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6-19 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 -sea 1 SECTION ROCHESTER. N.

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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. 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. PHARMACY More than 70,000 prescriptions are filled in this Medical Center department every year. Pharmacists are Thilip Teicher, Taul Miller, Denise mar 4. ,1 tv Ss A I 1 1 sttoiva1 sk f7X; vrv- -iy It! wk" i dietician at Todd Union Cafeteria on the River Campus, helps out as hungry students crowd In for their noontime lunch.

CAFETERIA Serving meals is part of University of Rochester's daily business. Here Miss Clara Sheppard (left), chief Acres of lawns to mow, vast numbers of trees and shrubs to prune, and miles of walks to plow in winter. i sre u-t t.t UvuL I 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 ft J-SIHWWWWWN.

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 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. 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 an amazing range of skills for efficient operation, a total of 2,200 non-teaching employes, in which will provide dining hall. It Is almost completed.

Location is just north CONSTRUCTION One of big jobs In running the University is that of providing new buildings for the growing needs FURNISHINGS Dr. Margaret Habcin, dean of instruc-tion and student services, and Kurt M. Hertzfeld, business manager of U. of look over samples of dishes and chairs for new women's residence hall. eluding machinists and tool of Rush Rhees library, the imposing tow makers, men who can make com.

of students. This is the new men's center er of which may be seen in background. plicated research equipment, the like of which has never been Three miles away on the River as the new women's residence, and much of the equipment is ing machines, electric light bulbs and office supplies. The latter made before. Electricians, car Campus, in a crowded ground.

being built to order. hall and gymnasium on the River floor wing of the Medical Center, Campus, the new mens dining Refrigerators, for example, will include 2'4 tons of paper for penters, painters, garage mechanics, masons, metal, workers, hall, and the Supplies and Ac accommodate wheeled trucks nearly 400i000 en pus started, the U. of R. hat 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 counts building, all now under pharmacists, librarians, cooks and construction.

be kept to a minimum. One frecz-1 five tons ot mimeograph 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 meat cutters are among the required skills. ing and refrigeration area alone iPaPcr These require new furniture, draperies and other equipment, all of which involve a great deal The University has 500 phones, has 15,000 cubic feet of space The central bakery for the en And the University's business 526 typewriters of various kinds, amount of supplies on hand and when to order each one of the 170 calculating machines and 156 tire River Campus will be in the staff directs the multitudinous functions involved in maintain basement of the women's resi-dictating machines.

It is currently thousands of items needed dur dence hall. Cakes and cookies reducing space required for ing a smooth-running institution. ing the year. can be baked and frozen until Other key operations execu Out at 15 Prince St. in what tives include John Eichner, hcadj required for serving.

Ice cream cabinets will be on wheels so office and medical records by microfilming. Among the other items the pur-chasinc office buys are $50,000 they may be placed in needed was once a 20-room mansion is the office of Raymond L. Thompson, chief financial officer. As senior vice president and treas 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 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 includ 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 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 1 f.r irri I imiiiiiiimi i i ii' ii "nrf nr -1 ii contents served quickly and cf-jX-ray film, and more than 3,000 ficicntly.

syringes. By helping to develop Meals at the Medical Center i syringes with interchangeable! alone require more than 1,000 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' for new buildings. Working 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, closely with him is Hulbert W. Tripp, vice president for On the third floor of this same his wife fell in love with Rochester and its surrounding area when they drove through here Kurt M. Hertzfeld, recently ap pointed U.

of R. business man in springtime. So Hertzfeld obtained a job as Fasco Industries 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! ager, and it is his task to coordinate all business activities, 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. here and taught evenings in the University School. The latter ac tivity led directly to his present 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 post as UR business manager.

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. One of his problems is that the University is always growing and erecting new buildings, such a year, varying from millions of i THE LAST 35 years since; aspirin tablets to tractors, mow-1 the plans for the River Cam-! University main function. 1 1 1 1 ii-in ,1 1 'v;" I i 1 i r- f. 4 I i -1 i i I i mm- i A 'ills-.

HA A ts A i A U' I ya; err i MIM i Mrf I. LAUNDRY This gives just hint of the ployes under Alfred Stokes (left center), amount of laundering done by the 44 em- laundry manager for UR Medical Center. ALL-SUMMER JOB Louis Holti rides almost continuously on gang mowers to keep campus attractive. 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..