 1961 


SPACE SHIP GOING UP IN R.M. 


The Roosevelt Memorial second floor 
rotunda will be closed to the public 
beginning Tuesday, September 5, for the 
installation of the expanded MAN IN SPACE 
exhibition scheduled to open on Columbus 
Day, October 12. Already screened off at 
the north end of the hall is the steel 
framework of a model space station to be 
known as ARIES (Authentic Reproduction of 
an Independent Earth Satellite. ) 


A gift of the Martin Company, ARIES re- 
presents the kind of manned scientific 
laboratory that will probably be launched 
into orbit around the earth by the late 
1960's. The model lab is a cylinder 41 
feet in length and 15 feet in diameter. 
Revealed through its transparent shell 
will be the life-support system in which 
five men will reside for as much as 60 
days in orbit while conducting experiments 
on a variety of bio-medical problems that 
man encounters in space. 


The cylinder is divided down the middle 
by a floor which is common to the occu- 
pants on both sides; in other words, they 
will stand feet to feet. In the absence 
of gravity, their feet will cling to the 
floor by means of a plastic adherent 
material. 


In the compartments of the space ship, 
Museum visitors will see five life-sized 
manikin astronauts utilizing the vehicle's 
equipment and facilities for eating, 
sleeping, recreation, and work. The dis- 
play will also depict some of the studies 
on which the astronauts will be working 
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Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 

Entomology - Rose Adlington 

Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 
Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 


Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 
Library - Sige Smith 
Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 


Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 


Micropaleontolo - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 


Muscum Shop - Peter Bujara 
Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 


- Edward Burns 
Shops & Shippi 


- John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 


Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(SPACE SHIP GOING UP IN R.M., cont'd. 
from page 1) 


such as metabolism and the recycling of 
oxygen, water, and food; protection from 
radiation and extremes in temperature; 
responses to gravitational changes; and the 
psychological effects of the space 
environment. 


The model of the Mercury Spacecraft now on 
exhibit will be incorporated into the new 

exhibition , and @ selection of new motion 

pictures on space will be shown. 


Incidentally, the opening date of the 
exhibition, October 12, is also the tenth 
anniversary of the first space travel 
symposium to be held in the United States. 
It was held in this Museum's Department 

of Astronomy, the American Museum-Hayden 
Planetarium, and--as you may recall--there 
were lots of people around then who just 
shook their heads and called the whole 
idea completely visionary. 


MUSEUM ARTIST EXHIBITS IN MEXICO 


Robert A. Gartland, Graphic Arts 
Division, recently had a one-man exhibi- 
tion of his watercolors at La Casa de La 
Cultura Jalisciense in Guadalajara, 
Mexico. Many Museum colleagues are 
familiar with Mr. Gartland's fine, sen- 
sitive paintings, realistic in style and 
generally depicting broad landscapes and 
scenes in nature. Several years ago he 
was represented in the Corner Gallery 
show of art by Museum personnel. 


His exhibition in Guadalajara consisted 
of 38 watercolors that he had painted in 
recent years while touring Mexico, the 
United States, and Colombia. The open- 
ing of the show on July 12 was attended 
by numerous people interested in cultural 
exchange between Mexico and the United 
States, including the American Consul at 
Guadalajara. 


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FRANCESCA LAMONTE RETIRES 


Francesca LaMonte, Associate Curator in 
the Department of Ichthyology, retired on 
July 31. At her emphatic request, there 
were no retirement celebrations. 


Depending on a particular fish run, Miss 
LaMonte and the free-lance illustrator 
Nina Walters Williams, will work on fishes 
which the Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution is collecting for them and 
sending by boat to Wickford, R. I., where 
Mrs. Williams now lives. Their summer's 
work should complete the drawings for the 
manuscript on which Miss LaMonte is work- 
ing. 


Miss LaMonte expects to stay in New York 

for the present and will be in the Museum 
frequently, although she is giving up her 
office. 


"JOURNEY INTO NATURE" 


The Museum's weekly radio program 

"Journey Into Nature" on WNBC has been 
aired regularly through the summer with new 
shows (rather than repeats, as was the case 
last summer) and mail response continues 

to show a large and loyal audience. 


On forthcoming programs, Dr. Stanley Freed, 
Anthropology, will discuss India and its 
people (Aug. 20 and 27); and Dr. Wesley 
Lanyon, Resident Director at the 
Kalbfleisch Field Research Station, will 
pe about the Station's work (Sept. 3 and 
10). 


Other colleagues who will be heard on the 
program soon include Thomas D, Nicholson, 
Planetarium, on hurricanes; Hobart Van 
Deusen, Mammalogy, on bats; Gordon Reekie, 
Exhibition, on the Man In Space exhibition; 
and John Saunders on Museum expeditions of 
the past. 


The program is heard every Sunday on WNBC- 
Radio at 11:05 a.em. The interviewer is 
Tex Antoine. 


PLEASE NOTE: In accordance with 
City regulations, the check re- 
ceived by a Museum employee for 
jury service must be turned in to 
the Personnel Office if the em- 
ployee wishes to receive his full 
paycheck. 


3° 
COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Joseph M, Chamberlain, Planetarium 
Chairman, went to Caracas, Venezuela, 
last month to help open the new 
Humboldt Planetarium in that city. 
Humboldt's Manager, Enrique Campdera, 
had spent a couple of months with us 
last spring studying operations at the 
American Museum-Hayden Planetarium. On 
his exchange visit, Mr. Chamberlain 
assisted in the preparation of the open- 
ing show at the new Planetarium and con- 
ferred with one of its chief sponsors, 
William H. Phelps, Jr., formerly a 
Trustee of The American Museum of 
Natural History. 


Dr. James A. Ford, Anthropology, went 
to Barranquilla, Colombia, in June to 
teach a three-week seminar on the subjec 
of archeological typology and chronolog) 
The conference, held at the Universidad 
del Atlantico, was sponsored by the Pan- 
American Union and attended by arche- 
Ologists from various South American 
countries, Mexico, and Cuba. 


Dr. Paul Arnaud, Jr. of the California 
Academy of Sciences will spend the next 
year with us working on Diptera in the 
Department of Entomology. 


Dr. Lester Aronson, Chairman of Animal 
Behavior, left early this month for a 3- 
month trip that includes participation 
in two major scientific meetings: the 
Conference on Sex Behavior in Berkeley, 
Cal., organized by the National Research 
Council; and the Pacific Science Congres 
being held in Honolulu. At the latter 
gathering, Dr. Aronson will present a 
paper on Hormones and Reproductive Beha- 
vior in the Symposium on Endocrines in 
Fishes. Later he will work at the 
Marine Laboratory of the University of 
Hawaii, studying the ecology and beha- 
vior of pearl fishes. On his way home, 
he plans to visit the University of 
British Columbia where extensive re- 
search is in progress on fish behavior 
and endocrinology. 


Also presenting a paper at the Pacific 
Science Congress is Dr. Norman Newell, 
Chairman of Fossil Invertebrates. On 
their way back from the meeting, Dr. and 
Mrs. Newell will visit Mrs. Newell's 
family in Dodge City, Kansas. 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Numerous books by AMNH authors have been 
translated into various foreign languages, 
but we doubt that many are available in 
Persian. Therefore, we were especially 
interested to recognize, by its jacket 
design, the latest edition of "Man And 

His Tools" by Dr. William A. Burns, 
Membership Chairman. First published in 
English by McGraw-Hill in 1956, the book 
has just been translated into Persian and 
may now be read from back to front by those 
who can decipher the curlicues of the mod- 
ern Iranian tongue. 


Married: Frank Hoffman, Jr., Building 
Services Division, to Beatrice Michaels, 
on July 22. Mrs. Hoffman is with the 
Salvation Army Day Nursery Program. 

Born: To Barbara Willence, wife of Nolan 
Willence, Architectural Planning Division, 
a@ girl, Mona Elaine on March 25....To 
Liliana Di Palma, wife of Gaetano Di Palma, 
Graphic Arts Division, a boy, Gordon 
Gregory, on April 28. Welcome, and con- 
gratulations to all! 


We were very sorry to hear that Louise 
Pedeberdot, Film Library, is again in 
Memorial Hospital. Colleagues who have 
been to see her report that she's resting 
comfortably and we hope that she'll be 
back with us before long. 


One of our better anglers, Vice President 
C. DeWolf Gibson, put a new notch in his 
fishing pole this summer. While he and 
Mrs. Gibson were visiting Honorary Trustee 
and Mrs. Edgar M. Queeny in Canada, the 
"Veep" killed his first salmon--and that 
last verb is used advisedly, in case you 
didn't know. In the proper lingo of the 
sport, you hook most fish, but you kill a 
salmon. 


Rita Ross, Education Department, returned 
early in August from one of the most ex- 
citing vacations we've heard about this 
summer. She toured Italy, Greece, and 
Turkey, and then swung around the Mediter- 
ranean to Africa where she covered nearly 
every country on that continent. Maybe 
we'll get a glimpse of this fascinating 
itinerary at a Camera Club program. 


Speaking of vacations, Director James A. 
Oliver and his family can't seem to get 
away from natural history. On their five- 


4. 


week auto tour of the southwest and far 
west, the Oliver's travelled 8000 miles 
and renewed acquaintance with 76 profess 
ional colleagues at 20 sister institu- 
tions. They also caught two young bob- 
cats in Arizona which they presented to 
the Southwestern Research Station, and 
took the temperature of one live rattle- 
snake in the wild. Talk about the 
proverbial busman! 


Some old timers were reminiscing the 
other day about Dr. William Lord Smith 
who was in the Education Department here 
for many years. It was long before the 
days of SOUNDTREK, Guide-A-Phone, or 
built-in sound effects such as we have in 
the Monta?la jungle exhibit. But Dr. 
Smith, who frequently guided students 
and visitors through the exhibit halls, 
provided his own sound effects. While 
discussing the fauna in a habitat group, 
he would add to its realism by imitating 
the growls, grunts, screeches, chirps or 
whatever of the animals shown. It's said 
that he did this very loudly and extreme- 
ly well. In addition, Dr. Smith had a 
theory, on which he often expounded, that 
every AMNH curator eventually came to 
look like the thing he studied. His own 
research interest was the tiger and appa- 
rently he was a good case in point for 
his theory. Even though we are all dizzy 
with the heat at the moment, the Grape- 
vine will not indulge in the obvious 
temptation to play this game. 


CHILDREN'S THEATRE WORKSHOPS 


Do you know a youngster whose imagination 
needs more self-expression? Then you'll be 
interested to know that Jacqueline Riseman 
is again directing her Children's Theatre 
Workshops at 454 Riverside Drive. In the- 
13-hour classes, children of 6 - 14 are 
divided into age groups in which they 
create funny situations and fantastic cha- 
racters. The older children do scenes and 
learn to make sets, props, and costumes. 
Miss Riseman is a former director of the 
Boston Children's Theatre. If you'd like 
to know more about her workshops, call 
her at ext. 320 or at MO 2-0213. 


TRADING POST 


For Sale: 1957 Oldsmobile convertible 
Super 88. Excellent condition. $1090. 
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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XVIII, NO. 9 


September 1961 


PRESIDENT OF PERU TO VISIT US 


The striking temporary exhibit of ancient 
Peruvian art, now taking shape in the 
first floor annex of the 77th Street 
building (1-A), will be formally opened 
on Monday evening, September 25, by no 
less a dignitary than His Excellency, 
Senor Dr. Don Manuel Prado, President of 
Peru. Senor Prado and his wife will be 
in this country at that time for a state 
visit and the exhibit here was planned 
especially to honor their visit. 


Under the direction of Dr. Junius B. Bird, 
Anthropology, the materials for the 
exhibit were gathered from some 40 museums 
and private collectors in the United 
States and Peru. They will represent not 
only the variety of ancient Peruvian art, 
but also its role in the everyday life of 
the people. Included are the oldest known 
pattermed fabrics, some over 4000 years 
old, in addition to examples of later 
textiles, metal work, ceramics, stone 
carving, and wood sculpture. Some of 
these objects have never before been 
exhibited publicly. 


The exhibit, which is jointly sponsored by 
the Museum and the International Telephone 
and Telegraph Corporation, will be on 
display until the end of the year. 


EVENING COURSES OPEN TO EMPLOYEES 


As in past years, Museum employees may 
audit free of charge the evening courses 
offered by the AMNH Department of 
Education, as well as those offered by 
the Planetarium, in cases where the course 
is not fully subscribed. Classes begin 
in late September and early October. 
(continued on page 2) 


NATURAL HISTORY LIBRARY IS ACCLAIMED 


The Museum's newest venture in publishing, 
The Natural History Library, has met with 
an enthusiastic reception and promises to 
be a resounding success. The first 13 
volumes in this paperback reprint series, 
published by Doubleday Anchor Books in 
cooperation with AMNH, are being released 
this month, and the initial book reviews 
are music to our ears. Typical is that 
of the Los Angeles Times which calls them 
"the best of the current paperbacks." 


The series is designed to introduce the 
student and the general reader to the 
study of man -=- his origins, his nature, 
and his environment -- and to the whole 
natural world, from sub-microscopic life 
to the universe at large. Only volumes 
of enduring interest in the life and 
earth sciences have been selected for 
reprinting. The books are chosen by an 
editorial board of Museum scientists, 
composed of Dr. Franklyn M. Branley, 
Planetarium; Mr. Charles M. Bogert, 
Chairman and Curator, Department of 
Herpetology; Dr. E. Thomas Gilliard, 
Associate Curator, Department of 
Ornithology; Dr. Gordon F. Ekholm, Curator 
of Mexican Archaeology, Department of 
Anthropology; and Dr. Bobb Schaeffer, 
Curator, Department of Vertebrate 
Paleontology; and in most cases the book 
carries a new foreword by a Museum staff 
member . 


The Natural History Library is now avail- 
able at the Museum Shop (and, of course, 
at bookstores throughout the U.S.). Prices 
range from 95¢ to $1.45. Twelve more books 
in the series will be published early in 
1962, with additional titles to follow at 
the rate of 20 or more each year. 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Victor Badaracco, Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory = George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 


Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 


ogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Mary McKenna 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 
Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 
Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Constance Sherman 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


(EVENING COURSES, cont'd. from p. 1) 


The Museum curriculum this fall contains 
some new and timely lecture series 
including "Understanding Africa Today" 
and "Evolution of Man". Planetarium 
courses deal with astronomy, space 
exploration, navigation and meteorology. 
Schedules are posted on the cafeteria 
bulletin board. 


Employees who are interested in taking 
Museum courses are requested to call 
Bruce Hunter, ext. 445, in advance of 
the first session to make sure that the 
Class is not already full. Those 
wishing to take Planetarium courses 
should check in advance with Dr. Frank 
Branley, ext. 412. 


REQUEST FROM OFFICE SERVICES: Please 
don't use staples to close inter-office 
envelopes; just tuck in the flap. 


CREDIT UNION RECORDS COMMENDED 


An examination of our Credit Union 
records, made by the Bureau of Federal 
Credit Unions late in July, showed that 
our records were in good shape and we 
received a high commendation. It was 
noted, however, that not enough of our 
members are making systematic savings. 
The savings feature is one of the great 
advantages of the credit unions. Even 
while you are repaying a loan, you can 
increase your CU shares, and earn 
interest, by putting aside a few dollars 
each pay period for savings. Under the 
payroll deduction plan, you'll hardly 
miss it in your salary check. Visit the 
Credit Union, Roosevelt Basement, any 
Mon., Tues., or Thurs. (except paydays ) 
between 12 and l. 


Extra copies of recent back issues of the 
Grapevine are about to be disposed of. If 
you would like copies of any 1960 or 1961 
issues, please call Kate Ogilvy, ext.3ll. 


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NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


It was very good to see Benjamin 
Edwards when he stopped by the Museum 
in September. Mr. Edwards, who 

retired from the Carpentry Shop some 
years back, is living in St. Petersburg, 
Florida (3901 Yardley Avenue, North). 

He hopes that Museum people will get in 
touch with him when passing through his 
neighborhood. . 


St. Petersburg seems to be headquarters 
for former AMNHers. Winnie Cullen who 
retired from the Museum Shop last spring 
is about to move into a trailer home 
there, just across the street from 

Alma O'Connor, formerly with Building 
Services. 


KNITTING WOOL REQUESTED 


If you have any used knitting wool 
(unraveled from sweaters, etc., or 
remnants too small to use), Harry Lange, 
Accounting, would appreciate your 
sending it to him. It will be used by 
women who are making afghans for a 
charitable project in his community, 
Thank you. 


ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES 


Rudolph Schrammel has resigned from the 
Department of Entomology after more than 
20 years of service with the Museum. He 
will be very much missed and we wish 
him all the best in his new post with 
the John Hancock Insurance Company. 


Robert Hellmann will leave the 
Department of Education October 1 to 
join the Teachers for East Africa 
Project of Columbia Teachers College. 
He will be located at Makerere College, 
Kampala, Uganda, where he will teach 
biology. 


Ruth Delaney, secretary to the Director, 

leaves us at the end of this month to 

join her husband who has transferred 

to the University of Miami. We wish 

it weren't such a long way to Florida. 
(continued on page 4) 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Edwin C. Meyenberg, Bursar, reports that 
the Museum recently received notification 
from the Bureau of the Budget of an 
upgrading on the following titles, 
effective July 1, 1961: 


Up two grades - Senior Building Custodian, 
Principal Museum Instructor, Museum 
Technician, Museum Maintainer, and 
Assistant Accountant. 


Up one grade - Clerk, Senior Clerk, 
Telephone Operator, Senior Telephone 
Operator, Staff Nurse, Motor Vehicle 
Operator and Senior Stenographer. 


After approval by the Board of Estimate, 
the Museum-City Budget will be modified 
showing an increase of approximately 
$13,000. Subsequently, a payroll will be 
prepared retroactive to July 1, 1961. 


Under the revised general pay plan 
regulations adopted by the Department of 
Personnel, all incumbents in the above 
titles will benefit by pay increases 
effective July 1, 1961. 


The Administration is happy to report 
these welcome increases and will continue 
its efforts with the City to obtain 
necessary salary adjustments for those 
positions that have not been considered. 


BOWLING LEAGUE STARTS SEASON 


The AMNH Bowling League season begins 
officially on Thursday, October 5, and 
members will bowl each Thursday thereafter 
through next May 17, according to Lois 
Hussey, League President. Please note 
that the meeting day has been changed 
from Wednesday to Thursday. 


Twenty-five people have signed up for the 
League to date and there is room for a few 
more. If you are interested, get in 
touch with Al Potenza, Secretary, 
immediately. September 21 and 28 have 
been scheduled as practice nights and 
scoring will not begin until October 5. 
Additional practice nights are scheduled 
for later in the season. 


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(ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES, cont'd. from 
page 3) 


Anne Giraud left the Planetarium in 
September after seven and a half years 
as secretary to Planetarium Chairman 
Joseph M. Chamberlain. She's looking 
forward to "just being a housewife", and 
we hope she'll come in from time to time 
to say hello. 


Constance D. Sherman, Ornithology, has 
been given a leave of absence to accept 
an Assistant Professorship in Modern 
Languages at Queensborough Community 
College....Jennifer Chatfield, Education, 
will serve as Curator of Anthropology at 
the University of Colorado Museum in 
Boulder for the fall semester; she'll be 
back with us next February. 


Two departures from Micropaleontology at 
the end of August -- Carol Turco and 
Arthur Pitschi. Both have accepted 
positions as science teachers....At the 


) same time, the Department welcomed back 


Josephine Sperrazza who left us two years 
ago to do graduate work at N.Y.U. 


The G. Stuart Keiths, Ornithology, are 
in Africa for nine months, studying 
cranes...eIn Entomology, Drs. Jerome 
Rozen, Frederick Rindge, and Willis 
Gertsch are back from successful field 
trips in the west, and Marjorie Statham 
has left for a month's field work at 
the Southwestern Research Station. 


Tom Page, formerly in editorial 
production at Broadcast Information 
Bureau, is Ed Williamson's new assistant 
in production at Natural History Magazine. 
Mr. Page is a University of Minnesota 
graduate and he plans to be married in 
December. 


The new secretary in the Public Relations 
Department is Nancy McCoy, a native of 
Tucson, Arizona and a night student at 
City College. After a baptism by fire 


| (N.Y.'s longest summer heat wave, and the 


complete architectural reconstruction of 
the P.R. offices) Miss McC. is still 
smiling and plans to stay with us. 
Hallelujah! 


Temporarily filling in for Isabel Mount 
in Public Relations is Virginia Coigney, 
television writer and former public 
relations director of the Compton 
Advertising Agency. 


4. 


The two new faces in the Education 
Department are Judith Chernin and Ruth 
Radalinsky, graduates of Queens College 
and City College, respectively. Both 
biology majors, they will teach in the 
World We Live In Program. 


Monica Wagner, new typist in 
Micropaleontology, is Viennese by birth 
and spent the last three and a half 
years studying in Germany. She also 
worked for a publishing house where she 
was in charge of, interestingly, the 
Horse Book Department. Her hobbies are 
riding and languages. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Helen Hays, Ornithology, presented a 
paper on the Ruddy Duck, with an 
accompanying film, at a conference in 
Manitoba last month. As she was leaving 
New York, she put her suitcase on the 
sidewalk, went down the street to hail 
a taxi, and turned around to find the 
bag gone. Luckily, she had the film in 
her hands, and after buying some more 
clothes, she caught the next plane. 
When she got back, the suitcase was safe 
and sound at the police station. 


We're sorry to hear that Rose Ismay, 
Entomology, will be out for a while. 
She's nursing a broken wrist....Thelma 
Pollick is back on the job but is 
watching her step. She fractured a bone 
in her foot this summer and was in a 
cast for several weeks. 


As we go to press, word arrives that the 
stork has just stopped at the Southwestern 
Research Station in Arizona. Dr. and Mrs. 
Mont Cazier have a new son. 
Congratulations!....Nancy Gahan, Natural 
History Magazine, wife of Tony Gahan, 
Animal Behavior, has left the Museum to 
await the birth of their baby. 


Bob Murray, Office Services, who makes 
&@ point of trying to catch television 
shows on which Museum people are 
appearing, saw Jim Pickering, Planetarium, 
discuss astronomy on the Betty Furness 
Show the other night. As usual, 

Mr. Pickering was great, and Mr. Murray 
called him up to tell him so. "Would 
you tell me if I was awful?” Mr. P. 
asked. Said Mr. M., "You bet I would!” 
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BICYCLES NEEDED 


The Kalbfleisch Field Research Station at 
Suntington, Long Island is in need of 
several second-hand bicycles for use by 
students who are living and working at the 
station, Dr. Wesley Lanyon, Resident 
Director, reports. One bike has already 
been donated and all other contributions 
will be gratefully received. 


TRADING POST 


For Sale: Hide-A-Bed Sofa, grey-green 
damask, very good condition. 35" x 72", 
sleeps two. $56.00. Anna Chomyak, ‘ 
ext. 487, or TR 3-6839 after 6 p.m. 


by calling Plaza 3-4700, ext. 99. 


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Items for Sale: 1 limed oak desk; 2 
white fiberglas Herman Miller chairs; 

2 modern black end tables, step type; 

2 white deep pile scatter rugs, | x 6; 

1 Simmons extra-firm double mattress and 
springs. Call Ruth Delaney, ext. 501. 


Friend of Museum wishes to purchase small, 


secluded country house, close to water, 
within 2 hours drive of N.Y¥.C. About 
$10,000. Call Kate Ogilvy, ext. 311. 


Available now: Furnished room with bath 


in private apartment at 40 West 77th St. 
One person only, man or woman. {$10 a week. 
Call Mrs. Shirley Camper, SU 7-8722. 


CONFERENCE CENTER AVAILABLE 


A letter from the National YWCA advises us that their conference and retreat center, 
"Altamont", in Millbrook, N.Y. (near Poughkeepsie) is available for use by other 
organizations and groups. It accomodates between 15 and 45 people and the basic 
rate for overnight and three meals is $8.75. Further information may be obtained 


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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 10 


ESTHER AND THE METAL SHOP 


When an angry young lady named Hurricane 
Esther recently threatened New York, we 
were happy to see that our Metal Shop 


was very much on the job protecting AMNH. 


Fred Bisso, Salvatore Funari, William 
Heslin, Donald Buckley, and Thomas 
Busardo were observed climbing all over 
the numerous roofs and towers of these 
sprawling buildings, inspecting gutters, 
shingles, windows, and tying down 
scaffolds that were in use at the time. 
We asked Shop Foreman Bisso if this was 
not an unusual activity and found that, 
for our Metal Shop, it's a routine 
practice done at regular intervals to 
insure a secure building. 
it sounds like quite a job and we 
greatly admire the five stalwart fellows 
who keep the lid on the Museum. 


The 20% Christmas discount for 
gift items purchased by employees 
at any of the Museum Shop selling 
areas will be in effect from 
November 1 until December 25. 
Book discounts for employees 
remain at their usual rate -- 12% 
discount for over-the-counter 
purchases, and 10% discount for 
special orders. 


Larry Pintner, Chief of Office Services, 
has a limited number of discount tickets 
for hockey games (N.Y. Rangers) and 
basketball (N.Y. Knickerbockers) at 
Madison Square Garden. Call him if 
you're interested. 


Routine or not, 


October 1961 


SOCIAL SEASON STARTING 


The date is Friday, November 17, the time 
5:30 pem., the place Roosevelt lower level 
The occasion? Arthur Naylor, President 

of the Employees' Benefit Association, 
suggests we call it simply the EBA Fall 
Affair. A frolic, a ball, a hop, or 

wing ding -- whatever the tag, it's the 
big event of the AMNH social season and 

if you miss it, you'll be sorry. 


A delicious buffet dinner, dancing to the 
music of Ted Anthony's Orchestra, 
excellent beer service (with bar maids), 
and lots of good fellowship until the 

wee hours -- all these are offered for 
just $1 a head. Ticket committee members 
will be canvassing the building in the 
next few weeks in an effort to reach every 
employee. Be sure to get your ticket, 

and see you on the 17th. 


CREDIT UNION CHECKING ACCOUNTS 


The Credit Union Supervisory Committee is 
currently sending verification forms to 

a partial list of the CU members. If you 
receive one, check to see that the amount 
shown in your account agrees with your 
own pass book record. Then sign and 
return the form to the Committee in the 
envelope provided. Please do not send 
your pass book to the Supervisory 
Committee. If you don't receive a 
verification form this month, don't worry; 
you'll be on a future list. 

And if you're not a CU member, why not join 
now? Visit the Credit Union office, Roose- 
velt basement, any Mon., Tues., or Thurs., 
(except paydays) between 12 and l. 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 

Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 

Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Olga Smith 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 

Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
logy - Hobart Van Deusen 

Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 

Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Helene Jordan 

Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 

Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop 


- Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Jeanne Lyons 


MR. GOODWIN RETIRES 


George G. Goodwin, Associate Curator in 
the Department of Mammalogy, retired 
this month after forty-one years on the 
Museum staff. An authority in the study 
of recent mammals, he has done extensive 
field work in remote areas of the world 
and has contributed significantly to 

the Museum's outstanding mammal col- 
lections. 


Earlier this year, Mr. Goodwin 
published an extensive study on the bats 
of Trinidad and Tobago, the most 
comprehensive of its kind ever prepared. 
He is also the author of many other 
books and articles, both technical and 
popular. During his more than four 
decades with the Museum, he has been a 
member of expeditions to Siberia, Africa, 
the Arctic, Iran, the Caribbean and 
many parts of the U. S. and Canada. 


On the side, Mr. Goodwin keeps bees at 
his home on Long Island and is also a 
falconer of distinction. We don't see 
how he can find retirement dull, but we 
hope he will find time to come back to 
the Museum frequently in the future. 


CONTRIBUTOR'S COLUMN 


A reader recently forwarded to us a list 
of descriptive adjectives frequently used 
on personnel assessment reports, along 
with some unofficial definitions that 
should evoke a chuckle or two in most 
AMNH quarters. For example: 


Assessment Meaning 
Hardworking dirty lab coat 
Ambitious likes money 
Forceful. shouts 

Observant watches the girls 
Unobservant near retiring age 
Reflective sleeps anywhere 


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MR. BADARACCO RETIRES 


Victor J. Badaracco, Building Services, 
retired in August, 1961, after thirty-two 
vears with the Museum. Originally 

=soployed in the Mason Shop, he transferred 
to Building Services in the early '30s and 
was in charge of a group of WPA workers 
assigned to the Museum for several years. 
In 1952, he became Supervisor of exhibition 
hall attendants. 


Mr. Badaracco has been active on the Board 
of Directors and various committees of the 
Employees' Benefit Association, where his 
participation will be especially missed. 
Last year he underwent a major operation 
and was absent from the Museum for some 
months. Although he was back on the job 
for six months this year, his full 
recovery requires a long period of rest 
and relaxation. All the good wishes of 
his many Museum friends are with him. We 
miss that easy-going joviality with which 
he responded the other day when asked how 
he was enjoying his new-found leisure. "My 
name may be Badaracco," he said, "but I'm 
living the life of Riley!" 


THE CRUISE OF THE JOLY-JELI 


It's now been revealed that the rest of 

us missed the best cruise of the Labor Day 
weekend when four colleagues from the 
Electrical Shop hoisted anchor at dawn in 
Pelham Bay for a 150-mile voyage to 
Cutchogue, L.I. J. "Stitch" Krosche, 
captain of the Joly-Jeli III, reports that 
the planned course was through Long Island 
Sound and Plum Gut into Gardiner's Bay 

and thence to Little Peconic Bay. Unplanned 
deviations in the course depended on the 
first mate and navigator, Hugh Ohrenberger, 
and to some extent on the activity of the 
chief steward, J. J. Doyle, who attended 
to his duties with the utmost zeal. The 
destination was the Nassau Point residence 
of Paul Goodhouse who operated the ship's 
radar and radio. After a 55-minute stop 
for gas at Greenport, the well-fueled 
vessel was boarded by the Coast Guard and 
passed inspection with flying colors. The 
sun was nearly setting when, just 11 hours 
and 40 minutes after their dawn departure, 
the unflagging foursome cruised quietly 
into port. It was a memorable voyage, one 
that will doubtless become a legend in 

the annals of informal Museum expeditions. 


NEW FACES 


Dr. Karl F. Koopman has joined the 
Department of Mammalogy as an Assistant 
Curator. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he 
was previously on the staff of the 
Chicago Natural History Museum. His 
current research deals with African bats. 


Frank DeFranco, new Advertising Director 
of Natural History, was formerly vice- 
president of a publisher's representative 
firm and prior to that was a sales 
specialist with the Melrose division of 
Schenley Industries. He replaces 
Bernard Soll who is now publisher and 
president of the theater magazine 
Showbill. 


Wendy (short for Susannah) Huckel is the 
new secretary to Planetarium Chairman 
J.M. Chamberlain. Miss H., who comes 
from Old Greenwich, Conn., plays the 
piano and the french horn, and it's 
rumored that she's quite an artist as 
well. 


Leslie Armour Taylor, new Assistant 
Librarian, is a Texan who comes to us 
with extensive experience both in 
geology and library science. He served 
in Bogota, Colombia, with Socony-Vacuum's 
Stratigraphic Research Lab and later 
with the National Geophysical Company. 
He has also been on the staffs of the 
N.Y. Public Library, and the libraries 
of Columbia University, St. Louis 
University, and the Bell Telephone 
Laboratories. 


The Ornithology Department welcomes two 
new secretaries. Mary Stewart McCullen 
graduated with honors from Smith College 
iast June where she was an English major. 
Her thesis bore the intriguing title 
"Etherege's Wits." Leila C. Morton just 
graduated from Central State College in 
Ohio where she received a degree in 
business as well as her MRS. She is 

a bride of one month and, as a wedding 
present, Uncle Sam has just called her 
husband's Reserve Unit for active duty. 


Tamara Northern, new instructor in the 

Department of Education, studied 

anthropology at Frobenius Institute of 

Frankfort University in her native 

Germany. A specialist on Africa, she 
(continued on page 4) 


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anthropology. On the side, she's a 
collector and connoisseur of pottery and 


peinting. 


COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 


Charles M. Bogert, Herpetology Chairman, 
returned at the end of last month from 
Mexico where he collected some extremely 
unusual frogs, rattlesnakes, and lizards 
for the Department's live collection. 


Dr. Helmut Adler, Animal Behavior, was 
chairman of a symposium on Current 
Theories of Migration at the AIBS meeting 
at Purdue University in August. The paper 
he presented was on Sensory Factors in 
Migration. 


