More Than Professors! Your Modern University is Complex Business Which Takes All Kinds of Skills and Crafts To Operate Its "City Within City' Services 1 -If You Don't Think So, Just Visit U. of R. is ft " i. as .i : -sea ,- v ' . 1 ' t S!':-.-' t WSt " oA. , i ill istwj num. 1 1..." ! T ayt'WWW""M'" ywiwwM v ; rv ifiill.' ft a : HPr i Av frrt if.' ..... -r,: mJ i" r i 4. f M V ..-V ui. s? i r 3 ;H1 Fi r"' u. n f -?V t XT 1 INVESTMENTS Charts are studied here by Hulbert W. Tripp (left), vice president in charge of investments for University, and Raymond L. Thompson, senior vice president and treasurer. They watch Ult funds. Ml ;f f r !r! 1 up ry ..5 ? 43 1 4 ill Is 1 1 i -liwf k W t -ill U s m 1 . .; "J PHARMACY More than 70,000 prescriptions are filled in this Medical Center department every year. Pharmacists are Thilip Teicher, Taul Miller, Denise Y Eno (from left). This pharmacy is largest in area, carrying more than 3,000 different drugs and medicines. Its facilities are available in public emergencies. J J j '.'V T . . ' ' CAFETERIA Serving meals is part of University of Rochester's daily business. Here Miss Clara Sheppard (left), chief I 1 1 sttoiva1 sk It! h,. V ( wk" dietician at Todd Union Cafeteria on the River Campus, helps out as hungry students crowd In for their noontime lunch. By DON RECORD large university is a complex . business. It doesn't Just con-list of classrooms. And everyone who works there is not a pro-lessor! To find this out you only have to start looking around the University of Rochester, together with its Strong Memorial Hospital and Municipal Hospital with their 700 beds, the Rochester Health Bureau laboratory, the Atomic Energy Project For this "city within a city" has: ' Its own postoffices. A printing plant. A laundry that is one of the largest in this part of the country, handling three million pounds of linens annually, with one machine capable of ironing 600 sheets an hour or one every six seconds. Student residences. Heating plant. Kitchens and refrigeration facilities for serving more than three million meals a year. A Medical Center pharmacy which is the largest in the area, regularly carrying more than 3,000 different drugs and medicines and filling more than 70,-000 prescriptions a year. Just last summer a boy bitten by a poisonous snake was brought to a hospital Inqury revealed that the U. of R. pharmacy had the only snake serum in the city. This quickly was made available and the boy's life was saved. 1 f.r .- irri M f " I ' - ' " '' " ; ; - - . " j n imiiiiiiimi i '"' ' " i r - ii' ii "nrf - " n nr -1 ii STUDENT ACCOUNT Robert F. Moscr, bursar of the College of Arts and Sciences, accepts check for fees from Grace White, freshman, of 288 Mulberry St. Acres of lawns to mow, vast numbers of trees and shrubs to prune, and miles of walks to plow in winter. The Medical Center alone has four miles of corridors, 3,000 doors and 4,500 windows which have to be washed regularly. And of course all the other campus buildings provide huge maintenance tasks. ALL THESE facilities require an amazing range of skills for efficient operation, a total of 2,200 non-teaching employes, in eluding machinists and tool makers, men who can make com. plicated research equipment, the like of which has never been made before. Electricians, car penters, painters, garage mechanics, masons, metal, workers, pharmacists, librarians, cooks and meat cutters are among the required skills. And the University's business staff directs the multitudinous functions involved in maintain ing a smooth-running institution. Out at 15 Prince St. in what was once a 20-room mansion is the office of Raymond L. Thompson, chief financial officer. As senior vice president and treas urer, he has supervision of en dowment funds and expenditures for operating the institution, which last year reached a record $14,735,737, plus $1,325,540 for new buildings. Working closely with him is Hulbert W. Tripp, vice president for investments. On the third floor of this same Kurt M. Hertzfeld, recently ap pointed U. of R. business man ager, and it is his task to coordinate all business activities, to streamline various functions involved, to save money without reducing services or their quality, thus make more money available for the purely educational and research activities, which are the University s main function. n . mar f7X; ":'S, vrv- -iy .tin u-t t.t i...; UvuL lis.'- L... S I f . ' .f ft .-..,.. ' J-SIHWWWWWN. - -- CONSTRUCTION One of big jobs In running the University is that of providing new buildings for the growing needs which will provide dining hall. It Is almost completed. Location is just north of Rush Rhees library, the imposing tow of students. This is the new men's center er of which may be seen in background. : ,1 tv Ss A v i Y . ... .j ........ i . ' sre p .jr. . " r""""""11"1 J 1 1 1 1 ii-in ,1 r"-,;' 1 'v;" ts , A i V s A U' ; ' I ya; . err ' i V t MIM .,W.il.MW.liMi.i, i Mrf I. .Hill' V Three miles away on the River Campus, in a crowded ground. floor wing of the Medical Center, is the office of Warren W. Irwin, general purchasing agent, and his staff. Like a spider in the center of a large web, he must know requirements of every part of the University, the amount of supplies on hand and when to order each one of the thousands of items needed dur ing the year. Other key operations execu tives include John Eichner, hcadj of the engineering department of the Medical Center; James M. Young, superintendent of buildings and grounds, and George Haas, chief engineer. Their fields of operations, too, embrace a vast number of details. JJERTZFELD is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He worked for a time in the great Ford organization in Detroit, but decided he preferred a smaller industry and a smaller city. He and his wife fell in love