Breaking Ivy Barriers

By the power of the poll, alumni at Yale and Cornell last week put on their governing boards men of a religion and a race never before represented on either ruling body.*

Yale alumni elected energetic William Horowitz, 58, to be a member of the Yale Corporation. Horowitz ('29) is the first Jewish -- and the first non-Protestant--elective member of the board. He is also the first successful full term candidate nominated by petition (passed on his behalf by his Yalemen son, son-in-law and brother-in-law); most candidates are nominated by an alumni committee. A banker and chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education, Horowitz lost to New York Congressman John Lindsay in a similar election last year.

Cornell alumni elected one of Cornell's alltime heroes, Jerome ("Brud") Holland, 49, a Negro. An All-America end in 1937-38 who was named to football's Hall of Fame this year, Holland holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and is president of Virginia's Hampton Institute.

* On each board, replacements are mostly elected by the members themselves, but some positions are filled by alumni ballot. Cornell's 49 trustees also include one picked by the New York State Grange and the eldest linear male descendant of Ezra Cornell.

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