Dr. William K. Emerson, Chairman of 
Living Invertebrates, attended the summer 
meeting in Washington of the American 
Malacological Union and was elected 
President of the organization. 


Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Mammalogy 
Chairman, is currently in Latin America 
where he is continuing his study of skunks 
in Mexico, Trinidad, Brazil, Argentina, 
Peru, and Venezuela. He'll return in 
December. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Ichthyology 
Chairman, is in Florida for further field 
work in his study of Gulf Coast Fishes.... 
Dr. Donn E. Rosen of the same department 
returned in September from the University 
of Michigan where he and Dr. Reeve M. 
Bailey spent several weeks working on the 
revision of a family of new world fishes 
that includes 23 genera and 140 species, 
@ll the members of which give birth to 
living young. This extensive project, 

on which Drs. Rosen and Bailey have been 
working for eight years, is nearly 
completed. 


The Graphic Arts Division would 
appreciate copies of old magazines 
containing pictures of any kind. Such 
pictures are clipped for their reference 
files which cover a wide variety of 
subjects. Send to Joe Sedacca, Graphic 
Arts. 


nee 4, 


It is with sorrow that we record the 
deaths of two former colleagues this 
month. Hattie Hawes, who retired from 
Building Services in 1941 after 25 years 
of service, died on October 4. Avery H. 
Kimmel, a machinist with the Museum from 
1921 until his retirement in 1957, died 
on October 16. 


EBA ASSESSMENTS & FREE RIDES 


The two former colleagues whose deaths are 
reported above were members of the 
Employees‘ Benefit Association, as was 
May Sheehan, formerly of the Library, who 
passed away in July. Active EBA members 
may have noted, however, that no 
assessments were deducted from their 
paychecks for beneficiary payments in 
these three cases. The reason for this 
lies in our large EBA membership, George 
Floegel, treasurer of the organization, 
explains. A membership-wide assessment 
(50¢ per member) more than replenishes 
the drop in the death benefit fund caused 
by a beneficiary payment. Whenever the 
fund grows large enough to permit one or 
more payments without assessments, such 
payments are known as "free rides." We 
don't know when or how that term got 
started, but it aptly describes the 
bookkeeping procedure in instances where 
no EBA deduction appears on our paychecks. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Definition of the month: Madeline Levy 
Cooper, recently returned to Animal 
Behavior after an absence of several 
years, tells the following story about 
her son Ricky, a precocious lad of three, 
On learning that both his parents were 
scientists, young Rick asked for a 
definition of the appellation. While 
Mrs. C. was trying to think of a concise 
answer, Ricky proposed, "A scientist is 
somebody who makes signs." (Naturally!) 


Dr. Wesley Lanyon's appeal for bicycles 
for the Museum's Kalbfleisch Field 
Research Station, appearing in last month‘. 
Grapevine, got a response from a practical 
joker who forwarded a very small, much 
used tricycle with a note "try this for 
size." No kidding, they need bikes at 
Kalbfleisch. If you have one, just paint 
your name on the fender and contribute it. 
(continued on page 5) 


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This is an easy road, and perhaps your 
closest approach, to immortality. 


We were very much concerned to hear that 
John Erlandsen, Paint Shop and 

Grapevine reporter, suffered a heart 
attack last month. As we go to press, 
he's well on the road to recovery and 
anxious to get back on the job -- but 
the doctors prescribe a few more weeks 
of convalescence. Meanwhile, everybody 
here is cheering for him....Illness also 
hit the Herpetology Department last 
month when William Hosmer had to take 
time out from his studies of the 
Australian collection. We're glad to 
see him back. 


Born: to Tony and ea Gahan (Animal 


3 ounce, yclept Rebecca. Young Miss G. 
had the grace to arrive at the reasonable 
hour of 2:08 p.m. on Sunday, October l. 


Just off the press, and a natural for 
any young adventurers of your 
acquaintance, is Dr. William A. Burn's 
book "Exploring For Fun", subtitled 

"A Young Explorer's Handbook." Dr. Burns, 
Membership Chairman, explains map-making 
and direction-finding, first aid, and 
simple camp cookery, and tells you what 
to do if you get iost in the woods. The 
charming illustrations are by Joseph M. 
Sedacca, Chief of Graphic Arts. 


D« 


Josephine Peters, Archbold Expeditions, 
Mammalogy Department, found a way to beat 
New York's outrageous weather this 
summer. After a two-month tour of 
Europe, during which she visited her 
family in Vienna, Mrs. P. reports "not 
a rainy day in the whole trip."... Post 
cards from Hazel Gay, Head Librarian, 
who retired last spring after 45 years 
with the Museum, tell us that she is 
seeing the United States by car and 
enjoying every moment of the trip. 


Louis Ferry, Carpentry Shop Foreman, is 
not available for social engagements 
these Thursday evenings. He's teaching 

a course in carpentry and cabinet-making 
at the Passaic Adult Education School, 
and his students have become so enamoured 
of the subject and teacher that he's 
getting fan mail written in verse. 


TRADING POST 


Cars for sale: 


1957 Oldsmobile convertible Super 88. 
Excellent condition. $1090. Call Bob 
Carson, ext. 379. 


1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe, light 
blue and white, radio and heater, 4 new 
whitewall tubeless tires, new battery, 
power steering, 184 miles to a gallon. 
Mileage at end of Sept., 1961 -- 45,000. 
$700. Call Joe Sedacca, ext. 275. 


Skates wanted: 


A pair of ice hockey skates in good 
condition. Size 9. Call William Hosmer, 


exte 357. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 11 


November 1961 


"NATURAL HISTORY" WINS MAJOR AWARD 


As we go to press, we have just heard 
the good news that Natural History 
zine has taken one of the nation's 
top honors for distinguished science 
writing. First prize in the magazine 
competition of the annual (1961) AAAS- 
Westinghouse Awards went to John 
Pfeiffer for his article "DNA: Master 
Substance of Life" in the December, 
1960, issue. Helmut Wimmer, Planetarium 
staff artist, did most of the 
illustrations accompanying the article. 


Mr. Pfeiffer is the author of three 
well-known books, "From Galaxies To 
Man," "The Changing Universe," and 

"The Human Brain.” The DNA article was 
his first for Natural History. He has 
also coordinated, for the past two 
years, the magazine's annual section 
reviewing science books for children. 


The second prize in the magazine 
competition of the Triple-A S- 
Westinghouse Awards went to The 


Saturday Evening Post. 
NEW ALCOVE COMPLETES SANFORD HALL 


The opening this month of the alcove in 
the northeast corner of the Sanford Hall 
of the Biology of Birds marks the 
completion of this extensive exhibition 
hall after more than fifteen years of 


ge EAE and preparation. 
continued on page 2) 


BLOOD BANK COMING 


Last January, the Red Cross Bloodmobile 
came to the Museum and 72 of our colleagues 
rolled up their sleeves to give blood. 
During the past 11 months several of these 
colleagues, or members of their immediate 
families, have had serious illnesses 
requiring blood transfusions <- and the 
blood was available to them, free and 


immediately. 


The Bloodmobile will be at the Museum 
again on Friday, December 1. You will soon 
receive a notice asking you to make a blood 
donation on that day. If you will sign it 
and return it to Nurse Margaret Johnston, 
she will schedule your appointment at an 
hour that is convenient for you. If you 
don't sign up, you and members of your 
family who might need blood urgently during 
the coming year will not qualify to receive 
it from the AMNH Blood Bank. 


Among over 500 Museum employees, there 
should be more than 72 who are willing to 
contribute a pint of blood on behalf of 
their wives, husbands, children, parents, 
and Museum colleagues. Willingness is the 
main factor in Blood Bank participation. 
Of the 72 who signed up last January, 8 
were turned down as donors for reasons of 
health but they nevertheless qualified as 
blood recipients. Even if you expect to be 
turned down, sign up this time. You owe 
it to yourself and to “hose who depend 

on you. 


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Sditor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 
Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounti Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 
isis Behavisr > Beelye Shae 


Anthropolo gy - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates = Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Marie Arnoldi 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 


a Circulation - William Somerville 


- Hobart Van Deusen 


eal Richard Charmatz 


Mineralogy ~- Edith Marks 
Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 


Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 

Shops & Shipping 
Slides, , Films, 
Vertebrate Pal Paleontology - 


Jeanne Lyons 


- John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


(NEW ALCOVE COMPLETES SANFORD HALL, 
continued from page 1) 


The new alcove deals with several aspects 
of reproduction in birds, including 
display, pair formation, territories, 

and nests. Of particular interest is a 
panel on bird songs which incorporates 
tape recordings of the sounds made by 
various kinds of birds. 


The Sanford Hall is named for Dr. Leonard 
C. Sanford, noted ornithologist and a 
Trustee and Honorary Fellow of the Museun, 
who devoted a large part of his life to 
building up the AMNH bird collections. 

He died in 1950. 


Initial planning for the Hall was 
started in the 1930's, but it was not 
until after World War II that actual 
construction got underway. The major 
part of the Hall was opened in May, 1948, 
with Dr. and Mrs. Sanford in attendance. 
Since that time, several additional 


sections have been opened, including one 
on birth and development of young birds, 
given two years ago in memory of Ludlow 
Thomas Lanman by his sister, Mrs. Alexander 
M. White. 


One of the first visitors to the newly 
completed alcove on reproduction will be 
Dr. Sanford's son, William Sanford. He 
will be here in connection with a meeting 
of the Committee for The Leonard C. 
Sanford Trust Fund which is devoted to 
supporting ornithological research. 


AMNH PAPERBACKS TAPED FOR THE BLIND 


We are very happy to report that two 

volumes of the Natural History Library, 

the paperback reprint series published 

by Doubleday & Company in cooperation 

with the Museum, have been selected by 

the Library of Congress for recording on 

magnetic tape for use by the blind. They 

are "The Exploration of the Colorado River’ 
(continued on page 3) 


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by John Wesley Powell, and "The Mountains 
of California” by John Muir. 


NEWS OF FORMER EMPLOYEES 


Mary Patsuris, formerly of Vertebrate 
Paleontology, is now taking her M.A. in 
education at Columbia University. Ruth 
Norton, Public Relations, met her at the 
T.C. cafeteria the other evening and 
reports that Mrs. Patsuris is doing 
practice teaching with emotionally- 
disturbed children in New York's "600" 
schools and finds the experience most 
rewarding. 


Erika Rawitscher Kunkel, formerly of 
Education, is doing botanical research on 
a fellowship at the University of 
California in Berkeley where she and her 
husband, a physicist at the University, 
recently bought a new house. 


Born: to Mildred Parmenter Randino, 
formerly Contributors’ Program, and her 
husband John, a daughter, Christine, in 
August; to Erica Prud'homme, formerly 
Exhibition, and her husband, a son, 
Hector Alexander, in September. Welcome 
and congratulations! 


UNUSED WHEEL CHATR IN YOUR CELLAR? 


Classes for the handicapped, visiting the 
Museum by appointment with the Education 
Department, frequently include one or 
more children for whom wheel chairs must 
be provided during their visit. While 
the Museum has a number of wheel chairs, 
these are often in use by other visitors. 
The Department of Education, therefore, 
hopes to assemble a small fleet of such 
vehicles specifically for handicapped 
Classes. Marguerite Newgarden recently 
contributed a wheel chair for this 
purpose and additional ones would be 
much appreciated. If you have one not 
in use which you would be willing to 
contribute (or lend on a long term basis), 
please call Education Chairman John R. 
Saunders, ext. 223. 


BUTTERFLY MONOGRAPH PUBLISHED 


The first copies of "Butterflies of the 
American Tropics; the Genus Anaea” by 
the late William P. Comstock have just 


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been received here. Published by the 
Museum, this large handsome volume was 
printed in England after many years of 
research and preparation. The author, 
a Research Associate in the Department 
of Entomology, died in 1956. The book 
contains a foreword by Dr. Frederick H. 
Rindge and strikingly beautiful color 
illustrations by Marjorie Statham. It 
was edited by Ruth Tyler. 


DR. COLBERT HONORED 


Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, Chairman of the 
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, 
will be named a Fellow of the Rochester 
Museum of Arts and Sciences at ceremonies 
in Rochester on November 15. The 
institution's Award of Fellowship goes 

to Dr. Colbert for his distinguished 
achievement in the museum field. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Two colleagues, each of whom had been at 
the Museum nearly 20 years, retired 
recently due to ill health. Louise 
Pedeberdot of the Film Library joined 
the staff in 1942. Her warm, outgoing 
nature and fine sense of humor have won 
her many friends in the Museum who are 
indeed sorry to see her leave. John C. 
Ottens of the Frick Laboratory has been 
with us since January 1943. His sunny 
disposition and great willingness to 
help others will be sorely missed by all 
who knew and worked with him. Our best 
wishes go with them both and we hope 
that each will regain good health soon. 
Friends may write them at the following 
addresses: Miss Pedeberdot - 103 Poplar 
Street, Ridgefield Park, N.J. : 
Mr. Ottens ~- % Ebinger, 50 Garner Lane, 
Bay Shore, N.Y. 


We're also sorry to say so long to Olga 
Smith, Library Secretary for the past 
four years and Grapevine reporter. She 
left the staff early this month to take 
a prolonged vacation and plans to get a 
part-time job in the spring. 


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HEARD IN PASSING 


Every once in a while we hear from our 
friends in the television business that 
there are certain forms of wildlife that 
TV viewers would rather not look at. We 
never put much stock in the idea, and it 
turned out that we were quite justified 
the other day when Alice Gray, Entomology, 
appeared on "Watch Mr. Wizard" with her 
pet tarantula Blondie -- and really 

wowed ‘em! 


It was very good news to learn that 
Katherine Hrycak, Building Services, is 
resting comfortably after a major 
operation. She had several pretty 
difficult days but is now making good 
progress and we hope to see her back " 
before too long. 


Otto Lambert, Office Services, received a 
happy Halloween treat -- the birth of his 
first granddaughter, Donna Marie. 


If you happen to have friends in Bengal, 
here's a Christmas book suggestion: 
"Experiments With Light", co-authored by 
Dr. Franklyn M. Branley, Planetariun, 
just published in an authorized Bengali 
translation. 


Small world department: Isabel Mount of 
Public Relations, travelling with her 
husband in Africa on a year's leave of 
absence to do research, picked up the 
Nigerian Morning Post the other day and 
say a picture of the model space 
laboratory in Roosevelt Memorial Hall. 
She sent us the clipping which, 
incidentally, arrived in the same mail 
with another picture story on the "Man In 
Space" exhibit from a newspaper in 
Fairbanks, Alaska. 


Kay Barry, instructing a class of very 
young students at the Brontosaurus 
skeleton, asked the children to note 
the animal's small, blunt teeth. "What 
do you think these teeth show?" Miss 
Barry asked. "Do they give you any 
ideas?" Everyone thought for a moment 
and then a little girl offered this 
thought: "It looks like she's saying, 
"Look, Mom, no cavities!" 


NEW FACES 


Marie Arnoldi, new Library Secretary, 
comes to us from the Guggenheim Museum 
where for the past 34 years she has been 
secretary to the director and then to the 
vice president of that institution. A 
graduate of Bucknell University, she 
spent her junior year at the University 
of Zurich. She also did graduate work 
in the history of fine arts at Columbia 
and at the University for Foreigners in 
Perugia, Italy. 


Barbara Adler, new secretary to Dr. James 
A. Oliver, Director, was formerly with 
Panorama, the film division of Columbia 
Records. A Manhattan resident, Mrs. Adler 
was also an assistant editor with Harry 
Abrams, Inc., publishers of art books. 


Micropaleontology reports two staff 
additions: Leon Maynard, clerk-typist, 

has taken over the duties of Mary McKenna 
who has returned to the General Accounting 
Division; and Tom McGuire is handling 
Micro's printing and photography...The 

new face in Entomology is John Woods...Myra 
Lazarowitz has joined the Museum Shop as 
clerk-typist; she's studying at Hunter 
College at night. 


Seven college students from the New York 
area are with us for the current academic 
year under the National Science Foundation 
Foundation-Undergraduate Research Program. 
From Barnard College are: Martha Grossner, 
working with Dr. Dorothy Bliss, Living 
Invertebrates; Katherine Kalty, working 
with Dr, Sidney Anderson, Manmmalogy; 
Susan Seideman, working with Dr. Robert 
Carneiro, Anthropology; Sara "Debbie" 
Nemser, working with Dr. Lester Aronson, 
Animal Behavior; and Susan Edelstein, 
working with Dr. Evelyn Shaw, Animal 
Behavior. Mary Lou Swift of Sarah 
Lawrence College is also working with 

Dr. Shaw, and Joseph T. Fevoli of City 
College is working with Dr. William 
Tavolga, Animal Behavior. 


As part of the joint program between the 

Columbia University Geology Department 

and our Department of Fossil Invertebrates, 

two Columbia graduate students will be 

with us for the next several months. They 
(continued on page 5) 


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(NEW FACES, continued from page 4) 


are John Cutler, who will be working on 
the Bryozoan collections, and Thomas 
Waller, who will curate a collection of 
Tertiary clams. 


Currently doing graduate work in the 
Department of Animal Behavior are Sue 
Gilbert of the University of Wyoming and 
Harriet Kaplan of New York University. 


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A home wanted for a l-year old Doberman- 
German Shepherd male dog. Raised in 
family, obedience trained. Moving and 
must sacrifice. Call Don Squires, 

ext. 446, 


COMINGS, GOINGS & GATHERINGS 


Dr. Charles Vaurie, Ornithology, 
returned last month from a six months 
study trip in Europe where he worked in 
museums in England, France, Denmark, 
Sweden, West Germany, East Berlin, and 
the Soviet Union. He reports that he was 
received everywhere with the greatest 
cordiality and cooperation, and was 
provided with the full-time services of 
technicians in Russia. It is believed 
that he is the first American 
Ornithologist to go to the U.S.S.R. for 
the purpose of study. In September he 
was honored by being elected a 
Corresponding Member of the Deutsche 
Ornithologen Gesellschaft, 


Mrs. Patricia Vaurie, Entomology, 
accompanied her husband on the trip 
reported above to work on the revision of 
several insect groups. While in London, 
the Vauries lunched with Dr. Constance 
Sherman, who was on vacation abroad and 
is now on leave from Ornithology to teach 
modern languages at Queensborough 
Community College. 


Dr. Dorothy Bliss, Living Invertebrates, 
is back from six weeks in Europe where 

she presented a paper at the Third 
International Symposium on Neurosecretion 
held at the University of Bristol, 
England. Following the conference, she 
went to France and Germany where she 
visited several research laboratories and 
museums. She was accompanied by Mrs. Mary 
Weitzman of the Albert Einstein College 


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of Medicine who is also a guest 
investigator at AMNH. Their return trip 
on the S.S. United States was far from 
monotonous, as the ship passed through 
several oceanic storms, including 
Hurricane Frances. It was a wonderful 
voyage, however, according to Dr. Bliss, 
and she even enjoyed the hurricane. 


George Petersen, Exhibition, has just 
spent several weeks in Haines, Alaska, 
collecting for the Bald Eagle group to 
be included in the new Hall of North 
American Birds...Dr. Evelyn Shaw, Animal 
Behavior, presented a paper at the 
International Ethological Conference at 
Munich, Germany, in September, and then 
went on to tour the Greek islands which 
she highly recommends to all...Dr. Donn 
Rosen, Ichthyology, spent four days last 
month studying type specimens in museums 
in Boston and Washington. In trying to 
cover so much territory in so short a time, 
he found that he spent more time in the 
air than on the ground. 


Dr. Norman D. Newell, Fossil Invertebrates, 
spent the week of October 30th at the 
meetings of the Geological Society of 
America in Cincinnati. On November 4, 

he gave his presidential address to the 
Paleontological Society of which he was 
president for the past year. Mrs. Valeri 
Newell, Fossil Invertebrates, flew to 
Cincinnati for the event...Charles 
Falkenback, Frick Laboratory, has returned 
from four months of field work in Texas 
and Wyoming. 


Recent travels in the Entomology 
Department: Dr. Jerome G. Rozen spent a 
week at the Museum's Southwestern Research 
Station in Portal, Arizona...Dr. Willis J. 
Gertsch and Wilton Ivie made a seven-week 
collecting trip through the mountains of 
California and the southwest...Dr. and 
Mrs. Frederick H. Rindge spent a week in 
New Orleans where they were joined by 

Dr. Rindge's parents from California... 
and Dr. Herbert Ruckes worked for 

several days on the insect collections 

at the United States National Museum in 
Washington. 


Dr. Lester Aronson, Animal Behavior, came 

back last week from a 3-month trip that 

took him to California, Hawaii, and 

British Columbia, (itinerary reported in 
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(COMINGS, GOINGS & GATHERINGS, 
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August G'vine.) Following the Pacific 
Science Congress at the University of 
Hawaii, he joined the Congress's field 
trip through the islands of Maui and 
Hawaii. On his way home, he stopped 
in Vancouver to visit the Biological 
Laboratory of the Fisheries Research 
Board of Canada. 


Offered as a gift: "The Century 


Dictionary and Cyclopedia,” 11 volumes 
(not including the Atlas volume, but 
including two supplementary volumes). 
Main set dated 1904; supplementary 
volumes dated 1909. Clothbound and in 
fairly good condition. If you can use 
this set, call Ruth Tyler, ext. 48h, 


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TRADING POST 


Skates wanted: Used ice skates for 
children, sizes 1 to 3. Call Evelyn Shaw, 
exte 373-6 


Car for sale: 2-door 1954 Chevy, $59.95. 
(Green Stamps or Triple-S Stamps accepted. ) 
Car is in B-l condition; new battery and 
generator, good tires, broken window. 

Call Paul Sondaar, ext. 329. 


Castro ottoman for sale: single bed 
folds into good-looking wooden cabinet 
with drawers. Only slightly used. Call 
Cynthia Westerman, ext. 385. 


Wanted: Small gentle dinosaur, preferably 
Stegosaurus. To be pet for children, 
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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XVIII, No. 12 


December 1961 


MERRY CHRISTMAS 


Many of our happiest customs, our finest attitudes and our most cherished memories 
are those associated with the traditional observance of the Christmas holiday 


seasone 


Christmas as "humbug", 
share at this time. 
time." 


Charles Dickens, in his immortal classic, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, brings out 
the full flavor and meaning of this season. 
Bob Cratchit replies in words true to the spirit most of us 
"It is a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 


To Scrooge's characterization of 


The Administration and the Board of Trustees hope that the Holiday Season will be 
just such a time for each of you and that the New Year will be filled with good 


times for you and your loved ones. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


At the New York City Board of Estimate 
Executive Session held Tuesday, 

November 28, on the proposed 1962 Capital 
Budget, Edwin C. Meyenberg, AMNH Bursar, 
made a skillful presentation on behalf 

of the Museum urging reconsideration of 
the Bureau of the Budget's recommendation 
that the Museum's 1962 Proposed Capital 
Budget and the 1963-1967 Capital Program 
be reduced as follows: 


Alterations and Improvements to 
Buildings, etc. 
Year 1962 - $134,850. 


Alterations to Existing Electrical 
and Heating Systems 
Year 1962 - $ 55,500. 
Year 1963 - $158,000. 


(continued on page 2) 


James A. Oliver, Director 


PLANT SAFETY COMMITTEE 


A Plant Safety Committee, under the 
chairmanship of Plant Manager Paul 
Grouleff, was activated in November and 
will henceforth meet regularly every 
month to consider safety hazards and 
accident preventive measures. Committee 
membership will include department 
representatives who will be rotated from 
time to time. 


Under our safety program, the details of 
every injury sustained in the Museum or 
Planetarium, and requiring attention in 
the form of physical assistance or 
medical treatment, should be reported 
within 24 hours on a copy of the Museum 
form “Report of Injury". This includes 
injuries to employees, outside contractors 
employees working here, and visitors in 
both the public and staff areas of the 
(continued on page 3) 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


havior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Georgea Atkinson 

Tiving Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 


ogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Mi.cropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 


Mineralogy - Bdith Marks 
Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 


Natural History - Helene Jordan 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 


ides, Fi 
Vertebrate Paleontology - Marlyn Mangus 


" otography, Projection - Helen Jones 


(MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS, continued from 
page 1) 


The Budget Director's recommendation had 
resulted from the fact that certain 
Capital Budget Projects for 1961 and 
before had not yet been completed. In 
view of this condition and of studies 
made by the Bureau of the Budget, the 
deductions in the 1962 Capital Program 
had appeared warranted. In a series of 
meetings with the staff of the Department 
of Parks, however, the Museum had been 
assured that a large number of its 
projects would soon go forward. 


Park Commissioner Newbold Morris also 
spoke in the Museum's behalf. The Budget 
Director then recommended appropriation 
of $100,000 for Alterations and 
Improvements to Buildings from available 
accruals and restoration of $215,500 for 
Alterations to Existing Electrical and 


Heating Systems advanced from the 1963 
Program to the 1962 Capital Budget in 
order that the Museum may complete 
Stage II of the conversion from D.C. to 
A.C. and the conversion of the heating 
system from coal to oil firing. 


The Park Department has awarded contracts 
for general improvements in various areas 
This work will include Sections 2 and 4 
on the fifth floor to provide storage 
rooms, offices, a laboratory and work 
space for the Department of Anthropology. 
This is the area previously occupied by 
the Library, which was recently moved to 
newly constructed quarters on the 4th 
floor of Section 1. Work on the third 
floor, Section 2 will provide about 300 
square feet of additional office space 
in the Bursar's present office. Total 
appropriation was $96,500. 


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(PLANT SAFETY COMMITTEE, continued from 
page 1) 


building. The person responsible for 
making the report of injury in each of 
these categories is specified in a recent 
memo to all department and division heads. 


In addition, all employees are urged to 
report in writing to the Chairman of the 
Safety Committee any safety hazard they 
may observe in the Museum or Planetariun. 


ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREES, PLEASE 


The use of natural trees or branches 
as Christmas decorations in any public 
place (which includes all parts of the 
Museum) is strictly forbidden by fire 
regulations. This applies to all 
trees containing pitch, whether or 

not they have been treated with 
so-called flameproofing. 


GREATER NEW YORK FUND 


When you read this, you will probably 

have already made your 1961 contribution 
to the Greater New York Fund. John R. 
Saunders, Fund drive chairman for the 
Museum, hoped to have all contributions 

in the first week in December. If you 
have not been contacted by your department 
representative, however, you can still 
send your check (made out to Greater New 
York Fund) to Mr. Saunders. 


Last year, Museum employees gave a total 
of $805 to the Fund. We hope that 
figure will be increased this year and, 
more important, let's extend our 
participation well beyond the 50 per 
cent of employees who contributed last 


year. 
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION 


Why not resolve to start saving a little 
extra for that rainy day -- at the AMNH 
Credit Union where your money works for 
you.e To begin your payroll deductions 
with the start of the new year, visit 

the Credit Union office in Roosevelt 
lower level before Christmas. Open 12 to 
1 every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 
(except paydays). 


MUSEUM PARKING REGULATIONS 


For some time a committee appointed by the 
Director has been reviewing the parking 
situation at and around the Museum. The 
purpose of the study has been to provide 
ample parking facilities for employees 
when their work requires them to be here. 


The proposed regulations should enable us 
to operate an orderly, effective parking 
system for all who need it, provided 
everyone cooperates and the privileges are 
not abused. 


These regulations will become effective on 
January 1, 1962. At that time, the 
Custodian will begin registering all 
vehicles that will be using Museum parking 
areas. Individuals will have until March 
lst to complete this registration. After 
that date, any new employees oz anyone who 
has not had occasion to use the Museum 
parking areas prior to that time, will be 
required to register immediately with the 
Custodian. 


PARKING REGULATIONS FOR THE MUSEUM YARD 
1. Only registered cars of employees will 


be admitted. These cars-will carry 
official markers. 


Temporary parking privileges for 
visitors on Museum business may be 
arranged with the Custodian. 


Parking applications are to be renewed 
yearly, during the month of February, 
in the Custodian's office. 


36 


Parking hours will be: 7:30 a.m. to 
5:30 pem., Monday through Friday; 
closed Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. 


Parking will be permitted only in 
authorized areas and spaces. Fire 
regulations prohibit parking in other 
places. 


Parking in the Roosevelt ramp is 
prohibited from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 
Monday through Friday. Employees who 
are required to work in the Museum 
buildings after 5:00 p.m., or on 
Saturday and Sunday, may park their 

cars in the ramp. At no time shall cars 
be parked in areas of the ramp designate 
as "No Parking" areas. On some occasions 
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prohibited except under emergency 
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All cars interiors and trunks are 
subject to inspection by the 
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10. Violation of these regulations will 
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HAIL AND FAREWELL 


Dr. Donald P. Squires, Fossil 
Invertebrates, left the staff on 
December 1 to go to the Smithsonian 
Institutian in Washington where he will 
be Associate Curator in the Division of 
Marine Invertebrates. He will be in 
charge of their coral collection. We 
wish him lots of luck. 


The Education Department has added two 
new teachers to its staff. They are 
Willa Friedman, a graduate of Queens 
College where she majored in biology, 
and Joyce-Ruth Corn who took her B.A. at 
Hunter where she majored in psychology. 


Georgea Atkinson, George Goodwin's new 
secretary in the Library, was formerly 
with the Research Library of the American 
Committee for Liberation, a radio station 
in Europe broadcasting to the U.S.S.R. 

A student of foreign languages, she 

comes originally from Hibbing, Minnesota 
in the Mesabi Iron Range. 


The other evening at the Planetariun, 
two women came up to Kay Barry and 

one of them began, "I'm in outer space, 
but my friend here isn't and she would 
like to be. Do you think anything can 
be done about it?" After the initial 
shock, Miss Barry realized that of 
course the woman was referring to the 
Planetarium's evening course called 
Exploring Outer Space." 


JOHN PURCELL LEAVES STAFF 


John F. Purcell, Editor of Natural History 
magazine and Manager of Publications, 
resigns from the Museum this month to 
become an editor in the Books Division of 
Time, Incorporated. Mr. Purcell joined us 
as Natural History Editor in 1957. Under 
his direction, the magazine has entered 
new fields of popular interest and won 
several awards, both for content and 
appearance. Its circulation has increased 
from 80,000 to approximately 130,000. 


Early this year, Mr. Purcell was appointed 
head of an extensive new program of popula 
publication involving new books by Museum 
authors, reprints of classics in the 
natural sciences, and handbooks on AMNH 
halls and exhibits. He is no stranger to 
Time, Inc., having been a writer and 
foreign correspondent for Life magazine 
for ten years. In his new post he'll work 
on the Book Division's Nature Series. 


We're going to miss him very much and we 
wish him great success in his new venture. 


VISITORS* PARKING FIELD REHABILITATED 


Rehabilitation of the parking field 
between the Planetarium and the power 
house is nearly completed and it is 
expected that the site will be reopened 
for use early this month. 


Under a new arrangement with the City, 
the field is to be operated by the Museum 
for the convenience of Museum and 
Planetarium visitors. It will be open 
from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily, except 
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings 
when it will remain open until 10:30 p.m. 
During these hours, there will be a $1 
parking charge for cars, $2 for busses. 
Vehicles that remain after hours will be 
towed away and their owners fined. 


The site has been closed to the public 
since January, 1959, when, because of its 
badly rutted surface, it was deemed unsafe 
for use. The new parking field is paved 
and well-lighted and includes a ticket 
booth at the entrance. 


Burning Question of the Month: Why is the 
Xerox machine in Office Services labeled 
Beatrice? 


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CLAUDE CROSS 


Claude Cross, Education Department, who 
died suddently of a heart attack on 
November 25, had been a chauffeur with the 
Museum for 36 years. Better known as 
"Charlie" to his many friends here, he 

had driven the city's streets daily since 
1924, carrying circulating exhibits to and 
from the schools, and he never had a 
traffic accident. His death came as a 
shock to his colleagues with whom he had 
been on the job the preceding work day. 
Our deepest sympathy is extended to his 
wife. 


COMINGS AND GOTNGS 


Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Parr returned last 
month from a ten-day visit to San Antonio, 
Texas, where our Senior Scientist was 
asked to advise on several aspects of 
that city’s new museum. Mrs. Parr tells 
us that Texas hospitality is everything 
they say it is, even to the air- 
conditioned Cadillacs. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Chairman of 
Ichthyology, and Dr. Richard G. Van 
Gelder, Chairman of Mammalogy, return this 
month from extended field work in Florida 
and South America, respectively. 