with Rochester and its surrounding area when they drove through here in springtime. So Hertzfeld obtained a job as Fasco Industries here and taught evenings in the University School. The latter ac tivity led directly to his present post as UR business manager. One of his problems is that the University is always growing and erecting new buildings, such as the new women's residence, and much of the equipment is hall and gymnasium on the River Campus, the new mens dining hall, and the Supplies and Ac counts building, all now under construction. FURNISHINGS Dr. Margaret Habcin, dean of instruc-tion and student services, and Kurt M. Hertzfeld, business manager of U. of R., look over samples of dishes and chairs for new women's residence hall. These require new furniture, draperies and other equipment, all of which involve a great deal of study to get the right quality and attractive appearance. Committees made up of students, faculty, alumni, trustees and others are cooperating with the administration in making the selections. Dishes for the dining rooms, for example: Should they be the sturdy practical type the truck drivers find at roadside restaurants? Or should they have more color and elegance, even though more expensive, thus contributing to the institution's cultural atmosphere? By the same token, it would be more economical to serve all meals cafeteria style, but it is felt that full service at dinner contributes invaluably to social and cultural life of the students. IT IS PLANNED to make the kitchen facilities of both the men's and women's new dining halls the most unique and progressive in the industry. Everything possible will be mobile, so that it can be used for a variety of purposes and situations. Labor-saving factors, efficiency and cost-saving are primary aims, being built to order. Refrigerators, for example, will ing machines, electric light bulbs and office supplies. The latter include 2'4 tons of paper for accommodate wheeled trucks io",, nearly 400i000 en be kept to a minimum. One frecz-1 ve,opes five tons ot mimeograph ing and refrigeration area alone iPaPcr has 15,000 cubic feet of space The central bakery for the en tire River Campus will be in the The University has 500 phones, 526 typewriters of various kinds, 170 calculating machines and 156 basement of the women's resi-dictating machines. It is currently dence hall. Cakes and cookies reducing space required for can be baked and frozen until required for serving. Ice cream cabinets will be on wheels so they may be placed in needed office and medical records by microfilming. Among the other items the pur-chasinc office buys are $50,000 locations under varied circum-worth of sutures a year for use in stances. Hot cabinets also can be operating rooms, three million wheeled into dining rooms and yards of gauze. $00,000 worth of contents served quickly and cf-jX-ray film, and more than 3,000 ficicntly. j syringes. By helping to develop Meals at the Medical Center i syringes with interchangeable! alone require more than 1,000 P;irts. the hospital last year made: quarts of milk a day, nearly possible savings of $3,500 in 26 ! 1,000 dozen eggs a week, 400iwccks- pounds of coffee, 400 cases ofi Besides these, the office buys citrus juices, 7,000 pounds of quantities of antibiotics and! meat, a ton of peeled potatoes, many other kinds of medicines' 700 pounds of butter and ton and chemicals for the pharmacy, of sugar a week. jcven isotopes for medical treat- In addition the University re-iment and diagnosis and atomic quires such accessories as two cnerSy research, carloads of paper cups a ycar.f The University operates and three carloads of paper plates maintains 57 buildings, exclusive and napkins, three carloads of of the three new ones under con-paper towels. Istruction. riant assets are valued at $44,008,880. Endowment funds 'total $03,625,696. THE V. OF R. purchasing office, handles about 25.000 orders! a year, varying from millions of i J N THE LAST 35 years since; aspirin tablets to tractors, mow-1 the plans for the River Cam-! pus started, the U. of R. hat j undergone an amazing transformation. Yet it is still planning further growth and service, an increase of about 2,500 undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences, a new ad ministration building and infirmary. Construction in the last 10 years at the University has totaled around 13 million dollars, including many other buildings at the Medical Center financed by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Atomic Energy Com-mission, and the cyclotron and laboratory at the River Campus, also financed by the AEC. Thus, it is no wonder that the business staffs have outgrown present quarters and plan to move this summer to facilities affording more adequate space. All the offices now in the old mansion at 15 Prince St., includ ing those of President Cornelis W. de Kiewict, Treasurer Thompson, Business Manager Hertzfeld and the public relations staff will move to second floor quarters in the new women's residence hall. This move will be only temporary, however, until a new administration building can be erected in the next few years. The purchasing office and other operations units will be housed in the new Supplies and Accounts building. f. '"'f 4 I : . MS., . .fe .... v.". ' r t i ; mm- i t A 'ills-. HA j A - - . . , , . t LAUNDRY This gives just hint of the ployes under Alfred Stokes (left center), amount of laundering done by the 44 em- j laundry manager for UR Medical Center. ALL-SUMMER JOB Louis Holti rides almost continuously on gang mowers to keep campus attractive. - " t - ; i 1 I i r- . i - - -1 h i ... J S .. .Ww . i I " ' ' ' BUYERS Few of thousands of items purchased are checked by (from left) Jay D. Lvdic, foods: Richard O. Smith, stores chief; Warren W. Irwin, general buying.