Drs. Jerome Rozen, Chairman and Willis 
Gertsch and Frederick Rindge, 
Entomology, attended the meeting of the 
Entomological Society of America in 
Miami late last month. 


_ READING CLINIC NEEDED? 


It seems that lots of us can't read. One 
of the doors to the Main Cafeteria in 

the Roosevelt lower level is clearly 
marked "Exit Only". It has been suggested 
that a line be added: "This means 
employees too" -- but that might give 

_ the public an unfortunate impression of 

_ the people who work here. 


The problem is that employees persist in 
€ntering the cafeteria by way of the 
exit in order to avoid going through the 
line which is now marked by a railing 
extending from the west door to the food 
counter. When visitors see the exit 
Sign being ignored, they naturally 
“ollow suit, and the résult is a traffic 


5. 


impasse at the cash register. Even when 
the place is not crowded, this two-way 
traffic creates a hazard -- as well as 
good grounds for annoyance on the part of 
those who obey signs. Okay? 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Dave Quinn, the Merry Milkman from Nanuet, 
New York has gone out of business. All 
during the milk strike, Mr. Quinn came 
tooling in daily with gallons of local 
lacteal fluid for his oppressed companions 
in the Planetarium. His loyalty and his 
connections with a large and fruitful herd 
in Rockland County kept several families 
in milk and out of trouble. Your 
correspondent has been asked to express 
their gratitude to Dave, the Fountain. 


Another bulletin from the same 
correspondent reads as follows: All of 
us have blind spots and temporary mental 
aberrations. Your reporter suffers 
severely from these weaknesses, and as a 
result, when our own Sophie Milkowska of 
the Planetarium Box Office suddently 
became Mrs. Danny Lupero last March 19, 
not a word of this event reached the 
Grapevine. Belatedly, but most sincerely, 
we wish Sophie and Danny the best of 
everything and lots of it! (To which it 
must be added that the G'vine editor was 
also off base in believing with absolute 
certainty that this good news had 
appeared in the April issue -- until 
investigation proved otherwise. Happy 
novemlunarversary, Mr. and Mrs. L.) 


Joseph Negron, Building Services, and his 
wife recently attended services at 

St. Agnes’ Convent, Sparkill, N.Y., where 
their daughter was invested as Sister Mary 
Norma in the Order of Dominican Sisters. 
For the time being, she will remain at 
Sparkill as a teacher, but the Negrons 
hope that she will soon receive a 
teaching assignment closer to their home 
in the Bronx. 


There's no excuse now for anyone mistaking 
the identity of Nancy McCoy, Public 
Relations. Jack Carewe, Building Services - - 
has made her én official-looking desk sign, 
handsomely lettered "The Real McCoy"... 
Joyce-Ruth Corn, new instructor in 
(continued on page 6) 


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Education, has a musical background. She 
used to write reviews for Roberta Peters' 
Music Club Journals. 


It's good to have John Erlandsen, Paint 
Shop, back with us and looking better than 
ever. He made an excellent recovery from 
the heart attack he suffered a couple of 
months back, and we hope he'll continue 

to feel fine...James Lee, Planetarium, 

has been hospitalized with a major 
operation from which he's now 
recuperating. We all miss him and hope 

to have him back soon...The many Museum 
friends of Shirley Neilson, wife of 
Ernest Neilson, formerly with Anthropology, 
were concerned to hear that she recently 
suffered a stroke in Florida. We 
understand that her condition has 

improved in the last few weeks, and all 
our best wishes are with her, 


If you want the latest news from the Old 
Sod, have a chat with Patrick O'Dwyer of 
the Planetarium who flew to Tipperary for 
a o4-week vacation last month. It was 
his first visit in 34 years to his 

native Ireland where his five brothers 
live. 


6. 


As we go to press, Robert F. Mathewson, 
Resident Director of the Lerner Marine 
Laboratory at Bimini, is in the Museum 
for a week of conferences -- his first 
visit here since his appointment last 
February. We all envy that gorgeous 
Bimini sunburn! 


TRADING POST 
Items for Sale 
Westinghouse electric roaster, broiler, 
and grill with many accessories. Like 
new. $15. Charles Falkenbach, ext. 354. 
Beautifully mounted South American 
Jaguar skin rug in open-mouth pose. 
Call Nicolas Gusakovsky, ext. 482. 


Ladies' Helbros wrist watch. Practically 
new. $25. Call Nancy McCoy, ext. 4bkh, 


Unusual furniture and accessories. 
Marvin Chasin, CA 8-1998, 


Call 


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attachment. In good condition. Call 
Mrs. Burckhardt, WA 4-6928. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


XIX, No. 1 


VISITOR FROM NEW GUINEA 


One of the most interesting, and 
interested, visitors to the Museum this 
month is Mrs. Ailsa Hall of Nou Nou on 
Goodenough Island off the coast of 
eastern Papua, New Guinea. On her first 
trip to the United States, she is re- 
newing friendships with Mammalogy 
Department scientists with whom she 
worked in New Guinea on two Archbold 
Expeditions. 


Mrs. Hall handled many of the business 
details of the 1953 and 1956 expeditions 
to New Guinea and acted as hostess to the 
scientists returning from the field to 
expedition headquarters on the island of 
Samarai. It was during the 1953 
expedition that Geoffrey Tate, now 
retired, suffered a series of strokes 
and was in critical condition at Samarai 
for some weeks. Due largely to Ailsa 
Hall's devoted attention, Mr. Tate 
survived that ordeal and was finally 
able to be air-lifted back to America. 


A native of Australia, Mrs. Hall has 
lived in New Guinea since she was three 
years old. She speaks Motu, the main 
Papuan language, as well as many of the 
dialects that are spoken in local 
communities throughout eastern Papua and 
the islands. At Nou Nou she runs a copra 
trading post, buying the dried cocoanut 
meat from Papuan growers and forwarding 
it to the big trading companies which 
supply the makers of soap and shampoo. 


As a house guest this month of the 

Hobart Van Deusens in Montclair, N.Jd., 

pea the Geoffrey Tates in Brooklyn, 
(continued on page 2) 


January 1962 


CREDIT UNION ANNUAL MEETING 


(The following is addressed to all 


members of the AMNH Employees’ Federal 
Credit Union ee 


Dear Member: 


The Annual Meeting of the AMNH Employees' 
Federal Credit Union will be held on 
Friday, January 26, at 12:30 p.m. in 

Room 319, Roosevelt Memorial. The agenda 
will include the election of officers 

and reports from the President, Treasurer, 
and Credit and Supervisory Committees. 
Coffee and cake will be served. 


In accordance with Article VII, Sec. 4c, 
of the By-Laws, revised Oct. 1959, the 
annual dividend rate will be announced 
at this meeting. 


Anne Montogmery 
Secretary 


ANTIQUES IN YOUR OFFICE? 


If your office contains an ancient chair, 
desk, cabinet, typing table, or other 
piece of Museum equipment that might be 
on its last legs, please don't throw it 
away without consulting Kay Beneker, 
Exhibition. Miss Beneker who is, among 
other things, Keeper of Memorabilia for 
AMNH, is on the lookout for office 
furnishings and fixtures that pre-date 
World War I. She's interested in any 
kind of equipment that represents that 
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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accoun©ing » Persone. Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


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Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick L ck Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 
Library - Georgea Atkinson 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 


Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 


Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Feter Bujara 

Naturel History - Ernestine Weindorf 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Pa. Paleontolosy - Marlyn Mangus 


(VISITOR FROM NEW GUINEA, cont'd from 
page 1) 


Mrs. Hall is covering the metropolitan 
area with a full schedule of sightseeing 
and theater-going. She hopes to fly to 
Florida later this month to visit 
Leonard Brass. 


We're delighted to welcome her and look 
forward to paying her a return visit in 
Nou Nou someday. 


OVER THE TOP 


Contributions to the Museum's 1961 drive 
for the Greater New York Fund totalled 
$864.25 as opposed to $805. a year ago. 
The number of contributors was 344, an 
increase of 42 over last year. John R. 
Saunders, Chairman of Education, is Fund 
Drive Chairman for the Museum. 


(ANTIQUES IN YOUR OFFICE, cont'd from 
page 1) 


era of Museum operation, including pen 
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pots, or what have you. Could it be 
that she's contemplating a Centennial 
exhibit showing the office of a Museum 
scientist in the early days? 


NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR CUSTODIAL SERVICES 


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level of Section 9 to the first floor of 
Roosevelt Memorial. Headquarters for 
Custodial Services is now located directi 
behind the 24-hour attendants' desk and 
checkroom, in the office formerly 
occupied by Building Frotection. The 
vacated space on the lower level will 

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JOHN OTTENS 


John Ottens, who retired last October 
after 19 years with the Frick Laboratory, 
aiea on December 11. He was 67 years old. 
Mr. Ottens' skiii. with his hands and his 
msticulous attention to detail mace him 
an invaluable member of the Lab staff. 

"He could always figure a way to do 
something we necded done," Charles 
Feliienbach reports, "No request was too 
big for him." 


A veteran of the First World War, 

Mr. Ottecs was not talkative about his 
military service. It is understood, 
however, that he was one of the first 
flyers during World War I to fly over 

New York City and take aerial photographs. 


His colleagues wish to express their 
sympathy to his sister, Mrs. Ann Ebinger 
of Bay Shore, L.I., with whom he lived 
at the time of his death. As 

Mr. Falkenbach said, he will be greatly 
missed by his fellow employees, not only 
for his professional ability, but for 
his kind and generous nature and 
constant willingness to help others. 


FIRE RESCUE PERFORMED BY COLLEAGUE 


The six-alarm fire which raged through 
ten adjacent houses in Queens on the 
night of January 5 did not cause a 
single death or serious injury, thanks 
in part to the efforts of Raymond Kaplan 
of our Exhibition Department. 


Mr. Kaplan, who lives in Flushing, was 
passing the scene of the fire as police 
were trying to evacuate 75 occupants 
from the flaming buildings. Lending a 
hand, he helped to guide several people 
to safety, most of them elderly or bed- 
ridden. As the fire spread, he ran 
through the halls of the adjacent houses, 
rapping on doors to arouse the occupants. 
In reporting the fire, the next day's 
papers described and pictured Mr. Kaplan's 
valiant rescue work. 


The son of Abe Kaplan, Exhibition, 
Raymond Kaplan joined the department 
staff in 1960 following his graduation 
from Forest Hills High School. 


WELL DONE 


Dr. Oliver forwards the following 
letter for the attention of all: 


January 8, 1962 
Dear Sir: 


Yesterday, Sunday, January 7, 
1962 my family and I attended the 
Museum at a very crowded time, but the 
service and cordiality of all the guards 
ana elevator men was above and beyond the 
call of duty! 


We had a little problem as we brought 
our ten month old daughter along, as 
well as two older children, plus a 
baby carriages 


Your people were wonderful and so is 
the Museum. A very Happy New Year and 
@ very peaceful one. 


Sincerely, 


Doris Saias 


DR. KOOFMAN TO STUDY RARE BAT 


Dr. Karl F. Koopman, Mammalogy, will 
fly to St. John in the Virgin Islands 
this month to spend two weeks 
investigating the bat fauna. He will 
try to obtain examples of the six known 
species of bats recorded from this 
island, the most interesting of which is 
the red fig-eating bat. The form was 
first described in Europe in 1816 from 
a skin and skull of unknown origin. 
Some years ago, Dr. Harold Anthony 
found this bat in sub-fossil form in 
Puerto Rico, and in 1958 the animal was 
discovered alive on St. John. 

Dr. Koopman hopes to learn additional 
facts about the ecology and habits of 
the rare bat. 


The last member of the Mammalogy 
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the Ottley Puerto Rican Expedition which 
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PLANETARIUM ON TV 


The American Museum-Hayden Planetarium 
will be the setting of a special tele- 
vision show on Astronomy and the Space 
Age on Wed., Jan. 17, from 7:30 to 8 p.m. 
over Channel 7. The program was filmed 
at the Planetarium last week and-presents 
a roundtable discussion against the 
background of the black light lunar 
landscape. Dr. Franklyn M. Branley. and 
three other astronomers will talk with 
ABC science editor Jules Bergman about 
recent advances in our knowledge of space 
and the exciting developments that can be 
expected in the near future. 


CHANGES IN MAGAZINE STAFF 


With the departure of John Purcell from 
the Museum, Managing Editor Ed Williamson 
assumes responsibility for the publication 
and overall operation of Natural History. 
Helene Jordan has been named Executive 
Editor. 


COMINGS AND GOINGS © 


During the Christmas season, Drs. Lester 
Aronson, Evelyn Shaw, and William 
Tavolga, all Animal Behavior, headed off 
in different directions -- Dr. Aronson to 
the AAAS meetings in Denver where he 
delivered a paper on the evolutionary 
changes in the hormonal and neural bases 
of reproductive behavior; Dr. Shaw to the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute where 
she continued her studies of schooling 
behavior; and Dr. Tavolga to the Lerner 
Marine Laboratory at Bimini to further 
investigate fish sounds. 


Others attending the Triple-A S meetings 
included Dr. Margaret Mead, Anthropology; 
Ruth Norton, Public Relations; 

Dr. William K. Emerson, Living 
Invertebrates; and Dr. Robb Schaeffer, 
Vertebrate Paleontology. 


Alice Gray, Entomology, travelled to the 
west coast to spend the holidays in Los 
Angeles and Berkeley....In the Education 
Department, Catherine Pessino also 
vacationed in California, while 
Marguerite Newgarden spent two enjoyable 
weeks in not-so-sunny Florida. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Henry Seelman left his job in the Film 
Library after five years to move to 

New Holland, Pennsylvania, where he 
recently bought a house. His colleagues 
will miss him greatly and wish him lots 
of luck in his new endeavor -- dealing 
in early American antiques. 


The Education Department says farewell 
to three members this month. Edna 


‘Prestia moved to Florida where her family 


is living; Mary Lopez stopped working to 
prepare for the arrival of her baby in 
March; and Martin Daly joined the Marine 
Corps, reporting for duty at Parris 
Island on January 3. 


As usual our efficient Personnel Office 
was way ahead of most organizations in 
distributing employees' 1961 withholding 
tax statements the first week in January. 
Much appreciation to Adrian Ward and his 
able staff. 


NEW_ FACES 


The new essistant in the Film Library is 
Edna Szmodis, formerly medical secretary 
in the examining clinic at Memorial 
Hospital. A native of the Pennsylvania 
Dutch country, she is a pianist and 
composer and records songs in the Latin 
tempo. 


Clara Henning joined Vertebrate 
Paleontology in November as secretary to 
Dr. Bobb Schaeffer. Originally from 
Hamburg, Germany, Miss Henning has been 
in this country for the past six years 
and was formerly Technical Assistant in 
the Periodicals Division of the New York 
Public Library. 


Mary Harmer, new secretary to Director 
James A. Oliver, comes from London. 
Before joining us she was with the 

New York office of a British steel 
manufacturing concern. 


The new designer in Exhibition is Judith 

Borgogni who comes to us from Raymond 

Loewy Associates. She had previously 

been at the Smithsonian Institution for 

several years, designing exhibitions. 
(continued on page 5) 


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(NEW FACES, cont'd from page 4) 


The Education Department welcomes two 
new members in its Adult Education 
Division: Gertrude Twomey as secretary, 
and Helmut Schiller as an instructor. 
Mr. Schiller is a graduate of City 
College where he majored in biology. 


Linda Nye, new preparator of Lepidoptera 
in Entomology, comes from Cedar Rapids, 
Iowa, and attended Beloit College in 
Wisconsin....Andy Turchinsky, just out 
of the Marines and doing graduate work 
in biology at Fordham, is working as a4 
part-time preparator of Lepidoptera. 


Ed Winer, a student at Bard College, is 
currently doing field work on birds in 
the Department of Animal Behavior. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


The Vertebrate Paleontology Department 
had what was undoubtedly the oldest 
Christmas tree in New York. A fossil 
Sabal palm, over 70 million years old, 
was decorated by members of the 
department for their annual Christmas 
party. The tree had been collected by 
Drs. Barnum Brown and Junius Bird in 
1936. 


Heartiest congratulations to Dr. and 
Mrs. Robert Cushman Murphy, Ornithology, 
who will celebrate their 50th wedding 
anniversary next month. Their half 
century together is a shining example to 
four colleagues who have been married in 
the past few weeks -- Thomas Page, 
Natural History; Dr. Carl Gans, 
Herpetology; George Goldschlag, Animal 
Behavior; and Michael Cigliano, Building 
Services. Mr. Goldschlag and his bride 
(formerly Shelly Berman, but not the 
comedian, obviously) toured Puerto Rico 
and the Virgin Islands. He's currently 
on a two-month leave of absence. 

Mr. Cigliano married the former Elaine 
da'Angelo and they went to the Poconos 
for a honeymoon. Mrs. C. is the daughter 
of Sam d'Angelo, Animal Behavior, whose 
son, Phil, is about to become one of 

New York's Finest. 


Preston McClanahan, Exhibition, and his 
wife are the parents of a 6 lb. 5 oz. 
boy, born on Christmas Day and named 
Noel, of course. Congratulations:....Sam 


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Kuster, Building Services, was recently 
elected Master of his Masonic Lodge, 
Tablernacle 598. 


The prolific Dr. Franklyn M. Branley, 
Planetarium, author of 40-odd science 
books for young people, is at it again -- 
this time as editor of the Science 
Reader, an excellent low-cost book for 
juniors, just published by the Reader's 
Digest. 


As we start the new year, our best wishes 
are with several colleagues who are on 
the sick list: Leonard J. Brass, 
Mammalogy, is recovering from an 
operation in Walker Memorial Hospital at 
Avon Park, Florida....Marie Peck, 
Anthropology, is recuperating successfully 
after an operation in New Haven, 
Connecticut....Harry Mirollo, Animal 
Behavior, was struck by a car at the end 
of December and is recovering at Jacoby 
Hospital, Williamsbridge Road and Pelham 
Parkway in the Bronx. (Visiting hours: 
Mon., Wed., Fri. 7 - 8 p.m.; Thurs., 
Sat., Sun 2 - 3 p.m.)....Valerie Newell, 
Fossil Invertebrates, is recuperating at 
home following a@ fall in which she 
suffered a broken leg. She'll be ina 
cast for some weeks....Ronald Bohn, Animal 
Behavior, will be hospitalized for the 
next several months with tuberculosis. 

It was through the recent Museum visit of 
the Health Department's mobile x-ray unit 
that Mr. Bohn's condition was detected 
early enough for fast effective treatment. 
He is at Ray Brook State Hospital, Ray 
Brook, Essex County, New York....John 
Othmer, Building Services, is at 
Kingsbridge Veterans Hospital for an 
operation. For the time being, he is 
giving up his usual weekend volunteer 
work -- leading Boy Scout hikes and field 
trips -- but he'll be back with it come 
spring. He is Scout Council Chairman in 
his district....Isabel Mount, on leave 
from Public Relations, flew back from 
Africa early this month for surgery 
necessitated by an eye injury....To all 
of these friends, we wish a fast return 
to good health. 


An incognito reporter for this 

publication advises us that he recently 

attended a wedding reception where Bill 

Judge, General Accounting, and his 

wife were the sensation of the dance 
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A recent letter from Bob and Betty 
Hellmann, formerly of the Education 
Department and now in Africa, tells us 
that they are enjoying their life and 
work in Kampale, Uganda, where Bob is in 
the U.S. State Department's teaching 
program. (Only sour note was the report 
that Bob waked up one morning last month 
to find that all his clothes had been 
stolen during the night by a sneak thief. 
He has now taken out clothing insurance, 
presumably on a new wardrobe.) 


Peter Zacek sends New Year's Greetings 
to all AMNHers. His friends here will 
be glad to know that he has fully 
recovered from an illness of several 
months and is again doing reupholstery 
and restoration of antiques at 418 
East 75th Street, phone LE 5-2310. 


6. 


The concensus is that Louis Benesh, 

Chief of General Accounting, is a great 
guy to work for. He's always aware of 

a job well done. The other day he gave 
gold pens to three members of his 
department who had been here for 25 years 
or more to show his appreciation for 
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Bill Sherman, and Bill Baker. 


The most interesting (if not entirely 
accurate) business card we have ever 
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Dorothy Bronson, Office Services, from a 
friend who retired a few years ago from 
Building Services. It read: 


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No Business ~- No Money 


No Address No Phone 


Happy New Year, Joe, from everybody! 


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XIX, No. 2 


COMFORT FOR ASTROLOGY VICTIMS 


The American Museum-Hayden Planetariun, 
an organization which is rather strictly 
devoted to the study and teaching of 
astronomy, found itself in the peculiar 
position last weekend of giving comfort 
and reassurance to the bedevilled. 


The occasion was an apparently compact 
grouping of several planets near the sun 
at the time of the February 4-5 total 
solar eclipse. This completely natural 
phenomenon of no particular significance 
had thrown the astrological cult into 

an uproar, and widespread press coverage 
of dire predictions for mankind were 
lining the coffers of crystal ball- 
gazers from New Dehli to Manhattan. 


Somewhat reluctantly, our astronomy staff 
found itself pulled into the act to 
explain that the planets were simply 
doing what they had done and would 
continue to do for billions of years. 


At the weekend, the Box Office was well- 
prepared for the flood of calls. Many 
of the callers were just curious, but 
others were downright scared. Were the 
planets going to collide? Was this the 
end of the world? Parents wanted to know 
if they should let their children go 
outdoors. Others asked if it would be 
safe to go to work by Monday. The staff 
on duty -- Henry Ehlenberger, Sophie 
Milkowska Lupero, Patrick O' Dwyer, and 
Patricia Benson -- did their best to 
calm the jittery nerves. When the 
straight scientific explanation failed 
to allay apprehension, they tried kidding 
(continued on page 2) 


FEBRUARY 1962 


CREDIT UNION NEWS AND PLANS 


A healthy year-end dividend for 1961 of 
4 and 3/4 per cent on Credit Union 
Savings was announced at last month's 
Annual Meeting of the AMNH Employees 
Federal Credit Union. In reporting the 
dividend, CU President John Saunders said 
that the organization had been commended 
by the Credit Union National Association 
for its efficient operation and wise 
management of funds. Mr. Saunders also 
expressed appreciation to the Museum 
Administration for handling payroll 
deductions for Credit Union rmembers. 


A new system of machine accounting, under 
which members will no longer use pass 
books, was installed in the Credit Union 
at the first of the year, Mr. Saunders 
said. Henceforth, each member will 
receive a quarterly statement of his 
account for his own records. His year- 
end statement will constitute a complete 
record for the year. Members who wish 
to keep their old pass books for any 7. 
reason may have them brought up to date 
as of December 31, 1961, but no entries 
will be made for transactions after that 
date. 


The following persons were elected 
Credit Union Directors for a 2-year 
period: Philip Miller, Harry Lange, Kate 
Ogilvy. George Tauber was elected to the 
Credit Committee for a 2-year term. At 
the organization meeting of the Directors 
immediately following the Annual Meeting, 
the following officers were re-elected 
for l-year terms: President - John 
Saunders; Vice President - Rita Ross; 
(continued on page 2) 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, 
Animal Behavior - Evélyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


rsonnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology = Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Georgea Atkinson 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
ey - neni Van Deusen 


— So 


Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Feter Bujara 

Natural History - Ernestine Weindorf 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print it Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & sh: & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rucolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Marlyn Mangus 


(COMFORT FOR ASTROLOGY VICTIMS, cont'd. 
from page 1) 


and cajolery: "No, the planets won't 
collide, and I'll bet you're smart 

enough to know it." One woman asked 

Mrs. Benson if she, too, were not worried 
about dying at any moment. "Frankly," 
said Mrs. B. "we're all too busy here 

to worry about dying this afternoon!" 


There was one happy result. On 
Saturday, Nancy McCoy, Public Relations, 
came in to the Box Office to help 
answer the phones. The regular staff 
agreed that they would like a compact 
grouping of planets every weekend if 
Miss McCoy would join them each time. 


While we're justly proud of AMNH's fine 
fossils, we were a little startled by a 
recent fan letter froma 6th.grader: to 
Marguerite Newgarden, Education. It began 
"I know my class was very fortunate to 
have a guide as preserved as you are." 


CREDIT UNION NEWS AND PLANS, cont'd. 


from page 1) 
Secretary - Anne Montgomery. 


The Credit Union's Financial and 
Statistical Report for December 31, 1961 
is reprinted on page 6 of this issue of 
the Grapevine. 


TELEPHONE TROUBLES 


Many of us here have had the experience, 
during a phone conversation, of suddenly 
finding a third voice on the line -- an 
incoming call from the outside that is 
intended for one of the two parties 
already on the line. The limitations of 
the Museum's venerable antique switch- 
board sometimes make it difficult for our 
patient and long-suffering telephone 
operators to avoid such mix-ups. It was 
probably this same switchboard some 25 
years ago that helped Per Host, the 
Norwegian zoologist, land a job with 
(continued on page 3) 


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the Museum. He tells the story in his 
book, "What The World Showed Me." On 

his first visit to the U.S. back in the 
1930's, he applied for a job with an 
AMNH expedition. Having been granted an 
interview, he phoned the Museum to confirm 
the appointment. While waiting for the 
call to go through, he suddenly heard 
voices on the line and mention of his own 
name. The conversation (to which he 
listened without interrupting) was 
between two Museum people who were 
discussing the expedition budget and the 
amount that could be allowed as salary 
for the new member. As it was a 
considerably larger amount than he had 
Planned to ask for, the job applicant 
came to his interview well prepared! 


THANKS FROM GREATER N.Y. FUND 


The following letter was received by 
John R. Saunders, Chairman of the AMNH 
drive for the Greater New York Fund . 


January 16, 1962 


Mr. John R. Saunders 

American Museum of Natural History 
79th Street & Central Park West 
New York 24, New York 


Dear Mr. Saunders: 


It is a pleasure to extend the thanks of 
The Greater New York Fund Board, as well 
as my Own personal appreciation, to the 
employees of the American Museum of 
Natural History, who contributed to the 
Fund. 


Each year brings better understanding of 
the Fund and its agencies to those of us 
who work or live in New York, and this 
results in broader and more generous 
support. 


May I also express our deep appreciation 
to you and your associates who have given 
leadership to the campaign within your 
organization. 


Sincerely yours, 


Courtney C. Brown 

Chairman, Public Service 
Division 

The Greater New York Fund 


EDITH KENDALL 


The death of Edith Kendall on January 
18, as the result of a stroke, came as 
a severe shock to her friends and 
colleagues in the Museum. Mrs. Kendall 
had been with the organization for 27 
years, having started as a clerk under 
the Work Projects Administration 
program here in 1935. In 1939 she 
joined the regular staff and in the 
succeeding years served as secretary 

in various departments including the 
Planetarium, Natural History Magazine, 
Exhibition, and most recently Plant 
Operation and Maintenance. She is 
survived by a sister and a brother, 
both of Chicago. Mrs. Kendall had many 
good friends in the Museum, and all who 
knew and worked with her were deeply 
saddened by her sudden passing. 


BOB STITZEL 


It is with sorrow that we report the 
death last month of a former colleague. 
Bob Stitzel, who retired from the 
Machine Shop in 1955, passed away on 
January 29. Mr. Stitzel came to the 
Museum as a carpenter in 1920. A 
skilled craftsman, he later transferred 
to metal work and did many of the 
ornamental brass frames in the exhibit 
cases. At the time of his death, he 
and his wife were living in the Bronx. 
His friends here extend their deep 
sympathy to Mrs. Stitzel. 


BOOKS FOR ASIAN STUDENTS 


The Asian Foundation, whose purpose is 
to strengthen educational, cultural, 
and civic activities with private 
American assistance, has asked us to 
contribute to its program of Books For 
Asian Students. The books collected 
will be sent to colleges and vocational 
schools in Pakistan, Thailand, Ceylon, 
and other countries. Particularly 
needed are college and high school 
texts, in good condition and published 
after 1945, on practically any subject. 
Works by standard authors published 
before 1945 (Plato, Goethe, Dickens, 
Emerson, etc.) are also requested. If 
you have any such beoks you would: like 
to contribute to Asian students, please 
send them to John Saunders, Chairman 
of the Department of Education. 


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IMPORTANT 


If you have recently moved, married, or 
changed your beneficiary, be sure that 
the Museum Personnel Office knows of the 
change so that they can keep your 
personnel record up to date. If you are 
living alone, it is especially important 
that Personnel have the correct address 
of your beneficiary. When one of our 
colleagues died recently, it was 
extremely difficult to locate her 
relatives because she had not advised 
Mr. Ward's office of their change of 
address. In addition, it's a good idea 
to carry in your wallet or pocketbook 
the names, addresses, and phone numbers 
of at least two people who can be 
reached if you are suddenly incapacitated. 


DISCOUNTS FOR ANTIQUES SHOW 


Discount tickets for the National 
Antiques Show at Madison Square Garden, 
Feb. 28 through Mar. 8, are now available 
from Larry Pintner, Office Services. The 
show brings together 200 exhibits from 
around the world and includes every- 
thing from porcelains and furniture to 
greeting cards and typewriters. Admission 
with discount ticket is $1, as opposed 
to regular cost of $1.55. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Grant L. Kitchings, III, watchman in 
Custodial Services until Uncle Sam 
called him in December, is now in 
training at Fort Dix. He'll be on 
military leave from the Museum until the 
completion of his service. 


The Photographic Division said goodbye 
last month to Fred Schultz and Hans Behm. 
Mr. Schultz plans to start his own 
photographic business, in which we wish 
him lots of luck. 


Herpetology will say so long to two 
colleagues this month. Marian Schmied, 
Scientific Assistant, has decided to 
devote more time to her family, and 
Muriel Lea, who has been assisting 
William Hosmer with the Australian 
collections, has been called home to 
Australia due to illness in her family. 


4, 


COMMENTS REQUESTED 


In order to evaluate the response of 
Museum employees to the staff cafeteria, , 
the Administration would appreciate any 
comments and suggestions you care to 

make about the food, its preparation, 
variety of choices, etc. If you have 
definite opinions one way or the other, 
please send them in writing to Anne 
Montgomery. 


TRIPLETS IN HERPETOLOGY 


The Department of Herpetology celebrated 
the birth of triplets on January 11 to 
Barisia viridiflava. Unfortunately, 

two of the young alligator lizards died 
shortly after birth, but the third 
appears to be a healthy specimen. The 
Department hopes to raise the youngster, 
since this particular dwarf species is 
quite rare in collections. The mother 
was obtained at an elevation of 10,300 
feet in the Sierra de Juarez in the 
state of Oaxaca, Mexico, this past 
summer by Department Chairman Charles 
M. Bogert. 


On a recent Sunday morning, Jimmy 
Philburn was on duty at the front door 
phones when a caller inquired, "Do you 
have free films playing there today?" 
Mr. Philburn replied, "Never on Sunday." 
"Good!" said the voice on the phone, 
"I've been trying to catch that show 
all over town." 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Dr. Walter Fairservis, Anthropology, 
returned at the end of January from two 
months of field work in India and 
Pakistan. As a guest of the government 
of India, he attended an international 
conference on the archaeology of Asia, 
held in connection with the 100th 
anniversary of the founding of the 
Archaeological Survey of India. 


Dr. Lester Aronson, Chairman of Animal 
Behavior, went to Ottawa last month to 
(continued on page 5) 


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address a meeting of the Canadian Fishery 
Biologists on the role of experience in 
orientation in fishes. 


Dr. Karl Koopman, Mammalogy, visited two 
interesting caves during his recent field 
trip to collect bats in the Virgin 
Islands. One of the caves, which could 
be entered only by boat, proved to be a 
new collecting locality for the genus 


Brachyphylla, a fruit-eating bat. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


The smiling face of Jack Garvey, 
Planetarium, has been much missed in 
recent weeks; he's at home recuperating 
from an operation. Harry Mirollo, 
Animal Behavior, continues to make a 
satisfactory recovery from his broken 
hip. We hope they'll both be back with 
us before long. 


Isabel Mount, on leave from Public 
Relations, is making a good recovery 
from the emergency eye operation which 
necessitated her return from Africa 

last month. At this writing she's still 
in the hospital, but expects to be going 
home in a few days. She's very grateful 
to all her friends here for their 
concern and many kindnesses during her 
hospitalization. 


Sherrill Baehler, Planetarium, took off 
February 1 for what sounds like a dream 
tour of the Mediterranean shores. Her 
itinerary includes Italy, Greece, Turkey, 
Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, the Sudan, and 
Spain. Egypt will come in for the major 
share of Mrs. Baehler's attention as she 
is an ardent amateur Egyptologist and 
can even read some hieroglyphs. She's 
accompanying her husband who's on a 
business trip to these far-off lands. 


Josephine Sperrazza, now Mrs. Robert 
Kail, has returned to Micropaleontology 
on a part time basis, after honeymooning 
in the Caribbean. 


Ailsa Hall, Mammalogy's visitor from New 
Guinea, spent ten days in Florida last 
month, seeing the Archbold Biological 
Station and environs and visiting 
Leonard J. Brass in the hospital. 

Mr. Brass recently underwent a serious 
operation and Mrs. Hall reports that 


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his doctor is pleased with his normal 
recovery. Mrs. Hall was entertained by 
Richard Archbold and by Frank and Helen 
(Hunt) Rinald, both of whom worked here 
prior to their Florida assignment. 


NEW FACES 


Carol Ward, the new secretary in Animal 
Behavior, is a long-time friend of many 
AMNHers who are delighted to see her back 
She last worked at the Museum fifteen 
years ago. For the information of 
new-comers, she is Mrs. Adrian Ward, wife 
of our Personnel Chief. 


Another returning employee last month 
was Dick Grossman, Micropaleontology, who 
is now handling circulation for the 
quarterly publication Micropaleontology. 
A former lab worker in Micro, he recently 
began his thesis problem for an M.S. in 
Geology at NYU. 


John Glasser, the new film inspector in 
the Film Library, is an avid spelunker 
and mountain climber. He's a member of 
the National Speleological Society. 


Richard McPheter, who has been with 
Custodial Services as an elevator 
operator since last May, transferred 

this month to Office Services,.replacing 
John Maloney who is now with the Educatior 
Department as chauffeur...In the 
Planetarium Guest Relations Office, 
Muriel Crane is temporarily filling in 
for Sherrill Baehler who's on vacation. 


Marilyn Slear, new secretary in Exhibitior 
and Graphic Arts, is a graduate of New 
York University, School of Education. 

For the past six years she has been a 
supervisor and training director with 
John Wanamaker. An amateur photographer, 
she also enjoys travelling and dancing 
and is interested in dress design. 


TRADING POST 
Items for Sale 


124-horse power Buccaneer outboard motor 
and tank. Very good condition. Original 
instructions and parts catalog included. 
John Ignatieff, ext. 201. 


17-foot folding sail boat. Brand new. 

Original cost - $448. Will sell for 

$275. Nolan Willence, ext. 419. 
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Items Wanted 


8 mm. 400-foot reel movie projector. 
or used. Rudy Bonen, ext. 378. 


Live young guppies, to feed to hungry 
pipefish. Send to Catherine Pessino, 
Natural Science Center, ext. 281. 


New 


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Young woman available for housework on 
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carfare. Does thorough cleaning, floor- 
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Excellent references. Call Kate Ogilvy, 
ext. 311 or 444 


AMNH EMPLOYEES FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 


FINANCIAL and STATISTICAL REPORT 
December 3lst, 1961 


ASSETS 
Loans to Members $ 161,213.00 
Cash on Hand and in Bank 12,807.50 
Investments, Savings & Loan Associations 15 ,000.00 
Investments, Savings Banks 10,000.00 
Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment 443,28 
Total Assets $ 199,463.78 


LIABILITIES 


Members Shares 


$ 176,432.87 


Reserve for Uncollectable Loans 15,783.04 

Accounts Payable 39.90 

Undivided Dividends 7,207.97 
Total Liabilities $ 199,463.78 

Statistical Information 

No. of Acc'ts. Dec. 31st, 1961 511 

Loans issued Jan. lst. - Dec. 31st, 1961 361 

Loans issued since organization 11,111 

Loans charged off since organization $ 551.47 

Recoveries on loans charged off 285.28 

Net loss since organization $ 266.19 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


XIX, No. 3 


TELEMETRY CONFERENCE HERE 


An invitational Interdisciplinary 
Conference on the Use of Telemetry in 
Animal Behavior and Physiology in 
Relation to Ecological Problems will be 
held at the Museum March 28 - 31. More 
than fifty scientists who are using 
biological telemetry in their work will 
present papers. The Conference is being 
sponsored by the Museum, the Foundation 
for Instrumentation iducation and 
Research, and the Office of Naval 
Research, in cooperation with the 
American Institute of Biological 
Sciences and the Instrument Society of 
America. Museum members of the 
Committee on Arrangements are 

Dr. James A. Oliver, Dr. Wesley E. 
Lanyon, Dr. Lester R. Aronson, and 

Dr. William N. Tavolga. 


On the last day of the Conference, 
Saturday, March 31, a summary session 
will be open by invitation to all 
interested persons including Museum 
employees. Tickets for this session, 
which will include exhibits and 
demonstrations of biological telemetry 
instrumentation, may be obtained from 
Dr. Aronson's office, ext. 262. 


CU NAMES SUPERVISORY CCMMITTEE 


The following members of the AMNH Credit 
Union have been appointed to the 
organization's Supervisory Committee for 
terms of one year: Louis Ferry, 
Chairman; Thelma Pollick, Secretary; and 
Edward A. Burns. The job of this 
Committee is to make periodic audits of 
the Credit Union's books. 


MARCH 1962 


BLOOD DONORS NEEDED 


Illness or accidents in the families of 
several employees have resulted in 

heavy use recently of the Museum's Blood 
Bank. Fortunately, because of the mass 
donation by employees when the Red Cross 
Bloodmobile visited us in December, our 
Blood Bank has been able thus far to 
meet the needs. But it now needs 
replenishing. 


If you did not give blood in December, 
you would not have been able to draw on 
the Blood Bank had you or someone in 
your immediate family been seriously ill 
this winter. You can acquire this 
valuable insurance now by making an 
appointment, through the Museum Nurses, 
to give blood at the Red Cross. Those 
who did make donations in December are 
now eligible to give again. If enough 
employees sign up, the Museum will 
provide transportation to and from the 
Red Cross Blood Center during working 
hours. Telephone Nurse Margaret 
Johnston, extension 466. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


On March 8, 1962, the Board of Estimate 
of the City of New York passed two 
resolutions: 


1. Appropriating $785,000 for Stage II 
of the electrical conversion. 


2. Appropriating $177,000 for 
Improvements to First Floor, 
Section 9, New Hall of Biology of 
Invertebrates. 

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GRAPEVINE 


Editor = Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


STAFF 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


ehavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Animal 5 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 
Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 
Library - Georgea Atkinson 
Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 
Museum Shop - Feter Bujara 
Natural History - Ernestine Weindorf 
Office Services - Dorothy Eronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

etarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate paleontology - Marlyn Mangus 


(MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS, cont'd from p. 1) 


It is expected that work will start 
within the next few months. 


It is with sorrow that we record 


two deaths during February. Louise 
Pedeberdot, who retired from the 
Film Library last fall due to ill 
health, passed away at Memorial 
Hospital in New York on February 11. 
Dr. James H. McDunnough, Research 
Associate in the Department of 
Entomology, died while doing field 
work in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
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RENOVATION OF SERVICE ENTRANCE 


The Museum's service entrance on 
Columbus Avenue will undergo renovations 
soon to improve the convenience and 
safety of access to the Museum yard. The 
plan calls for widening the driveway 


both at the street level and at the 
approach to the underpass. In addition, 
the former dump area in the yard will be 
leveled for parking use. 


HONORS 


Dr. Junius Bird, Anthropology, has been 
decorated by the Peruvian Government with 
a medal making him a Grand Official of 
the Order of Merit for Distinguished 
Services to Peru. The presentation, 
made by Peruvian Ambassador Fernando 
Berckemeyer at his suite at the Plaza 
Hotel on March 2, was in recognition of 
Dr. Bird's extensive archaeological 
research on Peru as well as for the 
Museum exhibition "Art and Life In Old 
Peru" which Dr. Bird supervised. 


Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, Chairman of 
Vertebrate Paleontology, was invited to 
give the annual Sigma Xi lecture at 
Brown University, March 8....Dr. Bobb 
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(HONORS, cont'd. from page 2) 


Schaeffer, Vertebrate Paleontology, 
was recently elected a Trustee of the 
Tenafly Nature Center Association. 


CALLING ALL CHESS PLAYERS 


It has occurred to a few lonely chess 
players in the Anthropology Department 
that perhaps there are enough others 
in the Museum who enjoy the game to 
start up a chess club. We envision a 
club that would be open to all: women 
as well as men, beginners as well as 
grandmasters, the energetic and 
agressive as well as the quiet and 
contemplative. 


Anyone interested in becoming a member 
of such a chess club is invited to 
attend an organizational meeting on 
Thursday, March 29 at 12:30 p.m. in 
Room 419, Roosevelt Memorial. If you 
are interested but cannot attend a 
meeting at that time, you may express 
your interest and opinions by getting in 
touch with Nick Amorosi, ext. 228, 

Lew Brown, ext. 280 or Bob Carneiro, 
ext. 431. 


NEW FACES 


Thomas McKinney, a graduate of City 
College, has joined the Department of 
Ecucation as an Instructor. Mr. McKinney 
majored in geology...Another new face in 
the same Department is Robert Covais, 
Office Assistant, who is completing his 
senior year at Hunter with a sociology 
major. Mr. Covais, whose interests 
include Italian Renaissance art and 
Bolivian folk music and dance, was 
formerly with the N.Y. Public Library. 


Margaret Hanson, new secretary in 
Ornithology, enjoys drawing and painting. 
A graduate of the University of Florida, 
Mrs. Hanson comes to us from McGraw-Hill 
Book Company where she was an editing 
supervisor. 


Natural History welcomes two new staff 
members: Associate Editor Karen 
Soderquist who comes from Seattle, 
Washington, was formerly with Mechanical 
Engineering magazine. Production 
Assistant Rhoda Nathans, formerly of 
Detroit, Michigan, likes to paint in her 
free time. 


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Eva Varga, new Scientific Assistant in 
Herpetology, comes originally from 
Hungary where her father was a 
herpetologist and professor of Zoology in 
Budapest. She and her husband, an 
engineer, now reside in Mt. Vernon. 


Marilyn Galusha, new Scientific Assistant 
to Dr. Malcolm McKenna in Vertebrate 
Paleontology, graduated last June from 
Vassar College where she majored in 
Hispanic studies. She has spent the past 
three summers collecting with Frick 
Laboratory field parties in the western 
United States. 


THE MURPHYS CELEBRATE 


At the time of their 50th wedding 
anniversary on February 17, Dr. and Mrs. 
Robert Cushman Murphy, Ornithology, were 
spending a week at one of their favorite 
retreats, the Federal Wildlife Refuge on 
Bull's Island, South Carolina. They had 
the 5,134 acres of the island almost 
entirely to themselves, the only other 
human inhabitants being the warden and his 
family. Their closest associates were 
deer, otters, raccoons, fox-squirrels, 
12-foot alligators, wild turkeys and 84 
other species of birds. 


Dr. and Mrs. Murphy walked an average of 
ten miles a day in subtropical forest and 
on the beaches and marshes. As they 
wound up their anniversary holiday and 
headed back for New York, their second 
great-grandchild was born on the Pacific 
coast. 


TWO LONG-TIMERS RETIRE 


Later this month we will say so long to 
two retiring colleagues who have been with 
the Museum for many years -- Charles 
Falkenbach of the Frick Laboratory, and 
Ray Fuller of the Carpentry Shop. 


Mr. Falkenbach joined Vertebrate 
Paleontology as a preparator in 1916 and 
during his first few years made field 
trips to Cuba with Dr. Barnum Brown and 
to Jamaica, B.W.I., with Dr. Harold Anthony. 
He left the staff in 1920 and returned the 
following year to the Frick Laboratory 
where he has remained and is today 
Assistant Curator. Since 1924 he has been 
in the field every summer, travelling 
extensively in the west and southwest 
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as well as to Ecuador for six months. 
His principal research interest has 
been the oreodonts and his final 
manuscript on this group of extinct 
mammals is now being typed for publication 
some time next year. In addition to his 
Frick Lab assignment, he holds the posts 
of Field and Laboratory Associate in 
this Museum, and Research and Field 
Associate in the University of Nebraska 
State Museum. 


Following his retirement, Mr. Falkenbach 
and his wife Margeryie will move to 

New Mexico where they are building a 
home 28 miles north of Santa Fe. 

Mrs. Falkenbach came from that area 
originally and it was there that they met 
and were married in 1924 when Charlie 
was on a field trip. Their address will 
be Fairview, N.M., and they hope that 
AMNHers will drop by to say hello 
whenever they're in the vicinity. 


Ray Fuller came to the Carpentry Shop 

on a temporary basis in 1934 and joined 
the permanent force two years later. A 
superior cabinet maker and machine hand, 
he has fashioned all kinds of exhibition 
cases and fixtures, as well as equipment 
for offices and laboratories. "He is an 
expert craftsman," says Louis Ferry, 
Carpentry Shop Foreman, who adds, "It 
will be hard to replace him." 


Mr. Fuller is an enthusiastic hunter 

and fisherman as well as an expert on 
hunting dogs, of which he has raised 
several. After his retirment, he and his 
wife will move to their farm in 
Massachusetts. We envy the long hours of 
leisure he will be spending in the fields 
and woods and along streams where we 

know he will find much enjoyment. 


We hope that Messrs. Falkenbach and Fuller 
will both be back to say hello 
occasionally. Meanwhile, we wish them 
all the best! 


All those interested in obtaining 
discount Circus tickets, call Larry 
Pintner, ext. 263. 


DR. BURNS HEADS TEXAS MUSEUM 


Dr. William A. Burns, Chairman of 
Membership, resigned from the Museum at 
the end of February to become Director 

of the Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 
Texas. 


Dr. Burns came to the AMNH in 1940 as a 
member of the Public Instruction staff. 
His first job was to make a survey of 
the science program in the Boys Clubs of 
New York, and when it developed that no 
such program existed, Dr. B. undertook 
to organize one. He subsequently served 
as Assistant Chairman of Public 
Instruction, Assistant to Director A. E. 
Parr, and Editor of Man & Nature « 
Publications, before becoming Membership 
Chairman. He was instrumental in the 
introduction of the Museum's GUIDE-A-PHONE 
service in 1954 and of SOUND-TREK last 


year. 


An active participant in employee 
organizations including the Employees' 
Benefit Association and the Camera Club, 
Dr. Burns also served as Chairman of the 
Museum's Blood Bank and was at one period 
Editor of the Grapevine. 


In his new post, Dr. Burns heads a 
museum that combines natural history, 
history, and art (early American and 
Texas contemporary.) Its collections 
include the world's largest canary 
yellow diamond, a display of Spanish 
fiesta costumes, and a fleet of vintage 
automobiles. He invites all AMNHers 
travelling in the southwest to stop by. 
The address is The Witte Memorial Museum, 
3801 Broadway, San Antonio 9, Texas. 
Meanwhile, we will certainly miss Bill 
Burns and his wife, our ex-colleague 
Adelaide Jordan, and we wish them much 
good fortune in their new venture. 


More Education Dept. Fan Mail: A very 
original compliment was contained in a 
letter to Marjorie McKenzie froma young 
student who wrote to say how much he had 
enjoyed his class visit to the Museum. 
"We learned at school," he said "that 
every new experience makes a new fold in 
our brain. After spending the day 

with you at the Museum, I came home with 
my brain all wrinkled up." 


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COMINGS, GOINGS AND GATHERINGS 


Dr. William K. Emerson, Chairman of 
Living Invertebrates, is in Baja 
California at this writing making 
collections of living and fossil marine 
invertebrates. His studies constitute a 
continuation of the work he initiated in 
that area on the "Puritan" Expedition 

in 1957. 


Dr. Dean Amadon, Chairman of Ornithology, 
and George Petersen, Preparation 
Supervisor in Exhibition, spent several 
days last month scouting the southern 
New Jersey shore to select a site for the 
large habitat group on shore birds in the 
Hall of North American birds. They 
studied locations from Barnegat Light to 
Cape May, and decided on a bay near 
Brigantine where they made photographs 
and began the collection of foreground 
material. The exhibit will show nesting 
activities there on about May cOth. 


Dr. and Mrs. James A. Oliver recently 
visited the Museum's field station at 
Bimini in the Bahamas. While there they 
were the guests of Trustee Michael Lerner, 
Founder of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, 
and Mrs. Lerner. Dr. Oliver reports 

that scientific activities at the Lab are 


booming and that the new Resident Director 


Robert Mathewson and his wife have things 
well under control. New porpoise pens are 
now being installed under a grant from 
the Office of Naval Research. When 
completed these will be the largest 
enclosures for porpoises anywhere in the 
world. Dr. and Mrs. Oliver measured, 
marked, and released 400 live young green 
turtles as part of the program to restock 
the green turtle in the Bahamas area. 

Dr. Oliver reports that the fishing, 
weather, and food for which Bimini is 
famous are all still excellent. 


Dr. Evelyn Shaw, Animal Behavior, also 
spent a couple of weeks at Bimini last 
month, working on schooling behavior in 
fishes....Jennifer Chatfield, on leave 
from Education, will continue her 
temporary assignment at the University 
Museum, Boulder, Colorado, until June. 
As Visiting Curator of Anthropology, she 
is writing up the Melanesian collection 
of that institution. 


5. 


Chairman John Saunders of the Education 
Department recently played host to a 
group of twenty people from the National 
Parks Service who visited the Museum as 
part of their training program. 


Dr. William King Gregory, Curator Emeritus 
of Fishes and Aquatic Biology, and his 
wife are currently doing field work at 
the Lerner Marine Laboratory at Bimini. 
Before leaving New York, the Gregorys 
came into the Museum to lunch with 
Director Oliver and Controller Meister 
and see old friends in the coffee room. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Members of the Exhibition Department on 
the fourth floor of the Power House 

spent a recent lunch hour making bets with 
one another on the number of cars that 
could be contained in the new visitors’ 
parking field next to the Planetariun. 
Most of the estimates were well above the 
field's actual capacity of 110 cars, with 
Ray de Lucia's guess more than tripling 
that figure. When asked how he could have 
been so far off, he explained that of 
course he was thinking of Volkswagens. 


Thomas Hogan, Building Services, entered 
the hospital last week for an operation 
and we hope he's well on the road to 
recovery by now. He's at Victoria 
Memorial Hospital, 92nd Street and 8th 
Avenue, Brooklyn....Catherine Mahoney, 
General Accounting, is at home after a 
stay in the hospital for treatment of a 
slipped disc. She has been greatly 
missed and, hopefully, will be back at 
the Museum by the time this appears.... 
Harry Mirollo, Animal Behavior, is now 
home from the hospital and continues to 
make a good recovery from his broken hip. 


Born: To Lee Boltin, Natural History, 
and his wife, a daughter Julia on Feb. 13; 
to Mary Lopez, formerly Education, and 
her husband, a daughter Catherine Anne, 
also on Feb. 13. Congratulations! 


Married: Nancy Rita Savin, formerly 
Vertebrate Paleontology, to Manuel 
Wilheim in Bloomfield, Conn., on Jan. 28. 


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Items for sale 


Portable Magnavox television, 19-inch screen. Only 3 months old, perfect condition. 
Cost $189. Owner going west and will sell for $145. Charles Falkenbach, ext. 354 


or 301. 


1956 Jeep Station Wagon. 4-wheel drive, heavy duty clutch, radio and heater. Good 
condition. $1,200. F. Hoffman, ext. 428. 


Rental 


Beautiful apartment with swimming pool, tennis, boating club on premises. 33 large 
rooms plus screened terrace. $155. 1-year sublease or 3-year lease, available 
May 1. Buying house and must move. Contact Ruth Ogilvy, ext. 442 or 247, or 

IN 3-2740 . 


Russian translator available. Will do translations at home. Call Alexander Holub, 
ext. 230. 


Raymond Duncan, the world-famous poet-actor, will present a 
performance of his spontaneous creation "Green Lights" at 
Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, April ll. 


One of our Museum Colleagues, Bridget Merle of Anthropology, 
is Mr. Duncan's granddavghter, and she has offered to 


provide free tickets to ail Museum employees who are 
interested in attending the performance. If a group of 

8 peorle would like to e=tend together, Mrs. Merle will 
arranze for them to have a box. Telephone her for tickets 
any weekday morning, 9 to 12, at extension 453. 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XIX, NO. 4 


APRIL 1962 


THE LUCK OF THE RIENZIS 


Saturday, March 3lst, started out like 
any ordinary Saturday for the Rienzi 
family of Astoria, L.I. Louis Rienzi, 
Oiler in the Museum's Power Plant for 
the past 13 years, decided it would be 
a good day to get a haircut. Son Ronald, 
who started as an attendant with 
Custodial Services in January, came in 
to work. At 11A.M. Mr. Rienzi, Sr., 
was sitting in the barber's chair when 
a neighbor's son came running in with 

a@ message from Mrs. Rienzi. At first 
he thought it was a joke. Irish 
Sweepstakes? Sure, he and his wife had 
been buying tickets for years, and when 
Mrs. Rienzi bought that last ticket, 
Ronnie had contributed to its purchase 
by taking the family out to dinner. But 
whoever heard of a race being over at 
11 o'clock in the morning? Then he 
remembered that the race was in England 
where it was already 4 P.M. Meanwhile, 
Ronald Rienzi got the word by phone at 
the back of the Museum auditorium where © 
he was on duty for the telemetry 
conference. A man of remarkable 
restraint, he spoke quietly into the 
phone, "Yes, I heard you....Okay, Mom, 
I said I heard you." The word was 
official: the Rienzis had just won 
$140,000. 


The question they have been asked most 
frequently, naturally is "What are you 
going to do with it, after taxes?" Their 
answer: it goes in the bank. They were 
going to buy a new car in June anyway; 
they still will but not before June. 
Otherwise Louis Rienzi says "I think 


eg just peck working and once in a while 
(continued on page 2 By 


MINERALOGISTS GATHERING HERE 


Eighty-two mineralogists from 20 foreign 
countries, including the U.S.S.R., Japan, 
and New Zealand, gathered here at the 
Museum on Saturday, April 14, to start 

a four-day field trip to sites of 
mineralogical interest in N.Y., N.J., 
and Pa. They are in this country to 
attend the Third General Congress of the 
International Mineralogical Association 
in Washington, D.C., April 18-20. They'll 
be back at AMNH on Wednesday, April 25, 
during a post-Congress tour of museums. 


FIRST MODERN COELACANTH AT MUSEUM 


The first specimen of the modern 
coelacanth Latimeria ever to reach the 
Western Hemisphere has been the object 
of much interest and admiration from all 
quarters of the Museum since its arrival 
in the Ichthyology Department's second 
floor laboratory last week. 


Although quite dead, this example of the 
famous "living fossil" is excellently 
preserved and constitutes an addition of 
major importance to the Museum's study 
collections. 


The five-foot fish was caught by a 
fisherman off the Comoro Islands in the 
Indian Ocean on January 7. It was taken 
to one Georges W. Garrouste who is the 
only physician on an island of 70,000 
inhabitants. Dr. Garrouste, together with 
the President of the Comoros Government 
Council, Dr. Said Mohamed Cheikh, 
presented the rare catch to us as a gift. 
In return, the Museum will make a 
contribution to the Comoros Government; 
(continued on page 2) 


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GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 
Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Behavior - Evelyn shaw 
Anthropology - - Philip Gifford 


Building ¢ Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education “> George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Fxhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


Fossil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

Tehthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Georgea Atkinson 

Living Invertebrates - Payllis Fish 


Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 


Mamma logy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 


Ornithology - Jean Shaw 
Planetarium - James Pickering 
Power Plant ~- Malcolm MacKay 
Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Paleontology - Marlyn Mangus 


(THE LUCK OF THE RIENZIS, cont'd. from 
page 1) 


we'll buy something we really want and 
were never able to afford before.” 


CREDIT UNION STATEMENTS 


By now, all members of the AMNH 
Employees Federal Credit Union have 
received first quarterly statements of 
their accounts. The new system of 
machine accounting, which makes pass 
books unnecessary, was instituted by our 
The statements received 


while shares are shown on the right. 
The system is new to all of us and if 


you have any trouble reading your 
statement, consult a member of the 
Credit Union Supervisory Committee which 
consists of Louis Ferry, Thelma Pollick, 
and Edward A. Burns. If you have any 
comments you would like to make about 
the new system, please send them in 
writing to the Credit Union Treasurer, 
Harry Lange. 


{FIRST COELACANTH AT MUSEUM, cont'd. 
from page 1) 


part of it will go to the fisherman, 
and part to Dr. Garrouste's hospital. 


SERVICE DRIVEWAY ALTERATIONS 


Paul Grouleff, Plant Manager, reports 
that alterations on the service 
entrance driveway will be started on 
April 18. Every effort will be made 
to minimize inconvenience to Museum 
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APPRECIATION TO ATTENDANTS 


As everyone knows, & visitor who has a 
complaint about the Museum is more 
likely to sit down and write us a 
letter about it than a visitor who has 
had a good experience here. But, 
happily, there are some people in the 
latter category, as the following 
letter to Director James A. Oliver 
shows: 


Dear Sir - 


I'd like to express my gratitude to 
your staff for their kindness in 
recovering a purse I lost in the mob 
and confusion on Washington's Birthday. 
Fortunately the purse was found by an 
honest man, turned over to a very 
pleasant young guard in the Man In 
Space Hall, and put under lock and key 
by another guard. I was terribly upset 
at the time. I'm sure I thanked then, 
but I would appreciate your showing this 
note to them. 

Sincerely, 

Mrs. Helen M. Harty 

Haworth, N.d. 


P.S. I wish there were a more 
remunerative way of thanking them -- 
however, this is not easy on a teacher's 
income! 


JOURNEY INTO NATURE 


The Museum's weekly radio program 
"Journey Into Nature" continues to have 
@ large and loyal following and, 
according to letters received here and 
at NBC, is making new friends regularly 
for AMNH. On recent programs 

listeners have heard from Colin Turnbull, 
George Whitaker, Dr. Robert Carneiro, 
Dr. Wesley Lanyon, Dr. Franklyn Branley, 
and Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy. On 

April 15, Dr. Ethel Tobach, Animal 
Behavior, will discuss the uses of 
telemetry in biological research as 
reported at the recent interdisciplinary 
conference here. On Easter Sunday, 
James S. Pickering of the Planetarium 
will talk about the astronomical 

origins of Easter and Passover. The 
following week, April 29, Charles M. 
Bogert, Chairman of Herpetology, will be 
interviewed on some interesting aspects 
of the breeding behavior of frogs. And 


3 


on May 6, Dr. Harry Shapiro, Chairman 
of Anthropology, will discuss his 

study of the people of Pitcairn Island, 
the study which resulted in his book 
"The Heritage of The Bounty", recently 
reprinted in the Natural History Library 
paperback series. 


Tex Antoine is the host each week on 
"Journey Into Nature". The program is 
heard Sunday mornings from 11:05 to 11:30 
on WNBC-radio. 


DON CARTER'S GOOSE 


Some colleagues who recently dropped in to 
see T. Donald Carter and his wife at their 
country home in New Jersey report that the 
nesting season is in full swing at the 
Carter bird sanctuary. The woods and pond 
are alive with a great variety of handsome 
ducks and geese, to say nothing of the 
beautiful peacocks which our Assistant 
Curator Emeritus of Mammals is now raising. 
Most fascinating member of the whole menage 
is the tame Hutchins's Canada Goose which 
Don raised from a gosling and which now 
follows his master around like a pet dog. 
As Don and his guests approached the pond, 
the little goose came waddling up, 
quacking a friendly welcome. A few 
moments later the quacking suddenly 
became loud and urgent and the bird began 
running up and down the bank of the pond 
like a watch-dog keeping a stranger away. 
Out on the water, a large male swan was 
rapidly approaching the shore, his 
partially raised wings and lowered head 
indicating great displeasure at the 
intrusion of visitors to his nesting 
grounds. The goose was less than half 

the size of the swan, but as the latter 
stopped, glowering, at the water's edge, 
the brave little goose rushed forward 
feinging an attack. The swan was too 
quick for him, and a moment later the 
smaller bird's head had disappeared into 
the larger's mouth and both animals were 
thrashing around in the water with the 
goose on the losing end of the battle. At 
a gentle kick in the rump from Mr. Carter, 
the swan let go of his victim who crawled 
back up the bank, squawking angrily but 
unhurt. Thereafter, he stayed at his 
master's feet and continued to berate the 
swan from a safe distance. 


While Don appreciates the unusual devotion 
and protectiveness of his watch-goose, he 
: (continued on page 4) 


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won't rely on it to protect his sanctuary 
from natural predators during nesting. 

As eggs are laid, he will gather them 
and hatch them in incubators to assure 

a healthy increase among his wild bird 
tenants. 


CELIA P. MURPHY 


Celia P. Murphy who died on March 10, 
1962, was with the Museum for 32 years 
until her retirement in 1948. She 
joined the staff as a secretary in 1916 
and, during the greater part of her 
employment, served with the Membership 
Section. She lived in the Museum 
neighborhood during those years, and 
later moved to Great Neck, L.I., where 
she had relatives. 


Miss Murphy's colleagues recall her as 

@ quiet, gentle person who spoke little 
about herself and was an assiduous 
reader. Small in stature, she dressed 
with style and was always impeccably 
groomed. While she was not highly 
gregarious, she made many friends during 
her long service here, and she is 
remembered with much fondness. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


We're very glad to hear that Joe Sedacca, 
Chief of Graphic Arts, is making a 

good recovery from his recent illness. 
He's at home now after several weeks 

of hospitalization. 


Valerie Newell, Fossil Invertebrates, is 
still nursing that leg injury of a 
couple of months back, but she won't let 
it slow her down. We hope she'll be able 
to throw away the crutches soon. 


REMINDER FROM LA ROCHELLE 


La Rochelle Pharmacy, at the corner of 
76th Street and Columbus Ave., offers a 
10% discount on all purchases by Museum 
employees. Their experienced 

cosmetician is familiar with her full 
line of products in creams, lotions, and 
perfumes, and is available for free 
consultation. Charge accounts are invited, 
and if you are unable to get over to La 
Rochelle, feel free to call them and 


4, 


they will deliver your order. Their 
phone is TR 7-4185. When purchasing, be 
sure to mention your Museum affiliation 
so that you will receive your discount. 


ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES & TRANSFERS 


Katia Magid, Micropaleontology's varitypist 
for the past ten years, is now devoting 
most of her time to the translation of 
Russian material for the Department's 
publications. Monica Wagner, who joined 
Micro as a typist last August, takes over 
the varityping duties. A new addition 
in the same Department is Arlette 
Malivernier, recently arrived in this 
country from her native France. Miss 
Malivernier is a typist for the editorial 
staff. 


Tamara Northern, instructor in the 
Education Department, leaves the Museum 
soon to become a research assistant at 

the Museum of Primitive Art. A specialist 
in African ethnology, she previously 
worked with Colin Turnbull, Anthropology, 
in the preparation of plans for a 
projected African Hall at this Museum. 


Animal Behavior said so long recently to 
Harold Silverman, Scientific Assistant 
since 1957, who has gone to New York 
University Medical College where he will 
work on problems of heat stress. 


New faces around the Museum this month 
include Vera Jones, secretary in the 

Adult Education Division, and Thelma 

White who is working with Dr. Evelyn Shaw 
in Animal Behavior. Mrs. White, a sailing 
and skiing enthusiast, formerly worked in 
radio communications at an airfield in 
California. 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Dr. Karl F. Koopman and Dr. Sydney 
Anderson, both Mammalogy, leave the Museum 
April 16, to work in the state of Chihuahua, 
Mexico, for several weeks, collecting 
mammals from parts of the state that are 
not represented in existing collections. 
Their particular objective is to study 

the ecology of pocket gophers along three 
selected transects in an attempt to 
resolve a long-debated question about the 
number of species in this highly variable 
groupe Dr. Anderson is in the process of 
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(COMINGS AND GOINGS, cont'd. from page 4) 


completing a report on the mammals of 
Chihuahua which he has been studying 
since 1956. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Chairman of 
Ichthyology, has returned to his field 
studies of the fishes of the Gulf Coast 
for the spring spawning season. The 
work, which is partially supported by 
the National Science Foundation, includes 
the analysis of fish choruses that 
attend spawning activities. Parts of the 
study are being done in collaboration 
with the Cape Haze Marine Laboratory, 
and Dr. Breder is being assisted on the 
project by his wife. Later this month, 
Dr. Phyllis Cahn, Research Fellow in 
Ichthyology, will join in the work for 
about two weeks. 


Dr. Donn E. Rosen, Ichthyology, returned 
recently from Ann Arbor where he spent 
several weeks working with Dr. Reeve M. 
Bailey of the University of Michigan on 
their joint monograph on the family 
Poeciliidae. The publication, which will 
contain 250 illustrations, will later be 
incorporated into the long-awaited 
Breder-Rosen book on the reproductive 
characteristics of fishes. 


Dr. Jerome Rozen, Chairman of Entomology, 
and Dr. Frederick Rindge of that 
Department have both visited the United 
States National Museum in Washington in 
recent weeks to examine type specimens... 
Dr. Hubert Ruckes of Entomology is 


5. 


currently in Central America for three 
months to work at the U.S. National 
Museum's Biological Station on Borro 
Colorado, Panama, and to collect Hemipter 
in Costa Rica. 


Dr. Norman D. Newell, Cheirman of Fossil 
Invertebrates, last month attended a 
convention of the American Association of 
Petroleum Geologists in San Francisco. 
His next meeting is a field conference on 
Permian reefs to be held in West Texas 
under the sponsorship of the Society of 
Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogist: 


Angelina Messina, Micropaleontology, is 
just back from Jamaica, West Indies, wher: 
she attended the Third Caribbean 
Geological Congress in Kingston. 


TRADING POST 


Apartment wanted to sublet for NSF student 
and wife, last week of June to Sept. l. 
Also, summer job wanted for student's wife 
for the same period. Typist, has degree 
in elementary education, primary grades. 
Cail Dr. Evelyn Shaw, ext. 373. 


Free of charge and just in time for 


Easter: two European rabbits, beige- 
orange. Call Thelma White, ext. 265. 


eR KHHE * 


Overheard in the Hall of Fossil Mammals: 
A young man of 10, inspecting the fossil 
rhinoceros bones in the rock, turned to 
his grandfather and said, "Look, an 
original do-it-yourself dinosaur kit!" 


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GRAPEVIN 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XIX, NO. 5 


MISS MUHLEMAN RETIRES AFTER 45 YEARS 


The retirement this month of Marjorie B. 
Muhleman marks the official close of a 
Museum career that involved working with 
nearly every department of the 
institution during the administrations of 
five Directors and three Presidents of 
the Museum. But, happily, Miss Muhleman 
has no intention of deserting her many 
Close friends and associates here. She 
was back the day after her retirement 

for the 25-Year Dinner, and she now looks 
forward to the opportunity to really see 
and enjoy the Museum. 


Miss Muhleman started as a photo clerk 
with the Education Department in 
October, 1917. Later she worked with 
Membership, and served briefly as 
secretary to Frederick A. Lucas. For 27 
years she was secretary to Vice Director 
Wayne M. Faunce and, following his 
retirement, went to Office Services for a 
few years before becoming secretary to 
Dr. Harold Anthony and most recently 

Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder in Mammalogy. 


On May 8, Museum friends including 
several retired colleagues gathered in 
the staff dining room for a tea in 

Miss Muhleman's honor. During her 45 
years of service, she never found time 
hanging heavy on her hands, and with her 
extensive interests in books, music, and 
art, (to say nothing of collecting 
limericks), we are sure she will find the 
coming years full and richly rewarding. 
It's very good to know that we'll 
continue to see her often. 


MAY 1962 


25-YEAR CLUB BIGGER THAN EVER 


Membership in the Quarter Century Club 
hit a new high this year as 19 more 
AMNHers reached the 25-year service mark 
and were welcomed into the Club at its 
13th Annual Recognition Dinner on May 9. 
There are now 183 members of whom 86 are 
pensioners and 97 are active employees. 


New inductees ("this year's graduating 
class", as Dr. Junius Bird termed them in 
accepting Museum Life Membership on 
behalf of the group) were, in addition to 
Dr. Bird, John A. Enright, Paul Goodhouse, 
John J. Hackett, Arthur A. Heinimann, 
Walter T. Lambert, Edward McGuire, 

Malcolm W. Mackay, Edward T. Malley, 

Louis A. Monaco, Robert E. Murray, Lambert 
E. Pintner, John J. Ryan, James Scally, 
Harry J. Tappen, Beryl E. Taylor, and 
James M. Williamson. Inducted in absentia 
were Charles M. Bogert, and Thomas J. 
Ford. 


Vice-President C. DeWolf Gibson greeted 
the members on behalf of President A. M. 
White who is currently on a fishing trip 
in Ireland. Director James A. Oliver 
then introduced the new members and each 
was presented with a certificate of Life 
Membership by Controller Walter F. Meister. 
Some happy reminiscences from the 

youngest oldster present, Dr. Barnum 
Brown, wound up the dinner and the members 
adjourned for nightcaps and farewells 
until another year. 


We were delighted to see such a large 


representation of Club members who have 
continued on page 2 


GRAPEVINE STAFF 


Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Bena" vior =~ ~ Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropolosy - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 
Entomology - Rose Adlington 


Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Robert Gartland 


¥5ssil Invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology = Margaret Shaw 
Ichthyology - Victoria Pelton 

Library - Georgea Atkinson 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobart Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 
Mineralogy - Edith Marks 

Muscum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Ernestine Weindorf 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 
Slides, Films, Photography, Projection - Helen Jones 


Vertebrate Pa. Paleontology - Marlyn Mangus 


(25-YEAR CLUB, continued from page 1) 


retired from active duty. Ethel Timonier 
was back for the first time in several 
years and looks as beautiful as ever. 

She was recalling how, as a little girl 
some 7O years ago, she used to visit the 
Museum constantly from her home across 
the Park, and how happy she was later to 
join the staff. 


Henry Ruof has started his summer work 

at the Catskill Game Farm and already 

has a healthy tan...James Flood, looking 
very fit, is working as a special 
policeman at St. Clare's Hospital in 
Manhattan...Johanna Scharf continues to 
devote her interest to music. Her 
singing group, the New Rochelle Men's and 
Women's Chorus, recently gave a concert 
at the Glen Island Casino. 


William A. Nalty is working with a 
brokerage firm downtown. Just after his 
retirement in 1960, Bill and his wife had 
a wonderful vacation trip through 


California and New Mexico...Jacob Shrope, 
who missed last year's dinner, was back 
with us, having celebrated his 80th 
birthday in April. He and his wife are 
enjoying their grandchildren immensely... 
It will be an active summer of boating 
and gardening for Fred Wernersbach and 
his wife Marie. Fred recently put his 
boat in the water at the insistence of 
his granddaughter who wanted to take a 
land-lubber pal for her first sail. 


Dorothy Shuttlesworth has just published 
her tenth book, this one on dogs, and 

she has two more ready for fall 
publication (cats and rocks). She's also 
working on a book about ants and an 
anthology of nature writing for teen-agers 
Speaking of teen-agers (and the swift 
flight of time), Dorothy's daughter is 

now in high school and her son is 
finishing his first year of college! 


John Lambert now has 16 grandchildren. 
His colleagues remember well his three 
(continued on page 3) 


(25-YEAR CLUB, continued from page 2) 


charming daughters, Kathleen, Margaret, 
and Theresa, who used to tap dance (the 
real Irish step dance) at Museum parties 
in the Education Hall. They all have 
tneir own families now. 


Robert McMorran and his wife do a lot of 
travelling these days, to Canada and 
Florida and back, visiting their children 
and grandchildren. Next month they'll 
attend a grandchild's graduation in 
Buffalo and then go on to visit another 
part of the clan in Binghamton. 


There were many others we couldn't 
interview because they were surrounded 

by people wanting to talk with them in 
that happy atmosphere of long 
companionship and “spirits young and gay", 
as Dr. George H. Childs put it in his 
fine poem written for the occasion. But 
we'll try to catch them next year. 


E.B.A. ELECTS 


At the 53rd Annual Meeting of the 
Employees' Benefit Association, held 
April 18, 137 ballots were cast for the 
election of officers and members of the 
Board of Directors. Results were as 
follows: 


President - Emil Kremer; Vice-President - 
Paul Goodhouse; Treasurer - George 
Floegel; Secretary - Barbara Ann 
Harrison. Elected to the Board were 
Nicholas Amorosi, G. Robert Adlington, 
and James S. Pickering. Rudolph Bonen 
and John Erlandsen served as tellers for 
the ballot tabulations. 


Treasurer Floegel reported that the 
EBA's books for the past year had been 
audited by George Decker. Membership 
Committee Chairman Trudy Neger reported 
that 44 new members had joined the 
organization during 1961. 


As it has done since 1908, the EBA 
continues to serve an important function-- 
the immediate payment of $200 to the 
beneficiary of a member upon the 

member's death. All of us owe a vote of 
thanks to the officers and directors who 
devote their time to this work. 


3. 
DR. SCHNEIRLA HONORED 


Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla, Animal Pehavior 
was elected a Fellow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences at the 
organization's 132nd Annual Meeting in 
Boston on May 9. The Academy, chartered 
by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
during the American Revolution, has 
approximately 1800 members who are 
national and international leaders in the 
sciences and arts. Dr. Schneirla is a 
widely recognized authority on problems 
of psychological development, 
socialization, and learning in animals. 


JOHN ENRIGHT RETIRES 


Jobn Enright, Senior Attendant in 
Custodial Services, retired on April 30 
after twenty-five years of service with 
the Museum. In recent years he was 
assigned to the 77th Street entrance 
where (perhaps because of his previous 
experience as a New York cab driver) he 
greeted visitors with a friendly 
conversational manner that made him our 
"Mister 77th Street." Just before his 
retirement, he was ill for a few days. 
The following letter written at that time 
comes from a Brooklyn College biology 
teacher and his wife, who teaches at 
Hunter. It says just what his colleagues 
feel about John Enright. 


Dear Mr. Enright: 


Last week was my turn again to take my 
students through the Museum halls. I had 
looked forward, as usual, to seeing you 
again at the entrance, to chat a while 
and to catch up on past events. How sorry 
I was to hear that you were not feeling 
well, but I hope that by now you are your 
old self again. Please take it easy for 
the remaining few days. Do you realize 
that it has been more than 20 years since 
we first met at the Museum? How time 
flies. 


My wife and I want to take this 
opportunity to tell you how much we have 
enjoyed your unfailing courtesies, your 
helpfulness in the past. We shall miss 
you at the entrance and we wish for you 
in the years to come not only good health 
but a well-deserved rest with your 
(continued on page 4) 


(JOHN ENRIGHT RETIRES, cont'd. from 
page 3) 


family. We are sure that your fellow 
associates will miss you and we wanted 
you to know that many people from 
Outside the Museum like ourselves will 
retain the most pleasant memories of 
our associations with you. 


Accept our sincere good wishes, and may 
our paths cross again. 


Dorothy and John Keur 
(Amen! -- The G'Vine) 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


A letter from Betty Emery, retired Museum 
Nurse, to Joseph Saulina, Membership, 
tells us that Mrs. E. is currently 
visiting relatives in the Bavarian Alps, 
the part of Germany from which her 
parents came originally. Her letter 
describing the snow-covered mountains 
outside her window, the valleys teeming 
with wild flowers, the ancient castles, 
the music festivals, and the delightful 
family with whom she's living, made us 
doubt that she'll be back as scheduled 
at the end of this month. It sounds 
like an unforgettable holiday! 


Mabel Colahan, formerly Mammalogy, has 
good reason to be proud of her son, Tom, 
who is known to many of his mother's 
friends here. He has just been awarded 
his Ph.D. in History from Columbia 
University. Dr. Colahan is Associate 
Director of Admissions of Columbia 
College. 


NEED CASH? 


The AMNH Employees Federal Credit Union 
has it for you! The two main reasons 
we have a Credit Union are (1) to 
encourage us to save regularly, and (2) 
to help us get loans when we need cash. 
And cash money talks. With cash in 
your hand you can shop for that hi-fi 
set, a new or used car, a power mower, 
or what have you. Get the cash at the 
Credit Union and then go out and shop 
for the "best buy" in whatever you are 
buying. Maybe you need cash to pay up 
bills, or to take your vacation. Whatever 
your needs for cash -- use your Credit 


4, 


Union's loan facilities. The CU office, 
Roosevelt building lower level, is open 
every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 
(except pay days) from noon til l. 


KAREL SMETANA 


Friends and colleagues of Karel Smetam, 
Custodial Services, were shocked and 
saddened by his sudden death on April 23. 
Although he had been hospitalized several 
times in the past two years for a heart 
condition, his bouyant good humor always 
seemed to indicate good health. Mr. Smetana 
came to this country in the early 1950's 
from his native Czechoslovakia to which, 
for political reasons, he was never able 
to return. His wife and children remained 
there and it was his hope that they could 
eventually join him in this country. His 
colleagues remember the occasion, a few 
years ago, when Mr. Smetana approached 
Antonin Novotny during the Czechoslovakian 
President's visit to the Museum and asked 
his help in obtaining passports for 

Mrs. Smetana and the children. Novotny 
promised to look into the matter, but the 
passports were never issued. 


GOINGS AND COMINGS 


Dr. William K. Emerson, Living 
Invertebrates, returned recently, with 

a handsome tan, form a 6-weeks collecting 
voyage in the Guif of California where he 
was malacologist on the Vermilion Sea 
Expedition sponsored by the Belvedere 
Scientific Fund of San Francisco... 

Dr. Wesley E. Lanyon, Ornithology, spent 
last week doing field work in Baja 
California and will be working at the 
Southwestern Research Station in Arizona 
until the end of the month...Dr. Willis J. 
Gertsch, Entomology, is serving as 
Acting Director of the SWRS following the 
resignation of Dr. Mont Cazier. Other 
entomologists recently in the field 
include John Woods at SWRS, and John 
Pallister who has been visiting his home 
territory near Cleveland...Dr. Norman D. 
Newell, Fossil Invertebrates went out to 
Houston, Texas, this month to talk with 
@ group of citizens who are planning an 
oil exhibit for their museum, patterned 
after our Hall of Oil Geology. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Seymour Couzyn, sculptor in the Department 
of Exhibition, recently left us to take 
(continued on page 5) 


soy 


(SO LONG AND GCOD LUCK, cont'd. from 
page 4 


on an interesting project in 
Pennsylvania. Working with a doctor 
et Warren State Hospital, he will do 
sculptures of the nervous system to be 
used in medical education. His first 
project will be a large model of the 
brain. 


Nolan Willence of the Planning Department 
has joined the staff of a display 
company here in New York. Before coming 
to the Museum two years ago, he was a 
trumpet player with several major 
philharmonic orchestras. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Instead of coffee breaks, they're 
taking bird-watching breaks in the 
President's Office these days. Our 
naturalist Veep, C. DeWolf Gibson, 
reports that he, Laura Witmer, and 
Ethel Smith had spotted a total of 14 
species out of their windows a few weeks 
ago. By now the count is probably 
considerably higher. 


It's very good to see Bob Fearman, Power 
Plant, again after his long 
hospitalization. He's lost a lot of 
weight, but not his sense of humor and 
we hope he'll continue to feel better 
every day...For the first time in 
several weeks the full complement of 
Planetarium personnel is off and 
running. All their invalids have 
recovered -- Dan Berlitz, John Coalter, 
Jack Garvey, and Joe Connors -- and 
they're welcomed back collectively...His 
colleagues helped John Coalter 

celebrate his 65th birthday on May lst. 
He has celebrated more than 30 birthdays 
at the Museum and Planetarium. 


Congratulations to Dick and Fran Zweifel, 
Herpetology, whose daughter Ellen, 
arrived on April 15. The Zweifel family 
leaves this month for Panama City which 
will be their headquarters for two 
months while Dr. Zweifel studies the 
frog fauna in various tropical areas of 
Central America...Congratulations, too, 
to Jim Scally, Custodial Services, whose 
eleventh grandchild, Shawen Patrick 
Clinton, arrived two days after Easter 
and weighed in at one ounce short of 

8 pounds. 


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Malcolm Mackay, Power Plant, and his 
wife take off shortly for an 

extensive tour of Scotland including 

the Shetland Islands...Patrick O'Connell 
recently transferred from the Exhibition 
Department to the Power Plant where he 
is an oiler. 


The mother of Helmut Wimmer, Planetarium 
artist, arrived at Idlewild on May 2, 
from Munich, Germany. Mrs. Wimmer has 
lived 70 years in Munich and this is the 
first time she has been more than twenty 
or thirty miles from home. Helmut quoted 
her first remark as she left the plane: 
"Am I really in America?" 


TRADING POST 


Museum staff member and his wife, who 
live in the country, wish to rent simple 
and inexpensive room in New York which 
they may occupy one or more nights a 
week. Call Kate Ogilvy, ext. 311. 


Temporary room near Museum needed for 
new employee, young woman, arriving in 
N.Y. early June. Call Kate Ogilvy, 
ext. 311. 


Available Free 


7 kittens. 4 all black; 1 tabby & white; 
1 gray & white; 1 black & white..Sexes 
undetermined. Will need homes in about 
a week. Call Isabel Mount, Code 201 

OL 3-2629. (Jersey City) 


One large handsome orange cat. Call Bea 
Brewster, ext. 274. 


Items For Sale 


New Olympia German portable typewriter. 
In original packing, never used. Retails 
for $119. Asking price - $90. Call Tom 
Newbery, ext. 337. 


French Provincial couch, white and gold. 
Excellent condition, 3 years old. $125. 
Call Eileen Palanker, ext. 395. 


1956 Oldsmobile hardtop. Black with red 
interior, 5 new white walls, radio, 
heater. Excellent condition. One owner. 
Call Catherine Mahoney, ext. 292. 


Rentals Available 


34-room apartment at 900 W. 190th St. 
15th floor, new building. Unobstructed 
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(TRADING POST, cont'd. from page 5) 


view of Hudson River. 1 block to 8th 
Avenue subway; 5th Avenue bus at 
corner. $158 per month includes gas. 
Call Tom Newbery, ext. 337. 


Fire Island cottage, July 4 - Labor Day, 
$800. Secluded spot in small colony 
between Davis Park and Water Island. 

One mile from ferry. Comfortable new 
building with modern decor and complete 
furnishings except linen. Sleeps 4 on 
beds, 3 more on cots. Large free- 
standing circular fireplace. Beyond 
electric service, but bottled gas 
provides hot water, refrigeration, 
cooking and lights. Ample running water. 
Shower. 8-foot rowboat included. Call 
Jamie Jordan, ext. 473. 


Vacation cabin near Conn. shore (100 
miles from NYC) available during 


6. 


June. $35 a week. Combination living 
and sleeping room with fireplace, 
pullman kitchen. Electricity, shower, 
2 studio couches. Complete furnishings 
including linen. One mile from beach. 
Call Kate Ogilvy, ext. 311. 


House For Sale 


Attractive remodeled frame house in 
small Conn. town (100 miles from NYC) on 
Long Island Sound. 3 bedrooms plus large 
upstairs "dormitory". Central heating. 
Country surroundings, but still only a 
few minutes walk to stores, post office, 
library, movie. Near Rail Road station 
and New England Thruway. About a mile 
from beach. Excellent public schools. 
$15,000. Call Kate Ogilvy, ext. 311. 


Wanted To 
working order. 


: Old sewing machine in 
Call Tom Page, ext. 440, 


LET'S GO BOWLING! 


A Grapevine Special Supplement 
by the AMNH Bowling League Reporter 


The last regular meeting of the Museum Bowling League was held on April 26, at which 
time officers were elected for the new season beginning next October. Those chosen 
were; Nick Amorosi, President; Paul Goodhouse, Vice President; Al Potenza, 
Secretary; and Farrell Carney, Treasurer. They have our best wishes! 


May 17th brings to an end this bowling league season, as to tournament play. Some 
members will bowl through the summer. May 2uth is the evening of the league's 
annual dinner. As usual, it will be at Mayer's Parkway Restaurant - the expected 
turn-out, thirty or more. Trcephies will be awarded to First and Second Place teams; 
High Series - Men and Women; High Average - Men and Women; High Game - Men and 
Women. 


The absence of Catherine Mahoney, Charlie LaSalla and Peter Zacek, due to illness, 
and Irene Nagyhazi during the season, naturally affected the team standings. 
However, it has been a hotly contested race from the opening bell early last 
October, right down to the finish! 


Since the start of the bowling league in the Museum several years ago, the number of 
teams has increased from four to six. This year was for enjoyment and real good 
fellowship, the best. We all, in the league, extend our sincere thanks to Lois 
Hussey, President - for organization; Mary McKenna, Vice-President - A for effort; 
Al Potenza, Secretary - a stickler for detail; Farrell Carney, Treasurer ~- none 
better. 


Our thanks too to the dinner committee: Chairman Ed Hoffman, Trudy Neger, and Paul 
Goodhouse; Trophy Committee: Chairman Bill Barbieri and Nick Amorosi; and the 
Team Selection Committee: Bob Adlington, Farrell Carney, Bill Forbes, Al Potenza, 
Don Serret, and Ed Hoffman - splendid jobs by all! 


This year's teams were as follows: ALLEY CATS: T. Neger, G. DiAbrio, H. Harding, 

F. Carney. CHEETAHS: H. Ohrnberger, L. Brown, N. Amorosi, A. Potenza. GAZELLES: 

Je Krosche, F. Ohrnberger, N. Forbes, A. Naylor. GOPHERS: IL. Hussey, P. Goodhouse, 
M. Neger, E. Hoffman. LAMBS: C. Fessino, D. Hoffman, N. Barbieri, B. Adlington. 
WOODCHUCKS: M. McKenna, S. DiBella, P. O'Neil, D. Serret. Departments 

represented were Bookkeeping, Personnel, Anthropology, Fossil Invertebrates, 
Mechanical, Printing, Custodial, and Education. Come on you other departments, let's 
make it a 100% representation. 


Would you like to be a member next season? If you are a 200 bowler, a 60 bowler, or 
never lifted a bowling ball before, we would be very happy to have you join our 
family. There are three requirements: I. Be there Monday nights - October through 
May, when possible. 2. Pay your dues. 3. Be a good sport. Each year, after 

the season, the teams disband and new team personnel is determined by averages so 
that when play again begins, teams are of equal strength. 


As previously mentioned, six teams participated; we can now extend it to ten. 
Arrangements have been made for new alleys next season, not that we were unhappy at 
Manhattan Lanes but the new place has made us a deal that was impossible to turn 
down. So, come next October. 


The Museum Bowling League will square off at Stadium Lanes, opposite Yankee Stadium. 
Join us and, once a week, get some real fun out of life!! For information, ask 
any one whose name has herein been mentioned. 


GRAPEVIN 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


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VOL. XIX, NO. 6 


BIRD PRESERVATION GROUP MEETS HERE 


The International Council for Bird 
Preservation, oldest international conser- 
vation group in the world, will hold its 
Thirteenth World Meeting at this Museum 
beginning Monday, June 11. Delegates, 
all noted ornithologists from some 30 of 
the 50 countries represented in the 
Council, will discuss such problems as 
hazards to air traffic created by birds, 
the growing use of pesticides, pollution 
of the seas by oil, as well as the 
protection of endangered species of 
birds around the world. The meetings 
will continue through Friday, June 15, 
and will include field trips to the 
Jamaica Bay Bird Sanctuary, Theodore 
Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, and 
the New York Zoological Park. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Bursar Edwin C. Meyenberg reports that 
contracts have been awarded in the sum 
of $162,884 for general construction and 
electrical improvements in the Hall of 
the Biology of Invertebrates. It is 
expected that construction will start 

on June 6. 


FOREIGN MUSEUM SPECIALISTS VISIT US 


Representatives of Museum in 16 foreign 
countries toured the exhibits and some 
backstage areas of the Museum on 
Saturday, May 26, under the guidance of 
Gordon Reekie, Chairman of Exhibition. 
The group was in this country under the 
sponsorship of ICOM (International 
Committee of Museums) to attend the 

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JUNE 1962 


"DATING THE PAST WITH ATOMS" 


The fascinating activities that have been 
going on lately in the Corner Gallery 
will culminate with the opening, on 
Tuesday, June 12, of a major temporary 
exhibition, "Dating The Past With Atoms", 
which will remain on view for about a 
year. Our Exhibition staff has devised a 
variety of extraordinary display 
techniques to tell the story of how 
radioactive elements are used to determine 
an accurate calendar of events in the 
nearly five billion-year history of the 
earth. 


The centerpiece of the exhibit is a 
dramatic "black light” display symbol- 
izing man's new concept of the vastness 
of time. Spiraling down from the darkness 
of the domed ceiling is 280 feet of 
aluminum tubing banded with brilliant 
fluorescent colors representing the 
successive geological periods. A l-inch 
color band at the bottom of the spiral 
stands for the approximately 1,500,000 
years of man's existence on earth. 


The exhibition is a cooperative project 
of the Museum, the Lamont Geological 
Observatory, and the Frick Laboratory. 


DR. COLBERT ABROAD FOR TRIASSIC STUDIES 


Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, Chairman of 
Vertebrate Paleontology, left May 25 for 
a four-month trip that will take him to 
Europe, Israel, South Africa, and England. 
Under a grant from the National Science 
Foundation, Dr. Colbert will be studying 
Triassic stratigraphy and collecting 
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Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations 


PEVINE STAFF 


Production Assistant - Pamela Scallan, Public Relations 


Accounting, Personnel, Purchasing - Catherine Mahoney 


Animal Eehavior - Evelyn Shaw 
Anthropology - Philip Gifford 


Building Services - Edward Malley, Albert Potenza 


Education - George Crawbuck 

intomology = Rose Adiington 

Exhibition & Graphic Arts - Marilyn Slear 
Fossil invertebrates - Robert Adlington 
Frick Laboratory - George Krochak 
Herpetology - Margaret Shaw 

{chthyology = Victoria Pelton 
Tibrary - Georgea Atkinson 

Living Invertebrates - Phyllis Fish 
Magazine Circulation - William Somerville 
Mammalogy - Hobert Van Deusen 
Micropaleontology - Richard Charmatz 
Mireralogy - Edith Marks 

Museum Shop - Peter Bujara 

Natural History - Ernestine Weindorf 
Office Services - Dorothy Bronson 
Ornithology - Jean Shaw 

Planetarium - James Pickering 

Power Plant - Malcolm MacKay 

Print Shop - Edward Burns 


Shops & Shipping - John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur Schaefer 


Slides, Films Films, 
Vertebrate Pa. Galedataiaay = Marlyn Mangus 


Photography, Pro,jection - Helen Jones 


(FOREIGN SPECIALISTS VISIT US, cont'd. 
from page 1) 


American Association of Museums Annual 
Meeting in Williamsburg, June 4-8. They 
included museum officials and staff 
members from Argentina, Australia, 
Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, Finland, India, 
Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, 
Sierra Leone, Switzerland, Tunesia, and 
Uganda. 


WILLIAM STUBBS RETIRES 


William L. Stubbs, Electrical Shop, 
retired at the end of May having completed 
19 years of service with the Museum. His 
friends and colleagues gathered for a Tea 
in his honor on May 28 and wished him 
happy traveling this summer as he and his 
wife tour northern New England. Next 
fall they plan to head south, perhaps to 
Mexico. But New York will remain their 
headquarters for the time being, so we 
look forward to seeing Bill between trips. 


(DR. COLBERT, continued from page 1) 


fossils in the field as well as 
examining specimens in museum 
laboratories. In addition, he will 
deliver papers to the South African 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science, the Paldontologische Gesellschaf 
in Germany, and will attend the Tenth 
Symposium on Comparative Anatomy and 
Vertebrate Palontology in Newcastle, 
England. Mrs. Colbert will join 

Dr. Colbert in South Africa in July. 


HONORS 


Congratulations to Thomas D. Nicholson, 
Planetarium, who last month earned his 
doctorate in education from Fordham 
University. When he learned that the 
final revision of his thesis was due 

at an earlier date than he had expected, 
Dr. Nicholson worked on it steadily for 
three days and nights and then enlisted 

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the assistance of Phoebe Pierce who 
completed typing the manuscript at 

4 a.m. (or was it 6 a.m.?) just hours 
short of the deadline. 


Leonard J. Brass of the Archbold 
Biological Station was awarded an 
honorary doctorate by Florida State 
University on June 2. In reporting the 
honor to Museum staff members, Director 
James A. Oliver pointed out that 

Dr. Brass had contributed more than any 
other individual to our knowledge of 
the flora of New Guinea. 


ON THE ROSTRUM 


Dr. Bobb Schaeffer, Vertebrate 
Paleontology, will give a series of 
four lectures early next month at the 
National Science Foundation Institute 
on Comparative Anatomy at Harvard. 


John C. Pallister, Entomology, recently 
addressed the 156th Annual Convention 
of the Medical Society of the State 

of New York on the topic, "Unusual 
Earthly Forms of Life and Extra- 
terrestrial Implications." 


Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Chairman of 
Anthropology, was host at the Museum 
on June 6 to participants in the Third 
Seminar for Science Writers, sponsored 
by New York University under an NSF 
grant. Following a tour of the Hall of 
the Biology of Man, Dr. Shapiro 
addressed the group on "Social Change 
in Modern Culture." 


"JOURNEY INTO NATURE” 


"Journey Into Nature", the Museum's 
Sunday morning radio program, will 
continue through the summer. During 
the coming six weeks, Tex Antoine, 
program host, will interview Museum 
scientists on a variety of timely 
subjects. Alice Gray, Entomology, will 
discuss the current emergence of the 
Periodical Cicada. Dr. Franklyn M. 
Branley, Planetarium, will talk about 
the U.S. program to send a manned space 
vehicle to the moon. On two successive 
programs, Colin M. Turnbull, Anthropology, 
will be interviewed on cultural 
patterns and traditions in Africa as 


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they relate to the sweeping social 

and political changes on that continent 
today. Dr. James A. Oliver, Director, 
will draw on his herpetological backgrour 
for two programs, one dealing with snakes 
the other with the green turtle and 
current efforts to preserve this species 
from extinction. The show is heard 
every Sunday morning at 11:05 on WNBC -- 
AM and FM. 


AMNH_ TRAVELLERS 


As the season approaches for field work, 
as well as summer vacations, numerous 
colleagues are off on interesting journeys 
From Fossil Invertebrates, Dr. Norman D. 
Newell, Chairman, and G. Robert Adlington, 
Specialist, have headed for the Berry 
Islands in the Bahamas where they will 
work with members of the Geology 
Department of Columbia University on a 
study of marine sediments. From Animal 
Behavior, Dr. Evelyn Shaw and Dr. William 
Tavolga have left for the Lerner Marine 
Laboratory at Bimini to continue their 
studies of fish schooling behavior and 
fish sounds, respectively. In the same 
Department, Dr. Ethel Tobach has just 
returned from field work at Bimini. 


Vertebrate Paleontologists Walter Sorenson 
and Gilbert Stucker are in Utah and 
Colorado collecting Triassic fishes. 

Dr. Malcolm McKenna and George Whitaker 

of that Department leave shortly for the 
Huerfano Basin of Colorado where they 
will collect Eocene mammals. Dr. Jerome 
Rozen, Chairman of Entomology, is at the 
Southwestern Research Station in Arizona, 
continuing his work with bees. 


Three colleagues are taking advantage of 
the special charter flight to Europe and 
back, sponsored by the American 
Association of Museums. Flying to Rome 
on June 13th are Gordon Reekie, Chairman 
of Exhibition, who will leave the 
Eternal City a few days later to visit 
Scotland, and Ann Montgomery and Alice 
Pollak, who will travel through several 
European countries and wind up in London 
for the return charter flight. 


Plant Manager Paul Grouleff will return 

to active duty in the U.S. Navy for two 

weeks of his vacation. Captain Grouleff 

will be taking the Convoy Commodore Course 
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at the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, 
starting July 22. 


Bob Gartland, Graphic Arts Division, has 
taken a six months leave of absence to 
travel and paint in Europe. He's 
currently in Spain. Marilyn Galusha, 
Verteorate Paleontology, leaves later 
this month for Spain and Italy with 
stopovers in London and Paris. In Animal 
Behavior, Sue Gilbert is going home to 
Wyoming for the summer. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


A hearty welcome back to Dr. Lester 
Aronson, Chairman of Animal Behavior, who 
was very much missed during his illness. 
His colleagues are delighted to see him 
looking so well after his hospitalization. 


The whole Accounting Department is 
beaming with pride on behalf of George 
Wehner whose son, Ensign Joseph L. 

Wehner, graduated from the U.S. Naval 
Academy with honors on June 6. Naturally, 
Mr. Wehner was present for the occasion. 
Ensign Wehner is well known to his 
father's colleagues, having visited the 
office many times while he was growing up. 


Congratulations to Frank Hoffman, 
Custodial Services, and his wife 
Beatrice on the birth of their son, 
Franklin William Hoffman III, on May 24 
(which happened to be the wedding 
anniversary of his grandparents.) 
celebrate the event, Mr. Hoffman 
presented a large chocolate cigar to his 
colleague, Gil Powers, who doesn't smoke. 


To 


ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES, & TRANSFERS 


Latest addition to the editorial staff 
in the Micropaleontology Department is 
Leane Sloane, typist for the catalog 
publications. Gladys Davis, Department 
Secretary, leaves the staff this month 
after three years with Micro. 


It's good to see Carl Sorensen around 
again. He's back with the Vertebrate 
Paleontology laboratory on a part time 
basis...-.Bill Wolters, formerly with 
Custodial Services, has transferred to 
the Exhibition Department. 


TRADING POST 


Apartments’ for rent 


Sublet June 25 through Labor Day, cool 
studio apartment with garden. Museum 
neighborhood. $85 a month. Call Bea 
Brewster, ext. 274. 


Greenwich Village (West llth Street) -- 
Charming 3-room apartment, floor through. 
High ceilings, two fireplaces, garden 
view. $225 a month. Call Sandra Slauson, 
ext. 4ue. 


Sublet available for 1 year or for 

academic year 1962-63. 3-bedroom furnished 
apartment in Kingsview, a middle-income 
cooperative in downtown Brooklyn. 1 block 
from Long Island University, close to all 
subways including Independent. Faces 

Ft. Greene Park, public tennis courts, 
excellent shopping facilities. Monthly 
rent $156.60 includes gas and electricity. 
Phone Mrs. Lewis, MA 5-1399. 


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piece advertising their "Big 4%!. 
than a year, we pay 33%. 


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Then, after a year, it's the BIG 44" (their caps.) 


As savers in the Museum's Credit Union know, our CU's latest year-end dividend was 
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etc. 
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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


VOL. XIX, NO. 7 


JULY 1962 


MAMMALOGY STAFF PICNIC 


(An exclusive report by Grapevine 
correspondent Dorothy D. Bronson) 


The Mammalogy Department has a delightful 
way -- at a certain time of the year, 

on a certain day, and in a certain 

place -- of expanding to include many 
museum members and former museum people 
both in and out of the department. 


You guessed it -- the Carters' picnic 
held in their woods and country home in 
Kinnelon, New Jersey, where 62 people 
gathered on that weatherwise perfect 
Saturday, June 9. The hospitality of 

Mr. and Mrs. T. Donald Carter and Don's 
sister is well known. There is no set 
pattern. Unlimited hot dogs, hamburgers, 
potato chips, hot coffee, ice cold sodas, 
home grown strawberries, and all kinds 

of delicious food, seem to be forthcoming 
ad infinitum. Surely this is picnic 
heaven for the small fry, as well as 
their elders. It just goes on and on! 

It is topped by ice cream and cookies and 
I even saw a couple of small boys turn 
down extras on that finally. 


Some people enjoy exploring the 
surrounding paths through the woods, some 
go out in the row boat on the small pond, 
admiring the swans and geese. The 
athletes play fast and furious sets of 
ping pong or pitch horseshoes. Everybody 
marvels at the ease with which the 
peacocks fly through the air and light 

on the upper branches of the canopy of 
trees, and at their raucous calls. 


Finally two or three of them condescend to 


light on the earth, spreading their 
(continued on page 2) 


CHARLES FALKENBACH 


Charles H. Falkenbach, who died on 

June 8, 1962, had been a member of the 
Museum staff for forty-six years when he 
retired from active duty due to ill 
health last March. At the time of his 
death he was on terminal leave from his 
final post as Assistant Curator of the 
Frick Laboratory. He and his wife, 
Margeryie, had moved to Fairview, New 
Mexico where they were building a home. 


Mr. Falkenbach started working here at 
the age of 14 as an apprentice 

preparator of fossil skeletons. While 
still in his teens he went on Museum 
expeditions to the Caribbean and later 

to South America. He joined the Frick 
Laboratory in 1921 and during the past 
thirty-eight years spent every summer 
doing field work in various parts of the 
United States. He collected thousands of 
specimens of extinct mammals and published 
a number of papers on his work. He was 
also a Research and Field Associate of 
the University of Nebraska State Museum. 


Hundreds of his colleagues, both active 
and retired, were devoted to Charles 
Falkenbach. He was the kind of deeply 
generous, unaffected man whose greatness 
as a person was recognized by all who 
knew him well, and many did. 


It is with sorrow that we also record the 
death on June 4, 1962 of Dr. William 
Beebe, noted naturalist, explorer, and 
author, who was for many years a Research 
Associate in the Department of 
Ichthyology. 


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gorgeous plumage and allowing themselves 
to be photographed. 


Within the long low gracious house itself, 
the many oil paintings by our Perry 
Wilson, the silhouette animal lamp 

shades, the well-filled book shelves plus 
some beautiful antiques and picture 
windows keep one intrigued. There are 
many mementos of Don's long association 
with natural history. 


Both inside and out, live animals wild 
and domesticated reign over the place. 
The children as well as adults were 
interested in the incubator of young 
turkeys in the kitchen. It is the 
animals' home as inuch as Mr. and 

Mrs. Carter's. There are a few cages 
where some breeding stock are pent up and 
the geese, perhaps only for the duration 
of the children's and visitors' stay. 


Green, leafy, quiet except for happy 
voices and much conversation, it is a 
beautiful, never-to-be-forgotten spot. 


SAFETY PROGRAM RECOGNIZED 


Recognition of the Museum's good safety 
record came last month both from the 
City of New York and from the State 
Insurance Fund. A decrease of 7.7% in 
accident frequency at AMNH in 1961 earned 
us a Certificate of Safety Achievement, 
presented by Mayor Wagner on June 22. A 
letter from the Director of Safety 
Service of the State Insurance Fund 
notified Paul Grouleff, Plant Manager, 
that the Museum had been selected to 
receive the 1962 Accident Control 
Engineering Award. 


The gloomy note in the safety picture is 
that while the accident frequency rate 
decreased last year, the severity rate 
was up. Employees lost a total of 158 
working days due to accidents in 1961, as 
opposed to only 49 days in 1960. Let's 
cut that number back this year. Remember 
to report in writing to Mr. Grouleff 

any safety hazards you observe anywhere 
in the Museum. 


NEW ASSOCIATE CURATOR 


Dr. Roger Lyman Batten, who joins the 
Department of Fossil Invertebrates as 
Associate Curator this month, is no 
stranger to AMNH. While working for his 
Ph.D. at Columbia University in the early 
1950's under the guidance of Dr. Norman D. 
Newell, he did his research here. And 
back in the summer of 1948, he worked as 
a field assistant to Dr. Bobb Schaeffer. 


Dr. Batten comes originally from Hammond, 
Indiana, and grew up in Chicago. During 
World War II, he saw combat with the U.S. 
Army Infantry, was wounded in action, and 
was captured by the Germans at the Battle 
of the Bulge. After the war he took his 
B.A. at the University of Wyoming. For 
the past seven years he has taught 
invertebrate paleontology and 
micropaleontology at the University of 
Wisconsin. He's 39 and single. 


MAILING OF PAY CHECKS TO VACATIONERS 


If you wish to receive your pay check while 
you are on vacation, it can be mailed to 
you by the head of your department or 

your department secretary, not by the 
Personnel Office. It is suggested that 
those responsible for mailing checks be 
sure to wrap the check in a piece of paper 
when inserting it in the envelope, as a 
precaution against possible pilfering. 


GREAT & GROWING FRATERNITY 


The Credit Union National Association, at 
its annual meeting in Wisconsin in May, 
reported that credit union savings across 
the country went over the $5 billion mark 
for the first time in 1961. During the 
year, over 800,000 new members joined the 
nation's 20,902 credit unions to make a 
record total of 12,838,888 members. Our 
AMNH Credit Union accounts for some 400 
members, but there are still many Museum 
employees who are failing to take 
advantage of this excellent opportunity 
to save for a rainy day. If you are 
among them, the Credit Union invites you 
to discuss membership any Monday, 
Tuesday, or Thursday between 12 and 1 at 
the CU Office, Roosevelt Memorial lower 
level. 


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STAFF CHANGES IN ANTHROPOLOGY 


Dr. Walter A. Fairservis, Anthropology, 
left the Museum last month to assume his 
new post as Director of the Thomas 
Burke Memorial Washington State Museum 
in Seattle. He will also be associated 
with the Department of Anthropology at 
the University of Washington. The 
Fairservises have bought a house (with 
a separate guest house!) on a lake just 
outside Seattle. Their entourage which 
left New York on June 27 included -- in 
addition to Dr. F, his wife Jan, and 
their three children -- two cats, two 
dogs, and an unspecified number of 
turtles, all travelling in a Microbus. 


The new face in Anthropology is that of 
Shirley Blancke who will be working 

on Old World archaeology. Mrs. Blancke, 
who lectured last year at Hunter College, 
took her B.A. in Archaeology and 
Anthropology at Newnham College, 
Cambridge University. 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Members of the Ornithology Department 
attending the Thirteenth International 
Ornithological Congress at Cornell 
University last month included Drs. Dean 
Amadon, Wesley Lanyon, R. C. Murphy, 
James P, Chapin, E. Thomas Gilliard, 
Charles Vaurie, Helen Hayes, and Eugene 
Eisenmann. Also attending the bird 
gathering was Patricia Vaurie of 
Entomology. Among other travelling 
entomologists last month were Dr. 
Nicholas Obraztsov who worked with 
collections at the Smithsonian in 
Washington, and Dr. Frederick Rindge 


who with his wife and daughter is spending 


two months collecting in the Black Hills 
of South Dakota and the Rocky Mountains. 


Dr. Dean Amadon, Chairman of Ornithology, 
is currently spending two months in 
Australia and on the Great Barrier Reef, 
studying birds of prey. On the trip 
home he will visit various ports of call 
around the world. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Jr., Chairman 

of Ichthyology, returned in June from 
extended field work on the west coast of 
Florida....Dr. Donn E. Rosen went to 
Washington for the meetings of the 
American Society of Ichthyologists 


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and Herpetologists and addressed a 
symposium on the higher classification 
of teleosts....Dr. Phyllis H. Cahn 

spent two weeks at the Lerner Marine 
Laboratory at Bimini studying the 
schooling habits of fishes in 
collaboration with Dr. Evelyn Shaw of 
Animal Behavior. Back home, visitors to 
the Ichthyology Department included 

Dr. Eugenie Clark of the Cape Haze 
Marine Laboratory, and Dr. Reeve M. 
Bailey of the University of Michigan who 
worked with Dr. Rosen on their revision 
of the Poeciliidae. 


Alice Gray, Entomology, attended the 25th 
reunion of her graduating class at 
Cornell University the weekend of 

June 9-10 and made a speech to her fellow 
alumni. Her subject: The AMNH. 


Jennifer Chatfield returns to the 
Education Department this month after a 
six months leave of absence spent at the 
Museum of the University of Colorado 
where she catalogued ethnographic 
collections....Judy Chernin and Ruth 
Radalinsky returned to the Department 
early this month from a training session 
at the Audubon Camp in Maine. 


Other Education staff members now in 
distant places include Chris Schuberth 
who is doing field work at the 
Southwestern Research Station in Arizona; 
Ken Chambers who is visiting his father 
in England; and Lois Hussey and Catherine 
Pessino, now visiting museums across the 
country on their way to a camping trip in 
Rocky Mountain National Park. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Ernestine Vilusi, Custodial Services, 
has a beautiful two-year-old German 
Shepherd named Kutsi (which means puppy 
in Estonian.) A self-assigned guardian 
to her mistress, Kutsi is extremely 
gentle and friendly to all visitors, but 
she leaps to Mrs. V's defence the 
moment anyone appears hostile. 


Best wishes for a speedy recovery to 
John Healy, Herpetology, who is 
currently hospitalized with a back 
ailment. We hope to see him around soon. 


Married: Judy Borgogni, designer in 
the Exhibition Department, and Irving 
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W. Appletaum, a criminal lawyer, on 
June 28th. Best wishes! 


Congratualations to Joseph A. Amendolare, 
Custodial Services, and his wife Frances 
who celebrated their sixth wedding 
anniversary in June. Mr. Amendolare 

came to the Museum in July, 1956 as a 
groom of two weeks. Recently he has been 
writing poetry and submitting it to 
various magazines. We hope to see some of 
his work published one of these days. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


The following communique from Texas 
brings us up to date on the activities 
of Dr. William A. Burns, former 
Membership Chairman at AMNH, and now 
Director of the Witte Memorial Museum 
in San Antonio: "In addition to 
planning three new exhibition halls, I 
am on the Board of the Local Art League, 
Red Cross, Children's Symphony, 
Children's Music Fair, Little Theater, 
Conservation Society, School Board, the 
Alamo Grotto of the National 
Speleological Society, and the Mexican- 
American Art Council. Have a daily 
column in the San Antonio Express-News 
called Witte Museum Question Box, a 
Saturday morning children's TV show, 
have managed radio and TV news spots, 
and an occasional Sunday feature in the 
local press. In short, I'm having a 
ball: Best to all.” 


Marian Schmied, former Scientific 
Assistant in the Department of 
Herpetology, will spend two months this 
summer sightseeing in Europe and 
promises to drop in at the Museum on 
her return in the fall. 


Three former members of the Ichthyology 
Department were back at the Museum 

for brief visits last month: Dr. Vladimir 
Walters, now at the University of 
California in Los Angeles, and his wife 
Lisa Hamilton Walters; and Dr. Perihan 
Sadoglu, formerly of Istanbul, Turkey, 

and now at Brown University. 


4. 


On a recent trip to Canada, Herpetology 
Chairman Charles M. Bogert and his 

wife stopped to see former Vice Director 
Wayne Faunce and his wife at their home 
in Stowe, Vermont. Mr. Bogert reports 
that he wasn't able to convey much 
recent news of the Museum to the Faunces -- 
as they are regular readers of the 


Grapevine. 


TRADING POST 
1950 D Nickels wanted. Will pay $3 each. 
Call Larry, ext 450. 


APARTMENT NEEDED. Reasonably priced 
2-bedroom Manhattan apartment for 

Dr. L. L. Short, Research Fellow in 
Ornithology Department, for period from 
August 27 to January 15. Has two well- 
behaved daughters, aged 3 and 4. Call 
Jean Shaw, ext. 286. 


SUBLET AVAILABLE. College professor will 
sublet individual private furnished 
apartment consisting of one small bedroom 
with bath in desirable residential Hotel 
des Artistes (West 69th near C.P.W.) for 
long or short period. Quiet court room, 
16th floor, telephone, excellent 24-hour 
services, restaurant in building. $20 
weekly, $80 monthly. Cost includes 
electricity (direct current). References 
and $80 security required. Immediate 
occupancy. For inspection call EN 2-6700. 


Surplus copies of issues of the Grapevine 
dating back to September, 1961, are 
about to be thrown away. If you would 
like extra copies of any of these issues, 
please notify Kate Ogilvy before 

August 1. 


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Vol. ra No. 8 August 1962 


END OF SUMMER THOUGHTS 


Irrespective of the equinox, we can 
always tell when summer is almost over 
by the way Anthony Maloney, Custodial 
Services, changes his friendly greeting 
from "Had your vacation yet?" to "How 
was your vacation?" 


The pleasures of our travels and long 
days of relaxation at beaches, in the 
country, or at home will soon become 
memories to be relived in photographs 
and conversation. We would like to 
devote a full issue of the Grapevine, 
with pictures, to the interesting and 
exciting things that AMNHers have been 
doing this summer -- but that would be 
usurping a prerogative of the Camera 
Club. 


One vacation of which we would 
especially like to see pictures was the 
Montgomery-Pollak tour of Europe which, 
from their accounts, rivaled "Innocents 
Abroad." Alice Pollak, Museum Shop 


Manager, and Anne Montgomery, Manager of 


Guest Services, took advantage of the 
low-cost round trip charter flight 
sponsored by the American Association 
of Museums. (Incidentally, the flight 
will be offered again next summer -- 
details in a future G'vine.) If your 
laughing muscles need exercise, just 
ask Miss Pollak to tell you about their 
chair-lift ride up Gruenwald Mountain 
in Switzerland. Each time they reached 
a station that seemed to be the top of 
the mountain, attendants swung them 


around in their chairs and shot them off 


(continued on page 2) 


MARINE FISH TRACKED BY SOUND 


An important break-through in the 
Ichthyology Department's Tuna Tracking 
Project occurred this month when the 
movements of a large marine fish were 
tracked for the first time by means of 
submarine ultrasonic signals. Dr. C. M. 
Breder, Department Chairman, reports that 
a successful test of the new system was 
made off the Florida coast on August 3 by 
Mark Rascovich, Research Fellow, who is 
working on the project under the super- 
vision of George A. Bass, Field Associate. 


For test purposes, a 300-pound shark, 
taken on a rod and reel near Palm Beach, 
was tagged with a capsule containing a 
miniaturized transmitter which automati- 
cally sends an ultrasonic signal under 
water. The animal was then released and 
tracked by a boat carrying special range- 
and direction-finding equipment. The 
movements of the shark were easily follow- 
ed as it travelled approximately a quarter 
of a mile from the boat and then "cruised" 
close to the bottom, 90 to 125 feet below 
the surface, covering a criss-cross 
pattern over an area of about one square 
mile, The capsule was still transmitting 
a loud and clear signal when, after four 
hours of tracking, the boat left the 

scene in order to return to the shore 
before dark. 


The new tracking system was designed 
under contract to the Office of. Naval 
Research as part of the long range Tuna 
Tracking Project which has been under 
development in the Ichthyology ‘Department 
since 1959. 


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On another upward-moving cable. When 
they looked down from the snow-covered 
peak, Miss Pollak said, "the town below 
was just like a miniature village under 
a Christmas tree." 


Or -- if you want your spine chilled -- 
ask Miss Montogomery to tell you about 
the train ride from Geneva to Paris when 
their seats turned out to be at the other 
end of the train and there were no 
porters. Walking through the moving 
train carrying five pieces of luggage, 
Miss M found herself on an open platform 
between two cars just as the train 
entered a tunnel several miles long. 
was pitch dark, and between the bags 
piled around her feet and the small 
handrails on either side, Miss M managed 
to hold her ground on the swaying and 
bouncing platform until daylight 
appeared. Reunited in the next car, the 
two travelling companions laughed til 
their sides ached. 


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Echoes of this and other vacation 
adventures will be heard around the 
Museum for a long time to come. 


ICHTHYOLOGIST JOINS STAFF 


Dr. C. Lavett Smith, who joined the 
Department of Ichthyology as Assistant 
Curator last month, finds that New York 
in summer is quite a contrast to his 
last location, a Pacific island. Dr. 
Smith was an associate professor of 
zoology at the University of Hawaii 
during the past academic year, having 
taught the previous year at the College 
of Guam. 


A native of Hamburg, N.Y., Dr. Smith was 
graduated from Cornell in 1949 and did 
his graduate work at Tulane and the 
University of Michigan. His primary 
research interest is in perch-like fishes 
including sea basses and their allies. 
His doctoral dissertation, completed in 
1959, deals with the systematics of the 
groupers inhabiting American waters. 
While serving with the Army Medical 
Service Corps, he did research on the 
snail hosts of blood flukes in Puerto 
Rico. Dr. Smith, his wife and two chil- 
dren now live at College Point, L. I. 


ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES 


Walter Roman, new secretary to Plant 
Manager Paul Grouleff, comes originally 
from Camden, N. J., where he was active 
in baseball and basketball during high 
school. Later, while serving with the 
Navy in China during World War II, he 
introduced students at Nanking University 
to the game of touch football. Mr. 
Roman's other interests include tennis, 
swimming, reading, and cub scouting. He 
is married and has an eight-year old son, 


Tommy. 


Margaret Bullitt, new Scientific Assistant 
in Herpetology, took her B.A. at the 
College of Wooster. A native of 
Swarthmore, Pa., she’s now living in 
Manhattan. She's interested in most 
animals, but reserves a special fondness 
for dogs. 


Welcome back to Murray Altman, Living 
Invertebrates, who has been with the 
U.S. Army for six months. Mr. Altman 
spent the first portion of his training 
duty at a camp in New Jersey and the 
remainder in Texas -- but he prefers 
New York. 


Welcome back, also, to Gertrude Toomey, 
Education, who left us last spring to go 
to Florida. Her colleagues are very glad 
to have her back. 


Coast to coast exchange: The new face in 
the Film Library belongs to George 
Blivens who comes from California. He 
replaces film inspector John Glasser who 
has gone to California. 


Ellen Holt has resigned her post as 
preparator in Entomology to continue her 
studies in Virginia. 


DISCOUNTS FOR ICE CAPADES 


Discount tickets are now available from 
Larry Pintner, Office Services, for the 
Ice Capades of 1963, which will start at 
the end of this month at Madison Square 
Garden. The tickets, which allow you a 
reduction of approximately one third off 
the regular price, can be used at weekday 
evening performances and at some weekend 
matinees. 


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FAMILIAR FACES IN NEW PLACES 


Jerry Thurmann, formerly with Custodial 
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Invertebrates where he is now research 
assistant to Dr. Meredith L. Jones. 
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Dr. Jerome Rozen, Chairman of Entomology, 
is spending several months doing field 
work at the Southwestern Research Station 
in Arizona where he is accompanied by his 
family. 


Charles M. Bogert, Chairman of Herpetol- 


deep-sea collections made by the Research O8y; and Mrs. Bogert are spending August 


Vessel "Vema" which have been received 
from the Lamont Geological Observatory. 


Thomas Hayden has also left Custodial 
Services to become an artist in the 
Graphic Arts Division. Before his 
transfer, Mr. Hayden had been doing art 


assignments for the Entomology Department. is interesting and fun. 


Sidney Berman, formerly with the Frick 
Laboratory, has moved over to the 
Photographic Division. Congratulations 
and good luck to all in their new posts. 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Dr. William K. Emerson, Chairman of 
Living Invertebrates, presided at the 
annual meeting of the American 
Malacological Union in St. Petersburg, 
Fla. early this month. Also attending 
were Dr. H. E. Coomans and William E. 
Old, Jr. of the same department. Dr. 
Coomans, who was accompanied by his wife 
and daughter Cindy, went on to visit 
friends in Miami Beach after the meet- 
ings, while Mr. Olds visited shell shops 
on both coasts of Florida before return- 
ing to New York. 


Other travelling members of the Living 
Invertebrates Department include Dr. 
Meredith L. Jones who collected in Texas 


early this month and is now at the Lerner Married: 


Marine Laboratory in Bimini, and Dr. 
Horace W. Stunkard who is continuing his 
studies of parasitic worms at the Marine 
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. 
Dr. Stunkard reports that the work, 
which is aided by an NSF grant, is 
progressing nicely. 


Joseph Amendolare, Custodial Services, 
leaves early in September for two weeks 
of Navy duty at Newport, R.I. 
in the Naval Reserve, he will be taking 
courses in damage control. Later this 
fall, he expects to take exams for his 
Petty Officer rating. 


and Sept. in Oaxaca, Mexico, particularly 
in the Sierra de Juarez where Mr. -Bogert 
hopes to add to the collection of rare 
salamanders discovered there last summer. 


A card from Cicely Breslin reports that 
life at the Southwestern Research Station 
She is serving 
as librarian there for the summer, and 
also has time to do some painting and to 
take care of a baby coyote. 


Joyce Ruth Corn attended the Tenth 
International Congress of the History of 
Science Society at Cornell and in 
Philadelphia this month. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Chairman of 
Anthropology, whose daughter Harriet 
enters her junior year at Barnard this 
fall, has been appointed Chairman of the 
Barnard College Parents Committee. 


John Saunders, Chairman of Education, is 
happy to have his son Paul back in this 
country for his senior year at Fordham. 
Paul returned recently from Europe, 
having spent his junior year in an honors 
program at the Institute of Political 
Science in Paris. 


Kenneth Chambers, Education, 
and Antoinette Priore of McCall's Magazine. 
Congratulations and very best wishes! 


Born: to President and Mrs. Alexander M. 
White, a grandson Jonathan White 
Montgomery, the second son of Elinor 

White Montgomery (formerly Exhibition 
Dept.) and her husband George. The newest 
member of the family arrived on July 17 
and is named for Mrs. White's father. A 


A fireman very warm welcome to him! 


Small world department: On her five-week 

trip to Europe, during which she visited 

eleven countries, Josephine D'Orsi of the 
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Film Library met Gordon Reekie, Chairman 
of Exhibition, coming out of a bank in 
Rome. 


Helmut Schiller, botanist in the Adult 
Yducation Division, photographed orchids 
in the bogs of Vermont early in July, 
then went on to observe other aspects of 
nature at the Audubon Camp in Maine. 


We're delighted to see Margaret Connolly, 
Custodial Services, back on the job and 
looking healthy and rested after her 
hospitalization. 


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Members of the Herpetology Department were 
happy to see Irene Ruibal, former depart- 
ment secretary, who stopped by recently 
en route to Puerto Rico where her husband 
is doing field work this summer ........ 
Congratulations to another former 
colleague in Herpetology, Jay Cole, who 
was married in June. 


It was a pleasure to see John Enright, 
recently retired from Custodial Services, 
when he stopped in to say hello the other 
day. He looked wonderfully healthy and 
tanned, having just come back from a vaca- 
tion in the Allegheny Mountains. 


TRADING POST 


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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XIX, No. 9 


NATURAL HISTORY PRESS ESTABLISHED 


Members of the editorial staff of the 
long-awaited Natural History Press set 
up shop in the Museum early this month, 
and public announcement of the new 
publishing enterprise will be made on 
September 28. 


During the spring and summer the Trustees, 
Director, and members of the Staff worked 
closely with Doubleday & Company, Inc. to 
set up The Natural History Press which 
will help to further the educational 
goals of the Museum on a national scale. 
Doubleday brings to the Press and to the 
Museum's publication program the services 
of a diversified publishing house. 


The Press will publish both books and 
periodicals for the elementary, high 
school, and college student, and for the 
growing audience of adults with a serious 
interest in the many facets of natural 
history and the life sciences. One of 
its first projects will be the Museum 
handbook series, a group of short, well- 
illustrated paperbacks written primarily 
by Museum scientists. The first volumes 
are scheduled for publication in the 
autumn of 1963. 


The magazine Natural History will continue 
to be published by the Museum, and its 
editorial staff will work closely with 
the editors of the Press to extend the 
magazine's high standards in the fields 

of science, education, and publishing 
into all projects of the Press. The Press 
is also developing a new national 
periodical for use in improved science 
teaching in schools, and still other 
publications to further the growing needs 
of science education are planned. 


te SE a ee ee ee eee Y 


September 1962 


FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK 


As we all know, The American Museum is a 
large, complex organization with some 23 
acres of floor space as well as four 
far-flung field stations. I wish it were 
possible for me to get around to all parts 
of the Museum regularly and see each of 
the more than 600 employees who keep it 
functioning, but such a hurried tour 
would not provide much time for a 
leisurely exchange of views. To overcome 
partially this communications problem, I 
am initiating a series of monthly 
messages in the Grapevine. 


The Museum is really the responsibility 
of each of us in terms of our different 
areas of operation. The institution plays 
an important role in the lives of the two 
and one-half million people who come here 
each year, and those whom we reach through 
our many extension services and publica- 
tions. At this time, when there is so 
much work to be done in the areas of 
science and education, I would like to 
ask each of you to consider your own job 
and re-evaluate your own efforts, with 
the aim of functioning with a maximum of 
effectiveness and efficiency during the 
year ahead. 

James A. Oliver 
Director 


THE YELLOW VERSION TEAM 


The atmosphere of quiet concentration in 
Room 323 of Roosevelt Memorial should 
dispell any mistaken notions that the 
Yellow Version Team is somehow involved 
either in sensational journalism or fall 
fashion design. The eleven people who 
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(NATURAL HISTORY PRESS ESTABLISHED, 
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Already in residence in the Press office 
on the second floor, off the Corner 
Gallery, are James K. Page, Jr., an 
editor at Doubleday Anchor Books who will 
edit the Museum Handbooks, and his editor- 
jal assistant, Nancy Dravneek. Editor- 
in-Chief of the new enterprise is Roy A. 
Gallant, author and former managing 
editor of Aldus Books, London, who will 
join us on October 8. Publisher of the 
Press is Richard K. Winslow, science 
editor of Doubleday. 


The editorial activities of the Press will 
be guided by a scientific-editorial board 
headed by Dr. Franklyn M. Branley, 
Associate Astronomer at the Planetariun, 
and composed of Museum and Doubleday staff 
wobers. Business activities, including 
tas production, distribution, and promo- 
tion of books, will be handled by the 
Press through its association with 
Doubleday. 


STAFF 


GRAPEVINE 
Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations; 
Tsetion Assistant - Nancy McCoy, Public 
Foss.stons; ACCOUNTING, PERSONNEL, PURCHAS- 
iMz - William Judge; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - 
kLvelyn Shaw; ANTHROPOLOGY - Philip Gifford; 
FUILDING SERVICES - Edward Malley, Albert 
7 5¢nza; EDUCATION - George Crawbuck; 

F's MOLOGY - Rose Adlington; EXHIBITION & 
CRADHIC ARTS - Marilyn Slear; FOSSIL 
INVERTEBRATES - Robert Adlington; FRICK 
LABORATORY - George Krochak; HERPETOLOGY - 
Margaret Shaw; ICHTHYOLOGY - Victoria 
Pelton; LIBRARY - Georgea Atkinson; LIVING 
INVERTEBRATES - Phyllis Fish; MAGAZINE 
CIRCULATION - William Somerville; 
MAMMALOGY - Hobart Van Deusen; MICROPAL- 
BONTOLOGY - Richard Charmatz; MINERALOGY - 
Edith Marks; MUSEUM SHOP - Peter Bujara; 
NATURAL HISTORY - Ernestine Weindorf; 
OFFICE SERVICES - Dorothy Bronson; 
ORNITHOLOGY - Jean Shaw; PLANETARIUM - 
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MacKay; PRINT SHOP - Edward Burns; SHOPS - 
JOhn Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur 
Schaefer; SLIDES, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY, 
PROJECTION - Helen Jones; VERTEBRATE 
PALEONTOLOGY - Marlyn Mangus. 


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Curriculum Study which was established 
three years ago by the American Institute 
of Biological Sciences to contribute to 
the improvement of biological education. 


The central effort of the BSCS has been 
the preparation of three complete general 
biology courses for secondary schools -- 
the Blue, Yellow, and Green versions of 
BSCS High School Biology. Each version 
includes a text, a laboratory manual, 
tests, and teachers materials. The team 
working in the Museum is doing the final 
revision of the Yellow Version, using the 
comments of teachers and students with 
whom an experimental edition was tested 
last year. 


While each of the three versions is a 
complete, year-long course in biology, 
they differ from one another in emphasis. 
Major emphasis in the Green Version is on 
ecology, in the Blue Version it is on the 
molecular level of biology, while in the 
Yellow Version the greatest emphasis is 
on the cellular level of the science. 


Supervising the work of the Yellow Version 
Team is Dr. John A. Moore of Columbia 
University and a Research Associate in our 
Department of Herpetology. Members of the 
team, all distinguished biologists, are 
Drs. Donald Bucklin, University of 
Wisconsin; Bentley Glass, Johns Hopkins; 
William V. Mayer, Wayne State University; 
George Schwartz, Forest Hills High School; 
and Wilson N. Stewart, University of 
Illinois. Working with the team in Room 
323 are Donald Meyer, a senior editor at 
Harcourt Brace, publishers of the Yellow 
Version; Louise Wolf, photo editor; 

Joseph Whitten, artist; and Louise Windish 
and Betty Penner, secretaries. The group 
plans to complete their work here by the 
end of January, and publication of the 
final hard-cover edition is expected by 
early fall, 1963. 


Attention, all bowlers, including brand 
new beginners: You have 'til September 
24 to sign up for the Museum Bowling 
League. Call one of the following -- 
Nick Amorosi, 228; Al Potenza, 428; or 
Bob Adlington, 516. 


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TWO LONG TIMERS RETIRE 


This month we say "so long" to two 
colleagues who have earned retirement. 
Otto Lambert leaves his post in Office 
Services having completed 24 years with 
the Museum. Mr. Lambert joined Custodial 
Services in 1938 and was on duty in the 
‘uditorium for several years where he took 
in hundreds of film and lecture programs 
Sor school children and members, as well 
as Sunday afternoon concerts for the 
public. He moved about 15 years ago to 
Office Services where he has come in 
contact with nearly every employee because, 
among other duties, he handles our personal 
phone bills and cashes our personal checks. 


Charles C. Henderson, who joined Custodial 
Services in 1944, will be very much missed 
on the night watch force where he has 
worked through the wee hours until 7 A.M. 
He has two sons, one of whom recently 
joined his father for a short period as a 
member of the night force. Mr. Henderson 
has been in poor health lately and it is 
hoped that after a few months of rest and 
relaxation he'll feel like his old self 
again. His Museum friends who gathered 
for a tea in his honor in the Portrait 
Reom on September 18 wished him a fast 
return to good health. 


As both Messrs. Lambert and Henderson plan 
to remain in the New York area, we'll 

look forward to seeing them whenever they 
have time to drop in and say hello. 


DR. ADLER'S TRAVELS 


Dr. Helmut E. Adler, Animal Behavior, 
attended the annual convention of the 
American Psycho!ssical Association in 

St. Louis receniiiy where he presented a 
paper on "The Accuracy of the 24-hour 
Cleck of the Starling." The work had been 
done in collaboration with John Gianutsos 
of Animal Behavior. A few days after his 
return to the Museum, Dr. Adler and his 
wife were off to the Symposium on Animal 
Orientation held at Garmisch-Partenkischen 
in Germany, September 17-21, under the 
auspices of the International Union of 
Biological Societies. His talk there is 
on "Psychological Factors in Animal 
Orientation." 


"JOURNEY INTO NATURE" 


Responses by letter and phone to "Journey 
Into Nature" programs indicate continual< 
ly growing interest in the Museum's week- 
ly radio show on WNBC. This past Sunday, 
listeners heard Dr. James A. Oliver, 
Director, discuss his main scientific 
interest, snakes. On September 23, 

Dr. Dean Amadon, Chairman of Ornithology, 
talks about the Great Barrier Reef of 
Australia from which he recently returned. 
The following Sunday, September 30, 

Dr. Wesley Lanyon, Ornithology, will 
describe his use of a new radar device to 
measure the speed of flight in birds. 

And on October 7, Dr. Oliver will be 
heard again, this time on the Green 
Turtle and efforts to preserve the 
species from extinction. The "Journey" 
series, for which Tex Antoine is host, 

is heard every Sunday at 11:05 A.M. on 
WNBC-Radio. (Air time was changed to 
2:05 P.M. on September 16 and 23 because 
of political broadcasts on those mornings. 


RICHARD REIDY 


The many Museum friends of Richard Reidy 
who retired from Custodial Services three 
years ago were greatly saddened to learn 
of his death on September 9, 1962. 

Mr. Reidy served the Museum for 32 years 
until his retirenent due to ill health in 
1959. Just prior to retirement, his 
regular pest was elevator operator in 
Roosevelt Memorial, anc his colleagues 
will recall that he insisted on contin- 
uing in his job for many months despite 
a painful arthritic conditicnu. His 
generous nature aad cheerful manner 
endeared him to many who wish to express 
their deep sympathy to his wife and 
family. 


MUSEUM-CITY RELATIONS 


Edwin C. Meyenberg, Bursar, reports that 
persons in the following titles who are 
scheduled to receive retro-active pay may 
expect their checks early in October: 
Supervising Attendent, Senior Attendent, 
Attendent, Supervising Instructor, Senior 
Instructor, Instructor, Supervising Clerk, 
Assistant Superintendent of Construction, 
and Storekeeper. 


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NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


A letter from Pvt. Grant L. tchings, on 
military leave from Custodial Services, 
tells us that he's now stationed at Fort 
Bliss, Texas, as a clerk typist in the 
“uartermaster Section. He gets the 
Trapevine every month and enjoys reading 
ews of his co-workers to whom he sends 
be.t regards. He hopes to get a leave 
e-cund Christmas time, before going over- 
seas, and will drop in at the Museum to 
say "hello" to all his friends. 


Dr. Mont A. Cazier, former Director of the 
Southwestern Research Station at Portal, 
Arizona, has been appointed to the facul- 
ty of Arizona State University in Tempe. 


Catherine Mahoney's resignation from 
General Accounting last July after fif- 
teen years with the Museum failed to make 
the Grapevine because Miss Mahoney, as 
departmental reporter, didn't report. We 
lost her to the Space Age when she moved 
over to IBM to study programming of 
computers. We wish her lots of luck in 
her new career. 


Ben Edwards, who retired in the late 
1940's from the Carpentry Shop after many 
years with the Museum, delighted his 
friends here with a surprise visit the 
other day. Mr. Edwards, who remains 
indefagitable at 80, drove up from Florida 
where he now lives at 3901 Yardley Ave. 
North, St. Petersburg. He gets together 

ecasionally with other retired AMNHers 
in Florida and would like to hear from 
any colleagues who find themselves in his 
vicinity. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


While a number of AMNHers have been 
struggling manfully through the worse- 
than-average hay fever season this month, 
it's been cheering to welcome back several 
colleagues who were laid low for longer 
periods. John Healy, Herpetology, is on 
the job again after a long recovery from 
a back operation; Frank Lombardi, Fossil 
Invertebrates, is back after hospitaliza- 
tion for a hip ailment; Dominick Caggana 
is again in the Print Shop full time 

after a seige of illness that lasted sev- 
eral months; and John Hackett has return- 
ed to Office Services having proved a fast 
winner in a bout with pneumonia. 


4. 


Our thoughts are very much with those 
still on the sick list, including 
Charlotte Stove, Office Services, who has 
been out for three months. We miss her 

& lot and hope she'll be back with us soon 


COMINGS AND GOINGS 


Dr. Donn E. Rosen, Ichthyology, spent two 
weeks in August on a collecting trip in 
Vermont and New Hampshire. While there 

he was a house guest of Hobart M. 

Van Deusen, Mammalogy, who was a splendid 
guide to the many interesting localities 
of the area. Dr. Rosen collected 23 
quarts of fishes and two quarts of 
amphibians in which were included numerous 
color variants of the green frog. 


Herpetology wished bon voyage on 

September 6 to William Hosmer who returned 
to Australia where he will continue to 
collect for the Museum. His extensive 
monograph on our present Australian her- 
petological collections will be published 
as a Museum Bulletin. 


Dr. Frederick Rindge, Entomology, was 
hospitalized after his return from a 
summer of collecting in the Black Hills of 
South Dakota and the Rocky Mountains. We 
understand he's now at home and feeling 
better. We hope he'll be back with us 
SOONe+eeeeeMarjorie Statham of Entomology 
is at the Southwestern Research Station 
helping Dr. Jerome Rozen with his studies 
on bees of the area. 


From Fossil Invertebrates, Dr. Norman D. 
Newell, Chairman, Dr. Roger L. Batten, 

and Melvin Hinkley left on August 21 to 
spend a month collecting fossils in Texas 
e+e---e Beatrice Brewster of the same 
department has returned from Fontainebleau, 
France, where she spent the summer on a 
scholarship studying music. 


Nellie Reilly, Custodial Services, vaca- 
tioning in the Catskills, want to the 
races at Saratoga and lost $3 on a horse 
who didn't come in. As far as she knows, 
he's still running......And Arthur Sharp, 
Electrical Shop, spent his vacation in the 
mountains of eastern Pennsylvania where he 
enjoyed lots of hiking and climbing. On 
one climb, however, Mr. Sharp's young son 
unexpectedly ran into a wasps' nest; 
"That's a mountain we won't forget!" he 
reports. 


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5 
FAN MAIL AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE 


Since everyone appreciates a pat on the The Administration has announced the 
cack from time to time, we would like to establishment of a certificate of award to 
chare the following comments from a couple be presented by the President on behalf of 


of recent letters from visitors to the the Board of Trustees to emplovees for 

hseum: service to the Museum beyond the call of 
duty. <A handsome certificate and lapel 

1 executive of a large pharmacuetical rosette have been designed and a comnittee 

‘irm in New Jersey writes, "I have will soon be appointed to screen candi- 


rlsited your museum several times recent- dates for the awards whose names will be 
ly, and it's absolutely magnificent! Aside submitted by their department heads. 
from the world of information to be gained, 
your people do a beautiful job on your NEW FACES 
displays." 

Mr. Vincent D. Roth, an entomologist with 
A mother wrote, after her first visit here the University of California Extension 
with her son, "Every one of the attendants Service, has been appointed Resident 
on duty were most courteous and so ready Director of the Museum's Southwestern 
to answer any questions...Of the many Research Station in Portal, Arizona. 
different places we have visited in New Mr. Roth has worked several years at the 
York City, nowhere else was there a more University of Arizona, has visited the 


corpletely courteous staff than we SWRS a number of times and has worked in 
encountered at the Museum today." the field several summers with Dr. Willis 
Gertsch of the Department of Entomology. 
TRADING POST His familiariiy with the flora and fauna 
of the southwest, as well as his knowledge 
For Sale: Table model Emerson TV, of the Museum's activities, make him 
19-inch screen, repair guarantee, $35. well-qualified for this important position. 


Also, sofa-bed, chairs, mirror, chest, all 

for $40. Other miscellaneous items. All Sophie Schub, new secretary in Ichthyology, 

must be sola by Fri., Sept. 25. Fernando comes originally from St. Louis, Mo., and 

Pires, ext. 386. now lives on Long Island. She's working 
with Drs. C. M. Breder and Donn Rosen on 

Apartment Wanted: Furnished sublet for a large backlog of manuscript typing. In 

one person, from now until spring. her free time, Mrs. Schub enjoys writing 

Excellent references. Call Kate Ogilvy, and painting. 

ext. 44h. 


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4 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 


OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XIX, No. 10 


October 1962 


FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK 


The relations of the Museum and its 
emoloyees with the City of New York are 
perplexing and often complex. Are wea 
municipal or a private museum? Are some 
of our employees City employees? Just 
what is meant by the designation "quasi- 
public"? 


The simplest answers to these questions do 
net indicate the complexity of our rela- 
tions with the City. We are a private 
institution and not one of our employees 
is a City employee. The term "quasi- 
public" is used for the particular type of 
arrangement existing between us and the 
City. The American Museum of Natural 
History is one of eleven quasi-public 
institutions in New York City. In each 
case the institution was founded by a 
group of private individuals, the Trustees, 
who operate the organization with funds 
that come partly from private sources and 
partly from the City. The proportion of 
private and City funds varies from insti- 
tution to institution. The grounds and 
buildings - whether erected by the City or 
through private funds - belong to the City 
of New York, as does the responsibility 
for the maintenance of the entire physical 
plant. The Trustees, on the other hand, 
provide all of the collections and the 
staff to curate and study them. Thus the 
Museum is a joint enterprise of the City 
and the Trustees. In general, the lines 
of responsibility are clearly drawn, but 
there are some areas of overlap or mutual 
undertakings. The American Museum of Nat- 
ural History was a pioneer in establishing 
this form of joint responsibility, the 
(Continued on page 2) 


FOSSIL FISH EXPEDITION 


It's often said that rough and rugged 
Museum expeditions are things of the past. 
Now that most of the world's wildernesses 
can be reached by jeep or plane, life in 
the field is acquiring more and more of 
the comforts of home. But last month 
Gilbert Stucker of the Vertebrate 
Paleontology Laboratory proved that 
AMNHers can still do it the hard way -- 
when that's the only way. 


The objective was a large deposit of 
Triassic fossil fishes on the side of a 
remote mountain in the Canadian Rockies. 
Its location was 100 miles from the near- 
est town, Grand Prairie, and 50 miles 
from the closest road or trail of any. 
kind. There has been little exploration 
of this region, where grizzly bears and 
caribou are still abundant. 


The fossil deposit had been known to 
paleontologists for 15 years, but because 
of the inaccessibility of the site, very 
little of it had been collected. In 1961, 
Dr. Bobb Schaeffer, Vertebrate Paleontol- 
ogy, proposed a joint investigation by 
AMNH and the National Museum of Canada, 
and that summer Mr. Stucker and Harvey 
Champagne of the Canadian museum located 
the deposit and collected samples of the 
fossil material. To reach the site, they 
had to cut their way through 50 miles of 
heavy spruce and pine forest interspersed 
with heavy deadfall. 


This year's expedition took to the field 

early in August, packing in with horses 

on the trail they had cut last year. In 
(continued on page 2) 


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GRAPEVINE 


STAFE 

iditor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations; 
roduction Assistant - Nancy McCoy, Public 
telations; ACCOUNTING, PERSONNEL, PURCHAS- 
(NG - Evgenie Jatkowska; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - 
ivelyn Shaw; ANTHROPOLOGY - Philip Gifford; 
3UILDING SERVICES - Edward Malley; Albert 
‘otenza; EDUCATION - George Crawbuck; 
‘NTOMOLOGY - Rose Adlington; EXHIBITION & 
*RAPHIC ARTS - Marilyn Slear; FOSSIL 
tNVERTEBRATES - Robert Adlington; FRICK 
sABORATORY - George Krochak; HERPETOLOGY - 
fargaret Shaw; ICHTHYOLOGY - Victoria 
Pelton; LIBRARY - Georgea Atkinson; LIVING 
INVERTEBRATES - Phyllis Fish; MAGAZINE 
CIRCULATION - William Somerville ; 
MAMMALOGY - Hobart Van Deusen; MICROPAL- 
SONTOLOGY - Richard Charmatz; MINERALOGY - 
Edith Marks; MUSEUM SHOP - Peter Bujara; 
NATURAL HISTORY - Ernestine Weindorf; 
OFFICE SERVICES - Dorothy Bronson; 
ORNITHOLOGY - Jean Shaw; PLANETARIUM - 
James Pickering; POWER PLANT - Malcolm 
MacKay; PRINT SHOP - Edward Burns; SHOPS - 
John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur 
jchaefer; SLIDES, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY, 
RROJECTION - Helen Jones; VERTEBRATE 
PALWONTOLOGY - Marlyn Mangus. 


(FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK, cont'd. from 
Page 1) 


quasi-public institution, which was used 
as the model for the other ten cultural 
organizations in New York City. 


An important point in this arrangement 
that is often misunderstood is that all of 
the individuals that work for the Museum 
are private employees. All are hired and 
naid by the Trustees. True, the City re- 
nays the Trustees the exact amount of the 
selevies of certain employees - approxi- 
nu¢ly one-third of the total working for 
+he Museum, but the City does not pay for 
auy of the medical or hospitalization 
oenefits, the group insurance or the pen- 
sions of a single employee. The Trustees 
provide all of these benefits. 


Cur partnership with the City occasionally 
presents us with serious problems, but in 
seneral over the years it has been a good 
relationship. It is improving all the 
time, with closer mutual understanding. It 
truly justifies the historic words of 
former President Henry Fairfield Osborn: 
"A most fortunate circumstance in the 
(continued on page 4) 


(FOSSIL FISH EXPEDITION, cont'd. from 
Page 1) 


addition to Mr. Stucker, expedition lead- 
er, the party included his wife Alma 
Stucker, Mr. Champagne, anda wrangler and 
a Cree Indian guide. Heavy rains had 
made parts of the trail impassable and, 
On several occasions, horses had to be 
rescued after sinking up to their bellies 
in the muskeg. 


The group's base camp was soaked by rain 
throughout most of their five-week stay. 
More serious, from the scientific view- 
point, was the frequent drenching of 
delicate fossil specimens while they were 
being extracted from the rocks. Then in 
mid-September the rain turned to snow and 
the fossil deposit was buried under drifts 
of up to several feet. 


Despite the adversities of weather and 
the terrain, the expedition brought out a 
fine collection of well-preserved fishes, 
some of them nearly complete. They have 
been shipped to the National Museum of 
Canada for preliminary processing after 
which they will be brought here to be 
studied and described by Dr. Schaeffer. 


GREETINGS TO C.U. MEMBERS 


(The AMNH Employees' Federal Credit Union 
has received the following letter of 

greetings on the occasion of Internation- 
al Credit Union Day, Thursday, October 18. ) 


Credit unions provide a means for 
people to lend their savings to each 
other for productive use. Credit is 
necessary to the successful function- 
ing of our economy, and credit unions 
are playing an increasingly important 
role in providing it. 


Credit unions can also make a con- 
tribution to the economies of devel- 
oping countries. This is particularly 
true in Latin America, where the 
Alliance for Progress is based on the 
principle of self-help. 


On this fifteenth annual celebration 
of International Credit Union Day, I 
take pleasure in congratulating credit 
union members everywhere on the wise 
use of savings for productive use. 


John F. Kennedy 


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ROBERT FEARMAN 


Robert Fearman, who died on September 18, 


COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 
Dr. Brian Mason, Mineralogy, returned 


had served the Museum for nearly 30 years. last month from a very successful summer 


Starting as a fireman and oiler with the 
Power Plant, he was subsequently trans- 
ferred to the Planetarium where he was in 
charge of the air conditioning machinery 
for nineteen years. During World War II, 
he took military leave to serve with the 
U.S. Navy. Two years ago he transferred 
back to the Power Plant staff as a 
Stationary Engineer. 


Mr. Fearman, who was 55 years old, had 
been in poor health for some time prior 
to his death. 


ests and genial good humor. His collea- 


He was a man of wide inter- and Sciences, Sept. 26. 


of meteorite study in Europe where he 
visited universities and museums in 
Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, and 
England to examine collections. In 
London, he was one of several Americans 
participating in a conference on meteor- 
ites at the British Museum. 


Dr. James A. Oliver, Director, and Gerard 
Piel, Trustee, participated in a sympos- 
ium entitled "Understanding Science in the 
Space Age" at the Rochester Museum of Arts 
Dr. Oliver was 
one of four museum directors who present- 


gues miss him greatly and wish to express eda panel discussion on the role of 


their deep sympathy to Mrs. Fearman and 
their four children. 


It is with sorrow that we record, also, 

the deaths of a former colleague and of 

a close friend of the Museum who was not 
a member of the staff. 


Ernest Neilson, who retired from Anthro- 
pology in 1956 after 28 years with the 
Museum, succumbed to a heart attack in 
Florida on July 30. He was 69 years old. 
After his retirement from AMNH, Mr. 
Neilson worked with the University of 
Florida and also served as the Mayor of 
‘ir terlachen, the town in which he lived. 
‘re, the day of his death, flags were flown 
et nalf mast in Interlachen and the Town 
Fall was draped in black. His many close 
friends at the Museum will always remem- 
ber "Ernie" Neilson with deep affection. 


Dr. Winifred Kirkland, who died on 
E2eotember 27, hai been a member of this 
Museum since she vas 7 years old and 
would have celebrated her 90th birthday 
on November 25, 1962. Dr. Kirkland 
remembered the first permanent building 
of the Museum (now Section I) when it 
stood alone on the rectangle that is now 
“.sodore Roosevelt Park. As a child, she 
was a collector of everything in nature, 
and later she took her Ph.D. in Anthro- 


museums. Mr. Piel, Publisher of 
Scientific American, was a member of the 


panel on mass media and presented one of 
the two main addresses at the closing 
session in the evening. 


Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Mammalogy, left 
for Europe at the end of September to 
study skunk collections at museums in 
England, France, and Germany. He'll be 
back early in November. 


Dr. Norman Newell, Dr. Roger Batten, and 


Melvin Hinkley, all of the Department of 


Fossil Invertebrates, came back from 
Texas last month with a fine collection 
of upper Paleozoic specimens. On Nov. 7, 
Dr. Newell flies to Ann Arbor to deliver 
the Case Memorial Lecture of the Sigma Xi 
Society at the University of Michigan. 

Dr. Batten is teaching the graduate course 
in invertebrate paleontology at Columbia 
University. 


JOURNEY INTO NATURE 


The Museum radio program, heard every 


Sunday on WNBC, features the following 
staff members and subjects on up-coming 
shows: Oct. 14 - Dr. Richard Zweifel, 
Herpetology, on frog-hunting in Panama; 
Oct. 21 - Joseph M. Chamberlain, Planet- 
arium, on the aurorae; Oct. 28 - Dr. 
Evelyn Shaw, Animal Behavior, on school- 
ing behavior in fishes. The program is 


pology at the University of North Carolina.usually heard at 11:05 A.M., but on Oct. 


In 1949, President F. Trubee Davison made 
Dr. Kirkland a Fellow of the Museum in 
recognition of her work for the Contrib- 
utors' Program. Many people on the staff 
knew her well and were devoted to her. 


28, because of a morning political broad- 
cast, "Journey Into Nature" will be aired 
ae 2:05 P.M. 


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BABY PORPOISE STEALS BIMINI SHOW 


A distinguished company of 65 visiting 
dignitaries -- including scientists, Navy 
personnel, and press -- assembled at the 
Lerner Marine Laboratory at Bimini on 
September 26. The occasion was the dedi- 
cation of the new underwater audio-visual 
facility set up under a grant from the 
Office of Naval Research; but the star 
attraction turned out to be a three-week 
old porpoise named Flicker. 


Flicker was a gift to the Laboratory from 
his mother Flo, one of the porpoises in- 
volved in the long term behavioral study 
being conducted at the Lab by Dr. Margaret 
Tavolga, Animal Behavior. He was born 
September 7, shortly after Dr. Tavolga had 
completed her summer's field work with his 
mother. Actually, Flicker has nothing to 
do with the new underwater device. But 
the porpoise study, as well as other con- 
tinuing research projects at our Bimini 
field station, cawe in for a good share 

of attention ducing the 24-hour visit of 
the group. As the guests watched from the 


dock, Flicker cavorted in the perpoise pen, Arts, joined us eighteen years ago. 


vsually surfacing rie at his 

ly slipping 
awey for brie? otha to exp Love on his 
own. 


A demonstration of the new underwater 


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oe iba gate esmera with Eydropnones that 
can be plsced fz. asep water off the shore, 
evatl2s 2 sciegcvist to study marine organ- 


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ecting up from his armchair. 


dusk 


Museum people present for the dedication 
included -- in addition to Robert 
Meshewson, Resident Director of the 
Laboratory, and his staff -- Arthur Gray, 
Jr., Trustee; Drs. William and Margaret 


te. 
Tavolga, Animal Behavior; and Ruth 
Norton, Manager of Public Relations. 
Philip Wylie, the well-known author and 
a member of the Special Advisory Commit- 
tee of the Laboratory, was also present. 


FOUR COLLEAGUES RETIRE 


A combined total of 91 years of service 
with the Museum, achieved by four cole 
leagues who retired last month, is a good 
indication of the longevity of employment 
at AMNH. 


Max Giraud, Senior Attendant in the 
Custodial Division, had been with the 
Museum for 32 years. During World War II 
he was on military leave serving with 
U.S. Army Ordnance in Europe. His wife 
Anne, former secretary to the Chairman of 
the Planetarium, resigned several years 
ago to be a full-time homemaker. Now 
that both Girauds are people of leisure, 
they plan to do some travelling; first 
stop -- Florida. 


Robert Murray, Office Services, who join- 
ed the 25-Year Club this year, started 
his AMNH career in the Custodial Division 
where he was first an attendant, later a 
special officer, and eventually the city- 
wide messenger for the Museum, the post 
in which he transferred to Office Services 
when that unit was consolidated in 1952. 
The affable Mr. Murray in his space shoes 
became known to many of our Trustees and 
Committee members as he travelled about 
the city carrying Museum business. 


Walter ("Skipper") Holmquist, Graphic 

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the age of 16 -- in the days of sailing 
ships -- and later served in the Swedish 
Naval Reserve. After a rough experience 
in a shipwreck. he gave up the sea and 
came to thiz <cittry to study art. Since 
that time, hz his never left the U.S., 
but this mons i= will return to live in 
Sweden where sis brother is Director of 
the National “Muscum in Stockholm. 


Ramon Bermudez, Exhibition, was with the 
Museum for sixteen years. Born in the 
Philippines, he came to this country to 
study art at the Chicago Art Institute 
and was employed by the Field Museum to 
make replicas of botanical specimens. The 
professional honors he has received 
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include a travelling fellowship from the 
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 
Philadelphia to study sculpture in 
Europe, and an award for sculpture from 
the National Academy of Design in New 
York. 


A warm farewell to Messrs. Giraud, 
Murray, Holmquist, and Bermudez. Their 
colleagues miss them and wish them great 
good fortune in whatever they decide to 
do next. 


HEARD IN PASSING 


Marguerite Newgarden, Education, is a. 
picture of health after a vacation of 
trailering through British Colunbia, 
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Califor- 
nia. While in Washington, she was able 
to take advantage of an invitation ex- 
tended to her some years ago by Dave 
James of the Simpson Lumber Company when 
he visited the Museum to observe teach- 
ing techniques. Maggie, her niece, and 
grand nephews spent a delightful day as 
guests of the Company at Shelton State 
Forest, with Jim Hartley as their host. 


Major David Quinn of the Planetarium 
technical staff is about to become Lt. 
Colonel Quinn of the 411th Engineer 
Brigade of the Corps of Engineers Reserve. 
Dave's maple leaf turns from gold to sil- 
ver on Oct. 23. After that, all his col- 
leagues at the Planetarium will be root- 
ing for the chicken. 


Ilona Kunsagi, after acquiring her 
American citizenship last spring, is en- 
trenching herself in a 400-year old 
American family by marrying Mr. William 
Rider, Reference Librarian at Hunter 
College. Much happiness to them: 


Bergen County, N.J., already teeming with 
AMNHers, acquired another one recently 
when Freidoun Jalayer, Exhibition, and his 
family joined the Tenafly colony. Freddy's 
newly purchased home is a 100-year old 
farm house. 


We wish a fast recovery to Joseph Abruzzo, 
Projection, who recently suffered a broken 
collar bone in an automobile accident. De- 
spite an uncomfortable brace at his neck, 
Joe is continuing on the job.... And by 


the time this issue is out, we hope that 
Anthony DeSimone, Exhibition, will be 
back in good health and with us again. 

He was hospitalized with illness in the 
late summer and then homebound for sever- 
al weeks. 


The Dinner Club, a new organization of 
Museum employees, held its charter dinner 
on October 4 at the Student Prince 
Restaurant in Yorkville. Twenty members 
attended and the event was hailed as an 
unqualified success, for which credit 
goes to the Club's President, Bill 
Barbierri, Carpentry Shop, and his offi- 
cers. The group is planning future 
dinners at some of New York's most fash- 
ionable restaurants. 


SO LONG & GOOD LUCK 


Jeanne Lyons, Scientific Assistant in 
Vertebrate Paleontology, left us at hhe 
end of August to continue her studies in 
geology at the University of Arizona. For 
the past two years, Miss Lyons was in 
charge of the Osborn Library, having 
transferred from the Main Library where 
she served for four years. 


Susannah (known as Wendy because she has 
a twin brother Peter) Huckel resigned from 
the Planetarium last month to move back to 
her home state, Connecticut. She had been 
secretary to Chairman J. M. Chamberlain. 


Walter Roman, secretary to Plant Manager 
Paul Grouleff, leaves us this month to 
take a new job in Riverside, N.J. with the 
MacMillan Publishing Company. He is re- 
luctant to go, he told the G'vine, be- 
cause he has enjoyed his brief association 
with the Museum very much; but it has long 
been his aim to locate permanently near 
his home community in south Jersey. 


The Museum Shop and the Planetarium Book 
Corner remind you of their special dis- 
counts to employees during the Christmas 
shopping season. From Nov. 1 through 
Dec. 24, all gift items at both the Shop 
and Book Corner will be avialable to em- 
Ployees at 20% off list price. Discounts 
on books will remain at the usual year- 
round rates: 20% off at the Planetarium 
and 12% off at the Museum Shop. (Natural 
history books not in stock may be ordered 
through the Shop at a 10% discount. ) 


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NEW FACES 


Dr. Perihan Sadoglu, formerly of the 
University of Istanbul, has been appoint- 
ed a Research Associate in the Department 
of Ichthyology. Dr. Sadoglu, who is a 
native of Turkey, worked at the Museum 
with Dr. C.M. Breder, Chairman of Ichthy- 
ology, in 1954-55 on the genetics of cave 
fish. She is currently continuing her 
research in this country on a grant from 
the U.S. National Institutes of Health. 


Mary Grace Dromi, who joined Ichthyology 
as a Scientific Assistant last month, 
lives in Ozone Park. A 1962 graduate of 
Queens College, she comes to us direct 
from a summer in Italy. 


Charlotte Holton, replacing Jeanne Lyons 
in Vertebrate Paleontology, come from 
San Francisco. She was previously with 
the Vertebrate Paleontology Department at 
the University of California in Berkeley 
e+e-Another new face in V.P. is that of 
Barbara Werscheck, secretary to Dr. Bobb 
Schaeffer. A native of Hildeshein, 
Germany, she has been in this country for 
four years and was most recently in the 
Social Service Division of New York 
Hospital. 


Barbara Bunker, who replaces Wendy Huckel 
at the Planetarium, is a graduate of 
Chatham College in Pittsburgh. She comes 
originally from Westfield, N.J., and now 
lives in New York...Alice Abeson, new 
preparator working with Dr. Willis Gertsch 
in Entomology, is a native New Yorker. Her 
interests, in addition to spiders, include 
painting. 


Natural History welcomes two additions to 
the business staff: Lucia Meyer of 
Peoria, Ill., is the new secretary to Ann 
Keating in Promotion, and Ogden Lowell of 
Stamford, Conn., joins the Advertising 
Dept. as a salesman. 


Richard Roehr, the new face in Exhibition, 
graduated from high school this past June 
in his home town, Rensselaer, N.Y. He has 
wanted to work at AMNH since he first read 
about it. He has been interested in art 
since childhood, and last spring completed 
the course of study at the Northwestern 
School of Taxidermy. In addition to art 
and taxidermy, he enjoys hunting. 


NEWS OF FORMER COLLEAGUES 


Lilian Utermehle, retired from Magazine 
Circulation, writes that she has moved to 
a new home in Washington. Her address is 
now 2022 N Street, N.W., Washington 6, 
D.C. Her many friends at the Museum wish 
her a happy housewarming and we hope 
she'll drop in to see us when she's next 
in our town. 


Robert Hellman, formerly Education, and 
his family returned to the U.S. last 
month after a year's stay in Uganda where 
Bob was teaching. He's now an instructor 
in biology and chemistry at Mamaroneck 
High School and has a teaching assistant- 
ship at Columbia Teachers College where 
he is working for his Ed.D. . 


It's Old Home Week in San Antonio, Texas, 
where William Schwarting, formerly Educa- 
tion, has been appointed curator of 
natural history at the Witte Museum by 
the museum's director, Dr. William A. 
Burns, formerly Membership Chairman at 
AMNH. Bill Schwarting's wife, the former 
Carol Cobb, was also an instructor here; 
and Bill Burns’ wife, Adelaide Jordan, 
was formerly in our Director's Office. 


TRADING POST 
Fer Sale. 1955 Chrysler New Yorker 
Deluxe. Power steering and brdkes, white 


wall tires, radio & heater. Excellent 
condition. $400. Call Joe Sedacca, 
exte 275- 


Sublet Wanted. from now until spring. 


Furnished apartment for artist who is 
semi-handicapped and needs ground floor 
or elevator tuilding near West 57th St. 
Call Kate Ogilvy, ext. 44h. 


BOWLING LEAGUE 


The AMNH Bowling League was off to a fly- 
ing start at its first meeting of the sea- 
son, October 1, Paul Goodhouse, G'vine 
correspondent for the League, reports. 
League Pres. Nick Amorosi and 8 anchor 
men assigned the players to 8 teams (2 
more than last year) with an eye to bal- 
anced competition. There is still room 
for more players, and anyone who would 
like to join the spectators' cheering 
section will be very welcome. The League 
meets every Monday at 6 p.m. at Stadium 
Lanes opposite Yankee Stadium. 


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GRAPEVINE 


OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XIX, No. 11 


FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK 


In the days of Geoffrey Chaucer, back in 
the 14th Century, a man was rated accord- 
ing to his attention to chivalry, truth, 
honor, freedom and courtesy -- all 
admirable virtues. The knight who played 
such an important part in Chaucer's Tales 
was deemed "a worthy man" because from 
the time he first entered knighthood he 
paid careful attention to these virtues, 
especially courtesy. Now, knighthood is 
a thing of the past and the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art has the finest collection 
of knightly armor in these parts, but the 
virtues of the ironclad warrior are still 
worthy of the custody of each of us. 


It is a curious fact that many of our 
manners go back to the knights. For 
example, the doffing of a man's hat is 
said to have originated in the lifting of 
the knight's visor. All of us can be 
glad that armor has gone out of style, 
but, unfortunately, some of us seem to 
have the peculiar notion that the knight- 
ly virtues are equally outmoded. There 
was never a time when ccurtesy was a more 
important virtue. In fact, it is almost a 
necessity. When individuals are crowded 
together in such large numbers it is 
vital that we treat each other with polite 
respect, in short, courtesy. This is true 
because courtesy is not merely the tipping 
of a hat or some other obvious gesture; 
it is the total attitude and form of 
behavior that gives a pleasant aura to 
our actions and spoken words. 

(continued on page 2) 


November 1962 


MRS. LOW ELECTED A TRUSTEE 


This month President A. M. White announced 
the election of Mrs. Francis H. Low to the 
Museum's Board of Trustees. Mrs. Low is 
well known to many AMNHers, having served 
for the past twelve years on the Women's 
Committee of which she is currently the 
Chairman. 


Throughout World War II Mrs. Low was 
Chairman of the Nassau County Motor Corps 
of the American Red Cross. She and her 
husband and their three daughters live in 
East Islip, Long Island. 


Mrs. Low is the fourth woman to serve on 
the Museum's Board. The first was 

Mrs. Rustin McIntosh, former President of 
Barnard College, who was a member of our 
Board for five years. Mrs. Richard Derby 
and Mrs. B. Brewster Jennings are current- 
ly Trustees of the Museum. 


FRATERNITY OF THE CONSCIENTIOUS 
MEETS HERE DECEMBER 7 


There is a fraternity of conscientious 
men and women in this Museum who get 
together two or three times a year. They 
represent a cross-section of employees, 
working in many varied capacities, and 
some of them may not see one another at 
all between these meetings, but their 
common concern makes tham an elite of a 
very special kind. They are the regular 
donors to the Museum Blood Bank, the hard 
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Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations; 


NEW ASSOCIATE CURATOR 


The appointment of Dr. Pedro W. 


Production Assistant - Nancy McCoy, Public Wygodzinsky as Associate Curator in the 
Relations; ACCOUNTING, PERSONNEL, PURCHAS- Department of Entomology has been 

ING - Eugenie Jatkowska; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - announced by Dr. Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., 
Evelyn Shaw; ANTHROPOLOGY - Philip Gifford;Department Chairman. Dr. Wygodzinsky is 
BUILDING SERVICES - Edward Malley; Albert a specialist in bio-geographic and 


Potenza; EDUCATION - George Crawbuck; 


taxonomic entomology and has done exten- 


ENTOMOLOGY - Rose Adlington; EXHIBITION & sive research on "kissing" bugs and 


GRAPHIC ARTS - Marilyn Slear; FOSSIL 
INVERTEBRATES = Robert Adlington; FRICK 


black flies in South America to determine 
distribution and control. Born in Bonn, 


LABORATORY - George Krochak; HERPETOLOGY - Germany, he attended the University of 


Margaret Shaw; ICHTHYOLOGY - Victoria 


Pelton; LIBRARY - Georgea Atkinson; LIVING his doctorate in 1941. 


INVERTEBRATES « Phyllis Fish; MAGAZINE 
CIRCULATION - William Somerville; 
MAMMALOGY - Hobart Van Deusen; MICROPAL- 


Basil in Switzerland where he received 
Prior to his 
appointment at the Museum, he was with 
the University of Buenos Aires in 
Argentina. He has also held a post in 


EONTOLOGY - Richard Charmatz; MINERALOGY - the Ministry of Agriculture in Brazil. 


Edith Marks; MUSEUM SHOP - Peter Bujara; 
NATURAL HISTORY - Ernestine Weindorf; 
OFFICE SERVICES - Dorothy Bronson; 
ORNITHOLOGY - Jean Shaw; PLANETARIUM - 
James Pickering; POWER PLANT - Malcolm 


(FRATERNITY OF THE CONSCIENTIOUS, cont'd. 
from page 1) 


core of AMNHers who make life-giving 


MacKay; PRINT SHOP - Edward Burns; SHOPS - transfusions constantly available for an 


John Erlandsen, Rudolph Bonen, Arthur 
Schaefer; SLIDES, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPRY, 
PROJECTION - Helen Jones; VERTEBRATE 
PALEONTOLOGY - Marlyn Mangus. 


(FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK, cont'd. from 
page 1) 


This former virtue and current necessity 
of human relations is often forgotten 
in the hurried pressure of our lives. 
But, how pleasant it is when we encoune 
ter the courteous individual. Our day 
is brightened, pressures are lessened, 
and life becomes more enjoyable. Today, 
more than ever, we must all be consid- 
erate and courteous in our relations 
with one another. 

James A. Oliver 


GLAUCCMA & DIABETES TESTS 


Two hundred and thirty-five Museum 
employees have signed up to take advan- 
tage of the free tests for glaucoma and 
diabetes being offered by the City 
Health Department. Director James A. 
Oliver reports that arrangements are now 
being made for the tests to be given at 
the Museum, and employees will be noti- 
fied of the date shortly. Those who 
have not signed up may still do so by 
requesting the proper forms from the 
First Aid Room, ext. 466. 


emergency that may befall any one of us. 


There are a number of employees who have 
offered to give blood and, for one rea- 
son or another, have been turned down. 
But there are others who have not even 
volunteered to donate since they have 
been at the Museum. Whether or not you 
think you are an eligible donor, you 
must volunteer in order to draw from the 
Blood Bank at some later date. If you 
do not at least make the offer, neither 
you nor the members of your immediate 
family will be able to use the Museum 
Blood Bank in an emergency. 


The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the 
Museum on Friday, December 7. When you 
receive the notice asking you to pledge 
a donation, please sign it -- and 
prepare to roll up your sleeve in the 
fraternity of conscientious colleagues. 


ANY 8-PINT DONORS? 


Museum Blood Bank Chairman Margaret 
Johnston asks that any AMNH employee who 
has donated eight pints of blood or more 
get in touch with her. Check your Red 
Cross blood donor's card to see whether 
you have donated eight times, at the 
Museum or elsewhere. You may be eligi- 
ble to wear the gallon donor pin. Nurse 
Johnston's extension is 466. 


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CHESS TOURNAMENT 


A new star in the galaxy of chess experts 
is emerging at AMNH. The Museum Chess 
Club's first annual tournament has been 


in progress since last june, and the star~ 


is br. Robert Carneiro, Anthropology, who 
has beaten the best in the club witha 
convincing score of 13-0. With 15 games 
left to play, there is little doubt that 
Dr. C. will take top honors. His closest 
Opponents are Nicholas Amorosi with 8-7, 
and Carlton Beil with 4-3. Other club 
members competing in the tournament are 
William Judge, Lewis Brown, Sidney 
Horenstein, Alden Redfield, and Barbara 
Harrison. 


A typical game between Grand Master 
Carneiro and Runner-Up Amorosi is shown 
here. It's suggested that you play the 
game over first without looking at the 
notes; then examine the highlights 
pointed out below. 


DOO ge i ae EP 


7 a oe ee 


NOTES 


(a) Black leaves his King Pawn undefended. 
Its loss begins the unhinging of 


(b) 


Black's position. 


The obvious move but a passive one. 
NxP is much stronger. If then 8. NxN, 
RxNch, and Black has his Pawn back. If 
after 7...NxP, 8. PxB, NxNdis ch wins 
White's Queen. 


Carneiro Amorosi 
White Black 
l. P-Ky N-KB3 
2. N-QB3 oe 
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4, B-BY 0-0 
5. NxP P-Q3 
6. N-B3 R-Kl 
Te P-Qh B-N3(b) 
8. B-KN5 P-B4 
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} THE E.B.A. FALL GET-TCGETHER 

15:30 P.M., Tuesday, November 27 - 
Roosevelt lower level. Delicious dinner 
dancing, door prizes, an evening of fun | 
and good fellowship, all for $1. Tickets 

{on sale in every department, or call 

| B.B.A. President Emil Kremer, ext. 278. 


(c) Retreat by his Bishop would have put 
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recapture. 


(a) Putting the heat on the pinned Knight. 

(e) BxN would have been stronger since it 
would have eliminated the piece that 
will eventually apply the crusher. 

(f) With this move, threatened for some 
time, the pressure on Black becomes 
overwhelming. 


(g) Black hastens his own demise. 


Chester Sroczynski, Custodial Services, 

has been greatly missed by his colleagues 
during his scige with virus pnevmonia. He's 
now out of the hospital and will be conval- 


De, ESCing at home for severai more weeks. 


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COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 


Drs. Charles M. Breder, Jr. and Phyllis H. 
Cahn of Ichthyology, and Drs. Evelyn Shaw 
and William Tavolga of Animal Behavior 
recently spent a stimulating day at the 
Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray 
Hill, N.J. where they were guests of 

Dr. Willem van Bergeijk of the Visual 
and Acoustic Research Division. The 
Division includes a congenial group of 
bio-engineers who are involved in basic 
research on the physiology of the lateral 
line and ear of fishes and amphibians, as 
well as other work on gound perception in 
bats and mammals in general. The Museum 
people had an opportunity to discuss many 
aspects of their mutual research problems 
in sensory physiology and to tour the 
excellent facilities of Bell Labs which 
include a special echoless room designed 
for acoustic experimentation. 


Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, Ornithology, 
returned last month from five weeks in 
Europe where, as a delegate to the 
International Symposium on Antarctic 
Biology at the University of Paris, he 
presented two papers to the 90 scientists 
present from Europe, Australia, New 
Zealand, and Japan. After the meeting, 
Dr. and Mrs. Murphy vacationed in France 
and Spain and made their first visit to 
Lascaux, one of the most impressive of 
the painted paleolithic caves. Before 
returning home, Dr. Murphy did research 
ai the British Museum and the Zoological 
Museum of Cambridge University. 


Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, Vertebrate Paleon- 
tology, is back after four months of 
field work in Europe, Israel, and South 
Africa in connection with his Triassic 
Studies. He made a valuable collection 
of more than 90 fossil skulls and 
skeletons which are now en route to the 
Museum. 


Other staff scientists recently returned 
from field work in distant locations in- 


clude Dr. Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., Entomology, employees. 


who spent most of the summer at the 
Museum's Southwestern Research Station in 
Arizona, and Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, 
Mammalogy, who continued his research on 
the skunks of the world at museums in 
Europe during October. 


And two staff scientists headquartered in 


the field have touched home base in recent 


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weeks. Robert Mathewson, Resident 
Director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory 
at Bimini, Bahamas, was in the Museum for 
Planning conferences last month; and Dr. 
Leonard J. Brass, Associate Curator at 
the Archbold Biological Station, Lake 
Placid, Florida, arrived here early this 
month to spend two or three weeks workin 
on activities of the Archbold Expeditions 


"JOURNEY INTO NATURE” 


The following staff members will be heard 
on the Musemm's weekly radio program in 
the next few weeks: Nov. 18 - Dr. Willia 
N. Tavolga, Animal Behavior, on hearing 
in fishes; Nov. 25 - Dr. Edwin H. Colbert 
Vertebrate Paleontology, on his Triassic 
studies; Dec. 2 - Dr. Richard G. Van 
Gelder, Mammalogy, on his research on 
skunks; Dec. 9 - Dr. Jerome G. Rozen, Jr. 
Entomology, on parasitic bees; Dec. 16 - 
Dr. Donn E. Rosen, Ichthyology, on the 
behavior of guppies; Dec. 23 - James S. 
Pickering, Planetarium, on astronomical 
speculations about the Star of Bethlehem. 


"Journey Into Nature", with Tex Antoine 
as host, is heard every Sundsy morning at 
11:05 on WNBC-Racio. 

GREATER NEW YORK FUND 


The 1962 drive for the Greater New York 
Fund will get underway at the Museum this 


‘ month and it is hoped that the number of 


participating employees will greatly ex- 
ceed last year's 744. In 1961, the per 
capita contribution from AMNH was only 
$1.44, putting us in fifth place among the 
cultural institutions in the city. As 
this figure is based on our total number 
of employees, each employee who failed to 
contribute dragged our standing down. 
This year, let's aim for first place: 


WHOSE CREDIT UNION? 


The Employees' Federal Credit Union at 
AMNH is administered by employees and for 
Its earnings accrue to employ- 
ees and its rare losses, through defaults 
on loans, are losses from employees. When 
you borrow from the CU, you are borrowing 
from your fellow employees, not from the 
Museum. The Credit Union is under the 
supervision of the Bureau of Federal 
Credit Unions, United States Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare. 


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DEPARTURES & ARRIVALS 


The Department of Exhibition and Graphic 
Arts said goodbye last month to two 
members. Alec Williams, Chief of the 
Exhibition Division, who had been with 
the Museum for 6 years, resigned to 
join another former colleague, Lothar 
Witteborg, in a new enterprise. The 
firm of Witteborg & Williams will design 
and prepare exhibits and displays as a 
commercial venture. Robert Gartland, 
who has been on leave of absence from 
the Graphic Arts Division since last 
spring, resigned in October in order to 
remain in Spain where he has been paint- 
ing and writing. His book, "Cowboys 
and Cattle," was published in September 
by Coward McCann. 


Among the new faces in the Museum this 
month are Salvator Cigliano, Ichthyology, 
@ native New Yorker who is studying auto 
mechanics in evening classes, and Alba 
Plescia, Scientific Assisant in Animal 
Behavior, who comes to us from Columbia 
Presbyterian Medical Center. 


TRADING POST 


Lan Lessons Offered - Spanish or 
Latin with highly qualified instructor. 
Private lessons arranged at your conven- 
ience. $2.50 an hour for Museum employ- 
ees, $3.50 for non-employees. Lower 
rates for groups. Call Ricardo DeEcheons 


ext. 295. 


For Sale - 1957 8-cylinder Chevrolet 
Carryall with air-conditioner. $650. 
Call ext. 486. 


Apartment Wanted - 8-room apartment for 
permanent occupancy by family moving to 
New York in February. Call Kate Ogilvy, 
ext. 44h, 


For Rent Next Summer - 4-bedroom house on 
Pines Lake in Wayne, N.J. 45 minutes fror 
Museum. Furnished, including 2 sailboats 
House right on lake, available July and 
August. Call Thelma White, ext. 373. 


Apartment Available - 3-room furnished 
apartment on W. 77th Street, facing 


Museum, available immediatlly for 1 year. 
$200 a month. Cell Mr. Halphen, 
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OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 


Vol. XIX, No. 12 


MERRY 


December 1962 


CHRISTMAS 


"When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy." Thus does 
St. Matthew record the end of the journey of the three great Wise Men of Biblical 


history. 


are elusive, some clear, some imaginary, some brightly shining. 


And each of us has many stars that guide us along life's journeys. 


Some 
Often our search 


for a star is without end, and we achieve more joy in the vigorous search than we 


might in the finding. 


On behalf of the Trustees and the Administration, I sincerely hope your Christmas 
season will be one of "exceeding great joy." 


BIG TREE LOG TO BELGIUM 


There are many fine trees in Belgium. 
But one tree that does not grow in that 
beautiful low country bordering the North 


Sea is the Sequoia gigantea. 


Last month, Director James A. Oliver had 
a visit from his long-time friend Walter 
Van den bergh, Director of the Societe 
Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers (the Antwerp 
Zoo) who was en route to a scientific 
meeting on the west coast. In the course 
of conversation, Dr. Van den bergh said 
that he had always wanted the Antwerp Zoo 
and Museum to have a cross-section of the 
magnificent giant sequoia that grows only 
on the west slope of California's Sierra 
Nevada. By a happy coincidence, AMNH had 
such a specimen in its study collections, 
and Dr. Oliver offered it as a gift to 
the Societe. 


The Big Tree log, part of the original 
Jesup Collection, has been crated by 
(Continued on page 2) ‘ 


James A. Oliver 


Director 


"HACKENSACK MAN" BUBBLE BURSTS 


The familiar highway sign "Proceed With 
Caution" was a particularly appropriate 
watchword for the AMNH anthropologists 
who last month joined the Hackensack 
mastodon dig. The site, part of the 
construction area of the new Bergen- 
Passaic Expressway, had already yielded 
most of a mastodon skeleton; and the dig- 
gers, headed by George 0. Whitaker of the 
Vertebrate Paleontology laboratory, were 
uncovering the bones of many smaller 
mammals that appeared to be associated in 
time with the ancient elephant. When Mr. 
Whitaker turned up evidence of human 
habitation -- a carved antler -- Drs. 
James A. Ford and Junius B. Bird, Anthro- 
pology, dashed out to the site. During 
the next few days more artifacts and bits 
of charcoal came to light, and then -- 
human bones: 


An exciting picture began to take shape. 
If, as it first appeared, the human 
-(Continued on page 2) 


GRAPEVINE STAFF 
Editor - Kate Ogilvy, Public Relations; 
Production Assistant - Nancy McCoy, Public 
Relations; Artist - Nicholas Amorosi, 
Anthropoiogy; ACCOUNTING, PERSONNEL, FUR- 
CHASING - Eugenie Jatkowska; ANIMAL BEHAV- 
IOR - Evelyn Shaw; ANTHROPOLOGY - Philip 
Gifford; BUILDING SERVICES - Edward Malley; 
EDUCATION - George Crawbuck; ENTOMOLOGY - 
Rose Adlington; EXHIBITION & GRAPIC ARTS - 
Marilyn Slear; FOSSIL INVERTEBRATES - 
Robert Adlington; FRICK LABORATORY - George 
Krochak; HERPETOLOGY - Margaret Shaw; 
ICHTHYOLOGY - Victoria Pelton; LIBRARY - 
Georgea Atkinson; LIVING INVERTEBRATES - 
Phyllis Fish; MAGAZINE CIRCULATION - 
William Somerville; MAMMALOGY - Hobart 
Van Deusen; MICROPALEONTOLOGY - Richard 
Charmatz; MINERALOGY - Edith Marks; MUSEUM 
SHOP - Peter Bujara; NATURAL HISTORY - 
Ernestine Weindorf; OFFICE SERVICES - 
Dorothy Bronson; ORNITHOLOGY - Margaret 
Hanson; PLANETARIUM - James Pickering; 
POWER PLANT - Malcolm MacKay; FRINT SHOP - 
Edward Burns; SHOPS - Paul Goodhouse; 
SLIDES, FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY, PROJECTION - 
Helen Jones; VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY - 
Marlyn Mangus. 


(BIG TREE LOG TO BELGIUM, continued from 
page 1) 


Louis Ferry and his staff in the Carpentry 
Shop and will be shipped to Belgium on 
December 7. It is 115 feet in diameter 
and just under 5 feet thick; crated it 
weighs approximately 9000 pounds. 


A special plaque has been designed to 
identify the gift log when it goes on 
exhibit in Antwerp. AMNH retains a still 
larger specimen, a cross-section from the 
famous Mark Twain Tree. It is 163 feet in 
diameter and is displayed in our Hall of 
North American Forests. 


NEW FILM CATALOGUE -- Helen Jones, Manager 
of the Film Rental Library, reports the 
publication of the Museum's first new film 
catalogue in six years. It lists some 550 
films (16 MM sound) that are available to 
schools, clubs, hospitals, home users, 
etc. The attractive new catalogue was 
designed by Helen Jones and Josephine 
D'Orsi. 


("HACKENSACK MAN" BUBBLE BURSTS, 
continued from page 1) 


material was contemporary with the masto- 
don (whose species became extinct about 
8000 years ago), Hackensack Man would be 
the earliest example of Homo sapiens 
known east of the Mississippi. According 
to some of the more wishful speculations, 
this early New Jerseyite probably killed 
the mastodon and camped nearby to feast 
on its meat; then he hunted other animals 
and brought them back to his campsite to 
eat. Everything seemed to fit nicely, 
and if the hypothesis could be substan- 
tiated by geological evidence that all 
the remains were laid down at about the 
same time, it would be a stupendous 
discovery. 


But our paleontologists and anthropolo- 
gists, proceeding with caution, were not 
jumping to any conclusions. During two 
suspense-charged weeks they moved a lot 
of dirt and solved no problems. (See 
illustration on page3) Then they called 
in top specialists to reconstruct the 
geological history of the site, and the 
bubble finally burst. Hackensack Man was 
not a contemporary of the mastodon; he 
lived only about two thousand years ago 
and numerous Indian remains dating from 
his time have been found in many parts of 
the United States. Nevertheless, the 
specimens give an interesting picture of 
Indian life in Bergen County at about the 
time Caesar was invading Gaul. 


The mastodon, as well as the Indian mat- 
erial, is the property of the Bergen 
Community Museum which will occupy a new 
building to be constructed on property 
adjoining the Fairleigh Dickinson 
University campus. 


NEW HOURS FOR PARKING FIELD 


The parking field next to the Planetarium 
will henceforth close at 5:30. P.M. Mondays 
through Fridays, and at 6:30 P.M. on 
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays -- 

except on the nights of Members Lectures 
when it will remain open until after the 
lecture. It will also remain open, by 
advance arrangement, for special 

occasions such as evening openings of 
major exhibits. 


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MUSEUM HUNTS ELEPHANTS AND EARLY MEN IN HACKENSACK 


Ford, and Bird make exciting discovery in 


Whitaker, 


Great Expressway Expedition excavations. (See p. 1) 


NEW FACES 


The AMNH Library welcomes the Museum's 
first Associate in Bibliography -- Curtis 
W. Sabrosky of the Entomology Research 
Division, Agricultural Research Service, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Mr. 
Sabrosky is one of the country's outstand- 


ing authorities on zoological nomenclature. 


The Anthropology Department welcomed two 
new members last month. Lucille Di 
Giovanni, secretary, comes to us from the 
publishing house of Macmillan. Jane S. 
Aldrich is working with Dr. Margaret Mead 
and Philip Gifford on the forthcoming Hall 
of the Peoples of the Pacific. 


Newest Research Associate in the Depart- 
ment of Entomology is Dr. Kumar Krishna, 
@ specialist in termites and a member of 
the faculty at The City College of New 
York. 


Dr. Louise Scheuer of England has joined 
the Animal Behavior Department for 
approximately a year to do histological 
studies. A comparative anatomist, she is 
also a lecturer in oral anatomy at the 


Royal Dental Hospital of London University. 


Anthony Gallardo, newest addition to the 
Electrical Shop staff, is a champion 
weight-lifter and is giving his colleagues 
instructions in weight-lifting during 
lunch hours. Mr. Gallardo came to this 
country from his native Colombia in 1952 
and has spent / years studying electrical 
engineering at night at Pratt Institute. 
He received his degree last June and is 
now following up with courses in nuclear 
physics at CCNY. Before coming to the 
Museum, he was employed at the New York 
Stock Exchange. 


DR. OLIVER HONORED 


Dr. James A. Oliver, Director, was named 
a Fellow of the Rochester Museum of Arts 
and Sciences at ceremonies in Rochester 

on Nov. 14. The award was made in 
recognition of Dr. Oliver's "contributions 
in the areas of formal education, zoolog- 
ical parks and museum education through 
exhibits, and for his outstanding con- 
tributions to science edministration." 


CHRISTMAS STORY 


Vice President C. DeWolf Gibson tells us 
of a couple who introduced their 3-year 
Old daughter to the meaning of Christmas 
by taking the child to church where they 
encouraged her to join the worshippers 
kneeling in front of the creche. Later 
the same day, the parents brought their 
daughter to our Museum where she proceed- 
ed to get lost among the holiday sight- 
seers. After much searching, the frantic 
parents pushed their way through the 
crowd in the Akeley African Hall where, 
Oblivious to the changed atmosphere, the 
3-year old was found kneeling respect- 
fully, palms clasped together and head 
bent, in front of the habitat group: 
showing giraffes, gazelles, and zebras at 
a water hole on the Kenya plains. 


BIRD HALL IN PREPARATION ON TV 


"Discovery", the ABC network television 
program with which the Museum has 
cooperated regularly since it went on the 
air for the first time this fall, will 
give its viewers a preview of the Hall of 
North American Birds on Friday, Dec. 7. 
The show's producers have already filmed 
segments of the program in the Exhibition 
Department and in the Hall itself, and 
additional scenes will be filmed here in 
the few days before the program is aired. 
In an outstanding program on Nov. 20, 
"Discovery" considered the fantastic 
world of the dinosaurs as presented in 
our two dinosaur halls, and other shows 
in the series have featured AMNH activ- 
ities and material. 


Although "Discovery" is aimed primarily 
at young people, its mature, intelligent 
approach to its subjects has attracted 
viewers of all ages, and it has been 
acclaimed by critics as a superior con- 
tribution to television. It's on Channel 
7 every weekday afternoon from 4:30 to 5. 


TB CHRISTMAS SEAL BY AMNH ARTIST 


A drawing by Gaetano (Tino) di Palma, 
Graphic Arts, has been selected by the 
Tuberculosis Association for its 1964 
Christmas Seal. Mr. di Palma submitted 
two designs to the natinnwide competition 
for the annual TB stamp, and the judges' 
only problem was to decide which they 


liked heet. Cnnoratilatsannce Mart 


REARD IN. PASSING 


In the current issue of Bausch and Lomb's 
Focus, there is an article dealing with 
some small marine animals. "The great 
Dr. L. B. Hyman calls them Ectoprocta," 
writes the author, David Causey of the 
Univ. of Arkansas. Then he goes on to 
Geplore the great variety and confusion 
of the names that have been applied to 
these animals in the past: "Students of 
these animals had gone along merrily, 
coining new terms, forgetting their mean- 
ings, and reusing them in other ways until 
the literature had become almost a dead 
language without a key. Dr. Hyman, with 
@ scalpel in one hand and a bottle of acid 
in the other, has largely eliminated this 
‘large and fantastic terminology,' and 
replaced it with ‘terms applicable to 
invertebrates in general.' Generations of 
zoologists to come will bless her. I 
could name a few who would gladly pay for 
the firewood to burn her at a stake. I 
tell my students she is the greatest 
living zoologist, roughly equivalent to 
all the rest of us put together!"...... 
Dr. Hyman had a good chuckle over that 
firewood. 


Speaking of magazines, New Yorker readers 
who have never met Lois Hussey, Education, 
must have an interesting mental picture of 
her. Some time ago, in a piece about the 
Museum, the magazine reported that Miss 
Hussey "strode purposefully" into a hall. 
This month, describing the recent behind- 
the-scenes tour, they had her "whisking" 

@ group of visitors down the corridor and 
“herding” them into an elevator. The next 
time the New Yorker man comes in, Miss H 
plans to blend quietly into the woodwork. 


Arthur Scharf, Electrical Shop, may find 
himself in a ringside seat at the National 
Horse Show one of these days. His 15-year 
old daughter Virginia is a fast-rising 
saddle star in northern New Jersey and has 
recently won three ribbons for expert 
horsemanship. 


As Cliff Brown's colleagues in Custodial 
Services have learned by now, Mr. B. is 
unquestionably the Museum's most enthus- 
iastic -- and knowledgeable -- gridiron 
fan. During his military service he play- 
ed football for Uncle Sam and, for a time, 
considered a professional career in the 
sport, but gave it up in favor of the view 
from the bleachers. Right now he's hoping 


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for a white Christmas and a chance to 
watch the N.Y. Giants and the Green Bay 
Packers play for the championship. "Foot- 
ball is best,” he says, "on a bright crisp 
day with snow on the ground." 


The AMNH Dinner Club has announced tenta- 
tive plans for its first annual holiday 
dinner on Saturday evening, Jan. 5, 1963, 
to be held either at the Latin Quarter or 
the Copacabana. On this occasion, each 
member will bring a guest to join in the 
evening's fun. 


We were concerned to hear that Guy Cree, 
Carpentry Shop, is in the hospital. We 
hope he's making a good recovery and will 
be back with us soon. 


Rudolph Bonen, Electrical Shop, is a man 
of many varied skills. Recently, not to 
be outdone by the distaff members of his 
family, he took up knitting and has proved 
very adept at it. He has made himself a 
fine sweater, but like many beginning 
knitters, he didn't know when to stop; it 
hangs almost to his knees. 


A birth announcement from Mildred Parmenter 
Randino, formerly with the Museum Contrib- 
utors Program, reports the arrival of her 
second daughter, Anne Elizabeth on Nov. 5. 
Mil and her husband John have recently 
bought a new home. Their address: 

36-hO 217th St., Bayside 61, New York. 


SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 


Marie Peck, Anthropology, has left the 
Museum for a career in South America. 
present she is working with the United 
States hospital ship S.S. HOPE which is 
located off Salaverry, Peru. She writes 
that the work is absorbing and very 
rewarding. 


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Dr. Paul Arnaud, Jr., left Entomology last 
month to return to the Academy of Science 
in Philadelphia. On the way he is stop- 
ping in Washington to do research at the 
U.S. National Museum, and in Phoenix, 
Ariz., to attend the meetings of the 
Entomological Society of America. 


WHEN MAKING YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE . 
GREATER NEW YORK FUND - remember that 
this is the only charity drive of the 
year at AMNH, and give generously. 


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COMINGS, GOINGS, & GATHERINGS 


Dr. Richard G. Van Gelder, Chairman of 
Mamme“ogy, left for Uruguay late last 
month to begin the first phase of a 3-year 
study of South American mammals and the 
arthropod-borne diseases that afflict them. 
The project is supported by a grant from 
the U. S. Army Medical Research and 
Development Command. 


Dr. Bobb Schaeffer and Dr. Malcolm McKenna, 


Vertebrate Paleontology, attended the 
meetings of the Society of Vertebrate 
Paleontology and the Geological Society 
of America in Austin, Tex., last month. 
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affinities of early primates and insect- 
ivores from North America and Mongolia, 
and Dr. Schaeffer spoke on the fishes from 
late Triassic beds of the Wapiti Lake area 
in British Columbia. In addition, Dr. Len 
Radinsky, NSF postdoctoral researcher in 
our VP Department, talked on the identifi- 
cation of a peculiar "X" bone in the foot 
of the tapir. 


Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, Chairman of 
Vertebrate Paleontology, was a guest of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences on Nov. 7. As Chairman of the 
Hayden Memorial Geological Award Committee, 
he presented the Hayden Medal Award to 

Dr. Alfred S. Romer of Harvard. 


Dr. Charles M. Breder, Chairman of 
Ichthyology, has returned to his field 
studies of the fishes of the Gulf Coast 
of Florida. He is veing assisted on the 
project by his wife, and will also be 
assisted during part of January by Dr. 
Phyllis H. Cahn, Research Fellow in 
Ichthyology. 


ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREES, PLEASE 


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The use of natural trees or branches 

as Christmas decorations in any public 
place (which includes all parts of the 
Museum) is strictly forbidden by fire 
regulations. This applies to all 
trees containing pitch, whether or 

not they have been treated with | 
so-called flameproofing. 


As this G'vine goes to press, each of the 
eight teams comprising the AMNH Bowling 
League has sampled the play of the other 
teams in three-game matches. It appeared 
at the start that one team would leave 
the field far behind but, although Mary 
McKenna's Headhunters are still in the 
lead, the gap between first and last 
place is closing rapidly. 


WANTED: copies of the AMNH Nature 
Calendar that was published provably in 
1949, 1950, and 1951. If you have one or 
all and would like to donate them to the 
Museum for its Memorabilia Collection, 
Katharine Beneker, Keeper of Memorabilia, 
would be most grateful. 


FOUND: a psychology text book, practi- 
cally new, hard cover, cost $7. Owner 
may Claim by identifying. Call Kate 


Oplivy, ext. 481. 


SEE THE CHRISTMAS SKY SHCW 


The Planetarium's classic Christmas presentation, like Rockefeller Center's tree and 


Lord & Taylor's windows, is a holiday "must" for many New Yorkers and visitors. 


Each 


December the sky show recounts the story of the Star of Bethlehem and demonstrates 


some of the astronomical theories that have been advanced to explain it. 


Beautiful 


Christmas music, played over the Planetarium's superb hi-fi equipment, accompanies 


the action. 


Dr. Joseph M. Chamberlain, Planetarium Chairman, invites all Museum employees to see 


the presentation at their convenience. 


Simply, identify yourself at the box office, 


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